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NPR Can Hate Us on Their Own Dime - Early Edition With Evita (Ep.169) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report, early edition. Representative
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Gill exposes NPR's CEO for her anti-white racism. Molly
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  Speaker 1: Hemingway tears apart the censorship industrial complex. Thomas Massey unleashes
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  Speaker 1: legislation demanding federal candidates reveal dual citizenship. Marco Rubio boots
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  Speaker 1: South Africa's ambassador out of the United States. TikTok leftists
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  Speaker 1: are hating on their Democrat politicians. Trump mocks a masked journalist.
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  Speaker 1: And the son of a Snow White producer torches Rachel
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  Speaker 1: Zegler for tanking the movie. All this on Bongina Report,
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  Speaker 1: early edition.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think the white people should pay reparations?
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  Speaker 3: I have never said that, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you did. You said it in January of 2020.
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  Speaker 2: You tweeted. Yes, the North. Yes, all of us. Yes, America. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: our original collective sin and unpaid debt. Yes, reparations. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: on this day.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe that was a reference to fiscal reparations, sir.
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  Speaker 2: What kind of reparations was it a reference to?
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  Speaker 3: I think it was just a reference to the idea
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  Speaker 3: that we all owe much to the people who came
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  Speaker 3: before us.
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  Speaker 2: That's a bizarre way to frame what you tweeted.
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  Speaker 1: So that was, like I said, Representative Brandon Gill questioning
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  Speaker 1: National Public Radio CEO Catherine Maher and... This was during
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  Speaker 1: a Doge subcommittee hearing on NPR and PBS fueling radical
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  Speaker 1: leftism on the taxpayer's dime. And this woman's tweets are unbelievable. Like,
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  Speaker 1: it's shocking that we are paying for this woman's salary.
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  Speaker 1: More shocking is the gaslighting. She's just like, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't say that. I didn't say we should have reparations.
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  Speaker 1: And then Brandon Gill's like, yeah, you did. Here are
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  Speaker 1: the tweets. Here are the receipts. And she's just like, yeah, no,
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I didn't say it. You want
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  Speaker 1: to know why NPR is crazy. And it's been crazy
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  Speaker 1: for a long time. It's been crazy for some years now.
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  Speaker 1: But especially recently, you just need to listen to Brandon
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  Speaker 1: read this woman's tweets because they are clinically insane. Like
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  Speaker 1: just insane. And a lot of times members of Congress,
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  Speaker 1: they don't always do their homework. They kind of say
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  Speaker 1: have their staffers do the work of preparing for these hearings.
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Gill did his homework. This line of questioning was
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  Speaker 1: spectacular and entirely based on things that Catherine typed up
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  Speaker 1: with her own fingers and then hit post to for
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  Speaker 1: the entire world to see. Here she is on supposed
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  Speaker 1: white supremacy in America.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that America is addicted to white supremacy?
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  Speaker 3: I believe that I tweeted that. And as I've said earlier,
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  Speaker 3: I believe much of my thinking has evolved over the
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  Speaker 3: last half decade.
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  Speaker 2: It has evolved. Why did you tweet that?
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  Speaker 3: I don't recall the exact context, sir, so I wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: be able to say.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. Do you believe that America believes in black plunder
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  Speaker 2: and white democracy?
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe that, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You tweeted that in reference to a book you were
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  Speaker 2: reading at the time, apparently, The Case for Reparations.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think I've ever read that book, sir.
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  Speaker 2: You tweeted about it. You said... You took a day
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  Speaker 2: off to fully read the case for reparations. You put
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  Speaker 2: that on Twitter in January of 2020.
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  Speaker 3: Apologies, I don't recall that I did.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: I have no doubt that your tweet there is correct,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't recall.
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall.
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  Speaker 3: I don't recall.
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  Speaker 1: None of these things. She typed them up. She posted
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  Speaker 1: them herself, but she doesn't recall, you guys. She just
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  Speaker 1: does not recall. Obviously, she supports reparations, and she's just
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  Speaker 1: sitting there lying, just completely lying. This was basically, Catherine...
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  Speaker 1: the entire hearing. Okay, well, that's interesting.
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  Speaker 4: You know why?
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  Speaker 5: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Because.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: Says when you have to face the consequences of your
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  Speaker 1: own actions and the guy just runs away. It's from
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  Speaker 1: Parks and Rec. Which is like, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: own any of this. I just, I didn't say that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember saying that.
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  Speaker 3: Didn't happen.
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  Speaker 1: If it isn't the consequences of her own actions. And
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  Speaker 1: even though she's now lying about her old tweets, how
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  Speaker 1: absurd is this notion of white reparations or black blunder,
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  Speaker 1: America addicted to white supremacy or white democracy? It's just craziness.
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  Speaker 1: Reparations and collective white guilt shames people who bear no
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  Speaker 1: personal responsibility for the historical wrong of slavery. Even for
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  Speaker 1: people whose ancestors did own slaves in the past, which
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  Speaker 1: is a very, very small minority of the population, and
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  Speaker 1: certainly not a white people, the Bible says, the son
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  Speaker 1: shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father. This
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  Speaker 1: is just further fueling of anti-white racism, which actually exists
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  Speaker 1: in this country. That's right, not anti-black racism, anti-white racism
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  Speaker 1: is what exists. The only structural barriers against a racial
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  Speaker 1: group that exists in this country is against white people
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  Speaker 1: in the form of diversity quotas in corporate America and
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  Speaker 1: the education system. Plus there's logistics of determining eligibility for
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  Speaker 1: reparations that just make no sense. Who qualifies as black
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  Speaker 1: or white? How far back do we trace culpability? It
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  Speaker 1: all collapses under scrutiny. It is completely inconceivable. But the
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  Speaker 1: point is that this clinically insane radical woman is running
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  Speaker 1: national public radio, which we all pay for. I think
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  Speaker 1: she should be crazy on her own dime. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what Marjorie Taylor Greene said yesterday.
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  Speaker 6: After listening to what we've heard today, we will be
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  Speaker 6: calling for the complete and total defund and dismantling of
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  Speaker 6: the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
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  Speaker 2: Here's how it works.
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  Speaker 6: In America, every single day, every single day, private businesses
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  Speaker 6: operate on their own without government funding. We believe that
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  Speaker 6: you all can hate us on your own dime.
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  Speaker 7: She's right.
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  Speaker 1: You can hate us on your own dime. And let's
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  Speaker 1: actually dig into what NPR journalism has looked like in
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  Speaker 1: the last few years, starting with the astounding news zero
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  Speaker 1: registered Republicans as editorialists for NPR's DC branch. And that's
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  Speaker 1: compared to dozens, dozens of registered Democrat editorialists. Here's Jim Jordan.
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  Speaker 4: Well, Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Berliner in his story last year wrote, in the DC area,
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  Speaker 8: editorial positions at NPR are He said he found 87
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  Speaker 8: registered Democrats, zero Republicans.
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  Speaker 4: Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 3: We do not track the numbers or the voter registration,
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  Speaker 3: but I find that.
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  Speaker 8: Was award-winning journalist who worked 25 years at NPR, Mr.
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  Speaker 4: Berliner, was he lying when he wrote that?
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  Speaker 3: I am not presuming such. I just don't have, we
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  Speaker 3: don't track that information about our journalists.
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  Speaker 8: 87 to zero, and you're not biased. How about the
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  Speaker 8: big stories over the last few years?
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  Speaker 4: According to Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Berliner, again, he wrote, On the Trump-Russia story, he wrote,
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  Speaker 8: at NPR, we hitched our wagon to Trump's most visible antagonist,
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  Speaker 8: Representative Adam Schiff.
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  Speaker 4: And he said they interviewed him 25 times. Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 3: I was not there at the time, but those numbers
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  Speaker 3: sound accurate.
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  Speaker 4: Those sound accurate.
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  Speaker 8: But then he said when the Mueller report came out
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  Speaker 8: and they said, Mueller said, Robert Mueller said he found
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  Speaker 8: no evidence of collusion.
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  Speaker 4: He said Russiagate faded from our programming. Is that accurate?
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  Speaker 3: Again, I was not there at the time. I'm not,
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  Speaker 3: I couldn't say.
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  Speaker 4: You couldn't say?
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  Speaker 3: I was not at NPR at the time.
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  Speaker 8: You didn't prepare for that? You knew we were going
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  Speaker 8: to ask you about this guy, didn't you? It's come
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  Speaker 8: up like 6,000 times already in the hearing.
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  Speaker 3: I just couldn't say whether it faded from our coverage.
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  Speaker 4: How about this story?
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  Speaker 8: October 2020, the New York Post had the Hunter Biden
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  Speaker 8: laptop story. And one of those editors, I guess one
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  Speaker 8: of those 87 Democrat editors said, said this, we don't
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  Speaker 8: want to waste our time on stories that are not
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  Speaker 8: really stories. We don't want to waste the listeners' and
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  Speaker 8: readers' times on stories that are just pure distractions.
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  Speaker 4: Was that a pure distraction story?
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  Speaker 3: Our current editorial leadership believes that that was a mistake,
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  Speaker 3: as do I.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, the whole country knows that was a mistake. Definitely
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  Speaker 8: impacted the election, or I think it certainly impacted the election.
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  Speaker 8: How about the COVID origin story? That's a pretty big
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  Speaker 8: story too, right?
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  Speaker 7: Mr.
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  Speaker 8: Berliner said, we became fervent members of the team Natural Origin,
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  Speaker 8: even declaring that the lab leak was debunked by scientists.
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  Speaker 8: Turns out, though, the lab leak is what most people
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  Speaker 8: think actually caused the COVID virus.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, sir, is there a question there?
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  Speaker 4: There is.
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  Speaker 8: You guys were 0 for 3 on the three of.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest stories in the last five years.
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  Speaker 8: You guys were 0 for 3, and yet you maintain
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  Speaker 8: that NPR is not biased?
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  Speaker 3: Congressman, I do not believe we are politically... She doesn't
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  Speaker 3: believe she's biased.
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  Speaker 1: NPR is a joke. Complete frauds, not journalists, cannot be
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  Speaker 1: trusted to disseminate the truth, nor should they be entitled
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  Speaker 1: to our tax dollars. He just laid it out there perfectly.
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  Speaker 1: Every single major story they got wrong because they did
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  Speaker 1: not care about their actual jobs. They didn't care about
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  Speaker 1: anything beyond pushing their left-wing political agenda. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: let's not let PBS get off the hook here. Here's
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  Speaker 1: an example. of a PBS news report in 2020.
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  Speaker 7: This week, 82 years ago, Kristallnacht happened, and in that
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  Speaker 7: tower of burning books, it led to an attack on fact, knowledge, history,
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  Speaker 7: and truth. After four years of a modern-day assault on
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  Speaker 7: those same values by Donald Trump, the Biden-Harris team pledges
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  Speaker 7: a return to norms, including the truth.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: That was insane. What is Kristallnacht? It's a violent pogrom
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  Speaker 1: against Jews carried out by Nazis and other civilians across
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  Speaker 1: Germany and Austria in 1938. So that was just a
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  Speaker 1: run of the mill news rundown from PBS that President
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  Speaker 1: Trump is Hitler and is staging pogroms across the country.
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  Speaker 4: What?
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  Speaker 1: They are clearly nuts. These people are insane. Completely hysterical,
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  Speaker 1: Trump deranged, historically illiterate. And you guys know all this.
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  Speaker 1: You're smart. But there's one thing that I want to highlight.
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  Speaker 1: One thing that really struck me about Catherine Maher's testimony
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  Speaker 1: that many of you may not have picked up on.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to take a listen to this.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe that looting is morally wrong?
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  Speaker 3: I believe that looting is... illegal and I refer to
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  Speaker 3: it as counterproductive. I think it should be prosecuted.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe it's morally wrong though?
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  Speaker 3: Of course.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. Then why did you refer to it as counterproductive?
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  Speaker 2: It's a very different way to describe it.
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  Speaker 3: It is both morally wrong and counterproductive as well as
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  Speaker 3: being illegal.
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  Speaker 2: You tweeted, it's hard to be mad about protests in
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  Speaker 2: reference to the BLM protests not prioritizing the private property
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  Speaker 2: of a system of oppression. You didn't condemn the looting.
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  Speaker 2: You said that it was counterproductive. NPR also promoted a
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  Speaker 2: book called In Defense of Looting. Do you think that
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  Speaker 2: that's an appropriate use of taxpayer dollars?
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  Speaker 3: I'm unfamiliar with that book, sir. And I don't believe
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  Speaker 3: that was at.
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  Speaker 4: My time at NPR.
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  Speaker 2: You tweeted that you read that book.
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  Speaker 3: I don't believe that I did read that.
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  Speaker 1: So she's like, oh, yeah, that wasn't promoted while I
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  Speaker 1: was at NPR. It's like, well, you tweeted about reading it.
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  Speaker 1: You tweeted about reading about the pro-looting book. She tweeted
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  Speaker 1: about excusing rioting and promoted a book called In Defense
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  Speaker 1: of Looting. And she's lying. about what she said. Like
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  Speaker 1: straight up, yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's Brandon with the receipts. And it's very
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  Speaker 1: obvious that all this white supremacy, reparations, rioting, excusing content
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  Speaker 1: that Catherine is spewing was in the wake of BLM,
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  Speaker 1: of the 2020 mainstreamed Marxist writing, anti-white racism, and the
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  Speaker 1: vilification of American history and culture. It all happened in 2020.
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  Speaker 1: And that's where these tweets are coming from. That's what
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  Speaker 1: she's responding to. And now she's denying that she ever
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  Speaker 1: was engaged in. And just recall how unprecedented 2020 was,
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  Speaker 1: just what America was going through at that time. George
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  Speaker 1: Floyd's death metastasized into this self-destructive national movement, took over
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  Speaker 1: all major cities, even some smaller ones. And Floyd was
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  Speaker 1: A felon who died with a fatal dose of fentanyl
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  Speaker 1: in his system was transformed into this martyr. All of
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  Speaker 1: his complexities erased to fit a fake narrative of systemic
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  Speaker 1: oppression against blacks when really the only systemic oppression that
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  Speaker 1: exists is against whites, which I told you all. And
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  Speaker 1: during that time, the media, corporations, and even traditionally conservative figures,
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  Speaker 1: Republicans including, like Speaker Mike Johnson, rushed to genuflect before
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  Speaker 1: this narrative. either out of genuine ideological alignment or fear
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  Speaker 1: of being branded bigots. And this acquiescence silenced dissent, as
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  Speaker 1: the movement's more radical elements, steeped in Marxist thought, pushed
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  Speaker 1: a worldview that cast America as irredeemably racist, its history
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  Speaker 1: as a litany of sins, and whiteness as an inherent
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  Speaker 1: evil to be dismantled. But what happened yesterday? Clearly the
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  Speaker 1: pendulum has swung back. We experienced Republican politicians supporting the
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  Speaker 1: BLM movement and this narrative of America being irredeemably racist.
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  Speaker 1: And now we have Brandon Gill and Marjorie Taylor Greene
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  Speaker 1: and others in Congress dismantling this narrative, confronting it head
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  Speaker 1: on by shaming this woman for her insane tweets. Right
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  Speaker 1: wing revival now is rising. And it reflects a collective awakening,
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  Speaker 1: a recognition that the sanctimonious fervor of 2020 was not
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  Speaker 1: just unsustainable, but it was unhinged. It was a rejection
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  Speaker 1: of reason in favor of left-wing dogma that is self-destructive
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  Speaker 1: to this country. People are now voicing what many felt
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  Speaker 1: in 2020 but dared not say, that the riots, the
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  Speaker 1: racial scapegoating, the cultural self-flagellation, which is like... were not
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  Speaker 1: noble pursuits of justice, but a destructive, ideologically driven assault
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  Speaker 1: on the fabric of this country. And this hearing could
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  Speaker 1: not have taken place in 2020. That's my real take here.
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  Speaker 1: It could never have happened in 2020. Catherine, who's now
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  Speaker 1: been dubbed Miss Blonde Robin DiAngelo, would never be questioned
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  Speaker 1: the way she is right now. This is the vibe shift,
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  Speaker 1: and it is a really glorious thing to behold. And
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  Speaker 1: we don't think looting and rioting is ever justified. And
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  Speaker 1: we aren't apologizing for our heritage ever again. That's the
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  Speaker 1: takeaway from this hearing. The stark contrast between 2020, realizing
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  Speaker 1: that that never would have been able to occur in 2020,
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  Speaker 1: and seeing now our leaders finally stand up and defend
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  Speaker 1: our heritage and who we are as a people, and
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  Speaker 1: shame people like Catherine for being absolutely insane. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to take a quick break. When we come back,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to discuss another holy grail of leftism that
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  Speaker 1: is experiencing a massive reckoning.
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  Speaker 3: Don't go anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: There is another reckoning underway, and that is finally confronting
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  Speaker 1: the censorship industrial complex. Federalist editor-in-chief Molly Hemingway, my former boss,
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  Speaker 1: testified this week during a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on
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  Speaker 1: the tentacles of the censorship system that has been weaponized
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  Speaker 1: against countless Americans, including where I used to work at
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  Speaker 1: The Federalist. And first I want to talk about what
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  Speaker 1: is a censorship industrial complex. The censorship industrial complex is
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  Speaker 1: used to describe the censoring of First Amendment protected speech
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  Speaker 1: via coordination between federal and state government, big tech, academic institutions,
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  Speaker 1: and nonprofit think tanks. So if you see the chart
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  Speaker 1: that I have there, you can look at this coordinated
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  Speaker 1: effort and examples of each of these you'll see under
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  Speaker 1: big tech, you'll see Facebook, Instagram, You have the Atlantic Council,
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  Speaker 1: you have state and federal government, you have federal agencies.
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  Speaker 1: The government funds and promotes censorship technologies directing big tech
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  Speaker 1: to suppress American speech. The academic institutions like Stanford and
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  Speaker 1: the University of Texas receive grants to research so-called disinformation
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  Speaker 1: for censorship purposes. Non-profit think tanks like the Aspen Institute
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  Speaker 1: will then groom journalists to push pro-censorship propaganda and suppress
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  Speaker 1: significant stories like the Hunter Biden laptop story, while for-profit
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  Speaker 1: censorship businesses like NewsGuard and nonprofit groups like the Global
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  Speaker 1: Disinformation Index create tools and blacklists to favor left-wing media
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  Speaker 1: and silence alternative media outlets who dare to challenge mainstream narrative.
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  Speaker 1: So Mollie detailed how these censorship tools disproportionately favor publications
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  Speaker 1: like the Washington Post, the New York Times, who received
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  Speaker 1: Blitzers for their role in the Russia collusion hoax, while
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  Speaker 1: outlets like The Federalist, which expose such hoaxes and media
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  Speaker 1: lies about figures like Justice Brett Kavanaugh, face targeted suppression.
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  Speaker 1: Here was Molly Hemingway.
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  Speaker 5: Facing this censorship has been difficult. It would have been
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  Speaker 5: easy to fold, but that's exactly what censors want, to
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  Speaker 5: make it impossible to report the truth about their lies.
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  Speaker 5: They know our voice is so powerful and influential that
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  Speaker 5: that they can't accomplish their goals unless they shut us down.
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  Speaker 5: They will not succeed. We will never stop. The more
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  Speaker 5: they try to shut us down, the harder we're going
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  Speaker 5: to work to stay open because it's not about us.
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  Speaker 5: It's about whether we will have a civilization where people
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  Speaker 5: are allowed to say and think things tyrants don't want
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  Speaker 5: us to.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: My first week on the job at the Federalist, I was,
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  Speaker 1: it was in 2020. I was I was going into
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  Speaker 1: my junior year of college, so I was 20 years old.
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  Speaker 1: First week, Google threatened to ban advertising on The Federalist,
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  Speaker 1: which is how TheFederalist.com makes money. And this was due
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  Speaker 1: to a supposed policy violation related to dangerous and derogatory
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  Speaker 1: content in our comment section. The Federalist has been mass
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  Speaker 1: shadow banned and explicitly censored on virtually every tech platform.
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  Speaker 1: including Google, which suppresses The Federalist from appearing in search results.
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  Speaker 1: I've been personally censored while working at The Federalist via
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  Speaker 1: my stories on TikTok and on Instagram. This is what
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: The Federalist, I experienced it firsthand, but also every single
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: right-wing or just alternative media news source deals with on
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: a day-to-day basis because of the censorship structure. This isn't
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: arbitrary at all. This isn't like rogue people inside big
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: tech who just are ideologically driven. This is a coordinated,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: a highly coordinated effort. And it's not going to end
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: just with a Trump presidency. I think we might see
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: some lessening of the censorship, but it's not going to
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: just go away. And it makes sense why in the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: internet age, which has democratized information, you would see this
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: kind of censorship, this kind of complex take root. The
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Federalist could never have existed in the early 90s. So
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: the censorship industrial complex is a decades-long, multi-billion-dollar campaign to
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: control what you see and what you say online because
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: they can't control it anymore in the way that they
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: used to with traditional media. Everything that you saw on
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: television or read in the newspapers, all highly controlled in
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the past. And today, people on X are just breaking stories,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: random individuals. The gatekeeping powers that traditional media used to
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: have in coordination with the federal government has disintegrated. So
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: they need the censorship industrial complex. And meanwhile, Democrats, who
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: benefit immeasurably from the censorship industrial complex, were just playing
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: stupid in this hearing. Here was Representative Dick Durbin saying
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that he doesn't know what wrongthink means. Take a listen.
• 20:41
  Speaker 9: To characterize that event of January 6th as, quote, the
• 20:46
  Speaker 9: riot used to launch.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: The war on wrongthink.
• 20:50
  Speaker 9: What in the hell is wrongthink? I can't keep up
• 20:53
  Speaker 9: with all these words that are coming at us as
• 20:54
  Speaker 9: brand new terms. And I hope it doesn't hide the
• 20:57
  Speaker 9: fact that 140 policemen and women were here defending this Capitol.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Okay, so this is something called basic English literacy. And
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I'm not excusing Dick Durbin unless he's 200 years old.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Maybe he is.
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: He could be. He looks it. But I don't think
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: he is. The word wrong think is inspired by George
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: Orwell's 1984 concept of thought crimes. This is a very
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: widely known and widely used term in the English language.
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: It's a term for ideas that defy prevailing social, cultural,
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and political norms. And its roots, like I said, lie
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: in Orwell's dystopian lexicon to reflect real modern concerns about
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: ideological conformity and speech censorship. You know, what's funny is
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: in George Orwell's 1984, Big Brother, the regime, erases inconvenient
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: terms and knowledge through newspeak, which Big Brother then uses
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: to limit thought by shrinking vocabulary and redefining words to
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: align with party ideology. Also, memory holes are used to
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: physically destroy records so that history and knowledge are rewritten
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: or erased to suit the regime's narrative. And this is
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: what the censorship industrial complex does. And this is also
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: what I think Dick Durbin was doing in that hearing,
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: just like gaslighting us into thinking wrongthink is not a
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: real word, even though it's a widely used and accepted term.
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: Because it's a term that's inconvenient to Dick Durbin and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: his censorship efforts. It highlights how dystopian The censorship industrial
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: complex which Democrats need to survive really is. Either that
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: or Dick Durbin is just an idiot. And it could
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: be that.
• 22:40
  Speaker 10: All right.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about dual citizenship. Yesterday, Representative Thomas Massey introduced
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: a bill requiring those running for federal office to disclose
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: all countries in which they hold citizenship. The bill is
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: called the Dual Loyalty Disclosure Act, and it is co-sponsored
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: by Representatives Andy Biggs, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Clay Higgins.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Massey wrote on X yesterday, If we continue allowing dual
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: citizens to run for federal office, candidates are disclosed to
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: voters all countries in which they hold citizenship.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm going to take it a step further. You should
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: not be allowed to hold dual citizenship if you want
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: to represent the United States of America in the halls
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: of Congress. Don't be allowed. This is pretty straightforward. How
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: can you be trusted to act in the best interest
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: of this country if you are a citizen of a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: foreign nation? Contrary to what a lot of people insist
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: about the United States of America, we are a distinct
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: country with a people who have a cultural and political
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: identity that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the world.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: We're a real place. America is not just an idea.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: This is a physical landmass with real people who have
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: a real, unique identity. So when leaders hold formal ties
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: to foreign nations that may have competing interests, values, and
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: geopolitical agendas, that identity is threatened. Of course, a dual
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: citizen in Congress will feel inclined to support potentially international
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: policies like trade agreements or military alliances that benefit their
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: other country of citizenship. Maybe they won't, but we can't
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: trust them to act solely in America's interests if they
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: have a stated loyalty to a different country. We need
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: to know as citizens that our leaders are fully invested
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: in this nation's future, in our future, without the shadow
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: of foreign influence. And on that note, this was in
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: the Federalist this week. The United States District Court for
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: the District of Columbia- D.C., the source of many cases
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: interfering with President Donald Trump's authority, has 15 judges, counting
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: infamous Chief Justice James Boasberg. And per the Federalist, five
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of them were born outside of the United States. So
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: a third of all U.S. district judges, all D.C. district judges,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: were not born in the United States. This is clearly
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: a threat to American sovereignty. We have rogue foreign-born judges
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: in D.C. engaging in judicial activism to obstruct the duly
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: elected president of the United States. Tanya Sue Chutkin, you
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: know that lady? Born in Jamaica. Anna Cecilia Mehta, oh,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I'm sorry. Anna Cecilia Reyes, Uruguay. Amir Hatman Mahdi Ali, Canada,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: of Egyptian descent. Sparkle Sukannon, Trinidad. And they've all ruled
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: against Trump on military policy, immigration, government spending, January 6th-related litigation.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Per Beth Brelia in The Federalist, the United States is
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: in the midst of a soft coup, not the violent
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: kind that takes out a nation's leaders, but one orchestrated
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: by judicial actions that choke off executive power before our eyes. Obviously,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court needs to intervene, like by, for instance,
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: reviewing and overturning Judge Ali's restoration of $ 2 billion in
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: USAID spending. There needs to be constitutional limits on judicial
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: power so that it does not infringe on executive authority
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: that is justified executive authority per the Constitution. Beth also
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: says that the court should establish clear precedence on the
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: scope of judicial review over executive actions to curb activist
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: tendencies by reinforcing that unelected judges can't just substitute their
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: policy preferences for the democratic mandates of the President of
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: the United States. But more deeply than that, something needs
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: to be done about the overgrowth of foreign-born people running
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: this country at the highest levels. This isn't racism. It's
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: not bigotry. It's not mean. It's what we have to
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: do in a country that is in an existential crisis
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: after years of rapid mass unchecked immigration to protect American interests.
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: What are people.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Saying, Mikey?
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: The chat totally agrees with you. The chat totally agrees.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: Thank you, chat. You know, sometimes you guys disagree with me.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I was getting some comments last week like, I agree
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: with Dan, you know, almost 100% of the time, but
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I only agree with Evita 25% or something like that.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Some of you guys don't always love my hot takes,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: but I guess this one you guys all agree, which
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: I appreciate. We're all on the same page here. There
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: is a reason... that the president of the United States
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: cannot be foreign born. I think the clause that only
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: natural born citizens can run the executive branch should be
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: expanded out to the entire federal government in terms of
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: real positions of power. I'm thinking members of Congress, if
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: you're a district court judge, these roles, senators as well,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: should not be given to foreign born individuals. Restoring balance
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: to judicial oversight and executive authority may require not just
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: Supreme Court intervention, but a renewed public discourse on who
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: is allowed to wield power in America.
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: Who is?
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: I think that should be reserved to naturally born citizens
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: who have a cultural, historical memory in this country. Because otherwise,
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: what do we become if we're allowing ourselves to be
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: run by people who are not from here? Think about
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: what's happening in California with propositions for illegal aliens to
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: serve as law enforcement or in the military. We can't
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: have a country that is run and protected by people
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: who are not Americans or who have not been in
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: America very long to know what it means to be
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: an American. All right, let's turn to some foreign affairs.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently banished South African ambassador
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: to the United States Ibrahim Rasool from this country. She
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: just booted him out of America. He said, you're gone.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Get the heck out of here. And Rubio cited Rasool's
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: comments made during a webinar hosted by Mistra, a South
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: African think tank. I want you to take a listen
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: to what Razul said in this webinar about President Trump
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: and the MAGA movement.
• 29:43
  Speaker 10: The supremacist assault on incumbency, we see it in the
• 29:46
  Speaker 10: domestic politics of the USA, the MAGA movement, the Make
• 29:50
  Speaker 10: America Great Again movement as a response, not simply to
• 29:55
  Speaker 10: a supremacist instinct, but to very clear data. that shows
• 30:01
  Speaker 10: great demographic shifts in the USA in which the voting
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: electorate in the USA is projected to become 48% white.
• 30:15
  Speaker 10: And that the possibility of a majority of minorities is
• 30:19
  Speaker 10: looming on the horizon. And so that needs to be
• 30:23
  Speaker 10: factored in so that we understand some of the things
• 30:27
  Speaker 10: that we think are instinctive nativist, racist things. I think
• 30:31
  Speaker 10: that there's data that, for example, would support that, that
• 30:35
  Speaker 10: would go to this wall being built, the deportation movement,
• 30:40
  Speaker 10: et cetera, et cetera. So I think I mentioned that.
• 30:45
  Speaker 10: I think that there is also an export of the
• 30:49
  Speaker 10: revolution to the Munich Security Summit. Vice President Vance addressed
• 30:57
  Speaker 10: the Alternative für Deutschland to strengthen them in their election campaign.
• 31:04
  Speaker 10: And that then begins to say, what was the role
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: then of Afrikaners in that whole makeup? And very clearly,
• 31:13
  Speaker 10: it's to project white victimhood as a dog whistle.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, so what he's saying, couldn't understand from his accent,
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: the MAGA movement is supremacist. Donald Trump's deportation agenda is racist.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: The Trump White House is exporting racism and emboldening it via,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: for example, J.D. Vance going to Munich and giving a
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: speech in which Rasul said that he supported and promoted
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: a racist dog whistle. What actually happened in Munich? Drop
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: a comment. What happened in Munich?
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: J.D.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Vance criticized Germany for arresting people for sharing memes. He
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: wasn't promoting racism. J.D. Vance criticized the UK for arresting
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: a man for silently praying outside of an abortion clinic.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: What is the job of an ambassador? The job of
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: an ambassador in a foreign country is to promote positive
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: foreign relations with the country that he is representing and
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: the country that he is in. His job is to
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: make sure that South Africa has a good relationship with
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: the United States for the benefit of South Africa. That's
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: his job. I don't think he understands what his job
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: is here. He literally had to be booted out of
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: this country by our Secretary of State because of how
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: disrespectful he is. Clearly, this is a man who is
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: hostile to the Trump admin. He's smearing our president and
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: vice president as racist. He also claimed, that Trump projects
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: white victimhood as a dog whistle and there is a
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: global protective movement that is beginning to envelop embattled white
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: communities or apparently embattled white communities. And it seems like
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: Rasool and the South American government believe that their role
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: in the world is to virtue signal to the rest
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: of the world. Here's Rasool.
• 33:15
  Speaker 10: I think that South Africa, having inherited the mantle of
• 33:20
  Speaker 10: what I call a moral superpower, in the sense that
• 33:24
  Speaker 10: we fought a heroic anti-apartheid struggle, even when the United
• 33:28
  Speaker 10: States called Nelson Mandela a terrorist amongst others. We had
• 33:33
  Speaker 10: a admirable transition when everyone thought that there was going
• 33:38
  Speaker 10: to be bloodshed. We had the first generations of governance
• 33:43
  Speaker 10: under people like Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki as being
• 33:46
  Speaker 10: exemplary and smooth. And then we had corruption, but then
• 33:51
  Speaker 10: we didn't deny the corruption. We exposed it further, although
• 33:55
  Speaker 10: we didn't do too much. And then the ANC lost power,
• 33:59
  Speaker 10: accepted it, and formed the government of national unity. So
• 34:04
  Speaker 10: all of that speaks about a remarkable morality within South Africa,
• 34:08
  Speaker 10: even in our mistakes and our missteps.
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: So he says South Africa is a moral superpower. It's
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: going to give a moral example to the rest of
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: the world. Really? Really. This is a moral superpower who
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: just installed, recently, the infamous Expropriation Act, which allows for
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: the seizure, without compensation, of the private property of white Africaners.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: Or how about this video, which was recorded last Friday?
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: Does this scream moral superiority to you all?
• 34:46
  Speaker 10: Shoot to kill!
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Yamaza!
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: Kill the poor!
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: He's chanting, kill the boa or the white farmer. And
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: this took place on Human Rights Day, by the way.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Human Rights Day. It was a major political party in
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: South Africa actively promoting white genocide. Has Ibrahim Rasool condemned
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: the song Kill the Boer or the ideology behind it?
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: Has the African National Congress, which is the party in
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: power in South Africa, condemned it? No on both fronts.
• 35:36
  Speaker 9: No.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Secretary of State Marco Rubio tweeted this. Marco Rubio knows
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: what this song is really about. Marco Rubio condemned it.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: Kill the Boer is a chant that incites violence. South
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Africa's leaders and politicians must take action to protect Afrikaners
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: and other disfavored minorities. The United States is proud to
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: offer those individuals who qualify for admission to our nation
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: admin this continued horrible threat of violence. Do you think
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: South Africa has a moral high ground on racial violence?
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: America is not going to get lectured by South Africa
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: about race relations. This is a third world racist country
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: that cannot condemn songs about white genocide against Afrikaners who
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: don't have a lot of melanin in their skin. Not
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: only that, they can't condemn actual violence against white Afrikaners. Horrific,
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: horrific violence has been inflicted on white farmers. Like horrific.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: I can't even really describe what's happened to them. the
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: brutal killings of these individuals. And this is just progress
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: in South Africa. And to that I say, no thanks.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I'm not interested in a lecture from you guys. Bye-bye.
• 36:56
  Speaker 7: Razul.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: Last week we learned Democrat favorability has dropped to a
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: record low. Usually when one party is in power, the
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: other one tends to look better just by comparison because
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: they're out of the public eye. That's not what's happening
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: in America right now. People are furious at the Democratic Party.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Young leftists especially are angry. And I want to share
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: with you all a TikTok I saw yesterday. And understand
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: that there are many TikToks just like this. This is
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: a young leftist. Take a listen.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Hey, Democrats, this man just said he's about to sign.
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: An executive order to resegregate the United States.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: What are y'all going to do about it? Oh, no,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: it's absolutely horrible.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: That's why I'm resisting by wearing a red cup on
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: my head.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Bitch, I'll beat your fucking ass.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: Okay, so Trump is not bringing back segregation, by the way.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: This is a CNN, NPR fake narrative, fake news. But
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: more importantly than that, TikTok is making fun of Democrats who,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: for instance, they all wore pink outfits to protest Trump's
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: speech in Congress or whatever. And Democrats are being perceived
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: right now as very ineffectual, very weak, And their base
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: is furious. Like their base is so angry. They're having
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: to like cancel speeches. It's so bad. Chuck Schumer had
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: to cancel his book tour because he was afraid of
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: his own supporters in the Democratic Party trying to murder
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: him because they're so angry at him because he didn't
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: want to shut down the government and allow it for
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: a spending bill to pass. But the point is that
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: they are deeply, deeply unpopular. Leftists want Democrats to resist
• 38:39
  Speaker 1: President Trump more, to have a real agenda. And the
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: question is, what should that agenda be? Americans don't view
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: Democrats as the working class party anymore. Kamala Harris only
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: improved from Joe Biden among one demographic, college-educated white people.
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: That's it. The Democratic platform right now seems to be
• 39:05
  Speaker 1: built for NGOs, gender studies majors, and bureaucrats.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: That's it.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Those are the only people that it's messaging to. Those
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: are the only people who are excited about voting for
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: Democrats these days. Other than that, it's really unclear who
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: they are speaking to. I read two articles over the
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: weekend that I want to share with you guys. They
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: highlight a real existential crisis Democrats are having right now.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: The first article is from The Atlantic. It's titled, I've
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Seen How America First Ends. The second article is from
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: The American Prospect, and it's titled, For a Left Nationalism.
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: The first article takes a critical stance on nationalism in
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: The Atlantic. It portrays it as an exclusionary and dangerous
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: ideology that fuels xenophobia, authoritarianism, division, and it argues that
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: nationalism is inherently linked to oppression, stating that nationalism thrives
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: on exclusion, defining insiders and outsiders in a way that
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: inevitably leads to conflict. So it presents nationalism as a
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: divisive and dangerous and instead promotes inclusion and globalism as
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: the moral role that our government should take. The second article,
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: on the other hand, argues that nationalism is not inherently
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: bad and can be reclaimed by the left. It criticizes
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: Trump's America First nationalism as narcissistic sectarianism. But it contends
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: that nationalism can also be a force for economic justice
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: and worker solidarity. The author writes that, There's a labor-friendly
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: version of America First that isn't based on xenophobia, and
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: it behooves the left to defend and promote it. Bernie
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: Sanders and AOC are right now traveling the country on
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: an anti-oligarchy tour, and they are amassing huge crowds because
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: they are left-wing populists. I'm not sure I would define
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: them as nationalists, but they lean more toward nationalism than, say,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: Chuck Schumer or Nancy Pelosi. And there's this perception that
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: that nationalism is not only disordered but unpopular among leftist elites.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: And this is not true. It is popular. Left-wing and
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: right-wing nationalism is popular. Left-wing nationalism took root in other
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: parts of the world and throughout history. Think of Stalinist
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: Soviet Union, Communist China, Yugoslavia under Tito, Vietnam under Ho
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Chi Minh, Cuba under Castro. and over 100 million people
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: have died as a result. Let's hope that the left
• 41:49
  Speaker 1: does not get wise and start promoting left-wing populism, left-wing nationalism,
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: because it'll end in bloodshed. On a lighter note, you guys,
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: I just wanted to highlight for you, there's a real
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: existential question that's happening right now among Democrats, and I
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: really hope they don't get wise in this one. But
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: on a lighter note, comment if you've seen somebody wearing
• 42:14
  Speaker 1: a mask lately. Drop a comment if you have seen
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: somebody wearing a mask. Who's seen one? Because President Trump
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: did yesterday, and here is how he responded.
• 42:22
  Speaker 3: California, we're putting in place education.
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: You know, I haven't seen a mask in so long.
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: You're wearing a mask. So nice of you. I haven't
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: seen anybody wearing a mask in.
• 42:32
  Speaker 3: A long time.
• 42:32
  Speaker 9: It's good. You feel more comfortable, right?
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Good.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: That's good.
• 42:37
  Speaker 9: So go ahead.
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: You said you want to.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: Okay, this man, he says everything everyone is thinking. Totally unafraid.
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: Why are people in the year of our Lord 2025
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: wearing masks? It is absurd.
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: Yes, thank you.
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: The chat's seen a lot of people.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: I have, yes, yes, every day. You guys have all
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: seen people wear masks. I have too. I've seen them
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: wearing masks too. Why are people wearing masks in 2025?
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: It is absurd. All of the COVID psyops have been debunked.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: COVID origins, the lockdowns, vaccines, and mask efficacy. overwhelming evidence
• 43:12
  Speaker 1: points to the fact that masks were ineffective in preventing
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: viral transmission. They offer minimal to no benefit in stopping
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: the spread of COVID. So why are people wearing them?
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: Why are people wearing them, especially in 2025? The decision
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: to continue wearing a mask is totally irrational. These people
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: whose brains have been broken by 2020, by the COVID
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: sigh up, the political and social manipulation of that time
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: was so strong that some people, I wonder if they'll
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: die wearing a mask. Like they will just continue to
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: wear a mask for decades. It will never stop. Like
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: just never. And truly these people are anti-science, just completely
• 43:52
  Speaker 1: dogmatic anti-science psychopaths. And do you notice that you usually
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: see them at the airport? That's where I see people
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: wearing masks the most, at the airport. I think a
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: lot of people still get extra scared of COVID at
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: the airport. Remember when the media was obsessively airing these
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: chaotic and dramatic videos in the early days of COVID,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: including some showing people falling ill at the airport and
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: other public places, they were showing body bags of people
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: piling up on the side of the street in China.
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: I don't even know if that was real. Was that real, chat?
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Do you guys remember seeing these news reports where there
• 44:27
  Speaker 1: was bodies piling up on the side of the street
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: in China? We were thinking this is an apocalypse. I
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: don't remember there ever being any verification of this, but
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: I saw those videos. We all thought we were going
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: to die. He says, no, no verification.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah. But what fake?
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: I think it was fake too. What was that? Like
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: nobody was, nobody was dropping dead in the middle of
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: the street from COVID. And the point is people are
• 44:52
  Speaker 1: still scared of airports. And I had to take a
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: flight this week and I saw at least two people
• 44:57
  Speaker 1: wearing masks, but something else happened when I was at
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: the airport that I want to share with you all.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: You know, when you go through TSA, and they ask
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: you to stand in front of this scanner. Michael, if
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: we could throw it up on screen, you'll know what
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: I'm talking about. You have to stand in front of
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: the scanner, and you look through the little eye sockets
• 45:17
  Speaker 1: that they have in there, and they screen your irises,
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: and the machine collects your biometric data. Now, the United
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: States has this thing called the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits
• 45:29
  Speaker 1: warrantless searches and seizures. So it's unconstitutional for the TSA
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: to require that you hand over your biometric data. So
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: when I go through TSA, I opt out of this
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: face scan, which I have every right to do, which
• 45:41
  Speaker 1: you all watching this, if you are American citizens, you
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: also have the right to do. You do not have
• 45:45
  Speaker 1: to scan your face. Some people say, what does it matter?
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: They already have your information. Who cares? Just scan your face, whatever.
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: And my response to that is, why make it easier
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: for them? So I always say no. And this week
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: I went up to TSA. I gave the gay agent
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: my ID and she said, stand in front of the camera.
• 46:04
  Speaker 1: And I said, no. And then she got super aggressive
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: and rude with me. And she said, you should have
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: told me that right away. And I said, well, we've
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: been interacting for like five seconds. I just did tell you.
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: And she said, well, I need to know that you're
• 46:18
  Speaker 1: opting out before you give me your ID.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: It's the rules.
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: I said, what rules? And she said, the TSA rules.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: I said, where do I find the TSA rules? Is
• 46:26
  Speaker 1: it on my boarding pass? Is there a sign somewhere
• 46:28
  Speaker 1: that I didn't see? And then she didn't have an answer.
• 46:30
  Speaker 1: She was just angry at me. And she accused me
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: of having an attitude. And I said, no, I think
• 46:34
  Speaker 1: you have an attitude. I just said, I don't want
• 46:37
  Speaker 1: to be part of this face scan. And you got
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: angry at me immediately. Like the moment that I opted out.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And she was hostile and rude. As if she's entitled
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: to scan the irises of my eyes. No, you're not.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: An angry TSA agent?
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: I don't buy it.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: An angry... They do tend to be angry. I'm sorry
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: if anyone in the chat has a family member who's
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: in TSA or you're a TSA agent. They're not all bad,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: but they do generally seem to hate their jobs. And
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: they should not be telling, they should not be rude
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: with you when you opt out of the face scan
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: because you have a constitutional right to opt out. So anyways,
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: I leave the TSA, well, the TSA scanning thing. And
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: I get in line to actually go through the like,
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: the check where you take off your shoes. And I'm
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: in line and a different TSA agent comes up to
• 47:30
  Speaker 1: me and she actually apologizes. And she says that the
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: other agent's behavior was way out of line and I'm
• 47:35
  Speaker 1: allowed to opt out of the scan and I should
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: never have been treated poorly because I was opting out.
• 47:40
  Speaker 1: And this is my personal PSA to you. And by
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: the way, she did that because it could be a
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: legal issue for them to make passengers feel like they
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: cannot opt out if they don't let them know that
• 47:50
  Speaker 1: they can opt out. It becomes a question of legality.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: We could sue TSA for something like this. So they apologized,
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: rightfully so. But my PSA is don't participate in this
• 48:01
  Speaker 1: crap from the TSA. Tell them no. I'm not scanning
• 48:04
  Speaker 1: my face because the TSA is a weaponized organization, probably
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: a hostile still under President Trump because bad people are
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: in this department. The TSA put Tulsi Gabbard on a
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: terror watch list for criticizing Joe Biden. They also labeled
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: those who protested for election integrity in January 2021, January 6, 2021,
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: labeled them all domestic terrorists. them from flying. There are people,
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: I wonder, who are still on this list. I mean,
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: it's insane. Regular people who did nothing on January 6th
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: labeled domestic terrorists and barred from flying. There is zero
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: reason you should willingly hand these people your biometric data.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: And by the way, the TSA insists that when they
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: scan your face, the photo is deleted immediately. Like, I've
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: been told that multiple times. I say, I'm not going
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: to participate. And they're like, oh, well, you know, the
• 48:49
  Speaker 1: photo is deleted right away. They delete it. No, they don't.
• 48:53
  Speaker 1: They actually lie about that. That is a lie. We
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: know for a fact that the TSA sends photos to
• 48:59
  Speaker 1: the Department of Homeland Security during specific testing or evaluation
• 49:03
  Speaker 1: phases of facial recognition technology, such as a pilot program
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: for TSA pre-check or global entry. So these photos, along
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: with other data, are temporarily retained by DHS, sometimes for
• 49:17
  Speaker 1: up to two years before supposedly being deleted. So again,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: why give them their data?
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Just opt out.
• 49:25
  Speaker 1: They lied about deleting it right away. I don't know that.
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: I don't trust that.
• 49:31
  Speaker 4: What?
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: And you guys shouldn't either. All right. Do we have
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: time for a little Snow White segment, Michael? Oh, yes,
• 49:38
  Speaker 1: we do. Oh, we do have some time for Snow White?
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: All right, this is the moment you guys have all
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: been waiting for, Rachel Zegler's Snow White drama update. Jonah Platt, actor, podcaster,
• 49:47
  Speaker 1: son of Snow White producer Mark Platt, recently slammed Snow
• 49:52
  Speaker 1: White star Rachel Zegler for hijacking the new Disney movie
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: with her political rants. An Instagram user, apparently a supporter
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: of Zegler, questioned Jonah about reports that his father had
• 50:04
  Speaker 1: flown out to speak directly to Rachel about over her
• 50:07
  Speaker 1: public support of the Free Palestine Movement. And the Platts
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: are Jewish, by the way. So this user wrote, your
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: dad flew to NYC to reprimand a young actress. Any
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: word on this? Because that's creepy as hell and uncalled for.
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: People have the right to free speech. No? Shame on
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: your father. So in a now deleted post, Jonah responded
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: to this random user and he wrote, you really want
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: to do this? Yeah. My dad, the producer of an
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: enormous piece of Disney IP with hundreds of millions of
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: dollars on the line, had to leave his family to
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: fly across the country to reprimand his 20-year-old employee for
• 50:40
  Speaker 1: dragging her personal politics into the middle of promoting the
• 50:43
  Speaker 1: movie for which she signed a multi-million dollar contract to
• 50:46
  Speaker 1: get paid to do publicity for. This is called adult
• 50:49
  Speaker 1: responsibility and accountability, and her actions clearly hurt the film's
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: box office. And yeah, this is all true. Rachel is
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: a walking PR nightmare for Disney. The Palestine issue is problematic,
• 51:00
  Speaker 1: but that's not all. People have been digging through some
• 51:02
  Speaker 1: of this girl's old tweets and... oh my goodness, the
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: crap that she has said is wild. This is from 2021.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: F you, Donald Trump. Yeah, I'm a nasty B-I-T-C-H. You guys,
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: I don't always swear on this show because sometimes kids
• 51:18
  Speaker 1: watch it, younger children, my little siblings watch it. So
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: just know, as I say these words in couch language,
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: she's actually swearing. 2017, Trump is Voldemort. And she also
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: accused orange man, meaning Trump, of wanting to F his daughter.
• 51:36
  Speaker 1: And just a heads up that, and there are tons
• 51:39
  Speaker 1: of these tweets, like there are many of them, not
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: just about Donald Trump, like she's a very insane political person.
• 51:44
  Speaker 1: Disney vetted Rachel's social media before giving her this role.
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: They presumably saw all of those tweets and were like, yeah,
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: it's fine. But they fired Gina Carano in her role
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: for the Mandalorian in Star Wars. Because Gina compared the
• 51:59
  Speaker 1: treatment of conservatives to the treatment of Jews during the Holocaust.
• 52:02
  Speaker 1: And that was a step too far. That was way
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: too problematic for Disney. But F the orange man who
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: wants to F his daughter and he's Voldemort? Oh yeah,
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: that's fine. Let's really chill with Disney. I just played
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: for you a clip of PBS at the start of
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: the show comparing Trump's presidency to a pogram. That's fine.
• 52:22
  Speaker 1: And this is sad. Rachel decided to post this video
• 52:24
  Speaker 1: of herself watching the new Snow White movie in theaters.
• 52:28
  Speaker 1: Tell me what you notice here. If you're listening, the
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: theater is empty. Does she not see how dumb this looks?
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: And Jonah has a point about how Rachel is and
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: has been very political to the detriment of this movie.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: But let's be real. Rachel's not the only issue here.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: The Snow White remake was one of the most expensive
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: films ever made, $ 270 million. Opening weekend made $ 87 million globally,
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: so it's a flop. And that's not all on Rachel.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Mark Platt and everyone else who made this movie made
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: a woke film where Snow White isn't feminine. She's fighting
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: fascists and her boy toy, who isn't a prince, he's
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: some bandit, joins her. The visuals and the costumes are bad.
• 53:15
  Speaker 1: The dwarves are AI. Everything looks fake. The entire movie
• 53:18
  Speaker 1: fails to encapsulate the charm and beauty of the original.
• 53:21
  Speaker 1: And that's not all Rachel's fault. It's the studios. It's Disney's.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I get him slamming Snow White, Rachel, for
• 53:29
  Speaker 1: what she's done.
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: It's bad.
• 53:30
  Speaker 1: But also, you know what else is bad? What Disney
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: has done in the movie it's created. It's just an
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: objectively bad film. I think the Snow White saga reveals
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: the deeper tension between modern Hollywood and real life. The
• 53:45
  Speaker 1: story isn't so much about an insufferable actress who has
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: clashed with corporate expectations. It's more about audiences' desires. While
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Zegler's unfiltered political outbursts have undoubtedly stirred controversy and alienated
• 54:00
  Speaker 1: some viewers, the film's struggles can't be pinched solely on her.
• 54:03
  Speaker 1: Disney's decision to reimagine a timeless fairy tale as this gritty,
• 54:07
  Speaker 1: girl-bossified fable reflects a broader trend of prioritizing ideological messaging
• 54:12
  Speaker 1: over storytelling magic. It's a gamble that leaves fans of
• 54:16
  Speaker 1: the original feeling betrayed by the studio. The empty theater
• 54:23
  Speaker 1: in Zegler's video isn't just a personal misstep, it is
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: a haunting symbol of a disconnect between current creators and
• 54:31
  Speaker 1: artistic gatekeepers and their audience. And it's a reminder that
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: authenticity and enchantment can't be engineered by a big budget.
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: This is why traditionalists in the arts are essential to
• 54:43
  Speaker 1: fill this void They bring a reverence for timeless storytelling, craftsmanship,
• 54:49
  Speaker 1: emotional resonance that these modern reinterpretations from these big budget
• 54:53
  Speaker 1: studios sacrifice for progressive ideology and ultimately safe profits. By
• 55:00
  Speaker 1: grounding their work in proven principles of beauty and narrative depth,
• 55:05
  Speaker 1: traditional artists can offer audiences the good content that we
• 55:08
  Speaker 1: all crave. Works that endure not because they preach, but
• 55:12
  Speaker 1: because they connect. And that's going to take investment. in
• 55:15
  Speaker 1: conservative creators, and parents cultivating the arts in their children.
• 55:20
  Speaker 1: But I think in the long term, it's possible, given
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: how much people are desiring something different. And we deserve
• 55:25
  Speaker 1: something different. And that's all I have for you all today.
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