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Oct. 25, 2023 - Stew Peters Show
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LIVE - WRONGTHINK: Less Defense, More Offense: The Key to Taking Back America
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They love him in spite of everything they've heard.
They love him often in spite of himself.
They love Donald Trump because no one else loves them.
The country they built, the country their ancestors fought for over hundreds of years, has left them to die in their unfashionable little towns, mocked and despised by the sneering halfwits with finance degrees, but no actual skills, who seem to run everything all of a sudden.
Whatever Donald Trump's fault, he is better than the rest of the people in charge.
At least he doesn't hate them for their weakness.
Donald Trump, in other words, is and has always been a living indictment of the people who run this country.
That was true four years ago, when Trump came out of nowhere to win the presidency, and it's every bit as true right now.
Trump rose because they failed.
It's as simple as that.
If the people in charge had done a halfway decent job with the country they inherited, if they cared about anything other than themselves, even for just a moment, Donald Trump would still be hosting Celebrity Apprentice, but they didn't.
Instead, they were incompetent and narcissistic and cruel and relentlessly dishonest.
They wrecked what they didn't build.
They lied about it.
They hurt anyone who told the truth about what they were doing.
That's true.
We watched.
America is still a great country, the best in the world, but our ruling class is disgusting.
A vote for Trump is a vote against them.
That's what's going on in this country.
That is what's going on in this country.
That is what went on in this country.
And what that would be is, of course, he broke all the rules.
Now, we know that.
We know he fought the deep state tooth and nail.
We know that the reason why they're coming after him is because he was a real threat to them.
But one of the things we haven't discussed is why he's a threat, first of all.
At least not in the way that I want to cover it today.
And also, what we need to do to get ourselves back to where we are.
Because we often refer to 2016 as the year we actually started to see change in politics.
People actually had hope for once.
And that was because something very interesting happened that hadn't happened in a very long time.
In fact, I would argue certainly not in my lifetime.
I don't know the last time we had the hope that Donald Trump was.
I really don't because it wasn't in my lifetime.
So it had to have been long before that.
Because at least by the time I was alive, it was very clear that there was an approved narrative.
And those who decided that approved narrative were not the people of this country, were not the conservatives that actually made up America, the actual backbone of this country.
You see, what Donald Trump did is he threw out all the rules.
He said no to the progressives who for so long had been able to establish their narrative.
They made up the rules of the game.
They made up what was wrong and what was right.
See, one of the reasons I started Wrong Think, I started hosting the show, was because I wanted to host a show that really challenged the narrative for people.
Because oftentimes we have a lot of internalized beliefs that we don't even realize.
are internalized.
We don't realize that a lot of what we believe and what we think is actually man-made.
It's actually been something that we're conditioned to believe because of the rules that we abide by in society.
Now part of that is actually quite useful to abide to a certain set of morals in a civilization, in a civil society that's necessary.
But those are things that are pretty obvious.
Christian morals.
Things like don't kill people.
Things like honor your elders.
You know, those sorts of rules.
But the ones that should never have been instilled in our minds was how we had to speak to the elites in this country, how we had to view the elites, how we had to speak to one another, how we weren't allowed to say the truth, and it became normalized over time that our politicians were not going to actually represent us.
In fact, they weren't even going to behave like real human beings.
That was the norm.
And that only became the norm because we allowed it to become the norm because we allowed them to get into our heads and change the rules.
We don't talk about it very often.
There's a little something called the Overton window that I want to discuss today.
There's something called shifting the Overton window and that is something that the progressives exploit time and time again.
They use it to their advantage.
So the advantage to being a progressive is that your stance is ever-changing.
Your whole ideology is based on using the slippery slope.
And the slippery slope does indeed exist.
The ironic part is they want to convince you that it doesn't exist, while in the end, that is the actual strategy that they use more than anything else.
Because the slippery slope is useful in shifting the Overton window.
We're going to be explaining how Donald Trump broke that paradigm, and for the first time in a long time, actually took back the narrative for conservatives.
Right now we're playing on defense.
We're not playing on offense.
And we're never going to win, truthfully, if we don't turn the tables.
For four years, we did turn the tables.
Or at least a solid three.
Maybe just two and a half even.
The point is, Donald Trump did something to this country.
He reminded us of who we are.
He reminded the media and the progressives that they did not have control over us.
And they, sadly, have forgotten that.
As soon as the 2020 election was stolen, things went back to normal.
And by the way, when I say things, I don't just mean they took over the presidency and from a political perspective, they took over this country.
No, I mean the narrative shifted.
We went back to being on defense.
Now that's an important thing to recognize because if we don't recognize that, then we're never going to be able to move forward with the correct attack plan to actually save this country.
So guys, I figured I'd finally dedicate an episode to exactly how we do turn the tables, how we do take back the country by essentially taking back the narrative.
And this doesn't just have to do with Donald Trump.
The reason why I bring up Donald Trump was because he was the one, whether or not you like it, that actually did shift that paradigm.
And that It's worth a hell of a lot in today's America, in today's politics.
So stay tuned guys for this very informative episode of Wrong Think Primetime.
And welcome to Wrong Think Primetime everyone.
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Thank you so much for being here on this Wednesday night.
I'm so pumped up for this show.
This is one of my favorite topics because, you know, oftentimes we get ourselves bogged down with what's wrong with this world, but we never really talk about actual solutions and the deeper analysis of what's going on.
And that's exactly what we're going to be going on, what we're going to be doing today, I should say, on this show.
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To get the truth out there and we are going to really be getting really deep today, a little bit philosophical almost, or I would say more political science-y.
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Not that that means anything because college is obviously a scam.
Everything I know is from, of course, observation and life experience from working in politics and media.
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That was just a little joke.
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Anyways, guys, I want to jump in and get started with this episode because something kind of went off in my head today when I saw what was happening to Donald Trump in the courtroom.
And this is a thing I think about a lot.
I always think to myself, I'm always kind of challenging myself to come up with solutions to How we actually take this country back, because let's be real, it's never going to be just fixing the election system, that is, if we even actually ever do that, which my hopes are not high for that, and it's never going to be just one thing or another or whatever it might be, right?
It's never just going to be one answer.
But generally speaking, one thing that will certainly at least give us the tools we need to implement whatever it is that we want to implement, it's actually having control.
How do we have control?
Well, we have control of the narrative.
The sad reality of where we're at today and why we feel so doomy and gloomy is that they've got us exactly where they want us.
They meaning the left, the progressives.
They make up the majority of the elites, okay?
And You could see that they have us exactly where they want us because they're able to target a former president of the United States The way that they are targeting him.
They are throwing indictments at him.
They're taking him to court almost every single day.
Did they do that to Bill Clinton, even though they could have?
Yes.
No, they didn't.
Did they do that to Obama, even though they could have?
No, they didn't.
Did they do that to anybody else?
No, they didn't.
They chose not to.
It's not that they didn't have dirt on these people.
It's not that they didn't do far worse things than Donald Trump.
It's that they chose to respect them as presidents of the United States.
Well, why is that?
Well, because He wasn't really challenging.
They weren't really challenging anything.
Donald Trump did.
For a few years there, guys, we had control of this country.
Now we don't anymore.
And instead of being out there actually fighting for this country, continuing to fight, For the people, we, the people, our voice, and what we want to see be the lead narrative in this nation, the dominant narrative, Donald Trump is stuck in the courtroom having to defend himself against people like Michael Cohen.
Yep, he testified the other day.
Obviously, he's a liar and no fan of Donald Trump.
He's very clear about that.
But here is Donald Trump's remarks today about how the hearing went.
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It looks like it's going to happen.
So that will be a wonderful thing.
I put out a clue today on him, and I did one last night.
You saw that.
You think that somebody in this group could be really spectacular, and maybe for many years to come, he'll be very good.
So we're very happy about that.
On the trial here, it's going very well.
This is a Biden witch hunt deal.
It all comes out of the DOJ. It's to interfere with the election.
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It's a witch-hunt.
It's just a bad trial, a really unfair trial.
The only time the statute's ever been used for this is this.
This is a statute that doesn't give you a jury, doesn't give you anything.
It's a pure political witch-hunt.
But we have the facts on our side.
So the company is much stronger than they anticipated.
Much stronger than anyone really understood.
It was a private company, so nobody understood it.
The assets have very little debt.
We have a lot of cash.
It's a great company.
And we're happy with the way it's going.
But it's a witch hunt.
There's no question about it.
Getting back to Congress, we think Mike Johnson's going to do really well.
He's popular.
He's smart.
He's sharp.
He's going to be fantastic.
I believe that will happen.
We'll see what.
You'll let me know when I come out.
I'll be out in a couple of hours.
I don't believe that, because I've spoken to Mark Meadows many, many times over the years, and he strongly believed the election was rigged.
Now, of course, you know, deranged Jack Smith and the prosecutors, they go after somebody for years.
And they say, look, here's the story.
We'll give you nothing.
We'll erect a statue to you or you're going to go to jail for 10 years for having done nothing wrong.
So, you know, a lot of people have to make that decision.
Some people would never make that decision.
Other people would.
But Park Meadows always felt it was rigged.
The whole thing was rigged.
It was rigged and it was stolen.
And because it was rigged and stolen, our country's gone to hell.
You take a look at the border, you take a look at Israel, that would have never happened.
You take a look at Ukraine, that would have never happened.
Our country's going to hell.
Just look at energy, energy independent we were, and now we're not energy independent.
We're not even close.
We're buying energy from Venezuela and lots of other places.
And we have more liquid gold under our feet.
We're a crime-ridden nation.
We're a nation in decline, all because of a rigged and stolen election.
Thank you very much.
Do you think we'll take a deal?
He's right.
We are a nation in decline.
But what he's wrong about is the fact that it's not just because of a rigged and stolen election.
It's a lot deeper than that.
What Donald Trump brought to America for four years wasn't economic success.
It wasn't lower taxes.
It wasn't a safer society.
It wasn't a more culturally sound society.
Rather, It was the fact that he took back the power of the narrative for the right.
The right became too powerful under Donald Trump, and that's essentially why he's on trial.
Now, obviously, that's not the official reason, but what it comes down to, what the deep state is really angry at, is for the first time in a long time, we had a say.
The American people actually had control over the dominant narrative.
We were so sick and tired of being lied to by the media, by the elites, by politicians, and for all too long, the politicians were more than happy to fall right in line with whatever that dominant narrative was, particularly the progressives.
They were the ones who controlled the dominant narrative.
Donald Trump changed all of that.
He said no.
He said, I'm not going to be PC. I'm going to tell the truth.
And the reason why, you have to understand, the reason why they want to control the narrative is because they don't actually want to fix the problems that we have.
For example, and I was going to play the clip because I think this is a perfect example of what I'm talking about.
Remember when he gave that famous speech where he referred to the people crossing the border as rapists and murderers?
Well, turns out he was correct.
Many of them were.
However, he got so much backlash from the media because according to them, he called all Mexicans rapists and murderers.
Now, is that really what he said?
No, but he was quite blunt in the way he said it.
In previous years, even if we had a Republican president, they didn't actually take the power back for the right because they weren't willing to tell the truth like he was.
Because they knew they would get backlash for it.
Because that is the left effectively controlling the narrative.
They will lie about you.
They will twist the truth so that they can control the narrative.
Because what it does is it scares people out of speaking the truth.
They never really wanted to close the border.
They still haven't.
So the way that they got around that, the way they circumvented that, is they created fear surrounding speaking honestly about a particular topic, particularly when it comes to things that could be loosely related to race, like the border.
Obviously what Trump was saying had nothing to do with race in and of itself.
He was simply stating a fact.
Now, we know now that that's not really considered that controversial anymore.
Even people in the mainstream media will now say it.
Well, why is that?
Well, because Trump successfully changed the narrative.
Don't you see?
He was successful at shifting what we call the Overton window.
We'll be discussing the theory behind that in the second part of the show.
But essentially what he did is he changed the narrative.
It was no longer a no-no to talk about Mexico owing us things.
It was no longer a no-no to say that 9-11 was an inside job.
It was no longer a no-no thanks to Donald Trump To say all of the things that for so long you would get in trouble for saying.
Take for example Alex Jones.
There were tons of things he said that now we look at and we say oh he was right all along.
But a few years ago you couldn't say those things.
It wasn't until Donald Trump that he freed us in a sense from that weight of having to comply to a narrative that the left set.
Not anymore.
Not anymore.
Because that narrative...
Was changed.
Because he gave us the power to change it for a few years.
We didn't do that with Bush.
We didn't do that with even Reagan.
We didn't do that with any former Republican president.
We didn't do it with George H.W. Bush.
None of the Republican presidents.
None of them.
None of them were able to effectively do what Donald Trump did.
He took back the narrative for three years.
And that successfully changed things for years to come.
And how do we know that?
Well, we know that because the media worked morning, noon and night to run damage control on all of it.
They were trying to scare people out of agreeing with Donald Trump.
They were trying to use the same tactics that they had employed for years.
Fear.
They called him a racist.
They called his supporters racists.
They said, anybody who dares to sympathize with Donald Trump's cause, with whatever it is that he stands for, which is really just America first, well, you'll be a racist too.
They tried and tried and tried for so long.
Here's a little reminder of what exactly that trying looked like.
Trump's base includes bigots and racists.
The wall has always been a con for Donald Trump's credulous, rube, ten-tooth base.
Some of his supporters are from far right-wing groups, or they're from conspiracy theory groups deemed a threat by the FBI. Too many of them Want to see the people who are begging for change put down.
Working class, angry, white, pro-Trump males.
Aging angry white guys.
Angry white men.
Angry white old men.
These angry white men.
The angry white vote.
All these angry white people.
Dana Milbank, opinion writer for the Washington Post, who just penned a piece, yes, half of Trump supporters are racist.
Half of Trump supporters are racist.
Is racist bigoted base?
It's white privilege, it's white nationalism, it's anger, it's rape, it's insult.
If you voted for Donald Trump, you tolerated a certain level of racism.
How do one in three Americans still It is his supporters who are out there refusing to wear masks because they think it makes them look weak.
The MAGA bubble.
The credulous boomer rube demo that backs Donald Trump.
They think that anybody that expresses affection for their son or empathy for someone they don't know is weak.
Oh, Trump's a smart one in there.
Y'all elitist are dumb.
Fox News viewers who seem to be endlessly gullible and willing to accept whatever the president says.
You elitist with your geography and your maps and your spelling.
Your math and your reading.
Yeah, your reading.
Increasingly, President Trump's support seems cultish.
You know, a lot of the Trump voters, they're in a cult member.
They're cult members of the Trump cult.
The extreme members of the Trump cult.
The cult of Trump.
The Trump cult.
It is a cult.
One in three Republicans in the Trump cult.
The GOP is not a party anymore.
It's a cult.
The cult of Trump could be a death cult.
It's now becoming a doomsday cult.
Cults generally don't end well.
This cult-like behavior can lead to the deaths of thousands of people.
My girlfriend is a big Trump supporter.
And you're still together?
Barely.
There are a lot of friends who I had to really get rid of.
And I don't know if after this I will ever be able to go back and be friends with those people because at a certain point you just say they're too far gone.
Do you?
Do you?
Or is that just you?
What you just witnessed there was the perfect montage of what the media had to look like for three years in order to just attempt to make Trump look bad.
They tried so hard to control that man because the way they controlled that man was by attempting to control his voters.
If they could successfully get the majority of American patriots to start believing that what he was saying was racist, that who he was was a racist, that everything he believed in was wrong, went against the narrative because it was too wrong, then they could essentially take down Donald Trump.
But it didn't work.
Trump has a lasting legacy on this country.
He dismantled the narrative.
He didn't just dismantle the deep state.
He dismantled the narrative.
And that is so important to understand here.
People think it's because he knew this or he knew that or because he was going to take down the deep state.
Well, what does that even mean?
Well, at the end of the day, what we really mean when we say that is that he took back control for the right, for the conservative movement.
He essentially handed over the power to the right and said, go ahead.
You get to decide the fate of this country.
You get to decide what's right and what's wrong in this country.
You get to decide the standard.
You get to make the rules of the game.
Look, here's the reality.
In America, we like to believe that everybody has equal power, but that's not necessarily the case.
There's always going to be rules, and there's always going to be rule makers.
And it's an endless fight between who is going to set those rules, who's going to make those rules, and who is going to have to follow those rules.
And the reality is that for the majority of American history, the progressives of society have made those rules, especially in modern America.
Pretty much ever since the 60s, the dominant narrative has been predetermined by the progressives of society.
Now, they're in a unique position because they are already a progressive movement, so it's easier for them to implement an ever-changing agenda.
That's why they implement the slippery slope to shift the Overton window.
But on the right, our job is to preserve traditionalism, to preserve the Constitution, which is rooted in Christianity, or conservatism, as I should say.
So with that said, it's much harder for us to kind of be on the offense because the whole point is to conserve, not to create new.
And so we're already sort of, you know, dealing with a disadvantage there.
But Donald Trump fought through that and that's why they hated him.
That's why they had to get him out of there.
And by the way, having control over a narrative doesn't have anything to do, doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how much political control you have.
It has all to do with the strategy you're employing.
And quite frankly, the left has employed that strategy far more successfully.
That's why they hated the fact that Donald Trump was out there as president, because he was effective at controlling the narrative for the right, and he was president of the United States.
He had an immense amount of power.
Now what we're dealing with is a country that is slowly on the decline of releasing that power from the right and ceding it over to the left.
The right no longer has the power of the narrative that they used to have.
Now yes, like I said, Donald Trump has a lasting legacy.
Whatever happens in the future, we will forever remember him for allowing us to have the freedom essentially for breaking that barrier to speak the truth in politics.
And I don't see that going anywhere for a long time.
That standard has already been set.
That said, we're not moving forward at the same rate on the conservative side of taking back our culture that we were in the past.
In fact, the way we know that is the fact that the right is sort of acting on defense when it comes to legality, when it comes to...
I'm basically dealing with the court system right now.
And I realized that today on my earlier show when I was reporting on some news.
When I was reading through all of the headlines, I realized, holy crap, the right, although they're doing things, they're in a position where they have to constantly play on defense.
And yes, that's an important position to be in right now because right now we're just struggling to stay afloat.
But at some point, we're going to have to turn that defense into offense.
Here's exactly what I mean, by the way.
These are some of the headlines, the news pieces that I was talking about earlier today.
Fight for the First Amendment lawsuit against government-related entities suppressing conservative free speech expands after top players caught targeting the Gateway Pundit prior to 2022 election.
Pivotal case explained.
So that case was basically about the Gateway Pundit, America First Legal, and a few other organizations...
Fighting just for our First Amendment right.
The fact that we have to fight for that First Amendment right, for our constitutional right to freedom of expression, free speech, that tells you right there we're on the defense as conservatives.
Breaking.
Lieutenant General Mike Flynn sues Andrew Weissman, Nicole Wallace, and MSNBC for knowingly promoting materially false and malicious statements.
Also tells us we're on the defense.
Just in case you're not aware, those statements had to do with January 6th.
January 6th was only able to be implemented because...
Because we were playing defense.
They had full control of the narrative.
They were starting to take back control of the narrative.
They had just stolen the election.
They were able to successfully convince us in the latter part of 2020 that essentially...
Donald Trump was a racist.
He was partly responsible for BLM. Now, I know none of you guys believed in this, but a lot of Americans actually did buy into it.
That's why they did all that stuff.
That's why they created these fake atrocities like COVID and, of course, the fake outrage over George Floyd.
It's so that they could frame Donald Trump to be a certain way.
They didn't want him to win.
Yes, they stole the election, but that's not the only piece to the puzzle because, again, Political power doesn't necessarily equate to controlling the dominant narrative, because there are many times when we have Republican presidents, but that doesn't mean that the right actually has control over the narrative, for example.
And then, of course, we have this last one.
Texas Attorney General sues Biden administration for cutting razor wire used to secure the southern border.
At what point do you have to sue your own government because they're assisting illegals and breaking into our own country?
That means we're certainly playing defense right now.
Now look, defense isn't necessarily a negative term.
I'm glad that they're doing something.
I'm glad that those lawsuits are being filed.
I'm glad that they're taking action.
That is still an action, right?
But it's more of a reactive stance, right?
They're not being proactive, they're being reactive.
Because they have to be.
Because if they don't, then this country will surely fall apart.
We are hanging on by a thread right now.
It's not the same as it was when Donald Trump was at his best in the White House, when he was on a roll, and when the right actually felt like they were heard again.
And I don't mean the fake right.
I don't mean the establishment Republicans.
I mean the real right, the populists, the Americans who make up this country.
We controlled the narrative.
Our standards mattered.
We no longer had to play by the rules of the right.
The right might consider saying that we should have a closed-border racist.
Well, we say it's not racist.
We say it's all about American sovereignty.
And we have every right to want the country that we are citizens of to be sovereign.
They'll tell us that's racist.
We say, shut the F up.
It's not racist.
And for a while...
That was controversial until Trump came along and suddenly he was able to change that.
And now it seems we're back to square one, or at least almost, because they have that power.
And in the second part of the show, guys, in the next segment, I want to talk about how that power actually exists, what I mean by they took that power, and what I mean by we need to take that power back because it has a lot to do with the political theory, a lot of political science behind it, and sorry if it gets a little nerdy, but it's actually really important context to have in understanding politics and understanding how we are going to take back our country and ultimately save it from These people who want to destroy it.
And that's obviously the goal.
So anyways, I want to go ahead and see what's going on in the chat.
It's not loading.
Okay, come on.
Hope my laptop doesn't die.
All right.
Let's see what we have.
We have Freethinker.
We say shut the F up.
Yep, that's right.
Billy gets a suspect still on the loose and dudes in the open with AR at a bowling alley and let loose.
Oh, was there a shooting?
I did see that briefly in the corner of my eye.
Holy crap, what went on, guys?
There was a shooting?
Don't tell me there was a shooting.
Don't tell me it was a jihadist, either.
Oh, no.
Philly Kid says, they don't know how many shooters, but there's multiple locations.
We're under fire.
Where is it?
Philly Kid, where is it?
How is your Irish coffee on the rocks, Anna?
Oh, it's not Irish coffee.
It's...
It's iced coffee.
I only drink black iced coffee.
Sometimes I'll drink hot coffee, but...
Anyways, I want to know more about this shooting.
I would Google it, but there's something...
Something's going on with my laptop.
I don't know.
In the night...
At night, it's always slower.
During the day, I never...
I rarely have these problems.
Don't know yet in Maine.
Realtor Dan Gaines says, shooting with a white guy in Maine with an automatic rifle.
Hmm, interesting.
Are we sure he's white?
Or are they just saying that?
Because they often have, they have a pattern, they're known kind of for jumping the gun when it comes to, no pun intended, when it comes to shootings.
They have a, I've noticed a pattern with that.
They like to decide the narrative before the truth actually comes out.
Not saying I know what it is either.
I'm just hearing about it.
I'm just saying.
Someone says the feed is a little sticky.
That's so weird.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't have this problem.
I haven't had this problem at all recently and right now it's happening so I'll have to figure it out.
I hope it's not too glitchy.
I'm sorry about that guys.
Let's see.
What else are you guys seeing?
Dirty Doge in the chat says, Anna, hey Dirty Doge, what's up?
Yeah, he looks like a jihadi.
Oh, interesting, Philly kid.
Black coffee, that's awfully racist of you, Anna, says Ant Lion.
Yeah, I know.
Can you believe how racist I am drinking black coffee?
Although it's more brown.
It's more my skin tone, actually.
It's brown coffee.
They consider Chinese and Hispanics white now.
Is he Chinese and Hispanic?
Very interesting.
Also, guys, please go ahead and hit that rumble button if you haven't already.
Hit that thumbs up.
Also, share the link on your social media.
Send it to your family and friends.
Would really appreciate that.
Blue Wolverine says, I sense a gun control bill.
Oh, crap.
You're right.
You're probably right.
You're probably right.
Deborah Maurice says, the powers that be always attack the podcast on Rumble.
Perhaps.
I don't know.
I've only had this problem for the past...
I had this problem yesterday.
It was really glitchy yesterday, and I'm really hoping that that's not the case.
Let's see.
That's not good.
50 to 60 injured.
Crap.
Glendine, does Anna messing with your show, you tell the truth?
I hope they're not.
I hope they're not.
John says, it isn't race until Anna knocks the coffee over, which I will do.
And thankfully, Amanda Collins, who is a regular viewer on my other show, she got me this amazing coffee mug with my Wrong Think logo on it.
And then she gave it to me, and it has a lid on it.
So if I knock it over...
I'm not so racist after all, because it doesn't actually spill.
False alarm, okay?
Let's see.
AlanS333 says, yes, several casters on Rumble get hit like this.
Very interesting, very interesting, yeah.
I do wonder if that's intentional.
Okay, so guys, on that note, I do want to move on, because we have more to get to, and...
Oh, goodness, no, it's glitching.
It's glitching!
Ah, stop!
This is so frustrating.
Okay.
So guys, the question is, what do I mean when I say the left controls the narrative?
They set the standard for what are acceptable views and what are not?
Well, as I was saying earlier, I already referred to this term, but there's something called the Overton Window.
And what the Overton Window essentially does, what it is actually, is it's basically a decider for where we're at in society.
So there's always going to be a left and a right.
What the Overton Window determines is how far...
That left or right will be, right?
What is decidedly normal views?
Now, the way, what controls that Overton window is essentially, it could be a slew of factors.
Political leaders, political organizations, how people are voting.
And we hadn't, the whole point of me bringing up Donald Trump is the fact that we hadn't had an effective leader at changing that Overton window, at shifting that Overton window since Donald Trump.
The left acts like he made it He made it extremely right-wing, and that's part of their tactic.
That's also part of them trying to have control over the Overton window.
They made it seem like Donald Trump was extremely right-wing, but the reality is Donald Trump isn't right-wing at all.
What had happened to America is that we were inching slower, closer and closer and closer and closer towards a far-left Overton window.
We were shifting.
The left was effectively shifting the Overton window all on their own.
And then Donald Trump comes along and says, whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a second.
Let's bring it back, guys.
And then they're like, oh, crap.
How do we make this guy look bad?
We're going to point the finger at him and we're going to call him far right.
And 60% of the country will agree with us because of how much he's changing.
He's not really that conservative when you compare him to any other world leader or any other American leader in history, right?
But because progressives had slowly shifted that Overton window over time, they were then able to make Donald Trump look like he's crazy when in reality he's just a normal guy from like 2008.
See what they did there?
Here's a much better description, more in-depth description of exactly what the Overton window is.
In the last century, Joseph Overton developed a social engineering model showing that any political idea can be implemented even if it seems absolutely socially unacceptable at that moment.
The only thing you need is the right strategy and plenty of time.
The Overtown Window is an approach describing the range of views and ideas currently acceptable and totalable by societies whilst excluding those commonly considered as radical or absurd.
Overtoun claimed that whether a political idea is feasible or not doesn't depend on the beliefs of politicians implementing it but rather on the fit within the range of socially acceptable ideas.
Over time, this window can move, expand, or shrink to either embrace or exclude newer and newer ideas.
It occurs under the natural influence of the public opinion in circumstances such as crises or gradual cultural changes.
However, it can also be the result of premeditated manipulation.
Politicians with an agenda to introduce a then-radical idea will begin by shifting the Overton window enough so the idea can be discussed without a public outrage, thus allowing the society to become gradually acquainted with it and not dismissing the idea altogether.
A common way of manipulating the overtone window is proposing an idea absurd enough for people to reject it, but even by doing so their mindset is broadened just enough to accept some less radical concepts, thus shifting the range of the acceptable.
Those who want to influence society will also likely try to change the size of the window, even if it means shrinking it.
As Noam Chomsky puts it, the smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.
That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.
So that's how it works.
That's how the Overton window is decided.
Now, obviously, Donald Trump, the funny part, the whole irony to this is that Donald Trump was essentially blamed for shifting the Overton window to the right.
But all he was doing was correcting the very, very far left shift that the Overton window had made as a result of the uniparty shifting it in that direction.
Progressive policies kill America.
That's why conservatives are called conservatives, because we're all about conserving the Constitution, conserving biblical values, right?
Keeping it the way it was when it was founded.
That's the whole point of it.
So the further you drift away from that, the further left you go, the more you're drifting away from what we were intended to be.
Now we have become something completely different.
And that's why Donald Trump stood there and said, I'm not going to play by your accepted rules because by playing by your linguistic rules, by playing by your rules of what's considered acceptable rhetoric as the president...
Because remember, they would throw that term decorum at him all the time.
They would say, oh, he doesn't abide by decorum.
What they were really saying in so many words is, you're not following our rules and we don't like it.
So we're going to try and shut you up.
That's really what they were saying.
And Donald Trump knew that.
That's why he didn't give in to them.
Most Republicans did give in.
What it was, was they wanted to preserve where they had already shifted the Overton window to and they were worried that he would bring it back to too much of a normal position.
And he did to some degree.
We've lost a little bit of that, a lot of it actually, ever since the whole election was stolen.
Because you have to understand, before the election was stolen, it's not necessarily the stolen election that destroyed our control over the narrative.
Yes, it destroyed this country, but it didn't necessarily destroy our control over the narrative.
What really destroyed our control over the narrative...
Was what happened prior to that, when they created COVID, when they created the BLM movement.
All of those things existed to serve a purpose, to make Trump look racist, to make Trump look bad, to make him look wrong, so that we would look at him and finally see them the way the media wanted us to see him, which was a big, bad, orange man, bad, racist, meanie, terrible, sexist, liar, horrible person.
They used those labels to fear, make us fear him and to make us fear the things he stood for so that we wouldn't allow him to shift that Overton window.
In order for him to do that, he needed the public support.
And that was waning for a bit before the 2020 election.
Even though I believe he did win, rightfully, the election that is, they weren't making it easy by creating all of those crises to make him look bad as far as the court of public opinion goes.
See what I mean there?
And it's not just about Donald Trump.
You can see sort of how issues, particularly cultural issues, I would say, have changed over time.
And I think one issue that we don't talk a lot about in this capacity that sort of lends itself to this issue we're dealing with right now is the tranny issue.
Now, we talk about the fact that there are two genders and how we think it's insane that we even have to have that discussion, but that's a perfect idea of what the Overton shift looks like.
But it goes a bit deeper than that.
See, what I think is interesting about people like Matt Walsh is he made a documentary called What is a Woman?
And maybe he is aware of this, maybe he's not, maybe he hasn't thought about it, or maybe he frankly just doesn't care, but the reality is the argument he's making is actually a radical feminist argument.
Yep.
Mm-hmm.
And the reason why he and so many conservatives are making that argument is because the left put us, got us, exactly where they wanted us.
We are now on the side of radical feminists.
We have gone about this the entirely wrong way as conservatives because the argument isn't framed around the right concept.
Right now, the argument against transgenderism, the mainstream argument against it, is that we don't want men in women's spaces.
When in reality, the argument should be Trannies don't exist.
They're not a thing.
You cannot go against the word of God.
If God says you are a woman, you are a woman.
If God says you are a man, you are a man.
It has nothing to do with men infiltrating women's spaces.
Yes, that is bad, but that is not the crux of the argument.
And yet the what is a woman argument has become the crooks of the argument because we have allowed the left to hijack the Overton window and they started to create conservative arguments.
Conservatives have started to see rad femme arguments as actually conservative arguments.
Case in point, here's a segment on Tucker Carlson's show.
No, I'm not blaming him for having a feminist on.
I think it's important to discuss these things regardless and have different guests on.
I know some people don't always agree with that, but I agree with it here at Wrong Think.
I think you should talk to people on the left.
Hell, I would have AOC on if she would come on my show.
Because I think that's a fascinating discussion.
I'm not scared of her.
I'm not scared of the left.
It's the left that's scared of people like me.
The left is scared of us, right?
Anyways, point is, here's a segment that essentially explains exactly what I'm trying to explain.
It's a feminist on Tucker Carlson's show, and they're sort of coming to terms with this idea that right now conservatives and radical feminists have a lot of overlap in their cultural views right now.
Julia Beck joins us now on set.
Julia, thanks very much for coming on.
Thanks for having me.
So you said something that I think many people would in their hearts think is obvious, but very few people are willing to say out loud.
You said it knowing you would likely be punished for saying it, but you said it anyway.
Why did you do that?
I believe in the truth.
I believe that people should have these conversations and say things that matter without fear of punishment.
You are old-fashioned.
Why do you think, I couldn't agree with you more, and I'm grateful that you have that attitude, but why do you think it was important to say this specifically?
Well, when we get down to it, women and girls all share a biological reality.
We are all female.
But if any man, if any male person can call himself a woman or legally identify as female, then predatory men will do so in order to gain access to women's single sex spaces.
And this puts every woman and girl at risk.
From the beginning, I don't weigh in on this often because sexual politics is a morass and it's not worth it to be totally honest with you, but I have enough daughters that I care and my instinct has always been this change in our society, which we never debated, the terms have never been clarified, is not going to be good for girls in the long run.
Do you share that concern?
I definitely do agree.
Like I said, this puts every woman and girl at risk of male violence, and this is already happening in many states.
In many states, men can legally identify themselves as female and gain access to women's single-sex spaces, and sports is just one institution where men are taking titles, scholarships, and this is a problem.
So it seems like a real problem.
Why wouldn't women's groups who exist to carry the banner for women Raise the alarm about this.
Women have been speaking out about this for decades, but we have been effectively silenced.
Many women, like myself, have been pushed out of spaces that we built, spaces that are intended to include us, simply because we acknowledge biological reality.
Do you think, I mean, you're a lesbian, you are in the same acronym as a bunch of other groups, including people who are transgendered.
Do you think that makes it more difficult for you to make this argument?
I mean, it seems like this has been so politicized that you're expected to have a certain set of views that maybe you don't have.
I see where you're coming from.
I would like to make a distinction here.
The letters in the acronym share not much.
The LG and B are based on sexualities.
They're based on sex, logical realities.
Yes.
But the T is based on gender identity, which is not based in biological reality.
In fact, I would argue that it's opposed to biological reality.
The LGB is very different from the T, and I don't think it's fair to lump us all into the same acronym.
Do you find it astounding that it is considered an act of bravery to defend biology?
I wouldn't say so myself, but I guess that's where we are right now.
And I hope more women stand up.
Last question, because I can't understand.
What did they say to you?
You were thrown off this commission.
You were punished for saying this out loud.
What was the rationale for it?
Frankly, there was no case made.
My accuser said that they didn't have to make a case.
One of the members of my committee argued that sex was a thing of the past.
He said, frankly, science had progressed so far that sex was unimportant.
I argued the opposite.
Julie, you're back.
In a time like this, everyone thinks...
I would say what I really think, but most people are afraid to, and you're not.
And I'm definitely standing in admiration of that.
Thank you for that.
Thank you for having me.
See what I mean?
The left has successfully, I should say progressives, have successfully shifted the Overton window to such a far degree that we are now starting to agree with radical feminists.
Now you might be sitting here thinking, well Anna, who really cares?
As long as we reach the right conclusion, who cares what reasons you use to get there?
Meaning, obviously, as Christian conservatives, we're against transgenderism because we believe in the Bible.
We believe that there are two genders.
We believe that even if the technology existed...
To somehow, in 100 years, to change every fiber of your being into another gender, you will still never be a different gender from how God made you.
That is what we believe as conservatives, as Christians.
That should be exactly where it ends.
Period.
Point blank.
You cannot be a different gender from how God made you.
But instead of arguing that, we're saying, well, what is a woman?
Men don't belong in women's spaces.
Yeah, that's a radical feminist argument.
I know that sounds crazy in 2023, but when you think about what women were protesting about in second wave feminism, that is literally it.
Conservatives, modern day conservatives, have become feminists because that is how far the progressives have shifted the Overton window.
And that matters, like I said.
The reason I brought that up was because that matters because it indicates an indicating factor as to where we are at.
Which proves my point.
We do not have control of the narrative.
When Trump actually had his day in the sun, he changed a lot for us and he helped us take back control for long enough where, you know, we had a little bit of control for a while, but now we've lost that control and we're quickly sliding back at the same rate we were before.
And now, now we're basically, we basically have reached the same conclusion as radical feminists.
So way to go, progressives.
That's what I mean, guys, is the way we're going to take back this country is by taking back control of the narrative.
We have to stop playing this game of defense.
It has to end at some point.
We have to find a way to get back to playing on offense.
And the only real way to do that is to have somebody in power who is willing to challenge the status quo, who when labels are thrown at him or her, but I don't believe women belong in those positions of power, I think men do the best in those jobs, hence Donald Trump, so that when they do throw those things at somebody like a Donald Trump, even if it's not Donald Trump, although I believe he's the best candidate we have, he's the best shot we have at changing, taking back the power because he proved to be able to already do it the first time around.
It's going to take somebody like him to change the narrative, to take back control for the right.
If we don't have control over the narrative, we can't change it.
If we're constantly playing defense, how are we ever going to implement our own ideology?
How are we ever going to implement any sort of standard that has anything to do with conservatism, with Christianity?
Well, we can't.
We can't.
Until we have that power back.
And that, in essence, is the real issue that we're dealing with in modern American society.
How are we going to take this country back?
Well, it's not easy, but it's pretty clear to me.
It's going to require us to take back control of that Of the narrative.
Use that Overton window to shift it back in its rightful position and not in crazy land, which is where the left has pushed it.
I cannot believe that as a conservative today, part of our platform is that we believe in two genders.
Can you believe that?
Well, I can because guess what?
That's what progressives did to this country.
That's what happened when we didn't have strong leaders, strong enough to actually not conform To the rules that they have set forth.
They meaning the elites.
Alright guys, so thank you so much for listening to that rant and dealing with the tech issues that we're having today.
Please go ahead and like this video if you haven't already.
Also, share the link on your social media.
I think this is a really interesting topic.
At least it is for me.
Let me know if you found it a little boring, but I don't know.
I got a little nerdy when it comes to these things, so I found it interesting.
Before we do leave though, I have one last video I do want to show you because As you all know, I like to end the show on something a little different than the topic we actually discussed, or I should say the topics we discussed.
And today, the last video I wanted to show you was one of a woman that I found on social media complaining about having to work a 9 to 5.
Now, I had a few thoughts about this, alright?
But first I want to go ahead and play it for you.
But like my first nine to five job after college in person and I'm commuting in the city and it takes me fucking forever to get there.
There's no way I'm gonna be able to afford living in the city right now, so that's off the table.
Like, fucking duh!
If I was able to walk to work, it'd be fine.
But I'm not, so at least.
Literally takes me, like, I leave here, like, I get on the train at 7.30 and I don't get home till, like, 6.15 earliest.
And then, like, I don't have time to do anything.
I don't, I want to shower, eat my dinner, and go to sleep.
I don't have time or energy to cook my dinner either.
Like, I don't have energy to work out.
Like, that's out the window.
I'm so upset!
Oh my god!
Nothing to do with my job at all, but just, like, the 9-5 schedule in general is crazy.
Being in the office 9-5, like, if it was remote, you get off at 5, and you're home, and everything's fine, but, like, I'm not home.
It takes me long to get home, and, like...
Like, people that drive to the office, like, you don't get off at 5.
And I know it could be worse.
I know I could be working longer.
But, like, I literally get off.
It's pitch black.
Like, I don't have energy.
How do you have friends?
Like, how do you have time to, like, meet, like, a guy?
I don't know.
Like, how do you have time for, like, dating?
Like, I don't have time for anything.
And I'm, like, so stressed out.
And I'm also getting my period.
So that's why I'm all emotional.
But, like, am I so dramatic?
It's fine.
Now, serious question.
Did she really think that she was going to record that video posted on the internet and garner sympathy from people?
People in America right now are working three jobs just to support their family.
And this young woman, who doesn't seem like she has kids, or at least I hope she doesn't, given how upset she is about having the responsibility of working a full day, she's upset because she has to work a normal work schedule And have a slightly long commute home.
Yeah, that's the people that we're dealing with today.
But let me just go ahead and say this.
And maybe you won't like this truth, but it's the truth.
This isn't the only video I've seen of women like this complaining on TikTok.
Now, I don't know where they're expecting to garner sympathy from because everybody has to work at some point if they're a normal human being.
So what did she expect?
It was going to be fun working?
It was going to be glamorous?
No, it's work, okay?
Sorry.
You got to do it if you want to survive, if you want to eat, okay?
However, however, maybe this is a sign, if this isn't the only video we're seeing, that, I don't know, women don't really belong in the workforce.
Maybe women are better off having kids in a family.
Now, I realize that we live in a time when it's very difficult to support a family on a single income.
I also realize it's 2023 and there is a long period of time for most women where they do remain single and have to support themselves.
But here's the thing.
All I'm suggesting is maybe that wasn't such a good idea for society to do that.
Maybe we have certain natural inclinations and one of those things that are not natural inclinations for women is working a 9 to 5.
Sorry, I don't think women were meant to strive for purpose in that way.
I think their purpose is achieved by caring for their husband and their I know that's a wrong thing here, but that's the whole point of the show.
And I honestly think she would be much happier and she wouldn't be sitting there crying if she had a bunch of little kids running around that she was taking care of and cooking for.
Sorry, did it ever occur to us that maybe women would be happier that way?
Look, I think she's a loser and I think she's crying over nothing.
I'm just as annoyed by that as the next person.
But let's also be honest here.
Maybe women just don't belong in the workforce, okay?
Can we just say it?
I know I'd rather have kids, and I don't even consider myself in the workforce.
I work from home.
I work for myself, essentially.
I'm self-employed.
I don't work for a company.
I basically create a product and sell it to a company.
That would be my podcast.
But I'm working my own schedule.
And yeah, I've worked in the corporate world.
It did suck.
I'm not going to lie.
It's a grind.
Of course, I worked more than just nine to five.
But the point is, Maybe we're allowed to question that for women.
Just saying.
Maybe that's...
Maybe that's how it was supposed to be.
Maybe women weren't supposed to be in the workforce.
It's worth an ask, because guess what?
That is not the only video I've seen circulating around the internet.
Anyways, guys, thank you so much for tuning in today.
I hope you liked today's content.
Again, I know it was nerdy.
We're a little bit more on the nerdy side than usual, but I wanted to talk about it because I think it's the only way we're really going to save this country is if we recognize how to save it.
And again, shifting the Overton window is the answer to that.
On that note, guys, thank you so much for tuning in.
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