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from you. It has been quite a week, enraging, frustrating, heavy, dark, infuriating,
all of the above. On a Saturday last July in Butler, Pennsylvania,
President Donald Trump was less than an inch away from
being assassinated. And in that moment and the following weeks,
conservatives learn how many of our fellow Americans would celebrate
the murder of our president. We'll fast forward to the
past week, and we've learned just how many people would
celebrate the killing of us Because even though there will
only ever be one Charlie Kirk, he was truly irreplaceable.
There are millions of Americans who believe the same thing.
And now Democrats and the corporate media and even pathetic
Republicans like James Langford are calling for unity and for
us to lower the temperature and for both sides to
stop political violence. But we all know this isn't a
both sides issue. This is a radical left issue, and
it's an increasingly mainstream Democrat party issue. Before Charlie Kirk's
body was even cold, Democrats and the corporate media were
armed and ready to trot out their typical talking points
of widespread, institutionalized Republican conservative right wing violence. It was
like on cue, it was immediate. Look, I shouldn't even
have to say this. Of course, there are instances of
right wing violence. There will always be instances of violence.
It's human nature. It's a problem that is ever present
with us as long as we're on this earth. But
to pretend that it is a party wide problem, or
something that is mainstream or encouraged or incited regularly is
just absolute bunk. And you know that it's bunk because
the examples that they immediately trot out are a complete joke.
The first thing they'll point to is Governor Josh Shapiro's
house being set on fire. But we know that doesn't
count because it was carried out by a pro Palestine protester, which,
in case you didn't know, that's not a Republican Party position.
That belongs to factions of the Democrat Party. Then they'll
talk about the kidnapping plot for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer,
but we know that was really a fed napping plot.
It was all just part of an FBI in trapment scheme.
It was not organic right wing violence. Then they'll talk
about the assassinations of Democrat Melissa Hortman and her husband,
and of course, horrible, horrible situation, but this was clearly
the work of a random nut job guy who had
a random pro choice hit list, but also had things
that said no Kings in his car, so he's clearly
just a lunatic. I challenge you to find one person,
one person, and specifically somebody on the right who cheered
at the assassination of this woman and her husband. Nobody did,
absolutely nobody, and it certainly was not part of some
coordinated effort on the right to terrorize Democrats. Of course
it wasn't. And then they'll point to the Paul Pelosi attack,
which again was just carried out by a deranged conspiracy theorist,
not a conservative. And then, of course they'll talk about
January sixth, which has not only been heavily exaggerated by
Democrats in the lying media, but it also pales in
comparison to the months long rioting and looting of federal
buildings and small businesses by the left that caused billions
of dollars in damage. And need I remind you that
it was mainstream democrats and lawmakers and Kamala Harris who
bailed out violent rioters and encouraged this kind of rioting
in the streets. Meanwhile, the list of left wing violence
is long, it's growing, and it is justified and celebrated
by thousands of Democrats, including people in positions of power.
I already mentioned, but you had the Black Lives Matter
riots which ravaged the country throughout twenty twenty. You have
regular Antifa violence. You have the Zizy and trans murder cult.
You have the Covenant School shooting, the Annunciation School shooting,
two Trump assassination attempts, the Charlie Kirk assassination, the attempted
Brett Kavanaugh assassination. You have attacks on ICE agents. You
have vandalism of random tesla's because people hate Elon Musk.
You have the tearing down of monuments and the descreation
of Charlie Kirk memorials, firebombing of pro life pregnancy centers,
church shootings, attacks on police, the punch a turf rhetoric,
and I could go on. Peach Kenan made a great
point in The Federalist this week that it's just an
accepted fact that you cannot safely wear a Maga hat
or fly a Trump flag in a blue city. A
Trump bumper sticker is likely to get your car keyed,
and you're just asking to be attacked by advertising your
conservative political beliefs. That's just not the case for people
who publicly support Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris. If you
wear a Kamala shirt in a red state, you're probably
just gonna have people roll their eyes at you. That's
the worst that's going to happen. And why is that?
That's because this is a left wing problem, and it's
part of a playbook that repeats itself over and over
and over again. Democrats and the media incite violence, activists
within their ranks carry it out, and then the same
Democrats and media make excuses for the violence or just
straight up lie about it, like saying that Charlie kirkshooter
was mega, or that we can't possibly know a motive.
Maybe it was somebody firing celebratory shots in the crowd
that was legitimately a theory. And then these Democrats and
the media blame Republicans and call for us to turn
down the temperature. This happens every single time, but we
all know it's Democrats and the Democrat media and the
Democrat echo chamber and academia that create this atmosphere. Charlie
kirk died because of evil and lies from one side
end of story, and they have absolutely no intent of
stopping those lies. Just look at the justifications and the
equivocating and the deflecting and the excusing from the likes
of Katie Turr at MSNBC or Abby Phillips at CNN
or Matt Gutman at ABC. It's NonStop for crying out loud.
When law enforcement released the texts between the alleged assassin
and his trans identifying lover, text which look almost more
like a pre planned script to absolve the trans boyfriend
of involvement, but who knows Matt Gutman of ABC called
the text quote very touching and characterized them as loving.
This is the depths of the media filth, and it
is not just coming from the fringes, and it's not
just coming from the media. This is main streamed in
the party and I'm seeing it online from people I
know in real life, and I'm sure you are too.
It's so much mainstreamed and accepted among Democrats that even
former President Joe Biden got up when he was president
and gave a speech about the soul of the nation
that smeared Trump voters aka more than half the country
and people who want to make America great again, which
should be a good thing. He characterized these people as
extremists who are a clear and present danger to democracy.
And yeah, these Democrats will pay lip service to condemning violence,
but in the very next breath they smear their ideological
opponents as Nazis, fascists, racist, bigots, oppressors, just about the
worst things a person can be. It is also very Marxist,
and it's extremely irresponsible and dangerous. When you view your
political opponents as literally hitler and believe that speech is violence,
then it's only logical that you'll use legitimate violence to
counter that speech, and who wouldn't be fine with taking
out a mass murderer like Adolf Hitler. You know, I've
spent the past week trying to figure out how to
channel my sadness and anger productively, and I will say
I've been very, very encouraged by the spiritual stirring that's
happening in our country. I've seen it not only online,
just tons of videos of people saying I went to
church for the first time, or I bought a Bible
for the first time, or I've never prayed before, but
I'm learning how now. I've seen it not only online,
but I've also seen it in my own personal life.
We know that Charlie Kirk wasn't just assassinated, he was martyred,
and you can tell that because his death is having
at least as many effects spiritually as his life, and
I think it's jolted a lot of Christians into action.
It's underscored the need to share the gospel. There's an
urgency here and these are all really really positive things,
But we also need to figure out how to practically
move forward in a country where one in four young
Americans and one in four Democrats feel comfortable admitting in
a poll that they think the country is better off
with Charlie Kirk murdered. These are not people that anybody
should be unifying with or brushing aside with ridiculous both sidism.
This is a serious, serious problem. So as a Christian,
I know I'm supposed to forgive as Christ forgave me,
and I'm also supposed to love my enemies. In the
Sermon on the Mount in Matthew five, Jesus says, quote,
you have heard that it was said you shall love
your neighbor and hate your enemy. But I say to you,
love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
These are the words of Jesus. This is all true.
But notice that Jesus says love your enemies. That means
you have enemies. In Paul's letter to the Ephesians, he
talks about putting on the armor of God to stand
against evil, and he's careful to note that the armor
is not to fight against flesh and blood. We're not
putting on the helmet and picking up the sword to
fight against other people. We're doing it to fight against
spiritual forces of evil Satan and his hosts. But that
doesn't mean we don't have earthly enemies. Not people we
fight with weapons, but people we do indeed identify as enemies.
Yes we pray for them, we pray for their salvation,
and yes we love them with Christian love, but we
also need to be realistic about who they are. And
not only that, but who's they are. Anyone who is
not in Christ is of this world, and they belong
to their father, the Devil. When Jesus sends out the
twelve Apostles to go and preach the Gospel, he says, quote, Behold,
I am sending you out as sheep in the midst
of wolves. So be wise as serpents and innocent as doves.
Beware of men, for they will deliver you over to
courts and flog you in their synagogues, and you will
be dragged before governors and kings for my sake to
bear witness before them and the gentiles. When they deliver
you over. Do not be anxious how you are to
speak or what you are to say, for what you
are to say will be given to you in that hour.
For it is not you who speak, but the spirit
of your Father. Speaking through you, brother will deliver brother
over to death, and the father his child and children
will rise up against parents and have them put to death.
And you will be hated by all for my name's sake.
But the one who endures to the end will be saved.
End quote. So he's very clear here. You are sheep
in the midst of wolves. Be wise as serpents and
harmless as doves, and Christians tend to be real good,
especially in moments like this at emphasizing the latter part
of that verse, which is why I think we're seeing
so many calls for unity right now. But we don't
just need to be as harmless as dubs. We need
to be wise as serpents, and that means remembering who
the ultimate enemy is and warring against him, but also
identifying who is on his side. Love them, pray for them,
evangelize them, but do not treat them as friends. Be
wise as serpents, they are indeed enemies.
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Speaker 1: All right, everybody, I am so excited to be joined
today by my colleague and friend, Eddie Scary. He is
the DC columnist at The Federalist, and he's also most
recently the author of a brand new book called Traders,
The Democrat Parties Collapse into anti American filth. Boy, what
a title. I am so excited to read the rest
of the book. I started reading it, but I'm pumped
to read the rest. Eddie. Thanks so much for being
here with.
Speaker 3: Me today, of course, the honorable lifetime.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, we don't get to see each other nearly
often enough, so this is truly a pleasure. I love
seeing my colleagues in these little weekly formats that we
get to so, Eddie, like I said, pump to finish
reading the book, but can you just give watchers listeners
an overview of like the general themes of the book.
I mean, it's right there in the title, but let
us know, why should they read it? What's it about?
Speaker 4: Yeah, So, honestly, if you were to take a giant
grab bag of any topic, any news topic, any controversy
over the course of the last I would say specifically
the last two to three years, but even going back
for sure the last decade. Just take your pick up
the issue, whether it's immigration, crime, the economy, election, integrity, anything.
You can take any single one of those, and you
take it out. You look at both sides, Well, what's
the Democrat position, what's the Republican position? What are the
arguments that either side is making? And time and time
again and increasingly so it has just become Democrats take
the anti American position, and I know that that's supposed
to be a thing where you cannot say that there
is a definitive way to be an American in this country.
There are definitive principles. We have customs, we have norms,
we have but there are there are definitive norms. There's
definitely ways to be a real and true American and
stand by the principles we have in this country. And
you can point them out and you again, take any
one issue crime Democrats, they an they have an endless
list of excuses for why if they're not just outright
denying that there is a crime problem in their cities
and their precincts where they have the DA's, where they
have the attorney attorneys general, where they have the mayors,
the council members, they always have the rampant crime and
they've defend it when they're not, when they're when they're
not lying about that it is a problem, they defend it.
They explain why that why that's an issue that can't
be addressed. If you look at immigration, we have an
immigration problem and a lot of it has to do
with finite resources public resources in the country. They they
will lie about it, say it's not a problem. And
if you if you were able to prove that it demonstrably,
demonstrably is a problem, they will tell you why it
can't be fixed, why the obvious solutions are not the
real solutions. And it's making this country worse, it's making
us weaker, it's making Americans worse off, in particular, particularly
in Democrat run places, it's their people who are really
suffering the greater share of the burden for this.
Speaker 3: So that's why I talk about it the collapse into
to American film.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a great point. And they're also actively doing things.
It's not just throwing up their hands and saying there's
nothing we can do about it. It's like, you know,
downgrading specific crimes so that it's no longer, you know,
as bad of a crime if you steal anything that's
less than nine hundred dollars or whatever, you know, or
things like that, or like actively working against border security
instead of just refusing to fund it, like Kamala ha
Harris needs to find the root causes of the border crisis,
as if we don't know what the root causes are.
Like it's so it's actively working against the American ideals.
Which yeah, it's not just that they're not true Americans,
it's that they're actively anti American. You really home in
on this on the twenty twenty four election in your book,
and you and I were discussing before we started filming,
just the fact that there really hasn't been a reckoning
for the things that we saw during that last campaign season,
I completely agree. I mean a lot of it obviously
related to anti Trump law fair and not just Trump,
but anybody who associated with Trump Republicans in general. A
lot of it also had to do with the corporate
media just lying through their teeth. We have not faced
a reckoning for that. I'm curious if you think we
ever will, what it would take to do that. And
also just specifically the things that you think we need
to see a reckoning for from the twenty twenty four election.
Speaker 4: Right, If there's really one thing I want out of
this book, as I wanted to serve as just a
reminder and a full accounting for just the the insanity
and outright again anti American tendencies that we saw from Democrats,
And just as you said, second second to nobody is
the corporate media. And it started with, you know, the
lying by the press, where the just that you could
come out and say that inflation was not a problem,
you could say, in fact, it was actually good.
Speaker 3: A lot of you saw headlines were.
Speaker 4: Like this is why inflation is actually good for you
and good for the country. Come out and say that, well,
the border crossings are going down now, so that's not
a problem.
Speaker 3: Anymore.
Speaker 4: They just flipped on a dime in twenty twenty four,
all for the purpose of winning an election. But of
course we saw more extreme things. We saw the law
fair waged against Donald Trump.
Speaker 3: It was first.
Speaker 4: Attempting to bankrupt him, attempting to imprison him. Then there's
an assassination attempt. He's actually shot. Another assassination attempt. Kamala Harris,
who everybody in Washington knew. Everyone in Washington knew that
she was a joke. You read the articles about just
the incompetence of the staff, the mismanagement, how she was
constantly complaining her senior staff members, constantly complaining about the
portfolio of positions she got. She becomes the nominee again
on a dime. The media says, this is brat summer.
There has never been more There has never been someone
more popular than Kamala Harris. Allowed her to switch her
position on every single thing that she ever said and
just explained it away, said it was fine.
Speaker 3: She goes in front of cameras.
Speaker 4: In the twilight of the campaign at her official residency
as you know, as the vice president, and calls Donald
Trump a fascist. She did everything but declare him an
enemy of the state. This is their the their main
political opponent, and when when did this become?
Speaker 3: Okay? Of course, all on that period.
Speaker 4: Of time as we're watching them try to zero out
physically harm this man or imprison him or bankrupt him.
They're calling him, they're talking about what his plans are
for retribution when he gets in office, and he plans
on weaponizing the Justice Department. This is just again a
period of time that I really do not feel that
we have fully confronted. We can't be reminded enough of it,
and we have to say these are people and really
take seriously when when you're talking with your friends, when
you're talking with family about the next election as it
comes around the corner, these are people that you have
the choice. Are you gonna put them in power again?
Are we gonna go through that again? Are we gonna
see that? Because to the extent we've said retribution in
this country against all the people who affected that, It's
it's been pretty tame. What Jimmy Kimmel just lost his
TV show. Some other people they lose their security clearances.
I mean they talk about this as if that's the
end of the world. No, they actually were trying to
imprison this person. They did it to so many of
his supporters, the legal harassment. So again, as people talk
about the next election it's coming fast, you really have
to remember about all the things that we.
Speaker 1: Just went through, right right. The cognitive dissonance is truly
so wild. And we talk a lot at the Federalist
about how it's not just hypocrisy. It is that. But
it's not just hypocrisy, it's hierarchy. It's we can do
this thing to you, you cannot do this thing to me.
It is rules for me, not for the and specifically
when it comes to the media, but for the Democrat
Party broadly. Their whole shtick is don't believe your lying
eyes about anything about crime, inflation, about anything truly anything.
You detail a bunch of them in your book. I mean,
it's also boys pretending to be girls and girls pretending
to be boys, like you can't you can't say reality.
It's a lie after lie after lie. And I think
a lot of the reason for that is that Democrats
cannot succeed in reality, which is why the media have
to spin all of these things as different than they
actually are. Because if Democrats are actually held to account
for what they've done, they would never win again, Like
they would never win an election, they would never get
anybody on their side. And you write in your book
also that they can't win arguments if they can't control
who's allowed to speak. And I think that's a really
good key point too, because censorship is another huge part.
It's not just the lying, it's preventing other people from
telling the truth and correcting the record, which is a
huge problem, right.
Speaker 4: And what I think you just said it perfectly that
they cannot succeed in reality, and the reality of it
is that they are I wanted to be sure that
I was not oversimplifying or speaking a way that seemed
so flippant that people wouldn't believe me.
Speaker 3: I've cut this every way I can. The reality is it's.
Speaker 4: An anti American party, and part of that, A big
reason for that is they simply they hold this, they
hold the most the most on American view that we are,
that we are all created equal, that they do they
completely reject that, completely reject that view, because why did
they Why did they believe in the hierarchy that you
were just speaking about, Because they truly believe, as you
said again so perfectly, that they should be able to
do certain things, and all these other people who if
they're not rich, if they're not close to the government,
if they are not the state as well, they don't
get to have those things.
Speaker 3: They don't get to do whatever they want.
Speaker 4: They don't get to It's as simple as things like
air traveling should only be for them, they say.
Speaker 3: They say things like this a lot. You remember it.
Speaker 4: During COVID, You remember, I think the COVID was a
really crystallizing time for a lot of people on this
very concept. Because during COVID, when you caught one of
the Democrats, whether it was Gavin Newsome going to a restaurant,
Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot going to get a haircut, someone
going going to the gym when gyms were shut down,
Nancy Pelosi going and going to a salam and the
salons were cut down in her city in San Francisco.
You caught them and what did they say. Well, Lori
Lifood says, well, I'm a public facing person.
Speaker 3: I have to look good. You have.
Speaker 4: Gavin Newsom says, well, as a leader, I should probably
be uh providing a better example for people. Well, no,
you actually should just be not doing the thing that
you've said is putting people at risk and putting lives
at risk. People going to the gym and saying, well,
I actually, you know, I have to maintain my physicis
like because all of it is it just good. And
this was a little bit different. But former Secretary of State,
former Senator John Kerry one time he was asked, why
does he when he goes to these climate junkets where
they're talking about the need to reduce climate change, why
do you always fly private? And he said, someone like
me can't fly or someone like me can't fly to
you know, public you know, commercial travel travel. What they're
saying is I'm important, I'm special, I'm different from you.
I get to do those things. You don't get to
do those things. And not only do I get to
do them, I get to do them on your dime.
You get to provide the money, the security, the travel,
all the airfare everything. They genuinely believe that we are
not all created equal.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 4: They reject that. They completely reject it. Anti American.
Speaker 1: Yes, where do you think that anti Americanism comes from?
Or when do you think it's started? Like, do you
think this is a result of you know, we're not
all created equal, and they got there because they stopped
believing in like the sanctity of life. Or is it
an issue with like we can't believe in American ideals
because we have to throw away our entire history because
it's irredeemably racist. Or does it have to do with
them just trying to import voters from Afar so they
have to like pretend that America isn't that special because they,
you know, need to need to bring people in from elsewhere,
you know, I mean Tim Kaine just said that our
rights don't come from God, they come from government and
that it's like wrong and horrific to say that they
come from from God. I mean, these are, like, like
you say, blatantly anti American ideals. But when did they start?
Where did they come from? Like are the Democrats as
radical on this as they are now?
Speaker 4: That is such a good question, And admittedly I was
with this book. I wanted to prove it with reminding
people of everything that we've gone through. So it's really
hammered away that theme of just Democrats rejecting the fundamental
pro American patriotic views.
Speaker 3: That you and I share.
Speaker 4: They do not share However, I will say with what
just happened with Charlie Kirk has the idea you're talking
about has been something I've been thinking about over the
last week, and it really seems to me that we
live in a world in this It's kind of what
everything about our politics has become about right now, which
is there are people in this country who they're trying
to do good, trying to help people, trying to bring
some good to this world, and then there are the
people who want to take them down, and they do
it out of spite, envy, resentment. That's the dichotomy I'm seeing,
because you tried on to try to make sense of it,
and why would anybody do the things they do, Why
would they do any of the things you and I
are just now talking about that are in my book,
And it just seems to be that there there really
are just two different types of people right now in
this moment in our politics, the people who are trying
to do good in this world, trying to help people,
and then the people who want to bring them down. It
almost seems like there's just and I suppose there is,
there's just this fundamental difference of world outlook because you'd
have to look at what animates what animates someone to say, well,
I'm able to go air travel and it should be
free and it should be cheap, and while everyone's home
on lockdown, I should be able to go get a haircut,
but not you. You can't do that. It just all I
see there is spike and envy and resentment.
Speaker 1: M Yeah. I remember reading years ago Thomas Soul's Book
of Conflict of Visions and just really feeling like I
had a better understanding of like what exactly the Left
was trying to do and why there's so much conflict
because they're you know, looking for utopia and we are not.
Like it's understanding the constraints of human nature or not
understanding the constraints of human nature, and not that that's
not still relevant because that's those are just like you know,
immutable human truths. But I think we're so far past
just having two conflicting visions of what the future of
America is, because it's it's not about two people, or sorry,
two parties or two groups like wanting a different version
of America. It's one group wanting America and the other
group not wanting America. And it really reminds me a lot, like,
especially in the wake of the Charlie Kirk assassination, I've
been thinking a lot about this, just like the iconoclasm
of the left, and how much of that I think
has gotten us to this point. Like just a couple
of years ago, it was tearing down statues and monuments,
and now it's tearing down people. And I was just
watching these college students, you know, people honoring Charlie Kirk's
memory by creating these beautiful murals and memorials on their
college campuses and elsewhere. And then you have these insane
leftists who are not only delighting and celebrating the murder
of Charlie Kirk, but they're going and they're destroying the
memorials to him. They're covering them in paint, they're drawing,
you know, Hitler mustaches on him. They're doing all of
these horrific things. And it's just like, I think we
at our peril excuse the iconoclasm of the past few years,
because I do think that has a big part to
do with how we got to this anti American sentiment
and anti life sentiment as we saw last week.
Speaker 4: Also, Yeah, and just to show you how like when
I wrote this book, it was because I was sensing
something new here. This is a different this is a
different thing than what even just ten years ago, the
debates that we were having during the Obama years, even
when I was a very very young adult, the Bush years.
Speaker 3: Very different.
Speaker 4: The way that Democrats expressed their their disagreements. You know,
it used to be I was thinking about this last night.
It used to be they when if you were a liberal,
leftist Democrat, you would go online and you would go
in the comments section of like the Huffington Post, and
you tended to do it anonymously. You didn't have your
face picture, you didn't have your name. You wrote some
kind of nasty comments and that's it. Or you might
do it a little bit few years later you could
do it on Twitter, but still it was an anonymous name,
no picture, You had your private Facebook. You might say it,
you might have your name, you might have your face,
but it was only people you knew seeing you. But
now you've got people on Twitter and more, I think severely,
people on TikTok. That's your face, that's your name, and
you're going on there laughing about people. Just a man
who just got shot in front of By the way,
and this hasn't been said enough. There were young children
who went there and they were doing the right thing,
which is exposing themselves to different ideas. They want to
hear debate, they want to hear open dialogue. Is how
This is how this country works. This is how democracy
and action works. You know, we have discussions, we compete
with ideas. Eleven year old goes there and what does
she sees? She sees a menga shot in the neck.
Why would she ever want to participate in this ever again?
But then and then you got the people who go
on TikTok and they laugh about it and say he
deserved it. They go on their their their open facebooks
and they're they're saying these things. This is not the
way it used to be. So when I talk about
the collapse into American anti American film, this is what
I'm talking about, that that party has collapsed and that's new.
Speaker 1: Yes, yes, you write this line in your book. I
wrote it down that the Democrats sell to the American
people is quote, do what do as we say and
nobody gets hurt. And obviously you wrote this book before
the Charlie Kirk assassination. This has been something that's been
implicit for a while.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: And I think of the way the media did this
for instance, you know with Nick Sandman or other people
that they tried to cancel or ruin their lives. You know,
if you dissented from the Democrat Party, they would find
a way to ruin your life, even Normia Americans, and
just the way that you know, it used to be implicit.
It used to be just by the like Democrat machine.
But now it's individual Americans making this threat. Do as
we say and nobody gets hurt. That's just just absolutely
horrific and quite scary for Norman Americans and people who
believe things like you and I believe.
Speaker 3: On that point.
Speaker 1: Yeah, on that point.
Speaker 4: Though, that's not much different than what the entire year
of twenty twenty was. What was what was twenty twenty
if not like a hostage situation because I was in DCA.
Actually I think you were in DC at the time too.
Weren't your twenty twenty or had you left.
Speaker 1: Part of twenty twenty? Yeah, I was going back and
forth between Wisconsin and DC.
Speaker 3: But yeah, okay, gotcha.
Speaker 4: So I was still there, total ghost town because all
the all the storefronts and everything in downtown have been
boarded up because what you had every single night was
the hordes of people going out, and you saw this
in every other country, was just the threats and actual
violence and vandalism and the looting and the rioting. And
that was all because we're heading in into an election
and we're gonna show you we're going to burn this
place down if we can, if we don't get what
we want. And just when, just when in DC that
had kind of calmed down, it had kind of simmered
a bit, they had started taking down because the lockdowns
had kind of relaxed a little bit. They started taking
down the boards and everything from the window. Leading up
to the election, DC the most liberal city we have
in this country in terms of like per capita, how
they vote.
Speaker 3: They all vote Democrat. Everyone who lives there is a Democrat.
Speaker 4: Unless you unless you're coming in to work for Republican
administration or work for some Republican leading think tank, you're
a Democrat. So they all those store friends heading into
the election. Election day and twenty twenty, all the boards
go right back up. And that's not because Joe Biden
might have won and a bunch of Trump supporters were
going to come out. Eventually we ended up seeing some
weeks later what happened, but those went up because it
was in case a Trump won happened if Trump was
one we read the threat, we saw, we got the message.
Speaker 1: Yes, the exact same thing happened in Madison, Wisconsin, And
the part of twenty twenty that I was back in
Wisconsin for included the riots Kenosha, which I was on
the ground for, and the exact same thing happened here.
It did not matter like it was definitely occurring in
blue left wing you know enclaves like DC, but it
was also happening across the Midwest. I mean it started
in Minneapolis, which obviously is blue, but like the Midwest
was another huge hotbed for a lot of these riots.
And yeah, it was a complete hostage situation. That's a
really good way to put it. I want to pivot
just a little bit because there's this awesome personal story
at the end of the first chapter of your book
where you talk about your Mexican mother and her assimilation
and your cultural identity and her cultural identity, And I
would just love if you would tell our viewers about that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and I will tell you these are like always
my they're not my least favorite parts to write of
any book. But you're encouraged because lots of people want
to talk about us personally as an author. They're just
they are kind of difficult because I'm not used to it.
But no, I wanted to include in there because I do.
It definitely applies to the book. It definitely applies to
everything that's in the book. Yeah, like my mother, she's
a literal Mexican immigrant. She came here when she was
around I think twelve years old, was nationalized when she
was in her twenties, and that would have been in
the eighties under the Reagan administration. And just she's someone
I've thought of my whole life in terms of especially
when I was when I wrote a book called Privileged
Victims that just had to do with the culture of
victimhood and how if you can claim to have some
kind of sexual, gender identity or racial grievance, you're somehow
supposed to advance.
Speaker 3: That's supposed to be your ticket to the top.
Speaker 4: Like, oh, well, I'm entitled to that job because someone
needs to make up for the fact that I've been
aggrieved based on my sexual gender identity, sexual identity, racial identity.
So I think about her a lot because that never
occurred to me. I'm half Mexican, I'm half white, I'm gay,
and yet it never occurred to me to say I've
been denied opportunities, I've been oppressed, and I deserve something
for that. I'm entitled to something for that, and I
really and I get it from both of my parents,
but from my mother. I think about it a lot
because she's an actual immigrant and she just she's really
funny to talk to. She had a whole evolution with
coming around to Donald Trump. Now she's like the biggest
like Donald Trump supporter, loves him, but just growing up,
she didn't teach us Spanish.
Speaker 3: Neither my sister and I Spanish. She speaks fluent Spanish,
but she didn't teach us.
Speaker 4: And there were various reasons she would give throughout the
years when you would ask her. But I remember asking
her one time, like, you know, why didn't you teach
us Spanish?
Speaker 3: And she I'm not going to say exactly what she said,
but it.
Speaker 4: Was, you know, if I had taught you Spanish, you
would have ended up basically saying we would have ended
up kind of like Low Lives was how she kind
of put it. And she thought we would, but the
gist of it was that we wouldn't properly assimilate as Americans.
She truly believed that, And I repeated it back to
her to make sure I was getting getting this part
of the book right. I said, do you remember saying that?
And she said, and I stand by that. She said,
I stand by that and that, so that was pretty recent.
I know that I was remembering that properly.
Speaker 3: But she still was.
Speaker 4: Very much into She likes Mexican culture, but she does
not She's never waved Mexican flags. She in fact resents
anybody who comes here and waves their flag. She'll make
a comment about it every single time she sees it.
She just thinks that you should not you should not
leave your country or enjoy all the benefits that this
country gives affords you and like unlike anywhere else and
try to represent, you know, some other country. So again,
never taught us Spanish. When when she would take me
occasionally these like like Mexican like cultural festivals and stuff.
They're in South Carolina where I grew up, it always
felt very alien to me. Just because that wasn't otherwise,
even though I had this Mexican mother who listened to
Mexican music, that just wasn't my life. But she's just
she's she's far more American, far more patriotic than any
Democrat leader we have today, just the complete opposite. And
she really instilled that in me, and I view myself
as just a complete general American. I love that about myself,
I love that about my family, and I really appreciate
that she instilled that in me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's awesome. Well, it was a great part
of the book. I really enjoyed it, and I'm sure
all of you will enjoy it as well. When you
pick up a copy of Eddie's new book, Traders, the
Democrat parties collapse into anti American filth. Eddie. I think
they can get it now on Amazon? Is that correct?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: Amazon, there's the physical print copy you can get, and
the e book will be available any day.
Speaker 1: Now, Okay. And if you don't want to patronize Amazon,
where can people find your book elsewhere?
Speaker 3: As of this moment, that's it.
Speaker 4: But if you find me on social media, I've got
a Twitter, I've got on Instagram, I've got a TikTok.
You can get in touch with me there and I'll
always be happy to figure out another way.
Speaker 1: Okay, awesome, Thanks so much for joining me today, Eddie.
Great discussion and I hope to have a have you
back again soon.
Speaker 3: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm so curious. What are the half a
dozen people who watched late night television going to do
now that Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel are off the air?
Hmm If you didn't hear, Jimmy Kimmel's show was pulled
off the air by ABC for his disgusting and dishonest
comments about the Charlie Kirk assassination, wherein he perpetuated the
propaganda that the killer was part of the Maga Gang.
Speaker 5: We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the
Magagang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie
Kirk as anything other than one of them and everything
they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 1: Now. Of course, this was after we knew about the
assassin's leftist bullet engravings, the fact that he had reportedly
adopted hateful leftist views over the past few years, and
the fact that his roommate is also his transgender identifying lover.
There's really no mystery here about motive, as much as
the Democrats would like to pretend there is. Now, Kimmel's
comments could easily be considered a violation of FCC rules,
since he knew the information was false, or at least
he should have. The broadcasting of the false information directly
causes substantial public harm, and it was foreseeable that broadcasting
the lives would cause such harm. Which duh. A guy
just got assassinated in part for being part of the
Maga gang. So FCC Chairman Brendan Carr rightly noticed, and
ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel live off the air. Good riddance,
Jimmy Kimmel is the absolute worst. Let's just take a
little walk down memory lane. Here's Jimmy Kimmel saying that
people who didn't get the COVID shot deserve to die.
Speaker 5: Hospitals get any more over crowded, they're going to have
to make some very tough choices about who gets an
ICU bet out of that choice doesn't seem so tough
to me. Vaccinated person having a heart attack, Yes, come
right on him.
Speaker 3: We'll take care of.
Speaker 5: You, unvaccinated guy who gobbled horse goo, rest in peace.
Wheezy your's.
Speaker 1: And here's Jimmy cheering on the firing of Tucker Carlson
from Fox News.
Speaker 5: That's right, Fox News has severed bow ties with Tucker Carlson.
After all these years, they are parting ways, which means
he was fired. Tarker couldn't be reached for comment. He's
already on a place to Moscow to meet with his manager.
But what a shock, I mean, what an absolutely delightful shock.
This is the good news is now Tucker can spend
more time at home, tanning his testicles and touching himself
to that sexy green M and M. Sadly, he's probably
not done poisoning old people's brains. The question now is
where will he do it next? Will he go to OAM,
Will he go to Newsmax? Will he crawl back up
Satan's fiery be hole?
Speaker 3: From whence he came?
Speaker 5: We don't know, But wherever he goes, we thought it
right to celebrate his departure. We look back at where
he went, So here now to send him off in style,
We give you one last dance with one of the
most despicable mother tuckers ever to appear on American television.
Speaker 1: So spare me the crocodile tears. But of course democrats
and principled conservatives are irate. This is censorship, this is
cancel culture. Free speech. Conservatives are hypocrites. What a bunch
of garbage. First of all, this isn't a maga FCC
chair going off the rails to threaten ABC. This is
a rule that's already on the books, and Carr and
other conservatives are finally just saying enough is enough. We're
gonna enforce this. Second of all, free speech is an
important part of our self government and the First Amendment.
But so is freedom of association, and ABC and any
other employer is more than welcome to stop associating with
somebody who publicly and perpetually lies in the way that
Jimmy Kimmel does, and especially in the wake of such
a horrific thing as an assassination. Finally, this should be obvious.
This is not cancel culture. You know. It's cancel culture.
Deciding you don't like somebody and then digging through their
social media posts from a decade ago to find something
that you find distasteful to ruin their life. And this
is something that far too many Americans have experienced. And
they've been fired, or they've been doxed, or they've been
put on blast online, or they've been made to lose friends,
or they've lost scholarships or had their college acceptances yanked,
blah blah blah, and on and on it goes. And
in many of these cases, the distasteful thing they've said
has just been the truth, has just been a normal
conservative opinion, like hey, boys can't become girls, or marriages
between one man and one woman, or COVID lockdowns and
so called vaccines don't work to stop the spread canceled, canceled, canceled.
What we're seeing now with Jimmy Kimmel and taxpayer funded
school teachers and doctors and pilots and so on is
called consequences for actions. It's called ramifications. In real time,
it's called accountability. You don't get to cheer when a
civilian dad gets shot in the neck and then expect
your patients to trust that your hippocratic oath means jack squad.
I'm sorry, but I don't think anyone should be expected
to trust their life with a psycho like that you
don't get to laugh maniacally in response to a dad
being assassinated and then continue to teach other people's little children. No,
you can't be gleeful when your fellow American dies and
then expect to be trusted to fly your fellow citizens
around for American airlines. And you don't get to spread
dangerous propaganda every weeknight and expect not to eventually get fired.
That is not cancel culture. That is called moving the
Overton window back where it belongs. Democrats canceled Conservatives for
saying things that were true. Now we're canceling them for
spreading blatant lies that are deliberately designed to incite people
to kill my friends and me. We are not the same,
all right, everybody that's going to do it for me today?
Thank you so much for tuning into this week's episode
of The Kylie Cast. I'm Kylie Griswold, and I will
be right back here next week with more. Don't miss it.