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much for your support. Have you heard of the term

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d banking? I had the first time I became aware

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of this actually was a story I came across several

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years ago, maybe like five years ago. Of it was

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actually a porn star who had been d banked the

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bank accounts that she was using her like just like

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you have a bank account. She had a bank account

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and she would get paid, she would deposit the money

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in or whatever, and then and at some point the

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bank told her your account has closed. You got to

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take all your money out, and it was it was,

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and she claimed it was because of her work in

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the porn industry. And then I heard about it again.

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There were some people complaining about it related to like

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Second Amendment stuff like they either were running a gun

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shop or something like that. Like I said, this has

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been years ago, but I remember I remember hearing about

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this thing. I may have. I think I covered the

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porn story, and I think I covered the Second Amendment thing.

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The don't remember the details. The one that then really

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popped was the Canadian truck drivers when they started protesting

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during the lockdowns, when Canada went full authoritarian up there,

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and in order to stop the truck driver protest, they

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started debanking the protest leaders. And when you get debanked,

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now you don't have any way to engage in commerce, right,

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it's like an economic death penalty. Well, apparently Donald Trump

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got d banked. Donald Trump was on squawk Box and

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it's on CNBC. I think it's like a financial related

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show whatever, and he was. He was on there to

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talk about this executive order again that that would slap

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penalties onto banks for d banking. And oh, I forgot

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to mention. The biggest one that I heard after the

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truck driver example, the Canadian truckers. The next one was

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after Jason. That's when I started hearing more stories of

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people getting debanked. And that's when they did it to

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Trump was after January sixth, and you know, with the

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space and distance and time of five years, there are

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a lot of people in the media who want to

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pretend that the atmosphere after J six wasn't what I knew,

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it was what you knew it to be.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: We all remember I remember watching J six. I was

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actually it was during COVID and I was doing the

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podcast and I was watching Roy Cooper, my good friend Ray.

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I was watching his COVID briefing, so I was not

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aware of all the stuff that was going on as

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it was occurring and afterwards, and I started going back

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and I started looking at the footage and all this

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stuff later on in the day, and I said at

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the time, like, this is going to be very bad

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for Republicans, not because of what occurred, because you know,

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we didn't know the full extent of everything that happened

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and all that, but this is going to be used

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to justify every transgression that the left will now be

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empowered to take. And they did. They absolutely did right

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all the J sixers, whether it was you know, somebody

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who was putting their feet up on Nancy Pelosi's desk,

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or it was somebody who followed the instructions of a

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Capitol Hill police officer who waved her into the Capitol

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and walked through the velvet rope line and then walked

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out of the building. Either way, it didn't matter, right

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the government threw the book at All of them had

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court appointed lawyers that hated their clients. And one lawyer

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I remember reading, was celebrating how and virtue signaling of

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you know, how she would get all of her plea

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deals by browbeating these Jason sixers into you know, just

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to admit that what you did was wrong and now

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you've learned your lesson and all this like this, this

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is your own attorney, your own defense attorney, who's cutting

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deals for you know, prison time for you because you

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walked in to the Capitol. Some people walked in and

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I know the left in the media, but I repeat myself.

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I know they don't want to hear this, but there

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were a lot of people that walked in there thinking

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they were allowed to be in there. These are they

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some of them had ever been to the Capitol before.

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They didn't know it was closed. That once the doors

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were opened up and people started going in, then a

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lot of people went in. That's not to excuse the

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violent ones. And I disagreed when Trump pardoned the violent

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J sixers. He should not have done that. If you

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engaged in violence against law enforcement or against the taxpayer

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funded you know, properties, then no you should you should

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be penalized for that. But if you were not engaged

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in violence, you were not kicking in the windows and such,

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you were at the back of this MASSI approaches like

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a lot of people just showed up at the Capitol

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after they had already gotten in. They were marching down

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from the from the rally site. They had to walk

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all that way down you know, whatever road it is,

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and they walk all that way several blocks. They finally

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get there and all they see is like a whole

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bunch of people around the capitol and a bunch of

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people going in. And so they walked in like that

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to me is not That does not warrant incarceration or

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even charges if you find out that the person was

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just there walking through and there were a lot of them,

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hundreds of them. Okay. Nick Sercy has a documentary about this,

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Actually I think he did too. Nick Serci world famous actor,

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Peabody Award winning he played Deputy Art Mullen on Justified.

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He was also Frank from Fried Green Tomatoes. Anyway, He's

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from western North Carolina, so you know, I've had him

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on the show. I've interviewed him before, and like he

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talked about this because he was there, and he's like,

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I didn't see any of the stuff. I was there.

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I saw none of the violence that we are shown

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on all of the clips and stuff. So a lot

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of those people got d banked. There was this nationwide

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man hunt for anybody that was at the scene. Anybody

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had you know, facial recognition programs running, they had, like

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the FBI pulled from all of these other investigations. They

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went full bore at them, and part of that effort

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was dbanking. So the media has now woken up to

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this because of Trump's executive order, and now they're like, oh, oh,

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what's this issue? And you're going to be shocked to

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find out that the media is minimizing the de banking issue.

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Here's then, Alison Morrow. President Donald Trump is doubling down

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on d banking, a once niche political issue that now

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appears deeply personal for him, a once niche political issue

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which is dismissive. She's dismissing this Oh, that's just Nietzche

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niche niche niche anyway. Oh, like it's such a tiny thing.

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Nobody cares about this. Oh but it's personal for him, Yes,

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personal for anybody who gets d banked and now they

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can't engage in any kind of commerce. You have no bank.

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Mark Halprin actually did a very good job on this issue.

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He has a podcast called two Way, and on that

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podcast he has a longtime Democrat guy Dan Turnantine or Turntine,

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and Sean Spicer as well. All Right, if you're listening

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guy was d banked as well, almost lost his business.

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It's just a niche, I say. I think I need

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to say it like niche. But I sound I sound

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too French, you know what I mean. I don't like

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sounding French. So anyway, Mark Halprin talking about this issue

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because the Wall Street Journal did a big story on

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it after Trump announced he was gonna do an executive

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order to penalize banks for engaging in this kind of behavior.

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Here he is talking on his podcast with it's called

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two Way, and here he is talking with Dan Turantine

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or Turantine, that's the first voice you're gonna hear besides Marx,

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and then you're gonna hear Sean Spicer. After that, here

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Speaker 3: The President today told a story about his own debanking. Yeah,

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this is this is one of the most undercovered stories

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of the last ten years. And it's undercovered because the

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New York Times, the Washington Post doesn't want to write

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stories that are sympathetic to Republicans, and the Wall Street Journal.

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This is an incredible story of people who have been

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debanked across the conservative movement. And it's not some small

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thing to be debanked. It's not like, oh, you know, okay,

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I can't bank it Chase, I'll bank it a Bank

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of America. If you are debanked, you cannot bank anywhere.

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of courts, you need a bank account. Not having a

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bank account, credit cards atm it's it's a It's Orwellian

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New York Times, and Wall Street Journal. You will find

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next to know stories about this. So the President signed

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the executive order and here he is telling his own

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story of being debanked. One eleven.

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Speaker 2: Please, well, they did discriminate. I had JP Morgan Chase.

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I had hundreds of millions of dollars in cash. I

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could see if they want to, you know, if they

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want to do something bad because you're not any money

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and you defaulted and they took people out. But I'll

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give you me as an example. I had hundreds of millions,

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I had many many accounts loaded up with cash. I

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was loaded up with cash, and they told me, I'm sorry, sir,

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we can't have you. You have twenty days to get out.

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mean I had all this, I didn't know what to

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ask him, maybe he's not going to admit it. So

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I said, you know, I was informed by my people

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that we have to get out of Chase Manhn and

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that's Jamie and JP Morgan Chase. So I said, I

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can't believe it. Well, I was never in this situation before.

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I've never had anything like it. And it's not like

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g You defaulted and alone. You know, Jesus if I

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could understand that, that's different. But there's no default. I mean,

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there's nothing but cash. It's a really good I have

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a really great company did so.

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Speaker 3: The Wall Street Journal reports that the executive order would

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subject banks who violated an order banning discrimination against conservative

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subject to monetary penalties, consent decrees, or other disciplinary measures,

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and then later in the story they say it could

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also be potentially referred to the Justice Department for criminal charges.

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Dan will this executive order, which as best I can

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tell from the general description, is not retroactive, will this

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be welcomed by the banking community or will they fight it?

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Speaker 4: I think they won't fight it because they don't want

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to pick a fight with Trump. I look, as you say,

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it's been under reported. It's the first time that I

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had heard him that he spoke to Jamie Diamond, and

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he made it sound almost like Diamond called the Trump people,

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but that he didn't do it. And then Trump went

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on to say he called Brian moynihan, and Brian moynihan

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said no, as well, who's the CEO of Bank of America. Look,

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it's it's not that. It's as Trump said, It's one

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thing if you go into default or you're you've engaged

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in some illicit financial activity, where a bank would say Okay,

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you're violating banking laws. I imagine this was after January sixth,

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when he was unpopular and they just didn't want to

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be associated with them, which is not not okay in

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my opinion. So I look forward to hearing more about it,

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but I don't think the banking community will say a

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peep about it.

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but how could this have happened in America? Don't these

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banks have board Don't these banks have boards of directors

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that have some conservatives on them.

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: I mean, honestly, this is to your point, beyond Trump,

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this is a big issue, especially in the Second Amendment

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area where they have debanked organizations or anyone that has

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to do with firearms, Second Amendment, right life issues.

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Speaker 3: Also also crypto, but not but not just those sectors.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 5: But I'm I'm just saying that this has been going on,

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to your point, largely unnoticed. The bank that I'm on

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the board of, in full disclosure, Old Glory Bank, was

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literally that was the nexus behind it is to give

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a place where, no matter of your views, your money

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could be saved and grow. And it's grown two hundred

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and forty five percent in the past twelve months or

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twelve twenty four months, because people are basically I don't

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want to have to worry about it. So it's not

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just a cultural thing. It's the philosophy is you will

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never be debanked, but the idea that major corporate I mean,

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to your point, no, these boards are are complicit in this,

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and no one's speaking up for it. But you're literally

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telling organizations and people because of your political views, your

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money's no good here. And to your point, it's not

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as simple as oh well, then we'll just go from

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Bank of America to Chase. They're all in it together.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: And I think the other thing too, is because it

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sounds like this happened to Trump after twenty twenty. In

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my own experience when I in my previous career, I

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can't tell you how much board of directors lost their

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minds the summer of twenty twenty, after George Floyd and

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everything else, the pressure on companies to start making statements

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because I had many meetings, many phone calls advising not

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to do this, because once you open the door to

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one person's politics, you expose yourself to the pendulum swing.

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And then you're caught, you know, kind of trying to

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ping pong and satisfy yea, who's ever in power? But

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boards of directors were considered waiting into or out of

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in this instance, so many things that historically companies would

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never have touched ever.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I was just gonna say to your question.

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Speaker 1: Though.

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Speaker 5: Part of the reason that they don't get they don't

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cover it, and I you know, I'm not trying to

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be hyperbolic, is because they agree. I mean, the New

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York Times say, is good, I'm glad you can't get that,

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and the washing boats so it's not a story of

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them because the reporter says, yeah, you don't deserve I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, most of these people agree with those tactics, but

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they agree. I saw people calling for this. They would

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dismiss any complaints about de banking as well. You deserved it.

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Even now after what this Wall Street Journal story talks about,

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Even now with the examples that it provided, CNN calls

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this a once niche political issue that now appears deeply

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personal for Trump. Everything through the prism of Trump Right.

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While Trump's at times rocky professional history with Wall Street

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Banks is well documented, he aligned himself Tuesday with many

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of his mega supporters who claim they've been shut out

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from mainstream finance, telling CNBC that the banks discriminated against

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him very badly and it was very good to the banks.

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Trump was responding to questions about an executive order he

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was preparing to sign that would direct bank regulators to

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investigate whether any financial institutions might have unfairly reached out

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directed customers on political or religious grounds. And then it

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spends the rest of the article basically talking about the

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legitimate reasons why banks would debank somebody, like for fraud

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Banks work together to keep certain customers out. It's hard

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for a customer to prove and that's why banks get

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away with it. Let me play another clip here. This

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is a continuation of the conversation over at Mark Halperin's

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Two Way podcast. He's got Sean Spicer, formerly of the

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first Trump administration, he's the former Press secretary, and Dan Turntine,

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who is a Democrat, and they do this regularly. I

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don't know if it's every day, but it's I think

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it's once a week. Maybe it's every day. But the

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podcast it's called two Way, and they're talking about this

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D banking executive order that Trump signed, but also the

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Wall Street Journal report where detailed, you know, several cases

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of the D banking problem. And so here is the

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rest of the rest of their comments.

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Speaker 3: I want to know where were the Republican members of Congress.

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Why didn't they do more?

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Speaker 4: Ah, because they were being pummeled about January sixth. So

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one of the big movements in corporate America was cut

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off all pack money to republic any Republican.

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Speaker 3: But this isn't but this isn't just about January six.

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Speaker 4: Well, Mark, but it all became this stew of George

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Floyd Charlotte.

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Speaker 1: You're right right now. So I'm going to stop the

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clip for a second because it was j six related.

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I saw people calling for the you know, the D

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banking of people like Dan Bishop, congressman at the time.

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Right now, he's up at the Office of Management Budget.

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I saw people making these arguments, you know, and somebody

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would complain that they got debanked, and then I'd see

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people respond on social media. Good, that's what you get

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for participating in an insurrection right.

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Speaker 3: Right about the context, Dan, I'm just saying the silence

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on the part of people who were affected and people

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should have advocated for them. It's it's un American what happened.

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Speaker 5: Well, but the problem was is that that First of all,

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I agree with you Mark on the sense of where

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were Republican members of Congress speaking up and saying this.

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But to Dan's point, they were getting squeezed by saying,

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you know, hey, we're going to cut off this. They

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weren't the majority. And you watch these guys, and this

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is where I have a problem with my own party,

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where all of these guys are not coming back and like, oh,

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I'm really sorry, we screwed you, Mark Zuckerberg.

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Speaker 1: Et cetera. And I get it.

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Speaker 5: They're playing a game smart on them and that's their

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business they should be. That's their job is to look

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up for their companies. But our job on the right

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is to hold them accountable and the same no, no, no, no,

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you don't get back with a million dollar contribution to

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the inaugural.

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Speaker 3: I would like to I would like to interview every

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executive producer and every executive editor every major news organization

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and say, did you know about this story?

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Speaker 1: Did you know that?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: And I can just say Sean Republicans did, so. I

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want to be careful here. I advised what I advised.

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The entity did not end up doing what a lot

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of Democrats wanted. We got. I got a phone call

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from a Republican saying, if you go ahead with what

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Democrats are saying, we will never forget. We're keeping score.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 4: I knew that already, so they didn't have to call me,

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but I always appreciated being called. But both sides were threatening,

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you have to do this because this is outrageous. If

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you do this, it's insanity and we'll never forget. So

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Republicans work quietly under the radar.

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Speaker 5: Back in the day, if Tom Delay was still in Congress,

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we would have a list and say you're not dealing

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with these guys again. And I I to me the

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idea that JP Morgan and Bank of America got away

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with this and and they're not paying a bigger price

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is bad on Republicans. Republicans need to hold them accountable

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and say, Okay, you guys had it your way, but

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you know what, now we're going to hold you accountable.

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And I just, I'm it is shameful that Republicans are

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not holding them more to account. And look, to Mark's point,

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this was a big issue with the Second Amendment in

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pro life communities for a long time before it reached

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a boiling point. And and so I just it's it's.

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Speaker 3: Also it's also it's also part of why the multi

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billion dollar crypto industry is now totally a wholly unsubsidiary

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of the Republican Party.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's Austin why, like I keep saying, I don't

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feel like this is the end of democracy what Trump

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is doing. Like Democrats did some of the same things,

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we just did it in a different way, and most

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people's sensibilities in the media agreed with it.

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Speaker 1: This guy Tarantine is spot on, spot on right. He's

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not on with He's not in line with this end

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of democracy argument that Democrats keep screaming about. He's not

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down with this. Oh I actually just saw this speaking

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of the end of democracy. James Carville says that if

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his party wins back power in twenty twenty eight, then

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the Democrats should blow up the filibuster, add two new states,

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add two states to America, and pack the Supreme Court.

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Here's Guy Benson talking to Stuart Varney on Fox Business.

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Speaker 6: This is how the left now thinks, which is anything

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that they don't like is an attack on our democracy,

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and anything that they do in pursuit of their power

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is democracy. It is so simplistic and almost childish and

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very silly. But it's also scary because I think you

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will see an another big push for this.

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Speaker 2: If guys, if.

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Speaker 6: Old guard, old school Dems like Carville are now saying

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let's add states and let's pack the Supreme Court, that

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is a worrisome turning point in the Democratic Party. And

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I would simply just ask this question. The Republicans have

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the trifactor right now. He's saying, well, if we get

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it back in twenty eight, Okay, Republicans have it right now.

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If they were to move to create East and West Oklahoma,

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and let's say in north and South Alabama a couple

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of new states, and let's add a five new Supreme

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Court seats and let Donald Trump fill all of them.

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Would that be greeted as a safeguarding of democracy by

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these exact same people, or would their hair be on fire?

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I would argue quite rightly that this is way too far.

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Speaker 1: We all, yeah, way too far. Absolutely it is. But Democrats,

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once again, they get to make these statements, say these

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crazy things, and media give them no pushback. They get

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to call everybody they disagree with a Nazi and the

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media just mm hmm, yes hmm. If you're a Republican

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and you call Zoron Mamdani a communist, because you know,

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he talks about seizing the means of production, he talks

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about Marxism. He says we're going to run government grocery stores.

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Like when he says we're going to tax the billionaires.

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There shouldn't be any billionaires, right when he says all

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of these things, and oh no, no, no, no, that's

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a Pinocchio rating right there. We need a fact check

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on Aisle Zoron like.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 1: See, this is why I've been saying it. You guys

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on the left, you've become intellectually flabby. And I blame

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the media, as I do with most things, the things

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they devote attention to, and how they cover stories, story selection,

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all of this stuff. It's all part of the mix.

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When you don't push back on dumb assery coming out

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of the Democrats' mouths, right, you just make them weaker.

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Now whether or not the reporters are intellectually incapable of

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pushing back or asking questions because they are just so

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far partisan gone, you know, they are just in lockstep

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with the ideology that these thoughts don't have a cross

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their mind. Right, This this playing of devil's advocate, and

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it's not part of their repertoire. They don't know how

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to do it for a Democrat, and that's possible. The

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only arguments that they can get into are against Republicans

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because they're Nazis. So yeah, on this d banking issue,

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this is a good example of it. Alison Morrow's piece

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at CNN, who then says, we're gonna unpack what d

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banking is and why it's become a go to complaint

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for conservative groups, crypto industry advocates, and the president. So

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we're gonna explain it to you, CNN reader and viewer.

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We're gonna tell you why this is all just much

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to do about nothing. This is zim Molehill being made

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into a mountain by Donald well Trump, the Nazi Orange Nazi.

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who you are visit creativideo dot com. Got a message

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from Russ, who says, I'm old enough to remember social

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media posts and videos and articles recommending D banking for

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people who chose not to get the COVID vaccine. Well, Russ,

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that's because you're so much older than I am. That

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was before my time. That's ancient history. Now, who could

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remember such a thing. CNN's going to give us the

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rundown on what d banking has been, and broadly, D banking,

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CNN reports, is an umbrella term for when a bank

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turns away a potential customer. It's actually not the case

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right out of the gate. She's wrong. D banking is

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when they say you have to leave their bank when

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you have an account, you have a relationship, and then

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the bank says, take all your money and leave. We

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don't want you as a client anymore, she says. And

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this could happen for a ton of reasons. Maybe you've

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got bad credit or a history of not paying loans,

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or associations with criminal enterprises or business movel potentially based

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on selling unregistered securities in a highly volatile and speculative

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financial ecosystem. Or I will add, maybe you work in

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the porn industry where this stuff first started happening, as

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I mentioned earlier. Or you are a gun shop owner,

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Second Amendment advocacy group, you know, stuff like that. She says,

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to be clear, Americans don't have a legal right to

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a bank, and it's not unusual for a bank to

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reject a person or business they see as risky. That's

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not what we're talking about, CNN. Not the same thing.

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D banking became an issue because banks weaponized access to

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their service against conservatives. That's when this happened. As you

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just heard the Democrat guy Dan Turnantine explain, he was

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against this. He urged people don't do this. His fellow

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Democrats don't do this. This is the pendulum swinging back

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the other direction. She then says, this has long caused

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problems for undocumented people. Well, yes, if you don't have

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documents because you are an illegal alien, then yes, I see,

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that would be a problem except for Bank of America.

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Remember when they started opening bank accounts for anybody, you

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didn't need those types of identification. This was gosh, twenty

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years ago. More recently, the term has been co opted

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by conservative groups. It's not a co opting. Alison Morrow

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it's not a co opting of the term. It is

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the proper use of the term. The banks co opted

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the practice to weaponize it against conservatives, that's what happened.

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But conservatives groups see themselves as victims of a left

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wing value system that's can root across corporate America. Yeah,

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it did. That's why we got all these ridiculous statements

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in the wake of the death of Saint George Floyd.

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As Dan Turntyne explained and as Sean Spicer pointed out,

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this is why the cryptocurrency industry is joined at the

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hip with the Republican Party. Now, that's why the two

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industries are getting along, or the industry and the party.

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That's why they're getting along is because they recognize now

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the importance of having an alternative way to keep your

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money safe, to keep it away from government and left

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wing business leaders that try to punish people for holding

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double plus un good thoughts. Now, I mentioned earlier about

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how the left constantly uses these terms, like, you know,

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the Republicans are Nazis and all of that. David Strom

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had a up on this yesterday. Actually, he said, if

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the Pravda media, which is his term legacy media, if

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they challenged Democrats every time they compared Republicans to Nazis.

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How long before the Democrats tried a less insane tactic.

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My prediction is it would happen pretty quickly. Right as

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annoying as it is to be compared to Nazis, it's

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not hard to see why Democrats keep doing it, and

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it is because the media encourages them to do so

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because they never question them on it. PolitiFact will write

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a long and detailed explanation defending Mamdani even though he

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says things like sees the means of production, he wants

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to eliminate private property right. But if Mamdanni were to

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accuse a Republican of being a Nazi, well, then the

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media nods along, and that gives them the permission structure

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to keep using the terms. And this is a problem

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because legacy media still remains influential even among people who

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mistrusted Look First. They still have the privilege of determining

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the Overton window. Like the things that are acceptable to

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talk about in political discourse. That's the Overton window. Although

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Donald Trump yes has managed to expand that window significantly.

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You never hear about far left groups or politicians, but

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everybody to the right of John McCain or Mitt Romney

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is far right. And when they were running for president

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by the two By the way, those two were also

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considered to be far right, but now they're not right

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because they lost. This influences the thinking of people who

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believe themselves to be centrists, and they don't like the

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extremes in both parties. By defining the quote extremes, the

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media substantially shifts the Overton window to the left. And

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all the Nazi talk is absurd, yes, and even most

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people who hear it know that it is at best hyperbole.

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But the Democrats do it because the media wants to

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help them set the Overton window, which David Strom says

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brings him to his point that the media, even than

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the Democrats, they're the real enemies we have to fight.

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If the media held Democrats accountable to even minimal standards

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of truth and reasonable levels of hyperbole, we would have

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better Democrats and maybe even better Republicans. This is why

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I am so hard on media and have been for years.

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I was a reporter. I have seen this firsthand. If

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you guys hold democrats to a higher standard, you will

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get better democrats. Stop letting them get away with their

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dumb assery and their insane remarks. You're getting worse democrats.

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All right. That'll do it for this episode. Thank you

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