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Aug. 7, 2023 - Lionel Nation
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If You're Serious About Winning 2024 You've Got to Focus on What Really Matters to Voters

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All right, my friends.
Thank you so much for being with us.
Welcome.
Happy Sunday to you and yours.
Thanks for being a part of this.
And thanks for being a part of our efforts to illuminate, to explain, to...
Denote and the like.
Let me also ask that you please like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit that little bell, hit that little bell, so that you...
Someone writes, 8, 10 a.m.
Don't you love that?
This is, let me see, this is free, 8, 10. He's starting at 8, 10. Wow.
As opposed to, well, it's nice that he does this.
What are you, a little bit of a thing.
I can, I can wait.
I can, it's okay.
810, what's going on here?
He's late.
Don't you love it?
And by the way, that's just, and I appreciate the fact that it means so much to people, but do you recognize what that means?
This sense of haughtiness?
This is, we have no, I mean, other than expectation interest, this is just me doing this kind of, you know, whatever, and it's a bit of an inconvenience, and I know, but just like, wow!
Let me think about that.
That says a lot.
Stop right there.
Don't let this moment, don't let this moment go by.
Don't let the moment of expectation, interest, and a lack of, I don't want to say etiquette, but that was so indicative of the way I think people sort of act today.
Isn't that odd?
Isn't that interesting?
It's like when people, who is it?
Louis C.K., believe it or not, had an actual very, very good thing one time.
He was upset.
He said that when people...
Are very upset over how there's no Wi-Fi in a plane or something.
Come on, we're late.
What is this?
What's going on?
He says, you're flying in a tube.
You're flying through the sky.
And you're late.
Somebody sent a picture the other day.
There was a sign at a Starbucks that says, no hot water.
And you would have thought, okay, well that's kind of odd at a coffee place, no hot water.
But the reaction, the reaction, and I think, I think maybe it might be something to do with the fact that sometimes people overreact because this is the problem they understand.
They understand.
Look at this.
Dan Schaefer.
Look at Dan Schaefer.
Dan's looking a bit querulous.
Dan says, appreciate you, Lionel.
Been loving your sober takes since pics 11 days.
Dan Schaefer, thank you so much.
Dan's a good man.
Remember those pictures when you were in school?
Your principal would be like writing with a pen.
Oh, you could be writing here.
Okay.
Could you put the pen down?
No, I must continue writing.
Well, Dan, thank you, Dan.
You're a gentleman and a scholar.
Isn't that interesting, though?
It's fascinating.
Fascinating.
Fascinating, fascinating, fascinating.
Okay, let me see.
Go back here.
Go back on banners.
And let me see.
It'd be nice if we got rid of Dan.
Take rid of this.
And then we go back to there.
And there we go.
Okay.
Okay.
Now, let's talk about a couple of things.
As I was saying before we ran a little late, which again, me the spiace.
There was a...
I was listening and reviewing the take of what's going on today, and it is beyond...
It was beyond horrid.
The take...
The...
What do I say?
What am I trying to say?
The collective reaction towards everything is something that I just...
Do you have any idea of what's happening right now to our country?
Do you have anything?
I think so, maybe.
Do you think, do you have any idea of what's really, really happening in terms of how bad it is?
Now, I don't want to start off by being negative, but do you have any clue as to what this means?
Where do you go for the information?
Where do you understand not just the information, but perspective?
Perspective.
That's the part I don't understand.
How do you put things into context?
How do you put things into context and how do you figure out where, how do I say this, where it all kind of fits in?
Does that make any sense to you?
How do you figure out where it fits in?
Let me give you an idea.
The number one issue right now, the number one issue, and we can start off with this thing, that is a bit of a problem, is the idea that the shadow government, whatever you want to call it, whatever you want to call it, It's hitting us at levels we can't even comprehend.
We can't comprehend how many different levels it's hitting us at.
And do you, and I'm sure you do, do you recognize what is happening and why this matters as far as President Trump goes?
Do you see what they're doing?
Do you really see this?
Number two, are people...
In the news, able to differentiate this between President Trump and the presidency and the Constitution.
Are you able to see this?
Are you able to grasp how this is working?
It's not about President Trump.
It's about all of us.
Do you understand this?
I'm sure you do.
I say this to you And I cannot, I want to scream because unfortunately, still to this day, for reasons I guess because maybe it's a laziness,
the people who might be the most involved in this interest or this venture politically tend to look at Fox News and tend to see Newsmax as the Soul bases for what's going on.
And maybe I'm at a different stage.
Maybe I'm at a different age.
Maybe whatever it is.
I don't need cis-boom-bah-rah-rah-rah.
I want the facts.
Just the facts, man.
By the way, Joe Friday never did say this.
It was Stan Freeberg who actually said that.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I don't want to see couches.
And people with stupid socks and trying to be cool.
I can't do it.
I can't do it.
Then there are levels.
This is also interesting.
You look at various, the paleo-conservatives.
You know who those are?
National Review.
National Review, they're like the stuck-up, we were here first crew.
We were the ones who say, we're conservatives, you're not.
True conservatives, we're Bill Buckley conservatives.
We're paleo-conservatives.
We're old school.
And they have this fascinating article, may I recommend this to you, on blasting Charlie Kirk.
Now let me explain something to you.
Let me explain something.
It goes back to what Scott Fitzgerald said, of being able to handle seemingly inconsistent thoughts simultaneously.
And it works something like this.
It kind of works like this.
You've got to be able to handle seemingly inconsistent thoughts simultaneously, without losing your mind, without losing your ability to function.
And it was a piece on Charlie Kirk.
I think Charlie Kirk is a jerk.
Personally.
I just don't listen to him.
But I respect what he's doing regarding pulling in young people and making it seem cool cool and involved.
That's that.
You understand what I'm saying?
That's the critical part.
That is it.
Now let me just say something to you.
Let me try to explain this.
Let me try to...
I personally find it monumentally just beneath me.
So jejun, juvenescent, puerile, babified, base.
However, Good for him that at least he's going to colleges and getting people.
You see what I'm saying?
Do you see this?
I cannot like something personally, but yet see something that's good from it.
The fact that Taylor Swift, I wouldn't particularly go see her, but the fact that she's getting people to go to concerts again is good.
You see that?
This is what we're seeing.
So you've got to be able to balance this.
You've got to be able to balance.
And you've got to be able to see a lot of different pieces of data.
And take it for what it's worth.
And look at this.
Okay.
There are people to this day, and they take great, great...
This may be too subtle.
I don't want to say this.
That sounds rather pretentious.
But this may be too subtle, and this may be too...
I don't know what the word is.
This might be too subtle.
I'll say that.
I'll be so grand as to say it might be too subtle.
But I'm interested to see where the country's going to go after this and who's saying what.
And the thing that is the most interesting, a lot of people find it exceedingly fascinating.
They love to say, they love to say, And I mean this.
They love to say to everyone that there was no evidence whatsoever of any form of voter irregularity.
They blasted.
National Review blasted, torched, torched Charlie Kirk because he dares to repeat this.
Let me ask you a question.
And I know what the answer is going to be.
Do you believe 2020 election was stolen?
Do you believe it in your heart of heart?
Not do you guess, not do you have a hunch, but do you believe that 2020 election was stolen?
Do you?
Do you believe it?
And I think you do.
And you're entitled to do that.
And you can say, well, it was stolen legally, it was stolen by the rules, it was stolen by whatever, I don't know.
But there are so many people right now who believe that the 2020 election was stolen.
And that they're not crazy.
They're not crazy.
But yet people like Fox News, because they worry about this Dominion thing, and because National Review, because they hate Trump, because Trump is...
These are people who seemingly represent conservative ideology, or that you might think, and they won't get past the fact.
You've got to understand something.
First rule.
Understand what people think.
When I meet people who espouse a particular religious ideology, I respect that what they're saying is sincere and they are not crazy.
They're not saying things because they're deluded or demented.
They're saying things because it's true.
Let me say this again.
I may not agree.
I may not personally hold it.
But there is this idea that if you believe, if you are somehow connected to the thought process that this election was stolen, we've got to start right off the bat with that.
And Bobby Kennedy Jr. better be able to deal with this.
So how do you handle it?
How do you handle this?
What's the best way to do it?
Let me ask you something.
You're on my team.
Let's say Bobby Kennedy, because I still think he's the future for this.
He is the future, and he's doing so many mistakes, it's not even funny.
What does Bobby Kennedy say?
Does he come out and say that he thinks the election was stolen?
You can't say that.
Why?
Because you then turn around and you say, but Hillary Clinton is crazy because she says the election was stolen because of Russian interference.
But you're doing the same thing.
Do you see what's going on here?
You've got to be very careful.
You can't do the same thing.
You've got to be very, very, very, very careful.
So what Bobby Kennedy has to do is he has to say as follows.
This isn't about what I think.
I've been doing this for a long time, and I know the difference between irregularities and problems and systematic theft and the like.
But the American public has lost faith in the accuracy, the methodology of our elections.
Do you understand that?
And you stick to it.
Over and over and over.
The American people today, both Democrats and Republicans, listen to Hillary Clinton, listen to Stacey Abrams, listen to Jamie Raskin.
They said that the elections, think about this, the elections, they said this, that the elections were stolen by the Russians and they still can't tell you how.
What exactly did the Russians do?
I don't know.
But when the Trump folks talk about it, or Dinesh D'Souza or whatever else, they say, here's why.
Here's why.
And they will point to you examples of pictures and videos of ballots being dropped off, or ballots being lost, or ballots being removed, or vote harvesting, or the Philadelphia office with cardboard put up so that you can't see the counting.
Do you understand what that was?
Whoever was the genius who did this, that told you everything.
So Bobby Kennedy can't lose with that one.
Let me tell you again, the American people.
The American people do not believe, the American people do not believe in the accuracy of the election.
Period.
Do you understand that?
Stick with that.
Number two, I mentioned this last night.
Then I'm going to say this again.
Always miss, don't go for the unforced errors.
If you're going to screw up.
If you are going to screw up, that's fine.
If you are going to screw up, do it because of something that was based on maybe a legitimate tactic that didn't work out right, but do not do something where you step on your own, whatever it is, appendage in the way.
Don't do this.
Now let me explain something to you.
And let me say this again, because I want to talk about elections.
I don't want to talk about issues.
I want to talk about Trump per se, but I'll talk a little bit about that.
Bobby Kennedy has to understand, what are the three issues he's talking about?
Why is he running?
If I ran Bobby Kennedy's campaign, I'm going to say, number one, you're going to run everything by me.
First rule, do not talk about vaccines anymore.
Stop it.
You have spoken more on vaccines than anybody.
You've been speaking of vaccines, polio, autism, thimerosal, mercury, adjuvants, Johns Hopkins study.
You've been talking about this since the beginning of time.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
You have been doing this since the beginning of time.
Why in the name of God are you still?
Are you still?
Are you still talking about this?
Why?
Do you think they don't understand?
Now you're getting priggish.
Now you're getting academic.
Well, you know, there's the Johns Hopkins.
Forget the Johns Hopkins.
Stop talking about it.
Stop it.
We're running out of time.
The days until the DNC convention are 379 days.
379 days in the To the DNC in Democratic National Convention.
Yep.
You got that?
August 19th?
Next year.
You got that?
You got it?
It's critical.
Do you understand what's happening?
It's critical.
Now, I don't know how to explain this to people.
I don't know why people aren't paying attention to this.
But they're forgetting kind of how this is.
And you would think that Bobby Kennedy somehow, somehow would maybe know a little bit about kind of how this thing works.
You dig it?
You dig what I'm saying?
And the best part...
Chicago.
Oh my God.
Can you imagine that?
Now, I don't know about you.
I don't know about you.
I'm not going to say, but let me explain something to you.
If it was the other way around, the shadow government would have made this thing a crime wave.
They would have done this.
Republicans aren't going to do it because they don't have any intel.
But if this was a real PSYOP, kind of a conspiracy-based movie, you would have had more problems there.
But you're not.
And I'm glad there's not.
So that's a problem.
So that's number one.
Don't talk about vaccines.
Number two.
I saw this yesterday.
I've got to tell you this again.
I like certain subjects that I would never run an election on.
I like certain things which I, frankly, would not run an election on.
I wouldn't.
I wouldn't.
I don't like...
There's just some things that I...
I don't know what the word is.
There's just some stuff I don't...
I just would not be a part of...
I wouldn't run the election.
So the other day somebody told me they were so excited.
Hey, you're not going to believe this.
What happened?
Now they, of course...
Watch the news.
Watch a lot of stuff that we do.
And they enjoy all this stuff.
And they do certain things.
And guess what they do?
They said, you're not going to believe this.
This is such great news.
Well, what is it?
Tell me.
No, it's great news.
Well, tell me.
What is it?
What is it?
Well, the news is that Bobby Kennedy...
Has agreed to, this was yesterday, might not go through, I hope it doesn't go through, because it's just stupid.
But Bobby Kennedy has agreed to debate Max Blumenthal on Jimmy Dore.
Isn't that great?
I said, that's the most stupid thing I have ever heard in my life.
On what?
Don't tell me Israel.
Yeah.
Oh no.
Israel and Palestine?
They're going to debate?
No.
What are you talking about?
That's great.
You're an idiot.
You're an idiot.
Why?
You're not going to win.
You're going to piss people off.
You're not going to do a good job.
They're sitting there waiting and your enemies are saying to you, thank God he's stupid enough to fall.
We're ready to pounce.
They're going to roll tape, as we say, and you're dead.
You're finished.
You're stupid.
And you're confusing what you like.
What you like.
And by the way, this is no disrespect.
I think the world of Jimmy Dore and Blumenthal and everybody else who has made a name, everybody from Joe Rogan to Theo Vaughn to...
Listen, Charlie Kirk, Dinesh, go down the list.
Anybody.
From an art form to somebody who is watching them.
Nothing but respect.
I sound like a rapper.
Respect, man.
Whatever.
Respect.
Absolutely.
For an election?
Absolutely not.
What are you, nuts?
Are you nuts?
No, no.
You can't.
No.
Why are you doing this?
First and foremost, here's the obvious.
Jimmy Dora is doing great, but this is going to...
This is going to be to Jimmy Dora what...
Mark Maron did.
Remember WTF?
Mark Maron was one of the first people to do podcasts.
And Mark Maron, by the way, is a good guy.
I worked with him at Air America.
He was, I think, the only one there worth a damn.
Really nice.
Everybody else was just...
With all due respect.
But he just went through the...
Because he had Obama on him, he just went through the roof!
And I can see it right now.
The rise, and by the way, this is also good news, because I want to see people like Max and others in the gray zone.
Very smart.
Very, very, very smart.
Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson, great.
Lex Friedman, great.
But most people don't know anything about that.
This is inside baseball, my friends.
This is inside baseball.
That's like me arguing the difference between Bootsy Collins and Jocko.
Or Bootsy Collins and James Jamerson or somebody who's like, yeah, that's great.
There's a lot of people who know it, but they don't understand the intricacies of base.
What?
But a lot of people do, but we're so into it, we think, well, everybody knows this.
Same thing with NASCAR.
People don't know about NASCAR, but it's the hugest thing in the world.
So, number one, no unforced errors.
No, no, no, no, no.
Israel?
We got problems here.
You're going to go to Israel?
That's number one.
Number two.
Number one, don't talk about vaccines.
We already know that.
Number two, don't talk about it.
Talk about it in terms of Middle East, peace, and then move on.
Next, Russia, Ukraine.
Why?
If you bring up the actual truth regarding how stupid it is that we're involved in this, you're going to come up as anti-NATO and pro-Putin, Putin-apologist, and you're going to lose.
Stop doing this!
Don't do this!
Do you know what I find fascinating?
Do you know what I could do?
I want to talk about...
You think anybody wants to talk about 9-11 and Todd Beamer and Shanksville and New Baltimore?
No!
Four people might find it interesting, but it's going to shock people and say, what are you saying?
Because they won't understand.
They won't understand.
They're going to take a subject that I know intimately and they're going to misunderstand it.
You think they want to hear about geoengineering and what you call chemtrails?
No!
Because you're going to walk right into it.
This is a different world right now.
There are people who are saying, you've got to say something.
I want there to be happiness in the world.
Somebody will say, he's mamby-pamby, he's pying this guy, he's delusional, he's crazy, he's whatever it is.
You can't even say that.
You can't say that.
So you've got to pick what it is that you're doing.
And Bobby Kennedy thinks that he's in this, he's into this real, I'm Bobby Kennedy, I'm real smart, and if I talk about it, it's real hip.
You're running for office.
Let me explain this to you.
Let me explain this to you.
And I don't mean to be disrespectful.
Running for office is like planning a kid's party.
If you've got to plan a kid's party, you've got a five-year-old, six-year-old, let's say you've got an eight-year-old kid, you're going to take your kids to have a party.
Eight years old.
What are you going to be doing?
Pate, terrines, ceviche?
No.
Hot dogs, pizza, hamburgers.
You know the routine.
That's what they love.
They love it.
They'll have the time of their life.
And cake, and this and that.
That's it!
What do you reinvent it?
Well, I don't think...
See, I believe that processed foods and nitrates...
Excuse me.
Excuse me.
This is a birthday party.
They can live through one day of nitrates.
Trust me.
If you feed, if you bring out spring rolls, they're never going to talk to you again.
These are kids.
This is America.
People don't know what they're talking about.
They don't know the issues.
They know little things.
It's like professional wrestling.
I told you this before.
I grew up at the feet of Gordon Soley.
Bobby the Brain Heenan.
I was in the biz.
You have no idea.
So I can tell you stories.
And there's one thing about it that was very interesting.
And Vince McMahon and others.
But I go back to the days of Sam Muchnick and Cowboy Luttrell and Eddie Graham and NWA.
Florida.
Crockett.
All those people.
Bring in the heat.
Good versus evil.
It's a very simple idea.
Heal versus baby face.
That's it.
Do not complicate this.
Do not go into subject...
Don't.
Good guy, bad guy.
Manichean, apodictic.
Left, right, up, down.
Right, wrong.
That's it.
It is that simple.
And if you start going there and you start talking about this business, if you start being, if you start being Bobby Kennedy and you start going into these These wonderful child defense things about, you know, this...
You're done.
Finished.
You're dead.
You don't know the audience.
You're not ready for office.
Drop it down.
Drop it down.
He needs to sit in a room and he needs to be hit with people.
I'm going to write you the questions.
What do you think about Trump?
I'm going to set you up.
What do you think about Trump?
What are you going to say about Trump?
What are you going to say, Bobby?
What are you going to say?
This is a good example.
Well, I think he's what?
Remember, if you say something, you're going to piss off half the voters.
How do you say something about Trump without saying anything about Trump?
How do you do it?
Yeah.
Ladies and gentlemen, Bradley Oppen says, ChatGPT, As an AI language model does not have an opinion about the best political platform in 2024, except understanding the concerns and needs of the people.
I've seen that a few times, my friend.
And by the way, thank you for that.
I have seen that repeatedly.
I have seen that repeatedly.
ChatGPT is the most wonderful, wonderful thing.
It's great, by the way, for poems and limericks.
I wrote, I had somebody, you can do, and just put in, write me a poem about Uncle Jerry, farts, Aunt Sarah, lousy bowling, bad food, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, and you put this in, and there's your poem.
Limerick poems, haikus, most incredible thing you've ever seen in your life.
But you can always tell it doesn't have that.
And there's another program, Brad, where you can run ChatGPT through it to see whether it's ChatGPT, if that makes any sense.
Let me give you an idea of something, too, which is very kind of sort of interesting, and I think this.
You see, you've always got to know Where am I speaking?
Who's my audience?
What do I say?
You do know there's stuff you don't say here on YouTube.
You just don't.
You have no idea what you can and can't say.
What you can and can't say.
One of the reasons why the great people at MyPillow.com, promo code Lionel, one of the reasons why they've been so terrific is the fact that, and this is important, is the fact that they are, they have been able to say whatever they want, Pretty much.
They have tried everything in their power to destroy them.
Everybody.
They have gone through, they have tried everything.
Bed Bath& Beyond is now no longer in existence.
I'm not happy about that.
Because I kind of like them.
But I can talk about things elsewhere.
Let me give you an example of what I'm talking about.
Just as an aside, Bobby Kennedy will have to use as an example.
But this is what I don't talk about in public.
It's certainly not here in this particular forum.
But to give you an idea, I have one thing.
First of all, number one, Hollywood has been, this is from this morning, Hollywood has been starlets face utter extinction as sexier, trashier AI influencers invade social media stratosphere.
This is the biggest story that nobody understands on YouTube, and that is the idea of AI and AGI.
They just don't get it.
Next, targeted psyops and coordinated brain science.
Limited Hangout 101.
This is the stuff that if you really...
Oh, by the way, conspiracy theories, as people say, they do exist.
Oh, absolutely.
And I wish I could teach a class and say, now here are the basics of it.
This is good.
This is unfounded.
How do you talk to a conspiracy theorist?
What are you looking for?
How do you talk about it?
I had a friend of mine, literally, He went to a party.
He wanted to talk to somebody.
He said, tell me some things to say.
Give me some key words because he's one of those.
I said, okay.
I mentioned red-pilled and black-pilled.
They love jargon.
Love it.
Here's the one which is the most interesting.
This is from the other day.
The Obama rumors persist as to closeted penchants and hidden idiosyncrasies.
People love the subject of Barack Obama.
And they love the subject of who he is, who Michelle is, what's the truth, what's he hiding, what's he...
They love this.
And I've always said, okay, let's look at the evidence.
No, look at the evidence.
Don't just imagine stuff.
Because people hate him.
I don't.
And they read stuff into him and what they've said about Michelle is just brutally cruel.
And they like it because they're cruel.
It's like people say, hey, 8 o 'clock.
There's something that happens when people get in cruise.
But it's a fascinating issue.
And they would never discuss it here.
But it all came out this week and you miss it.
And you're not going to talk about it.
I've got to tell you this.
You know that Kaylee Meganen.
Kaylee Meganen.
Somebody sent me, she was doing her, whatever, that five, that horrible.
Or whatever, I don't even know the name of it.
With a campano.
She talked like this.
I just, I have no interest.
But a friend of mine said, watch this.
We're talking about Devin Archer.
They said, Devin Archer was one of the most important, the most critical, the most important pieces of evidence ever, ever provided.
Devin Archer, Devin Archer, Devin Archer.
I said, oh, this is great.
Do you think maybe they're talking about the Tucker Carlson interview?
Hell no!
They're talking about his behind the scenes, behind the behind closed doors or whatever it is.
They didn't even mention the interview of interviews because they are told, do not mention Tucker Carlson.
This is how horrible, this was the most important thing in the world.
This was the guy, this is the linchpin, Tony Bobulinski, which kind of went nowhere, and then Devin Archer.
It was singular, and I can understand regular, you know, shadow government media.
But Fox?
This is how petty these people are.
They don't want to give you the truth.
They just want to give you the...
I don't know.
This something or other.
This version that...
I don't know.
Who knows?
So...
I did something last night.
I think I mentioned this about things that Bobby Kennedy shouldn't talk about.
Trump, vaccines, Russia, Israel.
And if you're going to do it, make sure you speak like a politician.
Make sure you speak like a politician.
Understand what's going on.
Understand what's going on.
There are some things that you...
What about school choice?
What are you going to talk about school choice?
What are you going to talk about that?
What are you going to talk about crime?
what about borders?
Bobby Kennedy, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, borders, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime, crime.
Bobby Kennedy.
Here's a scene.
Very simple.
Very Tony Schwartz.
Scene.
Black stage.
Dark stage.
Nothing.
Lights go down.
Big, big auditorium.
Big.
Big screens.
Lights go down.
I love the proscenium.
I love the curtain, but we don't have those anymore.
When curtains stop going down in Broadway, that's when Broadway lost it.
When the curtain comes up, oh man, what a...
When you see people walking around behind the curtain, but they stop it.
All right.
Curtain goes up.
Quiet.
Start with a very low, mournful, not a pavan, I don't know what the particular word is, but something almost like a cello, very sad, very funereal.
Almost like a drone.
And it starts off, and the scene is, you don't know what it is exactly.
Is it the sun?
Is it, what is it?
Oh, and then it gets clear.
Oh, it's a, it's a, it looks like a fire.
And then we go through just the most beautifully.
We get somebody like...
Who is it?
Is it Rosenthal?
No, Rosenthal.
Who is it who does the editing for?
I love she does it for Scorsese.
On the QT.
And it's crime.
Riots.
Doran, the cop.
People jumping on cars.
People, citizens sitting there with blood streaming down their face.
Smash and grab.
Kids missing.
Just an onslaught.
An onslaught.
Mugshots of traffickers.
Children.
Children missing.
Leave sound of freedom out of it, but something like that.
Children.
People crying.
Something that will destroy you.
Everything.
Portland.
Just the names of the cities.
Portland.
San Francisco.
Kensington.
Spend.
Do me one favor.
When we're done today, go to YouTube and look up Kensington.
This is right outside of Philly, which is really in Philly.
Look at Kensington.
Kensington.
It's not drugs.
It's zombies.
It's a zombie land.
You cannot believe.
And it's one thing after another.
And it's the best montage.
Long enough where it gets you, but not too long where you become habituated to it.
Not too short, but whatever that sweet spot is, and you do a lot of research on this.
It might be, it can't be five minutes, it might be three minutes.
And it kills people because what people will remember is going to be worse than what they actually saw.
Bobby Kennedy walks out then.
And he looks.
Doesn't say anything, he just looks.
And that first line, that first line, could be something like, do you recognize this?
Thank you.
Do you recognize this country?
This is our country.
What happened?
What happened?
And if ever you want to really show something, kind of before and after, San Francisco, people who've never been to San Francisco, Almost instinctively said it's the most beautiful city in the world.
People always said that.
Tony Bennett, I left Mar in San Francisco.
They loved San Francisco.
They loved to talk about it.
Portland.
Remember Portlandia?
With coffee shops and hippies and cool and nice and sweet and it turned into this I don't know what happened.
Chicago.
And then you can do the headlines.
You have to hit people with this.
You have to hit people with this.
When you're trying to describe, if you're a doctor, if you're a physician, and you're trying to tell somebody about diabetes, and your patient is not getting the connection, Do you talk about A1C levels or do you talk about things like amputation and dialysis and blindness?
That's what you talk about.
You make sure you don't embellish, but you tell them exactly what's going on.
That's what's happening.
You don't have to say Joe Biden.
You don't have to mention anybody.
You don't have to say it.
You don't have to mention Joe Biden.
You don't have to mention the Democrats.
You don't have to mention anybody.
You have to mention parties.
Ronald Reagan said, are you better off now than you were four years ago?
My thing is very simple.
Do you want four more years of this?
It's up to you.
Why do you think this happens?
How do we fix this?
How do we fix this?
Do we fix this by losing the Constitution?
No.
Do we lose this by giving up our civil liberties?
No.
But do you want me to tell you the truth?
When you have people who start off by saying defund the police I don't know if he's going to say this but We live in a world where people, every now and then I still see somebody wearing a mask.
And maybe you do too.
And they think that mask was some kind of a barrier, it was a kind of a protection.
Do you understand that?
We need something to protect ourselves.
We are at war.
My friends, we are at war right now.
And then this was the other day.
This is New York City.
This is a city that has about 35,000 They had the 82nd Airborne.
This is their police.
Look what they did in New York City.
And this was an influencer, some streamer, who decided, I'm going to show up.
And this told the rest of the world.
This told terrorists.
It told people who want to do us harm.
Look how unprepared they are.
Look how little it takes.
Look at this.
And, you can't say this, but Antifa's watching, BLM's watching, the next group of people, and by the way, it's not going to be BLM or Antifa, it's going to be a group that doesn't have a name.
They're saying, oh, this is very interesting.
You don't think China wants that?
How about trying to compare anything?
But you try doing that in China.
Try it.
Try it.
Let me explain something to you.
And people will never want to say this.
There's something very nice about law and order.
There's something very, very nice about it.
Now, we are almost reflexively taught to always say that we must not ever lose our civil liberties.
But let me tell you about something.
And I'm going to tell you this and I'm going to tell you again.
I told you.
I've got a friend of mine.
You might call him very conservative.
Very.
He's kind of in the media, sort of.
And he told me, he said, when he lived in China, he said, two things he'll never forget.
Number one.
I said, did you mind?
And he said, absolutely not.
Absolutely not.
Number one.
Number one.
On billboards, or not billboards, on telephone poles or buildings, there was a...
These placards.
Very nicely put.
No graffiti.
No, no, no.
And it was, it says, my name is Sergeant, whatever it's a Chinese policeman's name.
Sergeant, Lieutenant, whatever.
If you need me, this is my cell number, my mobile phone number.
Call me.
If you have any problems, call me.
Anybody bothers you, call me.
This is my sector.
I'm in charge of this.
Because there's somebody right behind him who wants to take over.
And he can't lose his job.
He likes his job.
And he's got to make sure you call me anytime.
Anybody bothering you?
Anything weird?
You call me.
This area is black or too black.
Whatever this particular quadrant is, that's his area.
You call me.
How do you like being a bad guy?
Walking around the neighborhood and you go, the police have their number up there.
They're going to call.
I don't know about this.
Bad guys aren't stupid.
Then he told them this one.
This is the one that got me.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately.
His Chinese friend said, let me ask you a question, Dave, or whatever.
If somebody raped and murdered your daughter, what would happen?
Well, let's just say raped.
But what would happen in your country?
Probably not much.
He might even be acquitted, or he might get some kind of a sedge, or he might not even be caught.
I don't know.
You know what happens here?
He's gone.
Because what you do to the family member, or to the family, or to the person of one citizen, you do to everyone.
We don't look at it like, well, these people over here, oh no, oh no, say this was, this was the This was the ultimate in no good.
I saw something the other day.
I almost cried.
It was about, it's this wonderful thing of these expats.
And by the way, I'm not saying China's great.
But let me ask you a question.
There was a time during the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s when they were lynching black people.
When black people had absolutely no rights.
They couldn't even go to bathrooms.
Most people I know said, I didn't know anything about that.
They didn't have that in my town.
I was in the South.
I never saw a colored only once.
Never.
I think that's terrible.
So just because the country either allowed it or didn't, doesn't mean that people agreed with it or countenance that or whatever.
So the same thing with this.
A lot of people in China say, I don't know, the Uyghurs and Falun Gong, that's not my thing.
But I'm here in wherever my...
We know more Chinese people.
It's weird.
One friend of ours, her parents, they're retired.
They're like, I don't know, 40?
I don't know how they retire.
They're great.
They don't say anything.
They're not...
They've got no beef.
Police don't break down their door.
They're fine.
Again, I'm not trying to...
I'm just giving the reality.
But let me tell you this.
The one that got me the other day.
It was about Japan.
It was being an expat.
The rules about being in Japan.
Number one, don't talk on a subway.
Do not.
Complete silence.
Number two, don't eat in public.
If you want to eat something, you turn the corner, you go hide.
You're walking down the street with a slice of pizza?
Oh, no, no, no.
You get out of the way.
Littering?
Never.
And they went through this whole thing about courtesy.
It was the most beautiful thing in the world.
And here's the best part.
Here's the best part.
And it made complete sense.
One...
A person was speaking, oh, I love Japan.
I love the people.
I love the people.
Do they treat you?
They treat me with tremendous respect.
But there's no way I'm going to be accepted.
I mean, they're going to be nice to me, but I can't marry anybody.
No, because I'm not Japanese.
They're Japanese.
I'm not.
They're wonderful people.
They have a thing.
Of course, somebody in Japanese may say, that's not true, but I'm telling you what I saw.
They have no problem with that.
This is our tradition.
This is our...
People, our, whatever it is.
And we want to stay Japanese.
And that's it!
It's called tradition.
It's called pride.
It's called nationalism.
It's called whatever you want to do.
You have a problem with that?
I don't.
They wanted to look Japanese and be Japanese and become Japanese and speak Japanese and go to the culture and not lose that which is Japanese, up to and including looking like Japanese.
And that meant intermarriage.
Now, they may not say it officially.
You got a problem with that?
I don't.
It's not against the law.
It's not anti-miscegenation.
But it was called Pride, and it was called Tradition, and it was called Respect, and I got no problem with that.
None.
None.
You know Marine Le Pen?
You know who Marine Le Pen is?
She is the right-wing French...
She runs for president.
They asked her, what do you think about a burkini?
But Burke is a burkini.
She says, no way.
She said, that's not French.
I love that.
Loved it.
That's not French.
That's beautiful.
You see, we're a mess in this country.
We don't know who we are.
And by the way, there is no such thing as American.
Because we, unlike other places, we are based on heterogeneity.
And we can have black, white, brown, yellow Americans.
And that's groovy.
Great.
We can have intermingling.
Fine.
We have intermarriage.
Fine.
Interracial.
Fine.
Whatever it is.
Great.
It's who we are.
I dig.
But we're American.
And we have traditions.
We love our country.
Vivek Ramaswamy was on with this.
Oh, this poor guy.
What's his name?
Again, people say, I keep telling friends, don't send me these things.
He was on with this guy Jones or whatever.
And he wants to have this rule that says something to the effect of people, young people, constitutional amendment to lower the to lower the to lower the voting age.
But you have to take a class.
You have to take a class that somehow Where you have to pass the same kind of test that new Americans pass when they become Americans.
I thought it was schmaltz, but...
But you see, you see the way we...
And I'm doing this in other countries.
Well, of course.
Of course.
Now, I don't want to go there yet.
But I want people to understand this.
Going back to my Bobby Kennedy scenario in this theater, black, very dark.
He says, I may not be able to tell you what America is, but I sure as hell can tell you what it's not.
And it's not this.
And this is going to stop.
That's it.
That's it.
He didn't go into Israel, Russia, vaccines, Trump, religion, global warming.
He left you with the most powerful, visceral, most important thing.
It's almost triage.
That's it.
Because this country is falling apart internally.
Remember, every time you see something, that's just B-roll for Bobby.
That's all.
I don't know if he really wants to be president.
I don't know if he's really serious about that.
And Bobby, they're going to try to set you up with some little chicky.
You know that.
You know it.
I'm telling you.
You know it.
They've read your bio.
This is real, real guerrilla warfare stuff here.
And this is about winning their hearts and minds.
That's it.
That's the issue.
That's it.
One, maybe two, three tops.
And what is Bobby talking about?
Settlements?
Israelis?
No.
Talk about here.
Talk about America.
Don't talk about anything where you've got to explain things.
People have COVID in the rearview mirror.
You know that, don't you, right?
They're happy to be over.
Half of the time, you're reminding them something this bad.
It's a no-win.
And what do you do when you talk about COVID?
You tell people that you want to have the most incredible critical response time to make sure that people are kept safe and that people are safe and all that kind of stuff.
And that's it.
Because let me tell you something, my friend.
I want you to understand something here.
There's the, you know, there's the show part.
There's this part where, you know, here we are.
We're doing the show.
And this is fun.
And we're, you know, it's 8 o 'clock.
You know, we're doing that stuff.
I get it.
But there's a part of me also that's the American citizen who says, I'm serious about this.
This is not about show business.
This is real.
This is real, real.
This is happening right now.
And we need somebody who understands how this thing works.
Okay?
That's that.
All right, dear friends.
You have a great and glorious time.
Don't ever change me, then sincerely.
Sorry for the introduction.
I'm going to clean this up and we're going to repost it later.
That was so funny.
Eight o 'clock!
Okay.
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