Oct. 26, 2016 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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3469 The War for America | Jim Hoft and Stefan Molyneux
The mainstream media and the establishment uniparty is pulling out all the stops to prevent Donald Trump from reaching the White House. Stefan Molyneux is joined by Jim Hoft to discuss support for Donald Trump within the LGTB community, how the fierce establishment opposition to Trump further drives his support, Megyn Kelly's meltdown with Newt Gingrich, the failure of Obamacare, the stakes of this election and the historical bias in Presidential polling. Jim Hoft is the publisher of The Gateway Pundit, which is one of the top conservative news websites on the internet, and received the Andrew Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism in 2015. Gateway Pundit: http://www.thegatewaypundit.comTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/gatewaypunditFreedomain Radio is 100% funded by viewers like you. Please support the show by signing up for a monthly subscription or making a one time donation at: http://www.freedomainradio.com/donate
Hi everybody, Stefan Molyneux from Free Domain Radio.
I hope you're doing well.
So...
I'm going to introduce you to Jim Hoft.
Now, he is the publisher of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news websites on the internet.
Now, don't think of old conservative.
Think of, like, edgy, radical, counterculture, new conservatism.
It's well worth watching and reading.
He received the Andrew Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism in 2015.
The website is thegatewaypundit.com.
Naturally, no spaces.
Jim, thanks so much for taking the time today.
Great to be with you.
Now, how did you end up on the conservative side of things?
And also, because there's the sort of rhino thing, conservatism is kind of undergoing a kind of tetragenic mutation at the moment.
So how did you end up in conservatism, and how would you define it at the moment?
Because it really does seem to be in flux.
I think you're absolutely right.
I think that the whole situation is changing the Climate in the Conservative Party is completely different than what it was even two years ago.
And thanks to Donald Trump, he's brought in all these new topics that some of us really just took for granted or never really thought about a lot, you know, like free trade and the endless wars that the neocons always were pushing.
And so Donald Trump has been a breath of fresh air.
It's so interesting.
What resonates with me is the fact that here is a guy who's finally pro-American, and it's so shocking that a candidate is running in support of the people in this country.
And isn't that odd that that's how the West has become?
Just the decline of the West, and it's really the suicide of what we're watching.
And thank God we have someone like Donald Trump, who really is the last hope, I think, for the whole, not just America, but the whole Western culture.
Well, I think that's very true.
And I think it's important to remember that the general message is that if you're not on the left, in-group preferences are totally evil.
Bigoted, racist, xenophobic, if you're not on the left.
Now, if you are on the left, your in-group preferences are moral and noble and virtuous and great.
So if you're on the left, make sure you only hire leftist people, right?
And so this is why you end up with this echo chamber of leftism in the media.
If you're on the left and you're in academics, make sure you only hire left-wing academics.
So your in-group preferences are super great.
However, if you're not on the left, any conceivable kind of in-group preference is pure bigotry and racism.
And that is a wonderful model because, of course, there is strength in numbers.
And if you can disunify your enemies while unifying yourself, victory, as it seemed to be for so many decades, is inevitable unless and until a disruptor comes along who reminds you, if you're not on the left, In-group preferences can be very, very good, in fact, necessary for your survival.
Absolutely.
So well put.
You're so well spoken.
I can see you do this for a living.
Anyway, you know what's interesting to add on that?
I have a friend...
Lucian Wintrich, who's an artist in New York City, and he contributed some artwork for this Gays for Trump rally that we did at the RNC convention in Cleveland.
He went back home and the gay mafia targeted him and had him fired from his job in New York City.
They harassed him, he got death threats, and all he did was put kids, not kids, but young men of legal age And provocative poses with a Trump hat on.
And this is what got him fired.
So it's always stunning to me to hear the left talk about fascism and fascist Nazi, you know, conservatives.
And yet you look at their behavior and who are the real fascists?
We see what's going on in America.
Thank God for Donald Trump.
It's no wonder that they just hate him viscerally because he's the only one who's taken on the mob in America and the West.
Well, that's true.
And this is one of the great mysteries that is sort of unfurling before our very eyes.
And anybody with an ounce of intellectual curiosity and integrity needs to sort of dip their frontal lobes into this churning river of why there are particular groups in America that want to bring in cultures antithetical to their very existence, to their very aims, to their stated aims, whatever their real aims are.
I don't know.
It takes a strong stomach and a hazmat suit to kick over that leftist rock and see what wriggles underneath.
But, of course, you have feminists who want to bring in cultures that are not exactly pro-feminism.
And, of course, you have gays who seem to be wide open.
Now, this is back in 2012.
I looked this up before the interview that about 13% of the LGBTQ community identified as conservatives, which is considerably less, of course, than the general population.
I know that for you, the Orlando shooting was a big moment, and that's when you wanted to come out.
And be more public because the sexual identity, sexual preferences had become politicized and terrorized through that very evening.
But that is the great mystery.
And it does give one pause.
In thinking about the consistency of motives of people who say, well, you know, we're for feminism, it's like, okay, well then you should, you know, or we're against sort of rape culture and so on, and in Mexico, you know, people can Google the age of consent and the answer will be 12, which is not exactly, I would say, pro-women in any way, shape, or form.
And gays and other groups, there just seems to be this, come on in, and it's like their hatred of the right is so great that they will ally with people who may be easily defined as their antithesis.
Absolutely.
And that is why I came out back in June, it was.
And you know what's interesting is, of course, the left has this narrative that, you know, if you come out, if you're conservative, you're going to be destroyed, you won't have a career, they'll hate you, they'll, you know, banish you from the movement.
And it was exactly the opposite.
I got a few nasty comments from some leftists, actually several, And of course, on the left, there were some pretty nasty things about me that weren't very accurate.
You know, just throwing a, you know, just, I don't know if I can say it on your head.
We're not censored or we're not FCC ruled.
You can go full tilt boogie.
Just throwing crap at me and making stuff up.
And yet on the right, every comment I got, I got several emails, you know, over 100 emails from people.
I've been reading my blog.
One guy wrote, I'm a devout Christian.
I don't agree with your lifestyle, but I really like your blog and I'm going to keep coming back.
I'm fine with that.
I don't pretend that I have to have approval from everyone on this planet for my existence.
I'm very happy and comfortable with who I am.
I see that the radical left has Certainly, Hillary Clinton has not done any favors for the gays over the years.
This year, when we see the donations she's taken from these Middle Eastern Muslim countries, she's not doing any favors for gays.
I think with people like me and other people standing up and saying, I'm gay, I'm conservative, I think it's only going to help the cause.
We know that Generally, about 25% of gays vote Republican.
Now, they are completely the silent group that you never hear about.
And so now there's a few of us standing up, and it's a good thing for our cause.
Well, and I think it's really important to understand the danger of being a Republican in America in many ways, at least a public Republican.
You know, gay communities, little problem with, you know, assless chaps, little problem with the most incredible gay pride parades of fantastic peacock extravagance.
But boy!
You can have any kind of unnameable fetish involving rubber ducks and nobody really blinks an eye, but heaven forbid you actually vote for a conservative.
That's when they're shocked.
That's when they're appalled.
That's the line.
That is almost the love for Republicans, the love that truly dare not speak its name in the gay community.
Right.
And it's my friend Lucian Winters.
They did a special segment on him in the local news in New York City.
And he ends with, he says, I got fired and it was because I want small government.
It is just shocking today what the culture has done.
And again, thank God for Donald Trump.
He is the only one.
I think he's done so much devastation to the left already.
And to their, you know, political correctness, I have never seen so many Republicans stand up and actually confront the left like they're doing today.
A great example of that is that all these Democrat rallies, including Obama, we're seeing Hillary, Bill rallies, Tim Kaine, all these protesters sneaking in and starting screaming, Bill Clinton is a rapist.
I mean, we never would have seen that before Trump.
I think Trump is finally giving Conservatives and pro-American patriots the balls to stand up and confront this liberal fascism that's spreading across the West.
Well, there's a fascinating switch in, you could say, European culture.
And I think this isn't particularly true of the right, Jim, which is there's a whole lot of turn the other cheek.
You know, a whole lot of, you know, if your enemy asks you for your shirt, give him your cloak as well.
If he asks you to walk a mile with him, walk two miles.
There is...
A very great hope on the right, and has been for many decades, that taking the high road is just going to work out.
You're going to shame people with your moral elevation, they're finally going to grow a conscience, they're finally going to grow a sense of embarrassment, and they're going to back down from their positions.
And that, of course, is one half of the moral tradition in the West, the turn-the-other-cheek stuff.
Love your enemy as yourself.
But there's another one.
There's the other side.
And it's been a while.
It's been a while since we've seen it.
But the other side is, oh yeah?
Okay.
Eye for an eye time, baby.
And that, I think, is where the switch has been flipped on the right, where it's like, okay, this turn the other cheek, this walk a mile in your enemy's shoes, this reach out and empathy and so on.
Well, it only works with people who have a conscience.
It only works with people who have the capacity for empathy.
And it's not working.
In fact, it was handing over the reins of Western civilization to people who want to drive it into a medieval cliff, or off a medieval cliff, I should say.
And I think that switch...
has been flipped, where people are like, okay, if what the enemy is doing is working, I guess we'll do what the enemy is doing in the full righteousness of our cause and without a sense of shame, because, you know, you treat people the best you can the first time you meet them, and after that, you treat them as they treat you.
And I think that switch has flipped over.
I think you're absolutely right.
I think another example of this is we saw Marco Rubio in the past two weeks.
WikiLeaks documents were breaking out on the internet.
And Marco Rubio says we shouldn't look at these Podesta documents because we wouldn't want them to look at our emails if they were released.
And, you know, most conservatives and people I know are like, no wonder this guy didn't win the primary.
He's such a, you know, call it a cuck, call it a rhino, whatever.
But, you know, he still doesn't get it.
And I think the GOP elites still don't get it.
And they're furious with Donald Trump that he actually fights back.
All these women who came out with these accusations against Trump, and he says at a rally last weekend, I'm going to sue you.
After this election, I'm going to sue you.
And the media, you know, and these GOP elites are just furious that Donald Trump would stand up for himself against these lies.
I mean, there's several of these accusers have come out.
Their stories have completely fallen apart.
And I wrote about that and it got a lot of traffic, at least six of these women.
There's no truth at all.
One said that, you know, she was talking to Melania Trump and They were so upset about what happened or something.
And Melania comes out and says, I don't even know this woman.
I've never spoken with her.
I want to recognize her on the street.
And I'm going to make People Magazine take this down.
And she sent him a cease and desist letter.
I don't know if people did.
But, you know, they're just these scandalous accusations that are coming out against Trump two weeks, three weeks before an election.
You know, it's funny.
Trump was never a racist.
He was never a misogynist until he became a Republican running for president.
Well, a successful Republican.
You can be a Republican.
If you fail, they don't mind.
You're not a racist if you're a failure.
If you're a success, then the racist laser is going to fill up your forehead.
And that's why I don't run for office, because I've got a lot of target room.
And these lies, you know, Fox News and all this.
I mean, I was watching this, I think, absolutely shameful interaction between Meg and Kelly.
And the former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
We'll put a link to it below.
It's like skin-crawlingly ex-wife horrifying, in my opinion.
But she's still repeating the same stuff.
Well, these 10 women have all come forward and said stuff.
It's like, well, aren't you supposed to check their credibility?
Aren't you supposed to check their stories to see if they even make sense?
And she was continuing to say the same lie that Donald Trump, you know, grabbed, he was talking about grabbing at women's genitals against their will, which is not at all what he said.
He said they like it, they want it, you know.
And there's still sexual predator or sexual assault.
I mean, good Lord, it's so important for people to remember that Donald Trump is not running against the Democrats.
He's running against the Uniparty.
He's running against the Republicans and the Democrats who are all part of this revolving door of lobbying and favors.
Lobbying and favors.
And giving money to politicians in order to buy these scraps and remnants of their hearts and soul after the election.
Donald Trump is going against all of that.
And if you don't like the way that society is running, look at who the elites hate the most.
And that person is probably somebody you want to get in behind.
And I think people are starting to really understand that.
Because the more hatred the elites pour on Donald Trump, the more his support grows.
Because it's like, oh, you hate him?
Well, I hate you.
You hate him.
So maybe I'll really like him too.
Yeah, I think Americans are finally catching on.
You know, I live in the Midwest.
I'm in St.
Louis now.
I grew up in Iowa.
I went back home to Iowa this past weekend, and for the record, I saw one Hillary sign, one, in my travels around Northern Iowa.
And, you know, Trump signs everywhere.
Trump flags, big Trump signs across the yard.
So there's definitely something happening, and especially in the middle class and in the Midwest, Flyover country.
People can relate to this.
They've gotten the shaft for 20 years.
Again, I agree with Trump.
It wasn't just Democrats who were doing this, but it was Republicans.
By the way, I flew up to Iowa on this subsidized plane ticket, right?
But the government's paying for plane tickets, so I got a $100 round trip.
And I'm like, when did this happen?
And Where were the Republicans, you know, who are supposed to stop this, you know, this wasteful spending?
They've been nowhere to be found for the past 20, 30 years.
Obama phones.
I mean, that was a shock when I heard that in 2012, this woman, you know, talking about how Obama's giving her a free phone.
I had no idea that these programs were out there.
And of course, when you're giving the money away to people who aren't productive and aren't, you know, doing anything and, you Providing a service or work, and somebody has to pay.
In the past 20 years, it looks like the middle class has paid horribly for these policies.
That is something that people have a tough time understanding, and it sort of goes under the umbrella of public choice theory, which is, let's say you have a society without a welfare state, and there are only a few percentage points of people who need welfare, right?
And the reason there's such a low number is because there hasn't been a welfare state!
And so people who make bad decisions get fairly roundly punished, and, you know, churches and other communal groups, what used to be called the friendly societies, will sort of step in and just keep body and soul together to give people a platform to work their way out.
So you say, oh, the welfare state, how much is it really going to cost?
Because there's only a few percentage points of people who aren't doing that well.
And it's like, okay, so you put in the welfare state, and then you tilt everything.
And what happens is then people start making decisions because there's a welfare state.
And you go from a few percentage points to 5 to 10 to 15 to 20 to 25.
And now...
Close to half of Americans are dependent on the government for significant portions of their income.
When you change the rules, you change the game going forward.
And everybody tries to change the rules looking in the rear view, but you need to look forward, as Bastiat talks about, the unseen rather than the seen.
And this, I think, is accumulating so much evidence in people's minds that everyone knows the whole system is fundamentally broken.
And Donald Trump is the guy Who is free of the funding problem, right?
He's free of, well, he owes the American public's future productivity to his donors.
And that is such a disruption to the system as a whole that if he gets in and he's able to put in his term limits and his get people out of the revolving door of power and lobbying and power and lobbying, I mean, that is the, that is, talk about snatching victory from the jaws of defeat of Western civilization.
I mean, that is the only chance, I think, that we have to turn this thing around.
And it's no accident that it's Donald Trump, too.
This is a guy who, at times, you think that maybe he has Asperger's syndrome or whatever, because everything seems to come right through his mind right out of his mouth.
But I think we actually need someone like that.
And that's why I think he's a perfect candidate for this time.
He has the platform.
He has the plan.
He released it last weekend at Gettysburg.
He had this six-point plan, which was just what you were just saying.
One was that if you're in government, you can't be a lobbyist for several years.
He's going to try to push a law like that.
I mean, it makes perfect sense, but it's disrupting.
And again, I think that's why we see people like Brett Stevens today from the Wall Street Journal who says he can no longer consider himself a Republican because of Donald Trump.
I mean, really, the gall of people like that, they've been pounding Trump all year long.
And so nobody's listening.
So he finally writes, you know, another essay about how awful Donald Trump is.
You know, it's getting old.
It's getting tired.
But thank God we have Donald Trump there.
You know, I'm feeling pretty good today about the election.
I wasn't last week.
You know, it kind of goes up and down and up and down.
But I'm feeling pretty good right now.
I have faith today that the American people won't elect a criminal into the White House.
So I'm going to continue to You know, believe that for the next 14 days.
I have to tell you, Jim, I will consider my life a complete success if you never utter my name in the same way that you just uttered, what was it, Bret Stephens' names?
Like you're coughing up a venom-filled hairball.
Bret Stephens!
You know, you should really just spit to one side and get a spittoon noise coming out there because the level of contempt, I just want to tell you, that was visceral.
That hit my lizard brain and it was very powerful.
It's the same thing we saw.
This tape came out of Donald Trump talking about grabbing pussy.
And, you know, the next day, these Republicans had lined up and they said, I can never vote for him.
I pull my endorsement.
Then you start looking at this list.
You know, it's the same people have been attacking him all year.
It's like, this is nothing new.
It just gave him another excuse to go out there and trash Trump.
And, you know, it's very upsetting to us who support Trump.
And he won the nomination.
He won the nomination with record numbers.
And yet we still have these disgusting Republicans who, I don't know what happened.
I really don't know what happened this year.
Some people just lost their mind.
And I don't even recognize who they are anymore.
Well, I think the way that I would look at a gym is, you know, if you look at a dog show, there is the dog, and then you say, gosh, let's say you just zoomed in right on the dog's head, and you go, wow, it's doing a lot of jumping, doing a lot of rolling, doing a lot of climbing up pipes, and I don't know what the hell goes on at a dog show, but, you know, stuff like that.
And so you say, wow, this dog is pretty interesting.
Why is he doing all this?
And then you zoom the camera back and there's the owner, you know, with the leash running right beside them and making them do stuff.
And it's important to, you need to look at the puppet strings, right?
I mean, I just did a video on libertarians to do with this as well.
Look at, you know, follow the money, look at who they're being paid by, look at their financial trail.
And a lot of Republicans get a lot of money from big business.
And big business has particular requirements driven by marketplace ideals at the moment that they want.
Cheap labor, open borders works really well for them because when you get unskilled labor pouring in, or a skilled labor that is bound by the sort of H1B1 visa into a medieval surf-style concrete shoe attachment or also chain them to the typing chairs that they're stuck into, that's good for big business because the executives who make those decisions aren't importing people who are going to replace them.
And the lawyers who negotiate all this stuff and the politicians, they're not replacing those people.
And the reporters who report on it are not being replaced.
It's sort of the middle class and below who are being eviscerated, gutted, cut out at the knees by all of this stuff.
And so when I look at someone like Donald Trump...
People like to own their pets.
People get very attached to their pets, and pets get very attached to their owners.
So politicians are very attached to their donors, and donors are very attached to their politicians.
Because if donors can't get goodies out of politicians, what do they have to do?
Gosh, they have to go out and compete at the free market, and they might lose.
There's been studies that have shown there's almost no more productive investment for a businessman than owning a congressperson.
I mean, more than R&D. You know, products fail.
Congress people always deliver, and...
That power corrupts.
And so for me, looking at – I don't care about the Republican-Democrat side excluding Trump.
What I care about is if you follow the money, they're just obeying the commands and demands of their owners.
And their owners view Trump as an existential threat to their entire cycle of power and dominance and income.
And they should.
Absolutely.
And, you know, I don't see this going away if when Trump wins on November 8th.
I see it only intensifying.
You know, it's amazing.
Today he did a grand opening in Washington, D.C. at this new hotel.
If you look at it, it's beautiful.
Absolutely stunning inside and out.
Trump knows how to build hotels and golf courses.
They are the most beautiful in the world.
But, you know, they were going to protest him there.
I just see this escalating as Trump moves into office and tries to get things done.
And unfortunately, I think the Republican leaders in Congress will probably be leading the charge against him.
And so I hope there's some turnover there.
But yeah, this doesn't stop after November 8.
It's going to continue because, as you said, he's such a threat.
And there is going to be still work to do.
I mean, I'm...
In this sort of run-up to this election, I'm pretty tired, which is a good thing.
You know, because it's been a marathon, right?
I mean, I've been working on this like you have for a long time.
It feels like, what was life before this election cycle?
I don't know.
I think I was an amoeba.
That's the only thing I can remember.
And then I evolved.
But tired is a good thing because, you know, if you're running marathons, I used to be a long-distance runner, and if you're running marathons, you don't want to be fresh at the end, but you don't want to be so exhausted.
You want to have the right kind of tired, just enough in the tank for the burst at the end, and I think that's where it's come down to.
And yes, what it looks like after the election, well, if he loses, there is no after the election for anybody who's interested in smaller government or Western values.
I mean, literally, and I really want people to understand the apocalyptic nature of the Trump loss.
I mean, you're going to get the legalization of tens of millions of illegal immigrants who are all going to vote left.
You're going to have the importation of foreign cultures all designed to vote left.
And the left is very, very into diversity because they absolutely welcome with open arms all cultures that vote for them.
That's their standard.
I mean, if you're not a culture that votes for the left, then they will want to keep And it is going to be impossible for any Republicans to get any vote again, even if they're just mouthing the platitudes of the small government free market system.
All of America will turn into California, which used to be a reliably Republican state until Reagan gave amnesty to countless numbers of illegal immigrants.
And now it is lost to the left forever.
That will be the country as a whole.
It just comes down to this two weeks.
So there's an old saying about, you know, people love New York.
They love living in New York so much that they say, so people who aren't living in New York, they're kidding, right?
Like, they're just kind of kidding about it, right?
And I think if you're not out there working for the salvation of Western civilization at the moment, you're kidding, right?
Like, what else is taking priority?
I know you got to eat.
Grab a few hours of sleep if you have to.
Colostomy bag if you can.
Just don't stop.
This is now the time.
Because if it's not now, literally it will never, ever come again.
I think you're absolutely right.
And that's how I've been running the past couple months.
And what's interesting is, you know, the media continues to be biased.
It never changed.
It never learned.
They lose viewers, you know.
They lose readers.
But they continue to push the liberal line.
And thank God we have this internet, at least today we do.
We don't know what's going to happen after November 8th.
But of course, people like me can report a different side of the story.
People like you can report a different side of the story.
And my numbers have been booming.
You know, people are interested.
People will always seek out the truth.
And I certainly give a different perspective than what other people, you know, are reading somewhere else.
I think the great example of the bias this year, it's not just, you know, everything we read and the You know, 90% negative coverage Trump gets.
But it's the things also that they'll show you that are just not honest at all.
I love how they always put Hillary Clinton and then they show these, you know, 15 people behind her, like she's at a big crowd and they're cheering.
And then you look at, you know, outside of that frame, and of course the high school gym is empty.
Today there was another example of that.
And thank God, Fox Business News was really about the first place I've seen report on just how empty her rallies are.
She was at a place in Florida that was, you know, another gem for a community college.
And 15 minutes beforehand, they're like, wow, there's nobody here.
So the media, it's not just what they do tell you, but it's a lot of times what they don't tell you and then how they just totally misrepresent.
I mean, they show the same shot of Hillary as they do a Trump at a rally.
You'd think they're having the same numbers.
And the enthusiasm gap is just so, so different.
I mean, Trump, my God, the people are so fired up for him.
And Hillary, there's just nothing there.
I think what you said earlier, Democrats are in trouble if they think that they're so talky that it's going to be a landslide for them.
Nobody's energized for Hillary.
Nobody is.
Yeah, and I assume that at least half the people standing behind her are her medical team holding their satchels of Dungeons and Dragons, black magic required to keep the Crypt Keeper vertical in some manner.
So let's talk, because there is this strategy that's going on.
I've seen it in my videos in the comments section.
It's kind of crept in over the last couple of weeks.
The despair trolls.
You know, all the people, they have the same text.
You know, it's like, good lord, people, copy and paste.
Copy and paste is kind of obvious, you know.
And it sort of goes something like this.
Well, I love Trump.
I mean, I really, really, you know, I want Trump to win.
However, the polls show otherwise, and it's hopeless, and it's helpless, and it's this sort of treacly despair stuff, you know, and it's designed to make people lose hope.
And it's having an effect, you know, the inbox is like, I don't know, Steph, do you think it's possible?
I can't know.
And it's like, to me, the polls are just nonsense.
The polls are a weapon of war in the battle of politics.
They're not objective.
They're not independent.
Everybody has an agenda.
And the polls are done.
And which polls are reported is very important.
And I talked to Bill Mitchell, who I'm sure you know about sort of sampling problems, you know, the D plus A to D plus 16 and so on.
I thought this was all, again, Dungeons and Dragons damage.
But it's a different kind of damage.
It's political damage.
So you had just an article come out on thegatewaypundit.com.
please remember to go visit, about Reagan versus Carter back in 1980, or for my younger listeners, somewhere post-Paleolithic.
Right.
It was actually 36 years ago today where the Gallup released this poll and has Reagan down by seven points against Jimmy Carter.
This is two weeks out from the election.
As we know, come election day, Reagan won in a landslide, 40 states.
So people need to remember that.
And again, isn't it interesting that it's always with the left?
It's always astroturfed.
These people who are putting these comments out there, and I believe this wholeheartedly, I know how the left operates, just like we're seeing from Project Veritas and from WikiLeaks.
Everything is staged.
They have no grassroots movement.
They have no enthusiasm.
Trump had it right.
These are nasty people.
Not just Hillary, but the whole group.
These are people who stage things.
They were sending people, thugs in, to beat up Trump supporters.
And they also do these ass-a-turf moves, like you said.
They go on the internet and they write the same comment in 50 different blog posts.
It's just a tactic.
They're getting paid.
And a lot of times it's taxpayer money that somehow funnels into these groups.
So it's a complete scam, and I hope people are aware of that.
It is a cheating organization, in my opinion, as a whole.
And the cheating goes way beyond, for me, the Project Veritas stuff.
And sort of looking back in history, the left has always been inclined towards socialism and communism.
And, of course, they embedded all their spies in the State Department and helped lose China to the Communists, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.
Do they care?
No.
They covered up the crimes of Stalin.
They attacked Solzhenitsyn for the Gulag Apikalago.
They tried to downplay and minimize everything horrible that was happening in the Communist countries.
They visited all these Potemkin villages and said, hey, this stuff's great.
Look how wonderful and fat these prisoners are.
And the prisoners are scrolling the notes saying, God, help me.
Get me out of this.
Horrible groundhog day of hell that I'm stuck in, this Truman show of nightmarish proportions.
So they initially tried the propaganda war, and then when the crimes of Stalin came out, Khrushchev was talking about them in the 60s, the cult of personality, the gulags, the death camps, and the starvation in the Ukraine that occurred in the 30s.
They're like, oh, well, we've lost the entire ideological battle because the evidence has come rolling in.
I know.
Let's just start importing people who vote left.
And that, to me, was the biggest cheat, right?
There would be no left, as we understand it at the moment, without Ted Kennedy's 1965 immigration bill that switched immigration from Europe, who were generally smaller government, you know, Judeo-Christian, Greek or Roman history.
They switched it to the third world, so they stuffed the ballot that way.
That is not an argument.
That is not winning.
It's just stuffing the deck.
That's all.
I mean, if you get to feel twice the number of people in a basketball team as your opponents, guess what?
You can do fairly well, but it's not like you're better.
And this confession of the left that they're constantly losing is something people really need to see.
They have to constantly manipulate information with the media.
They have to constantly smear.
They have to constantly, like, use the power of the IRS. Remember how...
Sorry for the rant, but I'll finish it.
Remember how Nixon in the 70s He even thought about using the IRS to target his political opponents, and that was one of the things that ended up with him having to resign from office or face removal.
Lois Lerner and the IRS has openly documented that they were targeting conservative charities which helped swing the election, suppressing the facts about Benghazi shortly before the election when there was an attack on American soil overseas on the anniversary of 9-11.
I mean...
All of the things that they're doing is a confession that they're not popular, they're not successful.
You know, if you've got to chloroform and kidnap the girl, she's not that into you.
And there's just not facts here.
If you look at the amount of weight that the media has given him and the smears and the voting blocks that have been imported from the third world, this is not a successful party.
They're not winning, honestly.
They're not winning openly.
And the Project Veritas staff is lifting the lid on that hellish scorpion-brained environment Absolutely.
And we're seeing that played out today, too.
Just this week, we saw the Obamacare premiums go up 20-some percent.
Obama, a couple years ago, was telling us that your health care bill is going to go down.
It's going to be like your phone bill.
It's just going to cost as much as your phone bill.
And now we're seeing it's outrageous.
And again, it's the middle class.
It's these lower middle class who suffer the most.
It's these millennials who are forced to buy this now.
And I have to tell you, too, It's because there's no Republican Party, there's no pushback on any of this.
Where were the ads by the Republican Party last year, around IRS time in February, that said, hey kids, you know this $2,000 penalty you're paying this year?
You didn't used to have to pay that.
But thanks to Democrats, this is what's happening.
So they never own up to their failures and everything they touch is a failure.
We see that with Hillary's history.
She can't run on what she's done.
She can't run on anything because everything she's touched has been a disaster.
And another point is, and this ties into everything you say, this year, because they control the education, because they don't teach about capitalism, they have a candidate like Bernie Sanders pushing complete socialism.
Well, Venezuela is collapsing over here, you know, a few miles away, and nobody can put the connection together, but, you know, they control the information.
So, you know, again, it's not honest, it's not truthful, but they get away with it.
Well, and they are succeeding, right?
And this is a fairly common observation, but I think it bears repeating that the goal of Obamacare was not to fix healthcare.
The goal of Obamacare was to so cripple the remnants of the free market that the system will start collapsing in on its own weight.
And if it's not Trump, right, Trump is going to repeal and replace it, maybe with medical savings accounts, or certainly he wants to increase competition across straight lines for insurance companies and so on.
But this has been meddling has been occurring forever, to keep meddling with the remnants of the free market and the healthcare system to the point where it collapses, and then they can take over with single payer.
I mean, just one example is, you know, this is quite some time ago, they got rid of the requirement to be healthy when you bought healthcare insurance.
And this goes all the way back to the Second World War, when the government put a ceiling on people's raises.
You couldn't get raises in the Second World War, so companies began paying for people's healthcare as a way of enticing them to stay or move or whatever.
Yeah.
Well, they don't pay for your car insurance.
They don't pay for your house insurance.
Why the hell would they pay for you?
Anyway, so this kind of stuff gets set up, and then you say, well, people with existing conditions can't be denied.
Well, I mean, how retarded is that?
I mean, there's this complete opposite.
It's like, hey, you know what?
You can totally buy House insurance against fire when your house is currently on fire.
Well, what happens?
Everyone just waits till they get sick and then apply for healthcare insurance because they can't be denied.
The whole point is you need the moral hazard.
You need the uncertainty for insurance to work.
If you wait for disaster and then get insurance, you're adding an additional layer to paying for that disaster, shifting the cost to more honest people, and it begins to degrade people's sense of social solidarity.
It degrades their sense of integrity because people are like...
Well, if I do the right thing and buy healthcare insurance when I'm healthy, I'm just going to get shafted by all the people who wait, so maybe I'll wait.
And there becomes this race to the moral bottom that occurs.
And that's just one of the things that happened some time back ago, and they're continuing to pile more and more mess under the healthcare system until they can control it.
And they don't want to control the healthcare system.
They want to control you.
They want to control your access to healthcare so that you're more dependent on the government and more scared of hostility from the government, because...
This can be a problem for you in accessing health care in a politicized system.
Absolutely.
And again, it goes back to that friend of mine I was mentioning earlier.
You know, if you get off the plantation at all, then they punish you.
They kick you off your job.
They threaten you with death.
And so, you know, again, I hope enough people wake up before Election Day.
I'm going to have faith in the American public.
I think I think enough people will come out and vote for Trump, and I hope it's a big surprise.
That'll make that Wednesday after election day a really good day.
Yes, you don't want to wake up with a hangover and Hillary Clinton.
Those two things are not a good combo.
I mean, one of those is bad enough.
You throw the hangover and Hillary Clinton, that's a very, very bad day after election.
What do you think people need to do over the next two weeks in this sort of final race?
What would you suggest to people?
Because, of course, there are a lot of undecideds who are being batted back and forth like a cat's toy from a lion by the media and are having a tough place to land.
Every time it feels like people have some certainty, like how Hillary Clinton's polls took a nosedive after she took a nosedive into a van on 9-11...
What is it that people need to know or what approach do they need to take?
What do they need to learn in order to try and make a better decision come November?
You know, I think there's still, you know, isn't it amazing that people haven't made up their mind yet?
I mean, that just blows me away.
But I think the best thing we can do is push the truth out and push out Hillary's record.
I think there are probably quite a few people, you know, who just go about their business, work their jobs, and just now starting to pay attention even now.
And so I think that bodes well for Donald Trump.
I think, you know, if people really look at what's at stake here, And what the different candidates are going to offer.
It's an easy win for Trump.
But for us, I guess it's just pushing the truth.
I know for myself, I've been putting in a lot of hours.
And I'm sure you have too.
And so I think people were talking about bring yourself and three others to the polls.
That's all good.
But getting the truth out there, I think, is the best thing we can do.
I agree with that.
And it's also important for me, maybe I sort of was born in Ireland, I grew up in England, spent a lot of time in Europe.
It's, you know, it is a lot about America, but it's not just about America, it's about the West as a whole, you know, have some care and concern for the mothership, which is currently expiring under paroxysms of Stalin-esque style collectivism.
And, you know, they have the globalist federal government going on in Europe at the moment.
And If Trump gets in and Trump is able to shrink the size of the state and Trump is able to resuscitate the economy and Trump is able to do some of the great things, help revive the education system by giving parents vouchers and bringing competition into the mix when it comes to our most precious resource, our children.
You know, it's kind of a cliche that everyone says, society's most precious resource is our children.
Then don't send them to death camps of brain-destroying indoctrination in order to be held hostage by democratic...
Warlords of unionization.
Anyway, I think we have a title for the show.
Anyway, it also matters what happens in Europe, because Europe is looking at America.
And Europe is looking at America.
There are...
Groups and individuals poised in Europe to be Trump in Europe.
But Europe, which used to be more innovative, has sort of fallen by the wayside as far as this goes.
They're looking at the Trump experiment, and if Trump gets in, and if Trump succeeds, and I obviously think he has the most chance of anyone, I defer to competence in general.
Like, if I just see wildly competent people, it's like, yeah, okay, you can wash my car.
I assume you're going to do a good job.
And it is also about Europe, but it's about the West as a whole.
And there has been a continual retreat for about 150 years of small government, European, Western values, separation of church and state, and voluntary charity rather than coercive welfare.
And it can be reversed.
And if it is reversed, it can not only spread from America to Canada, which is important for me, but it could spread also to Europe and maybe even beyond Europe so that Europe and North America don't end up as the shining city that everyone screams is racist and is desperately trying to get into.
It could actually spread these values.
This turn back of the tide might not just occur for America or for Canada or for Europe, but for the world as a whole.
And that's, again, how important it is.
Oh, yeah.
And I'm always bewildered in the fact that When is Europe going to wake up and see this flood of immigrants, the million immigrants to Germany in one year, another million across Europe this year?
When are you going to understand that Obama was behind that, that his failed policies created this wave of people just coming across Europe?
It's amazing that he gets such a pass from the Europeans, from the American press, But it's just devastating.
And it's also interesting, too, though.
I think Europe is a few steps ahead of us in certain respects and maybe a few behind us in other respects.
But we see that these leaders in these countries are always labeled as the far right, you know, the extreme right candidate.
And here they're just people who love their country and want to preserve their culture.
And what heroic people there are over there in Europe today.
When I've traveled in Europe, not like you, but a few times that I've been there, it's the most beautiful place I have ever been.
I just think it's just so amazing.
And of course, when I go to these little towns in Italy or Spain, it's always a beautiful church that is just the dominant architectural structure in the city.
It's a shame that the West is just so willing to just push that aside and allow whatever this totalitarianism that they're pushing for.
I do hope that the West wakes up, and I think you're right.
I think Donald Trump is key.
Well, and I guess the last point that I want to make is that when – and it's a genius move on the part of the left.
You know, I mean, when people are referred to as far right, well, who in Europe is far left?
Well, pretty much everyone in power relative to a couple of decades ago.
And, you know, I just found it – Hilarious and tragic that Donald Trump was repeatedly asked to repudiate, you know, it's a magic word, repudiate David Duke, who he'd barely ever heard of and had, you know, like, it's all nonsense.
Meanwhile, the actual Communist Party of the United States was very, very pro-Hillary Clinton.
The Communist Party!
Now, the KKK responsible for, I don't know, about 2,000 deaths over the history of the Republic.
Tragic stuff.
However, put those bodies next to the mountain, 100 million soul mountain of corpses left by communism.
And the idea that nobody, of course, nobody would, of course, confront Hillary.
Do you repudiate the Communist Party of the United States?
She's like, we don't refer to Democrats that way, even though it's true.
No, no, no.
I meant the actual honest ones, the ones who wear it on their sleeve, not the ones who bury it at the footnotes of their memos.
And this normalization that the left is the left, but the right is always the far right, which, of course, brings up images of Nazism, which is ridiculous because Nazism stood for National Socialism, which is why you have to call it Nazism.
Otherwise, the word socialism might be besmirched by, I don't know, honest basic reality.
But this is a big challenge, the control of language.
And they've elevated this group, these groups of people who are supposed to be immune from criticism.
And that, to me, is one of the most corrupting things.
Why can't you criticize Obama's foreign policy?
Because that's racist.
And it's like, okay, so basically somebody's in power who can't be criticized.
Oh yeah, that's going to be great.
That's never been a problem before.
Or, you know, you can't criticize Hillary Clinton's outright dismantling of Libya, which helped really provoke the migrant crisis, or at least broke down the shield between the migrant crisis and the Mediterranean.
You can't criticize her because that's sexist.
It's like, okay, so if...
Black guys and women can't be criticized, then how on earth can we have a rational relationship if they're in power?
And this is, I think, what's confusing to people about Trump.
Because if men had lied about Trump, he would have sued them.
And people would have said, okay, well, I understand that.
But when women lie about Trump and he sues them, here come the white knights to circle the eggs and protect the women.
And it's like, no, he's treating them as equals.
And that's what happens with the left.
They say, we want to be treated as equals.
And then you treat them as equals and they cry.
It's like, oh, come on.
Yeah.
Yeah, they really don't.
It's a good point.
I think Megyn Kelly is a good example of that.
She wants to be tough.
She wants to be respected.
But then when you criticize her, she wilts like a flower.
And, you know, again, that little episode with Newt Gingrich last night, that was one of the most...
Infuriating interviews I've ever seen.
I don't know.
I don't watch your show anymore.
Again, it's this Trump factor.
He's made it uncomfortable for me to watch several Fox News programs, which, you know, being a conservative, I used to faithfully watch a lot of these shows from morning to night.
And now, you know, some are just unbearable.
And Megyn Kelly's one.
I never would have seen this except someone sent me the video of it.
But, you know, there are other alternatives.
And so I try to go to, you know, a different channel or whatever.
But, you know, Trump's just blowing everything up, but I think it's a good thing.
And, you know, I'm ready for it.
I'm ready for him to be president, blow a few things up and, you know, scrap some things and get the media all revved up.
And I think he's the only one that can handle it.
I think he's the right man for the job.
So hopefully we'll see a Trump presidency in a couple weeks.
All right.
Well, I appreciate the work that you've been doing to bring that about.
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