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Aug. 6, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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'Woke' Walz - Can He Save Kamala?

description: Some have likened Kamala's VP choice, Tim Walz, to a return to the days of Walter Mondale. Indeed there is a Mondale-like quality to him. But will Walz strike a chord in a midwest that appears to be turning more red? Also today...you can't make this up: Israel is considering pre-empting the expected Iranian retaliation for a previous strike...with another strike!

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Things Have Not Improved 00:14:51
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
Doing well.
Trying to improve the world.
I'm having a struggle.
Maybe we ought to all go to sleep for a generation.
Maybe if we wake up, it'll be better.
I feel that way every day.
Who knows if we'd have done it a generation ago?
Things have not exactly improved.
We have to go through this wringer before that happens.
But then in the meantime, let's have fun telling the world what it would be like if they were all libertarians.
That's good news.
But we had an announcement this morning, yesterday.
They hand-picked.
The one thing good about the Democrats, they believe in democracy.
And we complain about democracy.
Pure democracy is not any good.
And the Democrats are proven Democrats.
But they still pretend that the whole thing is to stop Trump, stop democracy.
And I don't think they follow the rules, even their own rules, about democracy electing their leaders.
Kamala just sort of got by without votes.
Nobody had to vote for her yet.
Who knows?
She's in a position where she may well become a president.
And of course, now everybody's going to be pleased because she has picked a vice president candidate.
And I knew him a bit in the Congress.
And a couple things I would say is not exactly negative, you know, in the sense that we never dealt in issues.
So we were able to talk to each other.
And I always thought of him as a friendly person and somebody that you didn't want to fight with.
So that means that maybe he will be a major benefit more so than most people think for Kamala.
And he certainly would be in contrast to some of the personality traits of the Republican candidate.
Yeah, less bombast, I think.
He has kind of that Midwestern kind of calmness about him.
I mean, that's what it seems to me.
And the big question is, will the prevailing evidence rain?
And people realize, you know, the border isn't doing that well.
It's not protecting us.
And the economy is not doing well.
The one thing that has been in the news has been that this sudden change in the economy and the atmosphere and all, that if it's ushering in, which I believe it is, an extended acceleration of a weakening economy, which they've been in denial because the numbers are out there, but the lying hasn't gone away.
But that's backfiring on them, too, because a lot of people are saying, you know, I'm having trouble.
And then they'll come up with a borders are secure.
There's no inflation here.
And the unemployment is not a problem.
We just count differently.
We count with democracy in light of it.
Anyway, so that's where they are.
And it'll be interesting.
And this is early now.
She just, I guess, announced it today.
Yes, this morning, yeah.
So it'll be interesting.
And will truth prevail?
That would be the question.
And truth has had a difficult time prevailing for a long time.
And, you know, I remember, I mean, you worked a lot with progressives when you were in the House.
I don't remember Tim Waltz being involved in any of the press conferences or maybe more of a party guy than a reach across the aisle.
Yeah, I don't ever remember talking to him about issues other than, you know, polite conversation.
How are you doing today?
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, he has a calm demeanor, a nice demeanor, I think.
The other thing he has going for him is that he was the highest ranking military officer active to serve in the Congress.
He was a command sergeant major, a non-com, yeah.
So I think a 20-year military career, high school football coach, I think, high school teacher.
So he has that kind of definitely opposite of Kamala's, you know, San Francisco credentials, that very, you know, that, you know, so it really is a counterbalance.
Did he take that test that we have for all the candidates about understanding the Federal Reserve?
I don't think he took that test.
I don't think he's going to challenge that too much.
But anyway, we're going to put the first one up.
This is just NPR.
I'm sure they're happy about it.
They have a base, Harris taps Minnesota Governor Tim Waltz as her running mate.
Now, I think the things that we've said have been generally positive, but I think we have a taste of what the right wing is going to do, what the conservatives are going to do.
And they're going to make a pretty good case because, as you remember, Dr. Paul, we talked about this a lot back in 2020.
Two big things.
One was the George Floyd riots.
And that was a big deal.
That was upsetting to a lot of Americans.
And two was the reaction to COVID.
And he was terrible on both of those.
He let him burn everything, mostly peaceful but fiery protests.
He let him burn it down.
He shut everything down in the state.
So I think that's going to come back to haunt him.
Here is Matt Walsh, who's the right-winger on the Daily Wire.
And that's a powerful picture.
He says, this is the image that defines Tim Waltz.
During the Floyd riots, he allowed a mob of thugs to burn a police station to the ground, excuse me, right in the middle of Minneapolis.
Everything you need to know about him can be seen here.
A thousand words, as they say.
And that's a good point, and that's going to be tough for them to deal with, I think.
The other issue is, will the Republicans be able to use this in a proper manner?
Yeah, that's a big thing.
Because sometimes they have good ideas and good problems going on in the world, but they don't benefit from them.
Anyway, maybe it'll be different this time because the conditions are so bad.
I even thought over the year, seeing you never being bragging about the Republicans, but thinking, well, the opposition is so bad.
How are they going to get elected?
But they continue to get elected.
And some of the people in the Republican Party who are supposed to be challenging these bad policies, they contribute to it.
Yeah, a lot of them just want to call names.
Well, speaking of calling names, one of the things that Waltz recently, maybe this tipped it over for him and got him the VP nod, but he sort of coined the term Republicans are weird.
If you remember, because everyone was saying, JD Vance is weird.
Everyone is weird.
Everyone's weird.
I think that kind of reminds me of when Hillary talked about Trump supporters as deplorables.
Because, you know, it's kind of like, look at the source.
Look what the Democrats are like.
Look at the kinds of people they've got.
There are some weirdo Republicans.
There's no question about it.
But just if I can do one more right-winger, this is Charlie Kirk.
And he's got a couple of things as a preview, I think, of what the Republicans are going to do.
And he says, Let's make sure America knows who you are.
You helped ignite the George Floyd riots.
We've talked about that.
When Minneapolis burned, you stalled on deploying the National Guard for an entire day, blaming the city for not submitting the right paperwork.
You let your daughter leak the guards' deployment plans online so writers would know how long they had to loot the city with impunity.
Minneapolis is a war zone because of you.
That was pretty bad.
He also says just after the attempted murder of Donald Trump, you called him and his supporters fascists, egging on the same rhetoric that led him to being shot in the first place.
This is the other thing they're going to probably hit him with, Dr. Paul.
You've overseen some of the most radical youth trans surgery laws in the country.
Under your leadership, teenagers can get their parts chopped off and get sterilized, and your government calls it health care.
And just one other little bit more.
So that's going to be a tough one, I think, for him, Dr. Paul.
If you can go to the next one really quick, I just want to read.
This one is going to hit you, Dr. Paul.
You have the most radical abortion laws in the country, zero limits.
Now, this is awful.
I hate to even say it on the live show.
Every year, five to six babies are born alive and then murdered legally under laws you support.
Immigration, you famously said you wanted to provide a ladder so people can come over Trump's walls.
Fraud during the COVID era, et cetera, et cetera.
So these are some of the things that I think they're going to pick apart.
And there's a lot there.
I'm sure he's a supporter of what the Olympics have done recently.
That is sickening, too.
No kidding.
You know, that was pathetic.
And to think that there was a time when you had a drop of drugs in your system, you'd be banned for life.
And here they have, here they camouflage it, and they take a male and do some tinkering and drugs and surgeries.
Oh, he's a woman now.
But he's not a lady, I'll tell you that.
You know, what did he do to this?
It's just so sickening.
It's just absolutely 100% opposite of what sports should do because I'm a big fan of athletics and sports, no matter what level.
And this is taking it.
And they gave him the medals.
Yeah, it's awful.
Oh, boy, that's terrible.
Yeah.
Well, one other thing, our friend Matt Kibbe had a nice quip because one of the things going around is Waltz saying, if you put that next clip on, and I'm not going to play the audio, I'm just going to read it.
He said, don't ever, this is Tim Waltz.
He said, don't ever shy away from our progressive values.
One person's socialism is another person's neighborliness.
To which Matt Kibbe quipped, neighbors don't hurt you or take your stuff.
So that's one difference with socialism.
And that's a pretty good point that he makes.
You know, that is.
That's a good point because, you know, that is the difference.
It's the use of violence to do what they claim are good things.
But once you use violence and cancel out all voluntarism, they become the problem.
And they're very, you know, it's the crooked cop.
What the government does, you know, they get special favors and they get, they always will.
If you complain about it, we'll give you stuff.
Yeah.
Everybody gets stuff until the country goes bankrupt.
Yeah, of course that's what we're facing.
Yeah, we're facing.
Well, I'm going to just play one audio clip.
I'm going to skip the first one.
Well, let's play the first one.
It's a short one.
It just kind of shows you what the Democrats are also going to have to get over.
Because if I were a Republican strategist and I'm not Dr. Paul, I would say just let her talk.
Once you listen into her, here she's talking about wokeness.
You know, we have to stay woke.
Like, everybody needs to be woke.
And you can talk about it if you're the wokist or woker, but just stay more woke than less woke.
You know, we have to say what.
That's enough.
That's it.
That was really funny.
Just let her talk.
Just let her talk.
That should be the rule.
And I keep thinking, you know, if we can't change things or point out this type of activity and not re-elect them, I mean, it's just hard to believe.
But I keep looking for the signal that more people are waking up, and we can find them because I think there's a basic goodness in the American people, but they don't understand it.
They don't know, you know, they want to say, well, aren't you going to feed the babies that are starving in the streets?
Well, who are you going to steal it from?
You know, everything they want to do, you have to steal the money first, whether it's a fighting, a war, what?
And that argument is stronger than ever before because we don't have nothing.
We don't have anything in the bank.
All we have is debt.
And all they have there is the Fed printing up money.
But it's pretty hard for them to listen to that.
But they'll still be sympathetic because they still want to say, well, we care about people.
It's really good to be able to help the indigent.
Yeah, we had to make people, well, the other one that bugs me, we have to make the people safe.
If there's an epidemic coming, we better make them safe because we have this COVID program that's really going to help.
And they had to use that government force and violence, telling people to strike from their liberties and make things worse.
And it's all done in the name of we're devoted to helping the people.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we'll watch.
And someone pointed out it's 90 days until the election.
So it's going to start getting interesting, I think.
And, you know, I like it.
It'd be interesting.
I'd like to see a debate between Kamala and Trump and Waltz and JD.
I think that would be interesting, too.
Yeah.
I mean, two military guys.
It'd be interesting.
Yeah.
That would be.
That might be.
Yeah, hopefully we'll get to see a little pop some popcorn.
Well, the next one we want to talk about something we saw on anti-war.com.
Dave DeCamp wrote it up.
And it's kind of, I don't know if it's funny or if it's sick or if it's funny and sick.
Put that next clip up.
So Israel is considering a preemptive strike against Iran.
So Iran is expected to retaliate against Israel's original strike on Tehran.
But while it's waiting, it's going to strike again, apparently.
I don't know.
Yeah, when I saw that, I thought, this is sort of crazy.
It's weird.
Yeah, it's weird.
But that whole thing, they can't wait.
That tells you that they're not on the verge of somebody working out peace in that area.
So that's the sad part.
And it's a shame because it's been going on for a long time.
And just as the exhaustion of war usually ends them, and the exhaustion is building in Ukraine, but I see they're trying to revive a little bit of enthusiasm for it.
Agenda Aligns: Cohen's Warning 00:07:22
They're not going to give up easily.
We have to fight war until the bitter end, and everybody's dead.
But it's a pity.
I mean, I was just looking on Twitter X before we started, and Kim.com, who I have a lot of admiration for, he put out a tweet/slash post saying, Israel don't retaliate because it's just what they want.
You're playing into their hands.
The U.S. and Israel is going to collapse on its own because it's in absolute bankruptcy financially.
So that could be a good point as well.
But I mean, it's just crazy.
And of course, they'll find a way of being the victim, even though they will have attacked them twice.
And it's the home folks that really want them to retaliate because they don't want to look like they're weak.
Yeah, yeah.
So I'm not going to do Israel any favors.
Well, I'm not going to play this clip.
I just did a, I'm going to read it, but the State Department spokespeople, I always thought it keeps getting worse with each administration.
I think we're really at the bottom of the barrel now.
These guys are really, really, really bad.
And I think the press corps is starting to get frustrated with them.
The lies are just coming a mile a minute.
And here, if you put this one up, so he was getting grilled, the State Department spokesperson.
And the question was from one of the journalists, so you say Israel has a right to defend yourself.
Why doesn't Iran?
To which the State Department spokesman replied, I get your point, but it's not useful for anyone.
Because we don't want that to happen.
I mean, that's what you always say that, you know, yeah, they have a right to, they have a right to defend themselves, but doesn't anyone else?
And here he's basically saying it, yeah, but we wish they wouldn't.
You know, I think we're winning one part of the argument because when we hear stuff and look at a poll or a commission report and all that, we start with, they're lying to us.
And then we try to sort it out because maybe we can pick out bits and pieces of what's going on.
But, you know, they look at this and they say, oh, that's a lie.
But that's going to help us.
They endorse the lie.
And they know about that.
They say, well, you know, it's just you have to do that to maintain order to have us socialists win.
Authoritarians win that way.
But there's other people, though, that do get sick and tired of it.
And even now, there's still a few every once in a while.
I get so sick and tired of hearing that, I'm going to turn my TV on.
Yeah, that's probably a wise thing to do anyway.
But yeah, it's like you're right, it's nihilism.
I know it's a lie, but it'll help me.
Total nihilism.
Well, the last thing we wanted to bring attention to, and we saw it via Zero Hedge, is Jim Quinn, who's a very astute observer.
And he's got a piece out called Everybody Knows.
We can put that clip up.
And he starts with a quote from one of the greatest songs ever written by Leonard Cohen in the 80s.
And I'm not going to read the lyric, but if you haven't listened to it, if you're not familiar with it, well, you should, because it's a great song.
Nevertheless, Dr. Paul, you were really struck by this article.
You found it very interesting.
Yes, and it's a summation.
It's a broad article, and it's philosophic.
And I know enough about him that he's trustworthy.
And you don't have to say, well, what's his agenda?
Well, I know what his agenda is.
His agenda is probably very similar to our agenda.
And so that's the reason I like what he has to say.
And he talks about truth and nihilism, you know, people lying to try to get ahead and solve our problems.
And this to me is the kind of articles that we should hear more of.
But he's a good writer, and he knows history.
And that's why we clipped this.
But I'd like to just make sure people know about Jim Quinn, read his stuff and compliment him when you can.
And then you might learn about some old songs.
I had to admit, I had to ask, well, I don't think I was old enough to know who Leonard Cohen was.
But I'm sure I would have liked it.
You will like it.
I'll give you a CD.
You'll like it.
Our good friend Adam is a big fan, too.
So, yeah, Jim Quinn is at the Burning Platform blog, but here we picked it off on Hedge.
If I can be indulged, Dr. Paul, if you don't mind, I just wanted to read a line or two from this because you're right.
It's a philosophical piece.
We can't really go into the details of it.
But a couple of things struck me because the line from Leonard Cohen is, everybody knows, the good guys lost.
And if you put up that next clip, he says, it was not so evident at that point.
He's talking about back when he was written in the 80s that the good guys, you and me, lost the war.
Cohen didn't know it at the time, but he was describing the deep state, invisible government control over every aspect of our lives.
The dystopia he describes has grown a hundredfold in the 37 years since he wrote the song, and it keeps getting worse.
We are approaching our rendezvous with destiny, and everybody who's capable of critical thought knows the next several years will be fraught with peril, determining the future course of mankind.
Interesting quote.
That's great.
And I think music is a great place to spread.
True, it does.
It does.
Yeah, and Cohen's one of the best, I think.
So I'm going to wind it down if you think we're about done, or do you have some more to say about this?
Well, I want, you know, I want to quote, he quoted George Orwell.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a very good quote.
Because I didn't see who wrote it, and I read this, and the more I went down there, oh, this is from Orwell.
But he was satisfied to, you know, be putting this out.
So this is George Orwell, as quoted by Jim Gwynn.
The war is not meant to be won.
It is meant to be continuous.
Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance.
The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subject, and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.
And I would say, no matter what.
So that's a strong sentiment.
And it's not like we invented these problems and these discussions and these ideas.
I think George Orwell was ahead of most of us.
Yeah, we should invite Quinn to speak at one of our events.
I think it'd be interesting.
Oh, boy, that would be good.
Yeah, we should.
I'm making a note of it just now.
But I'm going to close out by doing two things.
One, I haven't done this in a while, but I'm going to ask you to do something very easy for us, which is just hit that thumbs up.
Whatever platform you're watching this on, whether it be like or a thumbs up or what have you, that helps us reach a broader audience, doesn't cost you a nickel, and it's very helpful.
And if you can put that last clip up, a reminder of the great people we're going to have speak at our conference this year.
And this is one I have not met in person, but I have admired for decades.
Professor John Mearsheimer from the University of Chicago.
And this quote we're having up here is, as far as I'm concerned, the Republican Democrats on foreign policy are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
Kamala And Hillary 00:02:48
There's just no difference between them.
He's going to explain that and much more about his philosophy at the Ron Paul Institute Conference, August 31st, in Dulles, Virginia.
I will put a link into tickets in the description.
And I would urge you to get those tickets fast because every day I look down and see another handful is sold, so that makes me happy.
Okay, I want to go back to talking about Kamala and her choice for vice president.
She's saying, well, the title of Hillary Clinton's endorsement of Kamala Harris.
And it goes, two days after Biden endorsed Kamala Harris for the presidency, Hillary Clinton did likewise.
So the reason I'm reading this is that's a warning.
Boy, now we're really up against it.
But it might just be that she was not the best candidate ever either.
And you already mentioned how she would get into trouble.
And Kamala Harris can win and make history.
Harris' record and character will be distorted and disparaged by a flood of disinformation and the kind of ugly prejudice we're already hearing from MAGA mouthpieces.
So She's setting it up, but I would say that that shouldn't scare the Republicans.
Hillary has joined more identification.
But I still think there's one thing.
You know, she mentioned there, but I don't think she can accuse us of it.
Harris' record and character, oh, the way Republicans will distort and disparage by a flood of information and kind of pressures from MAGA.
I would say that we made an effort.
You know, the little bit I knew about him, it wasn't ugly.
But people, you know, go to this.
But I don't think even this is not the best political thing to do, hide behind Hillary that she's going to get some votes for him.
So I would say the best thing to gain votes and gain credibility is tell the truth.
And I always was amazed at speeches that I gave, I leveled with all the young people, especially.
Big trouble ahead, big trouble ahead.
And then they called me optimistic.
And it finally dawned on me that what they're optimistic about is they're hearing a straight story and they believe what I was saying and they knew it was serious.
But they also mentioned that you gave us some answers, that we can solve some of these problems, these economic problems, and that they weren't very complicated.
So I'll continue to do that because I so strongly believe in it.
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