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The Opinionated Ogre Podcast - Trump Fascism, F*ck The Press, And Coddling Right Wing Terrorists · The Opinionated Ogre Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to episode three, three of my rinky dink little podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Today is Wednesday, May 22nd.
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SPEAKER_00: And this week I actually got the date right.
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SPEAKER_00: See, we're very professional here at the Opinionated Ogre.
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SPEAKER_00: I am thrilled at how many people have listened to the podcast so far.
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SPEAKER_00: Both episodes have had around 500 downloads apiece,
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SPEAKER_00: which is about 450 more than I was expecting for each episode.
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SPEAKER_00: So thank you for all of the support,
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SPEAKER_00: even if you're just listening for five minutes and then throwing your phone out of
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SPEAKER_00: a window.
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SPEAKER_00: I get why you might do that.
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SPEAKER_00: My daughter says I drive her insane pretty much any day.
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SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it's all good.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: Let us get into this week's Ogre Nation update.
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SPEAKER_00: So,
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SPEAKER_00: unintentionally,
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SPEAKER_00: this week's theme for the update mostly turned out to be how the press is helping
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SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump murder America.
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SPEAKER_00: So, good times ahead.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, I did not want to start off this week's show with a hair on fire story, but what the actual fuck?
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SPEAKER_00: This ad from Donald Trump with the not really all that hidden unified Reich message
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SPEAKER_00: is completely disgusting.
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SPEAKER_00: If you have not seen this yet,
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SPEAKER_00: it's a 30-second clip of how wonderful things will be during a Trump second term.
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SPEAKER_00: The economy is booming, as if that were already happening.
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SPEAKER_00: The border is closed.
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SPEAKER_00: Mass deportation begins.
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SPEAKER_00: And using clips from old newspaper, it comes up on the screen.
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SPEAKER_00: Quote, industrial strength significantly increased by the creation of a unified Reich.
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SPEAKER_00: With the word MAGA right above it.
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SPEAKER_00: The Trump campaign tried to claim that this was an accident.
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SPEAKER_00: Fuck you, you lying sacks of shit.
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SPEAKER_00: No, it wasn't.
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SPEAKER_00: It was 100% deliberate.
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SPEAKER_00: Just like every other Nazi reference Republicans have been making,
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SPEAKER_00: and they make a lot of Nazi references.
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SPEAKER_00: If it was really so easy to slip up and say,
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SPEAKER_00: whoops,
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SPEAKER_00: I did a Nazi thing,
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SPEAKER_00: you'd see it happen a lot on the left too.
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SPEAKER_00: But you don't.
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SPEAKER_00: It's always the right, and it's been happening a lot more frequently.
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SPEAKER_00: It's all dog whistles to the GOP's white nationalist base.
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SPEAKER_00: But this wasn't even a dog whistle.
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SPEAKER_00: It's an ear-shattering scream of hate, and we all heard it.
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SPEAKER_00: And you know who else heard it and immediately started masturbating?
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SPEAKER_00: The KKK.
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SPEAKER_00: neo-Nazis,
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SPEAKER_00: the Proud Boys,
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SPEAKER_00: all of the white nationalist militias we're supposed to keep pretending don't exist,
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SPEAKER_00: even as they march in the streets begging for the chance to be Trump's brown shirts.
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SPEAKER_00: The Biden-Harris campaign put out the following statement after Trump took 19 hours to pull the ad down.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump thinks Adolf Hitler did,
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SPEAKER_00: quote,
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SPEAKER_00: some good things that neo-Nazis who chant Jews will not replace us are very fine
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SPEAKER_00: people and now dreams of a unified Reich if he wins.
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SPEAKER_00: He has called the heroes who died in the war against tyranny suckers and losers.
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SPEAKER_00: He echoes the words of fascists and promises a bloodbath and possible violence when he loses in November.
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SPEAKER_00: Not if, when.
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SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump posting a unified Reich video is part of a pattern of his praise for
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SPEAKER_00: dictators and echoing anti-Semitic tropes.
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SPEAKER_00: He's a threat to our democracy,
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SPEAKER_00: and Americans must reject him and stand up for our democracy this November.
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SPEAKER_00: That is a fantastic response, and that's kind of what the press should be doing too, but they don't.
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SPEAKER_00: They don't want to because that would be biased, which, you know, of course it's biased.
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SPEAKER_00: Why call a fascist a fascist?
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SPEAKER_00: Now, Biden also put out a short video.
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SPEAKER_00: It's you know, it's on YouTube.
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SPEAKER_00: It's on.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, it's all over the place.
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SPEAKER_00: And this is what that went like.
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SPEAKER_01: What's next for America?
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SPEAKER_01: This on his official account.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: A unified Reich.
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SPEAKER_01: That's Hitler's language.
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SPEAKER_01: That's not America's.
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SPEAKER_01: He cares about holding on to power.
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SPEAKER_01: I care about you.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that he said it.
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SPEAKER_00: I love that he said, that's Hitler's language.
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SPEAKER_00: And just making it super, super clear.
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SPEAKER_00: This is Nazi shit.
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SPEAKER_00: This is just Nazi shit.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm tired of people dancing around it and saying, well, you know, we don't know if he's a fascist.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't really know if he's aping Hitler.
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SPEAKER_00: It's like, no, he's directly aping Hitler.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, amazingly, the press barely acknowledged this story.
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SPEAKER_00: Was it on the front page?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: Above the fold?
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SPEAKER_00: Definitely not.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be biased.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump literally put an ad with Nazi shit in it, and the press just kind of went, eh, again.
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SPEAKER_00: Washington Post had just three articles with headlines that mentioned unified right,
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SPEAKER_00: or just the word right at all.
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SPEAKER_00: The New York Times had just one.
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SPEAKER_00: One, I will never stop repeating this.
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SPEAKER_00: These are two of the papers that published over 80 articles in three days about
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SPEAKER_00: Biden's age based on the statement of a clearly biased Republican trying to score
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SPEAKER_00: political points.
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SPEAKER_00: The New York Times by itself keeps throwing temper tantrums because President Joe
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SPEAKER_00: Biden won't take them to the fucking prom.
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SPEAKER_00: But Donald Trump going full Nazi?
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SPEAKER_00: Meh.
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SPEAKER_00: Not worth getting excited about.
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SPEAKER_00: The press is putting its thumb on the scale so hard for Trump, it's obscene.
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SPEAKER_00: That brings us to our next story.
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SPEAKER_00: Again, this is the theme for the day.
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SPEAKER_00: The press.
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SPEAKER_00: Politico,
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SPEAKER_00: the already right-wing news site pushed further into extremism by its new far-right owners,
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SPEAKER_00: actually wrote this in an article about Trump's court case.
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SPEAKER_00: This is the quote.
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SPEAKER_00: It's impossible to know exactly how Trump will behave if he returns to office.
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SPEAKER_00: By all accounts,
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SPEAKER_00: Trump has professionalized his 2024 campaign,
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SPEAKER_00: suggesting he learned something from his slapdashed first campaign and his 2020
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SPEAKER_00: re-election loss.
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SPEAKER_00: The question is whether his views on presidential prerogatives have changed or
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SPEAKER_00: whether he intends to be guided by loftier principles.
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SPEAKER_00: Are you kidding me?
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SPEAKER_00: The person who wrote this, Calder McHugh, is either terminally stupid or breathtakingly dishonest.
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SPEAKER_00: And working for Politico suggests that both could be true at the same time.
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SPEAKER_00: There is exactly nothing Trump has said or done in the three and a half years since
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SPEAKER_00: he was voted out of office that suggests he has learned anything except how to be a
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SPEAKER_00: better monster and grifter.
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SPEAKER_00: His campaign is still shit,
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SPEAKER_00: hemorrhaging money to pay for his lawyers,
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SPEAKER_00: and leaving the state parties and down-ballot candidates without leadership or money.
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SPEAKER_00: When Trump loses in November,
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SPEAKER_00: he's going to lead the GOP to a historic massacre,
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SPEAKER_00: and an unusually large amount of the blame will be laid at his feet.
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SPEAKER_00: Professional?
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SPEAKER_00: Professional at stealing tens of millions of dollars, maybe.
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SPEAKER_00: And I am looking forward to Lara Trump,
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SPEAKER_00: Trump's daughter-in-law,
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SPEAKER_00: being arrested for embezzlement in a few years after she's ousted from the RNC.
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SPEAKER_00: So, as for the rest of it, loftier principles?
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SPEAKER_00: What the fuck is McHugh even talking about?
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SPEAKER_00: What loftier principles?
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SPEAKER_00: Dictator for a day?
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SPEAKER_00: Suspending the Constitution?
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SPEAKER_00: Selling his office for a billion dollars?
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SPEAKER_00: Using the Department of Justice to arrest his political enemies?
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SPEAKER_00: How about opening concentration camps and murdering millions?
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SPEAKER_00: Or kicking off World War III by allowing Russia to invade Europe?
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SPEAKER_00: These are all things Trump has explicitly said he will do immediately upon becoming emperor for life.
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SPEAKER_00: What loftier principles could you possibly think Trump would adhere to?
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SPEAKER_00: The thing about gaslighting is that it only works if people don't know they're being gaslit.
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SPEAKER_00: This, this is so sloppy and ham-handed, it's fucking insulting.
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SPEAKER_00: And Politico can kiss my entire ass.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, we're going to move on.
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SPEAKER_00: And again, continuing today's theme of what the fuck is the press doing?
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SPEAKER_00: Let's take a look at Kevin Drum's post of the Washington Post is very, very wrong about the economy.
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SPEAKER_00: I touched on this today in today's post, today being Wednesday.
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SPEAKER_00: But it's worth going over again because it was so egregious.
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SPEAKER_00: This is from Drum.
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SPEAKER_00: The Washington Post reports today that consumer sentiment softened this month.
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SPEAKER_00: That's true enough, but they also say this, and this is from the Washington Post.
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SPEAKER_00: That pessimism is altering consumers' spending habits.
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SPEAKER_00: McDonald's,
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SPEAKER_00: Home Depot,
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SPEAKER_00: Under Armour,
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SPEAKER_00: and Starbucks all recently reported disappointing earnings as people cut back on
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SPEAKER_00: fast food,
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SPEAKER_00: kitchen renovations,
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SPEAKER_00: sneakers,
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SPEAKER_00: and afternoon lattes.
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SPEAKER_00: Employers are adding fewer jobs,
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SPEAKER_00: wage growth has decelerated,
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SPEAKER_00: and Americans are holding off on big purchases like homes,
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SPEAKER_00: cars,
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SPEAKER_00: and washing machines.
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SPEAKER_00: Back to drum.
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SPEAKER_00: Come on, folks.
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SPEAKER_00: Do we have to keep doing this?
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SPEAKER_00: Nobody has to guess at consumer buying habits by looking at fast food,
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SPEAKER_00: kitchen renovation,
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SPEAKER_00: sneakers,
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SPEAKER_00: and afternoon lattes.
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SPEAKER_00: Why?
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SPEAKER_00: Because every month the government publishes a nice, tidy summary of all consumer spending.
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SPEAKER_00: Drum includes a chart that shows consumer spending from January 2022 to March of
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SPEAKER_00: this year,
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SPEAKER_00: which is like that's when they have the most recent data.
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SPEAKER_00: There are a few minor dips and a few minor spikes, but the trend is an unmistakable upwards curve.
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SPEAKER_00: Drum then goes to point out that housing sales are up, car sales are up, consumer sentiment is up.
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SPEAKER_00: All of this data points to the exact opposite conclusion the Washington Post article draws.
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SPEAKER_00: So what the hell are they doing?
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SPEAKER_00: They're doing what the press has been doing for over three years now,
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SPEAKER_00: trying to convince the public that the economy is actually terrible and on the
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SPEAKER_00: brink of recession.
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SPEAKER_00: It's insanity that they're still doing this.
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SPEAKER_00: The fact that we're in the middle of the strongest economic boom since World War II,
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SPEAKER_00: and they're still trying to sell this narrative that the economy is not good.
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SPEAKER_00: If you want to dig deeper into this, I would suggest reading today's article on my newsletter called
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SPEAKER_00: Again, Wednesday, whenever you're listening to this, this was Wednesday's article.
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SPEAKER_00: These people are actively working to help Trump.
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SPEAKER_00: And I am so very, very over it.
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SPEAKER_00: Moving on.
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SPEAKER_00: Just to wrap up this section of the podcast on a positive note after a parade of blah,
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SPEAKER_00: here's a fun story.
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SPEAKER_00: True Social,
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SPEAKER_00: Donald Trump's shitty Twitter ripoff,
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SPEAKER_00: posted its first quarter numbers of the year,
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SPEAKER_00: and they are amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: And by amazing, I mean amazingly bad.
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SPEAKER_00: Like, holy shit, wow, are they terrible.
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SPEAKER_00: This is from Variety.
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SPEAKER_00: Trump Media and Technology Group, the company affiliated with former U.S.
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SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump that operates TruSocial,
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SPEAKER_00: reported $770,500 in revenue for the first quarter of 2024.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, three quarters of a million dollars in revenue, I guess.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, there's more.
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SPEAKER_00: And a net loss of $327.6 billion.
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SPEAKER_00: that's one third of a billion dollars set on fire.
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SPEAKER_00: The fact that the stock is still trading for more than a few pennies tells me that
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SPEAKER_00: it's being propped up by foreign investors as a way to put money in Trump's pocket
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SPEAKER_00: as payment for services rendered.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no way that this stock is doing even remotely well.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, last I looked, it was floating around like,
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SPEAKER_00: $40, I think.
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SPEAKER_00: There's no way it's doing that well on its own.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, actually, hold on.
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SPEAKER_00: I got it on screen.
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SPEAKER_00: Let me take a look here.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
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SPEAKER_00: La, la, la, la, la.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: It's currently at $45.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, that's way down from where it started, but it's still...
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SPEAKER_00: not a terrible stock, but this is a company that is just awful.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean,
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SPEAKER_00: they're not making any money whatsoever and they're hemorrhaging and they don't
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SPEAKER_00: have a business plan.
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SPEAKER_00: It's not like they have some thing in the future where they're going to turn a
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SPEAKER_00: profit and it's obvious that they're going to start.
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SPEAKER_00: No, there's nothing here.
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SPEAKER_00: which means that stock is being propped up by foreign countries pumping money into
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SPEAKER_00: it because that money is going to go into Trump's pocket.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe someone should investigate that.
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SPEAKER_00: Just saying.
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SPEAKER_00: Now,
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SPEAKER_00: once Trump cashes out in a few months,
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SPEAKER_00: that stock is going to drop faster than Donny Boy's eyelids while he's taking his
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SPEAKER_00: mid-morning nap in court.
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SPEAKER_00: Just as a quick aside,
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SPEAKER_00: Trump hasn't continued to fall asleep almost every single day of his case.
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SPEAKER_00: Sometimes he just nods off a little bit, but sometimes he's passed out completely, like just completely.
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SPEAKER_00: Totally dead to the world.
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SPEAKER_00: At one point, he was so asleep, his head was all the way back.
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SPEAKER_00: He would be staring at the ceiling if his eyes were open.
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SPEAKER_00: He was that asleep.
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SPEAKER_00: His lawyers have given up trying to keep him awake.
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SPEAKER_00: That's how much he falls asleep in court.
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SPEAKER_00: It's really important to remember that the press lost its fucking mind for several
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SPEAKER_00: months about Joe Biden's age and how he didn't have the stamina for the job because
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SPEAKER_00: he was so old.
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SPEAKER_00: Have you seen any front page articles about Trump being unable to stay awake?
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: The press just forgot how important it was just 10 seconds ago for the president to have stamina.
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SPEAKER_00: How fucking convenient.
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SPEAKER_00: Anyway.
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SPEAKER_00: I really, really want as many maggots to invest their life savings in true social.
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SPEAKER_00: Please do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Take your hard-earned savings,
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SPEAKER_00: your retirement money,
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SPEAKER_00: and invest it in your faith in Donald Trump and his wonderful,
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SPEAKER_00: wonderful,
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SPEAKER_00: shitty Twitter ripoff.
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SPEAKER_00: Self-inflicted misery for Republicans is the best kind.
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SPEAKER_00: All right,
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SPEAKER_00: we have now come to the end of the Ogre Nation update,
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SPEAKER_00: and it is time to move on to the Ogre Opinion.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the part of the show where I focus on a single story and dig a little deeper.
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SPEAKER_00: This week's topic,
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SPEAKER_00: picked by you,
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SPEAKER_00: my alarmingly brilliant audience,
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SPEAKER_00: is about America's problem coddling right-wing terrorism.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know if you're aware of this, but America has a domestic terrorism problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Always has, probably always will.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of it's from radicalized Islamists.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of it is from other extremist identity groups.
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SPEAKER_00: A very little bit of it is from the left.
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SPEAKER_00: But the vast overwhelming majority is from the far right.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, technically, radicalized Muslims are far right on the political spectrum.
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SPEAKER_00: But in the United States, would we say far right?
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SPEAKER_00: We're talking about,
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SPEAKER_00: and we mentioned them before,
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SPEAKER_00: the KKK,
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SPEAKER_00: the neo-Nazis,
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SPEAKER_00: white nationalist militias like the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers,
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SPEAKER_00: fascists like the Proud Boys,
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SPEAKER_00: the mobs of white men who lynched thousands of black people throughout the South.
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SPEAKER_00: The other mobs of white men who burned Black communities to ash because they were
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SPEAKER_00: jealous of their success and because they fucking well could.
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SPEAKER_00: The other,
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SPEAKER_00: other mobs of white men who stormed state capitals with their guns,
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SPEAKER_00: threatened to kill Democrats,
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SPEAKER_00: and went home that night without a single police officer cracking a single skull.
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SPEAKER_00: The other, other mobs.
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SPEAKER_00: Other mob of white men and women who attacked the Capitol on January 6th beat cops unconscious,
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SPEAKER_00: smeared shit on the walls,
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SPEAKER_00: left several dead bodies in their wake,
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SPEAKER_00: and were allowed to go home while the entire nation watched.
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SPEAKER_00: That's the kind of domestic terrorism problem America has been dealing with for literally centuries.
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SPEAKER_00: We, as a nation, really, really do not like to hold this kind of terrorism accountable.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't even like to talk about it.
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SPEAKER_00: We love to use euphemisms like lone wolf and talk about how video games and social
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SPEAKER_00: media are to blame because holding right-wing terrorism accountable means holding
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SPEAKER_00: white conservative men accountable.
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SPEAKER_00: And America has a grand tradition of never fucking doing that.
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SPEAKER_00: In the aftermath of the Civil War,
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SPEAKER_00: We couldn't hang every Confederate soldier as the treasonous murdering piece of shit that they were.
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SPEAKER_00: There were simply too many.
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SPEAKER_00: And that kind of mass murder is not how you end a civil war and rebuild a democracy.
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SPEAKER_00: But we didn't hang their leaders either.
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SPEAKER_00: or even put them in prison for the rest of their lives.
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SPEAKER_00: Jefferson fucking Davis, the president of the Confederacy, spent two whole years in prison.
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SPEAKER_00: And then he got to spend years rehabilitating his reputation and helping to create
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SPEAKER_00: the lie that the Civil War was not about slavery.
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SPEAKER_00: Fuck that asshole.
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SPEAKER_00: He should have swung from a rope until his neck snapped.
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SPEAKER_00: But this is what America has done time and time again.
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SPEAKER_00: It took years to put down the KKK.
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SPEAKER_00: And then it took years to put them down a second time when they reemerged.
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SPEAKER_00: We let Jim Crow run unobstructed for decades.
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SPEAKER_00: Lynchings?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my fucking God.
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SPEAKER_00: I've written about this so many times because, A, I still can't believe it's real.
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SPEAKER_00: And B, people never quite seem to understand the mindset necessary to do this.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not talking about the lynchings themselves.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm talking about the fact that white men were so unafraid of being punished for
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SPEAKER_00: lynchings that they took pictures of themselves doing it.
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SPEAKER_00: Lynchings were family entertainment.
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SPEAKER_00: People bought their fucking kids to watch black men being tortured and then burnt alive.
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SPEAKER_00: Take a few pictures for the photo album.
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SPEAKER_00: Smile for the fucking camera, kids.
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SPEAKER_00: And why not?
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SPEAKER_00: They're not really people and no one will ever be arrested or spend a single day in jail for it.
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SPEAKER_00: Hell.
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SPEAKER_00: A lot of the time, the police helped.
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SPEAKER_00: In the Tulsa,
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SPEAKER_00: Oklahoma race massacre,
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SPEAKER_00: the police,
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SPEAKER_00: quote-unquote,
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SPEAKER_00: deputized civilians,
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SPEAKER_00: telling them to,
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SPEAKER_00: again,
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SPEAKER_00: quote-unquote,
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SPEAKER_00: get a gun and get a N-word.
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SPEAKER_00: The police hopped in planes flown by deputized citizens to shoot black people from
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SPEAKER_00: the air and drop firebombs on buildings,
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SPEAKER_00: giving Tulsa the dubious distinction of being the first American city to suffer
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SPEAKER_00: from aerial bombardment.
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SPEAKER_00: Tulsa was just one of over a dozen black communities put to the torch by white mobs.
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SPEAKER_00: Very few, if any, of the murderers saw the inside of a jail cell.
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SPEAKER_00: We don't like to hold white, far-right domestic terrorists accountable.
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SPEAKER_00: Fast forward a few decades, or more than a few decades, and we have a growing militia movement.
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SPEAKER_00: The FBI has known about them since the 90s, and they did nothing.
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SPEAKER_00: A heavily armed and violent racist anti-government movement setting up terrorist cells,
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SPEAKER_00: and the FBI looked the other way.
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SPEAKER_00: We do not like to hold right-wing terrorists accountable.
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SPEAKER_00: After 9-11, we had a great excuse not to look too closely at right-wing terrorism.
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SPEAKER_00: There were Muslim terrorists everywhere.
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SPEAKER_00: Except there weren't.
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SPEAKER_00: While we spent billions to spy on every mosque in the country looking for a
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SPEAKER_00: terrorist network that didn't exist,
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SPEAKER_00: we kept ignoring the growing militia network right in front of us.
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SPEAKER_00: When Obama became president,
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SPEAKER_00: the number of militias doubled and then doubled again as totally not racist white
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SPEAKER_00: men flocked to grab their guns and declare their hatred of the government.
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SPEAKER_00: But not because they were racist.
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SPEAKER_00: No siree, Bob.
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SPEAKER_00: One of these groups, the Oath Keepers, caught my attention way back in the day.
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SPEAKER_00: They were ex-military and ex-law enforcement,
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SPEAKER_00: and they swore on a stack of Bibles a mile high that they were patriots only
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SPEAKER_00: interested in defending the Constitution against government overreach and tyranny.
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SPEAKER_00: To say I was suspicious is an understatement.
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SPEAKER_00: To my utter lack of surprise,
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SPEAKER_00: when Trump was elected and immediately started to shit on the Constitution and
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SPEAKER_00: abused the civil rights of everyone he hated,
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SPEAKER_00: the Oath Keepers were nowhere to be found.
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SPEAKER_00: No protests, no outrage, no Oath Keeping.
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SPEAKER_00: And wouldn't you know it,
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SPEAKER_00: they were there on January 6th,
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SPEAKER_00: ready to overthrow the government of the United States.
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SPEAKER_00: Now, after all of this, here's the big question.
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SPEAKER_00: why do we coddle right-wing terrorists?
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SPEAKER_00: We don't coddle any other group that we call terrorists, even if that group is entirely peaceful.
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SPEAKER_00: The FBI foamed at the mouth over Black Lives Matter.
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SPEAKER_00: This was long before the violence of the George Floyd protests,
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SPEAKER_00: which,
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SPEAKER_00: let's not kid ourselves,
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SPEAKER_00: were not actually caused.
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SPEAKER_00: The violence was not actually caused by Black Lives Matter.
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SPEAKER_00: But still, the FBI went
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SPEAKER_00: fucking crazy and infiltrated Black Lives Matter chapters all over the country.
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SPEAKER_00: Occupy Wall Street, the FBI was all up in that as well.
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SPEAKER_00: And those were a bunch of college kids smoking pot and banging drums.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't give a shit what the papers say.
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SPEAKER_00: I was there as a Dallas reporter when that was happening.
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SPEAKER_00: I was living in New York.
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SPEAKER_00: I was at Zuccotti Park in Manhattan.
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SPEAKER_00: It was clean.
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SPEAKER_00: There was no violence.
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SPEAKER_00: There was no screaming lunatics.
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SPEAKER_00: Definitely no weapons.
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SPEAKER_00: But the FBI was absolutely freaked out.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, every single left-wing protest movement freaks out the FBI.
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SPEAKER_00: But not right-wing protest movements.
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SPEAKER_00: And those are the ones that gave off more violence than all the left-wing protest movements combined.
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SPEAKER_00: And if the FBI had two agents assigned to keep an eye on the Tea Party,
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SPEAKER_00: that's two more than I would have guessed.
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SPEAKER_00: The Proud Boys, were they even under surveillance before January 6th?
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SPEAKER_00: What about all the neo-Nazi groups popping up in the last decade?
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SPEAKER_00: Never mind the ones before that.
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SPEAKER_00: Are they being infiltrated nearly as much as Black Lives Matter was?
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SPEAKER_00: Unlikely,
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SPEAKER_00: although they're no longer being as aggressively ignored like they were in the 90s
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SPEAKER_00: up until a few years ago.
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SPEAKER_00: So, I mean, that's an improvement, but still.
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SPEAKER_00: So why?
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SPEAKER_00: Why are we always so quick to overlook domestic terrorism from the right?
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SPEAKER_00: I have a theory and I wrote about it a few years ago.
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SPEAKER_00: So far, no one has shot it down or even come up with a better theory.
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SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to run it past you now.
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SPEAKER_00: We ignore right-wing terrorism because right-wing terrorism does not threaten the
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SPEAKER_00: status quo of white supremacy.
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SPEAKER_00: In fact, right-wing terrorism reinforces that status quo.
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SPEAKER_00: When racist white men bomb an abortion clinic or shoot up a synagogue,
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SPEAKER_00: it's terrible,
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SPEAKER_00: but it doesn't challenge the power structure of the United States.
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SPEAKER_00: It impacts those who already have less power.
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SPEAKER_00: When the KKK sets a black church on fire or the Proud Boys attack a pride parade,
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SPEAKER_00: nothing in the United States changes on the fundamental level.
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SPEAKER_00: Groups that have lived in fear for generations continue to live in fear.
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SPEAKER_00: Those who hate those groups get to keep on hating them without consequence.
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SPEAKER_00: The status quo is maintained and reinforced.
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SPEAKER_00: This country belongs to white men, white Christian men, heterosexual white Christian men.
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SPEAKER_00: But when the left performs protest movements, that's dangerous.
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SPEAKER_00: That challenges how things are.
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SPEAKER_00: Black Lives Matter is a direct challenge to the power of the police.
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SPEAKER_00: Occupy Wall Street was a direct challenge and a threat to the rich.
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SPEAKER_00: Whatever you think of the college campus protests,
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SPEAKER_00: allowing them to continue risks those groups congealing into a larger protest
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SPEAKER_00: movement against other things,
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SPEAKER_00: things that are more threatening to the status quo than being anti-Israeli.
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SPEAKER_00: Why do you think the police keep being sent in to crack skulls when white kids are
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SPEAKER_00: allowed to riot after basketball games with zero consequences?
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SPEAKER_00: It's a preemptive move before something dangerous forms.
27:56
SPEAKER_00: dangerous to who exactly?
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SPEAKER_00: Not Israel,
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SPEAKER_00: but the status quo of white male power,
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SPEAKER_00: that would be threatened because those groups would definitely move on to something
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SPEAKER_00: that would threaten the white male power status quo.
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SPEAKER_00: That's why dozens of armed white men can storm a Capitol building and the press
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SPEAKER_00: will marvel at their first and second amendment right to threaten to murder Democrats.
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SPEAKER_00: But a bunch of idiot college kids screeching anti-Semitism is the greatest threat
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SPEAKER_00: to democracy of all time.
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SPEAKER_00: Not, however, Nazis marching in the street and screeching anti-Semitism.
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SPEAKER_00: They have to be protected by the police because freedom.
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SPEAKER_00: The college kids, though, they gots to go.
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SPEAKER_00: See the difference there?
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SPEAKER_00: One group.
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SPEAKER_00: Big problem.
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SPEAKER_00: The other group, the Nazis, oh, well, you know, it's their right to scream violence.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, uh-huh.
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SPEAKER_00: As long as the right-wing terrorism upholds white power,
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SPEAKER_00: they will be protected by a system that defends white power.
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SPEAKER_00: Remember, when, oh, God, what was that little bastard's name?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, Rittenhouse.
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SPEAKER_00: When Rittenhouse showed up, he wasn't the only one.
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SPEAKER_00: There were several other people who were running around with guns and the police
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SPEAKER_00: helped them because they were there to maintain white power.
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SPEAKER_00: If a bunch of black people had showed up with guns, the police would have lost their minds.
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SPEAKER_00: But if you're a white man and you're there to defend property, blah, blah,
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SPEAKER_00: The police are more than fine with you going full vigilante.
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SPEAKER_00: They'll welcome you with open arms.
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SPEAKER_00: So,
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SPEAKER_00: you know,
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SPEAKER_00: anyway,
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SPEAKER_00: as I was saying,
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SPEAKER_00: as long as right-wing terrorism upholds white power,
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SPEAKER_00: they will be protected by a system that defends white power.
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SPEAKER_00: It's only when the system is not quite so protective of white power anymore,
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SPEAKER_00: like when a certain President Biden told the FBI to stomp out domestic terrorism
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SPEAKER_00: and he didn't give a shit what color it was,
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SPEAKER_00: that the FBI will target right-wing threats with the appropriate amount of vigor.
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SPEAKER_00: That's something to keep in mind this November.
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SPEAKER_00: If Trump gets back into power,
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SPEAKER_00: he will shut all of that down in two seconds flat,
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SPEAKER_00: and the Nazis will be free to murder and kill as many people as they want.
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SPEAKER_00: True brown shirts at last.
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SPEAKER_00: The paramilitary arm of Trump's fascist government.
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SPEAKER_00: Your other choice is to keep Biden in office and to continue hunting down and
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SPEAKER_00: eliminating domestic terrorists in the United States.
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SPEAKER_00: And the FBI is starting to do that now because they have been instructed to do so.
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SPEAKER_00: So now they have created an anti-government extremist campaign.
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SPEAKER_00: division,
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SPEAKER_00: which has completely freaked out Republicans who are screaming that it's political harassment,
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SPEAKER_00: which of course begs the question,
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SPEAKER_00: well,
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SPEAKER_00: if you're saying that anti-government extremists are all Republicans,
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SPEAKER_00: whose problem is that?
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SPEAKER_00: They're anti-government extremists.
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SPEAKER_00: If they're all on the right, well, that sounds like a you problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Just because you guys are violent terrorists doesn't mean that we just have to sit
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SPEAKER_00: back and let it happen.
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SPEAKER_00: Maybe try not being violent terrorists.
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SPEAKER_00: So what are you going to do?
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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