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| You said a minute ago that one of your concerns about having a news story or a public conversation defined by emotion is that it allows the people in charge to change our lives and to take away our civil liberties because we're so distracted by the rage that we feel or the sympathy that we feel. | ||
| I mean, these are some good feelings too. | ||
| But we can be manipulated during moments like this. | ||
| Here, case in point, here's a woman who is running for president, the former governor of South Carolina, Nikki Haley, explaining that because of these attacks on October 7th, the rest of us need to register with the government in order to express our opinions online. | ||
| Here she is. | ||
| When I get into office, the first thing we have to do, social media accounts, social media companies, they have to show America their algorithms. | ||
| Let us see why they're pushing what they're pushing. | ||
| The second thing is every person on social media should be verified by their name. | ||
| That's, first of all, it's a national security threat. | ||
| When you do that, all of a sudden people have to stand by what they say and it gets rid of the Russian bots, the Iranian bots, and the Chinese bots. | ||
| And then you're going to get some civility when people know their name is next to what they say. | ||
| So Nikki Haley, this has been noted online, but it's not her real name, of course. | ||
| It's a pseudonym. | ||
| And so she's not even using a real name and telling us that we have to register with the government under our real names in order to give our opinions. | ||
| That's obviously contrary to the First Amendment. | ||
| I don't know why the anchor didn't say something about it to her, but sort of nodded all its accountability. | ||
| But it's fascism, actually. | ||
| So why isn't Nikki Haley getting laughed off the stage? | ||
| Well, Nikki Haley is someone that I would describe as radical. | ||
| She's a radical in this moment, and she's trying to present her opinions as not radical by hiding behind a terrorist attack, and it's not going to age well. | ||
| So right now, in this moment, people are like, this rhetoric is totally fine. | ||
| You're going to look back at a year and people are going to say, actually, this was kind of crazy. | ||
| Some of the things that she said, you know, she, in my view, has become increasingly radical every time she even hits the debate stage. | ||
| I don't even know what country she's running for president in. | ||
| And I think Vivek Ramaswamy called her out accurately. | ||
| And based on even my own personal experiences with her, which I've documented on my podcast, as somebody who isn't looking to actually win president, doesn't want to become president of the United States. | ||
| What she's looking to do is to secure certain contracts after she leaves the stage and she loses. | ||
| And so for her, the motive, our relationships that she's going to build and money that she's going to earn as best evidenced by the fact that when Lissy, when Nikki Haley left her ambassadorship, she was broke. | ||
| And now she's a millionaire, a multi-millionaire. | ||
| And you have to ask how that happens. | ||
| And Vivek Ramaswamy has had the courage to talk about her contract going. | ||
| So her concerns are not about American citizens whatsoever, which is why it's all about sort of kowtowing to the person that I think that she believes or to people that she believes can write her the biggest checks. | ||
| That's been my assessment of Nikki Haley from the very beginning. | ||
| It's still my assessment now. | ||
| Take it or leave it. | ||
| But you've been attacked for saying that. | ||
| And in fact, she's not hardly alone in that. | ||
| I mean, a lot of politicians, in fact, almost all politicians respond to their donors. | ||
| It is, I mean, I'm not attacking anybody, but that's just a feature of the business, right? | ||
| So you say, well, Nikki Haley is responding to her donors, and all of a sudden that's like blood libel or something. | ||
| It's foolish and I won't play the game. | ||
| Obviously, money is motivating for a lot of politicians in D.C. that never leave. | ||
| Seriously, it's common sense. | ||
| And yet sometimes people try to twist that narrative and pretend that what you're saying cannot be said because in this moment right now she's being pro-Israel. | ||
| So you can't talk about Nikki Haley and money, even though I spoke about this way before October 7th, from the second she announced that she was running. | ||
| I talked about my personal experience with her and how much she was charging for speaking fees. | ||
| At the time, it was $300,000 plus a private plane for her to go anywhere to speak after she left her ambassadorship. | ||
| And she came with a list of pre-packaged questions. | ||
| So her assistant at the time, you were not allowed to ask her one question off script. | ||
| Any person that hired Nikki Haley at this time will tell you this. | ||
| So her answers are practiced. | ||
| Her answers are rehearsed. | ||
| And her answers are rehearsed because she wants to make sure she doesn't upset the people that are writing the checks. | ||
| So I said that literally the day she announced she was running for president. | ||
| And now all of a sudden, something that I've been consistent on is being misconstrued as anti-Israel or anti-Semitic because Nikki Haley is being radically pro-Israel. | ||
| So it does concern me, however, because in American 2023, the only people defending the First Amendment, the foundational right, the right that precedes all other rights, which is the right to say what you really believe and prove you're not a slave, the right is the only group that defends that freedom. | ||
| And now they're not. | ||
| Now they're saying, well, actually, maybe you need to register with the government before you're allowed to talk. | ||
| So if the left's obviously opposed to the First Amendment, now a lot of the right is opposed to the First Amendment. | ||
| So like, how do we keep the First Amendment? | ||
| Yeah, I think this kind of is almost what Trump was referring to when he talks about the swamp. | ||
| You know, they get a little taste of what they can earn for themselves and they kind of go further into this and actually doesn't become about America at all. | ||
| And I think at this particular moment, you are seeing a fracturing on the right. | ||
| There are people that are pro-America, America first. | ||
| I am a person that considers myself pro-America, America first. | ||
| And it absolutely makes my skin crawl when people try to tie America's success to what we have to do overseas. | ||
| I believe in national sovereignty. | ||
| I believe that America has what it takes here at home to be a great nation. | ||
| And actually, I think history sort of tells us that once we started this campaign of international liberalism following World War II, things kind of started falling apart, especially this steep decrease following the 1960s, without question. | ||
| I mean, socially, morally, economically, this has been a nation that's in decline. | ||
| And so I cannot stand when I see these politicians on stage emoting and saying sentences like, we can do both. | ||
| Look around you. | ||
| Does it look like we can do both? | ||
| Where is your evidence to support the claim that America can do both? | ||
| Because I'm looking around and it's very clear. | ||
| It's very obvious that we cannot do both. | ||
| Our children are failing academically. | ||
| People are fearful to go into inner city communities. | ||
| We have people that are suffering from depression, overdosing on fentanyl. | ||
| We're fundamentally an unhappy nation because we don't have an identity because of these things. | ||
| We don't have identity. | ||
| We've completely lost what it means to be an American. | ||
| It is why I feel very inspired when I hear someone like Mavek Ramasami speak and talk about American principles. | ||
| I hate the way that they illustrate their opinions about people that want that old America, that are nostalgic about that America. | ||
| When someone says, and I've heard this statement and I can't remember who said it, but you can't be pro-American unless you're pro-Israel. | ||
| I just thought of the person who's probably in West Virginia who had both his legs blown off, right, fighting overseas, who is pro-American. | ||
| And you're telling him like, no, no, no, unless you agree that every single war should be everywhere, you're not pro-American. | ||
| We've lost our identity. | ||
| I mean, that's completely a foolish thing to say. | ||
| And I say this as somebody who, if I was going to be radical anything, I'm probably radically pro-UK, right? | ||
| I married a Brit. | ||
| My children have dual citizenship. | ||
| I would never utter the sentence that to be pro-America means to be pro-British. | ||
| I love the Brits. | ||
| I love everything about, you know, I love being in the United Kingdom, but I know what it means to be pro-American. | ||
| It means to be pro-American. | ||
| I couldn't, as someone whose ancestors from the UK, I couldn't agree more. | ||
| Younger people say the news is full of lies. |