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Sept. 8, 2022 - Lionel Nation
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Referencing Expectations Tempered With Reality
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Good day.
And I mean that.
I mean that.
Good day.
I wish you a good day.
You and your family and your friends and you.
I wish you a great day.
Positive thoughts.
This is my prayer for you.
Good, good, calm, peaceful, happy.
I wish you equanimity, equipoise.
I want you to enjoy just a notion of these wonderful kind of emotional stasis.
I want calm in your life.
I want you to sit back.
I want you to calm down.
And for this hour, daily hour, I want you to think.
And I want you to do me a favor.
Before you react, before you say anything, before you type anything, before you do anything, I want you to wait ten seconds.
Ten.
Thinking.
Philosophy.
Think.
You're not going to see this too often.
You're not going to see it places.
I'm sorry to say this.
We react too much.
Watch anything on cable news or just watch.
It is this insane reaction.
It's not thinking.
Not a careful, well thought out reaction.
But just patellar.
Immediate.
Think.
Think about something.
Don't feel like you have to just respond to what everybody is saying.
Don't echo.
If you find yourself saying too much of what other people are saying, you're doing something wrong.
We talk to people who say, we're doomed.
It's over.
We're through.
There we go.
It's been very tough doing what I do.
Very tough indeed being controversial to, I don't know, lay out the rules to censor, you can call it whatever you want.
This is kind of what we get.
So in any event, I want to thank you for that.
I want to tell you that it's very difficult being what we're doing.
It's very difficult.
Very, very, very difficult doing this.
Because there are people constantly telling you, shut up.
Don't say that.
Don't do that.
Don't think that.
Don't go there.
In three days, we will be supposedly celebrating, not celebrating, it's a bad word, remembering a day that we will never forget, 9-11, and nobody...
But nobody is going to be discussing it in the least.
The least of which, nobody who wants to remain in this particular platform.
Nobody.
Nobody will want this.
Isn't that odd?
We'll talk about that.
We'll talk about that.
It's a fascinating subject.
Oh, I've got so much to talk about.
Now listen to this.
I put up an article for you to read.
And it was from something called, this is called International Man.
This is an article written by, I think, or an interview with Doug Casey.
And it talks about, this is one of the things, it says, quote, the controlled demolition of food and energy supplies.
This is so interesting, and one of the pieces of this I'll quote is, Russia is one of the largest producers of fertilizer in the world, and tensions with the U.S. and EU In addition, it seems there is a deliberate effort to sabotage the global agriculture industry.
For example, in the Netherlands, the government is restricting the use of nitrogen fertilizer under the ridiculous pretext that it's needed to control so-called climate change.
Dutch farmers have protested the measures.
Because they believe they will destroy the livelihoods and will cause food shortages.
In Canada, the Trudeau government has announced a similar policy.
Look at Sri Lanka.
We're talking about disruption of food supplies.
International.
Not in this remote part of the world that will not affect us, but international.
I never thought we'd be saying this.
I never thought we'd be in the position of actually saying this.
It's beyond frightening.
So when I talk to you about this, and I put the article up there, please, I implore you, read this.
Read what is happening.
Read the storyline.
Read what's happening.
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Now, my friends, I want to talk to you about something, and it's very, very important, very, very critical.
I hope you listen to me, and I hope you focus on what I'm saying.
I want to just stop talking about the usual things.
Twitter was trying to say that something was trending regarding Geraldo Rivera.
Nothing is trending regarding Geraldo Rivera.
Nothing.
Nothing involving Geraldo Rivera is even remotely important.
Nothing.
Nothing, I tell you.
Absolutely nothing involving Geraldo Rivera.
This is what you are told.
I don't know how much they pay Twitter.
If they say, do me a favor, would you please make me trend?
Okay, alright.
But nobody believes it.
I know they don't believe it, but by God.
Would you please?
They also said, I've got to tell you, there was an article from something, Rand Paul rips, he rips, rips the FBI.
They don't do anything anymore.
There's no legislation.
We rip.
We go on TV and we rip.
Rip and we slay and we bash and we trash and we...
I don't know what's going on with this.
This is unimportant.
But let me ask you a question for you to consider today.
It's very, very critical.
What is the philosophy that keeps you going?
What is your philosophy?
Let's talk about philosophy.
Philology.
Let's talk about what...
It is.
What is an American?
I know we have people around the country and around the world, I should say, and I will not make this exclusively in American content, but you can ask the same about your country.
What is it?
What does this mean?
What does this mean?
Just answer my question.
Focus.
Forget the specifics.
Okay?
Forget your specifics.
Do yourself a favor.
And ask yourself very simply, what is your philosophy?
Tell me.
What is your philosophy?
What is it that keeps you going?
Describe how you fit into the world.
Describe it.
What does it mean?
What are you supposed to do?
What is your political philosophy?
What is it?
How much are you supposed to question?
How much is real?
What are you talking about?
What are they talking about?
Who is in charge of this?
Answer my question.
What is this about?
It's the most important thing there is.
And you have to walk into this and you have to just completely deconstruct and remove all of the rudeness and the coarseness and the stupidity of the world.
And let me also ask you something.
And I appreciate the fact that I can speak with you because you allow me to do something which is very important.
Let me give you an analogy.
I love metaphors.
I love analogies.
I can't help it.
If I handed you the best electric guitar ever, a 1961 Strat, whatever, a Les Paul, a Tele, that's just...
Perfect.
The best.
And I handed it to you.
And I said, go ahead, play it.
And you said, well, I've got to plug in.
No, no, just play it.
Play it.
I can play it.
No, it's a guitar.
No, it doesn't matter because if I don't plug it in, if there's no amplifier, it doesn't mean anything.
That's what people are to me.
If I don't have people around me that I respect, there's nobody to plug into.
There's no audience for me.
I don't hear anything.
I've got this great guitar, but I'm with...
There's no place to plug it in?
And if you watch television right now, there's no place to plug in.
Where am I going?
I've forgotten that, and I want you to understand this.
You're going to have to pull back and regroup and ask yourself, where do you fit in?
Because you're going to be around longer than this stuff.
When Joe Biden and Trump are gone, I hope you're still here.
It's about you and your family and the way you fit in to the rest of the world.
And do yourself a couple of favors.
Stop hanging around stupid people.
I hate to be so crude.
Let me explain something to you.
Nobody knows anything.
This may be extremely...
I mean, talk about high-handed.
Nobody knows anything.
Believe me.
And that goes for people, supposedly, who believe in what you're saying.
Nobody understands this.
Nobody...
You really...
You've got to understand something.
Ask yourself, where do I go where I really learn something?
Where do I plug in?
Where?
Where do I plug in?
What you will see, for the most part, is a bunch of people desperately trying to be clever, and funny, and relevant, and God bless them, but I just, I go someplace else.
I don't have any place to go.
There's nobody around.
A little bit here, a little bit there, not really.
I don't know if it's because what I feel is so arcane.
I don't know where to land.
I don't know.
Don't be a cynic.
Don't be a skeptic.
Don't be anything ahead of time.
Think about this.
Someone wrote, rather proudly, I'm a perpetual cynic.
A cynic is believing that people are motivated by self-interest, distrustful of human sincerity or integrity, concerned only with one's own interest, and typically disregarding accepted or appropriate standards in order to achieve it.
No.
No.
No, no, no, no, no, no.
Don't be a cynic.
Why would you want to do that?
Why would you want to be a cynic?
Why?
Why?
And let me tell you another thing, too.
Most people don't really ever understand the words they're using.
A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons.
Do you believe that?
I don't think necessarily that's true.
Here's one for you.
This is my favorite.
Have you ever heard people use the word, you're the epitome of something?
You're the epitome, as people say.
You know what the epitome means?
A person or thing that is a perfect example of a particular quality or type.
The embodiment.
The personification.
The incarnation.
Not the quintessence.
Not the best.
But the most average.
The most representative.
We use the wrong words.
Constantly.
Here's one.
Skeptic.
Now listen to this.
Skeptic is a person inclined to question or doubt accepted opinions.
I question them, but I'm not inclined to doubt.
Just because they're accepted.
I'm not inclined to do that.
That's not my first thing.
I don't start off with that.
My default mechanism is not saying, oh, this doesn't make any sense.
No.
But question?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Do you do this?
You'll never see it on television.
You'll never see anybody do this on television.
You will never see television.
Television news, television presentation is so bad.
It is so devoid.
Did you see what Bob Iger said about the future of TV?
It's over.
It's streaming.
It's streaming.
They don't even understand that.
They don't understand.
They don't grasp this whole thing.
What is your philosophy?
What is it?
You have to tell me how you begin this.
Where do we start?
What do you say?
Well, I'm a Republican.
And I start off with that because I'm a Republican and I'm a conservative and I start off with a conservative base.
Really?
Yes.
You start off with that.
That's my default mechanism.
I start off with that.
Or liberal.
Whatever the point is.
So right off the bat, that's what I do.
I see.
See anything wrong with that?
I see a lot wrong with that.
What does that mean?
Conservative by whose standards?
Your standard or theirs?
What does conservative mean?
I don't know what that means.
I don't know what that means.
I have no idea what that means.
I have absolutely no idea what this means.
Let me give you an example of something.
One of the senators is talking about same-sex legislation.
There's two issues.
Does the Constitution guarantee it?
I say, nope.
Do I favor legislation protecting it?
Sure.
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
I think it should be absolutely guaranteed.
Adults, same sex, without a doubt.
Do you understand the difference between the two?
Do you understand the difference between the two?
It may not be constitutionally protected, but I'm for it.
How can the government tell somebody, I'm sorry, you can't, no.
No, we don't like that.
You don't like that?
No, we're more traditional.
Excuse me, you're the government.
Give me the license.
I'm not asking you for what you like.
Children, I can see policy reasons.
But it's not constitutionally protected.
Absolutely not.
Is that seemingly inconsistent to you?
Does that bother you?
How about this?
Do I think abortion is guaranteed in the Constitution?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Am I pro-choice?
Absolutely.
100%.
I hate it.
I despise it.
It's a human life.
I don't want to ban that.
Now, stop.
Where does that fit in?
I don't know where it fits in.
Fits in where?
Fits in with me perfectly.
It may not fit in with your version of whatever conservatism is, but I understand it completely.
I'm against the death penalty, but not only does the Constitution not deny it.
It provides for it.
How can two seemingly inconsistent things be held simultaneously?
It's what F. Scott Fitzgerald said.
He said that's the definition of a superior mind.
Now I start off with it.
I don't even know what the conservative...
I don't care what they think.
They could change next week.
I don't care.
I don't care.
I don't understand.
There are some times when things change.
When I say, wait a minute, wait a minute, hold it, hold it, hold it.
This isn't a good thing here.
This is not a good thing.
I change constantly.
I don't know what the word conservative means.
I don't know what that means.
I don't care what that means.
I don't care about Ronald Reagan.
I don't care about...
Barry Goldwater?
I don't care about Adam Smith?
Any of these people?
I don't care.
I don't know what that means.
Who the hell is Ronald Reagan?
What does it concern?
I'm not going to go to CPAC.
I don't want to hear somebody talking about the Bible.
I have no interest in that.
Go ahead and you do that.
That's not my thing.
So where do I go?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
None.
Where do I plug in?
Most people that you will meet know nothing.
They have no sense of history.
They have no sense of perspective.
And they actually know they are more dangerous in terms of what they don't know than the person who knows absolutely nothing.
What does authenticity mean to you?
Give me somebody who is authentic any day of the week.
I can deal with that.
Absolutely.
I'll give you an example.
This Pennsylvania rule, this Fetterman, he makes no bones about it.
They're laughing at him.
They're mocking him.
He had a stroke.
Okay.
That's where we are today.
We just mock people.
Oh, you had a stroke.
Okay, fine.
Would I vote for him?
Of course not.
Of course not.
But he's legitimate.
He stands for that.
That's who he is.
I don't want it.
But that's who he is.
Then we got this clown, Dr. Oz.
I can't believe people are standing up for this guy.
This guy is as synthetic and as phony as anything you have ever seen in your life.
He doesn't stand for anything.
He's like the wind.
He's the wind.
Whatever the way...
You don't need a weatherman to say which way the wind's blowing.
But that's who he is.
He's a phony...
He trashed what he did to Roseanne.
I'll never forget that.
Never forget that.
There was a chance to stand up, but no, he had to cave in because his Oprah benefactors wouldn't have allowed that.
Fox did it too.
Hannity did the same thing too.
Set Roseanne up.
After all that's been done, what she said was nothing compared to what was said by other people regarding children, whatever it is, and they just abandoned her.
Okay.
Paybacks are hell.
And you know where that payback's coming?
You know where it's coming?
The Dominion lawsuits.
Watch that one.
Oh man!
Get ready for that.
That's some serious stuff.
But let's go back.
What's your philosophy?
What's your philosophy?
How do you go through things?
How do you figure things out?
How do you handle the world?
How do you handle war?
How do you handle issues?
How do you weigh things in your mind?
How?
How does it work?
Where do you plug into?
Where do you bounce off ideas to and with and from and at?
Do you?
Where do you go for that?
That's the most important.
Your friends, your circle of friends, the people that you hang around with, the people that are your amplifier where you plug in, They are so critical.
And if they're the wrong people, it will actually hurt you.
If you want to get great playing tennis, you play against the best.
You play against people who are absolutely better than you.
And pay attention and observe.
My philosophy, observation.
The other day I went to the Kennedy Airport.
And I have not, if ever you want to see humanity, go to Kennedy Airport.
Oh, dear God.
And I thought to myself, alright, I'm going to pretend to be somebody from another star system.
And I'm going to say, what do I notice about these people?
Well...
They are all extremely overweight.
Every one of them.
To see somebody who...
But what's that about?
I don't know, but I'm noticing.
I see a multiplicity of people.
They seem to be either men or women.
That's it.
That's all I see.
And I'm looking around here, and of the thousands of people that I'm looking, first of all, I notice that they're dressed like slobs.
It's like they're going to Walmart.
Nothing wrong with Walmart, but there was a time when, maybe, maybe, you might remember when going to an airplane or air flight was considered kind of fancy.
Remember people said, what did you get to eat?
What did they serve you?
Now it's...
Now, if you're lucky, it's not canceled.
It's just, ever since deregulation came in.
Look around.
Slobs.
They look like they just got out of bed.
Look at that.
Now, what else do you see?
Well, what's interesting?
Out of 1,000 people, I see two people with a mask here, three people over there.
Some people still with masks.
Not even with the airline.
Another group of people wear their mask under their nose.
Maybe it's the mask itself.
Maybe it's like swaddling.
Maybe that's it.
Maybe like a baby, you know, you want to wrap the baby.
Maybe this is like a swaddling or something.
Some will have it below their chin.
Others will walk with their mask on their arm.
Have you seen this group over here?
Two people, three people, a couple.
They're outside.
They're walking to a car.
It's open air.
The diffusion of any COVID concentration would certainly be easy.
And they're walking around with a mask outside.
Why?
Why?
Say people who keep their training wheels on.
Say people who take the raincoat off.
It's not raining.
Yeah, but I liked it.
But it's not raining.
I know.
We'll take it off.
No.
What are you, Columbo?
Why do people do that?
Why?
Why is somebody feeling safe with this?
Why is a device that was considered And encumbrance, which, by the way, doesn't work.
Why?
Fascinating.
Then we have other people as well.
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I'm fascinated by mental health, mental illness, idiosyncratic behavior patterns that we involve ourselves in.
And three days from now is September the 11th.
And I was here in New York on that fateful Tuesday morning.
21 years ago.
I will remember it and things about it that you'll never believe.
But one of the things that I found interesting is this.
And every now and then, every now and then, You will come across this.
I know people, firemen, policemen, first responders, people who were downtown, people who never reopened, people who, it was like the worst COVID, it was, you didn't know if this was the end of the world, businesses closed, just...
Justin, Christy Todd Whitman, the ex-governor of...
New Jersey is saying, it's safe.
Go down there.
Everything's fine.
It's safe.
You've got nothing to worry about.
I know at least two, well, three people who said the following.
Listen to this.
One said, I can't work anymore.
Why?
I can't work.
Why?
Because of 9-11.
9-11?
Were you in 9-11?
Well, I mean, I was working there.
You were in the building?
Well, I wasn't in the building, but I was there.
What do you mean you were there?
Well, just suffice it to say I was there.
Wait a minute.
You can't work because of 9-11?
Yeah.
Why?
I...
Why?
What does that mean?
What does that mean?
All I know is that these people that I'm talking about define themselves by virtue of the trauma that they claim that they feel it's who they are.
It defines it.
And if you question them, you say, wait a minute, are you good?
I can't do it.
Well, you know, so-and-so, you know this.
Well, you know, her daughter is...
She doesn't want to work.
Well, because she has anxiety.
Anxiety.
That used to be, in the old days, a day, a sign of weakness.
A sign of embarrassment.
A sign of, oh my God.
No, you don't just quit.
What's the matter with you?
What are you, a baby?
No such thing as a baby now.
9-11.
This was 21 years ago.
Go back to work.
I can't.
I just...
And they won't tell...
What exactly?
I don't understand.
You know how many thousands of people?
What are you talking about?
It defines them.
It defines who they are.
Oh, 9-11.
Wow.
Don't ask me what I went through.
Okay, I won't.
But while we're on this subject, what exactly?
Were you there?
Well, kind of.
Sort of.
Maybe.
Sort of.
See that?
It's incredible.
The victimization.
It's who you are.
It's your...
I've never seen anything.
Most of the time people say, you know what?
I don't want to talk about that.
That's behind me.
Forget it.
I'm just going to...
No, no, no, no, no.
Not now.
No, no.
And 9-11 is so interesting because the people who tell us all the time, don't forget, but don't question.
Don't forget.
What's that philosophy?
I'm not a part of that one.
I question not because I'm questioning.
I question because I was here.
I don't sit there and question just because I'm all...
If somebody talks about the Peloponnesian War or the Punic Wars or World War I, I don't say, oh yeah, how do you know?
That's not my...
My default is not to...
It's not so much not to question, but to default or by default question.
No.
But don't talk about it.
Don't talk about it.
Don't question it.
Repeat the official story and move on.
Plus, we're done with it.
One of the reasons the places I can't plug in, unfortunately, as your Scalark, is I can't talk about people who don't seem to know anything about what's really For example, I told somebody the other day, we're talking, this is why I can't plug in anymore, because I can't, and I said, stop talking about Mar-a-Lago.
America is bored.
It doesn't connect.
Enough.
Enough.
Stop talking about that.
I don't know what you think people are going through.
That this is not the worst thing.
Like Mark Levin said, the worst.
I got the look like, what?
I said, I'm telling you.
You have midterms coming up.
Get off it.
Move along, little dogie.
Let's go.
Talk about what happens.
Children.
Crime.
Borders.
Do those three.
You want to do with that?
You have a field day with that.
You have a field day.
You want to talk about that?
Tell me one person.
Tell me one person.
Because we have people who come into New York and we always have these kind of...
They look like old Dukakis supporters.
They're at...
I guess they're...
I guess they're motivated by...
Good things.
But they're always meeting the buses.
They're meeting the buses.
They love the buses.
And they stand there with these little bags.
Welcome!
Where are they going?
I don't know.
I don't know.
What are you doing?
Well, I'm just there.
And they're at the Port Authority normally.
Come on, welcome!
I say, excuse me, where are these people going?
I don't know where they're going.
Why aren't you asking?
Because I...
Don't you want to know where they are?
Don't you want to know who they are?
No.
Now, they're the minority of the people.
Believe me when I tell you that.
That's an issue.
Let me tell you something I saw the other day.
You're not going to believe this.
At any day, any time of the day, if you go over to...
You cross the Edcott.
I mean, it's a 59th Street Bridge, but you cross over into Queens, you know, Long Island City or whatever.
You cross over.
At about 4.30, quarter to five, you will see legions.
I mean, seriously, cavalcades, caravans of these Food trucks, food carts that are moving like you can't believe.
They have little falafels or maybe the hot dogs or whatever it is.
They go there, they get their supplies, they load up and they hitch up their truck, their portable truck, and they're all coming into Manhattan.
I swear to God, kind of 20. And they're already there.
3.30, 4 o 'clock in the morning, they're setting up.
Setting up for their work.
What percentage of these folks do you think are American?
Take a wild guess.
3.30, 4 o 'clock, 4.30 in the morning, going to Queens, loading up, filling these things, calming over.
And they're 12 hours.
They're there all day long.
Maybe selling fruit.
Maybe selling falafel things.
They have the dirty water dogs.
There are these folks called the Halal Guys.
They're the biggest.
They're right up the street for like 53rd and 6th.
Up the street from Fox News.
What percentage do you think of these people, hard workers, are American?
Or American college born?
Anybody?
Zero.
None.
*Dramatic music*
They show up.
Have you heard about quiet quitting?
Workplaces, have you ever heard about quiet quitting?
They're not quiet quitting.
Now, let me ask you something.
Why is that?
Now those people, I promise you, you would be so honored.
And I'm not sure if they're citizens, but to see that amount of work, you don't know this hard work.
You don't know.
This is brutal all day long.
And you know what else I like too?
You will see this...
Every now and then you'll see somebody.
He gets off.
Normally it's a man.
And they have family.
And he will set up his rug or his whatever.
And he will pray during the day.
I guess facing the east.
He's Muslim.
Pray six times a day.
I love that.
I love tradition.
I love commitment to something he believes in.
I don't particularly have to share the religious belief.
But do we do that?
No.
Maybe you'll do a sign on the cross.
That's it.
This is every single day.
Stops business.
I would be honored and am honored to have that man in our country.
And I would sponsor him and his family.
I would do everything in my power.
You come in.
Let's do it.
I will help you with your test.
I will name it.
What can I do for you?
I love.
Love.
Immigrants.
It's what we are.
If you came to New York, oh my God, where do you want to go?
Is my friend Christos here?
We'll take you to Queens.
You want Greek?
Like you can't?
Little Athens.
You cannot believe.
The food is incredible.
Like Peruvian?
Chilean?
Want to go to Brooklyn?
Go to Brighton Beach?
Little Odessa?
Ukrainian?
Russian food?
You like all this stuff?
Borscht and this?
That's over there.
Korean?
Little Korea?
24 hours a day.
They don't close.
Their restaurants are incredible.
Just, we have, oh my God.
Latin America?
What kind?
What kind?
And in, there's a place that is, I think it's in Red Hook.
During the season, you have food trucks from around the world.
I love the heterogeneity of what these people bring to our country.
It's their country now, too.
So whoever said that we don't like people, I don't care about who, you're Muslim.
I love these people.
They pay taxes.
They work hard.
They are an inspiration to Native-born Americans.
Native.
They are an inspiration.
Every single one of them.
Now let me ask you.
If I went to those folks and say, what do you think about people who are just...
And by the way, let me explain something.
Please do not ever blame somebody who is trying to come here to get a better life.
If you went to France, And you got off, you went to the Charles de Gaulle airport, you got off the plane, and they say, welcome!
Welcome!
Here's health insurance, here's a stipend.
What?
You'd say, thanks!
Now you would probably say, well, I gave it back because I didn't earn it, but most people would say, great!
And especially if you're poor and you've got kids.
So I don't blame anybody ever for coming to this country if people open.
This isn't the issue.
This has never been the issue.
This has never been the issue.
We don't explain it like that.
What is our philosophy?
What is our philosophy regarding people moving in?
People coming?
What is it?
What is our philosophy?
Trump had three things he said.
Drain the swamp, lock her up, and build the wall.
Okay.
Build the wall is nice, but you know what?
There's a negative aspect to it.
And it sounds punitive.
And I think that is okay.
But the real issue is enforce the law.
Build a wall sounds different.
You may like that.
That's okay.
But lock her up?
Do you think that was a good idea?
Do you think that was a good idea?
What's your philosophy on politics?
I'm always positive.
Do you think lock her up?
Do you think people were swayed by that?
Do you think that brought new people?
Or were those people who were going to vote for Trump anyway?
Those are people who are going to vote for Trump anyway.
Nobody says, I voted for Trump.
Why?
Well, because he said he's going to lock up Hillary Clinton.
And the only thing I care about is locking up Hillary Clinton.
That means a lot to me, locking up Hillary Clinton.
And draining the swamp?
I don't even know what the hell that means, but I'm big for swamp draining.
See, my philosophy in politics does not comport.
There's no place to plug in.
I always say, you're doing it wrong, you're doing it wrong, you're doing it wrong.
You won, but not because of that, but despite that.
You got that?
This is this fixation.
This is this Republican, conservative.
That's great at a CPAC convention, but not for a general election.
You're lucky you won.
And we'll leave it at that.
But you're lucky.
That's not the way to do it.
That's not the way to do it.
So let me ask you this.
What's your philosophy?
Tell me what Republicans are saying now.
Oh, I forgot.
Rand Paul is slamming.
Okay, fine.
What do you think?
What should you do?
How do you lure people?
How do you expect to win?
Is Trump going to announce?
Who's going to announce?
What are the Republicans about?
I don't know.
Trump's always saying, send me money.
Send me money.
Kimberly Guilfoyle is even getting emails.
Send me money.
For what?
Are you running?
Tell me.
What?
I don't know.
Wait a minute.
What?
Are you running or not?
What do you want from me?
I don't even know.
Where do you plug in?
Isn't it interesting that Steve Bannon gets to turn himself in?
But, who was it the other day who was, oh God, what is his name?
The fellow who was arrested at, Peter Navarro.
Arrested.
At Reagan Airport?
I said, what?
They're going after Banna for what?
Are you kidding me?
This is Tish James Overkill.
Now let me explain this to you.
This is the part that kills me.
We have a guy named Alvin Bragg.
Alvin Bragg is our one of these Soros DAs.
And he said, I'm not going to put people I'm not going to lock people up.
Just because they're involved in violent felonies.
Not interested in that.
I'm not going to lock people up because they're involved in violent felonies.
You're not?
Nope.
Give him a chance.
Alright.
But Steve Bannon, that's the guy I'm going to charge.
Come on.
Now, should I take this?
Should I take this?
How do I say this?
Should I take this?
On a larger scale, should I...
I mean, what do I do with this?
What am I supposed to do with this?
I don't understand.
Where's the...
It doesn't make sense.
It's wrong.
Am I going to make that a political...
Am I going to make Steve Bannon's arrest part of my political campaign?
No!
Of course not.
What's your philosophy?
How would you run your race?
What do you believe races are about?
What is politics about?
What do you tell people?
Do you mock the opponent?
Or do you give the voter a dream?
Do you promise the voter something?
Tell me what your thoughts are.
If you had a restaurant, would you say, we're better than McDonald's?
No.
If you had a place, would you say, McDonald's stinks?
No.
You talk about how good you are, what your menu is, what you want to do.
Republicans are still stuck in that.
What's your philosophy?
What do you think people vote for?
Why don't people vote?
You know why?
A number of reasons.
It doesn't do any good.
It's a waste of time.
It's fixed.
Plus, I'm lazy.
We don't really vote in my family.
What's the point?
I don't care.
Why vote?
What am I going to vote for?
What?
Why?
What's the purpose of this?
Right?
How do I get that person to the polls?
How do we do this?
By mocking Joe Biden?
No.
Tell me, what would you do?
How do you do this?
How do you get people to participate in the franchise?
How do you do this?
What is your philosophy?
I'm going to tell you.
First, you elevate their worth.
You mean something.
You are a critical part of this democracy.
It's not really a democracy, it's a republic.
Democracy is just majority rules.
If we had a democracy, there would still be slavery.
Women wouldn't have the vote.
We're not a democracy.
We don't say, alright, 51%, you win, whatever it is.
Tyranny by the majority.
It doesn't work that way.
We're a republic.
We're a constitutional republic.
We vote, and our vote and our activities are tempered by the Constitution.
And you tell people, we need you.
You're a part of this.
Every single thing.
You are the most important part of this.
Positive.
When you cast your vote, it is the most important thing you as a person will ever make.
I used to tell jurors, In fact, very simply, this is the most powerful moment you will have, especially when it comes to criminal matters.
This is the most powerful.
You override the judge, the prosecutor, me, everybody.
You.
You.
We're having an election.
You're the voters.
That's it.
Period.
It's a very heady thing.
You want people to be empowered.
What's your philosophy?
How do you make people vote?
What do you tell them?
What was the thing that Martin Luther King Jr. wanted?
The vote.
What was it that he fought?
The Voting Rights Act.
The vote.
Poll taxes.
Literacy requirements.
The vote.
The sanctity of the vote.
Don't ever let anybody tell you that you're a denier like a Geraldo Rivera or any of that stuff.
It's the most important aspect.
The 19th Amendment.
Ladies, you were not able to vote until the 19th Amendment.
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery.
How do you like that?
You weren't allowed to vote.
Think about that.
Think what that means.
It's the most important...
Do you hear anybody saying that?
No.
Do you hear the Republicans or the Democrats talking about the vote?
Are you registered to vote?
This is the most important thing.
To show pictures of people, people who were standing by, people who are a part of this new franchise, those who hold up their...
I love when people are sworn in.
Oh, I love that.
Now you can vote.
To express what you believe.
That's not what we do.
We make voting to be very insular, insulated.
We're the cool guys.
And Fetterman's an idiot, and Dr. Oz is a cool guy.
That's the way we do it.
Fetterman's an idiot.
Fetterman had a stroke.
Fetterman wears a hoodie.
Fetterman's this.
Fetterman...
Is that the way you want to do it?
Is that it?
Now, if you're a news organization, you want ratings, and basically you have to appeal to the lowest rung of the phylogenetic viewer tree.
But that's who we are.
Snarky.
We make fun of people.
That's all we do.
That's all we do.
We are so personal.
We took everything, everything, every single thing.
And let me tell you something.
Social media, I'm going to change this subject just a little bit here.
When I tell people this, they kind of sort of go nuts, but I don't really care.
You know who was royally hoes in courts?
Harvey Weinstein.
But he's guilty.
Never said he wasn't.
But what are you talking about?
What they did to him.
And what they're still doing to him.
It's ridiculous.
Why him?
Why not Epstein?
What about Ghislaine Maxwell?
Where's Brittany Greiner?
Brittany Greiner.
What's our philosophy regarding amnesia?
Remember Brittany Greiner?
This was the WNBA or the star with the vaping equipment.
She was arrested in Russia and faces nine years.
Brittany Greiner!
It's the most important story that all of a sudden, you drop something, pick up your keys that you dropped, and when you get back up, it's gone.
Next, what happened to her?
What happened to her?
What happened to Brittany Griner?
What happened?
Anybody?
Any idea?
Any clue?
What happened?
I don't know.
It just goes away.
It just...
Goes away.
Salman Rushdie.
Is he okay?
Oh, yeah.
Remember they stabbed him?
It was a fatwa or something?
Yeah.
What happened?
I don't know.
Just forgot.
This is who we are.
This is exactly who we are.
This is the story.
Don't you love the way we can?
How do you expect America, in particular, to understand history?
The Vietnam War.
If we can't keep track of Brittany Griner for more than a week, we just forget about it.
We have no short-term memory.
Nothing.
Nothing.
It's just incredible.
Now, what do we do?
Do we give up?
Of course not.
But my philosophy is, these parties do nothing for me.
These cable news shows do nothing for me.
They absolutely do nothing for me.
I am iconoclastic.
I am a maverick.
I am a lone wolf.
I don't fit in.
I don't know nobody.
I offend everybody.
At one point or another, which is fine.
Because people don't like to be told they're wrong.
So I have nobody.
My philosophy is nothing.
There is nobody here for me.
No party.
No TV shows.
No labels.
No ideological labeling.
Nothing.
Nothing.
I'm alone.
You are the closest thing to any group that I even remotely connect with.
You are it.
Absolutely.
Positively.
Without a doubt.
Thanks to you.
Think about that.
Think about that.
This is very, very important.
I want you to know that.
Because you allow me just, when I talk to you, it's the most wonderful chance to just plug in and just let my feelings go.
And some like them, some don't.
YouTube thinks I'm controversial.
Thank you!
Well, not really.
That's not good?
No.
You can be controversial about stuff, but now what you're controversial about?
So what are you going to do?
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Thank you for your attention.
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