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Kamala Harris Wants To Protect Democracy… By Abolishing It (Ep.45) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bungie in a Report Early Edition.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Avita. Lots to get to today.
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  Speaker 1: More information about the federal government's sketchy ties to the
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  Speaker 1: would-be Trump assassin. Karine Jean-Pierre refuses to tone down the
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  Speaker 1: assassination prep rhetoric. A journalist explains why she was duped
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  Speaker 1: by Ryan Routh, the would-be Trump assassin, back in 2023.
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  Speaker 1: ABC's premature pet-eating fact check during the debate is crumbling.
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  Speaker 1: Newsweek sides with the feds who tried to intimidate a
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  Speaker 1: man over online free speech. And lastly, how we are
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  Speaker 1: currently living out the dystopian plot of The Hunger Games.
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  Speaker 1: I'm super excited for that segment. Stay tuned. All this
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  Speaker 1: on Bungina Report, early edition. So information about Ryan Routh,
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  Speaker 1: the would-be Trump assassin, keeps getting more and more strange.
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  Speaker 1: We now know U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials knew
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  Speaker 1: Routh traveled to Ukraine in order to, according to Routh,
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  Speaker 1: recruit as many as 100 foreign fighters from Taiwan, Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 1: and Moldova to join the Ukrainian war effort. And Customs
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  Speaker 1: and Border Protection officials flagged Routh to the DHS for
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  Speaker 1: further investigation, but the DHS refused to act.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: And weird this felon, with no apparent job, get the
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  Speaker 1: funds to travel across the world and recruit foreign fighters.
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  Speaker 1: So to recap, Routh has had 74 arrests, but never
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  Speaker 1: spent a day behind bars. He allegedly recruited Islamic militants
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  Speaker 1: to fight for the CIA's war in Ukraine, and both
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  Speaker 1: a CIA targeter and Customs and Border Protection previously flagged Routh,
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  Speaker 1: but the DHS never investigated him. It is truly, truly bizarre.
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  Speaker 1: As Mike Benz has been suggesting, Ryan Routh sounds suspiciously
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  Speaker 1: like a government asset. Jeff Danik, a 28-year-old year veteran
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  Speaker 1: of the FBI, said given that Routh was trapezing around
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  Speaker 1: in a battleground, he would be shocked if one of
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  Speaker 1: the intelligence agencies didn't have his devices compromised. And if
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  Speaker 1: his devices were compromised, did the feds know ahead of
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  Speaker 1: time that he was planning to kill Trump? I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to keep you all updated on this, but for now,
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  Speaker 1: there are many unanswered questions. I think it's highly unlikely
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  Speaker 1: Ralph wasn't at least on the Fed's radar and perhaps
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  Speaker 1: an intelligence asset. Yet the media is refusing to ask
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  Speaker 1: questions and investigate. Instead, they're continuing their assassination prep rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: while blaming Trump for almost being killed by a Kamala supporter.
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  Speaker 1: It's true, Democrats have zero intention of toning down their rhetoric.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Karine Jean-Pierre stating that the administration will continue calling
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  Speaker 1: Trump a threat to democracy. A sentiment, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's been echoed by the gunman. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 3: In light of what has happened and in light of
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  Speaker 3: the fact that there are going to be disturbed people
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  Speaker 3: who take words like threat or danger literally.
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  Speaker 4: Is the president and is the vice president considering avoiding
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  Speaker 4: those specific terms, threat to democracy or danger to democracy?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look, and I answered this question. The president
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  Speaker 4: has always been very clear-eyed about this, about the threat
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  Speaker 4: of the former president represents to our democracy.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, but it gets worse. According to KJP, simply asking
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  Speaker 1: the Biden admin if they'll tone down their assassination prep
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  Speaker 1: rhetoric is dangerous. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 4: How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the
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  Speaker 4: president and the vice president and you pick a different
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  Speaker 4: word to describe Trump other than threat? Peter, if anything
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  Speaker 4: from this administration... I actually completely disagree with the premise
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  Speaker 4: of your question, the question that you're asking. It is
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  Speaker 4: also incredibly dangerous in the way that you're asking it
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  Speaker 4: because American people are watching. And to say that, to
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  Speaker 4: say that from an administration who has consistently condemned political violence,
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  Speaker 4: from an administration where the president called the former president
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  Speaker 4: and was thankful, grateful that he was okay, from an
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  Speaker 4: administration who has called out January 6, called out the
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  Speaker 4: attack of Paul Pelosi, called out and said, we need
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  Speaker 4: to lower the temperature after the Butler incident. And now
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  Speaker 4: for you to make that kind of comment in your question,
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  Speaker 4: because your question involved a comment and a statement. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, it is.
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  Speaker 4: That is also incredibly dangerous.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, well, we all know that she's not the sharpest
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  Speaker 1: tool in the shed. But the reason Karine Jean-Pierre is
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  Speaker 1: smearing Ducey's question as dangerous is because were Democrats to
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  Speaker 1: stop calling Trump a threat to democracy, akin to a
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  Speaker 1: Hitler-like dictator, it would be dangerous. Dangerous to them and
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  Speaker 1: their political narratives. Kamala, all she's running on are these
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  Speaker 1: lies that Trump is a fascist dictator. If she had
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  Speaker 1: to discuss real policy issues, that would be a big
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  Speaker 1: problem for her. Here's Hillary Clinton echoing the same sentiment.
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  Speaker 2: I worry about threats.
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  Speaker 5: I worry about what's being said online about many, many people,
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  Speaker 5: not just the former president. And he should be doing,
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  Speaker 5: if he were really a leader.
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  Speaker 5: He should be doing what he can to calm the waters,
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  Speaker 5: not try to just continue to throw red meat out
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  Speaker 5: there to get people riled up.
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Routh, if he's not an intel asset, is at
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  Speaker 1: the very least a product of left-wing propaganda and brain rot.
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  Speaker 1: That is undeniable. And notice how Hillary brought up dangerous
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  Speaker 1: online speech from many, many people. everything, even an assassination
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  Speaker 1: attempt on Trump is an excuse to censor speech. That's
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  Speaker 1: what that rhetoric meant from Hillary. We got to tone
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  Speaker 1: down the online speech. Not their rhetoric, but the regular Americans,
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  Speaker 1: their right to the First Amendment protected speech. That needs
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  Speaker 1: to be curtailed. And of course, no one in the
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  Speaker 1: legacy media is going to discuss how absolutely insane and
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  Speaker 1: incoherent it is for KGP and Hillary to deny it's
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  Speaker 1: dangerous to call Trump a threat to democracy, and at
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  Speaker 1: the same time say it's dangerous for people like J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance or Steve Doocy to describe their dangerous rhetoric as dangerous. Now,
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  Speaker 1: in the wake of the assassination attempt, the media is
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  Speaker 1: engaging in some seriously hard-hitting news. Here is Politico's reporting
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  Speaker 1: on Kamala's appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll recall that Trump met with the National Association
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  Speaker 1: of Black Journalists a while back as well and was
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  Speaker 1: slammed by the entire corporate media apparatus for using the
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  Speaker 1: term black jobs. And I'm not sure how that's any
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  Speaker 1: different from the term black journalists, but whatever. Anyways, Politico
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  Speaker 1: said Harris's formula for national media interviews don't make news.
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  Speaker 1: And the subheading of this article reads, Harris's appearance at
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  Speaker 1: the National Association of Black Journalists event follows up Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump's combative sit-down interview with the association. We have an
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  Speaker 1: assassination attempt on the former president, current running president for
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  Speaker 1: the Republican Party. And the Democrats nominee has had no
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  Speaker 1: sit-down interviews, virtually no policy proposals. And they're not asking
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  Speaker 1: any questions, nothing serious, as Federalist editor-in-chief Molly Hemingway tweeted.
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  Speaker 1: Hard-hitting journalism. You'll probably need to take a nap now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a joke. These people are a joke. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to take a quick break, but when we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to discuss some really egregious journalistic malfeasance related
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  Speaker 1: to the Trump assassination attempt. Shout out to our sponsors.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for keeping this show free. Guys, journalism is dead.
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  Speaker 1: It's dead as a doorknob. I'm going to draw your
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  Speaker 1: attention to an article from Tanya Lukanova. She's a Russian woman.
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  Speaker 1: but an American journalist. And she did a piece in
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  Speaker 1: the Free Press titled, Why Did Journalists Like Me Take
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Routh Seriously? Back in 2023, before Tanya was working
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  Speaker 1: for the Free Press, she wrote in Semaphore about how
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  Speaker 1: she interviewed Ryan Routh. And like the New York Times
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  Speaker 1: and Newsweek, Tanya took Ralph seriously in this reporting and
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  Speaker 1: did not look into his easily accessible criminal history. She
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  Speaker 1: didn't ask questions about why Ralph moved to the capital
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  Speaker 1: of a nation at war despite having no personal connection
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  Speaker 1: to it and not speaking Russian or Ukrainian. Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: Tanya do her journalistic due diligence? She writes, I thought
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  Speaker 1: he was doing good work. It was clear he cared
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  Speaker 1: deeply about Ukraine's struggle. And then she goes on to
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  Speaker 1: add that Routh wasn't just fighting for Ukraine. He was
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  Speaker 1: part of a larger narrative of good versus evil. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm grateful that this journalist is self-reflecting. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a good thing. But what she did is emblematic of
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  Speaker 1: an entire industry. Journalists form their sources around their intended narratives.
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  Speaker 1: There's no integrity or objectivity left. Speaking of the media,
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  Speaker 1: all these left-wing journos, oh, Tucker Carlson and Dan Bongino,
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  Speaker 1: an apology. And stat. This was NBC News a little
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  Speaker 1: over one year ago. Tucker Carlson stokes conspiracies claims U.S.
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  Speaker 1: is speeding towards assassination of Trump. And then further down
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  Speaker 1: in the article, it cites Dan Bongino and says the
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  Speaker 1: most recent episode of Dan Bongino's podcast is titled Speeding
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  Speaker 1: Towards Assassination.
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  Speaker 2: In the.
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  Speaker 1: Episode description published on the Apple podcast platform, he asserts
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  Speaker 1: without evidence that the plot to take out Trump is metastasizing. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Dan and Tucker agree really are ages ahead of the
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  Speaker 1: news cycle to the point where they predicted the assassination
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  Speaker 1: attempts on Trump. Dan even predicted a second assassination attempt.
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  Speaker 1: And instead of recognizing how the rhetoric, lawfare, FBI raid,
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  Speaker 1: potential prison sentences were heading toward assassination attempts on Trump's life,
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  Speaker 1: the media slammed the people brave enough to say what
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  Speaker 1: everybody else could feel was coming. All right, you guys
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  Speaker 1: remember ABC's fact check on the Haitians eating pets during
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  Speaker 1: the debate? Here's a refresher.
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  Speaker 7: I just want to clarify here, you bring up Springfield, Ohio,
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  Speaker 7: and ABC News did reach out to the city manager there.
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  Speaker 7: He told us there had been no credible reports of
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  Speaker 7: specific claims of pets being harmed, injured, or abused by
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  Speaker 7: individuals within the immigrant community.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I've seen people on television.
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  Speaker 6: Let me just say here, this is the— The people on.
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  Speaker 3: Television say my dog was taken and used for food.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe he said that, and maybe that's a good
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  Speaker 3: thing to say for a city manager.
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  Speaker 7: I'm not taking this from television.
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  Speaker 3: But the people on television are saying their dog was
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  Speaker 3: eaten by the people that went there.
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  Speaker 7: Again, the Springfield city manager says there's no evidence of that.
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  Speaker 7: Vice President Harris, I'll let you respond to the rest
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  Speaker 7: of what you've heard.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll find out.
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  Speaker 7: Let's talk about extreme.
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  Speaker 1: And her laugh is so annoying. Now, this narrative, this
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  Speaker 1: fact check, it's crumbling. We now have video of the
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  Speaker 1: city manager admitting during a city commission meeting that he
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  Speaker 1: has heard reports of pet eating. Take a listen.
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  Speaker 6: Laws and culture is... a hundred degrees different than what
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  Speaker 6: they're used to. And one of the things that hurt
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  Speaker 6: that I heard that bothered me very much, I've actually
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  Speaker 6: had quite a few people contact me here lately, um,
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  Speaker 6: is some pretty horrid things occurring to domesticated animals in
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  Speaker 6: the neighborhood. Um, we've had some stuff in the park, um, that, um, again, they,
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  Speaker 6: they're being taken advantage of for reasons other than, and if,
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  Speaker 6: You shake your head, Brian.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
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  Speaker 6: I asked me if there was proof. People that have
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  Speaker 6: confided in me have asked me for anonymity. I can't
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  Speaker 6: give their names up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we haven't seen the proof that you're telling me.
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  Speaker 6: And I've heard about it, too.
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  Speaker 1: So he has heard about it. Why did he tell
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  Speaker 1: ABC there was no credible reports? What made them not credible?
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  Speaker 1: And again, I don't know the details here. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know exactly what's going on in Springfield, Ohio, although we
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  Speaker 1: did know that close to Springfield, Ohio, we have video
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  Speaker 1: of a cat being actually grilled. Maybe the city manager
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  Speaker 1: told ABC News the truth. But it was on ABC
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  Speaker 1: News to investigate the allegations instead of regurgitating the assertion
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  Speaker 1: from a local bureaucrat that the allegations were all fake.
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  Speaker 1: That was on them. That's their job. Especially now that
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  Speaker 1: we know he's heard of the allegations. It becomes way
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  Speaker 1: worse that ABC News just blanketly said, city manager says
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  Speaker 1: it's not happening, so it's not happening.
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  Speaker 6: We're good.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of lying to serve your narrative, here's President Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden spreading the Springfield bomb threat hoax. It's being erased.
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  Speaker 2: HBCUs have received bomb threats.
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  Speaker 4: And right now, lies and hate are being spread about
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  Speaker 4: Haitian Americans.
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  Speaker 7: In Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: It's wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Is he still the president? I don't know. It must stop.
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  Speaker 1: Glorified for your head.
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  Speaker 2: For those who want a country for some of us,
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  Speaker 2: but not.
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  Speaker 6: For all of us.
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  Speaker 1: We covered yesterday how, according to the governor of Ohio,
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  Speaker 1: all 33 bomb threats were fake. Why is the president
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  Speaker 1: spreading disinformation? We get a fact check on that. Could
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  Speaker 1: it be that he and the entire propaganda press don't
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  Speaker 1: want us having a national conversation about the open border
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  Speaker 1: crisis that has destroyed Springfield along with countless other communities
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  Speaker 1: across the country? Could it also be that they don't
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  Speaker 1: want us to draw attention to the stunning and brave
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  Speaker 1: border czar Kamala Harris? Probably. Speaking of Kamala, she recently
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this. Let's turn the page and chart a new
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  Speaker 1: way forward. And then it's coupled with all these colorful,
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  Speaker 1: happy photos of her and her fans. Girl, you are president.
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  Speaker 2: Kamala, you're in charge.
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  Speaker 1: There's nothing new about you. You are already in office.
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  Speaker 1: In the future, you guys, things will be getting even worse.
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  Speaker 1: Kamala probably will be considered a relatively good candidate because
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  Speaker 1: very soon Democrats won't even have to try to win.
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  Speaker 1: Millions of illegals are being granted asylum and then becoming
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  Speaker 1: citizens within five years. And when they do, they vote
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  Speaker 1: overwhelmingly Democrat. They're likely voting Democrat already right now illegally.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why so many illegals are being placed
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  Speaker 1: in swing states. As Elon Musk wrote on X, it's
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  Speaker 1: to create a permanent one-party rule by the Democrats.
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  Speaker 6: It's a plan.
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  Speaker 3: It's a scheme.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why we've been pushing so hard for Republicans
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  Speaker 1: to pass the SAVE Act. which will ensure that illegals
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  Speaker 1: have to show an ID before registering to vote in
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  Speaker 1: federal elections. Now, yesterday, Speaker Mike Johnson announced that today
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  Speaker 1: the House will vote on the six-month continuing resolution to
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  Speaker 1: fund the government with the SAVE Act attached. But according
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  Speaker 1: to Thomas Massey, who is hands down the best sitting
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  Speaker 1: member of Congress, Mike Johnson's announcement is a total bait-and-switch
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  Speaker 1: on the part of the Republican Party, i.e. actually the Uniparty.
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  Speaker 1: As Mike Johnson already has a plan to cave, leaving
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  Speaker 1: us with a bill that doesn't cut one penny of spending.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Massey explaining in more detail.
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  Speaker 2: Save Act.
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  Speaker 3: It's going to save us all.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And by the way, this is good political theater. I
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  Speaker 3: do like this part of it. that we're going to
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  Speaker 3: see almost every Democrat cast a vote so that illegals
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  Speaker 3: can vote in our elections. I mean, that's pretty clever
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  Speaker 3: on the part of our speaker to set that up,
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  Speaker 3: make you all take that vote. But here's what he's
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  Speaker 3: going to do after you take that vote.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to take it off.
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  Speaker 3: The bright, shiny object goes away. It's Lucy and the
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  Speaker 3: football again. And the American public is all revved up. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we're going to get the SAVE Act.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to save these elections.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to stop the illegals from voting.
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  Speaker 2: Really?
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  Speaker 3: How are you going to do that in like six weeks?
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  Speaker 3: I think they're already registered if they're going to vote.
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  Speaker 3: Some of them probably already voted. This SAVE Act ain't
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  Speaker 3: going to save anything. And particularly because it ain't ever
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  Speaker 3: going to become law. It's a false promise to get
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  Speaker 3: all the Republicans half pregnant. And then you're going to
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  Speaker 3: get fully pregnant by the end of September when you
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  Speaker 3: vote for this CR. It's not going to have this,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I hate to break this to you. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats already know this.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not telling you anything special.
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  Speaker 1: I hate to break it to the Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: You ain't getting the SAVE Act. It is not going
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  Speaker 3: to stay on this bill. Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 3: Because we're going to cave. We're going to cave. Is
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  Speaker 3: it a fight worth having? Absolutely it's a fight worth having.
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  Speaker 3: Make those Democrats say they want illegals to vote. Make
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  Speaker 3: them take that vote as many times as you can.
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  Speaker 3: And then make them go to the ballot box in November.
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  Speaker 3: But that's what it is, is political theater, folks. We
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  Speaker 3: all know where it ends up. We've seen it. I've
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  Speaker 3: been here 12 years. I've seen it 12 times. I
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  Speaker 3: refuse to be a thespian in this failure theater. And
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  Speaker 3: with that, I yield back.
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  Speaker 1: It is a mic drop. And he told it as
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  Speaker 1: it is. Not a lot of members of Congress are
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  Speaker 1: willing to do that. Thomas Massey is. So no save act.
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  Speaker 1: But what we do get is a massive spending bill
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  Speaker 1: to fund all the government agencies that are fully weaponized
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  Speaker 1: against the American people and who also pose a threat
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  Speaker 1: to election integrity. Don't forget 2020. 51 former intel officers
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  Speaker 1: lying about the Hunter Biden laptop story. Should have been
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  Speaker 1: 12 separate bills, as Thomas Massey said, where we can
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  Speaker 1: actually vote on individual things instead of putting it in
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  Speaker 1: one blanket bill where the American people don't really have
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  Speaker 1: a consent over what is being passed and people, the
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  Speaker 1: members of Congress, aren't held accountable for the spending. All right,
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  Speaker 1: last story, you guys. Jeffrey Tucker wrote an excellent article
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  Speaker 1: in the Epoch Times titled, Hunger Games is fiction no more.
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  Speaker 1: And unfortunately, it's not readily available on their website because
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  Speaker 1: it is for subscribers only. So some free advertising for
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: the Epic Times here. Their subscriber content is excellent. I highly,
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  Speaker 1: highly recommend it. If you subscribe to them, then you
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  Speaker 1: will be able to actually read this full article, which again,
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  Speaker 1: I highly recommend. If you're familiar with with The Hunger Games,
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  Speaker 1: it is a very famous young adult series turned movie franchise.
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  Speaker 1: And Tucker starts the article by writing that, when The
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  Speaker 1: Hunger Games first came out more than a decade ago,
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  Speaker 1: the dystopia it presented was compelling and sophisticated, but also implausible. Today, however,
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  Speaker 1: it's far more prescient than it seemed at the time. Now,
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  Speaker 1: In the country of the story, Panem, the privileged citizens
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  Speaker 1: of the capital live in extreme wealth and decadence while
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  Speaker 1: the districts toil to support their luxury. And the capital
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  Speaker 1: characters are known for their over-the-top fashion sense. I think
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  Speaker 1: we have some images of what that looks like. They're
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  Speaker 1: just kind of ridiculous looking. But oddly enough, it's increasingly
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  Speaker 1: similar to the elites at events like the Met Gala,
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  Speaker 1: other celebrity venues. kind of over the top. It's very
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  Speaker 1: Hunger Game-esque increasingly. Each of the districts perform their assigned
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  Speaker 1: economic function of keeping the capital living in luxury. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a logging district and a mining district. You get
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  Speaker 1: the picture. In this society, your place in the socioeconomic
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  Speaker 1: order is determined by your birth. There's really no chance
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  Speaker 1: for upward mobility in Panem. If you're born in the capital,
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  Speaker 1: your life is awesome. If you're born in District 12,
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  Speaker 1: not so much. Now, the annual Hunger Games, where each
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  Speaker 1: district sends two children tributes to fight to the death,
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  Speaker 1: it serves as both entertainment for the elites and a
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  Speaker 1: reminder of the consequences of rebellion for the district. So essentially,
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  Speaker 1: the games instill fear among the masses to ensure compliance.
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  Speaker 1: And the story's main conflict is this classic struggle between
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  Speaker 1: liberty and power. The evil dictator President Snowe serves as
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  Speaker 1: the main antagonist throughout the series, ruling through fear, manipulating
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  Speaker 1: the districts, and crushing rebellion. While Katniss Everdeen, the heroine,
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  Speaker 1: believes that by overthrowing the tyrannical President Snow, the system
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  Speaker 1: of oppression will collapse and freedom will prevail. But what
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  Speaker 1: makes The Hunger Games special, and not just a run-of-the-mill
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  Speaker 1: freedom versus oppression story, is what happens at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the movie. Katniss discovers that the problem is runs
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  Speaker 1: deeper than just one man's autocratic rule. Panem is not
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  Speaker 1: merely a personal dictatorship, but a nation state with a
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  Speaker 1: vast bureaucracy, military, media control, and propaganda apparatus. This means
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  Speaker 1: that even with Snow's removal, the structures of power could
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  Speaker 1: remain intact, sustaining the oppression of the districts. Katniss learns
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  Speaker 1: that even Snow is trapped in this system. And as
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  Speaker 1: she navigates through the rebellion, she realizes that her allies
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  Speaker 1: are not just seeking freedom, but many are driven by
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  Speaker 1: their own desire to seize power. And the series touches
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  Speaker 1: on how highly, and this is actually, it is really
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  Speaker 1: a truly relevant historical pattern, but it touches on how
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  Speaker 1: revolutionary movements often give rise to new tyrannies with those
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  Speaker 1: who most passionately seek control to overthrow the Despots become
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  Speaker 1: despots themselves. Michael says the French. Yes, that's a good example.
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  Speaker 1: So Katniss faces a moral dilemma when she realizes that
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  Speaker 1: the revolution may not bring the liberty that she envisioned.
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  Speaker 1: And some spoilers here, she realizes that the rebels want
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  Speaker 1: to re-implement the Hunger Games and the rebellion leader, President Coyne,
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  Speaker 1: is just as ruthless and evil as Snow. Tucker writes,
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  Speaker 1: once Katniss catches on to what is happening around her,
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  Speaker 1: she has to make a decision. Does she comply with
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  Speaker 1: the dictates of the increasingly centralized revolutionary forces, or take
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  Speaker 1: a different turn and go her own way? Here's what
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  Speaker 1: she decides. So if you're listening, she, instead of killing
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  Speaker 1: President Snow at a public execution, kills President Coyne, recognizing
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  Speaker 1: that Coyne and Snow are just two sides of the
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  Speaker 1: same coin. The message is pretty clear. Removing an evil
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  Speaker 1: leader doesn't guarantee the rise of liberty, as the machinery
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  Speaker 1: of state power often attracts those who would abuse it.
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  Speaker 1: What happens when we overthrew regimes in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya?
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  Speaker 1: Created a vacuum, and we got new regimes that were
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  Speaker 1: just as oppressive, if not more so. Tucker writes of Afghanistan,
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  Speaker 1: In the 1980s, the United States sought to drive the
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  Speaker 1: Soviets out of Afghanistan by supporting Islamic fundamentalists, who were
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  Speaker 1: then called freedom fighters, and they were given weapons and
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  Speaker 1: massive logistical support. After the Soviets left, the rebellion gradually
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  Speaker 1: metastasized into the Taliban and who ruled with an iron hand,
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  Speaker 1: and were then overthrown after 9-11, leading to 20 years
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  Speaker 1: of U.S. occupation, which stirred resentment among the population. And
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  Speaker 1: a final deal was put that put the Taliban back
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  Speaker 1: in charge, who enforced their rule with the weaponry that
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  Speaker 1: the United States left behind in a chaotic withdrawal. So
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  Speaker 1: the overthrow of one form of tyranny often leads to
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  Speaker 1: the rise of insurgencies, civil wars, and even worse forms
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  Speaker 1: of oppression. The ultimate lesson of The Hunger Games is
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  Speaker 1: not just that tyrants must be resisted, but the very
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  Speaker 1: institutions of power must be guarded against corruption. That's what
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  Speaker 1: the Founding Fathers did. They tried to do. The challenge
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  Speaker 1: facing any society is not just the removal of corrupt leaders,
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  Speaker 1: but the creation of a system that guards liberty from
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  Speaker 1: those who would seize power. In the end, Katniss chooses
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  Speaker 1: to withdraw from political struggle. She finds peace in a
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  Speaker 1: simple life of personal freedom. And if you're listening in
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  Speaker 1: the scene that I'm about to show you, Katniss is
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  Speaker 1: holding her newborn baby while watching her husband play with
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  Speaker 1: their toddler in the sunlight, tending to her own life,
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  Speaker 1: free from the chaos and violence of political power.
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  Speaker 2: Someday I'll explain it to you. Why they came. Why
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  Speaker 2: they won't ever go away. But I'll tell you how
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  Speaker 2: I survive it. I make a list in my head
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  Speaker 2: of all the good things I've seen someone do. Every
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  Speaker 2: little thing I can remember. It's like a game. I
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  Speaker 2: do it over and over.
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  Speaker 4: It gets a little.
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  Speaker 2: Tedious after all these years, There are much worse games
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  Speaker 2: to play.
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  Speaker 1: I think most of us, certainly all of you listening
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  Speaker 1: to my show, are Katnisses. Because we know that true
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  Speaker 1: liberty is lies not in ruling others, but in ruling ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: Liberty is the freedom to choose good for oneself, the
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  Speaker 1: freedom to build and provide for your family. But not
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  Speaker 1: everyone thinks that way. As Tucker notes, the United States
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  Speaker 1: stands at the precipice of something huge. In many ways,
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  Speaker 1: we live in an exploitative system. Wealth inequality is widening
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  Speaker 1: thanks to modern robber barons and crony partnership with the government, i.e.
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  Speaker 1: stakeholder capitalism. Our leaders severely punish dissidents like those present
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  Speaker 1: on January 6th. The constitution is no longer respected and
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  Speaker 1: the guardrails that the founders put in place are fully unobserved.
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  Speaker 1: But in times of chaos and upheaval, we can't forget
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  Speaker 1: human nature. We can't forget that to truly establish a
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  Speaker 1: free and flourishing state, it'll take institutional change, not just
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  Speaker 1: the removal of a president. Why do you think the
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  Speaker 1: state is currently functioning just fine, even though our president
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  Speaker 1: is severely mentally impaired? We need a system that is just, humane,
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  Speaker 1: and decentralized. But more importantly, the choice to be free
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  Speaker 1: is a deeply personal one, reflecting who you want to
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  Speaker 1: be as an individual. Katniss Everdeen correctly opted for a
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  Speaker 1: simple life, removed from the corrupting influence of power. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: she could only do that after she had restored some
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  Speaker 1: measure of peace and justice in Panem. So to be clear,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not suggesting that those fighting for change should just
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  Speaker 1: withdraw from the ongoing struggle to reclaim the soul of
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  Speaker 1: the nation. Don't check out. What I'm emphasizing is that
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  Speaker 1: your own personal integrity and values are just as crucial,
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  Speaker 1: if not more so, as we engage in this battle.
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  Speaker 1: All right, that's it for today. Huge shout out to
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  Speaker 1: my husband, Michael. He is the best and he makes
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