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Episode One Hundred Thirty Nine: Blame It On Texas · The Death Of Journalism

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Welcome to episode number one hundred and thirty nine of the Death of Journalism Podcasts.
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My name is John Zigler. I'm your host on today's show, The
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Latest on the Border Crisis, Donald Trump's Money Crisis, Letitia James, Fanny
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Willis, Rowna McDaniel and Chuck Todd, Candice Owens, Kim Maulke, showe
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Otani Kate Middleton, and my free speech meeting with my school district's superintendent.
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But we begin this episode of the podcast with the biggest international news story of
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the last several days, and that was the horrendous attack at a Moscow theater
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where at least one hundred and thirty seven people, probably more than that,
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have been killed in a terrorist attack, that responsibility for which was claimed by
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isis Now. I always make a caveat whenever I talk about, especially international
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affairs. I do not like discussing things about which I'm not an expert,
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and that tends to be things in the international realm. I also don't like
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to talk about things that I don't have a unique take on. I guess
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my take on this particular situation is the catastrophic lack of trust. Understandably that
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everybody has in the conventional wisdom of this story. And it's not just in
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the United States, it's internationally because the idea that isis was behind this,
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even though they have released bodycam footage of their own people committing these atrocities,
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is rather astonishing and it's widespread. Putin is participating in this. Ukraine is
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participating in this. Obviously they're at war. There's obviously a lot of conspiracy
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theories on the internet. That's what the Internet does best. Many of them
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are here in the United States, partially because, very oddly, and I'm
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like, now, this is very weird, our own government put out a
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warning to Americans in Moscow literally to not go to theaters. I mean,
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this was a very clear cut warning before the attack, and then after the
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attack, when asked about that warning, indicated that they had no direct information
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about this particular attack. So either this was the strangest coincidence you could possibly
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imagine, or somebody's not telling the truth, and of course it is not
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telling the truth. Why is that? So there's always going to be questions.
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But in this day and age where we've lost complete and total trust to
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a catastrophic level, we can't even believe ISIS as a society when they commit
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an attack and they go here, here's the video for the bodycams that our
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fighters are are terrorists were wearing when these they committed these atrocities. So that,
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to me is the part of this story that is maybe the most interesting
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from a media element, and that is but we have seen this in the
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United States constantly, where we have catastrophic lack of trust and it's not just
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in the US, and it's you know, the Internet era is exacerbating this.
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AI is going to make it even worse because now everybody can just claim
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something is AI if they don't want to believe it. And there's actually some
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semblance of reality to that. But as far as the geopolitics of it and
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why ISIS would do this, look, I'm in the camp of until you
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prove to me otherwise. I go by Oxym's razor. ISIS took responsibility.
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ISIS put out the video ISIS did this? So why did they do it?
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I have no idea. I have no idea, but it's obviously a
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huge story. It's a tragedy. The implications of it. I don't have
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any great insight on it. But to me, the biggest part of this
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story that relates to this podcast is it's just another indication of the unbelievable lack
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of trust that has been lost in every major institution. And it's only going
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to get worse in this social media age and the AI age and everything else
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that's happened. All the reasons why these institutions have lost the trust. The
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media has lost the trust, governments have lost the trust of the public.
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And it's just not a good situation at all. And as far as from
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a national security standpoint, obviously, and there are some in Congress, specifically
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in the Republican Party, who are trying to make this parallel to we have
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ices committing these horrible terrorist attacks in Moscow. Meanwhile, here in the United
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States, we have our border being invaded and literally being overrun in Alpaso,
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Texas, where in the last several days of video went viral. It was
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only reported by one of the major mainstream newscast that was CBS that actually did
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a story on this remarkable, horrific video out of al Paso where the border
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was overrun by illegal immigrants. And this is emblematic of this chaos at the
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border, this invasion at the border, I have to say, you know,
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one of the best points I've seen in the last several days about the
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chaos at the border was made by a friend of mine by the name of
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Daniel Horowitz. Many of you probably know who he is. He's a writer
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for The Blaze. He and I had a very extensive conversation almost at the
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very beginning of COVID. We were two of the first, very rare COVID
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contrarians, and we were consistent throughout this whole thing. And I don't agree
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with Daniel and everything. He goes off the rails a little bit for my
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taste, but he made a fantastic point in the column for The Blaze,
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which was basically, hey, why are we not treating the border crisis as
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if it is a health emergency? Going back to the COVID era. I
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mean, remember during COVID, where we couldn't do anything that would create negative
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impacts for the health of our society, the medical health of our society.
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Remember that. Remember that was the rule, right, Remember all the things
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we weren't allowed to do because it could theoretically harm the didn't even need proof
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it could theoretically harm the health of other people. And that this was a
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sacred right. Now you could not have your health be impacted by other people,
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and that you could even take away their rights and their liberties, their
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freedoms, their privileges, you could destroy their children's lives, all under the
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premise that we couldn't do anything to potentially threaten the health of society or to
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somebody else. And so Daniel makes this fantastic point that wait a minutely,
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there are so many national security concerns regarding the chaos of the border, but
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what about the basic health situations these people are bringing. They're not checked.
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They could be bringing all sorts of diseases, viruses, all sorts of things
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in to the country that in ways we don't know their vaccination status, We
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don't know anything. So even if you're just going to forget about the national
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security concerns from a consistency basis, from a hypocrisy perspective, why aren't Republicans
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making this an issue to throw it back in the face of a democratic administration,
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one that was forcing vaccine mandates for no reason and now are letting tens
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and tens of thousands of people in to this country on a regular basis where
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we have absolutely no idea from a health perspective, what they're making American citizens
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vulnerable to, which I think though it was a fantastic points one of those
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things it's so obvious that it gets lost, but kudos to Daniel Horowitz for
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that. But the Left is going off the rails when it comes to the
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reaction to what's going on at the border. They are so insecure about this,
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and I you know, recently, I've kind of let up on my
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rule about ignoring MSNBC because it's just been so hilarious and I'm going to break
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that rule again in this episode. And Joe Scarborough has been by far the
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worst offender. Joe Scarborough a guy who I used to know decently. I
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used to go on his show on a regular basis back in the Sarah palin
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Era Morning Joe on MSNBC. I've interviewed him a couple of times. He's
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interviewed me many times. Former Republican congressman. You know, he was on
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the Trump train for all intensive purposes. He and his now wife Mika Brazinski
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back in twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen and now here he is a former Republican
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congressman on MSNBC having a complete meltdown trying to figure out a way to blame
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Donald Trump for what happened at the border at al Paso and the border situation
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in general. Donald Trump. Here is Joe Scarborough. This is an absolute
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meltdown if irrationality and hypocrisy and gaslighting to the extreme. By Joe Scarborough on
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MSNBC regarding the most recent news on the southern border in Texas. If I
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were a Democrat running for office, I would do this. I would be
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carrying this around all day. Look at what the Republicans are doing to you.
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Look what Donald Trump's doing too, Donald Trump said. Donald Trump said,
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And by the way, this is for you at home. So come
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to the at home camera, TJ. Thank you God us so good at
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this and you think you just started last week. So I'm junking TJ.
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So TJ. Can I get a t J cam? I hope Tjon not
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yet? Not the second he's at his underwear at home, I's afraid I
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was like picking on a director that that mattered. No, TJ's been with
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us for twenty years. By the way, he's family, but I ain't
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get rid of him. I would carry this around because see this onslaught headline.
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The only thing the posts didn't tell you is Donald Trump said, blame
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me for this. Donald Trump said, kill the bill and blame me for
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everything that happens after this point. Donald Trump said, blame me. So
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yes, Donald, we are blaming you. We're blaming many me Mike Johnson
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for following your orders. We're blaming Republicans who begged for a tough border bill.
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But like the Wall Street Journal editorial page said, couldn't take yes for
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an answer. So yes, there is an onslaught in the southern border still,
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and it's all Donald Trump's fault. You know who says that, Donald
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Trump. Donald Trump says, blame him for this. Now, there's so
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much about what Scarborough did there that is complete and total bullshit. But one
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of the things I like to do in these situations is to just accept the
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basic premises of what people are saying and still prove them wrong. And I
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think it's easy to do that with Scarborough. So we're just going to forget
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the fact that what Scarborough said is just factually absurd on its face. It's
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insane to be blaming the guy who's not in office, the guy who,
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while he could have done much more on the border and should have built his
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vaunted wall and never did. And I think he's responsible in part for why
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we have this current crisis. But that's a separate issue. But I'm talking
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about what's happening at the border right now. To blame Donald Trump from the
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left, which is what Scarborough is doing, is utterly insane because the border
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was at least under control under Trump, and the statistics are overwhelming. I
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mean, as soon as Biden took over, all of a sudden, everything
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changed at the border, and now we're in an unprecedentedly bad situation. So
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on its face it's absurd. But just let me just accept this whole premise
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that somehow this bill that Trump allegedly torpedoed, let's pretend it had passed,
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which was never a certain thing, but let's pretend it would have passed,
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and let's pretend that it was anything close to as great a thing as now
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people like Scarborough would like to pretend that it is. And let's also pretend
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that the people coming over the border didn't make their decision to do this many
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many months ago, and that somehow they would have been influenced or impacted by
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the results of this bill becoming law. Let's just pretend all of that.
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I think it's all bs. But this for the sake of argument, Let's
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pretend everything Scarborough is saying is true, and that it was Trump that torpedoed
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this amazing bill that suddenly everyone liked. But they only liked it once Trump
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killed it. I mean, that's the only time they started to like it
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on the lap was once Trump killed it. Then all of a sudden was
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the greatest idea, you know, since the light bulb, because then they
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could use it theoretically as a political weapon against Trump. But again, going
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back to this argument that everything Scarborough says about this is true, even still
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he's wrong. And here's why. Because Biden's lack of enforcement on the border,
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which the Biden administration bragged about, has bragged about all the things that
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they dismantled from the Trump administration. How you know, basically they're in favor
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of open borders the whole bit. Biden's policies created the need for the legislation.
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You cannot argue that. You cannot argue that Biden's the Biden administration's policy
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on the border created the need to fixate crisis and so therefore they were putting
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them put themselves in a situation, under Scarborough's own view of this, that
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they had to rely on a former president to support them in their ability to
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pass a bill into a law, which of course they don't even really need.
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They are all sorts of things the federal government could do to curtail the
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situation of the border. The media wants to pretend that's not the case anymore,
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but that's always been the case. But that's the core, the core
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issue with what Scarborough and others are trying to say here. You cannot make
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any rational argument that the crisis didn't cause the need for legislation. Well,
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the crisis that caused the need for legislation was caused by the Biden administration policy
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on the border. So it's still Biden's fault, even if I grant Scarborough
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everything that he said, which of course you can't in irrational world. But
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we don't live in a rational world anymore. So Scarborough is completely wrong on
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this, but he may not even be the worst gas lighter on the left.
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The White House Press secretary, I thought maybe this was a parody,
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whether this was you know, her just pulling someone's leg with her. She's
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so dumb it's almost impossible to tell. But Kareine Jean Pierre, the White
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House Press Secretary, actually had the gall when asked about this at a press
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hearing to blame not Donald Trump for torpedoing this amazing piece of legislation, but
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to blame it on Republicans in Texas and essentially the Texas governor for the problem
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in El Paso. And here's what that sounded like. Has the President seen
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that dramatic video of MIGNT surging past National guardsman in Texas? And as I
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mean, look, I have not spoken to the President about that video.
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What I can say is this, you know, I really truly believe that's
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a question for you know, the Republican governor of Texas, right this is
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this is something that he should address, that she should actually speak to.
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The President has worked with Congress in the Senate, as I just spoke to
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about getting an immigration bill done, making sure that making sure that we deal
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with the border challenges that we see that we're now seeing. And you have
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a governor of Texas who has continued to policizes. Now that right there,
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assuming she was serious, which I have to is gas lighting personified, because
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this is an administration that has literally gone to the Supreme Court to prevent the
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State of Texas from being able to enforce illegal immigration laws, to be able
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to deal with illegal immigration on their own, and that is still being battled
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out in court, and it keeps being reversed and I don't even know what
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the current status of that is, but it has not yet been fully adjudicated.
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The administration is actively opposed and prevented the Government of Texas, the state
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government of Texas, and government Governor Abbott, who's trying to do everything he
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possibly can to get the situation under control, from being able to do anything.
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And yet somehow that now is the fault of the State of Texas.
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I mean, you just can't make this stuff up. I mean, this
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is as bad as it gets when it comes to gaslighting. That is pure
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gaslighting. And of course the media just sits on their hands and does nothing
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about it. No big deal, and you know, nothing to see here,
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folks, nothing to see here. It's just astonishing. This is the
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upside down world in which we're now living in, and a lot of it
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is because the media is completely and totally broken and they view it the mainstream
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media does as their job to make sure that the Biden administration doesn't get punished
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for any of this. And you know, this is a media that's so
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obsessed with the issue of misinformation, which we're gonna get to in just a
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second, and yet here is massive misinformation and they just let it go.
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Well, and part of that, by the way, is the fact that
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Karine Jean Pierre is not just the Democratic Press Secretary, but she checks too
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many boxes to be criticized. That plays a role in this. She's a
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black, female, lesbian, so therefore we can't criticize her. That's those
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the rules of modern America and the modern media. She's on our side.
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She's a leftist, she's black, she's female, she's lesbian. Sorry,
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doesn't matter what she says, doesn't matter. She can't be criticized. Now,
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as far as misinformation, all that regarding the border is insanity. But
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in some ways I might have been more offended by what President Biden did in
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a rather bizarre campaign video that was put together, I assume by the Biden
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campaign, where Biden is in a room with Nancy Pelosi, former Speaker of
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the House. I'm not even sure why she was there. They got her
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out of the crypt, and so she was standing next to Biden because maybe
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maybe she makes Biden look younger somehow, I don't know. And then Barack
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Obama, former president, was on Biden's right, and uh, you know,
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Obama during this entire video is looking a little bit like a parent who
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is watching a child do a school project presentation that they were the ones that
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really wrote. And they're, you know, looking very concerned that the student's
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not going to be able, the child's not going to be able to pull
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this off properly, and looking rather dismissively at the student. That's how I
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perceived the body language of Barack Obama and Joe Biden during this video. But
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this substance of the video is what I was most upset by, and that
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is that Biden makes a claim against Donald Trump. He's about the issue of
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during COVID, when Trump allegedly said that we should inject ourselves with Bleach and
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we'll be able to get rid of COVID. Now, to be clear,
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that's not what Trump said. Now, what Trump said was stupid, but
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it was not this And this is a lie, but it's a lie that's
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worse than a normal lie because it ignores what Joe Biden did in the very
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same subject of COVID and whether or not we should be injecting ourselves with a
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particular substance. But here's that clip of Joe Biden lying about what Donald Strump
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said during COVID about the issue of injecting bleach. Moving. So all Americans,
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not just seniors, pay thirty five dollars a month, have a two
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thousand dollars cap for for scription drugs. I want to make those eight hundred
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dollars ACA say he's permanent. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is about the past and
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serving himself. This is the guy who doesn't care about science and reason.
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Remember during the pandemic, Donald Trump told us to inject ourselves with bleach.
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He said, there's nothing to worry about if you do that. Now Trump
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keeps telling us he's going to terminate the ACA. Think about what that means.
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Would mean one hundred million Americans in pre existing condition would lose their health
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care coverage. It would mean young people would be kicked off their parents' coverage.
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Tens of millions of Americans would lose health care coverage as a consequence of
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all that. He wants to get rid of the power of Medicare to negotiate
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low for scripting and drug prices, driving up cost of insulin back to four
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hundred dollars instead of thirty five dollars for seniors. And Trump recently said self
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security medicare quote there's a lot you can do in terms of cutting and a
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quote. Now, to be clear, Trump never said that. Trump basically
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asked a question about whether or not that might be something to look into.
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He never suggested that people do that, and nothing was ever done on that
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front. What Biden said is not accurate. It is quote unquote misinformation.
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It is what used to be called a lie, but it's particularly an egregious
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lie because it was Joe Biden who did tell people, with government authority behind
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him, to inject something into their bodies. It was the COVID vaccine,
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and he told people, when trying to convince them to inject this not fully
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tested vaccine into their body or have someone else do it for them, that
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if they did so, they would not get COVID. He said that,
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as did other people in administration. That was the administration's policy that if you
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took the vaccine, you would not get COVID and you could not give COVID
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to somebody else. Now, that very quietly shifted as they started to realize
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that was not a tenable position, But they've never ever to this day in
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the main street news media've been forced to admit that that was at best wrong
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and at worst a complete, total, knowing lie. And of course this
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wasn't just a suggestion. In many cases, there were mandates. People lost
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their jobs in their careers over this. And I'm not even going into the
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issue of whether or not people were harmed physically more by the vaccine than they
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might have been by the virus. That to me, is still an open
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question. I think it depends a lot on your own personal situation, but
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I don't even need to go there. The issue is couldn't be more clear
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cut. I mean, and there's the analogy to what Trump idly said stupidly
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at a press conference and what Biden's actual policy was when it came to injecting
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yourself with something to help you with COVID and get crickets from the news media.
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This is absolute a lie about what Trump said, and it's beyond hypocrisy
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given Biden's own personal statements and his administrations own personal policies, and not personal
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policies, but his administration's policies and personal statements by people like Lensky and Fauci
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regarding the efficacy of the vaccine and whether or not you could get COVID if
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you took it, whether that you could give COVID to somebody else if you
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took the vaccine, they were at best totally wrong. But the vaccine is
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a third rail for the media to this day. To this day, will
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you are not allowed to say anything negative about the vaccines in the mainstream news
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media. They'd prefer just not to talk about it at all, because most
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of them deep down know that they got it at least a little bit wrong,
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if not a lot wrong, on the vaccines. But the idea that
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anyone died from the vaccines is completely forbidden, completely forbidden. And we've talked
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many, many times about the DeMar Hamlin situation, which I'm convinced had to
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have been vaccine related, because the explanation we were given made no damn sense.
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Commodio Cordis was presented and communicated in a highly beyond suspicious fashion and with
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a timeline that made no damn sense. So the only explanation that covers all
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that is it has to be vaccine related. And we've never had a doctor
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treated Hamlin come forward and say yeah it was kmmodio Cordis never had that happen,
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not to mention the way his career has been impacted is not consistent with
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Commodiocordis. And you know, he somehow is still on the Buffalo bills even
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though they got rid of their entire secretary, and he's not any good.
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So he's being treated in a way that is very consistent with somebody who you
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know, everyone wants to make sure they take care of him because he's got
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a story to tell. That sounds conspiratorial, especially for me, But I
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don't have a better explanation. I've asked for one a hundred times. I've
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looked for one for over a year and haven't found it. But to me,
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that's just a classic example of where the media is on the vaccine issue,
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and why when Biden makes a incorrect, misinformation, deceitful statement about Trump
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and the bleach situation, that they don't come down at all on him.
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They should be coming down on him like a ton of bricks, but instead
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it's n a And part of that is because it's not part of their accepted
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narrative that Biden was somehow hypocritical in this issue of what we should be injecting
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into our bodies to fight COVID. That's not even part of their mindset because
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in their world, the vaccines were a miracle and they were almost all positive
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and any negative was basically just a bunch of conspiracy theorists and ironically Trump fan
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since Trump was still bragging about the vaccines to this day. And so,
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you know, if the media is all that concerned about misinformation, this should
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have been a trument example of something they should have jumped all over and corrected
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Biden about. But of course they didn't come close to doing that, and
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everyone knew they would never come close to doing that because it's just not in
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their DNA to do so. And then there's another example. We've talked extensively
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about this in recent episodes about the whole blood bath controversy and how the media
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took what Trump said about a blood bath potentially coming to the auto industry if
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he's not elected president in this particular year, and you know, turning that
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into somehow a warning that if he's not elected, there'll be a blood bath
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in the streets, like a literal blood bath of people dying and you know,
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blood on the streets type of situation that was obviously taken out of context.
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And yet here we have a situation where the media of buy and large
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has still not corrected that. But we have Google, Google, which has
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an enormous influence over what a lot of people learn about reality, especially given
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Google searches. But Google has now been caught changing the definition of the word
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blood bath. This was made public by a very popular conservative Twitter account named
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end Wokeness I've referenced before, and they tweeted very clearly that right around the
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time period of this whole blood bath controversy, just by magic, Just by
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magic, Google changed the definition of blood bath to eliminate the economic loss element
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of the word bloodbath because it was very commonly used way before Donald Trump used
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it with regard to what might happen to the auto industry to describe economic losses,
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usually job losses. The media had been using the term blood bath constantly
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to talk about what was going on in the Republican National Committee. Once Trump's
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family took it over a blood bath of job losses. There's been blood bath
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of job losses ironically enough in the media itself during the last year or so
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that have been referred to as blood bath situations. And now Google, straight
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out of George Orwell's nineteen eighty four, is now changing the definition of bloodbath,
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changing the definition. And this is the new This is the new world
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order. This is the new normal, This is the new reality. They
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can do this stuff. This is how much power they have over the narrative.
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Now, it's not going to really impact very much. No, but
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if this they're so brazen to do this just after a major controversy involving the
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Republican presidential nominee. My god, what else are they doing that we don't
32:02
find out about? The mind boggles and all. This is happening in an
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atmosphere where the mainstream news media is obsessed with this issue of combating misinformation,
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so much so that we have a major Supreme Court case being heard last week
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involving Missouri versus the Biden administration, where the news media is generally citing with
32:30
the censorship side of the equation. The Biden administration, who was intimidating social
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media companies into censoring posts they didn't like regarding COVID, mostly having to do
32:45
with the vaccines. And of course I'll say this again, my number one
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consternation with this entire issue is not just the lack of support for free speech
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in the First Amendment by the so called fourth the state, but it's the
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whole idea that some how what's being talked about here is misinformation by the posts.
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The misinformation was many times by the government. They wanted information to be
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censored because it was proving that what they were putting out was misinformation. They
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were censoring to cover their own misinformation in many situations. And this subject came
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up again on sixty Minutes this past Sunday night. Leslie Stall, who's been
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there forever ought to know better, ought to understand the First Amendment and free
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speech and how it's integral to the job that she does, the job that
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sixty Minutes does. I mean, it's just absolutely astonishing that these people they
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have to understand this, they have to understand that without a strong First Amendment,
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they cannot do what their jobs are or what their jobs are supposed to
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be. And yet they have at best tepid support and at worst hostility towards
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the entire concept of first the First Amendment and free speech, and making sure
34:13
that the government cannot censor people, either directly or indirectly, regardless of whether
34:20
or not it's a crisis or a health emergency, or whatever the hell you
34:23
want to call what COVID was. And here's a clip of Leslie Stahl interviewing
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Jim Jordan, Republican congressman from Ohio. A guy I loathe. He's a
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sycophant for Donald Trump, his support of Donald Trump. I loathe him for
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that he's so over the top and is in everything that he does being very,
34:44
very pro Trump. But to prove my own credibility, I have done
34:49
more, and this is not hyperbole. I've done more than anybody to defend
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maybe even more than he has done in defending Jim Jordan against the entire bogus
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Ohio State wrestling sex abuse controversy that was completely contrived, in my view,
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is ninety five percent a myth that was used by the media to go after
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Jim Jordan because he's a Trump supporter. So I'm conflicted about Jordan. I've
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gone to the mat and done a better job supporting him defending him on Ohio
35:24
state wrestling situation than anybody else has. But I don't like how very,
35:30
very very pro Trump he is. On the other side, I do think
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he's a pretty smart guy, which is maybe why I'm more upset at him
35:37
for being so ridiculously pro Trump. And he was being interviewed by Leslie Stall,
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and he did a decent job, not fantastic, decent job of defending
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the issue of free speech and explaining how it is that these researchers that Leslie
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Stall and the liberal media think somehow are unbiased fact that should be trusted,
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which is just astonishing under any circumstances, but especially post COVID, when these
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same people were wrong all the time. I mean, COVID is at every
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level of this story. And you know, it's not just the subject about
36:15
which most of these posts were about, but we learned during COVID that these
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these fact checkers, these these people they're most to discern what the truth is
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these so called experts, one are wrong all the time, and two are
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extraordinarily biased in a pro liberal, sometimes pro fascist perspective. And so that
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of course gets lost in all of this story. The essence of the story
36:47
is not presented properly by sixty minutes, but this clip was still I think
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worthy of being played here because it shows just how weak leslie Stall and her
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and sixty minutes. Apparently their understanding of the First Amendment is the importance of
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free speech and their blind allegiance to these so called misinformation academic fact checking experts
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who are really doing nothing but providing cover for a liberal narrative that is often
37:22
actually misinformation itself. And here's what that sounded like on sixty minutes. There
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are people who make the accusation that going after these researchers, misinformation researchers,
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is tantamount to harassment, and that your goal really is to chill the research.
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I find that the interests you use the word chill because in effect,
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what they're doing is chilling First Amendment free speech rights. When they're working in
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an effort to censor Americans, that's a chilling impact on speech. They say,
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what you're doing, they do is a violation of their First Amendments.
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Us pointing out us doing our costcial duty of oversight of the executive branch,
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and somehow worth censering. That makes no sense to me. We Americans we're
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looking at the same thing and seeing a different truth. Well, you might
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see different things. I don't think you can see the different truth because truth
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is truth. Okay, the researchers say they're being chilled, that's their truth.
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You're saying they're not, So what's the truth. They can do their
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research, God bless them, do all the research you want. Don't use
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don't say we think this particular tweet is not true and are Well that's their
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first Amendment right to say that. Well they can say it, but they
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can't take it down. Well, they can't take it down, and they
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don't. They just send their information to the companies. But when they're coordinating
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with government, that's a different animal. Well, of course they deny their
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coordinating. We just went round and round. I wonder if you there's a
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way to like measure the shifting meaning of misinformation. Starboard says she and her
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team feel intimidated by the Conservatives campaign. So while they will continue releasing their
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research reports on misinformation, they will no longer send their findings to the social
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media platforms. At that point, as far as these misinformation experts and I,
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you know, post covid, I'll never look at the term experts the
39:25
same way again, because that was used constantly. I mean, our entire
39:30
lives, especially in blue states like here in California, were dictated by what
39:35
the so called experts we're telling us, and the so called experts were wrong
39:39
constantly, as experts so often are, especially when they're in a bubble,
39:45
especially when they all have the same self interest to be on the same side
39:49
of a particular issue, as they obviously did during COVID. But you know,
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there was a Harvard survey, Harvard survey of these so called miss information
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experts and their self identified political ideologies, and less than five percent of these
40:12
people, less than five percent considered themselves to be slightly right of center,
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less than five percent, well over eighty percent considered themselves to be way either
40:28
left of center or way left of center. Nobody was significantly right of center.
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I mean, that's that is more biased than the NAACP. I mean
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that that is that's you can't get more biased than that. And that's the
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price the conservatives pay for abandoning academia, because academia, in the media's minds
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still to this day, that's the smart people. Those are the people we
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should be trusted. They're the ones with the degrees, They're the ones that
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have devoted their lives to these particular subjects. We should believe and trust them.
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And mainly because they agree with us, because they have a liberal philosophy.
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I think this goes way beyond them just being liberals. I think there's
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something inherently broken with academia and group think. And you know, I think
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some of the dumbest people I've ever met are highly educated. They have no
41:31
concept of the real world. They've completely lost common sense. But it's the
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group think that I think is the most powerful element of this. When everybody
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thinks the same way and is only talking to other people that agree with them,
41:46
and they all have the same self interest, guess what's gonna happen.
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They're all gonna come to the same conclusion, and oftentimes that conclusion is going
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to be wrong. It's going to be wrong, especially when they have a
42:02
perverse self interest. And one of the perverse self interests at work here is
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not getting kicked out of the club. And we saw it in COVID in
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a massive way. We see it in climate change in a massive way.
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Because once an issue becomes third rail, you are not allowed to go there,
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or you will be run over by the herd. You will be kicked
42:30
out of the club. You will lose your expert status, you will no
42:35
longer be esteemed. You'll be out in the wilderness by yourself. All that
42:39
work you've done all your life, all that studying, all those degrees,
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