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In Poland, the desperate EU elite attempt to do away with democracy in order to save it · John’s Newsletter

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  SPEAKER_00: Good morning,
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  SPEAKER_00: everyone,
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  SPEAKER_00: and welcome to the Patrick Henry Podcast,
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  SPEAKER_00: where we hold the elite's feet to the fire, as they so rightly should be held.
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  SPEAKER_00: And greetings from America.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm jet lagged out of my mind.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been up since four in the morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought I'd give myself the day to catch up on my reading, get a little bit of sleep.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm having this lovely dinner with John and his fiancee,
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  SPEAKER_00: Rochelle,
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  SPEAKER_00: to celebrate all the good things that there are and their wedding in a week.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we have the midterms ahead,
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  SPEAKER_00: 15 or so meetings in the next two weeks, a lot of exciting things going on there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I will take you with me as we have this grand adventure in America in our effort
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  SPEAKER_00: to continue to revive realism, Jeffersonianism, and rule of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because of that, I don't get the day off.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't get to choose when the news happens.
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the things I lecture our staff about all the time,
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  SPEAKER_00: and that's no more true than now,
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's true for me as well,
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  SPEAKER_00: because there's been an incredibly important development in Poland.
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  SPEAKER_00: As always with Eastern European politics, it's going to seem murky.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I commend to you Roger Kimball's piece, An American Grandfather.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Patrick Henry podcast scheme of things.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's going to become very clear beyond the murk of the immediate as
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  SPEAKER_00: to what's truly going on at a deeper level,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is this is the age-old fight between those who think they know better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Rule of experts,
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  SPEAKER_00: as that insufferable racist Woodrow Wilson put it 100 years ago,
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  SPEAKER_00: and the rule of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's remember that at the height of COVID, Dr. Fauci,
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  SPEAKER_00: when he was at the height of his power,
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  SPEAKER_00: mused out loud in Reau Claire Politics that maybe these old-fashioned quaint beliefs
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  SPEAKER_00: and naive Jeffersonian ideas like individual liberty and rule of
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  SPEAKER_00: the people might have to be revisited if we're going to really have problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: This
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  SPEAKER_00: from the man who led to the spread of the virus in the first place,
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  SPEAKER_00: outrageous in his moral preening and superiority.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he's not alone,
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  SPEAKER_00: as those of you who've been following me for the last 10 years,
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  SPEAKER_00: 20 years, actually since I began at Heritage in 1999, 27 years ago, have known that
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  SPEAKER_00: That like Jefferson,
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  SPEAKER_00: I have sworn upon the altar of Almighty God eternal enmity against every form
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  SPEAKER_00: of tyranny over the mind of man.
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  SPEAKER_00: That means that I believe in the people and not rule of the experts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in essence, sincerely.
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  SPEAKER_00: Since Wilson,
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  SPEAKER_00: that's what the fight's been about between realism,
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  SPEAKER_00: Jeffersonianism,
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  SPEAKER_00: populism,
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  SPEAKER_00: and rule of the people versus government, a globalist government by the experts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And one of the great global symbols of this is an EU.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of the things we have going in our favor is the experts continue to be wrong
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  SPEAKER_00: about so very much.
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  SPEAKER_00: They've certainly screwed up COVID,
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  SPEAKER_00: but in the case of the EU,
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  SPEAKER_00: the poster child of this globalist view over the last generation,
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  SPEAKER_00: they failed over the big three things that we talk about over and over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, 80 plus quarters of anemic growth as Europe has become an economic backwater economy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Over-regulated, over-taxed, and without people prepared to take risks as a result of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: More socialist than everything else.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an extraordinary factoid out there that government spending in France is now 57% of GDP.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the Soviet Union, it was only 50%.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, the French government are outspending the communists.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that this is an underestimated reason for its failure.
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  SPEAKER_00: It isn't capitalistic.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's state-run capitalism, as is China.
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  SPEAKER_00: But without Deng Xiaoping before juicing things more on the free market side,
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  SPEAKER_00: instead you have a backwater because of this too.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've talked about over and over again,
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  SPEAKER_00: and we will again, unfettered, unassimilated immigration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Poland is a great example of that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Poland refuses to accept EU norms and let in immigrants.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a result,
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  SPEAKER_00: Poland has far more social cohesion,
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  SPEAKER_00: a far lower rate of criminality, and as a result has boomed.
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  SPEAKER_00: Poland now economically is on a par of slightly above Italy.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you can believe it in one generation because it is capitalistic,
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  SPEAKER_00: it is cohesive,
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  SPEAKER_00: it won't accept these EU standards and as a result is looked upon
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  SPEAKER_00: with deep suspicion by the ever harder pressed folks in Brussels
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  SPEAKER_00: who have failed economically.
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  SPEAKER_00: So the background of this is clear.
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  SPEAKER_00: We have an EU beset on all sides by
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  SPEAKER_00: That populist movement,
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  SPEAKER_00: Marine Le Pen and national rally likely to win the French presidential election in
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  SPEAKER_00: the spring.
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  SPEAKER_00: We've been calling this forever.
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  SPEAKER_00: No secret.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is going to be at one of our big calls next year.
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  SPEAKER_00: There we are.
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  SPEAKER_00: That you have a mix of the old right and the new right in Spain,
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  SPEAKER_00: the populist party in Vox likely to form a coalition government as the You
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  SPEAKER_00: have
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  SPEAKER_00: the AFD as the largest single party in Germany.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have Maloney in power in Italy.
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  SPEAKER_00: You can go on and on and on.
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  SPEAKER_00: This government of experts it's supposed to know better hasn't known better and has
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  SPEAKER_00: in fact done horribly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a result,
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  SPEAKER_00: they see the rise of populism who may not have the right answers,
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  SPEAKER_00: but at least are asking the right questions.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the backdrop to what I'm going to explain happened in Poland.
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  SPEAKER_00: It seems like a rather obscure judicial matter, but it's not.
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  SPEAKER_00: At base, this is about the oldest question in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: Who rules?
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  SPEAKER_00: Is it the people or are it the globalist experts increasingly with their backs up
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  SPEAKER_00: against the wall as they have failed abjectly to be successful in spite
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  SPEAKER_00: of their preening and pretensions, which know no bounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: My favorite X of the week is somehow Christine Lagarde,
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  SPEAKER_00: who was convicted of I mean, I'm accused of arrogance if I said something like,
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  SPEAKER_00: That staff would hit me in the head with a brick until I stopped moving.
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  SPEAKER_00: She's patting herself on the back in an axe for a job well done
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  SPEAKER_00: while Europe has fallen apart economically under her watch with no answers
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  SPEAKER_00: to regulation, no answers to growth, and she thinks she's done an amazing job.
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  SPEAKER_00: And no one's talking back at the establishment level.
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  SPEAKER_00: As they keep giving themselves awards for things they haven't done,
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  SPEAKER_00: keep writing papers that no one's read,
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  SPEAKER_00: and keep speaking at conferences where only they are there.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, Marie Antoinette, and I love the French Revolution.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just about to start Colin Jones's great book on the fall of Robespierre.
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  SPEAKER_00: Marie Antoinette in the French Revolution didn't say let them eat cake.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is unfairly attributed to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the point is she might have.
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  SPEAKER_00: The point is she could well have said that.
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  SPEAKER_00: People could imagine her saying that based upon her little milkmaid routine on
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  SPEAKER_00: the grounds of Versailles while the people were starving.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as a result of this, people believe that might be possible.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is an elite so out of touch with reality that they still think they are superior.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've got Lagarde saying what a great job she did, while all facts are to the contrary.
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  SPEAKER_00: But they know that they're pressed.
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  SPEAKER_00: They think unfairly by these knuckle-dragging nationalist populist elites
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  SPEAKER_00: who believe in rule of the people.
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  SPEAKER_00: So keep that in mind as we talk about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what's going on underneath what can only be described as a power grab is
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  SPEAKER_00: the generous way to describe what Donald Tusk did.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember,
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  SPEAKER_00: Donald Tusk was president,
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  SPEAKER_00: the current prime minister in Poland, was president of the European Council.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a card-carrying member of the Brussels elite.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's gone back to Poland to run the place.
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  SPEAKER_00: On the other hand,
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  SPEAKER_00: the PIS party, our populist Polish nationalists, often very prickly about that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so this is a confrontation that's been coming.
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  SPEAKER_00: But let's go through what Roger Kimball said step by step,
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  SPEAKER_00: and then we'll look at the bigger issue at work.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, The first step is Donald Tusk is attempting to appoint eight judges to
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  SPEAKER_00: the constitutional court.
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  SPEAKER_00: Part of the background of this is that if Poland is ever going to adopt the euro,
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  SPEAKER_00: you would need to make constitutional changes that would be upheld by this court.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also because of the ongoing immigration differences between the EU and
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  SPEAKER_00: the court, it would have to give way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, in the past,
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  SPEAKER_00: the court has committed the one unpardonable sin,
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  SPEAKER_00: For any national group to do at a judicial level.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is plainly said that Polish law trumps EU law.
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  SPEAKER_00: It is plainly said Polish law trumps EU law when they come into conflict.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the EU said this makes the court illegitimate because to join the EU,
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  SPEAKER_00: you must accept the supremacy and primacy of the EU.
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  SPEAKER_00: Which again, we're talking about who rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's the background.
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  SPEAKER_00: So to help make the court,
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  SPEAKER_00: which has seen a majority put forward by the PIS,
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  SPEAKER_00: the nationalist populist prickly people,
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  SPEAKER_00: the court has a majority of people of that view on it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tusk attempts to appoint,
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  SPEAKER_00: with his majority in parliament,
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  SPEAKER_00: attempts to appoint eight judges to the constitutional court.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, constitutionally, he's allowed to appoint judges.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the key constitutional fact is he's only allowed to appoint three and he wants
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  SPEAKER_00: to appoint eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: Sound familiar to people who love the squad in America?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is court packing.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is court packing.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's constitutionally allowed to appoint three.
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  SPEAKER_00: He wants to appoint eight.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the first step in this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, the president,
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  SPEAKER_00: the head of state,
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  SPEAKER_00: President Karol Naraki,
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  SPEAKER_00: who is a member of the PIS, is a pro-Trump, nationalist PIS populist.
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  SPEAKER_00: Naraki says he swore in only three,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is the constitutional number, not swearing in the other five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tusk organized a parallel swearing-in of the other five in his effort to court pack,
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  SPEAKER_00: administering the oath himself to the other five,
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  SPEAKER_00: though the Constitution is clear that only the president,
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  SPEAKER_00: meaning President Nairaqi, Only he can do the swearing in.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Tusk ignored the Constitution and went ahead and did it anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: That lackey for the globalist elite,
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  SPEAKER_00: who unfortunately I know a little bit,
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  SPEAKER_00: Radek Sikorsky and his much more odious wife,
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  SPEAKER_00: Ann Applebaum, even Radek admitted that this was not elegant.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the understatement of the century.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Narwaki swears in the three,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tusks illegally swears in the other five by himself,
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  SPEAKER_00: though constitutionally it's clear that only the president can do that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Point four,
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  SPEAKER_00: Narwaki as head of state and the man who runs the foreign policy,
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  SPEAKER_00: he goes off to Senegal to have a meeting.
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  SPEAKER_00: While he's gone,
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  SPEAKER_00: One of the Tusk judges,
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  SPEAKER_00: one of the five that he illegally swore in,
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  SPEAKER_00: removed the president of the Constitutional Court,
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  SPEAKER_00: who is a backer of populism,
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  SPEAKER_00: is a PIS supporter,
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  SPEAKER_00: removed the president of the Constitutional Court while Naraki was in the air.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then it appears that Naraki hears about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in between while he's off heading towards Senegal on his plane,
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  SPEAKER_00: Narraki,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tusk orders the police to block access to the court and deny entry of the president
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  SPEAKER_00: of the Supreme Court to his offices.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now there are policemen put in front so he cannot enter after he's been removed
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  SPEAKER_00: by one of these five lackeys who was sworn in illegally by Tusk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now Rocky is on the air.
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  SPEAKER_00: He immediately starts back now Rocky in the air to Poland to deal with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, this is where calling this a power grab,
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  SPEAKER_00: not that you'd hear these words in the Guardian or anyone else.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, God bless Elon, because otherwise we wouldn't know this is going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: This would be one in a long series of things where we didn't have access to
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  SPEAKER_00: the facts as
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  SPEAKER_00: the establishment mainstream globalist cheerleaders would take advantage
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  SPEAKER_00: of this quite extraordinarily.
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  SPEAKER_00: But now Rocky turns around and the ground staff are told not to let him land.
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  SPEAKER_00: Is that a power grab or is that an attempted coup?
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  SPEAKER_00: We're certainly dancing on the line, to put it mildly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this gets my Jeffersonian hackles up very obviously.
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  SPEAKER_00: So instead, Naraki turns around.
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  SPEAKER_00: He lands anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: The plane lands anyway.
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  SPEAKER_00: Thank God, no one does anything to the plane, though it seems it was refused permission to land.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is the seventh step.
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  SPEAKER_00: Personally, then, President Naraki struggles with the police.
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  SPEAKER_00: To gain access to the Supreme Court.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then on point nine,
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  SPEAKER_00: once he does gain access to the court,
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  SPEAKER_00: he removes the five judges who were sworn in by Tusk and grants the president of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Supreme Court access to his office.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think power grab understates this.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think this is an attempted coup,
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  SPEAKER_00: but I don't want to get caught in the trap of losing readers or losing arguments
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  SPEAKER_00: about this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether it is a power grab or an attempted coup, it is way over.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tusk's effort at court packing illegal constitutionally is then met by him demanding
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  SPEAKER_00: that the president's plane not land and then putting police around the building not
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  SPEAKER_00: to let in.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in turn...
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  SPEAKER_00: Putting his lackeys in power so that the globalist project could continue.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we've talked about this before.
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  SPEAKER_00: For an area that believes in theory and democracy,
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  SPEAKER_00: the EU doesn't practice it beyond the fact that the The Irish vote no, vote again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just vote again until we get the result we like.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you don't agree with us or the EU ever going on religion of Eurofederalism.
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  SPEAKER_00: You don't agree with this process.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, well, we won't give you any money.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, you do like Tusk?
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  SPEAKER_00: Suddenly all the money magically is unfrozen.
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  SPEAKER_00: These guys play hard and they like to win.
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  SPEAKER_00: Romania, you're going to elect a populist president.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll just annul the result.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is getting out of hand.
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  SPEAKER_00: You have to accept in a democratic system that you're going to lose an awful lot of the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: God knows I have had to deal with Wilsonians and neocons my entire adult life,
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  SPEAKER_00: running American foreign policy into a ditch.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that doesn't mean...
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  SPEAKER_00: I get to stop and say they aren't somehow the legitimate people.
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  SPEAKER_00: George W. Bush legitimately won elections, as did various Democrats, including Barack Obama.
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  SPEAKER_00: I still have to put up with the results, much as I don't like with them.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: How the EU operates,
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  SPEAKER_00: and particularly now with their backs to the wall,
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  SPEAKER_00: any form of belief in democracy seems to be going away.
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  SPEAKER_00: And instead, this insane belief that somehow Christine Lagarde did a good job of the ECB.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is what the economists said,
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  SPEAKER_00: Bremer said,
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  SPEAKER_00: the usual establishmentarian cheerleaders,
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  SPEAKER_00: not only are the authoritarian and arrogant,
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  SPEAKER_00: analytically, empirically, they have been wrong over and over and over again.
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  SPEAKER_00: In the end, this is about who rules.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's what we're dealing with here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what we just saw is It's certainly a power grab well beyond the Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's not play games with the words.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's acknowledge that reality.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, the key failure, why is all this going on?
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  SPEAKER_00: This seems very hardball for a constitutional court.
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  SPEAKER_00: A group of government-backed judges attempted to seize procedural control of
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  SPEAKER_00: the Treasury The country's pro-EU lackey,
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  SPEAKER_00: the Prime Minister Donald Tusk, former head of the European Council, sent police to
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  SPEAKER_00: To the Supreme Court to try to keep the Euroskeptic president out of that because at
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  SPEAKER_00: the end,
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  SPEAKER_00: and Tusk's people are actually saying this fairly forthrightly,
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  SPEAKER_00: this is about Europe.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you going to fall in line with the globalist Eurofederalists?
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  SPEAKER_00: This is about who rules and the different policies they make in the end beneath all
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  SPEAKER_00: the murkiness.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's what we're talking about here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And again,
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  SPEAKER_00: the court has made the ultimate sin of saying Polish law takes precedence
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  SPEAKER_00: over EU law, which, of course, the EU says makes it legitimate.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Brussels, by saying the court is illegitimate, signed the permit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Winked and nodded.
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  SPEAKER_00: If that court is illegitimate, well, then Tusk can do what he wants to it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this very much seems to be the play.
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  SPEAKER_00: Whether they did this directly and with knowledge or whether they just said...
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  SPEAKER_00: By saying it's illegitimate, this happened.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, I don't want to play games.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have no idea.
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  SPEAKER_00: My guess would be toward the conspiracy theory.
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  SPEAKER_00: But whether I'm right or wrong is immaterial.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is what happened.
• 20:19
  SPEAKER_00: And by saying it's illegitimate, this has given Tusk a wink and a nod to go ahead and deal.
• 20:24
  SPEAKER_00: The pro-EU parties are trying to use authoritarian measures
• 20:26
  SPEAKER_00: to suppress rightist populist movements.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is just the most egregious example.
• 20:44
  SPEAKER_00: But as I said, look at the votes over Maastricht.
• 20:47
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the votes for an EU constitution.
• 20:49
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the Lisbon Treaty.
• 20:51
  SPEAKER_00: Look at the annulling of the Romanian president.
• 20:53
  SPEAKER_00: We've been following this all along.
• 20:55
  SPEAKER_00: And sadly, this is a pattern.
• 20:57
  SPEAKER_00: If the peasants aren't going to vote the right way, they can vote again.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_00: And if they're not, you know what?
• 21:02
  SPEAKER_00: We'll use extra constitutional means to get what we want.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: That can never be accepted.
• 21:09
  SPEAKER_00: Never be accepted.
• 21:10
  SPEAKER_00: And you don't get to skip the rules because you don't like the outcome.
• 21:15
  SPEAKER_00: These are about the very basic things moving forward.
• 21:18
  SPEAKER_00: And there will be more of this, dear community.
• 21:21
  SPEAKER_00: I warn you moving forward because these guys are sore losers.
• 21:25
  SPEAKER_00: They're not used to losing.
• 21:26
  SPEAKER_00: They will fight tooth and claw to defend their prerogatives,
• 21:31
  SPEAKER_00: their position in society, their money, their titles.
• 21:35
  SPEAKER_00: But it's a very simple division for all the complexity
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_00: and murk around this attempted coup in politics.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_00: This is simple.
• 21:42
  SPEAKER_00: This is a battle between elitist establishment failed pro-EU Eurofederalists who see
• 21:49
  SPEAKER_00: the Eurofederal project nearing its end,
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: desperate to keep their received religion going,
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_00: and those of us who believe in the will of the people.
• 21:59
  SPEAKER_00: For all the complexity, there is simplicity at the end of the road.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: You are either with Thomas Jefferson and you are not.
• 22:06
  SPEAKER_00: And I, for one, am.
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: Great to talk to you from Washington.
• 22:11
  SPEAKER_00: Great one to keep coming.
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: We will follow this.
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: If there need to be any updates, we will do so.
• 22:16
  SPEAKER_00: I'm excited to take you on our adventures here in DC.
• 22:19
  SPEAKER_00: So much going on.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, we have a lot planned for the midterm.
• 22:22
  SPEAKER_00: I have endless meetings in
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: the next We must not let this EU Euro-Federalist project subvert constitutional
• 22:27
  SPEAKER_00: and democratic norms simply because they don't like the outcome.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: And the outcome is that they will end up on the ash heap of history as they so richly deserve.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_00: Everybody take care.