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June 8, 2022 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Rebellion Against The Woke: San Francisco Ousts Soros DA!

In what may be the high water mark for the "Soros DAs," San Francisco voters have, by a large majority, decided to remove District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. Crime surged while Boudin fired prosecutors, leading a Chinese-American community spearheaded drive to return to some sanity in SF. Will L.A. and the rest of California follow? Also today, are you ready for the Jan. 6th Commission propaganda hearings?

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San Francisco's Awakening 00:15:02
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, as co-host is Daniel Mick Adams.
Daniel, welcome to the program.
Greetings, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
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Our technician wasn't available and won't be available in a couple of days.
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And I'm going to be the computer expert, and you're going to be the expert on our program today.
Well, anyway, we'll talk about it.
So there was a lot of news yesterday.
I keep wanting to phase out and move away from the nitty-gritty of things going on in politics.
But, you know, recently I got involved in libertarian politics, went out to Reno for their convention and participated in that.
And there's been a lot more interest.
I don't know whether that's much of a polling operation about what's going on in the world of politics, but something is going on.
I mean, it has been deteriorating for so long.
It's been so bad for many, many decades, many, many years.
And the last two years have been pretty bad.
So it's been a mess.
And right now, though, the people have been rebelling against what they've had from Biden, you know, and they're saying, you know, look at what he's done.
He's caused all these problems.
And there's a lot of misinformation out there.
So that's what's going on.
But there were some elections yesterday.
And I would say those individuals who are hoping for some change, always hoping for change.
But when we talk about it among ourselves, we keep saying, yes, they talk good, but are they going to follow through?
But anyway, we're going to talk a little bit about what happened yesterday because it looks like it's significant.
It's sort of a continuation of the things that we've seen when people got sick and tired of the COVID lockdown, where the parents came out and they started rebelling against the establishment.
And this looks like there's still some momentum on this, moving in the direction of saying we've had enough of this.
And so there's been, especially in California, there's some real rebels going on out there.
You know, the DA got with, you know, removed from office and school boards have been challenged.
So in those who are more in the Republican category or the anti-big government cultural Marxism, there's a little bit of room to say, well, maybe this is all going to come out well.
But I know one thing that a lot of noise at the beginning doesn't tell you how it's going to end up, especially if they win.
You know, that's when you have to be careful because people over the many, many years, and I've been involved in politics for a long time, so many people say the right things, they get elected, and well, I'm going to do this and this.
And you know, there was a time, Daniel, where, you know, the Republicans were considered the fiscal conservatives.
But now, how many people say, oh, this looks like we're going to get the Republicans in charge again.
Or they're going to start balancing the budget.
You know, people just laugh at it because it is a joke.
But anyway, Daniel, there were some positive things going on in California and elsewhere.
Let's hope that is a movement in the right direction.
Yeah, you know, California is kind of the bellwether for what's going to happen because it's been so bad.
of California, the bellwether of California, I would say, is San Francisco, where I spend a bit of time living.
And it was bad 30 years ago, trust me, but it's gotten a lot worse now.
And we had the recall this week of Chessa Boudin, I think his name is pronounced.
And he's the son of radical left-wing terrorists from the 60s, the underground weatherman.
And he was elected as the DA in San Francisco with the help of George Soros.
And this is the whole let people out of jail who hurt other people kind of thing, as long as they have the right politics.
And, you know, it's a little uncomfortable on this, Dr. Paul, because it sounds like, you know, that we are encouraging the, you know, the tough police action, but it's actually not the case because these are politicized crimes.
So, you know, robbers and rapists and murderers get out of jail and other people are put in.
So anyway, they had a recall election against Boudin kicked out by 61% in San Francisco.
And that's pretty important when you look at the prevailing view of San Francisco.
And there are a lot of interesting demographic points about this, Dr. Paul, that we can get into in a minute.
But one of the things that's striking is it's this and a previous recall that we can talk about too, which is the school board of San Francisco.
Both of these were spearheaded by the local Chinese American community.
And that's a community that tends to keep their heads down low when it comes to politics.
But it seems to me, at least, that things have gotten so bad that they've decided to get involved and they've got involved in kicking out some of these highly ideological cultural Marxist types.
So again, it's a bit of good news if you'd like to see the decline of the radical wokeism, which is what we've seen in San Francisco.
You know, behind most of these movements, they always have to have money.
Sometimes it's honestly donated to individuals that they trust and believe in.
And at other times, there's a lot of special interests in many categories.
There's certainly a lot of money involved in politics when it comes to the organizations like the military industrial complex or the pharmaceutical industry, this sort of thing.
That's really where most of it comes.
But there's also a few times when big money from a few individuals makes a difference.
And the one headline that I sort of chuckled and enjoyed a bit, this is with us from Zero Head.
It says, San Francisco ousts Soros-backed Uber progressive DA in recall vote.
I'm not feeling sorry for Soros because he's been a very powerful influence.
But I think just from my casual observation of that, I would say that Soros has lost a little steam, not just because of this election, but I think he lost the election because he's been losing steam, because he's been more identified, because he existed for a long time and he had a lot of influence.
And he had influenced, I think he was very shrewd.
He got involved.
Not only would say the president's race, and I'm going to name the next president, but he would get into the judicial system, judges and small organizations and also political offices that didn't seem too important.
But he did.
He infiltrated it.
And that's why he's been very, very influential.
And maybe this is going to be the reversal of that because I don't think he had our interests at heart.
I don't think that for a minute.
Because if you have libertarian beliefs, you believe the government should be limited and you should have individual liberty and you should be able to live a life without the harassment from government.
The amazing thing, though, in spite of all that, I don't think you could just take it away and say he was some sort of individual that just didn't understand.
He understood some things.
He understands political power, but he understood financial markets over and above the political buying of influence, because I think people have given him credit for being a student.
So he's been a very, very powerful.
So maybe, maybe, Daniel, this election that we just had yesterday will be an additional sign that Soros's influence will be diminished as time goes on.
And, you know, some people may scoff, Dr. Paul, when they hear you talk about cultural Marxism.
They think it's kind of a bogeyman term.
But in the case of Boudin or Boudin or whatever you pronounce his name, you know, you can't be held responsible for the sins of your parents.
But, you know, his parents both served, his father served 40 years in prison for terrorism for an attempted bank robbery.
His grandfather was a Marxist theoretician in Ukraine who wrote books about Marxism.
So at least the Marxism part of the cultural Marxism with these people, particularly with this guy, is absolutely accurate.
But the other thing you suggested in your intro, and this is again what we're seeing in California politics, is back in March of 2022, there was another recall, and that was the recall of the San Francisco School Board.
And that was a big deal.
Again, it was spearheaded by the Chinese community.
And there's an article in USA Today written by a gentleman called Kat Lim, who talks about why the Chinese Americans and, of course, the rest of San Francisco residents, 70% of them supported the idea of kicking out the school board.
And one of the things that Kat Lim pointed out is the school board spent most of their time debating whether they should destroy a mural of George Washington at George Washington High School.
They spent a bunch of time deciding to rename 44 schools in San Francisco because they were named after racists, probably, you know, Abe Lincoln, right?
And changing the merit-based admission at the famous Lowell High School to be a lottery base.
Remember, they did that with Thomas Jefferson High in Virginia before the change happened.
So that basically the school board is spending all its time on wokeism and on calling the Chinese white supremacists, as Lim points out in his article.
And so they said, we've had enough.
We're not going to do this anymore and recalled the school board.
So school board gone, Soros DA gone.
And now we're also watching Los Angeles, very, very left-wing town, which is looking to be ready to elect as mayor someone who is a Democrat, but up until now identified and voted as a Republican.
So not to endorse Republican or Democrat because we don't, but the idea is people are fed up with what's happening.
They're fed up with the wokeism and the cultural Marxism.
And maybe California is turning the corner to be a better place to live.
Who knows?
You know, in a way, there's a little bit of encouragement there that the process can be used.
And we have mentioned several, quite a few things over the last two years where there's been some court rulings.
There's still some decent judges and some decent elected officials.
But then again, if you look at the judicial system, if you look at what's happened with The FBI and the CIA, and how they've been involved, and all the Russia gate.
I mean, it gets so overwhelming.
It's just like a heavy burden.
How are we ever going to clean that up?
But the whole thing is, we don't have a whole lot of choices.
We're not going to take up arms, but we want to take up armaments with better ideas.
And I think, in a way, some of these victories, whether it's with the PTA or an election here, it has been done with ideas.
Matter of fact, it's good to put out the positive ideas and say freedom is best, but the other thing that's helping us right now is authoritarianism is a bummer.
That's a bumper sticker.
That's the one we need.
When you look at it, people are saying this isn't working out so well.
Maybe Soros, he might be rich, but I don't think he knows anything about freedom and about prosperity for the average person.
So that means that we shouldn't give up.
There's vehicles.
And this election, there are some benefits in there.
And as time goes on, we will find out.
But still, I so strongly believe that the basic fundamentals is getting the attitudes of the people to change their minds about dependency on government.
And I think in the last year or so, that whole thing on COVID may have backfired on the authoritarians because it has awakened a lot of people in a positive sense.
They didn't go woke.
They just awakened themselves to what's the best thing to do.
So for me, I think that we should look at that, but keep doing what I believe we have to do is explaining it, telling what's happening, and why on principle it's the right thing to do.
It's the moral high ground.
It's the constitutional high ground.
And all these things are on our side.
And I've always argued we probably don't do a good enough job presenting our message.
And right now, I think the field is fertile and we shall and will continue presenting this message for liberty.
And the second topic we wanted to touch on today is goes back to the COVID, Dr. Paul.
And this is something that came out in a very mainstream publication, which is Washington, which is the McClatchy News Bureau.
And the article is headlined, Why are Boosted Americans Testing Positive for COVID more than those without the extra shot?
And again, a mainstream publication, and their answers may be different than some might have, but they're citing data from the CDC showing that people that have gotten their boosters seem to be more vulnerable to catching COVID than people who have not gotten the boosters.
That raises a lot of questions.
No one knows the answer, but it certainly is a question that's worth asking.
Yes, and you know, we can look at this and look for the positive side.
We have the story, we know this.
We're not surprised that we're reading what they're saying.
McClatchy is not actually part of, you know, the far right who's telling all the truth about what these things are about.
Might Natural Immunity Have Played a Role? 00:04:21
And we haven't heard that anybody's been arrested for saying this.
Well, my goodness, this is close to saying, well, maybe it was natural immunity that helped.
You know, they didn't take the booster shots.
And maybe natural immunity kicked in, and that's why it was better off.
That's why I was very fascinated what we reported yesterday: how the country that had the least amount of immunization had the largest number of people who were protected.
I guess, of course, that was India and the people who had all the boosters.
So, this is just another story to show that nobody suffered by not following the dictates of a bunch of medical authoritarians and Dr. Fauci.
So, this to me is good.
But the best part is this hope, let's just hope that nobody gets arrested today for suggesting this or because that'll ruin my day of optimism.
But anyway, I think it's good information.
I think when the dust settles and they know everything possible because information is out there, and it's strange, even the enemy will collect that.
The CDC is going to have a lot of information of people who complained about the illnesses and things that happened, the side effects.
So, the information is there, dissecting that out and allowing the people who are skeptical of this.
And there's a lot of good scientists.
Matter of fact, we happen to believe that most of those who at least wanted a chance to discuss it and have a debate, like all things should be debated, including medicine.
And when I was learning about medicine, that was the whole thing.
You're supposed to talk about it and visit and discuss and learn.
It was a continual process, but no, that wasn't the case when everybody became hysterical over COVID.
So, I think information like this is very, very beneficial.
And we shouldn't be shocked.
And so, how'd this happen?
Well, I think when it does settle, you'll probably find out that maybe there was something natural about not giving those shots that has helped.
And maybe there was something abnormal about the people that had all those shots.
It wasn't doing any good at all.
Well, we don't know.
You're right.
And it is a big question, Mark.
And in all fairness and accuracy, the article doesn't say don't take the shots.
Of course, it wouldn't do that.
It really, it merely just compares those that have had the regular course of shots versus those who have gone on and gotten the booster.
And the CDC statistics show that those who have gone on beyond and gotten boosters seem to fare worse than those who have just gotten the basics.
They still contend that those without them are catching it a lot.
But, you know, this is interesting because CNN had an article today saying that the U.S. has a very serious problem with vaccine uptake.
And you got to wonder why.
Well, maybe because stories like this are suggesting to people that there's not a lot of benefit in taking the boosters at least.
We don't know.
You know, and there's an interesting article, Dr. Paul, that I noticed just before we came on the error.
Virology Journal, which is a medical journal, a highly respected medical journal, published a letter from a cardiovascular surgeon from Japan called Kenji Yamamoto.
And he actually called in this journal for ending all COVID booster shots.
And his rationale was a Lancet study.
Again, not a radical organization.
You know, with one blip, they've been a tried and true mainstream publication.
A Lancet study from Sweden published this February that found a negative effectiveness, i.e., lower immunity eight months after people have gotten the booster shot.
And Dr. Yamamoto says, with this data that the Lancet has published, considering some of the risks of getting the boosters, they should all be stopped right now until we have more data as to why more boosters seem to me a worse overall immunity from disease.
Lancet Study Raises Questions 00:04:38
You know, there's another issue dealing with the political system right now, and that has to do with Ms. Cheney.
Yeah.
Yeah, she is very much involved.
And, you know, she got to be on the January 6th hearing committee, illegally, unconstitutionally, immorally into your face with what the Democrats did.
And that's why that whole issue is just a farce because the couple Republicans that were reasonably decent, that would have maybe asked for different information, they got kicked off by Pelosi.
You know, I got to thinking that should be, that should have been a mistrial.
Wonder if they didn't even have the ability to file for a mistrial because to kick the opposition.
What about all the films that were available?
Thousands of hours.
The one thing is the Republicans weren't really allowed to look at this kind of stuff, but the Democrats were allowed to cherry pick it and use it to prove the takeover of the United States government wasn't really happening.
So that is something.
But she's in the middle of this, and there's going to have this prime hearing, I guess, tomorrow night or something.
But the big thing here is what will happen to her?
Has she stirred up enough trouble with Republicans that she won't be re-elected again?
I have no idea.
I haven't voted that closely.
But if the system works right, I cannot see how this would be beneficial for people, Wyoming or the Republican Party or anybody seeing her get re-elected.
Not that she has different views, but that it's a sort of a sinister thing because it's deception.
And then she works hand in glove with those individuals that can kick off a reasonable person and put her on there and say, oh, well, this is a serious matter.
We're investigating the insurrection.
And there's not a whole lot of people shouting.
There are, but they don't get much attention on the major network.
But she's going to be in the news here in the next couple of days.
And maybe it'll start to be sorted out and find out that maybe her popularity has dwindled in Wyoming, which is the most important state for her to deal with.
Yeah, and this may be the last-ditch effort of the Democrats to try to do something to head off what looks like a pretty dismal fall election season for them.
And this is the televised January 6th hearings are starting today in prime time.
All the networks have dutifully pushed their programming aside to have live hearings about Dr. Paul, the coup that almost happened, the street revolt that almost happened, right?
The revolution in the streets that almost happened.
And as you point out, Liz Cheney, calling herself a Republican, has joined with Pelosi on this commission.
She was appointed by Pelosi, as was Kinzinger.
And a lot of Republicans are eager to see the back of Cheney, not just Liz Cheney, but the entire Cheney family.
But it does make you wonder about the elections coming up.
They can't run on the economy.
The Putin price hike is not, as we've seen in polling and talked on this show, that's not sticking with Americans.
They can't run on defeating COVID because they wanted to keep the restrictions in place.
They can't really run on anything except that Republicans are evil and Trump is a bad guy and Russia still wants to take over the U.S. None of these things are resonating very much with Americans.
And I think that's why we want to keep our eye on these hearings going on, the January 6th hearings.
We're going to be taking a close look at the polls and seeing how Americans react to what seems like a last-ditch effort to try to salvage something in advance of the November elections.
Very good.
You know, these hearings, I think, will be very informative.
And, you know, the Republicans right now are, you know, being charged with insurrection, serious thing, and being willing to overthrow our government.
Coup Attempts & Seriousness 00:02:51
And they talk about, you know, coups I've used, and not carelessly, because I'm very serious about what I thought happened in the 1960s.
Because when you look at in detail the assassination of JFK, you realize that in some ways the people who were involved, very, very likely, being the Justice Department and the CIA and FBI, these various groups have been implemented in this.
And this to me is a big deal, but it was in the 60s where there really was a major shift in social and economic matters.
And when you think about what's happened since then.
But I think there's a continuation of that, although I believe that a coup there.
But I think in recent years, as a consequence of people like Soros and others infiltrating the system, that right now, I don't think anybody can brag about the justice system, the Department of Justice and the FBI.
I mean, it just isn't, it isn't like there's a true government there and that there's a control by the cultural Marxists.
And they had a big burst of energy here in these last couple of years.
And how do they do it?
They've been involved in this type of operation of philosophically taking over the government.
And at the same time, what do they do?
They have all the noise about the insurrection that wasn't an insurrection.
And that's how powerful the people who are in charge right now.
But it's not permanent.
It doesn't have to last, but it won't go away without the people waking up and participating.
And just remember, if anybody ever gets discouraged about this and say, well, how are we ever going to get half the people to agree with it?
You don't have to.
You have to just get the people who have an influence, who are ideological.
And our revolution was carried about by about 8 or 9% of the population that said it was time to get rid of tyranny.
And that's the way it is now.
And we have those numbers growing.
And I think there's cracks in their system right now.
And therefore, I think we should take advantage of that and not come down and say, the only reason you need the libertarian people is because these other people are so bad.
Yeah, point out all their dumb mistakes.
But the big thing is to point out all the positive aspects of what it would be like to live in a society that emphasized peace and prosperity.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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