Ep. 1185 - Elon Musk VS. The Totalitarian Psychos at WEF
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The U.N. pushes a new, post-COVID “great reset”; Elon Musk blasts the idea of one-world government at the World Government Summit; and the U.S. diplomat to Afghanistan touts the power of “black girl magic.”
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Remember when the globalist elite told us that we needed a great reset of our economy, political order, and really our whole society as a result of COVID? Well, even before COVID ended, the Secretary General of the UN had begun to argue that the real purpose of the great reset was not exactly to deal with the coronavirus, but it was to fight to stop climate change.
In overcoming the pandemic, we can also avert climate cataclysm and restore our planet.
This is an epic policy test.
But ultimately, this is a moral test.
The trillions of dollars needed for COVID recovery is money that we are borrowing from future generations.
Every last penny.
And we cannot use those resources to lock in policies that burden them with a mountain of depth on a broken planet.
It is time to flick the green switch.
We have a chance not simply to reset the world economy, but to transform it.
A sustainable economy, driven by renewable energies, will create new jobs, cleaner infrastructure, and a resilient future.
And an inclusive world will help ensure that people can enjoy better health and the full respect of their human rights and live with dignity on a healthy planet.
COVID recovery and our planet's repair must be the two sides of the same coin.
Now you might be wondering, how did COVID policy become climate policy?
Well, the same way that inflation policy became climate policy.
You remember that?
When the Biden administration pushed his Inflation Reduction Act only to admit immediately after its passing that the bill wasn't really about inflation?
Inflation, which it didn't alleviate and probably made worse, but instead about fighting climate change?
Well, just yesterday, the UN Secretary General explained that the reason the COVID policy is now about climate change is because everything is about climate change.
He lets that little fact slip with one word.
Biblical.
Biblical.
Rising sea levels combined with a deep intrusion of saltwater will make large parts of their huge deltas simply uninhabitable.
We see similar threats in the Mekong Delta and beyond.
The consequences of all of these are unthinkable.
Low-lying communities and the entire countries could disappear forever.
We would witness a mass exodus of entire populations on a biblical scale.
Biblical scale.
Kind of a funny phrase for a globalist elite that openly mocks religion, the traditional moral order, even the existence of God.
But it makes sense when you realize that to a materialist, climate is literally everything.
It's all the stuff there is.
When religious politicians want to push some policy or another, they tend to invoke God, the Ten Commandments, the natural law.
These modern, secular, globalist politicians can't do that.
But they still want to wield power.
And so their arguments transform into weird superstitions about the weather, claims that are just as apocalyptic as any religiously motivated political movement in history.
The only difference is that, while the old-timey religious politicians have traditionally been constrained by the fear of God, these people have nothing holding them back, in principle, from wielding whatever power they want.
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Later on in the show we have a really important interview.
You know that I think that pretty much only one news story matters right now and it happens to be the story that the establishment media will not talk about.
That is the environmental catastrophe in Ohio.
The train that derailed and sent a ton of poison all up into the air in East Palestine, Ohio.
We've got Lindsay Johnston, who is a wife and mother of two daughters, who lives in the one-mile evacuation zone in East Palestine.
So, because, unfortunately, the residents of East Palestine are not getting very much airtime right now, and Pete Buttigieg and Joe Biden are trying to just blow past this whole thing, we will have her on the show a little bit later.
My favorite comment yesterday is from Frank S., who says...
Chelsea Handler's life without kids is so great that she had to make up 90% of her day.
Great observation.
In her video, which was supposed to be funny, I guess, she says, I'm childless, so I wake up in the morning and then I go right back to bed.
And then I pleasure myself, and she goes through some kind of normal things, and then it becomes very quickly fantastical.
And she says, then I go to Paris, and then I kill Hitler, and then I do this, and then I do that.
And the joke here, I don't know if she really intended this, is that all the people who say that they don't want to have kids and they don't want a family because they just want to amuse themselves all day long...
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Speaking of one world government, speaking of the United Nations and the great resetters and the globalists trying to take all of our political power away, Elon Musk just showed up to the world government summit and used his appearance as an opportunity to attack the very idea of world government.
One thing I should say, and I know this is called the World Government Summit, but I think we should be maybe a little bit concerned about actually becoming too much of a single world government.
If I may say that we want to avoid creating a civilizational risk by having, frankly, this may sound a little odd, too much cooperation between governments.
If you look at history and the rise and fall of civilizations, Really, all throughout history, civilizations have risen and fallen.
But it hasn't meant the doom of humanity as a whole, because there have been all these separate civilizations that were separated by great distances.
And so, you know, say like, while Rome was falling, you know, Islam was rising.
And so you had like a...
You know, the sort of caliphate doing incredibly well while Rome was doing terribly.
And that actually ended up being a source of preservation of knowledge and many scientific advancements.
Love it.
Elon every day more and more shows that he is the people's billionaire.
He actually is doing things that matter politically to take power back from this crooked leftist globalist elite.
He's doing it in the big tech sector.
Obviously, he cracked the monopoly of the libs on big tech and through Twitter and then released the Twitter files and brought some transparency.
Now he's making really important points at the One World Government Summit.
I'm not going to go.
I want government to be confined to its proper limits.
And what these globalists, what the great resetters, what the one world government type elites want is no limits whatsoever.
It's amazing that we look back on forms of government from the 17th century, from the 16th century, and we say, oh, that was terrible.
It was so backwards.
In those centuries, you had monarchies.
In fact, you had divine right monarchies who believed that they had a right from God to rule their nations.
Divine right monarchs claimed much less power than our current globalist elites.
Because divine right monarchs, at least, believed that they were held in check by God.
They were accountable to somebody.
And they were quite accountable to somebody because if they acted in a way that was unjust...
They were going to roast for eternity.
Our current globalist elites, they don't believe that their power to rule comes from God.
They don't believe in God.
They don't think they're accountable at all.
They think their power to rule comes from their ability to get that power.
And they've done a bang-up job of taking power away from you in recent years.
And so there are no limits in principle to what they will do.
Divine right monarchs at least appreciated the principle of subsidiarity.
The emperors, the Holy Roman emperors, the emperors throughout history at least recognized the principle of subsidiarity that you would have decisions made at the most local level possible where those decisions could be made with competence, where power could be exercised with competence.
And then if it couldn't at a more local level, then you'd bring up to another level and another level and another level.
We have that here in America.
We call it federalism.
You make decisions at the town level, then at the state, the county maybe, then at the state, then and only then at the national level.
At least that was the idea that our country was founded on.
That seems to have gone away as this liberal globalist elite that wants more and more power at higher and higher levels has taken over.
This is a big threat.
And very few people are standing up against it.
Very few people who at least could be invited to these sorts of events are standing up against it.
Elon Musk happens to be one of them.
Now, speaking of governing the world, the U.S. diplomat who's sent to Afghanistan has obviously her work cut out for her, a lot of problems in Afghanistan, and she has decided that There's one special tool that she can offer to the women of Afghanistan to help alleviate their plight, which we'll get to in one second.
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Karen Decker, the chargée d'affaires of the U.S. mission to Afghanistan.
This is the top diplomat that we have in Afghanistan.
Karen Decker recognizes that Afghans, and especially Afghan women, have a lot of challenges right now.
And so she's offering them some suggestions on how to improve their lives.
She tweets, quote, Are Afghans familiar with hashtag black girl magic and the movement it inspired?
Do Afghan girls need a similar movement?
What about Afghan women?
Teach me.
Ready to learn.
Hashtag Black History Month at Beyonce, at Lizzo, at Regina King.
I don't know who Regina King is.
Afghan women come up to the embassy or consulate or whatever the U.S. has in Afghanistan.
They say, please, can we have bread?
Can we have money?
Can we not be terrorized by the Taliban?
Can you give us guns?
Karen Decker stands there.
She goes, I think the best I can do is a tweet about Black Girl Magic.
Have you checked out Black Girl Magic?
Oh, yeah.
Forget about money and guns and food and opportunities and power.
No, no, no.
What you need is Black Girl Magic.
I don't know what Black Girl Magic is.
I certainly don't possess any of it.
I'm not familiar with the movement that it inspired.
I'm skeptical that any such movement exists.
And I am totally convinced that Black Girl Magic will not solve the problems that Afghan women face.
I'm not sure that anything will solve the political problems Afghan women face, but certainly not Black Girl Magic.
I don't think Black History Month will solve their problems.
And I don't think even Beyonce will solve their problems.
This is not the first crazy tweet that Karen Decker has sent out.
Karen Decker tweeted out, not that long ago, quote, I'll answer Karen's question there.
No.
Non-violent protest has never been successful in Afghanistan because if you engaged in a non-violent protest, if you went into the Woolworths of Afghanistan and sat down at the lunch counter, the Taliban would cut your head off.
That's why.
And that didn't happen here in America because America is a Christian country, or at the very least it was.
And America is Western and comes from a civilization that is animated by Christianity.
And that's different than a civilization animated by Islam.
And because America...
As a tradition that, beginning in the 18th century, starts to become a little bit more liberal and by the 20th century becomes quite liberal.
And the sort of non-violent sit-ins that Karen Decker is referring to here would have some political effect in America.
Whereas in Afghanistan, they wouldn't do a damn thing.
And Black History Month isn't going to help in any way to alleviate the plight of Afghan people.
These American libs, oh my goodness gracious, every time An American diplomat sends out a tweet.
I become about 25% more isolationist.
I'm not isolationist by nature, but every time I see some of this cringe-inducing nonsense, this liberal piffle clap trap, I want to pull my hair out, and I want to build a gigantic wall all around the continental United States, and I want to just divorce our country from the rest of the world.
So embarrassing is this nonsense.
It tells you something, though.
It's not just that Karen Decker is crazy and silly and absurd.
That's not the issue.
She is articulating the beliefs of the liberal elites who control our country.
It's deeply unserious.
It's absurd to try to apply these lessons to Afghanistan.
We tried it for 20 years.
It didn't work.
Hence the problems that Afghanistan is in right now.
But what is she articulating?
What she is articulating is the slogans of the civil rights movement and pretending that the slogans of the 1960s civil rights movement in America will apply to the entire world.
It won't.
And why?
Why does everything seem to come back to the civil rights movement?
We talk about gay issues.
We talk about bathrooms.
We talk about women.
Even when we talk about conservatives.
Even when we talk about traditional American ideas, for some reason it always seems to be framed through the lens of the civil rights movement.
This is the new civil rights movement.
Even when we talk about the Second Amendment, we say, well, this is really about civil rights.
And it's kind of a new iteration of the civil rights movement.
Why?
Well, the reason is that the civil rights movement was so successful that That it is essentially the constitution that we have been living under for the past 60 years.
This was the thesis of a book by Christopher Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement.
Really, really great book, which argues that we now have two constitutions in America.
We've got the original one, the U.S. Constitution, you know, the one on parchment with the silly handwriting.
And then we've got another one, which was the Civil Rights Constitution from the 1960s.
And those two things are in conflict with one another, certainly on the matter of freedom of association, but on a number of other matters too.
And his argument is that all of the major constitutional conflicts that we've been dealing with since then are a result of the discrepancies between these two rather different constitutions that we are simultaneously attempting to live under.
And now, apparently, to export overseas.
Black girl magic.
I don't know.
I don't think it's going to help the women in Kabul.
Speaking of black people, the Georgia state senator, Emmanuel Jones, just highlighted the...
The deep unseriousness but political danger of this new kind of liberal activism.
In a way that's kind of banal and we've all heard it before, but his explanation tells you a lot about it.
This guy, State Senator Jones, called Clarence Thomas, you're going to be shocked to hear it, an Uncle Tom.
Place a statue of Clarence Thomas on this grounds.
We cannot avoid that conversation, so I'm not going to avoid it either.
In the black community, we have an expression And I don't want to use this label too deeply here because I'm just trying to tell you what we have in the African American community.
When we talk about a person of color that goes back historically to the days of slavery and that person betraying his own community, we have a term in the black community.
That term that we use is called Uncle Tom.
Uncle Tom is either a fictional or non-fictional character.
I don't really know the origin of Uncle Tom, but it talks about a person who back during the days of slavery sold his soul to the slave masters.
This Clarence Thomas, he's an Uncle Tom.
And what's an Uncle Tom?
It's either a fictional or a non-fictional.
You know, come to think of it, I have no idea who the hell Uncle Tom is.
But I'm going to call Clarence Thomas one because I don't like him.
That sums it up perfectly.
That sums it all up.
Hey, I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, but screw you, Clarence Thomas!
Those are the attacks, generally, on Clarence Thomas and on most conservatives.
But it shows you something that I have been yelling about for years and wrote a whole book about that became a number one national bestseller, Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, and that we've got to pay a lot of attention to.
Idioms crop up that people often use unthinkingly.
This guy is using the idiom Uncle Tom unthinkingly.
He doesn't know what it means.
But that happens for a lot of us all the time.
Let there be light.
Forbidden fruit.
Am I my brother's keeper?
Fire and brimstone.
The blind leading the blind.
Go the extra mile.
All of those idioms come from the Bible Most people don't know that they come from the Bible In fact, many people who have never read the Bible, who don't believe in the Bible, will use those idioms all the time.
That's how culture works.
Culture works by certain texts, by certain pieces of art, by certain rituals, just creeping in and not only being inserted into your language, but actually coming to constitute your language.
And by constituting your language, it constitutes the way that you think.
And that's what you're seeing here with Uncle Tom.
This guy has no idea what the context of Uncle Tom is.
He just knows that Uncle Tom means black people aren't supposed to be conservative.
That's what he knows about Uncle Tom.
And so he just says it, beep, boop.
He's not thinking, this is not a particularly conscious human being, but he's just saying, beep, boop, beep, Clarence Thomas, he's Republican.
He's conservative.
Bad.
Uncle Tom, it's wrong.
You've got to vote Democrat.
And that's how culture works.
And the Libs have done a very, very good job.
And as they are pushing the Bible out of our culture, as they're pushing the Bible out of schools, they're pushing these idioms, they're pushing these ways of thinking, they're pushing this language out of our head.
That's why they're so obsessed about doing that.
That's why they're so obsessed about putting the weird gay porn and the weird liberal intersectionist texts into the schools.
The reason they're doing that is not so you can learn some lesson about a racial hierarchy.
I mean, that's a secondary effect that they like.
But it's more so that your brain just becomes shaped and filled with this kind of language, these kinds of images.
And so you will unthinkingly carry out their plans.
You won't even know that you're doing it.
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Speaking of actual political tokenism, China is attacking Pete Buttigieg.
When I see China attacking Pete Buttigieg, I'm reminded of the Iran-Iraq war, in which I want both sides to lose.
I want the war to be drawn out as long as possible, and I want both sides to lose.
China, through its propaganda outlet, the Global Times, Is attacking Buttigieg over that train incident in Ohio that spewed all the poison into the air.
We'll be speaking with a resident from East Palestine, Ohio momentarily.
They're attacking Pete Buttigieg and they say...
Instead of fixing these problems, federal regulators have molded a proposal backed by the rail lobby that would weaken existing brake safety rules.
Notably, Buttigieg does not have any experience in transportation and was essentially a vanity political appointee by the administration of President Joe Biden to help boost his political score.
The secretary faced scrutiny recently, on and on and on.
I mention this because it shows you something about propaganda.
The Global Times is a state Chinese propaganda outlet.
They're attacking Pete Buttigieg over the Ohio incident to distract from the spy balloon incident and China sending a bunch of surveillance over our country.
But the charge is that Pete Buttigieg is a vanity political appointee in over his head, manifestly not capable of doing the job, who was only chosen because it helped to boost Joe Biden's political score because Mayor Pete has some appeal to the Democrat who was only chosen because it helped to boost Joe Biden's political score because Mayor Pete has some appeal And so they just put him in there.
Yeah.
That is obviously true.
The best propaganda is We always think of propaganda as being dishonest, as being lies.
So sometimes that's the case.
The big lie is propaganda sometimes, which is a misunderstood phrase.
Ironically, it is a phrase used by the Nazis to accuse the Jews of telling a lie.
And now the Democrats use that phrase to call the Republicans Nazis without recognizing that in their very use of the phrase, the Democrats are putting themselves in the very same place as the Nazis.
Either way, it's neither here nor there.
Some propaganda is dishonest and lies.
The best propaganda is true.
And the propaganda China just put out about Mayor Pete happens to be true.
Speaking of propaganda, New York Times right now has an op-ed on It's called Steve Bannon's Podcast is Top Misinformation Spreader Study Says.
A large podcast study found that Mr.
Bannon's war room had more falsehoods and unsubstantiated claims than other political talk shows.
So this story is a New York Times article about a story that we covered on the show last week.
And the story that we covered on the show last week was a story about me.
Because it was a study that came out of the Brookings Institution that opened up with a quote from me, in which I, on the show with Senator Cruz, said that podcasts are the place where you can say whatever you want.
Opens up with two or three paragraphs about me and this interaction and about how conservatives lie on podcasts.
Then the rest of the study goes on and says conservatives lie something like 11 times more than Democrats lie on podcasts.
And so I was looking at that study from Brookings.
When I pointed it out on the show, I looked at just some of their most basic data points, and I realized they were totally bogus.
One of the little graphs they had there was about the number of episodes that podcasters have produced.
I think all of the Daily Wire shows were listed there.
And I was looking and I noticed that it said that Drew and Matt had produced more episodes of their podcasts than I had.
Not that the episodes were more highly rated.
Not that the episodes were more conservative.
Not that the episodes told more lies.
It was just simply about the number of episodes produced.
And I looked at that and I said, I know that's not true.
I went to the Daily Wire website, I looked at episode number, and I realized I have more episode numbers than Drew and Matt do.
Simply because now Drew is once a week, and Matt's show started after my show did.
So that's why I would have more episodes.
And I said, wait a second.
So they got that number wrong.
And I looked, I said, when did they start collecting data for this, or stop collecting data?
I looked, and I said, okay, it was a year ago.
So I said, okay, well, Drew, I guess then, because the show wasn't only once a week, so maybe that doesn't matter.
But then I looked.
Even a year ago, I still had substantially more episodes out than Matt did.
And yet the graph said that Matt had substantially more episodes out than I did.
All of which is to say the data in that study were bogus.
The data weren't true.
Forget about how they measured disinformation spread in podcasts.
The way that they measure that was by going to left-wing fact-checking outlets, which are really just left-wing opinion outlets.
But they try to have this patina of credibility.
So they say, well, we fact-checkers, hold on.
I've got to take off my DNC t-shirt and put on my fact-checker t-shirt.
Okay, I'm a fact-checker.
I'm going to say that when those Republicans said that the Democrats are bad, that's 10 Pinocchios.
That's a total lie.
And okay, now I'm going to go over here and I'm going to put my calculator statistician hat on and I'm going to punch in a bunch of numbers and they're going to be totally bogus, even on the most basic level.
Who...
Who is producing X number of podcasts?
And then I'm going to put it here in this nice survey from a left-wing think tank called Brookings.
And then, okay, here's our study.
And then what happens?
The New York Times.
And these are all the same liars.
The New York Times goes in.
They say, well, we've got this study now.
So we're going to publish this article.
And the article is that Republicans are big, fat liars.
That's it.
That's the process.
The process is you start with a leftist activist who says, I think Republicans are big fat liars.
And then you launder that impulse through bogus statisticians, bogus fact checkers, and a bogus news outlet called the New York Times, all staffed by the exact same leftist activists.
And you say, well, this is very authoritative and scientific.
And our scientific, authoritative, white lab coat, brilliant PhD credentialed conclusion is, Republicans are big fat liars.
I hate them.
It's bogus.
Total propaganda.
Very dishonest propaganda, too.
That is, however, how fake news becomes established.
That's it.
That's the process.
And it happens all the time.
I just happened to notice this one a little more clearly because it involved something that...
Involved me, and that I knew just immediately was false.
But this happens every day.
This happens every day.
And if you are still believing these people, I don't know that I can help you.
Speaking of political campaigns, Nikki Haley has formally kicked off her presidential campaign.
She had released a video some days ago saying, I'm going to run for president.
She just held her first rally, and here is the campaign message.
I have always had a deep belief in America.
But I know America is better than all the division and distractions that we have today.
And I'm confident that the American people agree.
We're ready.
Ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past.
And we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future.
Okay, what is Nikki doing here in this launch?
She's opening up with a great dig at Joe Biden.
Not a direct dig, but a pretty clear dig.
She says, we're ready to move past the stale, old, desiccated names of the past.
So that's obviously a dig at Biden.
Biden's been in politics for over 50 years, national politics for over 50 years.
It's a bit of a dig at Trump.
Well, he's a name from the past.
He was president starting in 2017.
That was a long time ago.
Okay.
It's a dig at Trump.
It's a dig at maybe some of the other candidates.
And it's doubling down on Nikki Haley's centrist cred.
Nikki Haley has gotten some bona fides in lots of different areas of the right.
She worked for Trump.
She put her hand up at the UN and she stood up against the bad guys.
She also was more moderate and conciliatory when she was a governor of South Carolina.
She can talk very tough.
She can also be a little more moderate in her speech.
Which side is she going to run on?
She's picking the center lane, as she has to.
She's not going to run to the right of Trump.
Very few people can run to the right of Trump.
Disappearance DeSantis is attempting to run to the right of Trump right now, and is being fairly successful at it.
Nikki Haley is not going to run to the right of those guys.
If you get a Ted Cruz in the race, if you get a Josh Hawley in the race, Nikki Haley is not going to run to the right of them.
And so I think she very wisely is saying, no, I'm going to run more of a centrist campaign.
And the proof of this is that her campaign message is, we're going to move beyond the past, which is the sort of thing that a lot of politicians say.
But if you're running a centrist campaign, it carries even more significance.
The super right-wing conservative campaign slogan would be, return to the past, return with a V instead of a U, return to tradition.
The conservative campaign slogan would be, we're going to look to the past and take the wisdom of the past and bring it into the present and launch it forward into the future.
We're going to draw on the best of our tradition and then we're going to bring that forward.
The center-right campaign To kind of more moderate, even say classical liberal campaign slogan is, forget about the past.
The past is the past and we're in the present and we're going to look toward the future.
That is going to be Nikki Haley's campaign slogan.
I know a lot of conservatives aren't going to like that very much, but I do think that that line has some appeal.
I think that the number of Burkean conservatives wearing tweed and looking back to the glorious days of the Holy Roman Empire is a relatively small number of Americans.
And so Nikki Haley is making a really mainstream play.
The question is, can that message resonate in the primary where the conservatives have a lot more say?
I'm not so sure, but I still don't think it's a mistake for her not to run further to the right.
People need to know their lane.
Right now, the lane she's running in is pretty wide open.
The right-wing lane is getting very crowded with very, very big personalities.
Speaking of politicians, speaking of the center and the right kind of moving, moving so far to the left now that the hard, strong right-wing position is that men are not women and women are not men.
Arkansas State Senator Matt McKee is under fire right now for grilling a transgender witness.
This is a dude dressed up as a chick.
And he asked this man a question that you are no longer allowed to ask the transgender people.
Senator McKee, you recognize me?
Are you telling us that you're unfamiliar with a large body of medical evidence of the harm that has come upon people that have gone through these processes?
I'm familiar with a large body of evidence that shows that providing good affirming care saves lives.
Are you saying that you're unaware of the large body of medical evidence of the harm that has come upon these people in these processes that have been gone through?
Are you unaware of that body of evidence?
I will repeat what I just said.
Are you unaware of that body of evidence?
I will repeat what I just said.
You said that you're a trans woman.
A trans female, yes, sir.
Do you have a penis?
That's horrible.
You're the one that brought that into the discussion.
I've never said anything about genitalia.
That's horrible!
How dare you ask the...
Why is that so bad?
I remember this was a big deal when some confused man went on a talk show.
I think it was Laverne Cox, whatever his real name is, from Orange is the New Black, and he went on one of the network talk shows, and the interviewer said, do you still have the goods?
And this was so shocking.
How dare you?
You can't ask this person that question.
Why not?
The crux of a lot of opposition to transgenderism, 80% opposition in America to transgenderism, specifically as it applies to kids, hinges on the idea that dudes can go into the girls' locker room and get naked.
So whether or not a person has their genitals is a pivotal question here.
How dare you ask that question?
Good on this guy, Matt McKee.
I hope that a lot of conservatives take this lesson and not only don't run away from the left wing, oh my goodness, clutching my pearls, I hope they actively seek it out.
I hope that in every one of these testimonies about the transgender issue, I hope that the conservatives ask this question.
Seek it out.
This is a winning issue for us.
And the more that the radical pro-trans people in the room start screaming like banshees, the more the normal sane people are going to be convinced that they are right about this issue.
Keep it up.
Good job, State Senator Matt McKee.
I really wanted to get to the Crane& Company, Will Thomas, Leah Thomas story today.
They had an explosive interview about that swimmer, the big giant dude who swims on the girls team and takes the trophies away from all the girls at UPenn.
But we don't have time to do that.
We've got to get to a more important story, I think.
So we'll get to that tomorrow.
If you haven't watched the Cranico interview on this, though, make sure you go check out that interview today.
Because right now we turn our attention away from the seemingly perennial political issues of the transgender agenda, the radical cultural agenda, even the Great Reset agenda.
We turn now to a major news story that is not getting nearly enough attention in Ohio today.
This would be the train derailment that sent vinyl chloride and a number of other very, very dangerous chemicals up into the atmosphere.
Local officials burned this stuff off.
It put phosphine into the air.
That was poison gas from World War I.
Put hydrochloric acid into the air.
It killed a lot of animals in the town.
It caused an evacuation.
Though now the authorities are saying, oh, that's okay.
It's not a big deal.
Everything's fine.
Don't worry about your water.
Don't worry about your air quality.
Come on back here.
Let's get those news cameras out of Ohio and let's go back to normal.
Well, if that's the case, how come we aren't hearing from people in the town itself?
We will do that today with Lindsay Johnston, a 26-year-old wife and mother of two daughters who lives in the one-mile evacuation zone in East Palestine, Ohio.
Lindsay, very sorry what happened to your town, and thank you for coming on the show.
Thank you for having me, Michael.
So, Lindsay, before we get to the reaction, what happened as you and your neighbors have seen it?
So my husband and I were actually, we were out of town just a few miles up north when it happened.
And when we were on our way back, we had a bunch of people texting us, you know, are you guys okay?
What's going on up there?
And we hadn't heard anything about it yet.
So we got home and we had been watching things on the news and we just started packing immediately.
I don't think it was until later that they came around with speakers in their cars saying, you know, you should evacuate.
But at that point, it wasn't mandatory yet.
But we did leave that night.
Um, so we've been in, we've been out for, I think, 12, 13 days now.
Um, but I mean, as of right now, they say that it is safe for us to return home.
Um, they, you know, February 6th, they were saying that there was, um, DeWine's words were, we were facing grave danger of death.
Um, They were threatening child endangerment charges to anybody that did stay behind if they had children with them.
And then two days later, they said it's absolutely safe to go home.
How on earth are they going to reconcile those two statements?
I mean, we've seen news reports that say, oh, there's no big deal, there's no health risk, not even to your animals.
We're testing the air, we're testing the water.
And then you see the pictures and the videos of people...
Who are looking at all of their chickens lying dead?
Whose animals have died?
Obviously, there's poison everywhere.
How is all that poison just cleared out of town?
Poison that could have killed your children if you spent the night there.
How could that possibly clear out of town in 48 hours?
Those are exactly our thoughts.
We know that there are some people that have returned and have gotten sick.
I know our neighbors went home for a day and they...
I think they and one of their children broke out in a rash, had scratchy throats.
I went back for just a half an hour to get some stuff from our house, and I left with a scratchy throat.
My husband's been at our house a few times to clean, and he said that for the last three days he's been having trouble breathing.
They've found at least 3,500 dead fish in the streams.
And I mean, all the time on, you know, our East Palestine Facebook groups and things, people are posting pictures of their animals and dead animals that they find with no, you know, indication of trauma or anything.
They're just dead with no explanation.
How far out of town have you evacuated?
Right now, we are in Negli, which is just the next town over.
We're on the far end of Negli with my mom.
We had been probably a half an hour out of town before that.
We were in two separate hotels going from different places and stuff trying to figure stuff out.
For a lot of people in town, it's hard to manage this.
It's hard to afford.
Nobody planned for this to have to spend two weeks in a hotel room.
And I'm sure plenty of people are also thinking, okay, you go one town over, you go two towns over.
Well, we've just talked about an historic chemical explosion.
It's not as though these places are going to be unaffected as well.
What are the authorities doing and saying in town?
I mean, there was a town hall meeting last night and Our mayor has said that he's fed up as well, but we're really not seeing a lot happening.
I feel like we're not holding Norfolk as accountable as we should be.
They rebuilt the railroad before the evacuation was even lifted.
They rebuilt it over contaminated soil.
Mostly the help is coming from local organizations getting together, donating water, donating things to people that need it, sending food to the hotels where there are a lot of residents.
But, I mean, their official statements are it's safe to return home, the water is safe to drink, but, I mean, even Mike DeWine said that he would be drinking bottled water.
Of course.
You know, and he said that he would return home, but I think that he would also have the financial ability to get, you know, private testing done instead of the testing that's being contracted out by Norfolk Southern.
This seems to be the biggest environmental disaster on U.S. soil in probably in my lifetime.
I mean, you think about maybe 9-11 or, you know, a major terror attack.
Accept it in terms of just an actual accident, environmental catastrophe, you know, clogging up the air and the water.
I haven't seen anything like it.
Where's the federal government?
I assume Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg hasn't come by.
I know that President Biden hasn't come.
Have you seen anything from the federal government?
Well, our county is, in the last election, our county voted 71% Republican.
So I kind of feel like maybe we're not that important to the federal government.
Wow.
And especially with all the language about the flyover country and the deplorables and the irredeemables and let small town America die.
Yeah, it's no surprise.
I'm not surprised that East Palestine has been completely overlooked by the Biden administration, by the establishment media, by pretty much everybody.
But...
Once this news story goes away, as the people who write our news are trying to do more and more so by the hour, you're still going to have to live there.
This is where your homes are.
This whole town is going to have to live with this.
And we can hear that the air is safe and the water is safe.
Nobody actually believes that.
You're telling me that your neighbors and even your husband are experiencing this is not safe.
They are getting sick when they go back to clean the homes.
So it's obviously just a complete crock that's coming from the authorities.
And it's going to go on for years.
And so what's going to happen?
You live in this town for 5 years, 10 years, 20 years.
What consequences are you going to have to deal with that the railroad isn't going to have to deal with, that the government's not going to have to deal with, that everybody is just going to look past?
It's a really, really awful situation.
I guess the only thing we can do is call some attention to it and demand that the government do a damn thing about it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, we're all concerned of what, you know, what health issues we might all experience down the line.
And I mean, our home values, who's going to buy?
If we decide to move away, what are we going to do?
Who's going to buy?
You know, it's people can't.
If they're homeowners, they can't just up and leave.
If you rent, it might be a little bit easier for you, but we own our home.
And so what are we supposed to do?
How are we supposed to avoid this when we don't know what's going to happen in the future and we don't believe what they're telling us?
Right.
And rightly so.
There's no reason that you should believe what they're telling you.
In fact, your own experience is proving that what they're saying is not true.
Lindsay, we'll have to leave it there.
You will be in our prayers, as will everybody in East Palestine.
And I hope that there is a little more political help that comes your way.
From the people who are absolutely overlooking you and the rest of the people in your community right now.
Lindsay Johnston, thanks so much for coming on the show.
Thank you.
The rest of the show continues now.
We actually have another great person to talk to.
I mentioned him on the show earlier.
This is the guy who spoke truth to power.
This one conservative guy in that Vice documentary.
