Aug. 11, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 537: COVER UP - GARLAND APPOINTS SHAM SPECIAL COUNSEL FOR HUNTER BIDEN, GEN Z IMPACT ON 24
On today’s episode of Human Events, Jack Posobiec brings you all the breaking news surrounding Merrick Garland’s appointment of a US Attorney for Delaware as special counsel to investigate Hunter Biden. Poso is joined by Ben Bergquam and Oscar Ramirez live from Ukraine an exclusive report on the counter-offensive against Russia. Also, you can’t miss the conversation between Jack, Evita Duffy and Scott Presler about the important role Gen. Z will play in both the 2023 and 2024 elections - all ...
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
We are live, Washington, D.C.
Today is August 11th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
Folks, what we're seeing today out of Washington, D.C.
are the levels of one of the largest cover-ups that we've ever seen in U.S.
history.
This appointment by Merrick Garland of a fake and phony special counsel is a complete sham.
It's a complete sham, and let me explain why.
Because it's the same exact U.S.
attorney that gave the original sweetheart deal to Hunter Biden in the first place.
Remember, it was the judge who rejected that deal.
The judge who shut it down.
Not the DOJ.
So what are they doing?
This allows them to do a number of things.
Number one, It allows them to jurisdiction shop.
Now, they don't have to worry about that judge.
They've withdrawn the plea deal from there.
They've withdrawn the charges.
They don't have to go to that judge anymore.
Now they can judge shop it to any other judge in any jurisdiction in the country.
California, maybe D.C.
Why not?
Then, after that, they can hold the investigation over as long as they want.
You know that little thing called the ability to hold this out forever?
When the house goes to request information, guess what?
They'll say, it's an ongoing investigation.
We can't give you information in those files because we have an ongoing investigation, even though we're not investigating, even though we're not doing anything, right?
They are going to allow all of the time to run out on these charges.
And Hunter Biden will get to walk away.
And so the reason they're playing it out, the statute of limitations, is they know that it's affecting the election.
They can see the poll numbers.
They can see what's coming down here.
They can see that Trump is up in general election polling against Joe Biden.
They can see that he's up in so many of these polls, even in the battleground states.
And so what do they do?
They say, we're going to charge Trump.
Ah, but we've also got an investigation into Hunter Biden.
So don't you worry.
Don't you worry.
We're going to play both sides.
Folks, when you're hit with the sham, you need to understand that you are in a sham.
I think I'm seeing here, by the way, That we have two very special guests that are going to be joining us right now, live, all the way from, let's just say for now, an undisclosed location in Ukraine.
Ben Berquam and Oscar El Blue Ramirez join us from an undisclosed location in Ukraine.
Guys, what's going on?
Hey Jack, we're actually outside of Kiev.
We can't say where we're going, but we're going to be heading out early in the morning to the front lines.
But I just want to show you, we're staying in a community over here, but just behind us, the woods behind us, this is an area where there are still unexploded ordnances.
We were actually out, both of us took a run this morning, and we were told, whatever you do, don't go into that forest because There are unexploded ordinances, so it's still the level of, you know, the people that live here.
It's like it's still something they have to live with every day.
And this morning we actually had a missile that was shot down with the air defense.
system that Ukraine is using that America paid for and it actually was shot down right over the house that we were staying at so there's still action going on but at the same time we were down in Kiev all day and there you know people are going about their lives people are working it's busy it's bustling it's like a like outside of what we saw there it's like you know you would you wouldn't even know you're in a war zone
And so when you're seeing that, you see the UXO, you see the essentially this isn't minefields, this is areas where they may have been shot down or unexploded ordnance UXO.
For folks at home, what is the level of safety where you're at right now?
I mean, it's fairly safe.
I mean, although the word that we're getting is every single day Russia's lobbing missiles over.
They don't really have good directional capability.
And so they're basically just shooting them off into Ukraine and hoping they hit something.
The vast majority of those get shot down over the sky.
But you go places like this and we were just talking to a guy earlier today There was a flood in another region of Ukraine that actually swept a bunch of minefields down into through all these villages and one of the one of the pastor's sons that he knows blew up he walked on a mine 15 year old son and And so, you know, it depends on where you're at in the country.
If you're on the west side of the country, almost no danger at all.
As you get closer out to the east, where the battles are taking place, it gets more and more dangerous.
Where we are now is kind of right in the middle.
So it's, you know, you don't feel any threat to your life right here.
All right, so we've got a quick break.
I want to get back to you guys immediately.
I hope you're staying safe right now.
I know there's checkpoints.
We'll talk about that more as we go through what you are unveiling for us.
The truth about what's going on on the ground in Ukraine.
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I want to go back now live all the way to the field in Ukraine.
Ben Burquam, Oscar Ramirez reporting live.
President Zelensky has made posts on his telegram just in the last 12 hours talking about the possibility for a general mobilization, another round of mobilization for Ukraine, as even the Washington Post is saying that the Ukrainian counteroffensive has essentially stalled, it has essentially been a failure.
They've been running into these minefields, they've been running into defensive lines that the Russians have built up.
Tell us, what is the sense that you're getting there?
I understood you spoke with a presidential advisor.
Is a general mobilization in the cards and what is the truth about the Ukrainian counter-offensive?
Well, so to answer that, it was interesting.
Yeah, we asked them about it.
Out of the 700,000 troops that they have at their disposal, they've only deployed 200,000.
So there's 500,000 troops that still are yet to be deployed.
And that's the question, is why not?
Why not yet?
You would think that counteroffensive would be, you wouldn't necessarily use all your forces, but you would use more than 30% of them.
And so that, you know, that seems to be the question.
Now, the speculation and talk to him that something is going to happen before September is kind of the idea.
We didn't get any specifics on that.
But they're, you know, they're hopeful for that.
But basically, we hear the same thing.
It's basically bogged down right now.
And we're kind of in a wait and see, Oscar.
Well, they say they want to recruit the quantity up to 4 to 5 million military age males.
The problem is that right now, as Ben said, that is the quantity.
But we asked him another question.
We put him in an uncomfortable position.
We asked him this, what will happen if the United States pulls out?
As you know, sadly, well, to Afghanistan, Joe Biden pulled out and left Afghanistan to the disaster that happened.
What is going to happen?
And his response was, we are going to just, everybody is going to have to go.
So it is the reality of what is really happening over here.
It is that they're going to recruit or they're not going to recruit.
And if that is going to be the quantity, if he's going to go all the way to up to 5 million, 4 million, or he's going to stay with that amount.
And we actually broke some news on with Steve Bannon in the War Room earlier today.
We got word that Zelensky actually fired, if not all, most of the recruiters, the directors or the generals of the recruiting offices because of that very issue of the corruption.
Basically, they were getting bribes paid off $10,000 per person of guys that were getting smuggled out of the country that didn't want to go fight.
So there's still corruption going on.
There's still unknowns.
And that's really why we're here.
You know, I make the point I don't trust Russian propaganda any more than I trust American propaganda any more than I trust Ukrainian propaganda.
So that's why you have to come down here and see it for yourself.
Talk to the people on the ground and find out what's really happening.
But then again, we see a lot of your military age males walking in Kiev.
You will see a lot of them.
A lot of them.
So they can easily be recruited.
That being said, when you look at a situation like this, the tactics, and there was a Ukrainian officer who came out recently and said that our tactics have shocked the Russians because we are using a grinding strategy rather than a direct push, whereas I say that when you're going up against a massive border that the Russians have fortified,
You'd think that they would try to concentrate their forces into one specific area to break through those lines rather than trying to crash into various points of the line in different waves, some of which have been quite small, some of which completely wiped out by Russian forces.
When it comes to that sense, You're there on the ground.
Tell me, what's the security posture as you're going around?
Are you seeing the military checkpoints?
Do you need credentials?
I know last year I was there about one year ago in June of 2022, at the point where we got out of Odessa and then closer to the front line.
You guys don't need to tell me exactly where you are right now, I understand you're mobile, but are you seeing those same types of checkpoints?
Are you seeing that same type of heightened scrutiny?
Yeah, you know, this is our first time being here, but we're going with Chuck Holton, former Army Ranger and just an American patriot hero.
He's been down here a long time, been here several times, and from his perspective, again, we go off of what it was versus what it is now, and it's basically everything is more lax now.
They have a curfew, but they've Nothing.
No one really follows it.
Everyone's pretty much still out.
There are checkpoints, but we didn't get checked outside of coming through the border.
We didn't get checked all the way to Kiev.
As you go further out east, though, the checkpoint scrutiny increases, but that's just because you're Getting closer to the action and potentially danger.
So the big issue with the checkpoints is making sure that civilians don't unnecessary civilian casualties don't happen.
That only people that need to be out there are actually out there.
But other than that, I mean, when you're around going around the major cities, it's it feels I mean, honestly, you really wouldn't know there's a war other than you see a lot of people in military uniform.
And again, you see some of those checkpoints, you see some bunkers as you come into town.
And, you know, this morning we saw a missile shot out of the sky, but the majority of people walk in the streets, they're going to work, rush hour at five o'clock, they go home.
And, you know, it's, yeah, you don't, it doesn't feel that there is that heightened sense of concern.
But definitely to your point about the front, that is the sense that we get is basically they're trying to beat Russia with attrition.
But there's truth to it that Russia is running down on their equipment.
The question is, how long can they go?
How much money do they have?
How long can they withstand this?
But Russians are tough people, too.
So it's kind of, the longer the stalemate goes, sadly, the more deaths you have on both sides.
And the question is, how many are they willing to commit?
And in terms to the to the airstrikes, what we have heard is that the technology on the side of Ukraine is much up to date than what it is on the part of Russia.
What we have heard is that they have tried to hit constantly, constantly Kiev.
But when it comes to Moscow, Ukraine has been more effective.
So and in terms to that, that is how, you know, technology has been more efficient on the side of Ukraine than on the side of Russia.
Well, and the issue, though, of course, is that whereas Ukraine has lost all of their Soviet equipment, Soviet air equipment that they originally had, that's why they're forced to rely on NATO.
And then the problem, I talked about this on War Room this morning before you guys came on, but is that we're depleting our stocks now because we have to keep backfilling them and we don't have the manufacturing base anymore in the United States or really in many of these NATO nations, even Germany, of course, losing their Nord Stream 2, cheap energy input.
So we're now on the hook for this.
Biden coming in with another $40 billion.
The question is, where are we going to get the equipment?
Where are we going to get the armaments for this?
How are we going to keep building it fast enough to be able to fight this war of attrition?
Whereas you can go and look at the videos in Russia.
Those tanks keep rolling right off the line.
They keep rolling in.
And I'll ask you guys a question though.
When you saw those missiles flying overhead, and I saw some of the videos that you had posted earlier, what, I mean, how did it feel knowing that you were potentially in harm's way as the missile was flying overhead?
Well, it makes it real.
We heard the sirens going off the first night we got here.
We heard the sirens going off in Lviv.
And when we got here, we heard the sirens again.
And talking to people, it's like, those just go on all the time.
Nothing really happens.
And then all of a sudden, there's a missile blown out of the sky above your head.
And you think, oh, well.
I guess it doesn't.
Nothing.
You know, something's happening.
So you definitely get the sense, and especially as we've head further east, I think you're going to get more of that sense that this is real.
People are dying every single day.
You've got the pictures on the wall.
It's bad.
War sucks.
I mean, honestly, it's good versus evil.
We always battle this, and you just wish it wasn't happening.
But at the end, it's just like we were talking about.
Uh, about with Steve that this is, you know, the corruption is on all fronts.
The corruptions in all countries and bottom line is who is, when you get down to the bottom of it, who wants this war to happen and who are the people pushing it from behind?
And I think in speaking to people, the most obvious answer is it's simply to destabilize Putin to get more of a control.
And it really goes back to money and power.
And sadly people are dying because of money and power.
And that's the story of life, unfortunately.
On my own behalf, you know, to hear the alert sirens as we were coming in was kind of an impact for me because I never heard it in my life.
And to see that and to hear that was really an impact.
But today in the morning, as we saw, you know, a missile, you know, basically being destroyed in the sky, it makes you understand that this is a reality, that this is actually, you know, happening and that Russia it is.
Consistently throwing missiles between 9 to 12 to 15 missiles and on the other hand you have the Psychological effect as we were talking a few minutes ago with one of the NGOs that is helping over here Refugees that they are women refugees that they are leaving violence and and ultimately other causes The kids are having a PTSD that is aggravated.
They cannot go to sleep They're going to sleep at 3 4 o'clock in the morning because they they continuously listen to sirens and bombing So that is what the other thing that is sad Guys, I know you gotta run.
We gotta run here on the break.
Stay safe.
Praying for you guys.
You both got families.
Come home safe to us, alright?
Don't mess with that Russian artillery.
God bless you.
We're gonna be praying for you.
The whole audience will be praying for you as you bring the truth to us.
Stay tuned.
Today, you know, they talk about influences.
These are influences.
And their friends of mine, Jack Prasovic.
Where's Jack?
Jack, he's done a great job.
To announce the appointment of David Weiss as a special counsel.
Beginning in 2019, Mr. Weiss, in his capacity as U.S. attorney, and along with federal law enforcement partners, began investigating allegations of certain criminal conduct by, among others, Robert Hunter Biden.
And as noted in those proceedings and other public statements by Mr. Weiss's office, that investigation remains ongoing.
On Tuesday of this week, Mr. Weiss advised me that in his judgment, his investigation had reached a stage at which he should continue his work as a special counsel, and he asked to be so appointed.
Upon considering his request, as well as the extraordinary circumstances relating to this matter, I have concluded that it is in the public interest to appoint him as Special Counsel.
This appointment confirms my commitment to provide Mr. Weiss all the resources he requests.
Alright, Jack Pacific back here live, Washington, D.C.
Merrick Garland there making the announcement, making his case, telling us this is what the United States needs is a special counsel.
I have a question.
Why not just charge him right now with all of the crimes that we can see are going on?
Joining us here to help break this down and try to make sense of it is Evita Duffy of The Federalist.
Evita, Am I wrong here?
Am I missing something?
Why not just charge Hunter Biden immediately?
Go through with the judge.
The judge, all she said was she didn't like the plea deal.
What more evidence are you waiting for?
What's going on with this?
Well, the reason is it's a sham, right?
I mean, David Weiss is the man who is responsible for thwarting the IRS investigation that the whistleblowers talked to us about a few months ago, right?
He's the one whose office obtained the FD1023, that confidential human source document that said that Hunter Biden and Joe Biden had received $5 million each from a Burisma executive.
His office sat on that document and did nothing about it.
He's also the one who's responsible for this sweetheart plea deal with Hunter Biden.
So David Weiss has proved his loyalty to the Biden family, and that is why he has been chosen as a special counsel.
Now, there's a couple of things to talk about, too, right?
He's the U.S. attorney in Delaware.
You're not actually allowed to appoint a special counsel who's in the U.S. government.
So how they're getting away with appointing him in the first place, contrary to federal law, is something we have to talk about, which is really confusing to me and to others.
And then also, what's going to happen with this in the first place?
The special counsel should have been appointed years ago to investigate Hunter Biden.
The only thing that's really going to address the scandal that is this Biden family and the way that they have allegedly sold American foreign policy for millions of dollars.
The only way we're gonna get to the bottom of that is with impeachment proceedings.
This is all gonna be a sham. - Kind of interesting how Bill Barr never appointed a special counsel on Hunter Biden.
And yet we've got the Biden administration, the Biden DOJ actually appointing a special counsel, Bill Barr never did this.
Bill Barr had the laptop.
Bill Barr had this evidence.
The FBI had the evidence the entire time.
These cases could have... Look, when I worked in the intel community, when I was a military intelligence officer for the U.S.
Navy, You never get a situation where somebody just walks in and hands you an entire roadmap to what something's going on like this.
You never get the entirety of communications, the emails, everything like this.
That's exactly what happened when the FBI received that laptop in 2019, mind you, well within the statute of limitations.
Evita, what is it going to take for significant pressure to be put up against this regime So that the people can actually get some kind of relief here?
It's a really frustrating question because my answer is not going to be a good one.
I don't think there there is going to be any justice in this case, unfortunately, because it's not just the Biden family.
Right.
I mean, what we've proven now is that the corruption goes all the way to the higher ups in the DOJ.
They are all in collusion.
And so when when your Justice Department is not just and is not going to is not interested and actually doing its job, there's no way to really have retribution with what the Bidens have done.
And so it's frustrating for the American people, but I think the only thing that we can do right now is encourage the GOP to continue to expose the bribery scandal, to expose Hunter, to expose Biden and all the others who have received payments, and then to to expose Biden and all the others who have received payments, and then to vote That's really going to be the only answer here because the corruption is so deep.
What do you think about the debate that's been raging within Washington, D.C., really within conservative circles across the country, I should say, about whether or not to bring an impeachment proceeding up against for either Joe Biden or for Merrick Garland himself?
Well, I think it needs to happen.
I think Republicans would be stupid not to.
I think there's been a lot of slow walking.
Republicans should have been on top of this Hunter Biden scandal years ago, and they weren't.
The conservative media, to be honest, wasn't covering it as much as they should have.
The Federalist, where I work, there were a few articles about it.
That's one of the only few that I've really seen covering this story for years now.
People, we can't really move forward because we're playing catch-up, and now the statute of limitations are coming up on us, and a lot of these crimes that Hunter has committed, we can't really even prosecute, so 100% there needs to be impeachment proceedings.
And part of the problems that we're facing now is because Republicans have already slow walked this investigation far too much. - Well, I couldn't agree with you more.
And that's why I brought up Bill Barr before to point out that this was a nominally Republican administration that had this evidence, that had this information, When Biden, by the way, he wasn't even the nominee yet.
The election hadn't even begun at that point.
We didn't even know about the laptop in late 2019, so there was no election that was going on Yet.
Meanwhile, so Republicans couldn't put that up.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump, as we find out today, his trial in Washington D.C.
might actually be going on concurrently with the Iowa caucuses.
So, they're laying it out, a four to six week trial that starts on January 2nd of 2024.
January 15th is the date of the Iowa caucuses, the New Hampshire A primary date has not been set, but it's probably also within that four to six week time window.
This is completely insane.
It's completely insane to me, and I wouldn't say I got into it, but Glenn Beck and I had a discussion earlier this week where I said that Republicans have been playing by the Marquess of Queensbury rules for far too long, and anybody who wants to continue to play like that needs to get out of the way.
Evita, would you agree with me on that?
Yeah, I mean, I think that we can't really move forward in this election.
We can't have a primary.
We can't, you know, be talking about things in the status quo because it's completely flipped on its head.
And really, there was a wonderful Tablet article that came out last week about the Obama administration really suggesting how he still has his claws in the Biden administration.
And what happened in that administration was the deep state was weaponized against the opposite party.
And that those problems that originated the Obama administration continue on today in the Biden administration and during the Trump administration with with Russia collusion.
And so we are not going to be able to move past this until there's retribution from the 2020 election and from from the way that they interfered in that election, from from the obstruction that we've seen with any investigation to the Biden crime family.
And from the way that they interfered in that election, from the obstruction that we've seen with any investigation to the Biden crime family, this is a really pivotal moment in American history.
This is a a really pivotal, pivotal, pivotal moment in American history.
And I think a lot of people are seeing that it's not just about Trump or it's not just about Biden.
It goes down to individuals.
We saw this week that Christopher Wray lied to Congress about whether this investigation into traditional Catholics was from one office or multiple FBI field offices across the country.
People, individuals who are on the wrong side politically are being targeted by this DOJ.
Whether you're a traditional Catholic, whether you're a pro-lifer, whether you were at January 6th and were peacefully protesting, there is deep-seated problems.
Right, so in that case, we thought it was just the Richmond office.
Now we find that it was the Richmond office, the Portland office, and the Los Angeles office were all working together.
By the way, we don't know if that means that they were implanting FBI informants or sources within traditional Latin mass communities, whether or not they were trying to find and root out, spying on people who were, I don't know, perhaps praying the rosary too fervently.
They were just, they were using a little bit too much Latin I mean, these just outlandish extremists clearly need to be dealt with.
to wear veils.
I mean, just complete insanity.
How could we ever go on as a country if we allow things like this?
Holding communion services on every single day of the week.
I mean, these just outlandish extremists clearly need to be dealt with.
So we've got the FBI doing that, running up against the churches.
You've got this completely insane pre-dawn raid of a guy, a 75-year-old man, 300 pounds, sitting in his house at 6:15 in the morning out in Provo, Utah.
Mormon guy, by the way, church member.
It seems to me that, like, the FBI is completely targeting one side of the aisle, but just when it comes to a guy like Hunter Biden, Who has crimes that we can see from the Obama administration.
It's so smart that you point that out, by the way.
That Republicans are trying to litigate something that happened during the Obama years.
That's how slow Republicans are.
Yeah, absolutely.
And I think that's what regular Americans are noticing.
And that's where the real rift in our country is coming from.
This Catholic document is so interesting because if you read the original document, they say that Catholics potentially are aligned with radical white supremacists, but they can't name exactly how Catholics are being racist.
But what they do say is, oh, but they're really extreme on their views on marriage and on abortion.
So what this really is, it's not about racism because Almost half of Catholics in the United States are Hispanic, so check that one off.
They're all brown.
But the other problem is, this is not about racism.
It's about ideology.
It's about theology.
It's about the values that people have.
And it's so transparent that one side is always getting targeted and the other is getting This goes back to the BLM riots in 2020.
How many of those guys were never prosecuted by the FBI, whereas January Sixers were put in solitary confinement for walking through the Capitol peacefully?
And Andy Ngo isn't even able to get any kind of judicial relief.
We're going on to a quick break, but when I come back here, Evita Duffy, also Scott Pressler, coming up later, because we can't just talk about what's wrong.
We have to talk about what's right and how we are going to win.
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Alright, Jack Pacific Live in Washington, D.C.
We've got Evita Duffy on from The Federalist.
I want to also bring in now Scott Pressler.
Scott, thank you for joining us.
Where are you right now, Scott?
I'm in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for the State Fair.
Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
The proper pronunciation.
You going to eat some cheese curds for me while you're up there, man?
Is the sky blue?
Of course.
Oh my gosh, I'm so jealous right now.
Wait, no, Evita, you're originally from Wisconsin.
Are you still in Wisconsin now?
I'm in Hayward, Wisconsin right now, up in the Northwoods.
There you go, there you go.
So not too far.
Maybe you guys get together for some cheese curds and I'll be the one who's caught out, right?
So the thing that I want to look at, and really I'll go to Avita first here, is Gen Z is voting at a much higher clip, a much higher rate than we've seen any other youth group vote.
In recent history, the Baby Boomers didn't vote like this, Gen X didn't vote like this, Millennials didn't vote like this.
Evita, what is driving this Gen Z, just march mobilization, mass mobilization to the polls?
Well, I mean, I think they came of age in a hyper-political time.
That's no surprise to anyone.
I'll say that Gen Z is really interesting because the vast majority of them voted with Democrats in the last primary.
And they really, by a lot of experts' measures, they won many elections for Democrats.
But most of them actually aren't registered Democrats.
A lot of them are actually independents.
Most of them are independents.
And that means that they're kind of up for pickings.
They're not really engaged to any certain political party.
They're willing to look at other candidates.
And so Republicans need to do a lot better job of messaging to them.
I think this has been a huge problem with the consultants, right?
Where they are really holding onto old tactics that aren't translating for Gen Zers.
One of them is being on social media.
If you look at Jack Smith, he's a North Carolina representative.
He's doing a great job of reaching out to Gen Zers on TikTok, on Instagram, on Snapchat.
I don't see any Republicans really doing that.
And also just the way that you're framing things, right?
So instead of saying, this will help you retire, it said, this will help you put a down payment on a house, right?
It's how do we talk to people that is relevant to a young person.
You know, it's Jeff Jackson, right?
Mhmm.
That guy is constantly on TikTok.
I've seen that guy's shtick, man.
I can't stand him on TikTok.
He's like, I'm here and I'm just really concerned with what's going on in Congress.
We need to put the people's rights forward.
And that's why we need as much abortion as possible and more money for far left.
But I agree with you that it is the methodology because he's going directly to the voters where they are now.
Tell me a little bit more about how Democrats and social media influencers have mobilized using TikTok.
Oh, well, I mean, it's been massive, right?
I mean, on college campuses specifically, they have these digital voting drives.
They'll create hashtags.
They even have incentives, right?
Like, if you post a picture that you voted or you registered, there'll be a pizza party on a college campus.
They do things like that.
Republicans just, they're not doing it, right?
They're not engaged in it.
I'll also say, like, There are issues that Republicans can win for young voters.
I mean, the economy is the biggest one, right?
But also, during the COVID years, think about what happened to Gen Z during COVID.
They were defrauded out of their tuition dollars, forced into remote learning.
They ended up depressed, sad, anxiety.
They were surveilled by their universities.
They had to do, you know, these ineffective mask mandates.
experimental vaccine mandates.
I have friends personally who have gotten mitocarditis after taking the vaccine.
These are things that were really impactful on Gen Zers that Republicans have really done nothing to capitalize off of to say, hey, we're sorry that this happened to you.
Republicans would never do that.
That's never going to happen again.
And the party that does believe in that kind of surveillance and encroachment on civil liberties is the Democrats.
Republicans haven't done that.
They haven't pointed that out to Gen Zers.
And I think that's really, really stupid. - Well, let's get Scott in here.
So, Scott, you're there.
You're on the ground more than anybody, I think, at this point.
What can Republicans, conservatives do in order to match these tactics that Evita is outlining for us that the Democrats are rolling out?
Well, we have to show up and we have to present an alternative narrative, you know, talking to college students, especially here in Wisconsin for the spring primary.
Avita is correct.
Free speech is something that's on people's minds.
That some of the students had to write their papers differently because they were worried that their teachers would grade them detrimentally if they actually expressed how they truly felt.
And I think affordability is a big thing.
People are losing all of the money that they're earning on apartments and it's going to their housing and they're not able to create a lives and they're not able to create the American dream.
So why are we not, as Republicans, talking about things like abolishing property taxes, or doing what Florida has done to make baby necessity items tax-exempt, that if people want to start a family, and if we are this pro-family values party, then let's make it easier and more affordable to start and create families.
And I think it has to be a policy-driven agenda.
That isn't R or D, but it's talking about our conservative values and putting them into practice.
No, Scott, I couldn't agree more.
The Republican Party needs to become the party of the worker and the party of the family.
We have to stop being the party, or I should say, the Republicans have to stop being the party of big business, stop being the party of the military-industrial complex, stop being the party of Wall Street, which, by the way, Wall Street's been donating to a whole bunch of Democrats lately.
I don't know if you noticed that.
The U.S.
Chamber ain't exactly too supportive of conservative causes these days.
But, Scott, I know you're out there You're pounding the pavement in terms of registration.
We had a huge number out the other day, and we were talking about it on Twitter, and Richard Barris said on the show that 20% of non-registered Americans right now are swinging towards Trump.
Now, Evita has just told us how the Democrats are using TikTok like crazy.
How do we capture those voters?
Well, I really want to put things into perspective and give context.
I know some people are thinking about electability, and that's why they're choosing a certain candidate.
I'm not supporting any candidate right now.
My goal is to make Joe Biden a one-term president.
But people need to understand that the election in 2020, that was quote-unquote won by fewer than 70,000 votes.
And that's with the no excuse mail-in voting.
That's with everything that happened in the 2020 election.
The fact of the matter is it came down to Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, fewer than 70,000 votes.
So if you think about it, is it possible that 35,000 people that voted for Joe Biden have changed their minds and are now supporting Donald Trump?
Yes.
The fact of the matter is we must have an all of the above approach to voting.
And we just saw this in Ohio with the referendum that they just had literally this week that machines went down on Election Day.
And so my argument is, guys, we must do, yes, in-person voting, but also mail-in voting, early in-person voting, absentee voting, and we're legal in states like Nevada ballot harvesting.
But I do want to say one last thing to give hope to the people that are watching.
In the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, out of the 67 counties that are there, because of demographic voter registration data, 50 out of those 67 counties Have more registered Republicans that are 18 to 24 years old than Democrats.
And furthermore, we have seen that number that two months ago, the Democrats had a lead of 94,000 more 18 to 24 year olds.
That number has decreased to below 90,000 in the last two months.
So Republicans are gaining in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania with Gen Z voters.
This is huge.
Let's go to Avita.
So, Avita, last word for you.
We've got about a minute and a half left in the segment.
What are the main issues that Republicans should focus on to capture more of this and capitalize the momentum that Scott's talking about?
So I think it's three things.
I think one, I think it's the economy.
I think Gen Z is coming into the world.
They're trying to get jobs.
They're trying to buy a house.
And these things are made really difficult by Democrat policies.
I'm newly married, can't buy a house because of reckless Democrat spending and inflation and everything.
So the economy is one.
I think COVID, which I mentioned, is a big one.
Emphasizing how Democrats are the party of censorship, of encroaching on your civil liberties.
And then also the last one is talking about entitlements.
I think that's been something that fiscally responsible conservatives have talked about, but have been sort of afraid to, because it can be unpopular with older generations.
With younger generations, it's very popular to say, "Hey, we're gonna either fix or abolish these broken systems because you guys are the losers of them.
We're paying into programs that literally, I'm never gonna see, we're never gonna see 'em." And so I think talking about these fiscally responsible policies in the context of Gen Z will be really, really useful.
That's actually very interesting.
Evita, where can people go to follow you and get access to all your writings?
EvitaDuffy1 on my Twitter, and then just look up EvitaDuffy at TheFederalist.com.
All right, Evita Duffy, always a pleasure.
It's our normal Friday hit with Evita, folks.
Scott, stick around because I want to do another segment with you to get a field update on everything that's going on as we hurdle towards our meeting with 2024.
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
Jack Posobiec here, live Washington, D.C.
We're joined by the great Scott Pressler, the tireless Scott Pressler.
By the way, it was good seeing you, man, down at the Turning Point event.
You absolutely crushed it on that stage.
But you are a guy for whom the work never stops.
So tell us about all things Scott Pressler.
Let's get the field update.
Well, just for those of you out there who don't know, I launched an organization this year called Early Vote Action.
And so I am focused on an all-of-the-above approach to voting, especially in five states, Arizona, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
And so earlier this year, I was very focused on the Supreme Court election, which we did not win, and that we're seeing that immediately upon Janet Protasewicz being installed to the new liberal Supreme Court, they're already remaking it and rebranding it as this liberal ideological court.
And so I'm here at the Wisconsin State Fair to continue our work to push for early voting, to get Republicans on the permanent mail-in voting list, especially low propensity Republican voters that didn't, for example, vote in the important April Supreme Court election.
And to make sure that we're planting the seeds for success next year and making Joe Biden a one-term president.
Oh, that's so perfect.
So, all right, you're, you're focused on Wisconsin.
What are some of the other, what are you doing specifically in Wisconsin?
And then tell, walk us through some of the other state operations that you have.
Well, I'm here for the state fair.
So I will be Friday, Saturday, and Sunday helping to register voters, sign up volunteers, get people.
With their respective county parties, so we're building up a robust mobilization.
And the main goal is to just make sure that we're all swimming in the same direction.
My organization is partnering with Turning Point Action.
We are working with the state and county parties.
And it's so important that people understand, look, this isn't about ego.
This isn't about the Scott Pressler Show.
We're working together as a team, hand in glove.
To deliver a Republican victory next year.
But here's one thing that I really want people to be cognizant of, Jack, is I know that people are excited about Trump or they're excited about DeSantis, but guys, we have November elections this year in 2023.
For example, we have the Louisiana governorship, Kentucky governorship, Mississippi governorship.
We have state legislative races in New Jersey and Virginia, and finally, We have the all-important state Supreme Court seat in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
And to anybody that's listening, whether you're in California or Oregon or Connecticut, if you want to defeat Joe Biden next year, then I need your help delivering victories this November in those states that I just mentioned.
And one thing that we've been doing, Jack, that's been very successful is I have a list of 24,000 New movers to Louisiana.
That means these are people that are brand new to the state.
And when somebody moves, what do they need to do?
Register to vote at their current address.
And so to any volunteer that signs up with me, I send them five new movers.
I send them a letter writing template that tells them who, what, when, where, why.
And I've got hundreds of volunteers across the country writing letters to these new movers.
And the coolest part Is I found, so far, a 25% return on investment.
That for every four letters sent out, one of those is now registering as a Republican.
That's huge!
Those numbers are amazing, by the way.
You're taking, essentially, this population that's coming in, not yet registered.
Because this is a huge problem, by the way, with the voter rolls.
That's every state, by the way.
has this issue that somebody moves and they're still there on the rolls and if you're one of these states that does universal mail-in ballots, guess what?
That's a ballot that's getting sent to someone that's not there and it increases the opportunities for those ballots to be used for, shall we say, nefarious purposes.
So I think what you're doing, Scott, is actually finding a way to short circuit that system that unfortunately, like many states, Wisconsin being one of them, that is still stuck in place after COVID.
Well, here's the biggest thing.
To anyone that's election integrity oriented, which I think is probably most of your viewership, if you are listening and you're one of the 500,000 people that have fled the state of California, you are not off the voter rolls until you fill out a hand-signed form or hand-emailed form that you send to your county registrar or county clerk.
So literally, If you move from San Diego, I want you to type into the internet, San Diego County Voter Registrar or County Clerk Recorder, and find the form that you can actually cancel your voter registration.
Because if you don't, you're still going to be an active voter, and your address may receive a mail-in ballot for the next elections in California.
So you hit the nail on the head, Jack.
This is so key because I've been using a phrase lately, people say, do we want national divorce?
Do you want civil war?
I say, no, I don't want a civil war, but how about a civil exodus, right?
And we're already seeing that anyway, the great divide, the great sort, where red states are becoming red or blue states are becoming bluer.
But to your point, the civil exodus requires vigilance because we cannot leave ways for them to continue to game the system as we do this.
That being said, I've also called for folks to consider, potentially consider, Moving to purple states, because those are the states that move to places like Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania.
States that are right on the cusp, because these are the areas where the numbers are absolutely needed.
And Scott, you went through this, that these were very, extremely close races.
35,000 votes across three states and Even with all the ballot shenanigans of 2020, we would have another president.
When it comes to that, Scott, what's your answer to the folks that are concerned?
They say if there's too many ballots, there's too many early voting, that creates less elections with less integrity.
What's your response to them?
I know we've just about a minute left.
Sure.
Well, I understand it.
I get the logic behind the argument.
But the fact of the matter is my goal is to lock in every vote.
And I worry that if the machines go down on election day, like it did in Arizona, like it did in Ohio, that if there aren't paper ballots that they run out of them, like they did in Harris County, Texas, like they did in Lucerne County, Pennsylvania, that those people will be disenfranchised and they won't be able to vote regardless.
My goal is for every vote to get locked in, and that's why I'm putting them early.
Amen.
Go follow Scott Pressler.
Early vote action.
God bless you, Scott, but God bless you for everything you're doing out there for our country.
Folks, it's been a long week.
Lots going on.
We got a great song here to listen to on this weekend.
But remember, it's not just about anger.
It's about having hope for the future that we can change it.
Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay ashore.
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