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Zuckerberg Tattletales on Government He Installed (Ep.117) · V

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  Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to Bongina Report, early edition. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg deflects all censorship blame on the regime that he
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  Speaker 1: helped install. Tulsi Gabbard reverses her position on FISA Section 702.
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  Speaker 1: 60% of Greenlanders say they want to become part of
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  Speaker 1: the United States. Gavin Newsom is caught in a brazen lie.
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  Speaker 1: And Mike Walsh calls for younger Ukrainian men to die.
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  Speaker 1: in the war against Russia. All this on Bongino Report,
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  Speaker 1: early edition. Tech bros are at it again, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Mark Zuckerberg has gone on the Joe Rogan podcast to
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  Speaker 1: correct the record on why he allowed for mass censorship
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  Speaker 1: on Meta for years. According to Zuckerberg, here's why he couldn't,
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  Speaker 1: you couldn't, and I couldn't discuss everything from election integrity
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  Speaker 1: to COVID to the Hunter Biden laptop story, biological reality.
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  Speaker 1: Here's his excuse.
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  Speaker 2: They pushed us super hard. to take down things that
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  Speaker 2: were honestly were true, right? I mean, they basically pushed
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  Speaker 2: us and said, you know, anything that says that vaccines
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  Speaker 2: might have side effects, you basically need to take down.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just like, well, we're not going to
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  Speaker 2: do that. Like, we're clearly not going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, that's what you said, Mark.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of inarguably true.
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  Speaker 1: Who is they?
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  Speaker 2: Who's telling you to take down things? Yeah, it was people.
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  Speaker 2: To talk about vaccine side effects. It was people in
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  Speaker 2: the Biden administration. I think these people from the Biden
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  Speaker 2: administration would call up our team and like scream at
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  Speaker 2: them and curse.
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  Speaker 1: And it's like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the feds have bullied Mark Zuckerberg and his
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  Speaker 1: entire team into turning Meta into an echo chamber for
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  Speaker 1: government propaganda. And he just had to concede, you guys.
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  Speaker 1: He had to. The pressure was so immense. Michael says,
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  Speaker 1: and we get into these arguments all the time, I'm
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  Speaker 1: usually on the side of freedom and the American people,
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  Speaker 1: the First Amendment. Michael's usually on the side of the
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  Speaker 1: tech bros. He's mad about my framing here. But he,
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  Speaker 1: even Michael said, wow, Zuckerberg came off as so disingenuous.
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  Speaker 1: And here's what I'm going to say about this interview.
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  Speaker 1: Two things can be true at the same time. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg is a coward. The man's a multi-billionaire, he has influence,
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  Speaker 1: he has money. He could have taken a principled stand
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  Speaker 1: for free expression if he truly believed in it, but
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  Speaker 1: he didn't because, like I said, Mark Zuckerberg is a coward.
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg even went so far as to set up a
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  Speaker 1: secret portal for the government and various government-created NGOs to
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  Speaker 1: submit mis- and disinformation claims. So what I'm saying is,
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  Speaker 1: he gave the government a direct, built-in line to censor Americans.
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  Speaker 1: on Facebook and Instagram. He did that. Zuckerberg, of course,
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  Speaker 1: also spent $ 400 million to install into power the very
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  Speaker 1: people that he's currently complaining about. Say that they bullied
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  Speaker 1: him into violating the First Amendment. It's pretty disingenuous. That
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  Speaker 1: was never brought up during the interview. Now, here's what
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  Speaker 1: else is true. Like I said, two things can be
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  Speaker 1: true at the same time. Facebook was and still is
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  Speaker 1: under immense pressure from the federal government. It's real. It's real.
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  Speaker 1: as he explained on Joe Rogan, and that pressure carries weight.
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  Speaker 1: Justice Samuel Alito, in his Missouri v. Murthy dissent, wrote
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  Speaker 1: about this explicitly. Alito highlighted that tech companies often cannot
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  Speaker 1: effectively resist government demands because there are no constitutional carve-outs
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  Speaker 1: and precedent for protecting social media companies like there are,
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  Speaker 1: for example, newspapers. So the government can send veiled threats
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  Speaker 1: of regulation or enforcement actions like the repeal of Section
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  Speaker 1: 230 which places a ton of pressure on companies to
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  Speaker 1: comply with government requests, even when those requests violate the
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  Speaker 1: First Amendment. Now, so like I said, Mark Zuckerberg, he's
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  Speaker 1: a coward. He could have stood up for free speech
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  Speaker 1: if he wanted to, if he really believed in it.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't. At the same time, it's true that all
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  Speaker 1: of these tech companies are experiencing very real pressure from
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  Speaker 1: the federal government, and they don't have the same protections as, say,
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  Speaker 1: the press. Now, Zuckerberg said something else that's pretty And
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  Speaker 1: I think it's at the heart of why Michael and
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  Speaker 1: I both found this interview to be so disingenuous. Mark
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg attacked feminine corporate culture, the demonization and suppression of
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  Speaker 1: masculine energy in the workplace. I'm going to explain why
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  Speaker 1: this is really significant. But first, take a listen.
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  Speaker 2: For me, it's just I think a lot of the
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  Speaker 2: corporate world is like pretty culturally neutered. And, and I,
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  Speaker 2: I just think like having, you know, I, I grew up,
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  Speaker 2: I have three sisters, no brothers. Um, I have three daughters,
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  Speaker 2: no sons. So I'm like surrounded by girls and women,
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  Speaker 2: like my, my whole life. And it's like, so I think, um,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. There's, there's something, the, the, the kind
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  Speaker 2: of masculine energy I think is, is good. And obviously,
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  Speaker 2: you know, society has plenty of that, but, but I
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  Speaker 2: think corporate culture was really like trying to get away
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  Speaker 2: from it. And, and, I do think that there's just
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  Speaker 2: something it's like, I know these, all these forms of
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  Speaker 2: energy are good. And I think having a culture that
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  Speaker 2: like celebrates the aggression a bit more has its own
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  Speaker 2: merits that are really positive. And that's, that has been,
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  Speaker 2: that has been a kind of a positive experience for me.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. So he's fawning over jujitsu right now. Yeah. Thank you, Michael.
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  Speaker 1: Michael said, and I think it is true, it sounds
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  Speaker 1: like he was almost coached. Like, what do you say
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  Speaker 1: to get Joe Rogan on your good side? And that's
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  Speaker 1: what he said. I mean, Zuckerberg was just playing right
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  Speaker 1: into everything that Joe Rogan loves to talk about. I
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  Speaker 1: an all-male elk hunting trip because he needs to be
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  Speaker 1: around that masculine energy. This is a guy who, you know,
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  Speaker 1: fights in jujitsu and is just craving that kind of
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  Speaker 1: masculine energy and talks about it all the time and
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  Speaker 1: is sort of an outlet for a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: men who feel really marginalized by a hyper-feminized culture. Zuckerberg's
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  Speaker 1: playing right into that. He's doing it perfectly. Now, Zuckerberg
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  Speaker 1: is the CEO. So he's complaining about the workplace feminine culture. Dude,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, you played a role in creating that. You
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  Speaker 1: are the CEO of the company. I mean, is this
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  Speaker 1: not computing? It'd be one thing if it was a
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  Speaker 1: random meta-employee who came on Joe Rogan to complain about
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  Speaker 1: the feminine work culture, but it's the CEO coming on
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  Speaker 1: to complain about it. I'm like, dude, you could probably
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  Speaker 1: do something about that. Maybe you created it yourself. And
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  Speaker 1: Zuckerberg is describing what the online right has said is
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  Speaker 1: the long house. That's the term that we use. The
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  Speaker 1: traditional longhouses, of course, are where community members live in
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  Speaker 1: a literal longhouse and a very close communal setting where
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  Speaker 1: women really rule the roost. That's the longhouse. And today
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  Speaker 1: the term refers to the collectivism, conformity, overbearing, maternalistic, bureaucratic
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  Speaker 1: authority in the workplace. It's perverse in America. Toxic, overbearing femininity.
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  Speaker 1: as Peachy Keenan describes it, the longhouse is an oppressive
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  Speaker 1: institutional ethos led by pantsuited girl boss petty tyrants who
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  Speaker 1: alongside mentally castrated male enablers are steering society toward ruin.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, two things can be true. Zuckerberg is 100% right.
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  Speaker 1: The longhouse is real. Society is feminized and corporate culture
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  Speaker 1: is suffocating and genuinely gender imbalanced. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: what Zuckerberg just said about the corporate culture being too feminine,
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  Speaker 1: that used to be a fringe right-wing talking point. That
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  Speaker 1: if you said out loud, you'd be marginalized by mainstream
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  Speaker 1: polite society. Now you have the CEO of Meta coming
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  Speaker 1: out and just saying it. So clearly we are witnessing
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  Speaker 1: a massive zeitgeist shift. And I'm glad to see it.
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  Speaker 1: At the same time, it's undeniable that Mark Zuckerberg is
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  Speaker 1: trying to rebrand and rehabilitate his image with increasingly right-wing
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  Speaker 1: popular culture. meaning his comments are calculated. Mark Zuckerberg actually
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  Speaker 1: posted this ridiculous video over the summer. Take a look.
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  Speaker 1: He is on a wake... He's wake surfing with an
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  Speaker 1: American flag, beer in his hand. You have Bruce Springsteen
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  Speaker 1: playing in the back. That's Bruce Springsteen, right, Michael? Playing
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  Speaker 1: in the background. Sorry. We're good with that.
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  Speaker 4: So.
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  Speaker 1: He is trying to create this image that he's a patriot,
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  Speaker 1: that he's masculine. He's tapping into this right-wing culture that's
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  Speaker 1: emerging in the wake of wokeism, of safe spaces, of
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  Speaker 1: really the dominance of leftism in popular culture for a
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  Speaker 1: really long time. So again, it's obvious that Mark Zuckerberg
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  Speaker 1: is making targeted and conscious strategic rebrand moves. He's even
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  Speaker 1: changed his hair. He's thrown on a chain. And it's
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  Speaker 1: targeted at us, and it's targeted at Trump. All the
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  Speaker 1: tech bros, yeah, I mean, you can see he literally
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  Speaker 1: went from Napoleon Dynamite dude to pretending to be cool
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  Speaker 1: and not a nerd. Sorry, Zuckerberg, you're still a nerd.
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  Speaker 1: You haven't. We see through it. But like I said,
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  Speaker 1: all the tech bros are currently targeting Trump. Sure, Elon Musk,
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  Speaker 1: of course, Elon Musk, but Apple, Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, Uber,
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  Speaker 1: they have all donated a million dollars to President Trump's
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  Speaker 1: inaugural fund. They all want to be in his good graces.
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  Speaker 1: They're swarming him. Should we trust them? Steve Bannon doesn't
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  Speaker 1: think so. Here's Steve Bannon's take.
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  Speaker 6: The California way, you want to talk about a despicable
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  Speaker 6: human being? It's Zuckerberg. Zuckerberg, you can take all the
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  Speaker 6: martial arts classes you want. You can go UFC. You
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  Speaker 6: can get Dana White. He can be your best buddy.
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  Speaker 6: Get him on the board. You can hang out with him.
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  Speaker 6: You can go to the UFC fights. You can sit ringside.
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  Speaker 6: You're another man-child. We've had nerd rule. We saw what
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  Speaker 6: nerd rule was about standing in the election, and we
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  Speaker 6: saw what nerd rule was During the pandemic. And guess what?
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  Speaker 6: This country does not want nerd rule and not going
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  Speaker 6: back to it. We're not going to let people like
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  Speaker 6: you call the shots. You put $ 400 million, $ 450 million
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  Speaker 6: up to steal the election. And I believe strongly, sir,
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  Speaker 6: as the vast criminal conspiracy investigation, which has got to
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  Speaker 6: go back to 2020. Yes, I know certain people don't
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  Speaker 6: want to hear it, but it's got to happen. I
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  Speaker 6: believe that you'll be charged with crimes, sir.
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  Speaker 7: I do. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: But there'll be a full investigation. And your million dollars
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  Speaker 6: as a supplicant of Mar-a-Lago is not going to mean anything.
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  Speaker 6: It's a disgrace to give you VIP seating at the thing. Remember,
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  Speaker 6: the base hates you, despises you. You're revolting for what
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  Speaker 6: you did to this country.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I get it. I get that sentiment. I really do.
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  Speaker 1: And Bannon's taking shots at everyone at this point. He
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  Speaker 1: said of Elon Musk a few days ago to an
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  Speaker 1: Italian publication, I will have Elon Musk run out of
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  Speaker 1: here by Inauguration Day. He will not... have a blue
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  Speaker 1: hat pass to the White House. He will not have
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  Speaker 1: full access to the White House. He will be like
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  Speaker 1: any other person. He is truly an evil guy, a
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  Speaker 1: very bad guy. I made it my personal thing to
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  Speaker 1: take this guy down. Before, because he put money in,
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  Speaker 1: I was prepared to tolerate it. I'm not prepared to
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  Speaker 1: tolerate it anymore. I mean, this is really strong rhetoric
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  Speaker 1: from Steve Bannon. He's not even open to Elon Musk, who,
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  Speaker 1: of course, we have said on the show, is credited
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  Speaker 1: with really allowing Trump to win the election just by
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  Speaker 1: the fact that he bought out Twitter and created a
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  Speaker 1: platform that permitted at least some free expression. And Bannon
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  Speaker 1: is also, of course, referring to the H-1B visa debate.
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  Speaker 1: Elon Musk, like the rest of Silicon Valley, wants to
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  Speaker 1: import cheap foreign labor. Steve Bannon is America first. He
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  Speaker 1: believes in the preamble, promote the general welfare. So he
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  Speaker 1: doesn't want that. We can be happy and encouraging of
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  Speaker 1: CEOs who reject DEI and the long house and censorship
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  Speaker 1: and who financially and openly support Donald Trump. Those are
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  Speaker 1: good things. We shouldn't discourage that. It's great. But we
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  Speaker 1: don't need them to be running the show. Keep them
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  Speaker 1: at an arm's distance. Do they need to be on
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  Speaker 1: the inside creating policy, dictating how this country is run?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not sure that that is the right answer here.
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  Speaker 1: We can be happy for their support, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: get to run the show. Tech oligarchs like Mark Zuckerberg
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  Speaker 1: are not our friends. They are selfish, fair-weather friends whose
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  Speaker 1: companies nearly destroyed us via intense censorship. I still remember
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: what it was like in 2021. People that I knew
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  Speaker 1: mass censored, booted off platforms, including the president of the
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: United States. An election had just been stolen. You saw
• 14:06
  Speaker 1: what happened on January 6th and just the way that
• 14:09
  Speaker 1: accounts were bleeding followers. It was dystopian. It was scary.
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  Speaker 1: And the tech companies helped facilitate that, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to forget it. And I'm not going to forget
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  Speaker 1: the way that Mark Zuckerberg contributed to the stolen election
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  Speaker 1: that is 2020 as well. All right, we're going to
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  Speaker 1: take a quick break. We're going to talk about some
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  Speaker 1: disturbing news from inside the Trump camp and why I
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: think it should actually be calming down. It's okay. The
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: world's not ending. We'll be right back. As always, shout
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  Speaker 1: out to our sponsors for keeping this show free. All right.
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  Speaker 1: For the news, it is disturbing a lot of people.
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  Speaker 1: Tulsi Gabbard. has consistently voted against reauthorizing FISA Section 702
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  Speaker 1: while serving as a Democrat in the House of Representatives.
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  Speaker 1: FISA Section 702 is, of course, the provision that allows
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  Speaker 1: for unconstitutional, warrantless surveillance on American citizens. It's like the worst,
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  Speaker 1: worst law we've got on the books, worst section of
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  Speaker 1: a law on the books. Here was Tulsi in 2022.
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  Speaker 3: Too many Democrats and Republicans.
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  Speaker 3: Some of you might have heard from this week, who
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  Speaker 3: talk a good game about civil liberties, but when it
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  Speaker 3: comes time to cast that vote on things like getting
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  Speaker 3: rid of secret FISA courts and protecting our Fourth Amendment
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  Speaker 3: rights to privacy, they vote on the side of the
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  Speaker 3: power elite and against liberty.
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  Speaker 1: Pretty strong, she's clear, good stance, I agree with her.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently now she's changed her mind. Her statement a few
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  Speaker 1: days ago, provided by a Trump transition spokesperson, reads, My
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  Speaker 1: prior concerns about FISA were based on insufficient protections for
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  Speaker 1: civil liberties, particularly regarding the FBI's misuse of warrantless search
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  Speaker 1: powers on American citizens. Significant FISA reforms have been enacted
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  Speaker 1: since my time in Congress to address these issues. If
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  Speaker 1: confirmed as DNI, I will uphold America's Fourth Amendment rights
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  Speaker 1: while maintaining vital national security tools like Section 702 to
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  Speaker 1: ensure the safety and freedom of the American people. And
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  Speaker 1: this statement is in response reportedly to a lot of
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  Speaker 1: senators putting a lot of pressure on Tulsi specifically about
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  Speaker 1: her Section 702 stance. Now, the reforms that she's referring to,
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  Speaker 1: they're BS, they're meaningless. The whole point of FISA Section
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  Speaker 1: 702 is to spy on people without having to go
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  Speaker 1: through normal legal processes without oversight. That's the point. So
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  Speaker 1: the reforms are really meaningless. A lot of people are
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  Speaker 1: responding in anger to Tulsi Gabbard. And you guys know
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  Speaker 1: I love Tulsi Gabbard. I think that she's an excellent choice.
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  Speaker 1: Her foreign policy stances align really closely with my own
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  Speaker 1: I'm very optimistic about her. And I think in her heart,
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  Speaker 1: she agrees with us on Section 702. I think Trump
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  Speaker 1: agrees with us on Section 702. He wants to get
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  Speaker 1: rid of it. The government used it to spy on him.
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  Speaker 1: He's explicitly opposed to Section 702. At the same time,
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  Speaker 1: we've got nominees that need to get through the Senate.
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  Speaker 1: So a lot of them are being strategic right now.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying what they need to say to get through.
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  Speaker 1: So I think we need to wait a to pass
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  Speaker 1: judgment until after Tulsi Gabbard is confirmed as DNI. FISA
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  Speaker 1: Section 702 is going to be voted on again. It
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  Speaker 1: expires this coming April. So we're going to find out
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  Speaker 1: soon enough how this administration handles things. But for now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm really optimistic. And you should notice that she said
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  Speaker 1: this in a statement from a transition spokesperson. Pretty impersonal.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound like a change of Tulsi's heart and
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  Speaker 1: head on this issue. This sounds like something strategic she
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  Speaker 1: had to do to get confirmed. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: argument is that Tulsi can't possibly be director of national
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  Speaker 1: intelligence if she doesn't support warrantless surveillance on Americans. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the senators are saying, which is wild that
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  Speaker 1: the standard for holding massive bureaucratic power in America is,
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  Speaker 1: are you willing to violate the Constitution? That's the threshold
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  Speaker 1: that members of Congress apparently care really deeply about. Really
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  Speaker 1: makes you think about the priorities of our elected officials.
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  Speaker 1: Speaking of national intelligence, or national intelligence, national defense, a
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  Speaker 1: poll by Patriot Polling released Sunday found that 60% of
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  Speaker 1: Greenlanders want to become part of the United States. And
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  Speaker 1: now we've learned that Danish officials have sent messages to
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  Speaker 1: Trump officials offering discussion on a new partnership in Greenland's future.
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  Speaker 1: So this poll the news stance from the Danish government.
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  Speaker 1: These are some really crazy developments that we're seeing before
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  Speaker 1: Trump's even inaugurated. Now, Trump, of course, wants to just
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  Speaker 1: buy Greenland outright. He just wants to buy it. He
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  Speaker 1: hasn't expressed any interest in a partnership or a so-called
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  Speaker 1: understanding with the Danish. That's nothing he said. But this
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty big step from the prime minister of Denmark,
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  Speaker 1: who has previously said that Greenland isn't for sale and
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  Speaker 1: basically dismissed this entire discussion as crazy when Trump first
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  Speaker 1: suggested it in his first term. But apparently the Danish
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  Speaker 1: government is trying to avoid a public dispute with Trump
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  Speaker 1: over Greenland, so they are reaching out. Now the Greenlandic
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  Speaker 1: prime minister, so different, so there's the Danish prime minister,
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  Speaker 1: then there's the Greenland prime minister. He has been really
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  Speaker 1: against this idea of Trump buying Greenland, not explicitly, but
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  Speaker 1: in public statements he said, you know, we don't want anything.
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  Speaker 1: colonial rule. We want to be, we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: be part of the Danish, but he never said we
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  Speaker 1: want to be part of the United States. He said,
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  Speaker 1: we want to be our own independent country. So he said,
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  Speaker 1: Greenland's not for sale. We want to be our own thing.
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  Speaker 1: But just a few days ago, he changed his tune
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: and he said, quote, we are ready to talk referring
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: to Trump. So again, Huge step in that front as well. Now,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Donald Trump Jr. and Charlie Kirk actually went to Greenland
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: last week. We covered it on the show. I want
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: you guys to listen to Charlie Kirk's debrief on what
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: he saw there and what he heard from the Greenlandic people.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: It's really fascinating. Take a listen.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Talking to the locals and getting to know them, they
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: can't stand their current Danish masters. They believe that Denmark,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: who is currently controlling of Greenland and of Nuuk, which
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: is the largest city in Greenland, they are being mistreated.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: They do not like the status quo and they want
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: a change. They say that when they go to Copenhagen,
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: which of course is the capital of Denmark, they are
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: told by local Danes, go back to your home of Nook.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: You're not welcome here. They want to be part of
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: a country that respects them. that gives them human rights.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Right now they said, quote, we feel like prisoners in
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: our own land, that we are being controlled by these
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: Danish masters who treat us terribly. The Danes don't let
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: us mine our rubies, our gold, our lithium, or our gas.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: He said it's time for a rebellion against the Danes.
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: The younger people of Nook, the younger people of Greenland,
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: they want to be rich. And oh my goodness, do
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: they have wealth in Greenland. incomprehensible amounts of wealth. We
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: are talking that Greenland could be the new Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia,
• 21:53
  Speaker 4: Permian Basin, Marcellus Shale, and the Balkan all mixed into one.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: America should want those resources for our country and Greenland
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: should want them for their country. we'd be far more
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: willing and able to develop them than Denmark and the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: socialist Greta Thunberg environmentalists from Copenhagen. In the long run,
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: they will be developed by someone. There are three options
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: of who will control Greenland, America, Russia, or China.
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: I do think that that's true. If not America, China
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: or Russia will own Greenland eventually. Denmark is not going
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: to hold on to this piece of land. I think
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: that's true. I think if Greenland was powerful enough to
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: be on its own, its own country, it would be,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: but it is not powerful enough, let's just be frank,
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: to defend itself against a country like Russia or China.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Greenland has a population of 56,000 people. It's been completely unable,
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: prevented from developing its own resources, so it doesn't have
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: a lot of money on top of that. Now, If
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: most Greenlanders were super against becoming part of the United States,
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: I don't think I would support this. I'm not interested
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: in some sort of hostile takeover. It's just not something
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: America needs right now. I'd like to see some more
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: polling done, but as long as most Greenlanders are on board,
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: I'm pretty open to this. And Charlie Kirk, he makes
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: a really good case. So I'm interested in hearing more
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: on this. It seems to be heating up really, really quickly.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was just kind of a funny little
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: afterthought a few weeks ago when now you have the
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Danish government, the government from Greenland, the Greenlandic people coming out,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: commenting on this. Everybody's taking it really seriously. So it's
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: a big sign. Now, although some Greenlanders, I fear, they
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: may change their mind about wanting to join the United
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: States after witnessing how wildly mismanaged the state of California is.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: In Los Angeles, authorities are now arresting dozens of people
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: for burglary and looting in wildfire evacuation zones, including one
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: man who was impersonating a firefighter. I mean, it's just disgusting.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I mean, what people do in times of tragedy, take
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: advantage of it in that way. Gavin Newsom has come
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: out against looting, which is actually a new stance for him.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: Take a listen. We have to keep.
• 24:17
  Speaker 7: People safe.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: So zero tolerance for looting.
• 24:20
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: What a, what a, you know, amazing take from a
• 24:23
  Speaker 7: public official, from a.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Leader of a, of a state. And it actually is
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: a very incredibly new and interesting take from Gavin Newsom,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: because if you recall in 2020, Gavin Newsom supported the
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: BLM arsonists and looters who were terrorizing all of America,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: including Los Angeles. Take a listen.
• 24:50
  Speaker 9: The black community is not responsible for what's happening in
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: this country right now.
• 24:54
  Speaker 8: We are. We are.
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: Our institutions are responsible. We are accountable to this moment.
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: Let's just call that out.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: We're good. What's he saying there? The arson, the looting,
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: the destruction of American cities, it's justified. It's not the
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: criminal's fault who have been destroying American cities. And by
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: the way, he's saying black community because he wants to
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: racialize things. I was in Kenosha, Wisconsin. There were a
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: lot of white people who were destroying that city. Race
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: did not have a play in annihilating beautiful American cities
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: in 2020. Bad people took advantage of that situation and
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: did really evil things. And they were enabled by leaders
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: like Gavin Newsom, who said they're not responsible. It's systemic racism.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: Systemic racism looted all of the homes and businesses in
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: American cities. Systemic racism. Burn down Kenosha, Wisconsin and Minneapolis
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: and countless other cities across the country. It is a
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: shift for Gavin Newsom to come out against looting and
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: arson in 2024 because he has helped create the social
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: hellscape that is California by promoting the BLM riots and
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: soft on crime policies. Now, over the weekend, Gavin Newsom
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: issued an executive order that will allow victims of the
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Southern California fires to not get caught up in bureaucratic
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: red tape and to quickly rebuild their homes. And this
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: is just wild. Gavin Newsom has spent his entire career
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: adding to the California red tape that makes building impossible
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: for normal people. Unless you're a billionaire, don't even think
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: about it. And now he's removing that red tape because
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: he knows there'll be no one left in his state
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: if he doesn't. Is that not a sign that you've
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: gone too far with the regulations? Does he not see
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: how idiotic he looks with this order? He also got
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: caught lying about water reservoirs.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: Take a listen.
• 27:17
  Speaker 9: I called for him to come out, take a look
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: for himself. We want to do in the spirit of
• 27:20
  Speaker 9: an open hand, not a closed fist. He's the president-elect.
• 27:23
  Speaker 9: I respect the office. We have a president of the
• 27:25
  Speaker 9: United States that within 36 hours provided a major disaster
• 27:29
  Speaker 9: declaration over a text. We had support from the president
• 27:33
  Speaker 9: of the United States, Joe Biden, with 100 percent reimbursement.
• 27:36
  Speaker 9: All the resources you could hope for. Imagine constant communication.
• 27:40
  Speaker 9: I'd like to extend that to the president elect. I
• 27:43
  Speaker 9: don't know what he's referring to when he talks about
• 27:45
  Speaker 9: the Delta smelt and reservoirs. The reservoirs are completely full.
• 27:49
  Speaker 9: The state reservoirs here in Southern California, that missing disinformation,
• 27:53
  Speaker 9: I don't think advantages or aids any of us. responding
• 27:56
  Speaker 9: to Donald Trump's insults. We would spend another month. I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 9: very familiar with them. Every elected official that he disagrees with,
• 28:04
  Speaker 9: very familiar with them. We do know, though, from reporting
• 28:07
  Speaker 9: here locally that that one reservoir that serves the Palisades
• 28:09
  Speaker 9: was not full. And that's exactly what triggered my desire
• 28:12
  Speaker 9: to get the investigation to understand what was happening with
• 28:15
  Speaker 9: that local reservoir. That was not a state system reservoir,
• 28:18
  Speaker 9: which the president-elect was referring to as it relates to
• 28:21
  Speaker 9: the Delta and somehow connecting the Delta smelt to this fire.
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: Which is.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: Inexcusable because it's inaccurate, also incomprehensible to anyone that understands
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: water policy in the state.
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: All right, let's just recap what happened there. Gavin Newsom
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: claims the reservoirs are full. The reporter says, yeah, no,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: they're not. And then Gavin Newsom proceeds to continue complaining
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: about Trump. Totally caught in a lie. And then he
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: proceeds to deflect by taking zero responsibility and attacking Trump.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: Here's Tucker Carlson on Gavin Newsom, and what we're witnessing
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: right now from him.
• 28:58
  Speaker 10: I know Gavin Newsom, and I think a lot about
• 29:03
  Speaker 10: Gavin Newsom, many different things about Gavin Newsom, but one
• 29:06
  Speaker 10: thing I know for a fact about Gavin Newsom is
• 29:08
  Speaker 10: he has the capacity to beat a lie detector test.
• 29:11
  Speaker 10: Gavin Newsom will say anything he needs to say. Not
• 29:16
  Speaker 10: like Biden's not like this, actually. Whatever Biden's fault, he's
• 29:18
  Speaker 10: not like this. Like Biden, when you know he has
• 29:21
  Speaker 10: like guilt, if he's lying to you, he gets twitchy.
• 29:24
  Speaker 10: Gavin Newsom's palms don't sweat. His respiration doesn't increase. His
• 29:30
  Speaker 10: body temperature doesn't change. Nothing changes in Gavin Newsom when
• 29:32
  Speaker 10: he lies to your face. And there are not that
• 29:35
  Speaker 10: many people like that, actually. That's a rare quality like
• 29:39
  Speaker 10: to lockdown. the state, to keep people's kids from getting
• 29:42
  Speaker 10: an education and to arrest people for surfing and then
• 29:45
  Speaker 10: go have dinner at the French Laundry. Like, most people
• 29:48
  Speaker 10: couldn't do that. They'd just be like.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: You're saying he's a sociopath.
• 29:52
  Speaker 10: He can lie and not care. I'm not a psychiatrist,
• 29:54
  Speaker 10: but I... So I don't know that... I don't really
• 29:57
  Speaker 10: know the category and I'm not going to diagnose him,
• 29:58
  Speaker 10: but I'll just say in 50 years of being around
• 30:00
  Speaker 10: a lot of people, I've met very few who can
• 30:03
  Speaker 10: behave that way.
• 30:04
  Speaker 11: Very, very few.
• 30:05
  Speaker 10: It's a very unusual quality and, of course, it's probably
• 30:07
  Speaker 10: useful in politics.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: It certainly is useful in politics. And I watched that
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: clip and I forgot about the way he shut down California.
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: In the most tyrannical way possible. I mean, he was
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: the worst of the worst of governors. And then he's
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: out at fancy restaurants, dining with the lead of the state.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's just incredible. Zero character whatsoever. And leaders,
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: true good leaders, they're able to take responsibility. Strong moral
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: leaders aren't con men. They're honest. They have self-respect. They
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: have personal responsibility. That is not Gavin Newsom. This is
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: what Gavin Newsom wants to do with people who catch
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: him in lies. Here he is in a Zoom meeting
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: with Biden.
• 30:59
  Speaker 7: I ask you, we've got to deal with this misinformation.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: There were hurricane force winds of myths and disinformation lies.
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: People want to divide this country. And we're going to
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: have to address that as well. And it breaks my heart.
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: as people are suffering and struggling, that we're up against
• 31:17
  Speaker 7: those hurricane forces as well. And that's just a point
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: of personal privilege that I share that with you because
• 31:24
  Speaker 7: it infects real people that are out there, people I
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: meet every single day, people the mayor's been meeting with,
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: and they're having conversations that are not the typical conversations
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: you'd have at this time. And you wonder where this
• 31:36
  Speaker 7: stuff comes from. And it's very damaging as well. But
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: we're here to get the job done.
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: Censor people saying things he doesn't like, like criticizing him.
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: That's his answer. What a clown. How insulting to people
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: in California who are suffering that their governor is demanding
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that the president silence people critical of the way that
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: his state is run. From Newsom's prioritization of the Delta
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: smelt over human lives to the DEI-infested LGBT-run fire department,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: the out-of-state out of state, out of country mayor. It's
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: a dumpster fire. And the American people are allowed to
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: talk about it. We're allowed to talk about it without
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: you saying it's disinformation because I don't like it and
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: therefore it shouldn't be allowed on the internet. On a
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: positive note, a miraculous statue of the Virgin Mary was
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: discovered untouched in the ruins of a home destroyed during
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: the Los Angeles fires. The home has been in the
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Halpern family for 37 years. This is what they did
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: when they came back to their non-existent house after discovering
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: that the Virgin Mary statue was still standing.
• 32:56
  Speaker 10: Raising a child.
• 33:01
  Speaker 5: I mean, really beautiful singing.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: It's just truly lovely. If our family tried to sing
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: like that, it would not sound that good. Let's just
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: say that. We're not the Von Trapp family here, but wow,
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: a talented family. And the mother and father were on
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Fox & Friends over the weekend with my mom, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: I want you to listen to what Jackie Halperin, the mother,
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: had to say about this ordeal, what her reaction was,
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: because it's really incredible. I.
• 33:52
  Speaker 11: When my daughter, my son-in-law stuck up the day before
• 33:55
  Speaker 11: and took a picture and we could tell the statue
• 33:57
  Speaker 11: was there. And I'll tell you, when I saw that,
• 34:02
  Speaker 11: I fell to my knees, not in prayer, but in emotion.
• 34:06
  Speaker 11: And that's when I thought, we have to get up there.
• 34:09
  Speaker 11: We just have to thank God for the years that
• 34:13
  Speaker 11: we had there. So that was my intention. We're going
• 34:17
  Speaker 11: to pray. We're going to thank God that we're safe.
• 34:19
  Speaker 11: And we have entertained people. a lot for years. We
• 34:24
  Speaker 11: feel very strongly in the virtue of hospitality. So I
• 34:27
  Speaker 11: just wanted to pray and say, if we can do
• 34:31
  Speaker 11: it again, that would be great. And then the song
• 34:33
  Speaker 11: kind of came about on its own. So yeah, I
• 34:40
  Speaker 11: just wanted to pray. I just want to be grateful
• 34:43
  Speaker 11: as much as I can for what we've had.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: How many children do you have? Six.
• 34:50
  Speaker 11: Three boys and three girls.
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: 14 grandchildren.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: What a, what a moment.
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Thank you so much for sharing that.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I think it really makes you stop and think her
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: first response was to be grateful. I don't even own
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: a home, but I wonder that if I lost everything
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: in a fire, save a Mary statue, that I would
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: be grateful like that. Like I wish my reaction would
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: be one of like humility and gratitude and love. I
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: don't know if that's what I would do in a situation.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: like what these people are going through. Losing my clothes,
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: the books, electronics, like everything you own, your whole life
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: is upended. I think there are a lot of reasons
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: to be really bitter and angry and fearful in a
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: situation like what this, the Halpern family and so many
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: others in California are going through. And this family is
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: truly a model for everyone. I think their hearts are
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: set on things that you can actually bring with you
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: when you die. and not the things you can't. Following
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: the fire, all they had was have, have is each other,
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: their faith, after losing everything material in their lives, and
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: they're still somehow cohesive, and they feel fulfilled, because again,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: they value what really matters, and there's something really beautiful
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: about that, and we can be really angry at Gavin Newsom,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: and the fire chief, and the mayor, and that's justified,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: and at the same time, look at this family, and
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: just think about what a model they are for how
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: to react to a crisis like this. It really is beautiful.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I saw a poll yesterday that one in every eight
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Christians around the world face persecution, ranging from imprisonment and
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: censorship to extrajudicial government sanctioned martyrdom. I think seeing that
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: family openly sing and sing profess their faith in that time,
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: it might not be allowed in other parts of the world.
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: So I think there's another opportunity, I think, for all
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: of us to be grateful we live in America, maybe
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: not in China or Nigeria. Maybe it's a sign to
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: fight to preserve the right to practice your faith here.
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: You know, I think for a long time, America has
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: been supposedly exporting these vague notions of freedom and democracy
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: to other parts of the world. And in reality, it's
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: just death and despotism. I think a lot of Christians
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: in the Middle East have died directly because of U.S.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: foreign policy. I don't think a lot of Americans know that,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: but it's true. I think it matters what we put
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: out into the world. I think it should be a
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: reflection of the good people who live here, like the
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: Halpern family, and it's not. Usually it's not. That's why
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: I want to draw your attention to what new Trump
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: National Security Advisor Mike Walsh said recently about the war
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: in Ukraine. Take a listen.
• 37:46
  Speaker 8: I will say, you know, the other thing that we're
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: going to need to see is really stabilizing things on
• 37:53
  Speaker 8: the battlefield. And one of the things that we'll be
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: asking of the Ukrainians is they have real manpower issues.
• 38:00
  Speaker 8: You know, their draft age right now is 26 years old,
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: not 18. I don't think a lot of people realize that.
• 38:07
  Speaker 8: They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. So
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues...
• 38:15
  Speaker 8: on the front line. Look, if the Ukrainians have asked
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: the entire world to be all in for democracy, we
• 38:21
  Speaker 8: need them to be all in for democracy.
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: No, just no. The answer to the war in Ukraine,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: which was sparked by NATO, so the Western powers were
• 38:34
  Speaker 1: antagonizing Russia, the answer is peace at this point. America
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: needs to stop encouraging, fueling, forcing the violence and instead
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: facilitate peace. The majority of Ukrainian people say they want
• 38:49
  Speaker 1: a peace deal, and they're willing to concede land to
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: get it. That's huge. Wars aren't just when you don't
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: have the consent of the people fighting in them. The
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: right thing to do, given the will of the Ukrainian people,
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: is to end the bloodshed. It's unnecessary. Hundreds of thousands
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: of of dead on both sides. The answer isn't more
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: death from younger men. It is facilitating peace, which Trump
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: has said he wants to do. So there seems to
• 39:23
  Speaker 1: be a disparity with some members of his team and
• 39:27
  Speaker 1: the wishes of the president himself. Michael and I, I
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: forced Michael, he was okay with it though. Michael and
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: I watched Gone with the Wind over the weekend, which
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: was one of my favorite films, but I hadn't seen
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: it in a really long time. And it was even
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: better than I remembered it. It truly is a masterpiece.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I loved it. And the film, of course, it takes
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: place in the old antebellum South and goes through the
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: civil war. And it literally is about how the old
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: South is gone with the wind and just a few
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: short years of fighting against the North. It's remarkable when
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: you think about it. I mean, we had American families
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  Speaker 1: torn apart, cousins, siblings, fathers, sons, all fighting each other.
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  Speaker 1: The war devastated the country. divided it in two, left
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  Speaker 1: scars that still echo today. At the start of the film,
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  Speaker 1: you witness a historically accurate energy. You see the men
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  Speaker 1: are clamoring for battle. They're eager for war. By the end,
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  Speaker 1: all those young men at the beginning of the film,
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  Speaker 1: they're either dead or they're destitute. You witness the transformation
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  Speaker 1: of Scarlett O'Hara, the main character, from a wealthy, innocent
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  Speaker 1: girl with these delicate hands to to a woman struggling
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  Speaker 1: to dig for roots in order to survive. The memory
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  Speaker 1: of that war is still alive in the South, where
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  Speaker 1: you can trace a line of poverty stretching from the
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  Speaker 1: path that General Sherman took, marching through Georgia and the Carolinas,
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  Speaker 1: burning and pillaging everything in his wake to this day.
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  Speaker 1: Over 100 years later, you can still see the poverty line.
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  Speaker 1: And America hasn't faced war on its own soil since
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War. And for most of us, we are six, seven,
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  Speaker 1: or more generations removed from that experience, from that trauma.
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  Speaker 1: But when America was traumatized by conflict on our own soil,
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  Speaker 1: the Civil War, and it was just, and the people
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  Speaker 1: believed in it, they consented to it, we were still horrified.
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  Speaker 1: So I find it frankly disgusting that we as a
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  Speaker 1: nation are so quick to call for war abroad. across
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  Speaker 1: the world, in Ukraine, in the Middle East. Even more
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  Speaker 1: so that we fuel these conflicts and demand younger and
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  Speaker 1: younger men go off to die. None of us know
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  Speaker 1: what the Ukrainians have been through. We haven't experienced that
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  Speaker 1: as Americans. The Ukrainians aren't even consenting to the conflict.
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  Speaker 1: There's something, frankly, evil about continuing to push for war,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that the Ukrainian people don't support it. And Americans
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  Speaker 1: have been spared the horrors of war on our own
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  Speaker 1: soil for a long time. And the way we pay
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  Speaker 1: back God for that blessing is by perpetuating war across
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  Speaker 1: the world in places not so fortunate. That is something
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  Speaker 1: truly disordered and frankly evil. And Gone with the Wind
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  Speaker 1: is a great movie. I love it. And I do
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  Speaker 1: think that sometimes revisiting that conflict while it was just
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  Speaker 1: and while it needed to happen and the American people
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  Speaker 1: on both sides consented to it was horrifying. And we
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  Speaker 1: have to understand that we don't have the trauma that
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  Speaker 1: other parts of the world have from war. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have that experience. And it's really wrong of us to
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  Speaker 1: continue to fuel and push that on other people who
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  Speaker 1: aren't even consenting to conflict. And that's all I have
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