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Trump vs. China: It’s On (Ep.178) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongino Report Early Edition. Trump
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  Speaker 1: follows through with his 104% China tariff to force economic
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  Speaker 1: surrender and China hits back. Beijing throws a tantrum over
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  Speaker 1: a J.D. Vance interview. Trump revives clean coal. A CIA
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  Speaker 1: woman now who mandated the experimental COVID vax on military
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  Speaker 1: members is fired. Mark Zuckerberg pretends to be MAGA in
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  Speaker 1: order to dodge his antitrust trial. UC Davis plots to
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  Speaker 1: sneak a transgender athlete onto a women's team.
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  Speaker 2: Black leftists cheer.
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  Speaker 1: For the murder of a slain white high schooler. The
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  Speaker 1: majority of leftists say that killing Trump is apparently justified.
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  Speaker 1: TikTok censors a video exposing Marxist city murals. And the
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  Speaker 1: left flips out over Trump ordering beautiful classical federal architecture
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  Speaker 1: to be restored.
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  Speaker 2: All this on Bongina Report, early edition.
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  Speaker 3: The President was asked and answered this yesterday. He said
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  Speaker 3: he's not considering an extension or a delay. I spoke
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  Speaker 3: to him before this briefing. That was not his mindset.
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  Speaker 3: He expects that these tariffs are going to go into effect.
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  Speaker 3: And you said something very important, Elena, in your question.
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  Speaker 3: You said the President has captivated the attention of the world.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely he has. And it's about time we have a
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  Speaker 3: President in the Oval Office who is putting the world
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  Speaker 3: on notice and is putting the American people first and, again,
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  Speaker 3: is using the leverage of the United States to negotiate
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  Speaker 3: good trade deals.
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  Speaker 4: I just have a question.
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  Speaker 1: Press Secretary Caroline Leavitt confirmed yesterday that Trump is not
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  Speaker 1: considering a tariff delay after slapping a 104% tariff on China.
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  Speaker 1: She said Trump is putting the world on notice and
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  Speaker 1: the American people first.
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  Speaker 2: Beijing? They flew right past the.
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  Speaker 1: Noon deadline to withdraw retaliatory import taxes. And the new
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  Speaker 1: tariffs went into effect this morning. at 12.01 a.m., bringing
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  Speaker 1: the total tariffs on all goods from China to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: At 104%.
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  Speaker 1: And as of just the last hour, China has announced
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  Speaker 1: new tariffs on the U.S., 84% in response. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if we have that article, Mikey. It literally just happened,
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  Speaker 1: like just in the last hour. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about why China is escalating in a moment. But first,
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  Speaker 1: understand that this is going to hurt China a lot
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  Speaker 1: more than it's going to hurt us. This has been
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  Speaker 1: the correct assertion being made by the Trump admin, that
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  Speaker 1: China is going to hurt more. China runs a trade surplus.
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  Speaker 1: They sell way more than they buy, and they can't
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  Speaker 1: win a tariff battle if they depend on exports. So
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  Speaker 1: China is in a very weak position in this back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. By shielding American industries and forcing domestic production,
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  Speaker 1: Trump is cornering Beijing, making them choose between losing exports
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  Speaker 1: or caving to U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Demands.
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  Speaker 1: And for a regime built on exports, the pressure only
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  Speaker 1: is going to get worse. That said, China may not
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  Speaker 1: be aiming for a quick win. This escalation could be
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  Speaker 1: a sign that China is prepping for a long, grinding
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  Speaker 1: conflict they and frankly many in Washington see as inevitable
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  Speaker 1: between the United States and China. By escalating slowly now,
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  Speaker 1: It could mean that China is testing America's resilience. China
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  Speaker 1: spent the last 25 years weaving itself into the U.S. economy.
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  Speaker 1: And China may think that America's dependence on Chinese trade
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  Speaker 1: and manufacturing will eventually sap our strength. This isn't a
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  Speaker 1: new strategy. In the early Middle Ages, Venice started as
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  Speaker 1: a small and vulnerable trading partner of Byzantium. Byzantium granted
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  Speaker 1: Venice special trade privileges. thinking it would enrich and stabilize
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  Speaker 1: the empire. But instead, Venice grew rich, powerful, and crucially,
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  Speaker 1: indispensable to Byzantine commerce. And over time, the Venetians embedded
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  Speaker 1: themselves so deeply into Byzantine affairs that when the empire weakened,
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  Speaker 1: they turned on their benefactor. And they actually backed the
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  Speaker 1: sack of Constantinople in 1204. China is following the same
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  Speaker 1: playbook here. They rose by exploiting our markets. made America
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  Speaker 1: dependent on their cheap goods and manufacturing. And now that
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  Speaker 1: America is weakened by debt, division, and de-industrialization, they're positioning
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  Speaker 1: to pivot from partner to predator. Again, this is a
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  Speaker 1: conflict that Washington and China have all seen coming. The
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  Speaker 1: bottom line is China isn't just fighting a trade war.
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  Speaker 1: They're probably playing the long Venetian game, betting that they
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  Speaker 1: can just outlast and ultimately overcome the U.S., even though
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  Speaker 1: this is going to be very painful for them as
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  Speaker 1: a trade surplus country. And for America, I would say
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  Speaker 1: it's better late than never. China's long game is only
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  Speaker 1: more likely to succeed the longer that we stay on
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  Speaker 1: this path. If we don't re-industrialize and stop depending on
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  Speaker 1: our enemy for survival, we will not survive.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, this whole.
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  Speaker 1: Mess traces back to a man named Bill Clinton, who,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, should probably be in jail because of
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  Speaker 1: his role on the Jeffrey Epstein Island. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: why he's being awarded and honored by Democrats still.
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  Speaker 2: To this day.
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  Speaker 1: But if we're going to talk about why everybody should
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  Speaker 1: be really angry at Bill Clinton, why the Bill Clinton
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  Speaker 1: legacy is so horrendous, despite Jeffrey Epstein. Don't even talk
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  Speaker 1: about Jeffrey Epstein. Don't even talk about what he did
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  Speaker 1: in the Oval Office. If you ask Trump, he has
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  Speaker 1: a lot to say about it. But in 2001, Bill
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  Speaker 1: Clinton pushed for China's entry into the World Trade Organization,
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  Speaker 1: and he promised that it would benefit America. He said
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  Speaker 1: China would open its markets, buy American products, and play fair.
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  Speaker 1: Let's take a listen to what Bill Clinton promised would happen.
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  Speaker 5: The WTO agreement will move China in the right direction.
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  Speaker 5: It will advance the goals America has worked for in
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  Speaker 5: China for the past three decades. And, of course, it
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  Speaker 5: will advance our own economic interests. Economically, this agreement is
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  Speaker 5: the equivalent of a one-way street. It requires China to
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  Speaker 5: open its markets with a fifth of the world's population,
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  Speaker 5: potentially the biggest markets in the world. to both our
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  Speaker 5: products and services in unprecedented new ways. All we do
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  Speaker 5: is to agree to maintain the present access which China enjoys.
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  Speaker 5: Chinese tariffs from telecommunications products to automobiles to agriculture will
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  Speaker 5: fall by half or more over just five years. For
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  Speaker 5: the first time, our companies will be able to sell
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  Speaker 5: and distribute products in China made by workers here in
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  Speaker 5: America without being forced to relocate manufacturing to China, sell
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  Speaker 5: through the Chinese government, or transfer valuable technology for the
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  Speaker 5: first time. We'll be able to export products without exporting jobs.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds great, doesn't it?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that's such a rosy, wonderful promise from Bill Clinton.
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  Speaker 2: What's the verdict here?
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  Speaker 1: Bill Clinton is an idiot who gutted American industry more
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  Speaker 1: than arguably any living person today. Instead of opening up,
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  Speaker 1: China used World Trade Organization membership to flood the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: With cheap goods while.
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  Speaker 1: Keeping their own market closed. American companies didn't export products
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  Speaker 1: to China. They exported their factories. Millions of good-paying jobs
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  Speaker 1: vanished in this country. Towns across America hollowed out.
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  Speaker 2: China got rich.
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  Speaker 1: America got weak because Bill Clinton believed the fantasy that
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  Speaker 1: China would.
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  Speaker 2: Play fair when they really always play for keeps.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we're going to keep talking about trade and
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  Speaker 1: China absurdly attacking our vice president.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go anywhere. Dan, what's going on?
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  Speaker 1: He is so articulate. Every time this man opens his mouth,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just impressed. He is such a great advocate for
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  Speaker 1: this admin, a wonderful advocate for this admin. Last week,
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  Speaker 1: he laid out the situation perfectly. China is very unhappy
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  Speaker 1: with what J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vann said. But first, just take a listen to what J.D.
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  Speaker 2: said last week.
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  Speaker 6: I think it's useful for all of us to step
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  Speaker 6: back and ask ourselves, what has the globalist economy gotten
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  Speaker 6: the United States of America? And the answer is fundamentally
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  Speaker 6: it's based on two principles, incurring a huge amount of
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  Speaker 6: debt to buy things that other countries make for us.
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  Speaker 2: And to make it a little bit more crystal clear, we.
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  Speaker 6: Borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things those
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  Speaker 6: Chinese peasants manufacture. That is not a recipe for economic prosperity.
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  Speaker 6: It's not a recipe for low prices, and it's not
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  Speaker 6: a recipe for good jobs in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 6: For 40 years, we have gone down that pathway. We've
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  Speaker 6: seen closing factories. We've seen rising inflation. We've seen the
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  Speaker 6: cost of housing so high that most Americans can't afford
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  Speaker 6: to buy a home right now. President Trump is taking
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  Speaker 6: this economy in a different direction. He ran on that.
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  Speaker 6: He promised it, and now he's delivering.
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  Speaker 7: Okay.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, J.D.
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  Speaker 1: Vance, ever sharp, wonderfully articulated. China did not like that soundbite.
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  Speaker 1: Because yesterday, the spokesperson for the Chinese foreign ministry fired back.
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  Speaker 1: And they are very angry because of JD talking, I guess,
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  Speaker 1: about the Chinese peasants. They said that they were surprised
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  Speaker 1: and sad to hear Vance's ignorant and impolite words.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously, this was said in Chinese. That's the translation.
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  Speaker 1: And my reaction is just, really?
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  Speaker 2: Impolite words?
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  Speaker 1: China is lecturing us about politeness?
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  Speaker 2: Is this a joke?
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  Speaker 1: Their entire economic rise was built on slave labor, stealing
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  Speaker 1: American intellectual property, rigging trade deals, and exploiting human beings.
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  Speaker 1: If anything is ignorant and impolite, it's China's behavior, not J.D.
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  Speaker 2: Vance telling the truth about it.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Posobiec nailed all the hysteria from Americans on the
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  Speaker 1: right and the left right now in Wall Street.
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  Speaker 2: This is a perfect analogy.
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  Speaker 1: Wall Street's addiction to Chinese labor is similar to the
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  Speaker 1: fentanyl addiction also fueled by China.
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  Speaker 2: Important point.
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  Speaker 1: Both stem from the same source and both require detox
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  Speaker 1: and withdrawal before recovery can begin. And Trump just Narcan
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  Speaker 1: bombed the whole system.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly.
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  Speaker 1: America's elites called it free trade, but it was really
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  Speaker 1: surrender for the American people. China got rich off our jobs,
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  Speaker 1: our ideas, and our weakness. Trump's tariffs didn't just disrupt
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  Speaker 1: the system, they are exposing it. For the first time
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  Speaker 1: in decades, the people making money off of America's decline
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  Speaker 1: have to face a president who is actually fighting back.
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  Speaker 1: And speaking of fighting back, Talking about bringing industry back
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  Speaker 1: to the United States, President Trump signed an executive order
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  Speaker 1: yesterday to revitalize clean coal and remove Biden-era coal restrictions.
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  Speaker 2: He directed the.
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  Speaker 1: Interior and Energy Departments to support coal production and stop
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  Speaker 1: the retirement of existing plants. And the move is aimed
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  Speaker 1: at putting coal miners back to work and ending Joe
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  Speaker 1: Biden's war on beautiful, clean coal, as he says.
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  Speaker 2: Take a listen.
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  Speaker 8: For four long years, Joe Biden and congressional Democrats tried
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  Speaker 8: to abolish the American coal industry. They did everything in
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  Speaker 8: their power while he was awake, which wasn't much. Shutting
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  Speaker 8: down dozens of coal plants, banning coal leases on federal lands,
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  Speaker 8: and putting thousands and thousands of coal miners out of work.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear in other soundbites from this speech that
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  Speaker 1: there's just, if you're listening, all these coal miners behind him,
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  Speaker 1: and they're cheering. as Trump signs his executive order behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes, because for once, someone is standing up for
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  Speaker 1: the American worker. What a contrast from Joe Biden, who
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  Speaker 1: promised us this.
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  Speaker 2: So what do you do besides rejoin Paris and restore
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  Speaker 2: emissions standards?
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  Speaker 9: Fundamentally change the way in which we approach things. For example,
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  Speaker 9: we're going to make sure that we have doubling immediately
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  Speaker 9: the wind and solar power. We're going to make sure,
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  Speaker 9: by the way, I'm the only guy that's done anything.
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  Speaker 9: In the Recovery Act, we've tried $ 100 million reducing the
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  Speaker 9: cost of making sun and wind and solar competitive with.
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  Speaker 7: The price of coal.
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  Speaker 9: No one's going to build another coal plant in America
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  Speaker 9: because of the work we did in our administration.
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  Speaker 1: Biden and the climate psychos are clueless.
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  Speaker 2: Wind and solar.
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  Speaker 1: Cannot produce baseload power. The constant, stable electricity that you
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  Speaker 1: actually need to power a country. And coal plants, they
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  Speaker 1: run 24-7, rain or shine. Wind and solar, only when
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  Speaker 1: the weather cooperates. And even then, storing their energy is
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  Speaker 1: insanely expensive and limited. Building wind turbines and solar panels
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  Speaker 1: requires massive mining, rare earth minerals, And surprise, fossil fuels.
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  Speaker 2: So this whole.
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  Speaker 1: Green energy scheme is a complete con.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know why we're replacing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there are clear incentives from people in big
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  Speaker 1: business to push for this green energy scam, push for ESGs,
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  Speaker 1: and destroy smaller businesses. But it has nothing to do
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  Speaker 1: with green energy and actually being good for the environment.
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  Speaker 1: It's the same for electric cars. Electric cars require all
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  Speaker 1: of these minerals that are extremely damaging to the environment
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  Speaker 1: to extract. Look at what the Congo looks like right now.
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  Speaker 1: You think that's good for the environment? Where they're extracting
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  Speaker 1: all the cobalt? No, it's not good for the environment.
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  Speaker 1: The whole thing is a con and it's at the
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  Speaker 1: expense of American workers, American energy, the survival and the
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  Speaker 1: security of this country.
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  Speaker 2: In other news, a senior... Oh, yes. Thank you, Michael.
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  Speaker 2: You can see it. And you know what? We're showing
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  Speaker 2: pictures of the Congo right now.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just that it's damaging to the environment, but
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  Speaker 1: there is a human rights crisis happening right now in
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  Speaker 1: Congo where people are children, women, forced into these basically
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  Speaker 1: slave labor camps to extract these minerals.
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  Speaker 2: It is truly.
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  Speaker 1: One of the greatest human rights violations of the modern era.
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  Speaker 2: And no one cares.
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  Speaker 1: The left doesn't care. The left is constantly complaining.
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  Speaker 2: To us about.
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  Speaker 1: The rights of humans and about being equitable. And it's just,
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  Speaker 1: it's clearly fake. It's clearly all a farce because if
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  Speaker 1: they really cared, they would be advocating for the human
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  Speaker 1: rights abuses against the human rights abuses that are taking
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  Speaker 1: place in places like Congo, and they're not. They don't
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  Speaker 1: care because it's part of this green new scam. In
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  Speaker 1: other news, a senior CIA official formally in charge of
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  Speaker 1: the military COVID vaccine mandate under Biden has been fired
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  Speaker 1: by the Trump admin. Terry Adram was fired over her
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  Speaker 1: involvement in the Biden administration's military vaccine mandate, and her
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  Speaker 1: termination is linked to her role in, of course, pressuring
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  Speaker 1: service members to choose between taking a vaccine authorized only
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  Speaker 1: for emergency use or facing discharge. And Terry also authored
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  Speaker 1: a directive instructing military doctors to treat the COVID-19 shots
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  Speaker 1: as if they were fully approved, but of course, they
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  Speaker 1: were not fully approved. Now, federal law requires a presidential
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  Speaker 1: waiver to mandate emergency use authorization vaccines, and no record
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  Speaker 1: shows that Biden ever issued one of these. So Pentagon
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  Speaker 1: officials internally warned that Terry's memo risked lawsuits and reversals,
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  Speaker 1: but the Pentagon kept using the emergency use vaccine anyway.
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  Speaker 1: And thousands of service members were punished or kicked out
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  Speaker 1: for refusing the vaccine, triggering massive lawsuits. And it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of beautiful to see Terry get fired and Trump's administration
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  Speaker 1: reinstate service members expelled over the mandate with back pay
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  Speaker 1: for those involuntarily separated. legal experts predict, and this is
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  Speaker 1: what really gets me, they predict that the military's vaccine
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  Speaker 1: mandate scandal could ultimately cost taxpayers billions in settlements. This
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  Speaker 1: woman is going to cost us billions of dollars. She's
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  Speaker 1: fired now, but we're still going to feel the pain
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  Speaker 1: of what this woman did. And by the way, sources
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  Speaker 1: are telling Breitbart that more Biden era holdovers who enforced
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  Speaker 1: vaccine mandates, CRT training, DEI policies in the military and
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  Speaker 1: federal agencies are now under review for removal. So we
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  Speaker 1: are expelling all of these cancers from the admin, starting
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  Speaker 1: with this CIA woman. And let's throw a picture of
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  Speaker 1: her again, Michael, because I just want to say, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at this lady, does she look very healthy
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  Speaker 1: to you?
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  Speaker 2: Picture of health. Picture of health, Mikey.
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  Speaker 1: How often are we getting health advice from people who
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  Speaker 1: are obese? People who are mandating this vaccine, experimental vaccine
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  Speaker 1: on our service members.
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  Speaker 2: And she has nothing to do with health. She's not
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  Speaker 2: a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: She's just an obese CIA bureaucrat.
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  Speaker 2: It's absurd.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Michael and I know people who
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: took this vaccine and were injured. People who were injured.
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  Speaker 2: Verified by Pfizer.
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  Speaker 1: That we did this to our service members who took
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  Speaker 1: a chance and said, we're going to actually defend this country.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give my time. my time, and even
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice my body for this country. I will put my
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  Speaker 1: life on the line, and we're going to mandate an
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  Speaker 1: experimental vaccine that has caused many to be injured.
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  Speaker 2: It's absurd. It's obscene.
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  Speaker 1: And again, health advice from an obese person.
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  Speaker 2: Who is taking this?
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  Speaker 1: Why do we ever accept this? I hope that there
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  Speaker 1: is a massive COVID reckoning. These health bureaucrats, the second
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  Speaker 1: they get even an inch of power, They take it all.
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  Speaker 1: They can't show any sort of restraint because people get
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: just a taste of power and they take it to
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  Speaker 1: the extreme. And this is just one example of that.
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  Speaker 1: And many more have to be expelled from this admin.
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  Speaker 1: No more power. You are done for what you did
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  Speaker 1: to these service members and what you're doing continually to
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  Speaker 1: the taxpayers because now we're going to have to foot
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  Speaker 1: the bill for all these lawsuits.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we need to talk about META.
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  Speaker 1: Many of you probably know that President Trump's re-election last
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  Speaker 1: November was meta, actually abruptly abandoned a lot of its
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  Speaker 1: worst initiatives since President Trump's election last November. And this
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  Speaker 1: includes Facebook's infamous fact-checking regime and also its DEI programming.
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  Speaker 1: And even big tech's toughest conservative critics are admitting that
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg and Meta have had a good few months.
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  Speaker 2: If you even look at.
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  Speaker 1: What's happening with Rumble, there's Rumble videos that show up
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook.
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  Speaker 2: They were blacklisting Rumble.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: They've banned and blacklisted and demonetized Dan Bongino.
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  Speaker 2: Big tech has.
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  Speaker 1: Meta specifically has de-boosted his content. And all of these
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  Speaker 1: barriers are sort of going away as Zuckerberg realizes that
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: there's a new sheriff in town and the censorship regime
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: isn't so favorable with the Trump admin, whose supporters in
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Trump himself have been the victims of it. So Zuckerberg
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: has been trying to rebrand himself. He's going all in
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: on a MAGA-dominated Washington. And he's buying a $ 23 million
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: home just a few minutes from the White House and
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: cozying up to the president and the president's senior advisors.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: And it makes sense because meta survival.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Is on the line right now.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Next week, a landmark antitrust trial is set to begin. See,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: Meta is accused of illegally stifling competition by buying up
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: potential rivals like Instagram and WhatsApp before they could grow
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: into real threats. The Federal Trade Commission argues that these
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: acquisitions deprived consumers of alternative social media platforms and violated
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: antitrust laws.
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: Mark Zuckerberg, Mr.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: MAGA, MAGA Mark Zuckerberg, as he's wake surfing with an
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: American flag in his hand, beer in hand, He's currently
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: lobbying Donald Trump to settle the case before it breaches court.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And let's be clear about something. Rachel Bovard writes this
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: in The Federalist. It's a great point. Whether Meta's MAGA
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: turn this year is sincere or cynical is irrelevant. The
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: fact is, Meta is an illegal monopoly. So it doesn't
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: matter if he's MAGA now.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: We don't care. It doesn't matter. Still an illegal monopoly.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: And by the way, we can.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Talk about Zuckerberg's mega conversion because it is fake.
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: It is insincere.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: I've been critical of Elon Musk. I don't think he's
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: a perfect person. I think he's kind of a transhumanist
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: and I don't necessarily know exactly what his beliefs and
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: ideology is. And so that makes me a little bit
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: wary of Elon Musk. But Elon Musk, to Elon Musk's credit,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: did buy X, did buy Twitter, and turned it into
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: a free speech platform, which was essential to Trump's win.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Elon Musk threw all of his eggs in the president's basket,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and he took a massive risk before the.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Pushed Trump over the.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Finish line, not even just with the amount of money
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that he put into the president's campaign, but the fact
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: that he created a free digital public square with X.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg didn't even endorse Trump, let alone donate to
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: any pro-Trump political action committees. Actually, what Mark Zuckerberg did
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: was funnel hundreds of millions into DEI projects, criminal justice reform,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: and pro-open border groups. Mark Zuckerberg poured $ 400 million into
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: Zuckerbucks to boost Democrat turnout in 2020 and swing the
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: election against President Trump. So after years of censorship and
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: leftist activism, now Mark Zuckerberg thinks he deserves a favor
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: from the MAGA movement. He's going to lobby President Trump
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: to dismiss this antitrust suit. And to that I say,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: give me a break. Throw the book at this man.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Meta is guilty of a legal antitrust violation. And also,
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: they are no friend to MAGA or President Trump. All right,
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: let's talk about sports. In a behind-the-scenes scramble, UC Davis
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: appears to be gearing up to place a transgender athlete
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: on one of its women's teams, and they went straight
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: to a controversial source to help them. According to documents
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: obtained by OutKick through a public records request, Melissa Hughes,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: associate athletics director at UC Davis, emailed San Jose's state
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: senior associate athletic director, Laura Alexander, last fall asking for tips.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: Hughes wrote that UC Davis had a prospective student athlete
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: who is transgender, and she wanted to know what steps
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: San Jose took with respect to education and counseling before
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: bringing a transgender player aboard. Now, who was the athlete
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Hughes was asking about? athlete was Blair Fleming, a biological
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: male who identified as female and played on San Jose
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: State's women's volleyball team last season. And this sparked a
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: national firestorm. If you don't remember who Blair Fleming is,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: just a reminder. Blair's presence led five schools to cancel
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: eight matches, including Boise State's headline-grabbing forfeit of the Mountain
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: West Tournament semifinal. Here is Blair knocking a girl flat
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on the ground.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: With a volleyball.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: So if you're watching, sets up, spikes, the woman just
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: like falls straight back, like right on her back.
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: Yep, just straight back.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: And luckily, this woman didn't experience any kind of brain damage.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: She wasn't seriously, seriously injured. But others have been in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: this situation. President Trump famously had a young woman who
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: experienced brain damage from being hit by a spike from
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: one of these transgender athletes and had this young woman
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: as his special guest at his address to Congress, the Senate,
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: the judicial. So Alexander responded that she was happy to chat.
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and gave Hughes her phone number. But when OutKick followed
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: up to see whether the chat ever happened, Alexander didn't respond.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: UC Davis didn't respond either, not to OutKick's calls, emails,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: direct texts to Hughes herself. And so far, it's unclear
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: which sports UC Davis' transgender athlete might have been aiming
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: to join or whether the plan is still alive, especially
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: after sweeping policy changes with this admin. Under the NCAA's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: new rules finalized in 2025, after President Trump signed an
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: executive order banning males from competing women's sports, biological males
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: are not permitted to take sports on.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: Spots on women's teams.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: So if UC Davis, a Division I school, moves forward,
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: they'll likely face the same backlash or worse that San
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Jose State did when it put Fleming on the court.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And this really highlights what's becoming increasingly obvious. University administrators
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: like Hughes and Alexander are aren't interested in protecting women's
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: sports or even acknowledging basic biological reality. Instead, they're pushing
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: a radical left-wing agenda at all costs, sidelining the very
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: female athletes they claim to support. And it's not about conclusion.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: It is always about ideology. And if that means erasing
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: opportunities for real women, in their view, so be it.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: And speaking of sports, I have to discuss an update
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: in the horrific high school track meet stabbing in Texas.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Last week, a track meet in Frisco, Texas was really
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: ended in a very horrific way after Carmelo Anthony, a
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: student athlete from Frisco Continental High School, stabbed to death
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: another young man from Memorial High School. And this happened
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: as Carmelo Anthony was sitting inside Memorial High School team's tent. Now,
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: a young man named Austin Metcalf, very attractive junior at Memorial,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: approached Anthony and told him that he needed to move
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: out of their team's tent. According to a witness, Anthony
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: responded by grabbing his bag, reaching inside it, and warning Metcalf,
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: touch me and see what happens. Now, after this warning,
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: Metcalf stood up and physically pushed Anthony in an attempt
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to get him out of his school's tent. And at
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: that point, the witness said that Anthony reached back into
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: his bag, pulled out a knife, and stabbed Metcalf. After
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: the stabbing, Anthony fled the scene, and Metcalf, bleeding heavily
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: from his chest, ran down the bleachers toward his twin brother, Hunter,
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: who tried to stop the bleeding, but ultimately.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: Austin died in Hunter's arms. Austin died in his twin
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: brother's arms.
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Now, when confronted by a school resource officer shortly after,
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Anthony said that he was protecting himself because Metcalfe, quote,
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: put his hands on me.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Here was Anthony's lawyer yesterday.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Retained this morning, defense attorney Derek Walpole agreed to speak
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: on behalf of Carmelo Anthony's family.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: I know that my client said that it was self-defense.
• 28:33
  Speaker 6: I don't have any reason to disbelieve that, but I
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: needed to develop facts and talk to people and figure
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: out what's going on before I make any statements about
• 28:40
  Speaker 6: what I think happened. I don't have any reason to
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: think it wasn't self-defense at this time.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: So Anthony's lawyer is demanding his murder charge be downgraded
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: and his $ 1 million bond to be reduced. Anthony, of course,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: if you're listening, is black. Metcalf is white. And this
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: is pretty relevant because countless black Americans have responded to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: this horrific murder, stabbing this young man. The man dies
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and his brother's gone. They've responded to the situation by
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: rallying around Carmelo Anthony. His family has been rewarded with
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: nearly $ 300, 000. to cope during, and this is a quote
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: from the Give, Send, Go, this challenging and difficult time.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: 272, is that what it says, Michael? Yep, $ 272, 000, nearly $ 273, 000
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: raised for this.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Raised for this kid's family, raised for this murderer's family.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Here is someone comparing, and this is why I say
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: the reaction to this has been so obscene from the left,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: but specifically black leftists. Here is somebody comparing the situation
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: to Rosa Parks and segregation.
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: Y'all not going to make me believe or feel any
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: kind of sympathy for Austin Metcalf at all. He put
• 30:03
  Speaker 7: his hands on that young man when he should have
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: kept them hands to himself. When the young man told him,
• 30:08
  Speaker 7: touch me and see, you better not touch me. That
• 30:12
  Speaker 7: meant that I don't want you in my space. I
• 30:15
  Speaker 7: don't want you touching me. Rosa Park days is over.
• 30:19
  Speaker 7: You cannot think that you can move somebody out of
• 30:22
  Speaker 7: a seat that you don't own. And think that it's
• 30:25
  Speaker 7: going to be okay. And you can't determine how I'm
• 30:27
  Speaker 7: going to retaliate on you when you put your hands
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: on me in an aggressive manner. Austin Metcalf got exactly
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: what he deserved.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: Point blank, period.
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: It's time out for feeling sorry for somebody's feelings or
• 30:40
  Speaker 7: feeling emotional about somebody's feelings. Austin Metcalf should have kept
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: his damn hands to himself.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Point blank, period.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Are we kidding right now? Are we kidding?
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: A white guy pushes you and because he's white and
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: you're black, you can murder him?
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Is this what black power is? Just like demonic violence?
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: This white kid deserves to die.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: Because he's white?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Here's another one.
• 31:08
  Speaker 10: And to be honest with you, I blame Austin and
• 31:10
  Speaker 10: motherfucking parents for not teaching him not to bully and
• 31:12
  Speaker 10: mistreat people just because they skin color.
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: Okay?
• 31:15
  Speaker 10: We wouldn't even be having this conversation if y'all didn't
• 31:17
  Speaker 10: push that white privilege shit on your son. And you
• 31:19
  Speaker 10: clearly see that they've been bothering that boy for him
• 31:21
  Speaker 10: to be walking around with a pocket knife. They had
• 31:24
  Speaker 10: to be bullying him, and he was tired of that shit.
• 31:26
  Speaker 10: People get tired of being bullied. You think he's just
• 31:28
  Speaker 10: walking around with pocket knives for nothing? No, he was
• 31:30
  Speaker 10: tired of Austin and fucking with him.
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: Apparently, Anthony's a victim of bullying? Who says Austin was
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: racially targeting Anthony? Literally no one said that. Black people,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: black certain black people, are online saying, don't make this racial.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: As those same people then make it racial. And this
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: is a reflection of the state of violence and racism
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: among a disturbing number of black and white left-wing Americans.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: A senseless act the murder of an unarmed white teenager
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: at a high school track meet is not only being excused,
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: but celebrated simply because of the races involved. Instead of
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: condemning violence, they're falsely invoking civil rights heroes like Rosa
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Parks and pretending that a brutal stabbing is some kind
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: of justified act of self-defense or resistance. It's a grotesque
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: distortion of justice driven by a pervasive victimhood culture that
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: sees racism everywhere and permits hatred and violence against whites
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: under the guise of historical grievance. The fact that a
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: murderer is being financially rewarded and publicly defended reveals how
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: deeply the poison of racial resentment has taken hold in
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: this country, to the point where basic morality is sacrificed
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: to the altar of identity politics. It's not empowerment. It's
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: the normalization of evil. This is the fruits of concepts
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: like white guilt and white fragility and white supremacy. And frankly,
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: what makes the situation even more tragic is that the
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: greatest victims of black violence have always been black people themselves.
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: Every year, black lives are lost to violence at the
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: hands of other black individuals. Yet instead of addressing this issue,
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: many black Americans react by excusing and even glorifying the
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: murder of an innocent white teenager just because he's white.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: So the bloodshed continues. If black lives truly mattered... then
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: black people should be the first to say that this
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: kind of violence, no matter who the victim is, is wrong,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: and that human life, regardless of race, must be protected
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: and valued. And yet some, to the detriment of many,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: hold onto anti-white hatred to justify the violence cannibalizing black
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: people just as much as whites.
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: Speaking of violence, M.D.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Kittle reports in The Federalist that 55% of self-identified leftists
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: say that killing President Trump is justifiable. A new report
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: from the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University warns
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: that political violence from the extreme left is becoming increasingly normalized,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: especially targeting figures like President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And the study.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: Reveals the rise of assassination culture within far-left online communities,
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: and that it's moving beyond fringe circles and showing widespread
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: justification for lethal violence. So 48% of left-wing respondents believe
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: it would be at least somewhat justified to murder Elon Musk.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: And 55% believe it would be at least somewhat justified
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: to murder President Trump. Also, nearly 40% found destroying Tesla
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: dealerships to be at least somewhat acceptable. And the article
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: goes on to link these findings with, of course, the
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: lionization of Luigi Mangione, that well-to-do upper-class kid who murdered
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: the UnitedHealthcare CEO. And Kittle also notes some more real-world examples,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: like Ethan Early, a Tennessee man who allegedly planned to
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: bomb a Musk AI facility. And of course, the over
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: 50 attacks on Tesla vehicles and facilities that have been
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: reported globally. Of course, the radical left's embrace of violence
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: is no accident. It is a feature of their ideology.
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: When people are stripped of their humanity and reduced to
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: enemies of progress, anything becomes.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: Justified, even assassination.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: This is why reports on the normalization of political violence
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: against Trump and Musk is a chilling example of what's been.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Clear for a very long time.
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: Collectivism, leftism, is a movement that dehumanizes opponents until ultimately
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Brutality against them is seen not as evil, but as virtuous.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: It's not just unhinged individuals acting out. It's an entire
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: group whose ideology inherently necessitates them to see violence as
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: moral when directed at those they've labeled subhuman.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: The wealthy, whites, Christians, conservatives.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Any so-called enemy of progress can be justifiably murdered. This
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: is a godless, violent ideology. This is, of course, relates
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to those psychos defending the murder of Austin Metcalf. In
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: the neo-Marxist worldview, society is divided into oppressors.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: And oppressed, based largely, in neo-Marxism, on race.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Under this framework, black Americans are a protected class, automatically
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: aligned with the oppressed, while white Americans are cast as
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: inherent oppressors, who must atone for systemic guilt. This ideology
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: is directly shaped the reaction to Austin Metcalf's murder. It's
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: racial because in a neo-Marxist society, everything is racial. Leftists
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: excuse and downplay the murder simply because the perpetrator fits
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: the oppressed narrative and the victim was seen as part
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: of the oppressor class. And the report shows this mindset
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: is spreading, with nearly half of left-leaning respondents justifying the
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: murder against figures like Trump and Musk. It's the same
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: logic at work. If someone belongs to the oppressor group,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: violence against them can be seen not just as acceptable.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: But as righteous.
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: Morality is always determined not by actions, but by identity.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Setting the stage for political and racial violence to be
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: justified under the banner of justice. Okay, I want to
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: get into this TikTok video that was censored yesterday. This
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: was posted by Juliet James Davis, whose account I really like.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: And her account is called The War on Beauty. And
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: it exposes how modern culture seeks to destroy traditional standards
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: of beauty, goodness, and excellence. She has a lot of
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: really good content. She does a lot on art, on architecture,
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: on fashion, a lot of commentary in that realm. Here
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: was the video that Julia posted on TikTok that was
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: censored by the app.
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: Take a listen. As all of our.
• 38:18
  Speaker 11: Buildings have become boxes, white boxes with no design to them,
• 38:24
  Speaker 11: there's also been this rise in murals because murals are
• 38:29
  Speaker 11: kind of just a cop-out for actually designing nice buildings.
• 38:34
  Speaker 11: Because it's like, okay, we'll just slap a whole mural
• 38:37
  Speaker 11: up on.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: This flat building.
• 38:39
  Speaker 11: But the thing is, is that same with graffiti. Murals
• 38:43
  Speaker 11: really have political messaging tied to them, which is I
• 38:48
  Speaker 11: see all the time. Murals of George Floyd, mirrors of
• 38:51
  Speaker 11: newly vaccinated nurses, like with their arms and bandages. It
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: has roots in Mexican muralism. Like the artist Diego Rivera
• 39:00
  Speaker 11: was really one of the first originators of this mural movement.
• 39:04
  Speaker 11: And a lot of the themes of that are social
• 39:07
  Speaker 11: justice and revolutionary ideals, which are often communist ideals. So
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: whether it's murals or it's graffiti, our whole visual landscape
• 39:18
  Speaker 11: of our cities are really pushing political agendas that often
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: drag people down at the expense of true beauty.
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: So that video was censored, but before I just... dig
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: into that video, I have a lot to say on this.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: I did see that Vince commented on the show, which
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: is awesome.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Vince said, great show, Avita.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: I'll be picking up on this topic coming up at
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: 10 a.m. The left is growing more bloodthirsty every day.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: So make sure to tune into Vince's show right after
• 39:45
  Speaker 1: this show. He's going to have some more commentary on
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: the left-wing violence that we're seeing exploding on the scene
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: that of course has much deeper roots in their ideology
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: and something that has been a pattern throughout history among leftists.
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: But I want to talk about this video because you think, okay,
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: it's just a regular opinion, right? She has this opinion
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: that murals are ugly and communist and we have no
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: beautiful architecture anymore.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: For some reason, that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: Was censored on TikTok. And we're going to talk about
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: why it was censored on TikTok. But per TikTok, they
• 40:21
  Speaker 1: said that her video was a community guidelines violation. And
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: they don't explain why or how her TikTok violated community guidelines.
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: This is kind of TikTok's MO. They never really explain themselves.
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: They just mass censor things they don't like. But I
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: loved her video.
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  Speaker 2: Because it's such an amazing point.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I was literally, I know Dan doesn't like that word literally,
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: but I was literally walking through the Chicago airport over
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: the weekend with Michael. We were, had a connecting flight
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and I was telling him part of why I hate
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: Chicago is not that it's cold, which it is cold.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: It's not that it's full of leftists, which it is
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: full of leftists, but it's also aesthetically, especially on the
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: South side where you don't have a lot of these older,
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: beautiful buildings.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: Aesthetically very depressing.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: I hate, and I said this to Michael out loud,
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: I hate these murals in Chicago.
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: I hate them. They are so obnoxious.
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: And I wasn't really able to articulate why I hated
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: these murals so much, but I just was like, it's
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: just really annoying.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: These murals are really, really annoying.
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: And I saw Julia's video yesterday and I saw that
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: TikTok took it down and I was like, hmm, she's
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: touching on something I was feeling something that was actually
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: very important.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And she hit a.
• 41:42
  Speaker 1: Nerve with that video. These communist obnoxious community murals are
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: supposed to be demoralizing. And it makes you sound like
• 41:57
  Speaker 1: a jerk for saying that. And so again, I think
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: it's worth digging into why so many of us have
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: these reactions.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: To these obnoxious murals.
• 42:05
  Speaker 12: Murals.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Like Julia said, these murals are rooted in Marxism. City
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: murals today are the ugly wallpaper of a civilization in decay.
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Instead of grand, timeless architecture that lifts the soul, we
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: are surrounded by gray concrete boxes, vandalized with shrieking, often
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: grotesque murals pushing leftist narratives. Racial grievance, sexual identity, anti-police hatred,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: climate hysteria.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: It's all on the murals.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: And rather than build beautiful courthouses and cathedrals and libraries,
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: the future generations are not able to admire beauty in
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: their cities. Instead, the cities are commissioning these giant rainbow
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: fists or distorted screaming faces on abandoned warehouses. It pretends
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: to be organic community art. They say, oh, it's just
• 42:53
  Speaker 1: community art.
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: It's so beautiful.
• 42:54
  Speaker 12: It's wonderful.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: But actually, a lot of it's being funded by government
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: grants and billionaire-backed NGOs. It teaches citizens to expect ugliness.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: to glorify anger and to accept their cities as battlegrounds
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: for political agendas, not permanent homes. Who wants to see
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: this on their way to work?
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: It's aggravating. Even if you agree with it, it's just
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: meant to make you upset.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: These angry political messages rooted in Marxism bombarding you as
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: you're going to the grocery store, you're going to work,
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: or you're visiting a friend. The result is a city
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: landscape that feels hostile, disposable, and aggressively unrooted. The opposite
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: of what a civilization should look like. Let's throw up
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: those pictures again, Mikey, because who likes being aggressively bombarded
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: with these terrible so-called art projects?
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: They're horrible. They're not pretty. No one wants to look
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: at this. It's ugly. It's ugly and it's aggravating. Not
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: even good.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Build beautiful buildings or leave it blank. But no one
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: wants to see this crap. And this is the left's
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: cultural strategy. Their entire project depends on operating beneath the surface,
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: disguised as compassionate progress. So it makes sense why Julia's
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: video was censored. Because if people openly pointed out that
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: the endless murals, slogans, and state-funded art are not signs
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: of flourishing culture, but tools of an ideological colonization, the
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: illusion shatters. The whole project works because The messages are subliminal.
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: You're walking through the streets and you're being bombarded with
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: left-wing ideology.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: It's not art. It's not beautiful.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: It's meant to subliminally change you politically, to influence your ideology.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: Leftist power thrives on emotional manipulation, not rational debate. Murals
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: make people feel guilty and angry. or inspired in pre-approved
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: ways without even inviting real thought or consent, but criticism
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: of this process threatens to wake people up to how
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: deeply they've been subliminally psyoped just by walking to work.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: That's why censorship becomes necessary, to protect themselves from losing
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: the cultural high ground. If people realize they're being force-fed
• 45:20
  Speaker 1: ugliness and division and Marxism, not genuine beauty and unity,
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: then the jig is up, and they lose not just
• 45:26
  Speaker 1: the murals, but perhaps the entire machinery behind them. And
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: by the way, President Trump is currently attempting to bring
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: beauty back to Washington, D.C. And these same people are
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: angry at him. On Trump's first day back in office,
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: he reissued the Promoting Beautiful Federal Civic Architecture Executive Order.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: And the order is aimed at updating federal architecture guidelines
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: to reflect regional and classical heritage, meaning the style of
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: the White House and the Capitol building. Not, for instance,
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: the style of the Black History Museum. Take a look
• 46:03
  Speaker 1: at the Black History Museum. I'm fine with the Black
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: History Museum. Why does it have to look like this?
• 46:09
  Speaker 1: If you're listening, look up the Black History Museum. And
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: it's right next to the Washington Monument, which is a cool, interesting,
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: pretty building. And then you have this monstrosity of the
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: Black History Museum.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: Who wants to look at that?
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: I would never even go into that building. Probably the
• 46:32
  Speaker 1: most grotesque building I've ever seen. And Trump's goal with
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: this executive order is to uplift public spaces instead of
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: having them ugly and politically charged and frankly just depressing.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: And why should the taxpayers be funding these ugly buildings?
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: That's the key point here. Because studies show that the
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: vast majority of Americans prefer neoclassical buildings to brutalist or
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: postmodern buildings.
• 46:53
  Speaker 2: No one wants to look at ugly buildings.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: Newsflash, left-wing architects, no one likes your ugly buildings. But
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: like I said, leftists are mad because like ugly buildings,
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: because they like ugly buildings and they like making everybody depressed.
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: Here is one left-wing architect.
• 47:10
  Speaker 4: Reasoning for the classical architecture is this. They want them
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: visually identifiable as civic buildings and respect regional, traditional, and
• 47:17
  Speaker 4: classical architecture. When the executive order was mandated in 2020,
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: this is what a Columbia professor said. This is an
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: effort to use culture to send coded message about white
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: supremacy and political hegemony. The new acting head of the
• 47:27
  Speaker 4: GSA supported the mandate saying this, it will champion American workers, innovation,
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: and businesses while removing extremist Green New Deal and ESG
• 47:33
  Speaker 4: requirements from federal building construction. These new government buildings that
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: will be constructed will not be taking climate change into consideration.
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: The brutalist style that many government buildings were built in
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: during the 60s This style was specifically singled out in
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: the mandate. This is seen as too modern and not
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: to this government's liking. And granted, it is not the
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: most beautiful, but it is an important part of history.
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: And that is what the architects in the 60s and
• 47:53
  Speaker 4: 70s decided to do. Creativity should not be stifled. Art
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: is about changing styles. It's about innovation, new technology. The
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: classical time had their time to shine. But creating art
• 48:02
  Speaker 4: and architecture that inspires and excites and not limiting those
• 48:05
  Speaker 4: architects and artists should.
• 48:07
  Speaker 12: Be the goal.
• 48:08
  Speaker 5: Okay, so.
• 48:09
  Speaker 1: The takeaway here is that Trump is limiting creativity.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: He's stifling architects' right.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: To design ugly buildings because that's just.
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: What these architects are inspired to do.
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: Oh, and also it's white supremacists and climate terrorism to
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: want beautiful buildings. That was the message of that entire
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: complaining TikTok. And crappy left-wing architects do not have a
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: divine right to impose their personal aesthetic tastes on the
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: American people using our tax dollars. Federal buildings, this is
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: what's so important to understand about this argument for creativity
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: and all this, we have to let the architects do
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: what they feel like doing. Federal buildings are not private
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: art projects. They're public art projects. They're meant to serve
• 48:56
  Speaker 1: the public, to symbolize national ideals and endure for centuries.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: 84% of people prefer buildings in traditional style with traditional
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: forms and materials.
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: 84%. No one wants ugly buildings.
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: So if you're an architect and you're being commissioned by
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: the public to create a public work, a public art,
• 49:21
  Speaker 1: a public building, then you have a duty to design
• 49:26
  Speaker 1: a building that the public wants. And 84% of them
• 49:29
  Speaker 1: prefer traditional style. No one likes these ugly, depressing buildings.
• 49:33
  Speaker 1: These like ugly, horrific boxes that make everybody upset.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: It matters.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: That the public want beautiful buildings. Trump's order doesn't ban creativity.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: It simply insists that civic architecture reflect dignity, order, and
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: beauty rooted in styles that have historically uplifted people, and
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: most importantly, the style that people actually want. The idea
• 49:56
  Speaker 1: that requiring classical or traditional architecture, the same architecture that
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: built the US Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court,
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: is somehow white supremacist is an equally insane thing to say.
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: Classical architecture is is not racial. It is civilizational.
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: It draws from Greek, Roman, Byzantine, even Islamic influences that
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: symbolize law and reason and faith, values belonging to humanity
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: at large. Accusing columns and domes of racism only shows
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: how desperate the left is to tear down any standard
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: of beauty or excellence that stands outside the revolutionary norm. ideology.
• 50:37
  Speaker 1: They want public spaces to reflect chaos, grievance, and fragmentation,
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: not unity and transcendence because ugly, disorienting environments produce disoriented,
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: demoralized people who are easier to control.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: And that's the real reason that they're mad.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: And I'll just say about these architects, I wonder what
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: it says about us civilizationally if the artists in the
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: world are unable to create beautiful art. It says to
• 51:09
  Speaker 1: me that there's a sickness in our society. If people
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: can't create beauty anymore, if people aren't inspired to create
• 51:16
  Speaker 1: beautiful things, what is in your heart and your soul,
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: what's inspiring you right now? If it's to create the
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: Black History Museum, which looks horrendous, that says something about
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: our artists. And we can have a conversation about the
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: problem with art and the way that the death of
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: God in modern society, as many philosophers have said in
• 51:37
  Speaker 1: the 20th century, and even the 19th century. We can
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: discuss the kind of problems that this presents to the
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: public and to the world and address it. But the
• 51:48
  Speaker 1: point is that these are public works projects. It's public
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: building that people prefer to see in traditional style. So
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: it says something about the artists. It's a real cancer
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: in society that so many of them are inspired to
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: only create ugly buildings. And at the same time, we
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: can demand that we will not be funding these projects
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: that are ugly and unfortunately the ire of modern day
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: architects and artists. All right. That is all that I
• 52:23
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