Pumped full of his special sauce, Joe Biden watched the sun go down on his presidency as he spoke to a Democratic National Convention, at midnight, in the absence of the Party's top leaders. As could be expected, the speech itself was a trainwreck, punctuating the long-held Democratic Party lie that he was "sharp as a tack" and "just fine." Also today: Are Kamala's polling numbers yet another lying psy-op? Finally: On the same day Biden praised Ukraine as "stil free," the country's parliament voted to outlaw its largest church. Free?
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?
Good.
Did you get enough sleep last night, or did you stay up to listen to the great speech?
Yeah, I had to stay up to listen to Biden.
No, I cheated.
I listened on Twitter.
Oh, as much as you want or need.
Yeah, little small doses.
Well, I tell you what, it did.
That's a big doses.
This thing is just typical, old-fashioned politics, but with a new angle.
It's just a little meaner and nastier.
And the one thing I came to a conclusion on, isn't it amazing that even somebody who deserves every bit of the ridicule again, you still have this sympathy of saying, why should they treat him, Bossett Biden, that is, quite the same way.
But if you were, you know, payback, you say, well, he deserved more.
But at the same time, the immediate reaction of seeing how they committed a coup and took the government and they raised somebody up that never had a single vote for anything and put Kamala in a position to take over.
But she came and said nice words about him for about three minutes.
But the timing and everything, I mean, that's what the media is filled with, how mistreated he was by his best friends.
But when you lose power, you lose friends.
They're pseudo-friendships.
And that's what's happening.
But my other thought of this, and I mentioned this to you, is this might just be a representation of what happens to a society when they totally give up on telling the truth.
I mean, our political system isn't truthful.
And the judicial system isn't truthful.
Our media system isn't truthful.
And this is something that just gets totally out of hand.
And you end up with some awful things happening.
That's why over the years I would say I have become more anti-political in the sense of political parties.
Even though I put up with it and I tolerate it and I looked at it, but I've tried to put it in a perspective.
Well, I'm not going to lie to myself.
I'm not going to pretend this is really the answer to the world's problem, but there's something else.
And I think what we're trying to do, and we have done a little bit of good in our program like his, is try to find out what the truth is and let people expose it because this is just a mess.
And then I can't see how people can get excited and be excited about the election coming up.
And we have some things to talk about that.
Is it really, are they really telling us the truth?
Who's the head in the polls and things like that?
Yeah.
Well, you know, I mean, I think it was goofy the way the Republicans and the right-wingers talked about Kamala Harris's view about price gouging.
They said it's communism, communism.
I thought it was stupid and it was also an opportunity, a missed opportunity to explain some basic economics to people.
Nevertheless, I think the defenestration of Joe Biden, which culminated last night at midnight, well past his bedtime, God knows how much juice they gave him to get pumped up for the speech.
But he went up there as sort of a sad, like you say, kind of a sad specter of his former self, you know.
And it does remind me not to say that they are communists, but it reminds me of the fact that he was deposed without a vote, as we've talked about on the show many times.
Kamala Harris has received no votes, and I just wanted to get it right, and I was looking here on Wikipedia, and it reminds me of something else in history not that long ago.
On October 14th, 1964, the Presidium and the Central Committee voted to accept Khrushchev's voluntary request to retire for reasons of advanced age and ill health.
And so the defadmenistration of Biden does remind me of when the party decided it was time for Khrushchev to go.
The party has decided it's time for Biden to go.
And the people who live under that know that the party is like a god.
And the whole thing is, is they actually believe it, too, because they're people who are nihilists.
They don't believe in the natural laws and they don't have to have spiritual beliefs.
And they use it, though.
They use spiritual beliefs and all this.
But they will look to the power brokers.
And they've been around all the time.
Even when this mess wasn't as apparent, you know, for decades now, there have been people in this country talking about where the real government was.
And it was usually referred to something like the deep state or something like that.
People who behind the scenes have power, have political power to pull strings and a lot of money and position their true believers in certain places, you know, like during the chaotic period that we're going through, we know cultural Marxism is well implanted into our whole system.
So it's just not a matter of serious people sitting down and talking like you say, why couldn't we talk about minimum wage laws?
Or wage and price controls.
But no, that's not it.
We're far removed.
Who has the power to take over and dictate?
And you know what?
The longer it lasts, and it doesn't last forever, the longer it lasts, the richer they get when they're pulling all the strings.
And I think, you know, the stirring now in the markets and all, I think there's a tremendous amount of fake wealth out there.
And we got away with it since World War II because we had real wealth, we had the gold, we had the resources, the whole work.
But things are different now.
We might even lose the reserve currency status.
The dollar may go down to tubes.
And once again, I saw something in the paper today.
China's picking up the gold.
So the system that we have, and we see it treated like this within the system, and they have to punish people and see what happens to Biden.
So you have to say, well, this sounds like this is over the top.
How can it be that nasty?
But then the answer is, how could he have been so nasty?
Very nasty.
Very nasty.
Before we move on, I want to do a shout out to Conreal 2020, who gave us a couple of super chats, and we appreciate that helping keep us going.
But, you know, something you mentioned before we started is we were kind of comparing notes because we both watched some clips of it.
And you said one thing that struck you was the lies.
I mean, bold-faced lies without hesitation, completely, as if truth doesn't matter at all.
And to them, it doesn't, other than the fact that you want to avoid it.
And some of our material today, you know, they even talked about, you know, talking about the truth in terms of committing treason.
You know, if you don't say the right thing and do the site thing and silence the right people you're supposed to silence, then they will accuse you of treason.
I mean, they did that in a form to Trump.
You know, Trump is an easy guy to pick on.
We know all the shortcomings, but people will look for that and put it on.
And they try, I'm talking about impeachments and over and over again, trying to put them in jail, serious things that they do.
They know they're all lies, you know.
And they use the word insurrection.
Hey, that's insurrection sort of like treason, you know, and people can get into trouble doing that.
So that's the reaction.
So it isn't a society that has difference of opinion and have worked out ways of having debates.
There are no great debates in the Senate or the House of Representatives.
There has been a few.
I could probably find one or two over those many years I was in Washington, but it's not the place to discuss seriously these problems.
It's not in this media.
It's not with our current status in this country, especially during the times of elections.
Yeah, well, let's listen now.
We're talking about lies.
We're talking about democracy.
We're talking about the defenestration of Biden.
Let's listen to this first clip.
Now, this is from his speech where he talks a little bit about democracy.
It's something to behold.
Let's play that whole first clip if we can on democracy.
Yeah, there you go.
Okay, let's listen to Biden on this on democracy here.
The winner has passed.
And with a grateful heart, I stand before you now on this August night to report that democracy has prevailed.
Democracy.
Democracy has delivered.
And now democracy must be preserved.
The winner is back.
When I read that, I wrote a little note.
I said, to witness a democracy, democracy and the politics is the dictatorship of those lying to the majority.
But you have to lie to them.
It's so insincere.
And the question is, some of these people demanded or are they just evil?
But I put it down to the natural instincts of the human beings have good instincts and bad ones.
But one of the worst things you can do is give undeserved power and the majority going along with it thinking they're doing good things.
Brainwash the people to go along and put these dictators in.
And then you think, well, maybe they're getting ready to put Kamala in, or really are they getting ready to put Kamala in?
But they want to do this.
And, you know, they use this word cynically.
They say, we're coordinating Kamala.
You know, we don't vote anymore.
But the majority is for it.
We know what the majority wants.
We created them.
And that reminds me of a classic of the regime change operations that the U.S. has been doing overseas, if you remember.
Well, everyone went out and vote, and they voted for candidate X, but the U.S. doesn't like candidate X, so they get a few hundred people in the streets, and they say, well, the people are in the streets against him, you know.
And this is exactly what we're having here.
This is a color revolution because not a single person voted for Kamala Harris to be the presidential nominee.
She was appointed, not elected.
And Biden has the audacity to go up and say, democracy has prevailed.
You know, it has a very Soviet feel.
But I've got another zinger for you because we know what happened under Biden.
We remember COVID.
We remember what he did.
We remember how many things he shut down.
Know, obviously, Trump is not innocent at all, but to hear, to remember all the things he shut down and mandated and mandating the shot on people, how many lives were ruined by him forcing them to take the shot.
Let's listen to him talk about this next little clip here.
Play that whole next clip, and let's put our earphones in and listen to if he can find that second one.
The pharma clip.
here we go beginning to fight for 50 years to give medicare no sound the power to negotiate lower prescription drug prices We finally beat Big Pharma.
We finally beat Big Pharma, is what he said.
This is after giving them total immunity to do anything they want with these shots and kill a bunch of people, they beat them.
Yeah, they do it.
There's a term once the British use.
How did you get the doctors to go along with this socialized medicine?
We stuffed their mouths with money.
And then they go, oh, we beat them.
They're quiet now.
We gave them everything they wanted.
So, you know, the other thing that goes on here is pretty disgusting.
And Harris is probably the worst at this particular time.
And that is, she was a participant.
And it sort of slips out.
Yeah, I helped do that.
I helped do that.
So they create the problems, the monstrous problem.
They create all the inflation, and they are the ones to solve the problem.
And the American people, you know, buy into this stuff.
Fortunately, not everybody.
And hopefully, with this, I always dreamed that all this technology, which sometimes is massive and negative and dangerous, that the technology should be used by more libertarian thinking people.
And they are.
We're getting a message out to get it out and explain some of this thing.
But like you said earlier, they should have used this as an opportunity to teach a little economics.
You know, when Harris goes, oh, we'll get rid of inflation.
We'll just put on controls.
And everybody will be happy.
Well, I do want to read a special shout out, Dr. Paul.
This is Dennis Marberger.
He's a friend of ours.
He's been to our conferences, gave us $89.
I don't know if that number rings a bell, but he did say, happy 89th birthday, Dr. Ron Paul.
Thank you for your principled defense of our liberty and our rightful remedies.
Non-compliance, nullification, interposition, secession, the golden rule, and end the Fed.
That can't be right.
They got the number wrong there.
I don't feel old.
No, I think he added a few decades there.
He was just teaching.
But we thank him nonetheless.
That's very nice.
But I wanted to, if you're indulgent, I wanted to do one more because I know this is going to be near and dear to your heart.
Polling Lies in America00:04:17
Because you always talk about how they accuse the others of doing what they're doing.
And this is a crazy clip.
This is a state senator.
I didn't look up her name, but she was speaking on the floor, and she had a warning for people if they're going to elect Trump.
Do that third one, and let's play what she has to say.
She's an odd bird here.
Yeah, let's listen to this.
Donald Trump would be able to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his political opponents.
He could even turn the FBI into his own personal police force.
That is not how it works in America.
This America.
That is everywhere.
We can cut it off.
But it's endless.
Yeah, it's endless.
Can you believe it?
Be gullible people believing that nonsense.
I mean, he may well do that.
However, he may have gotten his lesson on how to do it from crazy, crazy, crazy stuff.
So, anyway, I'm sure there'll be more interesting things to watch.
But let's move on because we had a little too much fun with that topic, unless you had some more you wanted to read about it.
We could go on and on, but it's the same old story: people lie and cheat and steal and pretend they're the answer to all things necessary and good.
Just vote harder, they will take care of us.
So, we will go on to something.
We want to go on to polling.
You love polls.
Yeah, I do like polls, and this is interesting for a number of reasons.
I know, it just kind of caught my attention.
Skip ahead a couple to the Harris polls, much less rosy.
I want to say one thing it depends on who does the polling.
Yeah, that's right, that's right, that's right, and that's kind of what they're saying here.
Now, this is a super PAC supporting Kamala Harris, and the founder of this group is saying, Be careful.
All these polling numbers are coming out, and they look very good for someone who just a week ago was the least popular vice president in history.
She's going to sweep all states, but I think it's a smart move on his part to say, hang on a minute, Harris polling is much less rosy than reported.
The super PAC admits.
So, and he goes on to say, This is Chauncey McLean.
He's a president of the Super PAC, and he says a lot of what's happening, our numbers are much less rosy than you're seeing in public.
Now, he goes into the details of this.
I'm not an expert on how polls work, but he's saying, according to how they are doing the polling, they are skewing it to make it look like she's more popular than she is.
And you'd say, Well, why is he blowing the whistle on this?
It's a good thing because you run into the danger of complacency.
You know, oh, she's going to sweep all the states.
You know, I'll stay home and not vote that day.
You know, my comment: sometimes I like my immediate thoughts, and then I modify and I try to see if it's correct or anybody agrees.
But my first thought on this one: a touch of reality revealing a handful of lies.
Here they come up and say, We're doing polls, and this doesn't agree with all the propaganda, and yet they're on the side of supposedly the conspirators that's going to help Kamala.
So, it was a it they finally got to the point they allowed they allowed this reality in revealing the so-called truth for a moment, and all of a sudden, what is it doing?
It's going to magnify their problems.
Fortunately, they'd have the problem, otherwise, stay silent, and then they have the surprise of wow, were the polls wrong.
Every once in a while, you get that.
So, I often wonder how I think polls see sort of close to government.
Whatever the government tells me, I start with saying it's probably not true.
Well, I remember that just before the 16 election, I think it was the Washington Post had that thing up showing that Hillary Clinton had 93% chance of winning according to their calculations.
Ukraine's Church Ban: Policy Paradox00:06:37
That didn't work out that well.
It didn't make it out a truth either.
It didn't produce it.
Well, I want to go a little bit into foreign policy on one thing if you think we're done with this.
It's a quick, this was a quick one, but there's one more clip that segues into our next segment.
And this is Biden talking about foreign policy.
If we can queue up that last one, Dr. Paul, you're going to want to put your earpiece in to listen to this last audio video clip.
Now, listen to the president.
He's doing a little foreign policy here.
We're united in Europe.
Like it hadn't been united for years, adding Finland and Sweden to NATO.
Ten days before he died, Henry Kissinger called and said, not since, not since Napoleon has Europe not looked over their shoulder at Russia with dread until now.
Until now.
Well, guess what?
Putin thought he'd take Kyiv in three days.
Three years later, Ukraine is still free.
Still free.
Now, I don't believe this kiss is a thing.
He can take it down anyway.
But so the point I wanted to make, Dr. Paul, the juxtaposition of him saying, three years later, Ukraine is still free.
Now, go to that next clip from the FT.
This is something that happened yesterday.
This is what a free Ukraine looks like to Joe Biden.
Ukraine passes law, if you can find that one.
Here it is.
Ukraine passes law to ban, quote, pro-Kremlin Orthodox Church.
And if you go to the next clip after that, this is a Canadian scholar, Ivan Kachanovsky.
Now he says, freedom and democracy, the Rada adopted its entirety bill number 8371 on the de facto ban of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
In the second reading, the document was supported by 265 people's deputies, et cetera, et cetera.
So what they did, Dr. Paul, yesterday is they voted to ban the largest church in Ukraine.
And that is what freedom looks like to Joe Biden.
But, you know, my immediate thought is, is share the blame.
I mean, would this be happening without, you know, October 14th, you know, November, what was that day?
2014.
Yeah, in 2014.
With us participating and committing a coup and subsequently, then supporting the war.
And then we prod the NATO people to declare war, unofficially, of course, against Russia and the whole world.
Russia becomes, you know, the greatest enemy ever.
So they do this, and they go back and help.
We're responsible.
We're responsible for the setting up of that government.
We're responsible for all the money.
And it'll weigh morally for many of the deaths, if not all, because we were pushing this whole thing.
But what about the stealing of the money in order to pay for this?
How many?
A billion dollars?
Or $10 billion?
Or $80 billion?
But, you know, the truth is, nobody knows how much total, and nobody knows where the money is.
So it just goes on and on.
And so they talk about there'll be a few people who will say, oh, they've gone too far, closing down the churches, and now they're trying to expand that to make it say it's treasonous.
You know, if you go to that church, and there's two segments, two types of Christian churches over there, and it looks like they're going to be after both and everybody.
So the church is gone because, you know, truth is treasonous.
And we do have a world of lies.
And that's why, you know, the religious values, and there are some people who make the case that it's happening to some degree in this country.
You know, I mean, during the COVID, I think there were examples where churches were denied the right to go and worship.
So this is tradition because the greatest enemy to the authoritarians are religious values.
And that's why, of course, you know, did the Soviets tolerate it?
No.
Did the Nazis tolerate it?
No.
You know, they believe in religious enthusiasm, but it has to be directed to their God, which is the state.
And that's how you do good things.
Otherwise, people get to do whatever they want.
Oh, that'd be chaotic.
You know, sure, that'll be chaotic if they assume responsibility for themselves and not have the government tell us everything that we have to do from cradle to grave.
I mean, this is how the government and the Biden administration gaslights us, because there are millions and millions of Russian-speaking Ukrainians who go to this church.
They have just been told that your church is illegal.
You can no longer go to your church.
Millions of people have been told this now, that they can't go to their church.
Yeah, we have a Biden administration that's given $200 billion to a country that outlaws a church attended by millions, that outlaws all political parties who are not pro-government, who outlaws all media that is not pro-government media.
These are all outlawed, and then they have the audacity to get before the American people and say Ukraine is free.
Well, they have a very strange concept of what freedom looks like.
It's certainly different than any one of us would have.
Here, the draft law that they're working on is about to be passed.
They call it draft law 8371.
And here's a description.
The court will deprive the UOC, one big branch of the church, of the legal identity, its legal identity and property rights, and outlaw its religious activities, forcing parishioners to worship underground.
This amounts to a collective, this is important, this amounts to a collective punishment of innocent citizens on religious grounds.
I don't think it would have passed the muster of Thomas Jefferson.
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
So anyway, that's our pro-freedom.
Ideas Prevail: 31st Conference00:02:22
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And over to you.
And thanks again for our super chatters.
And over to you, Dr. Paul.
Very, very good.
You know, I had one little episode yesterday that was a little boost for us.
I was on the Doug Casey program, and there was a call-in, a very nice, friendly supporter.
And before he got the question to him, he says, and I'll be seeing you this week.
I'm coming to your conference.
That's fantastic.
But anyway, we are having the conferences because we like the conferences.
We're convinced they do a lot of good.
Daniel has done a lot of work having, you know, sort of a classroom session with young people that will come even the day before.
And that's always been very popular.
It grows a little bit each year.
But we really do believe in education, a change of ideas, ideas whose time have come cannot be stopped by armies.
And nobody knows exactly what the ideas prevail.
And we never know exactly how big the support is, but they're out there.
So once I sort of understood the power of ideas, and the original way in this country, it was pamphleteering.
And I keep thinking, we complain a lot, but the internet and their intrusion.
And I just thought, How many pamphlets were passed out in the time?
Thank goodness for the printing press, you know, at the beginning of our time.
Ideas had consequences.
It is the ideas behind what Jefferson and others were doing with the Constitution.
And I think that it's so important that we do that.
So that's why we have these conferences.
Besides, we have fun at that, so it's self-serving too, because we like to go there and visit with the supporters.