Aug. 28, 2023 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec
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EPISODE 548: OBAMA JUDGE SETS TRUMP DC TRIAL FOR DAY BEFORE SUPER TUESDAY
On today’s can’t miss edition of Human Events, Jack Posobiec brings you all the breaking news surrounding President Trump and the date announced for his trial to begin in Washington DC. Poso is joined by none other than Scott Adams for an elevated conversation on “Reframe Your Brain” with author and Dilbert Cartoonist, Scott Adams. Jack is also joined by Federalist writer, Evita Duffy for a conversation about how Trump’s mugshot will unify the right in the upcoming election season - all this ...
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In a stark repudiation of Donald Trump's attorneys, Judge Tanya Chutkan has set a trial date for March 4th of next year, a world away from the April 2026 timeline that Trump's attorneys had wanted.
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Today is August 28th, Anno Domini, 2023.
An Obama-appointed judge Has just set the date for President Trump's trial in Washington, D.C.
Now remember, because we have to pay attention because we've got four different trials all being thrown at him all at once.
This is the one regarding January 6th and quote-unquote, a conspiracy to violate rights.
Very similar, by the way, to the one down in Georgia.
The only difference is the one down in Georgia that's at the state level and also involves an entire football team worth of people that they're trying to try all at once, including the president's lawyers.
This one is just on President Trump and a few others.
This judge Tanya Chutkin, appointed by Barack Obama, who worked at a law firm that employed Hunter Biden and the same firm that lobbied for Burisma, you know, just little things, has set this for the day before Super Tuesday.
So, the mask is off, folks.
I've been saying for how long now?
We're living through an era of regime politics.
So, you have to understand.
They don't intend for you to think this is a fair proceeding.
They don't intend for you to buy any of the things that they're saying.
They're not trying to persuade you.
They're not trying to be sophisticated.
They're not particularly sophisticated, by the way.
This is raw power.
This is mask off.
This is the regime, the powers that be, the status quo, whatever you want to call them.
The Democrats and the Republican simps who are their thralls and eunuchs in Washington, D.C.
They are the ones in power.
You see, you've got one group in charge, that's the left, and then you've got another group, the establishment right, whose job it is, they're paid to fail.
They're the Washington generals.
You have the Harlem Globetrotters and the Washington generals.
The Harlem Globetrotters, they win.
They win every fight.
That's the left.
The Washington generals, though, play a very important role.
They come in to fail every single time.
That's the establishment Republicans.
The establishment is there to make sure they never win.
The Washington generals are never allowed to win.
The right is never allowed to win.
And then along comes a guy by the name of Donald Trump and actually does start to right the ship and starts to move things away from the neoliberal uniparty consensus.
And that is why Trump must be stopped at all costs.
This isn't some plan.
This isn't some trick.
This isn't some psy-op.
No, this is real.
This is real.
They want to prevent him from being on the ballot, and they're willing to blow this country apart at the seams to do so.
Gonna ask our next guest about this very topic when he comes on next, Scott Adams.
We've been very excited to have him on his new book, Reframe Your Brain.
Coming on next, joins us at Shooting Up the Charts on Amazon, and hopefully it will be shooting into your hands very soon.
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Cause I was looking this up the number one book in happiness.
Boy, this must be the happiest guy that we've ever had on the show.
Ladies and gentlemen, Scott Adams, the founder of Dilbert, the new author of the book, reframe your brain joins us now.
I am happy.
It's true.
I'm the happiest guy, you know?
So Scott, if we get this book, will we become incredibly happy by reading it?
Is Did you ever think you'd be the number one in happiness?
I'm not sure how they actually select some of those categories.
Yeah.
You know what's the weirdest thing is that AI happened at the same time my book was going to come out.
And it turns out there's a sort of an intersection that makes sense.
We figured out that you could make something like intelligence just by looking at word patterns that already exist that people have already spoken or written.
And that just looking at the patterns and frequencies of words, you could produce something like intelligence.
Well, this is something hypnotists have known forever.
I'm also a trained hypnotist.
So reframes are basically a little code of words that you can insert into your brain just by reading the sentence.
And much like the way AI works, you can actually reprogram your brain with just words.
Let me give you an example, because that doesn't make sense without the examples.
But let's say You thought alcohol was a beverage.
Then you would probably say, well, I feel like a beverage, it's a party, I'll have some alcohol.
But one reframe that a lot of people say has caused them to quit drinking after years, it's not for alcoholism, but if you just want to cut down, is alcohol is poison.
Just that one sentence.
Now, reframes don't need to be logical.
They don't need to be accurate or factual.
They just need to work.
So sometimes the words themselves will do the work without even the logical parameters.
So people who just saw that sentence one time said, Oh, alcohol is poison.
And then just sort of thought of it again, when the opportunity came up, they, they report to me literally every day, I hear somebody say, I stopped a lifetime of drinking, never felt better.
Now I'm not, I'm not trying to get you to stop drinking.
That's not what I do.
I'm just telling you that there are a number of reframes that you can put in your head.
Just like inserting code, and it actually changes your behavior.
Something hypnotists have known forever, and AI is just discovering that intelligence and words are essentially the same thing.
Well, it's interesting, too, because I've been going through the book now, and I'm about halfway through it, and some of them, I think, kind of code is sort of like these adages, these old sayings and phrases that we've heard for years, you know, feed a cold, starve a fever.
Is that true?
I don't know, but we all remember it, right?
You know, we always remember, wait an hour after eating before you go swimming.
Is that real?
I have no idea, but I've never been able to get out of my head because it's that sticky.
And that's basically what you're starting to do here.
Well, some of the old wisdom is nothing but wisdom.
It's just a wise thing you should do.
Look both ways before you cross the road.
So that wouldn't be a reframe.
A reframe is you've been thinking of it this way.
We're going to give you another way to think of it.
Not that it's more true, more accurate, more factual.
It just works better.
Here's another one.
Instead of managing your time, manage your energy.
So the way I do that is I do my creative stuff when I have creative energy.
I exercise when my body is good, but my brain is exhausted.
So managing energy instead of time just completely can transform your life.
Here's another one.
You often hear people say success is based on who you know.
And that seems largely true.
But here's a better way to look at it.
Success is based on how many people you know.
Because if you increase the number of people you know, that's the thing you can actually do.
If I said to you, well, success is based on who you know, you'd think, well, I don't know anybody, so I guess I'm dead.
But if you say it's based on how many people you know, then you know exactly what to do.
Join a club, change jobs, get involved in a sport, just meet more people.
I have to say, really, though, Chapter 3, the mental health reframes, there are sections in there, and the career advice is fantastic in that section, but these mental health reframes, it's almost like you're teaching people superpowers.
It's almost like just tuning a brain, because if the word combinations that they go to when they think about a thing, because we think in words, if those words are suboptimal, you just replace them with stickier words.
And you'll find that the reframes that don't have much application in your life, you'll forget them as soon as you read them.
But if you see one that's like, oh, I needed that one, with just one reading, sticks it in your head, and it'll never go away, and it'll replace the bad words that are there.
Were there any reframes that you were working on, and we had Joshua on on Friday, but I didn't ask him this, were there any that just didn't quite make it, that you tried to throw out there and said, oh, that's a stinker, and you're gonna have to throw that one on the cutting room floor?
No, but I'll tell you, I did include one that I was sure was my weakest one.
And a few people said, Oh, that's one of your better ones.
I thought, really?
It barely made the cut.
And this was the one that says, if you've got some problems, one way to think of it is your problems have a right to exist too.
Now that doesn't really even make any sense, does it?
Like it's not based on logic or reason or anything.
It's just some words that you put around it, but people said it made them feel better.
And I didn't make that one up.
It was one I saw in nature.
I guess I saw it on Instagram or something.
And I thought, well, I don't know about this one.
And sure enough, for some people it worked.
And that's the nature of reframes.
They're not going to all work the same for everybody.
So I've got 160 of them in the book.
The odds that 10 of them will change your life are really high.
Really high.
Well, I like how you put it sometimes too, is that they may not necessarily change the situation, but it might just change a negative thought pattern that you've been caught into, regardless of what the situation might be, and help to break up that web, either by gaining distance on it, or taking a different perspective on it.
So you've broken through that negative thought cycle, and now you can prepare yourself to actually deal with the problem as is, and then cut yourself sort of out of the emotion.
One of the ones that You know, and I've heard a million times, but you know, I love that you bring it up early is talking about how, you know, feelings exist outside of our decision how to feel about them, basically.
Right, right.
There's what happens to you.
And then separately, there's your decision about how to process it.
Let me give you one example that that people said has worked for them.
Let's say you've got an animal who's, you know, reaching its expiration date, and you're sort of caring for it in the last months or weeks.
It's a horrible situation to be in, and your head is all about the tragedy and the loss during that time.
But instead, reframe it this way, and this has worked really well for me, is you reframe it as an honor.
Because there is no greater privilege, no greater honor, than being the one who's in charge of helping somebody to the next state.
It could be a person, could be a relative, could be a pet.
But in both cases, focus on the fact that you're in this privileged situation, And you certainly wish that if you were the one who was doing the dying, that somebody was there for you in that privileged situation to help you go to the next state.
So a number of people told me that that completely transformed their experience because the stuff happening to them was still the same, but they just put some different words on it and suddenly they felt better.
Right.
Now, I remember you likened it to, you know, sort of when a soldier passes and you're honoring their service.
So it's taking that and reframing it as honoring their service completely in life, their service to others, their spirit to others.
But this book, and we're a couple minutes till the break here, but this book almost didn't make it out because you had an issue with Amazon.
What exactly happened?
Well, the Amazon issue might have been just a technical issue.
It might have been just something that wasn't working.
I was banned for life on the first attempt, but the reason given was that I didn't own the material in my book that I'd written.
But it was pretty easy to demonstrate that I did own it.
I had a paper trail, I had documents, legal documents, etc.
And they finally got a human involved who could change it and just said, it was an accident, sorry about that, it's been fixed.
So we live in a world And I'm pretty sure that the timing of some legal things that you were just talking about, where nothing looks like a coincidence anymore, even when it is.
Because sometimes it is.
I mean, we live in a world that's just brimming with coincidence.
But unfortunately, we're also in a zero-trust environment.
And that's kind of new.
It used to be that my first assumption would be the innocent assumption.
And I've kind of reversed that.
It feels like it's 80-20, there's something up.
But I don't, I don't have any specific reason to think there was anything up with Amazon.
It was just that if you've been canceled worldwide already, and your, your last hope for a independent platform, which is owned by Jeff Bezos, who owned the Washington Post or does, and they were the first ones to cancel me.
And they, they started the wave of cancellations or they were, they weren't the first.
They were the ones who basically were the flagship for it, I guess.
So yeah.
Whenever something, yeah.
Yeah, the natural question is, is there any combination?
I have to say, I've seen no indication of it.
But when you see coincidences like Banned for Life, you know, you start scratching your head, eyebrow goes up.
And you wonder.
Right.
Ban from this.
And then suddenly you have another new email.
Ban from this as well.
So you're likely to think it's connected.
We're going to be right back.
Take a quick break.
Want to get a Scott Adams take on a couple items that have come up in the news since this morning and then also some more stuff going on.
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We're interviewing the author of the new book, Reframe Your Brain, which you can buy all over the place.
And we're just getting comments flooding in during the section here with our interview with Scott Adams.
We got one, I'm gonna read it, won't say the username just because of what it is, but we got a comment here that says, it just hit me that the 12-step recovery program is full of reframes.
Thought, why is everything bad happening to me?
Reframe.
Bad things happen to everyone.
We can only control how we react.
That's something that the 12-step program has been using for years.
Scott Adams has taken that and thrown it directly into this new book.
Scott, have you had comments like that?
What kind of reception are you seeing so far for the book?
I know it's only been out for a couple of days.
I've never seen anything like it.
People are already saying, you know, some reframe within the book changed their life.
They, you know, as I said, stopped drinking, got jobs, lost 80 pounds.
Not right away, of course.
But yeah, I've never seen anything like it.
There's almost universal liking of the book.
I've written a lot of books and nobody ever liked all of them.
This is the first time.
So it's quite different.
So I've got to get your take now on this news of the day, though, that we have breaking just before the show.
So Trump's trial and let's say, you know, how should we look at this through, you know, which lens we should use to look on this.
Trump's trial has now been set.
He asked the government.
So the way it works is the judge picks the date.
His lawyers get to pick one date and then the government's lawyers pick one date.
The government's lawyers said January 2024.
Trump's lawyers, of course, said January 2026.
So way, way past the election.
Hopefully he's in office and, you know, I'm sure that's what their plan is.
The judge comes back and has now set the date March 4th, the day before Super Tuesday, which is this huge primary day in literally the middle of the calendar.
What are we to make of this?
Well, again, anytime you see coincidences mounting up in a zero trust environment, you should distrust the government.
So I've got a rule, and I suppose you could call this a reframe because it's in the book actually, that individuals are innocent until proven guilty, and we just have to have that standard.
It's one of the basic things that holds the country together.
Even if you're sure they're guilty, you've got to treat them as innocent until it's proven.
But the government, and I would say big corporations as well, they don't have that.
In fact, it is more wise to say that they are guilty unless they can show through transparency That everything looks good.
So a lack of transparency should be a working assumption of either corruption or bad actors somewhere.
So unfortunately we have a situation where the reasonable assumption is that it's exactly what it looks like.
I don't know if that's true.
We can't read minds.
But the working assumption has to be it's exactly what it looks like.
Now, you've been pretty vocal about the primary just in general.
I think we all can agree that Vivek Ramaswamy has just come out of nowhere, totally out of left field, and really taken up a lot of the conversation.
He's not quite at the level, I think, of Trump yet.
But explain, why is it that DeSantis, a guy who was on paper, seemed like he would be this sort of top alternative to Trump, and then a guy like Vivek comes in and completely is able to change that conversation?
Well, there is a big difference between governing and campaigning.
Campaigning is a reasonably good proxy for how much capability you have and whether you'll have the charisma and support to be a leader.
So I'm glad we do the campaigning.
But my comments about DeSantis are that I think I'd be fairly happy with him as my president, but he's just not exciting me as a candidate.
So I don't know how we would get there.
You look at Vivek, I think I would be very happy with him as my president.
But his excitement and what he's bringing, the level of skill he's bringing to the presidency, just the pure, let's say, renaissance man, you know, let's say renaissance person to broaden it, a renaissance person, you know, ability to understand complex things from biology to law to politics to five other things.
So somebody said to me recently, But Vivek doesn't have the experience.
And I thought, you're completely misunderstanding who he is.
He's the guy that you send into the new situation, and he figures it out faster than the experts because he's just smarter than them.
He's bringing more, you know, more perspective.
He's the guy who figures it out really fast.
You want that.
You know, Steve Jobs said recently that he would pick people who were just ahead of their potential.
In other words, their greatest years are ahead of them.
We're looking at candidates who very clearly you would suspect their better years are behind them.
Joe Biden would be one, obviously.
And some of the other candidates on the Republican stage, it looks like their best years may have been behind them.
But with Vivek, he's still rising.
I mean, we don't even know what that looks like.
But imagine some, you know, international event and they send their leaders.
We send, I like to think of him like the Hulk, we send a Vivek, like he's the smartest guy in the room, and you just automatically feel good, like you don't worry about him, right?
Oh, he's the smartest guy in the room, he's talking with these other leaders, and they got some real smart leaders too, you know, but they're going to recognize that he's the smart guy in the room.
That can't hurt us.
That's just got to be good.
Now, I'd like to also say, just because I like some positivity, we have three of the most useful Productive candidates who might not win, but they're bringing something in the race that's already positive.
So Vivek is changing the conversation on a lot of stuff.
So he's just adding so much, it's unbelievable.
RFK Jr., love him or not, he's broadening the conversation while he's a candidate.
He's making changes, you know, before being elected.
And Larry Elder, same thing.
Larry Elder gets low in the polls.
But he brings his message about families.
No matter what you think about that, that's a productive, you know, addition to the conversation.
So I don't think we've ever seen more purely useful candidates running at the same time, no matter who wins.
We've got several that I could be quite happy with.
I don't think I've ever seen that before.
You recently said something about Biden has been told that he is leaving.
What did you mean by that?
So this is just a, uh, a hunch and reading the tea leaves and looking at body language and, you know, little, little signals, uh, Biden's absence and the timing of it, you know, in politics, where we are in the election cycle suggests that he needed to be told he was done because I'm, I'm guessing he's not quite, um, mentally, let's say capable to even know what he's done.
So my guess is that they needed to take him out of the office for a long enough time, you know, that would be all these vacations, so that Jill and he could spend some time and she should just gently ease him out.
Now they probably need a reason, some kind of an excuse that doesn't sound like exactly what it is.
So maybe they're waiting for that.
Maybe they have to solve the Kamala problem one way or another.
You know, I don't know, maybe there's an opening on the Supreme Court someday, they can slaughter in there.
But I don't know how they get to the next stage.
So I think they're stuck that he's done.
He's been told he's done.
This is just my speculation.
I'm not reading any minds.
But they don't have a plan for when he's gone.
So they're in a limbo right now.
That's what it looks like.
Right.
And you look at some of his reactions to the Maui wildfire, which is just as horrific as it was, something that every politician should sort of know what the standard response is.
But we didn't quite get that from Biden, even though he flew all the way there.
Yeah, it seemed as though he was not engaged in the thing which he is most famous for.
It was famous, famous empathy, which tells me that he's thinking about himself, frankly.
Which is what you would do if you'd just been told you're not going to be president again.
You're trying to you're trying to work with that, you know, do your job and still pretend that you're still running.
I mean, we're not seeing much from him that would suggest he's running for office.
I mean, just just sort of things that have already been budgeted.
Maybe you're happening, but that's about it.
So, all right, Scott, final question, our last few minutes here.
I'm looking around at the landscape out there and I see Donald Trump, I see the return of Roseanne, Tom Cruise is top of the box office, the Dilbert guy is releasing new books.
What's going on right now?
Is there something with like the celebrities of the 80s and 90s that have now just been, you know, Dave Chappelle kind of coming back, right?
You know, he had his movies in the 90s, right?
You know, is there something about that era that's returning that's kind of activated all you guys?
What's the common thread?
You know, I had never thought about it in terms of that commonality.
I think some of us just can't be killed.
And that might be the whole story.
You know, like, they tried to end Roseanne, but didn't work.
They tried pretty hard to take me out.
Didn't work.
So maybe just some of us are just too stubborn to die.
You know, maybe that's the whole story.
That's a great point, actually.
That's the other connection is that all four of you, I think, have had either at least one or multiple cancellation attempts on you and have all survived them.
Right.
Yeah.
I mean, Tom Cruise has a hell of a thing hanging over him, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And has it stopped him a bit?
I mean, he's the best commercial for Scientology you'll ever see.
No, come down.
No, there's definitely something about, though, that era, I would say, that it's sort of the speaking truth to power, the irreverence, but then also sort of the... And that's kind of the heart of Dilbert then, isn't it?
Well, you know, there's also a dad effect that I'm feeling pretty hard.
Because I feel like, you know, the normal politics of things would work things out and, you know, over time, the fighting it out and the debating would get you to a better result.
But it seems like that's broken.
You know, whatever it was that allowed us to find good solutions doesn't seem to work the same.
So I've noticed that there's this culture that I call the Internet Dads, mostly on social media, who are figures that just seem to be trying to help, clearly not running for any office, just trying to help.
And I see myself in that role, you know, accidentally, by just having opinions and not running for office.
A million followers on the X platform and they want my opinions.
And I feel like people who have just been around a while and seen things, I'll give you the best example.
If you're panicked about climate change or anything else, it helps to hear from somebody like me where I can list all the other panics that were all BS.
You know, it's like, well, remember, remember the, uh, We're all going to be nuked, and then we're going to run out of food, and then we're going to run out of fuel in the 70s, and then all the hippies of the 70s couldn't possibly have jobs.
Exactly.
Scott, we're right up on our break.
Thank you so much for joining us.
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Thanks, Jack.
Alright, we will be back.
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We're going to talk more about this new show trial, President Trump.
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We did a lot of stuff with the kids.
We were running around.
It's kids at the playground, kids at the pool, teaching the kids.
We're going to teach the kids how to ride bikes.
Well, the little one, the older one knows.
You know, get the up-down, and I'm telling you though, you need the energy.
You need to keep your energy levels high.
It's also back-to-school week, so you know what that means.
That's early mornings.
That's drop-offs.
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We were digging into this a little bit more, and I said, you know, with these trials of President Trump, not just the one that's coming up in March, but the fact that it's being set the day before Super Tuesday, that it's just obvious election interference, to me, this looked like a communist show trial.
And since we're talking about communist show trials, I knew that we had to get on my favorite anti-communist, Evita Duffy of The Federalist.
Evita, thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you for having me.
So when you look at this situation, the trial of President Trump scheduled the day before Super Tuesday, which means, of course, that means jury selection will be held on, I guess, Monday, right?
So the Monday before, then usually jury selection takes several days.
I'm sure, I'm certain that for a former president of the United States it'll take even longer, but who knows, because we've never had a case like this before.
Then the trial is expected to last several weeks.
That's right in the heart of the primary season.
Evita, is this, as our previous guest just said, is this exactly what it looks like?
How should we look at this?
Well, it's 100% election interference.
And the timing, of course, is just perfect for the left.
But it's not just how amazing the timing is, right?
I mean, this is election interference, whether the trial happened a month ago, whether it happens, you know, two months after the date is meant to be today.
I'm a child of a politician.
My dad was in Congress for a long time.
He ran in 2010.
He was in with that big Republican wave that came that year.
I know firsthand that In politics, you don't have an off-season.
You really have to be running all the time, and especially before an election.
Your schedule is packed.
Every day, you are going to do things.
So, this trial is taking away from Trump's campaigning, and it's also invading his headspace, right?
I mean, to think that he's going to be preoccupied with not going to jail instead of running his campaign is, in and of itself, election interference.
Well, I think that's exactly right, you know.
And keep in mind that, and I've sat through these trials in D.C., a D.C.
jury, this is, and Evita, should we consider that Trump is actually going to get a fair trial here?
Well, of course not.
And that's the point, that's the point of having it in D.C., right?
I mean, if he had, if they had stuck with just the Florida charges, Trump might get placed with a more favorable jury, but they said, you know what, to ensure that we get a conviction somewhere, we're going to pursue charges in DC.
And that's exactly what the Biden administration has done here.
And every American should, it should be a bipartisan issue, right, to say, you know what, Many, many people in politics, Democrats and Republicans, have questioned the results of elections.
Only now have we decided to criminalize it, and only with President Donald Trump, who from the onset of his election as president, even before that, was a target of the deep state.
Well, and the judge, too, you know, saying, it doesn't matter what the defendant's schedule is.
Excuse me?
It doesn't matter what his schedule is?
This is a man who is a former president, who is the frontrunner from president.
Why do you think that this Obama-appointed judge isn't paying any attention to the context in which this is coming?
Well, I mean, that's what Democrats have been doing this whole time, right?
They've been saying that this is just justice being served, that this would happen if it was any other person, that Trump is not special under the law.
But the truth is that in American history, we have never Had a current president go after his primary political opponent or his predecessor, this is something new.
So Trump is actually special, and these are unique circumstances.
And so for the judge to completely disregard that as if it isn't true is really telling of what the Democrats' purposes are, right?
If they were really in tune with history, with precedent, and with not making our country look like a banana republic, they would be able to recognize the outstanding circumstances.
No, I think that's exactly right, because she said, I don't want this trial turned into a circus.
It is a circus!
The whole thing's a circus!
It's not a conspiracy, right?
These were legal behaviors.
And Evita, let's take it out for a second here.
What precedent does it set that we can now charge presidents for activity that they took during the course of their term in office?
Because that's a huge change of the way that we viewed the presidency, isn't it?
Oh, it's very new.
And you know what?
I also have to say that I think the way that this is landing with voters has been really interesting.
I'm Hispanic.
My grandfather is a Mexican immigrant.
My grandmother is from Spain.
So I've been watching from my own family members how this has been perceived by Hispanics, who are really the largest growing minority in the country.
And I mean, there's the numbers for young people being Hispanic in the coming years are going to, the numbers are crazy.
Something like 40 to 50 percent are going to be at least partly Hispanic in the coming generations.
So the point I bring this up is Bidenomics is not working for Hispanics, but I also think that the targeting of his political opponent is not working for Hispanics because they have noticed that this is very similar to the kind of countries that they left, where the primary political opponent is being targeted by the current administration. where the primary political opponent is being targeted by the This is textbook authoritarian behavior, and this is why they left their own countries, and now they're seeing it paralleled here, and it is scary to many of them.
Well, and this is why the last time I had you on, when we spoke about the Spanish Civil War, the people need to understand that in Spain, it wasn't a communist revolution first.
This is what's key.
It wasn't an active armed resistance.
They took over every institution in Spain and then turned the institutions against their political enemies and then conducted these programs of whether it be cleansing of political ideology, etc, etc.
What do people need to understand about the Spanish Civil War when they're looking at these institutions just completely running amok.
Right, well I think you hit the nail on the head with that they infiltrated institutions first, they infiltrated the school system, they infiltrated any sort, even the Catholic Church, right?
I mean they were operatives before they realized that they couldn't do it, they were operatives in the church.
So they do this kind of thing all the time and we're seeing it now and What I think people really should be careful about is young people and the kind of precedent that it's setting for them.
They've been socialized in a world where suddenly they think that it's normal to have their bodily autonomy completely disregarded in terms of vaccine mandates for college students, masking mandates, which were ineffective, which we might see start to come back now.
And then with this Biden administration targeting Donald Trump, who is, again, the primary political opponent in 2024, this is not normal behavior.
And yet we are telling an entire generation of young people that this is normal, and it's going to get even scarier when those people start to take over America and start to run the country.
Well, I think that's exactly right, and this is why, look, and I'm not going to ask you to put you on the spot here, but, you know, when I hear people say, you know, oh, it's both sides, you know, it's really both sides, and we really just have to call out both sides, that it's like, no, actually, it's one side.
It's one side in power, and then it's another side that is, you know, a fake side, right?
You know, people faking controlled opposition, basically.
No, there are two sides.
One is the people, and one is the power structure, and you're either on one side or the other.
And if you're with the side of the power, then, to your point, you're on the side that's pushing vaccine mandates, that's pushing foreign wars, that's pushing the political prosecution of opponents, that's pushing race war, that's pushing all of these various things, and then you've got other people who are saying, oh, we're investigating it, but they never actually do anything about it.
Last minute in this segment, we want to hold you over, Evita.
Well, I think that's really true.
I think that this has become the working class, really, and the people who don't have power, and then the people who do.
And that's the uniparty that is the Mitch McConnells of the world and the Joe Bidens of the world versus everyone else.
And it doesn't really have party lines.
Everyone else is a large portion of Americans who are now starting to identify with the right solely because the left and higher-ups in the right have completely left them behind.
No, I think you're exactly right.
There's no... You have to be very careful, folks.
When people are saying, oh, it's both sides, it's both sides, you have to actually ask yourself, what agenda is that person pushing?
Why do they want you to stop fighting?
Why do they not want you to actually be out there and do things like Abita Duffy has, to put your name out there, to put your face out there very bravely, and to actually stand up and fight Back.
That's the key.
That's the only way we're ever going to beat these people.
Stay tuned.
We'll be right back.
Final segment, Human Events with Evita Duffy.
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
Alright, Jack Posobiec back here live with Evita Duffy.
Now, Evita, you've got a new piece up at The Federalist on this mugshot of President Trump, which I gotta say, this mugshot, it's like every other thing I see is some TikTok video talking about how much they love this mugshot.
What's going on with this thing?
Well it's gone just mega viral and I think that the left thought that it would really cement Trump as a criminal in the minds of all Americans and in reality it's kind of done the opposite.
For apolitical people, it's sort of become this just pop culture icon in the same way that you had Che Guevara's photograph becoming iconic to the left.
People that would wear the T-shirt with and didn't even know what it meant.
Right.
But they but they still wore it because it just became such an iconic symbol.
I think the same thing is happening with the mugshot.
But I also think that there's a lot of people who identify it from identify with it for deeper reasons.
When I when I say that it's not just about Trump, it's about all of the people who have been targeted by the left, who have been targeted by by the deep state.
So I'm talking about, you know, the Catholics who were surveilled by the FBI, the pro-lifers who had their homes raided by the FBI.
Anybody who feels don't trodden and and and upset with all of the inflation, not being able to afford their groceries or their rent as they're watching Americans on both the right and the left send billions and billions of dollars to Ukraine.
If you're somebody in Maui who's getting $700 in relief funding, what when you realize that.
If they had split up all the money they sent to Ukraine to everybody in Maui, they would get around $1,000.
So those kind of things are infuriating to many Americans, and I think that they see Trump's photograph and they see it as a reflection of the persecution they themselves are also experiencing at the hands of the really powerful people in the United States.
So you've also, in addition to being our favorite anti-communist, you're also sort of become like our Gen Z whisperer.
So when you see, you know, TikTok, when you see people responding to this thing, do you think the mugshot is playing?
I mean, it seems to me that I don't see people on TikTok or Gen Z in general reacting negatively to the mugshot.
Do you think it's actually playing into that voter base at all?
Yeah, I think it is.
I think also I've seen specifically a lot of young, disaffected men saying, you know, I identify with this mugshot.
I feel like I've been targeted by police.
I've been targeted by the system.
And they say Trump's the same way.
He's a victim of the system, just like just like I am, just like my friends are.
So that's been something that we've actually seen reflected in the poll numbers.
Trump does really well, interestingly, with young black and Hispanic men.
So we're seeing that reflected in the poll numbers and then also just in the discourse on social media.
I think this has really, like I said, it's become an iconic American symbol.
Something that, you know, we have lots of different photographs, you know, during World War II and when the man and the woman kissed in Times Square, right?
I think this is going to be one of those iconic American photos that doesn't necessarily have a negative connotation.
It's just something that's super American.
Well, I think that's right, and it's going to be something that obviously, I'm sure, depends on which side ends up writing the history books, right?
Because, you know, to your point that, will it be positive?
Will it be negative?
It's going to be, you know, does Trump win?
Does he come back?
Do things go back to normal?
Does the left win and they say this was the beginning of the end, or I should say the beginning of the end of the uprising against the government when we put down those rebellious white nationalists, Nazis, etc.
and restored American democracy.
Remember, it's always about saving our democracy.
And you can see this, by the way, when I look at historians or just any of these libs that I follow on Twitter or that I see on Twitter, They're lying about reality as we're living through it, so why should we trust them when it comes to the things they write later?
Right, and I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know how it will be perceived come 2024.
I'm very concerned about just the state of our country, right, in this next election cycle.
I think that the interference that we're seeing, that we saw in 2020, is coming up again in 2024, whether that be by big tech or by election rules and regulations and COVID coming back and the restrictions coming back, which had a huge impact on the way that we ran our elections.
And if Trump loses, I think there's going to be a lot of people that will point to rigging.
And I don't I don't I don't know what's going to happen.
I don't know if the if the photograph will necessarily be negative.
I think that perhaps if he does end up losing, the photograph will garner an even bigger, you know, mythology around the deep state and the powers that be telling the people what to do.
Right.
I mean, because if there's no way to have.
A genuine election to really feel secure in your election, seeing the interference already.
We looked up Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, an absolute wall.
One of my staff or co-workers Googled this.
And on Google, they censored that Google search and said, check back later until reliable sources come.
Well, if we can't even make Google searches about the Hunter bribery scheme and the Biden bribery scheme, then we don't have a fair election already.
So it's really concerning to see what's going to happen.
But I think the photograph is really going to have this cult following around it.
Well, no, I think it's just fair to say, right, that America has always been the country of the underdog, America's the country of the rebel, America's the country where public enemy number one does get that notoriety behind them, and mugshots, whether it's Jimi Hendrix, whether it's Bob Dylan, go down the list, Elvis Presley, all the people who have gotten mugshots that have gone on to be These iconic figures in their own right.
Evita Duffy, tell us where can people go to follow you and follow your writing?
Yeah, evitaduffy underscore one on Twitter and then you can just look up my name on at thefederalist.com.
All right, Evita Duffy.
Remember, folks, she only uses TikTok for educational and research purposes.
That is the only reason.
Of course, she is not a Chinese agent of any sort, I have been reasonably assured.
Evita Duffy, thank you so much for your time.
Thank you for having me.
Folks, Talk to people who have lived through this.
Talk to people that have lived through communist uprisings, communist takeovers, wherever they are in the world, wherever they come from.
Talk to folks that have lived through the Soviet Union.
Read about the Soviet Union.
Read about red scares that have occurred in this country time and time again.
They couldn't get there through the labor unions and agitation.
They've gotten there through the long march through the institutions.
That's what we're looking at now, and they're willing to use whatever side they want.
So if you're one of these people who says, oh, both sides are to blame, and it's not really one, we shouldn't blame one side or the other, you know something?
Get off your butt and do something.
Get out there and make something happen.
If you're not willing to fight back for the soul of this country, then what are you even doing?
What are you even standing for?
I'm not going to hear your whining and your grievances and your complaining if you are not willing to actually get up there Put your money where your mouth is.
