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Nov. 6, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Drowning In Their Tears: Elites Panic At 2024 Election Results

With the 2024 election in the bag, there is no shortage of surprises. Including the surprising campaign appearance of anti-Fed, anti-spending, and even anti-neocon sentiment. And record viewership of the Liberty Report. Also today...Politico warns of Trump seeking "revenge"...but is it really revenge or justice?

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Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Good to see you, Daniel.
You well rested?
I'm not well rested, but it is good to see you, Dr. Paul.
He's up late.
I fell asleep before my kids did.
Well, there's a lot of optimism floating around.
They had a few people still asking questions.
I'm in that category.
Still a few questions.
But there certainly has to be a reflection of what the people are thinking.
As disruptive as it is, this pure democracy stuff, I think there was a message there that people got sick and tired of what's been going on.
And that, of course, has to be a benefit because I don't think the representation we had for the past four years, and it wasn't all in one party.
I mean, this came from a lot of sources, but it was so disruptive.
And so I watched a good bit until I got tired.
And I, you know, caught up.
But it was, you know, they see it as a great victory.
But yes, I see the benefit.
But I'm very cautious about saying, boy, we're over the hump now.
I remember after Reagan won, and it was definitely different and definitely positive, and things did get better.
But I think that what happened to the conservative groups, there were a lot of people who worked for Reagan and the Goldwater groups.
This was active at that time.
And the fundraising went because they figured he won.
He's going to do it.
He's going to take care of it.
Well, if anybody's had to try to promote, of course, we don't even get into that decision-making because our message is a little bit nonpartisan, like a lot non-partisan.
And it's to promote the cause of liberty and peace.
And that crosses, sometimes we get frustrated because people who at times agreed with us, you say, I'm talking about the progressive left.
Then all of a sudden they drift off.
And that might have been one of the reasons they didn't do as well this time because they weren't there.
And I think Trump, his rhetoric, he came across, I've never started a war, you know, this sort of thing.
So I think young people might have responded to that.
So it was exciting.
I'm glad that we at least have it.
But I'm not very naive to say we're over the hump because I did start when we were thinking about our program.
I started making the list of the things.
Well, why didn't you talk about this?
Why didn't we change this?
But we had a few things personally happening because we had outreach from the Trump administration, the administration to be, to talk about, at least bring up the subject.
So that was a little unusual.
I don't know whether that means anything long term, but I felt that that was significant and that it was a sign that attitudes had been changing and hopefully we can continue that to happen.
Yeah, it does feel like there's just a sense of relief in the country.
Maybe it's just my own personal feeling like, oh, I'm glad this nightmare is over because, you know, the Biden-Harris administration has been so bad on every level, economics, foreign policy, civil liberties, free expression.
They've just been terrible all along.
And you're right.
Don't have any illusions that we're going to wake up in Never Neverland or what have you.
But there is that feeling of relief as to the fundraising part.
I hope you're wrong on that because, but I think people do need to support organizations that will keep their feet to the fire, even if you support, because otherwise it all goes downhill.
But the other impression I had, I had a feeling that the threat of unrest was overblown.
I really sort of had a feeling that this would be a calm, going back to a normal night where you see who wins at the end of the evening.
And that was the pleasant surprise for me.
I thought it might happen, and I was glad to see it happen.
I was glad to sit there, look at the numbers, and say, okay, I can go to bed.
I'm not going to wake up tomorrow morning and Biden's going to be president again.
I guess it would have been an overwhelming task for the losers to say, oh, Trump stole the votes.
A little bit too many votes to have stolen.
But just think, in spite of all this, the way the system is still a reflection of the last four years that what Trump is still facing, how many charges are against him.
Possibility he could be sentenced a week or so from that.
So it's sort of a mess.
But my guess is that some of that's going to get cleaned up.
Yeah, quick.
With that activity.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I don't really watch cable news at all, and I don't really watch broadcast news at all.
But, you know, I wanted to do the old-fashioned way where you sit there and you watch, and oh, West Virginia's in, you know, and all that.
And I was kind of disappointed with the coverage.
Now, maybe it was just me.
Maybe it's because I haven't watched TV in a long time like that.
But there didn't seem to be that feeling of, okay, let's cut to Montana and see who's winning there.
There were a lot of people in there talking.
There was a lot of, you know, there wasn't, it really didn't feel like the old-fashioned coverage to me.
Yeah, I had a little extra interest in Ohio and what was going on in that Senate race.
But to tell you the truth, I don't know what the final result of Ohio was.
I got distracted from it.
But no, you were right.
You were right.
They picked up a seat.
I mean, the Senate looks to be solidly Republican.
Does that mean Brown or Sherry Brown lost, yeah?
He was a bad, remember him from the House.
He was kind of a bad guy.
He was not.
So that's good.
That'll help people who want to do good in the Senate.
Yeah.
We know some people in the Senate who want to do good things.
There's a couple good ones.
We have a couple good ones in the House.
That's right.
I saw someone earlier posting Thomas Massey for Speaker of the House.
Now, that would be something.
I don't know if anyone would want that.
The trouble is it's impossible.
You have to have somebody that doesn't have strong beliefs.
Yeah.
Well, Massey's smart.
I think Massey knew from the very beginning what he wanted is like his rules committee.
That's really where the power is, I think, in many ways.
That is.
And a lot of people don't realize that.
I didn't realize it until I had experience with it.
I mean, they can rewrite a bill.
Totally.
The whole thing.
They can scratch everything except the enacting clause and start from scratch, even though they've worked on it maybe for six months.
Strike everything after the introduction and add this in.
Yeah, that's crazy how that works.
But I'm glad to see he won.
He was actually the first person who won because he even posted on Twitter.
I should have put it up there.
But because he ran unopposed, he said, well, I know that I won because I just finished voting and I voted for myself, and no one was running against me.
But, you know, Kentucky was the first state, I think, to announce, too.
Yeah, I think so.
Yeah, yeah.
It was interesting.
So Grant probably voted early.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I had a couple clips just for fun, just to show kind of where our heads have been.
It's been a great week for the show, and we're grateful that people that have watched us.
And we haven't had a huge bump on Rumble.
We had a huge bump on Twitter X, which makes us happy.
So let's put a couple things on.
Now, remember yesterday we did a warning show.
Trump, please stay away from Pompeo.
He's a bad dude.
Put that one up.
So here is what we said.
This is the show itself uploaded onto Twitter X.
And I said, Trump told Rogan what a mistake it was to hire John Bolton last time around, but he's in danger of making an even worse mistake with Mike Pompeo.
Beware of the neocons, President Trump.
And go to the next one.
This is funny.
We had an interesting response to this show that we put up.
Elon Musk.
He said, I agree that we should not empower neocon warmongers.
He replied to our show.
And you said, Thanks, Elon.
I'm glad we agree.
When the smoke clears, we'd love to have you on the livery report.
And to our real surprise, he said, sure.
Do you think that was the real Elon Musk?
It kind of seems like unless someone hacked him.
Wow, they'd be in trouble.
That's pretty amazing.
But that was fun.
And it was a lot of fun.
And in fact, even just doing the show and having him respond made the news.
If you go to the next one, this was a tweet from Leading Report saying, breaking.
Ron Paul tells Trump to be wary of neocons like Mike Pompeo, who are, quote, yet again infesting his cabinet and administration.
That was pretty fun.
And one final thing is the show itself.
Go to the next one on Twitter that we put up, the neocon show, the Beware of Neocons.
If you look down there in the bottom right, 3.1 million views of our show, Dr. Paul, I know that makes you happy.
Yes, it's good.
It surprises me.
I'm amazed when a crowd turns up and I figure the message is getting out because I don't have any naive beliefs that I'm a magic person and I turn them on and send them in.
All I know is that when we see turnouts and support growing, that they're responding to the message.
They're voting for the message.
I know that's hard to perceive, but I think it really is because you have a lot of pros and cons about Trump.
And even on the other side, a lot of people just have this image and they voted against one and for another.
But really, deep down inside, there was a philosophy position that sort of prevailed on each side.
And that's really what counts, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, we had a couple of other good results.
There was a clip that Chris took out of the show yesterday and put up.
If you put that next one up, this also did well.
So the show itself, 3.1 million, we'll take that any day, every day.
That's better than CNN.
That's better than cable by a long shot.
So we're right up there with the big people.
But anyway, here's a little clip from a three-minute clip where we're warning, beware of Mike Pompeo.
That was seen by 268,000 people.
And even the show on Rumble that we linked to and put it up on Twitter X, if you do that next one, that did 338,000.
So we're like, you know, 4 million for just yesterday watching the show.
I'll take that every day.
That would be fantastic.
What I think about is back in the old days, starting out, you want to get ads, you have to have your name recognition, and you put it up and you want a 15-second, 30-second ad.
And the dollars that you have to pay just to get 30 seconds.
And then you get, you know, thousands of people looking at it.
But all of a sudden, you know, the monetary thing has changed.
I mean, if you know and understand that there's a market out there, you say, well, that's a special market and they're all crazy.
It'll be different.
But this might be where the real action is, you know, is on the internet and reaching people like this.
And getting that type of exposure for the views that we have and the libertarianism that we want people to understand.
I think it's pretty neat.
And actually, there's even better because your weekly report this week that you recorded and put up, it was retweeted by Elon Musk.
I don't have that clip, but I do have, if you put that next clip up, it was retweeted, but it was also viewed by, if you put that next clip up, please.
4.9 million people, 5 million people watched your weekly report.
I think that's probably more than watched CNN, MSNBC, and all of them put together.
So, I mean, we don't mean to gloat, but you know how much work you put into it.
I know how much work we put into the show.
You know, it is so different.
I mean, this technology, and maybe the message is coming along, and things are bad, and people are looking for something else.
So maybe it all just comes together, and there's a vehicle where you can, people want a clear-cut message, and they want to hear the truth, and then they go to the places where they think they're getting it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So it's, it's, you know, we're very happy about that.
But, you know, and we're happy, I'm sure that you're happy about some of the changes that are going to be happening and we don't have any illusions about it.
I did see, I think it was on Hedge this morning that Musk is talking about the departments he wants to cut.
Now, Republicans have done that for decades, but it almost seems like he could be the one to make it happen.
Yes, and you have to try.
There were a lot of times we'd have vote along those lines, you know, cut 5% here.
Concerns About Justice Funding 00:15:27
Or in the other one that was a mockery of the Constitution is, and I think they probably still do it.
The ritual, remember the ritual?
You couldn't put anything on the floor for a vote unless you cite the place where it came from the Constitution.
And many times, one time we caught him in a really stupid monetary error, and they said it was in the Constitution.
So before the bill came to the floor and it was being voted on in the conference, the staff pointed this out.
Boy, they quickly changed that.
And we can't put that up there.
It's really not constitutional.
So that didn't work.
You can have a lot of rules and regulations.
So it's the character of the people.
It's the difference between the written law and natural law.
I mean, sometimes the Constitution is there good, and it should have one.
But it really boils down, and the founders recognize this.
This has to do with character and morality of the people doing it.
And sometimes they don't even, you know, if it's confusing, maybe they just have to be moral about it and decide what is right and wrong.
Oh, you can't do that.
Nobody, how do you know what's right and wrong?
Oh, killing is okay all the time, no matter what.
As long as the government does it.
Well, I had a couple of funny things kind of globally that I wanted to put up there.
And I know you probably have some thoughts on.
If you put the next one up, this is, I think, the hilarious one of the day, maybe.
This is the British Prime Minister, Kier Stahmer, right, who's a really bad guy.
He's just terrible.
And so here he is congratulating Donald Trump on his victory.
And anyone who's following things realize that Kier Stahmer's Labor Party sent 100 operatives over to help Kamala Harris.
Remember, we talked about it on the show.
And now he's like, whoa, nothing to see here, folks.
You just tried to help his opponent win, and now you're acting like your best buddies.
You know, have politicians in there on their side, too.
And another one is, if you go to the next one, this is Petr Pavel.
He's the president of the Czech Republic.
Now he's acting like he's best friends.
I value our partnership and our friendship, et cetera, et cetera, upholding European security.
Now, he's one of the biggest cheerleaders of the Ukraine war.
He's the guy who promised that he would go around the world finding 155 millimeter shells to give to Ukraine.
He actually didn't find any, but super warmonger.
He was in the military.
He was actually a member of the Czechoslovak Communist Party.
He was a high-ranking member.
He's a high commie who's now a pro-freedom guy.
And the last one for foreign reactions that I thought was funny, we'll title this Panic and do the next one.
None other than Vladimir Zelensky.
He's congratulating Trump on his impressive victory.
And I'm not going to read all this, but I'm just going to summarize it.
Send more money is his reaction.
I thought this, I wonder which Zelensky.
Oh, it's the thieves.
Zelensky.
Of course.
We need money.
We need money.
Solve their problems.
Send me more bombs.
They ought to be allowed to go over there picking up the trash and the bombs that are laying around and haul away and jock it.
Yeah.
Time to leave.
Well, you probably won't like this, but I wanted to push a couple of memes because there was a lot of attention when Elon said to you, he'd love to have you help sort out this cutting business, you know, which is pretty neat, Department of Government Efficiency.
And so a lot of people made a lot of funny memes based on it.
And memes are great, I think.
I used to not like them, but I like them now.
This is a classic.
You know, the one of you sitting alone in the chair.
Someone put in Elon Musk in the chair next to you.
I thought that was hilarious.
Now here's another one.
We were not looking at each other.
Here's another one of you and Musk.
I think it's from Dune, if I'm not mistaken.
But it's Doge, which is the government efficiency.
I thought that was a funny one.
And then there's another one that I really like.
It's the real fun begins now, and there's your face on the screen.
So anyway, there's tons and tons of those out there.
I just grabbed a couple of them before the show because we need to have a little bit of humor, I think.
Well, and I think in a short period of time, all of a sudden, some of this stuff won't be very humorous.
Yeah.
You know, because it's not going to be easy to deal with $2 trillion worth of debt.
And if the rules are understood correctly, the debt will be liquidated and it's not done painlessly.
But in the meantime, it can be softened.
And just declaring bankruptcy and be very disruptive is more difficult than if you do it when you lower taxes, get rid of regulations, and protect civil liberties and do a lot of things like that.
Then the people can recover and adapt to it a little bit better.
So there are different ways of doing this.
But unfortunately, when there's problems, government increases.
Just think of the tragedy of COVID.
That was just an excuse to spend more money and support special interests and just take advantage of it.
One of the things I thought of in the morning when I got up, started reading Zero Hedge in a couple places.
I saw the markets did a lot of stuff.
I don't know much about it.
I know you do.
What is your take on the market reaction to the well, I think early on the markets were saying that Trump was going to win.
Before they both were.
One was they were putting out this poll on Iowa.
And the poll on Iowa said, it's very, very close.
And boy, all this going on.
It's just a close race going on.
I don't even think it was close.
And there was nobody campaigning there.
So that's why it was just a basic lie by the reporters trying to say, but why do they waste that energy if they know that they have to do something because they're way behind?
They think lying and fidgeting around is going to solve their problem.
So yes, you have to sort it out.
People want to try to hear the truth.
That's why people are looking for pollsters that might have a reputation.
And there aren't very many because I don't think they know a lot of things.
It's sort of a subjective thing.
And people are not going to tell you that.
So there'll be somebody that hit everything on the nose and say, I knew everything was going on.
But I think the sentiments generally were that not too many people were betting their money on Paris.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, my son was watching the betting markets and how, you know, there was at some point last night where the betting for Trump was like 85 or 90 cents.
So you would get a dollar back.
So the margin of profit was really, really small.
So that was interesting to watch.
And I was talking to a businessman who was a supporter of ours this morning.
And he was saying that orders have been way down for them.
And he feels now really optimistic that the economy is going to get back on track.
And like you say, it's not going to be a magic wand, but there does seem to be that feeling of optimism.
Yeah, and the real economy has been kept a secret.
You know, there's two economies out there, the people who are doing quite well and the ones that are suffering behind the scenes.
But I think they were the ones that helped Trump because Trump was mentioning that.
But I think it's definitely going to get better, but don't be overly optimistic about it.
Well, we wanted to cover one story quickly in the time that we have left.
Now, I messed up the order it uploaded wrong.
So if you skip the next one and go one ahead to where you can see kind of the title, this is Politico's take on the election.
Now, of course, they're going to pour cold water on it.
They're biased.
We know that.
But they run this article.
Trump promised to get revenge.
Here are his targets.
And it sounds really scary.
And if you go back one, which is technically going forward, they write, Donald Trump ran a campaign based on retribution.
Now he's perfectly positioned to carry it out.
Now, I would disagree with that characterization, but nevertheless, what is your take on this?
Well, what dawned on me with this is that's really not the way to achieve justice.
If everything is motivated by targeting them to get revenge, that makes things worse.
Because the problems came up because they had no justice.
And so what we need is not revenge to solve the problem of lack of justice.
We need justice to be replacing all that nonsense that was going on.
And someday, well, it's starting to come out.
I was going to say, someday, all the nonsense that was poured on Trump, it was to the point the Democrats never realized the more they did, the more popular it got, because the people know this is Punch of Bologna.
They didn't believe any of it.
You know, oh, yeah, what, 34 accounts, he'd go to prison for life and all that thing.
And people didn't.
People do wake up.
That's why I want to wake up people before they allow people to go to war.
And Trump has said enough here that we should be able to keep an eye on that.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
But you're right, it's about justice, you know, in a way.
And they're making it sound like he's going to be coming after these people.
But like you say, there's that.
There's all of these ridiculous felonies that are still ongoing, as you point out.
There's the Russiagate stuff that still won't die.
And then there's this whole last couple of weeks with Kamala and everyone repeating her talking about Trump being Hitler, which is so absurd that people just laughed it off.
I think she hurt herself by doing that.
Oh, I do too.
And Trump didn't prove that he was revengeful in his last term.
Because remember, he really had some evidence on Hillary and others that really are with Russia Gate.
That was really bad.
And now the people have forgotten about that.
Case is not going to get tried.
And yet that was a big deal.
But truth one out on this one, that some of those people are no longer getting a paycheck from the government.
Now they're in the think tanks getting paychecks.
Yeah.
Well, I'm going to close out.
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Over to you, Dr. Paul.
Very good.
And I think we will keep an eye on what's happening and hopefully contribute some positive things to say and do.
But the things where I think they should be most cautious about is the temptation for the administration, even though they've had a spectrum of people.
We've heard some people on Fort Balls say they're a disaster and others talk very reasonably.
And I think they also had to become realistic.
So how do you cut $35 trillion?
It doesn't mean you shouldn't try, but it just doesn't happen that way.
And you have to be realistic about that.
And the other thing that they're going to be tempted to do because they have promised, and the administration, and they didn't get Democratic support on that, is we can't stand China out-competing us.
Of course, I've seen some conservative commentators recently switch and become very protectionist.
And they came up with all the wrong reasons.
So there's going to be an effort.
The promise has been made, and they're going to do it.
I hope they soften that approach, and that's with the terrorist and sanctions.
We don't need any sanctions.
If we're really in a tight spot, if they're outdoing us, economically speaking, maybe we ought to clean up our act and get our taxes lower and get more regulation.
Let them compete.
And I think sanctions are terrible.
I think also freezing assets.
Just think of all this thing we talked about the other day about freezing Russian assets.
And now they're playing games with distributing it.
And people love it.
Oh, I won't be taxed.
But maybe someday they're going to come to here and take our money and our freedoms as well.
So I think that I think the whole general principle of seeking justice and common sense and free markets and live up to the standards of having peace and prosperity by a free society.
That is what we need.
It will solve the problems without it getting too complicated because the opportunity is going to be there.
The cultural Marxists have worked hard to create chaos in our streets.
And they have been pretty successful when you look at some of our industries like medical industry and so many people are suffering from this.
So the chaos is there.
So the chaos there should offer us an opportunity to present our case for freedom.
Because that does have a real answer.
And it's a personal thing.
And one thing I would invite is to think in terms of all that our problems have that we think we want to have.
individual freedoms.
I get so tired of everything being a group.
What group do you belong to?
How did you vote?
Where are your registration?
And I understand why they do it, and some of it is justified.
But every individual should be treated as an individual because individuals have rights.
And I think the whole idea that you can put a people together and say, I don't think groups of people should ever get special privileges, but I don't think they should ever be punished as a group.
And the best way to do that is seek and understand that liberty comes to the individual in a natural way.
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