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The DSA's Long Game to Capture the Democratic Party · The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated

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Speaker 2: Welcome everybody to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guest host
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Speaker 2: Kurt Schlickt. You're welcoming you to this Friday episode.
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Speaker 3: I think it's the biggest.
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Speaker 2: Conservative show out there. I mean there's millions of you
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Speaker 2: out there, listeners, dedicated listeners, dedicated for twenty six years. Yes,
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Speaker 2: I get to preside over the Hugh Hewitt Shows. Twenty
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Speaker 2: sixth birthday Dwayne Adam Harley. They are all in the house.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have cake. It's gonna be amazing. I was
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Speaker 2: in og as we say on the street, I'm guess
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Speaker 2: host Kurt Schlicktter by the way, and I have an
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Speaker 2: incredible amount of street credibility, among other things, besides my
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Speaker 2: famous rap career from the early nineties. I was definitely
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Speaker 2: old school. I was a Army infantry colonel. I was
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Speaker 2: a trial lawyer for about thirty years. I am the
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Speaker 2: senior editor or senior columnist at townhall dot com. I'm
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Speaker 2: the author of now seventeen books, including the Kelly Turnbull
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Speaker 2: series of conservative action novels. My new novel starting a
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Speaker 2: new series, is called American Warlord. You can get it
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Speaker 2: at Amazon on pre order. It comes out November third,
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Speaker 2: American Warlord. Now, how do you know that I'm an
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Speaker 2: og from Hugh Hewitt.
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Speaker 3: Well, it's easy.
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Speaker 2: I'm going to say American Warlord seven times, because that's
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Speaker 2: a Hugh hewittt thing for book authors. You've got to
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Speaker 2: say the book, which in my case is American Warlord
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Speaker 2: seven times. So American Warlord, American Warlord, and American Warlord.
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Speaker 3: But look, my.
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Speaker 2: Humble opinion is this is this is the best show
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Speaker 2: out there. And I'm not just saying that because Hugh
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Speaker 2: obviously hit his head and suffered a brain injury and
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Speaker 2: allows me to guest host every once in a while.
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Speaker 2: I am a listener. I've been a listener, like I said,
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Speaker 2: for twenty six years.
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Speaker 4: I was.
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Speaker 2: My first big radio hit was on the Hugh Hewitt
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Speaker 2: Show as a guest. It was something about the army.
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Speaker 2: I was a National Guard officer at the time, I
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Speaker 2: think a colonel, and I got to know Hugh a
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Speaker 2: little bit. And when my battalion was a squadron because
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Speaker 2: it was cavalry, my squadron was having its annual ball,
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Speaker 2: it's second ball. The first ball was at an Indian casino,
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Speaker 2: and I got up and I said to our hosts,
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Speaker 2: thank you for not holding a grudge. But the second ball,
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Speaker 2: I needed a guess. I said, well, get Hugh Hewett
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Speaker 2: and he agreed and he came and I was so
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Speaker 2: struck by him because he sat with me at the
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Speaker 2: head table. I was the commander, had my little stetson on.
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Speaker 2: And the thing that got me about Hugh was that
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Speaker 2: I did all the talk. He kept asking me questions,
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Speaker 2: how does your unit work, what do you do? What
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Speaker 2: are your guys like, what do they do? And I
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Speaker 2: was like, Wow, this guy knows his stuff. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'd listen to him, but you know, he is the
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Speaker 2: best interviewer out there, There's no question. And you know,
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Speaker 2: guys like me, you know, I'm okay. I was a
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Speaker 2: lawyer for thirty years. I knew how to do an examination.
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Speaker 2: But man, Hugh is just so smooth at it, and I,
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Speaker 2: for one want to thank him for twenty six great
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Speaker 2: years at various time slots. I'm so thankful he's not
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Speaker 2: doing the three am to six am Pacific time slot
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Speaker 2: anymore because I'd have to get up at one o'clock
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Speaker 2: to come do the guest.
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Speaker 3: Hit, which I did many times.
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Speaker 2: And his guys Dwayne Adam Harley are the best in
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Speaker 2: the business, and most of the guys in business are
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Speaker 2: very very good, but this team is incredible. So I
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Speaker 2: wanted to say Happy birthday of the Hugh Hewitt Show
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Speaker 2: from a fan and a friend. And look, I'm looking
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Speaker 2: for twenty six more years. Twenty six more years, go
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Speaker 2: to about one hundred. I think that's uh. I think
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Speaker 2: that's a reasonable goal. I want to give you. I
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Speaker 2: want to play you a cut. I want to play
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Speaker 2: you a cut from our Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
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Speaker 3: That is cut number one.
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Speaker 5: Just weeks ago, a convicted sex offender and a foreign
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Speaker 5: national was shielded from deportation by the governor of Minnesota.
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Speaker 5: Laotian national to Lee Vang was convicted of repeatedly sexually
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Speaker 5: abusing a ten year old girl in the state of Minnesota.
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Speaker 5: He even tried to pay his victim for her silence,
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Speaker 5: and he called his heinous crimes a minor thing. Just
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Speaker 5: days before this foreign sex offender was scheduled to be deported,
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Speaker 5: Tim Waltz, the Governor, issued him a pardon, setting him
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Speaker 5: free to once again in danger the children of America. Well,
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Speaker 5: this week I revoked his legal status in the United
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Speaker 5: States and as a result, federal agents took him into
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Speaker 5: custody and as of today, he has been removed from
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Speaker 5: the United States.
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Speaker 6: Because of our action.
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Speaker 5: This foreign criminal will never pose a threat to any
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Speaker 5: American ever again. Americans must never be forced by their
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Speaker 5: elected leaders to live alongside foreign sex criminals, who have
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Speaker 5: no right to begin with, to reside in our country.
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Speaker 5: This administration will always stand with the American people and
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Speaker 5: defend them from violent criminals.
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Speaker 2: Now you heard correctly. You were not hallucinating. This was
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Speaker 2: not the result of some sort of trauma. This was
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Speaker 2: exactly what you heard. Tim Walls, who could have been
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Speaker 2: our vice president, decided he was going to pardon an
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Speaker 2: illegal alien sex criminal to save him from deportation. Now
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Speaker 2: that didn't work, because we're not playing that anymore. But
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Speaker 2: that's not the first first time. There have been other
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Speaker 2: criminals who leftist governors have pardoned in order to prevent
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Speaker 2: them from being deported. That is how insane the Democrat
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Speaker 2: Party has become. They are literally choosing to keep sex
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Speaker 2: perverts in America. Now, admittedly that's an important constituency in
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party. Actually that's a couple important constituencies. Illegal aliens, perverts.
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Speaker 2: But normal people look at that and say, you know,
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Speaker 2: we don't need aliens to do the crimes that Americans
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Speaker 2: won't do. Now, one of the rare times that I
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Speaker 2: disagree with you, Hewitt, is on immigration.
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Speaker 7: He is.
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Speaker 2: Much more patient and gentle. I'm like to port them all.
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Speaker 2: I've been here forty years and I've built a one
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Speaker 2: for get out, take your stuff. I'm allowing you to
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Speaker 2: take your stuff, be happy, but I'm contributed to go.
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Speaker 2: Go contribute in your own country. You don't get to
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Speaker 2: break our laws. When you break our laws, it disrespects us.
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Speaker 2: I don't take disrespect from anybody. And this whole idea
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Speaker 2: that somehow we should just ignore the laws that our
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Speaker 2: democratic process is enacted. Now, I'm old enough to remember
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Speaker 2: the seventies, remember a schoolhouse rock. I'm just a bill,
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Speaker 2: I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol Hill. Well,
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Speaker 2: that bill got passed by our elected representatives and signed
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Speaker 2: by our elected president. In a democracy, we get to choose.
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Speaker 2: The entire notion behind tolerating illegal aliens is telling you
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Speaker 2: and me, American citizens, you don't get to choose how
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Speaker 2: your country works.
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Speaker 3: We're not playing that. Get on the bus. Well, I'm
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm an abuela and I've been here thirteen
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Speaker 3: years and I'm.
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Speaker 8: Gonna get out, get out, go, And I'll tell you
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Speaker 8: twenty years ago, maybe we would have had more patience
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Speaker 8: if we hadn't been lied to, scammed, suffered, murders, suffered
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Speaker 8: the depredations of pervert like this little wait layocean creep.
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Speaker 2: But no, they had to let millions of people in.
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Speaker 2: So now it's time for him to go. And you know,
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Speaker 2: when Ice is out there deporting people wearing masks, all
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Speaker 2: I can do is eighties movie slow Clap.
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Speaker 3: I'm all for it.
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Speaker 2: First, wear the masks so these psychopaths can't target you
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Speaker 2: and your family. Second of all, pick them up off
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Speaker 2: the street. I don't care if they're going to church.
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Speaker 2: I don't care if they're going to the hospital. I
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Speaker 2: don't care if they're going down to have feed dumplings
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Speaker 2: to orphans.
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Speaker 3: Get on the bus, get out. We're done.
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Speaker 4: We're done.
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Speaker 2: We tried being nice, we tried being patient, and we
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Speaker 2: got pardoned Laotian sex predators.
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Speaker 3: No, thank you again. We ain't playing that.
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Speaker 2: I'm Kirt Schlichter, guest hosting for Hugh Hewitt on the
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Speaker 2: twenty sixth anniversary of the Hugh Hewitt Show.
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Speaker 3: Stick Around. We got a lot more to come.
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Speaker 4: I can't see.
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Speaker 3: We're back from the Hugh Hewit Show.
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Speaker 2: I'm guess Ho's Kurt Schlichter, the guest host with the
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Speaker 2: best bumper music and conservative radio. I'm joined by my
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Speaker 2: pal Eli Lake. He has the Breaking History podcast. He's
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Speaker 2: a Free Press contributor. Follow him at Eli Lake. Eli
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Speaker 2: you dig the jam?
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Speaker 6: I dig it?
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Speaker 9: Man, of course it was good. I mean I'm a
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Speaker 9: huge Almonds con.
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Speaker 6: You will.
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Speaker 2: I know all about him, man, little Peter Weller before
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Speaker 2: he got all style counseling and soft. Oh yeah, there's
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Speaker 2: like four people who understand any of those references listening
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Speaker 2: to us.
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Speaker 9: Eli, kids, if you like the clash, you'll love the jam.
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Speaker 9: That's what I say.
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Speaker 3: You need to get down of the jam. You know,
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Speaker 3: I think it's funny. Eli.
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Speaker 2: We're supposed to be you know, we're on the right.
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Speaker 2: We're supposed to be uptight, we're supposed to be neurotic.
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Speaker 2: We're supposed to be channeling John Lithgow from Footloose, And
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Speaker 2: yet you and Ironson, you're, yeah, you and ireson here
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Speaker 2: kicking around the references to not obscure actually cutting edge
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Speaker 2: punk and post punk rock from the early eighties, when
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Speaker 2: we when we've hung out together with you know, throwing
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Speaker 2: out movie references. How did conservatives how did conservatives let
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Speaker 2: themselves get labeled uncool?
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Speaker 10: Well, I don't.
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Speaker 9: I mean, I think it's because that if you look
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Speaker 9: at it, kind of where the kind of in the
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Speaker 9: explosions of popular culture. If you look at the late
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Speaker 9: sixties and you look at those kind of movements, they
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Speaker 9: all were sort of challenging what they perceived to be conservative.
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Speaker 9: But the energy on the right, especially in the last
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Speaker 9: ten years, has largely been against a kind of establishment.
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Speaker 9: And it's so that's not exactly true. Like when the
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Speaker 9: left was obsessed with you know, monitoring and you know,
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Speaker 9: editing social media, it was the right that was largely
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Speaker 9: making the First Amendment arguments so you know when there
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Speaker 9: was you know, I always I come from I have
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Speaker 9: a bit of a libertarian street. So I think that
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Speaker 9: just generally, opposition to the nanny state is something that
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Speaker 9: I think is more at home on the right if
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Speaker 9: you look at at least the sort of liberalism, you know,
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Speaker 9: if you look at the tendency of the left. So
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Speaker 9: it is a bit of a mystery, but I do
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Speaker 9: think it goes back. It goes back to the sixties,
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Speaker 9: is just before both of our eras you know, I
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Speaker 9: was born in seventy two, so in the sixties it
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Speaker 9: was the people wanted to control you know, what you
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Speaker 9: had to you know, who work against free speech if
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Speaker 9: you look at it them was it was.
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Speaker 6: It was the right at the time.
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Speaker 9: And you know, the big free speech movement at Berkeley
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Speaker 9: was all about the Vietnam War. So in that respect,
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Speaker 9: I just think that's that's kind of how it happened.
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Speaker 9: And then there's a whole lot of conformity, not in
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Speaker 9: every walk of life, and so it just happens to
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Speaker 9: be that people who are in popular music, popular film,
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Speaker 9: and so forth, those are very left liberal places.
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Speaker 2: Well, ELI like this leads me to one of the
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Speaker 2: things I've been thinking about one of the things I'm
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Speaker 2: probably going to write about a town hall in the future,
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Speaker 2: and I believe that the the new generation of people
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Speaker 2: calling themselves socialists And if you want to know about socialism,
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Speaker 2: you need to go get the Breaking History podcasts because
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Speaker 2: Eli has chronicled the origins. Yes, I mean I you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm sitting there driving listening to you taking notes, which
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Speaker 2: is not safe, not safe at all, but I'll take
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Speaker 2: that risk.
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Speaker 6: But we we feel at the mom Donnie.
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Speaker 9: We did the DSA episode in November, and I feel
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Speaker 9: like it's now finally, like I've been warning you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, now here's my contention. I want you to evaluate it.
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Speaker 2: I believe that there's actually not as much space as
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Speaker 2: people claim between the kind of establishment modern democrats and
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Speaker 2: the people calling themselves socialists. And the people who've won
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Speaker 2: under the DSA label have done it by beating establishment democrats.
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Speaker 2: They haven't gone out and beaten you know, conservatives. I'm
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Speaker 2: looking at this less as an idiological battle, because I
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Speaker 2: think they all kind of agree on the ideology at
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Speaker 2: the at the end of the day. I'm looking as
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Speaker 2: a battle of generations. Because you had a gerontocracy that
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Speaker 2: held onto power, stole our genera, the gen X folks.
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Speaker 2: We haven't had a president yet, we haven't had any
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Speaker 2: real leaders yet on the Democrats side. So I think,
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Speaker 2: I think to understand what's going on, UH is really
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Speaker 2: a battle for power between constituent groups who have decided
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Speaker 2: we're going to distinguish ourselves by branding ourselves socialists.
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Speaker 7: What do you think.
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Speaker 9: I don't know if it's entirely generational, and I also
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Speaker 9: don't know that there isn't an ideological component to the
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Speaker 9: mainstream Democrats. I think it comes in the context of
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Speaker 9: American populism, which is some which is a current in
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Speaker 9: American politics and in our country since the founding. In
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Speaker 9: fact the founding itself. If you look at the Boston
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Speaker 9: Tea Party, if you look at the writings of Thomas Paine,
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Speaker 9: they are very much, you know, against big structures, and
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Speaker 9: they are all about the people. And then you move
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Speaker 9: forward and after you know, a quarter century almost of
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Speaker 9: a kind of the Jeffersonian consensus, you have a guy
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Speaker 9: named Andrew Jackson, much like Trump in twenty you know
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Speaker 9: Trump's claim in twenty twenty, he, you know, Jackson, I
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Speaker 9: think had a more legitimate a better argument in eighteen
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Speaker 9: twenty four that the election was that he was robbed.
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Speaker 9: The election was stolen from him when it went to
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Speaker 9: the House of Representatives and John and they end up
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Speaker 9: making what he called the corrupt bargain, and John Quincy
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Speaker 9: Adams becomes the president, the son of our second president.
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Speaker 6: And then.
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Speaker 9: And then you had this sort of populist era under
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Speaker 9: Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren, and then you know,
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Speaker 9: things kind of went back. And then you know, so
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Speaker 9: and and then there were other populists too, Rose, there
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Speaker 9: was William Jennings Bryan, and then there was Huey Long.
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Speaker 9: And then you had a kind of populism in the
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Speaker 9: sixties that was a rejection of the civil rights era
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Speaker 9: in George Wallace. There was a kind of populism that
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Speaker 9: emerges in after we win the Cold War with neoliberalism
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Speaker 9: as the dominant kind of ideology. And then you know
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Speaker 9: who is the spoiler for George H. W. Bush in
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Speaker 9: nineteen ninety two. It's a Dross Borrow. He's certainly a
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Speaker 9: kind of proto populist. And then you have Pat Buchanan,
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Speaker 9: who is appealing to a kind of right wing populist message.
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Speaker 9: The DSA, I think is writing a kind of populist wave,
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Speaker 9: and they also have felt like the machinations of their
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Speaker 9: own party have you know, kind of you know, has
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Speaker 9: stopped them from from.
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Speaker 6: Gaining real power.
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Speaker 9: And you know, they have a litany of complaints that
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Speaker 9: goes back to twenty sixteen and the revelations about the
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Speaker 9: Democratic National Committee under W. Wasserman Schultz. In twenty twenty,
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Speaker 9: Joe Biden, it looked like the Democratic voters in the
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Speaker 9: early primaries were rejecting him. He wins in South Carolina
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Speaker 9: with the help of James Clyburn, and then you have
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Speaker 9: you know, former President Barack Obama and other sort of
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Speaker 9: major party figures telling his opponents to begin to drop
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Speaker 9: out and make way for Biden. So there was some
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Speaker 9: bitterness about that. Then you get to twenty twenty four
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Speaker 9: and then you get the you know, Biden wins, you know,
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Speaker 9: kind of runs unopposed largely, but he has a total
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Speaker 9: crash out in the debates, and the party leadership then
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Speaker 9: scrambles and say, well, we can't run him, We're going.
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Speaker 6: To lose, and they basically shove Kamala.
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Speaker 9: Harris down the road of the party and there was
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Speaker 9: no chance for anybody to sort of vote for somebody else.
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Speaker 6: And if it's okay with you, that's the grand Platner
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Speaker 6: does it not?
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Speaker 2: Well, I was going to get to Graham Plattner and
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get on the other side of the break
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Speaker 2: because I'm gonna hold Eli Lake over on the u
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Speaker 2: Hewitt Show.
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Speaker 3: I'm guess he's Kirk Slickter. Be right back spring time
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Speaker 3: for Ahead and ger Money.
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Speaker 5: Dudgeln is Hop Welcome, Welcome.
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Speaker 2: Back to the Hugh Hewitt Show. I'm guess ho's Kirk Slickter.
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Speaker 2: I'm on with Eli Lake the Breaking History Podcast and
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Speaker 2: the Free Press and that bumper music can only be
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Speaker 2: one lead in.
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Speaker 3: It can only take us one place.
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Speaker 2: Eli, two words for you, Graham Platner, go, Well.
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Speaker 9: What I would say before the break was that I
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Speaker 9: think when we saw with you know, his Wednesday night video,
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Speaker 9: that he is saying he's going to pull out. He
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Speaker 9: hasn't done it yet. He says I'll do it on Monday.
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Speaker 6: But the more.
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Speaker 9: Important thing is he says he was robbed, and that
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Speaker 9: is kind of I mean, he's kind of got a point.
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Speaker 6: I have.
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Speaker 9: I by the way, I think that he should. It
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Speaker 9: was disqualifying from my perspective. If I was a main voter,
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Speaker 9: I would not have voted for him. He's got a
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Speaker 9: Nazi tattoo, he seems unstable, he looks, you know, apparently's
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Speaker 9: an alcoholic. He's abusive to women, and he is credibly
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Speaker 9: accused of rape. But what I want to know is
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Speaker 9: why the Politico story from last from this week, that
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Speaker 9: was the one that got everybody to turn around on
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Speaker 9: him after they'd already cast their votes. If you remember,
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Speaker 9: there was a big story in the New York Times
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Speaker 9: before the June ninth primary, and seventy three percent of
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Speaker 9: the main Democrats who voted in that primary voter for
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Speaker 9: Grant Platner. So I don't know. I I find it
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Speaker 9: strange that after all of that from before, and all
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Speaker 9: of the other scandals that accumulated around him, Bernie Sanders,
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Speaker 9: Elizabeth Warren, Rocanna, everybody, Podsave America, everybody was supporting him.
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Speaker 9: I thought it was great, But this thing comes out,
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Speaker 9: which again is an accusation. It's an allegation, and I'm
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Speaker 9: not saying you don't take it seriously, but you know,
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Speaker 9: this was the bridge too far, and the other stuff
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Speaker 9: wasn't and then you, after the people voted, you're gonna
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Speaker 9: now say we're going to put all this pressure on you.
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Speaker 9: We're going to pull all the money, we're not going
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Speaker 9: to let you fundraise, we're not going to give you
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Speaker 9: access to voter data, so you won't be able to
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Speaker 9: run an effective campaign.
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Speaker 6: That to me is extraordinary.
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Speaker 9: So I do think he kind of has a point
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Speaker 9: when he says he was robbed and his movement was robbed.
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Speaker 9: So in that respect, I do think that they made
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Speaker 9: They may have made the right tactical decision in terms
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Speaker 9: of the race against Susan Collins in November. We'll see
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Speaker 9: who they come up with to replace Platner. But I
21:14
Speaker 9: think that they've only made their long term problem worse.
21:18
Speaker 9: And that long term problem is that you have a
21:21
Speaker 9: faction of the party now that believes in a narrative
21:24
Speaker 9: that it's that the people who control the party are
21:28
Speaker 9: not really interested in what the voters have to say,
21:32
Speaker 9: because when the voters were vote the wrong way, you know,
21:35
Speaker 9: they don't let them. They find some loophole, you know,
21:39
Speaker 9: whether it's Hillary's super delegates or whatever it is that
21:44
Speaker 9: will get the candidate of their choice. And to me,
21:48
Speaker 9: you know, that's going to be a structural problem for
21:51
Speaker 9: the Democratic Party going forward. And I think in some
21:54
Speaker 9: ways they made a real they made an error in
21:56
Speaker 9: that respect.
21:57
Speaker 2: Well, look, I think that they the progressives complaining that
22:03
Speaker 2: they're being ignored by the establishment, have a point. They
22:05
Speaker 2: are being ignored by the establishment. I think the I
22:08
Speaker 2: think the establishment candidate, establishment members looked at the polls
22:12
Speaker 2: and said, oh, this ain't working, we got to dump
22:16
Speaker 2: this guy. I don't know and I haven't seen any
22:20
Speaker 2: polling about what the Democrat base says. My gut, says
22:24
Speaker 2: Eli Lake, that most almost all Democrats would still vote
22:30
Speaker 2: for Graham Platner, Nazi tattoo, outhouse onanism, now credible allegations
22:37
Speaker 2: of rape.
22:38
Speaker 3: I don't think they care.
22:39
Speaker 2: I think they would vote for him anyway, and I
22:42
Speaker 2: believe there is a non zero chance that he will
22:44
Speaker 2: say I'm not putting in my papers, what are you
22:46
Speaker 2: going to do?
22:47
Speaker 9: And I believe I think you're right on the second point.
22:50
Speaker 9: I think I think it's it's I think if it
22:52
Speaker 9: was just if it was just a neutral field, I
22:56
Speaker 9: think people do care about that.
22:58
Speaker 6: But I think if they if they believe that.
23:00
Speaker 9: The allegations and the scandals around him that are ultimately
23:04
Speaker 9: Grand Platter's own fault.
23:05
Speaker 6: So let's just say that.
23:06
Speaker 9: But if they think that this that he was done
23:10
Speaker 9: dirty and that you know, they they dug up stuff
23:14
Speaker 9: and that people exaggerated or whatever because they were at
23:18
Speaker 9: the behest of the party bosses, well then they're not
23:22
Speaker 9: really voting because they think that all that stuff is true.
23:25
Speaker 9: But he's okay, we like him anyway because of what
23:27
Speaker 9: he says about billionaires. What they're saying is the opposition
23:31
Speaker 9: within the party. The sudden one eighty is motivated by
23:38
Speaker 9: political party that will not let our kinds of populist
23:42
Speaker 9: candidates actually win.
23:44
Speaker 3: Well.
23:44
Speaker 2: Eli Lak of the Free Press and the Breaking History podcast,
23:48
Speaker 2: which I never missed highly recommended. Thanks for being here
23:52
Speaker 2: on the Quit Show. I'm guess that's Kirk Schlichter. We've
23:55
Speaker 2: got a lot more to come to stick around. Welcome
24:07
Speaker 2: back to the Hugh Hewitt Shoe. I am Kurt Schlichter
24:10
Speaker 2: and I am in complete control here reference to the
24:14
Speaker 2: Great Clash song that we're used as the pumper music.
24:17
Speaker 2: Good lord, I have great taste in music. I also
24:20
Speaker 2: have great tasting guests. Next up, my friend CEO of
24:24
Speaker 2: American Majority the director of the new movie The Threat
24:28
Speaker 2: of Liberty Keeping Our Republic Ned Ryan, welcome to show
24:31
Speaker 2: Ned correct to be with you, Kurt Okay, I'm gonna
24:35
Speaker 2: throw two words out at you, and I want you
24:38
Speaker 2: to react.
24:40
Speaker 3: Graham Platner, go.
24:44
Speaker 4: What a complete disaster that I hope. I hope the
24:47
Speaker 4: result is Democrats tear themselves into a million pieces over
24:51
Speaker 4: this and destroy themselves. I think there's this, Well, there
24:57
Speaker 4: is a civil war going inside the Democratic Party between
25:00
Speaker 4: the dying DC establishment Democrats and the rising socialists. And
25:06
Speaker 4: I hope that one of the things that will help
25:09
Speaker 4: us in the midterms is something like this, where they
25:12
Speaker 4: become so focused on killing each other off that they
25:15
Speaker 4: weaken themselves going into November three.
25:18
Speaker 2: Well, first of all, do you think Grant Platner is
25:19
Speaker 2: actually going to sign the papers? I think there is
25:22
Speaker 2: a nine zero chance. He says, Wait a minute, I
25:24
Speaker 2: got money in the bank, I got small donors.
25:27
Speaker 3: The establishment tried to screw me. I'm going to return
25:30
Speaker 3: the favor.
25:33
Speaker 4: I would love to see him do that. I am
25:34
Speaker 4: cheering for him to do that. If there's any way
25:36
Speaker 4: that I can pour jet fuel on this situation, I
25:39
Speaker 4: would love to be able to do it.
25:41
Speaker 2: And I love how the Conservatives are out there for
25:45
Speaker 2: the most moderate and sensible and peaceable Republican. And Susan Collins,
25:51
Speaker 2: who is a stone killer as a politician.
25:55
Speaker 4: I mean she is.
25:57
Speaker 3: She's not right wig as you were me, but she
25:59
Speaker 3: will stick you hard.
26:02
Speaker 4: But the thing that I remind people all the time,
26:04
Speaker 4: first of all, we're talking about Maine. We're talking about it.
26:06
Speaker 4: Let's say that's not terribly conservative. It's pretty incredible that
26:10
Speaker 4: every time we have needed Susan Collins to step up
26:13
Speaker 4: on big issues that are tough ones, whether it's Kavanaugh,
26:16
Speaker 4: you name it, guess who always steps up to the plate.
26:19
Speaker 4: It's Susan Collins. And sure she votes you know, the
26:22
Speaker 4: wrong way sometimes, but it's on boast that most of
26:24
Speaker 4: the time we're not sure we really need. But when
26:26
Speaker 4: a push comes to shove on key vote, Susan Collins
26:29
Speaker 4: steps up to the plate, and you're right, she's a
26:30
Speaker 4: stone cold killer. I would remind people she's down god
26:33
Speaker 4: knows how many points in twenty twenty. Guess who wins
26:37
Speaker 4: on election night that year, Susan Collins. I think where
26:39
Speaker 4: they really started the pang. They thought they had a
26:41
Speaker 4: shot with Graham Platner. All of a sudden, the poll
26:44
Speaker 4: numbers are looking bad, and again, let's let's let's look
26:46
Speaker 4: at the hypocrisy and the absolute fastness of the Democratic
26:50
Speaker 4: Party when it comes to Grand Plattner, mister Nazi and
26:53
Speaker 4: everything else. They thought they could use them as a
26:55
Speaker 4: political tool to achieve political power, and then all of
26:58
Speaker 4: a sudden they realize, hey, this is my not work
27:00
Speaker 4: out so well, because Susan Colin Colins released the pull
27:03
Speaker 4: showing here at four points just a week ago. And
27:06
Speaker 4: now they realize, holy cow, this woman goes down a
27:09
Speaker 4: bajillion points in twenty twenty ends up winning. He's up
27:12
Speaker 4: four already on this Platiner guy. We better find somebody else.
27:15
Speaker 4: So this has nothing to do with any principles, has
27:18
Speaker 4: everything to do They thought they could use them as
27:19
Speaker 4: a tool to achieve political power. They don't think, so
27:22
Speaker 4: now they want to throw them overboard. And He's like, hey,
27:23
Speaker 4: hold on, there's one hundred and fifty some thousand people
27:27
Speaker 4: that voted for me in a primary. So that's the
27:29
Speaker 4: other thing that just cracks me up every time, Kurt.
27:33
Speaker 4: The most undemocratic thing in American politics today is a
27:37
Speaker 4: Democrat primary it's not like, yeah, it was kind of
27:40
Speaker 4: more serious, a suggestion. We don't really know if we
27:43
Speaker 4: believe in this representative democracy is this thing, So we're
27:46
Speaker 4: going to make a choice for the people and say
27:49
Speaker 4: this guy's not worth having on the on the ballot.
27:52
Speaker 3: Ned.
27:53
Speaker 2: Do you think the Republicans can summon up the smarts
27:56
Speaker 2: to use Grand Platiner and the rest of these socialists
28:00
Speaker 2: twits who want to eradicate Western civilization as a baseball
28:03
Speaker 2: bat to beat them around the skull at the midterms.
28:07
Speaker 4: I think Trump Trump will, So I hope that Trump. Obviously,
28:11
Speaker 4: Trump's going to lead the way on this. Obviously we
28:12
Speaker 4: saw his great speech what about a week ago going
28:16
Speaker 4: after communism. First of all, let's put a fine point
28:18
Speaker 4: on it, Kurt, the Democrats, socialists of America, knock it off.
28:22
Speaker 4: The commies, let's just the commis. We should call them
28:26
Speaker 4: what they are, commies. Trump's going to set the tone
28:29
Speaker 4: on that. I think Republicans, hopefully some are going to
28:32
Speaker 4: follow his lead. But Trump's going to set the tone.
28:35
Speaker 4: My concern is he needs to come back and set
28:39
Speaker 4: the tone and be focused on domestic issues and start
28:42
Speaker 4: doing these rallies across Key congressional districts and key center
28:47
Speaker 4: races states. So he'll set the tone, He'll set the narrative.
28:52
Speaker 4: I think others will follow them.
28:53
Speaker 2: Now never, Ryan, you are now delving into multi media.
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Speaker 7: I am.
29:01
Speaker 2: You've got a new movie out, The Threat of Liberty
29:03
Speaker 2: Keeping our Republic. I have viewed it. I think it's fantastic.
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29:14
Speaker 4: I wanted to do something to celebrate the two hundred
29:16
Speaker 4: and fiftieth anniversary, but really, as we started going through
29:20
Speaker 4: the process, how do we begin a rebirth of instinctive
29:24
Speaker 4: patriotism that inborn love of country, and you cannot love
29:29
Speaker 4: whatch you do not know. So one of the things
29:31
Speaker 4: I think the problem with the younger generations that are
29:34
Speaker 4: being kind of the siren song of socialism being mooed
29:37
Speaker 4: by that is they've been taught a lot of lies
29:40
Speaker 4: about our founding, our founding documents, all of these incredible
29:44
Speaker 4: the legacy we've been given. So we wanted to go
29:46
Speaker 4: through in the threat of history and show a what
29:48
Speaker 4: we have and how previous generations and moments of conflict
29:53
Speaker 4: in these inflection points where this country could have failed,
29:56
Speaker 4: and there's so many different points, Kurt, we only could
29:58
Speaker 4: cover a small handful of nty five minutes. But that
30:01
Speaker 4: generation at the time decided to grab hold of that
30:03
Speaker 4: threat of liberty because they felt an obligation to the experiments,
30:06
Speaker 4: and they thought they had an obligation to generations that
30:09
Speaker 4: had come before and generations that would come after. And
30:12
Speaker 4: they viewed themselves in that moment as the stewards of liberty.
30:15
Speaker 4: And so we use alexis to toefol as the backdrop.
30:18
Speaker 4: That young French nobleman who came and was fascinated by
30:21
Speaker 4: the American Republican in the eighteen thirties wrote an incredible
30:24
Speaker 4: observation Democracy in America on the beauty of the American Republic,
30:28
Speaker 4: what made it work, and then also some of the
30:29
Speaker 4: threats it was going to face, and use that as
30:32
Speaker 4: the backdrop to just tell the story all the way
30:34
Speaker 4: up into the modern day. And I think we're in
30:35
Speaker 4: another inflection point, and I think we've got this administrative state,
30:39
Speaker 4: this managerial class, and again the rise of socialism that
30:43
Speaker 4: we have to decide as a current generation, do we
30:45
Speaker 4: still feel that obligation to the experiment. So we want
30:48
Speaker 4: to have people be inspired by it again, that instinctive
30:51
Speaker 4: patriotism and go yeah, I do still have I feel
30:54
Speaker 4: that moral obligation to the experiment, and by God, somewhere
30:58
Speaker 4: deep within, I hope we find the political will and
31:00
Speaker 4: courage to continue on to be able to hand off
31:03
Speaker 4: the threat of liberty to the next generation.
31:05
Speaker 2: Well, you know, ned Ryan, we've got about fifteen seconds left.
31:08
Speaker 2: Do you think America will refine its roots?
31:12
Speaker 4: It's not going to be easy. I think every generation
31:15
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31:19
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33:10
Speaker 3: Welcome to the hu Hewitt Show.
33:12
Speaker 7: Hey, Kurt, it's always great to talk to you, and
33:15
Speaker 7: it's it's a pleasure to join you this Friday. I
33:18
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33:22
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Speaker 2: Milk you gotta milk it like a Wisconsin Angus exactly.
33:41
Speaker 7: It's the one area. It's the one area where you
33:43
Speaker 7: just can't have any sort of qualms about pushing things
33:46
Speaker 7: too hard. You know, It's just like other areas you
33:50
Speaker 7: can have a little bit of humility, no when it
33:52
Speaker 7: comes to Hawking books, got Hawk books.
33:55
Speaker 2: Well, I had my shame gene surgically removed in law school. Ben,
33:58
Speaker 2: I'm going to I'm going to throw two words at you,
34:02
Speaker 2: and I'm going to let you go.
34:04
Speaker 3: Graham Platner rock on.
34:07
Speaker 7: So here's the thing about it. You know, there just
34:15
Speaker 7: were no red flies with this guy, you know, like,
34:18
Speaker 7: I mean, he shows up, you know, and he just
34:20
Speaker 7: seems like a really you know, hard working oysterman, you know,
34:24
Speaker 7: family businessman. Uh. You know, certainly didn't get kicked out
34:28
Speaker 7: of his you know, prep school too early for reasons
34:31
Speaker 7: that are still unknown. You know, certainly didn't have you know,
34:34
Speaker 7: lies about the way that he paid for his house,
34:36
Speaker 7: you know from his rich parents and the like. Certainly
34:40
Speaker 7: didn't have you know, any Nazi tattoos on him. I mean,
34:43
Speaker 7: come on, you know, you know there was no there
34:45
Speaker 7: were no red flags around this guy. Howard Democrats supposed
34:49
Speaker 7: to know any of this unless they literally read any
34:53
Speaker 7: right of center piece of journalism about this guy over
34:56
Speaker 7: the past six months. I mean, look, you know, us
34:59
Speaker 7: at the Daily wh are the Free Beacon folks. We've
35:01
Speaker 7: been all over this town hall. You've been all over
35:04
Speaker 7: this as well, it's like this was so obvious, such
35:08
Speaker 7: a problem for them, and yet they continued to sort
35:11
Speaker 7: of insist, oh no, this is just this is partisan
35:14
Speaker 7: plant jobs. And then they do this you know, catch
35:16
Speaker 7: and kill thing with the whole you know, sort of
35:19
Speaker 7: initial allegations against them, where they take basically, I mean,
35:22
Speaker 7: no offense to hurt, sort of the weakest run of
35:25
Speaker 7: allegations and they run with it to sort of try
35:27
Speaker 7: to inoculate him from, you know, the overall depiction of
35:32
Speaker 7: what has unfolded since then and what I think would
35:35
Speaker 7: continue to unfold. And this is my theory about this,
35:38
Speaker 7: and feel free to disagree. My theory is that grand
35:41
Speaker 7: Plattner is dropping out of this race not because of
35:43
Speaker 7: what has been reported, but because of what happened. Because
35:47
Speaker 7: the truth is, he had all the cards in his favor.
35:50
Speaker 7: He could easily have demanded that the Democratic Party give
35:53
Speaker 7: him some kind of say over the next nominee because
35:55
Speaker 7: they're going to be able to choose it. In the
35:57
Speaker 7: smoke filled room, he could have said it has to
35:58
Speaker 7: be a progressive, it has to be part of the DSA,
36:00
Speaker 7: has to we know whatever. He had the ability to
36:03
Speaker 7: just say, you know, go off and screw. I'm only
36:05
Speaker 7: down by you know, five points basically in terms of
36:08
Speaker 7: the public polling and private polling that I've seen, it's
36:11
Speaker 7: really it is in the single digits. It's like five
36:13
Speaker 7: to seven. I think the trajectory is bad, and that
36:16
Speaker 7: would have changed. But this is one of these situations
36:18
Speaker 7: where he literally could have just told them to go
36:21
Speaker 7: pound fans. The fact that he didn't, to me, is
36:24
Speaker 7: an indication that every rumor about him is correct, that
36:27
Speaker 7: there was going to be a lot more that came
36:29
Speaker 7: out that was going to be even more damning, and
36:31
Speaker 7: that he is trying to get out in a way
36:33
Speaker 7: to avoid that happening to him. Look, this is the
36:37
Speaker 7: danger that the DSA has created because they have their
36:42
Speaker 7: group of an activist class now that can elevate these
36:46
Speaker 7: people to the point where they can win democratic primaries.
36:49
Speaker 7: But you know what, they don't do. They don't vest,
36:51
Speaker 7: they don't really care about this stuff. They just look
36:53
Speaker 7: at the way that people, you know, work on social media.
36:56
Speaker 7: They look at grand Platner and they're like, hey, he's
36:58
Speaker 7: got a mustache like a wallrist, looks like a guy
37:00
Speaker 7: who's going to be you know, masculine, and give us
37:03
Speaker 7: you know sort of, you know, a tough looking face
37:05
Speaker 7: as opposed to that smiling guy. I'm donnie. You know,
37:08
Speaker 7: we want something like that in this role. And you know,
37:11
Speaker 7: the simple fact is they didn't do any of their
37:13
Speaker 7: due diligence, or if they did, they just hoped that
37:16
Speaker 7: no one would notice. And this is where they are today.
37:19
Speaker 2: Well, Ben Dominic, I think you have an intriguing uh
37:23
Speaker 2: sporem there. Wait, wait, you think there's more to Grand Platiner.
37:28
Speaker 2: I see, I don't even want to speculate because I
37:30
Speaker 2: have to be at CC compliant.
37:33
Speaker 7: Oh gosh, no, I that there's a lot more.
37:35
Speaker 3: You know, if it was doing me over a beer weep, yikes.
37:40
Speaker 7: Yeah. Well, one of the things that I think this
37:42
Speaker 7: is just funny because the you know, the consultant class,
37:46
Speaker 7: yes in d C, which you are thankfully not someone
37:49
Speaker 7: who has to interact with, but I do because I
37:51
Speaker 7: have a job and I'm based in DC and I
37:52
Speaker 7: talk to these people. These swamp folks. They all were
37:55
Speaker 7: telling me pretty early on they were champion at the
37:58
Speaker 7: bit to go after Grand Platiner. He got into the general.
38:01
Speaker 7: They were all eager to fire away at him with
38:04
Speaker 7: all sorts of different things that they believed that they
38:06
Speaker 7: could prove and more people to come forward, etc. Etc.
38:10
Speaker 7: And look, I mean, I don't know what you want
38:13
Speaker 7: to think about the way that this played out in
38:15
Speaker 7: terms of the Democratic establishment. But you know, the latest
38:19
Speaker 7: reports Matt Whitlocke was was highlighting this just before I
38:23
Speaker 7: came on with you, you know, are that Chuck Schumer and
38:26
Speaker 7: the Democratic Centtorial Committee started pulling money out of that
38:29
Speaker 7: race days before this story even broke. They knew at
38:34
Speaker 7: some point, and it was earlier than the rest of us,
38:37
Speaker 7: knew that Graham Platner had this kind of stuff in
38:40
Speaker 7: his background, and it was why Elizabeth Warren and others
38:43
Speaker 7: explicitly asked him about these types of things when he
38:46
Speaker 7: came and met with fellow senators, you know, with Democrat senators,
38:50
Speaker 7: I should say, because he's not going to be a
38:52
Speaker 7: fellow senator, not gonna be around here much longer. The
38:57
Speaker 7: truth is they were asking that question because they had
39:00
Speaker 7: heard the rumors as well. He denied it. That denial
39:03
Speaker 7: turned out to be a lie. And now we're in
39:04
Speaker 7: a situation where they are having to deal with these
39:07
Speaker 7: crazy DSA people who they don't have any real ability
39:11
Speaker 7: to stop in the primary phase, and they're going to
39:14
Speaker 7: try to pull all sorts of dirty tricks afterward to
39:16
Speaker 7: change things up, the same way they did with Kamala.
39:19
Speaker 2: Well, look, I'm just stunned that, you know, Elizabeth Warren
39:23
Speaker 2: found that he was speaking with fort tongue.
39:27
Speaker 3: Look, but let's more game this out.
39:32
Speaker 2: If he really gets out, he's that loser, Nazi tattoo
39:36
Speaker 2: rapist outhouse onenest guy. Right, what if he says I'm
39:40
Speaker 2: sticking around, what are you gonna.
39:42
Speaker 3: Do about it? And really, what are they gonna do
39:44
Speaker 3: about it?
39:45
Speaker 7: And that's the point that I've been making pretty consistently.
39:48
Speaker 7: I realized it's a lonely point. But like there is
39:51
Speaker 7: still a the universe in which he refuses to actually
39:53
Speaker 7: file the paperwork on Monday. He doesn't actually he has
39:56
Speaker 7: not actually technically dropped out, And we already know from
40:00
Speaker 7: you know, the reporting around it, that he refused to
40:03
Speaker 7: do the video that they wanted him to do. They
40:05
Speaker 7: wanted him to do a video that was you know,
40:08
Speaker 7: all sort of lovey dovey, and you know, we're all
40:10
Speaker 7: going to get along here, and I'm just dropping out
40:13
Speaker 7: because things are tough for my family right now. Things
40:15
Speaker 7: like that he didn't do that. He depicted himself as
40:18
Speaker 7: a martyr, and he set himself up for being a
40:20
Speaker 7: future figure I think within the DSA. Look, Kurt, I
40:24
Speaker 7: don't know where your podcast rank, but Graham Platner is
40:26
Speaker 7: going to be in on that podcast platform pretty quickly,
40:30
Speaker 7: and I think that there's going to be a lot
40:31
Speaker 7: of people who follow him into it. And look the
40:34
Speaker 7: the you know, the the DSA has been wanting some
40:38
Speaker 7: kind of Andrew Tate of their own. Maybe they finally
40:41
Speaker 7: found one.
40:42
Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah, what do you think the over and
40:44
Speaker 2: under is on this guy showing up on canvas? Owen's
40:47
Speaker 2: explaining how it's all.
40:50
Speaker 7: Man did I do not want to bet against that
40:52
Speaker 7: on Calsey that is that is absolutely you know, taken
40:59
Speaker 7: out by the people who took out Charlie like that.
41:03
Speaker 2: I was about to go down that stinge. No, no,
41:05
Speaker 2: But here's the funny thing, Ben. He totally would.
41:09
Speaker 7: He totally would.
41:10
Speaker 3: He totally wouldn't. And yah, who killed Charlie Kirk. He'll
41:13
Speaker 3: totally do that.
41:14
Speaker 7: He will absolutely do that. And this is the other thing, Kurt,
41:16
Speaker 7: that we need to understand about these people. They are
41:18
Speaker 7: absolutely shameless. Yes, they have no they have no ability,
41:23
Speaker 7: they have no there's nothing in them that says I
41:27
Speaker 7: need to be honest in this moment. They will say
41:30
Speaker 7: whatever they need to based on the situation in front
41:33
Speaker 7: of them, and they will bounce around and they will
41:35
Speaker 7: try to gaslight you, and they will revise their comments previously,
41:38
Speaker 7: or they will pretend like they didn't exist, and they
41:41
Speaker 7: will adopt new conspiracies on a daily basis that never
41:44
Speaker 7: come to fruition because they know that they can get
41:47
Speaker 7: away with it because they count on the people who
41:49
Speaker 7: are following them to have the brains of goldfish and
41:52
Speaker 7: not remember anything that happened even five seconds ago.
41:56
Speaker 2: Well, ben war has started in a ram and again,
42:01
Speaker 2: uh we we were told there was a ceasefire. Now
42:03
Speaker 2: Donald Trump saying there's no cease fire. What what do
42:08
Speaker 2: you think is going to happen next?
42:10
Speaker 7: Well, I could war with Iran and it sucks. But
42:12
Speaker 7: it's also something that I think is thoroughly predictable, because
42:16
Speaker 7: I mean, you know what, what kind of you know,
42:19
Speaker 7: what kind of message did they send to us that
42:21
Speaker 7: would indicate that, uh, the Iranian deocrats who've talked about
42:25
Speaker 7: killing us for decades would be find us.
42:28
Speaker 3: Well, who you.
42:31
Speaker 7: Know, it's kind of like the Grand Platter situation. There
42:34
Speaker 7: were no red flags there. It looks like something that
42:37
Speaker 7: could work, now band work. I want to I want
42:40
Speaker 7: to be specific about this because you know, the folks
42:42
Speaker 7: who listen to Hugh consistently, they've heard me be critical
42:45
Speaker 7: of the Vice president and he's been critical of me,
42:48
Speaker 7: and and you know that's fine. Uh. I was on
42:51
Speaker 7: a call with some senior administration officials, I know this
42:55
Speaker 7: is the podcast that it will go out after the embargo,
42:58
Speaker 7: and they were making the case for what going on there.
43:00
Speaker 7: And it's not really anything that's all that revelatory, except
43:04
Speaker 7: that I think that there was a true difference of
43:09
Speaker 7: opinion between the Iranians and the Americans about what opening
43:13
Speaker 7: the straight entailed. I think that there was also an
43:16
Speaker 7: element within the Iranian military that was with this these
43:21
Speaker 7: latest strikes, probably trying to undermine the deal that they
43:25
Speaker 7: were trying to do. I happen to think that that
43:28
Speaker 7: deal is a bad deal this period and a story.
43:30
Speaker 7: I would rather have no deal than the deal that
43:32
Speaker 7: they have negotiated with this MoU Hugh was referred to
43:36
Speaker 7: it as a punt. I think that it is a
43:38
Speaker 7: punt in terms of the politics of the situation, just
43:41
Speaker 7: trying to get through the midterms of what have you.
43:43
Speaker 7: But I also think the president's fed up with them,
43:45
Speaker 7: and I'm glad that he's set up with them because
43:47
Speaker 7: he should be, because they have given no indication whatsoever
43:51
Speaker 7: that they are going to change their behavior even after
43:54
Speaker 7: having decapitated the leadership of this regime. Set back their
43:57
Speaker 7: ballistic missile program to the Dark Age, is to sit
44:00
Speaker 7: back their nuclear program to I don't know, the Middle Ages,
44:03
Speaker 7: and ultimately, you know, put them in a position where
44:06
Speaker 7: they are crawling out of the rubble to try to
44:09
Speaker 7: fling you know, random drones and strikes at people in
44:12
Speaker 7: a desperate attempt to attack commercial ships and shut things down.
44:16
Speaker 7: I think the Iranians are not to be trusted. I
44:18
Speaker 7: think the President is going to be bombing away, you know,
44:21
Speaker 7: pretty well into the next couple of weeks. But I
44:23
Speaker 7: also think that ultimately we may end up just walking
44:25
Speaker 7: away from this thing and not having any deal at all,
44:28
Speaker 7: because that's actually better than something that unlocks the kind
44:30
Speaker 7: of money that they can have had access to.
44:33
Speaker 2: Well, Ben Dominic, I look at that, you know, put
44:37
Speaker 2: my little strategist helmet on from the Army War College.
44:40
Speaker 2: I look at this as Trump exercising the levers of
44:43
Speaker 2: national power, diplomatic, information, military, and economic in an amazing way.
44:48
Speaker 2: I see Bessent today coming out saying, hey, we're freezing
44:53
Speaker 2: their money, which means they can't sell the oil that's
44:55
Speaker 2: already out there.
44:57
Speaker 7: Because I mean, I just think we never should have
45:00
Speaker 7: backed off. I think we never should have backed off.
45:02
Speaker 7: I think we backed off a little too early. And
45:04
Speaker 7: I think that that quite quite honestly. And you know, Kurt,
45:07
Speaker 7: you I'd actually be curious about your opinion about this.
45:10
Speaker 7: My opinion is we should have actually started targeting IRGC
45:14
Speaker 7: targets specifically. Yes, we decimated their navy, we decimated their
45:18
Speaker 7: ballistic missile program, We've you know, we've done all of
45:21
Speaker 7: these other things. But the IRGC is the real problem here,
45:25
Speaker 7: and until you actually start targeting them, you're not really
45:29
Speaker 7: going to create any kind of avenue. I know, people
45:31
Speaker 7: like to say pie and the Sky stuff about regime changes,
45:33
Speaker 7: so I'm not even a regime change fan. It's more,
45:37
Speaker 7: unless you're dealing with the IRGC, you still have the
45:39
Speaker 7: same core element of these of these fascist religious idiots.
45:44
Speaker 3: We need to kill them.
45:45
Speaker 2: We need to kill the IRGC members. You know, I'm
45:49
Speaker 2: a soldier. There's the enemy killed them all. We're going
45:53
Speaker 2: back leaving the podcast. We're going back from break here
45:57
Speaker 2: on the hu Hewitt Show.
46:10
Speaker 3: We're back on the Hugh Hewett Show.
46:12
Speaker 2: I'm guess it's Urge Schlickter with Ben Dominic for another segment,
46:16
Speaker 2: and that's Blondie Singing dreaming, because I have the greatest
46:20
Speaker 2: taste in bumper music there is, Ben. You you famously
46:24
Speaker 2: have some kids. Do you force them to listen to
46:26
Speaker 2: the music of your youth when you drive them around?
46:30
Speaker 6: Oh?
46:30
Speaker 7: Not only do I force them to listen to the
46:32
Speaker 7: music of my youth. I'm in a constant war with
46:35
Speaker 7: my wife over which music of our youth they are
46:38
Speaker 7: designed to listen to, which means that when they're in
46:40
Speaker 7: the car with me, they're learning about you know, I
46:44
Speaker 7: say the music of my youth, it's actually not the
46:46
Speaker 7: music of my No, I guess there are some exceptions.
46:51
Speaker 7: They've they've got some there's some Weezer in there and
46:53
Speaker 7: some you know. But but like you nineties kids, they
46:56
Speaker 7: get the who, they get the rolling Stones, they get
46:59
Speaker 7: led Zeppel and with me and with my wife they
47:02
Speaker 7: get abba, and they get a share, and they get
47:05
Speaker 7: you know, a bunch of other stuff that's in that thing,
47:08
Speaker 7: which I am perfectly happy to tolerate. You know what.
47:11
Speaker 7: She pays a lot of the Eagles and the Beach Boys.
47:14
Speaker 7: Not a big fan of the Eagles, but you know,
47:16
Speaker 7: it's one of these things where I'm willing to tolerate that.
47:19
Speaker 7: It's the mother of my children.
47:21
Speaker 2: Well, my lovely wife, Arena is here in the studio
47:25
Speaker 2: with me. You know, we share a taste in music.
47:27
Speaker 2: My poor kids, their bedtime music was a joy division's
47:30
Speaker 2: level terrace apart.
47:31
Speaker 11: So that's okay, that's another level, that's another level. But
47:36
Speaker 11: I will say that they are big fans, and I
47:40
Speaker 11: do mean big fans of Michael Jackson's Thriller. They are
47:44
Speaker 11: huge fans of that. They demand to see it every Halloween.
47:47
Speaker 11: And that's the kind of thing that you know, I
47:49
Speaker 11: don't know, I think that's I think that's good. You know,
47:51
Speaker 11: have some have some some of the old stuff that
47:55
Speaker 11: is actually better than today's modern crap, which I think
47:59
Speaker 11: is you know, pretty important. Unfortunately, I think that my
48:04
Speaker 11: wife is leading them down the road of liking Taylor Swift,
48:07
Speaker 11: and I really need to fight back again.
48:09
Speaker 3: I don't know who that is.
48:11
Speaker 2: But Ben, you know, it's funny, you know, you're you're,
48:16
Speaker 2: of course younger than me. You you probably came around
48:18
Speaker 2: in the nineties. I was seventies and eighties, but we
48:21
Speaker 2: had kind of one culture then. Everything was that everybody
48:23
Speaker 2: knew Michael Jackson, right, And today, I mean, I understand
48:28
Speaker 2: that Taylor Swift exists, but I wouldn't know any of
48:31
Speaker 2: her music if I tripped over it. Do you think
48:35
Speaker 2: we'll ever have any kind of a common popular culture again?
48:39
Speaker 7: You know, the thing that's interesting that's developed here, Kurt,
48:43
Speaker 7: is that the monoculture now is effectively sports. It's the
48:47
Speaker 7: one thing that exceeds, you know, sort of every other
48:51
Speaker 7: you know, every other streaming shell, every other you know
48:55
Speaker 7: sort of. It has a power that is so dominant
49:01
Speaker 7: that people tune in. We've seen it during this year's
49:03
Speaker 7: World Cup. We've seen it during the phenomenal NBA playoffs
49:08
Speaker 7: and you know the other playoffs that we've seen. But
49:10
Speaker 7: I also think that that's a testament to sports being
49:14
Speaker 7: something that is so unifying, and even if there's political
49:17
Speaker 7: elements to it here and there, that ESPN tries to
49:20
Speaker 7: play it up. It is something that actually brings cities
49:23
Speaker 7: together despite political differences and the like, people who are
49:27
Speaker 7: of different races and creeds, etc. Can share on the
49:30
Speaker 7: same team or cheer against the same team, and I
49:32
Speaker 7: think that that's very healthy for America. And the people
49:35
Speaker 7: who try to politicize sports, I just think they're jerks
49:38
Speaker 7: and they're trying to, you know, run down one of
49:39
Speaker 7: the few things that's still unite this When it comes
49:41
Speaker 7: to the monoculture, though, one thing that I do think
49:45
Speaker 7: is really interesting is that Hollywood has lost its entire
49:49
Speaker 7: hold on our culture. It does not have anything like
49:54
Speaker 7: look at the biggest movies that have come out of
49:57
Speaker 7: Hollywood this year. One project Hail Mayory with you know,
50:01
Speaker 7: Ryan Gosling. It's a great, like uplifting and in some
50:05
Speaker 7: ways Christian story about you know, an epic you know,
50:08
Speaker 7: sort of heroic journey. And then you've got these horror
50:11
Speaker 7: movies that are based on YouTube and online, you know,
50:14
Speaker 7: things that were never expected to do the kind of
50:17
Speaker 7: money that they've done, focused features, you know, putting out
50:20
Speaker 7: you know, obsession that they've they've got like the biggest
50:22
Speaker 7: opening that they've ever had in their entire history. You know,
50:24
Speaker 7: and the biggest movie they've ever had. I think that
50:27
Speaker 7: that's great, you know, moving all these things outside of Hollywood,
50:30
Speaker 7: woke Hollywood, which demands all these DEI hirings, has all
50:33
Speaker 7: these different tax incentives. I mean, California has killed itself
50:37
Speaker 7: with the way that they have treated this industry. And
50:40
Speaker 7: it's sad. I wish we had a great Hollywood, one
50:42
Speaker 7: that would make America proud. We don't, and so the
50:45
Speaker 7: creatives are going elsewhere and they're doing great stuff, and
50:48
Speaker 7: I think that that's something that we should be proud
50:50
Speaker 7: of and applaud. And look, you know, the monoculture, you know,
50:53
Speaker 7: when it comes to to all these different things, I
50:56
Speaker 7: actually think that's a very good thing. I think it's
50:58
Speaker 7: good for America to have certain things that we all
51:01
Speaker 7: unite around that we all say, we're all sitting down
51:03
Speaker 7: to watch this thing together, we're all going to talk
51:05
Speaker 7: about it tomorrow. We're all going to have this shared
51:07
Speaker 7: thing that we can talk about, you know, at the bar,
51:09
Speaker 7: the hair salon, at the office, et cetera. That's great
51:12
Speaker 7: and it's something that unites us as people and culturally
51:15
Speaker 7: is more important than I think everybody in the analyst
51:19
Speaker 7: world understands well, Ben donoique.
51:21
Speaker 3: Have you have you got tickets yet to see The Odyssey?
51:25
Speaker 7: You know, I haven't yet, but that's only because my
51:28
Speaker 7: schedule is set by a five, three and six month
51:32
Speaker 7: old and so that I will see the Odyssey. It's
51:34
Speaker 7: simply that I don't know which day I'm going to
51:37
Speaker 7: be allowed to see The Odyssey, because that's just that's
51:40
Speaker 7: entirely dependent on their schedules and what my wife allows
51:44
Speaker 7: me to do. But it will be within the first
51:45
Speaker 7: like three or four days of release. And look, I
51:48
Speaker 7: know there's a lot of backlash against it. I assume
51:50
Speaker 7: that's where you're going with this. The you know, there
51:53
Speaker 7: is backlash against the casting. I'm concerned about it. As
51:56
Speaker 7: someone who loves Christopher Nolan's movies. I've seen all of them.
51:59
Speaker 7: I've seen all multiple times. I think Interstell is a
52:01
Speaker 7: phenomenal movie. I think The Dark Knight's the best movie
52:04
Speaker 7: about the War on Terror that actually was ever made.
52:07
Speaker 7: And I think that there's a real, you know, sort
52:10
Speaker 7: of interest in him as a director who brings people
52:13
Speaker 7: out in the same way that you know, Tarantino does,
52:15
Speaker 7: Villeneuve maybe, and a handful of others but it's it's
52:18
Speaker 7: a short list. I am worried because I don't like
52:22
Speaker 7: the dialogue. I don't like the way that the characters talk.
52:25
Speaker 7: It's not I'm not worried about casting. Casting to me
52:29
Speaker 7: is just secondary. It's more like, what are they going
52:31
Speaker 7: to say? And if they're going to say this modern crap?
52:35
Speaker 7: I just I don't I don't know, man. You know,
52:37
Speaker 7: I love Jason in The Argonauts.
52:39
Speaker 3: I love Yeah, Harry House like like.
52:42
Speaker 7: Harry hows and yeah that stuff. That's phenomenal. But you
52:45
Speaker 7: know what they still did. They still talked like it
52:47
Speaker 7: was freaking Ben hurr.
52:51
Speaker 3: Ben.
52:51
Speaker 2: If I can offer a suggestion, because you have little kids,
52:55
Speaker 2: one of my favorite movies, Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
53:00
Speaker 7: Oh, that's a grateful I have not shown them. Oh
53:03
Speaker 7: my god, I've shown them. They know that's skeleton battle.
53:07
Speaker 2: Oh there, you got a skeleton battle. You got the
53:09
Speaker 2: dragon at the Cyclops. You have an amazing score. It
53:13
Speaker 2: is fun. It's uh, thank me later. Ben Dominick from
53:20
Speaker 2: The h the Pinion Page editor at the Daily Wire,
53:24
Speaker 2: Fox News contributor Ben dominic here on The Hugh Hewitt Show.
53:29
Speaker 3: I'm Kurt Schlector. Stick around. We got a lot more
53:31
Speaker 3: to come.
53:32
Speaker 10: I'm zero.
53:38
Speaker 3: To welcome back to the Hugh Hewitt Show.
53:42
Speaker 2: I'm guess Ho's kirch schlector, senior Calmnistown Hall dot com.
53:45
Speaker 2: Retired the United States Army Infantry colonel and a recovering
53:50
Speaker 2: trial lawyer. Also the author of the new book American Warlord.
53:54
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Speaker 2: your copy of American Warlord. It is now my pleasure
54:05
Speaker 2: to welcome to the u Hewitt Show the Congressman from
54:10
Speaker 2: West Virginia's second District, Riley More. You can follow him
54:15
Speaker 2: on x at Rep. Riley ri L. E.
54:18
Speaker 3: Y More. Congressman More, tell us a little about the
54:21
Speaker 3: second district.
54:24
Speaker 12: Well, the second district is the northern half of the state,
54:27
Speaker 12: twenty seven counties. We have two districts in the entire
54:30
Speaker 12: state of West Virginia.
54:31
Speaker 10: We used to have three.
54:33
Speaker 12: Redistricting happened, and obviously US Census and some of those
54:38
Speaker 12: numbers shifted due to illegals being counted in the census,
54:43
Speaker 12: and it kind of bumped us out of a seat unfortunately.
54:46
Speaker 10: But a whole different story.
54:48
Speaker 12: But Yeah, it's roughly nine hundred thousand people in my district.
54:52
Speaker 12: We got West Virginia University, so I love hearing Country
54:55
Speaker 12: Roads at the intro.
54:55
Speaker 10: There obviously official state song as well.
55:00
Speaker 12: And we got Morgantown where West virgin University is. Wheeling
55:03
Speaker 12: up North Parkersburg out West Harper's Ferry in the east.
55:07
Speaker 10: It's a beautiful district.
55:08
Speaker 2: Wow, that's a lot of memories for me because my
55:11
Speaker 2: family would drive from Cincinnati to Chambersburg and Pennsylvania and
55:14
Speaker 2: we go through Wheeling all the time. A lot of
55:17
Speaker 2: memories and a lot of glassware around the Schlichter House,
55:20
Speaker 2: a lot.
55:20
Speaker 10: Of glassware Botstoria.
55:22
Speaker 3: Glass exactly exactly.
55:24
Speaker 6: Now.
55:24
Speaker 2: I was perusing your Twitter timeline, Rep. Riley Moore, and
55:29
Speaker 2: I noted that you have asserted that West Virginia is
55:33
Speaker 2: America's cheapest state.
55:34
Speaker 3: I'm in California. This makes me sad.
55:39
Speaker 12: You got to get out of there come to West Virginia.
55:41
Speaker 12: It is the cheapest state to live in the country.
55:44
Speaker 12: And it is also the freest state in the country.
55:47
Speaker 10: If you're a big.
55:47
Speaker 12: Second Amendment supporter, and I know the state is pastor
55:50
Speaker 12: Second Amendment laws in the state of West Virginia protecting
55:53
Speaker 12: those rights. And we are one of the few states
55:57
Speaker 12: that after Roe v. Wade was overturned in the Dobs decision,
56:00
Speaker 12: we proactively passed legislation that banned abortions zero weeks in
56:07
Speaker 12: West Virginia.
56:08
Speaker 10: Not many states can say that.
56:10
Speaker 2: Well, look, West Virginia is full of great Americans, and
56:15
Speaker 2: it is you know, it is the heartland of America.
56:19
Speaker 2: And I'm glad to see that West Virginia is finally
56:22
Speaker 2: get some of the credit it is due. I also
56:26
Speaker 2: love your latest crusade, which is against H one B
56:31
Speaker 2: visa abuse. Why don't you tell us a little about that.
56:35
Speaker 12: Yeah, Ever since I've gotten to Congress, this is an
56:37
Speaker 12: issue that I've been talking about. The H one B
56:40
Speaker 12: visa program is a scam that's been going on for
56:45
Speaker 12: a very long time, and it is part of what
56:49
Speaker 12: it does is further eroad what it.
56:53
Speaker 10: Means to be a US citizen.
56:54
Speaker 7: Right.
56:54
Speaker 12: I mean, we're the only country in the world where
56:57
Speaker 12: our working men and women have to compete with labor
57:01
Speaker 12: from all over the world inside of our own borders. Right,
57:05
Speaker 12: So the H one B visa program is where a
57:07
Speaker 12: company can say, well, we're not able to find a
57:11
Speaker 12: skilled worker for X job, we will apply for the
57:14
Speaker 12: H one B visa. In practice, what they will do
57:18
Speaker 12: is then put out H one B visas, get rid
57:22
Speaker 12: of that US worker, and bring and bring in a
57:24
Speaker 12: not as skilled worker but at a lower rate of pay,
57:29
Speaker 12: and then displace the American worker altogether. And this affects
57:33
Speaker 12: white collar worker, blue collar worker, all different types. And
57:36
Speaker 12: the big example that we had to kind of blow
57:38
Speaker 12: up here this week was over Microsoft with Xbox laying
57:42
Speaker 12: off over three thousand employees over there, and then at
57:47
Speaker 12: the same time, the CEO the company applied for thousands
57:50
Speaker 12: of H one B visas to bring people over from
57:53
Speaker 12: India to replace all of those American workers.
57:56
Speaker 10: So this is happening all over the place.
57:58
Speaker 12: And remember at one point they told us everybody you know,
58:01
Speaker 12: quit your jobs. You got to go learn to code.
58:03
Speaker 12: You shouldn't be coal mining or any of these other things.
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Speaker 12: Now they're taking away those jobs as well, and we're
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Speaker 12: being replaced with the H one B visa recipients that
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Speaker 12: are coming into this country.
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Speaker 2: Well representing more. I don't understand why the administration standing
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Speaker 2: for this. You see Microsoft fire thirty two hundred workers.
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Speaker 2: I am guessing that some of those three two hundred
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Speaker 2: workers could fill the jobs the H one B visas
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Speaker 2: are filling.
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Speaker 3: Why where the hell's the administration?
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Speaker 12: Well, the administration is looking into the fraud around the
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Speaker 12: H one B visa program because a lot of times
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Speaker 12: what you get is people will say they have this
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Speaker 12: educational attainment, these types of qualification turns out to not
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Speaker 12: be true, by the way, at all, and it completely destroys.
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Speaker 10: What we've been working on here.
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Speaker 12: I mean for generations, we've been telling everybody, Hey, go
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Speaker 12: to college, become an accountant, or learn this or learn that,
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Speaker 12: and when you come out, you're going to get a job.
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Speaker 10: This is why so many.
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Speaker 12: Of our college grads, by the way, end up baristas
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Speaker 12: at Starbucks, because they're being replaced by H one B
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Speaker 12: visa workers.
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Speaker 10: Now on the.
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Speaker 12: Blue collar side, which is where I come from. I
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Speaker 12: started my career off as a welder, they're being replaced
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Speaker 12: as well. I can tell you there's a job site
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Speaker 12: in West Virginia with over one thousand people working on
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Speaker 12: and only two hundred of them are Americans.
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Speaker 10: Most are illegal or they're on H one.
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Speaker 12: B visas who have been brought OVERSUS welders or pipe fitters,
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Speaker 12: or wherever they're from in the world and replacing the
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Speaker 12: people that we have put the government.
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Speaker 10: We're putting so many resources.
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Speaker 12: Into training people, whether it's through technical schools or colleges,
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Speaker 12: just for a corporation to then say, yeah, now, sorry,
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Speaker 12: we're bringing somebody over from Indonesia or India or wherever
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Speaker 12: they're from, and.
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Speaker 10: You're going to go make coffee for that person down
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Speaker 10: the road.
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Speaker 3: Well representing more.
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Speaker 2: You know, we have a problem with our establishment in
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Speaker 2: the Republican Party. A lot of them cozied up with
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Speaker 2: big business a little too much and gotten a little
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Speaker 2: too comfortable. Are you yeah, I can see you're probably
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Speaker 2: getting some pushback from the Democrats. Are you getting pushed
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Speaker 2: back from Republicans?
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Speaker 12: Yeah, of course you get pushed back from the traditional
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Speaker 12: establishment kind of neo con Republicans on.
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Speaker 10: Stuff like this. But this is this.
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Speaker 12: Is the consequences of globalization, and no one has felt
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Speaker 12: it more obviously than the state of West Virginia.
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Speaker 10: Now people are starting to.
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Speaker 12: Understand a little bit more with it h one B
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Speaker 12: visa program, what has been going on the point to
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Speaker 12: being a US citizen to a degree, what it's supposed
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Speaker 12: to do is to be able to shield you from
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Speaker 12: some of these foreign laborers that are coming into the country,
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Speaker 12: right like you are supposed to be first in line.
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Speaker 3: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Represent Representative more Riley Moore from the great state of
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Speaker 2: West Virginia, thank you so much for fighting for American workers.
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Speaker 2: I'm guest host Kurt Schlichter. This is a Hugh Hewitt
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Speaker 2: Show stick around.
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Speaker 3: We'll be right backs.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're rounding out the uh end of the second
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Speaker 2: hour of the U Hewit Show today. I'm guess host
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Speaker 2: Kurt Schlichter. We're gonna have the Hillsdale Hour next, so
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Speaker 2: you're gonna want to stick around for that. But first,
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Speaker 2: the poet Laureate of The Hugh Hewitt Show twenty six
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Speaker 2: years old today, Tarzana Joe.
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Speaker 13: Yeah, I got a few years on that, but I've
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Speaker 13: been around as long as the show has been around.
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Speaker 13: We'll work on of anniversary highlights. But I think I
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Speaker 13: have to sum up what you guys have been talking
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Speaker 13: about all show, and I call the poem political silence.
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Speaker 13: In the world of politics, we struggle to divine how
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Speaker 13: you set criteria and when you cross the line with
1:02:03
Speaker 13: each election season, and this folks can be trusted based
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Speaker 13: on my experience, the goalposts are adjusted. Once there were
1:02:11
Speaker 13: assumptions that you loved your nation dearly. Today that isn't necessary,
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Speaker 13: and we see that clearly. Once a little hope and
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Speaker 13: change work to put you through. Now just fundamental change
1:02:23
Speaker 13: simply will not do. All those would be Robespierre's Oh boy,
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Speaker 13: they talk so tough until the day the things they
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Speaker 13: say just aren't good enough. No police, no borders, no
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Speaker 13: gender based distinction. Say your view of capital means only
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Speaker 13: its extinction, drunken and disorderly. You must have some excuse.
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Speaker 13: Who's to say? If you're there, man, what constitutes abuse?
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Speaker 13: Say you won't salute the flag, smoke Gunja by the bulls.
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Speaker 13: The only thing that you can't do is falter in
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Speaker 13: the polls. Here's my conclusion. So smoke them if you
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Speaker 13: got them, if they think that you could win, there
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Speaker 13: really is no bottom. That's political silence by Tarzana Joe.
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Speaker 2: Wow, Tarzana Joe, I think you've outdone yourself. On the
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Speaker 2: twenty six anniversary of the Huhuage show. Look, if people
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Speaker 2: want to commission some poetry from you, how do they
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Speaker 2: go about doing that?
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Speaker 13: All I have to do is go to Tarzana Joe
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Speaker 13: dot Com. There's a button on the top of the
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Speaker 13: page that says I want a poem. Click on the button,
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Speaker 13: fill out the form. I'll get right back to you,
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Speaker 13: and we'll be making poetry together.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, Tarzana Joe, and I was just handed
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Speaker 2: a letter to the main Department of the Secretary of
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Speaker 2: State's Division of Elections day to July ten, twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: To whom it may concern, I write to formally withdraw
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Speaker 2: my candidacy for the United States. Set and down at
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Speaker 2: the bottom, it's signed Solidarity Forever Her Graham Platner.
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Speaker 6: Oh.
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Speaker 2: He also adds blank ice free Palestine up the hearts.
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Speaker 2: He didn't give his SS serial number, so uh, I
1:04:15
Speaker 2: don't uh.
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Speaker 3: And then there I don't.
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Speaker 2: I don't see a swastika on here must be on
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Speaker 2: the second page. So Grand Platner has officially pulled the pin.
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Speaker 2: Good riddens to bad Rubblics. But thank you guys for
1:04:29
Speaker 2: joining me on the twenty six anniversary of the Hugh
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Speaker 2: Hewett Joe I'm guess has kirch Schlicker. Thank you Dwayne
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Speaker 2: and Adam and Harley and my wife Arena, who sat
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Speaker 2: through the whole show in the studio.
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Speaker 3: He will be back Monday. Audio se
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Speaker 6: The Rising