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The Enemy Within - Nearly Half of Federal Employees Openly Planning to Resist Trump

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We now know at least 10 people have died in the wildfires burning across Los Angeles County, and almost 10,000 homes and buildings have burned to the ground.
The Palisades and Eaton fires still at the largest fires, 20,000 and 13,000 acres respectively.
One California family is going viral, singing in prayer after finding the only thing left standing on their property.
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I hope Karen Bass gets up when you cover her press conference and announces her resignation today.
She should resign.
The $17 million budget cut and the elimination of our civilian positions like our mechanics did and has and will continue to severely impact our ability to repair our apparatus.
The fire department needs help.
We can no longer sustain where we are.
We do not have enough firefighters.
A man who was holding a blowtorch was walking around a neighborhood when neighbors did approach him.
This is, of course, over in Los Angeles County, and it appeared that he was trying to light different materials on fire.
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If anybody's been watching the news about Pete Hankseth, they're probably familiar with a number of the subjects.
I realize they're all important.
They're all important.
They're all important.
But is there one or two you really want people to pay attention to?
Yeah.
Right now, our military...
18% of those who are serving are women, and they are terrific, just like the men who are terrific and serving.
What Pete Hedseth said as recently as November 7th is that women don't belong in combat.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily here live from Washington, D.C. Today is January 13th, 2025. Anno Domini.
You have seven days left.
Seven days from now, it will have been two hours, believe it or not, two hours that President Trump has already been in office.
And I want you to think about that, folks.
I want you to savor it.
I want you to fix it in your mind.
Of all the things that we've had to endure, all the challenges that we've been through, everything that they've faced, Everything that they've thrown at us, everything that we've faced, and more importantly, everything that this man has faced.
Everything that this man went through, not for himself, not for personal gain.
In fact, he incurred a lot of personal loss.
Up to and almost including the loss of his life.
And we're going to talk about that today because apparently there are some people still trying to claim that it was a hoax, that it was in fact a setup, that it was a scam.
No, unfortunately it was real.
But there's another issue, folks, and that's going to be the subject of our discussion here together.
I love how we have these little afternoon chats, these little afternoon chats that we have here with Poso, because as you see, a new survey is out in Washington, D.C. that it shows that nearly half, nearly half of federal employees are planning to resist Trump, and this is in a new poll.
Well, folks, here's what I say.
Bring it on.
We knew that this would be the fight.
In fact, this is what we campaigned against.
We knew that this was always going to be the situation.
That's why they're out there after Hegseth.
That's why they're out after Tulsi Gabbard and Russ Vogt and all the rest.
That's why they're after them.
RFK. Because they don't want actual change from actual change agents.
That's what President Trump was elected.
He was elected to perform a course correction on the United States of America.
Kash Patel, Tom Holman, Stephen Miller, these were the people that the American people, the American voter, bandied together and said, no more.
We don't want any more of the crooked system.
We don't want this money that's being sent over to Ukraine in the millions and billions.
While younger and younger Ukrainians are sent to die on the battlefield just so defense contractors can make more money?
Is that really what we voted for in 2024?
I don't think so.
I don't think so.
And if people forgot that, then they're going to have to be reminded.
And if there are people within the federal government, within the federal ranks, who have a problem...
With the mandate of the American people who have a problem with putting this mandate first and pushing this agenda forward, then we're going to teach you.
We are going to teach you a lesson.
We're going to teach you what happens when you refuse to put America first.
Stay tuned.
We'll be right back.
They talk about influences.
These are influences.
And they're friends of mine.
Jack.
So, like, where's Jack?
He's done a great job.
All right, folks, we're back here.
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42%, almost 50%, half of federal government managers, according to an RMG research survey, Say, who work in Washington, D.C., say that they will work to resist President Trump and his agenda.
Well, President Trump's team has begun arriving here in Washington, D.C. President Trump's advanced teams are boots on the ground here in Washington, D.C. And we're already seeing glimmers of that as people prepare for the various balls that will be held this weekend, particularly the Coronation Ball, of which I will be attending myself.
Let me make it up and say a few words.
You know, we'll see.
Determining whether or not that would be appropriate, if it's appropriate to address the assemblage there at the Watergate Hotel.
And yes, we're taking back the Watergate.
But the real fight is this.
The fight is the enemy within.
And so, to understand fighting, we need to bring on one of the best warriors against the deep state that we have.
And his name, ladies and gentlemen, is Mike Benz.
Mike, how's it going, man?
Great to see you, Jack.
What a week we got.
So, I mean, you look at this, you look at this comes as no surprise, right?
You know, the 42% are openly saying...
That they are going to resist President Trump, the federal government managers, in this RMG research survey that's come out.
And keep in mind, that's just the people who are publicly acknowledging it, right?
I'm sure that number bounces up to probably, I don't know, 80%, 90% when really push comes to shove.
Benz, let's talk past the sale here, right?
What should the American people and what should this movement really be on the lookout for as we go boots on the ground into Washington, D.C.? Well, every single person who expresses an intent to resist the edicts and authorities duly granted to the executive branch should be promptly and immediately fired.
And if firing them is not possible because of bureaucratic protections, they should be transferred to the Siberia office.
Of whatever organization within the federal government they are a part of, so that they can be...
Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, Benz, Benz, hold on a second.
Don't you mean Greenland office?
No, the Greenland office will actually be doing something.
We, you know, I mean, at least that serves some strategic utility.
You know, we, the great mistake of Trump 1.0 was...
Basically, you know, not heeding the parable of the snake and the frog, that you let these people in, you let them keep their jobs despite, you know, all of their attempts to sabotage the government from within.
I think this time around, there have been many lessons learned.
I think part of the mission of Doge is to cut government programs that have gone rogue.
I'm extremely heartened by the fact that we killed the budget.
The first time around during that omnibus fight in November.
And that was done because rogue organizations like the Global Engagement Center were getting reauthorized when everyone knows all 250 members of the staff there are diametrically opposed to the Trump agenda that was voted democratically by the people of the United States.
And so we literally shut down the budget during that fight.
Until a new one came out that refused to reauthorize that.
That should be done.
That mentality needs to go into the Pentagon, needs to go into DHS, needs to go into FBI, needs to go into the National Science Foundation, needs to go into USAID. We have to have a strong hand this time around because that's the only way business gets done in Washington.
This is the point that I was making about the failure of Trump 1.0.
Under a kind of suicidal libertarian pact to be hands-off with Facebook as they were censoring the world.
And so meanwhile, the censors who were willing to use government power, who were willing to use government resources and government action to pressure towards censorship, there was no counter pressure.
There was no government pressure on the other side of it.
And we saw the power of that once it was applied.
Once Congress did act against the Disinformation Governance Board, once Congress did act with the weaponization committee, subpoenaing 10 different government agencies and holding hearings and hauling everyone in for transcribed interviews.
Pressure works.
Action works.
And action has to be taken against members of the resistance within the government.
They can resist all they like in a civil society group with a cute little...
Fellowship or sign a cure outside the government.
But if you're a part of this executive branch, you follow the chain of command, which goes straight to President Donald J. Trump.
I've got a great idea.
Shot this in in the comments.
I think this is wonderful.
How about we mandate that in every federal office, every single worker has to start the day with a public Pledge of Allegiance.
You have to get up and you have to say the Pledge of Allegiance, just like elementary school, by the way.
I would have been totally fine with that.
I'm sure you would have been totally fine with that, Benz, when you were in the State Department.
But I'll tell you one thing.
30% of people would walk out the door on day one if that were mandated.
At least 30%.
And over the first year, look, you would drain the swamp all by itself.
It's like sunlight to a vampire having to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance in the federal government for so many of these people.
I mean, they take a pledge to self-interest, and then they call themselves global citizens, arguing that being faithful to the United States, who they're only in office to serve, is some sort of treason to the world.
And of course, this is not some humanitarian...
Bonafide that they're earning by doing this.
It's their own paychecks and salaries to all the different organizations and stakeholders on the outside of government who want to use the battering ram of government to achieve their own financial gain.
So let them do that on the outside.
But the people voted for reform.
The people voted to take a sledgehammer to these rogue agencies.
And people on the inside who are not going to carry that hammer.
Can get hammered by it, frankly.
Look, it's simple.
And by the way, this is something that the President Trump's first administration, the 45 administration, actually worked on, something called Schedule F. Ben, explain to us what Schedule F is, how that works, and how actually that can be implemented pretty much day one.
Well, Schedule F is basically a creative tool to be able to bypass many of the bureaucratic There are measures that can be taken to delay or postpone the ability to fire members of the civil service or foreign service, the so-called careers.
The president only gets to appoint several thousand people for positions in the federal government.
There are millions of people in the aggregate, if you include the Pentagon.
But hundreds of thousands across all the other agencies.
And so the president's appointments are totally swamped and outnumbered in the thicket of the D.C. bureaucracy.
And in the same way that oftentimes a corporation will structure things as a layoff rather than firing one-off people in order to avoid employment lawsuits against people.
If you just terminate one person, And it's a firing, then you can get into a big employment dispute about whether or not it satisfied the for-cause component of a firing.
It can drag out for years in litigation while the person continues to have their job or have some aspect of their job that they still have as it's being adjudicated.
And so mass layoffs can alleviate that if you simply get rid of an entire division.
Or if you group a whole group of people together, you can bypass a lot of the legal ninja capacities of employment lawyers.
And it's the same thing with Schedule F. It's basically a mass firing of the civil service.
What?
These bots.
And this is basically what Project 2025 opposition was all about.
I mean, they talked about how it was about, you know, Fascism and bringing back all these traditionalist ideals, that is not what the blob had a problem with.
It all came down to the fact that Project 2025 was...
It is a power struggle for who has direct control over the levers of power.
And Schedule F takes away the blob protections.
We got a quick break coming up here.
It's a fantastic play.
I hope it's signed day one with these 100 executive orders that Stephen Miller and President Trump supposedly have worked on.
And by the way, I hope that President Trump starts signing the 100 executive orders right there on the balcony.
Just turn around mid-speech and start rapid fire.
Signing them off right in their faces.
We'll be right back.
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All right.
So one piece of news that I saw this morning that I just thought was wonderful, most of The good news just doesn't stop coming.
Washington Post is down 87%.
In terms of its traffic since 2021. So from 2021 to now, the Washington Post is down nearly 90% of its traffic, its audience, gone.
And by the way, that's the libs.
Okay, those guys are just checked out.
So the Washington Post is dying, and they have either booted or exited, we're trying to find the right term on this, Jen Rubin.
However, it turns out that Jen Rubin is going to be going to a new spot.
Ben, break down what the latest plan is for our resident TDS color revolution lover, Jen Rubin.
Oh, it's too perfect.
Honestly, I don't care what your religion is, whether you celebrate Christmas or Hanukkah or some strange esoteric thing, whatever you wish for.
I can't imagine a better gift to start the year than Norm Eisen and Jen Rubin announcing that they are starting a media outlet.
They're calling this The Contrarian.
That will be the name of this outlet.
And they say that Norm Eisen is going to be the publisher.
Jen Rubin is going to be the editor-in-chief.
They said they've recruited about 24 contributors who played prominent roles in debunking 2020 election denialism.
And the purpose of this is to, because America needs an unshackled media.
Now, mind you, these are the people who were coordinating the censorship industry.
These people who were so-called debunking election denialism.
They censored the ever-loving heck out of every news outlet.
They put pressure on the social media companies.
They applied government pressure.
And it was all because there was an unshackled media.
Their problem is that they need shackles on the media and they need a media perch to trumpet from the heavens the consensus of the resistance.
So the thing that I love about this so much is this will give us a bird's eye view of the resistance's plans every step of the way for the next four years.
Norm Eisen was the legal hatchet man.
Every single one of their ops.
was run through Norm Eisen, who was a guy who was the former State Department ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2011 to 2014, which was right as China effectively took over the Czech Republic.
Norm Eisen was the lawfare coordinator there.
He bragged about how one of the proudest things that he did as the U.S. ambassador to the Czech Republic was effectively pressure the Czech Republic to arrest the State Department's enemies.
He was so emboldened by that that when Trump won the 2016 election, he applied that same set of skills to coordinating the lawfare against Donald Trump.
He has been a part of every major political black ops happening in the United States for the past six to eight years.
And now he's going to have a media outlet.
And there's this great clip here of him and Jen Rubin announcing it.
And just look at how cheesy this thing is.
It's fondue.
This guy, he's the granddaddy of the color revolutions, and I guess she's the grandmama of the color revolutions.
Let's play the clip.
Do politics.
We're going to do law.
But we know that any successful pro-democracy movement also has to be very vocal about culture.
We'll have a humor column.
We'll even have a cooking column.
But we're going to sprinkle in a little bit of pro-democracy flavor.
Wow.
We're going to have a humor column.
We're going to ruin everything.
We're going to run after.
We're the contrarians.
What we're living through, look, there was a Politico asked me over the weekend.
They said, why are you guys calling your thing the Coronation Ball?
And I'm not even, I didn't come up with the name, but I said, look, I didn't come up with the name for that.
I did come up with the name for the Deplore Ball back in 1617, but, but.
Coronation ball is appropriate.
They say, oh, appropriate.
You're authoritarian.
You're talking about monarchy.
You got Curtis Yarvin there.
No, no, no, no, no.
It's appropriate because it's a regime change.
Because that's the old regime.
Just look at them.
They realize that they are out of power and they have no idea what to do.
And you can see the cognitive dissonance in that clip.
Guys, could you show the clip?
Just leave us up, but show us the still of that clip where you could just see it in their faces where they're trying desperately to hold it together.
And they just they're like, everything is fine.
Everything is good.
This is a great move.
Things are going well for us.
Ninety percent of our readership is down.
We're holding on for dear life.
And this idea that they're going to, you know, galvanize people against Trump through cooking, you know, through a cooking college.
Through cooking!
And a humor column.
I mean, this reminds me of, you know, in the old, there was this busted British intelligence operation called the Integrity Initiative that operated from 2015 to 2019. Then it went down in flames when all their leaked documents came out.
And it turned out the whole thing was being dictated by British intelligence.
They set up these cluster cells in every major NATO country to coordinate Internet censorship.
And in the documents, the orientation materials trained all the cluster cell members.
On the importance of waging this culture war through humor.
And they gave them reading materials like the EU can't meme and how subversive humor and ridicule can undermine political support for authoritarians and authoritarian countries.
And these people are constitutionally incapable of humor.
They exist as this frumpy Damp rag to place over the human soul.
They put in their instruction manuals all these, you know, like humor guides because they are incapable of organically generating it themselves.
So this is going to be a content nirvana.
This is like manna from the heavens being handed to us so that we have a 360 degree peripheral vision.
Of everything they're going to do six months before they do it, while also being able to elbow through the rim dunk on just how cringe it is the whole time.
So I don't know that I could have woken up to better news than this this morning.
It's just with their charisma.
I really got to watch out here on Human Events Daily.
I don't know.
I certainly hope they don't do anything in the 2 p.m.
to 3 p.m.
hour.
They might be putting me out of business with their cooking.
I mean, just look at the chemistry of the two of them there.
I will say this.
I can't stop looking at it.
I can't stop watching it.
That's for sure.
Jack, 95% of their traffic will be us.
Like, they actually may have a moderately successful, medium-sized website just because we are going to be going there every day to see what stupid thing they publish next.
And just, it's like, you know, it's like an intelligence org reading some, you know, the propaganda rag of the Russian Federation or China Daily or something just to see what the state is publishing.
Like, this is what we're going to be able to do with Norm Eisen and his whole network.
Thank you for aggregating 24 different people in your network for this media organization to Trump it.
I'm glad that they're doing it publicly.
Before we had to, you know, trawl around for, you know, two-hour YouTube panels to find the, you know, the diamond in the rough of what they're planning to do next.
Now it's all going to be centralized.
And frankly, I think we're going to be the largest audience rather than their own.
I don't know that anybody other than the exiles from the State Department who formerly were reading The Diplomat are going to be reading The Contrarian.
But I have my popcorn out, and I can't wait for their first issue.
I asked Grok to look up some, to write some anti-Trump name puns of the stuff that they could potentially be getting out there.
Maybe some pecan resist ice cream.
Maybe some orange man bad.
Huh?
Orange man bad.
Maybe Trumpa Tony.
This is so bad.
Grok really failed me on this one.
Lobster mobster, oh my gosh.
It's so cringe they would actually do this.
I was going to say, I feel like I'm reading the...
The contrarian humor column.
This is so bad.
This is the humor column that they're going to be covering.
I have to stop.
This is terrible.
This is just terrible.
Oh, wait.
Now it's asking if we want Biden ones.
Okay, Cup of Sleepy Joe.
Cup of Sleepy Joe!
There you go.
That's hilarious.
Caramel Corn Pop.
Grandpa Joe's Werther's Originals.
Delaware Undie Mud.
Ice Cream Towers.
F. Joe Biden pepperoni pizza.
Dark Brandon.
That's for funny Joe Biden, by the way, FCC. And Dark Brandon's secret sauce.
Well, there you go.
You know, I mean, it's Joe Biden's just funnier.
It's just funnier.
These people are ridiculous.
They have no sense of humor.
They have no charisma.
They have no ideas.
The lawfare, by the way, has been completely defeated and laughed out.
And by the way, to the Republicans who thought that the lawfare was going to stop Donald Trump, I just like...
You guys lost, right?
You guys just lost.
You didn't see through.
You lost faith.
You doubted.
And that's why you now sit at the back of the bus.
And some people aren't even on the bus.
And, you know, hey, we're all played.
The cards were dealt.
No one told you to do that.
You could have stayed loyal.
You could have stayed loyal to the country.
You could have read the room.
You could have stood with the American people.
But instead, you decided to get greedy.
And now look where you are.
You flew a little bit too close to the sun.
Mike Benz, I got it.
It is.
This was, I think, the single most consequential election in American history.
We came very close, if not for an incredible team that came together, really.
Over the summer, I mean, it came together last minute in 2024 with people like Elon Musk, with people like you and other media leaders, with the Wonks, the Autists, the Anons.
Everyone came together and created this incredible coalition that overcame the lawfare.
And if this had gone the other way, Donald Trump could be spending the rest of his life in prison.
And we could have had a prosecutor-in-chief who...
Openly touted how the thing she learned early in her career is the power to basically kill people with a pen stroke or to ruin their lives and bankrupt them or disgrace them in their community.
Simple as that.
Mike Benz.
Mike Benz, we've got to run.
Where can people follow you, brother?
At Mike Benz Cyber on X. All right.
Talk to you, man.
And see you soon, I hope, here in Imperial Capital.
Jack, where's Jack?
Jack.
Where is Jack?
Where is he?
Jack, I want to see you.
Great job, Jack.
Thank you.
What a job you do.
You know, we have an incredible thing.
We're always talking about the fake news and the bad, but we have guys, and these are the guys who should be getting Pulisic.
All right, Jack Rosobiec, we are back here.
Human Events Daily.
By the way, so, all right.
There's been this huge debate that's being waged.
I didn't realize I was going to start this giant debate online and was banning earlier today on War Room.
So here we go.
And I'm going to put it out to you, the listening audience here on the program.
Send us an email, 1776 at humanevents.com.
1776 at humanevents.com.
Do you agree or not agree with the following?
That listening to an audiobook counts as reading the book.
What is your stance on audiobooks?
What is your preference?
Do you like audiobooks?
And I'll explain why.
So it's 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com.
So the whole thing that started all this was that we just released the audiobook for Bulletproof.
And there were some uploads and some Amazon issues.
Jeff Bezos was trying to block it and all this.
And it finally came out, and it is me.
I did do, right here in the same studio where I do the show, I did the entire audiobook for this thing.
And it came out.
And it's up there.
You can go check it out.
Bulletproof.
Just go to Amazon.
They hit the Audible link.
I think it's just available on Audible right now.
So if you're not already a subscriber, you just go click it.
If you're not a subscriber to Audible, I think you have to get one and then you can get it or something like that.
But anyway, point being is we got into this question about whether or not an audiobook counts as...
Reading a book.
And I would say that it does.
I certainly would say that it does.
And I would say that all these people who say that it doesn't, see, you guys are the elitists out there.
You're being an elitist because there are some people in this world who work for a living.
There are some people who don't have enough time and the luxury to sit down and enjoy a nice, long book.
Look, personally, I do.
I'm about 50-50.
I'll just cards on the table.
I'm a 50-50 kind of guy.
I would say 50% of the time I'm doing an audiobook.
The other 50% of the time I'm reading.
When I read, that's because I'm up later than everybody else in the house.
So Tanya and the boys are down.
I'm up and I'm probably spending a little bit too much time online.
But then, you know, usually what I'll do is I'll throw my phone into airplane mode.
So I like block myself from going online and then I pull out my book.
And I've got it set up where I can do the book and the audiobook combined so it sticks with whatever portion I'm at.
But look, if I'm driving, if I'm at the gym, if I'm doing something around the house, if I'm shopping, whatever it is, I love listening to something.
So I love listening to podcasts at 2x.
And then when I'm out of podcasts to listen to, especially all my human events daily, I do actually go back and listen to these.
I go to my audiobook.
So I think it's a great way to do it.
And no, I don't think that there's any problem with reading.
And I think that it's very elitist.
I think that these people...
And you know what I'm calling them?
I'm going to call them word-brickers.
Yeah, you're a word-bricker, right?
You sit there with your brick of words telling us all you're better than us, that you're better than us because you read your books and you don't listen to your books.
It's like, oh, you need the words on the page?
What, like a child?
And let me tell you something.
You may not have thought about this.
I can reframe this on you in a second here because did you know, had you considered the fact that oral traditions are older, Then books.
That the oral traditions and oral spoken word and spoken stories, including, by the way, significant portions of what?
The Holy Bible were handed down to us by...
Oral traditions, which is essentially what an audiobook is, right?
Instead of having a person, you just have a person that you can take.
You can take a recording of a person.
In ancient Rome, Lectio involved reading scrolls and codices outside.
These are facts.
So, in fact, audiobooks are older.
Audiobooks are older than those word bricks.
What do you think in times when people didn't have literacy, when people weren't literate?
Mass literacy didn't really even get started until the printing press.
Until the printing press!
So for the vast majority of human history, stories have been told orally.
And the idea passed down through oral tradition.
And so the idea that you could sit down and read a book, that's new.
That's very, very new.
And so just check yourself.
Just check yourself a little bit.
By the way, I love reading books.
That's what I just said.
I'm both.
Personally, I'll even say it when I sit down and read a book.
And then, of course, it gets into the e-book debate as well.
When I sit down and read a physical book, I will say this.
A physical book, and I do it all.
The physical book versus the audio book versus the e-book.
I will say the fastest, the fastest that I can read is with the physical book.
Kid you not.
The fastest I read has always been with a physical book.
Thing is, though, like you're running around, you got kids, you got a job, you got work.
You got, I'm driving out to, I'm going to be on Tim Pool tonight, by the way, so go and check that out.
That, you know, you got stuff to do.
You got stuff to do.
You got inauguration coming up.
But anyway, so this all started with...
The release of Bulletproof and the release of the audiobook of that.
And of course, Bulletproof, what is it about?
So it's about the assassination attempt on President Trump.
Obviously, the first one in Butler, Pennsylvania, which took place on June 13th.
And then the second one, September 15th.
Down in West Palm Beach, Florida.
However, and this is really interesting because there were, I don't watch a lot of liberal podcasts, but I guess there were a couple of liberal podcasters who were going around and talking about Trump's assassination attempt.
And I wanted to play it for you right now.
Prized that a rifle round making any degree of contact with an ear wouldn't do more damage.
I think a shattered piece of shrapnel from a teleprompter is far more likely to have done that to his ear than a rifle round.
That's so silly.
Have you seen what rifle rounds do to human bodies?
I know, but like, if it just hit it by the slightest possible degree, it just, you know, it makes much more sense.
The guy behind me...
So that's Bill Maher, Sam Harris, this guy Sam Harris...
By the way, definitely a word-breaker elitist.
You know, a Gutenberger, you know, one of these types.
They want you to be hobbled.
They want you to be stationary as you are ingesting information.
But look, all that aside, this guy wants to sit there and tell us that President Trump wasn't shot, that Butler PA didn't happen, that it was, oh, shrapnel.
Really?
Because, yeah, BrickSuit was their front row.
And BrickSuit's got the photo.
And the photo shows, by the way, that the teleprompters are completely attacked.
They're completely intact.
So this guy wants to sit up there, this liberal, wants to talk and say, oh, well, you know, President Trump, you know, he wasn't even really shot.
And I'll explain to you why he does this, by the way, and why it's so disgusting.
He does so because these TDS sufferers, they don't want to take any responsibility or accountability for the lies that they spread about President Trump and this movement over time.
They don't want to take responsibility for the hate that they have spread.
Yes, hate.
And that's not a word that we use quite frequently around here, but the targeting of President Trump, like we wrote the entire book about, about unhumans, how they target President Trump, how they target people for their certain target groups, hate groups.
Like the Kulaks in Soviet Russia, okay?
And President Trump certainly is the leader of that.
That they want to take you out.
This is Luigi Maggioni kind of stuff.
And they don't want to have to deal with the fact...
And the cognitive dissonance that sets in when they realize that perhaps their own behaviors and their own lies led to the shooting of President Trump.
And so they have an emotional and psychological necessity to try to talk it away, to try to act.
So this is where the denialism comes in because they have a psychological and physiological disease.
And you can see him, by the way, look at his body language.
He performs what's referred to as a cluster gesture where his shoulders, He sort of leans back in the chair.
His hands are coming up.
This is a cluster gesture, right?
That's a cluster gesture.
Watch.
And you can see it right there.
And he performs this when he's making this comment because on a certain level...
On a certain lower level, he knows exactly what happened that day, but he also knows that he has to lie about it.
So here's my bigger question, though, to Sam Harris.
If he wants to play this shrapnel game, which is completely irrational, by the way.
You can see that the teleprompters are perfectly intact.
And by the way, if a teleprompter got hit by a high-powered rifle around, that thing would be shattered.
It'd be in a thousand pieces.
There wouldn't be any of it left standing.
Here's my question to Sam Harris.
How about you go...
And place a phone call or cut a little video on your podcast talking to the family of Corey Comparatore.
How about you talk to them about why their father and why their husband wasn't able to go home with them that day?
If you think that it was all staged, that it was all some fake thing.
President Trump just did this for ratings.
What about him?
What about Corey Comparatore?
Funny how you don't mention his name.
Funny how you haven't reached out to his family.
This guy's a liar.
He's a cheat.
He's a snake.
He is someone who is fundamentally a weirdo.
And when you look at the things that he has said about Hunter Biden and killing kids, all I got to say is, I do not want to see Sam Harris's search history.
Jack is a great guy.
He's written a fantastic book.
Everybody's talking about it.
Go get it.
And he's been my friend right from the beginning of this whole beautiful event.
And we're going to turn it around and make our country great again.
Amen.
Man, Jack Posobiec back live, Human Events Daily, Washington, D.C. I had no idea that you guys were so hot under the collar about your reading styles.
I'm reading the chats, so shout-out to the Rav audience that's up there on Real America's Voice in the Rumble chats.
Shout-out to everybody who's on Getter, and I'm just reading.
I got Kids Today 2, Blackjack 3, T. Gill 68, Severed, Amlax, M. Morlando.
I thought I was going to say Morlando.
I listen to audio now because I have to listen while I'm doing stuff.
I have audio for Unhumans.
But then right after, here comes Cindy Y.J.K. Audio is not reading.
Reading activates different parts of the brain.
A lot of people saying that.
What started my listing many years was a local show, The Radio Reader.
Get that from Kids Today.
Patriot Warrior Texas says, do the audiobooks have pictures?
That's hilarious.
Let's see.
Does the book address multiple shooters?
Yes, the book does address that, and so we certainly do get into it.
Nothing wrong with audio, but it's not reading.
Don't bundle the Bible in there, Pozo.
I am bundling the Bible in there because the Bible was passed down through oral tradition.
Large portions of the Bible were passed down through oral traditions before they were ever written down.
Fact.
Go check it out.
Go look at it.
It's 100% true.
Two of the evangelists, two of the writers of the gospel, Mark and Luke, I believe, never even met Jesus.
So those were oral traditions that they knew, which they then later wrote down.
And so that's just a fact.
That is just a fact.
So let's get to some of the emails.
We've got Rebecca here.
Audiobook gives you the same information as reading, but reading with your eyeballs is better for your brain.
I think I tend to agree with that.
I do.
Audiobook is as great as reading a book.
That's from Michael.
We got one in here from Christine.
Audiobooks are not the same.
When you read a physical book, you can read and contemplate the information in the book.
I personally like a physical book.
I keep the good ones and pass them on.
This is key, by the way.
This next point is key from Christine here.
It's now very important to keep hard copies because they can't be edited or erased.
Can't disagree with that.
That's 100% true.
And Netflix has been caught of that, doing that a number of times.
Keep sending your emails in.
1776 at humanevents.com.
1776 at humanevents.com.
Right here, Jerry says, Hey there, Jack.
I hope you and your family are doing well and your kids well.
We're doing great.
We're very excited for next week.
We're all going to be there.
I do consider it a form of reading.
And check this out from Jerry.
I am totally blind, and I've been that way since I was born.
I weighed one pound 15 ounces when I was born, so I was born with detached retinas.
In my eyes, and it's the only way usually that I like to read, because if I can hear the author read a book to me or read their book to me, I feel like I've got more of a connection with the book.
Best regards.
And it actually says that Jerry works in radio.
So there you go.
Very, very interesting.
Makes sense.
We got one here from Eric the Trucker.
Eric the Trucker says, JP, I'm a truck driver and I like to do my homework and stay up to date on all current events.
I wish I had the time to read a book, but I just don't.
Don't work in over 70 hours a week.
Audiobooks have been an excellent way for me to learn and stay knowledgeable.
Keep fighting the good fight, bro.
Feel the same way.
Feel the exact same way.
Okay, Jack bought the audiobook last night.
Already finished it.
Absolutely have to listen to it again and again and again.
Love your voice.
Love the content.
That's from Sherry, who also adds, Christ is King.
He certainly is.
And here's one from Jean.
Someone right here.
Wow.
She is 77 years young.
And she says, I am not able to read books anymore.
But as an avid reader, I am so grateful for Audible books.
So there you go.
You see, lots of reasons.
Absolute lots of reasons to want to read.
I gotta say, I've never felt this incessant need to put down people that listen to audiobooks.
I don't have any problem with it whatsoever.
I think we need to stop the hate.
I'm saying we need to stop the hate against the audiobook people.
That's all I'm saying.
All right, people can read whatever book they want to read, and it's perfectly fine with the way you want to read it.
And everyone's preference is their preference.
Some people, like, I got a buddy, by the way, Still Boneless, was telling me that...
He's a guy, so one of the issues with my buddy Still Boneless is he's not very smart, like he's not very intelligent.
And so, you know, he's got a lot of mental issues, just really, really ton of mental issues.
And so he has a big concentration problem.
So, you know, when he's trying to concentrate on something, he's always doing a million different things at once.
And we've really had to pull him back.
We've had to work on him, especially when he's out in public.
public.
But, you know, he says, look, I can barely read, but I can only get through with my audio books because it sounds like the author is yelling at me.
And so that's something that he really responds well to almost, you know, like a like an animal or a small child.
And so we love him very much.
Here we go.
Another another person says that her mother is 96 years old.
This is from Daniel.
And that she's listened to audiobooks for over 40 years.
I've listened to a few of them and like autobiography more than novels, which I think is in need of a full cast for them.
Oh yeah, so I mean, I love, by the way, audio dramas.
I mean, if I had time, I'd love to do an audio drama where we get different actors in.
Boy, these emails, I don't even know if I'll have time to get to all these.
Keep sending your emails in.
These are great, by the way.
I love these things.
And yes, I do actually read them.
Here's an email from Dave.
Dave, he says, we're frequently on the road.
Find audiobooks very useful.
We're on the road a lot, sometimes from Colorado to Pennsylvania and back.
Get to hear the book at the same time.
Okay, and I think, is it...
Oh, so when you're in the...
I see what you're saying, so I'm reading this clipped off, but it's...
What he's talking about is if you're in the car with somebody else, it's a great way to experience a book with someone else.
So maybe if you're driving with your wife and you're on a long drive together, hey, or just one of your buddies or whatever it is, you throw it on, you listen to the book, wow, that is a great book.
And he's saying that we're officers in County GOP. We have a lot going on.
Hearing book is definitely a different impact.
Someone also just said 50-50.
That's from Laura.
Thinking people will become more illiterate, not being hands-on, but we live in a tech world.
Now, here's one from Don.
Wow, man.
Well, Don, I certainly hope that...
You have an audiobook Bible, and I certainly hope that you're able to get through it very well.
I know there's a lot of options out there.
And just thank you.
Thank you so much for reading, for your support.
I love reading the emails.
We will do more of these soon.
1776 at humanevents.com.
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