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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to Tuesday's episode of Trending: The Politics of Denial when Americans stop seeing the warning signs, or rather they do see them but choose to ignore them.
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Olympic sprinter, bedbound, 22 hours a day, blaming a former COVID infection that she didn't even know she had, so the media is pushing that propaganda train down the track.
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Australian MP fights for life after being run down by, they say, an anti-Israeli climate fanatic and Kenyan cult leader guilty of ordering followers to starve their children to death.
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So it's just another day in the madhouse then.
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The politics of denial when Americans stop seeing the warning signs.
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Now, this is an article by John Whitehead.
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You can find that at the Rutherford Institute.
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You can also find it on iconic.com and davidycke.com.
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Now, I was going to talk about obviously what's going on in France.
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My brother covered that yesterday.
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There are some elements that I wanted to go into in that that actually kind of come in, because everything's connected.
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They come into stories, including this one, but stories that I'm going to cover later on.
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So I'm going to do that.
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John Whitehead is a fantastic journalist, and he's definitely worth checking out.
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He's very good on mainly on American politics, not just Trump.
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This is what I like about John Whitehead.
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He calls out everyone.
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You know, it's not a partisan thing.
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The article starts: you see them on the street, you watch them on the TV, you might even vote for one this fall.
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You think they're people just like you.
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You're wrong, dead wrong.
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This is a quote from They Live.
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Um, if you've not seen They Live, it's I mean it's dated because it's an old film, but it's definitely worth watching.
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And um in many ways, it's almost like a documentary.
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And actually, the the main actor who was a WWF wrestler, I know it's WWE, but I'm old school.
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It was WWF then.
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Um, Rowdy Roddy Piper, I think was his name.
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He even described it as a documentary.
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The spectacle of public executions, deadly military strikes on foreign countries, innocent civilians' lives lost to war, aggressive ice raids, government officials accused of using their powers to intimidate political opponents, public office increasingly entangled with private financial interests.
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Government leaders who glorify violence, spew hatred, stir up racial prejudice, provoke civil unrest, and stoke discontent.
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This is what it looks like when a nation loses its way.
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Yes, and all they had to do, as I've mentioned many times, to cut the balls off the resistance to most of this was to tell them that they'd won.
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Because of course it's always different when it's your team doing it.
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That's that's the the danger of tribalism.
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And I've said for a while, because I've got no skin in the game with any politician, right?
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I'm very consistent with that, and I'm all about equality.
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I despise them all equally.
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And so I can look at it, you know, without the tribal sunglasses on, the they live glasses.
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I can look at it and go, right, that's wrong, that's wrong.
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I don't care who's doing it, I care what's being done, right?
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And I think Trump, obviously, the whole Trump train was about conning a lot of people that were actually waking up in many ways.
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I think MAGA certainly has a grassroots movement, probably started off at I was gonna say organically, but nothing's really organic.
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But it started off with genuine people with genuine grievances, people that had realized that there's a uni party, doesn't matter who you vote for, government gets in all the rest of it.
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That's why they get that's why they presented the outsider.
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Not that Trump was ever an outsider, this is a guy that got bailed out by the Rothschilds for crying out loud.
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But anyway, people seem to think that he was.
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And so by doing that, by giving them the guy, you you neutered that growing group, very large growing group of people that were not liking the direction of travel and wanted something to change.
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And so when I look at what Trump's done, and then I think, well, could you imagine the reaction to it from these people, large swathes of people, if it was Kamala who'd done it?
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Because that's all we hear, isn't it?
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Well, at least it wasn't her, you know.
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He's dreadful, but at least he's not her dreadful.
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They're the same dreadful.
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Um if she'd have gone into Iran and caused what's happening now with the Strait of
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Hormoose and the rising fuel prices and um energy prices and food prices and the rest of it.
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Could you imagine if she'd have done that?
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Could you imagine if it was her messianic nutcase stood there instead of Pete Heggseth being Trump's messianic nutcase?
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People would be calling it out.
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And growing numbers are, but there's still, you know, quite a large pocket that are just doubling and tripling and quadrupling down because of that tribalism.
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When cruelty is mistaken for courage, vengeance for justice, and the taking of human life for a demonstration of strength, when government officials tell you not to believe your own eyes and ears, don't they just, about the state of the world around you?
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When they insist that the truth is a lie and the lie is the truth, you've stumbled into a dystopian reality in which, as John Lennon rightly concluded, the government is being run by maniacs for maniacal ends.
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Yeah, but he's my maniac, isn't he?
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Do you know what I mean?
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And that's the thing, like, tribalism is a double-edged sword because by all means, find your tribe.
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Like, that was a huge thing that was going on during the whole COVID nonsense.
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It was people finding those that they aligned with, finding a tribe, that's it.
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Find your tribe.
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There's the protection in that.
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And I get that, totally get that.
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But when you'll look the other way at the actions of someone or a group of people because they're your tribe, that's a dark road, and it's a road that we're on at the moment.
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When so-called Christians and self-professed defenders of morality insist that we must accept the lesser of two evils this is so key, based on exaggerated fears of what might happen if their political opponents gain power, rather than confront the abuses unfolding before our eyes.
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Remember this the lesser of two evils is still evil.
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Isn't it just but we've got the same here.
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So this isn't just, you know, I mean, this article's about America because John Whitehead is American.
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He's writing about American politics.
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But we've got the same thing here in the United Kingdom, and you've got the same thing all over Europe.
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You've got the same thing all over the world.
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It's it's better to have the blue liar than have the red liar.
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Or it's better to have the red war criminal than have the
blue war criminal.
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Better to have the blue paedophile than the red paedophile.
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And I I get it all the time, I hear it all the time.
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But if we'd had if we if if Harris had got in, if Harris it'd be the same, mate.
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It would be the same thing because they work for the same team.
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They're wearing different coloured kits.
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Or in fact, they're wearing not even that, they're wearing different coloured boots, maybe, different coloured football boots, so that you go, oh goodness me.
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That's different.
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No, they're not, mate.
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Because if you want to march towards tyranny, which is exactly what we're doing, you need two legs to do that.
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Otherwise you just hop in like a flamingo.
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No one wants that.
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So the right leg walks a bit, and then people push back eventually.
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So then the left leg comes in, the left leg walks a little bit further, and then people eventually grow up air and push back against the left leg.
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Get the right leg back in.
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Why was the right leg gonna do?
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Is he gonna Oh it's gonna keep marching forward?
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Yeah, of course it is.
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This is not simply about Donald Trump, the article continues.
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The machinery of the American police state has been assembled over decades under Republican and Democratic administrations alike.
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Presidents have expanded executive authority, waged undeclared wars, authorized drone killings, built surveillance networks, militarized domestic policing, yes, they have, and that's happening across Europe as well, and invoked national security to justify extraordinary powers.
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This was what I was going on in my show not last week, the week before.
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How emergency powers are the key.
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They use it to get everything through the door.
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And they and they can make in fact, they don't say they can use whatever emergency they want.
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They don't even need to, they can just make them up.
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Because it's a uni party.
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And again, like I said before, this is what I like about John, because he's calling out both sides.
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Because America is a uni party.
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It's a one-party state.
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Every nation is, and every nation has a uni party.
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That's why nothing changes no matter who comes in.
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Now you say that to people and they call you blackpilled and negnellies and oh, you know, whatever.
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Just saying how it is.
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It's neither negative nor positive.
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It's just, it just is.
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And the thing is, we used to know that about the the Uniparty and the one party state.
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We used to know that.
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They used to be accepted.
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And it was very much being pushed back against by the very people that they then corraled by giving them an outsider in Trump.
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And they'll do the same in um in the UK with people like Farage and others, the outsiders, independents.
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They're different, then they're not.
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No, they're not.
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Because as soon as Trump came in as an outsider, suddenly everyone forgot about the uni party.
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Suddenly it was even like people like Alex Jones, so-called alternative people, they started then turning, it's all the Democrats' fault.
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It's all their fault.
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You're all as bad as each other, mate.
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What makes the present moment so troubling is the extent to which the public is encouraged to accept increasingly aggressive exercises of government power as necessary demonstrations of strength and resolve.
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Yeah, because they were told they won.
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So this is their guy, this is their savior, this is their messiah.
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And they would rather double down on a psychopath, which is what Trump is, than admit they were wrong.
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The Constitution was never intended to protect only the innocent, the popular, the patriotic, or the politically acceptable.
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Its restraints on government power matter most when the government is dealing with people whom society has already condemned.
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Yes.
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And this is the point that I think relates to what's going on in France as well.
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The ones that society has already condemned, put no skin in the game for them, couldn't care less.
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They're the ones that they use to get things through the door and to get things normalized.
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They target people or groups that no one's got any skin in the game for.
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Because no one's gonna defend them.
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Because why why would you?
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Who's gonna defend in in the case of public executions by firing squad in the in the US, who's going to defend a guy that killed
a load of soldiers at Fort Hood?
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No one's gonna defend that guy.
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I'm not I'm certainly not defending that guy.
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But it doesn't stop with that guy.
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And so how this relates to France is you've got these idiots on the streets setting fire to stuff, looting and whatever.
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So then the French government can bring in more legislation to stop protest, emergency powers to stop protest.
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These are protests that started off peaceful, by the way, and then the agent provocateurs come in, because that's what they do, and they're now calling for curfews and all sorts in France.
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And people will go along with it because, well, yeah, do ban protest.
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Because look at these thugs.
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Yeah, but the ban of banning of protest doesn't stop with them, stops with you when you've got beef going forward.
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And so because they know what's coming in terms of economic collapse and all the rest of it, they know there's going to be a lot of protests, they know there's going to be a lot of people on the streets, they know there's going to be a lot of civil unrest.
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And so what they're doing is I think they're either creating or stoking to expand trouble so that they can bring in emergency powers and emergency legislation to crack down on it in advance for what they know is coming.
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And the other thing, in terms of what's happening in France, is they've got the added little bonus, the Great Reset Club, of these people torching and destroying historical monuments and landmarks, places like Paris.
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Because they're marching us to the road of year zero, Great Reset, start again.
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Don't need remnants of the past.
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So we see it's why we see so many historical buildings suddenly going up in flames in the last couple of decades.
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So they've got an added little bonus on that one.
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But in this instance in the US, like I say, it doesn't stop with this guy.
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This public execution doesn't stop with him.
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Suddenly it becomes a regular occurrence.
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Do you know what I mean?
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There's a public execution on Saturday.
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Oh, get the pizzas in then.
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And in the end, they come for all of us.
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That's the point.
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They use people that you don't have any skin in the game for to bring in the legislation.
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That's why it's important to defend it.
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I don't defend this guy, but I don't defend public executions.
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I think that's abhorrent.
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And it's a slippery slope.
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Same goes with freedom of speech.
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It's something I've been saying for ages.
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It's really easy to fight for the freedom of speech of someone you agree with.
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That's a piece of cake.
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They're your team, right?
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It's fighting for the freedom of speech of those that you disagree with.
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That's the key.
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Because once freedom of speech goes, it goes for everyone.
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We've got a case in the UK at the moment of a of a Palestinian-British doctor who's a surgeon who's been struck off and all sorts, and she's now being debanked.
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All these banks are are debanking and she's not allowed to get a bank account.
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Because of her anti-Israel stance, which is understandable, she's Palestinian for crying out loud.
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I can see why they've got a problem with Israel.
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And people are celebrating it, saying, good.
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And you're like, even if you don't agree with her politics, the normalization of debanking and all that rest of it, just for words, you don't think they're going to come for you in the end, mate?
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That's all you're guaranteeing.
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By cheering on someone I think it was Ricky Gervais said it.
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If you're cheering on the cancellation of someone today, all you're guaranteeing is your cancellation tomorrow.
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And that's why it's so important to defend freedom of speech and and and and and to call out what's happening, even if it's your team doing it.
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Like I don't believe in politics, I don't believe in party politics.
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But what I do think you could do is a quick fix.
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I mean, one, the main one, when someone says something on the campaign trail, when they get in, they have to do it by law.
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I mean, that would be a start, as opposed to now where I can say I can give you whatever.
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If you vote for me, I'll give you$5,000 each.
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It's not bound to do it.
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It won't do it.
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That would be a big one.
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The other one would be if people started calling out good things that the opposition did, and good things that your team does, and calling out bad things that the opposition does, and bad things that your team does.
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That'd be a start if everyone held them to account, no matter who it was.
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But they don't do that.
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They just look the other way.
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And both sides are guilty of it.
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This article even says it's not just about Trump.
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It's the same for both sides.
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And it's how we get marched down the road to tyranny.
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And it's happening all over.
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It's happening in Europe, everywhere.
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It's a very good article.
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Um, and of course, it it it it you know it it goes on.
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It's definitely worth a read if you go to the Rutherford, I think it's rutherfordinstitute.org, or it might just be rutherford.org.
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Um, and of course, iconic.com is on there as well.
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Don't mention the reptiles, Dave.
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Even less is said about the Grey Pope, which some believe to be the true ruling power in the Vatican.
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Humans are missing a massads.
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All of them had political signals.
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I've never seen it before.
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It's a transition natural.
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This is the ultimate suicide.
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What if the symbols around us every day are just ornamental?
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We lost a thousand.
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What if their instructions?
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Is not manipulatable.