Dec. 18, 2019 - Steve Pieczenik
04:40
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| Hi, this is Dr. | |
| Pchenik, and today I want to address the issues that the Republican constituents brought up, particularly George Conway, Kellyanne Conway's husband, and a bunch of other Republicans of the Heritage Foundation, which is no more than a geriatric unit for Republicans, who said the following, that Trump is narcissistic, he's dangerous, he doesn't follow the rule of law. | |
| What we should do is glorify the presidency of Lincoln. | |
| And I said, okay, let's learn a little bit of history, George. | |
| Number one, Lincoln was a tyrant. | |
| He clearly created a war against the South because he had economic interest. | |
| He was interested in the waterways. | |
| He was interested in New Orleans. | |
| There was an imposition of a tariff called the Morrill Tariff, M-O-R-R-I-L-L, Which favored Pennsylvania and the northern states and forced the southern states to secede from the Union. | |
| He did not like blacks. | |
| He felt that blacks were inferior. | |
| They had to go back to their homeland. | |
| Even when the blacks were freed, he sent them down to Central America, South America. | |
| And he created a war that was called a civil war. | |
| It was not a civil war. | |
| It was auto-genocide. | |
| As somebody who'd been in Cambodia and took down the Khmer Rouge and Pol Pot and Hansen, I can tell you that the slaughter of 800,000... | |
| Northerners and Southerners was nothing more than a slaughter. | |
| Another million men were wounded and then he created what we call the absence of habeas corpus. | |
| He arrested thousands of reporters and judges. | |
| And this is what George Conway and Republicans want to admire. | |
| So let's go a little bit further. | |
| In turn, Lincoln was an ethnic cleanser. | |
| When he freed the slaves, he said, those slaves that are there, we have to send them back to Latin American Haiti. | |
| General Hunter said, no, I'm going to release and I'm going to save 100,000 slaves, which he did. | |
| He was a northern general. | |
| And in turn, Lincoln rearrested them and made them slaves again. | |
| So what we have is a paradigm of a president who was really ruthless, tyrannical, was bipolar and had Marfan syndrome. | |
| But in turn, hadn't that come out to be one of our leaders? | |
| Well, you can thank Walt Whitman and Captain, my captain. | |
| And you can thank Carl Sandberg, who won a Pulitzer Prize on the autobiography of Lincoln, which was a disaster and a distortion. | |
| What's coming out now is both the Democrats and the Republicans really have no idea of American history. | |
| They make it sound as if we were puritanical, we had a rule of law, and we have nothing but caring about the absolute powers of the presidency. | |
| Well, that's not correct. | |
| Correct. | |
| As I pointed out, Abraham Lincoln was just one in a whole number of presidents who were ruthless. | |
| FDR was ruthless. | |
| He broke the Lend-Lease Agreement. | |
| Bush was ruthless and invaded Noriega when he didn't have to. | |
| Bush Jr. | |
| invaded Iraq and Afghanistan when we didn't have to. | |
| But here we have Trump brought up on the most minor concerns of any presidency, and he doesn't follow the rule of law. | |
| What's important to understand from my point of view is that America has to understand that we have a history of being ruthless, we have a history of being incredibly powerful, and we are a war-making nation. | |
| Beyond the Civil War, where we killed over a million men, We went on to Korea. | |
| We went on to Vietnam. | |
| We went on to Iraq. | |
| We went on to Afghanistan. | |
| Now, I'm not condemning my nation. | |
| I know exactly what it is that we do. | |
| We're a republic. | |
| Once again, let me repeat it. | |
| We are not a democracy. | |
| We are a representational government on all levels of government. | |
| So that means the president is representational of the desire of the people, not of Congress. | |
| Congress is a representational government. | |
| It is not a democratic entity. | |
| These are the words that have to be understood, that we have to accept Trump. | |
| He is narcissistic. | |
| He's self-aggrandizing. | |
| But you know what? | |
| He's going to close the China deal and he's already doing it. | |
| We're going to have peace with North Korea. | |
| He's pulled out troops from the Middle East and he's made an economy that's formidable. | |
| Let me quote George Santana. | |
| If we don't learn our history, we're going to repeat the mistakes of the past. | |
| But let me quote Animal House that says the following about George Conway. | |
| Being fat, short, and stupid is no way to live a life. |
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