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If you want to be a part of the program, we spent a lot of time last week, both on radio and TV, about talking about the globalists around the world and what a sucker nation America is.
You know, $7 billion annually for the UN.
Why don't we let China have the UN?
They can have it.
They're anti-American.
They're anti-Semitic often.
Why bother?
Why are we fostering an organization that is as ineffective as anything?
You know, the tens and tens and hundreds of millions of dollars over the years to the World Health Organization, an organization that became the propaganda arm for the communist Chinese after COVID.
You know, why are we paying all the Paris Accord money, the bulk of it, and when we allow that agreement to identify China and India as developing nations?
They're not developing nations, and they pay next to nothing.
You know, the same goes with all the tens of millions of dollars we've spent over the years for the World Economic Forum.
Never mind, NATO never pays their fair share either.
You know, war is in their backyard, and they don't seem to have the urgency.
The only person that finally spoke out and said, if you're going to fight this war, win it, was Boris Johnson.
And that just didn't happen until late last night.
I saw this.
I mean, it's ridiculous that we're funding all of this and listening to the drivel and the insanity of everybody at that World Economic Forum led by John Kerry and Al Gore is enough to make anyone puke.
Here was Gore last week.
62 million tons into it every single day.
And the accumulated amount is now trapping as much extra heat as would be released by 600,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every single day on the earth.
That's what's boiling the oceans, creating these atmospheric rivers and the rain bombs and sucking the moisture out of the land and creating the droughts and melting the ice and raising the sea level and causing these waves of climate refugees predicted to reach 1 billion in this century.
Look at the xenophobia and political authoritarian trends that have come from just a few million refugees.
What about a billion?
We would lose our capacity for self-governance on this world.
We have to act.
Greta Thunberg was just arrested in Germany.
I agree with her efforts to stop that coal mine in Germany.
When climate activists around the world, and I'm partly speaking for them right here on this stage, have come to the conclusion that the people in authority are not doing their job.
There's a lot of blah, blah, blah, as Greta says.
There are a lot of words and there are some meaningful commitments, but we are still failing badly.
He forgets to mention that Germany going forward with their own production of energy is a necessary, it's necessary in this moment of history because they gave in to their climate alarmist cult in Germany.
And now the average German is paying 30 to 40 percent of their annual salary just to heat their homes at a minimal level because they became completely dependent on Vladimir Putin and Russia.
One last cut, this idiot, what's his name?
John Snaeb, Danish businessman, telling us to stop eating.
Meanwhile, remember, over a thousand private jets bringing in the world's elitist, the extraterrestrials, as John Kerry called them, so that they can pat each other on the back as the saviors of the world.
They're such phony hypocrites.
And now they want you to stop eating meat while they fly in their private jets.
Food systems account for around 21% of CO2 emissions, and they are unhealthy.
And they have a lot of waste, 40%.
My daughter, 24, inspired me and said, Dad, how can you advocate for these zero carbon value chains if you still eat meat?
And so I stopped eating meat.
Now the maths would say, well, you need to stop eating meat in 11 years to compensate for a flight to Thailand.
Yes, but if a billion people stop eating meat, I tell you, it has a big impact.
All right, joining us now to respond to this, the latest on this COVID issue we talked about earlier is Senator Ram Paul, great state of Kentucky.
Look, I got to tip my hat to people like you and your dad years ago.
You were warning about the globalist movement.
And beneath all of this, while they talk about climate change, there really is a political agenda, and that is a socialist network around the world where America would pay the bulk of monies for countries and continents and every need that they have.
It's time for us to just back off all of this, in my opinion, Senator.
Yeah, you know, my dad, even when I was a kid, several decades ago, I can remember him talking about the internationalism, the loss of sovereignty, but the loss of the Constitution as we become more of a world, you know, intertwined sort of world government run, you know, whether it's UN or World Economic Forum.
He's warned about this for decades, and it has come to pass.
I think when the Trump era came in and other people became worried about it, the movement grew even more.
But people need to be aware of this because most international forums are a repudiation of what made America great, and that was capitalism, freedom, volunteerism, trade.
And they're all about controlling these things.
And so there are great dangers in all of these forums.
But I mean, if they want me to stop eating meat, I think maybe we've got to wait until they stop flying jets.
When they stop flying on jets and they stop driving cars, then they can come back to me and talk to me about a steak.
But these people are basically, you know, when you listen to Al Gore, what an example of scientific illiteracy.
Probably no greater example of illiteracy.
Almost everything he's professed and predicted, really everything he has, has been wrong.
Boiling oceans.
I want to know where there's a boiling ocean you can visit.
I mean, just basically scientific illiteracy.
He should have no forum on any stage.
And yet he's done most of this, not really because he cares about the planet, because he's been patting his own pocketbook.
He's gotten extraordinarily rich off of being a doomsday, you know, green alarmist.
But basically, he's patted his own wallet and gotten very, very wealthy off of spreading alarmism, all of which has been false.
You know, the frustrating thing is, you're right, the Daily Mail reported he made some $330 million, and this guy has been wrong his entire adult life on these issues involving the environment.
I've gone over all the instances on this program.
If we have time, I'll do it again.
But the question is, why is America, why the involvement of America in all of these globalist movements?
What's the benefit for us?
Paying all this money and then getting lectured every time something comes up.
You know, the people who point out a better way, the reason we're always involved is they want us to pay for everything.
They don't have to obey any of the rules.
All the rules apply to us, and we're going to pay.
But people who do care about the environment, but also care about freedom and care about capitalism, will tell you that the people who protect the planet are rich people.
And you can protect the planet, and you can do nice things to control emissions when you're wealthy.
So really, the answer is wealth.
We need to create wealth, and we need to understand what economic system creates that wealth.
There have been many, many writers on this.
Marion Tupe with Cato has talked about this, about how productivity and wealth has increased astronomically in the last 200 years.
But it's because we followed the advice of Adam Smith, of trade, of capitalism.
And when you do that, as people become richer, they have more disposable income.
And when they have more disposable income, then they can care about and try to do things to not live in it.
Think of the difference between Haiti and our country.
Haiti is abysmally poor, and the trash is in everybody's front yard.
It's in their rivers.
It's in their creeks.
They do nothing.
But in a country with great wealth like ours, we don't live that way.
We have a much cleaner existence, and we try to take care of where we live.
And so the answer really is wealth creation, not restrictive policies, not ridiculous things like not eating meat.
It's really creating more wealth so we have more leisure time and more extra wealth to care about the environment.
Isn't it sort of like if you look at the Green New Deal, guaranteed government, healthy food, guaranteed pre-K, guaranteed free college, guaranteed government job, guaranteed government wage, guaranteed government health care, guaranteed government retirement, womb to the tomb, cradle to grave, utopia.
But everything that's in the Green New Deal, none of it has to do with anything green.
And yet unilaterally, economically, we have disarmed as a country as we have more natural resources, coal, oil, gas, than all these other countries that we're importing from combined.
And yet we put ourselves at a financial disadvantage, create the same dependency that Germany created for itself with Vladimir Putin.
And what's the net result of all of this?
Is that aren't these globalist organizations real, don't they mirror the Green New Deal?
They talk about the environment, but it's really about economics.
It's really about a world economy where it's from each according to their ability to each according to their need.
Yeah, their philosophy is more like a religion, and they approach it with a religiosity.
It's a philosophy of socialism.
And really, you wonder which is first.
Is it really about the climate or is it really about socialism because they're so intertwined?
If it's really about the environment, you look at the things and if you believe carbon is a big problem, you look at the things that have reduced carbon in our country, and it's been innovation.
The production of natural gas has lowered our carbon footprint.
But even going back a couple of centuries, when people burned wood in their fireplaces and everybody burned wood, you look at London in the 17th century and look at coal in every fireplace.
When we centralize the burning of the fuel, we were able to capture some of the emissions.
But one of the biggest innovations that we have out there is nuclear power.
We aren't building any nuclear power plants.
This is a problem Germany made in the hysteria and all the green hysteria in Germany.
When they had the accident in Japan, they didn't learn to build nuclear reactors better.
They just quit.
They shut all their nuclear reactors down.
Then they shut their coal plants down.
And you're right.
Well, then they were dependent on Russia.
But now we found out there's been reports that Vladimir Putin was funding many of these organizations, the climate alarmist cult members in Germany prior to them making those decisions.
You think the FBI will investigate maybe Russian misinformation on, you know, being against coal-fired and against oil and fossil fuels in the United States?
Do you think there's been some misinformation from other countries on that?
Yeah, this is a real problem.
But basically, innovation and technology and allowing wealth to create is the way an environment is preserved.
If you're living hand to mouth and you can barely survive and you're living on a substance diet, you don't have time to care about your environment.
You're caring about your next meal.
Once we get to a society where we have like ours, we have ways to do it, but we need to make sure we don't cut off our nose in spite of our face.
We need to not cut off the engine that created the wealth that allows us to care about the environment, and that's capitalism.
And so capitalism is a friend to the environment.
You look at most of the big purchases of land in our country that put away land for conservation.
They've all come from fabulously rich capitalists, starting with the Rockefellers and others.
You've got Ted Turner out there.
I've got several supporters that have bought land in Montana, and they've put it aside, you know, because they do believe in nature, but they've done it because they're fabulously successful capitalists.
So capitalism is actually often, if not most of the time, a friend to the environment.
All right, quick break more with Senator Ram Paul.
Then we'll get to your phone calls, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program as we continue.
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Kentucky Senator Ram Paul is with us as we continue.
You know, I've got to tip my hat to you on another issue, and that involves COVID.
I don't know if you saw this, but your own FDA is now proposing, believe it or not, an idea that COVID vaccines are going to be like annual flu shots.
I'm not listening to any government bureaucrat at all.
There was an enormous amount of, I don't think we've ever discussed this, but I've been telling my audience recently, it was an enormous amount of pressure being brought to bear on me to tell people what to do with their health.
I steadfastly refused.
You want to know why?
I'm not a doctor.
I don't know anything about their current medical condition.
I don't know anything about their maybe underlying conditions they may have or their pre-existing conditions or past health issues they may have had.
I'm not in a position as a talk show host to tell people what to do.
And I will tell you this, the one thing we have learned is that they were wrong on everything.
If you get the vaccine, you're not going to get COVID.
Not true.
The latest variants that are out there, the two Omicron new variants that seem to be the most dominant in the country, they show complete resistance to people that have been vaccinated and boosted and boosted again and boosted another time and even natural immunity.
So everything they said would be true turned out not to be true.
I'm not listening to these people.
And the only thing I would say is people should listen to their own doctor based on their own medical history and current condition.
That's my advice.
You know, if we would make monoclonal antibodies, I did believe in them as the best therapeutic available.
The real question now is: how dangerous is the current COVID?
Almost nobody is dying from it or being hospitalized by it.
There are some, but we need to know who are these patients.
Are they patients that are sick and very elderly?
Or how many healthy people are being hospitalized for COVID?
How many healthy people have had COVID or being hospitalized?
Are any children being hospitalized or dying who have previously had COVID?
So unless the studies include an arm that has previous immunity from prior infection, the studies are invalid.
And really, we need to know that.
They need to be honest and tell us the truth.
The CDC has withheld this, steadfastly refused to do it.
Fauci led the effort on all of this.
And the question is: if my kid is 15 and male and has had COVID, what's the chance if they get it again, they'll go to the hospital and die?
I think the answer is zero, but they won't release the statistics because it doesn't support vaccination for these kids.
But what is the chance that my 15-year-old male or 20-year-old male could next heart from the vaccine?
Well, I mean, look, myocarditis is real.
Clotting is really concerning me in terms of, you know, what are we going to learn over the long term?
That's scary to me.
Senator Ram Paul, we appreciate you as always being out there and being available for us.
Thanks so much for being on board.
Thanks, Sean.
Quick break.
Right back.
We'll continue.
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One of the casualties that has come out of the, what, five instances now that we have of Joe Biden and his classified document scandal is that of Clarine Jean-Pierre, the White House spokesperson, White House press secretary.
And she just doesn't know what to do.
She doesn't know what to say.
Also, I refer you to this.
I refer you to that.
I refer you to this.
I refer you to that.
We put a montage together.
Any specifics to the Department of Justice?
Any specifics to this particular legal matter?
I would refer you to the Department of Justice.
The president, when the initial batch of documents were reported a couple of weeks ago, said he was surprised that there were classified documents got at the Penn Binding Center.
Was he surprised that there was classified material found at his home on Friday, as well as the prior discovery of his House of People?
Any specifics to the Department of Justice?
Any specifics to this particular legal matter?
I would refer you to the Department of Justice.
What I'm telling you is what the President has said, which is he takes this very seriously.
I will refer you to detailed explanations from statements that have come from his personal lawyer.
Again, anything further on this?
My colleague is going to be taking your questions, Mary.
And in the four o'clock hour, I would refer you to them.
Why doesn't he have regrets given that classified documents keep turning up?
I talked about this last week.
I'm not going to go beyond what the president said.
Again, I would refer you to the White House Counsel for anything further on this legal matter.
Should we anticipate other searches are possible?
That part, I would definitely refer you to the White House Counsel's office.
The president's scheduled to go to Camp David this weekend, just to clarify.
Shall we read anything into that?
And does he have full access to his homes right now in email, both London and Berlin?
I would refer you to the White House Counsel's office.
Has the president invited the Justice Department to search his home in Rehoboth, Delaware?
I would refer you to the White House Counsel's office, who will be speaking with all of you pretty soon.
What would you point us to that would demonstrate that seriousness?
I'm going to really refer you to the White House Counsel's office.
I mean, she doesn't have an answer because there is no answer.
That's the point.
Anyway, 800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, John Queens, New York, glad you called.
Thanks for being with us.
Hi, Sean.
Thanks for having me.
My question is this.
You know, I got a feeling that there's a little misdirection here.
You know, everybody's looking at whether they're classified, whether they're this, comparing them to Trump, this, that, and the other thing.
My thinking is simply, if you look at the dates of 2016, Biden was leaving.
Trump was coming in.
Trump said, I'm going to get those documents from DOJ.
I'm going to prove you and your son are crooks, this, that, and the other thing.
Isn't it amazing that Donald and Barr could not find those documents?
I'm wondering if they were sitting in the garage.
What do you think?
Well, I don't know if they knew about them at the time.
I think had they known about them, then they probably would have gone in and gotten them.
The irony is, and they keep saying this in the media, and it's just not accurate, and it's not true, is that, well, Donald Trump didn't cooperate and Joe Biden did.
Or, you know, Mike Pence found some documents that he handed in today.
And it seems like he's checked everything out now and that he's confident that it's a one and done for him.
But Donald Trump, remember, the FBI had unfettered access.
They were at Mar-a-Lago before the raid.
They were in the room where the documents eventually were found.
They had every opportunity that day to ask for those documents because they saw them up close.
They didn't.
They called back and said, would you mind putting a padlock on that door?
And then Christopher Wray and Merrick Garland brag about how we sent them.
We personally approved this raid.
Well, now we've got five instances of Joe Biden, and yet was supposed to still believe that Joe Biden is innocent and all this?
No.
Now, is there an overall problem of presidents and archives and the national NARA and how they handle all of these, National Archives, Records Administration?
Yeah, this is a huge problem.
But that's on them too.
And there's an investigation into whether or not they're politicized.
But certainly the DOJ and FBI didn't treat Hillary, didn't treat Joe Biden the way they treated Trump.
And this is the story of Donald Trump.
You know, the policies of Donald Trump, it's an amazing thing.
I've been asking these other candidates that want to run for the presidency.
Tell me your policy differences.
There are none.
The big difference is in people's minds.
Well, I think I'm more electable because I'm this, this, or this.
So it's going to be fascinating to watch 2024 unfold and where differences might eventually lie.
We'll see.
That was a good call.
Appreciate it.
John, thank you.
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We'll stay on the same topic.
David is in New Jersey.
New Joysey, what's going on, David?
How are you, my friend?
Very well, Sean.
Thank you for asking.
Hey, I believe those documents have already been compromised.
Someone else had had their eyes on them.
Well, it was China, I don't know, because somebody had to tell Patrick Moore.
Patrick Moore then had to go there and say, wow, someone else knows that there's documents here.
I think they've already been compromised.
I think maybe China's seen them, Russia's seen them.
Somebody has seen them.
And now there's Clean Biden, and he can't do anything about it.
So he says, let's turn him in.
Well, we certainly know Hunter had access to them, and we know a Chinese national was in the house where the documents were.
Nobody wants to go down that road, but that's the road that I'm telling you Biden is most vulnerable on.
He outright flat out lied.
Let me ask you a question.
David, do you have any kids?
I have three children, yes.
Okay.
Do your kids ever do something stupid?
Every kid does something stupid, right?
Yes, they have.
Okay.
And then when you ask them, did you do this stupid thing, whatever the stupid thing happens to be, have you had experiences where they said, no, I did not do that stupid thing, right?
100% agreed.
And you're looking at them, and what I would say to my kids is stop.
Stop insulting my intelligence.
Just tell the truth, own it, learn to be honest.
And, you know, kids want to avoid trouble.
No, I swear.
I swear, Dad.
I swear.
You know, meanwhile, it's like, okay, I didn't eat the cookie.
And then you have cookie all over your face.
And you're telling me you didn't eat the cookie.
It's ridiculous.
And I only bring this up is that their excuse making in all of this, the problem they've had, too, is their total, complete support of what the FBI and the DOJ did to Trump.
So now they own their own words and they're eating them.
And they haven't been honest.
And this is where the Biden family gets in trouble, that they didn't tell the truth.
Joe Biden lied about the issue of his son, his brother, his family, and their foreign business dealings that raked in literally hundreds of millions of dollars, ultimately.
In the case of China, $1.5 billion deal.
When we get to the money, then it's going to be very clear this has the potential of being by far the biggest influence peddling scandal in the country's history.
If it is, that's what's going to destroy Joe Biden.
I think Democrats now turning on him recognize that they know as much as we do.
They're not stupid.
They may not be intelligent in some ways, and their ideology is really wrong.
I'm not saying, you know, they're total idiots, although maybe some of them.
But they know that there's a vulnerability here.
And Democrats, the big question is, are some of them now working to undermine Joe?
And I would argue the answer is yes.
But who's going to investigate him?
What?
The FBI is going to investigate themselves?
No, this is where Jim Comer and Jim Jordan come in.
Jim Jordan's on TV tonight with me.
All right.
So those investigations run in tandem.
I think we'll get the answers.
Take time.
They're going to delay.
They're going to fight.
They're going to take it to court.
They're not going to be cooperative.
But, you know, that's par for the course.
Anyway, my friend, thank you.
Quick break.
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Alex, Tennessee.
Alex, hi, how are you?
Glad you called.
Sean, thank you for taking my call from the great state of Tennessee and the wonderful city of Knoxville.
I heard you talking about the fair tax and the flat tax.
And I've been a big supporter of the flat tax.
I've heard you mention for years that how cool would it be to be able to file your income taxes on a postcard where you fill out one little, you know, what, five or six lines and mail it in?
You know, I keep hearing people on the right, conservatives and Republicans talking about how we need to revamp the tax system.
And I keep hearing this discussion about a national sales tax.
And then the Democrats jump all over it and they tell everybody that, you know, oh, now the Republicans want to tax your Social Security income at 30% and they want to do this and they're going to double tax you on that.
And I just wish we could get out in front of it.
They don't understand it and they don't understand the minimum side of it.
And, you know, at the end of the day, you wouldn't even really need the IRS except to have compliance from companies to make sure that if they're collecting the tax, they're paying the tax or it goes directly to the government as part of any transaction.
But it also runs the risks of some underground economy, which you're going to have under any system.
The bottom line is America's, look at what Gavin Newsom and other states now are contemplating.
They want to be able to tax you after you leave California.
They want to tax your income for 10 more years and you don't even live there.
Sorry, that can't be constitutional.
If you don't live there, you're not, you shouldn't be required to be paying California state income tax when your income is being made elsewhere.
And by the way, that has now been put forth by numerous states.
And, you know, the $24, you know, billion dollar shortfall of Gavin Newsom, I mean, he's desperate.
Now he's going after the Second Amendment.
He's going after people's money after they leave the state because his policies chase them away.
He's the only governor in the history of California to ever lose population rather than gain population in over 170 plus years as a state.
It's unbelievable.
The spectacular fail is there.
We lived in Southern California, and my dad stayed working an extra five or six years, and we moved away from California, so he didn't have to deal with that retirement situation.
And it is.
It's really sad that they want to tax you after you move away just because you retired when you live in the state.
And one last thing real quick.
I want to tell you, thank you for Dr. Farid.
I've had COVID twice, and I have followed his protocol, and I have never even had hardly any symptoms whatsoever.
But I want to thank you again for putting them on and letting them talk to the people about how to treat themselves.
If I told you how often I called in favors with all of the doctors we've had on this show, all of them, and how willing they were to help people telemedicine over the phone, no charge, give them the protocol, save lives.
I can't, Linda, how crazy was I in terms of helping people with COVID?
Because people don't know anything.
You did a lot.
You did a lot.
And they did a lot.
And Linda will testify to this too.
How much pressure was brought to bear on this show and my TV show for me to tell people to get the vaccine, tell people what to do with their health choices?
I mean, the pressure was becoming, look, I'm not going to say, I just said go to hell.
I don't give a rip.
I care about my audience.
I was never going to play doctor on radio or TV, and it infuriated people.
People were writing columns that if, well, if my mother listened to Sean Hannity, she'd be dead today.
How many of those articles do we have just from one newspaper?
It was very sick.
I think in the prism of history, we'll show this psychosis as one of the darkest times of our history and a very weak time as Americans.
Very, very, very sad.
Well, I mean, and the point is, all, you know, when we had Robert Malone on, the guy that created the technology for the mRNA vaccines, that's the Moderna-Pfizer vaccine, he himself said the technology is not perfected yet.
He said that.
He created it.
He said, however, if you have preexisting conditions, I said, well, then who would you think might benefit from these vaccines?
He said, if you have preexisting conditions, comorbidities, people that were obese did tend to did not fare well in all of this.
He said, and you're 65 and older because it really goes after old people.
I would only, under those circumstances, advise that people get the vaccine.
That was him.
He created the technology.
And just for having him on, we had already had him on and had him on since.
But when Joe Rogan had him on, I mean, he was excoriated publicly.
I mean, it was like a witch hunt.
And also, no, we should probably bring this up.
We haven't really talked about it too much, but all of these people who are dear friends of the show are all having their medical licenses challenged right now by the various boards of medicine in their various states.
So for thinking outside the box and saving all these lives like Dr. Tyson and Dr. Farid, the California Board of Medicine is trying to revoke their medical license for saving lives.
We will help them when the time is right.
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