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It's amazing how many 11 00:00:35,840 --> 00:00:39,320 of these stories we can now tell with Joe Biden 12 00:00:39,960 --> 00:00:45,960 out of the White House. Jonathan Turley writing for Foxnews 13 00:00:46,039 --> 00:00:48,679 dot com. He also has his own website, Jonathan Turley 14 00:00:48,719 --> 00:00:54,159 dot org. He is a constitutional law professor. Right, he 15 00:00:54,240 --> 00:01:00,439 is a lifelong Democrat, but has been shocked at the 16 00:01:00,640 --> 00:01:06,640 ill illiberalism of the modern Democrat Party and it's you know, 17 00:01:06,840 --> 00:01:13,040 lurching to the left, he says. For years, some of 18 00:01:13,120 --> 00:01:17,280 us have written about the Biden families multimillion dollar influence 19 00:01:17,400 --> 00:01:22,680 peddling operation and the Justice Department's refusal to charge Hunter 20 00:01:22,719 --> 00:01:28,439 Biden with being an unregistered foreign agent. Right, this is 21 00:01:29,480 --> 00:01:35,040 Pharah fa Ra. This is the Pharah stuff. You don't 22 00:01:35,079 --> 00:01:38,959 get to lobby on behalf of a foreign power or 23 00:01:39,239 --> 00:01:44,400 business without registering as an agent for that foreign government 24 00:01:44,920 --> 00:01:45,640 or business. 25 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:51,599 Speaker 1: That's the point. And Hunter Biden, much like he. 26 00:01:51,599 --> 00:01:55,640 Speaker 2: Forgot his laptop at the shop, he apparently forgot to 27 00:01:56,400 --> 00:02:03,719 ever register as a foreign agent while he was conducting 28 00:02:03,799 --> 00:02:11,960 business while his father was president. Yeah, it's a yeah, 29 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:17,080 it's a bit sticky here. Years later, now, the New 30 00:02:17,159 --> 00:02:22,960 York Times has found evidence suggesting that the former president's 31 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,599 son was acting as a foreign agent as early as 32 00:02:26,960 --> 00:02:33,400 the Obama administration. No really, of course, everybody in this 33 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:38,759 audience knows that already, because we've been covering that. People 34 00:02:38,879 --> 00:02:44,479 are people who follow conservative media are already well aware 35 00:02:44,840 --> 00:02:48,080 of how far back the Hunter Biden stuff goes. What 36 00:02:48,159 --> 00:02:52,599 he was doing, the purpose of the operation right where 37 00:02:53,520 --> 00:02:58,240 Hunter gets paid tens of thousands of dollars a month 38 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,879 despite having no real discernible skills at anything. There's no 39 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:08,840 product being sold except what proximity to power with his father. 40 00:03:10,080 --> 00:03:14,199 Last August, the New York Times ran a story about 41 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:18,199 Hunter Biden seeking help from the government for his client. 42 00:03:19,240 --> 00:03:24,719 Anybody want to take a guess who the client was? Bisma, 43 00:03:25,159 --> 00:03:31,039 very good, it was Bisma, a Ukrainian energy company, And 44 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:32,960 now so that was the New York Times story that 45 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:36,639 they you know, now it can be told told last 46 00:03:36,639 --> 00:03:39,840 summer when but when Joe was no longer going to 47 00:03:39,879 --> 00:03:41,960 be the nominee he was, and it was like, oh, 48 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:44,919 you know what, Yeah, we got something on this Joe 49 00:03:44,919 --> 00:03:50,280 Biden guy. Now you've got a follow up by the 50 00:03:50,360 --> 00:03:56,680 New York Times again. Hunter Biden sought assistance from the 51 00:03:56,840 --> 00:04:02,400 US government for a potentially lucrative energy project in Italy 52 00:04:02,879 --> 00:04:07,520 while his father was Vice president. This according to newly 53 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:11,560 released records and interviews. The records, which the Biden administration 54 00:04:11,680 --> 00:04:16,000 had withheld for years, indicate that Hunter Biden wrote at 55 00:04:16,079 --> 00:04:19,720 least one letter to the US Ambassador to Italy in 56 00:04:19,720 --> 00:04:25,360 twenty sixteen seeking assistance for the Ukrainian gas company Bisma, 57 00:04:25,399 --> 00:04:28,560 where he was a board member. The State Department did 58 00:04:28,639 --> 00:04:33,720 not release the actual text of the letter, though that 59 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:39,040 is precisely what many of us, including Jonathan Turley, he says, 60 00:04:39,079 --> 00:04:43,480 have been writing about in asking why Hunter Biden was 61 00:04:43,600 --> 00:04:47,680 not charged with being an unregistered foreign agent, you know, 62 00:04:48,079 --> 00:04:54,720 like Paul Maniford was and Bob Menendez, gold Bar Bob Right. 63 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,839 Why does he get to skate. The Foreign Agents Read 64 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:04,079 Registration Act Farah covers anybody acting as an agent of 65 00:05:04,079 --> 00:05:08,920 a foreign principle, and that means attempting to influence federal 66 00:05:08,920 --> 00:05:12,480 officials or the public on domestic or foreign policy or 67 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:16,720 the political or public interests in favor of a foreign country. Right. 68 00:05:16,839 --> 00:05:20,480 But remember Joe Biden whenever he was asked about Hunter 69 00:05:20,519 --> 00:05:25,879 Biden's business dealings, right, Joe would always say, and we 70 00:05:25,959 --> 00:05:29,720 all knew what he meant, Right, they don't ever talk 71 00:05:29,720 --> 00:05:32,560 about business. Which when he first said that, I called 72 00:05:32,680 --> 00:05:36,240 bs on it immediately. There is no way, there is 73 00:05:36,360 --> 00:05:39,560 no way that you never talk to your son that's 74 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:43,839 hanging around your workplace all the time, flying with you 75 00:05:43,959 --> 00:05:48,120 overseas to go visit these other countries. Hey, Hunter, what 76 00:05:48,160 --> 00:05:52,000 are you doing on this plane with me? Oh? I'm 77 00:05:52,040 --> 00:05:54,600 going over to meet some people on business. Oh really, 78 00:05:54,639 --> 00:05:56,600 what kind of business? Oh no, no, sorry, I didn't 79 00:05:56,600 --> 00:05:58,600 ask that. Let's not talk about business because we never 80 00:05:58,639 --> 00:06:04,920 talk about business. Special Council Robert Muller Jonathan Kelly says, 81 00:06:04,959 --> 00:06:08,319 seemed to charge by the gross under the pharaoh. 82 00:06:08,879 --> 00:06:10,399 Speaker 1: Right, he was going after everybody. 83 00:06:10,759 --> 00:06:14,199 Speaker 2: He hit a lineup, or he hit a line of 84 00:06:14,279 --> 00:06:18,879 Trump associates with such allegations, from Manifort to Michael Flynn, 85 00:06:19,040 --> 00:06:23,000 to George Papadopolis to Rick Gates. The Justice Department used 86 00:06:23,040 --> 00:06:25,959 Farah to conduct searches on the homes and files of 87 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:30,839 former Trump Council Rudy Giuliani and Republican Attorney Victoria Tensing, 88 00:06:31,079 --> 00:06:35,399 among others. They were using Farah all over the place 89 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:38,800 when it came to Trump and Russia, but the Justice 90 00:06:38,839 --> 00:06:42,519 Department and the Special Council David Weiss seemed to tie 91 00:06:42,560 --> 00:06:46,199 themselves into knots to avoid tripping the wire on Farah, 92 00:06:46,560 --> 00:06:50,839 even as it discussed Hunter Biden's work for foreign. 93 00:06:50,519 --> 00:06:56,360 Speaker 1: Clients the government. I mean, think about that, Hunter Biden. 94 00:06:56,399 --> 00:07:00,439 Speaker 2: They went after Hivite for the irs stuff, right, And 95 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:01,680 where did that money come from? 96 00:07:02,959 --> 00:07:05,839 Speaker 1: Foreign business dealings? Okay? 97 00:07:06,839 --> 00:07:09,040 Speaker 2: And you would put Dad on the phone, oh, just 98 00:07:09,079 --> 00:07:14,279 to say hey, here's it going. You know, that should 99 00:07:14,319 --> 00:07:17,079 have set off all the alarms for Pharah, which of 100 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:17,839 course it did. 101 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:20,519 Speaker 1: I mean, we all know it did. We all know 102 00:07:20,680 --> 00:07:24,079 why they didn't pursue it. Because it's different. 103 00:07:24,439 --> 00:07:26,879 Speaker 2: When you're a Democrat, you get the big d shield, 104 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:31,519 you see, you get the protection. This is from the 105 00:07:31,519 --> 00:07:34,759 New York Times. The request was initially This is a 106 00:07:34,759 --> 00:07:39,800 Foyer request that The New York Times sent to the government, 107 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:45,319 and it was initially filed in June of twenty twenty one. 108 00:07:45,480 --> 00:07:50,240 After nearly eight months, the State Department had not released 109 00:07:50,319 --> 00:07:53,879 any records, so The New York Times then sued the 110 00:07:53,879 --> 00:07:58,240 State Department. They then slow walk that thing for eighteen 111 00:07:58,399 --> 00:08:01,920 more months. The Department moved to close the case after 112 00:08:01,959 --> 00:08:04,959 releasing thousands of pages of records, but none of those 113 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,319 records shed any light on Hunter Biden's outreach to the 114 00:08:08,439 --> 00:08:13,240 US government, So The Times challenged the thoroughness of that search, 115 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,240 noting that the Department had failed to produce responsive records 116 00:08:17,279 --> 00:08:24,199 contained in a cache of files connected to a laptop. 117 00:08:26,759 --> 00:08:30,319 So they knew these things existed because they knew the 118 00:08:30,399 --> 00:08:34,120 laptop was real. The New York Times did they knew 119 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:36,360 it was real. They were looking at the files and 120 00:08:36,360 --> 00:08:38,320 they're like, give us these files from the State Department. 121 00:08:38,399 --> 00:08:39,919 Speaker 1: We want this stuff. 122 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:42,919 Speaker 2: And they're like, you know, first they ignore you for 123 00:08:42,960 --> 00:08:44,639 eight months, then you have to sue them, and then 124 00:08:44,679 --> 00:08:47,039 they slow walk that for another year and a half, 125 00:08:47,159 --> 00:08:50,799 and then they dumped a whole box load of documents 126 00:08:50,840 --> 00:08:54,240 on you, and none of them line up with the 127 00:08:54,279 --> 00:08:57,279 stuff you've got on the laptop, so you know they're 128 00:08:57,279 --> 00:09:00,120 not giving you everything. And so they went back to 129 00:09:00,159 --> 00:09:03,679 the State Department and said that the department resumed the search, 130 00:09:04,799 --> 00:09:08,879 giving periodic productions, but had produced very few documents related 131 00:09:08,879 --> 00:09:13,840 to mister Biden until the week after his father ended 132 00:09:13,879 --> 00:09:18,919 his re election campaign and endorsed Harris. That's when they 133 00:09:18,960 --> 00:09:21,919 got the documents they were looking for, when he was 134 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:26,600 no longer going to be president and he was probably, 135 00:09:26,759 --> 00:09:29,919 you know, charging up the auto pen for all them pardons. 136 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:33,159 Speaker 1: All right, So spring is here a time of renewal 137 00:09:33,240 --> 00:09:37,759 and celebrations. You got graduations, weddings, anniversaries and the special 138 00:09:37,840 --> 00:09:40,360 days for mom and dad. 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They 159 00:10:54,039 --> 00:10:56,799 knew this because it was on the laptop. They tried 160 00:10:56,840 --> 00:11:01,240 to get documents from the Biden administration, the State Department. 161 00:11:01,399 --> 00:11:05,720 They were blocked from doing so up until Joe Biden 162 00:11:05,759 --> 00:11:10,080 announced he was dropping out endorsing Harris. And then the 163 00:11:10,120 --> 00:11:15,600 State Department gives them the confirmation documents which they had 164 00:11:15,639 --> 00:11:17,679 on the laptop. But I guess they just they didn't 165 00:11:17,679 --> 00:11:20,200 feel comfortable going ahead with that. But it also raises 166 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:25,200 the question why wasn't Hunter Biden ever investigated or charged 167 00:11:25,559 --> 00:11:30,000 with Parah violations. That's what the Justice Department was going 168 00:11:30,039 --> 00:11:34,519 after Trump World with now and everybody with Farah, and 169 00:11:35,559 --> 00:11:38,080 they didn't go after Hunter Biden for it. And then 170 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:42,879 of course Joe gives the pardon, and the pardon covers 171 00:11:43,279 --> 00:11:47,360 the exact time frame that Hunter Biden was doing this work, 172 00:11:47,919 --> 00:11:51,759 which we knew because we've been paying attention to this 173 00:11:51,879 --> 00:11:55,080 story in a way that your legacy media has not. 174 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:08,320 Jonathan Turley, writing at Foxnews dot Com, says that there's 175 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:11,879 another Yeah, the letter requested help arranged. This is the 176 00:12:11,960 --> 00:12:21,320 letter from Hunter Biden to Enrico Russi, the president of 177 00:12:21,480 --> 00:12:25,360 the Tuscany Regional government at the time. The letter was 178 00:12:25,399 --> 00:12:29,840 a request to get help to arrange a meeting between 179 00:12:30,039 --> 00:12:37,519 BEISMA officials and Rossi to quote introduce geothermal projects led 180 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,759 by Beisma Group, to highlight their social and economic benefits 181 00:12:41,759 --> 00:12:45,480 for local communities and develop a common action plan that 182 00:12:45,480 --> 00:12:51,240 would lead to further development of the Tuscany region. Very clear, 183 00:12:52,360 --> 00:12:57,080 How could any Justice Department official, let alone a special 184 00:12:57,159 --> 00:13:01,360 council like David Weiss? How do you read this letter? 185 00:13:01,679 --> 00:13:03,600 And you know they saw the letter, you know they 186 00:13:03,639 --> 00:13:06,679 had to be aware of it. How do you see 187 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:11,799 that and not see the disconnect between the handling of 188 00:13:11,840 --> 00:13:16,919 the case involving Joe Biden's son and Paul Maniford. Right, 189 00:13:18,120 --> 00:13:23,360 the letter references a trip on which Hunter Biden used 190 00:13:23,720 --> 00:13:29,159 official travel with his father to make these business connections. 191 00:13:29,399 --> 00:13:34,159 Oh no, yes, yes, We've been talking about this for years. Also, 192 00:13:35,759 --> 00:13:39,559 the letter mentions meeting a key ambassador on Air Force 193 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:45,679 two as he seeks assistance for his client. Many in 194 00:13:45,720 --> 00:13:51,879 the media attacked people like Turley who have been writing 195 00:13:51,919 --> 00:13:56,120 about this corruption, stretching back to the Obama administration. 196 00:13:56,639 --> 00:14:01,480 Speaker 1: Whose only scandal was wearing a tan suit. I just 197 00:14:01,480 --> 00:14:02,240 saw that again. 198 00:14:02,519 --> 00:14:07,039 Speaker 2: There are people on the left who sincerely believe that 199 00:14:07,080 --> 00:14:13,200 Barack Obama's two terms had zero scandals except for the 200 00:14:13,240 --> 00:14:16,639 manufactured one when he wore a tan suit in the 201 00:14:16,679 --> 00:14:19,240 White House press briefing room or maybe in the Rose 202 00:14:19,240 --> 00:14:23,240 Garden or something. Yeah, it was like spring or summer 203 00:14:23,720 --> 00:14:28,879 and he was wearing like a light tan suit. And 204 00:14:28,960 --> 00:14:31,679 I remember when I first saw this story about the 205 00:14:31,720 --> 00:14:38,679 tan suit, and it was Republicans are pouncing on the 206 00:14:38,720 --> 00:14:39,279 tan suit. 207 00:14:40,279 --> 00:14:43,000 Speaker 1: Conservatives are outraged over the tan suit. 208 00:14:44,519 --> 00:14:48,200 Speaker 2: And I remember thinking at the time like I follow 209 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,120 conservative media, I'd like to say pretty closely, and so 210 00:14:52,679 --> 00:14:54,480 I think I would have been aware if there was 211 00:14:54,519 --> 00:14:56,639 a whole bunch of outrage about the tan suit, because 212 00:14:56,639 --> 00:14:58,120 I would have said, that's a pretty silly thing to 213 00:14:58,120 --> 00:15:02,240 be outraged about. But there wasn't any Nobody was making 214 00:15:02,279 --> 00:15:03,480 a big deal about the tan suit. 215 00:15:03,519 --> 00:15:04,840 Speaker 1: Nobody even paid any attention. 216 00:15:05,039 --> 00:15:07,080 Speaker 2: And then all of a sudden we get some story 217 00:15:07,440 --> 00:15:10,159 like NBC or something like they're all outraged at the 218 00:15:10,200 --> 00:15:10,720 tan suit. 219 00:15:11,480 --> 00:15:15,120 Speaker 1: Who are you talking about? Nobody cared about a tan suit. 220 00:15:16,639 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 2: And then and now to this day, you have people 221 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:22,679 on the left and I literally just saw somebody post 222 00:15:22,960 --> 00:15:25,840 on social media, some big name account. I forget who 223 00:15:25,879 --> 00:15:28,480 it was, but they were They put that stupid image 224 00:15:28,559 --> 00:15:31,759 up of Obama with the tan suit, And like, remember 225 00:15:31,799 --> 00:15:34,440 when the biggest scandal was a tan suit, It wasn't 226 00:15:34,480 --> 00:15:39,120 the biggest scandal the guy. The guy blew up the 227 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:42,720 entire healthcare industry. That was a pretty big one. I 228 00:15:42,799 --> 00:15:47,480 feel like one sixth of the economy right being uh 229 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,879 overregulated and disrupted as he did with a lie. If 230 00:15:51,919 --> 00:15:54,919 you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. Rated 231 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:59,279 the biggest lie of the year by the Washington Post. 232 00:16:00,120 --> 00:16:01,919 That's kind of scandally, don't you think? 233 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:05,679 Speaker 1: I thought so? How about fast and furious? Remember that one. 234 00:16:06,399 --> 00:16:11,559 Speaker 2: Running the guns into Mexico with straw purchasers illegal, totally illegal. 235 00:16:11,679 --> 00:16:13,600 And then of course one of the firearms is used 236 00:16:13,600 --> 00:16:16,159 in the murder of a border patrol agent. 237 00:16:16,559 --> 00:16:20,240 Speaker 1: That seems kind of scandalous. How about the targeting of 238 00:16:20,279 --> 00:16:25,639 the tea partiers through the IRS, not some low level 239 00:16:25,960 --> 00:16:32,320 field officer in Cincinnati, right, I don't know. How about 240 00:16:34,279 --> 00:16:36,639 police acted stupidly? Remember that one. 241 00:16:37,159 --> 00:16:39,879 Speaker 2: It's kind of scandally. You had to even have the end, yeah, 242 00:16:39,879 --> 00:16:42,480 to have a beer summit to try to fix that one. 243 00:16:44,879 --> 00:16:49,919 People like Turley who were calling out the influence pedaling 244 00:16:49,960 --> 00:16:55,840 operation that was the Biden family operation, right, they got attacked. 245 00:16:55,879 --> 00:17:00,919 Turley got attacked. People said there's there's no evidence, but 246 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:04,039 then they would take no steps to find out. Right, 247 00:17:04,519 --> 00:17:07,400 these media companies, these reporters, and while the media was 248 00:17:07,559 --> 00:17:12,880 unrelenting in its investigating Trump's allegations of Russia collusion and 249 00:17:12,960 --> 00:17:18,119 business improprieties, right, it took a largely passive stance in 250 00:17:18,200 --> 00:17:22,640 pursuing the Hunter Biden story, even the New York Times, 251 00:17:22,720 --> 00:17:25,799 which he says he gives them credit for pursuing this FOYA, 252 00:17:25,920 --> 00:17:31,359 this freedom of information story, but it did comparably little 253 00:17:31,680 --> 00:17:35,960 with the ample evidence of corruption by the Bidens in 254 00:17:36,079 --> 00:17:39,599 securing millions of dollars through influence pedaling. 255 00:17:41,720 --> 00:17:46,519 Speaker 1: This is why trust in media is so low. We 256 00:17:46,680 --> 00:17:52,400 don't believe you, and we shouldn't because you are activists. 257 00:17:52,400 --> 00:17:53,160 With the byline. 258 00:17:53,720 --> 00:17:55,519 Speaker 2: All right, if you're listening to this show, you know 259 00:17:55,599 --> 00:17:57,599 I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, 260 00:17:57,599 --> 00:17:59,599 and I know you do too, And you've probably heard 261 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:03,759 me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, 262 00:18:03,799 --> 00:18:06,519 because it's how you detect media bias, which is why 263 00:18:06,559 --> 00:18:09,759 I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, 264 00:18:09,960 --> 00:18:13,119 and it's a website, and it combines news from around 265 00:18:13,160 --> 00:18:15,599 the world in one place so you can compare coverage 266 00:18:15,839 --> 00:18:18,559 and verify information. 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Your subscription 277 00:18:52,119 --> 00:18:54,799 then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports 278 00:18:54,799 --> 00:18:58,079 Ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. 279 00:18:58,920 --> 00:19:00,400 Speaker 1: I do have some messages. 280 00:19:01,799 --> 00:19:07,519 Speaker 2: Both from John but two different John's John number one says, Pete, 281 00:19:07,559 --> 00:19:10,519 I always laugh at the so called conservative outrage over 282 00:19:10,559 --> 00:19:13,880 Obama wearing a tan suit. These clowns have short memories. 283 00:19:13,960 --> 00:19:16,720 Ronald Reagan was celebrated for stepping out of the DC 284 00:19:16,960 --> 00:19:20,160 normal blue suit routine and wearing tan suits quite often. 285 00:19:20,720 --> 00:19:22,519 Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. 286 00:19:22,720 --> 00:19:25,400 Speaker 2: I've seen a lot of old videos of Reagan wearing 287 00:19:25,519 --> 00:19:29,240 the tan suit. The tan suit as well. And then 288 00:19:29,519 --> 00:19:30,279 John two. 289 00:19:30,240 --> 00:19:34,799 Speaker 3: Says something something gun, something something killed an agent with 290 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:37,519 Eric Holder still waiting to go see about his contempt 291 00:19:37,559 --> 00:19:40,519 of Congress hearing and if Gates hadn't become famous for 292 00:19:40,559 --> 00:19:44,319 his beer summit, he wouldn't have a PBS program about ancestry. 293 00:19:44,359 --> 00:19:44,559 Speaker 1: Now. 294 00:19:47,160 --> 00:19:55,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, speaking of guns, this is hilarious. This is 295 00:19:56,480 --> 00:19:59,920 the longest title of a bill I have ever seen 296 00:20:00,079 --> 00:20:04,359 in my life. And it was filed by state Representative 297 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:10,920 Pricey Harrison is her name, Lefty. And usually you have 298 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:13,119 like a short title to a bill, and so this 299 00:20:13,200 --> 00:20:18,599 short title is called Common Sense Gun Regulations. Yeah right, Okay, 300 00:20:18,640 --> 00:20:21,680 so you know where this is going. Okay, but that's 301 00:20:21,720 --> 00:20:25,160 the short title. But the actual title of the bill 302 00:20:26,519 --> 00:20:31,920 is an act to require a permit for the purchase 303 00:20:31,960 --> 00:20:34,160 of an assault weapon or long gun. To require a 304 00:20:34,200 --> 00:20:37,079 seventy two hour waiting period before he purchased firearm may 305 00:20:37,079 --> 00:20:40,039 be delivered or otherwise possessed. To prohibit the sale of 306 00:20:40,039 --> 00:20:42,119 an assault weapon or long gun to persons under a 307 00:20:42,200 --> 00:20:44,240 certain age. To prohibit the sale or possession of a 308 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:46,920 bump stock or trigger crank. To require the safe storage 309 00:20:46,920 --> 00:20:49,759 of a firearm. To revise reciprocity law for a concealed 310 00:20:49,799 --> 00:20:53,400 carry handgun permit. To require the reporting of a lost 311 00:20:53,480 --> 00:20:55,680 or stolen firearm. To require any person who owns a 312 00:20:55,720 --> 00:20:58,880 firearm to carry firearm liability insurance. To limit the size 313 00:20:58,880 --> 00:21:02,480 of the ammunition mag magazines. To repeal the preemption of 314 00:21:02,559 --> 00:21:06,640 local regulation of firearms. To allow the destruction of ceized firearms. 315 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,119 To require the Department of the Publics. This is I'm 316 00:21:09,119 --> 00:21:10,039 not even halfway through. 317 00:21:10,680 --> 00:21:11,599 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna stop. 318 00:21:11,759 --> 00:21:17,759 Speaker 2: It's literally, it's literally every single slogan of the anti 319 00:21:17,799 --> 00:21:21,119 Second Amendment crowd as the title of the bill. 320 00:21:21,400 --> 00:21:23,039 Speaker 1: It takes up the whole page. 321 00:21:23,079 --> 00:21:27,359 Speaker 2: It is a an entire page of block text, and 322 00:21:28,279 --> 00:21:31,519 that's the title of the bill. I have no idea 323 00:21:31,920 --> 00:21:35,480 unless it was meant to go viral for its dumb assery. 324 00:21:37,480 --> 00:21:41,119 Speaker 1: I don't know why you would do this. It's so dumb. 325 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:46,039 Speaker 2: It's not going anywhere either, because, yeah, the Republicans are 326 00:21:46,039 --> 00:21:49,359 not going to entertain that, all right. A couple of 327 00:21:49,359 --> 00:21:53,319 weeks ago, I saw something start moving around on the 328 00:21:53,839 --> 00:21:57,240 Twitter machine, and I thought, Huh, this is weird, because 329 00:21:57,240 --> 00:22:01,039 whenever you start seeing a bunch of different account saying 330 00:22:01,400 --> 00:22:05,680 the same stuff, you have to wonder if there's some 331 00:22:05,759 --> 00:22:09,440 sort of astroturfing going on, right, like the like it's 332 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:13,039 it's supposed to look grassroots, but it's not. It's it's 333 00:22:13,079 --> 00:22:19,440 fabricated somehow. And I'm talking about the debate over uh, 334 00:22:20,319 --> 00:22:27,519 whether or not soda can be purchased with your food stamps. 335 00:22:27,960 --> 00:22:29,400 Speaker 1: Okay. 336 00:22:29,880 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 2: According to Philip Wegman at RealClearPolitics dot com, a subversive 337 00:22:36,240 --> 00:22:40,880 attempt to drive a wedge between MAGA influencers and their 338 00:22:40,920 --> 00:22:45,279 new MAHA allies make America healthy again. So you got 339 00:22:45,279 --> 00:22:48,599 your Trump crowd and you got your RFK junior crowd. 340 00:22:49,160 --> 00:22:55,039 The RFK junior crowd are you know, much more lefty 341 00:22:55,640 --> 00:22:57,480 than the MAGA crowd. 342 00:22:58,960 --> 00:22:59,519 Speaker 1: So there. 343 00:22:59,519 --> 00:23:01,880 Speaker 2: So what Wegman is saying is that this was an 344 00:23:01,920 --> 00:23:04,960 attempt to drive a wedge between these two groups, and 345 00:23:05,039 --> 00:23:09,720 it was discovered and subsequently rejected like a pathogen from 346 00:23:09,799 --> 00:23:14,599 the online geobody GOP body politic. The occasion for the 347 00:23:14,599 --> 00:23:18,400 war that wasn't a push to ban sugary drinks from 348 00:23:18,400 --> 00:23:22,279 the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. More than forty two million 349 00:23:22,319 --> 00:23:27,039 Americans rely on the SNAP program. It's one hundred and 350 00:23:27,079 --> 00:23:28,880 thirteen billion dollars a year. 351 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:30,119 Speaker 1: Robert F. 352 00:23:30,200 --> 00:23:33,200 Speaker 2: Kennedy Junior, the newly minted Health and Human Services Secretary, 353 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:39,200 has pushed for excluding soda from the benefit. He said before, 354 00:23:39,240 --> 00:23:43,319 it's confirmation that we shouldn't be subsidizing people to eat poison. 355 00:23:44,359 --> 00:23:46,599 This is not a new idea. I've heard people talk 356 00:23:46,599 --> 00:23:50,839 about not allowing certain foods to be used to be 357 00:23:50,880 --> 00:23:56,799 purchased with the SNAP benefits. But unlike past efforts, the 358 00:23:56,839 --> 00:24:01,000 movement to make soda ineligible for snap like alcohol. You 359 00:24:01,039 --> 00:24:03,160 can't use it for that, you can't use it for tobacco. 360 00:24:04,279 --> 00:24:07,240 But now it seems to be gaining momentum thanks to 361 00:24:07,839 --> 00:24:11,640 RFK Junior, and apparently Trump has given RFK his blessing 362 00:24:11,680 --> 00:24:15,920 on this. And then we saw a bunch of these 363 00:24:15,960 --> 00:24:22,839 social media influencers with huge accounts that all started saying 364 00:24:22,880 --> 00:24:27,640 the same thing. They started talking about. They were calling 365 00:24:27,640 --> 00:24:33,799 it ridiculous government overreach. They mentioned New York City mayor, 366 00:24:33,880 --> 00:24:36,880 former mayor Michael Bloomberg and that he had tried to 367 00:24:36,920 --> 00:24:41,119 ban the soda drinks right and that failed. And remember 368 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:44,000 Donald Trump, like he's got the dyet coke button. They 369 00:24:44,000 --> 00:24:49,680 were all saying these same three things. Nick Sortoor, who 370 00:24:49,759 --> 00:24:58,440 is a conservative social media guy, he smelled astro turf. 371 00:24:58,920 --> 00:25:02,599 The sudden defense snap for soda was not coming from 372 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:06,279 the grassroots. This is according to the conservative podcaster, It 373 00:25:06,480 --> 00:25:10,599 was the result of a coordinated campaign orchestrated by the 374 00:25:10,599 --> 00:25:15,839 public relations firm Influenceable. That's the name of their firm, Influenceable. 375 00:25:16,559 --> 00:25:20,359 Online influencers were given a list of talking points, sent 376 00:25:20,559 --> 00:25:24,440 stock images of the president drinking soda, and promised as 377 00:25:24,519 --> 00:25:28,920 much as one thousand dollars for every pro soda. 378 00:25:28,599 --> 00:25:30,400 Speaker 1: Post you made. 379 00:25:30,519 --> 00:25:33,680 Speaker 2: Soretor concluded that the campaign was an attempt to turn 380 00:25:33,759 --> 00:25:40,839 magafolks against RFK Junior and MAHA Influenceable. The public relations 381 00:25:40,839 --> 00:25:43,160 firm could not be reached for comment, speaking on the 382 00:25:43,160 --> 00:25:46,400 condition of anonymity. One of the influencers who participated in 383 00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,079 the pr blitz confirmed to Real Clear Politics that they 384 00:25:50,119 --> 00:25:53,920 had been paid to push the talking points. 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First. 409 00:27:17,319 --> 00:27:21,960 Speaker 2: One this was regarding the very lengthy title of that bill. 410 00:27:22,720 --> 00:27:25,039 David says, I was taught in school that the purpose 411 00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:27,119 of the body of a written work is to carry 412 00:27:27,119 --> 00:27:30,079 the information. The title is supposed to be short and 413 00:27:30,119 --> 00:27:33,559 attention grabbing. But I am jen X, so I'm probably 414 00:27:33,640 --> 00:27:38,039 jaded about poor writing habits. Yeah, but Dan Russ also 415 00:27:38,079 --> 00:27:42,799 points out that that bill title reminds me how older 416 00:27:42,839 --> 00:27:50,440 people type their entire message in the email subject line. Huh, 417 00:27:51,160 --> 00:27:56,079 that's funny because it's true. All right, So back to 418 00:27:56,880 --> 00:27:59,119 this piece at Real Clear Politics. And by the way, 419 00:27:59,119 --> 00:28:02,680 the headline on this is called Soda pop wars inside 420 00:28:02,799 --> 00:28:09,319 pay to post campaign to pit MAGA against mahat influenceable 421 00:28:09,359 --> 00:28:14,480 the name of the pr firm no comments. Online sleuths 422 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:20,839 speculated that the American Beverage Association was pushing the campaign. Well, 423 00:28:20,880 --> 00:28:26,440 I mean that would be logical, right, big soda, they 424 00:28:26,480 --> 00:28:29,400 would be the ones behind such a campaign that does track. 425 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:36,640 William dermod, a spokesman for the ABA, categorically denied the accusation. 426 00:28:37,119 --> 00:28:41,880 His association has rejected the push to make soda ineligible 427 00:28:41,920 --> 00:28:44,880 for food stamps, but they have made their arguments out 428 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,440 in the open and have not funded any pay to 429 00:28:47,559 --> 00:28:57,160 post schemes. The ABA argues that soda is not driving obesity, 430 00:28:57,839 --> 00:29:01,680 citing federal data that shows adulto bity has increased by 431 00:29:01,920 --> 00:29:07,839 thirty seven percent since two thousand. Obesity has increased thirty 432 00:29:07,880 --> 00:29:10,759 seven percent since the year two thousand, and pointed to 433 00:29:10,880 --> 00:29:15,400 industry figures that reflect full calorie soda sales have dropped 434 00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:19,960 by twenty three percent. The grocery aisle, meanwhile, has evolved, 435 00:29:20,240 --> 00:29:25,119 with Seltzer water, not soda, becoming ascendant. Look, I'm not 436 00:29:25,119 --> 00:29:26,839 going to say that this is all because of me, 437 00:29:27,119 --> 00:29:33,839 but I was drinking sparkling water before anybody else. Nobody 438 00:29:33,960 --> 00:29:39,000 was even talking about this issue until I came down 439 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:43,599 that golden escalator. Okay, I'm just saying no, like I 440 00:29:43,720 --> 00:29:49,079 was drinking the just like Seltzer water because I gave 441 00:29:49,160 --> 00:29:52,359 up soda. Like years ago, I quit drinking soda, and 442 00:29:52,400 --> 00:29:55,519 now I can't even it's I can't. I don't like 443 00:29:55,519 --> 00:29:58,200 the taste of it. But every now and again I 444 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:01,319 want something fuzzy, you know, I want the fizz, and 445 00:30:01,359 --> 00:30:04,720 so the selz water would do the trick. And I 446 00:30:04,720 --> 00:30:06,839 know there were all these flavors on all this stuff 447 00:30:06,839 --> 00:30:10,079 now and Christy Christy has swapped out all of her 448 00:30:10,279 --> 00:30:13,440 soda for the flavored water, so I'll try some of 449 00:30:13,480 --> 00:30:14,359 those every now and again. 450 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:17,400 Speaker 1: But I'm just I'm a simple guy, you know. I 451 00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:19,160 just like the sparkling water. 452 00:30:19,519 --> 00:30:23,359 Speaker 2: And now thanks to everybody else figuring out what I 453 00:30:23,400 --> 00:30:26,839 had figured out apparently, you know, way before everybody else. Again, 454 00:30:26,880 --> 00:30:30,440 I'm not claiming credit here, obviously, but now I have 455 00:30:30,559 --> 00:30:35,160 so many more options to choose from on the you know, 456 00:30:35,160 --> 00:30:37,519 on the grocery store aisle, because it used to be 457 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:41,799 you got like two little one liter bottles and you 458 00:30:41,839 --> 00:30:43,759 had to go like to the bar section, you know 459 00:30:43,839 --> 00:30:45,839 where they got the mixers and all that stuff, because 460 00:30:45,839 --> 00:30:47,640 that was the only place you could find the seltzer water, 461 00:30:47,680 --> 00:30:49,680 because they didn't even really count it as like this 462 00:30:49,880 --> 00:30:53,039 really isn't even a beverage. I don't think the only 463 00:30:53,119 --> 00:30:54,960 reason you would ever want this is to mix it 464 00:30:55,000 --> 00:31:00,640 into something else, right, I mean, this was this was 465 00:31:00,680 --> 00:31:04,559 the degradation I had to live under, and now everybody 466 00:31:04,599 --> 00:31:08,839 else is doing it, so I welcome everyone anyway. The Association, 467 00:31:09,720 --> 00:31:14,119 the ABA says the MAGA faithful don't want the change anyway. 468 00:31:14,319 --> 00:31:18,039 A recent poll by Public Opinion Strategies, a Republican polling outfit, 469 00:31:18,119 --> 00:31:21,559 shows that nearly six out of ten Trump voters reported 470 00:31:21,559 --> 00:31:27,799 that soda and sugary beverages should remain eligible for food stamps. 471 00:31:28,559 --> 00:31:32,279 The RFK reform would treat Americans facing hard times like 472 00:31:32,359 --> 00:31:38,559 second class citizens, abandoning Oh so you got to be 473 00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:42,599 rich now to pay for soda abandoning a campaign promise 474 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:45,720 to empower Kennedy meanwhile, comes with its own risk. Trump 475 00:31:45,759 --> 00:31:49,279 expanded the GOP coalition during the last election by bringing 476 00:31:49,319 --> 00:31:52,759 non traditional voters into the fold, among them the health 477 00:31:52,799 --> 00:31:57,200 conscious mahakrat quote. Right now, these Trump voters, the GOP 478 00:31:57,680 --> 00:32:03,160 is just renting them. According to longtime Trump polster John McLaughlin, 479 00:32:04,279 --> 00:32:08,599 speaking of the disaffected Democrats and traditionally liberal constituencies who 480 00:32:08,640 --> 00:32:11,519 pulled the lever for the Republican president, he said, the 481 00:32:11,559 --> 00:32:14,680 GOP needed to make a decision if they're going to 482 00:32:14,720 --> 00:32:20,799 make these voters permanent. Right, MAGA is just renting the Maha. 483 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:26,200 Ryan James Goderski, a political consultant with close ties to 484 00:32:26,319 --> 00:32:31,000 Trump World, said that the president is not likely to 485 00:32:31,119 --> 00:32:34,200 let those voters leave the fold. The Make America Healthy 486 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:37,160 Again movement is the only part of the Trump coalition 487 00:32:37,559 --> 00:32:40,920 that ever convinced him to step back on a previously 488 00:32:41,240 --> 00:32:42,559 held belief. 489 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:46,640 Speaker 1: Which was the vaccines. 490 00:32:48,240 --> 00:32:56,000 Speaker 2: Right, talking about the backlash over the COVID jeb that 491 00:32:56,039 --> 00:32:58,759 caused Trump to suddenly moderate on the issue during the campaign, 492 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:03,400 Excluding so from snap benefits could be similar regardless. For now, 493 00:33:03,480 --> 00:33:07,680 Maha and MAGA seem Simpatico on soda. All right, So 494 00:33:08,559 --> 00:33:12,079 I give you that story because you need to always 495 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:14,519 kind of keep in mind when you're seeing these social 496 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:18,039 media accounts. You know, anybody me all of them, Like 497 00:33:18,240 --> 00:33:21,319 I tell you, like, you know, if I'm endorsing a product, 498 00:33:21,319 --> 00:33:23,720 that means I'm being paid to endorse it. But I've 499 00:33:23,799 --> 00:33:28,519 used it like PhD weight laws. So always keep in 500 00:33:28,559 --> 00:33:31,960 mind you start seeing people posting stuff that's identical to 501 00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,559 some other people, like that's that's astroturfing. But speaking of 502 00:33:36,599 --> 00:33:41,519 the vaccines and such, North Carolina state lawmakers have introduced 503 00:33:41,599 --> 00:33:47,759 the Ivermectin Access Act to make Ivermectin available over the 504 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:51,640 counter following national controversy regarding the drug during the COVID 505 00:33:51,720 --> 00:33:52,640 nineteen pandemic. 506 00:33:52,880 --> 00:33:56,400 Speaker 1: We will all be able to consume the horse pace now. 507 00:33:57,240 --> 00:34:00,160 Speaker 2: North Carolina lawmakers filed the legislation that would make i've 508 00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:04,599 re met an accessible at pharmacies without a prescription. Jonathan 509 00:34:04,640 --> 00:34:09,760 Allman from Caberis County Republican among the sponsors. He said, 510 00:34:09,880 --> 00:34:13,519 it's a sixty year old Nobel Prize winning drug, and 511 00:34:13,559 --> 00:34:15,719 I think it's got a lot of potential benefits that 512 00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:17,920 not a lot of people know about. I think we 513 00:34:18,000 --> 00:34:20,760 all saw the media apparatus and the medical industry come 514 00:34:20,800 --> 00:34:23,679 out during COVID and basically try to make everyone feel 515 00:34:23,679 --> 00:34:26,679 like they're going to turn into a horse. Well, that's 516 00:34:26,719 --> 00:34:30,920 what happens when you eat the horse paste. Duh, it's science, 517 00:34:32,519 --> 00:34:35,280 he said. I truly believe because we were under the 518 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:39,840 emergency use authorization, if there would have been another therapeutic 519 00:34:40,119 --> 00:34:43,039 that would have been proven to be useful at helping 520 00:34:43,079 --> 00:34:46,519 with COVID, they wouldn't have been able to move forward 521 00:34:46,840 --> 00:34:52,519 with the development of a vaccine. He is precisely correct. 522 00:34:53,440 --> 00:34:55,760 Speaker 1: All right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 523 00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:56,800 so much for listening. 524 00:34:56,920 --> 00:34:59,039 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 525 00:34:59,079 --> 00:35:01,800 the support of the business that advertise on the podcast, 526 00:35:02,159 --> 00:35:04,239 so if you'd like, please support them too and tell 527 00:35:04,239 --> 00:35:05,960 them you heard it here. 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