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over the past uh gee, you know it's when you think go backwards
in time. There's a lot of things to you know, to take into
account, to think about how we got here as a nation, and specifically
I mean here as a nation as it pertains to just the political climate,
right. And we've talked about this a lot, but I've I've warned you
as you well know, any just as a rational, observant, logically thinking
individual, do you know we know that we are about to embark upon the
single most intense divisive political season in American history, well in modern American history,
let's say that, because of course, and that's the first thing I
always want to make sure that we stop and note is that we've had politically
divisive times at various points throughout the history of this country as well. I
like to remind people that even according to the second President of the United States,
John Adams, when he explained, this is a historical record, this
is I believe somewhere in a maybe one of the historical sites in this country,
or I believe that there's a placard or something with us on it.
It's elsewhere as well. But basically, John Adams points out that there is
during the Revolution, during the American Revolution, it was basically, this is
maybe a bit oversimplified, but there were basically three groups of people, and
each of those groups had roughly a third of Americans in them. There were
those who were loyal to the king, those who were actual, actual fans
of monarchy of dare I say, a type of authoritarianism, those that just
wanted to not ruffle the feathers, those that trusted, I guess the king,
and all have his infinite wisdom to do what was best for them and
for their families, or at least they didn't want to upset the all knowing
king. There were those that were prepared and willing and who took action to
fight for their freedom, for their independence. These were the American Revolutionaries.
These were folks like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams and just the founding fathers in
general, and of course all the people that they inspired and helped to lead
to American revolution. And then there was a third group that said, just
leave us alone. Care who's in control of what We just want to be
left alone. We want to go about our business. We don't want to
be basically thrust into this civil war. And so even when we're on the
side that the American Revolutionaries were on the side of victory, the odds were
typically not not in their favor. You go back to the Civil War,
the Civil War, I mean, obviously, this nation reached a point,
reached a point to where it was prepared, God forbid this should ever happen.
But they were prepared to or they were divided enough and were convicted or
angry enough, or whatever, how you want to look at this different reasons
for different folks, I imagine, but they were prepared to actually go to
war with their fellow Americans. And you look at the people that led us
through those times, I'm reminded of George Washington and his leadership. You know,
he was the unanimous choice. It's a remarkable thing. He was the
unanimous choice of the founders. They all wanted him to be the President of
the United States. In fact, they wanted him to run a third term,
be president for a third term. And he basically told them, if
you can't this nation can't work without me, this nation isn't going to make
it. And so that's kind of where we got the idea of a two
term president eight years. Even though we of course had that, we didn't
actually put that into set that into stone until Fdr Franklin Delano Roosevelt back in
the what was it the thies and forties when he actually served I believe the
beginning of a fourth term. And that's when we you know, the the
new it was set in place that you could only have to consect well,
two terms as president of the United States anyway, So there was been points
in history where there has been contention before, but this is largely new to
many of us today. This in modern times, I suppose. You know,
there was a lot of tension, of course, back in the sixties
and seventies, and I just it was different. It was it was different,
but there was still tension, especially as it pertained to the Vietnam War
and the protests and all that civil rights movement. Of course, a lot
of a lot of intense moments. But for those that those, those things
are far enough in the past to where most Americans can't can't really relate to
that. They may be if we're lucky today, maybe they've read a book
on it, maybe they've seen video on this, but they didn't personally experience
it. And I used to learn from Rush, and he had a way,
of course, but he said that history began for most people, history
begins on the day that they are born. That's unfortunately the perspective of a
lot of people. They don't really think too much or grasp too much the
history that existed before them. I'm reminded of some of these men on the
street interviews that I see where individuals are asked what y'ared in America when its
independence, and people say things like nineteen twenty four, and ridiculous things.
Who did America fight to gain her independence from? And you'll hear nations like
Poland and Czechoslovakia or whatever. You hear the most ridiculous and absurd things,
because again, these are just things. I mean, you know, there's
so many things that have gotten us to this point. I think one of
them is we've been blessed with so much prosperity. Last week we talked about
the true story of Thanksgiving. We talked about how the pilgrims before that second
Thanksgiving. We talked about how they learned, or how Bradford would say,
how God showed them, taught them a better way to live. And that
was basically in a free market economy, not where everyone owned an equal share
of everything, but rather where people had their own private property and could do
with it what they wished. And that basically ignited kind of an entrepreneurial spirit.
It gave people an opportunity to reap the rewards of their hard work,
of their sacrifice, of maybe some risk taking. Before then, if you
worked hard, you actually got less than you worked for because the people who
worked less got more. Because everything was equalized, everything was equalized. So
if you were a slacker, you actually got more than you participated in producing.
If you were an achiever, you got less than you produced. So
it was it served to make well, It served to deincentivize people, to
make them less motivated. Why work hard when Billy sits on his duff all
day, we get the same thing at the end of the day. That
doesn't make sense. And so anyway, we talked about that the true story
of Thanksgiving last week, but I don't think you know that that started.
That was just the very very beginning of this is four hundred years ago.
But now we have this prospers just unimaginably prosperous economic engine in this country that
has survived so many, so many attempts, so many attempts that had been
thrown at it by these radicals, these lovers of big government, who want
to micro manage everything to the nth degree. This economy keeps chugging along.
It's almost it seems unstoppable. There's always unless a leftist is running the governments
at the moment that there's you can generally, of course, there's been tough
times, the depression and so forth, but you know, there's there's opportunities
for jobs. In fact, I've shared before I'm always amazed by this.
We have we pay for entertainment, say in the form of let's say professional
football. Then there's people whose career is to talk about entertainment, and we
have people that are in sports talk and that sort of thing. So people
who are talking strictly about the entertainment. Then we have another degree. It's
so prosperous that we can have degrees of entertainment. Drilling another level down into
entertainment. You've got people who talk about the fantasy aspect of professional football or
basketball. Right, We've got fantasy sports, so meaning there are people whose
entire career is to talk about a fantasy of which players you would have on
your team. And I'm just I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying this is
where we've gotten as a country. But you have people who take entertainment,
say football, and then there's a fantasy aspect of the entertainment, as though
you could build your own team, a fantasy team of entertainers. Which again
I don't mean any of this bad. I'm just saying it's so prosperous that
we've gotten to that point. It's so prosperous to where people can sit around
and dream up problems make them bigger than they really are. You know,
it's amazing to me. It's amazing to me if you look at some of
the skeptical questions that people might have say about God, just as an example,
these questions more times than not, more times than not come from places
that have reached a level of prosperity where people can sit around and think about
these things in an ironic way. Some of the people who have suffered the
most don't question God to the same degree that some of us Americans or people
who have lived in the West under prosperity have dreamed up concocted as we've sat
around and sipped our chardonnay or whatever, and some you know, Ivory Tower,
some academics and so forth. But it's so prosperous, this nation is.
It's so prosperous that I think people begin to dream up things that's not
rooted in reality. They either create problems and you look, I look at
things like the trans movement and so forth. This is this is an example,
in my humble opinion, of that where people have sat around we have
no real direct problems of day to day survival, going out and you know,
hunting something and bringing it in, or we starve and so we create
other problems, or we magnify other issues. And I'm not saying there's not
Please don't misunderstand. I'm not saying there's not problems and people have to deal
with other things psychologically and all that. I'm not commenting on that. I'm
just saying that there's certainly an element that says these problems can be created because
we're so overly prosperous this nation has been. And so you get these groups.
You get these groups who sit around and they talk about things, and
they develop and deepen these worldviews into you know, they sit around on social
media day they've got a way to connect and to share ideas and to build
movements. And you can almost have a subculture that exists only online, for
example, that average Americans may not even know. It's not out there in
the world these you know, in the real world where we're walking around running
into these folks. They're organizing and communicating online and then they start to publicly
display their thoughts and ideas and opinions, and it can be shocking at times.
Where are these folks come from? How did they come up with these
ideas? How could they be so far off from reality? And so it's
in that climate I guess that we exist today as a nation. We have
folks who have, because of prosperity, have been able to sit around not
really be productive members of society. You know, I'm amazed sometimes at how
little people do and actually get paid. Some of you work your tails off.
I'm not saying that this is universal, but there are a lot of
folks out there that don't do anything and get pretty good pay. And it's
again all due to the massive amounts of prosperity that we have, and so
we were designed to have some sort of battle, right. I think there
was a book years ago, and I've got to take a break. I'm
a little long here, but there was a book years ago. What's the
John Elders was the author. Minute was that book? Eyes? Do you
remember? Minute? Off to look it up during the break. But anyway,
he talked about how every man has a battle to fight. We'll look
it up during the break. I will look it up now. And there's
an element of being a human being where we need to have something to fight.
And when everything is you know, economically prosperous and it's relatively peaceful.
I know it's gotten more intense, but relatively peaceful. We don't deal with
some of the things that people have had to deal with historically around the world.
Wow, that heart there. It is a great book, by the
way, I loved that book anyway. So these these things begin to fester
and to grow, and there's real problems. So I'm not glossing over that.
I'm just saying that there's there's a lot of factors into this. So
we create this political tension. There's the echo chambers, they're the massive hatred
of President Trump. There's people who have been demonizing him. And of course
you got that factor too, those in government who are absolutely terrified of someone
like Trump coming in and basically uprooting their cozy little existence there inside the bureaucratic
state, the deep state, the swamp. And you get all these factors
working together, and now we've got a clash of ideologies, a clash of
worldviews, and this battle is being fought. It's being waged metaphorically on the
political battleground. And I told you and you know this, that this is
going to be the most intense political season that we've had in modern history.
This is not going anywhere away. So with that being said, timeouts in
order want to play some soundbites next segment. One of them is from Michael
Cohen. I just it's incredible. I think I've got one from Whoope Goldberg
on the View and you'll hear this rhetoric, I mean the rhetoric. Remember,
we are a year a little bit less, almost eleven months away from
election day. There's a mystery pneumonia virus going around China, supposedly just in
time for the election cycle. Anyway, you've got all this stuff brewing,
bubbling beneath the surface. It's starting to rear its ugly head here as we
get into soon to be twenty twenty four and the actual year of the camp
or the election, the actual physical start of primary season, which is just
a little bit less than two months away now. Anyway, I want to
share what's the craziness that's already being said. And this is just the beginning.
It is going to get very rabid, very out of control. So
we need to be prepared for that, so quick, time out play these
sound bites. On the other side of this break. Be back in the
minute, my friends. Welcome back, my friends. So for the break,
I mentioned to you that we were going to play some sound bites.
Play some sound bites of some folks who are already in maximum fear mongering mode.
These folks have absolutely lost their ever loving minds, and they know,
they know without a shadow of doubt that the only chance they have, well,
there's two chances. One, oh boy. One is if they can
cause people to be so afraid of a second term of Trump that they'll go
and push the button for the other guy, no matter who it is.
That's what happened in twenty twenty. Well, it's a lot packed into that
statement. The other is if they can somehow pull off something sketchy. We'll
just say that if this is about ideas, if this is about the direction
of the country, if this is about whether someone's life was better in prior
to, you know, during Trump's administration versus Biden's, this is not even
remotely close. Polling shows this. I know we're still a ways away,
but that look, it's it's really bad. For it's really bad. You
know. People will point out that polling can change, and you hear me
say that polling is just a tool, but it's still a tool. It's
still a gauge. I know there can be some funny business going on with
polling and all that. I know there's things called push polls. I know
that the way that the questions are asked, who they call, what's the
sample size of Republicans and Democrats, all that stuff can factor in obviously to
the result of the poll. But it's still is still a tool, and
it typically I would I would dare say almost always. I would even go
as far to say, oh, I hate to be I hate to say
something that. There may be one exception to somewhere, but virtually every time,
every time that I'm aware pulling, typically the closer we get to the
election moves closer, it actually benefits the republic And I think there's lots of
reasons for that. One of those reasons is because they're trying to communicate a
message that people don't like the Republican candidate or whatever. They're trying to shape
public opinion with polls versus reveal it anyway. But all that being said,
it rarely comes out where the Republicans' poll numbers are fantastic. And then it
shifts dramatically to the other, to the Democrat anyway, So they so they've
got a mess. They know that though Democrats have a mess. So Michael
Cohen, does he have his own show? I don't know. I can't
be very good to listen to. But here it is Michael Cohen. I
don't know if yeah, he's got a show. He's got a show.
Here he's interviewing a congressman or senator that's not even relevant. He just goes
on a rant here. And I want you to hear this rant. I
want you to listen to the picture he paints. I want you to listen
to the words he uses and how he describes what a second Trump campaign or
excuse me, Trump term would look like. Now the audio is not feeding.
She was all right, I'm taking a break. This is aggravating a
heck for me. All right, reconnect this. Sorry about the technical difficulty
here. This happens sometimes when you're playing a sound bite. But let me
figure this out during the break, quick time out my friends back in just
a minute. I'm not gonna believe this, but literally literally, as it
went to break, the SoundBite played through my head through the system. It
would not do it. I cannot. You would not believe. You would
not believe when this acts up the system. Here it it works until I
hit try to trigger the ad anyway, That's what it did last segment.
So let's see, let's see if it cooperates. This segment, Michael Cohen
doing his best to convince people not to vote for Trump by scaring them into
believing that folks are going to be sent to Guantanamo Bay. That's right,
my friends. Guantanamo Bay is the destination for many people who are the political
enemies of Trump. If you listen to Michael Cohen here it is I hope
he is look at that this sounds I mean, think about this. We're
talking about Donald Trump, a guy who's twice impeached for indictments ninety one criminal
charges against him, you know, a sexual assaulter. I mean, on
and on and on, his company found you know, criminally, you know,
I should say civilly liable for fraud, et cetera. We can go
on and on, and yet there's still like seventy million people that are following
this authoritarian wannabe. Do they not re anything? Do we need to sort
of like dumb down the New York Times article for them, or even the
New York Post article for them, or some article for them, so that
they understand that if you vote, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote
for the end of democracy. And I personally don't want to be led around.
I don't want anybody telling me, as they're doing already right now,
what you can and can't do in your bedroom. I don't want them to
talking, turning on and saying who can and who can't vote. All of
a sudden, you're gonna have somebody knock down your door, and it's gonna
be Trump's brown shirts pulling you out and sending you off to guantanamobey. And
I know that sounds hyperbolic, but I know him so well. Yes,
I know what's on his mind, and I know what he intends to do.
He's looking to stere the piss out of everyone so that nobody, and
I mean nobody, like the way Kim Jong un runs nor Korea. He
wants to run the United States of America that way, the way that Vladimir
Putin controls Russia. He wants to control America the way that Mohammed ben Selman
controls in Saudi Arabia. He wants to control America, the city. I
mean, it's the stupidity of this. And you know what, it's not
even that you know when I describe well, how they how they do this,
it's exactly what he did. They start going through, they start listening
the number of indictments, the number of criminal charges, the number of well
court cases, I should say, the number of whatever. You know,
they make grandiose claims about Trump being sexual, whatever, whatever. They just
start throwing these things out. I'm surprised he didn't say in office Trump lied
thirty thousand, three hundred and sixteen times or whatever the stupid number is.
This is how they go about doing this. Do we not read Come on,
Michael, you know if you want to persuade, if you truly want
to persuade somebody, I actually just read this the other day, and it
goes along a lot with what you know. It well, it goes along
perfectly with the philosophy behind this program. You ask questions, you listen,
you seek to understand. And by the way, persuasion is something you do
with someone, not to someone. Is this is bullying tactics? What is
this? Their strategy is to get you or me, or the American people
to be so afraid of being in this group of people that have been attacked
and maligned and so forth, that we just say, fine, I capitulate,
I give in. I'm voting for Biden, just so, just so
I can show the world how smart I am, just so I can prove
to Michael Cohen, just so I can prove to Michael Cohen that this is
something I read. I read the New York Times. Michael, please please
know that I read the New York Times. Please know that come on,
this is it's beyond stupid. Here's woop Be Goldberg on that wonderful show The
View, talking about, well, we get what we deserve with Trump.
Here she is, well, listen, if he if he, if he
gets re elected, we deserve what we get if we wait, if we
put him back in, if we put him, if he gets back in,
we deserve what we got because it meant that we were not loud enough
or strong enough, or that a constitution wasn't strong enough to keep this bozo
out. Well, you have James working against the good, and the whole
world is getting a little weird. I mean, they just put a fascist
into an Argentina. Argentina, don't cry from me. Argentina has never been
the pinnacle of democracy, and jokers and clowns abounds. We get what we
deserve. We were too stupid. If we vote for Trump, we deserve
to be authoritarian under the rule of an authoritarian regime. And this is beyond
ridiculous, my friends. But this is this is all they've got. What
are the reasons to not vote for Trump because he's going to be a dictator?
I've got the best one of all is actually one from Scarborough Morning Joe
that was out. It was actually last week last week, I think right
before Thanksgiving. I just haven't had time to play it. I'll play it
and it's a little bit longer, but it's I would even say it's worse
than Cohen's. Cohen wants people to think that Trump is going to send his
special secret police after them and throw them in guantanam obey. I'm it is
Meanwhile, they do this, They do this simultaneously. These two things are
happening at the exact same time. You have Trump being indicted. He has
four criminal cases that he's fighting that are in different parts of the country.
They have weaponized the Department of Justice against him and against others. Dare I
say, and we're not supposed to even pay any attention to that. It's
this, It's amazing to me. It is amazing to me. And it
reminds me of stories that I've heard that I read years ago from Joseph about
Joseph Stalin. Stalin, of course, the brutal communist thug dictator, an
actual dictator. I'm surprised Cohen didn't reference Stalin. Maybe Cohen didn't know about
Stalin. Maybe Cohen is the one that's not reading. I don't know.
But Stalin was the brutal dictator and the communist Soviet Republic. He in prison,
well, he killed is it twenty million? Twenty million of his own
people? Is the estimate? Brutal, brutal dictator, thug, legitimate brutal
dictator. Ironically, if you go to university campuses around this country, there's
a lot of folks there that defend the likes of Joseph Stalin, that defend
the likes of Mao Sedong, who, by the way, the Chinese communist
dictator thug killed reportedly sixty million, I think is the number that they give
to Mao. Ultimately, we don't know it was massive amounts of people,
but I've read stories not only did they kill people, they also put them
into camps, into gulags, political prisoners, people who needed to be re
educated, and so forth. That I mean people that, honestly, Michael
Cohen, Michael Cohen would have been arguing, this is the way I look
at it. If you want to know who's on whose side, look at
who's weaponizing the government. Now, look at who's trying to do everything they
can to prevent using the government. Not just using argument. They can say
whatever they want, they can campaign however they want, but using the government,
using the Department of Justice to go after political opponents. Michael Cohen apparently
is cool with that. Michael Cohen, if history was the same, group
of people was to be laid into the reality of the world of the Soviet
Communist Republic back in the what sixties or whatever Stalin was. Of course before
that, Stalin World War Two, so it'd have been fifties when he was
really kind of getting things really really going there in the communist utopia. But
anyway, so Stalin would have had people like Cohen making the case against his
political adversaries. I remind would point out to Michael Cohen, which side do
you really think you would be on in the nineteen fifties during the during that
period of time. Where would you have been in the nineteen thirties, Where
would you have been the nineteen forties, fifties, sixties, during this whole
build up of brutal regimes around the world in the twentieth century that killed more
than one hundred million of your own people. And as this is going on,
as it's really going on now, it's not obviously to the extent that
they dealt with in those places, but as we have people in power today
that are weaponizing the government, that are getting i mean building you talk about
building it like an oligarchy. Look at what these the ruling class has done.
Look at what they've done, Look at how they've allegedly I'm going to
use the word allegedly enriched themselves. I'm gonna say this. Look, it's
terrible with what's happened to these hostages. This first American that was released as
a four year old girl, and absolutely atrocious what she's she's been through.
But reports are and I'm just look, I'm just I don't know. I'm
just sharing information. I'm not that that doesn't change anything that she's going through
what I'm about to say, but it is, it's just it. It's
worth mentioning that her family, that poor four year old little girl, her
family. I'm her aunt or someone not her mom or dad. I think
it's an aunt I believe was one of the people that purchased Hunter Biden's art.
It's just and again that that may be a coincidence because there's obviously a
limited number of hostages. And I'm not I'm just saying. I'm just saying
that there is so much crap and corruption hunter Biden's art. He just got
me to thinking about that is why I had to give you the bridge there.
So I just read that as I was preparing for the show. The
bridge to corruption is right? Is it's right there? I mean the Hunter
Biden's art. If it's as worth, if it's worth as much as they
want you to believe it's worth, I think Hunter should start doing auctions for
the federal government. You want to get rid of thirty three trillion dollars or
thirty four trillion dollars of debt, give Hunter Biden a paint brush. Let
him get after it. Let him just go to town. He'll have that
paid off by the next weekend. The rate that he's getting for some of
his paintings, it's just preposterous. It's preposterous. It's the same sort of
crap that happened in these Soviet oligarchies, right, these communistic regimes, which
was authoritarian, but there was a group. There was a group that was
living high on the hog. There was a group that was on all of
the deals and so forth, that were fitting from everything. And then there
was the peasantry, the people that couldn't survive because they had no way because
the government was a boot upon their neck. And Cohen's out here comparing Trump
to that. It's just Authoritarians don't cut taxes. Authoritarians don't reduce the level
of bureaucracy. Authoritarians don't do things that are in agreement with religious freedom.
I mean, it's remarkable how historically stupid some of these comments are. That
I hear anyway, time outs in order to tack my friends back in just
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a lot of time here, but I do want to say there's one other
clip that I've got, one other SoundBite that I've got that I wish I
had time to play today, and you would find it on the website and
the stack of Stuff. You'll find it. You'll see it there. You
go to to HP show dot com. Just go to the Stack of stuff
and go to play the clip from Joe Scarborough. I've just run out of
time. He says that Trump's gonna execute people, He's gonna imprison, execute,
drive from the country. He says, look at his past. It's
not really it's not really hard to read. Absolutely delusion on my friends,
Quick time out back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends, that
is the actual clip, the SoundBite, the quote from Joe Scarborough. That's
what he actually said. He actually said, and I quote Trump will well
he said he but Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed
to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past.
It's not really hard to read. That is what Scarborough says Trump is
going to do. It's remarkable, really, it's absolutely delusional, insane,
ridiculous. I just we know what's coming. We know it's going to get
worse. Buckle up for the most divisive point politically speaking in your life.
Twenty sixteen will look like a joke. Twenty twenty will look like a joke.
I've got to go, my friends. Thanks for listening, See you
tomorrow. SDG