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Trump Obliterates USAID—the CIA's Piggy Bank (Ep.131) · V

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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report Early Edition. President
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Speaker 1: Trump dismantles U.S.
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Speaker 2: Aid.
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Speaker 1: Canada foolishly retaliates against U.S. tariffs. Plaintiffs sue the FAA
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Speaker 1: for anti-white hiring racism. A disgraced former Pentagon employee slams
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Speaker 1: Pete Hegseth. David Hogg is elected as the DNC vice chair.
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Speaker 1: And Kanye West's wife appears at the Grammys nude. All
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Speaker 1: this on Bongina Report, early edition. As of yesterday, the
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Speaker 1: USAID website has gone dark, completely shut down. Senior USAID
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Speaker 1: workers attempting to thwart Trump have also been laid off
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Speaker 1: or put on leave. So trying to thwart his, his, uh,
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Speaker 1: clamping down on USAID. And this is the most amazing
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Speaker 1: report that I've seen in the wake of this USAID
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Speaker 1: essentially being obliterated by President Trump. The Associated Press reports,
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Speaker 1: the new leaders at USAID, hired by President Trump really recently,
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Speaker 1: abruptly laid off contractors who made up about half the
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Speaker 1: workforce in the agency's humanitarian bureau Tuesday, knocking them out
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Speaker 1: of systems so that some vanished in the middle of
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Speaker 1: video conferences. So it was like Thanos, like Trump just,
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Speaker 1: he snaps his fingers. No warning. USAID grinds to an
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Speaker 1: immediate halt. They're kicked out of their own video conferences.
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Speaker 1: There was no delays. There's no bureaucracy. It's just, it's done.
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Speaker 1: And it's clear that Trump is serious about the reforms
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Speaker 1: to the federal government. He is so serious. Now, we
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Speaker 1: don't know if he plans to dissolve or restructure USAID legally.
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Speaker 1: I believe that only Congress could totally abolish the agency,
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Speaker 1: but Trump can use executive action to limit all of
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Speaker 1: their funding, restructure the agency to effectively abolish it. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk about what USAID really is, because if you don't
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Speaker 1: know what USAID is, you're probably thinking, well, yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: really mean. You're really excited about getting rid of aid
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Speaker 1: to foreign countries? Right now, Democrat senators and bureaucrats are
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Speaker 1: shrieking that Trump has essentially yanked food and water out
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Speaker 1: of the hands of starving foreign children. And of course,
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Speaker 1: that's what USAID says it allegedly does, provide humanitarian aid
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Speaker 1: to needy foreign countries. But this could not be further
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Speaker 1: from the truth. There is no aid in the USAID acronym.
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Speaker 1: USAID stands for United States Agency for International Development. And
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Speaker 1: here is Deep State whistleblower and former State Department official
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Speaker 1: Mike Benz explaining a little more.
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Speaker 3: There's no aid in USAID, by the way. That's Your
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Speaker 3: brain is being tricked when you see the phrase USAID.
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Speaker 3: It's not an aid organization. The aid in USAID stands
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Speaker 3: for U.S. Agency for International Development. It is developing internationally
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Speaker 3: around the world all of the institutions that the State
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Speaker 3: Department needs to use. It was created because you had
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Speaker 3: all of this intelligence, statecraft, and military support and logistical
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Speaker 3: aid That was tripping over itself, basically. The military would
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Speaker 3: be funding, you know, would be running aid to certain
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Speaker 3: groups in the region. The State Department would be running
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Speaker 3: aid to certain groups in the region. The Intelligence Committee would.
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Speaker 3: And there was no way there was no sort of
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Speaker 3: central coordinator of those of those capacity building operations. USAID,
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Speaker 3: by the way, is a 50 billion dollar budget. The
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Speaker 3: entirety of the intelligence community is only 72 billion. So
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Speaker 3: it is as more than the CIA and more than
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Speaker 3: the State Department. And aid is basically, USAID is effectively
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Speaker 3: a switch player to assist the Pentagon on the national
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Speaker 3: security front, to assist the State Department on the national
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Speaker 3: interest front, or to assist the intelligence community on a
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Speaker 3: sort of clandestine operations front.
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Speaker 1: So USAID is clearly not about aid. It's about coordinating
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Speaker 1: covert operations overseas. USAID has funded coups in Haiti, Ukraine,
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Speaker 1: and Egypt in 2014. It was revealed that, per the
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Speaker 1: Associated Press, beginning as early as October of 2009 under
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Speaker 1: the Obama administration, a project overseen by USAID sent Venezuelan,
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Speaker 1: Costa Rican, and Peruvian young people to Cuba in hopes
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Speaker 1: of ginning up rebellion. The travelers worked undercover, often posing
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Speaker 1: as tourists, and they traveled around the island scouting for
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Speaker 1: people they could turn into political activists. And in one case,
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Speaker 1: the workers formed an HIV prevention workshop. that memos called
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Speaker 1: the perfect excuse, that's a quote, perfect excuse for the
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Speaker 1: program's political goals. So in other words, USAID set up
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Speaker 1: fake aid prevention workshops to topple a foreign government. Per
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Speaker 1: Mike Benz, USAID funded an NGO to put hundreds of
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Speaker 1: people in censorship training seminars on how to best flag
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump's tweets for misinformation. It funded the production of
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Speaker 1: heroin in Afghanistan and paid $ 20 million. to hit peace
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Speaker 1: journalists to dig up dirt on Rudy Giuliani, which was
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Speaker 1: then used, this dirt, to impeach President Trump in 2019.
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Speaker 1: USAID also funded the Wuhan Institute of Virology, the famous
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Speaker 1: Chinese lab that likely sparked the COVID pandemic. It handed
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Speaker 1: funds to the infamous EcoHealth Alliance, $ 53 million to be exact,
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Speaker 1: and over a million of those funds, we know for
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Speaker 1: a fact, went to the Wuhan Institute of Virology. This
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Speaker 1: is why the CIA, for years, up until literally a
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Speaker 1: few weeks ago, has lied about the origins of COVID.
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Speaker 1: The CIA wanted to conceal its likely role in funneling U.S.
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Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars through USAID to gain a function research at
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Speaker 1: the Wuhan lab. And admitting the truth would not only
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Speaker 1: implicate U.S. intelligence agencies in dangerous biological research, it could
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Speaker 1: also expose USAID's broader function as a CIA front for
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Speaker 1: covert operations worldwide. And there are many instances of these
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Speaker 1: very unethical and frankly unaccountable operations. Here's what Bukele, the
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Speaker 1: president of El Salvador, said in response to President Trump's
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Speaker 1: decision to essentially nuke USAID. While marketed as support for development, democracy,
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Speaker 1: and human rights, the majority of these funds are funneled
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Speaker 1: into opposition groups, NGOs with political agendas, and destabilizing movements.
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Speaker 1: At best, maybe 10% of the money reaches real projects
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Speaker 1: that help people in need. There are such cases, but
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Speaker 1: the rest is used to fuel dissent, finance protests, and
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Speaker 1: undermine administrations that refuse to align with the globalist agenda.
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Speaker 1: Cutting this so-called aid isn't just beneficial for the United States,
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Speaker 1: it's also a big win for the rest of the world.
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Speaker 1: What has Trump done by freezing U.S.
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Speaker 3: Aid?
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Speaker 1: He's crippled the U.S. intelligence apparatus, which is not only
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Speaker 1: a rogue and abusive network, but also made an enemy
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Speaker 1: out of Trump himself with the Russia collusion hoax and
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Speaker 1: the Hunter Biden laptop cover-up. Trump's not playing around. This
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Speaker 1: is legit war with the deep state. It's also why,
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Speaker 1: by the way, Trump is firing all FBI agents and
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Speaker 1: DOJ prosecutors who worked on the January 6th witch hunt
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Speaker 1: and classified documents case. Turns out, There are consequences to
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Speaker 1: raiding the president's home and throwing his supporters in solitary confinement.
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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 are going to talk tariffs. And I'm sorry to
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Speaker 1: Canadians in the chat, but you got some bad leaders.
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Speaker 1: We'll be right back. As always, shout out to our sponsors.
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Speaker 1: They keep this show free. All right, let's talk tariffs.
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Speaker 1: Last week, Trump announced 25% tariffs on imports from Mexico
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Speaker 1: and Canada until these countries secure their borders and prevent
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Speaker 1: specifically fentanyl, from pouring into our country and killing our citizens.
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Speaker 1: And he also put a 10% tariff on China, which
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Speaker 1: we all know is manufacturing the precursor chemicals used in
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Speaker 1: the production of fentanyl. Now, fentanyl is not cocaine. It's
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Speaker 1: not weed. This drug turns people into walking zombies. It
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Speaker 1: kills them in most cases. It is, in my opinion,
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Speaker 1: chemical warfare. Would you agree with that, Michael? I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's a reason China is investing in the precursor chemicals.
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Speaker 1: for fentanyl. And doing something about fentanyl is actually good
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Speaker 1: for our neighbors as well, who are just as negatively
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Speaker 1: impacted by it. Yet here's how Trudeau, Justin Trudeau, has
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Speaker 1: responded to Trump's demands.
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Speaker 2: I am announcing Canada will be responding to the U.S.
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Speaker 2: trade action with 25% tariffs against $ 155 billion worth of
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Speaker 2: American goods. Hmm.
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Speaker 1: Pretty ballsy, considering 77% of Canada's exports go to the
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Speaker 1: United States, and our GDP is over 12 times greater
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Speaker 1: than theirs. I think it's 12.8, so nearly 13. I know,
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Speaker 1: if Canada were a U.S. state, its GDP would rank
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Speaker 1: only number four compared to other U.S. states. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, Trump has again suggested on that note that
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Speaker 1: Canada should become the 51st state. And he wrote on
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Speaker 1: True Social, Canada should become our cherished 51st state. Much
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Speaker 1: lower taxes, a far better military protection for the people
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Speaker 1: of Canada, and then in all caps, and no tariffs.
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Speaker 1: Let it be known to everybody listening, I oppose making
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Speaker 1: Canada a 51st state. I'm okay making Canada a territory,
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Speaker 1: not a state though, because their electoral votes would be
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Speaker 1: left-wing poison to our system. Now, conservative party leader Pierre
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Speaker 1: Poliev has not been any more reasonable or measured than
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Speaker 1: Justin Trudeau. Here was his take.
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Speaker 4: We must put Canada first. And that is why common
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Speaker 4: sense conservatives condemn President Trump's massive unjust and unjustified tariffs,
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Speaker 4: which will damage both American- and Canadian economies. There is
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Speaker 4: no justification whatsoever for these tariffs or this treatment. Let's
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Speaker 4: put aside partisan political interests and recall Parliament to pass
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Speaker 4: into place a common-sense Canada First plan. And here's that plan. One,
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Speaker 4: we must retaliate dollar for dollar, carefully aiming those tariffs.
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Speaker 1: That's Justin Trudeau's plan, so what do you mean?
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Speaker 4: At maximizing the impact on American companies while minimizing the
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Speaker 4: impact on Canadian, we must maximize the impact on American
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Speaker 4: companies while minimizing the impact on Canadian consumers and businesses.
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Speaker 4: That means targeting US products that A, we can do without, B,
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Speaker 4: we can buy elsewhere, or C, best of all, that
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Speaker 4: we can make here at home. Okay.
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Speaker 1: You know what would put Canada first? Because Canada first
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Speaker 1: and America first are two different things. America is a
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Speaker 1: big dog. Canada is a little country. Not landmass wise,
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Speaker 1: but GDP wise, population wise. Putting Canada first is not
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Speaker 1: getting in a trade war with the United States of America.
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Speaker 1: It's not. They won't survive that. Also, this is not unprovoked.
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Speaker 1: Instead of retaliating, Canada could, I don't know, maybe take
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Speaker 1: measures to stop the manufacture of fentanyl and the flow
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Speaker 1: of fentanyl across its border. Just secure your side of
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Speaker 1: the border. It's good for both our countries. It's not
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Speaker 1: that hard. And by the way, this isn't some unprovoked
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Speaker 1: radical trade war like the Canadians are framing it. But actually,
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Speaker 1: before I get to that video, I just want to
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Speaker 1: say Michael and I were talking about maple syrup because
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Speaker 1: everybody was saying, oh my goodness, the maple syrup is
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Speaker 1: going to be so expensive. Now I won't get any
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Speaker 1: maple syrup from the Canadians. I will tell you guys
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Speaker 1: this maple syrup is, is produced in the North woods
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Speaker 1: of Wisconsin of Minnesota. There are lots, there's lots of
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Speaker 1: maple syrup here in the United States. Um, there might
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Speaker 1: be some shortages. I don't know from what we get
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Speaker 1: from Canada, but I will tell you when I lived
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Speaker 1: up in the North woods, I, we, we bought it
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Speaker 1: all the time from, from our neighbors, from our friends and,
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Speaker 1: Michael says $ 50 billion trade deficit per year. Yeah. Okay.
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Speaker 1: So the point is secure is out of the border.
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Speaker 1: It's good for our country. It's good for theirs. I
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Speaker 1: don't know why even the Conservative Party is being so
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Speaker 1: unreasonable in Canada and doesn't seem to understand what Canada
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Speaker 1: first really would mean for its people. We're different countries.
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Speaker 1: America can play hardball because we are the big dogs.
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Speaker 1: I don't think Canada can do that. So I'm sad
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Speaker 1: for the Canadian people because they are very misled. Now,
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Speaker 1: like I said, there's this idea that this is this
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Speaker 1: unprovoked trade war. That's how the Canadians are framing it.
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Speaker 1: But here is Senior White House Counselor Peter Navarro explaining
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Speaker 1: how this is a very bad and, frankly, untruthful way
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Speaker 1: of framing the situation.
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Speaker 5: Don't call it a war. This is not a trade war.
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Speaker 1: That's the rhetoric.
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Speaker 5: Of the globalists who want to send our jobs offshore
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Speaker 5: and our factories offshore. This is President Trump and the
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Speaker 5: American people defending themselves, in this case, against carnage. I mean, look,
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Speaker 5: there's nothing more important than saving the lives of Americans.
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Speaker 5: People are dying in record numbers. And by the way,
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Speaker 5: from an economic point of view, John, most of the
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Speaker 5: people who are dying are in the 18 to 45
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Speaker 5: age group.
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Speaker 1: It's the leading.
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Speaker 5: Cause of death. And that's our prime working force era.
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Speaker 5: So this is a huge crisis. And we're not, President Trump,
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Speaker 5: promises made, promises kept.
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Speaker 1: You have a comment from someone, Mikey? Somebody says, I
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Speaker 1: make my own maple syrup. There's a lot of cases
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Speaker 1: like that. I don't, you guys, I'm serious. When I,
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Speaker 1: when we lived up in the North woods, we had
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Speaker 1: these neighbors, they get Amos's and they made their own
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Speaker 1: maple syrup and we would every year get a bucket.
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Speaker 1: It was like this big. I'm serious. It was huge.
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Speaker 1: A maple syrup that would last us the whole year.
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Speaker 1: So America produces maple syrup. It's not, not something to
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Speaker 1: be worried about you guys. All right. To drive this
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Speaker 1: point home from Peter Navarro, I want to read to
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Speaker 1: you a statement from the CEO of Shopify, which is
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Speaker 1: actually a Canadian country. I didn't know that. And he
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Speaker 1: had some really interesting thoughts on X. He wrote, I'm
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Speaker 1: disappointed that the Trump admin placed the 25% tariffs, and
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Speaker 1: I'm disappointed that this is our government's response. Trump believes
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Speaker 1: that Canada has not held its side of the bargain.
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Speaker 1: And he set terms to prove that we still work together,
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Speaker 1: get the borders under control, and crack down on fentanyl dens.
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Speaker 1: These are things that every Canadian wants its government to
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Speaker 1: do too. These are not crazy demands, even if they
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Speaker 1: came from an unpopular source. These tariffs are going to
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Speaker 1: be devastating to so many people's lives and small businesses.
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Speaker 1: Action has to be judged based on what it leads to,
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Speaker 1: not how good it sounds or feels. Leadership is about
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Speaker 1: doing what's right, not what is popular. And hitting back
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Speaker 1: will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off.
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Speaker 1: Canada will decline. And in a game of chicken... where
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Speaker 1: you have the United States and President Trump playing against
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Speaker 1: Canada and Justin Trudeau, I think we all know who's
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Speaker 1: going to get their way. So let's avoid all this.
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Speaker 1: Fix the drug crisis, Canada. It's not that hard. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's talk about the DOT, the Department of Transportation. There
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Speaker 1: is still a lot of conversation about DEI in the FAA.
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Speaker 1: A lawsuit set for trial next year, alleges that the FAA,
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Speaker 1: which the DOT oversees, rejected 1,000 qualified applicants in order
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Speaker 1: to hit diversity hiring targets. Lead plaintiff Andrew Brigida, who
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Speaker 1: scored 100% on his FAA training exam, claims he was
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Speaker 1: denied a job due to race under Obama-era hiring changes.
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Speaker 1: Can you guys believe that? So Pete Buttigieg has been
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Speaker 1: complaining about for several years now, especially in the wake
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Speaker 1: of COVID, that were 3,000 air traffic controllers short. And
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Speaker 1: then we realized that, oh, the FAA is allegedly denying
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Speaker 1: people based on how white they are. We'll see what
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Speaker 1: this lawsuit lays to bear. I would love it if
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Speaker 1: my dad launched his own investigation at DOT into what's happening,
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Speaker 1: but that is a serious allegation and one that makes
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Speaker 1: all of the, um, the claims that Donald Trump is
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Speaker 1: trying to limit the FAA workers, crack down on them,
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Speaker 1: which again, they were exempt from his move to ask
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Speaker 1: federal workers to quit their job, his deal, his payout.
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Speaker 1: It really just undermines everything that they've been saying about
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Speaker 1: Donald Trump and lays the blame really on Obama and
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Speaker 1: on Biden for the shortage that we have at air
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Speaker 1: traffic control. All right, here is my dad yesterday on
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Speaker 1: CNN with Jake Tapper. So you just alluded.
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Speaker 6: To DEI, the diversity, equity and inclusion processes of trying
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Speaker 6: to expand people in the workforce. Is there any specific
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Speaker 6: evidence that backs up Donald Trump's claims, President Trump's claims,
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Speaker 6: that DEI or FAA hiring practices are responsible in any
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Speaker 6: way for this tragedy.
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Speaker 1: At Reagan National?
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Speaker 2: So, Jake, I think the better question is, am I
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Speaker 2: going to guarantee the American people that only the best
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Speaker 2: and the brightest serve in this incredibly important body of
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Speaker 2: the Department of Transportation? that they're driven by safety and
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Speaker 2: DEI doesn't matter. So I do know that in the
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Speaker 2: last administration, they were focused on not safety, but they
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Speaker 2: were focused on changing the name from cockpit to flight
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Speaker 2: deck or notice to airmen. They want to change it
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Speaker 2: to notice to air mission. They focused on EVs and
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Speaker 2: sustainability and racist roads, things that don't matter in regard
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Speaker 2: to safety. Our mission since the start has been safety.
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Speaker 2: And they've lost that mission. And we see when you
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Speaker 2: don't focus on safety and you focus on social justice
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Speaker 2: or the environment, bad things happen. And so I have, listen,
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Speaker 2: it's been busy. We're going to have a fuller assessment
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Speaker 2: of what happens in regard to DEI in FAA and DOT.
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Speaker 2: And we'll report that out. But I will tell you this,
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Speaker 2: DOT is a big department. The only DEI office that
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Speaker 2: exists in the whole department was at the FAA. Now
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Speaker 2: that existed up to a week ago. That's now gone.
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Speaker 1: I think it's what Trump said. It's common sense. It's
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Speaker 1: common sense that the entire federal government has been mismanaged
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Speaker 1: and poisoned by DEI. And there is, I want to
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Speaker 1: also again just reiterate how we have, there's been a
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Speaker 1: lot of criticism of Trump picking Pete Hegseth, picking my dad,
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Speaker 1: picking people who are traditionally in media and not in
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Speaker 1: the government bureaucracy to run these agencies. and a huge
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Speaker 1: advantage of him picking Trump loyalists, which they're not going
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Speaker 1: to subvert President Trump like his other agency heads had
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Speaker 1: done in the past because he picked from within the
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Speaker 1: deep state. But also, they're amazing communicators. I thought my
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Speaker 1: dad did great on that hit. Pete Hegseth has likewise
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Speaker 1: been excellent at communicating with the American people, going on TV,
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Speaker 1: doing his own videos, being extremely transparent, which is a
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Speaker 1: huge cornerstone of the admin, transparency with the American people.
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Speaker 1: And so far, his picks have really delivered on that.
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Speaker 1: RFK Jr. has also promised to do weekly updates with
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Speaker 1: the American people of what he's doing at his agency.
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Speaker 1: And we don't know if he's going to be put
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Speaker 1: in Yet, we don't know if he's going to get confirmed,
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Speaker 1: but if he does, you can expect that from RFK Jr.
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Speaker 1: as well. Also yesterday, my dad tweeted that effective immediately,
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Speaker 1: or two days ago, I'm sorry, effective immediately, the Department
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Speaker 1: of Transportation will no longer participate in celebrations based on
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Speaker 1: immutable traits or any other identity-based observances. From now on,
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Speaker 1: every day of every month, we celebrate transportation, beautiful infrastructure,
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Speaker 1: and safety. And like I said, Pete has been on
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Speaker 1: the same wavelength as my dad at DOD, He has
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Speaker 1: dropped all of the celebrations of immutable traits in the military.
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Speaker 1: Pete also revoked access to taxpayer-funded abortions for service members.
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Speaker 1: And we did learn that one of the Blackhawk pilots
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Speaker 1: who was actually the one flying the helicopter into the
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Speaker 1: American Airlines plane was a female, allegedly a lesbian, who
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Speaker 1: formerly volunteered as a White House military social aide. Her
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Speaker 1: name is Rebecca Lobach, and her family is initially withheld
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Speaker 1: her identity, but the Army did eventually release her name
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Speaker 1: to the public. And since then, former Chief of Staff
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Speaker 1: to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, her name is Kelly Magsaman,
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Speaker 1: has condemned Pete Hegseth. And she wrote, for him to
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Speaker 1: imply that this pilot was not qualified because of her
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Speaker 1: gender is absurd. Pete did not imply this, I'll just add.
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Speaker 1: He said, along with Trump and my dad, that DEI
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Speaker 1: was poisoning the government before we even knew that the
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Speaker 1: pilot was a woman. It's just a fact that DEI
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Speaker 1: is poisonous to this government. Maximin continues, the secretary should
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Speaker 1: be showing leadership and consoling the families and overseeing an
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Speaker 1: unbiased investigation. This is the first crisis he has had
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Speaker 1: to manage, and so far, it is not a good sign.
21:51
Speaker 1: And here is why, all of you, we can ignore Ms. Kelly.
21:55
Speaker 1: She covered up for Lloyd Austin when he was secretly hospitalized,
21:58
Speaker 1: and she also helped oversee the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that
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Speaker 1: killed 13 U.S. American service members. So opinion irrelevant, opinion
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Speaker 1: deemed irrelevant. And here's the deal. The identity game that
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Speaker 1: the left is continuing to play, they will not let
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Speaker 1: it go. It is a losing one. This weekend, Democrats
22:21
Speaker 1: at the DNC for their leadership vote were mercilessly mocked
22:25
Speaker 1: on social media. Can you guess why?
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Speaker 7: Rules specify that when we have a gender non-binary candidate
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Speaker 7: or officer, the non-binary individual is counted as neither male
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Speaker 7: nor female and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced.
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Speaker 7: With the results of the previous four elections, our elected
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Speaker 7: officers are currently two male and two female. In order
22:53
Speaker 7: to be gender balanced, we must elect one male, one female,
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Speaker 7: and one person of any gender. So again, this is
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Speaker 7: what we have to do for this vice chair race.
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Speaker 7: We have to elect one male, one female, and one
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Speaker 7: person of any gender. To ensure our process accounts for male, female,
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Speaker 7: and non-binary candidates, We conferred with our RBC co-chair, our
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Speaker 7: LGBT caucus co-chair, and others to ensure that the process
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Speaker 7: is inclusive and meets the gender balance requirements in our rules.
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Speaker 1: Okay. He did seem confused. Michael was like, he seems
23:36
Speaker 1: like the substitute teacher that is like saying words and
23:39
Speaker 1: trying to relay the lessons planned and perhaps it's like
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Speaker 1: a STEM subject and they don't know what's going on
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Speaker 1: at all. That's exactly what that felt like. And it
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Speaker 1: was so bizarre and so lame. Everybody's tired of this language.
23:52
Speaker 1: The implement rules saying that in addition to electing a
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Speaker 1: male and a female, one position must be filled by
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Speaker 1: a non-binary candidate, a third gender. And I just have
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Speaker 1: to wonder, did they learn nothing from the last election?
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Speaker 1: Here are the candidates for the DNC chair. And I
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Speaker 1: want you to comment. Comment and tell me what you
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Speaker 1: notice about the rhetoric here. Hello, Democrats. Hey, I am speaking,
24:18
Speaker 1: and I would love your attention.
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Speaker 7: There is a black woman at this podium, and I
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Speaker 7: deserve your attention like the 11 people who went before me.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I am speaking. Good evening, Democrats.
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Speaker 7: Look up here.
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Speaker 1: Three strong black women standing before you.
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Speaker 7: Three black women who rather than just grabbing a chair,
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Speaker 7: ran for chair.
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Speaker 1: My name is Artie Blanco, Freddie Blanco's daughter.
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Speaker 7: Vote for me for vice chair.
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Speaker 1: Look at this room, y'all. Truly take it in. This
24:50
Speaker 1: is the Democratic Party. We are our strongest when we
24:54
Speaker 1: stand together.
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Speaker 7: We are in a time in this country when our
24:58
Speaker 7: democracy and our rights are under attack.
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Speaker 2: We're at a time where black and brown people.
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Speaker 7: Women, and other minorities are being blamed for everything that's
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Speaker 7: wrong with this country.
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Speaker 1: We'll deal with that. So let's fight together for a
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Speaker 1: stronger and more... Constantly screaming about their identities. Screaming at
25:17
Speaker 1: the audience, listen to me because what? Because I am black?
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Speaker 1: Because I am brown? No one cares about your identity.
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Speaker 1: I don't know why this is so hard for the
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Speaker 1: left to understand. No one cares. Not even other leftists
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Speaker 1: care about your identity because they're too busy worrying about
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Speaker 1: their identity. No one cares. And frankly, I resent anyone
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Speaker 1: who says, listen to me because I am black. Listen
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Speaker 1: to me because I am white. That's a silly thing
25:47
Speaker 1: to say too. It's just dumb. The Democrats party's focus
25:53
Speaker 1: has become exclusionary. It's become angry and it's lame. Here's
25:58
Speaker 1: how lame it's become. You're looking at a bunch of
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Speaker 1: old people dancing really, really poorly. And it does not
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Speaker 1: look fun. There is no energy. The word I would
26:14
Speaker 1: use is cringe. This is cringe. And we have lived
26:20
Speaker 1: under this cringe woke rule since probably 2008. And people
26:26
Speaker 1: are done with it. Men especially are fed up. Males
26:29
Speaker 1: turned out more for Trump than women did for Kamala.
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Speaker 1: Year of the woman. Turns out it was the year
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Speaker 1: of the man. Do you think men, real men, are
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Speaker 1: going to be excited about the new DNC vice chair,
26:42
Speaker 1: David Hogg? Let's throw him up there, Mikey. Are you
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Speaker 1: excited about David Hogg, Mikey? Is this a man that
26:47
Speaker 1: you would follow? No. He's this little authoritarian who demanded
26:54
Speaker 1: that he get into Harvard after publicly whining about it.
26:57
Speaker 1: He used the deaths of his classmates to launch a
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Speaker 1: political career and campaign against constitutional rights. I haven't met anyone,
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Speaker 1: young or old, who feels inspired by David Hogg. Nobody.
27:11
Speaker 1: Somebody says Hogg was elected as the any gender category.
27:15
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's true, but I wouldn't be surprised.
27:19
Speaker 1: This is just more evidence that the Democrat Party deserves support.
27:24
Speaker 1: It's 31% favorability right now. Yes, it is at 31% favorability.
27:30
Speaker 1: It's one of the lowest in history. But what we're
27:34
Speaker 1: observing is deeper than political mistakes. It's deeper than just
27:38
Speaker 1: David Hogg and screeching about genders. Last night, Beyonce won
27:44
Speaker 1: Best Country Album of the Year at the Grammys. Let
27:49
Speaker 1: me repeat, Beyonce won Best Country Album of the Year
27:54
Speaker 1: of the year at the Grammys. She beat out, apparently,
27:57
Speaker 1: Chris Stapleton. Beyonce's song, Texas Hold'em, is terrible. It's not
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Speaker 1: musically interesting, nor is it thoughtful, nor is it even country.
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Speaker 1: But who decides Grammy winners? Elites in the music industry.
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Speaker 1: And clearly, the elite class no longer has the ability
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Speaker 1: to build or define civilization. Here was the message last
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Speaker 1: night from Lady Gaga.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to say tonight that trans people
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Speaker 2: are not invisible.
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Speaker 1: Trans people deserve love.
28:33
Speaker 2: The queer community deserves to be lifted up. Music is love.
28:39
Speaker 1: Thank you. People are done with this. First of all,
28:44
Speaker 1: nobody thinks trans people don't exist, transgender identifying people. But
28:50
Speaker 1: we're done with the obsession with identity. We're done with
28:53
Speaker 1: the denial of biological reality. Meanwhile, content warning, here is
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Speaker 1: how Kanye West's wife showed up to the Grammys. All right,
29:08
Speaker 1: leave a comment, you guys. Michael and I had this conversation.
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Speaker 1: Do we show you the video of what Kanye West's
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Speaker 1: wife was actually wearing at the Grammys? Or would you
29:18
Speaker 1: like to see a censored version of what this is?
29:22
Speaker 1: I'm sort of a non-censorship person. I'm like, let's actually
29:26
Speaker 1: look at what we're dealing with and let's talk about it.
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Speaker 1: Michael says, no, it's not appropriate. Let's not play the video.
29:32
Speaker 1: So let me know what you guys think. Just show it.
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Speaker 1: All right, just show it. I'm seeing. Just show it.
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Speaker 1: This is what she showed up wearing at the Grammys.
29:42
Speaker 1: Can we see the fashion?
29:44
Speaker 7: Look away if you want. Beautiful. Bianca, beautiful right here.
29:59
Speaker 1: She's completely naked. Her nipples are just out. She's got,
30:03
Speaker 1: if you're listening, a little sheer covering. And by sheer,
30:08
Speaker 1: I mean, like, there is really no covering. And it's
30:14
Speaker 1: just completely see-through. She is essentially naked. Here was Willow
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Speaker 1: Smith last night. Again, content warning, a little less abrasive
30:26
Speaker 1: than Kanye West's wife. Let's play that, Mikey. So she
30:29
Speaker 1: showed up in a jacket, a long black jacket over
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Speaker 1: an open black jacket and essentially bra and underwear. That's
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Speaker 1: all she was wearing. We'll go with that, Mikey. Charlie XCX,
30:45
Speaker 1: who is the artist that did Kamala Harris's unofficial campaign anthem,
30:48
Speaker 1: the apple tree one, she essentially started masturbating on stage.
30:53
Speaker 1: There was no fashion, no art. All this is is rebellion.
31:00
Speaker 1: Really what it is is the worship of the self
31:02
Speaker 1: over the order ordained by the divine. But if your
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Speaker 1: goal is to unravel Christian civilization, you have to first
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Speaker 1: distort what is sacred. And what is more sacred than
31:14
Speaker 1: the female body? Designed by God to be honored, veiled
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Speaker 1: in dignity, cherished in its mystery, to strip it bare
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Speaker 1: in the way that Kanye West's wife did, it's not liberation,
31:26
Speaker 1: it's actually desecration. while America has been suffering under Obama
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Speaker 1: woke-ism since 2008, the real rot actually runs a lot
31:34
Speaker 1: deeper than that. And I'm not even talking the 60s
31:37
Speaker 1: sexual revolution. I'm talking before the Weimar Republic, before the
31:42
Speaker 1: Frankfurt School. It's actually rooted in the Enlightenment era. During
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Speaker 1: the French Revolution, when the French people beheaded their king
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Speaker 1: and queen, many women dressed deliberately and modestly as a
31:54
Speaker 1: way to challenge the existing social and moral order. This
31:57
Speaker 1: is because the revolution sought to overturn not only the monarchy,
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Speaker 1: but also the traditional Catholic values that had structured French
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Speaker 1: society for centuries. It was really in many ways, the
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Speaker 1: epicenter of Christianity outside of Rome. So clothing became a
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Speaker 1: powerful subversive tool during the French revolution and the founding
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Speaker 1: fathers were painfully aware of the French revolution and the
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Speaker 1: drastic consequences of abandoning faith order and morality. While the
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Speaker 1: French revolutionaries sought to destroy the church and to overturn
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Speaker 1: centuries of tradition, the American founders laid the groundwork for
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Speaker 1: a republic rooted in ordered liberty, a balance of freedom
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Speaker 1: with social cohesion, moral responsibility, and respect for institutions. The
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Speaker 1: modern left, in many ways, blends the worst aspects of
32:50
Speaker 1: both authoritarianism and French revolution-like hedonism. Instead of building a
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Speaker 1: stable society where individuals can pursue the good, they offer
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Speaker 1: an environment where personal freedom is allowed only as long
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Speaker 1: as it doesn't challenge the prevailing cultural and political orthodoxy.
33:06
Speaker 1: This results in a fractured, chaotic society where true freedom
33:11
Speaker 1: becomes increasingly difficult to find, and people are left dissatisfied
33:16
Speaker 1: in yearning for something more grounded and meaningful. We are
33:19
Speaker 1: indeed living through a revolution, a revolutionary period, but it's different.
33:25
Speaker 1: This time, the revolution is one that is a backlash
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Speaker 1: against decades of progressive dominance. Donald Trump's embrace of nationalism
33:34
Speaker 1: and his challenge to post-World War II globalism marks a
33:37
Speaker 1: significant shift in the collective mindset. He's dismantling bureaucratic institutions
33:44
Speaker 1: and weakening the intelligence apparatus, which represents efforts really to
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Speaker 1: reclaim American sovereignty and restore the sense of order and
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Speaker 1: justice in our society. This isn't just a political revolution
33:55
Speaker 1: so much as it is a traditionalist one. It's more
33:59
Speaker 1: than just CNN's plummeting viewership, although their viewership is plummeting.
34:03
Speaker 1: We're witnessing the collapse of a long-held, of all long-held, really,
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Speaker 1: historical narratives and modern liberal social norms. More people are
34:11
Speaker 1: realizing that what was sold as progress has often turned
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Speaker 1: out to be oppressive, corrupt, and soul-crushing. So the question is,
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Speaker 1: who and what do we look to for guidance today?
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Speaker 1: as we try to make America great again. What does
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Speaker 1: that mean? And I don't think we should stop by
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Speaker 1: just looking at only the early days of the American Republic,
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Speaker 1: although that's certainly a place to start. If you go
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Speaker 1: to figures like St. Augustine, St. Catherine of Siena, the
34:36
Speaker 1: rich intellectual traditions of mysticism, scholasticism, monasticism, I think those
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Speaker 1: are going to be essential. Traditions that emphasize moral integrity, self-discipline,
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Speaker 1: an understanding of human nature that transcends materialism, those things
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Speaker 1: are going to help us rebuild society and rebuild a
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Speaker 1: society that is both free and grounded in virtue, an
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Speaker 1: America that balances autonomy with responsibility, faith with reason, and
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Speaker 1: order with liberty. And that's all I have for you
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Speaker 1: guys today. Thank you so much for tuning in. I'll
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