Aug. 18, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 542: THE REGIME IS LASHING OUT AT TRUMP TO DISTRACT FROM OUR FAILING INFRASTRUCTURE
On today’s episode of Human Events, Jack Posobiec is joined by Darren Beattie for a diagnostic dialogue about the Globalist American Empire and their relentless pursuit of President Trump’s demise through lawfare. The conversation spans the globalist agenda abroad and domestically with equity proving to be inferior to excellence during the Maui Wildfire disaster. Jack is also joined by Joe Rieck of My Patriot Supply for real world advice on how people can stay prepared when future disas...
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We are in a fifth generational conflict.
For every lie they tell, we're gonna get in their face and yell two truths.
This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.
Deliver us from evil!
Living in Hawaii, you spend groceries, you, you know, everything is so expensive.
My parents received a check for $700.
Which was a slap in the face.
Where's the president?
Aren't we Americans too?
-This device that now monitors when you go on the Internet and what the name of your device is, and it beams down exactly where it went online.
So, in other words, we now can police our own election. -I think that the Biden administration is so stubbornly attached to the idea of getting Xi Jinping to drop Vladimir Putin, What I think we need to be doing is get Vladimir Putin to drop Xi Jinping.
I agree with Professor Mearsheimer's analysis of what's likely to happen, which is the Russians are going to win this war.
It's a war of attrition.
There's nothing that the US can do to fix that.
Republican Georgia State Senator Colton Moore is moving to impeach Georgia District Attorney Fannie Willis for her actions against former President Donald Trump.
Moore said in a statement I'm not going to sit back and watch as radical left prosecutors weaponize their elected offices to politically target their opponents.
He doesn't understand what MAGA means.
If you asked him right now to define MAGA or to say what MAGA is, he would not be able to say, make America great again.
Hunter Biden is not the person who's simply out there having people write checks for no reason.
He's a capable, educated, experienced person.
Great polls just out.
Leading by 40, 50, and even 60 points.
Who expected that?
I did.
The sanctimonious is crashing.
Perhaps the party should come together.
People should drop out of the race.
We unify and we beat Biden and the Democrats.
They should be easy to beat.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Live with Jack Posobiec.
We're also joined here in studio today by the great Darren Beattie of Revolver News.
Darren, thank you for being here.
Great to be here.
Today is August 18th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
So Darren, what I want to get in with you today is to break through an update of basically where we stand against
As you've called them, the regime, the globalist American empire, both internally and externally, because they're waging the internal war against Trump, Trump supporters, populists, but then also an external war against nationalist populists and a bevy of other sort of anti-GAE forces.
When we look at Fannie Willis, we look at her As I was saying, Norm Eisen, our good friend, was eyeing up her big booty of charges down there in Georgia.
He wrote this op-ed just talking about how he loves this indictment, this RICO indictment.
He just wishes that she had targeted more Republicans.
What do you make of the fact that Norm Eisen is basically gloating over this thing?
Well, it's no surprise.
I mean, Norm Eisen is an individual that I'm proud to have brought to national attention to some degree years ago in the context of his role as one of the key color revolution architects.
He understands himself to be in the tradition of Gene Sharp, who is really the progenitor of the color revolution methodology of regime change that's been embraced by the Atlantisist faction of the security state.
And Norm Eisen was, if you can believe it, he was Obama's ethics czar, who went on to - Oh, that explains a lot. - Yeah, indeed, indeed.
I don't know if he was the czar pertaining to more recent revelations of Obama's fantasy life, but that's another issue entirely.
Norm Eisen did, however, become probably the most prolific lawfare hatchet man in the Trump era.
Uh, so many lawsuits.
He was involved in lawsuits before Trump was even inaugurated.
They were concocting the ridiculous Emoluments Clause.
I remember this.
Which, you know, for those old-timers who remember that, they were trying to go after him for anything.
But the interesting- This is the hotel.
Indeed.
The interesting thing is his partner in crime there a lawyer called Sellers.
He was working with him on the emoluments issue.
Sellers became counsel to Benny Thompson, known as the chair of the January 6th committee.
In Benny Thompson's private capacity, a lot of people don't know this, he sued Trump and others for January 6th, and his lawyer was none other than Sellers.
And so basically they've been laundering this phony theory which originally was Benny Thompson's lawsuit coming from Sellers, Norm Eisen's partner in crime.
Then it became the operating thesis of the January 6th committee.
And then finally it was laundered to its ultimate and intended destination, which was not the latest, but the second to latest federal indictment of Trump related to January 6th charges.
So, Norm Eisen has had his fingerprints all over The regime's efforts to imprison Trump and to completely neutralize all of the energies associated with Trump's victory in 2016.
Stay tuned, folks.
Darren Beattie here, joining us live in studio.
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All right, Jack Posobiec, we are back live here, Human Events.
We're with Darren Beatty.
So, Darren, when we were leaving, you were talking to us about how Norm Eisen has been one of these hatchet men for the deep state, for the regime, for some time now.
But let's walk through what is the plan because we've seen this again now we have this this strategy that's essentially laid out where Trump will be switching between being on trial the court dates that are hitting at the same time that the primaries are coming down some court dates potentially even when the general election comes down We've never actually seen something like this in American history thus far.
I think it's clear to everyone at this point, this is DeSantis' strategy, is to try to play off of these indictments of Trump, hoping that that would somehow fuel his rise, you know, in his sales, although I don't necessarily see that happening anywhere in the polls.
Do they have the ability, though, to actually Lash down on Trump through these indictments.
That's a great question.
And, you know, as for DeSantis, I might even say, modify this slightly to say it's not so much a strategy in the sense that DeSantis and his people are obviously not the driving force of the indictments.
It's more of their only hope rather than their strategy because the only hope that DeSantis has is that the regime succeeds in using its lawfare techniques to take Trump off the table.
Namely, he's depending on Hail Mary assist from Merrick Garland and the regime's team of crooks to take Trump out because he's clearly not capable of doing that through the normal, legitimate democratic mechanisms.
As for whether it'll be successful, I don't think so, but we have to wait and see.
I think they have still tricks up their sleeve.
I don't think we've seen the last of indictments.
I think we're probably going to see a superseding indictment in the January 6th case charging Trump with seditious conspiracy.
I think they're going to rush to obtain some type of conviction before the election even takes place.
Which we, in that same case on January 6th, we just saw the head of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio and Joe Biggs, another probably, I wouldn't say overall leader, but chapter leader, also former InfoWars guy, and a veteran, and that the Department of Justice is asking for 33 years for both of them in response to their seditious conspiracy conviction.
Indeed, these charges are unprecedented, they're insane, they're vastly out of proportion to anything that they're claiming that these people did.
This is clearly, January 6th has always been a premier tool and pretext of the regime to wipe away the Trump phenomenon, to neutralize Trump, neutralize his supporters, and basically spearhead one of the most powerful pretexts that they think that they have To fully weaponize every institution of government against the American people.
And we see this in a very, very dramatic and real sense in these recent indictments against Trump.
But not just against Trump, against basically anyone who could be associated with Trump or the energies of Trumpism.
So it's an unprecedented thing.
It's a very dangerous thing.
It definitely puts us in banana boat territory.
And it pretty much entirely undermines whatever last drop of moral authority America could have claimed to have on the world stage, which has interesting foreign policy implications.
The country is transforming in profound ways, and this open, naked, and vulgar use of a politicized Justice Department to go after Trump is a very big part of that transformation.
Well, for example, you know, when Pakistan jails Imran Khan, as you've been covering, I think, more than probably anyone else in the United States, quite frankly, We're totally fine with that, but then when Niger jails their president, suddenly the entire foreign policy establishment, Tony Blinken's running around, oh this is terrible, this is the worst thing, we must denounce this, we should never jail your former leader, this is horrific.
They'll say that in Niger, while they're doing the exact same thing in the United States.
And then, oh by the way, in Pakistan, they won't even point out the fact that They supported the overthrow of Imran Khan when it happened last year.
Indeed.
And in fact, not only did they support it, but they played a fairly decisive role in making it happen in the first place.
We learned from a recent leak document that was leaked to The Intercept that confirmed a lot of what I've been talking about with the former prime minister in our interview, which is, by the way, it was one of the last two interviews that Khan did before he was arrested.
And in that interview, we discussed this secret document that allegedly had come from a U.S. diplomat giving an ultimatum saying to the Pakistani ambassador, you guys overthrow your democratically elected and beloved populist leader Imran Khan, or else talk you guys overthrow your democratically elected and beloved populist leader Imran Khan, or For a
For Biden to talk about Russian meddling, which is largely unsubstantiated and trivial from what I see, but for him to make a huge deal about that and the whole regime to make a huge deal about that on the one side, and the other side, Biden's people are issuing ultimatums to democratically elected leader in Pakistan saying, you get rid of your guy or else.
it's pretty remarkable and that everything that Khan was talking about was substantiated in this leak.
And what's remarkable is now the Pakistani government's charging him again, claiming that he was responsible for the leak.
And that's very unlikely for a variety of reasons.
But there was a there was a interview that Professor Jeffrey Sachs did recently on the Duran, where he actually came out and said that he was talking to someone and he doesn't name the country, said it was a third country.
And he asked them, this official, why don't you just say no to the United States?
Why don't you just, why don't you just tell them no?
Why Ben, why do all this stuff?
Why don't you just say no?
And he, and he said that the man got very quiet and said, Professor Sachs, the CIA, and got very, it seemed like very scared and didn't even, they didn't extrapolate as to what he meant, but clearly meant that if we do not play ball, we but clearly meant that if we do not play ball, we will be either taken out physically or at least from a criminal standpoint, that as, as Chuck Schumer once said, they have six ways to be getting back at Absolutely.
You know, people, it can get lost in a lot of the conversation we have, you know, in terms of our domestic politics about, oh, you know, the snowflakes and all this kind of stuff.
But in reality, the regime is very tough and very capable of playing hardball, deadly hardball when it needs to.
You don't get to be a global hegemon being a snowflake.
- No, no you do not. - And so in many ways, I'm glad that we're capable of being this tough, but when you're being this tough for counterproductive reasons that are really, putting your government and country's reputation in the trash, which I think is what we're doing, I think that's the story of Pakistan.
That's the story of what's going on domestically, where we're just hemorrhaging all of the capital that we built up with this narrative that we're a free society, we have liberties and all this.
We're just tossing that away to become another country entirely, and ultimately, I think, a much weaker sort of country in the long term.
You know, it's a complicated thing, but we are absolutely capable of playing hardball.
You know, hypocrisy is sort of a necessity in the global stage, and we engage in it enthusiastically in terms of, you know, the regimes we support and the regimes that we don't.
But the problem is, is all of this hardball, all of this hypocrisy, all of this criminality doesn't redound to the well-being of the American citizen.
Well, and this is where your thesis of the globalist American empire comes in, because I would be perfectly fine with some of that if we were, I don't know, taking out child trafficking networks, or going after actual terrorist groups, this type of thing, drug, narco networks.
But as you and others have outlined, that instead we're far more likely to be co-opting those networks, yes, all of those networks, rather than actually doing anything about them.
It's because we're either getting a piece of it or because we're using them to take out other rivals to either regional or international, transnational powers.
Yes, no, I think things have become so fractured on the inside in terms of what we would call the deep state that it's sort of a worst of both worlds situation where we still have the power to exercise influence, but we don't have an underlying cohesive vision that could exercise that power for the long term benefit of American citizens.
So what you have is a number of kind of disjointed Mafia stakeholders exercising their leverage over government power to maintain the loot that they've extracted from the global and domestic system over the past several decades.
And that's really all they're interested in.
And that's why none of this hardball that you see the regime playing redounds to the benefit of the average American citizen.
The United States government, the mafia of mafias.
Indeed.
The mafia of mafias.
You think that having a mafia on the streets isn't that bad, but you know, I say this as a guy from the Philadelphia area, when the Irish mob ran Kensington, it didn't look like it does now, right?
With the junkies, the fentanyl zombies running around the street.
You know, when the Irish mob ran that place, now you might disagree with the Irish mob's tactics, but you could take your kids there on a Sunday after church, and you could go shopping, and you could Get yourself a new pair of shoes, you could go buy some Philly water ice, and you would have a nice time.
And, you know, you just had to make sure that the KNA gang got their piece of everything.
That is not how we have law and order, though, as Roy Ignatius said on the show earlier today.
He's got an op-ed up, Inhuman Events, that I encourage everyone to read.
The crime is the point, because the rise of this new system of anarcho-tyranny
Is meant to actually keep the middle class in line so that they do not arise to actually play any role of influence against the government that we see but we want to talk about the government that we see right now and their absolute failures and competence because we're going to go now after the break we're going to talk about Maui and how we're finding out that it turns out the government has fallen completely flat on their face and we're going to be talking about
The food breakdowns in terms of supply chains there.
We'll come back soon.
soon.
The event continues.
They talk about influences.
These are influences and they're friends of mine.
Jack Prusovic.
Where's Jack?
Jack.
He's done a great job.
All right.
Jack Posobiec, Darren Beattie here, manning down the desk for Human Events Live.
I want to go now to our special guest.
We've got Joe Reich on from MyPatriotSupply because, Joe, you guys talk every day when your sole focus is Disaster services, disaster preparedness.
We see the situation that's happening in Maui.
We're also now hearing that wildfires could be coming in Southern California.
Entire cities, entire regions are being evacuated up in Canada right now.
And we're seeing absolute systemic collapse in some of these areas, especially with Maui.
I think that's been the one through line that we keep hearing through all of this.
Water is collapsing.
The electric grid wasn't prepared for fires, right?
For wildfires.
You'd think that, you know, the electric grid sparking, catching on fire would just be a basic competence of the area there.
And so when government fails, when you go to... Tulsi Gabbard was interviewing someone And he said he couldn't even get water out of his hose, he couldn't get water out of his house, and then we find out there was some spiritual belief that the water should be conserved by this disaster preparedness guy.
When the government isn't there to do the basic functions of government, what can people do?
So what are you looking at and what can people do to take steps to make sure they don't find themselves in that position?
Yeah, you know, here at My Patriot Supply, Jack, you know, we focus a lot on education because I think that is the most important piece.
And while we're seeing the devastation and the destruction of what's going on in Maui, you know, our hearts and prayers are with those people there because it is, it's a traumatic experience that they're going through.
And it's just a reminder, too, that no matter where you're at, that if you're going to sit back and put your hope, faith and trust in the government, To come in if there ever is a natural disaster.
You're, unfortunately, you're going to be waiting a very, very long time.
And so, I love what you do, Jack, is where you teach people to get the information, to learn about it yourselves, because you are the ones that have to be prepared.
The government is not going to come in and bail you out.
And so, the educational aspect of what we do here at My Patriot Supply is to teach people on how to become self-sufficient.
I mean, for example, something as simple as having a fire blanket, you know, or a fire evacuation mask that you can utilize, that you can have in your 72-hour kits, that you can have in your get-up-and-go bags.
Have that available for you, but you've got to start somewhere.
And there's so many different facets to emergency preparedness.
You know, we can talk about different emergencies, but what exactly do you need for those emergencies?
Well, here at My Patriot Supply, we educate people on what to do.
You know, we have a survival newsletter that we send out weekly with different tips and tricks for different episodes that you may find yourself in, whether it is a fire, whether it is an earthquake or a hurricane, or even a job loss.
You know, those are emergencies for those specific people that you've got to take account for.
You know, food is a major portion of what we do, and I always suggest every family, every person in your household, Needs to have at least a three-month supply of emergency food on hand.
Food that you can have reliability in, food that you can have trust in, that's going to have up to a 25-year shelf life.
These are the things that we're arming people with, with the knowledge of how to get prepared and what to do.
I mean, one thing that I brought to show you guys is this amazing little fire blanket.
This is something that could have saved a lot of people a lot of stress and trouble with.
You take this fire blanket, you can put it over your head and you can run out, you can get protected from these different things.
You can have a solar power bank that you can use to charge your cell phones with when the power grid fails.
You can have a water filtration system whether it's in a go bottle or whether it's in a desktop unit sitting behind me.
These are the little things that every family needs to have and we're seeing these events more and more and guess what?
They're going to continue to come more and more because I think a lot of it is the incompetence of the government that they just don't understand the need and how important it is to have these particular items and just the educational factor of it, Jack.
Well, I mean, there's so much trust.
And Darren, I don't know if you guys have written on this before, but, or at least for this specific one, but when we look at the energy grid of South Africa, we know that this has become a major factor there.
So what's going to happen when these wildfires start hitting our energy grids?
Because it feels like with the thrust into green energy that Hawaii pushed, massive compliance with these DEI programs, and then all of a sudden you're finding out that the disaster preparedness guy doesn't even have a background in disaster management.
What can we learn from South Africa when it comes to this?
Well, what we can learn is with the disintegration of society, and with the collapse in the quality of human capital, manning positions that are really just maintenance positions that are, you know, critical to the basic maintenance of complex infrastructure, that is going to continue to collapse.
And of course, as we expect that to happen, people have to assume more responsibility for taking care of themselves, because The government is going to be increasingly less capable of maintaining the basic systems that we've come to rely on and even taken for granted.
And so when you're looking at that, Joe, I mean, it's something because I know you guys track this.
I don't know, maybe we should come up with an index or something.
I know that Public Square is doing these sort of index indices of workplace freedom and they're working with Red Balloon on this.
I almost wonder if we should come up with a government competency index of some sort.
Where these basic systems, whether it's a Norfolk Southern line in East Palestine, Ohio, whether it's the wildfire management or the forest management in a place like California, it seems like this is happening more and more across the country, Joe.
It is.
It's happening more and more frequently.
And it doesn't have to be these big, huge events that we experienced back in 2020.
It doesn't have to be a global pandemic.
It doesn't have to be a global disaster.
But these are things that are happening here in our own backyard.
I mean, even what's going on right now with the wildfires up in Canada.
There's 20,000 people that are asked to be evacuated right now because the wildfire is closing off a main highway for people to exit that town.
And it happens more and more common, and I think there's a shift in mentality to where people are just not doing the work themselves.
For lack of a better word, Jack, it's almost as if they're lazy, that they just want people to come do it for them.
And unfortunately, if that's the mentality that you possess, you're going to be waiting a very, very long time.
Self-preparedness and self-reliance, that starts with you.
You have to be the one that does the work.
You've got to be the one that gets that initiative started.
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There's a lot of other issues that are going to be coming down the pipeline as well.
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Is there an element of, I know you and I were talking offline about this, the breakdown of the Russia-Ukraine grain deal.
Is that having an element of that you're seeing in the global food supplies of these shortages that you're projecting?
Absolutely.
I mean, Ukraine is the bed, is the breadbasket of Europe.
You know, they account for up to 33% of the total global wheat exports.
And, you know, since, since Russia reneged on their, on their agreement to cease all exports of wheat, We are going to have a tremendous spike in demand for that because now we just lost a third of our supply.
And whenever there's a tremendous spike in demand, guess what happens?
Prices go up.
And the prices, they typically don't go back down to where they were before.
I mean, we've seen that over and over, especially with Biden economics or whatever, Bidenomics.
You know, they say that inflation... You know, I came up with that as a meme, Bidenflation, and then they took it as like, and they tried to make it their own Bidenomics.
They said, no, we're making fun of you, right?
They didn't seem to understand that we were mocking them.
Yeah, it's a joke because they're never going to fall back to the prices that they saw before.
You know, even at your local grocery stores, the price of milk, guess what?
The prices still aren't coming down.
They're going to go up.
And unfortunately, it's going to get worse as we move forward.
Because again, there's a lot of systems at play that are causing the rise in our food prices.
In fact, India just recently announced a ban on all exports of their rice.
That affects millions of people in Europe and in Asia.
So, when you have those things stacking up against you, it really puts the squeeze on us here in the United States.
I know, and I'll throw it to Darren for one last question on this.
Do you project that Americans have been used to a certain standard when it comes to service, when it comes to government services, when it comes to corporate services?
Is that going to get any better anytime soon, or is it going to get worse?
No, it's going to get a lot worse and it's kind of a worst of both worlds effect because in third world countries where infrastructure doesn't work, it's already kind of priced in and people have developed alternative procedures and practices and norms and sort of back channels to sort of make up for government incompetence, whereas in the U.S.
we have crumbling infrastructure and Um, really plummeting, uh, competence, but we still have this kind of, um, belief system that things are functioning well.
It's going to keep doubling down on all of it until we get more of this.
Joe, where can people go to get more information?
Where can they learn to get involved?
Obviously, I know you, you know, you guys have different packages, but where should people start if they, they're looking at this, they're thinking, you know what?
I don't want to be caught in that situation with my family.
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So Darren, we were talking about these collapsing systems before and You know, people don't know the secret origin story of Darren Beattie, that you've actually spent quite some time in the Pacific, isn't that right?
No, that's true.
I grew up a large part of my childhood on an island called Palau, and a large part of my teenage years on a neighboring island called Guam.
We had a very major natural disaster in Guam while I was there, a major typhoon called Pengsung Wa.
It reached up to 200 mile per hour winds.
It was very intense.
My whole family was huddled in a house.
It got blown down while we were in it.
Power was off in the island for a very long time and actually ended up having to move to the States for that reason because the school was totally destroyed.
Oh really?
So it was a very big deal.
What part of Guam were you on?
I was in Hagatnia.
Oh, you're in Hagatnia.
Yeah, I was down in Santa Rita, by the base.
Yeah, it's an interesting place.
But yeah, the typhoon really devastated it, and it was a hell of an experience.
And yeah, when these disasters happen, you want competent people to be in charge, but you can't count on it.
Well, and that's really the problem now, because when we look at the United States government, and that you have these massively powerful, so let's put it all together, right?
You have these massively powerful agencies, you have the CIA, you have the police, you have the military, you have state troopers, right?
This Fannie Willis person, she's able to order police officers and law enforcement to enforce her decrees.
And then you see her on TV and there's seemingly nothing there.
Yet they do have the same force, the same way the United States military can go in and back up a proxy war in Ukraine, can pick a fight with the Russian state, yet the people actually running the ship don't seem to care when they're told you're about to hit an iceberg.
And so where do we go with a situation like this?
This obviously is part of Trump's entire pitch, basically, and has been for eight years at this point, yourself a former Trump speechwriter.
Do you believe, though, that if Trump is able to get over the finish line, that this is the pitch that he can actually bring forward, basically to break out of the sort of left-right paradigm and actually explain to people that it is competence in these systems that we can return to?
I would love for that to be the pitch, for that to be the reality.
I think the encumbrances to that are really profound and probably defy even the best efforts of the best president.
They're kind of systemic at this level, but there's no reason not to try and to not make a big push.
And I think given the constraints on public discourse, probably the best that we can do, and it's not bad at all, is if we can reorient our conversation towards simple competence.
We want competent people to do important tasks.
And I think there is a definite sense in which the DEI agenda conflicts with competence.
And I think the language of competence, of merit, although it has certain disadvantages, I think overall it really does resonate with people.
And I think it's something that, you know, Trump understands very well.
And it's also something that I think Vivek could be a very good proponent of.
He seems to be oriented around this idea of let's just get smart and competent people again.
It's kind of amazing because instead in the United States we've, you know, we've taken the smart and competent people and told them that because of the disparities of the past, they always use this phrase, in South Africa they use the same, it's actually in their constitution, because of the imbalances of the past we must correct for this with our new government policy.
And so this is what led to the affirmative action, the original affirmative action implementation at the Supreme Court.
It's what's led to, it's what's fueling DEI.
It's what's fueling a lot of this.
Now, of course, Rahim Kassam says, well, actually, this all comes from the Declaration of Independence because you can't run around telling everyone they're equal.
Right.
No, it's really weird.
And it comes down to what fundamentally the nation, or at least the key decision makers in the nation, what they're motivated by, you know.
You see sort of a lot of up-and-coming municipalities and cities and even nations in the Middle East and they all want to engage in one-upsmanship by having the tallest building, you know, these kind of infrastructure projects that in a certain sense are kind of Juvenile, but in another sense reflect a laudatory ambition.
Saudi's 30-mile green city megaproject.
Exactly, exactly.
This reflects what they want to do.
They want to send the signal that we've really made it.
We have the best building.
We have the best infrastructure.
We have the most ritzy hotel and so forth.
Whereas in the United States it's the one-upsmanship is in an entirely different order that is kind of emerges out of this inverted sense of morality to see how can we one-up each other in terms of elevating someone's victim status or elevating the people who are not competent or
And it's this weird inverted morality that totally dominates all of the major decision-making in the country.
And of course, this really complicated and bizarre way in which the inverted morality is, at a very deep root level, intertwined with the material interests of the major stakeholders in the regime.
And to your point, this is why you see Vivek and Trump, when they give an interview, they're talking about tangible practicalities, things that are actually faced by every American.
And then you'll get even, and I'm not talking about DeSantis, but just some of these career politicians, Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, etc.
They're talking about America's moral standing in the world and these very intangible, metaphoric kind of phrases and concepts.
And yet it's falling on, I think it's falling on deaf ears because once you've already had one term of Trump, that regardless of, you know, how things shake out, I do think he'll win the nomination.
2024 is going to be, it's going to be an interesting year.
Put it that way, to say the least.
The regime will open up everything.
He's going to have to beat Newsom.
Everything, right.
Well, we'll see.
We'll see.
But the, the point is, is that the career politicians and typically on the republican side have no idea to even speak this language because they've never had to right no it's and it's powerful language and again you know the constraints of public discourse are considerable and i think the best that we can do
the messaging that best represents an overlap between um possible goals and language that resonates with the vast majority of americans is this language of competence getting things done and merit but But this is running up against the fact that the American regime, in many ways the American nation, is a deeply is motivated by this inverted morality.
It's motivated by this sense of ideology.
And you've seen Republicans play into this many times.
Indeed, it's become a profoundly ideological nation and regime.
Almost a civic religion.
Indeed, and that shapes everything else, as opposed to, ironically, China.
We all talk about how China is the communist.
But really, China is far more practical in its thinking and its ambitions, much more material and pragmatic.
And we are much more so the ideological nation, which is a shift from the Cold War with Soviet Union.
Right, if China wants to lock you down, they send the police and they're gonna do it and no one's gonna give them a chance to say anything else because the government has made a decision and they're simply, they're just on board with it.
Indeed.
We're coming up on a break, but it's, you know, obviously, you know, there needs to be a balance, right?
There clearly needs to be a balance, but you can't say, and I remember learning this when I was in China, that they do things for the good of the nation And now they will they will smash anything that's in its way.
And yet here in the United States, we will never even deem to have those type of discussions.
Coming back last segment here, Darren Beattie, live human events.
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All right, Jack Posobiec here back live.
Darren Beanie, final segment here in the Palatial.
You can see the Human Events Studio has expanded since, you know, since the last time I've been on.
I kind of like this studio.
I don't know if we'll be here every day, but I like the new digs.
What can I say?
I like the new digs.
Real America's Voice has been putting a lot of investment into the Human Events Studio, so we dragged Darren in.
I like what you've done with the place.
So, Darren, we were talking at the break a little bit about how jurisdiction has played such a huge role in this.
And I think some of us back in 2016, when we started noticing that George Soros was moving money into these local DA's races, suddenly said, well, that's a funny thing to do.
that's not something that anyone's paid much attention to.
And just from a pure gamesmanship perspective, I don't know if any move has ever had a stronger or higher return on investment than the pittance that he's paid to a couple million here, a couple million there, a couple hundred thousand in a few of these races.
You've got the ability for a Fulton County, a county district attorney is now indicting the former president of the United States, the former mayor of New York, all of their lawyers Then you go look at James O'Keefe, and we broke the story last night about how Project Veritas is completely blown up in this whole sort of hostile takeover that's going on there.
Now we find this morning that he's under criminal investigation by the Westchester County New York DA's office.
So in the Lafayette Project, Is any jurisdiction safe now?
That's a fantastic question and I completely second your opinion on Soros's move with the DAs.
there's probably no more effective person in terms of translating capital into political influence than George Soros.
And one has to maintain a kind of begrudging admiration, at least his dedication to being effective, a dedication that I think a lot of people on the right, and especially money people, would do well to emulate or absorb to some degree, because it really has been remarkably would do well to emulate or absorb to some degree, because it really has been remarkably effective and profound insight on his And we see the fruits of that now.
And really where the conversation is and should be increasingly, if not exclusively, is on the reality of lawfare in our political system, the reality that...
Candidates who challenge the regime can expect to be criminally indicted.
Anyone associated with those candidates can expect to be criminally indicted.
That's just the new reality in the United States.
It used to be we're thinking about the realities of censorship, which of course conditioned the political arena and in different and very important ways.
But I think the reality now of Criminalizing dissent rather than simply deplatforming people from being able to speak their minds, that is an even deeper problem.
That's a deeper priority right now because the precondition for everything else is having a fair and functioning legal system.
Well, and Ben Shapiro made this point earlier this week in a tweet that went viral, in a video that went viral, but where I would slightly disagree with Ben's take is that, yes, that's true, but only for one side, right?
Because you don't see Republican DAs, Republican Attorneys General opening these types of investigations.
How many of these, you know, how many chapters of Black Lives Matter exist in areas with red DAs?
Um, how many, you know, the SPLC is headquartered in Alabama, right?
You couldn't show me a better state than Alabama.
And yet you will not see a Republican lift a finger to do anything about this.
You've got one state senator, one state senator in all of Georgia saying we should file impeachment and open investigation of Fannie Willis.
But of course we can see, uh, even there's been no rallying behind this cry.
There's been no, top-down approach of people saying, yes, let's do this.
I'll give you, you know, I'll back this.
It's mostly just more screaming into the void because Republicans simply, I don't believe, are willing to do this because they view this as a way to sort of get rid of Trump and get rid of these naughty populists.
Right.
That is a big problem is that people say Republicans are incapable of playing hardball, but actually Republicans are very capable of playing hardball against the people who vote for them.
Yeah, against other Republicans.
They're very capable of playing hardball to anybody to their right.
They were extremely capable of playing hardball against Trump before they started, you know, kissing his butt when he won.
They're very capable of playing hardball against Trump in 2015 and 2016, so they're simply not capable or set up to or inclined to play hardball against the actual enemies of the American people, against the actual regime.
But I think this is where the conversation needs to be, and this is increasingly where our political pressure needs to be.
We need to say, who are these DAs in Republican jurisdictions?
What could they be doing?
What are the five counter-reactions that Republican DAs could launch tomorrow that would show we're willing to play a tit-for-tat game against the Democrats' lawfare regime?
And do you believe, and I know Charlie Kirk had the op-ed out this week, do you believe the only real answer to this is mutual escalation?
Well, I'm not even confident that's an answer, because I think on a deeper level, the Republican Party is not set up to play the high-stakes game of actually winning.
I do think, though, this is where all the action is, and this is where our focus should be, and we should increasingly dedicate resources to at least testing the hypothesis.
What would happen if we put Profound political pressure on a handful of DAs and tea it up for them.
Say, this is exactly what you have the authority to do.
Here is the person who has the authority to do it.
Here's what you can do.
And let's exert extreme pressure on this individual to make it happen.
Possibly, someone along the line will test this, and then we'll see what the reaction is.
There's an old Monty Python sketch where it's the philosopher soccer.
Have you ever seen this one?
No.
Where it's the Greek philosophers versus the German philosophers, and the game starts, and for the first 45 minutes or so, they're just philosophizing the entire time.
They're going on and on and on.
Then eventually, I forget who it is, but eventually someone goes, Eureka!
And then just runs over and kicks the ball into the net.
And I'm waiting for the one Republican, the one person on our side with this kind of power to be that individual to say, you know what?
Maybe instead of simply talking about the problem, we actually do something about it.
Darren, we're just about out of time.
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