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EPISODE 550: NEW GOV'T COVID CONTRACTS, THE TRUTH ABOUT BLACKS FOR TRUMP AND HURRICANE IDELIA LIVE UPDATE

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events.
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I'm in Washington, D.C., but I want to take you now directly live to Hurricane Idalia, down my brother, Kevin Pasobic, the Human Events Florida Bureau Chief.
Kevin, how are you doing down there, man?
Hey, Jack.
Thanks for having me on.
I'm down at Maximo Park, the south tip of St.
Pete, right near the infamous Skyway Bridge.
And yeah, flooding is pretty normal, I guess.
But yeah, everybody's safe.
There's definitely some high winds.
They've been high winds all night and all day.
But I wanted to come down here.
I tried to get to the beach because right now it's that high tide again.
At the same time, The storm surge is predicted to come here, but all three attempts that I tried to get to the beach were blockaded by police.
An interesting thing to note.
But as you can see behind me there, maybe in the shot, there's a beach sailboat.
One of the bridges I crossed was pretty gnarly.
One of the sailboats actually got caught under the bridge and the whole top of the mast broke off.
Definitely right off of the boat.
But yeah, I'm down here.
You know, it's different.
A little different from where we grew up.
It was like snowstorms and all.
But yeah, Hurricane Ready.
I was out during Hurricane Sandy, the super storm.
And I was down here for Hurricane Ian as well.
But yeah, you can see behind me in the park.
Just random debris came up.
Lots of downed palm branches as well.
A couple boats, you know, because people don't anchor or maybe their anchors came out and the boats kind of drifted away.
Almost just like a listless vessel if you will.
Now, how about any damage to the city, to the town?
Where are you specifically right now?
You're closer to St.
Pete's?
If you look at a map, I'm all the way south in St.
Pete at the peninsula.
Right near 275.
Tampa, that has gotten some more flooding because most of the properties, they just go right up to the water.
It's pretty normal for them to get a little bit of flooding over the edge.
They build, like, no seawalls.
Yeah, but there's lots of reels going around from, like, downtown Tampa.
People going out and, like, not major flooding, but flooding onto the streets, for sure.
I saw you retweeted the one lady paddle boarding down the boulevard or whatever that was.
I'm sure I'll get corrected on that, but that one always floods.
Yeah, if you're out and about, please don't do that.
Don't totally go out on the paddle board.
It's not safe.
I mean, you and I remember back when you told us about the Schuylkill River, people getting caught in the riptide.
It's not cool.
Stay home if you can.
You don't want to get knocked off into the water.
It's very choppy, as you can see.
You don't know what's in the water, whether it's debris or other animals.
You know, we have sharks and gators down here.
So, yeah, you don't want to get caught in any of that just for some... And the tide is coming in right now, right?
You're about 30 minutes from high tide, is that right?
Yeah, just about, just about.
Yeah.
But I wanted to come on and give you like some live, a live update because nobody really knows what the weather's going to do, but the tide is pretty accurate.
And I believe it was around 1230 or 130.
But yeah, so it should be, it is coming in now.
So there is a potential for a storm surge.
In this way, even though the storm mostly went northwest to Tallahassee.
Yeah, so that's why I wanted to get to the beach, as I said, but everything's closed off.
Probably because it was high tide.
And on top of that, Jack, is because it's about to be a full moon as well.
as well.
So yeah, there's potential for farther up in Florida to get some serious damage.
And even I was watching the radar last time I found that, and they had potentially or momentarily increased it to a category four, but now it's a category three.
So, you know, We're coming up on a break.
Stay safe.
We're coming up on a break right there.
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Maybe we'll get you on later in the show for a little bit of that.
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Now I want to bring in Kevin is going to move over to a different area as the tide is rolling in.
He's got to get out of that specific latitude that he's in right now, but he's going to move over to potentially give us a different shot, different areas of the Tampa Bay area.
But while Kevin is doing that, we're going to come back to him on the ground, kind of live switching here on the show.
I want to bring in Natalie Winters of The War Room.
Natalie is joining us now.
She's up in D.C.
Natalie, boy, you certainly moved out of Florida at the opportune time, huh?
I am so happy to be the intermission for Kevin Pasovic and Jack Pasovic doing this show together.
But yes, today I guess I am, although I was living in a part of Florida that is not at least allegedly in the reported path of the hurricane.
But of course, my thoughts and prayers to the people who are going to be Affected by this, but make no mistake, I think what the federal government in and around Washington, D.C.
has planned for us the next couple of months, I don't know if it will be quite as bad as the impact of the hurricane, but something tells me that there's a chance, at least when it comes to COVID-19 and potentially the mask mandates and lockdowns that they might want to roll out, it very well could be.
You, yeah, you stole my thunder there because I was literally just about to say it seems as though Washington D.C.
is planning a storm for the rest of the country when it comes to 2024 or possibly going into 2023 when we're looking at the return of the mask mandates, the continuation of the COVID-19 election protocols.
Walk us through your latest reporting.
You've uncovered new government contracts related to COVID-19.
Walk us through it.
Sure.
Well, to put this story in context, I think it's important to really emphasize that the week that predated this basically, you know, mass rollout of the mask mandates and lockdowns, whether it was in California studios and various branches of the VA, even in some colleges,
It showed the CDC data, which even though I'm skeptical of CDC data, that of the 324 COVID-19 cases countrywide, just 1% of them, 1% of the deaths were actually due to COVID as the primary cause.
The rest were just deaths with COVID, which is an important distinction that of course we focused on a lot during the first iteration of the pandemic.
But why this is so important Because there basically is no justifiably scientific evidence backed pretext to be supporting These new mask mandates, these new potential lockdowns, and what's so weird, at least from, I would argue, even a more concrete aspect of what they're planning to do with COVID-19 is when you take a look at the federal expenditures, particularly in terms of government contracts and government grants.
And the story that I published just a few days ago dovetails with a story that I'd published about a week ago that had to do shine the light on contracts that were coming specifically from the Department of Defense and the VA.
Those were contracts for COVID-19 equipment, for test kits and for COVID-19 safety protocols, enforcing those among different companies, sort of vague exactly what they meant by that.
But this new story, now we're starting to see contracts pour out from the Department of Health and Human Services.
In this case, going to firms who are focused on pandemic surveillance, emergency health response.
And I think what the most concerning part is, Jack, to me with all of this, is that it's not even that the start dates on these contracts are, you know, right now or a month from now or two months from now.
It's when the end dates are, because luckily, USAspending.gov, you can see the projections of how long these contracts are supposed to run for.
And in a lot of cases, these contracts are scheduled to run through the year 2028.
The ones coming from HHS are scheduled to run conveniently through 2025, just after Donald Trump will hopefully have been sworn in again.
But I think that level of planning, I think it really dovetails with what we've always said about COVID-19.
In other words, it's never really been about public health or looking at the cases and how to best stop the spread.
It's always been sort of exploiting the issue to achieve a greater social goal, a social agenda, which I think in this case is just broadening the power of the administrative state.
I think they know they're under deep threat from, of course, Donald Trump.
But it really is curious, I think, the years that they have planned out when it comes to these COVID contracts.
And there's no way to explain yourself out of it.
It's absolutely bizarre that Joe Biden is already purchasing COVID contracts through the year 2028.
So walk me through this, because we've been sitting here, look Natalie, with my friends, my family, etc., networked throughout the entire country, at least when it comes to this, I don't hear anybody coming to me and saying, oh, COVID-19 is on the rise.
I don't hear anybody in my network, in my sources, I don't hear anyone saying this.
I have heard people talk about how it seems like maybe flu season is coming back, people are getting colds.
The weather's starting to change, that sort of seasonal type of thing.
I do not know for the life of me anyone who's talking about COVID.
In fact, there is someone I know who recently, a few of us, who've been tested.
They said, oh, we need to get tested.
We were doing an appointment in D.C.
We needed to be tested again.
Negative.
Someone else I know tested recently.
Negative.
What is driving this?
What is driving this in Washington?
Why are they putting out contracts like this?
And I will say, though, just in terms of just personal, what I've seen in the D.C.
area, I am starting to see, I know, Natalie, you're in the area as well, I'm starting to see people mask up again.
Aren't you starting to see this?
I have seen so many people mask up.
It's sort of triggering, and I don't use that word lightly, and even I go for walks.
Natalie, are you triggered?
Are you getting a little triggered when you're going out there jogging, jogging around?
I am in my don't tread on me hat.
Yes, indeed.
No, people have started to wear the masks again in DC and Virginia.
And you're so right.
The evidence, the so-called facts, even if you take the CDC at its word and its data, like I said, the week preceding these mask mandates, people getting the impetus to start wearing masks again.
1% of people who died either with or from COVID, COVID was identified as the primary cause.
So again, the science has never really supported the conclusions of the experts.
But in this case, it's all the more perplexing because at least during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, that death rate hovered around 30%, whereas now it's just 1% But I think it goes to the bigger picture, Jack, which is of course what you're always spending your time talking about.
And I think the last time I was on your show, we'd actually linked these two narratives together because in the same day that we started to see the mainstream media really press on, really, really start to vamp and flood.
the zone with the pro mask talking points, with the booster talking points, with all of that.
You also started to see, I think, some interesting rhetoric coming from them about how elections are now superfluous.
Democracy is, you know, democracy is dead.
It's not worth it.
We should just select our officials through random lotteries.
That was, of course, coming from The Atlantic and The New York Times.
But I think the other key point to make here, too, you know, as much as I think we really should focus on the absurdity of the CDC statistics when it comes to the death rate.
The almost, I think, more important number in all of this, if you really want to get to the bottom of why you're starting to see the masks and the lockdown talk sort of come back, it has to do with the profits, of course, of Big Pharma and Pfizer and Moderna.
And if you look at the just free fall that their profits, their revenue, has been in since really the decline of COVID-19, it's no secret that they would want to revamp these boosters.
Well, and it's like you're seeing the program activation go on, and because I see people like this in the D.C.
area, look, I do try, you know, we clip, and I have the staff check out CNN, MSNBC on a regular basis, but we don't miss, we don't catch everything that's on there, but I'm seeing now More people on these networks that are talking about COVID-19, they're referring to COVID-19, they're bringing it up more, and suddenly you see the resonance with their audience.
And that's what you and I are observing here in the D.C.
area, the D.C.
metro area, is the response is almost like the programming has been activated once again.
I think that's precisely the point, although I think the silver lining is that I do think a lot of people are not going to comply again, they're not going to put up with it, but I think it's unfortunate that we even have to say those words, you know, do not comply, that that is the slogan, because I think that that slogan really is an indictment on, I think, the Republican Party, our Republican officials, in other words,
There shouldn't be mandates, there shouldn't be lockdowns, there shouldn't be these policies that we don't even have to say we're not going to comply with.
These agencies, these contracts, should first of all not be funded.
If you want to talk about weaponization of government, I think a great way to stop the weaponization of government would be to strip them of their power that will allow them to institute these mask mandates on federal contractors, to strip them of their ability to mandate the vaccines, the boosters, which of course Joe Biden has sort of been hinting at but i i really just dislike that slogan and of course you know the mindless people who watch the the embassy and mbc msnbcs of the world and take their word as high church of course they're going to go along with what they're saying
although it is i think an interesting psychological experiment to see that the narrative the fear tactics really are cutting through but i really think this this time this wave we need to have house republicans step up and if they're actually committed to ending the weaponization of the federal government well right now is the time to actually not just put the money where the mouth is but take the money away from where joe biden's mouth is but Because I think what they're planning to do with COVID, they know they can't beat Donald Trump.
That's why they've indicted him, impeached him, you name it.
So they're going to have to beat him with lawfare.
And that's what the mandates are.
Republicans absolutely need to use the power of the purse strings.
Folks, the maskies have been reactivated.
It's been switched on.
Stay tuned.
Coming back with more with Natalie Winters and then also we'll get another field update from Kevin Posobiec, our Florida Bureau Chief, down in the storm itself.
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Now folks, we need to understand something.
You need to understand that you need to go out there and you need to be training.
You need to be putting on mass.
You need to be getting bigger.
You need to be getting stronger.
Huge.
These maskers will not quit.
You will see them in the supermarkets.
You'll see them in the churches.
You'll see them in the airports.
They will come after you when they see you not masking.
They might come after you three, Four, five at a time.
You might have to fend off entire swarms of maskers.
You can see them, the rage and insanity bleeding out the sides of their eyes.
This is exactly what's going to happen.
It shall come to pass.
It's starting in D.C., but it's coming to a neighborhood near you.
Natalie, walk us through, why is it that when we talk about the maskies, why is it that you have these people They say they follow science, they say they pride themselves on being certain, many of them very highly educated.
Why is it so easy for the media to essentially activate these people like this?
Well, I think when it comes to the media and the propaganda that they spread,
I think that there's a much bigger agenda at hand, and I think that, unfortunately, this agenda is often implemented in conjunction with, of course, all the Fortune 500 companies, all of Wall Street, but any civil society organizations, too, of course, the, you know, Gates Foundations of the world, the Rockefeller Foundations, and it shouldn't be lost on anyone that just about a week ago, the WHO announced their new partnership, one of the most expansive ones they've ever done with civil society groups, you know, all of the Gates Foundation, those types.
But if you think about, right, the United Nations and their sustainable development goals, right, they couch it in all these euphemistic terms.
If you really go by point by point, you know, end poverty, you know, end sickness, people shouldn't not or should always have access to clean drinking water, you know, end hatred, stop the spread of misinformation.
And it's these very basic things that you would think, you know, yeah, I guess I would support ending poverty, you know, but when you really get in, I think, to the nitty gritty, to the semantics of the agenda, you know, that's sort of the front man, that's the shiny toy.
Just like, you know, put on your mask or you're gonna kill grandma.
Get your booster shot or you're a bad person.
You know, I really think that they really game plan and war room, for lack of a better term, these slogans, these messaging, this sort of appeal, not just to logos, but really to ethos among Americans to really hone in on how to but really to ethos among Americans to really hone in on how to get these people And that brings me to my second point, which I think the bigger picture, it's not really even about them wearing the masks.
As we know, the masks don't really even work They're so dirty.
And frankly, if anything, they're probably more negative for your health and consuming the BPAs, the plastics, not being really able to breathe, I would argue.
They probably know that too.
But I think the point is just Compliance, right?
The World Economic Forum, the United Nations, they would love nothing more than a world where people are running around with masks because, of course, that means you're going to be scared.
You're more likely to get the vaccine.
You're more likely to get the booster.
But at the end of the day, I think these people are just power hungry tyrants.
And I think they just enjoy, really, the concept that through, you know, one segment on MSNBC, which really is a consolidation of power, That I don't think we've seen since, you know, recent times, right?
Even some of history's best dictators didn't have that reach, that ability to persuade people.
But through the medium that is media, I really think they can hone in on the psychological warfare, on the information warfare, and really, Jack, too, to always bring it back, of course, to the CCP.
We always talk, of course, about elite merger, the idea that our elites have really stolen the tactics and the toolbook from the Chinese Communist Party.
And when you look at the three warfare's doctrine, you know, lawfare is paramount in that, but so is media warfare, information warfare and psychological warfare.
And I think that COVID-19 is perhaps the best example of how that doctrine of non-traditional warfare, non-kinetic warfare, really was rolled out and deployed against the American people.
The legal warfare, of course, coming on the side of the mandates forcing you to get it.
If you enter a shop without a mask, you could be fined.
Yeah.
And I was just going to say, to tie it in to the economic effects, the Wall Street Journal's out there with a piece today saying right now that China's economy is actually contracting.
The slowdown has begun.
The 40-year massive expansion of the CCP, the People's Republic of China, under the CCP has begun to slow down.
All of this was presaged on COVID-19 because remember, it was the CCP, it was Xi Jinping, that shut down domestic travel, internal travel inside China after COVID-19 was leaked from that lab.
And I'm just going to say it.
It was leaked from the lab.
All right.
It's done.
It's out.
It's leaked.
You hear that YouTube leaked from the lab.
Thank you.
Then once it leaked, it was the CCP that decided, all right, if we are going to take the economic hit, then we want everyone to take the hit with us.
That's why they are going to want to see the rest of the world slow down the same way that even the Wall Street Journal is pointing out that with all the work that the CCP is able to do to manipulate the currency, work with stocks, outflows, etc., dealing with Russia, got it, because we've driven them together.
Their slowdown will become our slowdown because, Natalie, it's as you just said.
There is now an elite merger.
The elite merger came first, but then that co-joined The economic merger of the U.S.
economy and the Chinese economy.
This is why the U.S.
Chamber of Commerce is so pro-China.
And unfortunately, I think there's a lot of Republicans out there, like Nikki Haley, who would love to demonize, you know, we need to go to war with Iran, we need to go to war with Iran, and oh wait, then it turns out that Nikki Haley's being paid off by these, you know, anti-Iranian groups, etc.
She actually paid to say that.
But they will never actually use their rhetoric to talk about China in the same vein.
Why?
Because they're all getting paid from it.
Nikki Haley, by the way, has become very, very wealthy since she's left office.
Natalie, is it because of this relationship that we're seeing it reflected in our politicians?
Yeah, I mean, that's the ecosystem that these establishment-type Republicans and Democrats operate in.
I would argue that the Chinese Communist Party and their various proxies, probably the largest financiers if you're looking to get rich quick and you're a member of the establishment.
So they know that they're not going to bite the hand that feeds them.
I mean, just look at Hunter Biden as an example.
If you have absolutely no skill or talent in the business world, look at all the money, the tens of millions of dollars that you and your family can break in from the Chinese Communist Party just because of your last name and who your father is.
And Nikki Haley is sort of another example of someone who is just part.
who is just part, it's not even the revolving door, it's just the status quo, really, of the ruling class in this country, where if you want to step out of line and dare to criticize the Chinese Communist Party in a truly meaningful way, not just saying, oh, the human rights abuses and what's going on in Xinjiang the human rights abuses and what's going on in Xinjiang is a stain on our human rights record and on their human rights record as a country.
It's not even the revolving door.
But if you actually want to get into the real talking points, the Chinese Communist Party is not merely a competitor.
Certainly not an ally.
They're an existential threat.
Set hellbent on taking out the United States as the leading world power in the current world order.
Of course, the World Economic Forum and the United Nations are taking shots to to reorient that world order, too.
But people like Nikki Haley profit off of and benefit from the status quo.
And I use the term profit quite literally.
You're, of course, talking about the fact that she's earned so many cushy board positions and board seats on various defense contracting firms.
Her husband just started a defense contracting consulting firm too conveniently, and now they seem To be living the high life, but look no further than her track record when she was governor, because her administration, not just did they welcome, I think it was in one year alone in 2015, over $660 million in foreign investment coming from the Chinese Communist Party into South Carolina, which of course they couch in euphemistic terms.
Oh, it's great for the American economy.
Well, it's also a very high national security risk.
But she's also someone who was on record back in those days.
during her administration praising Chinese Communist Party investment.
And as someone who has honed in a lot of my research on the way that the Chinese Communist Party sets out to really influence and infiltrate politicians, a lot of her talking points, right, praising foreign direct investment coming from China into the United States.
That's one of those talking points that is a telltale sign that someone is definitely way too cozy, if not close, to the Chinese Communist Party.
And if she, I mean, we don't even really have to waste time trying to dunk on her because there's absolutely no way that she'd ever become the president of the United States.
But I think people just need to remember that she is, for lack of a better word, a listless vessel carrying the talking points of the establishment with apparently a little bit of Chinese Communist Party cash thrown in there.
Okay.
You might even want to go so far as calling her a listless vassal in that case, with her mansion right off of the coast of Charleston on Kiowa Island.
I just came up with that just now.
That's off the dome.
Poso off the dome.
Natalie Winters, where can people go to follow someone who is not a listless vassal such as yourself?
Indeed.
You can find me at Natalie G. Winters on all social media platforms, and of course, Wardrobe.org.
I'll be hosting the show tonight at 5 p.m.
Now is it true, can you confirm the rumors that you'll be posting more golf tutorials to social media?
Have I seen, there's been a lot of chatter in the comments, you know, can you put these rumors to rest?
If that's what the people want, then I will give the people what they want.
So yes.
The voice of the people, Natalie Winters, God bless.
Stay tuned folks, Human Events next up, Rob Smith with an interesting take on Blacks for Trump.
Stay tuned.
All right, Jack Posobiec back live, Washington, D.C.
I want to bring on now another individual from Florida, from the dry side of Florida.
You guys know him, you love him, you follow him.
Rob Smith, political commentator, joins us now, Human Events.
Rob, how you doing, man?
Hey, what's going on, Jack?
I'm doing good, keeping dry over here in Miami.
Keep it dry.
You know, we have my brother just on from, he's over in St.
Pete, so I can tell from the natural lighting there that you guys probably aren't getting hit exactly as much as they are, so that's good to hear.
You have had some pretty controversial remarks this week.
Regarding this whole narrative that began with Trump's mugshot, and there was this, so the mugshot goes out last week, it was Thursday that it popped, and Thursday night, and suddenly everybody's talking about, the whole world's talking about it, admittedly, right?
But then other people started saying, oh, you know what?
This is going to bring all the black voters over for Trump.
And I remember kind of behind the scenes, people asking me, do you want to talk about this?
Do you want to get into it?
I'm like, I just, I don't know if that's true.
I mean, I know there was a lot of, you know, talk on TikTok and others about this, but I was like, I just don't know if it makes sense.
You put out some videos on it.
Tell us what you said.
What's your thesis of the case?
Basically, you know, Jack, my idea is this, and this is what I said.
I just kept it a hundred percent honest.
And one of the things that I said is that people are so used to getting lied to that the truth is some sort of foreign thing to them, right?
So I was on the campaign trail for Trump in 2020.
We did the Trump Pride thing, we did the Blacks for Trump thing.
We did all of that stuff, and the numbers just did not pan out in 2020 the way that they should have for African Americans.
I think it was somewhere around 11%.
And at this point in time, Trump had the infrastructure.
He had the Blacks for Trump offices.
He had put out the Platinum Plan.
He had really, really, really made me push to Black America, which I thought was great.
I was a part of it.
The numbers didn't pan out, right?
And so when I see this narrative start to happen via social media that because there's a Trump mugshot and a couple of Black people put some Twitter videos out, that all of a sudden there's going to be these pie in the sky, sort of like 30, 40 percent Black vote for Trump.
It strikes me as, number one, completely absurd.
And number two, fundamentally not understanding the infrastructure that is needed or what the numbers really were in 2020.
So I thought that it was really just a bunch of a bubble that I think needed to be popped with reality.
And I'm not saying this, I'm not some sort of surrogate for any other candidate.
I'm not a surrogate for any candidate.
I'm just somebody that is out here kind of speaking the truth, right?
So you cannot tell me that the Blacks for Trump centers that were set up, that were disbanded after the election, all these people that were hired, they went God knows where, right?
So that infrastructure is gone.
They didn't stay in the communities and do the outreach in between elections to make that happen, right?
So now you've got Trump dealing with all the legal stuff that he's dealing with, which led up to that mugshot.
So you have all of these different things that are going on right now, and yet you're going to tell me that the Black vote is going to be even three times more than what he got in 2020?
It is completely insane, and furthermore, just as a man, as a black man, as a human being in general, The idea that some sort of mugshot is going to make Donald Trump more relatable to black people, whether it's me or somebody from the hood or whatever, it is ridiculous to the point of being laughable, right?
I'm not offended by it because I don't get offended by much.
It is just so silly, so ridiculous, and so divorced from reality that I can't even believe that people are still seriously having the conversation.
I will happily vote for Donald Trump if he becomes the party's nominee, because it is either a vote for Trump or a vote for communists, and I'm not a communist, okay?
But this idea that he's going to get 30-40% of the black vote because of a mugshot is patently ridiculous.
Well, and so, you made a point as well, talking about the sources of where people get their information, the idea that liberalism is widespread within the community.
Walk us through that.
So the point that I'm making is this, and I think that a lot of people don't understand, particularly on our side of the aisle, because a lot of conservatives and Republicans tend to be divorced not only from culture in general, but particularly from African American culture.
And the points that I made were this.
So you have platforms like The Shave Room, platforms like Hollywood Unlocked, platforms like The Breakfast Club.
These things are directly oriented towards African Americans.
They get tens of millions of followers, viewers every single day.
And that is where black Americans go to get their information out there.
Being propagandized by these sources.
Absolutely.
But that is where they are.
They're not necessarily, you know, even I have a lot of followers.
You know, there's black conservatives that you can.
So in Larry Elder, Brandon Tatum, love all of them.
We have, you know, these people have millions of followers, but we can't battle the infrastructure that is put in place by liberals and the left to literally propagandize African Americans everywhere they go.
And forget social media.
Think about the D.L.
Hughley Show on the radio.
Think about the Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Think about All of these different places where they're going and getting propagandized on the radio.
Think about local radio that is oriented to African American communities, that is propagandizing them with lies of the left and lies of the Biden administration every single day.
And so the idea that because a couple of black people put a video out for Trump on social media that that is going to create some widespread change is really ignoring the outlets by which African Americans in this country are propagandized every single day.
for every one black voice that we have out there sort of advocating for conservatism in the African-American community, and there are many, they've got about 10,000 means to push the liberal message to black Americans. - Look, and I'll just say this from a means to push the liberal message to black Americans. - Look, and I'll just say this from a point of a guy who You can see who was sharing those videos, right?
That was being shared by Trump supporters, by people who are, that's why they went viral.
This wasn't something that was organically viral, and to your point, like Breakfast Club, it wasn't like you had Charlamagne coming out and saying like, oh wow, that mugshot really changes things.
No, you had nothing like that.
You didn't have any high-level, high-profile people coming out in the community saying this changes stuff.
And I'm not denying, right, that anybody came out and had their opinion.
Sure, fine, that's great.
But it was people in search of an audience, not necessarily people who already had an audience that can be persuaded.
That's my point.
And I gotta tell you, Jack, that's an excellent point.
And the point that I made is this.
Furthermore, with the monetization of Twitter X, whatever you want to call it, there's a lot of different ways to monetize social media right now.
Ways that didn't exist, we'll say in 2018, kind of when I came into the game and started using my voices, right?
So now I'm not pointing at anybody in particular, whatever, but what I'm saying is that the sort of carrot on the stick is there for people to say, oh my god, I can build such a huge audience.
Um, I can make money from this audience, I can make money from videos, I can make money from doing all of this stuff, and all I gotta do is get out here and say this and these people will love me.
And look, let me be the example of the fact that, you know, people will love you until you start telling them things that they do not want to hear.
I personally had to make a choice.
It's like, look, You know, am I gonna sit here and tell people lies?
I'm sure you're not getting a lot of love for this.
I'm sure you're not getting a lot of love for this take.
Well, this is the thing, Jack.
And I made the decision myself, sort of, when I stepped back a little bit from this and sort of decided to reemerge, is that I gotta tell the truth.
You know, I gotta keep it real with the people.
And this is what I think my gamble has always been.
That if you respect the audience and if you tell these people the truth and do not actively lie to them, they will follow you wherever you go.
Am I taking hits?
Absolutely.
That's what happens when you sort of step outside of whatever the narrative is.
But I think that there are a lot of people that appreciate an opinion that at least tries to be objective.
You know, obviously, I'm never going to vote for a Democrat again in my life.
Does that mean I'm as, you know, super, super hardcore conservative as some people?
Like, absolutely not.
By nature of who I am, I can't be, right?
But I try to have some veneer of objectivity when I'm looking at things like how Trump is running his campaign.
And trust me, the DeSantis campaign gets the same smoke.
And I think Nikki Haley is one of the worst people to have ever run for president.
God help us all if she comes anywhere near the Oval Office, okay?
So I think that people appreciate, yeah, I think that people appreciate at least an attempt at objectivity.
Okay.
No, I think you're right.
Look, look, amateurs talk strategy, professionals talk logistics.
And from my perspective, that's what you're doing.
You're talking through the logistics.
You're saying, where's the infrastructure?
Where's the fundamentals?
It's not there.
Is this good?
Yeah, maybe, right?
Maybe it's a conversation starter, but it doesn't tie directly into the fundamentals and the logistics that you would need to create that much of a swing compared to the face of all the propaganda outlets already out there.
Rob, where could people go to follow you?
Where can they get more of your controversial spicy takes?
Yeah, all the socials are at Rob Smith Online.
Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and even TikTok.
So go ahead and follow me there.
Oh no, oh no!
Going to the dark side on us.
Rob Smith on TikTok.
Look, you gotta give people credit, folks.
Sometimes it's not popular to tell the truth.
It's not what people want to hear, but you know what?
Sometimes hard truths are more important than sweet lies.
Rob Smith, go follow that man.
That's a man who's giving out hard truths right there.
We're gonna come back live here.
Kevin Posobiec joins us for the end of the show, live from Hurricane Adalia.
I'm always listening to Human Events with Jack Posobiec.
Alright, Jack Posobiec here.
Human Events returns.
We go back live now to Kevin Posobiec.
Kevin, tell us where you are, tell us what you're seeing, tell us what's going on.
Hey Jack, I'm back on the other side of Maximo Park in South St.
Pete, the very southern tip.
And as you can see behind me, you've got a damaged dock.
I'm sure that's pretty common around here.
And all along the southern part of the bay.
Yeah, a lot of videos are coming out of the northern part of the bay where Bayshore Boulevard is.
That's where you see all the funny paddle boarders and people like recording the waves.
But yeah, moments ago the rain just picked back up and then it stops.
Typical of Florida weather.
It's like a Forrest Gump movie out here.
Like the wind just comes sideways.
It comes up at you.
Or the rain, I should say.
The wind though, the wind's whipping like a SWAT team during the Antifa riot.
But yeah, so I tried to get a shot of the Skyway Bridge 2 behind me, the infamous bridge that the cruise ships go under.
They shut that thing down whenever the winds exceed 40 miles an hour.
So wait, I can't even see the bridge behind you.
Can you describe, or just point for the audience, where would the bridge be?
Yeah.
Hold on a second.
My, uh, okay.
My umbrella.
Okay.
So it would be over, over my, just over my shoulder.
Like, cause I'm on the very tip of the bay and, uh, let's see here.
Kind of like out there.
And this bridge is like hundreds of feet tall.
Cause the cruise ships go under it.
They have to, because the bay is so shallow.
And, uh, that's the only one that's infamous one because it actually got, uh, Crashed into back in the day, in the 80s I believe.
Anyway, so that's all shut down as well as beach access.
You can see, yeah, there's heavy flooding.
I think that looks like Bayshore Boulevard.
Like I said before, it's just Florida, they just build beachfront property like right next, like right at sea level.
And Florida's already low, so... Now, how about the neighborhood?
How about the neighborhoods?
You said you were driving through around.
I know you relocated in between.
Did you see any damage?
Do you see any homes that were damaged?
Any trees down?
Power lines down?
I know that was a huge issue in Hawaii with the recent wildfires.
Anything like that?
No, nothing like that, actually.
They must use a different test of wire.
Maybe thicker wire, but...
Yeah, we're fortunate in the neighborhood I'm staying in.
We did not lose power.
I didn't see any lines down or any trees, really.
I know there are some around.
I was following up on DeSantis's interviews and he has some like cut and release programs for tree crews on standby, linemen on standby to restore electricity.
You know, it's good to see him out there in the middle of it.
I think he's reporting from Tallahassee and Yes, they in on top of things.
It's not the first time Florida's had a hurricane.
So it's good to see everybody like, you know a well-oiled machine down here, but also it is good to note Hawaii and Lahaina and Maui because the storms they are getting a More tumultuous and unpredictable.
Like even last night when I was driving and today, it just randomly pings my phone and says, oh, there's a tornado warning.
And now there's also a hurricane warning.
And so it's good to have, you know, not to toot my own horn, but like people on the ground to actually show you what's going on.
Well, to your point, though, is it also, do you think, Kevin, that some of these networks, CNN, MSNBC, that they're really, like you say, this isn't the first time Florida has had a hurricane, certainly in its history, certainly in the short history, it's only been about 100 years since South Florida has been inhabited.
That they're pushing an agenda of climate change, climate propaganda, climate fear porn, as opposed to, as you say, people, you know, they're kind of used to living through it down there.
Yes, that's what I'm getting at with the properties.
They build it literally right next to sea level.
I mean, you can see I'm only a couple feet above the water right now, but, you know, it floods a little bit and they're like, look at the pandemonium.
You know, it's like, well, yeah, but you built your house Right next to the sea level.
Like, what do you expect?
Yeah, so that's where all the climate is.
Was that a Gorilla Monsoon line, Kev?
Are you in a Gorilla Monsoon right now?
That's right.
Yes, sir, I am.
Well, I'm glad that you haven't gone out now.
Are you, Kev, I know that you're not planning on doing any water sports out there, but what about just general, you know, I know like you're a pretty fit guy.
Have you considered doing maybe burpees in the hurricane, push-up contests, anything like that?
What's on your workout list for today?
Is it arms?
Is it back?
Is it push?
Is it pull?
I'm actually on On Back and Byes today.
Back and Byes?
Yeah, if I don't get over to the gym, I just might hop in with these dolphins here.
Do a little fishing.
Dolphins don't care.
They don't take a day off.
Oh, you can see dolphins right now?
Guys, can we get that shot larger?
Well, there was about five minutes ago.
There's one out there.
Yeah, you can see them popping up and down.
They're fishing.
They're going.
I mean... They're going.
How about... You mentioned that the places are open.
Is your gym open?
Gym closed?
Basic stores?
Basic necessities that people need?
Right.
So, I did see that Walgreens is closed.
CVS is open.
7-Elevens.
I think it has to do with whether it's a corporate business or a franchise.
Family Dollar was open.
The DoorDash was shut down at 10 p.m.
last night.
So, you know, you got to be prepared for instances like this because you can't just go order some ice cream and some whatever at night.
You can't have DoorDash.
That ended at 10 o'clock last night.
What else shut down?
The grocery stores also shut down around 10 p.m.
last night.
But I think it does come down to like a corporate or franchise Kind of thing, which Florida is very friendly with small businesses.
So I haven't explored too much, but I tend to believe that small businesses are actually open if they choose to be.
Well, hey Kev, don't forget, we're just about out of time, but don't forget man, preparewithpozo.com.
Couldn't we get a shout out for preparewithpozo.com?
Yeah, that's right.
And whenever I do it, I use promo code POSO.
That's P as in Paul O S O.
And yeah, I do have some.
I do have some in storage.
There you go.
My Patriot Supply.
Prepare with Pozo.
Kevin Posobiec, stay safe, man.
Mom's already mad at me for having you down there, but we all appreciate it.
The Human Events audience appreciates it.
Look, folks, we go where the action is.
What can I say?
Prayers up for the folks down in Florida.
Prayers up for our nation.
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