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Oct. 24, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec

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THE CARTEL WARS HAVE BEGUN

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	The Secretary of War is announcing a new deadly strike on suspected drug traffickers in the Caribbean.
	Secretary Hagseth says the strike in international waters killed six narco-terrorists.
	That's the 10th known strike in the Trump administration's military campaign against the cartels.
	Under the Trump administration, we're finally treating the cartels as the core national security threat that they really are.
	The cartels are waging war on America.
	And just as I promised in the campaign, we're waging war on them like they've never seen before.
	All you have to do is turn on your television and you'll see what's happening to them.
	And, Mr. President, if you are declaring war against these cartels and Congress is likely to approve of that process, why not just ask for a declaration of war?
	Well, I don't think we're going to necessarily ask for a declaration of war.
	I think we're just going to kill people that are bringing drugs into our country.
	Okay, we're going to kill them.
	You know, they're going to be like dead.
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	Today is October 24th, 2025, Anno Domini.
	Well, folks, what did we see last night over in Oakland?
	I'll tell you what we saw in Oakland.
	We saw a situation where Antifa or elements of Antifa and affiliated with Antifa tried to use a U-Haul truck to murder.
	I'm going to say that again, to murder law enforcement agents, security personnel, as well as perhaps Coast Guard members or Coast Guard security.
	It's not exactly clear from these videos, but I want you to see these horrifying videos of a U-Haul truck driven by what seems to be a member of an Antifa protest attempting to destroy and kill, right, destroy a security checkpoint and kill these agents.
	And the shots, and guys, if we can play the audio, play the audio, because you're hearing shot after shot being fired.
	They're telling him, stop backing up, stop backing up.
	And yet, he doesn't stop.
	He doesn't stop.
	And then he puts, and he reverses, puts the pedal to the metal.
	I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
	They are getting more and more violent.
	The violence is increasing.
	They are attempting to do anything they can to kill our ICE agents, to kill Coast Guard, to kill federal law enforcement.
	Anyone in youth, basically anyone in a uniform now has a target on their back, and certainly anyone who's a public individual.
	And I'll tell you what this is, by the way.
	This was a test.
	This was a test of what would happen.
	The next time something like this goes on, who knows?
	Vehicle born IED.
	That was the very first thing I thought.
	An Oklahoma City situation with a truck bomb kills everyone on site.
	This is serious business.
	And those officers, God bless them and their quick thinking, standing their ground, standing their duty, standing up for everything that they put themselves into harm's way about because this is not going to go away on its own.
	No.
	And then you see the simps over at MSNBC.
	And what are they up to?
	Chris Hayes, I saw him earlier today.
	Oh, I can't believe that some of the blackened, charred bodies of cartel members have washed up on the shores of Trinidad over in Venezuela off the coast of Venezuela.
	Oh no.
	Oh gosh.
	Let me tell you something, Chris.
	Do you know what the cartel members do?
	Have you seen any of those cartel member videos?
	Let me tell you something.
	I grew up with Rotten.com.
	I grew up with LiveLeak 240p.
	You want to see some of the stuff I've seen?
	And there's no question.
	There's videos that I couldn't even show publicly.
	I'll tell you right now.
	The most horrifying videos I've seen from anywhere in the world.
	It's not Ukraine, Russia, China.
	No.
	No.
	It's the cartel videos.
	Videos where they take a chainsaw and use the chainsaw to behead and torture live individuals, women, children.
	That's who the cartel members are.
	And so anyone who's working for them, anyone who's in league with them, got no problem at all with the president.
	What did he say?
	We're just going to kill him.
	Yeah.
	I'm thinking about my favorite Metallica album right now.
	It's the first one.
	The one that's entitled, Kill Them All.
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	You're looking at a live shot of the White House right now.
	And of course, the Democrats are melting down because Elizabeth Warren and Amy Klobuchar just released possibly the most cringe-inducing video I've ever seen talking about the East Wing saying, I can't believe they're doing that to the people's house.
	I can't believe that he's just, he's just doing whatever he wants.
	And guys, it's really simple.
	I'll give you a way to, you know, to be able to work through this logically and emotionally.
	Winning elections is an option.
	Like you could have tried harder to win the election and actually done so and put up, I don't know, a candidate who had some kind of serious connection with the American people and the interests of the American people.
	And then maybe you would have won the election and maybe you would be able then to decide what happens with the White House.
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	No, you lost.
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	Well, speaking of fueling freedom, I want to get into some of these cartel wars.
	The cartel wars have begun, and don't let anyone tell you they haven't.
	Dan Caldwell, a former official with the Department of Defense, back when it still was the DOD.
	I don't know how that works.
	He joins us now.
	Dan, so do I call you former DOD official or is it former DOW official?
	That is a good question.
	I think former Department of War is retroactive.
	That's what everybody's calling it.
	It is retroactive.
	And as I'm sure your listeners know, that was the name of at least the Department of Army for many years until the post-World War II era.
	So it is a return to our history.
	It's an absolute return to history.
	And by the way, another return to history, and I made this point on Piers Morgan, is that the United States Navy has been interdicting small boats in the Caribbean Sea since the United States Navy has existed.
	This is not a new mission for the United States Navy at all.
	We've been doing it literally for hundreds of years.
	Gunrunners, slavers, pirates, mercenaries, rum runners during Prohibition, all the rest of it, blockade runners during the Civil War.
	This is nothing new for the U.S. Navy whatsoever.
	Yet for some reason, the media is completely losing their minds about it.
	They are.
	And actually, you know, Jack, while we were on the break, I was reminded of this.
	In the 1990s, the Clinton administration launched something called the Air Bridge Denial Program, where the CIA, working with the Peruvian Air Force, was actually shooting down drug cartel aircraft.
	And they shot down dozens of these aircraft.
	The program ended because, unfortunately, they shot down a plane load of American missionaries.
	And the CIA was found to have lied about what they knew and didn't know.
	And it would have turned into a bigger scandal had 9-11 not happened.
	But again, this type of activity, whether you agree with it or not, is not any, is not something new in our hemisphere.
	And I would also argue again, again, I saw something else that before we went on that some people were complaining that we had more assets, military assets here in our Western hemisphere than we had in the Middle East right now, specifically ships.
	Well, I'm sorry, what happens in the Western hemisphere is more important to our physical safety and the conditions of our economic prosperity than what happens in the Red Sea or in the Persian Gulf.
	So, you know, this is this is a, again, a return to where our founders were, where most American presidents were for most of our history, that what matters in our backyard is more important than, say, who controls the Donbass or what's going on in the Red Sea.
	So I think, again, whether you agree or disagree with what's going on right now, that's important to remember.
	No, these are the specific ideals and policies that President Trump campaigned on.
	This is what the strategy of hemispheric defense is all about.
	Now, we did see this news out of the Pentagon this morning regarding the USS Ford carrier strike group is now going to be moving south beyond the Gulf of America down to the Caribbean, potentially to increase optionality should the president call for these so-called, and we're certainly hearing this over and over, potential land strikes in Venezuela itself.
	What's really going on here?
	There's some people who say, look, this is a backdoor regime change project.
	There are other people who say, you know, this is threats for Maduro.
	It's a leveraging technique.
	Walk us through how you view the situation that really is unfolding in the Caribbean right now.
	Well, first and foremost, you said it is what the Department of War is doing is giving the president options.
	By deploying this carrier battle group to the region, they are significantly increasing the capabilities of Southern Command, which is the overall combatant command responsible for that region and these operations against the drug cartels.
	This is going to quadruple, I believe more than quadruple the number of fixed-wing aircraft available to Southcom.
	It's going to introduce more supporting ships and more destroyers, and I believe another cruiser as well, too.
	So, you're going to have not just more firepower, but more capabilities.
	So, for example, you're going to have more capability to conduct a suppression of enemy air defense mission, which is degrading enemy air defenses.
	And we have to remember that Venezuela actually has a modern Russian-built air defense system.
	You're going to have more intelligence capabilities.
	You're going to have more surveillance capabilities.
	So, this is a significant increase in the capabilities of South Com.
	Now, what does this ultimately mean?
	You know, there's a lot of leaks in the media about who wants what in the administration and what President Trump is supposedly thinking.
	I just would caution people to be wary of that.
	But we can't deny is that this is going, this, this, this gives the president more ability to put military pressure, not just on the cartels, but also on the Maduro regime.
	Now, to your question about the regime change, I don't know if a decision has been made to go all the way that direction, but regardless of what you think about the cartel mission, we should definitely be wary of that possibility.
	Well, and I think that's right.
	So, I mean, you're talking about the USS Ford, and that's the entire strike group.
	So, they're going to have at least four or five destroyers that'll head down with it to provide that air defense screen for the destroyer or for the carrier itself, I should say.
	Probably, you know, usually there's a couple of subs that are in tow whenever, you know, whenever those operations go out.
	And by the way, so the land strikes, and this is something that's key, by the way, the land strikes wouldn't necessarily be conducted from the Ford itself.
	We've got plenty of bombers that could do that, but the Ford would actually be there for the, you know, the basic, you know, the secondary or even, you know, early, you know, early preparation of the operational environment should those strikes occur.
	Right.
	And it also brings combat search and rescue capabilities.
	If, God forbid, a manned aircraft is shot down.
	It also has.
	But most of the strikes have been done by a drone up to this point, right?
	For the most part, as far as we know.
	As far as we know, it has been unmanned aerial systems, drones, probably Reaper drones, but the Department of War hasn't disclosed every system they've used in these strikes.
	But it would appear that it is mostly unmanned systems they've been using so far.
	That's exactly right.
	And so, and I wouldn't be surprised if some Hilos were evolved as well, but it just makes sense.
	They have the optionality.
	They've got, you know, they've got the Reapers down there.
	And simply put, this is exactly what they were designed to do.
	You know, people are used, of course, to seeing them in the Middle East going after trucks or going after convoys or ISIS or something like that.
	And of course, they were fantastic at doing so and going after a fast boat in the Caribbean really isn't much difference at all.
	Correct.
	And this is something important too to remember about the Reapers is that they can loiter for an incredibly long time.
	They can loiter for up to a day, whereas a Hilo or a fighter jet, they burn a lot of fuel very quickly.
	And even if they're just flying a short range, they can maybe at most get a few hours where they're over a target area.
	With a Reaper, they can stay up for almost a whole day.
	And so that gives a lot of coverage.
	And then, of course, it's unmanned.
	So you're not risking a pilot and crew in those operations.
	Well, and there's even, we've even seen, speaking of which of the loiter time, that's exactly what we're starting to see out of Ukraine, Russia, even Iran.
	They're trying to, they're making loiter munitions, basically, that are able to hang in the sky and wait for a specific target package to come by.
	They're AI target, you know, their AI controlled, or some cases, remote controlled.
	I mean, these the skies are getting very complicated, very, very complicated.
	Dan Caldwell, we're up on a quick break here.
	This is fantastic.
	We'll be right back here.
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	The cartel wars have begun.
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	These are influencers.
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	We're on with Dan Caldwell.
	He is a former department of, former War Department.
	I like saying that.
	Former War Department official from the War Department.
	It just sounds so good.
	It rolls off the tongue.
	Over at the Pentagon.
	And we're walking through this new optionality that the USS Ford carrier strike group gives to the president when dealing with these terrorist organizations down south, that the interdiction operation that we're seeing out in really Trende Aragua and so many others of the cartels that are coming up out of Venezuela.
	Now, that being said, there have been some questions and I think legitimate concerns as well that if land strikes do occur, does the Maduro regime view that as an attack on them?
	And if so, do they escalate?
	Because we know that there have definitely been some demonstrated overlap and demonstrated ties between certain members of the Maduro regime and Trende Aragua.
	So that being said, if these land strikes do occur, what are some of the ways that Maduro could respond to this?
	Well, this is probably the most important question.
	And, you know, going back to what we were discussing in the previous segment, to conduct those land strikes, I think that you are going to have to conduct some type of suppression of enemy air defense mission.
	Because again, Venezuela does have a modern Russian-built air defense system.
	And that's, I think, one of the reasons the Ford is being moved in, not because anybody's made a firm decision, but again, to give the president options.
	I think considering the whole ideology behind the Maduro regime, which it is a Marxist regime, but it's also rooted in this Bolivarian nationalism, this whole idea that they threw off imperialism from the Europeans, and now the threat from imperialism is from the Yankees.
	But I think that there is always a risk that Maduro or his cartel allies would have to retaliate in some way.
	That could be retaliation against military assets the United States has in the Caribbean.
	It could, God forbid, include retaliation against our homeland.
	Again, nothing is guaranteed.
	Nothing is set in stone, but those are the range of different things that could occur.
	And I know there's a lot of smart people at DOD and DHS thinking through that and hopefully preparing for that.
	But it is important to know that that type of escalation could be met with blowback in that regard.
	Right.
	And by the way, so that's, I mean, that you're talking about blowback, not just from, so the Maduro regime, again, serious military, Russian-backed, Chinese-backed, serious air defense.
	And so, you know, good chance that, you know, we're not going to now.
	And by the way, this is why when we flew those B-2 bombers over, when the president ordered that Operation Midnight Hammer over Iran, that's why he did it after Israel and the Israeli Air Force had already conducted those operations to destroy the air defense.
	They were so degraded that it provided the president with an opportunity to do so.
	We don't have that situation here.
	So it would have to be American aircraft of some sort flying that operation.
	That is correct.
	And also remember during Operation Midnight Hammers that there was over 100 aircraft, including fourth and fifth gen fighters going into Iran, a lot of supporting aircraft in the Persian Gulf, you know, AWACS aircraft, intelligence aircraft, probably electronic warfare aircraft in support of those 14 B-2 bombers going in.
	And so while the Venezuelan air defense network probably isn't overall more robust as the Iranians, to your point, it has not been degraded.
	So to do that would require a major operation in and of itself before you would have any type of significant land campaign.
	And I think that's exactly right.
	And I think people have to understand that this isn't, you know, it's not video game logic, right?
	You can't just, oh, I'm going to call in a bombing.
	No, that's not how that works.
	All of this requires serious planning.
	All of this requires serious effort.
	And we certainly have a serious military.
	And so the questions, of course, come down to, you know, do we want to bite that off?
	Do we want to go in that far?
	Is this really what the American people are going to want?
	And by the way, when you mentioned blowback, I wanted to step on that for a second because the cartels themselves, not just the Venezuelan Trend Aragua, but also the cartels out of El Salvador, MS-13, the cartels out of Mexico, Jalisco New Cartel and others.
	These are serious players.
	I was saying earlier in the opening that some of the worst videos I've ever seen online are the cartel videos, the violence, the just insane levels of depravity.
	It's far worse than anything.
	You can, you know, I'll pay to show Chris Hayes or anyone who wants the Telegram pages where you can go find this stuff.
	And I definitely get fined if I'm playing those videos right now.
	But they are going to bring that north of the border.
	They really are.
	I mean, is the United States prepared to deal with that kind of blowback?
	No, I hope so.
	Again, credit to this administration.
	We've really locked down the border.
	Again, the Department of War is playing a key part in that.
	I think that's appropriate use of the Department of War.
	They are definitely more aware and awake to this threat than the previous administration was, for sure.
	But again, these are organizations that are embedded and have tentacles throughout our country, not just in the southern states, just in Arizona where I grew up, but across the country.
	And they are a much bigger threat than the remnants of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and have more capability than those threats.
	Unfortunately, for a long time, for over 20 years, we devoted far more resources to, you know, really after, you know, 2011, after we killed bin Laden and after, you know, President Trump destroyed the AUSI's Caliphate, we've devoted even then far more resources to those threats than the ones in our backyard.
	And Jack, I just got to say that makes this situation much more complicated.
	It is not as black and white to say, okay, you know, this is us getting into yet another stupid war in the Middle East.
	This is our backyard.
	And there are real threats and interests at stake.
	So it's not as clear.
	It's not as like, okay, this is another stupid war.
	There are things we have to do here to keep ourselves safe.
	But at the same time, we have to acknowledge that there are real risks because escalation and we could do something that in the long term actually makes certain things worse in our own hemisphere.
	Right.
	No, it's got to be done.
	It's got to be done the right way.
	Dan Caldwell, where can people go to follow you and get access to your work?
	The best place, again, is at Dan D. Caldwell on X. That's the best platform.
	You can see me talking about stuff like this and maybe posting something about how I struggle, whether or not Kill Em All is the best album or Ride the Lightning.
	That's a continued, but I was kind of going for an effect there.
	But, you know, we can get into that.
	We can get into that the next time.
	Dan Caldwell, give him a shot, folks.
	Special guests coming up next here.
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	Jack, I want to see you.
	Great job, Jack.
	Thank you.
	What a job you do.
	You know, we have an incredible thing.
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	Yeah, well, it's been an honor and an absolute privilege.
	One that I'm so grateful to God for, just to have the opportunity to be able to honor someone who has had such an impact on our lives, but also on the country and the course of history.
	Of course, the impact he's had through sharing his faith, being so dedicated to truth, and really being dedicated to the why of it all and being dedicated to explaining the why to people who weren't hearing Christian conservative ideas is what has had such an impact that's gotten our country to this point in a lot of ways, has gotten the conservative movement to this point in a lot of ways.
	And I think every day it's an honor for us all to just wake up and do our very best to carry on his legacy the best we can and to just keep spreading the truth because it matters.
	It matters so much.
	And, you know, I've seen so many people try to kind of like spin Charlie's legacy and try to put him in a different box or this and that.
	But people don't realize that Charlie was really just about being there for the kids, being there on campus.
	You're obviously living proof of that, that he was also trying to identify talent, that he would go out and he would say, you know, I've got to identify who are some of the best student leaders.
	And then some of them would get jobs with Turning Point.
	Some of them would go on to become field organizers, Turning Point Action.
	Others would step up in different ways, student government, student leadership.
	There's so many different options.
	But of course, it was sort of this funnel.
	And then obviously Media Route was another one that clearly you have excelled at.
	And that was so much of what his vision was.
	It wasn't just the idea of, you know, promoting.
	And it was a simple message, right?
	Very simple message.
	God, family, country.
	That's pretty much like, that's literally it right there.
	God, family, country.
	You could boil it all down to those three.
	But it was his organizational abilities and his never-ending drive to just go campus by campus to find the best talent in America and give it an opportunity to shine.
	And that's what was so different about Charlie and I think so many of these other youth-directed organizations that he really did make it about the people.
	Yeah, and what it really was too to just lean in on that is that he gave people courage.
	He gave people the courage to speak out, to dive deeper into what they thought and become committed to sharing that with other people.
	That's something that students on college campuses and high school campuses across the country have trouble with because a lot of the times they're feeling alone.
	They're feeling like all of their teachers or peers are more on the left and that they're going to get bullied or ostracized for being conservative.
	And I think that something that Charlie's done is he's changed that.
	I would say that that's not the reality anymore.
	And it's very clear to all young conservatives out there that you are not alone.
	There are so many linking arms with you across the country.
	And more people are bold, are bold and excited and courageous enough to be sharing their values now than they ever were.
	I think even when I was in high school, and Charlie is a huge part of that.
	You know, and it's funny because I remember like meeting you, it was like ALX, you know, some of the people in the school.
	Anna Paulina Luna was, you know, just, she was quote unquote, just an influencer.
	She wasn't a congresswoman yet.
	Candace, obviously, you know, Graham Allen, you know, you go all the way back and, you know, it's, it's, you look at where everybody is now and the role they've taken on.
	And, you know, I love the fact you're calling it American Restoration because it's, it's the opposite of revolution.
	That's what the left wants.
	You're talking about restoring that which made America great in the first place.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	And something that the left is so hyper-focused on is this transformation.
	Of course, that's something Obama used to talk about a lot, but they want to transform us away from the values that founded us and have allowed our country to excel all of these years to the point where we're about to hit 250 great years.
	And the fact that so many on the left are so ready and willing to stand against those things, to stand against the values that have founded our country is a huge problem.
	And that's why with the company that I'm with, Restoration of America, and now this show, which is a play on that, Restoring America, we're focused on bringing back those values, putting shining a light on them, shining a light on the things that have made our country successful so great, but beyond that, shining a light on truth, because of course that's what it is when it comes down to it.
	I mean, the values that founded our country are something that unfortunately people disagree on today.
	America is in the midst of a very serious identity crisis for many reasons, but one of these key reasons is that the left and the right today fundamentally disagree on their vision for the country.
	And a lot of that comes down to the very basics, the foundations, and the values.
	So we think that if we can talk more about those, talk about the why more, that hopefully we'll be able to kind of reignite those conversations and get people thinking more about these whys.
	Because another thing is with the pace of current events, it's so easy to just be trying to keep your head above water and keeping up with the latest insane things that are happening.
	So the goal of the show is to add more layers to that.
	Heartbreak coming up.
	We'll be right back.
	He's the host of the new show, Restoring America Podcast.
	Check it out.
	right back.
	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.
	All right, Jack Wazilbik.
	We're back live here, Human Events Daily.
	We are on with Grace Riley, a Turning Point USA alumnus, who is now launching the new show and podcast, Restoring America.
	I couldn't be more excited.
	Grace, before we dig into, I wanted to hit some issues with you.
	Before we do, tell us where people can go to get access to this.
	Obviously, you're going to be promoting it on your social media, but if they don't, if they don't know where to get that, where do they go?
	On YouTube at the Restoring America podcast, and then on the rest of the platforms at Restoring America Podcast.
	And you can search it on Spotify, Apple.
	And I look forward to having you join.
	Oh, I'd be more than happy to join.
	So we'll get up.
	It's Restoring America.
	It's on every single spot that you can get things in.
	All of you have to watch the show because Jack's going to be on it in the near future.
	So you can't miss that.
	Wow.
	Just like put me in a box like that, huh?
	Put me on the spot.
	Like now I just have to do it.
	That's called live booking, folks, live.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	No, I said I would be on.
	I said, I'm happy to be on when you asked.
	You know, you don't have to do that.
	Don't put me on the spot, Grace.
	Gosh.
	You know, no, no, I'm more than happy to be on.
	And, you know, that's something Charlie always said.
	I remember, funny enough, and not that it applies to you, but I remember there was a time where I forget, I forget what it was.
	I had this decision to make and I had a couple of different requests about interviews.
	And I go to Charlie, I said, what do you think I should do with this?
	You know, I've got like a couple interviews, but they're at like the same time.
	And, you know, it's just logistically kind of weird.
	And he, and I was like, I don't know if I don't want to like tick off anybody, but, you know, and he goes, find a way to do them all.
	Just find a way to do them all.
	Do everything.
	Just do everything.
	And that was always his policy.
	Just do everything, be everywhere.
	Well, now you're going to be able to do that.
	Yeah, now I'll be able to do that.
	Exactly.
	Right.
	Finally be on the Restoring America podcast.
	I finally get to that.
	Exactly.
	And exactly.
	And so, but, but, Grace, what I'd love to, and, you know, and if we want to do a, you know, and by the way, so is this going to be, are you talking like, are these going to be in-depth podcasts or is it going to be short stuff?
	Like, what's, what's your, what's your format?
	Yeah, so it's going to be short.
	And part of the reason for that is to hopefully be able to reach all of you with your busy schedules because there's so much out there to consume and be watching and learning every single day.
	So it will be short and digestible.
	That's the goal.
	But it's going to have unique value where it will feel in depth.
	That's the goal here.
	So that you can be adding on your knowledge when you're looking at current events.
	Everything even from history in the past that will be brought up is going to be incredibly relevant.
	I've found that that's what people are the most interested in because it really brings to life all of the issues that we're facing today.
	Well, the biggest one for me, and obviously we started talking about Charlie, but the biggest thing that I've been raising the alarm on, and obviously I've talked about it for years, but predominantly in the last couple of weeks is the rise of leftist political violence.
	And it's something where I just feel like still to this point, and that's why we have to use social media.
	That's why we have to bring this information directly to people.
	Videos, again, right?
	If you just look at the U-Haul video that's going viral this morning of this U-Haul out in Oakland, California, that, you know, if you clip that video, so what Antifa is doing, they're running all over TikTok right now and they're clipping the video to make it look like these officers, this federal law enforcement is just randomly opening fire on a U-Haul truck.
	But if you show the full video, what does it show?
	It says the U-Haul shows the U-Haul truck and the Antifa driver are flooring it in reverse so that the, you know, the back area of the U-Haul is directed at these officers.
	I mean, obviously it could have killed them by running them over.
	And who knows?
	There could have been an ID in there.
	There could have been worse.
	And unfortunately, I feel like this is getting worse.
	Grace, do you feel like when you go out and you know you put the stuff on social media, are people starting to become more receptive?
	What's your sense there?
	Yeah, you know, that's my hope.
	Of course, what you're saying, though, is something I've been thinking a lot about that is there hope to even have conversations like this and to talk about the whys if one side is so okay with political violence all of a sudden.
	Obviously, there are people on both sides who aren't, but there's a huge fringe of people and it's not a small amount anymore.
	We saw that after Charlie passed away and so many people were celebrating his death.
	There's a lot of people who have normalized and become okay with complete dehumanization and political violence.
	And that's a serious, serious problem and something that's hard to reason with and that we need to call out at every single chance we get.
	And it's been insane to watch the escalations of Antifa throughout the past few years, but even just throughout the past few months.
	I mean, it's gotten worse.
	It feels like it gets worse every day almost, even watching what's happening with ICE agents who are just doing their jobs.
	And then also watching Democrat leadership say that it's all okay and be okay with it, right?
	I mean, the fact that Democrat leadership has been justifying and defending behavior like that, encouraging behavior like that.
	And I think that that's why it's so important to be calling this out, covering it, because we didn't always, you know, years ago used to be in a place where so many people were okay with normalizing political violence and such extreme reactions to people that you don't agree with politically.
	It's absolutely insane.
	And something that you've pointed out on the show and is a great point is that Antifa is not new.
	None of this is new.
	This playbook is not new.
	And that's super important to understand when looking at everything going on today.
	No, it's not new at all.
	And yet you'll hear, oh, someone's throwing this around.
	Oh, the president has locked up thousands of New Yorkers.
	That's what they were saying.
	Thousands of New Yorkers.
	No, these are not New Yorkers.
	These are illegal invaders.
	Exactly.
	But they play these games.
	Yeah, I think that's what's so crazy.
	Go ahead, Josh.
	I was just going to say, when you're talking to other people, when you're trying to recruit for Turning Point, when you're going to high schools, when you're going to college campuses, you know, do people, you know, are they open to hearing perhaps a different point of view than that which they're provided by the mainstream media?
	I think that they definitely are.
	And part of the reason that I would say that is because people have noticed this escalation in being OK with political violence, for example.
	And there are a lot of decent, reasonable people who see that and say, oh, wait, I don't want to be on that side.
	I don't agree with that.
	So I think the radicalization of the left has actually helped people that maybe are more in the middle but lean more towards the left understand the direction that the left is going and be more open to considering other ideas.
	So there's definitely a chance for that.
	And something that we've seen through what Charlie Kirk did is the willingness of people to come and at least listen and have conversations.
	Now, of course, there are people who show up to events like that and won't change their minds, have already decided that.
	And that's definitely a serious problem in our country.
	People who are committed to their ideas won't change their minds no matter what, always wrong but never are in doubt.
	And that's something that I think we just have to not accept and fight against and just keep understanding that our ideas are right, better and on the side of truth.
	And that if we can keep bringing those ideas to more people, we do have a chance to change hearts and minds.
	And I've experienced that in my own life, in my own work.
	people who were on the left and who have decided to consider conservative values because they've finally gotten a chance to hear them.
	So I think we've got to hold the line, keep spreading the truth because there is a chance.
	And that's something obviously that Charlie believed with what he did every day.
	And what we believe by nature of talking about conservative values and current events every single day that people will be able to hear our ideas and consider them.
	And hopefully that's something that people start opening up more to.
	And I think that this violence is actually opening more people's eyes.
	I think it's exactly right.
	Grace, I couldn't be more excited to support your podcast and let everybody know about it.
	I just have to say there's only one rule.
	You can't live stream from two to three, OK?
	Because other people are trying to encroach on my hour.
	That is my hour.
	That's my space, all right?
	And then yesterday, Caroline Levitt was trying to get in there with the press conference.
	I said, what do you guys do?
	I'm like texting them.
	So no two to three.
	Are we good on that?
	No two to three.
	two to three, watch human events.
	My show, don't watch it from two to three.
	Yeah, start that.
	Start that right after.
	Tell everybody once again where they can go get it.
	Everyone, you can go on YouTube at the Restoring America podcast.
	You can find it on other platforms at Restoring America podcast.
	And you can look it up on Spotify and Apple to find Restoring America with Grace Riley.
	And I hope you'll check it out and enjoy it.
	I will bring you value.
	That's my goal and promise.
	All right, Grace Riley, Restoring America is the show.
	She's a great patriot and a TP USA alumnus.

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