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Using free speech to free minds.
You're listening to the David Knight Show.

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At the clock strikes thirteen, it's
Tuesday, the sixteenth of July. Here,

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our Lord, twenty twenty four.
Well, it appears that Trump's going

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to take a chance on Vance,
or maybe Trump is playing JD Chess this

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time around, we're going to take
a look at Jade. Evans is not

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really very well known except maybe perhaps
out of Ohio, but even there we

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don't have much of a record on
him. So we're going to take a

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look at his background, his let's
just put this his evolution, what we

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might expect out of him, it's
still hard to say, because he's been

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all over the map, quite frankly. But we're going to also take a

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look at the great replacement that is
happening here in America at a rapid pace.

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We're going to talk a little bit
more about the assassination attempt. A

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lot of people have a lot of
questions, and so we're going to cover

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that. And we're going to have
in the third hour a man who had

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a long career as a secret Service
agent. He has written a book called

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Cheating Death that'll be coming up in
the second hour, So we'll be right

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back. Stay with us Hillbilly elegy. Are they going to play the Are

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they going to play the Beverly Hill
Billy is? When he takes the White

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House there, it's an another one
of these mansions he's going to get to

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live in the youngest nominee, and
since Richard Nixon, I should say,

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not a record young nominee. But
when we look at this, it ultimately

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is a beauty contest, a popularity
contest, a demographics contest. It's about

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Dei and he is, in many
regards a Dei pick like Laala, except

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he's a lot smarter than Laala.
It's not going to be much of a

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contest with him having a debate,
and you know, debate is not certain

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yet. They hadn't agreed to that. People have talked about a date of

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July twenty third, which is really
close week away. Lala is not going

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to have any time. They're propoun
I don't think jd Vance needs time to

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prepare, but she certainly would or
August the thirteenth, but again, nothing

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is definite. And although the Biden
team has kind of a tentatively signed onto

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this, they might be having second
thoughts about this when I look at this

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guy and I watched some videos of
him talking for the first time. If

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nothing else, Jade Vance is very
intelligent. I would say that his IQ

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is greater than Trump's, Biden's,
and Lala Harris combined. Without doubt.

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It's going to be very interesting.
So he's of average intelligence exactly, exactly.

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Yeah, that's good. So that
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interesting. And so let's take a
kind of a look at his background here

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and the twenty sixteen presidential campaign.
He's kind of gone the opposite way that

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I have. In twenty sixteen,
he was proud to be a never Trumper,

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and he was the person that all
the mainstream media was getting on to

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talk to about the problems with white
America and what is it that they see

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in this guy Trump? You know, so he's going to explain all that

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to them. He's now saying that
he didn't want to be put on the

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Trump train, so he overreacted against
it or whatever. We'll see. But

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he was a never Trumper. He
said some very harsh things. We'll tell

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you some of those things harsher than
what I said about Trump. Actually not

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even then, but I mean,
even now he said some very hard things.

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I don't know. Maybe I'm worse. I don't know, because you

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see, I thought we should give
him a chance. I felt like Juliana

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Seine. We know what Hillary Clinton
is, we know she's a criminal,

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we know she's a warmonger. We
don't know about Trump. Let's find out.

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Well, you know, Trump administration
tried to kill Julian Assan and Trump

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tried to kill the constitution, our
society, and he succeeded in killing tens

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of millions of people with his chab
And so we'll talk about Vance's positions on

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issues, and again we see positions
on issues. Who's to say where these

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people will be. I mean,
we can talk about this stuff, but

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the key thing is we don't want
to focus too much on politics because and

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I think this is the important thing. If you look at the story of

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JD. Vance, his story,
whether or not he realizes it or not.

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And I haven't read his book,
and I haven't watched the movie that

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was done by Ron Howard of his
life, so but I've seen the trailer,

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and I used to watch trailers make
decisions about movies for a living,

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so can usually kind of guess what's
going on with it? And I've read

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a lot of stuff now as of
yesterday about JD. Vance. To me,

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the big takeaway from JdE E Vance
is what is happening to our society

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as reflected in his family? Lessons
from that? Did he learn those lessons?

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When are we going to learn those
lessons? A lot of the stuff

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that I see in his family again, a poor white family that has a

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lot of the same problems as in
rural Ohio, a lot of the same

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problems that urban blacks have. And
this is the destruction of the family.

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Drug addiction, dependency, of blind
faith on government to fix your problems.

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All these things were there and white
rural America just like they are in black

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urban America. You see, skin
color doesn't really make that much difference,

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and even our culture doesn't make that
much difference. Is really the spiritual issues.

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I don't know that he understands that, but let's just roll through this

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in a little bit of a chronological
order here. What I was going to

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say was that he kind of went
the other direction. You know, twenty

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sixteen, he was an ever trumper. I was like, let's give Trump

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a chance. And then after the
Trump election when he wanted to run for

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office. He's telling everybody Trump is
great. He's now in the Trump train

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and all the rest of this stuff. Obviously, I am now a never

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again Trumper. Never again. Let's
don't make America go through that again.

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That's my MAGA thing. I don't
want to make America and not go through

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that again anyway. He compared jp
voters newfound interest in Trump in twenty sixteen

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to a heroine addiction. Privately speculated
about whether not Trump was America's Hitler referred

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to himself as a never Trump guy
and to Trump as an idiot, and

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he declared that twenty sixteen election he
had not voted for Trump. That's pretty

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based, actually, because Trump is
an addiction. Like I said, when

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you look at the conditions that he
grew up and you compare them white role

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poverty the black urban poverty, not
really much difference. And there's another similarity

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between them, and that is that
they both look to government to fix their

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problems. They looked at different parties
of the Uni Party government to fix their

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problems. What he's done is he's
really articulated basically the Trump platform, and

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he's done it in a very articulate
way, said Governor de Wine. One

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of the worst Republican governors, one
of the worst governors period during twenty twenty

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and pandemic and lockdown. The despicable
guy who offered people a lottery of a

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million dollars. Take the vaccine and
he might win a million dollars. Well,

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you know once't you just play games
of Russian roulette. Hell, here,

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spend the chambers. There's one bullet
in there. Maybe you'll get lucky.

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You can either blow your brains out
or you can win a million dollars.

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You feel unlucky. I mean when
that was happening, I actually played

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that clip from The Deer Hunter.
I said, this is what this guy's

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doing here anyway. And of course
working for the Wine was Vek Vivek the

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snake Ramaswami, who wanted to get
his clutches on surveillance and tracking. That

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was his angle for getting in there
anyway. Vance in recent months is attempted

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to moderate his position on abortion,
after referring to abortion as murder last year

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and during his twenty twenty two race
saying that he would vote for a national

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fifteen week abortion limit. Vance more
recently has praised Trump's leave it to the

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state's abortion platform and says that he
shares Trump's support of access to the Mafi

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pristone or I just call it Mephistopheles. It's easier to say. I know

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I'm pronouncing that correctly, and it
really is satanic abortion pill. If you

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care about women's health, you're not
going to give them a dangerous pill like

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that without a doctor's examination to see
the condition of the baby, and on

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and on the size of the baby, the position of the baby, your

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health support. And that is just
the for people who say that they care

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about women's health, for them to
support the mephistophiles pill is the ultimate hypocrisy.

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But we talk about abortion. You
know, the reality is is that

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that's the constitutional So from a legal
standpoint, the Supreme Court and the Dobbs

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decision got it right. Trump is
doing this out of political expediency, but

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from a pragmatic stamp point of actually
keeping abortion prohibited in some of the states.

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I support leaving it to the states, and I've explained why, and

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I'll maybe talk about a little bit
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is is that it's the Constitution.
If you don't like the fact that the

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States are doing it. You need
to change the Constitution. And if you

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don't respect the constitution, we got
big problems, problems that are going to

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result in innocent people losing their lives
as well. You shared in recent years

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a close relationship with Trump's son,
Don Junior. That's why I thought he

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had the inside track of me.
He's very popular with the conservatives anything,

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but you can never tell what Trump's
going to do. Trump makes really stupid

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decisions when it comes to staffing.
This is probably a wiser decision than I've

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made seen Trump make wise from many
different angles. For him from a pragmatic

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political standpoint, which I really didn't
expect him to do the wise thing.

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Even from him his own perspective.
You know, he tries. He's he's

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an angry narcissist, and he's incapable
of acting except in his own perceived self

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interest. But the keyword in that
is perceived. He usually can't perceive what

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his best self interest is. The
first term Ohio Republican and by the way,

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he only took office in January twenty
twenty three, so we only got

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about a year and a half of
experience on him. He hasn't really done

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much. And Senate, That's why
I'm saying, it's hard to get a

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grip on this guy, because all
we have is what he said at first

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as an author, when he was
beloved by the New York Times and by

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NPR and by Hillary Clinton and by
Hollywood and all the rest of this stuff,

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and then what he said when he
flipped and became a born born of

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Maga the candidate. And so I
was like, where is this guy?

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Will time will tell? He has
both a poor background owned and a super

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elitist background. Which of those will
he draw from? On which policies will

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he draw from his poor background?
And which ones will he draw from his

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Yale Skull and Bones background? And
yes, they don't officially confirm that.

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They're multiple multiple reports that he was
in Skull and Bones when he was at

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Yale. So the first term Republican
has emerged as a foil to GOP and

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Democrat leaders alike, criticizing the Senate's
bipartisan foreign aid package. He's not in

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favor of the Ukraine War. That's
a good point. Holding up Justice Department

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nominees absolutely should shut them down.
So anyway, he's expected to have this

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debate, which will be one that
I will actually watch. I would enjoy

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watching one of the dumbest politicians I've
ever seen on the stage debating one of

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the smartest politicians out there. It
should be at least entertaining, if not

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informative in ja the events. Once
Brandon Trump the American hitler and called his

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voters idiots, as I said,
that's widely reported everywhere. He said,

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Trump at the time was a cynical
ahole. Who is America's hitler? Only

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an idiot would vote to the highest
office in the land. He even said,

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I think I'm going to vote third
party, he told The Washington Post

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at the time, because I can't
stomach Trump. I think he's noxious,

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he is leading the white working class
to a very dark place, and ultimately

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I don't share Hillary Clinton's politics,
he said. He wrote a twenty sixteen

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article for The Atlantic titled Opioid of
the Masses, saying that Trump was not

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the solution to America's problems. We
see the bottom line is the president,

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the office of president, is not
the solution to your problems. And he's

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actually made that point, and he's
running for a president. He said.

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His life is a series of contradictions. I guess, as you could say,

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all of our lives aren't, perhaps
to some degree or the other,

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but is particularly pointed in terms of
the contradictions that are out there during this

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election season. Appears many Americans have
reached for a new pain reliever. He

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wrote at the time. It enters
minds, not through lungs or through veins,

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but through eyes and ears, and
its name is Donald Trump. He

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described Trump's actual policy proposals as ranging
from immoral to absurd in a twenty sixteen

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opinion column for USA Today. See
I've said this before, that is the

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people who were never Trumpers in twenty
sixteen. We hadn't really seen what he's

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going to do. We only had
his policies out there. He had good

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policies that he was saying. Of
course, he didn't act on them,

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and he did the greatest betrayal I've
ever seen in my life in twenty twenty.

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And so the people who are never
Trumpers, people like Mark Levan or

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Ben Shapiro or Glenn Beck or whatever. Just as in terms of the talking

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heads that I'm familiar with, and
then of course the politicians that were out

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there, these are people who ultimately
oppose limited government and conservatism. I don't

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care what they labeled themselves as they
didn't like his policies period, and then

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they came around when he won because
they like power. And see, that's

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what we're seeing here. We're seeing
somebody who despised his policy proposals. He

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said they range from immoral to absurd. What were his policy proposals when he's

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running twenty sixteen. Primarily, we're
going to stop wars. We're going to

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end wars. Didn't do it.
We're going to stop Obamacare, didn't do

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it. His campaign, as I've
said before, had a great ten or

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twelve point or fifteen point, I
don't remember how many. Now they flushed

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it as soon as he got elected. But it's a great proposal of market

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based reforms to healthcare competition. You
having purchasing power, you having the information

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to make intelligent decisions. Is this
doctor? Is this hospital good or bad?

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What is the record? How many
times have they been sued from malpractice?

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We don't have any information. It's
not an open marketplace. It's prohibited

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for these companies to compete against across
state lines, and so it's not open

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competition. We don't have the economic
compowerment of even our own money, really

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to be able to know what they're
going to charge, know what their results

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are, negotiate things like that,
we're flying blind. They keep us blind.

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They conceal all this stuff. And
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that were necessary from a market standpoint
a reform that were in that policy,

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and he didn't do it, and
then we didn't do it. Mark Levin's

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and Ben Shapiro's and Glen Beeck's loved
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a gravy train I can latch onto, and this guy's not going to do

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anything, he said as a globalist. He went on to embrace Trump's populist

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right wing policies, from supporting a
national abortion band with no exception for rapid

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incests to supporting the white supremacists Great
replacement theory. This is according to the

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Express out of the UK, the
Great Replacement theory is not white supremacist.

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Is fact, is what their plans
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there is no doubt about it.
It has nothing to do with white supremacy.

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It has something to do with their
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is not white supremacist. And Heed
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See that's not true. Just because
you oppose NATO's aggression and because you

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want peace either one of those,
that doesn't mean that you support Russia's war

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in Ukraine. He also does not
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See now he's saying conservative things because
back then, as I said,

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New York Times liked him, MPR
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Hollywood liked him. Vance says about
Trump, I like him with the New

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York Times this month, he says, when they can say he's threatening the

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foundations of American society, I can't
help but roll my eyes. And then

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what does Trump say about him in
return? Well, he's one handsome son

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of a b right, and that's
all that matters. Trump picks people based

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on their appearance, sometimes based on
the fact that Peter tile likes him and

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Peter Tiel likes JD. Vance a
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He worked for Peter Teel, Peter
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anywhere between ten and fifteen million dollars
in his Senate run. But of

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course you it is for the little
guy. He's not beholden to any big

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tech downers. He's not beholden to
the elites, right. No, no,

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actually he's very connected to them.
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thick beard, and that's what Trump
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high school popularity contest, folks.
It's absolutely ridiculous and shallow. One of

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the things, in terms of the
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Democrats said, we got to stop
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are going to look at this and
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In other words, let me translate
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Biden as many people are saying,
what's going on, you know, who's

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running the country? Well, actually, nobody's running the country. The president

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is not running the country. There's
the deep state is running the government,

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and they're increasingly trying to run the
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somebody, somebody, or some group
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fundamentally and adamantly opposed to the idea
that one person or a group of people

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in Washington should run the country.
That's an American, that's anithetical. That

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is totalitarianism. That's the path to
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people are fascist, socialist, communists, technocrats, or whatever. That is

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a path for disaster. And yet
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Democrat and Republicans want. They want
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has the mental capacity to continue to
work, just put it that way.

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What he says is, Hey,
I'm running a campaign and I'm running the

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world. I'm running the world.
Wow. See that's the disqualification right there.

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This's is this qualification that has characterized
Joe Biden his entire life, the

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idea that govern should run the country, run the world, run your lives.

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And yet that's what people want.
And that was part of what JD.

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Evans was talking about the failure of
rural America when he talked about Hillbilly

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Elogy. Doug Bergham sixty seven was
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of people said he kind of fell
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He'd signed a very strong pro life
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that. I can still do deals, you know, with the Summit pipeline,

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the CO two pipeline nonsense, and
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yeah, he also wants to get
somebody who is younger. Doug Burgham is

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sixty seven. But you know that's
the thing. Jd evans forty years younger

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than Trump. Roughly his big supporters
Donald Trump Junior, Tucker Carlson, and

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of course Tucker Carlson thinks that because
his enemies hate jd Vance that makes jd

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Vance good. He says he's got
all the right enemies. Oh, that's

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a stupid way to look at stuff, but it's the way that people like

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Tucker Carlson look at the world.
They don't have any hardcore principles that they

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want to see there. They don't
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this is like competing clicks in a
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You know, in a high school
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Hollywood movie, you typically don't kill
the competition or jail of them. The

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courtship of Trump began with a twenty
twenty one meeting at mar Lago broker by

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Peter Teal, jd Vance's former boss. It caught light during one of the

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primary debates when Vance was only one
of three Republicans on stage to oppose the

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idea of a no fly zone in
Ukraine enforced by NATO, which is really

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stupid. Former President's son Don Junior
spied the clip on Twitter. He said

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he was already a fan of hillbilly
elogy, he told friends, and this

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is the way that he was able
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He got in through Don Trump Junior
and throw Peter Thiel. Vance has

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become one of Trump's most visible defenders
on television, a hero to the hardline

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MAGA movement with his message of America
first, economic nationalism. He credits his

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time in Iraq, and this is
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That's real good. So he had
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in those four years he was sent
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lesson, a good life lesson,
and I think that might be something that

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is kind of foundational, let's hope. So he has the Times outflanked Trump

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to the right with a tougher line
and abortion, and a tougher line on

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sending aid to Ukraine, for example. Critics see a smart guy who has

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worked out how to rise to the
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The Mark matt Lewis, who is
a hardcore Democrat, hates the GOP,

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but he says he probably rationalizes it
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I can take the good parts of
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I can soften it a little bit, and I can use Trump or

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trump Ism as a vehicle to do
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of justify what is obviously rank hypocrisy
and blind overwhelming ambition. According to his

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critic, when confronted by Fox News
Brettbear about his past quotes with Trump,

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he said, look, I was
wrong about Donald Trump. I didn't think

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he was going to be a good
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I'm a Trumper. Is one of
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make sure he gets the second term. A close friends of the criticism missed

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how Vance had always bristled at the
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The explainer his friend, who seems
to be anonymous here one of the

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things he talks about is how he
became very uncomfortable with the fact that the

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liberal media basically was using him as
an avatar to explain trump Ism, to

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explain to us how these poor people
in Ohio like him that type of thing.

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So again, when we look at
his life, you kind of sum

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it up from what I can glean
of his personal story, drugs and multiple

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divorces, of his mother, not
having a stable family life. There perhaps

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he will support strong families. He
seems to have learned that lesson. Sometimes

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people have grown up in a situation
like that are really strong supporters of families.

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him skeptical foreign intervention. That's good. And then he grew up poor in

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the rust belt, so there was
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with the working class and trying to
get back the fundamental prosperity that was in

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America instead of this polarization of just
a few people owning everything, the global

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elites. But then he went to
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As a matter of fact, he
had according to him, he had aced

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the act or the sat rather,
he had aced that test, but he

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didn't have enough self confidence in himself
to go to college. He didn't think

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him, so he enlisted in the
Marines. He said, the Marines really

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taught him a lot about character,
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so then when he gets out of
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He graduates summa cum lattie highest that
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goes to Yale Law School. Then
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gets involved with Skull and Bones and
all the rest of this. He had

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a friend, close friend they talked
to. They said, well, when

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people voted, who was most likely
to be present? See that's what they

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do at Yale, not who's most
likely to succeed. But they got a

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very definite idea of what success is. He's becoming president, and so who

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was most likely to become president?
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it's only one who chose him because
I thought he had the right story of

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the perspective, the talent, the
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and perhaps the hunger for doing it
and that could be a dangerous thing.

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Then after he finishes with the Yale
elites, then he makes establishment with

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the global technical elites. He goes
to Silicon Valley, and he goes to

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work for Peter Tiel and Peter Till's
Mithrail venture capital firm. He works for

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him a few years, and then
he goes to work for a guy who

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has another venture capital firm that this
is the guy who started AOL and he

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also gave a great deal of money
to advance people. So they're not sure

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how much he gave to him.
I thought, well, how does that

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work out? I mean, he
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or something like that. He did
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how much money he gave him.
But again he connects with the technocracy,

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the global elite in Silicon Valley.
His wife, by the way, her

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parents were Indian immigrants. Is her
father was an engineer. She was born

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in San Diego. She I think
met him at Yale. She became a

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lawyer after Yale because they were both
in Yale Law school. She clerked for

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John Roberts. She clerked for Brett
Kavanaugh before he was put into the Supreme

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Court. So very intelligent, very
ambitious, rising incredibly quickly. He's quickly

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evolving, as a matter of fact, and so he's got a lot of

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different influences. It's hard to tell
what his principles are going to be a

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lot of contradictions. And again,
you know, we look three years ago

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when he was running for Senate.
This article by Chris Zillah in twenty twenty

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one said Trump is still the king
of the GOP and JD. Vance just

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proved why that is. At that
time he was covering the Ohio Senate race,

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and he said, this isn't complicated. In twenty sixteen, Vance wasn't

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running for senate, but now he
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what he leave. What he's saying
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is born out of political necessity.
So this was concerning when somebody has

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such a dramatic one to eighty turn
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road to Damascus experience. There's no
explanation for it except for political expediency and

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ambition. He says, what is
a necessity, Well, you've got to

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kiss up to Trump. The political
reality is that at the present moment twenty

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twenty one, and this has been
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is that you simply cannot win a
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Nowhere is that fact on clear display. Then in Ohio, where an

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open seat created by the retirement of
Senator Rob Portman Republican has turned into a

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battle as to who can love Trump
more, he says, consider this you

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got. Josh Mendel, former state
treasurer. He twee, had a ten

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second video last month of himself lighting
a face mask on fire. My kind

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of guy. The tweet was accompanied
by the word freedom and two emojis,

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one wearing a medical mask and the
other of flames. Well, he didn't

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say anything about Trump, but then
the rest of the guy is dead.

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Former state Party chair Jane Timkin ran
ads in favor of Trump. The ads

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feature her going full sycophant. She
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conservative grassroots more than a Trump rally. Then wealthy businessman Mike Gibbons, who

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served as co chair for Trump's fundraising
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his co chair. I raised a
lot of money for him. I gave

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a large amount of money. I
support his policies period. And so they

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said, what happened? What you
needed more about this? They said,

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Politico reported on the gathering of these
major candidates except for JD. Vance at

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Trump's mar A Lago. So the
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what ensued was a fifteen minute backroom, backbiting session reminiscent of Trump's reality TV

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show. I mean calling it the
Apprentice VP selection right, Mandelle said he

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was crushing Timpkin and polling. Tempkin
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her time Estate Party chair. Gibbons
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Bernie Marino noted that his daughter had
worked on Trump's twenty twenty campaign,

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etc. The Vance flip flop,
then, is simply the latest proof that

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there is no room for any candidate
to have any views ever, that are

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anything less than utterly supportive of Trump. Any GOP candidate who is not already

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a incumbent this is in twenty twenty
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hard time winning. And as a
matter of fact, we've got Mitch McCollough

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course being booed at the URNC,
one of the former leaders of the Republican

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Party. So we're going to take
a quick break and when we come back,

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we're going to talk about how he
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that influenced him as he was growing
up, because again we don't know the

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man, we don't know his policies. Trying to get a take on it.

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But more important than this political stuff, because again that our country is

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being run out of Washington, and
the world is being run out of Washington,

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and that's not a good thing.
And we shouldn't be begging for them

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to do a better job. We
should begging for them to leave us alone.

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Go away, shut down your empire. It's only going to lead to

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more wars and death and suffering.
I don't care how wit about the American

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empire. I don't support the American
government one way or the other. I

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support America, I support our freedoms
that we're there. I don't support this

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government. It has nothing to do
with America or the Constitution or our history.

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It is anathetical and hostile to all
of those things. It is allied

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with the UN, with Davos,
with these globless leagues who want to kill

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us all. It is satanic,
occultic group. It's not just scull and

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bones, it's the entire lot of
them. And I'm disgusted with them.

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And I think his story is something
that we need to take a look at.

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Rumbeul M Sellers David. My husband
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Well, thank you, I appreciate
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take a look at the chickens that
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for the longest time. Like Jerald
Slenty said, we don't really know

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when this is going to happen.
He says, I'm not a I don't

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do predictions. I look at trends, and we know where the trend is

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for the dollar. We know what
the trend is for taking away our financial

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privacy, getting us hooked into a
surveillance system. It's not just inflation this

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time around. It's also a CBD
and the real ID and the global IDs

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that they want to put out on
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Tony can handle any transaction small or
large with gold or silver. So we're

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going to take a quick break and
we will be right back making sense common

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again. You're listening to the David
Knight Show. One of our listeners said,

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Jadmans listened marine photographer when he was
in the Marines. But he's still

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gott to get through marine basic training. My respect for anybody who can get

447
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through that. I don't think I
ever could have gotten through that. And

448
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maybe as a photographer that's what he
was. Maybe that gave him enough of

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a view of war to be very
skeptical of it. It's something that is

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welcome. It is something that you
typically don't see from the chickenhawks, people

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like Lindsay Graham and others who've never
been in the military, never been in

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a war, they don't seem to
have the reservations about it. The people

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who've actually been in it do so. Just being there as a witness,

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if that was all it was,
is an important thing. But let's talk

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about his background. I went from
a hillbilly broken home to becoming a vice

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presidential nominee and perhaps a president.
When you take a look at how young

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he is, When you look even
at Trump, he is seventy eight.

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Ronald Reagan, I believe was seventy
seven when he left the presidency, and

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everybody was always talking about Reagan being
very old. I remember the choke that

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he made in the second debate when
he was debating against the Walter Mondale.

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He says, I won't it was
not that young, he says, I

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promise that I won't hold the youth
and inexperience of my opponent against him,

463
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and everybody laughed so that it was
a great way, perfect way to disarm

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the concerns about his age. We
don't see that anymore. Well, we

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see blank stares from Biden, not
any jokes like that. I got a

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message here from President Andrew Jackson.
David, did you get to watch the

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movie in time? Imagine time being
swapped with carbon credits? No, I've

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never seen that. I have gotten
so far out of touch with movies.

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I just don't have the time anymore. You know, we sat down.

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I don't even getting to the point
where I don't even have time to watch

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a ten minute video of you know, people falling and stuff or car crashes

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or something. I watched stuff like
that. It's just kind of a distraction.

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But I don't even have time for
that anymore. We're the only people

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that no one feels ashamed to look
down on, he said about the poor

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white people in rural Ohio. It
was a rough upbringing. Vance's book describes

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his mother as highly unstable, sometimes
violent, persistently addicted to prescription narcotics.

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His grandfather, Popa, as he
called him, was frequently drunk, while

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his grandmother Mama, was quote violent, non drunk, unquote, prone to

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unpleasant stunts such as dousing him in
gasoline or serving him garbage on a plate.

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I've never had either one of those
done to me by a parent.

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I'm very fortunate to have grown up
in a loving home, and I really

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feel sorry for people who have gone
through something like this. And anyway,

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he said, we're the only group
of people other Americans don't have to be

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ashamed to look down upon. He
said, never be like these losers who

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think that deck is stacked against them, said his grandmother. And that's a

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clip actually that was put into the
trailer. So again. He spent four

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years in the Marine Corps. He
said it was basically a four year education

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in character and self management. He
said it helped him to have been in

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his learned helplessness and believe in his
capacity to do difficult things Like I said,

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he did great on the sat but
he didn't feel like he could hack

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it in college. Then after he
went into the Marines, he thought to

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try. That's great and he hasted. At Yale Law School, he met

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his future wife in San Francisco,
where the couple moved. In twenty fifteen,

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he met Peter Teal, who would
later fund much of Vance's campaign for

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the US Senate. Oh, another
Blake Masters. Blake Masters, somebody that

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very read alert, read alert exactly. Pals with the technocrat who funded the

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Singularity as well, right, I
mean we talked about these satanic influences there.

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That's about as Peter Teil is about
as satanic as it gets. He

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and Musk and these people only think
they're going to live forever. They're going

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to merge with machines, all the
rest of this stuff. In twenty seventeen,

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having worked at Teal's firm for about
two years, he joined another investment

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firm, Revolution, that was again
run by the CEO former CEO of AOL.

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Vance has been working on a book
at Yale. He was encouraged to

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pursue the project by his professor,
who had written a parenting memoir called battle

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Hymn of the Tiger Mother that had
been a big hit in twenty fourteen.

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He said, I don't think anybody
wants to read about me. But when

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he published it it was a big
success, despite not having written it with

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Trump in mind, that says The
Independent. His book was hailed across the

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political spectrum as a welcome explanation for
the destabilizing crisis that appeared to be emanating

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from Middle America as Trump continued his
combative, outrageous, unexpected rise to power.

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Rod Dreyer, who wrote a book
called Lived Not by Lives, referencing

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SoSE Nitsen, Rod Dryer called it
one of the best books I've ever read.

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He said, you can't understand what's
happening now without first reading JD.

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Vance. The Washington Post called him
the voice of the rust Belt and the

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Trump whisperer. Vox called him the
reluctant interpreter of Trump. He had little

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patience for traditional conservatives who see no
role for wider economic forces in these problems,

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and he wrote scathingly of the elitism
and the bigotry of upper class Americans

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toward his people. Well, when
he talks about when The Independent is saying

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that he doesn't see any role for
wider economic forces in these problems. What

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he's what they're talking about is government
programs, and so he hasn't quite gotten

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past this idea that a big government
is going to pull us out of the

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problem. Again, there's this contradiction. He also tore into what he saw

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as a culture of learned helplessness,
arguing working class whites that shirked the duty

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of making wise choices because they believe
their choices would not and could not matter.

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00:45:50.519 --> 00:45:55.199
See, this is where it is
interesting to talk about his story where

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it hits home where we live,
because folk, what's going on in Washington

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00:46:00.679 --> 00:46:07.320
is it might as well be arguing
over who's going to take Klaus Schwab's place

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00:46:07.599 --> 00:46:10.039
in Davos. I don't care.
I want to know what these people are

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about. I want to know what
Klaus Schwab is about. But they shouldn't

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have this power. We should shut
them off, and we should shut off

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Washington, just like we got to
shut off the UN. Same thing right

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00:46:22.559 --> 00:46:27.480
now, same thing, except the
Washington's far more dangerous than the UN,

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more than Davos, because it's got
so much money, so much power,

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such a large Army, he said. I once ran into an old acquaintance

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at a Middletown bar, that's the
town in Ohio where he grew up,

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who told me that he had recently
quit his job because he was sick of

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waking up early. Hey later I
saw him complaining on Facebook about the Obama

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economy and how it had affected his
life. You see, here's the lesson.

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You start with yourself. And how
many times we've seen this. This

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is my argument on a daily basis
to the MAGA people. Stop looking to

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Trump as your savior or stop looking
at Biden and Obama as a people who

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are holding you down. You're holding
yourself down. If you're not doing this,

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it's up to you. You start
with yourself. You start with your

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family, you move out from the
community, but you start with God.

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When you're going to start with yourself, what's the first thing you do?

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Get yourself right with God. If
you got peace with God, that's going

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to give you a kind of contentment
that you can't get any other way.

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It's going to give you a foundation
that you can't get any other way.

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It's going to give you a joy
and a piece that you can't get any

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other way. So you start with
that. He said, there is a

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cultural movement in the white working class
to blame problems on society or the government,

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and that movement gains adherents by the
day. And so I've been saying

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for the longest time, used to
only see this, and it popped up

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first in poor democrat areas, rural
areas, typically urban black areas. They

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blame their poverty on society, or
they blame their poverty on government. So

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the solution is going to be getting
the right person there in government's going to

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help you. But now this diseased
way of thinking has gone over to the

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Republicans. They want everything fixed in
Washington. The poor whites in the rural

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areas now want everything fixed in Washington, just like the urban black poor.

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And so they want a guy in
Washington's going to fix it, and their

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whole life, they believe, depends
on who is in Washington. Do you

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understand what a powder keg that has
created. We're talking about assassinations. Why

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do we have things like that.
It's because people think that their life is

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nothing if the wrong person is in
the White House. And it's interesting to

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me that these people who concentrate all
power to themselves are getting hoisted by their

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own petard, blown up by their
own barrel of gunpowder, if you will,

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because they create this perception that everything
in our life depends upon Washington,

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and if it depends on Washington,
then the stakes are so high that people

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are going to kill whoever is in
that office if they don't like that person

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in that office because their life depends
on it. Your life doesn't depend on

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Washington. Don't think that. Don't
give them that kind of power over you.

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You know. I remember when I
interviewed Scott Adams because he, you

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know, right after the election,
he was going very political. The guy

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had the Delbert cartoon. I totally
disagree with him, Tilliot, but he

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had a good insight. After the
election. He said, you know,

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the problem with Hillary Clinton. Her
campaign slogan was I'm with her. It

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was all about her. He goes, Trump made it about America. Let's

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make America great again. But you
know, when you look at that slogan,

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even in that regard, what Scott
Adams didn't see then was the fact

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that if Trump can make America great
again, Trump is selling himself as a

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solution to your problems. And that's
even more dangerous than just being honest about

582
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the fact that you're a narcissist.
You know, Hillary Clinton was honest about

583
00:50:32.119 --> 00:50:36.719
the fact that she was a narcissist
and people, but Trump is as well.

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The difference is Trump is telling you
that he can fix your life.

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He's telling you that he can fix
America. Well, the only way to

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the only thing the president can do
to fix America is to get out of

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the way. Presidents don't create jobs, they don't create a good economy.

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They can ruin the economy. They
can put people out of business, as

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Trump did in twenty twenty. All
the non essential small street, small main

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street people he put out of business. But it's an equally bankrupt idea to

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think that your life's going to be
fixed by somebody in Washington. See.

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Trump is able to sell collectivism and
dependency to people who had not embraced that

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before. He sold it in a
much larger degree than anybody has ever been

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able to sell that to poor whites, for example, collectivism and government dependency.

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And then he locked everybody down and
said you can't do a job,

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you can't travel, you can't go
to school, he can't go to church,

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00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:40.000
and I'll give you some money for
that. Yeah, I'll give you

598
00:51:40.000 --> 00:51:47.719
a little bit of stimulus check,
creating dependency, creating debt. It was

599
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a controversial thesis, with many left
wingers accusing him of blaming the poor for

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problems inflicted on them from above.
In terms of talking about his book,

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aibili Elogy Mad one other thing very
clear, he thought Trump was part of

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the problem. He said, Trump's
promises are the needle in the in America's

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00:52:07.679 --> 00:52:09.679
collective vein. He's absolutely right about
that. That's what I'm saying. It

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00:52:09.760 --> 00:52:14.800
is a drug addiction to think that
government is going to fix your life.

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00:52:15.360 --> 00:52:21.679
Your government is maga. You know, your hope is in maga. Your

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00:52:21.719 --> 00:52:24.920
hope isn't Trump. And that's a
kind of idolatry, as I've tried to

607
00:52:24.960 --> 00:52:29.480
point out so many times. But
Trump's promises, he said, and he's

608
00:52:29.519 --> 00:52:35.719
right about it, are the needle
in America's collective vein. He said.

609
00:52:36.880 --> 00:52:42.360
This campaign is cultural heroism. Of
Trump's twenty sixteen campaign, he said,

610
00:52:42.800 --> 00:52:49.440
it offers an easy escape from complex
problems. And it's a false promise,

611
00:52:50.639 --> 00:52:52.800
And it's a false promise in twenty
sixteen. It was a false promise in

612
00:52:52.840 --> 00:52:59.280
twenty twenty and it's a false promise
today regardless of which candidate, Republican or

613
00:52:59.320 --> 00:53:02.760
Democrat of the Unit party is telling
you they've got an easy fix for complex

614
00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:08.760
problems and they're going to fix your
life. That person who is a member

615
00:53:08.760 --> 00:53:15.119
of the Demagogue Party. An interview
with MPR, he said, I can't

616
00:53:15.119 --> 00:53:17.960
stomach Trump. I think he's noxious. He's leading the white working class to

617
00:53:19.039 --> 00:53:22.119
a very dark place. To a
friend, he privately texted, I go

618
00:53:22.239 --> 00:53:25.679
back and forth between thinking Trump is
a cynical, a hole like Nixon that

619
00:53:25.760 --> 00:53:30.079
wouldn't be all that bad, might
even prove useful, or that he is

620
00:53:30.400 --> 00:53:36.920
America's hitler. How's that for discouraging? He told his friend, well,

621
00:53:37.000 --> 00:53:39.639
that's where he was, and he
said, the ruling class are robbing us

622
00:53:39.679 --> 00:53:46.440
blind. So what did he do. He joined the ruling class. That's

623
00:53:46.480 --> 00:53:52.119
what he did. He's a smart
guy. He understood that the ruling class

624
00:53:52.199 --> 00:53:55.079
is robbing his mind, so he
joined them. And he gets a ten

625
00:53:55.119 --> 00:54:00.079
million dollar donation from Peter Teal,
he gets a lot of money from Robert

626
00:54:00.199 --> 00:54:06.159
Mercer, got a lot of money
from the other guy, the venture capital

627
00:54:06.199 --> 00:54:09.320
from AOL founder. He said,
if you look at every issue in this

628
00:54:09.400 --> 00:54:14.320
country. Every issue I believe traces
back to this fact. On the one

629
00:54:14.400 --> 00:54:16.920
hand, the elites and the ruling
class in this country are robbing us blind,

630
00:54:17.199 --> 00:54:20.760
and on the other if you dare
complain about it, you're a bad

631
00:54:20.840 --> 00:54:28.760
person. I think of Dave Chappelle's
thing when he talked about Trump. He

632
00:54:28.760 --> 00:54:30.000
said, Trump is really something else. You know. Trump comes out of

633
00:54:30.039 --> 00:54:32.880
the building, you know, when
all the insiders are meeting and all the

634
00:54:32.960 --> 00:54:36.800
big guys and everything, and he
tells you what's going on there. He

635
00:54:36.800 --> 00:54:38.159
tells you how they're going to rip
you off, They're going to fleece you

636
00:54:38.280 --> 00:54:42.159
one way or the other. And
then he goes and then he goes back

637
00:54:42.159 --> 00:54:46.119
inside and he joins him again.
That's what Trump is. That's what JD.

638
00:54:46.320 --> 00:54:50.760
Vance is. He's a forty year
old, younger version of Trump.

639
00:54:51.760 --> 00:54:59.159
I think he's smarter, but he's
maybe more ambitious as well. He knows

640
00:54:59.239 --> 00:55:02.039
what's needed, but I don't know
that he's going to do it, he

641
00:55:02.079 --> 00:55:05.239
said. I did say those critical
things, and I regret them. I

642
00:55:05.519 --> 00:55:07.519
regret being wrong about the guy.
I think he was a good president.

643
00:55:07.599 --> 00:55:10.840
I think he made a lot of
good decisions for people, and I think

644
00:55:10.880 --> 00:55:15.199
he took a lot of flak.
Well, he's still walking around free,

645
00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:20.280
so obviously he hasn't taken enough flak
for what he did in twenty twenty with

646
00:55:20.400 --> 00:55:23.800
the vaccines of lockdowns, the mass
murder with ventilators and remdesivir, and the

647
00:55:23.840 --> 00:55:30.880
rest of this stuff he is proposed
to criminalize. So here's some Advance's issues.

648
00:55:30.280 --> 00:55:36.119
He's proposed to criminalize gender transition healthcare
for under eighteens, to cut off

649
00:55:36.280 --> 00:55:40.559
block taxpayer funding for adult transgender healthcare
too. Well, I agree with those.

650
00:55:42.760 --> 00:55:46.239
He's also been a staunch opponent of
USA to Ukraine, saying it would

651
00:55:46.280 --> 00:55:51.440
be an America's best interest to accept
that Ukraine is going to have to seed

652
00:55:51.760 --> 00:55:54.960
some territory to the Russians. And
quite frankly, Zelenski is now pushing to

653
00:55:55.039 --> 00:55:59.599
meet with Putin. He can see
as people are looking at this, it

654
00:55:59.639 --> 00:56:01.199
looks like, okay, well,
the Trump crowd is going to get the

655
00:56:01.280 --> 00:56:06.159
whoever is running the Trump administration.
There's going to be a change of policy.

656
00:56:07.760 --> 00:56:10.119
And so Zelenski, who didn't want
to meet with Putin, and Biden,

657
00:56:10.159 --> 00:56:12.559
who says I don't want to meet
with him, you know, in

658
00:56:12.639 --> 00:56:15.920
his meeting that he had in his
interview, he should should say that he

659
00:56:15.000 --> 00:56:17.039
had. That's last week. He
said, I'm not meeting with Putin,

660
00:56:19.239 --> 00:56:22.360
but Zelenski wants to meet with him
now because he doesn't think Biden's going to

661
00:56:22.400 --> 00:56:29.760
be making this and that's what people
are looking at. He was elected the

662
00:56:29.800 --> 00:56:37.800
Senate in twenty twenty two. He
closed deals when he was working venture capital,

663
00:56:37.800 --> 00:56:44.280
again with Peter Thiel's Mithral Capital,
then with Revolution Stephen case is a

664
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:49.719
guy's name, the al founder.
When he was working in venture capital.

665
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:54.519
This is also very interesting in terms
of his background. He was involved in

666
00:56:55.239 --> 00:57:02.559
military technology and AI, because folks
AI is military technology. AI is there

667
00:57:04.679 --> 00:57:07.360
to accelerate surveillance, biometric surveillance and
all the rest of this stuff. It

668
00:57:07.519 --> 00:57:12.239
is the perfect tool from that.
That's why it was developed by the military

669
00:57:12.239 --> 00:57:16.079
industrial complex. Why it was DARPA
that was pushing AI from the very beginning.

670
00:57:16.159 --> 00:57:20.800
It's all about the military, you
know, the chat, GPT stuff

671
00:57:20.800 --> 00:57:28.360
and everything's just there for your entertainment. This is about weaponized technocracy, artificial

672
00:57:28.400 --> 00:57:30.960
intelligences. It's about the police state, the surveillance state, perpetual war,

673
00:57:31.159 --> 00:57:37.199
totalitarianism. That's what AI is about. So he is involved in that and

674
00:57:37.840 --> 00:57:43.280
military intelligence, military technology. He
made a lot of connections, ranging from

675
00:57:43.400 --> 00:57:49.840
AI startup founders to Chase Coke,
the billionaire sun of the CEO of Coke

676
00:57:49.960 --> 00:57:54.480
Industries. In twenty nineteen, he
left to start Narya Capital, another venture

677
00:57:54.559 --> 00:58:00.360
capital fund that drew investors like Teal, like Mark and trese In. One

678
00:58:00.400 --> 00:58:06.679
of the big VC people venture capital. Some people call him vulture capitalists and

679
00:58:07.320 --> 00:58:12.199
Eric Schmidt pure evil. Eric Schmidt, Eric Schmitt, who's become one of

680
00:58:12.239 --> 00:58:15.679
the biggest guys in the military industrial
complex, and he's doing it very quietly.

681
00:58:16.239 --> 00:58:21.679
Always there. Remember the interview that
I had with a guy who was

682
00:58:21.760 --> 00:58:24.960
talking about artificial intelligence. Of course, the main thrust of the book was

683
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:30.760
about how we're going to fight a
war with China, and in it he

684
00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:36.360
kept talking about the footprint of Eric
Schmidt. And so we're going to pick

685
00:58:36.480 --> 00:58:39.639
up with this when we come back. But I'm really anxious to talk to

686
00:58:39.719 --> 00:58:44.960
our guest. We schedule him in
the second hour today because of his He's

687
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:47.639
in a great deal of demand,
obviously, somebody who's had a lot of

688
00:58:47.719 --> 00:58:54.440
experience working in the Secret Service,
and I'm very interested to see what he

689
00:58:54.519 --> 00:58:59.079
has to say about what happened over
the weekend. But I'm also interested in

690
00:58:59.199 --> 00:59:05.519
seeing his life view somebody who is
always every day he goes to work,

691
00:59:06.440 --> 00:59:09.760
he's thinking about taking a bullet.
And the name of his book is Cheating

692
00:59:09.880 --> 00:59:16.239
Death, and he's talked about that, and you know, and that's what

693
00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:20.599
I really am excited to talk to
him about. But we'll also talk about

694
00:59:21.239 --> 00:59:25.079
the Trump assassination attempt. We're going
to take a quick break and we'll be

695
00:59:25.360 --> 01:01:07.920
right back with Ken Valentine. You're
listening to the David Knight Show, all

696
01:01:07.960 --> 01:01:13.400
right. Joining us now is Ken
Valentine. He has worked in the Secret

697
01:01:13.440 --> 01:01:21.000
Service. He worked under three presidential
Secret Service details we'll find out how many

698
01:01:21.079 --> 01:01:24.000
years he worked with him. But
there was an excellent quote from Dan Bongino

699
01:01:24.559 --> 01:01:27.559
and supportive of his book. I
haven't read his book, but I wanted

700
01:01:27.559 --> 01:01:30.400
to get him on because he wants
to talk about his view of life.

701
01:01:30.639 --> 01:01:37.039
What that gave him working in the
Secret Service is called Cheating Death. Dan

702
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:38.679
Bongino said this about his book.
He said, there's few people I've met

703
01:01:38.719 --> 01:01:44.599
in my life who've had as deep
of an impact on me as Secret Service

704
01:01:44.639 --> 01:01:47.719
agent Ken Valentine. His new book, Cheating Death, as a masterpiece about

705
01:01:47.800 --> 01:01:52.719
leadership and perspective in a difficult world. His stories from his time and the

706
01:01:52.719 --> 01:01:58.320
Secret Service are overlaid with leadership and
with life lessons that he learned in a

707
01:01:58.360 --> 01:02:01.880
way that readers will embrace and appreciate. So I'm very interested to talk to

708
01:02:01.960 --> 01:02:06.639
him, even though I haven't seen
the book. So welcome, Ken Valentine.

709
01:02:06.679 --> 01:02:08.119
Thank you for joining us. Yes, sir, plad to be with

710
01:02:08.199 --> 01:02:10.239
you. Thank you. Tell us
a little bit about First of all,

711
01:02:10.280 --> 01:02:14.239
how long you were there under three
different presidents. How long did you work

712
01:02:14.239 --> 01:02:17.440
for the Secret Service? Sure?
Well, my career span from nineteen ninety

713
01:02:17.440 --> 01:02:22.719
six to twenty twenty, so twenty
four years with the Service. I was

714
01:02:22.800 --> 01:02:27.840
on the President's detail two times for
a total of ten years. Started at

715
01:02:27.880 --> 01:02:30.599
the end of Bill Clinton's term,
so I was with him for his last

716
01:02:30.719 --> 01:02:36.280
year and then the first four years
with President George W. Bush. Bounced

717
01:02:36.280 --> 01:02:39.800
around the country and headquarters doing different
things, and then I was promoted back

718
01:02:40.360 --> 01:02:45.360
at the start of the President Obama
administration, serving another five years, so

719
01:02:45.159 --> 01:02:50.440
that was my tenure. I retired
as the Special Agent in charge of Dignitary

720
01:02:50.480 --> 01:02:52.920
Protective Division. I want to talk
to you about what happened with this last

721
01:02:52.960 --> 01:02:57.400
weekend. But before we do real
quickly that the title cheating death. That

722
01:02:57.519 --> 01:03:00.800
also got my attention because that is
a kind of thing every day that you

723
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:01.960
guys are going to work, you
never know if there's going to be some

724
01:03:02.079 --> 01:03:05.360
kind of a violent attack, if
you're going to have to take a bullet

725
01:03:05.400 --> 01:03:07.000
for the present. I guess it's
kind of like living with cancer for a

726
01:03:07.119 --> 01:03:12.920
very long time, isn't it.
Talk about that absolutely, And since that's

727
01:03:12.960 --> 01:03:17.239
been in our family, My wife
cheated death beat breast cancer. So eating

728
01:03:17.320 --> 01:03:22.440
death was a term that we threw
around when I was on the President's detail.

729
01:03:22.320 --> 01:03:25.000
Among the agents, it was just
it was kind of a way to

730
01:03:27.679 --> 01:03:30.880
prad each other a little bit.
It was a good reminder of the importance

731
01:03:30.920 --> 01:03:35.159
of the mission and what's going to
happen if we don't do our job,

732
01:03:35.239 --> 01:03:37.480
if we don't pay attention to detail, if we don't follow through on the

733
01:03:37.519 --> 01:03:42.480
methodology the protocol. But it was
also a lighthearted way to just to just

734
01:03:42.599 --> 01:03:49.159
punch each other and a little joking
kind of inner circle. So, you

735
01:03:49.280 --> 01:03:52.639
know, the book was close to
having another title that wasn't nearly as good,

736
01:03:52.760 --> 01:03:59.480
but thankfully we can at the end
kind of graveyard humor there as a

737
01:04:00.119 --> 01:04:02.440
cult job. And did you point
out what can happen cheating death? What

738
01:04:02.480 --> 01:04:05.559
can happen if you don't pay attention
to the details. Now, what we

739
01:04:05.639 --> 01:04:11.960
saw over the weekend was an astonishing
lack of attention to detail that I can

740
01:04:12.119 --> 01:04:15.280
believe what was happening with that.
First of all, howd the shooter get

741
01:04:15.320 --> 01:04:19.000
into the event carrying a gun?
How did he get onto a roof that

742
01:04:19.199 --> 01:04:21.679
was that close to the clear line
of site? Talk a little bit about

743
01:04:21.679 --> 01:04:27.719
your impressions about this. Yeah,
you know, having done this for twenty

744
01:04:27.800 --> 01:04:31.880
four years and sort of lived and
breathed that, even though that's what we

745
01:04:32.079 --> 01:04:38.079
prepared for, it was still a
bit shocking to see someone that we've been

746
01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:44.039
given the mission to protect risked off
the stage bleeding from a gunshot wound.

747
01:04:44.199 --> 01:04:48.400
It's just that is not supposed to
happen. You've been given a mission.

748
01:04:48.480 --> 01:04:54.960
It is an enormous responsibility, but
it's a privilege that comes with consequence if

749
01:04:54.960 --> 01:04:59.199
you don't do it right. And
the Secret Service director came out early this

750
01:04:59.360 --> 01:05:01.400
morning, thankful. She's, you
know, someone that I've known for a

751
01:05:01.440 --> 01:05:05.880
long time and encounter as a friend, but it's Tuesday. This happened Saturday,

752
01:05:06.000 --> 01:05:11.480
and you know, thankfully, we're
taking ownership for that. There's no

753
01:05:11.599 --> 01:05:17.559
way around that. So there were
failures. Every time you set up a

754
01:05:17.719 --> 01:05:23.599
site, it takes an enormous amount
of time, enormous amount of collaboration and

755
01:05:23.679 --> 01:05:26.079
effort, and you know, we're
not to know it all. So we

756
01:05:26.199 --> 01:05:29.840
have a lot of experience in that, but we always lean into other partners

757
01:05:30.280 --> 01:05:34.400
federal, state and local partnerships to
do that. But at the end of

758
01:05:34.440 --> 01:05:39.719
the day, the Secret Service has
the final say, we sign off on

759
01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:43.880
it, and we coordinated that.
So you've got to take ownership for that.

760
01:05:43.960 --> 01:05:45.239
I was glad to see her do
that this morning. Yeah, because

761
01:05:45.280 --> 01:05:48.440
what we saw for the first several
days was finger pointing back and forth.

762
01:05:49.039 --> 01:05:53.440
Well that was a local job.
They should have done this or done that,

763
01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:56.880
and they said, well, they
were ones running the show. They

764
01:05:56.960 --> 01:05:59.960
were coordinating everything, you know,
and so yeah, I guess yeah,

765
01:06:00.119 --> 01:06:03.360
finally said something about that. I
saw a quote from an individual who said,

766
01:06:03.360 --> 01:06:09.320
I've been to five Trump rallies,
and at four of the five we

767
01:06:09.400 --> 01:06:12.800
went through wanding and all kinds of
stuff about weapons and everything. But because

768
01:06:12.840 --> 01:06:15.840
not at this one, they just
waved me through, and so I guess

769
01:06:15.920 --> 01:06:19.199
that's my question, you know,
I mean that kind of thing would catch

770
01:06:19.280 --> 01:06:24.280
somebody that's got a concealed pistol or
something. But how do you get into

771
01:06:24.320 --> 01:06:29.519
an event like that carrying a rifle
and who knows what else? Yeah,

772
01:06:29.559 --> 01:06:33.880
that that doesn't make any sense to
somebody like me. That does not compute,

773
01:06:33.960 --> 01:06:39.519
you know, weapons and secured events. This don't come out of the

774
01:06:39.559 --> 01:06:45.440
same mouth. So the perimeter was
set up again, it's excuse me.

775
01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:48.440
It's an architecture and every single one
is different. It's like a painting or

776
01:06:48.480 --> 01:06:53.000
something, and so they're all different. If it was if it was cookie

777
01:06:53.039 --> 01:06:56.719
cutter, you know, we would
you could easily say, well, what

778
01:06:57.000 --> 01:07:00.679
was the security failure? I think
in this instance, with the way the

779
01:07:00.159 --> 01:07:06.679
security perimeter was drawn and where this
building was, obviously the final outcome was

780
01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:15.079
failure. But I think the investigation
is going to reveal probably multiple mini steps

781
01:07:15.119 --> 01:07:20.719
of failure. But the game of
protection is prevention, and when you don't

782
01:07:20.800 --> 01:07:28.119
prevent bullets from flying into what we
would call a security event, the word

783
01:07:28.159 --> 01:07:31.719
failure ought to be at the forefront
of the confession there, because that's that

784
01:07:31.960 --> 01:07:39.199
is just failure. You can't have
that, and they did so the you

785
01:07:39.280 --> 01:07:43.880
know that the impressive thing to me
was watching and I know some of these

786
01:07:43.960 --> 01:07:49.199
individuals that that did react and you
know, the security is made up of

787
01:07:49.320 --> 01:07:54.199
layers. It's then there shouldn't be
a single point of failure. So I'll

788
01:07:54.239 --> 01:07:59.559
be interested to see what the investigation
reveals and and how any of those points

789
01:07:59.639 --> 01:08:03.480
led to failure. But the reaction
by the by the shift what we would

790
01:08:03.519 --> 01:08:09.199
call the working shift around President Trump
was was pretty fast. It was it

791
01:08:09.320 --> 01:08:12.320
was quick, it was coordinated.
They did exactly what we were trained to

792
01:08:12.360 --> 01:08:16.439
do. Uh. The unfortunate part
of that is that they were reacting to

793
01:08:16.800 --> 01:08:24.640
bullets flying and President Trump's own reaction
to being hit. And most of the

794
01:08:24.760 --> 01:08:29.079
time that is just simply too late. Yeah, and we trained for that,

795
01:08:29.359 --> 01:08:31.239
but you don't ever want to be
in that situation. I would much

796
01:08:31.359 --> 01:08:38.560
rather have seen them with that kind
of quick reaction having received verbal, you

797
01:08:38.640 --> 01:08:41.640
know, information that we have identified
a shooter on the roof, we're in

798
01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:44.880
the process of neutralizing, but you
know, get him out, and that

799
01:08:45.000 --> 01:08:47.600
didn't happen. I don't know why
that didn't happen. I'll be you know,

800
01:08:47.720 --> 01:08:51.319
waiting, just like everybody else to
see what, you know, what

801
01:08:51.479 --> 01:08:57.359
were the sequence of events here that
that led to bullets flying into a secured

802
01:08:57.399 --> 01:09:00.479
area. And of course now we're
seeing things coming out from local law enforcement

803
01:09:00.560 --> 01:09:03.680
saying that there were reports of him
walking around thirty minutes ahead of time.

804
01:09:03.840 --> 01:09:09.600
But I guess one of the questions
that I have is why wasn't there wouldn't

805
01:09:09.600 --> 01:09:14.119
it be standard procedure for there to
be somebody on that roof if it's that

806
01:09:14.319 --> 01:09:16.119
close, or do they just kind
of watch it? I mean the other

807
01:09:16.159 --> 01:09:21.159
part of it. As we saw
the guy who was kind of elevated as

808
01:09:21.239 --> 01:09:25.560
a sniper and he seemed to pointing
his gun at that guy, did he

809
01:09:26.319 --> 01:09:30.319
have to have special orders to shoot
the guy? If he sees somebody laying

810
01:09:30.359 --> 01:09:32.319
prone in a position with a rifle, does he have to have some special

811
01:09:32.359 --> 01:09:35.640
permission to take action? Or how
does that? Well, I'll address that

812
01:09:35.800 --> 01:09:41.880
first. The Secret Service counter snipers
operate on a green light, so they

813
01:09:41.920 --> 01:09:45.760
don't need permission. They need a
circumstance that warrants taking the shot. Okay,

814
01:09:46.680 --> 01:09:50.560
so there you know. I've heard
some of those stories too, and

815
01:09:51.079 --> 01:09:56.920
so all I can say is that
the entire time that I was there.

816
01:09:57.359 --> 01:10:01.399
The snipers are your best friend,
they are your overlord. They are they

817
01:10:02.039 --> 01:10:06.119
are watching way beyond your back,
taking care of you, and so that

818
01:10:06.279 --> 01:10:12.239
the so that the working shift around
the president can can you know, maintain

819
01:10:12.319 --> 01:10:16.479
their focus a lot closer in.
The snipers are are incredibly well trained and

820
01:10:17.000 --> 01:10:24.359
disciplined. But like everybody else,
I saw the photos and now videos of

821
01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:29.079
what they were looking at. And
typically the snipers working tandem. You have

822
01:10:29.159 --> 01:10:31.840
a shooter and a spotterer, and
they both can become shooters, but one

823
01:10:31.920 --> 01:10:36.319
person is using the binoculars for you
know, looking around. Uh. Sometimes

824
01:10:36.359 --> 01:10:41.600
they're both doing that, but as
soon as they have a threat identified,

825
01:10:41.720 --> 01:10:45.239
then one gets on the rifle.
The other maintains spotting and and you coordinate

826
01:10:45.319 --> 01:10:49.800
that shot. But it, you
know, it just seemed like there was

827
01:10:49.880 --> 01:10:53.640
some kind of delay. And I
don't know if that was in acquisition.

828
01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.760
I don't know if it, but
it should not. The delays should not

829
01:10:56.960 --> 01:11:00.359
and would not in my experience,
come from any kind of permission, because

830
01:11:00.399 --> 01:11:04.279
they have the green light to do
what needs to be done real time all

831
01:11:04.359 --> 01:11:06.760
the time. Yeah, those one
of the questions that I had because I

832
01:11:06.840 --> 01:11:11.840
looked at the video. There's a
video where he seems like he's acquired the

833
01:11:11.920 --> 01:11:15.640
guy, and then he takes his
eye off of the eyepiece, and then

834
01:11:15.680 --> 01:11:18.760
you hear a bunch of shots,
and then whoever's filming it with a phone,

835
01:11:18.800 --> 01:11:23.640
they start moving around and you lose
any visual of what is happening.

836
01:11:23.720 --> 01:11:28.359
What I read was that somebody else
then at a further distance rather than one

837
01:11:28.439 --> 01:11:30.920
hundred and fifty yards, somebody that
was about four hundred and fifty yards and

838
01:11:30.920 --> 01:11:33.039
then took him out. I don't
know. That's just what I've seen people

839
01:11:33.119 --> 01:11:36.359
say. But what seems strange to
me was that you he seemed to have

840
01:11:36.399 --> 01:11:42.199
acquired him, then pull back and
took his head, removed his head away

841
01:11:42.239 --> 01:11:45.840
from the eyepiece, and then you
hear all the shots happening there. Yeah.

842
01:11:45.239 --> 01:11:47.479
Yeah, it's going to be interesting. I think. The other question

843
01:11:47.600 --> 01:11:54.119
with respect to the counter snipers is
how many teams were in place. It's

844
01:11:54.319 --> 01:11:59.960
a little unusual in my experience to
see just one team because there's a lot

845
01:12:00.119 --> 01:12:03.439
of ground to cover. You know, you you asked if it was typical

846
01:12:03.880 --> 01:12:09.279
or you know, you would expect
this or that, and again, every

847
01:12:10.159 --> 01:12:14.720
security venue an event is so different. So the architecture of the infrastructure is

848
01:12:14.800 --> 01:12:18.560
going to be different, and so
I would be curious to know how many

849
01:12:18.600 --> 01:12:25.560
sniper teams there were, and and
you know what their area of responsibility was,

850
01:12:25.760 --> 01:12:29.479
And if this team that we keep
seeing the videos of, if that

851
01:12:29.760 --> 01:12:33.239
was within their area of responsibility,
then then they should have been seeing a

852
01:12:33.319 --> 01:12:40.760
shooter on the roof the coordination to
your first question about you know how someone

853
01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:45.319
would get access to that roof and
wouldn't it be part of the protocol to

854
01:12:45.479 --> 01:12:48.000
not allow anyone on the roof.
I can tell you in my experience,

855
01:12:49.600 --> 01:12:54.159
people get on the roofs all the
time. And the way we mitigate that

856
01:12:54.720 --> 01:12:59.520
we try to prevent people from getting
on roofs through locked doors, through posting

857
01:13:00.159 --> 01:13:05.239
of police officers and agents, and
then you also utilize roving counter surveillance and

858
01:13:05.800 --> 01:13:12.439
identification teams that patrol in those areas. And so it's it's a little hard

859
01:13:12.479 --> 01:13:18.640
for me to even appreciate the notion
that this guy number one got access scaled

860
01:13:18.880 --> 01:13:25.399
this building without some kind of communication
going out or number two. The rumors

861
01:13:25.439 --> 01:13:28.199
that I've heard is that he was
up there for quite a while. So

862
01:13:29.000 --> 01:13:32.560
a little hard for me to digest
that because it just doesn't square with my

863
01:13:32.720 --> 01:13:36.800
experience that this would go. You
know, it's certainly not going to be

864
01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:42.840
casually dismissed. Someone's on a roof, that's that's a direct threat to the

865
01:13:42.920 --> 01:13:47.399
security of the venue. So I
you know, wish I knew. I

866
01:13:48.239 --> 01:13:53.760
it'll come out, But really more
information is coming on on a daily basis.

867
01:13:53.880 --> 01:13:56.640
When you said, do you wish
you knew how many sniper teams were

868
01:13:57.359 --> 01:14:01.720
the reports that the Trump campaign had
asked for more coverage and had not received,

869
01:14:01.760 --> 01:14:06.560
and of course they denied RFK Junior
any coverage, but now they have

870
01:14:08.039 --> 01:14:12.239
changed that for FK Junior. Do
you do you think that might be something

871
01:14:12.319 --> 01:14:15.199
that was in play? I know
it's too soon to say, but what

872
01:14:15.399 --> 01:14:21.279
might that be a possible explanation for
why there wasn't something more done about the

873
01:14:21.399 --> 01:14:26.880
venue even though they had people there
to screen people, but they just weren't

874
01:14:26.920 --> 01:14:29.720
doing it coming in But you know, in terms of the roof or something

875
01:14:29.800 --> 01:14:31.840
like that, in coverage of the
roof that was a personnel maybe I don't

876
01:14:31.880 --> 01:14:36.920
know. Yeah. Another that's another
difficult thing for me to to get past

877
01:14:39.079 --> 01:14:43.079
me is the idea that people were
coming into the venue that were not being

878
01:14:43.159 --> 01:14:46.159
screened for weapons. Uh, that's
that's a little hard to take. It's

879
01:14:46.199 --> 01:14:50.520
a huge crowd. It's it's right
up against the r n C. Use

880
01:14:50.560 --> 01:14:57.560
of magnetometers, you know, should
have been there. So I've been working

881
01:14:57.680 --> 01:15:00.880
under the assumption that they were there, and I'm I'm going to maintain that

882
01:15:00.960 --> 01:15:08.880
assumption. I'll be very disappointed if
people were coming into that venue without without

883
01:15:09.039 --> 01:15:12.880
passing through a magnetometer and being cleaned
up. There's there's no point in having

884
01:15:12.920 --> 01:15:16.880
a perimeter if you're not screening people
coming in that that means there really is

885
01:15:17.199 --> 01:15:23.159
it. Yeah, that's right.
Well, I think we pretty much covered

886
01:15:23.199 --> 01:15:26.239
what happened over the weekend. Let's
talk about your experiences. I'm sure you

887
01:15:26.319 --> 01:15:32.600
had some very interesting experiences personally over
twenty four to twenty five years. I

888
01:15:33.279 --> 01:15:38.920
tell you I loved my career.
I had a storybook career, and I

889
01:15:38.960 --> 01:15:44.159
wouldn't trade one day of it for
anything. It was. I loved it.

890
01:15:44.319 --> 01:15:47.439
It's a passion of mine. And
you know that when I went back

891
01:15:47.479 --> 01:15:51.800
to the President's Detail for a second
tour, I served as a shift leader

892
01:15:51.840 --> 01:15:57.359
and that's that's kind of the operational
quarterback of the President's Detail, and that

893
01:15:57.640 --> 01:16:00.479
was such such a fun job.
It typically as a one year burnout.

894
01:16:01.359 --> 01:16:03.800
I did it for two years and
seven months and they had to throw me

895
01:16:03.880 --> 01:16:08.399
out to forget me to stop doing
it because I just loved it so much.

896
01:16:08.520 --> 01:16:12.560
And it's a great missions it's good. I think it's just part of

897
01:16:12.640 --> 01:16:17.600
my DNA to want a mission driven
job. And you know the fact that

898
01:16:18.079 --> 01:16:24.239
you can't fail at anything. It
drives you. It can wear you out,

899
01:16:24.399 --> 01:16:28.479
but I still loved it. Well, what was your background? What

900
01:16:28.600 --> 01:16:32.279
got you into that's such an unusual
job? Actually, I think what got

901
01:16:32.319 --> 01:16:35.760
you into that? Not too many
people get into becoming a secret service agent.

902
01:16:36.720 --> 01:16:41.239
Yeah, I'd be glad to tell
you that story because my dad and

903
01:16:41.319 --> 01:16:46.079
my uncle were both FBI agents.
So I broke family tradition and they,

904
01:16:46.279 --> 01:16:49.000
you know, they talked me into
going to law school. So I went

905
01:16:49.119 --> 01:16:55.439
to Purdue undergrad and then Mississippi College
for law school. But you know,

906
01:16:55.520 --> 01:17:00.960
they they finally got me diverted.
My dad had the opportunity when in a

907
01:17:00.079 --> 01:17:05.520
Ronald Reagan visit, to participate in
the intelligence aspect of the advance, and

908
01:17:06.000 --> 01:17:10.760
you know, he got to engage
with the agents, be brought in to

909
01:17:11.039 --> 01:17:14.479
see the culture behind the scenes,
and you know, he was comparing that

910
01:17:15.279 --> 01:17:18.279
FBI culture to secret Service culture.
Knowing his son, he said, you

911
01:17:18.359 --> 01:17:23.479
know, if you just insist on
going into federal law enforcement, I'm going

912
01:17:23.560 --> 01:17:26.640
to push you to secret Service.
And so he did. I think that

913
01:17:26.800 --> 01:17:30.520
was wise. I enjoyed it.
I loved it and wouldn't trade. Now.

914
01:17:30.680 --> 01:17:32.720
You know, we all see the
presidents all the time, but you

915
01:17:32.760 --> 01:17:38.840
get to see them behind the scenes. How different as it seeing them behind

916
01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:43.560
the scenes versus their public persona,
Well, it really depends on the president.

917
01:17:44.039 --> 01:17:47.239
And I don't want to hand anyone
out necessarily. I can tell you

918
01:17:47.359 --> 01:17:53.760
this, I am near and dear
to my heart because I spent four years

919
01:17:53.800 --> 01:17:59.840
with him, George W. Bush. There was no on camera persona whatsoever.

920
01:18:00.159 --> 01:18:05.239
So you know, I can thinkly
say that he didn't have a different

921
01:18:05.359 --> 01:18:10.159
persona at all. There was no
the cameras are on, you know,

922
01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:13.520
let me, you know, let
me change, because he was just that

923
01:18:13.720 --> 01:18:17.880
genuine. So I did appreciate that
he you know, we had an incident,

924
01:18:18.119 --> 01:18:23.079
uh several where he saved us,
so we we you know, he

925
01:18:23.239 --> 01:18:28.640
was very much dear to me and
I appreciated his his demeanor toward us,

926
01:18:28.760 --> 01:18:31.720
and you know, we certainly weren't
friends. It didn't like that. But

927
01:18:32.359 --> 01:18:35.640
the only time he called me by
my name was was when my family came

928
01:18:35.680 --> 01:18:40.399
in for a departure photo when my
time was up. So it was a

929
01:18:40.520 --> 01:18:44.279
very professional relationship. That's great.
And he didn't have a dog that bit

930
01:18:44.319 --> 01:18:48.239
you either, right, we had
dogs, and I remember one time I

931
01:18:48.359 --> 01:18:51.640
had to to pick pick it was. I can't remember which dog, it

932
01:18:51.800 --> 01:18:57.000
was, probably Barney up and Harry
the dog to him. And you know,

933
01:18:57.119 --> 01:18:59.560
some of my colleagues are like,
really, dude, you're you're you're

934
01:18:59.600 --> 01:19:02.439
carrying dog. And I'm like,
look, if I don't pick this dog

935
01:19:02.560 --> 01:19:06.000
up and carry the dog to him, he's going to stop, come back

936
01:19:06.039 --> 01:19:09.239
and get the dog. I said, this is just quicker. Yeah,

937
01:19:09.439 --> 01:19:15.000
yeah, yeah. Talk a little
bit about what you saw in terms of

938
01:19:15.479 --> 01:19:19.399
insights you got in terms of leadership
and integrity and things like that. Can

939
01:19:19.479 --> 01:19:24.560
you talk about that in a general
way? Yeah? Yeah, That's part

940
01:19:24.600 --> 01:19:28.000
of my heartbeat now, it's part
of what I'm doing. I serve on

941
01:19:28.359 --> 01:19:30.279
the board at the National Center for
Missing Sploited Children at the White House,

942
01:19:30.319 --> 01:19:38.560
and on another technology company called Base
Molecular Residence. Technology and leadership is what

943
01:19:38.760 --> 01:19:43.079
I'm teaching and preaching. Fact,
I'm in Pittsburgh. This is my glorious

944
01:19:43.119 --> 01:19:46.119
studio, is my hotel room here, but I'm at the International Conference of

945
01:19:46.199 --> 01:19:51.800
Police Chaplains to speak to them about
leadership. And I serve as a point

946
01:19:51.840 --> 01:19:58.119
man leadership Institute teacher, and so
we're going to talk about leadership even amongst

947
01:19:58.279 --> 01:20:03.680
chaplains. And my you know,
leadership mantra that's that I lead with in

948
01:20:03.760 --> 01:20:10.520
the book is to keep it simple
and continue the direction over perfection. And

949
01:20:10.840 --> 01:20:15.399
so I talk about vision, the
importance of vision, discipline, and integrity,

950
01:20:15.439 --> 01:20:17.960
and those are my those are my
big three. I feel like all

951
01:20:18.079 --> 01:20:23.760
the other you know, attributes of
leadership can fit somehow into one of those

952
01:20:23.840 --> 01:20:28.079
three categories. And if you if
you major on the major with those three,

953
01:20:28.199 --> 01:20:30.920
then it's a it's a little hard
to go wrong. Vision and integrity.

954
01:20:30.960 --> 01:20:34.680
What was the third one that you
mentioned? Discipline? Discipline? Let's

955
01:20:34.680 --> 01:20:39.600
talk about that vision thing, because
I summon George W's father talked about well,

956
01:20:39.880 --> 01:20:45.399
but how would you define vision for
people? You know, sometimes vision

957
01:20:45.560 --> 01:20:49.640
has to do more with faith than
it does with site. In the book,

958
01:20:49.720 --> 01:20:54.880
I talk about vision and I and
I talk about an outing with President

959
01:20:54.960 --> 01:21:00.199
Obama and with Tiger Woods, and
we came up to the eighteenth hole the

960
01:21:00.359 --> 01:21:04.199
Floridian, and it had been a
long day. Tiger Woods was enjoying talking

961
01:21:04.239 --> 01:21:06.800
to me a lot more than President
Obama. For some reason, it was

962
01:21:06.880 --> 01:21:12.760
very uncomfortable. But President Obama got
up to the eighteenth hole and I'm not

963
01:21:12.840 --> 01:21:15.800
a golfer, but the fairway was
off to the right and then it jutted

964
01:21:15.880 --> 01:21:19.600
back to the left to the green. He hit a nice shot almost to

965
01:21:19.720 --> 01:21:24.399
that clearing. Tiger Woods gets up
to hit his shot, and I talk

966
01:21:24.439 --> 01:21:28.880
about the importance of being able to
see differently than everybody else, and so

967
01:21:29.560 --> 01:21:33.359
I said, sometimes it's more about
faith than sight. Tiger Woods didn't hit

968
01:21:33.399 --> 01:21:38.239
the ball to the right, he
didn't go straight for the green. And

969
01:21:38.399 --> 01:21:45.760
we've been talking about the collaborative nature
of the Secret Service and our security infrastructure.

970
01:21:45.760 --> 01:21:47.520
And I pointed out the Coast Guard
boat out on the water to the

971
01:21:47.600 --> 01:21:51.840
left and the Coast Guard helicopter up
above, and we had agents on the

972
01:21:51.880 --> 01:21:57.279
boat and agents in the helicopter.
Tiger Woods launches the ball out to the

973
01:21:57.399 --> 01:22:00.720
left, out over the water,
and I really thought for a second he

974
01:22:00.880 --> 01:22:03.600
was trying to give the Coastguard and
the agent out there a souvenir. But

975
01:22:04.039 --> 01:22:08.800
the ball took off and kept rising
and rising, rising, and then it

976
01:22:08.880 --> 01:22:13.960
started slicing back to the right,
coming back to earth lands on the left

977
01:22:14.079 --> 01:22:15.800
edge of the green, rolling toward
the hole. And it's just like,

978
01:22:15.920 --> 01:22:21.720
well, Tiger Woods looked at this
problem and saw it differently than everybody else

979
01:22:21.760 --> 01:22:25.840
out there. He had some skills, he had some tools, experience and

980
01:22:25.960 --> 01:22:30.760
know how that gave him a vision
for getting this ball in this hole different

981
01:22:30.800 --> 01:22:35.800
than other people. And when I
was about a year into the prison's detail,

982
01:22:38.640 --> 01:22:42.640
you had to pick a specialty,
and they selected for me because I

983
01:22:42.760 --> 01:22:45.760
wanted to do other stuff, but
they put me in the transportation section.

984
01:22:45.880 --> 01:22:50.800
And that's the folks who drive the
limousine and work out the motorcade routes and

985
01:22:51.079 --> 01:22:56.039
all that planning. You have to
pass the Protective Operations driving course, and

986
01:22:56.600 --> 01:22:59.399
it's not an easy thing, but
that's where you learn all those cool driving

987
01:22:59.479 --> 01:23:02.960
maneuvers, and you learned to go
past and to steer and break and do

988
01:23:03.079 --> 01:23:06.960
the crazy turns and all that stuff. But you know, to stay in

989
01:23:08.039 --> 01:23:13.000
the transportation section, you had to
pass Protective Operations driving course and to pass

990
01:23:13.079 --> 01:23:15.159
you had to make it through the
obstacle course in a certain amount of time

991
01:23:15.239 --> 01:23:19.439
without hitting cones, and every cone
you hit took time off of your score.

992
01:23:20.319 --> 01:23:24.840
And you know, we're approaching the
end and nobody's passing, and our

993
01:23:24.880 --> 01:23:30.079
instructor finally said, do you want
to know the secret to managing the obstacle

994
01:23:30.119 --> 01:23:31.920
course? And of course we all
did, and he he said, it's

995
01:23:32.199 --> 01:23:35.199
we've taught you how to break.
We've taught you how to use the accelerator

996
01:23:35.319 --> 01:23:42.119
and the steering wheel. But the
key to navigating the obstacle course is your

997
01:23:42.199 --> 01:23:45.640
eyes. And if you look at
the cones, you will hit the cones.

998
01:23:45.239 --> 01:23:49.239
But if you look to where your
goal is, the little bitty opening

999
01:23:49.720 --> 01:23:55.279
at the very end of this big
banana curve, you'll hit that. And

1000
01:23:55.439 --> 01:23:58.840
so your your hands and your eyes
work together when you've got good vision,

1001
01:23:59.319 --> 01:24:00.359
and so you have to lift your
gaze. And I, you know,

1002
01:24:00.439 --> 01:24:05.680
I point to Scripture saying that you
know, he wants us to fix our

1003
01:24:05.800 --> 01:24:11.000
eyes upon him. He wants us
to lift our gaze off the problems and

1004
01:24:11.039 --> 01:24:14.960
the troubles of life. When we
look down, we see problems. We

1005
01:24:15.119 --> 01:24:18.159
get bogged down when we lift.
When we look up and lift our gaze.

1006
01:24:18.199 --> 01:24:24.079
Then we tend to hit where we
where we're gazing. So that's for

1007
01:24:24.239 --> 01:24:28.800
me, that's a little nutshell about
vision and something that I enjoy talking about.

1008
01:24:28.920 --> 01:24:30.840
Yeah, that's a great lesson.
And you know, in the middle

1009
01:24:30.920 --> 01:24:35.680
of talking a lot about money and
its effects and how we treat it,

1010
01:24:36.600 --> 01:24:41.039
Christ said, you know, if
the light of the eye is darkness,

1011
01:24:41.119 --> 01:24:43.920
how dark is it on the inside
of your body? That's what you're looking

1012
01:24:44.000 --> 01:24:45.319
at, right, Well, why
do you focus? Are you looking as

1013
01:24:45.359 --> 01:24:48.000
you pointed out? Are you looking
at the problems? Are you looking at

1014
01:24:48.039 --> 01:24:51.119
the things that you want that you
don't have and that type of thing.

1015
01:24:51.680 --> 01:24:55.039
If you do, you're going to
miss the goal. It's going to become

1016
01:24:55.159 --> 01:24:58.720
your master that that's a very important
lesson. I really like that. But

1017
01:24:58.960 --> 01:25:01.000
I can't go away from the driving
thing without finding it. You know,

1018
01:25:01.079 --> 01:25:05.920
how to do Rockford turns? Oh, yes, yes, that's that's one

1019
01:25:05.920 --> 01:25:09.600
of the things they teach you.
We call them a jay turn. Yeah,

1020
01:25:09.840 --> 01:25:12.640
and you have to master the j
turner. You can't make it too

1021
01:25:12.720 --> 01:25:15.279
because it's part of the obstacle course. You have to, you know,

1022
01:25:15.600 --> 01:25:17.960
drive down into a dead end and
then and then do the jay turn and

1023
01:25:18.039 --> 01:25:21.159
you have to do it fast.
And a limousine, no less, not

1024
01:25:21.239 --> 01:25:25.760
a sports car. That's the key
thing. And and I've seen pictures of

1025
01:25:25.880 --> 01:25:30.359
them navigating a cone thing backwards.
Is that part of it as well?

1026
01:25:30.920 --> 01:25:34.800
It is Wow. Wow, that's
very impressive. Yeah, that's that is

1027
01:25:34.920 --> 01:25:40.000
really impressive driving skills. There.
Talk a little bit about how it affected

1028
01:25:40.079 --> 01:25:44.760
your family life. Well, there's
a huge impact on the family life.

1029
01:25:44.800 --> 01:25:47.600
And and that's another thing that I
that I do talk about in Cheating Death

1030
01:25:47.760 --> 01:25:53.159
is the impact on the family.
And very thankful to have a wife who

1031
01:25:53.399 --> 01:25:58.720
was not only supportive but encouraged me
to get out there and do that.

1032
01:25:58.880 --> 01:26:02.680
And and so that I have a
chapter in there about decision making, and

1033
01:26:03.399 --> 01:26:10.399
I talk about the importance of including
your spouse in the decision making process.

1034
01:26:10.600 --> 01:26:14.319
But you know, what I found
is that if the two of us are

1035
01:26:14.840 --> 01:26:19.560
one and we're seeking him, then
those decisions tend to come out better than

1036
01:26:19.640 --> 01:26:23.840
if I just go on my own
strength and my own understanding and then inform

1037
01:26:23.920 --> 01:26:27.680
her. I have some examples in
the book where I did that and they

1038
01:26:27.720 --> 01:26:31.640
don't come out very well. So
I learned the value of seeking her advice,

1039
01:26:31.800 --> 01:26:38.680
her counsel and agreement in making these
decisions and then navigating a job that

1040
01:26:39.119 --> 01:26:44.560
is not family friendly. It just
isn't. So I took on focus on

1041
01:26:44.640 --> 01:26:47.560
the family because they put out an
article about a secret service agent who quit,

1042
01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:50.920
and they hold him up as the
example of what you must do if

1043
01:26:51.000 --> 01:26:56.600
you're going to be a good husband
and a true father to your children.

1044
01:26:56.720 --> 01:27:00.319
And I said, I'm not sure
about that. I can't find a biblical

1045
01:27:00.399 --> 01:27:05.640
example of anyone that God told you
lay up because I've got someone else to

1046
01:27:05.720 --> 01:27:12.119
do this mission for you. I
see plenty of examples of men in particular

1047
01:27:12.199 --> 01:27:15.239
who were told, you know,
go out and do as I say,

1048
01:27:15.399 --> 01:27:20.680
leave your home. But it's it. You know, this career wouldn't have

1049
01:27:20.760 --> 01:27:26.439
been much of a career without her
support, without her so much of the

1050
01:27:26.479 --> 01:27:30.000
time taking care of the family.
And you know that carries forward to today.

1051
01:27:30.199 --> 01:27:34.439
My mother is in the hospital have
an open heart surgery tomorrow. My

1052
01:27:35.039 --> 01:27:38.960
mother said, you must go,
just go, I'll be fine. My

1053
01:27:39.079 --> 01:27:42.800
wife said, I got it,
and I want you to go slay the

1054
01:27:42.880 --> 01:27:45.399
dragon. So here I am in
Pittsburgh doing what I plan to do,

1055
01:27:45.560 --> 01:27:51.800
but not without tremendous support from the
family. That's such a great example,

1056
01:27:53.399 --> 01:27:58.920
a difficult career, constantly traveling,
often away from your family, a situation

1057
01:27:59.159 --> 01:28:04.199
where your life really is in danger, frequently more so than in many other

1058
01:28:04.279 --> 01:28:11.560
law enforcement jobs, perhaps, And
so it is I think probably going to

1059
01:28:11.600 --> 01:28:15.159
be one of the more interesting parts
of your book. I guess I haven't

1060
01:28:15.119 --> 01:28:17.760
had a chance to read it yet, but I think to see what those

1061
01:28:17.800 --> 01:28:21.840
family dynamics are there and how a
family can work. You know, we

1062
01:28:21.920 --> 01:28:27.640
have lost sight of that in America, haven't we We have indeed, and

1063
01:28:28.199 --> 01:28:30.000
you know, it's just such a
tragedy that we have so many homes that

1064
01:28:30.159 --> 01:28:35.119
don't have a solid foundation. They
don't have the infrastructure. You know,

1065
01:28:35.359 --> 01:28:41.239
in the point Man Leadership Institute,
we talk about these these these ten foundational

1066
01:28:41.359 --> 01:28:45.439
principles and then the eight character traits
that flow from that. And so many

1067
01:28:45.560 --> 01:28:50.600
homes don't have grandparents or two parents
to give guidance to share those principles with

1068
01:28:50.760 --> 01:28:57.680
children. And so I fear for
the future with a generation generations to come

1069
01:28:57.880 --> 01:29:01.439
that haven't had that infrastructure, or
they haven't had that teaching in that training.

1070
01:29:01.560 --> 01:29:05.600
So where do you turn what's right
from wrong? And you know,

1071
01:29:05.640 --> 01:29:10.279
where are we going to go from
here? But we do have five children,

1072
01:29:10.479 --> 01:29:15.920
and we're you know, so blessed
to have two girls and three boys.

1073
01:29:15.000 --> 01:29:18.680
And that's really that was the audience
for the book originally was just trying

1074
01:29:18.680 --> 01:29:24.680
to pass that legacy of faith and
leadership of decision making, even when it

1075
01:29:24.760 --> 01:29:29.600
gets hard on to the next generation. That's really important as you're talking about

1076
01:29:29.920 --> 01:29:33.279
family, you know, we don't
have because everybody is so mobile because people

1077
01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:36.359
follow careers around and you know,
even in engineering that I was in,

1078
01:29:36.479 --> 01:29:40.920
we would, you know, people
would frequently advance their career by going to

1079
01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:44.279
work for another company and that might
be a move across the country. That's

1080
01:29:44.359 --> 01:29:48.520
so common today that we've lost the
multi generational family that used to have when

1081
01:29:48.600 --> 01:29:53.359
we were more of an agrarian society
and people know their grandparents, maybe even

1082
01:29:53.399 --> 01:29:57.279
their great grandparents. Then it got
reduced to a nuclear family, just a

1083
01:29:57.359 --> 01:30:00.039
mom and dad and the kids.
And now with divorce it's become so common

1084
01:30:00.319 --> 01:30:03.399
we do you have split that at
him? I guess, so the nuclear

1085
01:30:03.520 --> 01:30:09.520
family has kind of gone through a
real radical vision. I think your experience

1086
01:30:09.600 --> 01:30:13.319
and being able to hold this together
in a very high pressure job like that,

1087
01:30:14.840 --> 01:30:16.600
there's a lot for you to tell
people. I think about that.

1088
01:30:16.680 --> 01:30:20.479
Tell us a little bit about Well, I got another question when you said

1089
01:30:20.800 --> 01:30:24.479
take on focus on the family.
Was there a report about a guy who

1090
01:30:24.600 --> 01:30:28.279
was in this high pressure job and
he quit it so that he could work

1091
01:30:28.319 --> 01:30:30.359
with his family. Was that what
they were talking about. Yeah, yeah,

1092
01:30:30.439 --> 01:30:34.720
that was the article. It was
about a very young secret service agent

1093
01:30:34.840 --> 01:30:43.199
that lived in Washington and was supporting
the full time details on a probably a

1094
01:30:43.239 --> 01:30:47.239
part time basis. But yeah.
I talked about how he missed birthdays,

1095
01:30:47.319 --> 01:30:51.520
and he missed this and that,
and how he you know, he just

1096
01:30:51.800 --> 01:30:55.199
gave that up so that he could
spend more time with the family. And

1097
01:30:55.720 --> 01:30:59.119
and you know what I was trying
to do was give my kids an example

1098
01:30:59.199 --> 01:31:01.159
of how to go about making a
hard decision. And I said, I

1099
01:31:01.800 --> 01:31:06.720
don't think that's the that's the most
important factor, because I just can't find

1100
01:31:06.760 --> 01:31:10.840
a biblical example where it says,
you know, if it's easy, that

1101
01:31:10.960 --> 01:31:15.319
must be the right way. It
just like God has a has a grander

1102
01:31:15.439 --> 01:31:19.479
plan, and it's not quite that
simple. So I lay out what for

1103
01:31:19.680 --> 01:31:24.159
me has been a good way to
go about making decisions. And so you

1104
01:31:24.840 --> 01:31:29.520
you pray, you you seek wise
counsel, you you dive into scripture and

1105
01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:32.039
then you wait. You know,
Psalm thirty seven says trust to light,

1106
01:31:32.119 --> 01:31:35.920
commit and then be still and wait
for the Lord and see what he says.

1107
01:31:36.039 --> 01:31:40.640
And and that has that. You
know, that's been a good model

1108
01:31:40.680 --> 01:31:43.520
for me to follow. It's not
the only way to go about making a

1109
01:31:43.600 --> 01:31:46.319
decision, but certainly if you know, when when they tried to say that

1110
01:31:46.680 --> 01:31:53.520
that if it impacts your family negatively, then it must be wrong, it

1111
01:31:53.680 --> 01:31:57.279
seemed like a poor working model for
how to make a decision. And again

1112
01:31:57.640 --> 01:32:02.000
just finding that biblical exiit sample of
that was a little tough. Meanwhile,

1113
01:32:02.680 --> 01:32:09.800
a lot of examples of biblical figures
who were told to go and do hard

1114
01:32:09.880 --> 01:32:14.000
things and God will be with you
as you do hard things. So that's

1115
01:32:14.079 --> 01:32:16.920
right, Yeah, that's right.
Yeah. But again a part of it,

1116
01:32:17.000 --> 01:32:20.279
I guess is trying to figure out
what it is that God is calling

1117
01:32:20.319 --> 01:32:24.079
you to do. Maybe that guy
and that wasn't his calling, Maybe that

1118
01:32:24.159 --> 01:32:26.520
wasn't something that was really a good
fit with him, because he could figure

1119
01:32:26.520 --> 01:32:29.439
out how to manage it. You
know, you were able to manage a

1120
01:32:29.520 --> 01:32:34.800
very difficult thing that you know,
most people would really struggle with because you

1121
01:32:34.960 --> 01:32:40.119
really were called to do that,
I think, and I'm a huge supporter

1122
01:32:40.199 --> 01:32:44.319
of focus on the family, and
and you know when I talk about that

1123
01:32:44.439 --> 01:32:47.520
in the book, that is exactly
what I say is this, Obviously God's

1124
01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:51.000
will was done in this fellow's life, and praise God for that. You

1125
01:32:51.039 --> 01:32:57.880
know, he found another job and
pursued that. But what I took issue

1126
01:32:57.920 --> 01:33:00.880
with was the working model of how
to make a good decision, which didn't

1127
01:33:00.880 --> 01:33:04.520
seem to square for me. And
so that's what I was trying to provide

1128
01:33:04.560 --> 01:33:10.760
my kids and now the audience of
cheating death with was a working model of

1129
01:33:10.840 --> 01:33:14.880
how to make a good decision.
And I think that in our society we've

1130
01:33:15.000 --> 01:33:17.359
lost the idea that we should try
to do the hard thing. I think

1131
01:33:17.399 --> 01:33:21.920
that's a really important thing that has
been lost. And so I think that's

1132
01:33:23.319 --> 01:33:27.800
another aspect of your experience that's very
valuable. So you talk a little bit

1133
01:33:27.800 --> 01:33:31.680
about faith and how that plays a
role in terms of your prayer, in

1134
01:33:31.840 --> 01:33:39.039
terms of you know, reading and
understanding as well as you can God's will,

1135
01:33:39.079 --> 01:33:44.319
but then also praying about it and
waiting and trying to get direction on

1136
01:33:44.479 --> 01:33:47.640
that. How did that all play
out and what type of things are you

1137
01:33:47.760 --> 01:33:53.159
doing now that you have retired from
the secret service that are part of your

1138
01:33:53.239 --> 01:33:58.800
Christian faith. Yeah. Faith.
You know, I actually didn't become a

1139
01:33:58.920 --> 01:34:02.119
follower of Jesus Christ until I was
in law school and I was confronted with

1140
01:34:02.239 --> 01:34:06.119
the gospel. I grew up in
a Christian home with faithful parents, faithful

1141
01:34:06.159 --> 01:34:11.520
grandparents, but you know, I
strayed and wandered through the college years in

1142
01:34:11.640 --> 01:34:15.680
early law school, and I was
confronted with the idea that you could know

1143
01:34:15.920 --> 01:34:18.640
for certain, And you know,
I was caught up in that, the

1144
01:34:18.760 --> 01:34:26.239
idea that somehow you had to be
good enough to be saved. And so

1145
01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:29.399
the fellow that talked to me asked
me, if I die tonight, would

1146
01:34:29.399 --> 01:34:30.159
I go to heaven? And I
said, well, I think so,

1147
01:34:30.319 --> 01:34:34.159
but I don't know. And he
cut through all that and gave me First

1148
01:34:34.239 --> 01:34:38.520
John five point thirteen, which says, I write these things to you who

1149
01:34:38.560 --> 01:34:40.760
believe in the name of the Senate
God, so that you may know that

1150
01:34:40.880 --> 01:34:44.680
you have eternal life. And so
I really grabbed that and ran with it.

1151
01:34:45.119 --> 01:34:48.479
I like the fact that you can
know for sure that salvation is yours.

1152
01:34:48.520 --> 01:34:51.319
And now how do we get on
with the rest of our life?

1153
01:34:51.359 --> 01:34:56.159
And so that's where I want to
live. And so at this point,

1154
01:34:56.359 --> 01:35:00.159
having retired from the Secret Service,
I'm pursuing a number of things. I've

1155
01:35:00.199 --> 01:35:04.279
met the book, I'm serving on
a number of boards and uh and and

1156
01:35:04.399 --> 01:35:08.960
out teaching and training and leadership,
and that's UH, that's one of the

1157
01:35:09.039 --> 01:35:12.720
things I want to do. That
One of the boards that I serve on

1158
01:35:12.920 --> 01:35:16.880
is is a technology firm called b
MRT and and you know, unfortunately,

1159
01:35:16.960 --> 01:35:23.960
we were in Florida last week with
them looking at technology that that would have

1160
01:35:24.239 --> 01:35:28.880
alerted the Secret Service to the presence
of a of a man with not only

1161
01:35:29.119 --> 01:35:33.039
explosive in the car, but also
a loaded R fifteen magazine well before he

1162
01:35:33.119 --> 01:35:36.439
got to the building. And so
it was a little hard for me to

1163
01:35:36.479 --> 01:35:41.720
swallow to watch that and then to
realize that this technology, which we're trying

1164
01:35:41.800 --> 01:35:45.159
hard to get to the forefront,
uh, it would actually have you know,

1165
01:35:45.319 --> 01:35:49.800
prevented that by virtue of giving them
an alert and actionable you know,

1166
01:35:50.880 --> 01:35:56.239
item of intel to pursue, versus
you know, having to wait until he

1167
01:35:56.560 --> 01:36:00.960
crawled up on a roof and gotten
ready to he's off around. So it's

1168
01:36:01.000 --> 01:36:05.479
been a pleasure to you know,
to be retired from the Secret Service to

1169
01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:10.720
have the freedom to get out,
teach and train and talk about these things

1170
01:36:10.760 --> 01:36:14.840
that are important to me. And
of course it always is, you know,

1171
01:36:15.600 --> 01:36:18.000
a concern while we look at at
ways, whenever we have something that

1172
01:36:18.159 --> 01:36:23.520
is a disruptive event like that,
our first instinct is to clamp down harder.

1173
01:36:23.560 --> 01:36:26.800
And if we're not careful, that
moves us right into a detalitarian society.

1174
01:36:26.880 --> 01:36:30.479
You know, when we try to
make everything completely safe. It's a

1175
01:36:30.760 --> 01:36:34.680
double edged sword. We have to
be careful with technology. But I want

1176
01:36:34.720 --> 01:36:39.279
to talk to you a little bit
about the things that you Again, as

1177
01:36:39.319 --> 01:36:45.119
you're there with the President and you're
watching a lot of the most powerful and

1178
01:36:45.279 --> 01:36:47.760
wealthiest people in the world come all
the time, you have a chance to

1179
01:36:48.039 --> 01:36:54.279
watch these people, and you talk
a little bit about what makes life fulfilling,

1180
01:36:54.600 --> 01:36:58.880
what makes people happy. My question
to you is, as you see

1181
01:36:58.920 --> 01:37:03.359
all these rich and power full elites
coming into the presidency, do they strike

1182
01:37:03.479 --> 01:37:10.199
you as being happy and content?
Is it something that you envied to look

1183
01:37:10.239 --> 01:37:14.079
at these people or is it I'm
kind of guessing that it wasn't. But

1184
01:37:14.279 --> 01:37:16.760
I don't know what was your take
on seeing these people, because I've had

1185
01:37:16.760 --> 01:37:23.279
an opportunity to see a lot of
wealth and famous people, and I feel

1186
01:37:23.319 --> 01:37:25.960
really sorry for a lot of them, right Frankly, I do too,

1187
01:37:26.399 --> 01:37:29.560
you know, it's amazing to me. You if you're around them long enough,

1188
01:37:29.680 --> 01:37:32.640
you can see then let their hair
down a little bit. And you

1189
01:37:32.720 --> 01:37:38.840
know, my contention is, my
belief is that we all have about the

1190
01:37:38.880 --> 01:37:42.840
same number of problems and troubles in
life, and they're just different. You

1191
01:37:42.920 --> 01:37:45.479
know, the rich the very rich
have a different set of problems than the

1192
01:37:45.560 --> 01:37:49.279
poor have, but probably about the
same number of problems. And it doesn't

1193
01:37:49.319 --> 01:37:55.359
go away. The acquisition of wealth
and power and all of this does not

1194
01:37:55.720 --> 01:37:59.079
eliminate the problems. It just changes
them. So you really have to have

1195
01:37:59.199 --> 01:38:03.279
your north star set on something besides
things of the earth and things of this

1196
01:38:03.439 --> 01:38:09.279
world. And that's why I you
know, in good weather and in bad

1197
01:38:09.720 --> 01:38:13.720
for richer or poor, my saviors
Jesus Christ, and it's not going to

1198
01:38:13.800 --> 01:38:17.000
matter to me. You know,
it isn't going to affect my happy meter,

1199
01:38:17.199 --> 01:38:21.720
my contentment, my joy, my
peace, the outcome of an election,

1200
01:38:23.039 --> 01:38:27.760
you know, because that's already set. That perspective is already rock solid,

1201
01:38:27.920 --> 01:38:30.960
and it's built on a different kind
of rock then you know the outcome

1202
01:38:31.000 --> 01:38:36.520
of human elections. So that's my
perspective on that. And I see these

1203
01:38:36.600 --> 01:38:41.119
people, but I don't envy any
of them. Yeah, yeah, that's

1204
01:38:41.199 --> 01:38:44.720
right. Nothing can come between you
and God, right, nothing of this

1205
01:38:44.960 --> 01:38:48.159
And that's the thing that really as
a foundation of our life. And and

1206
01:38:48.279 --> 01:38:51.039
I know you've had this experience as
well. You know, we see people

1207
01:38:51.079 --> 01:38:55.000
who are rich, we see people
who are famous, and I've dealt with

1208
01:38:55.119 --> 01:38:59.760
them. I've dealt with see common
people all the time as well. And

1209
01:39:00.199 --> 01:39:04.199
there's not really any correlation to join
contentment. As a matter of fact,

1210
01:39:04.279 --> 01:39:09.279
it's just the opposite. It's usually
the people who are not rich and famous

1211
01:39:09.560 --> 01:39:14.760
who are the most content and who
have the most joy, even though what's

1212
01:39:14.840 --> 01:39:20.079
happening to them and their happenstance and
their circumstance is not necessarily something that any

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01:39:20.119 --> 01:39:25.399
of us would want. They seem
to often have a greater peace and joy

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01:39:25.680 --> 01:39:30.479
because of that Christian faith. I
think, Yeah, yeah, well,

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01:39:30.640 --> 01:39:35.239
it is a very interesting book and
I think a great perspective for people from

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01:39:35.279 --> 01:39:39.840
what I can tell. Again,
I don't have an advanced copy of it,

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01:39:39.920 --> 01:39:43.760
because we wanted to get you on
very quickly and talk about what happened

1218
01:39:43.960 --> 01:39:49.039
over the weekend. But I think
when we talk about cheating death, there's

1219
01:39:49.079 --> 01:39:51.720
really only one way that we're going
to cheat death, isn't it, And

1220
01:39:53.039 --> 01:39:57.000
that is to have a relationship with
the one who defeated death, isn't it.

1221
01:39:58.159 --> 01:40:00.640
And so I have to lean into
him if you want achieve death in

1222
01:40:00.720 --> 01:40:02.279
the end, you know, we
we would take the president out, we

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01:40:02.319 --> 01:40:06.720
would bring him back, hand him
off to another team. And you cheated

1224
01:40:06.800 --> 01:40:10.680
death for the day, and your
reward is that you get to come back

1225
01:40:10.680 --> 01:40:13.960
tomorrow and do it all again.
And you know that's the that's the hamster

1226
01:40:14.039 --> 01:40:16.520
wheel that the Secret Service lives on. And so what I tried to do

1227
01:40:16.640 --> 01:40:19.439
with the book is to say,
you know, there is a there's a

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01:40:19.560 --> 01:40:25.560
much bigger picture out there, and
and we you know, we passed from

1229
01:40:25.600 --> 01:40:29.279
death to eternal life with Christ if
we're hidden in him. So that's right,

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01:40:29.359 --> 01:40:31.720
that's my that's my doal Well,
I think it's a fascinating book,

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01:40:31.840 --> 01:40:36.359
Cheating death. Three time presidential Secret
Service agent lives to tell you how.

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01:40:38.119 --> 01:40:41.960
And I think, uh, there's
so much in there for people. People

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01:40:42.000 --> 01:40:45.000
are always interested in what is going
on at the center of power, but

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01:40:45.479 --> 01:40:49.479
the real center of power is not
located in Washington. It's a lot of

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01:40:49.520 --> 01:40:53.399
it is located in your family.
And you've got some great advice I think

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01:40:53.720 --> 01:40:57.399
in terms of how that operates.
Thank you so much for joining us.

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01:40:57.479 --> 01:41:00.960
And is there a website for people
to get or just Amazon to get your

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01:41:00.960 --> 01:41:03.800
book? Yes, sir, it's
it's definitely available on Amazon, Barnes and

1239
01:41:03.840 --> 01:41:06.960
Noble, Walmart, all that.
But I put all the links to that

1240
01:41:08.239 --> 01:41:12.239
on Kenneth Valentine dot com and you
can you can order it either way.

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01:41:12.560 --> 01:41:15.520
Okay, Kenneth Valentine dot com.
We'll put that in the notes. Thank

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01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:18.439
you so much for coming on,
Thank you for telling your story. Thank

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01:41:18.439 --> 01:41:23.119
you for your encouragement to everybody.
We're gonna take a quick break, folks,

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01:41:23.399 --> 01:42:17.920
and we'll be right back. Joy
listening to the David Knight Show.

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01:42:19.119 --> 01:42:21.960
Well, welcome back, and let's
finish talk a little bit about Jade Vance,

1246
01:42:23.039 --> 01:42:26.720
because again, it's kind of interesting
to look at his life as policies

1247
01:42:26.760 --> 01:42:29.000
and things like that, but we
never really know what somebody is going to

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01:42:29.039 --> 01:42:35.359
do in advance. There hasn't been
any indication of there hasn't been any contraindication

1249
01:42:35.520 --> 01:42:41.920
in terms of his integrity except for
the rapid change that is there, and

1250
01:42:42.079 --> 01:42:45.920
that is concerning. But we can
take a look at what he has done

1251
01:42:45.960 --> 01:42:47.640
and pushed in the short period of
time that he's been the Senate of what

1252
01:42:47.960 --> 01:42:50.479
was said in his election, and
of course it was a great deal that

1253
01:42:50.600 --> 01:42:59.000
was discussed about his life and along
with his priorities he says are to dismantle

1254
01:42:59.279 --> 01:43:03.840
the big tech oligarchy. Now,
this is a guy who basically became part

1255
01:43:03.960 --> 01:43:08.560
of the big tech oligarchy, and
it is possible that now he wants to

1256
01:43:08.800 --> 01:43:12.640
dismantle it. I mean, he's
part of, you know, one of

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01:43:12.880 --> 01:43:16.600
the key people. They're Peter Tiele, the PayPal mafia. You know,

1258
01:43:16.800 --> 01:43:21.079
so many people who came together and
created PayPal, of course, Peter Tiele

1259
01:43:21.479 --> 01:43:28.439
and Elon Musk emerging their two companies
together. And then so many people that

1260
01:43:28.520 --> 01:43:34.600
were in the PayPal corporation went on
to fund venture capital firms themselves and to

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01:43:35.000 --> 01:43:39.560
fund other people's ideas. So he
wants to dismantle what he says is the

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01:43:39.600 --> 01:43:43.479
big tech oligarchy. Now, maybe
perhaps what he's talking about with that as

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01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:46.279
a social media companies, because that's
what he has mentioned in the article Facebook,

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01:43:46.439 --> 01:43:51.359
Google, He said they have an
unfair advantage in the marketplace. There's

1265
01:43:51.399 --> 01:43:58.760
not a marketplace anymore. The digital
town square doesn't exist except in theory should

1266
01:43:58.800 --> 01:44:02.560
be there, it should be supported
that a y Combinator event earlier this year,

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01:44:02.680 --> 01:44:08.479
Vance said he's a fan of strong
anti trust rules. He noted that

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01:44:08.600 --> 01:44:15.880
blockchain technology like that used by bitcoin
will be necessary to challenge social media companies.

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01:44:16.479 --> 01:44:18.680
Now that's good. That's why you're
not going to be able to break

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01:44:19.039 --> 01:44:26.039
a monopoly ever by doing legislation.
It'll always find a way to do it.

1271
01:44:26.119 --> 01:44:29.560
Just take a look at what happened
with rockefil and the standard will the

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01:44:29.640 --> 01:44:31.159
way that he just you know,
yeah, okay, we'll break it up

1273
01:44:31.199 --> 01:44:35.279
and we'll have you know, the
different companies, just like AT and T

1274
01:44:35.479 --> 01:44:39.279
and the baby Bells and things like
that. But they still will be able

1275
01:44:39.319 --> 01:44:42.039
to maintain that monopoly. The only
thing is going to change any of that

1276
01:44:42.880 --> 01:44:46.720
is going to be changing the technology
that is there. That's what changes monopolies.

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01:44:47.479 --> 01:44:50.960
That and only that. Advance is
also an advocate for domestic natural gas

1278
01:44:51.000 --> 01:44:58.119
and will production. Opposes electric vehicles
and solar power. Ohio is ranked six

1279
01:44:58.359 --> 01:45:01.720
in the US and gas production.
It is the eighth largest consumer of coal.

1280
01:45:02.560 --> 01:45:06.600
Vance has denied climate change and call
the whole evy thing, he said,

1281
01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:10.319
a scam. All of that is
very good. I mean that I

1282
01:45:10.479 --> 01:45:13.439
one hundred percent agree with. But
of course he's also been on the other

1283
01:45:13.560 --> 01:45:18.079
side of the climate change thing.
He supported it, climate alarmism. He

1284
01:45:18.119 --> 01:45:21.600
supported before he was opposed to it. Now he is opposed to it.

1285
01:45:23.880 --> 01:45:29.000
Jade Vance in terms of abortion the
Middle East, He's skeptical, he says,

1286
01:45:29.079 --> 01:45:34.840
of American overseas intervention. He says
raising territs will create new jobs.

1287
01:45:35.520 --> 01:45:41.119
And yet, even as he says
he's skeptical of American intervention, this is

1288
01:45:41.159 --> 01:45:46.720
sent to me by Mary Ellen Moore. Is independent or if he's owned by

1289
01:45:46.800 --> 01:45:50.760
the tech companies, if he's owned
by Israel, what are the things that

1290
01:45:50.840 --> 01:45:57.039
are out there? Again? You
know he's capable of flip flopping as all

1291
01:45:57.119 --> 01:46:01.920
these politicians and reinventing himself evolved being
if we will. Vance says he opposes

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01:46:01.960 --> 01:46:06.119
abortion rights even the case of incessor
rape. Says there should be exceptions for

1293
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:10.399
cases in which the mother's life is
in danger. I would agree with that.

1294
01:46:10.560 --> 01:46:14.399
He ran for Senate in twenty twenty
two. A headline on the Issues

1295
01:46:14.560 --> 01:46:20.239
section of his campaign website simply read
ban abortion that said, says the New

1296
01:46:20.319 --> 01:46:26.279
York Times advance like Trump opposes a
national abortion ban, saying the issue should

1297
01:46:26.319 --> 01:46:30.159
now be left to the states.
But look, that is the constitutional legal

1298
01:46:30.279 --> 01:46:33.319
position. And it's not the constitutional
legal position because the Supreme Court says so.

1299
01:46:34.520 --> 01:46:39.199
It's the constitutional. It's the legal
and constitutional because the Bill of Rights

1300
01:46:39.560 --> 01:46:43.680
says so in the tenth Amendment,
and they finally recognized it in the Dobbs

1301
01:46:43.760 --> 01:46:45.880
cases. I said, for the
longest time, when are we going to

1302
01:46:45.960 --> 01:46:48.359
have a governor who's going to stand
up and say, as Andrew Jackson said

1303
01:46:48.359 --> 01:46:51.359
to the Supreme Court, you've made
your decision, let's see you enforce it.

1304
01:46:53.239 --> 01:46:57.760
They if you call their bluff on
these issues like the drug war,

1305
01:46:58.840 --> 01:47:02.000
like the redefinition of marriage, like
the definition of when life begins and when

1306
01:47:02.079 --> 01:47:09.319
we can supposedly take it innocent life. If you stand up to them,

1307
01:47:09.600 --> 01:47:15.479
they don't have a basis. It's
patently absurd to think that anybody in the

1308
01:47:15.520 --> 01:47:19.359
federal government, whether it is the
Supreme Court or whether it's the President,

1309
01:47:19.479 --> 01:47:24.800
or whether it is the Congress,
none of the three branches has the authority

1310
01:47:24.920 --> 01:47:30.319
Nobody in Washington, no bureaucracy,
no legislative, executive, or judicial branch,

1311
01:47:30.479 --> 01:47:33.399
has the authority to do the types
of things that they've all done.

1312
01:47:34.800 --> 01:47:39.479
And so from a constitutional standpoint,
they don't have any authority. Like I

1313
01:47:39.520 --> 01:47:42.479
said before, if you don't like
that, change the constitution. But having

1314
01:47:42.520 --> 01:47:45.239
a law passed by the legislature and
signed by the president is not the way

1315
01:47:45.319 --> 01:47:48.680
to go. That just nullifies the
constitution. That takes us down a very

1316
01:47:48.760 --> 01:47:57.159
dangerous path. And then from a
pragmatic perspective, we can see that nullification

1317
01:47:58.039 --> 01:48:01.079
as it has been practiced. Well
mean that if you take this legislative path

1318
01:48:01.119 --> 01:48:08.920
and you define it in Washington legislatively
instead of jial judiciously judicially, I should

1319
01:48:08.920 --> 01:48:13.279
say, if you're going to take
that path, you're going to wind up

1320
01:48:13.760 --> 01:48:18.279
having more babies killed. It's just
that simple. You're going to lose it

1321
01:48:18.319 --> 01:48:26.560
all in pursuit of absolute control over
this because you're going to have the Blue

1322
01:48:26.600 --> 01:48:31.279
States will nullify it, the so
called Red States will not. On Ukraine,

1323
01:48:31.920 --> 01:48:34.640
he has good positions and he has
taken some good actions, and I

1324
01:48:34.760 --> 01:48:41.039
think that perhaps this is one area
that I would expect that he's solid on

1325
01:48:42.239 --> 01:48:45.920
Because of his military experience, Vans
has been one of the leading opponents of

1326
01:48:45.000 --> 01:48:49.840
US support for the Ukraine war with
Russia, and he says, I think

1327
01:48:49.840 --> 01:48:55.680
it's ridiculous that we're focused on this
border in Ukraine. I've got to be

1328
01:48:55.760 --> 01:49:00.800
honest with you. I don't really
care what happens to Ukraine or the other.

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01:49:01.239 --> 01:49:05.199
That's refreshing to hear somebody say that. That is my core belief about

1330
01:49:05.399 --> 01:49:10.880
all of these wars, whether you
talking about Ukraine or Israel, or what's

1331
01:49:10.920 --> 01:49:15.880
going on with Taiwan. I don't
care one way or the other. We

1332
01:49:15.920 --> 01:49:21.000
should be our politicians should be focused
on what is happening in America. We've

1333
01:49:21.039 --> 01:49:27.319
got too many problems right now to
be trying to be the global empire that

1334
01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:31.880
in and of itself will destroy this
country alone. He led the battle and

1335
01:49:31.920 --> 01:49:39.359
the Senate unsuccessfully to block the sixty
billion dollar military and package, aid and

1336
01:49:39.439 --> 01:49:45.279
package for Ukraine. Again, He's
got more integrity than Mike Johnson with this,

1337
01:49:45.560 --> 01:49:47.640
far more, he said. I
voted against this package in the Senate

1338
01:49:47.880 --> 01:49:51.600
and remain opposed to virtually any proposal
for the US Senate to continue funding this

1339
01:49:51.720 --> 01:49:59.199
war. He said Biden has failed
to articulate even basic facts about what Ukraine

1340
01:49:59.319 --> 01:50:05.119
needs and how this aid will change
the reality on the ground. In terms

1341
01:50:05.279 --> 01:50:10.359
of the vaccine, I searched long
and hard, and I could not find

1342
01:50:10.600 --> 01:50:15.039
any criticism of the vaccine. Like
the rest of the GOP, JD events

1343
01:50:15.079 --> 01:50:16.920
will take the position that the mandates
were bad, but I'm not going to

1344
01:50:16.920 --> 01:50:20.399
say anything about the vaccine. As
a matter of fact. He wrote an

1345
01:50:20.399 --> 01:50:28.119
op ed piece in twenty twenty one
opposing vaccine mandates at Ohio State University.

1346
01:50:28.199 --> 01:50:34.159
Said I'm in Ohio State alumni,
and he said, you know, I

1347
01:50:34.319 --> 01:50:41.920
pose this as an outrageous invasion of
medical privacy. But again, they don't

1348
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:46.520
oppose the poison because it was produced
by Trump. And you won't find anyone

1349
01:50:47.000 --> 01:50:53.600
in the GOP, including JdE events
that will oppose the vaccine. The safe

1350
01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:56.479
thing is to oppose a mandate.
The safe thing is to talk about the

1351
01:50:56.600 --> 01:51:00.199
fiction of how this is created in
a lab, produced the idea that it

1352
01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:06.520
was a real pandemic when it was
not. But he spoke out against the

1353
01:51:06.640 --> 01:51:14.239
vaccine mandate, and again he was
running at the time for Senate, and

1354
01:51:14.399 --> 01:51:16.359
his op ed piece he says,
first, let's start with a basic timeline.

1355
01:51:16.359 --> 01:51:21.199
A lot of people chose Ohio State
over other schools because it didn't mandate

1356
01:51:21.439 --> 01:51:26.079
a vaccine. But now having reached
the point of roturn, having in no

1357
01:51:26.239 --> 01:51:31.800
return, and having invested time and
money and their Ohio State University decision,

1358
01:51:32.840 --> 01:51:38.880
they learned that the university has now
changed this policy. Second, the policy

1359
01:51:39.279 --> 01:51:45.119
suffers from the confused messaging that is
so common in today's fear heightened environment.

1360
01:51:45.479 --> 01:51:48.800
This is again Jade Vance writing this
op ed piece in twenty twenty one.

1361
01:51:49.319 --> 01:51:56.199
There's no reason to effectively ignore the
effects of natural immunity, he said.

1362
01:51:56.279 --> 01:52:00.000
Third, these are new vaccines,
and while they've been proven safe in the

1363
01:52:00.079 --> 01:52:04.600
short term, no, no,
but he doesn't want to oppose Trump.

1364
01:52:05.720 --> 01:52:10.199
The long term risk is said or
impossible to know this point. And I

1365
01:52:10.319 --> 01:52:16.520
say this, he said, as
someone who got the shot myself. Okay,

1366
01:52:16.760 --> 01:52:20.680
he said, I have encouraged at
risk family to do the same.

1367
01:52:21.960 --> 01:52:27.880
So he's publicly, whether or not
he believes is privately or not, he

1368
01:52:28.079 --> 01:52:35.319
is publicly buying into the alarmism of
the pandemic, buying into the shot.

1369
01:52:36.359 --> 01:52:43.800
He's only concerned about the mandates,
apparently, and that's if what he's saying

1370
01:52:43.840 --> 01:52:46.000
here is true. The decision,
if what he's saying here is true,

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01:52:47.119 --> 01:52:50.800
is not as wise and as smart
as you might hope. The decision to

1372
01:52:50.960 --> 01:52:55.600
not get vaccinated, he said,
is often rooted in caution about long term

1373
01:52:55.760 --> 01:53:02.159
risks, not a rejection of science
or of the severity of COVID. Well,

1374
01:53:02.199 --> 01:53:05.640
I rejected all of those. I
mean, I've looked at that.

1375
01:53:05.760 --> 01:53:10.800
I said, long term risk,
you have no idea. But I do

1376
01:53:10.960 --> 01:53:14.640
know that this isn't science, and
I do know that COVID is not severe,

1377
01:53:14.720 --> 01:53:18.079
and I can see that from my
own observation. Call it science or

1378
01:53:18.119 --> 01:53:21.720
whatever you want, but real observation
was what I was basing my stuff on,

1379
01:53:21.880 --> 01:53:26.079
and a knowledge of history how these
people have operated, what they've done

1380
01:53:26.119 --> 01:53:30.439
over this amount of time. He
said that caution must be allowed in a

1381
01:53:30.479 --> 01:53:34.119
free society, not stamped out through
mandates. Finally, he said, and

1382
01:53:34.279 --> 01:53:38.960
perhaps most importantly, wrote J.
D. Evans, our society needs to

1383
01:53:39.039 --> 01:53:44.600
respect bodily autonomy and family choice.
In the last year, we've lost thousands

1384
01:53:44.640 --> 01:53:46.359
of our fellow citizens to a new
pandemic. You said, no, We've

1385
01:53:46.439 --> 01:53:51.319
lost them to Trump's ventilators. Trim
de severe, to do not resuscitate,

1386
01:53:51.640 --> 01:53:57.560
orders to do not treat people.
That's what we're losing people to. It

1387
01:53:57.640 --> 01:54:02.399
came very close to take looking on
the planned parenthood people. We said we

1388
01:54:02.479 --> 01:54:08.840
need to respect bodily autonomy and family
choice. But I have yet to see

1389
01:54:09.359 --> 01:54:14.119
a single Republican say, all you
people out there who are talking about being

1390
01:54:14.199 --> 01:54:18.840
pro choice, you don't want me
to have a choice about my body.

1391
01:54:18.920 --> 01:54:23.760
And there's no question that the vaccine
is about your body. The open question,

1392
01:54:23.920 --> 01:54:27.159
and I think it's not an open
question for anybody who looks carefully at

1393
01:54:27.199 --> 01:54:30.680
it, is whether or not the
baby is your body. The baby is

1394
01:54:30.800 --> 01:54:36.520
not your body. Frequently it has
a different blood type, it has different

1395
01:54:36.840 --> 01:54:44.159
DNA half the time, is a
different sex and gender. So it is

1396
01:54:44.239 --> 01:54:48.239
not your body. He said,
had our leader is openly questioned they came

1397
01:54:48.319 --> 01:54:51.319
from a lab leak and up ended
our lives, He said, the world

1398
01:54:51.640 --> 01:54:57.399
has moved so fast, and our
leaders should treat their fellow citizens as people

1399
01:54:57.479 --> 01:55:00.279
trying to figure out how to do
the right thing, not as enemies of

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01:55:00.439 --> 01:55:04.760
science who need to be ordered around. Well, there's some good stuff in

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01:55:04.840 --> 01:55:10.279
there, but there's some troubling stuff
in there. And I guess we could

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01:55:10.279 --> 01:55:14.359
say the same thing about JD Vance
in general on Rumble, ratisbro thank you

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01:55:14.439 --> 01:55:18.359
for the tip, says Trump vance
TV for TV. That's good. I

1404
01:55:18.520 --> 01:55:25.840
like that a lot. It's the
reality TV Trump vance the initials even they

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01:55:26.000 --> 01:55:30.720
say it all that's good on rumbled. Don't frag me bro. Right,

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01:55:30.800 --> 01:55:33.399
So, the vast majority of people
today have zero understanding of what it means

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01:55:33.439 --> 01:55:39.880
to be responsible for their own choices. That's right. Yeah, the people

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01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:42.760
who are pregnant did not have an
immaculate conception. Let's just say it that

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01:55:42.840 --> 01:55:47.079
way, okay, COVID nineteen rules. He also came out talking about the

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01:55:47.560 --> 01:55:57.279
lockdown rules where businesses are suffering,
called it fundamental unfairness. And who was

1411
01:55:57.359 --> 01:56:01.439
talking about that in terms of Ohio, that in terms of Michigan. Because

1412
01:56:01.680 --> 01:56:10.079
one individual who was having their life's
work destroyed by this superstition. It's not

1413
01:56:11.079 --> 01:56:15.640
science, it's superstition, he said, first, just the fundamental unfairness of

1414
01:56:15.720 --> 01:56:18.960
it. Right, you have politicians
who are instituting lockdown orders where they're not

1415
01:56:19.079 --> 01:56:24.279
following him themselves. One thing Americans
are told is to follow the rules,

1416
01:56:24.920 --> 01:56:30.760
and people who are creating the rules
aren't following them themselves. Again, pointing

1417
01:56:30.800 --> 01:56:33.920
at the time to Newsom Cuomo Pelosi. We could also point in other countries

1418
01:56:34.640 --> 01:56:40.159
to Matt Hancock and Borce Johnson and
so many others. Why do you think

1419
01:56:40.159 --> 01:56:43.439
they don't follow the rules, Well, because they don't believe it's a pandemic

1420
01:56:43.560 --> 01:56:46.119
either. If they believe that it
was a pandemic, they would follow those

1421
01:56:46.199 --> 01:56:54.479
rules. But just arbitrary capricious rules. It was an arbitrary and capricious exercise

1422
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:59.920
of power. And with something like
that, we have a duty and out

1423
01:57:00.000 --> 01:57:05.319
obligation to oppose those kind of arbitrary, capricious, unlawful, unconstitutional orders from

1424
01:57:05.359 --> 01:57:11.319
these people. Vancays. The Fox
News appearance came on the heels of his

1425
01:57:11.680 --> 01:57:15.640
Netflix movie He'll Billy Elogy, which
I have yet to see. As I

1426
01:57:15.680 --> 01:57:17.520
pointed out, I don't know if
I'll watch it or not. I just

1427
01:57:17.560 --> 01:57:25.039
don't have time for movies. In
terms of crypto, he reportedly has one

1428
01:57:25.079 --> 01:57:29.479
hundred thousand dollars in bitcoin, and
I don't know how all that report was,

1429
01:57:29.600 --> 01:57:32.399
but they do have to file reports
as to how they have their how

1430
01:57:32.479 --> 01:57:35.000
much money they got, where it
is invested in that type of thing.

1431
01:57:35.920 --> 01:57:42.039
And so he is in favor of
crypto. I think that's a good thing.

1432
01:57:42.079 --> 01:57:45.479
I mean, as I said many
times, I don't personally, I'm

1433
01:57:45.520 --> 01:57:48.720
not interested in investing in something that
is as volatile as the crypto market.

1434
01:57:49.399 --> 01:57:55.840
I'm not interested in something that is
accessible to thieves all over the world and

1435
01:57:56.000 --> 01:57:59.199
many other things like that. But
you know, I think it ought to

1436
01:57:59.279 --> 01:58:02.199
be there. I think it's a
good check against the power of the Federal

1437
01:58:02.279 --> 01:58:12.319
Reserve. He drafted a bill to
revamp how Washington police's digital assets Last year.

1438
01:58:12.880 --> 01:58:16.960
Vance introduced a bill that would shield
banks from regulatory pressure to cut off

1439
01:58:17.119 --> 01:58:19.840
crypto customers. And we know that's
what was happening. We know that was

1440
01:58:19.920 --> 01:58:25.000
what drove the failure of those three
banks. As a matter of fact,

1441
01:58:25.039 --> 01:58:30.880
one of them did not fail.
It was simply closed under threats because it

1442
01:58:30.079 --> 01:58:34.600
was completely solvent. Nobody lost any
money, they didn't have to dip into

1443
01:58:34.640 --> 01:58:42.279
the FDIIC. The Biden administration just
wanted that bank closed because they dealed dealt

1444
01:58:42.319 --> 01:58:47.560
with crypto. One lobbyist said that
Vance's draft bill is more industry friendly than

1445
01:58:47.640 --> 01:58:54.840
the House passed legislation. Crypto firms
argue that the SEC has claimed too much

1446
01:58:54.920 --> 01:58:59.840
authority over the marketplace, and of
course that is one of the big issues

1447
01:59:00.000 --> 01:59:05.000
as well. They still view crypto
as a security, which brings a whole

1448
01:59:05.359 --> 01:59:09.359
set of regulations and things like that. And that's one of the things that's

1449
01:59:09.399 --> 01:59:14.000
been peeled back over a period of
time for gold and so many different gold

1450
01:59:14.079 --> 01:59:16.640
and silver and so many different states, to get rid of the sales tax

1451
01:59:16.800 --> 01:59:21.479
on it in so many states,
and to treat it as it is legitimate

1452
01:59:21.600 --> 01:59:28.159
money and not the exchange of some
kind of a security. JD. Vance

1453
01:59:28.239 --> 01:59:30.720
is an oil booster and a doubter
of human caused climate change. As I

1454
01:59:30.800 --> 01:59:38.600
said, he once said that society
had a climate problem. So again he's

1455
01:59:38.640 --> 01:59:42.640
not firm on this. He seems
to be malleable on all these things right

1456
01:59:42.680 --> 01:59:45.760
now, he's saying all the right
things, But again in twenty sixteen,

1457
01:59:45.800 --> 01:59:49.279
Trump pretty much said all the right
things. As well as recently as twenty

1458
01:59:49.359 --> 01:59:55.520
twenty, Vance said in a speech
at Ohio State University, we have a

1459
01:59:55.720 --> 02:00:01.640
climate problem in our society. He
praised so energy he called natural gas and

1460
02:00:01.760 --> 02:00:05.159
improvement over dirtier forms of energy,
but not the sort of thing that's going

1461
02:00:05.199 --> 02:00:10.399
to take us to a clean energy
future. Now, then you fast forward

1462
02:00:10.399 --> 02:00:14.279
to twenty twenty two, his positions
on climate change took a sharp turn.

1463
02:00:15.199 --> 02:00:17.159
Now, he says, I'm skeptical
of the idea the climate change has caused

1464
02:00:17.359 --> 02:00:24.159
purely my man. As I pointed
out yesterday, by the way, you

1465
02:00:24.199 --> 02:00:29.279
know, look at the volcanic effects. You know, we have the big

1466
02:00:29.880 --> 02:00:36.119
volcano that blew up near Tonga,
the Hunga volcano. Think about it as

1467
02:00:38.079 --> 02:00:41.880
Hunga mangus. It was really big. It was underwater, though, and

1468
02:00:41.960 --> 02:00:45.279
that works exactly the opposite of when
you have a large volcano on land.

1469
02:00:46.039 --> 02:00:50.319
And as I mentioned yesterday, Krakatoa
east of Java. There was a movie

1470
02:00:50.359 --> 02:00:56.239
about that when I was a kid. A major, major volcano that exploded

1471
02:00:56.239 --> 02:01:00.720
in the middle of the eighteen hundreds, and it threw up so much debris

1472
02:01:00.920 --> 02:01:06.119
from the land of volcano that it
created very very cold temperatures for several years

1473
02:01:06.560 --> 02:01:12.439
around the world. But it works
differently when you have an underwater volcano.

1474
02:01:12.560 --> 02:01:20.000
This was a huge underwater volcano that
threw up so much water into the atmosphere

1475
02:01:20.079 --> 02:01:27.279
vaporized it as you know water vapor
that goes up in states. It increased

1476
02:01:27.600 --> 02:01:30.399
the amount of water vapor And if
you want to talk about a greenhouse gas,

1477
02:01:30.680 --> 02:01:36.880
the biggest greenhouse gas by far is
water and that one volcano increased that

1478
02:01:38.039 --> 02:01:43.079
by ten percent. So if there
is a warming of temperatures for the next

1479
02:01:43.159 --> 02:01:46.279
few years, this year and for
the next few years, it is attributable

1480
02:01:46.479 --> 02:01:51.479
to that volcano, not to anything
that's done by man. He says,

1481
02:01:51.800 --> 02:01:56.960
anything that's caused purely by man,
it's not caused by man at all,

1482
02:01:57.199 --> 02:02:00.720
except for the people that are doing
geoengineering. Let's we talk about that.

1483
02:02:01.119 --> 02:02:05.520
But other than jew engineering, there
is no man made climate change. So

1484
02:02:05.640 --> 02:02:09.880
to kind of sum up some of
the things that he's some of the interesting

1485
02:02:10.000 --> 02:02:15.279
quotes that he's had, Politico said, well, here's fifty five things you

1486
02:02:15.359 --> 02:02:20.079
need to know about Jade Vance.
You don't need to know all fifty five

1487
02:02:20.159 --> 02:02:24.319
of them. I've mentioned many of
them already, and I won't go through

1488
02:02:24.359 --> 02:02:26.720
all these, but there were a
few of these that I thought were interesting.

1489
02:02:27.359 --> 02:02:30.720
He said. I'll be the first
to admit that I've accomplished nothing great

1490
02:02:30.880 --> 02:02:34.479
in my life. He said,
when he wrote the introduction to his book,

1491
02:02:34.600 --> 02:02:40.720
He'll Biliology in twenty and sixteen,
and at that point in time,

1492
02:02:41.399 --> 02:02:45.039
he was married. At that point
in time, he'd been married two years

1493
02:02:45.119 --> 02:02:47.479
and got married in twenty fourteen.
A decade ago, so he had been

1494
02:02:47.520 --> 02:02:50.279
married for two years. He and
his wife had were making a lot of

1495
02:02:50.359 --> 02:02:56.840
money in a venture capital firm.
But he says he had not accomplished anything

1496
02:02:56.920 --> 02:03:00.279
great in his life. So what
was it that he thought would be right?

1497
02:03:00.439 --> 02:03:03.079
I think this is interesting. He
says, I'm not a senator,

1498
02:03:04.159 --> 02:03:10.199
I'm not a governor. I'm not
a former cabinet secretary. I haven't started

1499
02:03:10.239 --> 02:03:15.399
a billion dollar company or a world
changing nonprofit. Those are the things that

1500
02:03:15.479 --> 02:03:20.640
he thought were important. Is that
something that's on your list? None of

1501
02:03:20.760 --> 02:03:25.600
those things are on my list.
None of those things are on my bucket

1502
02:03:25.680 --> 02:03:28.600
list. To be a senator or
governor or cabinet secretary, to have a

1503
02:03:28.680 --> 02:03:33.680
billion dollar company or a world changing
nonprofit. I think it's an interesting perspective

1504
02:03:33.760 --> 02:03:39.359
on the guy. That's how he
defines himself. You know, as I

1505
02:03:39.399 --> 02:03:43.920
said in the interview earlier with Ken
Valentine, you know when you look at

1506
02:03:44.640 --> 02:03:50.560
right in the middle of Jesus telling
people about the effect of money, you

1507
02:03:50.640 --> 02:03:55.159
know you can't serve two masters,
and don't lay up treasures on earth,

1508
02:03:55.239 --> 02:03:59.479
lay up your treasures in heaven.
And you know, and if you're worried

1509
02:03:59.479 --> 02:04:02.960
about God providing for you. Don't
worry about that. He provides for the

1510
02:04:03.039 --> 02:04:06.760
birds of the air and so forth, and the flowers in the field.

1511
02:04:06.880 --> 02:04:11.680
He will provide for you. You're
more important to him than that. In

1512
02:04:11.760 --> 02:04:15.039
the midst of all that the thing
we were talking about before, the light

1513
02:04:15.119 --> 02:04:17.520
of the eye, and he's always
look at that. It's like, what

1514
02:04:17.880 --> 02:04:21.079
is that about? You have to
understand there's a context of that that's within

1515
02:04:21.359 --> 02:04:28.720
all of these examples where he's talking
about the effect of money on people.

1516
02:04:30.239 --> 02:04:33.960
What you value, What is a
priority in your life? What is it

1517
02:04:34.079 --> 02:04:38.960
that you want to achieve in life? Where do you find your security,

1518
02:04:39.760 --> 02:04:45.960
Where do you find contentment, what
do you serve? What are you enslaved

1519
02:04:45.079 --> 02:04:48.119
to? And so when you look
at that, you know the light of

1520
02:04:48.159 --> 02:04:54.359
the eye. Is that what you
were desiring, what you were focused on?

1521
02:04:55.760 --> 02:04:59.840
I think it is. And you
know, right in the middle of

1522
02:05:00.159 --> 02:05:04.560
this discussion about money, Jesus who
said the love of money is the root

1523
02:05:04.600 --> 02:05:09.039
of all evil. You know,
as we talked about it before, we

1524
02:05:09.279 --> 02:05:15.159
have the lust of the eye,
right, lust of the eye. I

1525
02:05:15.199 --> 02:05:19.159
think that is greed. I think
the lust of the flesh. Of course,

1526
02:05:19.239 --> 02:05:24.000
that is sex. So you got
money, you got sex, and

1527
02:05:24.079 --> 02:05:29.279
you got the pride of life power. Those are the three things that all

1528
02:05:29.319 --> 02:05:31.720
of us struggle with. Trump struggles
with it, Jade Evans struggles with it.

1529
02:05:31.800 --> 02:05:36.399
Everybody struggles with that. Those are
the things that seek to dominate us.

1530
02:05:38.640 --> 02:05:43.720
Those are the things that he's not
come to terms with that We should

1531
02:05:43.720 --> 02:05:46.159
all think about it. Like I
said, this is more important really our

1532
02:05:46.239 --> 02:05:50.359
insights as we look into somebody's public
life in the same way that the Bible

1533
02:05:50.439 --> 02:05:57.560
gives us all these stories about individuals
throughout the Bible. Karen showed me a

1534
02:05:57.640 --> 02:06:01.159
cartoon like a Simpsons thing or something, and Homer said, yeah, I

1535
02:06:01.239 --> 02:06:04.880
just read through the Bible. He
said, all these people except for one

1536
02:06:04.920 --> 02:06:09.840
are really messed up. Well,
that's the point, and that's the perspective

1537
02:06:09.880 --> 02:06:15.439
really of God seeing how messed up
we are. There's no hagiographies except for

1538
02:06:15.520 --> 02:06:23.600
one in the Bible. We don't
you know, we don't worship men.

1539
02:06:23.960 --> 02:06:27.600
We see the flaws of men.
Even people, even great people like King

1540
02:06:27.720 --> 02:06:30.960
David, had their big flaws.
And so when we look at the lives

1541
02:06:30.000 --> 02:06:35.399
of other people, I'm not looking
at jd Vance's life as you know,

1542
02:06:35.560 --> 02:06:40.239
holier than now type of thing,
but as the common struggles that we all

1543
02:06:40.319 --> 02:06:44.199
face. In the same way that
we look at the life of David and

1544
02:06:44.800 --> 02:06:48.159
we see the common things that we
all struggle with, we don't hopefully look

1545
02:06:48.239 --> 02:06:55.560
at the life David say I'd never
make that mistake. Watch out. That

1546
02:06:55.720 --> 02:06:59.079
kind of attitude goes before a fall. But you know, when we look

1547
02:06:59.119 --> 02:07:02.399
at these public lives, I think
that's one of the key things, is

1548
02:07:02.520 --> 02:07:08.840
to see that we can see some
things, of course and other people that

1549
02:07:08.920 --> 02:07:11.680
we don't see in ourselves. And
that's the difficult thing, is to apply

1550
02:07:11.760 --> 02:07:15.119
those lessons to ourselves. Reflecting on
his first encounter with Peter Teel in twenty

1551
02:07:15.199 --> 02:07:21.600
eleven, he wrote, Teal articulated
a feeling that I was obsessed with achievement

1552
02:07:21.920 --> 02:07:28.880
in itself, not as an end
to something meaningful, but to win a

1553
02:07:29.039 --> 02:07:35.920
social competition. My worry that I
had prioritized striving over character took on a

1554
02:07:36.039 --> 02:07:43.760
heightened significance striving for what. He
said, Well, again, that kind

1555
02:07:43.800 --> 02:07:48.560
of introspection is good. Maybe it's
a hopeful sign for him. Growing up,

1556
02:07:48.640 --> 02:07:54.520
he said, I always distinguished my
address from my home. My address

1557
02:07:54.680 --> 02:07:57.600
was where I spent most of my
time with my mother and sister, wherever

1558
02:07:57.760 --> 02:08:03.760
that might be. But my home
never changed, my great grandfather, grandmother's

1559
02:08:03.840 --> 02:08:09.640
house in the hallor in Jackson,
Kentucky. So when we look at this

1560
02:08:09.800 --> 02:08:16.840
and we look at the devastating effect
of his broken home and the drug abuse

1561
02:08:16.920 --> 02:08:22.239
and the alcoholism, and and I
would say, also not just an alcoholism

1562
02:08:22.399 --> 02:08:26.960
or drug abuse, but where does
that come from? It comes from the

1563
02:08:26.000 --> 02:08:31.800
fact that they don't have a connection
to God. And so this is Uh,

1564
02:08:33.159 --> 02:08:37.119
he is unusual in the extent in
the in the way that he was

1565
02:08:37.159 --> 02:08:43.399
able to escape the gravitational pull of
those types of addictions in his society.

1566
02:08:46.319 --> 02:08:48.800
And maybe he has things that he
can say to the public that will be

1567
02:08:48.880 --> 02:08:52.479
helpful about that. Who knows,
We'll have to wait and see. But

1568
02:08:54.920 --> 02:08:58.920
uh, it ought to be a
concern to all of us because the thing

1569
02:09:00.319 --> 02:09:05.760
that parents do in their homes have
massive repercussions for their kids' lives, massive

1570
02:09:05.840 --> 02:09:11.239
repercussions. And don't just dismiss this
because well, Jade Vance is able to

1571
02:09:11.279 --> 02:09:16.119
turn out, Okay, you know
the way that we value success in terms

1572
02:09:16.159 --> 02:09:20.000
of what in terms of money,
in terms of power, it's too soon

1573
02:09:20.119 --> 02:09:24.079
to say about that. And it
also depends on what your definition of success

1574
02:09:24.239 --> 02:09:30.399
is when he was in the second
Marine Aircraft Wing. And again I don't

1575
02:09:30.399 --> 02:09:33.239
know was he a photographer? That's
what somebody said here. He said,

1576
02:09:33.239 --> 02:09:37.079
I served my country and I saw
when I went to a rock that I

1577
02:09:37.199 --> 02:09:43.640
had been lied to. The promises
of the foreign policy establishment were a complete

1578
02:09:43.880 --> 02:09:48.840
joke. Who was it that lied
to him? Oh? It was the

1579
02:09:48.920 --> 02:09:52.760
person that Trump picked to run the
CNIA, Gina Haspital, The person who

1580
02:09:52.800 --> 02:09:58.159
lied to everybody, the person who
tortured people illegally. And think about it.

1581
02:09:58.399 --> 02:10:03.039
I'm harp on this because to torture
these people in order to get them

1582
02:10:03.159 --> 02:10:09.119
to produce lies that you can lie
us into a war. How unbelievably vile

1583
02:10:09.239 --> 02:10:15.760
that whole chain of sins are.
She had absolutely no concern about the law.

1584
02:10:15.920 --> 02:10:18.359
She had no concern about ethical or
moral issues, no concern about her

1585
02:10:18.399 --> 02:10:20.920
fellow man, She had no concern
with the truth. As a matter of

1586
02:10:20.960 --> 02:10:24.680
fact, she did all of these
things in order to subvert the truth,

1587
02:10:26.319 --> 02:10:31.199
and then she was rewarded by Trump
for doing that. Trump said, we

1588
02:10:31.279 --> 02:10:33.920
were led into the war. Did
he not know who ran the lies?

1589
02:10:35.359 --> 02:10:37.920
Did he just do what he was
told? Yes, he did what he

1590
02:10:39.159 --> 02:10:43.199
was told, and he will do
what he has told in the second term

1591
02:10:43.359 --> 02:10:50.119
as well. While at Yale,
he attended to talk by Peter Teel about

1592
02:10:50.159 --> 02:10:54.439
technological stagnation in the decline of American
elites. He saw these two trends as

1593
02:10:54.600 --> 02:10:58.319
connected, he said. He later
recalled in his first encounter with Peter Teel,

1594
02:10:58.359 --> 02:11:05.720
he said, if technological innovation we're
actually driving real prosperity, our elites

1595
02:11:07.479 --> 02:11:13.720
wouldn't feel increasingly competitive with one another
over a dwindling number of prestigious outcomes,

1596
02:11:13.800 --> 02:11:18.359
he said. He called Teal's talk
the most significant moment of his time at

1597
02:11:18.439 --> 02:11:26.600
Yale. Do you believe that he's
absolutely wrong about that? He couldn't be

1598
02:11:26.800 --> 02:11:30.720
more wrong about that. I don't
know if that's his conclusion about what Peter

1599
02:11:30.800 --> 02:11:33.520
Teele was saying, or that was
Peter Tiele's thesis about you know, I

1600
02:11:33.640 --> 02:11:39.800
know that Peter tile has talked about
technological stagnation and that's a key theme of

1601
02:11:39.920 --> 02:11:50.439
his However, this again is this
kind of technocratic lie. It's kind of

1602
02:11:50.760 --> 02:11:56.399
technocratic naivete if you will, about
how technology is going to solve everything,

1603
02:11:58.439 --> 02:12:01.680
and listen to this again, if
techno logical innovation we're actually driving real prosperity,

1604
02:12:01.960 --> 02:12:05.960
our elites wouldn't be increasingly competitive with
each other. You think that's true.

1605
02:12:07.159 --> 02:12:13.760
You think the people who have focused
their life around the acquisition of money

1606
02:12:13.800 --> 02:12:16.920
and power, you don't think they'd
be fighting with each other. You don't

1607
02:12:16.960 --> 02:12:18.479
think that they love money and power
so much that they would not be fighting

1608
02:12:18.520 --> 02:12:24.239
with each other if they're all making
massive amounts of it. We have people

1609
02:12:24.439 --> 02:12:28.439
who have more wealth, we have
more concentration of wealth and more power and

1610
02:12:28.600 --> 02:12:33.359
fewer hands than we have ever had
in the history of the world, and

1611
02:12:33.439 --> 02:12:35.439
they're still not satisfied with it.
They're still going to war with each other.

1612
02:12:37.279 --> 02:12:43.000
He doesn't understand anything about human nature, and he rejects the fundamental insights

1613
02:12:43.279 --> 02:12:46.680
that Christ gives us in his teaching
when he says things like this is naive.

1614
02:12:46.800 --> 02:12:52.800
The love of money is causing this
competition, this rivalry that is increasing

1615
02:12:54.079 --> 02:12:58.560
all of the time. The idea
that the common man will own nothing,

1616
02:12:58.319 --> 02:13:03.680
that the global leadists will own everything. We've never seen people with a kind

1617
02:13:03.720 --> 02:13:07.439
of technology that they have. We've
seen human nature be this ruthless, but

1618
02:13:07.479 --> 02:13:11.560
they've never had the tools to make
it happen before. And it is not

1619
02:13:11.960 --> 02:13:18.239
more. Technology is not the cure. The technology just makes these people more

1620
02:13:18.319 --> 02:13:26.840
dangerous. Quite frankly, so unrumble
Froggy Trail says Trump is one hundred percent

1621
02:13:26.920 --> 02:13:31.520
controlled opposition. Yeah, he's going
to fill his administration with swamp creatures all

1622
02:13:31.640 --> 02:13:37.439
over again. And Maga will say
he's exposing them imbeciles. That's my fundamental

1623
02:13:37.479 --> 02:13:43.159
take on JD. Vance. I
think he is a shape shifting chameleon who

1624
02:13:43.279 --> 02:13:50.039
will do whatever he needs to do
to advance his blind ambition as one.

1625
02:13:50.239 --> 02:13:54.000
As Chris Sillo said, So we're
going to take a quick break and when

1626
02:13:54.039 --> 02:13:58.000
we come back, I've got a
little bit more to say about this before

1627
02:13:58.000 --> 02:14:00.119
we move on to some other topics. And I do want to move on

1628
02:14:00.199 --> 02:14:03.159
to some other topics. I want
to talk about more questions about the assassination

1629
02:14:03.279 --> 02:14:09.119
being put up all the time.
Also, we now see that the conservatives

1630
02:14:09.119 --> 02:14:15.880
are now saying speech is violence.
Be careful what you say. You can't

1631
02:14:15.920 --> 02:14:20.000
say anything like that. You can't
use these simple terms that we've always used

1632
02:14:22.079 --> 02:14:26.159
in terms of talking about competition or
what a no no no. Speech is

1633
02:14:26.359 --> 02:14:30.520
violence. I hate to see that
happening. And we have some updates on

1634
02:14:30.640 --> 02:14:35.960
pandemic on on CBDC and other issues. So we're going to take a quick

1635
02:14:35.039 --> 02:14:43.680
break and we will be right back. New World Order in music one two,

1636
02:14:43.159 --> 02:14:48.800
Spree four five, also Unvaccinated US, still life, a little bit

1637
02:14:48.880 --> 02:14:54.079
of Pisa in my a little bit
of biotype. It does not how Elitta

1638
02:14:54.159 --> 02:15:00.800
Johnson Johnson does sue elititless any cuss
So you don't get to see not about

1639
02:15:00.880 --> 02:15:05.840
five they're doing what in the place
they named after me? Good thing.

1640
02:15:05.920 --> 02:15:09.840
I have the David Night Show to
keep me informed on the plots of these

1641
02:15:09.920 --> 02:15:20.520
traders making sense common again, this
is the David Knight Show. Hy,

1642
02:15:20.600 --> 02:15:22.840
welcome back. Let's take a I
mean, we're about halfway through this list.

1643
02:15:22.920 --> 02:15:24.760
And again, as I said,
a lot of these things I've already

1644
02:15:24.840 --> 02:15:30.840
mentioned, or you don't need to
know of these fifty five points things that

1645
02:15:31.000 --> 02:15:35.680
you need to know about Jade Evans
his wife he met. He said she

1646
02:15:35.720 --> 02:15:41.159
would make an excellent heroine in an
Ein Ran novel. But she has a

1647
02:15:41.159 --> 02:15:43.359
great sense of humor, he said, and Ironran didn't seem to have a

1648
02:15:43.439 --> 02:15:48.720
very good sense of humor. Colleagues
described her, though, as liberal or

1649
02:15:48.079 --> 02:15:54.319
moderate. As I said before,
she was somebody who clerked for John Roberts

1650
02:15:54.560 --> 02:16:01.159
then for Brett Kavanaugh. She met
him in Yale Law School. Her parents

1651
02:16:01.479 --> 02:16:07.720
were technical people who immigrated to California
from India. Vance's memoir Hill Billy Elogy,

1652
02:16:09.800 --> 02:16:15.359
published in twenty sixteen, he said
about the industrial economy in the US,

1653
02:16:15.439 --> 02:16:18.199
he said, there is a lack
of agency here, a feeling that

1654
02:16:18.319 --> 02:16:24.199
you have little control, a feeling
that you have little control over your life,

1655
02:16:24.000 --> 02:16:28.239
and a willingness to blame everyone but
yourself. Again, that's the key

1656
02:16:28.279 --> 02:16:33.399
thing I was mentioning before key insight
about what has happened to conservatives to put

1657
02:16:33.440 --> 02:16:37.799
all their hope in getting the right
person in Washington. It won't make any

1658
02:16:37.840 --> 02:16:41.239
difference to your life and it's not
going to change anything. He credited this

1659
02:16:41.399 --> 02:16:50.079
conversion to I guess being a trumper
via Teal to the writings of a French

1660
02:16:50.120 --> 02:16:56.200
philosopher, Rene Gerard, who Teel
studied under at Stanford. Gerard is famous

1661
02:16:56.239 --> 02:17:03.200
for his theory of mimetic desire.
The human beings imitate the desires of their

1662
02:17:03.280 --> 02:17:09.120
peers, ultimately giving rise to rivalries
and violent conflicts that are resolved by scapegoating

1663
02:17:09.680 --> 02:17:15.680
a common enemy. Again, he's
not based in Christianity. He's based in

1664
02:17:15.760 --> 02:17:22.280
philosophies like this. One of his
other influences. He's said a blogger Kurtis

1665
02:17:22.360 --> 02:17:24.840
Chauvin, who I don't know,
Rod Dreyer, who I do know,

1666
02:17:26.120 --> 02:17:30.360
who is very big in terms of
he's a Christian, he's conservative, and

1667
02:17:30.479 --> 02:17:41.120
he focuses on localism. But when
we look at Trump's involvement with him in

1668
02:17:41.200 --> 02:17:45.799
April twenty twenty two when he wanted
to win the Senate race and when he

1669
02:17:46.000 --> 02:17:50.280
was moving his way through networking again, I guess it's something they learned in

1670
02:17:50.360 --> 02:17:56.600
Yale. You know, he can
meet these people and you can you know

1671
02:17:56.680 --> 02:18:01.239
the sons of the elites, and
then sons and daughters and elites, and

1672
02:18:01.319 --> 02:18:05.639
you can use that to get to
know their fathers who are going to put

1673
02:18:05.680 --> 02:18:09.479
you in different places. I think
he kind of did that with a Trump

1674
02:18:09.639 --> 02:18:16.040
family. In April twenty twenty two, Trump endorsed him and said this JD

1675
02:18:16.600 --> 02:18:24.639
is kissing my behind. He wants
my support so bad, and again big

1676
02:18:24.079 --> 02:18:31.879
big support from Donald Trump Junior,
Peter Teal Tucker, Carlson, Mitt Romney.

1677
02:18:31.319 --> 02:18:35.760
This is kind of an endorsement.
I don't know that I can disrespect

1678
02:18:35.959 --> 02:18:39.600
someone more than I do. JD. Vance so that's one of the best

1679
02:18:39.680 --> 02:18:43.559
endorsements you can have for Jdvance.
I guess coming from Romney again, that's

1680
02:18:43.600 --> 02:18:48.120
what Tucker Cralson said. He's got
all the right enemies out there, but

1681
02:18:48.280 --> 02:18:52.000
that doesn't really get us there.
What has he done in terms of bills,

1682
02:18:52.280 --> 02:18:54.200
Not much because he's only been there
about a year and a half.

1683
02:18:54.959 --> 02:19:01.360
His two biggest initiatives were done with
progressive Democrats. Now, one of them

1684
02:19:01.760 --> 02:19:05.639
was a railway safety reform bill because
and he did that with a Democrat,

1685
02:19:07.399 --> 02:19:11.120
Shared Brown, who is also from
Ohio. The two senators from Ohio got

1686
02:19:11.159 --> 02:19:18.120
together to do something about a railroad
safety reform bill because of that horrific situation

1687
02:19:18.559 --> 02:19:26.120
in Palestine, Ohio. I think
they call it Palestine Frankenstein Frankenstein. And

1688
02:19:26.840 --> 02:19:31.239
it wasn't even really the derailment that
was the big issue. The big issue

1689
02:19:31.399 --> 02:19:33.879
was the fact they said the thing
on fire and blew it up. But

1690
02:19:35.159 --> 02:19:39.959
yeah, so he did that with
Shared Brown, and then he put together

1691
02:19:39.040 --> 02:19:50.239
something with Elizabeth Warren, an executive
pay clawback provision with Elizabeth Warren. Now

1692
02:19:50.280 --> 02:19:58.000
that's kind of interesting, isn't it. A redistributive redistribution approach from folcahannas.

1693
02:19:58.719 --> 02:20:01.959
I don't know that I could ever
find any common ground with Elizabeth Warren on

1694
02:20:03.000 --> 02:20:07.760
a single thing, especially something's economic. He suggested that the Biden administration is

1695
02:20:07.840 --> 02:20:11.360
allowing fentinel to cross over the southern
border as part of a deliberate strategy to

1696
02:20:11.440 --> 02:20:15.159
kill Republican voters. He said,
if you wanted to kill a bunch of

1697
02:20:15.239 --> 02:20:18.719
MAGA voters in the middle of the
heartland, how better than to target them

1698
02:20:18.760 --> 02:20:22.440
and their kids with this deadly fentanyl. It does look intentional. It's like

1699
02:20:22.559 --> 02:20:28.159
Joe Biden wants to punish the people
who didn't vote for him. Well,

1700
02:20:28.159 --> 02:20:33.000
again, we look at the war
on drugs, and maybe he didn't get

1701
02:20:33.079 --> 02:20:37.120
the full lesson in his family because
they're all struggling with alcohol or drug addiction.

1702
02:20:37.079 --> 02:20:43.520
His mother finally overdosed on drugs.
She's supposedly been drug free for a

1703
02:20:43.600 --> 02:20:48.319
few years now. But you don't
have to be at the mercy of drugs.

1704
02:20:50.319 --> 02:20:56.239
It's there. But if you look
to Christ, you have the power

1705
02:20:56.360 --> 02:21:01.000
to say no. He gives us
not only forgiveness of sin, but he

1706
02:21:01.120 --> 02:21:05.040
gives us power over sin. And
if you don't have that in your life,

1707
02:21:05.239 --> 02:21:09.360
you need to do something about your
relationship, the one who can fix

1708
02:21:09.479 --> 02:21:11.639
your life. I don't look to
Washington. I don't look to the Border

1709
02:21:11.680 --> 02:21:16.639
Patrol to stop ventanyl. I stopped
vententyl by not taking it myself. I

1710
02:21:16.399 --> 02:21:20.840
went through I didn't have the same
situation that he did. But I was

1711
02:21:20.959 --> 02:21:24.680
in college. I was in bands
and played parties that played nightclubs all the

1712
02:21:24.719 --> 02:21:28.639
rest of this stuff. I didn't
take any drugs. Why Well, I

1713
02:21:28.719 --> 02:21:33.159
had a foundation, it was Christian. I had other issues. I saw

1714
02:21:33.200 --> 02:21:37.319
addiction. That's why I don't understand
when you see that kind of addiction in

1715
02:21:37.399 --> 02:21:41.040
other people, isn't that something that
is a lesson that you're not going to

1716
02:21:41.120 --> 02:21:46.000
touch this stuff. I imagine he's
got a very strong aversion to ever trying

1717
02:21:46.159 --> 02:21:48.360
any of these things, but he
doesn't think that other people are going to

1718
02:21:48.399 --> 02:21:54.879
do it. And so really,
you know, he's not going to help

1719
02:21:54.000 --> 02:22:01.200
people to get out of drug addiction
as a president, and he's not going

1720
02:22:01.239 --> 02:22:05.360
to do it with some kind of
world changing in go. He's going to

1721
02:22:05.440 --> 02:22:11.280
do it with a life changing relationship
with christ That's where your real hope is

1722
02:22:11.479 --> 02:22:15.360
not in Washington. In June twenty
twenty two, he put a hold on

1723
02:22:15.479 --> 02:22:20.840
all Biden administration appointees to the Justice
Department to protest the indictments of Trump.

1724
02:22:22.600 --> 02:22:26.680
Well, I'm glad that he stopped
all the appointments of Biden to the Justice

1725
02:22:26.719 --> 02:22:31.040
Department. That's a good thing in
and of itself. And then one more

1726
02:22:31.120 --> 02:22:37.000
thing I'll talk about. He says, quote, the culture war is class

1727
02:22:37.079 --> 02:22:46.120
war. Again it his focus on
class No, it's not. The culture

1728
02:22:46.200 --> 02:22:50.399
war is a spiritual war. The
culture war is above most, it is

1729
02:22:50.440 --> 02:22:56.280
above politics. I think that I
think it's Breitbart that said that the politics

1730
02:22:56.360 --> 02:23:01.840
is downstream from the culture war.
But the culture war is downstream from spiritual

1731
02:23:01.920 --> 02:23:05.639
war. It's not downstream from class
war. And one of the things that

1732
02:23:05.719 --> 02:23:11.840
concerns me about is not only the
fact that you know, he's clueless as

1733
02:23:11.959 --> 02:23:18.200
to what is happening spiritually and with
Christ, but he's also i think vulnerable

1734
02:23:20.079 --> 02:23:24.280
to Marxist types of fixes. If
he thinks that it is a class war,

1735
02:23:24.200 --> 02:23:28.920
that leads him open to Marxist types
of approaches, which takes us back

1736
02:23:28.959 --> 02:23:33.159
to what I was just talking about. He puts something in with Elizabeth Warren

1737
02:23:33.040 --> 02:23:43.040
to do income redistribution, a clawback
provision for executive pay that is a class

1738
02:23:43.200 --> 02:23:46.760
war Marxist approach, Like I said, this guy is all over the place

1739
02:23:46.959 --> 02:23:50.600
and he's going to be a puppet
of these people. He has said that

1740
02:23:50.959 --> 02:23:54.959
if he had been and Mike Pins
his shoes in twenty twenty one, he

1741
02:23:54.040 --> 02:23:58.200
would not have certified the results of
the twenty twenty election. Now he got

1742
02:23:58.280 --> 02:24:01.159
this right. This is exactly what
I say. If I had been vice

1743
02:24:01.239 --> 02:24:05.879
president, I would have told states
like Pennsylvania, Georgia, so many others

1744
02:24:07.559 --> 02:24:11.719
that we needed to have multiple slates
of electors, and I think the US

1745
02:24:11.799 --> 02:24:16.799
Congress should have fought over it from
there. He said, that's exactly right.

1746
02:24:18.559 --> 02:24:22.040
I said that. Thomas Massey said
that. Thomas Massey said, they

1747
02:24:22.079 --> 02:24:26.200
gave us nothing to work with,
And I said that on the Monday,

1748
02:24:26.399 --> 02:24:30.840
December the fourteenth, that the Electoral
College votes were sent in, I said,

1749
02:24:30.879 --> 02:24:33.760
it's done. I said, there's
no point in following you to stop

1750
02:24:33.840 --> 02:24:37.479
the steel stuff, because it's simply
a grift. I said that when I

1751
02:24:37.559 --> 02:24:39.719
was at INFO Wars, and I
got fired two days later. So it

1752
02:24:39.879 --> 02:24:45.239
was a grift because they could have
opposed us that were getting no traction at

1753
02:24:45.319 --> 02:24:48.479
all in the courts. They could
have and should have opposed it. There

1754
02:24:48.520 --> 02:24:52.280
were four states that were very narrow. He mentioned just two of them,

1755
02:24:54.000 --> 02:24:58.159
four states that had that were very
close. I'm not sure that Pennsylvania was

1756
02:24:58.159 --> 02:25:00.840
one of the four. The four
states that I was talking about. I

1757
02:25:00.879 --> 02:25:07.000
know Georgia was one of them.
Had Republican majority legislatures and two of them

1758
02:25:07.200 --> 02:25:11.319
had Republican governors. And they could
have looked at the evidence if they decided

1759
02:25:11.680 --> 02:25:20.040
that there was and they had razor
thin margins victory for Biden, so they

1760
02:25:20.079 --> 02:25:26.079
could have sent a second state of
electors from the state legislature. They did

1761
02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:30.639
not. Instead, you had some
places where the legislators who had been put

1762
02:25:30.680 --> 02:25:33.079
on a list said well, we're
going to send our votes, and they

1763
02:25:33.079 --> 02:25:37.200
had no authority at that point.
They have to be designated by the governor

1764
02:25:37.200 --> 02:25:43.200
of the legislature. So let's end
this up here. He's forty years younger

1765
02:25:43.239 --> 02:25:48.440
than Trump. Trump is already older
than Reagan when Reagan left office, and

1766
02:25:48.559 --> 02:25:50.719
so there's a pretty good chance that
if Trump wins, this guy will become

1767
02:25:50.799 --> 02:25:56.120
president one day. And like I
said, it is going to be interesting

1768
02:25:58.000 --> 02:26:01.600
to see the debate of nothing else
else. I've never seen such a mismatch

1769
02:26:01.639 --> 02:26:07.399
in terms of Laila Harris and pretty
much anybody else, but certainly with this

1770
02:26:07.520 --> 02:26:09.879
guy, it'll be very interesting.
We're going to take a break and we

1771
02:26:11.000 --> 02:27:33.959
will be right back analyzing the globalists. Next move and now the Deevid nutshell.

1772
02:27:35.399 --> 02:27:39.440
Well, let's talk real quickly about
the Great Replacement. Was as we

1773
02:27:39.520 --> 02:27:41.280
were going through that, one person
who was talking about J. D.

1774
02:27:41.440 --> 02:27:46.760
Vance said, well, he supports
this white supremacist idea of the Great Replacement.

1775
02:27:46.680 --> 02:27:50.479
Well, it's not just something that
is affecting white people. It's affecting

1776
02:27:50.559 --> 02:27:58.520
people urban rural. It's affecting people
in Democrat states, Republican states. It's

1777
02:27:58.600 --> 02:28:05.319
affecting people of ethnicity. Here's an
example. Moped mounted crime is soaring as

1778
02:28:05.399 --> 02:28:09.360
migrants are bringing this in from the
Third World. It's a tactic that they

1779
02:28:09.479 --> 02:28:13.680
use. Latin Americans are quite familiar
with these attacks, and some of them

1780
02:28:13.719 --> 02:28:20.239
in New York are being attacked by
the new arrivs US. Followers of Phoenix,

1781
02:28:20.319 --> 02:28:26.760
Arizona based Active Self Protections YouTube channel
are very familiar with attacks carried out

1782
02:28:26.799 --> 02:28:31.719
by two criminals riding on a single
mopet or a dirt bike. The mo

1783
02:28:31.040 --> 02:28:35.399
that facilitates both surprise and a quick
getaway. Sometimes the criminals don't even dismount.

1784
02:28:35.840 --> 02:28:39.559
Sometimes it just you know, hit
you and steal your purse or something

1785
02:28:39.639 --> 02:28:41.840
like that on the run. In
other instances, one or both may get

1786
02:28:41.920 --> 02:28:46.799
off of the ride regardless. They
frequently wield deadly weapons to compel their victims

1787
02:28:46.959 --> 02:28:54.559
to give up valuables. A recent
experience of two friends strolling in Brooklyn's Green

1788
02:28:54.799 --> 02:28:58.520
Point neighborhood after eleven pm on Thursday
night, they say, a man in

1789
02:28:58.600 --> 02:29:01.600
a ski mask jumped off the back
moped and pointed a gun at one of

1790
02:29:01.680 --> 02:29:03.879
them, taking the twenty nine year
old man's watch and the thirty two year

1791
02:29:03.879 --> 02:29:09.200
old woman's purse. The gunman then
hopped back on the moped and the getaway

1792
02:29:09.280 --> 02:29:13.479
driver sped the two criminals off into
the night. It was very quick,

1793
02:29:13.520 --> 02:29:18.319
but it's obviously super rattling. I've
lived in the area for over seven years

1794
02:29:18.440 --> 02:29:22.840
now, and I've never felt unsafe, said the woman. She asked that

1795
02:29:22.920 --> 02:29:26.520
her name be kept out of print
because she is worried about retaliation, another

1796
02:29:26.639 --> 02:29:35.360
tactic from these countries. The female
victim was certain that the criminals were Venezuelan,

1797
02:29:35.200 --> 02:29:39.159
she said, based on her familiarity
with her accents thanks to having grown

1798
02:29:39.280 --> 02:29:43.799
up in that country, and then
she said this, it's pretty insane for

1799
02:29:43.920 --> 02:29:50.440
this to be happening here. My
family left Venezuela because crimes like that are

1800
02:29:50.520 --> 02:29:56.200
very common there and they just didn't
want to be growing up in that kind

1801
02:29:56.280 --> 02:30:01.920
of lack of safety. She said, I've mentioned example many times about a

1802
02:30:03.000 --> 02:30:07.760
father who left El Salvador, where
MS thirteen is in control. Of course,

1803
02:30:07.840 --> 02:30:13.959
MS thirteen was initially created by some
gang members out of la but then

1804
02:30:13.000 --> 02:30:18.200
they really are based out of El
Salvador. And it was a father whose

1805
02:30:18.280 --> 02:30:26.520
daughter had been killed and he was
on Long Island and he said, you

1806
02:30:26.600 --> 02:30:28.719
know, there was they had a
dispute or something at school and they just

1807
02:30:28.840 --> 02:30:35.000
killed his daughter. And so he
had all these kids who'd come in deferred

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02:30:35.040 --> 02:30:41.479
action for childhood rivals Obama's dhaka.
They had MS thirteen tattoos all over their

1809
02:30:41.520 --> 02:30:46.559
faces, literally written on their faces
what they were. They were here illegally.

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02:30:46.799 --> 02:30:48.559
The federal government would not do anything
about it. There are members of

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02:30:48.680 --> 02:30:52.760
MS thirteen. Federal government would not
do anything about it, and they killed

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02:30:52.799 --> 02:30:54.600
his daughter. And he said,
I came here same like like this woman.

1813
02:30:56.200 --> 02:30:58.399
Some one says, we left in
as well because of things like that.

1814
02:30:58.479 --> 02:31:03.200
That were happening there. This guy
said, I left El Salvador because

1815
02:31:03.239 --> 02:31:07.719
of MS thirteen and now they've killed
my daughter in Long Island, washing hundreds

1816
02:31:07.719 --> 02:31:11.680
of thousands of illegal immigrants in New
York City is the top hotspot for moto

1817
02:31:11.799 --> 02:31:20.399
crime. Yeah, this is not
some kind of white supremacist paranoia. This

1818
02:31:20.600 --> 02:31:24.360
is a deliberate takedown of our country
by the people who have opened up the

1819
02:31:24.440 --> 02:31:28.479
borders. They want to sow chaos, discord, civil war, violence,

1820
02:31:28.639 --> 02:31:31.879
crime, and everything else. I
mean, just look at what the Soros

1821
02:31:31.920 --> 02:31:37.520
prosecutors are doing in terms of turning
criminals loose or as I reported, I

1822
02:31:37.559 --> 02:31:41.840
don't know if it's Friday or if
it was yesterday about what was going on

1823
02:31:41.120 --> 02:31:48.600
in California where they came after target
said, you're reporting, you're calling the

1824
02:31:48.600 --> 02:31:52.040
police too often. We're going to
start finding you for calling the police.

1825
02:31:52.040 --> 02:31:56.479
Well, they're shoplifting and other crimes
like that had doubled every year for the

1826
02:31:56.520 --> 02:32:03.760
past three years, and so the
approaches we're going to leave the shoplifters and

1827
02:32:03.799 --> 02:32:07.799
the thieves alone. We're going to
come after you with fines if you report

1828
02:32:07.879 --> 02:32:13.719
their crimes. Some victims have been
targeted because their foolish choice to wear outrageously

1829
02:32:13.760 --> 02:32:16.000
pricey watches. And June twenty six, men in Greenwich Village had a gun

1830
02:32:16.079 --> 02:32:22.639
plant at his head before surrendering his
ten thousand, forty thousand dollars Rolex forty

1831
02:32:22.680 --> 02:32:26.840
thousand dollars rolex. On June eighteenth, arm robbers stole another man's one hundred

1832
02:32:26.879 --> 02:32:33.840
thousand dollars watch outside of Manhattan Hotspot. I don't know. These watches must

1833
02:32:35.120 --> 02:32:41.600
really tell time? Well, don't
you think that's my son's comment on these

1834
02:32:41.680 --> 02:32:45.920
expensive watches. It must be really
good at telling time. Had to watch

1835
02:32:46.000 --> 02:32:52.360
that expensive. Don't thank you're immune
from a moto attack if you don't flaunt

1836
02:32:52.440 --> 02:32:56.200
your money an iPhone, a purse, a wallet, all these could be

1837
02:32:56.399 --> 02:33:00.760
enticements for these people to engage in
this type of attack. And again,

1838
02:33:01.440 --> 02:33:05.639
these types of ms coming in here. And then the Ohio town of fifty

1839
02:33:05.639 --> 02:33:15.639
eight thousand people flooded with twenty thousand
Haitian migrants. The sound Familiar talked many

1840
02:33:15.719 --> 02:33:22.040
times about the Italian town that had
six thousand. It was an island and

1841
02:33:22.200 --> 02:33:26.879
had six thousand residents who were Italian, and they brought in triple the number

1842
02:33:26.920 --> 02:33:31.799
of people from outside Italy. I
mean, who isn't excited to import people

1843
02:33:31.840 --> 02:33:37.760
from cannibal murder land. Well,
and it's flooding these areas. You can't.

1844
02:33:37.120 --> 02:33:39.520
These people are coming in and they're
not even they're not even coming in

1845
02:33:39.600 --> 02:33:43.120
as families or refugees, coming in
as young men because they want to get

1846
02:33:43.120 --> 02:33:48.479
on mopeds and steal people's money,
presumably, But anyway, they've increased the

1847
02:33:48.559 --> 02:33:54.479
population of this in Italy they brought
in. You know, it's now three

1848
02:33:54.520 --> 02:33:58.239
times the number of the three times
of population or whatever that's there, but

1849
02:33:58.360 --> 02:34:01.280
here it's one third of the population. Still a big deal. They don't

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02:34:01.319 --> 02:34:05.879
have any way to care for these
people who have no means of support.

1851
02:34:05.959 --> 02:34:09.040
Remember, if you want to immigrate
into a country, you had to show

1852
02:34:09.200 --> 02:34:11.559
that you had means of support.
That's a way it has always been in

1853
02:34:11.600 --> 02:34:20.239
the past, not anymore. This
self imposed disaster, says spoke out about

1854
02:34:20.280 --> 02:34:24.520
this. JD. Vance said,
this is self imposed disasters, crushing the

1855
02:34:24.639 --> 02:34:28.639
job prospects of our citizens, making
it more difficult for Ohio families to find

1856
02:34:28.680 --> 02:34:35.399
homes, and draining social service programs
funded by American taxpayers. People who are

1857
02:34:35.440 --> 02:34:37.600
here illegally should be sent back to
their home countries as soon as possible.

1858
02:34:37.879 --> 02:34:45.120
Individuals here on temporary status should not
expect to stay indefinitely. And I said

1859
02:34:45.120 --> 02:34:46.879
for a few years it really wasn't
a problem, even though they had this

1860
02:34:48.000 --> 02:34:52.920
growing Haitian community. But they said
people started to become uneasy when the Haitian

1861
02:34:54.079 --> 02:34:58.879
flag was raised at city hall instead
of the US flag during the Cities Flagged

1862
02:35:00.319 --> 02:35:05.040
celebrations. They're marking their territory.
It is their territory. City manager said,

1863
02:35:07.000 --> 02:35:11.399
you know, we can't add twenty
thousand people to a city that has

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02:35:11.680 --> 02:35:15.840
fewer than sixty thousand and keep this
going. In Germany, for example,

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02:35:16.200 --> 02:35:22.200
half of the German welfare payments are
now going to foreign migrants social services.

1866
02:35:22.280 --> 02:35:28.559
They're taking this up. A British
empire must be presented like Nazi Germany,

1867
02:35:28.440 --> 02:35:33.000
say, new curriculum guidelines. This
is a daily skeptic out of the UK.

1868
02:35:33.399 --> 02:35:37.760
This is the same thing they did
to post war Germany. They presented

1869
02:35:37.799 --> 02:35:41.520
all Germans as Nazis, and now
in the UK they want to use the

1870
02:35:41.559 --> 02:35:48.200
schools to get people to hate British, you know, to hate Britain,

1871
02:35:50.000 --> 02:35:52.959
they have to portray them as Nazis. And of course they're doing the same

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02:35:54.000 --> 02:35:58.399
thing today in the USA as well. We're all Nazis, and anything that

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02:35:58.559 --> 02:36:07.280
is done to us as Nazis is
therefore justify and even demand it. Well,

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we're gonna take a quick break and
we will be right back. You're

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listening to the David Knight Show.
I want to talk a little bit about

1876
02:37:16.200 --> 02:37:22.719
the speech is violence approach. It's
been rallying cry for a lot of left

1877
02:37:22.760 --> 02:37:26.159
wing sensors. Well, I don't
like what you had to say about sexual

1878
02:37:26.200 --> 02:37:31.079
orientation, or about your religious beliefs
or whatever. Your speech is violence.

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02:37:31.799 --> 02:37:37.159
And now we're seeing that in the
wake of Saturday's whatever it was, assassination

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02:37:37.239 --> 02:37:41.440
attempt. I guess we say we're
now seeing that over and over again,

1881
02:37:41.520 --> 02:37:48.360
and the right is playing that card. I see this over and throughout conservative

1882
02:37:48.559 --> 02:37:54.600
media, alternative media. Oh look
at what Biden said. He's threatening Trump.

1883
02:37:54.959 --> 02:37:58.600
And of course this has also been
played by the left against Trump and

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02:37:58.719 --> 02:38:03.760
others. I think we have to
draw the line at some somewhere, at

1885
02:38:03.799 --> 02:38:09.319
a reasonable focus. We're always going
to have people who use the metaphors of

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02:38:09.479 --> 02:38:13.879
combat and war, especially when you're
talking about these kinds of rivalries and you're

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02:38:13.879 --> 02:38:16.680
talking about politics, and we need
to get a little bit of a thick

1888
02:38:16.719 --> 02:38:20.079
skin about it. You can tell
if somebody is actually threatening somebody. And

1889
02:38:20.159 --> 02:38:24.479
the problem that I've had with this
is that people like Steve Bannon and Jack

1890
02:38:24.520 --> 02:38:31.600
Pisoviet are actually threatening people, threatening
specific people, and that needs to be

1891
02:38:31.680 --> 02:38:35.680
handled differently, rather than having this
mass censorship, which is now what the

1892
02:38:35.840 --> 02:38:39.000
right is starting to push, both
the right and the left, or pointing

1893
02:38:39.040 --> 02:38:43.719
fingers at other people and saying,
look at what you are calling for out

1894
02:38:43.760 --> 02:38:48.959
here. Here's an example. Joe
Biden in an interview with NBC's Lester Holt,

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02:38:50.079 --> 02:38:52.399
Well, let's talk about the conversation
this has started, and it's really

1896
02:38:52.440 --> 02:38:56.319
about language, what we say out
loud, and the consequences of those You

1897
02:38:56.440 --> 02:39:01.719
called your opponent an existential threat.
On a call a week ago, you

1898
02:39:01.799 --> 02:39:05.280
said it's time to put Trump in
the bullseye. There's some dispute about the

1899
02:39:05.399 --> 02:39:09.920
context, but I think you appreciate
I didn't say crosshairs. I was talking

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about focus on Look. The truth
of the matter was that I guess I

1901
02:39:13.600 --> 02:39:18.040
was talking about it at the time, was there's very little focus on Trump's

1902
02:39:18.440 --> 02:39:22.280
Yeah, the term as bullseye.
Oh, he can't say bulls eye now

1903
02:39:22.280 --> 02:39:24.559
I mistake to you. I didn't. I didn't say crosshairs, bulls.

1904
02:39:24.559 --> 02:39:30.760
I'm focus on him, Focus on
what he's doing, Focus on one as

1905
02:39:30.799 --> 02:39:33.840
far as policies, focus on the
number of lies he told the debate.

1906
02:39:33.959 --> 02:39:37.559
Focus I mean, there's there's a
whole range of things that Look, I'm

1907
02:39:37.600 --> 02:39:41.559
not the guy that said I want
to be a dictator on day one.

1908
02:39:41.040 --> 02:39:45.360
I'm not the guy that refused to
accept the outcome of the election. I'm

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02:39:45.399 --> 02:39:48.399
not the guy who said that one. So you got the idea, right,

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02:39:48.600 --> 02:39:52.280
I'm sorry, I didn't mean you
know, come on, come on,

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this is ridiculous, and this game
is being played by both the left

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02:39:56.399 --> 02:40:00.600
and the right. Speech is violent. You use bullseye and somebody took a

1913
02:40:00.639 --> 02:40:03.719
shot at Trump, Now it's your
problem. And this is the narrative that's

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02:40:03.719 --> 02:40:09.399
being pushed by the conservative media.
It's ludicrous. This speech is violence.

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02:40:11.120 --> 02:40:13.479
Biden said it was a mistake to
use the word. He said, no,

1916
02:40:13.639 --> 02:40:16.239
it wasn't. It was not a
mistake to use the word. It

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02:40:16.319 --> 02:40:22.079
was perfectly legitimate to say that.
So again, I'm not going to play

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02:40:22.280 --> 02:40:28.639
this game with anybody, and I'll
probably still say Trump shot. I'm talking

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about something else. And they'll probably
try to misconstrue that as well. How

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02:40:33.000 --> 02:40:37.159
do you talk about a threat to
democracy, which is really said and things

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02:40:37.280 --> 02:40:39.159
like that, Well, how do
you talk about competition without that as well?

1922
02:40:41.440 --> 02:40:43.920
The front page of the Washington Post
and again this is another one.

1923
02:40:45.000 --> 02:40:48.600
This is bright part again. But
I see this all over conservative and alternative

1924
02:40:48.719 --> 02:40:54.920
right wing media. The front page
the Washington Post read Biden trains a fire

1925
02:40:56.159 --> 02:40:58.639
on Trump. That was a headline, Biden trains his fire on Trump and

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02:40:58.719 --> 02:41:01.000
by and he said, put him
in the bulls eye and so forth.

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02:41:01.959 --> 02:41:09.120
On the day of the assassination attempt. Oh wow, really, really,

1928
02:41:09.360 --> 02:41:16.200
that's the best that bright Bart can
do. It is absolutely absurd. Well,

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we don't have a lot of time, so I'm going to go without

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a break here. I want to
talk a little bit about the assassination stuff,

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because there's a lot of questions about
that, and Bloomberg see even talking

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about well, disinformation is swirling on
social media after the Trump rally shooting.

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Earlier, when I talked to Ken
Valentine and said, you know, does

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02:41:37.000 --> 02:41:39.239
this make any said, oh,
that doesn't make any sense. They know,

1935
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why would you set up a perimeter
and you're checking You're not going to

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02:41:41.319 --> 02:41:46.239
wand people with a magnetometer. How
does this guy, now we now got

1937
02:41:46.360 --> 02:41:50.280
multiple reports this guy walking around for
thirty minutes, How does he walk in

1938
02:41:50.440 --> 02:41:52.600
with a gun? How does he
get onto a roof? How does he

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02:41:52.719 --> 02:41:56.799
not have that secured? And so
forth? So again, like I said

1940
02:41:56.879 --> 02:42:01.719
yesterday, when something is so stunningly
incompetent and it goes on and on and

1941
02:42:01.799 --> 02:42:05.000
on and nobody ever does anything about
it, you have to ask is there

1942
02:42:05.079 --> 02:42:13.159
malice there? And if you have
something that is so amazingly such an incredible

1943
02:42:13.680 --> 02:42:16.879
failure that doesn't add up, it's
start I have to ask yourself, well,

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02:42:18.000 --> 02:42:20.799
is there something else that is going
on? And when we look at

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02:42:20.840 --> 02:42:22.680
this, a lot of people said, well, I think that this is

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02:42:22.719 --> 02:42:28.639
a setup from Biden against Trump.
I haven't seen anybody else say this,

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02:42:30.000 --> 02:42:33.719
maybe hint at it a little bit, but you know, Trump himself was

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02:42:33.799 --> 02:42:39.959
at the center of the plan demic. The plandemic was, folks, the

1949
02:42:39.159 --> 02:42:43.840
biggest conspiracy, not a theory.
You know, there's a theory about the

1950
02:42:43.959 --> 02:42:48.680
virus. There was a theory about
a pandemic, But it was the biggest

1951
02:42:48.840 --> 02:42:50.600
conspiracy. All these people doing the
same thing at exactly the same time,

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02:42:50.639 --> 02:42:54.920
and they rolled it out step by
step. They did it from the inside,

1953
02:42:54.920 --> 02:42:58.079
They did it with disruption, and
they rolled it out step by step.

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02:42:58.079 --> 02:43:00.719
As I said over and over again, look, ounce they're going to

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02:43:00.799 --> 02:43:03.280
do such and such a measure two
months from now, as they're implementing the

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02:43:03.360 --> 02:43:05.760
one that they said they were going
to do two months ago. I said,

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02:43:05.799 --> 02:43:09.959
this is not a reaction to pandemic. This is a step my step

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02:43:11.000 --> 02:43:16.159
takedown into martial law. And so
it was a global conspiracy. He was

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02:43:16.200 --> 02:43:20.079
at the center of that global conspiracy
Trump and then he handed it off to

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02:43:20.159 --> 02:43:24.600
Biden. Give either one of them. But Trump was at the center of

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02:43:24.639 --> 02:43:31.799
the biggest conspiracy and the biggest false
flag. Understand that as well in history

1962
02:43:33.120 --> 02:43:35.600
the other shoe to drop from nine
to eleven. And of course his pal

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02:43:35.719 --> 02:43:39.120
Rudy Giuliani was right there at the
center of nine to eleven himself. So

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don't give me these people a pass. But just because somebody is morally capable

1965
02:43:46.399 --> 02:43:52.040
of doing something like this doesn't prove
that they did it. We should be

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02:43:52.159 --> 02:43:54.840
very skeptical, and as Ron Paul
has said, we may never really know

1967
02:43:56.000 --> 02:44:03.639
what happened on Saturday on this alleged
Trump assassination attempt. We may never know,

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02:44:03.680 --> 02:44:07.840
and you know, I think that's
likely the case. I don't know

1969
02:44:07.879 --> 02:44:09.319
that we'll ever know what happened on
nine to eleven. I know what didn't

1970
02:44:09.399 --> 02:44:13.840
happen. I know what didn't happen
on nine to eleven was the official story.

1971
02:44:15.360 --> 02:44:18.719
I know that steel skriscrapers did not
collapse in their footprint, three of

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02:44:18.879 --> 02:44:24.920
them when two of them were hit
by planes, and so I know what

1973
02:44:24.040 --> 02:44:28.159
did not happen. I don't know
what did happen. And people argue about

1974
02:44:28.559 --> 02:44:31.360
was it explosives, was it some
kind of directed an energy weapon or this

1975
02:44:31.559 --> 02:44:35.159
or that? A lot of theories
about what happened with that. But we

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02:44:35.239 --> 02:44:37.760
know what didn't happen, and that's
the official story. And so when we

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02:44:37.840 --> 02:44:41.799
look at this, we know what
didn't happen. What didn't happen was the

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normal things that would be happening typically, and so we can say was it

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02:44:46.040 --> 02:44:50.680
the obvious I mean the obvious would
be the DEI stuff. There's a lot

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02:44:50.719 --> 02:44:56.040
of obvious failures that are there right
out in the open, and those should

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02:44:56.079 --> 02:45:00.799
be addressed. But then there's other
questions about that. You know, did

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02:45:01.120 --> 02:45:05.000
Trump do the weird move and did
he smash something up to side of his

1983
02:45:05.239 --> 02:45:07.639
You know, I've seen pictures of
his ear. It doesn't look to me

1984
02:45:07.840 --> 02:45:13.680
like it was shot. I don't
know, but you know, if it

1985
02:45:13.920 --> 02:45:18.239
was more like Stephen Colbert's Hero,
I believe it. But I didn't see

1986
02:45:18.239 --> 02:45:20.879
anything unusual with his ear. So
he's got a little bit of blood there.

1987
02:45:22.879 --> 02:45:28.239
Earlier posts misidentified the shooter as a
man called Mark Violets. They said

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02:45:28.280 --> 02:45:31.719
he was a known anti fi extremist. According to NBC News, misidentified person.

1989
02:45:31.799 --> 02:45:39.760
Circulated posts included a photo that was
someone named Marco Violi, an Italian

1990
02:45:39.840 --> 02:45:43.319
YouTuber. So we see this type
of thing all the time. That's why

1991
02:45:43.319 --> 02:45:45.879
I don't want to jump into this. And we also see the type of

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02:45:45.920 --> 02:45:50.440
thing where well, it was all
completely false and nobody died and all the

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02:45:50.479 --> 02:45:54.040
rest of this stuff. And folks, that's not just a sandy hook thing

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02:45:54.200 --> 02:46:00.239
that became a standard mo being pushed
by people like Steve Pachennick's CIA Opera is

1995
02:46:00.479 --> 02:46:03.399
pushing everybody to think that no event
was ever real. So that's why I'm

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02:46:03.399 --> 02:46:05.600
saying, I'm going to jump into
this thing one side or the other.

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02:46:07.200 --> 02:46:11.200
And we've also seen in terms of
these fake identities. Sam Hide is always

1998
02:46:11.280 --> 02:46:15.520
doing jokes about it. He always
puts himself or some variant of himself and

1999
02:46:15.559 --> 02:46:18.719
these things. I think he gave
himself some kind of a name that was

2000
02:46:18.760 --> 02:46:22.719
kind of quasi Ukrainian. But there's
a picture of him and a version of

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02:46:22.879 --> 02:46:28.159
his name, Sam Hide. And
he got Adam Kinsinger to bite on it,

2002
02:46:28.280 --> 02:46:31.120
and he put himself out of there, said well, we finally have

2003
02:46:31.799 --> 02:46:35.559
the ghost of Kiev revealed, you
know, And he got Adam Kinzinger to

2004
02:46:35.639 --> 02:46:41.840
bite on it. We had a
Democrat congressman and one of the senators on

2005
02:46:41.959 --> 02:46:45.559
one of these shootings bought into the
idea that it was Sam Hide and put

2006
02:46:45.600 --> 02:46:48.520
that out there. And then Jake
Tapper reported that and I said, come

2007
02:46:48.639 --> 02:46:54.200
on, I trolled him personally,
and he replied and he said, well,

2008
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we were told that by us congressman. And I said, oh,

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02:46:58.719 --> 02:47:01.959
so that's your standard of truth you
as congressman, that's really what you got.

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At that point he blocked me.
That's all I had to say.

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But I wasn't going to say anything
more about it. But you know,

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this goes in a lot of different
ways, but it is important for us

2013
02:47:11.440 --> 02:47:15.559
to look at this and to say
you know what is really going on.

2014
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This stuff really really doesn't make any
sense. This report the Secret Service is

2015
02:47:20.319 --> 02:47:28.559
moving people around behind Trump just before
the shooting. Another person who has a

2016
02:47:28.600 --> 02:47:37.479
background law enforcement says, the DEI
Secret Service looks like Keystone cops in action

2017
02:47:37.879 --> 02:47:39.600
in terms of the things that they
did. He said, think about the

2018
02:47:39.639 --> 02:47:43.440
fact that you had the President reacted
before the agents did. Once they decided

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02:47:43.479 --> 02:47:52.559
to take Trump to the beast,
they it became really apparent. Trump says,

2020
02:47:52.600 --> 02:47:54.920
I don't have my shoes, so
they let him do the shoes.

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The diversion, they said, does
not. This kind of diversion not in

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02:48:00.319 --> 02:48:03.280
the Secret Service playbook. They then
more or less man handled the President toward

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02:48:03.319 --> 02:48:07.239
the beast. Two of the agents
were women who seemed to be about five

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02:48:07.319 --> 02:48:11.639
foot six. Trump, whom they
have sworn to protect, stands about six

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02:48:11.719 --> 02:48:16.479
foot three. This will be funny
if it wasn't so potentially dangerous. Again,

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02:48:16.680 --> 02:48:20.319
part of what we're talking about with
the DEI obvious failures that need to

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02:48:20.319 --> 02:48:22.559
be addressed. First, When they
got the President safely into the beast,

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02:48:22.600 --> 02:48:28.559
one of the female agents had trouble
holstering her firearm, a move that should

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02:48:28.680 --> 02:48:33.799
be instinctive if she was trained.
While the president has executive oversighter of the

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agency, it is up to the
Secret Service agents to protect him as their

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02:48:37.440 --> 02:48:39.319
only priority. So why is this
important? Well, first of all,

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it's understandable why Trump would want to
reassure his followers that he was fine and

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still in the fight. If there
had been more than one shooter, he

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might have been dead by now.
And the Secret Service agents did this.

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They didn't forcibly move him away.
When he said he wanted to shoes,

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they stopped so they can get his
shoes after shooting. It happened all of

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02:49:01.959 --> 02:49:07.280
this very very, very strange.
Then, when he lost his Maga hat,

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one of his female agents been over, leaving the President vulnerable to another

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02:49:11.520 --> 02:49:13.280
shot from a sniper if it had
been a second one. And then when

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they got to the stairs leading down
from the platform, there was a scrum

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02:49:16.680 --> 02:49:20.959
amongst the agents because the stairs are
not wide enough to hold the present and

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02:49:20.040 --> 02:49:24.120
all the agents. If there had
been other shooters, this inept decision could

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02:49:24.159 --> 02:49:26.520
have proved fatal. Finally, when
they got to the beast, there was

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02:49:26.559 --> 02:49:33.360
another scrum as they decided who would
push President Trump into the safety of the

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02:49:33.600 --> 02:49:39.600
protective vehicle. It truly is strange. And then this is the way Bill

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02:49:39.680 --> 02:50:03.959
Maher put it just inside everything.
And then I see today a view because

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blood's three gods down the space.
I don't want to say the election is

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over. I don't because I didn't
think he had had an election. He

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02:50:16.920 --> 02:50:24.079
has his amagamation, finally has his
whole mark they lovely twenty minutes to jam

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the mugshot. I got to say
he's insane and he's a criminal. But

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02:50:28.680 --> 02:50:46.120
that mug shot and this play,
this scene, what usage And never an

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02:50:46.200 --> 02:50:52.920
idiot spirits to Paris idiots who will
say what the lay? But he said

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02:50:54.520 --> 02:50:58.840
putting all the thin. We got
that critics, he gets raised and a

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02:50:58.920 --> 02:51:11.360
nothing a shot. It's so harm
but you know the this is gonna work

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02:51:11.399 --> 02:51:15.479
for him. I can see the
name is now the man a little stor

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02:51:16.159 --> 02:51:33.840
kid. So today it's it's dramatic. I should be, we should heal.

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It's a horrible thing, but I'm
not gonna do with the show.

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Yeah, yeah, that's gonna be
these crazy conspiracy theorists. I'd like this

2059
02:51:41.120 --> 02:51:46.000
guy. And whether or not it
was planned, Oh he planned what he

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02:51:46.079 --> 02:51:48.879
was doing when he did the fist
shaking, and he was no Wait a

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02:51:48.879 --> 02:51:50.239
minute, Wa a minute, we're
gonna do this and again, Uh,

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02:51:50.479 --> 02:51:56.479
no protocols were followed with it.
But yeah, I think at this point

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02:51:56.639 --> 02:52:01.920
we don't really believe anything that we
are told directly. American Thinker, there

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02:52:03.000 --> 02:52:05.079
was a first person account of security
issues on the ground in Butler, Pennsylvania.

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02:52:05.120 --> 02:52:07.040
This is what I mentioned earlier.
He says. My wife and I

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02:52:07.120 --> 02:52:11.639
have attended five Trump rallies, three
of which were held outdoors. Once you

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02:52:11.719 --> 02:52:15.479
get to the gate, security requires
you to put everything you're carrying on a

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02:52:15.520 --> 02:52:18.959
table for inspection. Then you go
through a metal detector, after which an

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02:52:18.959 --> 02:52:22.799
agent with a wand gives you the
once over. At least that's what happened

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02:52:22.840 --> 02:52:26.479
in four of the five rallies,
but not in the one on Saturday.

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02:52:26.559 --> 02:52:30.959
He said, yesterday, I didn't
get wanded. Instead, when I went

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02:52:31.000 --> 02:52:35.159
through the metal detector, which didn't
go off, and then presented myself in

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02:52:35.280 --> 02:52:39.239
the usual T stance with arms out, the uniform, security simply said,

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02:52:39.440 --> 02:52:41.360
you're good, you can go through. So you know, how do you

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02:52:41.360 --> 02:52:46.239
get an AR fifteen into a venue
like this? He said? The venue

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02:52:46.280 --> 02:52:48.680
itself is also a problem. You
had. Dense trees are somewhat close in

2077
02:52:50.319 --> 02:52:52.239
they were open umbrellas. There was
a water tower only about a quarter mile

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02:52:52.360 --> 02:52:56.840
away and had an excellent line of
sight, he says, I'm talking about

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02:52:56.920 --> 02:53:01.000
Texas tower book repository grade line of
sight. He said, a utility poll

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02:53:01.079 --> 02:53:05.079
almost right next to me with footpegs, in which a couple of people actually

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02:53:05.360 --> 02:53:11.159
partially partly climbed and there were no
protests from security in order to get a

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02:53:11.200 --> 02:53:16.280
better camera shot of Trump has his
motorcate arrived, elevated terrain that sloped downward

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02:53:16.399 --> 02:53:22.079
from spectator to podium and on and
on. You see, they are really

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02:53:22.120 --> 02:53:24.399
begging for a security state, aren't
they. As a matter of fact,

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02:53:24.399 --> 02:53:28.040
you know when I talked to Ken
Valentine earlier, and he says he's working

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02:53:28.079 --> 02:53:31.079
for a company now to be able
to detect all this stuff somehow remotely detecting

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02:53:31.200 --> 02:53:35.760
the gunpowder, I guess, or
something like that at a distance. And

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02:53:35.840 --> 02:53:39.600
I keep thinking about how much further
are we going to go down the police

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02:53:39.639 --> 02:53:46.079
state, surveillance state path. That's
why Drago Drasarian, whom I've interviewed here

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02:53:46.120 --> 02:53:50.440
a couple of times, one of
the first things he put out is he

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02:53:50.520 --> 02:53:56.120
said, he said they always want
to have and Marxist countries. They always

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02:53:56.159 --> 02:54:01.399
want to have these types of issues, the these attacks, assassinations or planned

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02:54:01.399 --> 02:54:05.879
assassinations in order to move this towards
that kind of police state, to get

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02:54:05.920 --> 02:54:11.440
people begging to have more of a
police state. We see it here,

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02:54:11.840 --> 02:54:16.559
we see it in terms of equipment
that people are putting together. I want

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02:54:16.600 --> 02:54:20.399
to just take you back and think
for a moment about Thomas Jefferson and John

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02:54:20.399 --> 02:54:24.280
Adams. I mean, these two
guys, they were from different parties.

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02:54:24.360 --> 02:54:26.920
That's the way they chose the vice
president from the president. At the time

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they had a true multi party election, and whoever was the top vote getter

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would be president and the number two
guy would be the vice president, and

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they could be adamantly opposed to each
other and be president of vice president,

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as Adams and Jefferson were. But
if you ever saw the excellent HBO production

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of John Adams, really good.
I loved that, And there was a

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scene in it that really struck me
as odd because in that scene, Jefferson

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and Adams are walking down a very
busy Washington, d C. As busy

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and as big of a city as
you would have anywhere in the United States

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02:55:13.799 --> 02:55:18.600
at that point in time, and
there's people going about their business all over

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the place, and here's Thomas Jefferson
and John Adams walking down the sidewalk chatting

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as they would in ordinary times,
and as you would encounter them, for

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02:55:28.559 --> 02:55:31.719
example, in Colonial Williamsburg where they
have you know, some of these re

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enactors would be there and you just
engage them. That was a very common

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thing. As a matter of fact, during the Civil Wars, I reported

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the past, you had a Colonel
Arthur Fremantle of the Coldstream Guards in Britain,

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came to America because he wanted to
observe firsthand what was happening with the

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02:55:52.159 --> 02:55:56.879
military from a military perspective. And
he entered in through Texas I think as

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02:55:58.159 --> 02:56:03.079
Galveston or something, and up through
Texas in the middle of the Civil War,

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and he was able. He was
wearing a uniform, British soldier uniform,

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02:56:07.239 --> 02:56:09.239
so maybe that helped him. But
he's able to go into all these

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different camps. He was able to
meet Sam Houston, he was able to

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meet the generals on both sides,
and he was able to, you know,

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just walk into their camp and sit
there and talk to them. This

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02:56:22.319 --> 02:56:26.879
kind of blows me away. I'll
open everything wise. And you know,

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02:56:26.920 --> 02:56:31.239
when you look at Jefferson and Adams
walking down the street, why was it

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that they could do that? Well, I think it gets back to the

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02:56:35.840 --> 02:56:37.920
very thing that I was talking about
before, the thing that is, these

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02:56:39.040 --> 02:56:43.520
politicians are getting hoisted by their own
petard because they want to create a situation

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02:56:43.760 --> 02:56:48.799
where they run the country, where
they run the world, and this American

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02:56:48.840 --> 02:56:52.600
empire that they've created is such an
abomination to everybody globally as well as domestically,

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02:56:52.920 --> 02:56:56.239
that they put their lives in danger. If they didn't take all of

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02:56:56.319 --> 02:56:58.920
that power upon themselves, they'd be
able to walk down the street like an

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02:57:00.040 --> 02:57:03.079
normal person. But instead they decide
that they're going to run everybody's lives.

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You know, in the nineteen nineties
in Switzerland, it was reported that the

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02:57:09.719 --> 02:57:15.000
vast majority of people in Switzerland didn't
know who the president of Switzerland was.

2134
02:57:16.719 --> 02:57:20.200
It wasn't because they're stupid, it
wasn't because they're uninformed. It was because

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02:57:20.360 --> 02:57:24.959
the president of Switzerland didn't have a
lot of impact on their life. There

2136
02:57:26.040 --> 02:57:31.000
wasn't a lot that the Swiss president
could do at that time to them.

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02:57:31.399 --> 02:57:37.120
But now we watch every little move
that the president or the vice president or

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02:57:37.159 --> 02:57:41.040
anybody else. I spent a lot
of time talking about Jadvans, And again

2139
02:57:41.120 --> 02:57:45.200
it wasn't simply because we need to
know about this man, because there are

2140
02:57:45.280 --> 02:57:52.799
people behind the scenes that are just
using them as puppets, as placeholders to

2141
02:57:52.879 --> 02:57:56.239
keep you entranced and focused on them
while they do something else. But the

2142
02:57:56.319 --> 02:58:03.959
reality is is that so much has
been taken over by Washington that people increasingly

2143
02:58:03.559 --> 02:58:07.559
just pay no attention to their own
lives. As jd Vance was appropriately saying,

2144
02:58:09.040 --> 02:58:13.799
it becomes a drug addiction to focus
on what these people in Washington are

2145
02:58:13.840 --> 02:58:18.600
going to do. You create this
kind of dependency on well, they're going

2146
02:58:18.639 --> 02:58:22.079
to fix my life or are they
going to destroy my life? And when

2147
02:58:22.120 --> 02:58:26.319
you create that kind of an issue, now you've got a lot of people

2148
02:58:26.360 --> 02:58:31.840
who want to kill them on either
side. They have created this whole thing

2149
02:58:31.399 --> 02:58:35.440
by their desire to have an empire, by their desire to dictate to you

2150
02:58:35.639 --> 02:58:41.159
everything. It is the price of
tutalitarianism, the price that we all pay

2151
02:58:43.520 --> 02:58:50.040
because they will be adding additional restrictions
on us and everything that we do.

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02:58:52.079 --> 02:58:54.079
And so I didn't have time to
talk about it today, but Brian shallhave

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02:58:56.200 --> 02:59:00.200
so things just don't add up.
There's a lot of unanswered questions and the

2154
02:59:00.239 --> 02:59:05.520
Trump shooting. You've got John Rappaport
saying the same thing, You've got Paul

2155
02:59:05.600 --> 02:59:07.719
Craig Roberts saying the same thing.
Now, I'm not jumping the same conclusions

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02:59:07.760 --> 02:59:11.600
that they are, and I'm not
saying it was done by the CIA or

2157
02:59:11.639 --> 02:59:15.239
the FBI. I'm saying any of
them could. And I'm saying that just

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02:59:15.319 --> 02:59:20.440
like the FBI or the CIA capable
of doing this morally capable, technologically capable,

2159
02:59:22.559 --> 02:59:26.040
so are Trump and Biden and whoever
it is it's running their organizations.

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02:59:26.840 --> 02:59:31.600
They are morally, ethically, technologically
capable of pulling off all this stuff.

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Anyway, here's the key thing.
Don't make that your life. Thanks for

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02:59:37.239 --> 03:00:05.600
listening, have a good day.
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2163
03:00:05.959 --> 03:00:13.600
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03:00:31.239 --> 03:00:39.040
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03:00:39.360 --> 03:00:50.840
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