THE THIRD ATTEMPT: WHCD Shooting, Hasan Piker & The Left’s Rhetoric That Pulled the Trigger

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Heat.
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Hey, Heat.
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Heat
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up here.
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Hey,
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hey, hey.
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Heat. Hey, heat. Hey, heat.
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hey, hey.
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Good morning. Pineapple
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looking very good. Very nice. Good
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morning. Pineapple
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looking very good. Very nice. Good
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morning.
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Good morning. Pineapple
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looking very good. Very nice. Good
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morning. Pineapple
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looking very good. Very nice. Good
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morning.
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Looking very good. Very nice. Good
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morning. Pineapple
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looking very good. Very
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for
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it's in the line. This is Alice and the
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only
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for
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half on Hampton.
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Eric,
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good morning. Pineapples.
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Good morning.
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Mert, what's up? H, how's it going, man?
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We've been grateful for all your raids
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lately. Kermode Bear is here. Barney
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Styles, Joanie Rankin, Stephie P,
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Thormach,
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Amy J, Easley. Who else? Sound off in
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the chat. Good morning. Sound off like
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you got a pair. Welcome to Wake Up
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America. It's time to rise in Freedom.
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I'm your host, Austin Peterson. Today is
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Monday, April the 27th, 2026. And let me
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tell you something. If you thought last
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week was huge news week, if you thought
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the news cycle could not possibly get
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any bigger, war with Iran, assassination
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attempts, America has decided to hold
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our coffee, show you what it's got.
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Here's what we got for you this morning
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in the best two hours in political talk
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you will hear all day.
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Stand up and stretch. 36 years ago,
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excuse me, 36 hours ago, a man with a
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shotgun, a handgun, and knives tried to
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assassinate the president of the United
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States again. And I met the president
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again.
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My name's Forest. Forest Gum.
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I went to the White House again and I
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tried to shoot the president of the
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United States again.
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Something bit me.
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The Secret Service shot me. Secret
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Service might not be getting paid, as a
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matter of fact. And there was they were
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in Washington DC at the same hotel where
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they shot Ronald Reagan. He failed. The
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Secret Service did not. This morning
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we're going to tell you everything that
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the lamestream media or the other
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podcasts are either bearing or too
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scared to talk about. This is the third
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attempt on Trump's life and we're going
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to build the complete case this morning
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from Butler to West Palm Beach to the
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Washington Hilton and then we're going
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to walk you through the nine years of
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left-wing rhetoric that built the
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ideology that pulled the trigger and
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pointed the gun. The New York Times
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platforming assassination apologists.
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Hakeem Jeff calling for maximum warfare
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5 days before the shooting. Jimmy Kimmel
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calling Melania an expectant widow 3
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days before the shooting. And then the
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same people who spent years planting
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that seed, calling the whole thing
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staged before the smoke cleared. We've
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got two incredible guests this morning
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to help us unpack all of it. At 8
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o'clock this morning, we're going to be
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joined by Maggie Moda Moda
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Emod.
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We're going to go deep on the
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assassination attempt and then pivot to
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the heartbreaking moment that the entire
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country saw Saturday night. Erica Kirk
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being walked out of that building in
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tears, saying, "I just want to go home."
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Eight months after watching her husband,
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Charlie Kirk, get shot at a speaking
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event in Utah. That woman is a warrior.
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And this morning, I want to talk about
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why the left cannot stop targeting her
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even now. At 8:30, we're joined by John
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Miltore, senior editor at the American
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Institute for Economic Research. And
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we're going to have one of the most
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important intellectual conversations
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we've ever had on this show. The left
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spent years screaming that speech is
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violence. Speech is violence. Well, Cole
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Allen just proved that their speech
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produces it. So, John is going to walk
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us through the philosophical collapse
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that made Saturday night inevitable. You
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know, you don't want to miss that
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conversation. It's 8:30 this morning.
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Now, before we dive into all the big
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news here, a quick word about something
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that will make your Monday a little bit
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brighter. Um, but uh before we talk
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about this assassination stuff, so we're
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in the 250th anniversary year of this
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American republic.
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250 years since a band of farmers and
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lawyers and preachers and merchants
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stood up to the most powerful empire on
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earth and said, "Not today." And here at
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the For Liberty Network, we are
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celebrating that anniversary this week
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more than ever because we are going to
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celebration
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in the cradle of the American
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Revolution, Boston, Massachusetts. Now,
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that means that there's no Wake Up
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So, if you are a regular viewer, just an
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FYI, um, our band of Robin Hood and his
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America. And I'm gonna if you see me
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there. Is that okay? You ready?
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It won't scratch your titty.
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Oh, good morning, pineapples. Looking
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very good and very nice.
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>> Stunning thing to read, Mr. President.
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He appears to reference a motive in it.
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He writes this, quote, "Administration
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officials, they are targets." And he
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also wrote this, "I am no longer willing
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to permit a pedophile, rapist, and
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traitor to coat my hands with his
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crimes." What's your reaction to that?
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>> Well, I was waiting for you to read that
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because I knew you would because you're
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you're horrible people. Horrible people.
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Yeah, he did write that. Uh, I'm I'm not
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a rapist. I didn't rape anybody. Uh,
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>> oh, you think he was referring to Excuse
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me.
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I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap
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from some sick person.
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>> Yeah.
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>> Uh I got associated with all stuff that
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has nothing to do with me. Yes.
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>> I was totally exonerated. Your friends
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on the other side of the plate are the
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ones that were involved with, let's say,
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Epstein or other things. And I said to
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myself, you know, I'll do this interview
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and they'll probably I read the
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manifesto. you know, he's a sick person,
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but you should be ashamed of yourself
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reading her because I'm not any of those
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things, Mr. President. And I was never
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Excuse me. Excuse me.
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>> Excuse me.
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>> You shouldn't be reading that on 60
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minutes. You're a disgrace. But go
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ahead. Let's finish the
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>> other thing.
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>> Oh,
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that's my president.
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>> Good morning, Rise and Freedom. I'm
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Austin Peterson. You're watching and
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listening to the Wake Up America Show
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and we are on the For Liberty Network.
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Wake up America starts right now.
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Good morning pineapples.
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Looking very good to very nice. Good
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morning pineapples.
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Looking very good and very nice.
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>> Engles wrote about the concept of social
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murder and Brian Thompson as the United
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Healthcare CEO was engaging in a
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tremendous amount of social murder. the
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systematized forms of violence, uh the
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the structural violence of poverty, uh
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the the for-profit uh paywalled
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uh system of of healthcare in this
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country and the consequences of that are
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tremendous amounts of pain, tremendous
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amounts of violence, tremendous amounts
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of deaths. And that was a fascinating
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story from for me because Americans are
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very draconian about crime and
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punishment. They're very black and white
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on this issue. And yet because of the
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pervasive pain that the private health
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care system had had created for the
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average American, I saw so many people
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immediately understand why this death
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had taken place. Three times they've
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tried to kill him. Saturday night, a man
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named Cole Thomas Allen walked into the
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White House correspondents dinner with a
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shotgun, a handgun, and knives and tried
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to assassinate the president of the
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United States. The third time in less
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than two years. Butler, Pennsylvania,
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July of 2024. A bullet went through
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Trump's ear an inch to the right. And
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this country looks nothing like it does
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today. West Palm Beach, September 2024.
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Another gunman, another attempt. And
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now, a man with three weapons inside the
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security perimeter of an event hosting
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the entire executive branch of the
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United States government. Donald Trump
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now has more assassination attempts
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against him than any president in the
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history of the nation. So,
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congratulations. I guess
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achievement unlocked.
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More than Lincoln, more than Reagan,
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more than Kennedy. And the historical
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pattern of course is not subtle. Four
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presidents have been killed in American
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history. Three were Republicans.
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Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, all
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Republican. Every president who's been
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shot and survived, Teddy Roosevelt,
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Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, Republican.
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Gerald Ford survived two attempts in a
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single month in 1975.
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Republican. In 2017, a Bernie Sanders
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volunteer opened fire on Republican
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congressman at baseball practice in
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Alexandria and nearly killed Steve
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Scaliz. Ran Paul was violently attacked
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by his own neighbor. This is not a
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coincidence. This is a pattern and any
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honest person looking at those numbers
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knows exactly what that pattern means.
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Cole Allen was not a madman in the way
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that they want you to picture. He
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graduated from Caltech, one of the most
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elite engineering schools on Earth. He
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earned a master's in computer science
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just last year. He wrote a manifesto
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that listed targets in order of
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priority. Administration officials
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prioritized from highest ranking to
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lowest. He chose buckshot over slugs
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specifically to reduce the risk of
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rounds passing through walls. So this
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was not exactly rage. This was cold
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engineering. He donated to Camala
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Harris. He attended No Kings Rallies in
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California. He was a member of the Wide
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Awakes, which is a left-wing activist
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organization. And of course, he had
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anti-Trump, anti-Christian rhetoric
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plastered all over his social media. His
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manifesto called every person who was in
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that ballroom complicit because, in his
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words, they chose to attend a quote a
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speech by a pedophile, rapist, and
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traitor. Now, he didn't invent those
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words because those words have been
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pouring out of cable news television
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hosts for years by late night television
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politicians with platforms and
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microphones that Donald Trump is not
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just wrong, but evil. Note that
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Alexandria Kaja Cortez, who has referred
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to Trump as Hitler on many occasions,
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said last night, "Well, she's sorry that
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this happened." Well, you're sorry that
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Hitler was not murdered.
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Really,
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why would you be sad that Adolf Hitler
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was not murdered? You see, they've been
00:18:36.160 --> 00:18:38.070
making the case that Donald Trump is not
00:18:38.080 --> 00:18:40.870
just wrong. And by extension, you are
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not just wrong, but you, the listener to
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the Wake Up America show, the type of
00:18:45.039 --> 00:18:46.870
person who might support Donald Trump,
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you're not just mistaken. You're
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subhuman. You're not just a political
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opponent. You're an existential threat
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to democracy itself. Cole Allen believed
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this retardation. He believed every
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word. And then he picked up a shotgun.
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And in his own manifesto, he laughed at
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the security. Quote, "I walk in with
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multiple weapons and not a single person
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there considers the possibility that I
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could be a threat." So this is what
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radicalization looks like now in 2026.
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Not from a cave in Afghanistan. And it
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comes from a Caltech graduate in a Los
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Angeles suburb who spent years
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marinating in the language of the
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American left until murder felt like
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justice.
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Now Cole Allen, this man, he was a
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teacher. He uh tutored high school
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students at a test prep test prep
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company in Torrance, California. He did
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SAT, ACT prep, college admissions. He
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worked with 17 year olds. He was the
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teacher of the month in December of
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2024, which is quite funny. teacher of
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the month. They're now they're going to
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make him teacher of the year.
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Just watch.
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Just watch. And while he was sitting
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across the table from other people's
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children, mentoring them, he was
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deciding which buckshot to use on the
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way to kill the president. One of his
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students told NPR yesterday, quote, "You
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wouldn't expect him to be plotting some
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crazy evil plan to kill the president.
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He was just quirky." Just quirky. And
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that's how well he hid it. And that
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should terrify every parent who's ever
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handed their child to a stranger and
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trusted that the educational system
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produced someone safe. Because if this
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is the product coming out of Caltech and
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Cal State, master's degrees, teacher of
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the month awards, full access to your
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children, then what is happening inside
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the classrooms where full-time tenure
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union protected teachers are operating 5
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days a week without a single parent in
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the room? The homesooled families this
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country has mocked for decade, called
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extremists, called isolationists, called
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paranoid. They weren't hiding their kids
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from society. They were protecting them
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from this. Jimmy Kimmel stood on a stage
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just days ago and uh joked that Melania
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Trump, well, let's hear from him
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himself.
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Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look
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at so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a
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glow like an expectant widow.
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our first lady.
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>> Of course, the audience laughs. And when
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you spend four years calling the
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president a pedophile and a traitor on
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national television, when you make his
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murder the punchline of your monologue,
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when you normalize the language of
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elimination in classrooms and comedy
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shows and cable news panels, you don't
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get to act surprised when Cole Allen
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decides to stop laughing and start
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shooting. That is what is called
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stochastic terrorism. That is what it
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looks like. And that conversation starts
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right now on Wake Up America.
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>> Yeah. Kill them. Kill those
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[ __ ] and murder those mother
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>> Yeah. kill them. Kill those
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[ __ ] and murder those
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[ __ ] in the street. Let the
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streets Let the streets soak in their
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[ __ ] red capitalist bloods, dude.
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Well, my understanding is that the
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property owners who have properties
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there choose just not to rent it at all.
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>> Yeah. Kill them. Kill those
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[ __ ] and murder those
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[ __ ] in the street. Let the
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streets let the streets soak in their
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[ __ ] red capitalist bloods, dude.
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Monday through Friday, 7 to 9:00 a.m.
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Central time. 9 years ago in Central
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Park, the Public Theater staged a
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production of Julius Caesar, where a
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Donald Trump lookalike, who had blonde
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hair, had a red tie, Slavic wife, was
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stabbed to death on stage every single
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night. And the Manhattan arts community
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gave it a standing ovation. Nine years
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ago, Kathy Griffin posed for a
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photograph holding the severed bloodied
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head of the president of the United
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States. And when the backlash hit, she
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initially apologized and then she took
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the apology back. And in February of
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this year, two months ago, she told an
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interviewer that she is quote proud of
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that photo and was quote ahead of her
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time. Eight years ago, Congresswoman
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Maxine Waters stood at a rally and told
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her supporters, quote, "If you see
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anybody from that cabinet in a
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restaurant, uh, in a department store,
00:23:27.679 --> 00:23:31.510
at a gasoline station, um, you get out,
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you create a crowd, and you push back on
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them, and you tell them they are not
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welcome anymore anywhere." The
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Democratic leadership did not censure
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her for this. They tabled the
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resolution. In 2017, a Bernie Sanders
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campaign volunteer named James Hodkinson
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opened fire on Republican congressman at
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a baseball practice in Alexandria,
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Virginia, just across the street from
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where I lived at the time, nearly killed
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Steve Scaliz. And within weeks, the
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American media had moved on and filed it
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under mental health. Three weeks ago,
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April 7th, left-wing Twitch streamer
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Hassan [ __ ] looked into a camera and
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said, quote, "If you cared about
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Medicaid fraud or Medicaid fraud, you
00:24:09.039 --> 00:24:11.590
would kill you would kill Rick Scott."
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Well, Rick Scott is a sitting United
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States Senator. Five days ago, Tuesday,
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House Minority Leader Hakee Jeff posted
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on social media calling for quote
00:24:21.919 --> 00:24:25.590
maximum warfare everywhere, all the
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time. 5 days ago, also Tuesday, the New
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York Times published a glamour interview
00:24:31.120 --> 00:24:33.190
with Hassan [ __ ] in which he justified
00:24:33.200 --> 00:24:36.230
the street execution of a corporate CEO,
00:24:36.240 --> 00:24:38.950
United Healthcare, using Marxist theory.
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And the audience, of course,
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All cheers.
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Three days ago, Thursday, Jimmy Kimmel
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stood on national television and called
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Melania Trope, quote, "An expectant
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widow." And the audience laughed,
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"Haha!"
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36 years, excuse me, 36 hours ago,
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Saturday night, Cole Thomas Allen showed
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up to the White House correspondents
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dinner with a shotgun, a handgun, and
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knives. This is not a series of
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unrelated events. It is a conveyor belt
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and it has one destination.
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Now, let's spend some time on Hassan
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[ __ ] for just a moment because the the
00:25:17.440 --> 00:25:20.789
legacy press is not going to talk about
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him and he is central to this story.
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[ __ ] is a Twitch streamer with millions
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of followers who has become sort of the
00:25:28.559 --> 00:25:30.149
unofficial
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media arm of the Democratic party's
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base.
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Democratic candidates will campaign with
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this guy. Democrat politicians appear in
00:25:39.200 --> 00:25:40.950
his streams. New York Times treats him
00:25:40.960 --> 00:25:43.430
like a cultural statesman who is worth
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platforming their pages. Glowing
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interviews. Here's Hassan Piker's
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record. In 2019, he said on stream that
00:25:51.039 --> 00:25:53.029
America deserved the September 11th
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attacks, not as a policy critique, as a
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flat declarative statement. Now, he did
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not lose his platform for that. In March
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of this year, he was campaigning
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alongside Democratic Senate candidates
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in Michigan. Three weeks ago, on April
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7th, he said in a live stream to
00:26:08.799 --> 00:26:10.310
millions of viewers, "If you cared about
00:26:10.320 --> 00:26:12.870
Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you
00:26:12.880 --> 00:26:15.590
would kill Rick Scott."
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Kill Rick Scott, a sitting US senator.
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He didn't lose his platform for that.
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five days ago in the New York Times, the
00:26:23.760 --> 00:26:26.070
paper of record. They invited him onto
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their flagship opinions podcast and
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their culture editor sat across from him
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asking softball questions while he
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explained using Frederick Engles and
00:26:33.520 --> 00:26:35.830
Marxist theory why the street execution
00:26:35.840 --> 00:26:37.909
of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson
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was something that he quote understands.
00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:43.510
He said Thompson was guilty of quote
00:26:43.520 --> 00:26:45.669
social murder and therefore the people
00:26:45.679 --> 00:26:48.230
who cheered his killing were morally
00:26:48.240 --> 00:26:50.870
coherent. The New York Times asked zero
00:26:50.880 --> 00:26:52.470
follow-up questions to that. And while
00:26:52.480 --> 00:26:54.390
all of this was happening, while [ __ ]
00:26:54.400 --> 00:26:56.549
was calling for the killing of a senator
00:26:56.559 --> 00:26:58.390
and justifying the murder of a CEO on
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the pages of the most influential
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newspaper in the world, Cole Thomas
00:27:01.760 --> 00:27:03.350
Allen was writing a manifesto that
00:27:03.360 --> 00:27:05.350
listed Trump administration officials as
00:27:05.360 --> 00:27:07.830
targets prioritized from highest ranking
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to lowest. And when someone finally
00:27:09.919 --> 00:27:11.750
pointed this out yesterday after the
00:27:11.760 --> 00:27:14.310
shooting, John Favro of Pod Save America
00:27:14.320 --> 00:27:16.470
went on social media and said nobody had
00:27:16.480 --> 00:27:18.870
tried to make [ __ ] the spokesman for
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the Democrats.
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Are you sure?
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Are you sure about that?
00:27:32.320 --> 00:27:34.310
Three weeks after Democratic candidates
00:27:34.320 --> 00:27:35.909
were sharing a stage with him, Nerra
00:27:35.919 --> 00:27:38.470
Tanden, who was a former Biden aid,
00:27:38.480 --> 00:27:40.149
called the whole situation quote
00:27:40.159 --> 00:27:42.230
embarrassing.
00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:43.909
A man just tried to kill the president.
00:27:43.919 --> 00:27:45.830
Nera Tannon's concern is that it is
00:27:45.840 --> 00:27:47.990
embarrassing for her party. It is quite
00:27:48.000 --> 00:27:49.830
embarrassing.
00:27:49.840 --> 00:27:52.950
So, here's a detail for this story that
00:27:52.960 --> 00:27:55.269
should keep every journalist in America
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:57.990
up at night. Except it won't because
00:27:58.000 --> 00:27:59.830
they're the ones who wrote the script.
00:27:59.840 --> 00:28:01.990
Cole Allen's manifesto called every
00:28:02.000 --> 00:28:05.269
person in that barroom complicit because
00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:07.510
in his words they chose to attend a
00:28:07.520 --> 00:28:10.389
speech by a quote pedophile, rapist, and
00:28:10.399 --> 00:28:12.710
traitor. So, let's take those three
00:28:12.720 --> 00:28:15.669
words apart. Pedophile. That word has
00:28:15.679 --> 00:28:17.269
been attached to Donald Trump by the
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.269
left-wing media through years of Epstein
00:28:19.279 --> 00:28:21.029
coverage, through social media
00:28:21.039 --> 00:28:23.750
campaigns, late night television. Jimmy
00:28:23.760 --> 00:28:26.549
Kimmel opened his fake WHCD monologue
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three days ago with the quote, "I
00:28:29.360 --> 00:28:30.950
haven't seen this much black since every
00:28:30.960 --> 00:28:33.750
page of the EP Trump Epstein files."
00:28:33.760 --> 00:28:35.830
Rapist and that word comes directly from
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the Eugene Carol coverage that every
00:28:38.159 --> 00:28:40.950
major news work network and newspaper
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:43.830
amplified for years. And then traitor
00:28:43.840 --> 00:28:45.430
and that word was hammered into the
00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:47.990
American public for four years by every
00:28:48.000 --> 00:28:50.950
every Russia hoax segment on every cable
00:28:50.960 --> 00:28:53.269
news channel in the country. Now, Cole
00:28:53.279 --> 00:28:55.909
Allen did not invent that vocabulary
00:28:55.919 --> 00:28:57.830
that found its way into his manifesto.
00:28:57.840 --> 00:29:02.070
He downloaded it and then installed it.
00:29:02.080 --> 00:29:03.750
And then there's the word complicit.
00:29:03.760 --> 00:29:05.350
Now, here's something that nobody else
00:29:05.360 --> 00:29:07.909
is going to talk about today. Don Lemon
00:29:07.919 --> 00:29:09.590
days before that dinner. I know you
00:29:09.600 --> 00:29:11.830
don't watch him. I'll report on him.
00:29:11.840 --> 00:29:13.669
I'll watch them so you don't have to.
00:29:13.679 --> 00:29:15.590
Looked into a camera and he said about
00:29:15.600 --> 00:29:18.310
the correspondence
00:29:18.320 --> 00:29:20.549
dinner attendees. He says, "The Trump
00:29:20.559 --> 00:29:23.110
regime is trying to kill the First
00:29:23.120 --> 00:29:26.149
Amendment. You have to take a stand. And
00:29:26.159 --> 00:29:29.350
if you are in that room,
00:29:29.360 --> 00:29:31.350
you are complicit."
00:29:31.360 --> 00:29:34.789
Complicit. Exact same word that was in
00:29:34.799 --> 00:29:36.630
Cole Allen's manifesto. It's not a
00:29:36.640 --> 00:29:39.430
coincidence. It's a transmission.
00:29:39.440 --> 00:29:42.630
And at 8:08 p.m. on Saturday night, 26
00:29:42.640 --> 00:29:44.950
minutes before the shooting, CNN's SE
00:29:44.960 --> 00:29:46.870
Cup was on television describing Donald
00:29:46.880 --> 00:29:48.950
Trump as quote, "A guy who wants us
00:29:48.960 --> 00:29:52.710
dead." 26 lun minutes later, ironically,
00:29:52.720 --> 00:29:55.350
a man with a shotgun tried to prove her
00:29:55.360 --> 00:30:03.269
right. He wants us dead. All right.
00:30:03.279 --> 00:30:04.789
Now, if you watch what the left did in
00:30:04.799 --> 00:30:06.310
the minutes and hours before the after
00:30:06.320 --> 00:30:09.190
the shooting, because the response will
00:30:09.200 --> 00:30:10.549
tell you everything about the
00:30:10.559 --> 00:30:12.470
infrastructure that produced it. The
00:30:12.480 --> 00:30:14.149
body was not even cold. There was no
00:30:14.159 --> 00:30:16.070
body. Thank God. Secret Service did
00:30:16.080 --> 00:30:17.830
their job. And Lincoln Project
00:30:17.840 --> 00:30:19.590
co-founder Steve Schmidt was already on
00:30:19.600 --> 00:30:21.350
social media blaming Donald Trump for
00:30:21.360 --> 00:30:23.909
quote poisoning the rhetoric in America,
00:30:23.919 --> 00:30:25.430
calling him a quote a vile and
00:30:25.440 --> 00:30:27.669
disgusting man. So, the man they spent
00:30:27.679 --> 00:30:29.909
years calling a fascist survived an
00:30:29.919 --> 00:30:31.510
assassination attempt and their first
00:30:31.520 --> 00:30:34.389
instinct was to blame him for it. Former
00:30:34.399 --> 00:30:36.149
Republican turned professional Trump
00:30:36.159 --> 00:30:38.470
hater and former friend, I guess, of
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:39.909
mine, Joe Walsh, posted, quote,
00:30:39.919 --> 00:30:41.669
"Political violence is always wrong.
00:30:41.679 --> 00:30:43.750
It's wrong, but not at all surprising
00:30:43.760 --> 00:30:45.190
that someone would try to commit an act
00:30:45.200 --> 00:30:47.669
of violence against this president." Not
00:30:47.679 --> 00:30:50.630
surprising, Joe. And then came the play
00:30:50.640 --> 00:30:52.710
that the left runs every single time,
00:30:52.720 --> 00:30:55.190
the false flag play. Mia Pharaoh,
00:30:55.200 --> 00:30:57.990
actress, blue sky celebrity, posted
00:30:58.000 --> 00:31:00.389
yesterday morning suggesting that Trump
00:31:00.399 --> 00:31:02.789
may have staged the shooting to quote
00:31:02.799 --> 00:31:05.029
raise his approval ratings. Her
00:31:05.039 --> 00:31:07.430
followers agreed, quote, I call
00:31:07.440 --> 00:31:10.230
[ __ ] I think it was a false flag.
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:13.269
It was all planned. Left-wing activist
00:31:13.279 --> 00:31:15.590
Don Winslow posted the literal def
00:31:15.600 --> 00:31:18.389
definition of false flag on social media
00:31:18.399 --> 00:31:20.149
with zero additional commentary because
00:31:20.159 --> 00:31:22.389
he didn't need to say it explicitly. The
00:31:22.399 --> 00:31:24.950
implication was the message. This is the
00:31:24.960 --> 00:31:26.710
play and it's a play that they run with
00:31:26.720 --> 00:31:29.269
precision. Light the fire. Watch it
00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:32.149
burn. Blame the arsonist for calling
00:31:32.159 --> 00:31:34.950
911. And when your guy shows up with the
00:31:34.960 --> 00:31:39.350
match, call the whole thing staged.
00:31:39.360 --> 00:31:43.350
When James Hodkinson shot Steve Scaliz
00:31:43.360 --> 00:31:45.430
at a congressional baseball practice in
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.950
2017, a Bernie Sanders volunteer who
00:31:48.960 --> 00:31:50.630
followed Democrat socialist accounts. He
00:31:50.640 --> 00:31:52.149
railed against Republican healthc care
00:31:52.159 --> 00:31:54.870
policy. The national media spent 72
00:31:54.880 --> 00:31:57.029
hours on that story and then buried it
00:31:57.039 --> 00:31:59.110
under mental health coverage and moved
00:31:59.120 --> 00:32:00.630
on.
00:32:00.640 --> 00:32:02.630
When Thomas Matthew Krooks put a bullet
00:32:02.640 --> 00:32:04.310
through Donald Trump's ear in Butler,
00:32:04.320 --> 00:32:06.870
Pennsylvania in July of 2024, the
00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.190
immediate media response was to search
00:32:09.200 --> 00:32:11.350
for ways to connect the the shooter to
00:32:11.360 --> 00:32:13.590
Trump's own rhetoric.
00:32:13.600 --> 00:32:15.190
When the Butler shooter turned out to be
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:16.789
harder to pin on the right, they pivoted
00:32:16.799 --> 00:32:18.389
to security failures and dropped the
00:32:18.399 --> 00:32:21.909
story. Now, Cole Allen, who donated to
00:32:21.919 --> 00:32:23.990
Camala Harris, who attended No Kings
00:32:24.000 --> 00:32:25.350
rallies, who was a member of the
00:32:25.360 --> 00:32:27.669
left-wing activist organization, The
00:32:27.679 --> 00:32:30.230
Wide Awakes, who had anti-Trump and
00:32:30.240 --> 00:32:31.990
anti-Christian rhetoric on his social
00:32:32.000 --> 00:32:34.070
media, and who quoted Marxist frameworks
00:32:34.080 --> 00:32:36.549
in his manifesto, has attempted to
00:32:36.559 --> 00:32:37.750
murder the president of the United
00:32:37.760 --> 00:32:39.509
States. And by tomorrow morning, every
00:32:39.519 --> 00:32:41.509
major network will be running mental
00:32:41.519 --> 00:32:43.669
health segments and talking about lone
00:32:43.679 --> 00:32:46.470
wolves. They will not play Hakeem Jeff
00:32:46.480 --> 00:32:48.789
Maximum Warfare tweet. They'll not play
00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:50.549
Hassan [ __ ] calling for the killing of
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:53.029
Rick Scott. They will not replay Jimmy
00:32:53.039 --> 00:32:55.590
Kimmel's expectant widow joke. They will
00:32:55.600 --> 00:32:57.590
not connect Don Lemon's use of the word
00:32:57.600 --> 00:32:59.509
complicit to the same word in Allen's
00:32:59.519 --> 00:33:01.990
manifesto. And Kathy Griffin, who said
00:33:02.000 --> 00:33:04.070
in February she's proud of the severed
00:33:04.080 --> 00:33:05.909
head photo and was ahead of her time,
00:33:05.919 --> 00:33:07.350
will not be asked a single question
00:33:07.360 --> 00:33:10.149
about this because the media is not the
00:33:10.159 --> 00:33:13.029
referee in this fight. The media is one
00:33:13.039 --> 00:33:17.990
of the fighters.
00:33:18.000 --> 00:33:19.509
Thank you, President Trump. Uh, there's
00:33:19.519 --> 00:33:22.070
a report in the New York Post that this
00:33:22.080 --> 00:33:25.990
asalent assembled his weapon somewhere
00:33:26.000 --> 00:33:28.630
on site at the hotel. What do you think
00:33:28.640 --> 00:33:32.870
about that? And I asked respectfully,
00:33:32.880 --> 00:33:35.590
why do you think this keeps happening to
00:33:35.600 --> 00:33:36.950
you?
00:33:36.960 --> 00:33:39.909
Well, you know, I've studied
00:33:39.919 --> 00:33:41.830
assassinations
00:33:41.840 --> 00:33:45.509
and I must tell you the most impactful
00:33:45.519 --> 00:33:47.830
people, the people that do the most, you
00:33:47.840 --> 00:33:50.310
take a look at the people, Abraham
00:33:50.320 --> 00:33:51.909
Lincoln, I mean, you go through the
00:33:51.919 --> 00:33:54.630
people that have gone through this where
00:33:54.640 --> 00:33:57.590
they got them. But the people that do
00:33:57.600 --> 00:34:00.470
the most, the people that make the
00:34:00.480 --> 00:34:01.909
biggest impact, they're the ones that
00:34:01.919 --> 00:34:04.230
they go after. They don't go after the
00:34:04.240 --> 00:34:06.149
ones that don't do much because they
00:34:06.159 --> 00:34:08.629
like it that way. And when you look at
00:34:08.639 --> 00:34:11.109
the people that have
00:34:11.119 --> 00:34:13.510
either whether it was an attempt or a
00:34:13.520 --> 00:34:15.829
successful attempt, they're very
00:34:15.839 --> 00:34:18.069
impactful people. Just take a look at
00:34:18.079 --> 00:34:21.829
the names. They're the big names. And uh
00:34:21.839 --> 00:34:24.470
I hate to say I'm honored by that, but
00:34:24.480 --> 00:34:26.389
I've done a lot. We've done a lot. We
00:34:26.399 --> 00:34:29.190
have we've taken this country and we
00:34:29.200 --> 00:34:31.589
were a laughingstock for years and now
00:34:31.599 --> 00:34:33.030
we're the hottest country anywhere in
00:34:33.040 --> 00:34:35.510
the world. We've changed this country
00:34:35.520 --> 00:34:37.109
and there are a lot of people that are
00:34:37.119 --> 00:34:38.950
not happy about that. So I think that's
00:34:38.960 --> 00:34:45.109
the answer. Peter,
00:34:45.119 --> 00:34:49.510
>> let's um
00:34:49.520 --> 00:34:52.230
the use of the word complicit. Good
00:34:52.240 --> 00:34:53.750
morning Pineapples. Looking very good
00:34:53.760 --> 00:35:00.470
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Glad and thankful to have you here. Wake
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Hope that you're having a beautiful day.
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Welcome to the Wake Up America Show,
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everyone. We're going to take a quick
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little commercial break. When we get
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of Jeffersonian Java, bold and
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unapologetic from four liberty shots. No
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more tribute to rogues, he thunders and
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dispatches the Navy and Marines to smash
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If there wasn't going to be somebody who
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was a fiery champion of liberty,
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somebody who would who would get out
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there and who would be aggressive, if
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they wouldn't do it with more fire or
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passion than I had, then I would go and
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I would fight this battle for us. I've
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fought for the principles that we all
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share. Parties tend to be secondary to
00:39:40.720 --> 00:39:42.470
me. We're here because we believe in the
00:39:42.480 --> 00:39:47.750
principles of liberty.
00:39:47.760 --> 00:39:50.310
I am not a perfect messenger, but I
00:39:50.320 --> 00:39:52.790
think I'm a damn good one. This is a
00:39:52.800 --> 00:39:56.230
replica of our first president's flint
00:39:56.240 --> 00:39:58.630
lock pistol. You have my full support,
00:39:58.640 --> 00:40:10.710
my respect, and my gun.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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>> I think that that the heart of my
00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:15.349
philosophy is much more libertarianism
00:40:15.359 --> 00:40:17.990
than than well that's the fashionable
00:40:18.000 --> 00:40:20.310
word these days. I guess liber a
00:40:20.320 --> 00:40:22.470
conservative is no longer just that.
00:40:22.480 --> 00:40:24.470
He's a libertarian and there always has
00:40:24.480 --> 00:40:31.750
been.
00:40:31.760 --> 00:40:33.430
Yet, anytime you and I question the
00:40:33.440 --> 00:40:34.950
schemes of the dogooders, we're
00:40:34.960 --> 00:40:36.950
denounced as being against their
00:40:36.960 --> 00:40:39.109
humanitarian goals. They say we're
00:40:39.119 --> 00:40:40.710
always against things. We're never for
00:40:40.720 --> 00:40:48.150
anything.
00:40:48.160 --> 00:40:51.190
And what is fascism? Fascism is private
00:40:51.200 --> 00:40:53.510
ownership, private enterprise, but total
00:40:53.520 --> 00:41:01.750
government control and regulation.
00:41:01.760 --> 00:41:03.670
Well, the trouble with our liberal
00:41:03.680 --> 00:41:05.349
friends is not that they're ignorant.
00:41:05.359 --> 00:41:06.870
It's just that they know so much that
00:41:06.880 --> 00:41:14.390
isn't so.
00:41:14.400 --> 00:41:16.150
If we lose freedom here, there's no
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place to escape to. This is the last
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stand on earth.
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This is the issue of this election.
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Whether we believe in our capacity for
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self-government or whether we abandon
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the American Revolution and confess that
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a little intellectual elite in a far
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distant capital can plan our lives for
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us better than we can plan them
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ourselves.
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The conservative so-called is the one
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that says less government. Get off my
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back. Get out of my pocket and let me
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have more control of my own destiny.
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More
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speech.
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Fore
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speech.
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Good morning, Arise and Freedom. I'm
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Austin Peterson. You're watching and
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listening to the Wake Up America Show on
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the For Liberty Network. Glad and
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thankful to have you here. The fact that
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you get up early and you hop on to the
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Wake Up America Show when you have
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literally millions of other options or
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things you could be watching this
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morning, but you choose to be here live
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with me, it's a deep honor and a
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pleasure.
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I know it takes a little work to find me
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and to hang out with us. And if you're
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doing things like clicking the like
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button, if you're dropping rumble rants,
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or if you're visiting forlibertyshop.com
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from time to time, then thou art blessed
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by God.
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Now, let's talk about a man who is
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cursed. Cole Allen was a member of the
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group called the Wide Awakes, left-wing
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group. And the first thing that you need
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to know about this group, the Wide
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Awakes, is that they actually stole
00:43:49.359 --> 00:43:52.950
their name from Republicans. The
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:55.589
original Wide Awakes, this group that
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this leftist who tried to assassinate
00:43:58.160 --> 00:44:00.150
Donald Trump was a part of, the original
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Wide Awakes were actually founded in
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Hartford, Connecticut on March 3rd of
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1860. They were a youth organization
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that was built specifically to elect
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Abraham Lincoln to the presidency. They
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wore capes and kepps and carried torches
00:44:14.720 --> 00:44:16.630
through the streets of New York. In the
00:44:16.640 --> 00:44:19.190
largest pro-lincoln rally in American
00:44:19.200 --> 00:44:23.190
history after Lincoln had won, 75% of
00:44:23.200 --> 00:44:25.510
original wide awake members enlisted in
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the Union Army. They fought to free the
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slaves. So, a left-wing group founded in
00:44:31.119 --> 00:44:33.349
2020 by a collective of artists in New
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York City decided to take the name of
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the organization that elected the first
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Republican president and fought the
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Civil War. and then used it to march
00:44:42.079 --> 00:44:43.990
against the Republican president in
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2026.
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The modern wide awakes were co-founded
00:44:47.920 --> 00:44:50.069
by artist Hank Willis Thomas and they
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describe themselves as quote infinite,
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disruptive, enlightened, visionary,
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accountable. They also say we can
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emancipate ourselves without violence.
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But Cole Allen showed up to that
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commitment with a Maverick 12- gauge
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shotgun he purchased in August of 2025
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and an Armscore 38 semi-automatic pistol
00:45:11.920 --> 00:45:14.470
he bought in October of 2023.
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The group's website says anyone can
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join. Quote, "Call on local DJs,
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musician, musicians, speakers,
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organizers, and artists to plan a joyous
00:45:24.960 --> 00:45:27.430
community gathering." Cole Allen planned
00:45:27.440 --> 00:45:29.750
a different kind of gathering March 20
00:45:29.760 --> 00:45:32.069
of 26, one month ago. He attended the
00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:33.990
nationwide No Kings protests in
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California. The same No Kings protests
00:45:36.560 --> 00:45:38.710
that turned violent in Portland where 89
00:45:38.720 --> 00:45:40.870
people were arrested for assault and
00:45:40.880 --> 00:45:42.390
criminal mischief outside an ICE
00:45:42.400 --> 00:45:44.950
facility. The left keeps building
00:45:44.960 --> 00:45:48.069
organizations that espouse nonviolence
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and then produces people who attempt
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murder. At some point, the organization
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stops being the alibi and starts being
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the incubator of this disease.
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Now, Cole Allen is not an anomaly. He's
00:45:59.440 --> 00:46:01.349
the just the latest entry in a pattern
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that the New York Times itself has
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identified. The paper that platformed
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Hassan [ __ ] 5 days before the shooting
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and published a piece describing Luigi
00:46:09.359 --> 00:46:11.270
Mongion and Charlie Kirk's accused
00:46:11.280 --> 00:46:14.390
assassin Tyler Robinson is quote a new
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archetype.
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And they said in the New York Times, the
00:46:18.319 --> 00:46:20.630
suspect them suspects themselves seem to
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be growing more normal
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:24.630
more normal. So that is the New York
00:46:24.640 --> 00:46:26.790
Times describing political assassins as
00:46:26.800 --> 00:46:28.950
an emerging norm.
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Let's walk the timeline. December 2024,
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Luigi. Manion shoots United Healthcare
00:46:34.800 --> 00:46:37.829
CEO Brian Thompson in the back on a New
00:46:37.839 --> 00:46:40.230
York City sub um outside of a New York
00:46:40.240 --> 00:46:42.710
City sidewalk. The left makes him a folk
00:46:42.720 --> 00:46:46.790
hero overnight. He's got merchandise.
00:46:46.800 --> 00:46:51.109
Crowdfunding has now uh crowdfunding has
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now topped, I think, $1.4 million from
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what I was reading. Uh uh there's a
00:46:56.319 --> 00:46:59.589
soldout musical in San Francisco called
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Luigi the Musical. A majority of
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Americans under 30 view him as
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favorable.
00:47:06.720 --> 00:47:08.950
According to polling September of 2025,
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Tyler Robinson shoots Charlie Kirk in
00:47:12.079 --> 00:47:15.270
the neck at Utah Valley University. His
00:47:15.280 --> 00:47:18.390
bullet casings are engraved with Antifa
00:47:18.400 --> 00:47:20.950
inspired language. Trump designates
00:47:20.960 --> 00:47:23.030
Antifa domestic terrorist organization.
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The same month, April of 2026.
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A 20-year-old named Daniel Alejandro
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Mareno Gama throws a Molotov cocktail at
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Sam Alman's home, the Chat GBT guy in
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San Francisco, and writes a manifesto
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calling for others to attack CEOs.
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Two days later, two more people arrested
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for driving past Alman's house and
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shooting at it. Tesla dealerships were
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firebombed after Elon Musk joined the
00:47:49.599 --> 00:47:52.630
White House and built Doge. Whimos were
00:47:52.640 --> 00:47:54.950
burned during ICE raids in Los Angeles.
00:47:54.960 --> 00:47:56.950
And now Cole Allen at the Washington
00:47:56.960 --> 00:48:00.150
Hilton. Educated men with manifestos and
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Marxist frameworks and folk hero
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pipelines just waiting for them as well.
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You too could be a hero if you will just
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pull the trigger. So this isn't a mental
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health epidemic. You're right. This
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isn't just crazy people. This is
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becoming what is normal on the left. But
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here's what the infrastructure of this
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looks like in practice. Luigi Manion
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shoots a CEO. Assan [ __ ] goes on New
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York Times, explains why using Frederick
00:48:31.920 --> 00:48:33.750
Engles, you know, why the murder was
00:48:33.760 --> 00:48:36.470
morally coherent. The left calls it
00:48:36.480 --> 00:48:38.950
social murder, sells t-shirts on it. A
00:48:38.960 --> 00:48:41.510
musical opens in San Francisco.
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Crowdfunding raises 1 4 million.
00:48:45.280 --> 00:48:46.790
Democratic Senate candidates share
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stages with Assan [ __ ] Tyler Robinson
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assassinates Charlie Kirk. The left
00:48:52.559 --> 00:48:56.069
celebrates while pretending to condemn.
00:48:56.079 --> 00:48:58.710
Bob Villain mocks Kirk's death at a
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concert in a Amsterdam. Excuse me, not
00:49:01.359 --> 00:49:03.349
Bob Dylan. Well, maybe Freud didn't
00:49:03.359 --> 00:49:06.150
slip. Bob Dylan mocks Charlie Kirk's
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death at a concert in a Amsterdam. Says,
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:10.150
"If you talk [ __ ] you will get banged.
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Rest in piss, Charlie Kirk." Their next
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can concert is canceled by the venue,
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but nobody in the Democratic party is
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asked about it. Cole Allen watches all
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of this. He's on Blue Sky making more
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than a thousand anti-Trump posts. He's
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at no king's rallies in California. He's
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a member of the wide awakes. He's
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reading a manifesto ecosystem that tells
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him the president is a pedophile, a
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rapist, and a traitor, and that murder
00:49:38.319 --> 00:49:42.470
is sometimes social justice. And then he
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buys a shotgun.
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He gets a train ticket to Washington.
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And the Democratic Party, which built
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every single piece of that pipeline,
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goes on CNN the morning after and calls
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it a mental health issue. No, this is a
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way of life for the left. Jamie Rasin
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was asked on CNN whether Democrats
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should reconsider their rhetoric. And
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his answer, well, quite literally, was
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quote, "What rhetoric? What rhetoric?
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The rhetoric that's 1,000 blue sky posts
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and a shotgun away from becoming
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Saturday night at the Washington Hilton
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rhetoric.
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>> The so-called manifesto is a stunning
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thing to read, Mr. President. He appears
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to reference a motive in it. He writes
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this quote, "Aministration officials,
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they are targets." And he also wrote
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this, "I am no longer willing to permit
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a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat
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my hands with his crimes." What's your
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reaction to? Well, I was waiting for you
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to read that because I knew you would
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because you're you're horrible people.
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Horrible people. Yeah, he did write
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that. Uh, I'm I'm not a rapist. I didn't
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rape anybody. Uh,
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>> oh, you think you think he was referring
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to
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>> Excuse me.
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>> I'm not a pedophile. You read that crap.
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>> Oh, you think he was referring to you?
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That's stupid.
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>> Jane, you ignorant [ __ ]
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Oh, you look at the way she says that,
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too. As if as if she's taken off guard
00:51:13.119 --> 00:51:15.510
by the Oh, you think that was referring
00:51:15.520 --> 00:51:18.870
to you? Look at her face when she says
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that stupid [ __ ]
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>> With his crimes. What's your reaction?
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>> Well, I was waiting for you to read that
00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:26.390
because I knew you would because you're
00:51:26.400 --> 00:51:29.430
you're horrible people. Horrible people.
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Yeah, he did write that. Uh I'm I'm not
00:51:31.839 --> 00:51:33.510
a rapist. I didn't rape any
00:51:33.520 --> 00:51:36.230
>> her face. Uh, oh, you think you think he
00:51:36.240 --> 00:51:38.470
was referring to Excuse me.
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>> I'm not a pedophile. You read that.
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>> I love that he just I love that he just
00:51:42.319 --> 00:51:44.549
manplained all over her. I'm
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>> sick person. Uh, I got associated with
00:51:49.119 --> 00:51:51.270
all stuff that has nothing to do with
00:51:51.280 --> 00:51:53.990
me. I was totally exonerated. Your
00:51:54.000 --> 00:51:55.990
friends on the other side of
00:51:56.000 --> 00:51:56.549
>> your friends
00:51:56.559 --> 00:51:58.950
>> the plate are the ones that were
00:51:58.960 --> 00:52:01.589
involved with, let's say, Epstein or
00:52:01.599 --> 00:52:02.309
other things.
00:52:02.319 --> 00:52:03.910
>> Get them. But I said to myself, you
00:52:03.920 --> 00:52:06.390
know, I'll do this interview and they'll
00:52:06.400 --> 00:52:08.150
probably I read the manifesto. You know,
00:52:08.160 --> 00:52:11.109
he's a sick person, but you should be
00:52:11.119 --> 00:52:13.589
ashamed of yourself reading that because
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I'm not any of those things, Mr.
00:52:15.200 --> 00:52:17.109
President. And I was never Excuse me.
00:52:17.119 --> 00:52:18.150
Excuse me.
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>> Excuse me.
00:52:18.960 --> 00:52:20.630
>> You shouldn't be reading that on 60
00:52:20.640 --> 00:52:22.150
Minutes. You're a disgrace. But go
00:52:22.160 --> 00:52:25.030
ahead. Let's finish the interview.
00:52:25.040 --> 00:52:29.349
>> Yeah.
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If you love America, drop an American
00:52:31.280 --> 00:52:32.950
flag down there in the chat. If you just
00:52:32.960 --> 00:52:36.390
loved watching that if for you for for
00:52:36.400 --> 00:52:38.150
me that's like, you know, working in the
00:52:38.160 --> 00:52:39.589
reporting business because I know what
00:52:39.599 --> 00:52:41.109
slime balls and sleeves balls these
00:52:41.119 --> 00:52:49.670
people are. I just enjoy it so much.
00:52:49.680 --> 00:52:52.710
Oh god, I need a cigarette after that
00:52:52.720 --> 00:52:56.870
one. Yes, we are live. Rob, we're live.
00:52:56.880 --> 00:53:01.589
live on the wake up show.
00:53:01.599 --> 00:53:04.710
Here's what sets this Cole Allen
00:53:04.720 --> 00:53:08.069
psychopath apart from Luigi Manion and
00:53:08.079 --> 00:53:10.790
from Tyler Robinson and from Hodkinson
00:53:10.800 --> 00:53:13.270
who shot Steve Scaliz, from Thomas
00:53:13.280 --> 00:53:15.589
Matthew Krooks who shot Trump and from
00:53:15.599 --> 00:53:18.790
Ryan Ralph.
00:53:18.800 --> 00:53:22.390
Allen Cole Allen went after everybody.
00:53:22.400 --> 00:53:26.150
He didn't go after just a CEO or just a
00:53:26.160 --> 00:53:28.309
political commentator.
00:53:28.319 --> 00:53:31.109
Uh he not just a congressman at baseball
00:53:31.119 --> 00:53:33.190
practice. He went after the president of
00:53:33.200 --> 00:53:35.750
the United States, the vice president,
00:53:35.760 --> 00:53:38.549
secretary of state, the FBI director,
00:53:38.559 --> 00:53:40.710
the entire executive branch of the
00:53:40.720 --> 00:53:43.109
United States government
00:53:43.119 --> 00:53:48.950
sitting in one room. And he listed them
00:53:48.960 --> 00:53:51.829
exactly listed them all in priority from
00:53:51.839 --> 00:53:54.309
highest ranking to lowest in a document
00:53:54.319 --> 00:53:56.870
that he titled the friendly federal
00:53:56.880 --> 00:53:59.750
assassin. The ideology that started with
00:53:59.760 --> 00:54:01.750
defund the police and moved to celebrate
00:54:01.760 --> 00:54:04.150
the CEO killer and then to folk hero
00:54:04.160 --> 00:54:06.470
musicals and crowdfunding and Marxist
00:54:06.480 --> 00:54:08.390
frameworks on the front pages of the New
00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:10.069
York Times has now produced a man who
00:54:10.079 --> 00:54:12.710
wanted to decapitate the entire American
00:54:12.720 --> 00:54:15.030
government in one night at a hotel in
00:54:15.040 --> 00:54:18.390
DC. The wide awakes say that they
00:54:18.400 --> 00:54:20.710
believe in creative liberation and
00:54:20.720 --> 00:54:34.790
joyous community gatherings. Ah,
00:54:34.800 --> 00:54:36.710
we'll do it live. Exactly. Ashley had a
00:54:36.720 --> 00:54:38.630
great idea.
00:54:38.640 --> 00:54:41.270
So, Cole Allen believed in buckshot over
00:54:41.280 --> 00:54:43.990
slugs to minimize collateral damage. The
00:54:44.000 --> 00:54:45.750
irony of a group that stole Lincoln's
00:54:45.760 --> 00:54:47.430
name to march against the political
00:54:47.440 --> 00:54:49.430
descendants of Lincoln. While one of
00:54:49.440 --> 00:54:51.190
their own members tried to recreate the
00:54:51.200 --> 00:54:53.030
most traumatic night in Republican party
00:54:53.040 --> 00:54:55.589
history is so staggering, it would be
00:54:55.599 --> 00:54:57.349
funny if a federal agent wasn't
00:54:57.359 --> 00:54:59.030
recovering from a bullet to his chest
00:54:59.040 --> 00:55:01.829
vest. Right now, here's the demand this
00:55:01.839 --> 00:55:05.030
morning. The FBI needs to map the full
00:55:05.040 --> 00:55:08.150
organizational ecosystem that Cole Allen
00:55:08.160 --> 00:55:11.990
inhabited. the Wide Awakes, the No Kings
00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:15.190
Movement, his Blue Sky Network, every
00:55:15.200 --> 00:55:17.030
online community that fed him this
00:55:17.040 --> 00:55:19.829
ideology, the same way that they mapped
00:55:19.839 --> 00:55:21.990
right-wing militia networks after
00:55:22.000 --> 00:55:24.549
January 6th. If the standard is good
00:55:24.559 --> 00:55:26.549
enough for one side, it's good enough
00:55:26.559 --> 00:55:28.710
for both. and every Democratic
00:55:28.720 --> 00:55:30.390
politician who shared a stage with
00:55:30.400 --> 00:55:33.030
Hassan [ __ ] every media outlet that
00:55:33.040 --> 00:55:36.230
platformed assassination apologetics and
00:55:36.240 --> 00:55:38.790
every organization that built the
00:55:38.800 --> 00:55:41.030
conveyor belt that Cole Allen rode to
00:55:41.040 --> 00:55:43.109
that hotel needs to be asked one
00:55:43.119 --> 00:55:45.030
question this morning. And they need to
00:55:45.040 --> 00:55:46.710
be asked it not by journalists or
00:55:46.720 --> 00:55:48.549
pundits. I'm talking about the House
00:55:48.559 --> 00:55:50.150
Oversight Committee. They should be
00:55:50.160 --> 00:55:56.230
asked these questions under oath.
00:55:56.240 --> 00:55:58.309
>> Believe me. because you know it's my
00:55:58.319 --> 00:56:00.789
life and I want to live because I want
00:56:00.799 --> 00:56:02.470
to make this country great. That's why I
00:56:02.480 --> 00:56:04.950
want to live. But when you're impactful,
00:56:04.960 --> 00:56:06.230
they go after you. When you're not
00:56:06.240 --> 00:56:10.630
impactful, they leave you alone.
00:56:10.640 --> 00:56:15.270
We'll do it live.
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Real quick before we bring in our uh
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first guest, guys, you know this what
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the smartest people in this audience
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to live where you live. And it
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Tell them Austin Peterson sent you over
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from the Wake Up America Show. T- Marsh
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says, "Love the show this morning."
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Well, I love it. I love that you're
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here, T- Marsh.
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God bless America,
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my home sweet home.
00:57:39.760 --> 00:57:41.670
Why is Bill Maher making so much sense
00:57:41.680 --> 00:57:44.150
these days? Someone has to explain the
00:57:44.160 --> 00:57:46.150
American economy to me. I know I've said
00:57:46.160 --> 00:57:49.109
this before, I still don't get it. Last
00:57:49.119 --> 00:57:51.589
week was tax day and as usual because
00:57:51.599 --> 00:57:55.270
HBO is so generous and I'm sure so will
00:57:55.280 --> 00:57:59.030
be the new owners.
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I paid to the government if you add in
00:58:01.119 --> 00:58:04.230
state tax, local sales, property fees,
00:58:04.240 --> 00:58:08.150
Obamacare, probably almost 60% of what I
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earn. That's a lot. And I still wouldn't
00:58:11.119 --> 00:58:13.670
mind if Bernie Sanders would stop saying
00:58:13.680 --> 00:58:16.390
the rich don't pay taxes. And while I'm
00:58:16.400 --> 00:58:18.549
sure the super rich with their army of
00:58:18.559 --> 00:58:20.390
accountants and corporate loopholes get
00:58:20.400 --> 00:58:22.950
away with murder, us regular rich people
00:58:22.960 --> 00:58:25.990
pay a [ __ ] ton of taxes. And who stands
00:58:26.000 --> 00:58:27.829
up and gives us a pat on the back?
00:58:27.839 --> 00:58:32.470
Nobody. That's who. The top 10% pay 72%
00:58:32.480 --> 00:58:34.630
of all federal income taxes. And the
00:58:34.640 --> 00:58:37.990
bottom half, 3%. The Democratic
00:58:38.000 --> 00:58:41.030
Socialists talk about socialism like we
00:58:41.040 --> 00:58:43.190
don't already have a lot. Social
00:58:43.200 --> 00:58:45.270
Security, unemployment, Medicare,
00:58:45.280 --> 00:58:47.030
nutritional assistance, Medicaid,
00:58:47.040 --> 00:58:49.430
Obamacare, disability, housing
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:50.789
subsidies. Again,
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>> all right, good stuff. Okay, in just a
00:58:52.960 --> 00:58:54.789
moment, I'm joined by Maggie Moda. Don't
00:58:54.799 --> 00:58:56.470
go away. We're going to talk about
00:58:56.480 --> 00:58:57.589
Saturday night, the attempted
00:58:57.599 --> 00:58:59.270
assassination, and the woman in that
00:58:59.280 --> 00:59:01.190
room who's already lived this nightmare
00:59:01.200 --> 00:59:03.510
once, Erica Kirk. Don't go anywhere.
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This is the Wake Up America Show on the
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For Liberty Network.
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more tribute to rogues. He thunders and
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Are you tired of the strange radioactive
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effects of leftist culture? Do you ever
01:01:09.520 --> 01:01:10.870
wonder what happened to good
01:01:10.880 --> 01:01:14.069
old-fashioned American values? Well,
01:01:14.079 --> 01:01:16.710
fear no more because there's a new force
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fighting back against the cultural rot
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of today. Introducing
01:01:21.200 --> 01:01:23.030
>> Welcome back to Wake Up America. My
01:01:23.040 --> 01:01:25.349
guest this morning has been covering the
01:01:25.359 --> 01:01:27.349
intersection of political violence,
01:01:27.359 --> 01:01:29.109
media, and the conservative movement
01:01:29.119 --> 01:01:31.190
closely. She's become a more frequent
01:01:31.200 --> 01:01:32.950
guest on the show because every time she
01:01:32.960 --> 01:01:34.870
comes on, somebody says Maggie Moda. Who
01:01:34.880 --> 01:01:37.030
is that? She's awesome. Um, Maggie Moda
01:01:37.040 --> 01:01:38.950
is here. Good morning, Maggie. Welcome
01:01:38.960 --> 01:01:39.510
back.
01:01:39.520 --> 01:01:41.190
>> Good morning. Thank you so much for
01:01:41.200 --> 01:01:42.870
having me back on again, Austin. And
01:01:42.880 --> 01:01:44.470
it's a pleasure always.
01:01:44.480 --> 01:01:46.470
>> Yeah. So Maggie, you were watching
01:01:46.480 --> 01:01:48.390
Saturday night unfold in real time. Just
01:01:48.400 --> 01:01:50.069
as a human being, before we get into the
01:01:50.079 --> 01:01:51.990
politics of all this, what went through
01:01:52.000 --> 01:01:54.630
your mind when the shots rang out at the
01:01:54.640 --> 01:01:57.829
Washington Hilton on Saturday night?
01:01:57.839 --> 01:02:00.870
>> My gosh. I mean, so for the first things
01:02:00.880 --> 01:02:02.950
first,
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:06.630
>> I was offline for two hours that night
01:02:06.640 --> 01:02:09.349
and I guess my fiance wanted to shield
01:02:09.359 --> 01:02:10.789
me from what was going on in the world
01:02:10.799 --> 01:02:13.190
cuz he didn't tell me that that this
01:02:13.200 --> 01:02:16.789
this shooting had happened. And so I I
01:02:16.799 --> 01:02:19.270
you know just glance at my phone and see
01:02:19.280 --> 01:02:22.230
all hell is broken loose. And I don't
01:02:22.240 --> 01:02:25.750
know, I just it's so it's such a dark
01:02:25.760 --> 01:02:27.430
day for humanity every time this
01:02:27.440 --> 01:02:29.030
happens. And unfortunately, it feels
01:02:29.040 --> 01:02:31.510
like it happens every other week at this
01:02:31.520 --> 01:02:35.349
point. I remember back when Luigi Manion
01:02:35.359 --> 01:02:38.069
um took down the United Healthcare CEO
01:02:38.079 --> 01:02:40.630
and there were applause and celebrations
01:02:40.640 --> 01:02:43.349
online. I remember thinking like this is
01:02:43.359 --> 01:02:46.150
the start of something horrifying
01:02:46.160 --> 01:02:49.190
because if Luigi G manion could get
01:02:49.200 --> 01:02:52.309
applause from the internet for that. Um
01:02:52.319 --> 01:02:54.150
you know everyone is going to feel
01:02:54.160 --> 01:02:56.069
emboldened to commit acts of political
01:02:56.079 --> 01:02:59.030
violence and this just feels like
01:02:59.040 --> 01:03:00.870
another iteration of that. I mean this
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:03.109
is the third assassination attempt on
01:03:03.119 --> 01:03:06.069
Trump's life in what the past two years.
01:03:06.079 --> 01:03:08.549
So, I feel like political violence is
01:03:08.559 --> 01:03:10.710
unfortunately becoming extremely common
01:03:10.720 --> 01:03:15.029
in America. Um, but I don't I don't want
01:03:15.039 --> 01:03:17.190
to let it I don't want to become
01:03:17.200 --> 01:03:19.349
desensitized to it and I feel like we're
01:03:19.359 --> 01:03:21.589
we're approaching that point.
01:03:21.599 --> 01:03:22.789
>> I don't know. What do you What do you
01:03:22.799 --> 01:03:25.670
think about that? I I it's somebody said
01:03:25.680 --> 01:03:29.029
the other day that uh people like Luigi
01:03:29.039 --> 01:03:32.630
Manion and the guy uh who shot up the
01:03:32.640 --> 01:03:34.309
congressional baseball game, I don't
01:03:34.319 --> 01:03:35.829
know if you remember this, you know,
01:03:35.839 --> 01:03:38.390
shot almost murdered Steve Scaliz that
01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:41.349
this this is actually like kind of a he
01:03:41.359 --> 01:03:43.829
was normal for the leftists meaning you
01:03:43.839 --> 01:03:45.750
know he went to the no he went to the no
01:03:45.760 --> 01:03:48.150
kings protests he was a part of these
01:03:48.160 --> 01:03:50.390
left-wing activist groups he was on blue
01:03:50.400 --> 01:03:53.349
sky posting uh about Trump 10,000
01:03:53.359 --> 01:03:56.470
thousand times a day. So the the strange
01:03:56.480 --> 01:03:58.549
thing is is that it's not like you could
01:03:58.559 --> 01:04:00.630
say, "Oh, well that guy's obviously
01:04:00.640 --> 01:04:03.190
insane. They're all doing this. This is
01:04:03.200 --> 01:04:05.270
the norm for them."
01:04:05.280 --> 01:04:07.190
>> Yes. No, this guy does not have the
01:04:07.200 --> 01:04:10.309
profile of like an antisocial mass
01:04:10.319 --> 01:04:12.549
shooter, right? I would I would
01:04:12.559 --> 01:04:16.069
characterize him more as, you know, a
01:04:16.079 --> 01:04:19.029
self-righteous, self-obsessed
01:04:19.039 --> 01:04:21.829
Reddit lib. Um, I just posted that he
01:04:21.839 --> 01:04:22.950
probably thought he was part of the
01:04:22.960 --> 01:04:24.950
Avengers. That's that's probably what
01:04:24.960 --> 01:04:26.950
was going on. He probably thought, "I'm
01:04:26.960 --> 01:04:29.750
coming to save the day. I'm an Avenger.
01:04:29.760 --> 01:04:32.470
I'm in an anime and I must take out the
01:04:32.480 --> 01:04:34.390
bad guys." I mean, if you read his
01:04:34.400 --> 01:04:35.990
manifesto,
01:04:36.000 --> 01:04:39.430
it is so millennial
01:04:39.440 --> 01:04:42.390
liberal coded. And I'm not saying that
01:04:42.400 --> 01:04:44.630
millennial libs are all going to go
01:04:44.640 --> 01:04:46.309
commit acts of violence. What's
01:04:46.319 --> 01:04:48.710
concerning about this in particular and
01:04:48.720 --> 01:04:50.470
about where he sits on the political
01:04:50.480 --> 01:04:53.190
spectrum is that he's fairly moderate
01:04:53.200 --> 01:04:55.589
like or or at least that's what you know
01:04:55.599 --> 01:04:57.349
if we looked at the political spectrum
01:04:57.359 --> 01:05:00.230
in modern America he would be considered
01:05:00.240 --> 01:05:04.789
like a moderate normie lib um you know
01:05:04.799 --> 01:05:07.750
maybe a little too Trump deranged but
01:05:07.760 --> 01:05:10.470
he's not like a socialist radical
01:05:10.480 --> 01:05:13.029
leftist at least as far as we know
01:05:13.039 --> 01:05:15.430
>> Maggie I admit that you know being a
01:05:15.440 --> 01:05:17.190
child who grew up the first generation
01:05:17.200 --> 01:05:19.510
to have like broadband internet
01:05:19.520 --> 01:05:21.990
installed into my college dorm. I've
01:05:22.000 --> 01:05:24.390
seen a lot of [ __ ] I've seen murders.
01:05:24.400 --> 01:05:26.470
I've seen
01:05:26.480 --> 01:05:29.349
back when it was back before that was a
01:05:29.359 --> 01:05:32.150
little harder to access. And so I admit
01:05:32.160 --> 01:05:34.390
I'm a little desensitized. The last time
01:05:34.400 --> 01:05:37.589
I sort of screamed out loud in response
01:05:37.599 --> 01:05:39.589
to some political news was when Trump
01:05:39.599 --> 01:05:41.430
was shot in the ear at Butler,
01:05:41.440 --> 01:05:43.829
Pennsylvania. I was a horrifi like kind
01:05:43.839 --> 01:05:46.069
of at a horrified reaction. At this
01:05:46.079 --> 01:05:48.710
point now I feel myself like just kind
01:05:48.720 --> 01:05:51.109
of having not a meh response but sort of
01:05:51.119 --> 01:05:51.990
like a
01:05:52.000 --> 01:05:54.069
>> Yep. inevitable. It's t it must be
01:05:54.079 --> 01:05:55.589
Tuesday again.
01:05:55.599 --> 01:05:58.230
>> Yeah. Yeah. And and so when I saw Erica
01:05:58.240 --> 01:06:00.789
Kirk leaving the building crying after
01:06:00.799 --> 01:06:03.029
she had had her husband assassinated, it
01:06:03.039 --> 01:06:05.109
was it was a brief blip. I would say it
01:06:05.119 --> 01:06:07.270
was probably not as much as when I saw
01:06:07.280 --> 01:06:08.789
Trump getting shot, but it was
01:06:08.799 --> 01:06:11.029
definitely that I felt my heart drop
01:06:11.039 --> 01:06:13.430
into my stomach because not and you know
01:06:13.440 --> 01:06:15.270
what's sad is it's not just because of
01:06:15.280 --> 01:06:16.950
the shooter and the left of the insane
01:06:16.960 --> 01:06:18.789
people, but because I knew instantly
01:06:18.799 --> 01:06:20.549
that as soon as somebody saw her there,
01:06:20.559 --> 01:06:22.150
they were instantly going to target her
01:06:22.160 --> 01:06:25.510
and attack her and victimize her again.
01:06:25.520 --> 01:06:27.750
What is up with these lunatics and their
01:06:27.760 --> 01:06:31.109
obsession with torturing Erica Kirk?
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:33.670
Erica Kirk derangement syndrome coining
01:06:33.680 --> 01:06:36.630
it now. People are absolutely deranged
01:06:36.640 --> 01:06:39.190
about this woman and it does not matter
01:06:39.200 --> 01:06:42.150
what she does. I mean it is coming from
01:06:42.160 --> 01:06:44.150
all sides of the aisle as well. It's not
01:06:44.160 --> 01:06:46.309
just the left that's mocking you know
01:06:46.319 --> 01:06:48.789
her fashion choices or the way she
01:06:48.799 --> 01:06:52.390
squints her eyes or delivers lines. It's
01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:55.109
also right-wing people and honestly
01:06:55.119 --> 01:06:57.109
they're kind of coming at her from the
01:06:57.119 --> 01:06:59.349
same line of attack which is that she
01:06:59.359 --> 01:07:01.349
should be home. She should be with her
01:07:01.359 --> 01:07:03.430
kids right now. She should she shouldn't
01:07:03.440 --> 01:07:05.109
be, you know, trying to fill in
01:07:05.119 --> 01:07:07.430
Charlie's shoes. But it's very obvious
01:07:07.440 --> 01:07:09.670
that they had a very close relationship
01:07:09.680 --> 01:07:11.109
and probably talked through the
01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:13.829
eventuality of what would happen. And
01:07:13.839 --> 01:07:16.470
you know, she was named his successor.
01:07:16.480 --> 01:07:18.950
She obviously has enough strength to do
01:07:18.960 --> 01:07:22.230
this, but it just like how much can this
01:07:22.240 --> 01:07:25.589
woman take? You know, I I I just I don't
01:07:25.599 --> 01:07:27.510
understand the perspective of someone
01:07:27.520 --> 01:07:30.470
who would constantly criticize, mock,
01:07:30.480 --> 01:07:32.950
and belittle a widow who lost her
01:07:32.960 --> 01:07:35.589
husband in such a tragic way in a way
01:07:35.599 --> 01:07:37.750
that was traumatizing for everyone to
01:07:37.760 --> 01:07:41.349
see. Not to mention Erica Kirk. And then
01:07:41.359 --> 01:07:43.589
she's at an event where a mass shooter
01:07:43.599 --> 01:07:46.870
arrives. She runs out in terror and it's
01:07:46.880 --> 01:07:49.270
it is that was the first video I saw of
01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:51.109
the event. That's the first thing I saw
01:07:51.119 --> 01:07:54.630
was Erica Kirk um trying to escape and
01:07:54.640 --> 01:07:57.029
saying I want to go home. I mean, this
01:07:57.039 --> 01:08:00.309
poor woman is so traumatized and she is
01:08:00.319 --> 01:08:02.150
trying to continue the work that Charlie
01:08:02.160 --> 01:08:05.430
started and and she is self-sacrificial
01:08:05.440 --> 01:08:08.390
in a way because basically no one has
01:08:08.400 --> 01:08:11.029
accepted her as the successor to Charlie
01:08:11.039 --> 01:08:13.430
Kirk except for, you know, people like
01:08:13.440 --> 01:08:16.309
us, like normal people that that aren't,
01:08:16.319 --> 01:08:16.870
you know,
01:08:16.880 --> 01:08:18.870
>> well, it's it's not all left it's not
01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:21.910
all left-wing lunatics. I mean, the the
01:08:21.920 --> 01:08:24.550
conspiratorial right, a lot of them, you
01:08:24.560 --> 01:08:26.950
know, are tangentially related to the
01:08:26.960 --> 01:08:28.709
liberty movement in the United States,
01:08:28.719 --> 01:08:31.990
Maggie. And it it's it's sad to say many
01:08:32.000 --> 01:08:34.870
of those people uh are are of course
01:08:34.880 --> 01:08:37.110
extremely upset with me. I got a phone
01:08:37.120 --> 01:08:39.669
call from a friend or I I called him,
01:08:39.679 --> 01:08:41.590
but it we brought it up yesterday
01:08:41.600 --> 01:08:44.550
morning. we were talking about he he was
01:08:44.560 --> 01:08:47.349
concerned about the level of intensity
01:08:47.359 --> 01:08:50.149
of attacks that I've been enduring in in
01:08:50.159 --> 01:08:52.630
recent weeks. And in part it's because
01:08:52.640 --> 01:08:55.349
of my support for Donald Trump. In part,
01:08:55.359 --> 01:08:57.829
it's because I seek to take the ideas of
01:08:57.839 --> 01:08:59.829
libertarianism and put some teeth into
01:08:59.839 --> 01:09:01.749
them with my ideas of libertarian
01:09:01.759 --> 01:09:03.990
nationalism, which is of course a direct
01:09:04.000 --> 01:09:06.309
threat to anarchism or contrarians who
01:09:06.319 --> 01:09:08.149
just want to watch the world burn and
01:09:08.159 --> 01:09:09.349
who don't want to see someone like
01:09:09.359 --> 01:09:11.030
myself try and build up something
01:09:11.040 --> 01:09:13.030
positive, healthy that people can
01:09:13.040 --> 01:09:15.749
contribute to because them being very
01:09:15.759 --> 01:09:19.110
unwell, very unhealthy, very, very
01:09:19.120 --> 01:09:21.749
negative, very doomcrolling type. my
01:09:21.759 --> 01:09:24.070
sort of like positive manifesto, if you
01:09:24.080 --> 01:09:25.829
will, for libertarian nationalism is a
01:09:25.839 --> 01:09:27.510
direct threat to their sort of
01:09:27.520 --> 01:09:30.309
accelerationist desires to see all of
01:09:30.319 --> 01:09:33.110
the pedophile elites in Washington DC be
01:09:33.120 --> 01:09:35.910
brought low. And and so I had to have a
01:09:35.920 --> 01:09:37.430
conversation with Stephanie yesterday,
01:09:37.440 --> 01:09:39.749
unfortunately, about and and of course
01:09:39.759 --> 01:09:41.269
I'm not Charlie Kirk or anything near
01:09:41.279 --> 01:09:43.110
Charlie Kirk, but I had to talk to
01:09:43.120 --> 01:09:44.470
Stephanie about Stephanie, what do you
01:09:44.480 --> 01:09:46.229
do with all of this? Right? I'm like,
01:09:46.239 --> 01:09:48.309
you know, the D-list of D-lists, but you
01:09:48.319 --> 01:09:49.510
know, there are five shows on this
01:09:49.520 --> 01:09:50.709
network. A lot of people count on me.
01:09:50.719 --> 01:09:51.829
two people counting me for their
01:09:51.839 --> 01:09:53.990
paycheck. There's this whole world, this
01:09:54.000 --> 01:09:56.310
whole ecosystem that I have built if
01:09:56.320 --> 01:09:59.350
someone murders me.
01:09:59.360 --> 01:10:01.590
What is Stephanie supposed to do? And
01:10:01.600 --> 01:10:03.510
you know what I told her? I said,
01:10:03.520 --> 01:10:05.430
Stephanie, if you just want to take the
01:10:05.440 --> 01:10:08.070
baby and run and hide and not have
01:10:08.080 --> 01:10:10.310
anything to do with this, I mean, don't
01:10:10.320 --> 01:10:11.990
think that you're dishonoring my memory.
01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:13.910
Don't feel like you need to take it up
01:10:13.920 --> 01:10:16.310
because you know what? Not everybody has
01:10:16.320 --> 01:10:18.149
the courage or the capability or the
01:10:18.159 --> 01:10:20.470
will to lead a political movement.
01:10:20.480 --> 01:10:23.350
Maggie. And And so, but the fact is is
01:10:23.360 --> 01:10:25.030
that the fact that I had to have that
01:10:25.040 --> 01:10:26.950
conversation with my wife yesterday
01:10:26.960 --> 01:10:29.350
because I seriously believe that I could
01:10:29.360 --> 01:10:31.110
be murdered by some insane person who's
01:10:31.120 --> 01:10:32.550
angry because I don't I don't believe
01:10:32.560 --> 01:10:35.189
9/11 is an inside job or that, you know,
01:10:35.199 --> 01:10:37.430
Charlie Kirk was like multiple shooter
01:10:37.440 --> 01:10:39.510
theory or that Joe Kent is the end- all
01:10:39.520 --> 01:10:41.350
beall for like right-wing politics right
01:10:41.360 --> 01:10:43.189
now or that I dislike Tucker Carlson.
01:10:43.199 --> 01:10:45.189
The idea that I would be murdered is
01:10:45.199 --> 01:10:46.630
something that I have to talk about with
01:10:46.640 --> 01:10:49.350
my wife and work out a contingency plan
01:10:49.360 --> 01:10:51.189
for. Are you doing the same thing,
01:10:51.199 --> 01:10:53.110
Maggie? Are you prepared for is your
01:10:53.120 --> 01:10:55.750
fiance is your fiance ready for for your
01:10:55.760 --> 01:10:58.149
you to be murdered? Because I I
01:10:58.159 --> 01:10:59.510
guarantee that if you haven't been
01:10:59.520 --> 01:11:01.350
threatened yet, Maggie, it's coming.
01:11:01.360 --> 01:11:03.350
>> Yeah. I mean, I have received threats
01:11:03.360 --> 01:11:06.390
before. I think like, you know, I'm of
01:11:06.400 --> 01:11:08.470
the same belief like, you know, I am
01:11:08.480 --> 01:11:10.390
nowhere near the status of Charlie Kirk,
01:11:10.400 --> 01:11:14.070
but I'll admit when when he was murdered
01:11:14.080 --> 01:11:16.790
and I saw people's reaction to it, I
01:11:16.800 --> 01:11:21.030
thought, oh no, like that that could
01:11:21.040 --> 01:11:23.350
easily be me. Not in that like I'm
01:11:23.360 --> 01:11:25.990
anywhere near the status or impact of
01:11:26.000 --> 01:11:28.310
Charlie, but just that, you know,
01:11:28.320 --> 01:11:31.030
because of my political beliefs, people
01:11:31.040 --> 01:11:32.630
would would find that it's okay that
01:11:32.640 --> 01:11:35.030
that happened. And and that's that that
01:11:35.040 --> 01:11:36.709
was what was so hard, I think, for a lot
01:11:36.719 --> 01:11:38.229
of us about the Charlie Kirk event
01:11:38.239 --> 01:11:40.470
because regardless of if we're political
01:11:40.480 --> 01:11:42.709
commentators, we realized like, oh,
01:11:42.719 --> 01:11:44.550
certain people think that we shouldn't
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:46.950
live anymore because we disagree on
01:11:46.960 --> 01:11:49.590
politics. Like that's that's the level
01:11:49.600 --> 01:11:53.189
of animosity and polarization we have
01:11:53.199 --> 01:11:55.350
gotten to at this point in time. I
01:11:55.360 --> 01:11:57.669
haven't had a conversation with Nico yet
01:11:57.679 --> 01:12:00.870
um just because I don't think I'm really
01:12:00.880 --> 01:12:05.110
at risk at the moment. But I mean once I
01:12:05.120 --> 01:12:07.270
start really building here's here's the
01:12:07.280 --> 01:12:09.590
difference I think between us Austin.
01:12:09.600 --> 01:12:12.470
You have created a network. You have
01:12:12.480 --> 01:12:14.950
created something that like needs to
01:12:14.960 --> 01:12:17.430
continue running in your absence because
01:12:17.440 --> 01:12:19.430
people are counting on you. I haven't
01:12:19.440 --> 01:12:22.070
yet created something like that. Um and
01:12:22.080 --> 01:12:24.310
you also have created a family, right?
01:12:24.320 --> 01:12:28.950
you have a child. And unfortunately,
01:12:28.960 --> 01:12:31.350
that is what these people want to
01:12:31.360 --> 01:12:33.910
target. They want to target people that
01:12:33.920 --> 01:12:35.669
have a better life than them, that are
01:12:35.679 --> 01:12:37.350
more fulfilled, that have actually
01:12:37.360 --> 01:12:40.550
created something worthwhile, right? And
01:12:40.560 --> 01:12:42.149
that's I think why you're probably
01:12:42.159 --> 01:12:43.910
having these conversations because there
01:12:43.920 --> 01:12:45.669
is something worthwhile that you would
01:12:45.679 --> 01:12:48.070
be leaving behind. I think I am leaving
01:12:48.080 --> 01:12:50.870
behind something like I I you know,
01:12:50.880 --> 01:12:52.310
there's obviously people that love me
01:12:52.320 --> 01:12:54.709
and count on me. Um, but I'm still at
01:12:54.719 --> 01:12:57.030
the start of creating whatever it is
01:12:57.040 --> 01:12:59.110
that I'm supposed to be impacting this
01:12:59.120 --> 01:12:59.830
world with.
01:12:59.840 --> 01:13:02.149
>> I know that you're gonna be target.
01:13:02.159 --> 01:13:04.630
>> No, you're not yet. But Maggie, you I
01:13:04.640 --> 01:13:06.470
the the thing that I've noticed is that,
01:13:06.480 --> 01:13:08.310
you know, I've gone through phases of
01:13:08.320 --> 01:13:11.030
relevance in my career, right? And
01:13:11.040 --> 01:13:12.950
you're being honest with myself, right?
01:13:12.960 --> 01:13:14.870
There are times when, oh, Austin
01:13:14.880 --> 01:13:16.310
Peterson was the star. There are times
01:13:16.320 --> 01:13:17.910
when nobody was listening to what I was
01:13:17.920 --> 01:13:19.270
saying and, you know, the live stream
01:13:19.280 --> 01:13:21.669
had like 30 or 40 people, right? Uh and
01:13:21.679 --> 01:13:23.750
and when that happens, you know, you you
01:13:23.760 --> 01:13:25.189
have to sort of like go back to the
01:13:25.199 --> 01:13:27.270
drawing board, ask yourself, you know,
01:13:27.280 --> 01:13:29.110
what do you need to do to in order to
01:13:29.120 --> 01:13:31.030
build up an institution around yourself
01:13:31.040 --> 01:13:33.110
and how do you perpetuate your ideas in
01:13:33.120 --> 01:13:35.430
a very competitive environment? And and
01:13:35.440 --> 01:13:37.669
what I realized is that in the moments
01:13:37.679 --> 01:13:39.510
when I was the most relevant, when I was
01:13:39.520 --> 01:13:41.110
making the most impact or when I was
01:13:41.120 --> 01:13:43.750
really accomplishing things, that was
01:13:43.760 --> 01:13:47.270
when the fire came the most. It's it's
01:13:47.280 --> 01:13:48.950
kind of like video games. If you're
01:13:48.960 --> 01:13:50.709
running into enemies, you're going the
01:13:50.719 --> 01:13:53.430
right way. And and and not which is not
01:13:53.440 --> 01:13:55.030
to say that I'm really like trying to
01:13:55.040 --> 01:13:57.430
look for enemies, but it's also a fact
01:13:57.440 --> 01:13:59.189
that if you have no enemies, you're
01:13:59.199 --> 01:14:01.830
probably not doing anything important,
01:14:01.840 --> 01:14:03.590
right? If if you haven't pissed people
01:14:03.600 --> 01:14:05.430
off. And Trump actually said that
01:14:05.440 --> 01:14:07.270
yesterday when he was asked about it
01:14:07.280 --> 01:14:09.110
because he was saying they don't try and
01:14:09.120 --> 01:14:11.750
kill people who don't do anything. Um
01:14:11.760 --> 01:14:13.510
he's right. And I don't know, Maggie,
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:15.270
I'm curious. You know, being a Liberty
01:14:15.280 --> 01:14:17.669
lover like like you are, has Trump
01:14:17.679 --> 01:14:20.310
earned your respect over the past these
01:14:20.320 --> 01:14:21.990
two in some ways? I mean, he certainly
01:14:22.000 --> 01:14:23.669
earned mine, but I wonder I wonder how
01:14:23.679 --> 01:14:25.669
you feel about how like
01:14:25.679 --> 01:14:28.310
>> where he was and where we are now.
01:14:28.320 --> 01:14:31.189
>> The way he's handled the assassination
01:14:31.199 --> 01:14:33.350
attempts has earned a lot of respect
01:14:33.360 --> 01:14:38.229
from me. Um my my, you know, admiration
01:14:38.239 --> 01:14:41.110
for Trump goes up and down. I mean like
01:14:41.120 --> 01:14:43.430
in the beginning of the administration I
01:14:43.440 --> 01:14:46.229
feel like we had so much momentum. We
01:14:46.239 --> 01:14:48.950
had Doge right and then you know now
01:14:48.960 --> 01:14:52.149
people like like to make fun of Doge but
01:14:52.159 --> 01:14:54.390
in the beginning this was this was a
01:14:54.400 --> 01:14:56.310
really great project and there was a lot
01:14:56.320 --> 01:15:00.149
of energy and I fear that the energy has
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:02.070
just sputtered out. I mean, I'm really
01:15:02.080 --> 01:15:04.310
nervous about what's going to happen in
01:15:04.320 --> 01:15:07.270
the midterms, but at the same time, it's
01:15:07.280 --> 01:15:09.910
like, have we accomplished enough to
01:15:09.920 --> 01:15:13.669
justify people voting Republican,
01:15:13.679 --> 01:15:17.110
>> you know, or or have we kind of um, you
01:15:17.120 --> 01:15:20.229
know, wasted the momentum that we had? I
01:15:20.239 --> 01:15:23.350
would really love for a Malay style
01:15:23.360 --> 01:15:26.390
revolution to happen in America. I don't
01:15:26.400 --> 01:15:28.149
think that's going to happen just yet
01:15:28.159 --> 01:15:30.470
cuz things aren't bad enough. But what I
01:15:30.480 --> 01:15:32.790
have seen is that in this year, the
01:15:32.800 --> 01:15:36.070
250th anniversary of the United States,
01:15:36.080 --> 01:15:38.630
people are more depressed and hopeless
01:15:38.640 --> 01:15:40.790
about America than ever. That's
01:15:40.800 --> 01:15:42.550
extremely concerning to me. I mean, it
01:15:42.560 --> 01:15:44.470
makes sense if you look back at history
01:15:44.480 --> 01:15:47.830
and and the way empires go. But I really
01:15:47.840 --> 01:15:52.470
like I I have never felt my friends and
01:15:52.480 --> 01:15:56.709
the apolitical people in my life more
01:15:56.719 --> 01:15:59.110
sad about where America's at or feel
01:15:59.120 --> 01:16:01.110
like their purchasing power is down
01:16:01.120 --> 01:16:03.510
internationally. And that's not Trump's
01:16:03.520 --> 01:16:06.070
fault entirely. That is the whole
01:16:06.080 --> 01:16:08.709
political establishment. That's decades
01:16:08.719 --> 01:16:11.030
upon decades upon decades of government
01:16:11.040 --> 01:16:13.350
intervention in the marketplace and
01:16:13.360 --> 01:16:15.910
juicing up the economy artificially and
01:16:15.920 --> 01:16:17.669
destroying the value of our dollar and
01:16:17.679 --> 01:16:20.470
making everything expensive. But
01:16:20.480 --> 01:16:22.709
honestly, like I just think we're at a
01:16:22.719 --> 01:16:25.990
very sad and unfortunate place in
01:16:26.000 --> 01:16:28.870
America. And I think the only thing that
01:16:28.880 --> 01:16:32.070
is going to help us is if we form
01:16:32.080 --> 01:16:33.910
community with people we don't like. And
01:16:33.920 --> 01:16:35.030
I know that sounds
01:16:35.040 --> 01:16:35.830
>> No, you're right.
01:16:35.840 --> 01:16:38.390
>> kind of lame. No, you're right. And
01:16:38.400 --> 01:16:42.229
like, you know, it sounds very like, you
01:16:42.239 --> 01:16:44.550
know, 70s sitcom, like, let's just all
01:16:44.560 --> 01:16:47.189
get along. But, you know, I've spent
01:16:47.199 --> 01:16:49.830
time recently with people that are on
01:16:49.840 --> 01:16:52.630
various sides of the political spectrum
01:16:52.640 --> 01:16:54.630
just having fun cuz like I'm I'm getting
01:16:54.640 --> 01:16:56.870
married soon, so a lot of people in my
01:16:56.880 --> 01:16:59.270
life are coming together and they're
01:16:59.280 --> 01:17:01.189
coming together in a really joyous
01:17:01.199 --> 01:17:05.110
occasion. And I've noticed that politics
01:17:05.120 --> 01:17:08.470
is not a problem between us and that
01:17:08.480 --> 01:17:10.390
really it's like the joyous moments that
01:17:10.400 --> 01:17:12.550
we share that are way more important
01:17:12.560 --> 01:17:15.030
than the things that make us different.
01:17:15.040 --> 01:17:18.149
Um and so I just, you know, I think
01:17:18.159 --> 01:17:21.030
being online has led to a lot of this
01:17:21.040 --> 01:17:23.830
polarization. This guy is so clearly a
01:17:23.840 --> 01:17:26.950
Reddit lib. Like he's just the way he
01:17:26.960 --> 01:17:27.990
writes
01:17:28.000 --> 01:17:30.870
>> it is so clearly internet poisoned,
01:17:30.880 --> 01:17:33.830
right? And so there's probably thousands
01:17:33.840 --> 01:17:36.470
like him out there that are plotting
01:17:36.480 --> 01:17:39.830
similar things. And that scares the crap
01:17:39.840 --> 01:17:42.470
out of me. And really, I just like I
01:17:42.480 --> 01:17:45.910
just want to issue a plea for people to
01:17:45.920 --> 01:17:49.110
like call the people in their lives. You
01:17:49.120 --> 01:17:51.110
know what I mean? Like actually hold
01:17:51.120 --> 01:17:53.990
them tight because that is the only
01:17:54.000 --> 01:17:56.550
thing that's going to dradicalize people
01:17:56.560 --> 01:17:58.950
is just being in community and feeling
01:17:58.960 --> 01:18:00.950
love. Because if you spend all of your
01:18:00.960 --> 01:18:03.510
time online every single day, you're
01:18:03.520 --> 01:18:04.950
going to hate your life. You're going to
01:18:04.960 --> 01:18:06.950
hate America. You're going to feel
01:18:06.960 --> 01:18:08.550
hopeless and depressed. You're going to
01:18:08.560 --> 01:18:10.630
hate other people. Everything's going to
01:18:10.640 --> 01:18:11.910
piss you off. Everything's going to
01:18:11.920 --> 01:18:14.070
annoy you. I know this because that's
01:18:14.080 --> 01:18:16.310
how I feel after scrolling online all
01:18:16.320 --> 01:18:18.709
day long every single day. But how I
01:18:18.719 --> 01:18:20.550
feel after being around the people I
01:18:20.560 --> 01:18:24.229
love, it's totally different, right? And
01:18:24.239 --> 01:18:27.189
so I really think, you know, it it's so
01:18:27.199 --> 01:18:28.950
important that we keep encouraging
01:18:28.960 --> 01:18:30.870
people to go touch grass, but really
01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:32.550
it's like actually instead of touch
01:18:32.560 --> 01:18:34.709
grass, like hug a loved one and give
01:18:34.719 --> 01:18:36.950
give your mother a call. You know what I
01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:37.189
mean?
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>> That's always good advice, Maggie. It's
01:18:39.920 --> 01:18:42.229
too easy. I'm not We can't let you off
01:18:42.239 --> 01:18:43.910
the hook with your little kumbaya
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[ __ ] But no, you're right. I was I
01:18:46.880 --> 01:18:48.550
was I was sitting on my lawn mower
01:18:48.560 --> 01:18:50.149
yesterday. I was thinking actually about
01:18:50.159 --> 01:18:51.990
something very similarly where I where
01:18:52.000 --> 01:18:53.590
and I it was this thought that I've kind
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:55.750
of congealed which is that I would
01:18:55.760 --> 01:18:57.990
rather have someone or I would rather
01:18:58.000 --> 01:19:00.390
work with someone who was not a
01:19:00.400 --> 01:19:02.470
libertarian who sometimes did
01:19:02.480 --> 01:19:05.830
libertarian [ __ ] than someone who is a
01:19:05.840 --> 01:19:08.070
pure libertarian that never does
01:19:08.080 --> 01:19:10.310
libertarian [ __ ] And that's kind of how
01:19:10.320 --> 01:19:12.550
I feel about Donald Trump is that it's
01:19:12.560 --> 01:19:15.270
kind of this sad pathetic situation. And
01:19:15.280 --> 01:19:16.310
you have to understand like the
01:19:16.320 --> 01:19:17.990
Republicans felt the same way in a large
01:19:18.000 --> 01:19:19.750
sense. They were tired of having these
01:19:19.760 --> 01:19:21.590
Republican candidates who were would had
01:19:21.600 --> 01:19:23.110
great principles and ideals but were
01:19:23.120 --> 01:19:25.350
losers and and would lo like Mitt Romney
01:19:25.360 --> 01:19:28.149
and John McCain losing losing losing
01:19:28.159 --> 01:19:30.790
slowly to the left and people wanted
01:19:30.800 --> 01:19:32.229
somebody who could actually win and
01:19:32.239 --> 01:19:34.070
bring them across the finish line. So I
01:19:34.080 --> 01:19:36.310
guess like what I have done is calibrate
01:19:36.320 --> 01:19:39.350
myself to kind of raise my standards in
01:19:39.360 --> 01:19:41.910
ways for people where I want to work
01:19:41.920 --> 01:19:44.149
with people who are effective. I want to
01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:45.430
work with people even if I don't
01:19:45.440 --> 01:19:46.870
necessarily agree with them on
01:19:46.880 --> 01:19:48.390
everything. this is America and we're
01:19:48.400 --> 01:19:50.550
we're going to work out our views and I
01:19:50.560 --> 01:19:52.790
would rather get a little bit of good
01:19:52.800 --> 01:19:55.350
done than zero every single time in
01:19:55.360 --> 01:19:56.790
order to maintain some sense of
01:19:56.800 --> 01:19:58.310
ideological purity.
01:19:58.320 --> 01:19:58.630
>> Yeah.
01:19:58.640 --> 01:20:00.709
>> And now Maggie, before we let you go, I
01:20:00.719 --> 01:20:01.990
want to swing back to like the
01:20:02.000 --> 01:20:04.070
assassination uh question here. We
01:20:04.080 --> 01:20:05.830
talked about Eric Kirk. We talked about
01:20:05.840 --> 01:20:08.470
the conspiracy theories.
01:20:08.480 --> 01:20:11.189
When's the next assassination? Um, are
01:20:11.199 --> 01:20:14.630
we gearing up for I mean what ideally,
01:20:14.640 --> 01:20:16.550
Maggie,
01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:18.709
would happen
01:20:18.719 --> 01:20:20.709
now? Would would the mainstream media
01:20:20.719 --> 01:20:22.870
reporters come out and start ch shifting
01:20:22.880 --> 01:20:24.790
their rhetoric? Would the New York Times
01:20:24.800 --> 01:20:27.590
issue a pullback with Hassan [ __ ] would
01:20:27.600 --> 01:20:30.390
no longer appear at Democratic? What in
01:20:30.400 --> 01:20:32.229
an ideal scenario or maybe even like a
01:20:32.239 --> 01:20:34.790
plausible or Yeah. Or even a plausible
01:20:34.800 --> 01:20:36.630
scenario, how do we pull ourselves back
01:20:36.640 --> 01:20:37.910
from the brink?
01:20:37.920 --> 01:20:40.310
>> Gosh. I mean, you know, in an ideal
01:20:40.320 --> 01:20:41.910
world, the journalists that were sitting
01:20:41.920 --> 01:20:43.830
in that room
01:20:43.840 --> 01:20:45.669
and and you know, their colleagues were
01:20:45.679 --> 01:20:47.510
sitting in that room might think, "Hey,
01:20:47.520 --> 01:20:50.310
let's turn down the temperature." But I
01:20:50.320 --> 01:20:52.550
mean, it's not just the journalists that
01:20:52.560 --> 01:20:54.470
are that are stoking the flames. It's
01:20:54.480 --> 01:20:56.470
everyone. Like, people are just like
01:20:56.480 --> 01:20:58.310
digging their feet in because they feel
01:20:58.320 --> 01:21:00.550
like they're at war, right? This is a
01:21:00.560 --> 01:21:02.630
war mentality, which is why I'm saying
01:21:02.640 --> 01:21:06.390
like the only solution is for us to take
01:21:06.400 --> 01:21:08.870
individual action in our lives and try
01:21:08.880 --> 01:21:11.030
to reconcile our differences with the
01:21:11.040 --> 01:21:12.550
people we love and try to build
01:21:12.560 --> 01:21:13.910
community with people that don't agree
01:21:13.920 --> 01:21:16.709
with us because all of these other power
01:21:16.719 --> 01:21:19.910
players are literally under attack.
01:21:19.920 --> 01:21:22.390
They're literally coming under fire and
01:21:22.400 --> 01:21:25.030
so they're digging their heels in. And I
01:21:25.040 --> 01:21:27.110
I don't know that we can expect them to
01:21:27.120 --> 01:21:29.110
do something different. And and the
01:21:29.120 --> 01:21:31.350
reason I say that like I wish we could,
01:21:31.360 --> 01:21:33.590
but unfortunately if we're just looking
01:21:33.600 --> 01:21:36.470
at how all of these people behave, this
01:21:36.480 --> 01:21:39.590
is this is life now, right? It's only
01:21:39.600 --> 01:21:41.669
the only thing that's going to make any
01:21:41.679 --> 01:21:43.910
kind of a difference is if people on the
01:21:43.920 --> 01:21:47.350
ground start forming community and stop
01:21:47.360 --> 01:21:49.510
digging their heels in. Is that going to
01:21:49.520 --> 01:21:53.110
happen? I don't know. You know, I like I
01:21:53.120 --> 01:21:55.189
know you called it kumbaya [ __ ] It
01:21:55.199 --> 01:21:58.149
is, right? But it's true, right? It's
01:21:58.159 --> 01:22:01.350
like it's true. It it's it's absolutely
01:22:01.360 --> 01:22:03.910
what we need to do and yet like nobody's
01:22:03.920 --> 01:22:06.390
going to do it. But like if you as a one
01:22:06.400 --> 01:22:09.669
person, right, if you as one person can
01:22:09.679 --> 01:22:11.590
do it, then that's going to create a
01:22:11.600 --> 01:22:13.590
chain reaction. You never know. These
01:22:13.600 --> 01:22:15.750
things kind of are exponential.
01:22:15.760 --> 01:22:16.709
>> Or you know what I mean?
01:22:16.719 --> 01:22:18.790
>> Or we could crush our enemies, see them
01:22:18.800 --> 01:22:20.310
driven before us, and hear the
01:22:20.320 --> 01:22:23.270
lamentations of their women. Uh Maggie,
01:22:23.280 --> 01:22:25.590
Maggie, you you rock. Uh thank you so
01:22:25.600 --> 01:22:26.790
much for your time today. you're always
01:22:26.800 --> 01:22:28.629
so generous with us uh coming on every
01:22:28.639 --> 01:22:29.910
week for like the last three four weeks.
01:22:29.920 --> 01:22:31.510
We're so grateful to you. Is there
01:22:31.520 --> 01:22:32.950
anything else that you want to Is there
01:22:32.960 --> 01:22:34.470
anything else you want to share or plug
01:22:34.480 --> 01:22:36.550
before we let you go today?
01:22:36.560 --> 01:22:39.270
>> Yes. Follow me on Twitter, Maggie Moda.
01:22:39.280 --> 01:22:42.550
Um I also have a new series out with the
01:22:42.560 --> 01:22:44.390
Atlas Society called Check Your
01:22:44.400 --> 01:22:47.430
Premises. Um there's a new video about
01:22:47.440 --> 01:22:49.990
Venezuela and political prisoners if you
01:22:50.000 --> 01:22:51.189
want to go check that out on their
01:22:51.199 --> 01:22:54.229
YouTube channel. And also follow Young
01:22:54.239 --> 01:22:56.950
Voices on all the platforms. I'm going
01:22:56.960 --> 01:22:58.390
to be doing a lot of work with them
01:22:58.400 --> 01:23:00.629
coming up soon. So you can see a lot of
01:23:00.639 --> 01:23:03.750
my spicy takes on the news of the day.
01:23:03.760 --> 01:23:05.350
>> Maggie Moda from Young Voices. Thank
01:23:05.360 --> 01:23:07.189
you, Maggie. Have a wonderful day. Great
01:23:07.199 --> 01:23:07.510
week.
01:23:07.520 --> 01:23:15.590
>> Thanks so much. Bye.
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In the year 1740 in a Jewish quarter of
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Poland, a boy was born who would one day
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hold the financial fate of the American
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Revolution in his hands. His name was H
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Salomon. Brilliant with numbers, fluent
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in eight languages, and possessed of a
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courage as fierce as any man who ever
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carried a musket. He arrived in New York
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City in 1775,
01:28:43.520 --> 01:28:45.189
just as the storm clouds of war
01:28:45.199 --> 01:28:47.510
gathered. Within months, he had built a
01:28:47.520 --> 01:28:49.189
thriving business as a broker and
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merchant. When the British captured New
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York in 1776, Salomon did not flee. He
01:28:55.520 --> 01:28:57.990
stayed behind on purpose, quietly
01:28:58.000 --> 01:28:59.750
becoming one of General Washington's
01:28:59.760 --> 01:29:01.750
most valuable secret agents in the heart
01:29:01.760 --> 01:29:04.550
of enemy territory. The British soon
01:29:04.560 --> 01:29:07.830
discovered his activities. In 1776, they
01:29:07.840 --> 01:29:09.830
arrested him as a spy and threw him into
01:29:09.840 --> 01:29:12.310
the infamous Provice prison. Charged
01:29:12.320 --> 01:29:14.149
with treason, he faced the hangman's
01:29:14.159 --> 01:29:17.750
noose. But Hay Salomon was not finished.
01:29:17.760 --> 01:29:19.910
Using his language skills and charm, he
01:29:19.920 --> 01:29:22.070
convinced the Hessian guards, many of
01:29:22.080 --> 01:29:23.910
whom he could speak to in German, to
01:29:23.920 --> 01:29:26.390
trust him. One night, he slipped out of
01:29:26.400 --> 01:29:28.229
prison and escaped to freedom, leaving
01:29:28.239 --> 01:29:31.030
the red coats furious. He returned to
01:29:31.040 --> 01:29:32.870
business in Philadelphia, now openly
01:29:32.880 --> 01:29:35.110
supporting the Patriot cause. While
01:29:35.120 --> 01:29:36.629
Robert Morris, superintendent of
01:29:36.639 --> 01:29:38.390
finance, struggled to keep the bankrupt
01:29:38.400 --> 01:29:40.790
Continental Congress afloat, Salomon
01:29:40.800 --> 01:29:42.950
stepped into the breach. He became the
01:29:42.960 --> 01:29:44.870
master broker who turned promises into
01:29:44.880 --> 01:29:47.910
hard cash. He sold bills of exchange,
01:29:47.920 --> 01:29:49.750
raised loans from wealthy merchants, and
01:29:49.760 --> 01:29:51.510
used his own credit and fortune to keep
01:29:51.520 --> 01:29:53.669
the army supplied. Money flowed through
01:29:53.679 --> 01:29:57.030
his hands like water. Over $650,000
01:29:57.040 --> 01:29:58.870
in today's money funneled directly to
01:29:58.880 --> 01:30:00.870
the war effort, often at his own
01:30:00.880 --> 01:30:03.590
personal risk.
01:30:03.600 --> 01:30:05.750
When the French fleet and army arrived,
01:30:05.760 --> 01:30:07.830
it was Salomon who helped finance their
01:30:07.840 --> 01:30:10.629
operations. When Washington's army stood
01:30:10.639 --> 01:30:12.470
on the brink of collapse before Yorktown
01:30:12.480 --> 01:30:15.590
in 1781, it was Hay Salomon who moved
01:30:15.600 --> 01:30:17.350
heaven and earth to raise the gold
01:30:17.360 --> 01:30:19.430
needed to pay the troops and keep the
01:30:19.440 --> 01:30:21.910
campaign alive. Without his frantic
01:30:21.920 --> 01:30:24.229
efforts in those final months, the trap
01:30:24.239 --> 01:30:27.030
at Yorktown might never have closed. He
01:30:27.040 --> 01:30:29.350
worked himself to exhaustion. He slept
01:30:29.360 --> 01:30:31.750
little, negotiated endlessly, and poured
01:30:31.760 --> 01:30:34.229
every dollar he had into the cause.
01:30:34.239 --> 01:30:36.629
British agents knew who he was. He lived
01:30:36.639 --> 01:30:38.390
under constant threat of arrest or
01:30:38.400 --> 01:30:40.709
assassination. Yet Salomon never
01:30:40.719 --> 01:30:42.629
stopped.
01:30:42.639 --> 01:30:44.229
He once said he would rather die
01:30:44.239 --> 01:30:45.669
supporting liberty than live under
01:30:45.679 --> 01:30:48.790
tyranny. When the war finally ended in
01:30:48.800 --> 01:30:52.550
1783, Hay Salomon was nearly ruined. He
01:30:52.560 --> 01:30:54.310
had lent vast sums to the government
01:30:54.320 --> 01:30:56.870
that were never repaid. His health
01:30:56.880 --> 01:30:58.950
broken by years of relentless work and
01:30:58.960 --> 01:31:02.229
stress, he died on January 6th, 1785 at
01:31:02.239 --> 01:31:05.590
the age of 44. penniless, exhausted, but
01:31:05.600 --> 01:31:08.470
free, he left behind a wife and four
01:31:08.480 --> 01:31:10.550
small children and a mountain of unpaid
01:31:10.560 --> 01:31:12.070
government notes that Congress would
01:31:12.080 --> 01:31:15.030
largely ignore. For decades, his
01:31:15.040 --> 01:31:16.790
enormous contributions were almost
01:31:16.800 --> 01:31:18.709
forgotten.
01:31:18.719 --> 01:31:20.950
But the truth eventually emerged.
01:31:20.960 --> 01:31:23.270
Without H Salomon, there might not have
01:31:23.280 --> 01:31:24.629
been enough money to keep the
01:31:24.639 --> 01:31:26.709
Continental Army in the field during its
01:31:26.719 --> 01:31:28.790
darkest hours.
01:31:28.800 --> 01:31:31.110
H Salomon was no general charging into
01:31:31.120 --> 01:31:33.430
battle. He was no spy slipping through
01:31:33.440 --> 01:31:35.669
swamps under moonlight. He fought with
01:31:35.679 --> 01:31:37.510
ledgers, credit notes, and sheer
01:31:37.520 --> 01:31:40.390
financial genius. While soldiers bled on
01:31:40.400 --> 01:31:41.990
the battlefield, he bled gold for the
01:31:42.000 --> 01:31:44.229
cause, quietly, brilliantly, and at the
01:31:44.239 --> 01:31:47.110
cost of his own fortune and life. In the
01:31:47.120 --> 01:31:49.350
smoky counting houses of Philadelphia,
01:31:49.360 --> 01:31:51.830
while cannons roared at Yorktown, one
01:31:51.840 --> 01:31:53.669
Jewish immigrant from Poland held the
01:31:53.679 --> 01:31:55.510
revolution together with nothing but his
01:31:55.520 --> 01:31:58.070
mind, his honor, and his unbreakable
01:31:58.080 --> 01:32:00.950
belief in liberty. He gave everything so
01:32:00.960 --> 01:32:03.189
America could be born. And though the
01:32:03.199 --> 01:32:04.870
new nation forgot him for a time,
01:32:04.880 --> 01:32:08.149
history now remembers. H Salomon, the
01:32:08.159 --> 01:32:14.709
man who financed freedom.
01:32:14.719 --> 01:32:17.350
>> He had attended a no kings protest in
01:32:17.360 --> 01:32:18.550
California. No kings.
01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:20.709
>> What did security tell you about what
01:32:20.719 --> 01:32:21.830
may have been his motives?
01:32:21.840 --> 01:32:23.270
>> The reason you have people like that is
01:32:23.280 --> 01:32:25.110
you have people doing no kings. I'm not
01:32:25.120 --> 01:32:27.669
a king. What I am, if I was a king, I
01:32:27.679 --> 01:32:31.030
wouldn't be dealing with you.
01:32:31.040 --> 01:32:33.910
That's a good point. If he was a king,
01:32:33.920 --> 01:32:35.110
he wouldn't be dealing with you. He
01:32:35.120 --> 01:32:36.310
wouldn't have to put up with your crap.
01:32:36.320 --> 01:32:38.790
Good morning, Rise and Freedom. I'm
01:32:38.800 --> 01:32:40.390
Austin Peterson. You're watching and
01:32:40.400 --> 01:32:42.550
listening to the Wake Up America Show on
01:32:42.560 --> 01:32:45.510
the Four Liberty Network. You know that
01:32:45.520 --> 01:32:49.030
they did the No Kings protest in the UK,
01:32:49.040 --> 01:32:51.669
but they had to call it a a no tyranny
01:32:51.679 --> 01:32:53.669
or no tyrants protest because they
01:32:53.679 --> 01:32:55.750
actually have kings there. Our next
01:32:55.760 --> 01:33:00.229
guest,
01:33:00.239 --> 01:33:01.750
our next guest, senior editor of the
01:33:01.760 --> 01:33:02.950
American Institute for Economic
01:33:02.960 --> 01:33:05.110
Research. Boy, that's a big name. It's
01:33:05.120 --> 01:33:06.870
one of the sharpest minds working at the
01:33:06.880 --> 01:33:08.870
intersection of ideas, liberty, and
01:33:08.880 --> 01:33:10.629
culture today. A good friend of the show
01:33:10.639 --> 01:33:12.550
since the very beginning, since before
01:33:12.560 --> 01:33:14.950
this thing was a network,
01:33:14.960 --> 01:33:16.790
celebrating 250 years of American
01:33:16.800 --> 01:33:18.709
greatness with us today, John Milmore.
01:33:18.719 --> 01:33:20.870
John, it's Monday. That means we get
01:33:20.880 --> 01:33:22.550
Miltmore. How you doing, bud?
01:33:22.560 --> 01:33:24.790
>> I'm doing great. How you doing, AP? I
01:33:24.800 --> 01:33:26.629
don't know, feeling a little numb, a
01:33:26.639 --> 01:33:29.669
little bit I don't know, just really odd
01:33:29.679 --> 01:33:32.310
about the whole situation that happened
01:33:32.320 --> 01:33:35.030
this weekend because one, I'm dealing
01:33:35.040 --> 01:33:37.590
with my own existential crisis here.
01:33:37.600 --> 01:33:38.790
Like, what happens if I get
01:33:38.800 --> 01:33:41.430
assassinated? Well, you know, Stephanie
01:33:41.440 --> 01:33:42.709
going to run. Is she going to do the
01:33:42.719 --> 01:33:44.310
wake up America show run? Like, I don't
01:33:44.320 --> 01:33:46.310
have an Erica Kirk to run an empire in
01:33:46.320 --> 01:33:47.510
the sense, right? So, we don't have
01:33:47.520 --> 01:33:49.510
millions of dollars over here. So, I had
01:33:49.520 --> 01:33:51.830
to tell my wife, I'm like, "If I get
01:33:51.840 --> 01:33:55.110
killed, run
01:33:55.120 --> 01:33:57.350
and hide." And she's like, "That's what
01:33:57.360 --> 01:33:58.550
I do."
01:33:58.560 --> 01:34:00.870
>> That's That's the rational thing to do.
01:34:00.880 --> 01:34:03.110
Like, I I don't know Erica Kirk, but I I
01:34:03.120 --> 01:34:05.430
find it amazing that she's picked up the
01:34:05.440 --> 01:34:07.350
mantle like she has. I'm not saying I I
01:34:07.360 --> 01:34:09.430
I think I would give my wife the same
01:34:09.440 --> 01:34:12.390
advice that you gave yours. Um, no. you
01:34:12.400 --> 01:34:13.910
know, like politics is getting too
01:34:13.920 --> 01:34:15.830
dangerous maybe to be sticking our heads
01:34:15.840 --> 01:34:17.830
up. But no, we should never be afraid to
01:34:17.840 --> 01:34:19.669
share ideas and do things like this.
01:34:19.679 --> 01:34:21.910
>> No, we shouldn't be. But honestly, when
01:34:21.920 --> 01:34:23.750
I say I'm afraid, I mean, I think fear
01:34:23.760 --> 01:34:25.189
is a natural thing. Doesn't mean that
01:34:25.199 --> 01:34:26.550
I'm not going to go out in public.
01:34:26.560 --> 01:34:28.629
Doesn't mean I'm not going to do events.
01:34:28.639 --> 01:34:30.229
Doesn't mean that I won't, you know,
01:34:30.239 --> 01:34:32.229
stand up for what I believe in, John.
01:34:32.239 --> 01:34:33.510
Because, you know, at the end of the
01:34:33.520 --> 01:34:35.669
day, I'm just one person. And if I'm
01:34:35.679 --> 01:34:38.149
assassinated, you know, and if if I'm
01:34:38.159 --> 01:34:40.149
not like trying to, you know, go for 72
01:34:40.159 --> 01:34:42.310
virgins in the afterlife here, but maybe
01:34:42.320 --> 01:34:43.990
my martyrdom could actually produce
01:34:44.000 --> 01:34:46.390
something useful.
01:34:46.400 --> 01:34:48.229
It reminds me of that Seinfeld episodes
01:34:48.239 --> 01:34:49.830
where where Jerry gets a mysterious
01:34:49.840 --> 01:34:51.590
package and and he thought for a minute
01:34:51.600 --> 01:34:53.030
it might be a bomb and George looks at
01:34:53.040 --> 01:34:55.110
him and said, "Look at the ego on you.
01:34:55.120 --> 01:34:56.470
You know, you you think somebody would
01:34:56.480 --> 01:34:59.350
actually want to take you out?" Um, and
01:34:59.360 --> 01:35:00.629
that's just it. Like I don't have the
01:35:00.639 --> 01:35:02.070
ego to think I'm important enough to
01:35:02.080 --> 01:35:03.750
take out. Maggie did that. That's a good
01:35:03.760 --> 01:35:07.590
thing. Aggie said that same thing. I'm I
01:35:07.600 --> 01:35:09.110
definitely have the ego to think that I
01:35:09.120 --> 01:35:10.629
would be taken out, but I also have the
01:35:10.639 --> 01:35:13.270
death threats to back it up. John, uh
01:35:13.280 --> 01:35:15.669
the American uh uh Institute for
01:35:15.679 --> 01:35:19.270
Economic Research, it it exists because
01:35:19.280 --> 01:35:22.950
fighting for ideas has consequences. We,
01:35:22.960 --> 01:35:24.550
you know, you work in think tanks and
01:35:24.560 --> 01:35:27.030
you build institutions. You build I'm
01:35:27.040 --> 01:35:28.950
building the for Liberty Network because
01:35:28.960 --> 01:35:32.550
I think ideas can lead to action.
01:35:32.560 --> 01:35:35.189
On Saturday night, a man acted on a set
01:35:35.199 --> 01:35:37.030
of ideas that he absorbed from the
01:35:37.040 --> 01:35:39.510
mainstream American left. So, you're a
01:35:39.520 --> 01:35:41.030
student of how ideas move through
01:35:41.040 --> 01:35:43.270
culture. What did you see happening at
01:35:43.280 --> 01:35:45.189
the W Washington Hilton on Saturday
01:35:45.199 --> 01:35:46.070
night?
01:35:46.080 --> 01:35:47.590
>> Yeah, you know, I was kind of late to
01:35:47.600 --> 01:35:50.070
the news, but I I did go and um it's
01:35:50.080 --> 01:35:51.590
amazing. We we already have the
01:35:51.600 --> 01:35:54.470
manifesto that that Cole Anthony wrote
01:35:54.480 --> 01:35:55.910
and I took the time this morning to
01:35:55.920 --> 01:35:57.430
actually read it. Often times I don't,
01:35:57.440 --> 01:35:58.950
you know, you don't have time to consume
01:35:58.960 --> 01:36:00.870
everything, but I looked and what it
01:36:00.880 --> 01:36:02.950
what was shocking to me is how lucid he
01:36:02.960 --> 01:36:05.510
sounded. He sounds very rational and he
01:36:05.520 --> 01:36:08.470
spells out exactly why he's doing this.
01:36:08.480 --> 01:36:10.709
And it it is because his mind was
01:36:10.719 --> 01:36:13.110
captured by by the American left. And he
01:36:13.120 --> 01:36:14.950
he looks at what he's doing as as a
01:36:14.960 --> 01:36:17.830
heroic thing. He he also, this is
01:36:17.840 --> 01:36:19.910
noteworthy to me, he goes to church, you
01:36:19.920 --> 01:36:22.790
know, um he he says in there and he he
01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:25.590
says why it was it's o okay to to do
01:36:25.600 --> 01:36:27.350
this when we're taught to turn the other
01:36:27.360 --> 01:36:30.310
cheek. And he gives this reason that
01:36:30.320 --> 01:36:32.709
says, well, it's not about me being
01:36:32.719 --> 01:36:35.590
hurt. I'm I'm a liberator. And he he
01:36:35.600 --> 01:36:37.510
takes this this language of of
01:36:37.520 --> 01:36:39.110
liberation
01:36:39.120 --> 01:36:42.870
um to justify murder. And you know to me
01:36:42.880 --> 01:36:44.790
I it's funny as we've been seeing more
01:36:44.800 --> 01:36:48.149
and more of this in um society today
01:36:48.159 --> 01:36:50.310
I've been itching to write something on
01:36:50.320 --> 01:36:53.109
this this mindset because DSKI was
01:36:53.119 --> 01:36:55.669
writing about this you know about 150
01:36:55.679 --> 01:36:57.830
years ago if you remember the book Crime
01:36:57.840 --> 01:37:00.950
and Punishment Rascolnikov is is the
01:37:00.960 --> 01:37:03.030
main character in that book and he's a
01:37:03.040 --> 01:37:05.510
young man who's a who's a Marxist
01:37:05.520 --> 01:37:07.109
essentially I won't call him a Marxist
01:37:07.119 --> 01:37:09.430
because Marx ideas I don't know he he
01:37:09.440 --> 01:37:11.030
was he was a collectivist through and
01:37:11.040 --> 01:37:13.189
through and he's going to murder someone
01:37:13.199 --> 01:37:16.470
to advance a collective good. And Dasvki
01:37:16.480 --> 01:37:18.149
saw this mindset and it terrified him.
01:37:18.159 --> 01:37:20.790
The book The Demons is is similar a book
01:37:20.800 --> 01:37:22.310
that that looks at this collectivist
01:37:22.320 --> 01:37:25.109
mindset and it justifies atrocities by
01:37:25.119 --> 01:37:27.430
the the collective good it will achieve.
01:37:27.440 --> 01:37:29.430
Um so this isn't new, but what we're
01:37:29.440 --> 01:37:32.550
seeing is this mindset is taking over a
01:37:32.560 --> 01:37:34.470
lot of minds in America today and it's
01:37:34.480 --> 01:37:38.550
pretty chilling. M now for years, John,
01:37:38.560 --> 01:37:41.669
the academic and cultural left argued
01:37:41.679 --> 01:37:44.470
that speech itself is a form of
01:37:44.480 --> 01:37:47.510
violence, that words have measurable
01:37:47.520 --> 01:37:50.229
harm, that rhetoric creates unsafe
01:37:50.239 --> 01:37:52.390
environments. Is this them telling on
01:37:52.400 --> 01:37:54.310
themselves?
01:37:54.320 --> 01:37:56.070
You know, I I look at that and I've
01:37:56.080 --> 01:37:57.910
heard that for years and and when you
01:37:57.920 --> 01:37:59.750
start to hear this mantra that that
01:37:59.760 --> 01:38:01.590
words are violence, even then it there
01:38:01.600 --> 01:38:03.830
was something so pernicious about it
01:38:03.840 --> 01:38:05.830
because it's it's really what Marxists
01:38:05.840 --> 01:38:07.590
do well. They they twist ideas and they
01:38:07.600 --> 01:38:10.629
they they twist language. And if you
01:38:10.639 --> 01:38:12.470
look back, there was a reason that we
01:38:12.480 --> 01:38:14.470
carved out first amendment protections
01:38:14.480 --> 01:38:15.990
for speech because we understood they
01:38:16.000 --> 01:38:18.149
are words and we need to be able to use
01:38:18.159 --> 01:38:20.470
words to to argue with each other and to
01:38:20.480 --> 01:38:22.950
say things and and the American founders
01:38:22.960 --> 01:38:25.030
saw what would you know what power did
01:38:25.040 --> 01:38:26.790
like people would try to get people to
01:38:26.800 --> 01:38:29.189
shut up and they try to um use power to
01:38:29.199 --> 01:38:31.669
to silence people. We need words, you
01:38:31.679 --> 01:38:33.350
know, to speak to to each other. Not for
01:38:33.360 --> 01:38:34.950
Marxists. When you when when you say
01:38:34.960 --> 01:38:36.550
things they don't like, they they are
01:38:36.560 --> 01:38:39.030
going to say that's violence. So, um,
01:38:39.040 --> 01:38:40.790
you can see the endgame of this when
01:38:40.800 --> 01:38:42.070
when you're saying things they don't
01:38:42.080 --> 01:38:43.830
like, that's a form of violence. So,
01:38:43.840 --> 01:38:46.229
they they're able to take counter action
01:38:46.239 --> 01:38:48.950
against that. And anybody saying that of
01:38:48.960 --> 01:38:51.430
any political stripe like just stop.
01:38:51.440 --> 01:38:53.270
Words are not violence. We can say mean
01:38:53.280 --> 01:38:55.270
things, but that's but don't take the
01:38:55.280 --> 01:38:57.750
idea of violence to that level, right?
01:38:57.760 --> 01:39:00.310
Like like like you're doing violence is
01:39:00.320 --> 01:39:03.669
something else. Um, when we say words,
01:39:03.679 --> 01:39:05.669
you know, even mean words, even hateful
01:39:05.679 --> 01:39:08.149
words, they're not violence.
01:39:08.159 --> 01:39:10.390
John Stewart Mill had a principle. It
01:39:10.400 --> 01:39:13.430
was called the uh harm principle and
01:39:13.440 --> 01:39:15.189
which is the foundational text of
01:39:15.199 --> 01:39:17.189
liberal free speech theory. It says that
01:39:17.199 --> 01:39:19.189
you can say whatever you want until it
01:39:19.199 --> 01:39:22.229
causes direct harm to others. Now the
01:39:22.239 --> 01:39:25.109
left has completely abandoned Bill in
01:39:25.119 --> 01:39:27.270
favor of a framework where feelings
01:39:27.280 --> 01:39:29.350
constitute harm. So how does that
01:39:29.360 --> 01:39:31.350
philosophical pivot lead directly to
01:39:31.360 --> 01:39:33.510
what happened on Saturday night?
01:39:33.520 --> 01:39:35.750
>> You know, I I don't know. I don't want
01:39:35.760 --> 01:39:37.910
to connect it to Saturday night yet like
01:39:37.920 --> 01:39:40.229
um I guess I I'll I'll say what have we
01:39:40.239 --> 01:39:42.550
seen the last 10 years we've seen these
01:39:42.560 --> 01:39:44.629
the on campuses this is where these
01:39:44.639 --> 01:39:47.109
ideas have been incubating and what we
01:39:47.119 --> 01:39:48.790
see are when people say things on campus
01:39:48.800 --> 01:39:50.950
you don't like you go and you get in
01:39:50.960 --> 01:39:53.990
their face you shut them down you know I
01:39:54.000 --> 01:39:56.070
remember about about 10 years ago when
01:39:56.080 --> 01:39:57.669
when Charles Murray was just giving
01:39:57.679 --> 01:40:00.709
talks or or you know Milo Ionianopoulos
01:40:00.719 --> 01:40:02.629
or whoever and they're just giving a
01:40:02.639 --> 01:40:04.550
talk at a campus and suddenly they're
01:40:04.560 --> 01:40:06.149
getting ushered measured out and chased
01:40:06.159 --> 01:40:09.030
out of universities. That's a scary
01:40:09.040 --> 01:40:11.750
environment and it's it it leads
01:40:11.760 --> 01:40:13.430
directly to what we're seeing, you know,
01:40:13.440 --> 01:40:15.910
on on Saturday. Um, somebody didn't
01:40:15.920 --> 01:40:17.990
like, you know, something Trump said or
01:40:18.000 --> 01:40:19.350
something he did or something he was
01:40:19.360 --> 01:40:20.790
accused of, so they're going to take it
01:40:20.800 --> 01:40:23.430
into their own hands. And this is kind
01:40:23.440 --> 01:40:24.950
of the new normal. Austin, this is what
01:40:24.960 --> 01:40:28.310
what scares me. I was born in 1979
01:40:28.320 --> 01:40:31.189
and yeah, Reagan was, you know, shot,
01:40:31.199 --> 01:40:32.629
right? But I was too little to remember
01:40:32.639 --> 01:40:35.430
that basically my whole life, you know,
01:40:35.440 --> 01:40:37.030
we didn't see anything like this and
01:40:37.040 --> 01:40:39.030
suddenly it's happening all the time.
01:40:39.040 --> 01:40:41.189
It's frightening to see it and and um
01:40:41.199 --> 01:40:43.510
how do we stop it? I I think it stops it
01:40:43.520 --> 01:40:44.790
kind of starts with what Maggie was
01:40:44.800 --> 01:40:46.149
telling you before. I was watching that
01:40:46.159 --> 01:40:47.590
segment. It starts with our own
01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:49.910
individual action like getting control
01:40:49.920 --> 01:40:51.990
of ourselves first because controlling
01:40:52.000 --> 01:40:53.750
other people is very hard. Start with
01:40:53.760 --> 01:40:55.830
controlling ourselves and having better
01:40:55.840 --> 01:40:57.830
ideas and better interactions. That's
01:40:57.840 --> 01:41:00.470
really how you can, you know, do this.
01:41:00.480 --> 01:41:01.830
It's not going to be through better gun
01:41:01.840 --> 01:41:05.430
control laws or or just overwhelming the
01:41:05.440 --> 01:41:07.430
left. You know, it does start with an
01:41:07.440 --> 01:41:09.430
indiv individual action. I know that
01:41:09.440 --> 01:41:11.109
answer doesn't satisfy a lot of people,
01:41:11.119 --> 01:41:12.229
though.
01:41:12.239 --> 01:41:13.430
>> Uh if you're just tuning in to the Wake
01:41:13.440 --> 01:41:16.070
Up America Show, my guest uh is here,
01:41:16.080 --> 01:41:17.750
John Mildemore. He joins us every
01:41:17.760 --> 01:41:20.390
Monday. We call it Mondays with Milmore.
01:41:20.400 --> 01:41:22.470
Make sure you click the like button and
01:41:22.480 --> 01:41:25.510
follow as well. John Cole Allen, this
01:41:25.520 --> 01:41:27.990
guy that tried to kill the president, he
01:41:28.000 --> 01:41:29.669
was a Caltech graduate. He had a
01:41:29.679 --> 01:41:32.390
master's degree, highly educated by
01:41:32.400 --> 01:41:36.709
every conventional measure. Um,
01:41:36.719 --> 01:41:39.590
so how comfortable should we feel
01:41:39.600 --> 01:41:43.030
leaving our our 17-year-old 16-year-old
01:41:43.040 --> 01:41:46.790
kids with people who are, you know, of a
01:41:46.800 --> 01:41:48.070
similar background or degree? Do you
01:41:48.080 --> 01:41:49.750
think twice about before you hire a
01:41:49.760 --> 01:41:51.590
tutor or send your kids to public school
01:41:51.600 --> 01:41:52.390
now?
01:41:52.400 --> 01:41:54.390
>> Oh, I think you absolutely should. And I
01:41:54.400 --> 01:41:55.990
say that I I don't mean you can't send
01:41:56.000 --> 01:41:57.990
your kid to public school like like you
01:41:58.000 --> 01:41:59.510
know some of my children are attending
01:41:59.520 --> 01:42:01.830
public school now. Um I think you got to
01:42:01.840 --> 01:42:03.510
be very attentive to what they're
01:42:03.520 --> 01:42:05.030
learning in those classrooms and pay
01:42:05.040 --> 01:42:06.629
attention like Henry where you got you
01:42:06.639 --> 01:42:07.830
got some I think public schools that are
01:42:07.840 --> 01:42:09.189
probably very good. Then you got some of
01:42:09.199 --> 01:42:11.030
that they're getting atrocious ideas
01:42:11.040 --> 01:42:12.870
through there. And it's not just K
01:42:12.880 --> 01:42:14.550
through 12. It's the universities that
01:42:14.560 --> 01:42:16.310
you send them to. Like it it's ironic to
01:42:16.320 --> 01:42:17.510
me you have parents that are shelling
01:42:17.520 --> 01:42:19.510
out 50 grand a year to send their
01:42:19.520 --> 01:42:21.030
children to universities where they're
01:42:21.040 --> 01:42:23.109
going to get you know indoctrinated with
01:42:23.119 --> 01:42:25.750
Marxism in a lot of cases and you know
01:42:25.760 --> 01:42:27.669
like I went through the university
01:42:27.679 --> 01:42:29.669
system you know I have family in there
01:42:29.679 --> 01:42:31.830
now you can go through and do fine but
01:42:31.840 --> 01:42:34.149
you better have a good set of ideas in
01:42:34.159 --> 01:42:36.870
your child first if they go in a blank
01:42:36.880 --> 01:42:38.629
slate there's a good chance they're
01:42:38.639 --> 01:42:40.310
going to come out with a very warped
01:42:40.320 --> 01:42:42.390
mind and I think that was probably the
01:42:42.400 --> 01:42:44.070
case with Cole Anthony that he went in
01:42:44.080 --> 01:42:45.430
there more of a blank slate late
01:42:45.440 --> 01:42:46.870
probably wasn't radicalized yet, but
01:42:46.880 --> 01:42:49.590
once he was there, he was um exposed to
01:42:49.600 --> 01:42:51.990
a lot of ideas in in a culture that was
01:42:52.000 --> 01:42:54.950
very toxic and he looked at it as normal
01:42:54.960 --> 01:42:57.990
to to go take violence against a US
01:42:58.000 --> 01:42:59.510
president because he doesn't like the
01:42:59.520 --> 01:43:01.669
policies of or you know actions of that
01:43:01.679 --> 01:43:04.709
president. Uh John uh Fred Hayek wrote
01:43:04.719 --> 01:43:07.750
about how ideas filter down from
01:43:07.760 --> 01:43:10.149
intellectuals to the broader public over
01:43:10.159 --> 01:43:14.070
decades and he posited that the uh ideas
01:43:14.080 --> 01:43:16.149
that are considered radical today become
01:43:16.159 --> 01:43:18.550
the common assumptions of tomorrow. If
01:43:18.560 --> 01:43:20.229
you look at the left rhetoric over the
01:43:20.239 --> 01:43:22.229
last decade are we watching this model
01:43:22.239 --> 01:43:24.629
play out in real time? Oh, I think we
01:43:24.639 --> 01:43:26.310
are. And and there's something we need
01:43:26.320 --> 01:43:27.830
to talk about within this context, too.
01:43:27.840 --> 01:43:29.590
And it is, you know, people on the left
01:43:29.600 --> 01:43:32.709
whose minds are captured. Um, they they
01:43:32.719 --> 01:43:35.590
have been pawns to some extent cuz cuz I
01:43:35.600 --> 01:43:36.870
want to step back and look at what the
01:43:36.880 --> 01:43:39.510
the Southern Poverty Law Center and and
01:43:39.520 --> 01:43:41.350
what, you know, they were charged with,
01:43:41.360 --> 01:43:43.750
I think, 11, you know, different uh
01:43:43.760 --> 01:43:46.310
charges by a grand jury. Um, it it
01:43:46.320 --> 01:43:48.070
really looks like they were fermenting
01:43:48.080 --> 01:43:49.750
hate. Like I I look back at
01:43:49.760 --> 01:43:51.189
Charlottesville and I had a friend in
01:43:51.199 --> 01:43:53.750
town, a a very successful news reporter
01:43:53.760 --> 01:43:55.990
and when that story broke like he was
01:43:56.000 --> 01:43:57.910
horrified like and I'm looking at it and
01:43:57.920 --> 01:43:59.510
you're like Charlottesville was a very
01:43:59.520 --> 01:44:01.830
weird thing and now we we look back at
01:44:01.840 --> 01:44:03.990
that and you say oh the Southern Poverty
01:44:04.000 --> 01:44:05.590
Law Center had people in that
01:44:05.600 --> 01:44:07.510
organization and they're saying oh
01:44:07.520 --> 01:44:08.950
they're there are informants but when
01:44:08.960 --> 01:44:10.310
you read the indictment they weren't
01:44:10.320 --> 01:44:12.790
just informants they were steering this
01:44:12.800 --> 01:44:16.790
they were leaders allegedly in this uh
01:44:16.800 --> 01:44:19.350
you know the the what was going on at
01:44:19.360 --> 01:44:21.109
Charlottesville. And they've been doing
01:44:21.119 --> 01:44:23.990
this for a very long time. And so so
01:44:24.000 --> 01:44:25.910
what you have are you have organizations
01:44:25.920 --> 01:44:28.229
that were dedicated to fmenting this
01:44:28.239 --> 01:44:30.629
hate and and they made tons of money on
01:44:30.639 --> 01:44:32.470
it. If you look at their their their
01:44:32.480 --> 01:44:35.510
operating budget was about $60 million
01:44:35.520 --> 01:44:38.629
in in 2016. The next year it's about 140
01:44:38.639 --> 01:44:39.669
million.
01:44:39.679 --> 01:44:42.470
um it it went it was great business for
01:44:42.480 --> 01:44:46.310
them to jin up all this hatred and you
01:44:46.320 --> 01:44:48.550
know and use it in that way. And so when
01:44:48.560 --> 01:44:51.669
we see people radicalized by you know
01:44:51.679 --> 01:44:53.750
from this it shouldn't surprise us.
01:44:53.760 --> 01:44:55.270
They're saying you know what we're
01:44:55.280 --> 01:44:56.709
saying is like we need to fight fire
01:44:56.719 --> 01:44:58.229
with fire. You have all these you know
01:44:58.239 --> 01:45:00.390
right-wing haters out there. It's very
01:45:00.400 --> 01:45:01.830
serious what they're doing and they want
01:45:01.840 --> 01:45:04.310
to um you know they're Nazis and they
01:45:04.320 --> 01:45:05.990
want to you know take your your children
01:45:06.000 --> 01:45:07.669
and and do all these evil things to
01:45:07.679 --> 01:45:10.550
them. These people are being they're
01:45:10.560 --> 01:45:12.310
pawns for organizations like that that
01:45:12.320 --> 01:45:13.990
are jinning up hatred that isn't even
01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:16.229
there. And and I guess we should say the
01:45:16.239 --> 01:45:18.149
Southern Poverty Law Center allegedly,
01:45:18.159 --> 01:45:19.510
we got to use that because they haven't
01:45:19.520 --> 01:45:21.109
been convicted of this yet, but they
01:45:21.119 --> 01:45:24.470
learned from this too. The the FBI was
01:45:24.480 --> 01:45:26.390
doing stuff like this for years, right?
01:45:26.400 --> 01:45:28.310
Like like they they they'd infiltrate
01:45:28.320 --> 01:45:30.870
these these factions and then, you know,
01:45:30.880 --> 01:45:32.629
having informants inside. But we find
01:45:32.639 --> 01:45:34.550
out they were actually doing more than
01:45:34.560 --> 01:45:36.870
just informing. they were actually
01:45:36.880 --> 01:45:38.310
steering, you know, a lot of this
01:45:38.320 --> 01:45:41.430
themselves. And when you do that, you're
01:45:41.440 --> 01:45:42.629
going to have some very ugly
01:45:42.639 --> 01:45:43.910
consequences and you're going to have
01:45:43.920 --> 01:45:45.109
people on the left that are going to
01:45:45.119 --> 01:45:47.270
feel justified in their own violence.
01:45:47.280 --> 01:45:53.109
>> That's John Milmore given his take.
01:45:53.119 --> 01:45:55.830
You can read more from John Milmore at
01:45:55.840 --> 01:45:58.070
the take on his Substack. He of course
01:45:58.080 --> 01:46:00.470
joins us here every Monday on the Wake
01:46:00.480 --> 01:46:02.870
Up America Show. So much that we call it
01:46:02.880 --> 01:46:04.790
Mondays with Milmore. And when he's not
01:46:04.800 --> 01:46:10.470
here, we miss him.
01:46:10.480 --> 01:46:12.390
John, there's kind of a free speech
01:46:12.400 --> 01:46:15.030
paradox involved here, right? The same
01:46:15.040 --> 01:46:17.270
institutes that deplatform conservatives
01:46:17.280 --> 01:46:20.310
for harmful speech, demonetize me for
01:46:20.320 --> 01:46:22.229
having an opinion that they don't like.
01:46:22.239 --> 01:46:23.990
These are people who for years they gave
01:46:24.000 --> 01:46:25.990
standing ovations to that production of
01:46:26.000 --> 01:46:27.830
Julius Caesar where a Trump looked like
01:46:27.840 --> 01:46:30.310
was stabbed to death on stage. Kathy
01:46:30.320 --> 01:46:33.030
Griffin holds up the head uh the bloody
01:46:33.040 --> 01:46:35.189
head of Donald Trump. First she
01:46:35.199 --> 01:46:36.870
apologized, now she said she was just
01:46:36.880 --> 01:46:39.030
ahead of her time. So I mean, how do you
01:46:39.040 --> 01:46:40.310
think that they hold this contradiction
01:46:40.320 --> 01:46:42.950
in their head? I mean,
01:46:42.960 --> 01:46:44.709
look at also the contradiction of
01:46:44.719 --> 01:46:47.270
Alexander Kaja Cortez, calls Trump
01:46:47.280 --> 01:46:49.830
Hitler, and then after they attempt to
01:46:49.840 --> 01:46:52.470
assassinate him, she says, "Oh, I'm so
01:46:52.480 --> 01:46:55.109
sorry. I'm so glad that he's okay." So,
01:46:55.119 --> 01:46:56.550
how do you I mean, how what kind of
01:46:56.560 --> 01:46:58.550
level of cognitive dissonance is it that
01:46:58.560 --> 01:47:00.629
you have to say, "Oh, I'm so glad that
01:47:00.639 --> 01:47:02.629
they didn't get Hitler."
01:47:02.639 --> 01:47:04.550
>> Yeah. No, I I've been writing about that
01:47:04.560 --> 01:47:06.790
cognitive dissonance for for at least 10
01:47:06.800 --> 01:47:09.510
years. Um and and how how the leftists
01:47:09.520 --> 01:47:10.790
have it, I'm not saying it doesn't exist
01:47:10.800 --> 01:47:11.830
to some degree on the right. I'm sure
01:47:11.840 --> 01:47:13.910
you can find examples. Um but I think
01:47:13.920 --> 01:47:16.149
the leftist, you know, mind is is prone
01:47:16.159 --> 01:47:18.149
to it because they're they're obsessed
01:47:18.159 --> 01:47:20.790
with ushering in utopia. I think many on
01:47:20.800 --> 01:47:22.550
the on the left really believe the only
01:47:22.560 --> 01:47:25.270
thing standing between themselves and
01:47:25.280 --> 01:47:27.430
utopia for everyone are these people
01:47:27.440 --> 01:47:29.430
that believe in this constitution that
01:47:29.440 --> 01:47:31.590
prevents them from having power. And
01:47:31.600 --> 01:47:33.430
when you think that you can usher in
01:47:33.440 --> 01:47:35.189
utopia if we could only get rid of the
01:47:35.199 --> 01:47:37.510
other side, it's going to affect your
01:47:37.520 --> 01:47:39.189
your brain in this way where where
01:47:39.199 --> 01:47:41.189
everything against them is justified
01:47:41.199 --> 01:47:42.950
because we can have paradise here on
01:47:42.960 --> 01:47:45.510
Earth if we can just have the economic
01:47:45.520 --> 01:47:47.990
power to to to plan the system in a in a
01:47:48.000 --> 01:47:50.709
more equitable way. Um I I think that
01:47:50.719 --> 01:47:52.550
really does that's a big part of it.
01:47:52.560 --> 01:47:54.310
>> I mean Trump is not even right-wing.
01:47:54.320 --> 01:47:56.709
Here's the thing, John. If I mean,
01:47:56.719 --> 01:47:59.189
imagine if Austin Peterson had in an
01:47:59.199 --> 01:48:00.870
alternate universe won president of the
01:48:00.880 --> 01:48:04.149
United States in 2016. You think that
01:48:04.159 --> 01:48:08.070
like Donald Trump is rightwing? Like do
01:48:08.080 --> 01:48:09.510
you know what I would have done? Like
01:48:09.520 --> 01:48:11.830
there would be no Social Security,
01:48:11.840 --> 01:48:13.910
Medicare, Medicaid. I would have vetoed
01:48:13.920 --> 01:48:16.149
every bill that landed on my desk. I I
01:48:16.159 --> 01:48:18.070
would have pocket vetoed them all out of
01:48:18.080 --> 01:48:21.189
spite and watch. I would have tortured
01:48:21.199 --> 01:48:22.870
every
01:48:22.880 --> 01:48:24.950
Doge would have been a success, a
01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:28.629
glaring success. I would have set fire.
01:48:28.639 --> 01:48:30.709
I would have forced every agency in
01:48:30.719 --> 01:48:33.270
Washington DC to close their offices and
01:48:33.280 --> 01:48:35.270
move. If they had to, you know, if if we
01:48:35.280 --> 01:48:37.109
reopen them all at all, they would have
01:48:37.119 --> 01:48:39.109
had to have been in cow towns, small
01:48:39.119 --> 01:48:41.510
towns across the country. I mean, what
01:48:41.520 --> 01:48:43.590
do you think they would have like done
01:48:43.600 --> 01:48:46.870
to me? I mean, here's the thing, John.
01:48:46.880 --> 01:48:49.430
Donald Trump is is fairly moderate
01:48:49.440 --> 01:48:52.390
compared to say you or you or I when it
01:48:52.400 --> 01:48:54.390
comes to things like economics and
01:48:54.400 --> 01:48:55.990
stuff. You might be a little more dovish
01:48:56.000 --> 01:48:57.750
on foreign policy and certainly maybe
01:48:57.760 --> 01:49:00.149
more than I am on on things like that,
01:49:00.159 --> 01:49:02.709
but still
01:49:02.719 --> 01:49:05.109
they hate Trump like he's Satan himself
01:49:05.119 --> 01:49:07.510
incarnate. Well, if he's Lucifer, then
01:49:07.520 --> 01:49:09.350
there must have been a higher level of
01:49:09.360 --> 01:49:11.030
demon in the Bible. Maybe we need to get
01:49:11.040 --> 01:49:13.669
the book of Enoch or get the Dead Sea
01:49:13.679 --> 01:49:17.109
Scrolls out, John. Because if it's like
01:49:17.119 --> 01:49:18.709
It's like when they assassinated Charlie
01:49:18.719 --> 01:49:21.189
Kirk. Charlie was the nice one, John.
01:49:21.199 --> 01:49:23.830
The left has no idea who we are, what we
01:49:23.840 --> 01:49:27.189
are, or what our goals or aims are. No,
01:49:27.199 --> 01:49:29.590
there there's I I agree with you. Like
01:49:29.600 --> 01:49:31.830
Trump is not some raging conservative or
01:49:31.840 --> 01:49:34.790
raging libertarian. He's a pretty um
01:49:34.800 --> 01:49:36.629
a-political guy in some ways. I mean
01:49:36.639 --> 01:49:39.590
that I like like Trump again in the go
01:49:39.600 --> 01:49:41.590
back to the 90s Trump was or 80s he was
01:49:41.600 --> 01:49:43.189
he was very much a he was a Democrat
01:49:43.199 --> 01:49:45.270
right and and kind of like a practical
01:49:45.280 --> 01:49:47.510
Bill Clinton style Democrat
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:49.030
>> like RFK
01:49:49.040 --> 01:49:51.669
>> but yeah very much but the country has
01:49:51.679 --> 01:49:53.830
wor you know lurched leftward and and
01:49:53.840 --> 01:49:56.229
the left has has you know lurched
01:49:56.239 --> 01:49:58.550
leftward to such a degree um people like
01:49:58.560 --> 01:50:00.629
Trump now find themselves on the right
01:50:00.639 --> 01:50:02.870
and yeah in some ways you know like he
01:50:02.880 --> 01:50:04.790
is you know I want to give him credit
01:50:04.800 --> 01:50:06.390
though like like Trump is doing. You
01:50:06.400 --> 01:50:07.990
know, you talked in your earlier segment
01:50:08.000 --> 01:50:09.590
about McCain and Romney and kind of some
01:50:09.600 --> 01:50:11.830
of these squishy squishy figures. Trump
01:50:11.840 --> 01:50:14.149
is doing some some very bold things as
01:50:14.159 --> 01:50:16.870
well, trying to go at the the
01:50:16.880 --> 01:50:19.350
administrative state in Washington. Um,
01:50:19.360 --> 01:50:21.189
he's had some success. We we're seeing
01:50:21.199 --> 01:50:22.950
him try to actually scale back these
01:50:22.960 --> 01:50:25.590
massive departments. If you look, you
01:50:25.600 --> 01:50:28.070
know, the the federal employment is is
01:50:28.080 --> 01:50:31.430
the lowest it's been in in decades. Um,
01:50:31.440 --> 01:50:32.470
you know, like there's been some
01:50:32.480 --> 01:50:33.750
meaningful things that have happened on
01:50:33.760 --> 01:50:35.109
that front. I don't I don't think other
01:50:35.119 --> 01:50:36.950
presidents, Republican presidents in my
01:50:36.960 --> 01:50:39.990
lifetime have really tried to do that.
01:50:40.000 --> 01:50:41.910
>> My my argument that pisses everybody
01:50:41.920 --> 01:50:46.629
off, John, is that the that the left
01:50:46.639 --> 01:50:49.030
doesn't hate Donald Trump for the
01:50:49.040 --> 01:50:51.030
authoritarian things that he does
01:50:51.040 --> 01:50:52.790
because they they all support those
01:50:52.800 --> 01:50:55.189
policies, too. They really hate him for
01:50:55.199 --> 01:50:57.750
the libertarian [ __ ] that he does, which
01:50:57.760 --> 01:51:01.669
is getting rid of the federal employees,
01:51:01.679 --> 01:51:04.470
the scaling back of Doge, forcing NATO
01:51:04.480 --> 01:51:06.709
to pay their fair share, calling out
01:51:06.719 --> 01:51:09.830
Euro trash for what it is. That's the
01:51:09.840 --> 01:51:12.070
kind of stuff that like you or me or Ron
01:51:12.080 --> 01:51:14.950
Paul or any like libertarian would do in
01:51:14.960 --> 01:51:17.750
office. We would do that stuff. So, and
01:51:17.760 --> 01:51:19.270
I don't think that the left hates him
01:51:19.280 --> 01:51:21.270
because of the Iran war. They they
01:51:21.280 --> 01:51:23.669
proudly support, you know, Barack Obama
01:51:23.679 --> 01:51:26.070
bombing things. They love Democrat wars.
01:51:26.080 --> 01:51:28.470
They they they all supported tariffs.
01:51:28.480 --> 01:51:29.910
Joe Biden for tariffs. They're not for
01:51:29.920 --> 01:51:32.229
free markets or free trade, John. They
01:51:32.239 --> 01:51:34.229
don't hate Trump because of the
01:51:34.239 --> 01:51:36.470
authoritarian things that he does. They
01:51:36.480 --> 01:51:38.149
hate him because of the libertarian
01:51:38.159 --> 01:51:40.390
things that he does. Is that am I is
01:51:40.400 --> 01:51:42.709
that a wild statement to you, John? I
01:51:42.719 --> 01:51:44.070
think you're partly right, but I also
01:51:44.080 --> 01:51:45.910
think that he hate that they hate him
01:51:45.920 --> 01:51:48.629
because he is this ideologically
01:51:48.639 --> 01:51:51.030
flexible person much like they are,
01:51:51.040 --> 01:51:53.189
right? Like like Trump can he he'll do
01:51:53.199 --> 01:51:55.189
things that will enrage free market
01:51:55.199 --> 01:51:57.430
people. Um right like like there's a lot
01:51:57.440 --> 01:51:59.189
of things but he he does it because he
01:51:59.199 --> 01:52:01.189
has this populist streak. He's very
01:52:01.199 --> 01:52:03.830
savvy politically and and that you know
01:52:03.840 --> 01:52:05.510
that there's a reason he's been able to
01:52:05.520 --> 01:52:07.830
win two elections. I know everybody's
01:52:07.840 --> 01:52:09.430
going to say arguably three. you know,
01:52:09.440 --> 01:52:10.950
2020. You know, Trump would certainly
01:52:10.960 --> 01:52:13.910
say he wants 2020. Um, but there's a
01:52:13.920 --> 01:52:15.430
reason he's been able to do that because
01:52:15.440 --> 01:52:18.310
he does have um this this uh
01:52:18.320 --> 01:52:20.629
inconsistency doesn't bother Trump. And
01:52:20.639 --> 01:52:22.229
I think the left hates that because
01:52:22.239 --> 01:52:23.750
because that that's always been their
01:52:23.760 --> 01:52:25.350
territory. They were the they were the
01:52:25.360 --> 01:52:27.430
economic populists and they could tap
01:52:27.440 --> 01:52:30.149
into that. Um, you know, the the angst,
01:52:30.159 --> 01:52:32.229
the economic angst that Americans feel.
01:52:32.239 --> 01:52:34.390
Trump has had success doing that. The
01:52:34.400 --> 01:52:35.910
problem is some of his solutions have
01:52:35.920 --> 01:52:38.390
been awful. And and you know the his his
01:52:38.400 --> 01:52:40.950
war on tariffs for example is one
01:52:40.960 --> 01:52:43.589
example. But notice liberation day came
01:52:43.599 --> 01:52:45.910
around on April 5th and guess what Trump
01:52:45.920 --> 01:52:48.790
said about it?
01:52:48.800 --> 01:52:51.350
Nothing. Nothing. A year later Trump was
01:52:51.360 --> 01:52:52.550
not out there, you know, talking about
01:52:52.560 --> 01:52:54.229
it. It was something. So I think even
01:52:54.239 --> 01:52:56.470
there was a tacit acknowledgement from
01:52:56.480 --> 01:52:58.070
the Trump administration like maybe this
01:52:58.080 --> 01:53:01.109
didn't serve us too well. and and um I
01:53:01.119 --> 01:53:02.550
certainly interpret interpret it that
01:53:02.560 --> 01:53:03.990
way and I hope that maybe he's moved
01:53:04.000 --> 01:53:06.070
beyond some of those types of policies.
01:53:06.080 --> 01:53:08.070
>> He said that it people were getting a
01:53:08.080 --> 01:53:09.990
bit yippy. I think I remember at the
01:53:10.000 --> 01:53:12.070
time that he had to kind of back off on
01:53:12.080 --> 01:53:14.390
some of them cuz whoever was doing the
01:53:14.400 --> 01:53:17.990
yipping um is my friend.
01:53:18.000 --> 01:53:19.589
>> Well, exactly. Because look what we're
01:53:19.599 --> 01:53:20.950
doing now on this. It's like this hasn't
01:53:20.960 --> 01:53:23.109
gotten much, you know, conversation, but
01:53:23.119 --> 01:53:24.790
but look, we are actually these
01:53:24.800 --> 01:53:27.350
businesses are now getting paid out and
01:53:27.360 --> 01:53:29.589
and the the the White House has has, you
01:53:29.599 --> 01:53:31.510
know, has set it up where now businesses
01:53:31.520 --> 01:53:33.830
get to go and apply for their their
01:53:33.840 --> 01:53:36.550
their tariff rebates and and they're
01:53:36.560 --> 01:53:38.629
doing it and it's going to be a mess.
01:53:38.639 --> 01:53:39.830
It's going to but but they're going to
01:53:39.840 --> 01:53:42.310
get there's, you know, $150 billion
01:53:42.320 --> 01:53:43.589
that's going to get paid back that
01:53:43.599 --> 01:53:45.109
you're playing. And the only people that
01:53:45.119 --> 01:53:46.790
this helps are the bureaucrats that are
01:53:46.800 --> 01:53:48.790
are going to be have to administer this
01:53:48.800 --> 01:53:50.390
this massive refund.
01:53:50.400 --> 01:53:52.790
>> Um, Maria Edenbo over in the chat says,
01:53:52.800 --> 01:53:54.870
"Uh, I see people calling him a pedo,
01:53:54.880 --> 01:53:57.030
but I don't see the proof, but they
01:53:57.040 --> 01:53:59.109
believe it to be true. Do you think that
01:53:59.119 --> 01:54:01.750
that kind of rhetoric is helping, John?"
01:54:01.760 --> 01:54:03.830
Oh, I Yeah, I mean, like that kind of
01:54:03.840 --> 01:54:06.870
stuff is is, you know, not helpful. I
01:54:06.880 --> 01:54:08.629
mean, we're see But, you know, I've seen
01:54:08.639 --> 01:54:10.070
a lot of people on the right do this,
01:54:10.080 --> 01:54:12.629
too. you know, like um it was like one
01:54:12.639 --> 01:54:14.229
of those things that Twitter was
01:54:14.239 --> 01:54:16.390
cracking down on. What was the the the
01:54:16.400 --> 01:54:18.629
fringy um you know, help me out, what
01:54:18.639 --> 01:54:21.830
was it called? There was a movement um
01:54:21.840 --> 01:54:24.149
where everybody was saying everybody in
01:54:24.159 --> 01:54:26.229
Washington and Hollywood were were pedos
01:54:26.239 --> 01:54:27.830
and it was it was kind of kooky.
01:54:27.840 --> 01:54:30.550
>> Oh, pizza. Pizzagate. It was related to
01:54:30.560 --> 01:54:34.229
that, but there was um I for I'm sure
01:54:34.239 --> 01:54:35.669
one of your listeners can probably chime
01:54:35.679 --> 01:54:38.550
in, but but basically it was we're going
01:54:38.560 --> 01:54:40.709
to just smear everybody as as
01:54:40.719 --> 01:54:43.750
pedophiles. Um and and you know, like
01:54:43.760 --> 01:54:45.109
I'm sure there are pedophiles in
01:54:45.119 --> 01:54:47.030
Hollywood and DC, don't get me wrong,
01:54:47.040 --> 01:54:51.270
but but you it's the most um outrageous
01:54:51.280 --> 01:54:53.589
charge and and and heinous charge you
01:54:53.599 --> 01:54:55.189
can, you know, level against anyone,
01:54:55.199 --> 01:54:57.030
which is why it's effective and why
01:54:57.040 --> 01:54:59.350
they're not doing it against Trump. Um,
01:54:59.360 --> 01:55:01.350
yeah, I I haven't seen any evidence that
01:55:01.360 --> 01:55:03.669
Trump's a pedo, but it's it's one of
01:55:03.679 --> 01:55:07.270
those things to to slander someone. Uh,
01:55:07.280 --> 01:55:08.709
it's it's effective.
01:55:08.719 --> 01:55:10.229
>> John Miltaltimore from the American
01:55:10.239 --> 01:55:11.830
Institute of Economic Research, thanks
01:55:11.840 --> 01:55:14.070
so much for joining us this Monday.
01:55:14.080 --> 01:55:16.550
Where can people find out more if they
01:55:16.560 --> 01:55:17.990
want to get your take?
01:55:18.000 --> 01:55:19.750
>> Well, I'm on Substack, The Take by John
01:55:19.760 --> 01:55:21.030
Mildemore, but I also have a piece out
01:55:21.040 --> 01:55:22.870
in the Washington Examiner this morning
01:55:22.880 --> 01:55:26.149
on Billy Corgan, uh, the the uh,
01:55:26.159 --> 01:55:28.629
Smashing Pumpkins frontman. You probably
01:55:28.639 --> 01:55:30.070
didn't see it, Austin, but he had a
01:55:30.080 --> 01:55:32.390
wonderful take, you know, that applied
01:55:32.400 --> 01:55:35.350
to economics um in subjective value. He
01:55:35.360 --> 01:55:37.270
was doing a podcast last week and and
01:55:37.280 --> 01:55:39.910
and really um go check out The Examiner.
01:55:39.920 --> 01:55:41.430
You can see my take on it there. Yeah,
01:55:41.440 --> 01:55:43.669
we did a piece about Billy Corgan last
01:55:43.679 --> 01:55:45.589
week, but it was about how uh the
01:55:45.599 --> 01:55:48.550
government and the CIA squash rock and
01:55:48.560 --> 01:55:51.030
roll on MTV because they were afraid of
01:55:51.040 --> 01:55:53.189
the white boy rage.
01:55:53.199 --> 01:55:55.910
Billy Corgan is a smart guy and and
01:55:55.920 --> 01:55:58.149
listening to him is is a lot of and a
01:55:58.159 --> 01:55:59.669
and a hell of an artist. He's one of
01:55:59.679 --> 01:56:01.430
those people I just like he's an
01:56:01.440 --> 01:56:02.870
independent thinker. Will he say things
01:56:02.880 --> 01:56:04.629
that you know I don't agree with? Sure.
01:56:04.639 --> 01:56:07.189
But um he's a smart guy and you can his
01:56:07.199 --> 01:56:08.709
understanding of subjective value.
01:56:08.719 --> 01:56:11.669
Basically he had a hit in 199 or it was
01:56:11.679 --> 01:56:14.709
a flop in 97 then it took off 15 years
01:56:14.719 --> 01:56:17.189
later and his point was it's not our job
01:56:17.199 --> 01:56:19.990
to to assess the value of our art. and
01:56:20.000 --> 01:56:22.149
he and he had a a wonderful segment on
01:56:22.159 --> 01:56:23.589
it that and there's a great economic
01:56:23.599 --> 01:56:25.910
lesson in there. So, Billy Corgan, a guy
01:56:25.920 --> 01:56:26.870
that you should listen to.
01:56:26.880 --> 01:56:28.310
>> Well, we'll check it out. Thank you very
01:56:28.320 --> 01:56:29.589
much for that, John.
01:56:29.599 --> 01:56:31.430
>> Hey, take care, EPA. Have a good week.
01:56:31.440 --> 01:56:33.510
>> You, too.
01:56:33.520 --> 01:56:35.270
>> As the Secret Service agent in charge of
01:56:35.280 --> 01:56:36.709
protecting Trump the day of the second
01:56:36.719 --> 01:56:37.589
assassination attempt,
01:56:37.599 --> 01:56:38.550
>> you guys don't have any weapons or
01:56:38.560 --> 01:56:38.790
anything.
01:56:38.800 --> 01:56:39.990
>> Give me a handshake that you don't have
01:56:40.000 --> 01:56:41.669
any guns. Don't make me look stupid. A
01:56:41.679 --> 01:56:42.790
lot of people have been coming up to me
01:56:42.800 --> 01:56:44.070
and saying, "Why didn't you do a better
01:56:44.080 --> 01:56:45.430
sweep?" And I just want to defend the
01:56:45.440 --> 01:56:46.950
work that I'm doing. Pinky swear.
01:56:46.960 --> 01:56:47.430
>> What?
01:56:47.440 --> 01:56:48.629
>> No, they're clear. I mean, the shooter's
01:56:48.639 --> 01:56:49.830
actually lucky I didn't find him, cuz I
01:56:49.840 --> 01:56:51.990
would have grabbed that. Uh, yeah, I
01:56:52.000 --> 01:56:53.189
think we have to go back to Wendy's.
01:56:53.199 --> 01:56:54.550
>> Don't tell us.
01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:55.589
>> All right, I think we've been clearing
01:56:55.599 --> 01:56:57.030
the wrong place for the last 2 hours.
01:56:57.040 --> 01:56:58.470
People like to think it's some easy job.
01:56:58.480 --> 01:57:00.470
I'm on my feet 8 hours a day hung over
01:57:00.480 --> 01:57:01.990
from the night before cuz when I get to
01:57:02.000 --> 01:57:03.669
a city, I like to rock out with the
01:57:03.679 --> 01:57:05.189
locals, get some intel if there's any
01:57:05.199 --> 01:57:05.669
shooters.
01:57:05.679 --> 01:57:06.390
>> Long day though.
01:57:06.400 --> 01:57:07.270
>> No, it's easy day.
01:57:07.280 --> 01:57:08.149
>> Well, it was long for me.
01:57:08.159 --> 01:57:09.830
>> Caps really start spazzing up after a
01:57:09.840 --> 01:57:10.390
day of sweeping.
01:57:10.400 --> 01:57:11.669
>> At the after hours, some guy was
01:57:11.679 --> 01:57:13.189
bragging that he stabbed a guy back in
01:57:13.199 --> 01:57:14.790
the day, so I told him not to come.
01:57:14.800 --> 01:57:16.070
That's one less threat right there. I
01:57:16.080 --> 01:57:17.750
>> think I lost my keys somewhere. sing a
01:57:17.760 --> 01:57:19.910
song to President Trump. I will follow
01:57:19.920 --> 01:57:23.589
you. Follow you wherever you may go.
01:57:23.599 --> 01:57:24.790
>> Well, if you see anything weird, hit me
01:57:24.800 --> 01:57:25.109
up.
01:57:25.119 --> 01:57:26.950
>> Back on the path of righteousness, solid
01:57:26.960 --> 01:57:27.910
morals, and common.
01:57:27.920 --> 01:57:29.030
>> No, I think this guy's good. If you let
01:57:29.040 --> 01:57:30.629
me rock a slice, I'll turn a blind eye.
01:57:30.639 --> 01:57:31.830
Now they've taken me off golf course
01:57:31.840 --> 01:57:33.669
duty altogether, which sucks cuz I'm
01:57:33.679 --> 01:57:35.270
actually nasty on the course. Okay.
01:57:35.280 --> 01:57:36.870
Would you also pinky swear? Sometimes
01:57:36.880 --> 01:57:38.229
when things get a little slow, you can
01:57:38.239 --> 01:57:39.830
squeak the clubs in, sneak in a few
01:57:39.840 --> 01:57:41.270
holes. Actually, you know what? Can you
01:57:41.280 --> 01:57:42.709
delete that part? AT&T, how can I help
01:57:42.719 --> 01:57:44.229
you? I put in a few extra hours at the
01:57:44.239 --> 01:57:46.149
call center when I have some downtime. #
01:57:46.159 --> 01:57:48.070
overmployed. Truth is, I never really
01:57:48.080 --> 01:57:49.910
wanted to be a Secret Service agent. My
01:57:49.920 --> 01:57:51.750
true passion is RA, metaphorical,
01:57:51.760 --> 01:57:54.950
astrological, and
01:57:54.960 --> 01:57:57.189
that's the the Secret Service agent who
01:57:57.199 --> 01:57:59.830
was in charge of Trump. Oh, we also we
01:57:59.840 --> 01:58:02.390
did get some video of the security
01:58:02.400 --> 01:58:04.629
footage from the Saturday night
01:58:04.639 --> 01:58:07.030
assassination attempt as well. Take a
01:58:07.040 --> 01:58:13.910
look at this.
01:58:13.920 --> 01:58:17.270
Not so fast, Richard.
01:58:17.280 --> 01:58:19.430
>> These navigational charts seem okay. I
01:58:19.440 --> 01:58:21.750
don't think there'll be any problem.
01:58:21.760 --> 01:58:22.870
>> Hey, Michael.
01:58:22.880 --> 01:58:24.149
>> Why the long face?
01:58:24.159 --> 01:58:25.910
>> I'm still worried about the shuttle. You
01:58:25.920 --> 01:58:28.390
saw this report. He is the program's top
01:58:28.400 --> 01:58:30.470
test pilot.
01:58:30.480 --> 01:58:31.750
>> Thanks so much for tuning in the Wake Up
01:58:31.760 --> 01:58:33.030
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One day, we'll get you over on Rumble.
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We'll see you guys right back again here
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that's on the For Liberty Network.
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In the year 1740 in a Jewish quarter of
01:59:44.000 --> 01:59:46.390
Poland, a boy was born who would one day
01:59:46.400 --> 01:59:48.229
hold the financial fate of the American
01:59:48.239 --> 01:59:50.870
Revolution in his hands. His name was
01:59:50.880 --> 01:59:53.510
Hay Salomon. Brilliant with numbers,
01:59:53.520 --> 01:59:55.750
fluent in eight languages, and possessed
01:59:55.760 --> 01:59:57.830
of a courage as fierce as any man who
01:59:57.840 --> 02:00:00.470
ever carried a musket. He arrived in New
02:00:00.480 --> 02:00:02.709
York City in 1775,
02:00:02.719 --> 02:00:04.390
just as the storm clouds of war
02:00:04.400 --> 02:00:06.709
gathered. Within months, he had built a
02:00:06.719 --> 02:00:08.390
thriving business as a broker and
02:00:08.400 --> 02:00:10.870
merchant. When the British captured New
02:00:10.880 --> 02:00:14.709
York in 1776, Salomon did not flee. He
02:00:14.719 --> 02:00:17.109
stayed behind on purpose, quietly
02:00:17.119 --> 02:00:18.950
becoming one of General Washington's
02:00:18.960 --> 02:00:20.950
most valuable secret agents in the heart
02:00:20.960 --> 02:00:23.669
of enemy territory. The British soon
02:00:23.679 --> 02:00:27.030
discovered his activities. In 1776, they
02:00:27.040 --> 02:00:29.030
arrested him as a spy and threw him into
02:00:29.040 --> 02:00:31.510
the infamous Provice prison. Charged
02:00:31.520 --> 02:00:33.350
with treason, he faced the hangman's
02:00:33.360 --> 02:00:36.950
noose. But Hay Salomon was not finished.
02:00:36.960 --> 02:00:39.109
Using his language skills and charm, he
02:00:39.119 --> 02:00:41.270
convinced the Hessian guards, many of
02:00:41.280 --> 02:00:43.109
whom he could speak to in German, to
02:00:43.119 --> 02:00:45.510
trust him. One night, he slipped out of
02:00:45.520 --> 02:00:47.430
prison and escaped to freedom, leaving
02:00:47.440 --> 02:00:50.229
the Red Coats furious. He returned to
02:00:50.239 --> 02:00:52.070
business in Philadelphia, now openly
02:00:52.080 --> 02:00:54.310
supporting the patriot cause. While
02:00:54.320 --> 02:00:55.830
Robert Morris, superintendent of
02:00:55.840 --> 02:00:57.589
finance, struggled to keep the bankrupt
02:00:57.599 --> 02:00:59.990
Continental Congress afloat, Salomon
02:01:00.000 --> 02:01:02.149
stepped into the breach. He became the
02:01:02.159 --> 02:01:04.070
master broker who turned promises into
02:01:04.080 --> 02:01:07.030
hard cash. He sold bills of exchange,
02:01:07.040 --> 02:01:08.950
raised loans from wealthy merchants, and
02:01:08.960 --> 02:01:10.629
used his own credit and fortune to keep
02:01:10.639 --> 02:01:12.870
the army supplied. Money flowed through
02:01:12.880 --> 02:01:16.390
his hands like water. Over $650,000 in
02:01:16.400 --> 02:01:18.229
today's money funneled directly to the
02:01:18.239 --> 02:01:20.470
war effort, often at his own personal
02:01:20.480 --> 02:01:22.790
risk.
02:01:22.800 --> 02:01:24.950
When the French fleet and army arrived,
02:01:24.960 --> 02:01:27.030
it was Salomon who helped finance their
02:01:27.040 --> 02:01:29.830
operations. When Washington's army stood
02:01:29.840 --> 02:01:31.589
on the brink of collapse before Yorktown
02:01:31.599 --> 02:01:34.790
in 1781, it was Hay Salomon who moved
02:01:34.800 --> 02:01:36.550
heaven and earth to raise the gold
02:01:36.560 --> 02:01:38.629
needed to pay the troops and keep the
02:01:38.639 --> 02:01:41.109
campaign alive. Without his frantic
02:01:41.119 --> 02:01:43.430
efforts in those final months, the trap
02:01:43.440 --> 02:01:46.229
at Yorktown might never have closed. He
02:01:46.239 --> 02:01:48.550
worked himself to exhaustion. He slept
02:01:48.560 --> 02:01:50.950
little, negotiated endlessly, and poured
02:01:50.960 --> 02:01:53.430
every dollar he had into the cause.
02:01:53.440 --> 02:01:55.830
British agents knew who he was. He lived
02:01:55.840 --> 02:01:57.589
under constant threat of arrest or
02:01:57.599 --> 02:01:59.910
assassination. Yet Salomon never
02:01:59.920 --> 02:02:01.830
stopped.
02:02:01.840 --> 02:02:03.430
He once said he would rather die
02:02:03.440 --> 02:02:04.870
supporting liberty than live under
02:02:04.880 --> 02:02:07.990
tyranny. When the war finally ended in
02:02:08.000 --> 02:02:11.750
1783, Hay Salomon was nearly ruined. He
02:02:11.760 --> 02:02:13.510
had lent vast sums to the government
02:02:13.520 --> 02:02:16.070
that were never repaid. His health
02:02:16.080 --> 02:02:18.149
broken by years of relentless work and
02:02:18.159 --> 02:02:21.430
stress, he died on January 6th, 1785 at
02:02:21.440 --> 02:02:24.790
the age of 44. Penniles, exhausted, but
02:02:24.800 --> 02:02:27.669
free. He left behind a wife and four
02:02:27.679 --> 02:02:29.750
small children and a mountain of unpaid
02:02:29.760 --> 02:02:31.270
government notes that Congress would
02:02:31.280 --> 02:02:34.229
largely ignore. For decades, his
02:02:34.239 --> 02:02:35.990
enormous contributions were almost
02:02:36.000 --> 02:02:37.910
forgotten.
02:02:37.920 --> 02:02:40.149
But the truth eventually emerged.
02:02:40.159 --> 02:02:42.470
Without H Salomon, there might not have
02:02:42.480 --> 02:02:43.830
been enough money to keep the
02:02:43.840 --> 02:02:45.910
Continental Army in the field during its
02:02:45.920 --> 02:02:47.990
darkest hours.
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H Salomon was no general charging into
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battle. He was no spy slipping through
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swamps under moonlight. He fought with
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ledgers, credit notes, and sheer
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financial genius. While soldiers bled on
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the battlefield, he bled gold for the
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cause, quietly, brilliantly, and at the
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cost of his own fortune and life. In the
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smoky counting houses of Philadelphia,
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while cannons roared at Yorktown, one
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Jewish immigrant from Poland held the
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revolution together with nothing but his
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mind, his honor, and his unbreakable
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belief in liberty. He gave everything so
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America could be born. And though the
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new nation forgot him for a time,
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history now remembers. H salamon.