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two pieces, well, one piece of breaking news and then
another piece of almost breaking news. That's why they're pieces,
because it's already broken. But Dick Durbin US Senator Dick
Durbin from Illinois. After more than twenty eight years in
the US Senate, Dick Durbin announced on Wednesday that he
will not seek reelection, opening up a competitive Democratic primary
in a reliably blue state. Durbin is the fourth Democratic
Senate to announce their retirement this year, following Senators Jean Shaheen,
Gary Peters, and Tina Smith. Durbin is eighty years old,
sharp as attack running rings around his twenty year old staffer.
As I am told, he was first elected to the
US Senate in nineteen ninety seven and is the longest
serving party whip in Senate history. He has been a
strong advocate for pathways to citizenship for immigrants and regulation
for the tobacco industry. Imagine if that's how after what
forty years or so, sorry, twenty eight years in the
US Senate, that that's how they sum up your career,
that you were an advocate for amnesty and an opponent
of tobacco. That's what you get in your political gravestone.
H Well, I mean they can all be home runs.
I guess. Okay, So so Dick Durbin retiring after this
is his he won't run for reelection. I don't see
where When is he up? When is his I don't
know if he was, I don't know if his seat
is up in twenty six. It very well might be.
I assume it. I assume it will be, because this
would be about the time that you would make that
kind of an announcement for a twenty twenty six reelection campaign.
So he's out. Also out Klaus Schwab, the q tip
sounding founder of the World Economic Forum, best known for
looking like a Bond villain and for hosting an annual
meeting of political, business and other elites in the Swiss
alpine town of Davosh. He is retiring as chairman more
than a half century after creating the Geneva based think tank.
Quoted Schwab, who is eighty seven, in a statement as
saying that he was stepping down with immediate effect. Former
Nessle chairman and CEO Peter Brebeck Ledmatte was unanimously selected
as interim chairman by the Forum's board at a special
meeting that was held on Sunday. A search committee has
been set up to choose the permanent's successor. So why
is he stepping down? Well? The World Economic Forum apparently
launched an investigation into him after a whistleblower letter alleged
financial and ethical misconduct by the longtime leader and his wife.
The anonymous letter was sent last week to the Forum's
board and raised concerns about the forum's governance and workplace culture,
including allegations that the Schwab family mixed their personal affairs
with the World Forums resources without proper oversight, and included
allegations that Klaus asked junior employees to withdraw thousands of
dollars from ATMs on his behalf, and that he used
WEF funds to pay for private in room massages at hotels. Well,
I mean, managing all of the resources of the world
is a difficult thing. You got to have a way
to unwind, you know. It also alleged to his wife, Hilda,
a former World Economic Forum employee, scheduled token WEF funded
meetings in order to justify luxury holiday travel at the
organization's expense. In recent days, Schwab argued against any investigation,
telling board members that he denied the unsubstantiated allegations and
that he would challenge them in a lawsuit that David
Strom at hot air dot com says he doubts this
investigation is really about defending the corporate till from being raided.
Shaub is eighty seven, and in recent years, the rise
of his public profile, including the bond villain wardrobe and
the creepy German accent, have seemingly made him irresistible to
the glitterati but repulsive to the masses, who see the
WEF as the central nervous system of globalism. He said,
the allegations are probably true, but also ridiculous. Far be
it from me to defend Schwab in any way, he says,
But the whole point of the globalist agenda is to
create a world where the technocratic elite gets to live
the high life at the expense of everybody else. He's
just living his truth. He's living his brand here people.
Does anybody seriously believe the forum's board gives a wit
about massages or luxury vacations? They do the same thing,
I'm sure so Still I don't know. Like, here's the thing.
Not a fan of Klaus Schwab, I too recognize him
as the bond villain that he obviously is. However, he
so fits the part. You know that I'm worried that
the next guy that gets in there is going to
be as bad or worse as Schwab. But he's going
to be more palatable, you know, he's gonna be a
little bit more of an acceptable figure. He's not going
to have the creepy accent like the guy did in
Lethal Weapon two right, dip the metic immunity. He's not
gonna be He's not gonna sound like that. He's not
gonna he's not gonna be you know, old and withered,
bald head looking like the Emperor and Star Wars wearing
that kind of weird Star Trek outfit at the podium.
It's like, I just we're gonna look back and we're
gonna say we miss Schwab because he made opposition to
the WU so much easier, so much easier. Alrighty. Meanwhile,
up in Minneapolis, Minnesota E, a progressive district attorney has
declined to charge Tim sorry, not Tim Walls, but a
Tim Walls led Minnesota anyway. No, the guy's name is
Dylan Brian Adams. Didn't he sing that song I Would
Do Anything for You in the Robinhood movie. I'm just
kidding now, No, I know he's blood on the tracks.
This progressive DA has declined to charge a state employee
named Dylan Brian Adams caught on video multiple video tapes
causing twenty thousand dollars worth of damage to Tesla vehicles,
and the local police chief not happy ripping the DA.
This is Hennepin County District Attorney Mary Moriarty. Instead of
filing or seeking the criminal charges, they offered him a
deal and he'll get to do diversion. And she says,
this is so this way the victims of the vandalism
will be able to get repaid. But the police chief
is like, no, we did the investigation. These are felony
charges and we were not consulted, and like, if you
got any problems with this, contact the DA's office because
we're pretty ticked off about it. All right, If you're
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hang on, I'm seeing from Legal Insurrection Durbin. Senator Dick
Durbin will end his term January twenty twenty six. So
he's going to let the governor of Illinois appoint his replacement.
So they so they get a leg up on the
twenty twenty six campaign. What is it with Democrats trying
to rig elections? Guys? What are you doing? This is
what got Blogoyevitch thrown in jail, right because Obama did
the same thing when he ran for president. Blogoyevitch was
then like auctioning off the Senate seat. So corrupt. Just
finish the rest of your term and let somebody else
run for office like normal. Why do you got to
step aside in January in order to give somebody like
an inside track to the incumbency. It's just this is
why I call them the Democrat Party not the Democratic Party,
because they just behave in undemocratic ways. They try to
just constantly rig this stuff, put their thumbs on the
scales in order to try to influence outcomes. It's almost
like they don't actually trust the people to decide. In
the Democrat primary itself, these are your own people, These
are your own voters, all right. Anyway. So up in Minnesota,
Hennepin County, da Mary Moriarty will seek diversion rather than
criminal charges against Dylan Bryan Adams, who was caught on
tape keying and vandalizing various Tesla vehicles, stripping the paint
and such, and making markings all over them as he
walked his dog around the city. The police Chief, Brian
O'Hara said at the time of the incident that the
damage in each case was the equivalent of a felony.
The chief said in a scathing statement that Moriarty's decision
not to bring charges is frustrating for his officers and
the public. The Minneapolis Police Department did its job, he says.
It identified and investigated a crime trend, defied and arrested
a suspect, and presented a case file to the Hennepin
County Attorney Office for consideration of charges. This case impacted
at least six different victims and totaled over twenty thousand
dollars in damages. Any frustration related to the charging decision
of the Hennepin County Attorney should be directed solely at
her office. Our investigators are always frustrated when the cases
they poured their hearts into are declined. In my experience,
the victims in these cases often feel the same way. Yeah,
and he is exactly correct. He is exactly correct. Hang
on a second, I'm looking for the other article that here.
It is. This is legal insurrection dot com. Fantastic website.
By the way, Dylan Adams a fiscal policy analyst for
Minnesota's Department of Human Services. Employee. This guy's a state
employee at the Health Department, thirty three years old, arrested
for allegedly causing twenty k worth of damage to at
least six Tessela vehicles in downtown Minneapolis. According to the report,
potential criminal charges remain on the table if he were
to engage in similar behavior in the future. A spokesperson
for Hennepin County District Attorney spokesman by the name of
Daniel bor gerd Poeting bor Borger Poping, Paping, Burger Paping. Okay,
that's a really long last name, Like just put a
hyphen in the middle of that or something whatever. Our
main priorities are to secure restitution for the victims and
hold mister Adams accountable. As a result, we will file
for pre charged diversion to best facilitate both of those goals.
So diversion so the pre charge, which means they're not
going to charge him, so he will have a clean record.
This is an approach taken in many property crime cases
and helps to ensure the individual keeps their job and
can pay restitution, as well as reducing the likelihood of
repeat offenses. Criminal prosecution remains a possibility should unlawful behavior continue.
The attorney for Adams said, my client is very remorseful
for his actions and is beginning the process of making
sure the victims are made whole financially. We are grateful
for the Hennepin County Attorney's office exercise of prosecutorial discretion
and apologize to the victims and law enforcement. Elizabeth Staufer,
writing at Legal Insurrection, says Adams should be grateful. He
is only remorseful because he was caught and publicly humiliated.
This should be no surprise, though. First Hennepin County DA
Mary Moriarty, Soros backed attorney, developed a reputation for lean
and see, at least for those with the right political affiliations.
Even the progressive Attorney General of the state, Keith Ellison,
classed with her over her soft on crime approach during
her first year in office. The New York Post lists
the examples. Her first week in office, she dropped the
charges against a thirty five year old man accused of
raping a teenage girl, and in another high profile case,
she was taken off a case of murder twenty three
year old Zariah McKeever, after the progressive prosecutor offered slaps
on the wrist for the teenage defendants. Just days before, Adams,
by the way, went on this vandalism spree against the tesselus.
You'll recall his boss, Minnesota Governor Tim Walls, publicly vilified
Elon Musk during a town hall in Youngstown, Ohio, and
he said, quote, what we should demonize is people like
Elon Musk. I've been saying this for a few years now.
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Here's a tweet from Eric. It's a peat tweet. Eric
says that the guy who vandalized the cars already engaged
in quote unquote similar behavior. He victimized at least half
a dozen people, and the leftists will continue claiming that
the crime isn't a problem because there are no charges
or convictions in his case. This prosecutor is a disgrace
and federal charge or just must be brought. There is
no word yet on whether the US Department of Justice
will you investigate this or bring charges or anything. Pam
Bondi's office hasn't said anything about that, but she has
in the past said that they are investigating these acts
against Tesla vehicles and dealerships as domestic terrorism, so we
shall see next. Have you heard of a guy named
Nicholas Decker. He is a George Mason University Economics PhD student,
and he is a leftist, and in his profile he
calls for more open borders now as what he says,
among other things, he wants to spend more money on
drugs as well. I'm not sure if that's like the
illicit kinds or or like government funding or whatever, but
either way, he made a bit of news the day
when he wrote on his blog a piece called when
must we Kill Them? When Must we Kill Them? As
the headline, And he starts off much like the Declaration
of Independence, listing the offenses in his mind at least,
But he starts off. I won't read the whole list
of his grievances because they're hyperbolic, catastrophizing and imagined transgressions.
But he starts off by saying evil has come to America.
The present administration is engaged in barbarism. So you get
the flavor of what follows from there. If you think
that what we're seeing is barbarism, I would invite you
to look up the slaughtering that is occurring in African
nations by Muslims against Christians. I believe there were two
hundreds slaughtered during the Holy Week. Islam means peace, okay,
what remains for us to decide? After he lists all
the parade of horribles, he says, what remains for us
to decide is when we fight, and considering the grip
strength of gen zs, I like my chances. By the way,
if the present administration wills it, it could sweep away
the courts, it could sweep away democracy, and it could
sweep away freedom. Protest is useful only in so far
as it can affect action. Our words might sway the
hearts of men, but not of beasts. Note the dehumanization.
It's always a vital part to any kind of a revolution, right.
You have to You got to break down people's psyche
if you're going to get them to go murder people.
That's one of the deals. I remember talking to the
historian doctor Bill Forston, also the author of One Second After.
He was actually on the other day with Vince Coakley,
and I've known Bill for years. He lives in western
North Carolina. Used to have him on the show regularly
when I worked up in Ashville and he and I
would have him on. I've had him on here on
the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg because that's really
like that's he is known for the books that he wrote,
but he is a historian. He teaches history, and the
Civil War is a big part of his focus. And
I remember one of the things that we talked about
at one point was how when after the battle was
over and they were pulling, they were they were retrieving
the arms, all of the rifles, and they found so
many of the rifles had because you know, have you
ever seen in the movies where you've got like you
gotta you know, you take your teeth and you rip
open the gunpowder pouch and you pour it down the barrel,
and then you got to put the wad down. You
got to stuff that thing down and you put the
you know, put the pellet in the bullet whatever, and
then you fire. So there was like this whole process
you had to do just to fire a single shot, right,
And what they found in the rifles afterwards, the whole
barrel was just filled with just the wads that were
just stuffed down because they would pick the gun because
they would run through. They'd be trying to go through
the mechanism, and then they just wouldn't shoot the gun.
It takes a lot to get people to engage in warfare,
and dehumanization is one of the tools that you'd use
against your enemy. Otherwise it's difficult to look at them
and pull the trigger. So I see this kind of
language as shall I adopt a word from the left problematic?
He says, if the prison administration chooses this course, then
the questions of the day can be settled not with legislation,
but with blood and iron. In short, we must decide
when we must kill them. None of us wish for war,
of course not. But if the present administration wishes to
destroy the nation, I would accept war rather than see
it perish. Why I thought it systemically, institutionally racist and
beyond redemption? What are you doing? Wouldn't you want it
to be torn asunder? He then says to his reader,
I hope that you would choose the same. But what
to do? The rot of the present administration runs deeper
than one man. The sacrifice of a hero is insufficient
to save our nation, And a gust of wind on
a summer day would not have saved us. What's he
talking about there, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump. But
for a gust of wind, his brains would have been
splattered all on the podium right for let us make
a mistake, He says, the problem is not one man,
but a whole class of people. If one head is
cut off, another would take its place. So it's not
just one guy, it's the entire administration. It's everybody that's
I guess in government at the federal level. It's every
MAGA supporter. No, like, that's what he's saying. This is
the imagery is he is conjuring up for his reader.
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student at George Mason University goes by the name of
Nicholas Decker self described liberal calls for open borders and
the murder of Donald Trump and all of his supporters
in a blog post which he made under his own name.
So in this post he says violence only makes sense
as part of coordinated strategy. This is why protests are important,
not as a way of changing the present administration's actions,
but as a way to coordinate a group. There may
come a time when we shall have no guarantee of freedom,
but the one which we make for ourselves. If it comes,
I tell you that there is no greater honor than
he who lays down his life for his friends. Until then, though,
we must wait. And when is that time? You ask? Well,
your threshold may differ from mine, but you must have one.
If the present administration should cancel elections, if it should
engage in fraud in the electoral process, if it should
suppress the speech of its opponents. So far, everything he's
listed is like bi right canceled elections. Check, engage in
fraud in the electro process. Check suppress the speech of
its opponent's. Check, oh, jail its political adversaries. Check ignore
the will of Congress. Check if it should directly spurn
the orders of the court. Check all of these are
reasons for revolution. Well by your own standard, then, dumbass,
we would already be in a shooting war, because if
those are your standards, then you can't be shocked if
other people were to adopt your standards, and those standards
would have been met under the previous administration, the other
team gets a turn at bet. I just always feel
the need to point that out to people who advocate
this sort of dumbassery. It may be best to stave
off and wait for elections to throw out this scourge,
but if it should threaten the ability to remove it,
we shall have no choice. See, you made me beat you,
don't you understand I didn't want to attack you, but
you left me no choice. We will have to do
the right thing. Oh there, it is the moral superiority, right.
I am better, I am morally superior. I occupy the
ethical high ground here, and so I will be doing
the right thing. But we will have to prepare ourselves
to die. I hope that we should conduct ourselves with
such courage that it will be our finest hour. I
expect that we shall do our duty. This is yet
another example of the cosplay right. Cosplay costume play right,
I think is what that stands for. Cosplay is well,
have you ever seen like a Star Trek convention or
a comic con or something like that where people dress
up in the costumes of superheroes or characters from movies
and the like. That's cosplay, and that's but this kid
is doing. He's costplaying as a violent revolutionary, and that's
being charitable. Okay, if I'm giving him the benefit of
the doubt, I don't actually think he's going to do this,
which he apparently admitted to to the Secret Service when
they paid him a visit. He concluded by saying that
this evil will not pass without blood, sweat, toil, and tears,
So harden your hearts and be prepared to die. Like
I said, hyperbolic, catastrophizing and imagined transgressions. So after this,
this dumbassary became known after he published it and some
people saw it and then went viral for its you know,
particularly acute form of dumassary. George Mason University put out
a statement saying that it is aware of a recent
essay published online by one of its students that has
created concern. Upon learning of the essay, George Mason University
police referred the matter to state and federal law enforcement
for evaluation of criminal behavior. George Mason condemns this and
all encouragements of violence. This is not the Mason way.
By the way, this guy also called for no civilian
ownership of guns. So I'm not exactly sure how you
engage in the violent revolution if you don't have firearms.
To do it. So he's anti Second Amendment but pro revolution,
violent revolution. Not again, not sure how he goes about
doing that. I'd like some just some practical questions on
that front. So then this from the Daily Dot dot com.
A PhD student studying economics at George Mason University was
visited by the Secret Service after published a viral essay
that questioned when it would be time to kill the
Trump administration and all of his allies. Of course I
throw that part in there and Daily Dot when they
wrote about this, and I believe they are like a
tech kind of website, but they put the word kill
in scare quotes, and I'm not sure why because he
literally uses the word right. The headline is when must
we kill them? So I'm not sure why you would
put the word kill as if it's like some I
don't know, metaphorical replacement word that you're using or how
he was just he wasn't using it literally. It was
a figurative use of the word kill when he said
we have to kill them all and then explained how
you would have to kill them all and then they
would be dead. Right, So anyway, he is quoted from
I guess this uh, he posted, I don't know if
this was on Twitter, but he said Secret Service came
by and we had a lovely chat discussion touched on
many points with an amicable resolution of differences. Conduct is
fully legal. He wrote. That post racked up three million views.
By the way, after posting that, authorities agreed that his
writing was protected under the First Amendment because abstract calls
for violence are protected. These are abstract calls. He's not saying, hey,
go hit this person at this time and place or whatever.
So it's more of just a it's more of just
a generalized call to murder people you see. Right wingers, though, responded,
here's a good one. I pulled that. They told you
it's legal to role play on the internet once you
admitted that you didn't mean the things you said, right,
and that that is the key here. He's like, I'm
just saying, if it ever got to something, it's all hypothetical.
It wasn't a direct call for violence. I wasn't saying
people need to go out and murder anybody, not right now.
I'm just saying, if any of these things were to happen, whatever, whatever.
In other words, what he's saying is I lied, right,
he's saying I lied about it. This isn't a direct
call for violence, even though he did. I read you
the part where he said your threshold may be different
than mine. Everyone's threshold will vary, right. And I've talked
about this for several years now. It was a research
paper done back in the sixties after the riots all
over the country, talking about the cascade effect of why
people pick up the rocks and bottles and engage in
the destruction of their own cities. And I think he
was a sociologist, had hypothesized there that everybody has their
own threshold, their own number. He called it. Where you know,
if I saw ten people throwing rocks through a windows,
and if ten is my number, then I would join them,
and that creates that cascade where the more people's numbers
get hit, the more people start engaging in the behavior.
And most people have numbers that are way higher than
the instigators of the initial violence. And that's what he's
talking about there, whether he knows it or not. Now,
the Network Contagion Research Institute at Rutgers University did a
report assassination culture, how burning tesla's and killing billionaires became
a meme esthetic for political violence, and what they found
was support for violence is part of a broader assassination
culture underpinned by psychological and ideological factors. Political violence targeting
Trump and Musk is becoming increasingly normalized, they wrote, So
this is a problem on the left. Following the attempted
assassination of Trump, tolerance and even add invocacy for political
violence appears to have surged, especially among politically left leaning
segments of the population. This pattern builds on a broader
trend that NCRI identified in two December twenty twenty four
reports that analyzed how viral social media narratives were legitimizing
political violence, particularly in the aftermath of the assassination of
the United Healthcare CEO. The reports found widespread justification for
lethal violence, including assassination, among younger, highly online and ideologically
left aligned users or losers. Oh no, I'm sorry users,
that's right, all right, that'll do it for this episode.
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