Aug. 25, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 547:THE RETURN OF THE DON - NEVER SURRENDER
On today’s episode of Human Events, Jack Posobiec brings you all the breaking news surrounding the persecution of President Trump and the mugshot seen all around the world. Joined by Raheem Kassam of the National Pulse, Poso breaks down the fallout from the Republican Primary Debate and President Trump’s historic return to Twitter. Raheem brings breaking news from Florida where boats of Haitian illegals arrived on the shores of Jupiter Beach along with analysis on how that might impact the De...
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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!
This is an image that will be in the history books.
This is the mugshot of the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, who surrendered himself at Fulton County Jail.
History in the making as a former American president is booked into county jail.
And here is something we have never seen before.
A presidential mugshot taken inside that jail in Georgia.
Authorities in Georgia releasing this image of Donald Trump appearing defiant after he was processed in the Fulton County Jail.
Inmate number P01135809.
That's how the former president is officially identified in Fulton County Jail records.
Criminal defendant and former president Donald J. Trump presumed innocent until proven guilty in accordance with the rule of law for his sake and for ours.
Governor, what do you think about this split screen of you here in the Field of Dreams and former President Trump being arrested in Georgia?
Well, I'm glad I'm at the Field of Dreams.
I'm happy to be here.
If you challenge an election, you should be able to challenge an election.
I thought the election was a rigged election, a stolen election.
And I should have every right to do that.
As you know, you have many people that you've been watching over the years do the same thing, whether it's Hillary Clinton or Stacey Abrams or many others.
When you have that great freedom to challenge, you have to be able to, otherwise you're going to have very dishonest elections.
What has taken place here is a travesty of justice.
We did nothing wrong.
I did nothing wrong.
What they're doing is election interference.
They're trying to interfere with an election.
There's never been anything like it in our country before.
This is their way of campaigning.
And this is one instance, but you have three other instances.
It's election interference.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
Today is August 25th, 2023.
Anno Domini.
Prisoner number P01135809.
That's prisoner number P01135809.
Let me tell you something.
That's a prisoner number P01135809.
Let me tell you something.
There's an old adage out there.
Iron sharpens iron.
Pressure makes diamonds.
Are you in this fight?
Or are you standing on the sidelines?
Are you commenting?
Is this something that you live for?
Is this something that you breathe?
Is this something that you're willing to give your all for?
Because that's what yesterday showed.
When you walk straight into the regime pointing a gun in your face, a loaded gun, and saying, I'm not backing down.
I'm not going anywhere.
Because this is my country, this is my home, and you are not going to take it from us, you greedy little communist scum.
You were never supposed to be in charge.
You tricked your way into getting there and now we're going to root out every single last one of you.
There will be no shadows left for you to hide at the end.
Over on the Great Substack Conundrum Cluster, give you a line here about Trump's return to Twitter.
What Trump's critics on the right never seem to understand is that he provides the center of gravity for an entire new world of conservative resistance to the decline.
Strength breeds strength.
Trump's defiant and determined expression is the sort of signal that needs to be sent.
This is much better than whatever it was that we saw on that debate stage the other night.
Because I'm not interested in hearing your tax policy, your school choice policy.
Those are all important things.
But right now we need to see pressure.
I want to see how you react to pressure.
Are you the kind of person that folds?
Are you the kind of person who can't even stand up and put up your hand all the way?
Can you not get it up, Ron DeSantis?
Can you not get it up, Chris Christie?
Yeah, well we found out who can't get it up.
And I think we all know who can't get it up now.
And then you have a singular moment where the beacons are lit, the banners are called, the signal is up.
Are you ready for the fight of your lifetime?
Are you ready for the final stand?
The final stand to take back the United States of America.
Because I'm here to tell you right now, right now, that they have gone too far.
They know it.
Go look at Atlantic Magazine.
Go look at all of them today.
They're losing it.
They realize they screw up.
Only Phony Fanny could be so stupid as to let him get a mugshot and unleash the unbridled energy of this moment.
And his final return, triumphant and defiant, to Twitter.
The return of the Don.
Are you ready?
Can you feel it?
Because I'm gonna tell you right now.
Nothing can stop what is coming.
We will never surrender.
Never.
Absolutely not.
Come and take every single one of us.
And them boys had a saying.
You can't be listening to all that slappy whack.
Trim out his alitzabam ship.
Nippy bam bam.
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Folks, I'm serious about this.
The surrender has been cancelled.
The cancelling has been cancelled.
We're digging in.
We're fighting back.
This is the hill to die on.
And in order to help us explain what exactly the state of play is, what the battle space is now going forward, we've got a master strategist himself, Raheem Kassam of The National Pulse joins us today, the Editor-in-Chief.
Raheem, how are you feeling this morning after all that?
You know, relatively sanguine, Jack, this is something, of course, that so many of us had seen coming, had been ready for.
I do appreciate the commentary about the mainstream media melting down over the mugshot and certainly melting down over the use of the mugshot, not just by the Trump campaign and Trump himself and his return to ex-formerly Twitter and so forth, because I think it just goes to show you how little They understand about this situation, how little they are prepared for what's going on at the moment.
And I like that sort of thing.
You know, I think it tells you a lot about where they are versus where the country is versus versus where MAGA is.
And I think a lot of people for a long time, they laughed, right?
They live action role played about Trump going to jail and prosecuting him and locking him up.
And all of this stuff, and now that it's actually coming to pass, I think a lot of people, including and not limited to your great friend, Jake Tapper, and people at the Atlantic Magazine, and so forth, are sort of looking at this and going, oh no, they're going to do it to our side, and they're going to do it way nastier, and we've set a precedent here that, you know, entropy rules apply to.
The toothpaste cannot now go back into the tube.
So, for me, is it a chilling moment in American history?
Certainly.
Have we been ready for a while now for this regime to cross the Rubicon?
Yes.
Well, and with the return to Twitter, with the outpouring that you saw last night, I mean, I just have to say, the way they played this was fantastic.
And even his remarks on the tarmac, he did an interview last night, thought they were fine.
But it was really the way they played this mugshot, the way that they played the stare, this sort of grisly, I'm coming to get you, you have pushed me too far.
You have gone too far.
And I think that's something that where, you know, when I go to and I hear the The DeSantis type saying, well, how is he going to win independents?
How is he going to win people that didn't vote for him in 2020?
There you go.
It's right there.
It's right exactly there.
Because the things that these people have done to him in response and his response to them To your point, they said, oh, the debate is going to reset the narrative.
Just wait until Ron DeSantis starts debating.
Guess what?
Donald Trump is the narrative at this point.
He is the center of gravity of the entire world.
And I honestly, you would have to, only because I do this for a living, could I even tell you anything that happened on that debate stage.
If I went up to some normie out there, no, no clue whatsoever.
Yeah, and you know, I sort of resent a lot of the commentary about like, oh, but you know, why did they need the mugshot?
He's obviously one of the most recognizable men in the world.
He is the single most recognizable man on this planet.
And, you know, I sort of resent a lot of the commentary about like, oh, but, you know, why did they need the mugshot?
He's obviously one of the most recognizable men in the world.
He is the single most recognizable man on this planet.
And honestly, not just of this time.
You can you can probably start working other eras and epochs in of human civilization now and thinking, OK, well, you know, Donald Trump now is is far more recognizable, you know, to to to weigh more people than Genghis Khan ever was or ever will be.
And you just, you have to think about it through that.
You'd have to go back to like the Roman emperors and only then because they were on the coins.
Right, right.
But far fewer people around at that time.
And far less of a historical record than will be created from what's going on right now, simply from a technological perspective.
So you've got to think of it like that.
And we're living through those times.
And we have close proximity, a lot of us, to those times.
You know, I woke up this morning with Donald Trump having sent the National Pulse not one, but two notes, handwritten notes, about our reporting this morning.
And you just think, wow, you know, amongst all of this, this man still has the content Of his character to sit down with a pen and say, hey, I read this article.
It was great.
Thanks for doing this.
You know, so on and so forth.
And you just think, you know, you're blown away by those sorts of things.
And you have to also work that back into the context of everything that is going on right now.
The split screen for me is where a lot of this lies.
And while the DeSantis campaign are pushing the Washington Post Ipsos poll, which I would never do, by the way, the Washington Post Ipsos polls.
Some of the worst polls consistently.
Hold on.
Walk us through.
What are they?
What are they pushing?
What's what's the line today for out of?
Well, the line yesterday when this Washington Post Ipsos poll came out was most people who watched the debate thought DeSantis edged it.
Well, that isn't where you want to be on messaging anyway.
But today you saw a Morning Consult poll came out that showed no difference post debate in what people think about the primary race.
And people will recall.
You know, first it was, wait till he gets in the race, you know, wait till he staffs up, wait till he hits the road, wait till he hits Iowa, wait till he hits New Hampshire, wait till he gets on the debate stage.
At this point, you know, how long are we going to wait until Ron DeSantis actually shows up in this primary contest?
And I think for those of you who think that Ron DeSantis is a better option, I have very bad news for you.
It's getting worse, not better.
From a political consultant and strategist perspective, this is getting worse, not better.
You look at the comments that Jeff Rowe made mocking Donald Trump for his indictments.
Worse, not better.
You look at the split screen last night when Donald Trump is being actively persecuted by the state.
Ron DeSantis is on a movie set playing catch in a field.
It's getting worse, not better.
So there's lots to think about from the last 24 hours, and even more to think about when you work in the normal day-to-day news cycle.
Jack, we've got a massive breaking story up at TheNationalPulse.com right now that I just put up, and you think about it, you know, you're a news editor, you think about it.
You're doing this all day long, the breaking news, the urgent stuff, the massive stuff, the civilizational level stuff, but the day-to-day of news is still going on too.
So, you know, between, I think, the post-millennial and human events and the national pulse, we've got you covered.
No, I agree.
And actually, I'm told by our production staff here that we will have that video ready after the break.
So they'll load it up during the break.
But there's another piece that I actually want to add on to.
Amazing.
So this will be an exclusive.
It's the national pulse and human events working together, as it should be.
But there's another thing I would add.
It's not just about wait until Iowa, wait until New Hampshire.
We're starting to hear rumors now of, wait until we get to Milwaukee, wait until we get to the convention.
Is there a plot afoot to attempt to force a brokered convention?
Are you hearing these rumors as well?
I've heard these rumors for months.
It's all Jeff Rowe, who for the uninitiated is possibly one of the scummiest.
And I say that as a matter of personal opinion.
Political operatives in the country, if not the Western Hemisphere.
And it's always been his strategy not to win fair and square.
Remember, they did one of their largest fundraisers at the legal offices of Dominion Voting Systems in Washington, D.C.
You know, so you know where these people are coming from.
You know who they're hooked up with.
It has always been his plan to not win fair and square, but to try and either knock Trump off the ballot in certain places and he will work With the far left to make sure that happens.
He was cheering them on on CBS the other day.
People can go and see that for themselves.
We put a story up about it just a couple of minutes ago up at the National Pulse, which has the video of him doing that.
But yes, it's not going to be a brokered convention.
It will be, I suppose, what you guys call a smash mouth on the convention floor.
And they will try every dirty trick in the book.
And probably add some new ones in there too.
Yep.
Expect it.
Expect it.
Be ready for it.
Which, by the way, I do have to say is a little bit ironic because, of course, this is coming on the heels of the debate where every one of them asked about Mike Pence's duties on January 6th, where he refused to open up a contest on the merits of how the 2020 election was held.
Every single one of them stood around the room and agreed with it, yet the very same people now are telling you that we can't trust the results of the RNC convention.
We're going to have to open this up to the committee.
We're going to have to open this up to the people in the room.
Those voters, you know, we can't just trust what they say.
Yeah, that's right.
But at this point...
You know, I think everybody on that debate stage, including the people that I have more in common with, who I have more sympathy with.
You know, I quite like Doug Burgum.
I don't know that much about Doug Burgum's positions as a governor, but he seems like a nice chap.
Seems very Canadian.
Very nice in his mannerisms.
That's true, actually.
He's pretty close there in North Dakota.
I mean, no, he sounds Canadian.
No offense to the North Dakotans out there, but you sound Canadian.
And there's nothing wrong with that.
Um, but, but, but just a nice chap.
Um, Vivek, you know, has plenty of, um, charisma and, and appeal, but also has, you know, plenty of questions, uh, above him.
But, but everybody on that stage, I think, uh, is, is full of inconsistencies.
And the one thing you can say about Donald Trump is, is he is consistently Donald Trump.
Uh, he doesn't actually go out there and say things to placate even his own, uh, former supporters.
He's consistently asked about the vaccines and he says, look, we made a decision in that moment.
What do you want me to tell you?
I never, I never wanted a mandate.
What do you want me to tell you?
He's asked questions about Lindsey Graham and he says, look, Lindsey Graham is useful to me in so many ways.
He says the same thing about John Bolton, who is no friend of the MAGA movement, but he put him in there for a specific reason, got what he needed out of him and then got rid of him when he was done.
Donald Trump is consistently Donald Trump.
The rest of them are consistently making excuses for their inconsistencies.
No, I agree with that.
And also the same people bringing up Lindsey Graham never bring up the fact that Rand Paul is always just on the other side of Donald Trump.
So he's got, you know, kind of both sides battling it out.
Stay tuned because we've got an exclusive video from the National Pulse.
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We're with Raheem Kassam, and Raheem has exclusive video.
You're going to see this now for the first time.
You've never seen it anywhere else, folks.
Raheem, do you want to T.S.
up into, or I see they're playing the video here, so we've got it.
Explain to us what it is we're looking at and where it is.
Yeah, let's keep that on a loop if we can while I explain what's happened here earlier today.
Just a few, maybe an hour ago, we got word that local media in Jupiter, which is in Florida, was reporting that 17, originally actually reporting that 14, now 17 migrants had been detained after coming ashore, illegally obviously,
Ramming into a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Marine Vessel while doing so around 9 a.m.
this morning.
We tracked this video down from a local business owner who kindly gave us the permission to put this up at the National Pulse.
There's more content up there than just this video as well.
But so far as we know, of course, with the Governor Ron DeSantis currently in a field in Iowa somewhere, his state is being invaded.
by boats, by migrants, 17 of which now have been captured by law enforcement.
Now, I believe that we were reporting that 16 of these migrants are believed to be Haitian and one Bahamanian, but it's some pretty extraordinary footage you can see there of the boat coming ashore at Jupiter Inlet, a very nice part of the world, a very nice part, a very expensive part.
So wait a minute, this is, this looks like, and I'm just seeing the video, show me now for the first time.
This looks like a speedboat.
This doesn't look like some, you know, slapped together makeshift raft or pontoon boat of some sort.
This looks like an actual speedboat.
It's motorized, looks like it hasn't, can't tell exactly from the shot that's clipped off, but it looks like some sort of outboard motor on it.
Yeah, it doesn't look like, it's not a raft, it's not a rinky-dink migrant vessel, the likes of which you see in Europe.
This is certainly something a little bit nicer, a little bit plusher.
The captain of the boat was identified already.
I may butcher the name here, but Baza el Luis Francois, 30 years old, rammed the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Marine Unit vessel and then tried to make off before being apprehended.
You can see in the video there was the chopper there.
There are actually several choppers up in the air and car units responded as well from local law enforcement.
There's no comment yet that we can see and that we've looked for from the governor's office.
But this is some pretty dramatic stuff.
As I say, you can see more of it up at thenationalpulse.com.
You know, I've lived through things like this happening in Europe.
I've seen it happen in the United Kingdom.
Obviously, Australia has had massive issues with migrant boats.
And of course, it's not just your southern border, the land border.
Uh, that is porous, as you can see from this video, uh, migrant vessels now coming ashore in some pretty affluent neighborhoods in Florida.
Now, now this, by the way, given that it's not exactly a long range vessel, I wouldn't, um, I wouldn't believe that it had made it there all the way from Haiti.
I would think that if you look, the Bahamas are right there across from, from Jupiter, from Palm Beach County.
Uh, so I would imagine that it came across from.
Probably probably that's that's I think that's Grand Bahama, which is right there Freeport that's probably within range of that vessel I don't know if they'd have enough to enough fuel to be able to get back Maybe if they brought some extra tanks on board of course you'd be able to to refuel and then get back so possibly they were making runs of this but
But to do this in broad daylight, it really speaks to a, and I just have to say it, a lax security situation, a lax security posture, that they would not be worried of what you're seeing right here.
The fact that people are being viewed and that it's being easily captured, helicopters up, and probably also they understand that because of Joe Biden's policies, that under the current Department Homeland Security and ICE policies it's it's kind of almost back to where Bill Clinton was with wet foot dry foot that if you're captured on land you are able to stay within the confines of the United States.
Yeah, look, I mean, the pull factors are extraordinary at the moment.
And this is one of the largest problems that Europe faces and the United Kingdom faces with its boats and the illegal migration going on there as well.
You can pretend all that you want about putting up barriers or having boats or you've got a barge where you're going to put a handful of migrants on.
But as long as the pull factors remain the same, the welfare factors, like you say, the processing, The escaping and abscondment into general society.
Well, you know, effective catch and release schemes, so on and so forth.
The NGOs, which in a lot of senses and a lot of the cases are state sponsored, government sponsored, foreign office, you know, U.S.
department sponsored, whether it's National Endowment for Democracy or what have you.
These are massive, massive pull factors.
And one of the other narratives I think that is really important to mention here is one of the things that really What annoys me is when I see Europeans talking about American mass shootings, right, and how many people die in American mass shootings.
You see this narrative going on, especially in internet arguments all the time, and I say, well, that's really funny.
It's a constant refrain, yeah.
Yeah, but the mass shooting argument, right, it usually comes down to a couple of things that we know, right?
People with significant mental health problems, people without fathers in their homes, people with drug problems, all that kind of thing.
The mass drownings Are two X in Europe what the mass shootings are in the United States and in Europe?
That is a state sponsored policy.
It is EU policy.
It is most EU members nation states policies.
It's certainly UK government policy that all these pool factors for cheap migrant labor exist.
And so it's incomparable.
to start with.
But, you know, nobody ever talks about this.
Open borders, as a government underwritten concept, is killing far more people around the world right now than mass shootings in America are.
And yet it's breathlessly talked about from California all the way across to Eastern Europe People bleat on about mass shootings in the United States, but we never talk about this thing about illegal migration, and that is something that we at The National Pulse are constantly hammering, like, hey, if death and stopping death is really something that we care about here, then let's talk about this.
You know, and that's a huge point because if you do nothing about these factors and...
Frequently, I don't hear very much, even from Republicans, to talk about these factors.
I don't hear the ability to actually fight back, other than platitudes towards, oh, we have to fight illegal immigration.
I'm for the border.
Things like this, they know they have to say.
But this is kind of what I was getting to in the opening of the show today, where there's a difference between showing pressure, showing that you have resolved in the face of that pressure and adversity, where you don't have any of it.
I don't get that sense of any of it from these people up on stage.
Meanwhile, if we continue to allow this, just even from showing this video, and I hate that it's even happening, but you will see more of these.
You will see more operations of people coming right across the border, and I guarantee you these Haitians will be put into some kind of process.
They will not be sent back.
And unfortunately, it's going to create a system whereby they'll come up from Haiti, they'll get to the Bahamas, and they will start pouring over.
Rahim, what happens to a country when you essentially open up your borders to millions and millions of people from the third world?
Well, it ceases to be a country.
You know, I spent a lot of last night rewatching old clips of Enoch Powell, one of my political heroes.
And he was the first political victim of cancel culture in the modern day.
A British parliamentarian who talked about this, who talked about unifying identities, unifying cultures, what it actually takes to be a nation.
And the reason I was looking it up was because I recalled when I was writing my 2017 book, 2018 book about Enoch Powell.
He was once asked by somebody, he said, you know, given all of the ferrari that you create concerning immigration and migration and all of this stuff, you know, how do you sleep at night?
And he said, simple.
I put my head on the pillow and close my eyes.
The problems will still be there in the morning.
And when Donald Trump was interviewed yesterday on another television network, you know, he was asked, you know, how do you sleep?
He said, it is what it is, right?
You just got to do it.
It's a similar, it's a similar way of thinking about these things, similar way of thinking about the world.
You have to have that level of resilience to go through these things every single day.
And to bring it back to our earlier conversation, I'm just not sure the American public saw that type of resilience on stage the other night in Milwaukee.
So it all comes full circle here.
No, I agree with you, Rahim.
That being said, when you look at the state of play, illegals invading Florida, President Trump being arrested, mugshot out in Georgia, a couple of minutes left here.
Tell us, where does the election go from here?
You've been our best prognosticator of it, and where can people go to follow more about the national polls?
Yeah, look, I wonder if you guys have the image of, you know, the front cover of the first, the inaugural issue.
Of the print version of the National Pulse Magazine, the Pulse Plus Magazine, which we designed late last night.
America's Most Wanted is strapline there.
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Everything we do is supported by our readers.
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People can go to thenationalpulse.com forward slash upgrade.
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You know, the United States Congress is still going through that Hunter Biden laptop.
Haven't approached me at all.
I've got everything indexed.
I know every pseudonym of Joe Biden that's been used on that laptop.
Do they care?
No.
But we do.
And we report the news quickly, accurately.
You'll remember who was the first to publish the accurate mugshot last night, Jack.
That was us.
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We had that before CNN.
Anybody else?
And I thank people and I'm grateful for people coming over and doing that.
The news, the accurate news, the quick news, is some of the most important thing that you can plug into nowadays.
That's why we built the app.
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Appreciate it, Rahim.
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We're back live here in Washington, D.C.
Now, originally, we had said that we were going to have Scott Adams on today because he's got his new book out, Reframe Your Brain.
It's fantastic.
I've received a copy of it.
I'm already a couple of chapters in.
It's amazing.
There is an unexpected event that took place behind the scenes that I'm not currently at liberty to say.
It will be revealed eventually.
Scott will now be with us on Monday, but we also have the editor, fortunately, we have the editor of the book, Joshua Lysak, as well as the author of his own book, So Good They Call You Fake, that I also read and thought was absolutely fantastic, and he joins us now.
Joshua, thank you so much for joining us here on Human Events.
Jack, I appreciate you having me on.
Thank you.
So walk me through, because, you know, you took Scott's book from, and he was coming from this, you know, the publishing, commercial, mass media world, and then he gets cancelled for essentially railing against what CRT is doing to our country.
He gets cancelled from that, and then you sort of brought him across into the wild, wild world of self-publishing.
What was that process like?
Yes, so I have been working with both traditionally and independently published authors for 12 years now, and I've seen it all on both sides.
The good, the bad, the ugly, the based, and the cringe.
And when Scott was entirely cancelled, I think he is now the most cancelled author who is alive, the most cancelled living author.
After that happened, he reached out to me and said, Joshua, so you basically know more about independent publishing than anyone else in the world, right?
I said, some might say, yes.
And so that began our relationship working on Reframe Your Brain.
It was a draft at that point.
There was still a bit of, quite a bit, the core content was there.
And for those who are not super familiar with what a reframe is, A reframe is used often in the world of hypnosis, which is subconscious persuasion, subconscious self persuasion, to allow yourself to get more of what you want and stop doing what you don't want to be doing.
And so there's over 160 reframes inside of Reframe Your Brain, and they cover such areas as career growth, entrepreneurship, Physical health and wellness and overall mental and emotional well-being.
And there's even a few fun ones in there on reality itself.
It's quite a fun read.
People are posting their experiences, their testimonials, their transformations already.
I was privileged to work on it and made quite a few suggestions and improvements that Scott was happy to accept.
And we also worked together on the second edition of his best-selling classic, How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
And it was while I was working on Scott's book that I was also able to finish up and independently launch mine, So Good They Call You a Fake.
So tell us a little bit about your background and So Good They Call You a Fake.
So what does that mean, So Good They Call You a Fake?
Why would anyone do that?
Yes.
So when I first thought about writing my own book, because people have been asking me to write my own book, Joshua, you've written like 80 books.
When are you going to finally write yours, huh?
That was the question I've been dealing with for a number of months now.
Well, for the audience that doesn't know your background, what do you mean you wrote 80 books?
How did you write 80 books?
I thought this was your first one.
Yes, so I am a professional ghostwriter.
So I've ghostwritten memoirs, current events books, political books, business books, everything from digital marketing and hypnosis to great-grandma who wanted her kids to know what it was like growing up during the war.
A little bit of everything.
But what people have been asking me for years is, so Joshua, where's your own non-fiction book, like with your name on it?
You've written for everybody else, basically.
You work with people like Scott, so where's yours?
Okay, okay, I finally need to finish mine.
And I thought about, what do these authors that I work with have in common?
Because many of the authors who come to me, they are bona fide experts in their domain, but they're not the recognized authority yet, because they don't have a book that is a physical manifestation of their life's work.
And so it made sense for them to get a book done by someone who's done it dozens of times, and it made sense for me to finally tell their stories.
And I realized that what these people, my clientele, all have in common is how they've been able to monetize their haters, their critics, their naysayers.
People who say, there's no way you're that good at what you do.
You make all these claims in your book.
Well, where's your proof?
Where's your studies?
Huh?
All those testimonials are fake, right?
And we realize now that there is a new equilibrium for entrepreneurs, for people who want to make a name for themselves.
It's not good enough to be good enough anymore.
You must be so good that people look at you and say, there's no way you could have accomplished all that.
You have to be a fake.
And what that does is that, to follow a Mike Cernovich quote, attention is influence.
And so by commanding attention with results that are so good, they have to be fake.
You have influence.
And when you have influence, you can... You see this again and again, right?
You can see it with Elon Musk.
You can see it certainly with Donald Trump, right?
The guy's a multi-billionaire.
He became the president of the United States.
And yet there are people who have like $35,000 jobs working for BuzzFeed saying, oh, this guy has no idea what he's doing.
No clue what he's saying, and yet, okay, you know, let's look at his accomplishments versus yours.
Where are we at?
By the way, speaking of which, there's a hit piece on you today that's out in a certain magazine.
I'd be remiss if I didn't give you the opportunity to respond.
Oh, yes, yes.
Publishers, Publishers Weekly here.
It's a review of my book.
I tweeted about it.
They put in quotes, I'm a self-described ghost writer, and they say that I praise the patriarchy, and that I say I use the term woke as a vague pejorative, but I never actually define it.
And then they close it by saying, I'm, quote unquote, intentionally limiting my reach and alienating people on their path to success.
They are so good, they say I'm intentionally alienating people on their path to success.
So my book is in and of itself a case study of the message.
Precisely.
No, I also love when people say you can't define woke.
It's very clear.
Wokeness is the conspiracy theory, and that's what it is, a conspiracy theory that the observable disparate impacts that we can see throughout society are due to systemic oppression.
Speaking of which, you had an interesting Twitter thread at one point describing the Mary Sue phenomenon.
And you were actually talking about why certain movies suck, because they include the Mary Sue now, and once you see it, you can never unsee it.
What is the Mary Sue?
And can you tell us really quickly how you monetize that thread?
Yes.
So I wrote last December, because I'm in the world of stories, and I try to, with my nonfiction authors, tell compelling stories.
And what we see from Hollywood recently are anti-compelling stories, where they take often female protagonists who are perfect in every way, more perfect than their male counterparts, and the treasure was within them the entire time.
And it's a story that goes nowhere.
And of course, characters like The latest version of Galadriel and Rey from Star Wars, Bo Peep even.
Pick your recent franchise that stars a female protagonist, and many of them are a Mary Sue, which is the stereotype name that's given to these types of characters.
And I wrote a thread exploring the recent phenomenon of Mary Sue across all popular fiction, it seems like, as well as some previous three-dimensional female characters.
The way to do it right, the way to actually tell a story with a relatable female character.
And I also gave some tips on how people who are telling their own story can come across.
Three-dimensional.
Real.
Relatable.
Authentic.
Not like a Mary Sue or a Mary Stew there for the fellas.
Of course, that was immediately picked up and I was cancelled across all popular media, which I think is what Drew Scott to me because I came pre-cancelled so he didn't have to worry about any shenanigans in that regard.
It's a perfect team there.
But what I did is, throughout the thread, I posted links to various products of mine.
Writing, courses, and whatnot.
And of course people would share those saying, Look at this guy trying to make a quick buck scamming people!
He's a total fake!
He's lying about everything he says he's done!
It's photoshopped!
All his income screenshots are photoshopped!
So it's, I'm so good they call me a misogynist, so good they call me a scammer, so good they call me a liar, so good they call me photoshopping my results, so good they call me The funniest one was Credibly Accused Misogynist, who's obviously an incel and virgin, despite the fact that I'm married and have two children.
Which is always fun.
So good they call you an insult even though you're married and have two children.
Yeah, I'm in Time Magazine.
So we have that in common.
So you're getting attacked in Publisher Weekly, I'm in Time Magazine today, which, you know, I don't even consider this an attack, but they describe me as a right-wing provocateur, where I'm like, you know, at this point, that's one of the nicer, it's on the nicer side of what people call me.
So I'll take that as a compliment, because you know what?
I do intend.
To provoke, and you're right.
I'm definitely on the right wing.
Stay tuned, folks.
We're having a fascinating conversation here with all things writing, how it affects us in the real world, the world of ghostwriting, the secrets that he's revealing, and also how to reframe your brain.
Be right back for a final segment.
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
All right, Jack Posobiec, we're back here live, Washington, D.C.
We're talking to the editor of the new book, Reframe Your Brain, by Scott Adams.
His name is Joshua Lysak.
Joshua, so the Amazon, because you guys were self-publishing this thing, at one point shut down the entire process as you were about to launch, and that's why the launch was kind of, you know, kind of herky-jerky to begin with.
What happened there?
Yes, so, when we initially submitted all of the files, the manuscript, cover, artwork, etc.
to the independent publishing service of Amazon called Amazon KDP, they replied and said, oh, we need some documentation proving that you own the rights, Mr. Adams, to all of these books.
Reframe your brain and had to fail at almost everything and still win big.
Wrote up the email, sent over all the paperwork, and they said, you are banned.
Wait a second, Scott says.
This is all the paperwork you asked for.
No, it's not.
You're banned for life.
And that was quite a hilarious little event, because they wouldn't reply to us.
All of their replies looked like they were AI generated, including the ones that said, oh, you do not have the rights to the books that you're attempting to publish and distribute through us, so you are banned for life.
There's no recourse for you.
Then, of course, roughly several million impressions later, and quite a bit of negative attention and energy going towards the Amazon KDP account, we heard from a real human, an apology, here's your account, you can go ahead and publish everything.
And that was a tense and interesting and colorful several few days there, and so it made Reframe Your Brain the only twice-canceled book available in America.
The only twice canceled.
So as you were working on it, what would you say, you know, what was your favorite part of the book?
I mean, you mentioned how it gives you systems for reframing different challenges and obstacles that you may face in your life.
What was your favorite part?
Yes, my favorite ones are around mental health, particularly grief, particularly grief.
Often as kids, we aren't necessarily around Death as much, and then as we grow up and those around us die tragically or just of old age, we begin to find ourselves having to cope with loss, permanent loss, at least here in this mortal coil.
And so there's a section in Reframe Your Brain about how to reframe the grieving process.
Rather than tragedy, it's a privilege.
It's a privilege to help the living, be they pets, Or be they elderly parents or grandparents or those of us who've lost children either born or pre-born.
It was quite helpful as my wife and I were going through some stuff of our own to actually work on that section of Scott's book.
So those of us who are dealing with life's difficulties, even despite all the routines and shenanigans going on in everyday life, it's quite a mental health boost, this book, for those of us who Have dealt with or are going through or about to go through some sort of personal disruption like that.
And that's just one section of one chapter.
And let me let me pull that out a little bit.
So when you say to say it's a privilege, do you mean the process itself or more that it was a process to to get to know that person?
It was a privilege to have experienced that.
Individual, which which which do you mean exactly?
It is a privilege to be the one who mourns for them.
The one who helps them out of this world, be they a person or be they a pet.
And it's an honor to be able to have that role.
It's not easy.
It's difficult.
And so last night, Scott did a Twitter space in which several people said that that set of reframes were their most useful for them as they have recently, just in the past few days, gone through grief of their own.
And it's a way of going from loss to meaning.
From loss to meaning.
That's incredible, actually.
That kind of reminds me of the old, all right, definitely, you know, nerd checking myself here, but the third book in the, or no, second book in the Ender's Game series is Speaker for the Dead.
And, you know, he reframes himself as, instead of being this guy who's taken out an entire, so he kills, spoiler alert, he kills this entire race of aliens.
And so instead of being, you know, holding himself guilty for that and even the innocence, that he becomes a speaker for the dead.
And so it's almost like a profession where he goes around to like different funerals and different situations.
And he really learns who that person was.
And it's almost like a professional eulogizer.
And so it's they actually deal with some of those similar issues in that book.
And I'm interested to know maybe if Orson Scott Card, as you know, it just occurs to me that I read that book when I was on deployment at Guantanamo.
But I wonder if maybe he was dealing with something and that was his way of, you know, going through that, to your point of reframing it as it is a privilege that I am the one who gets to do this.
That's really powerful.
Anything else?
Anything lighter in the book?
I don't want people to think this thing is a total downer.
Yes, that's actually towards the end, later in the mental health reframe section.
Very important.
Yes, but there's quite a bit that are specifically around personal success, business success, career success.
For example, one of the ones that's about imposter syndrome is this idea like, well, I'm just getting started, I don't know what I'm doing, people are going to see it, they're going to know, I'm going to be embarrassed.
Reframe that as, look how much you've learned already.
You've gotten to this spot.
You're going to learn it.
You're going to figure it out.
Everyone who's successful at this has been here before.
And of course, Scott, in his classic Scott way, condenses that to the usual frame and the reframe.
And in a few paragraphs, he's able to go take people from anxiety to confidence.
And that's, again, just one reframe in one section.
And it's over 160 of these.
And usually people have their own top 10 list.
And you'll notice that most people's top 10 reframed lists are all different from one another because there are different points in their life.
Where they want to improve, if not transform their lives and enjoy happiness and success.
All right, Joshua.
Just about the last minute here on the show.
Let us know, where can people go to purchase not only Reframe Your Brain, but also your book?
Because I gotta say, I read yours in probably a day and a half.
It's not long, but it was a fantastic book.
And your book, I would say, is really a starting point for many things.
Where can people go?
Yes, they're available on Amazon.
So Good They Call You Fake is in hardcover, softcover, audio, and digital.
And of course, the new Scott Adams book, Reframe Your Brain, as well as the second edition of the classic How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big.
That's also available in softcover, reframes in audio and digital as well.
Also on Amazon.
If anyone's out there in the audience looking for a good ghostwriter, by the way, I know somebody, but he don't come cheap, folks.
He don't come cheap, but you know what?
He ain't chat GPT either.
I don't think that'll be something he's competing with.
Joshua Lysak, thank you so much for joining us today.
Look, folks, remember...
The fight continues.
You want to know what the only way out is?
You want to know what the answer is?
The answer is you never quit.
You never surrender.
There is no surrender.
There is no giving in.
The only way out is through.
And we will get through this, destroy the regime, and retake our country.
