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Great show for you. Everything you need to

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know to get ready for the weekend on

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this Friday podcast, we begin next. First,

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I so want to urge you to

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prepare. I told you

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a few, what about two months

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ago, that I was

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putting my family on high alert to make

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sure that everybody knew where we were supposed

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to meet and everything else if things went

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to hell in a handbasket. That

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I was preparing to

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make sure that we had everything that we needed

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and then maybe just a little bit more for some

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of our neighbors. That

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we had curtailed our spending as much as

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we could to make sure that we were

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getting out of debt because trouble

0:41

is coming. And

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this is a warning.

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The time is growing very,

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very late. I

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want you to at least

0:54

look into protecting your savings,

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your investment for your 401k.

0:59

Please look into

1:01

how you can protect these

1:03

things, your investments, your money

1:06

with gold or silver. Gold

1:09

is expected to go through the roof.

1:12

It already has, I mean, it's

1:15

crazy what's happening right now. And

1:18

that's because the world has lost its mind

1:22

and it's only going to go up. I think don't

1:25

listen to me for investment advice. I'm just telling you

1:27

what I believe and what I do. Silver

1:29

is still at a pretty good price. And

1:32

that is going to be something that

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1:41

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you decide to buy, buy at Lear Capital 800

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2:19

missing tape. The bench is the

2:21

command back through home. Let's

2:25

talk about a few things. How

2:28

everything is changing, how the media is

2:30

being used to change things, and

2:33

this insane attack

2:35

on Elon Musk. Memory

2:40

is really kind of important. It's more

2:42

than a record. It's

2:44

more than the sum total of our experiences,

2:47

the chronicle of our lives, and

2:50

more than a tally of good and bad

2:52

lessons learned. Although it is

2:54

those things as well, but fundamentally

2:57

our memory is the

2:59

key to who we are. Entities

3:06

which lose their memory, people,

3:08

groups, churches, nations, lose not

3:10

just the mere knowledge of

3:12

their past, of

3:16

who they were or have been, but

3:19

they also lose the knowledge of

3:22

themselves, the knowledge of their purpose, of

3:25

who they are, who they're meant to be. They

3:27

lose the present and the future.

3:31

Remember when you were a kid, it seemed

3:33

like everybody on TV suffered from amnesia at

3:36

some point. I thought amnesia

3:38

would play a big role in life.

3:40

No, it doesn't. It's like Gilligan's Island

3:42

in the quicksand. I've

3:44

never run into quicksand

3:46

ever before and I've never

3:49

had amnesia. Although some days

3:51

I'd like to have amnesia. But

3:55

we are memory holding things. What

3:58

is the memory hole? The

4:00

memory hole was

4:04

in the, I think it was the

4:07

Ministry of Love, where you were taught

4:09

to hate and the

4:12

Ministry of Truth, where you were

4:14

taught what lies were and

4:18

you were forced to do it in 1984. Memory hole was a door in

4:21

every room where people

4:26

were being taught the truth. And

4:29

you'd open up the little door and you'd

4:32

take whatever the truth was, all of

4:34

the photos, the documents, and you'd throw

4:36

them in the memory hole. And at

4:39

the bottom of the memory hole was

4:41

a fiery furnace. And so

4:43

it would burn up all the

4:45

record and it was in the memory hole. You

4:49

don't retrieve that in

4:51

the memory hole. It's gone. When

4:55

you lose the knowledge of yourself,

4:57

the knowledge of your purpose, what

4:59

you were meant to be, you

5:04

are truly lost. Think

5:06

of any movie or series that starts with a hero waking

5:10

up to find their memory gone. Their

5:14

fundamental character traits may remain,

5:18

but they're unmoored. Not

5:21

only unable to recognize family

5:23

from strangers, but without knowledge of

5:25

who they are and what that

5:27

means and how they should act

5:29

next. All of a sudden there somebody throws a

5:32

blow and they're like, and

5:38

they're able to just take on anybody.

5:40

Whoa, what kind of

5:42

man am I? Am I a

5:46

killer? They don't know. It

5:50

leaves people open to manipulation,

5:52

to being reprogrammed with lies

5:55

by whatever bad actor wants

5:58

to use them for their own purpose. purposes.

6:01

Have you seen Argyle yet? It's exactly what

6:03

I'm talking about. This

6:07

is also true for societies. If

6:10

we forget our stories, if we

6:12

stop telling them or allow others

6:14

to edit them to suit their

6:17

purposes, we lose them. Forget

6:20

both who we are and who we

6:23

can and should be and we leave

6:25

ourselves open to anyone with an alternate

6:27

story to tell. This

6:30

is what's happened to religion,

6:32

Christianity. We stopped reading

6:34

the Bible and so now we're listening

6:36

to scientists and atheists

6:39

and people who are saying, live

6:41

for today man. What's

6:43

wrong? What's wrong with that? I

6:46

mean, okay. So you

6:49

know, OJ Simpson killed the ice cream

6:51

guy. What's the problem? He was just

6:53

living his life on his terms. There

6:56

is a problem. We

7:01

forget who we are, who

7:03

we serve and

7:06

we leave ourselves open. Now

7:08

this is the open intent of the 1619 project

7:12

and Howard's in. It's

7:15

the logic behind the many

7:18

re-imagining policies behind

7:21

the words of Michelle

7:23

Obama. Barack knows that we are going to

7:25

have to make sacrifices. We are

7:28

going to have to change our conversation. We're

7:30

going to have to change our traditions, our history.

7:32

We're going to have to move into

7:35

a different place as a

7:37

nation to provide the kind of future that we

7:39

all work. This is

7:41

the trade of every

7:44

post-modern, post-western, post-Zionist, post-monotheistic,

7:46

radical atheist, thinker, Marxist

7:51

or leader. Just

7:53

forget the stories of our founding

7:56

and our purpose. Remember

8:02

who you are, Simba.

8:06

Remember who you are. Wow, that seems

8:09

kind of important that Simba remembers his

8:11

roots. Why is it not so

8:13

important for us? These

8:16

stories that tell us why we're here and

8:18

what we're here to do. We

8:22

have new stories for you. Stories

8:24

that will tell us we're all born in sin, that

8:27

we're all irredeemably evil, that

8:31

we should be torn down forever because then

8:33

we can go ahead and do so. It's

8:36

always the same. First the

8:38

old memories are torn apart, the

8:40

old stories. They have to be

8:43

denied, delegitimized, erased. And

8:45

then the new more suitable enlightened

8:47

ones can replace them. Some

8:51

including maybe many

8:54

on the left truly believe the

8:57

old stories are garbage but

8:59

they haven't done their homework. They

9:03

truly believe the new stories are true but

9:06

they often openly believe that

9:09

they believe this all while denying

9:11

the foundation of the old stories.

9:14

Still they can enjoy

9:16

the fruits of what's built on that

9:18

foundation, the material and moral benefits that

9:21

they take for granted and are currently

9:23

destroying because it's all they've ever known.

9:26

But cut flowers are not

9:28

life. What

9:30

happens? You cut a flower and

9:32

they fade, wilt and die. They're

9:37

a silent memory of what was

9:40

and what could have been. To

9:46

misquote Patrick Rothfrost, all

9:48

around them hangs the cut

9:50

flower silence of a beauty of a culture

9:53

waiting to die. They

9:55

don't produce any seeds. There's no

9:57

next generation of flowers. When they

9:59

fade only rot will

10:02

remain. What was will

10:04

be no more. We are cutting

10:06

the flowers of our future. The

10:10

ultimate responsibility and possibly the

10:12

solution is found with us.

10:15

This only happens if

10:17

we allow someone to cut us from the

10:20

root. We

10:23

must tell our stories. We must

10:25

tell the truth. We must tell

10:27

the stories of our own lives,

10:29

of our families. You know

10:31

why our families are so broken? Because

10:34

we don't know where we came from.

10:36

And I don't mean as a people,

10:38

I mean as individuals. We don't know

10:40

the stories of how we got here.

10:44

We're all immigrants. That's

10:47

what everybody says. We're all immigrants. But how many

10:49

of us know who brought

10:51

the family here? Why

10:54

they brought the family here? What it

10:56

cost them? We

11:00

should do this on every available occasion.

11:02

Family meals, trips, dates, nights

11:05

out with friends. Honestly, because

11:07

of everybody having a phone, we're

11:10

losing them at a faster rate now.

11:12

I remember sitting at the

11:14

table, having to sit at the table while

11:16

everybody was talking and all the holidays and

11:18

everything else. And you would look at

11:20

your sister or your brother and be like, if I have to

11:22

hear this one more time, you'd

11:25

hear the same stories over and over again. Yes.

11:27

And that's why you know

11:29

them. Are they happening in

11:31

your family? Quite

11:35

essentially, that's what holidays and rituals

11:38

are for. Christmas displays

11:40

and Hanukkah's, menorahs.

11:43

If it's done right, they tell a story. If

11:47

in the telling, the story grows in

11:50

some ways, acquiring new depth, new focus,

11:52

more profound meaning, all

11:55

the better. If it

11:57

accumulates, anecdotes, commentary, interpretation,

12:02

It becomes richer, turns

12:05

more and more from an account of

12:08

something that happened into a story, something

12:10

rich with meaning and lessons as

12:13

well as deeds and facts. Our

12:17

holidays, 4th of July,

12:21

what is it? We

12:23

don't even call it Independence Day, we call it 4th

12:25

of July. It's

12:29

about what? Barbecues?

12:32

Maybe fireworks? Getting

12:35

sunburn? Those

12:38

are important. But

12:40

how many of us are telling the story? I

12:44

know it's awkward and weird at first. This

12:48

is the week of Passover. This

12:53

is what Passover is all about. The

12:59

Seder night is

13:02

exactly what we need to be doing.

13:04

The entire purpose of that

13:07

is to tell the story, to discuss

13:09

it so it and its

13:11

lessons can be carried on alive for

13:13

another generation. It's been working for the

13:15

Jews for about 3,000 years. As

13:20

Christmas and Easter has kind of

13:22

done with Christians, but that's

13:25

going away. 4th

13:28

of July is going away. Everything

13:30

in our society is pushing

13:32

our kids away from the

13:35

stories which means away from

13:37

the truth of who they

13:39

are, where they came

13:41

from, why we're here

13:43

as a people. I'm

13:47

here because I'm

13:49

going to be famous on

13:52

TikTok. Oh, that's

13:56

why you were born? Okay.

14:06

Perhaps more effort on the

14:09

storytelling, rather than

14:11

the grilling, could help us with some of

14:13

the holidays like Independence

14:15

Day. And

14:18

with other stories we dare not forget.

14:23

Memory requires a conscious effort,

14:26

a choice, a ritual. It

14:29

requires that a story be told

14:31

over and over and over again.

14:35

Do you notice that there is

14:37

a story being told now to

14:39

Americans, about Americans, to the world?

14:42

And it's being told over and over

14:44

and over again. And

14:47

look how quickly,

14:50

because we have a void in our own

14:52

homes, look how

14:54

quickly everything's being

14:56

lost. The

15:01

first thing we have to do is know

15:03

the truth and

15:05

then stand up for the

15:07

truth. Stand up to say,

15:09

no, you have no right

15:12

to memory hole in an

15:14

event. You're listening to

15:16

the best of the grilling. So

15:19

once in a while somebody comes along

15:21

that I really am

15:23

excited to talk

15:26

about. On

15:28

the podcast this week, we

15:32

have Alex Newman. And

15:36

I think he is a writer that I

15:38

think I probably recommend

15:40

to my producers,

15:43

probably more than any other writer. He

15:47

really, really gets it. And

15:50

I talked to him about the

15:53

world at large, because he's just come out

15:55

with a new book on education. And

15:58

He's also... The.

16:01

Deep down the rabbit hole. Of.

16:03

The destruction. Of

16:05

America and why America is

16:07

being destroyed in what the

16:09

plan is. And. We

16:12

talked about conspiracies and

16:14

conspiracy theories. What's

16:17

good? What's bad? What do we

16:19

really need to know? I'm see

16:21

Talks about the fifty in five

16:23

plan. We. Didn't

16:26

to your above this here's cut Nine,

16:28

please. Tell me about the

16:30

safety and five Plan to the Un

16:32

has partnered with Bill Gates on this

16:35

with a con. Digital Public infrastructure is

16:37

very fancy term an attic. The simplest

16:39

way to understand his are building a

16:41

giant digital grew lag for all of

16:44

humanity. So the Human Development program that

16:46

has officially launches it was officially launched

16:48

at the end of last year's are

16:50

there any gets fifty gun or they

16:53

com country's been really mean governments to

16:55

impose at least some major element of

16:57

this digital public infrastructure on. Their population

16:59

within five years says on it's pay for

17:02

it's digital I these nine and those are

17:04

already emerged. In fact many states are are

17:06

developing his I just went to the airport

17:08

yesterday. It's are you can scan your digital

17:11

Id to our current so that's happening and

17:13

that's that's really one of the main reasons.

17:16

For. The Coven. Absolute nonsense.

17:18

The architecture that was laid down is the

17:20

backbone of this global control. Ordered that they're

17:22

building so you've got the central bank digital

17:25

currencies which are already being unveiled. Had that

17:27

they've already been at release a economic forum

17:29

to send a few days ago. Ninety eight

17:31

percent of think they're miss central banks in

17:34

the world are working on the Cbd sees

17:36

at once they're fully operational. I guarantee you

17:38

they're gonna start waging war on task much

17:40

more openly. The say it's a tool for

17:43

terrorists and attempts and and I read nasty

17:45

Thing tax cheats and maintenance and. Then.

17:47

You've got the the payment processing systems

17:49

and you've also got that. We we

17:51

just had the head of the World

17:54

Health Organization talk about this recently. The

17:56

digital Health certificate, the digital vaccine passports,

17:59

They're taking. What? the? you developed during the

18:01

COVID, which by the way, the European

18:03

Commission was promoting vaccine passports in May

18:05

of 2019, long before anybody ever heard

18:07

of a COVID or anything like that.

18:10

So they're taking all of this together

18:12

and they are using it to build

18:14

a control system that will not just

18:16

be able to surveil and monitor everything

18:18

you do on an unprecedented scale when

18:20

you combine it with AI, the ability

18:23

to make sense of all this data.

18:25

It's just mind blowing, but also

18:27

to manipulate what you do. And

18:30

so they're talking about this again pretty openly.

18:32

If you look at the World Economic Forum

18:35

meetings, they talk about the benefits of programmable

18:37

central bank digital currency, where they will be

18:39

able to say who can buy what, when

18:41

under what conditions, and then the bank for

18:43

international settlements. Carol Quigley, to go back to

18:46

him for a moment, Bill

18:48

Clinton's mentor, the guy who really exposed

18:50

this global agenda to create a one

18:52

world system, he said the apex of

18:54

the system is going to

18:56

be the bank for international settlements. This is an

18:58

institution that's almost entirely unknown to Americans. And

19:01

what they are working on right now, and this is not

19:03

a secret, it's not a conspiracy because it's not happening behind

19:05

closed doors, is what they call a

19:08

universal blockchain ledger. They want to

19:10

tokenize every asset in the known

19:12

universe, every farm, every car, every

19:14

house, every tree, put it on

19:17

this ledger, this blockchain ledger, and

19:19

then you're only able to interact

19:21

with this blockchain ledger using your

19:23

biometric digital ID, using your

19:25

central bank digital currencies. So if I want to buy

19:28

something from you, I can't just hand you a hundred

19:30

dollar bill. I've got to go on my device, connect

19:33

to this blockchain system, transfer the central

19:35

bank digital currencies to you. And

19:37

so this is a mechanism for controlling humanity

19:40

that I think is really unprecedented in human

19:42

history. And when you take it all together,

19:44

it's very obvious. Can I tell you something?

19:49

Ten years ago, I would have thought

19:52

that was absolute madness. 2016,

19:54

I might have thought that... You

20:00

know where we're at Wet Miss Making of. I.

20:03

Would have thought it was a lot

20:05

farther down the road than we could.

20:08

With. That we would ever get to anything like

20:10

that. We. Are so

20:12

close. To. That being

20:14

a reality, The infrastructure. Is.

20:17

Almost all complete, All.

20:20

We need is some sort of

20:22

an event. We.

20:24

Have weekend or kids. We.

20:27

Have weekend of health. We.

20:30

Have weekend our ability just

20:32

a stand up. We've.

20:35

Weekend the every single institution.

20:39

We've. Spent like money was going out of

20:41

style. We. Didn't

20:43

save and what we did

20:45

save they've destroyed through inflation.

20:49

Now. I. Just want you to

20:51

go back. Think of how many times

20:53

you have been told something is a

20:55

conspiracy theory. Did.

20:58

You did you hear? I mean them? The latest

21:00

came out yesterday. Natural. Gas

21:02

has now been banned. Natural

21:04

gas stoves has been banned

21:07

in all. Of Federal

21:09

buildings, you cannot have it in

21:11

federal buildings. You remember when they

21:13

said that was a crazy conspiracy

21:16

theory that that would never happens.

21:18

They're never going to do that.

21:20

They are banning natural gas. They.

21:23

Are doing everything they can

21:25

to stop natural gas. While.

21:28

They are also stopping. All.

21:32

Fossil Fuels. Know.

21:36

All. Shutting

21:38

down giants, loss of

21:40

oil fields, Because

21:42

they just passed a bill or

21:45

a sorry wrote a new regulation

21:47

ah where they are shutting down

21:49

all of the coal fired plants

21:52

by twenty thirty eight Is it.

21:55

Thirty. Seven Thirty Eight. That's

21:57

not that far away. Do

22:00

you know our power plants that generate

22:02

our electricity? The

22:05

majority of them are coal. That's

22:08

where we get our power out of that magic

22:11

little box, you know, by

22:13

the baseboard of your wall. That's

22:15

not a little magic box. That

22:18

comes from coal fire plants. Where

22:21

are you going to... Because you won't build

22:23

another nuclear power plant, which is the cleanest.

22:28

Right up next to that is

22:31

natural gas. We

22:34

were told natural gas was fantastic.

22:36

That's why California went to all

22:38

natural gas vehicles for the state,

22:41

remember, leading the way. Were

22:43

they lying then or are we lying now?

22:48

What are we going to replace that with?

22:51

And by the way, if we all have to plug

22:53

our cars in in 2034, we don't have the electricity

23:00

today. Before

23:02

they've broken the grid, we

23:05

don't have the power today. When

23:08

you shut down all of the

23:10

other electrical plants and you replace

23:12

it with magic fairy dust, how

23:16

are we going to drive or

23:18

are we not going to? Are

23:22

we going to really... without

23:27

choice? But

23:31

of course without force, you just won't be able to

23:33

do it. Gosh darn it. Are

23:36

we going to live in these 15 minute

23:38

walkable cities? I

23:40

have no problem with a walkable city. I

23:42

like walkable cities. When I lived

23:44

in New York, I loved it. I walked everywhere.

23:49

I also want to be able

23:51

to go someplace if I want

23:53

to. Did

23:57

you see that landing of Lufthansa? Yesterday?

24:02

I don't know. I'd be freaking out

24:04

if that was... That's Lufthansa! I

24:07

don't know if you know anything about

24:10

Lufthansa but they're Germans. Germans

24:13

tend to be accurate on things. You

24:15

know why? That was

24:17

a lesson. That

24:20

was a training lesson. You

24:22

have almost 400 people on a

24:24

plane and you're doing a train. Could

24:27

you post that on the front door? So

24:29

when I'm walking in, the pilot

24:32

is in training. Okay. Lufthansa!

24:38

Planes falling out of the skies. Can't

24:44

trust Boeing now. When? When?

24:47

When? Have we ever seen a

24:50

time when you can't trust Boeing? You

24:55

know yesterday the GDP came

24:57

out. For the

25:00

first quarter, our economy increased

25:02

at a rate of 1.6%. They

25:08

had been looking for an increase

25:11

of maybe two and a half, 3.4, previous

25:14

period 4.9, fourth

25:21

quarter, 2023, 4.9. That's

25:24

1.5. That's not good.

25:26

No, no,

25:32

no, but the economy is doing really well.

25:35

The economy is doing really, really well and so

25:37

you have nothing to worry about because

25:40

the experts, the one who brought us

25:42

this economy, the

25:45

ones who have engineered, socially

25:47

engineered all of this stuff,

25:50

the ones who have shut your local

25:52

restaurant down or your local business down

25:54

because COVID was so dangerous. Now

26:04

they're going after the unrealized

26:07

gains. Does

26:10

America have

26:12

any idea what this means?

26:16

It's part of the budget proposal for 2025.

26:23

If this guy is elected, this

26:25

is in the proposal for next

26:28

year's legislation and budget. They

26:32

want to raise an additional $4.3 trillion

26:38

by imposing a minimum tax equal to

26:40

25% of a

26:43

taxpayer's taxable income and

26:46

unrealized capital gains. So

26:54

your house, now

26:56

they're saying this is only for rich people. Yeah

27:02

that's what Woodrow Wilson said. We're going to tax

27:04

7% on only the top 1% and it will

27:06

never change. Within

27:10

three years it was 95% and everybody

27:13

was paying income tax. So

27:17

this is only for the very,

27:19

very wealthy. So if your

27:22

house is appraised and

27:24

it goes up, you

27:27

have to pay that unrealized capital

27:29

gains. So

27:31

if your house has gone up

27:34

by $100,000, congratulations, you now have

27:36

to pay, I'm not

27:43

even sure what it is, 25%. Where

27:50

are you going to get that money if you haven't sold your house? That's

27:54

the point. They

27:57

don't want you to own a house.

28:01

You won't own anything

28:04

and you'll be

28:06

happy. This

28:09

is a way for you to

28:12

not own anything.

28:19

What do you think that's going to do

28:22

to the economy? What

28:26

do you think it's going to do to

28:29

people's buying power? To

28:31

people going out and buying things other

28:33

than the government and

28:35

places like Black Rock? You

28:40

know, when we first

28:43

started talking about Obamacare, I think the

28:45

government controlled maybe 20-25% of the

28:47

economy. Somebody

28:50

have to look this up for me. I'm sure

28:52

these numbers are wrong but the directionally they're right.

28:56

You're approaching 50% of

28:58

the economy being controlled by the federal

29:00

government now, That

29:03

means you're

29:06

halfway there to communism. You're

29:09

halfway there to them controlling all

29:12

of the spending in America because

29:16

they control healthcare,

29:19

they control travel, they control

29:21

all of these different things that

29:23

answer to the government and

29:26

they're spending so much money,

29:31

they're buying all the drugs, they're

29:34

buying roads and bridges, all

29:36

of the concrete. They're

29:39

almost 50%. What

29:42

does the government create? What

29:46

is it we have as an asset? You

29:49

know, if they were out making money,

29:51

not taking money but making money

29:54

and buying assets with that, then

29:56

we could go, all right, that's

29:59

going to a appreciate in value but

30:01

nothing they make makes

30:04

money and everything

30:06

depreciates in value including

30:10

the dollar one

30:13

of the other things the best

30:15

of the best program

30:19

two years ago I had this guy

30:21

on Christopher Benson and he was he

30:23

was writing for the federal for the

30:25

time and he said

30:28

he had written a piece I think it was two

30:30

years after the lockdown

30:32

the lockdowns the West troubles aren't ending

30:34

they're just beginning and I thought he

30:36

had some real foresight and

30:40

boy was he right

30:42

about that Christopher Bedford Bedford now

30:44

is a senior editor for politics

30:46

Washington correspondent for the blaze media

30:49

he has written for the American

30:51

mind the Washington Examiner national review

30:53

the New York Post he

30:55

was the editor of chief for the

30:57

daily color news foundation and we're thrilled

30:59

to have him at the

31:02

blaze.com so so

31:05

help me out on this Chris because

31:09

I for the life of me I cannot

31:11

get my head around speaker

31:13

Johnson being a secret

31:16

spy do you

31:18

buy this well not

31:20

completely no and first of all it's great to

31:22

be on the pirate ship especially in these stormy

31:24

waters I think it's a

31:26

great crew to be sailing with thank you

31:29

here in DC but look

31:32

at our article that caught my eye was a 2018 daily

31:35

beast piece after he

31:37

beat after after Johnson became the

31:39

head of the Republican Study Committee which

31:42

was founded as a conservative committee but

31:44

was taken over by Republican leadership under

31:46

Boehner and kind of became a hangout

31:48

spot for Republicans that's kind

31:50

of started the Freedom Caucus now you

31:53

saw Johnson had been hanging out with the Freedom

31:55

Caucus he'd been going to their meetings he'd not

31:57

been paying dues which is a big faux pas

31:59

it's hard to collect those dues, but they

32:01

go to pain that the few shared staff

32:03

the Freedom Caucus has. He'd not

32:05

been participating, but he'd been going to

32:08

those meetings. So when he became the

32:10

new chairman of the Republican Study Committee,

32:12

a lot of his colleagues, Republican, more

32:14

liberal colleagues said, well, this guy's just

32:16

a double agent. He just sneaked on

32:18

here. He's pretending to not be part

32:20

of the Freedom Caucus, the conservative group,

32:23

but really, this is just a conservative takeover.

32:26

And I looked at that, and I looked at how since he'd

32:28

become speaker, someone who I had a lot of hope

32:30

for, you had a lot of hope for, I was

32:33

excited to see. Me too. Wow. This is

32:35

the first social conservative and Republican leadership in

32:37

decades who actually cares about this stuff. We

32:40

might have a fighting chance here. And

32:42

it's been extremely disappointing. So I think there's some...

32:45

That might be an understatement. You

32:49

know, there's a way that he seems

32:51

to negotiate, whether it's government funding, impeachment,

32:54

FISA, now Ukraine. And step one is

32:56

a major decision comes along his way. And then

32:59

he goes back and forth, step two, and he's

33:01

not sure what to do. He delays it as

33:03

long as he possibly can. Then he

33:05

kind of, he tweaks what was originally offered. He

33:07

pretends that it was a win. And he asked

33:09

Democrats to bail him out. That seems

33:12

to be what's going on here. So, but

33:14

when you look back at this Daily Beast piece, and you

33:16

look back at the people who've known him, and I've known

33:18

him to be a good man, which

33:21

by all accounts he is in his personal

33:23

life, you have

33:25

to wonder what could

33:27

be driving him. And it seems to be kind

33:30

of a classic case of Washington

33:32

DC, extreme ambition, an

33:34

ability to deceive himself, which is not too

33:36

uncommon. You think a lot of the folks

33:38

here in Washington are real hypocrites,

33:40

are real bad men who claim to be

33:43

doing the Lord's work when in fact they're

33:45

just doing their own. But a surprising amount

33:47

of them have really convinced themselves they are

33:49

on the good side, that they are on

33:51

that really creepy quote, the right side of

33:53

history, that they are the good guys

33:55

who are going to come and save the day. And

33:58

this is why the Lord put them there. And

34:00

it really feeds into an incredible ego,

34:02

an incredible amount of ambition, and

34:05

also just the sad reality that a lot of

34:07

these folks are pretty weak as

34:10

leaders and people. They're capable,

34:12

like many of us are, of standing at

34:14

the back of the crowd and saying, I

34:16

agree, this is bad, or being a backbencher

34:18

who says, I'm not sending any more money

34:20

to that bloodbath, or I'm not going to,

34:23

I'm going to vote to, I don't care

34:25

what the defense industry puts on me, I'm not going

34:28

to let women be drafted. It's easy to say that

34:30

when you're not the leader. But when

34:32

you're in the center and you take all those arrows

34:34

and all those slangs and all those scary skiff

34:36

meetings from the intel community, and

34:38

it's all on you, you have to answer for

34:40

that. Well, that's when you find out who's really

34:42

a leader and who's just ambitious. You

34:46

know, there's a, in your article

34:48

for Blaze, you've talked to a

34:50

lot of his colleagues. And

34:53

one of his senior staffers

34:56

that worked with him in 2018 said,

34:58

the speaker is someone who could forgive

35:00

himself for lying because he

35:02

thinks it's for a higher purpose.

35:04

He has an exceptional capacity for

35:06

self justification. That's

35:10

not good. I found no, it's

35:12

not good. And it's something that I found repeated

35:15

over and over again about

35:17

Johnson. You know, when

35:19

he, when he ran for speaker, it's kind of

35:21

a dark horse surprise candidate. A

35:23

lot of his colleagues, Republican colleagues, and even

35:25

the ones that are much more conservative, were

35:27

willing to say, you know, I know

35:29

him personally. He's a man of God

35:32

and therefore I trust him, but they didn't want

35:34

to look at the record. They didn't want to look

35:36

at, well, what happens when leadership puts a little bit

35:38

of pressure on him? How does

35:40

his vote change? Will he actually, his personal

35:44

religious beliefs and his commitments aside, how do

35:46

those actually shine as a statesman, as someone

35:49

who's willing to take the arrows for that,

35:51

those causes? And they don't. The

35:53

votes didn't back it up. But he, he

35:56

looked at this as what I've been told by his

35:58

colleagues as something that he They've

36:00

been put in this position he has

36:02

been chosen for this and if he

36:04

needs to lie if he needs to

36:06

deceive of nice twist arms to to

36:08

further it. When. He is on

36:10

the right side. That. Again, that creepy quote

36:12

that east I've heard him saying since the

36:14

right side of history. That. He the

36:17

other people on the wrong side of history and

36:19

the his actions can therefore be justified. Then we

36:21

we see this all the time. He seat and

36:23

levels like this with politics. You see it of

36:26

course a lot since twenty sixteen with a lot

36:28

of the last. Saying. That people

36:30

who support Donald Trump are basically the Nazis were

36:32

once you. Once you decide what's to say that

36:34

you're on the side of God or there on

36:36

the side of Hitler. Then. You can

36:38

justify a lot of actions that I

36:40

think a moral person would not otherwise

36:43

be able to justify. So what he

36:45

thinks coming for for him for for

36:47

the rest of us are we just.

36:50

Are we just. Stuck with a guy

36:52

who is. Ascetic. and

36:54

weeks now because the the

36:57

the Democrats could absolutely vote

36:59

keep him in. The

37:02

now I'm curious about that because everyone's on

37:04

recess right now and things are quieted down,

37:06

but them is cut the question. Where.

37:09

Everything is coming down next. How's

37:11

he going to be able to continue to govern

37:13

here? Right now he's

37:15

essentially even though his the speaker of

37:17

the house and supposedly the head of

37:19

a republican coalition. He's really

37:22

governing as a kind of a prime

37:24

minister of a centre left coalesce of

37:26

the Unit party which has always time

37:28

is governed d C but now is

37:30

really been open about it where he's

37:32

got half of republicans on a side

37:34

and about two thirds of democrats on

37:36

his side. To house actually

37:38

going to be able to. Pass. Anything

37:41

with that coalition know the demo for the

37:43

Democrats will protect him. The

37:45

Republicans a lot of them are never going to come back to.

37:47

I'm. What's. The actually going to

37:49

be able to do in. The next

37:51

couple weeks to sick as he I kind of

37:53

wonder if is lame lame duck. Leaker.

37:56

because he's got these folks but they've accomplished

37:58

or ninety five billion Then again,

38:00

there's also already leaked rumors that

38:03

they're planning the next big

38:05

handout to the Ukraine war, that they're

38:07

planning to come in September. And

38:10

I suspect that he'll still be speaker through September, but

38:12

what's going to happen in November is

38:14

either Republicans are going to lose their slim majority,

38:17

in which case he won't be speaker, or

38:19

they'll win it. And then he's going

38:21

to have to look around and find out

38:23

amongst those liberal Republicans who

38:26

are his allies, who is actually going to put him

38:28

up as speaker. And what are all

38:30

the alternatives? Right now, he's kind of running against

38:32

no one. So he could

38:34

maintain that, but it will be difficult.

38:37

You being in Washington, hanging out

38:39

or around these people all the time, watching

38:42

them, listening to them, what

38:45

do you think they think is coming

38:47

in November? I

38:51

think people, Republicans are cautiously

38:53

optimistic for a Donald

38:55

Trump victory. But of course,

38:58

there are a huge amount of shenanigans

39:01

that are already unfolding. There's worries about

39:03

what's going to be the new COVID,

39:05

what's going to be the new moral

39:07

panic that causes it. The

39:09

voting can't be done squarely and sold

39:12

to you of the public. The

39:15

Republican National Committee has been

39:17

trying to mix up its plan for

39:19

how to, whether it's going to do early voting, where

39:21

its lawyers are going to be. We

39:24

know that it's going to be, I think,

39:26

chaos. Either Donald Trump actually

39:29

wins and the left wing

39:31

takes the streets like they did in

39:33

2016, burning cars, attacking people, or

39:36

Donald Trump loses. And either way,

39:38

I think that a large part of this country

39:40

are going to not be satisfied

39:43

with the election results. The

39:45

tension that exists in 2016 has not gotten any

39:48

less. How do the Democrats feel to you? Confident?

39:53

Worried? No,

39:56

they were significantly more worried before

39:58

Joe Biden said it. The Be:

40:00

Yeah, yeah, did you saw that the Pages

40:02

The New York Times was supposed Msnbc People

40:04

openly wishing that they could have a different

40:06

candidates just like is on Twenty Twenty with

40:09

people wishing that it was Cuomo instead of.

40:11

Joe Biden. But. Will.

40:14

And will see a lot Actually this weekend

40:16

with the White House Correspondents' dinner I once

40:19

gonna be paying attention to Joe Biden remarks

40:21

are they. Clear. Of a concise diseases

40:23

as good as it's funny like he can be, one

40:25

is on like he was some point to the side

40:27

of the union. But. There's

40:30

a real of fear among democrats that

40:32

that Donald Trump is coming back, that

40:34

the constant cycle of drama that they

40:37

surrounded his entire four years with hasn't

40:39

stuck with the American people because so

40:41

much of a state, the much of

40:43

it was just impossible. Remember to there

40:45

were fake scandals. Democrats.

40:48

And town or not confident that they'll

40:50

get the White House. but they are

40:52

feeling fairly confident about Congress. Ah,

40:56

we're talking to a Crisp for Bedford.

40:58

He is see a blaze. Senior Media.

41:01

Political. Political Editor in the

41:04

Blaze Media Washington Correspondent. When.

41:08

Do they come back into session? Next

41:11

week. Short. Vacation in the

41:13

Senate was even cut down a little shorter

41:15

because I had sex their to stick around to

41:17

do the American people's business to them being sarcastic

41:20

on that his son and a half million

41:22

dollars the brought. Up

41:24

real quick. Any thoughts on the

41:26

Trump trial this week Biden said

41:29

or the D O J said

41:31

actually ah that Trump is the

41:33

first President face prison with criminal

41:35

prosecution because. Predecessors.

41:37

Other presidents just didn't commit any crimes.

41:40

Success! Success! I remember I'm Barack Obama. Left

41:43

off as out of Washington Post said it

41:45

was a scandal free administrator. yeah targeting their

41:47

recent that border agents if you disagree with

41:49

that. The. trump trial

41:51

is the enemy interesting is that new

41:54

york it's tough the judges obviously against

41:56

them but the prosecution has embarrass itself

41:58

so far The case is so

42:01

weak that you kind of forget that in

42:03

the hubbub of all the news that it's,

42:05

it's relying on a bunch of liars to

42:07

turn a misdemeanor that is outside of the

42:09

statute of limitations into a felony because of

42:12

another misdemeanor that can barely be cited. And

42:14

it took the prosecution two days even to

42:16

come up with that argument.

42:19

And at the same time, the Supreme Court

42:21

seems like it's going to crack down and

42:24

at least limit what the president

42:26

is able to do with his authority so

42:28

that will help push some of the

42:30

other trials back till after the election, if that happens.

42:32

But at the end of the day, it doesn't really

42:34

matter if Trump's in the prison cell or not because

42:37

he's not out campaigning. He's not able to leave New

42:39

York. He's, he's kind of stuck. He wasn't able to

42:41

weigh in on these last Capitol hill fights. Um,

42:44

he, they, they put him, they haven't put him

42:47

in a prison cell, but they somewhat put

42:49

him in a room and that's, that's something

42:51

that you'll see. And you'll probably see some

42:53

jokes about it that this, uh, big fancy

42:55

dinner they're having this weekend, they'll be laughing

42:57

at us about how they still managed to

42:59

stop the, probably the greatest campaigner in modern

43:01

history from being able to campaign. So do

43:03

you think that hurts him?

43:05

I mean, cause the people who are going to vote for him

43:07

are going to vote for him. Anyway. And

43:09

the ones who are the ones who,

43:12

you know, really they, they'd vote for

43:14

him, but they really don't like his

43:16

tweets and his personality and everything else.

43:19

By keeping him off the road

43:21

and yet still in the public

43:23

eye, you keep the

43:25

focus on Joe Biden and is

43:29

there any case to be made that's good

43:31

for Donald Trump? So

43:33

far it actually hasn't hurt him exactly to

43:35

your point. And the folks in

43:37

the suburbs who may be voted for Trump in 2016

43:39

and voted for Biden

43:41

in 2020, they're to your point, they're

43:43

not going to be swayed by a rally. They're not

43:46

going to be swayed by the kind of popcorn and

43:48

rah, rah that goes on at those fun events and

43:51

they, but they are being swayed a little bit

43:53

by the incredible unfairness. The question is whether or

43:55

not they're going to be able to actually get

43:57

felony charges on him because that's the kind of

43:59

thing that does spook. those easily frightened

44:01

voters. Yeah. All right. Thank

44:04

you so much. Really, really appreciate it, Chris. Thank you. It's

44:07

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