Taking a stand

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EVERY GENERATION HAS ITS GREAT BATTLE. OUR GENERATION'S GREAT BATTLE, WELL,
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IT'S TAKING SHAPE RIGHT NOW. AND IT'S A WAR THAT'S
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BEEN FOUGHT AND WON BEFORE. THE WEST VERSUS THE SOCIALISTS. FORTUNATELY,
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WE HAVE PRESIDENT TRUMP WHO THROUGH HIS DON ROE DOCTRINE
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AND ELIMINATION OF USAID HAS SET THE SOCIALISTS BACK DECADES
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IN THEIR PLAN TO TAKE THE WEST. LOOK AT THE MAP.
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ARGENTINA HAS JAVIER MILLE, ECUADOR RE-ELECTED DANIEL NOBIA, BOLIVIA ENDED
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NEARLY 20 YEARS OF SOCIALIST RULE AND CHILE ELECTED JOSE
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ANTONIO CAST. BRAZIL WAS THE FINAL PIECE OF THE PUZZLE,
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THE KEYSTONE TO A GEOGRAPHICAL WALL THAT WOULD HAVE REMOVED
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MUCH OF CHINA'S INFLUENCE OUT OF OUR HEMISPHERE AND TAKEN
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AWAY ONE OF THE PRIMARY ECONOMIC ENGINES FOR THE SOCIALISTS
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IN SOUTH AMERICA. This week, on Sunday, through impossible odds,
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the socialist dictator in Brazil somehow won re-election and immediately
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went after his political enemies. We've seen this play out
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time and time again in socialist strongholds throughout the world, right?
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And tonight, Flavio and his family are safe in America,
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thank God, escaping Lula's persecution. But here at home, we
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are less than a week away from finding out if
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we're able to stop it from taking hold here in America.
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And as we were warned about yesterday, it takes hold
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here in America. Where do we run? There's a reason
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to be concerned this week. We've watched a socialist celebrate
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Lula's claimed victory in Brazil, and yesterday, communism tried to
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intimidate an American ambassador here in New York. UNITED NATIONS
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AMBASSADOR MIKE WALSH WAS LAYING OUT HOW CUBA'S RULERS LIVE
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WITH THE PRIVATE ISLAND, THE YATS, THE ROLEXES. WHILE THEIR
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PEOPLE SIT IN THE DARK, THE CUBAN DELEGATION STOOD UP
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AND IN WALSH'S WORDS, REGIME THUGS RUSHED THE STAGE. HE
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TOLD THEM THIS IS AMERICA. THIS IS THE UNITED NATIONS.
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THIS ISN'T YOUR COMMUNIST DICTATORSHIP. WATCH THIS. Mr. President, this
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individual needs to back away from this podium.
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He's not going to intimidate me in the United States
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of America like he tries to intimidate political prisoners.
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And I'll ask everybody to go back to their delegations.
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And I'm the representative of the United States of America.
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Back up!
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Back up, Ambassador.
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Back away. This isn't Havana. I'm suspending the meeting. You're
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not going to intimidate me.
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I'm suspending this meeting.
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Do you understand who you're dealing with?
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This is America.
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Back up. The rule is clear. Unbelievable. Now here's Waltz
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on Hannity last night explaining what happened.
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Just before I came on tonight, Secretary Rubio signed the
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paperwork to eject the diplomat that thought he could, the
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Cuban diplomat, the first secretary of their delegation, who shoved
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and tried to assault one of our American diplomats.
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He's gone.
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He is going to be on a plane to Havana
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within the next 24 hours. You lay a hand on
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an American here in the United States, President Trump, Secretary Rubio,
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and myself, we're not going to stand for it.
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There will be consequences.
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I've known you for a long time.
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You're not somebody to mess with. So here's the question.
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Why would a communist regime feel this bold on American soil?
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Well.
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Seems it has comrades here. The Democrat Senate nominee in Florida,
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Angie Nixon, she's a member of the Democratic Socials of America.
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We showed you this last night. This is her on
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CBS News. Do you consider that Cuba is a dictatorship?
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You know, that is what people have told me.
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I have never been to Cuba, and so I will
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have to take their word for it. And I know
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you're going to go into this, how do I feel.
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Things need to be handled with Cuban relations?
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Right now, this decades-long failed embargo has yet to change.
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Over the regime.
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Now, apparently she's walking it back, and I'd be embarrassed, too.
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But she said it. And in August, the DSA called
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Fidel Castro a stalwart symbol of anti-imperialist struggle. Look who's
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toasting Lula. Cuba's Miguel Diaz-Canal called him THE PRESIDENT OF
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THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE
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PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE
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UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. THE PRESIDENT
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OF THE UNITED STATES. ARE CLEAR AND TAKING SHAPE. JOINING
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ME NOW, HE'S A SENIOR FELLOW FOR WESTERN HEMISPHERE SECURITY
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AND MARITIME AFFAIRS AT THE AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE. PETER BROWN,
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE. THIS IS A,
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IT'S HARD FOR PEOPLE TO REALIZE HOW MUCH OF A
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THREAT COMMUNISM, THE TYPE THAT SPREAD IN CUBA, THE TYPE
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THAT SPREAD IN PLACES LIKE RUSSIA, THE TYPE THAT SPREAD
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EVEN IN CHINA, How big of a threat it is
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to the United States. We fought it back for decades.
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And now it's at our doorstep yet again. And it
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seems they feel like they have allies within the United States. Now,
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this is cause for concern, right?
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It absolutely is, David. And thank you for having me
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on the show.
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The setup was outstanding because I had the opportunity to
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serve in my 36-year career in the Coast Guard from
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President Ronald Reagan through President Donald Trump's first term.
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And both of them staunch anti-communist.
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And you made a number of excellent points that I
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hope that we'll have time to get to them all.
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But I want to point.
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Out two personnel superpowers of this Trump administration and two
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policy superpowers.
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Of this Trump administration.
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On the personnel side, you saw Mike Walz display just
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plain straightforward and forceful speaking when that was required of
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the situation. And for too long, we've had cabinet secretaries, diplomats,
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and leaders who have been unwilling to speak plainly to
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the American people and to our friends and adversaries around
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the world. And the second personnel superpower, and this is, again,
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one that Walt's displayed, is he's not beholden to the
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bureaucracy that he needs to change. In his case, the
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United Nations. But other senior leaders within the administration did
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not come up through the ranks of the bureaucracy that
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they need to change. For example, Secretary Rubio at Department
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of State. He's not a career foreign service officer. So
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those are two superpowers on the personnel side that Mike
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Walsh displayed. And then on the policy side, the Western
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Hemisphere and the fact that the national security strategy places
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the Western Hemisphere as the primary regional priority for the
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United States. For too long, the United States has ignored
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the Western Hemisphere. And for every nation in the hemisphere,
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their relationship with the United States, good or bad, is
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their most important relationship. So, for example, for Cuba, it's
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not the most important relationship to the United States. But
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their antagonism toward the United States is their most important
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foreign policy priority. And their mission at the United Nations
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is almost Havana. It's a hotbed of Cuban espionage. It's
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larger than it ought to be for a country of
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its size. And a State Department report from a couple
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of months ago points out that level of communism that's
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in there. And then I'll very briefly touch on the
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other policy superpower of the national security strategy, which is
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that it raises the commercial and economic interests of the
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American people to the same level as diplomacy and traditional
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military security. No one of them can be complete without
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the others in place. They are mutually supportive and all
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three are necessary.
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You did a great job of getting every one of
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those points delivered, and you're so right on so many
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of all of those points. The thing that compelled me
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the most, the thing that I found most fascinating about
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this video was that Cuba seems to be almost dipping
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their toe in this sort of antagonistic behavior towards the
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United States while in the United States. And I really
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do feel like the communists are testing how far they
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can push it in the United States based on these
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relationships with these perceived allies. Again, Lula... There's still a
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lot of questions about that election. Literally the same night,
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you have Waltz, you have Newsom, you have Zoramandani, you
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have all these Americans congratulating Lula, despite the fact that
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the election was questionable at best. And then before the
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ink was even dry on the election, you had them
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revoking Flavio Bolsonaro's passports, causing him to flee. And yet
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you have American elected officials not saying, this concerns me.
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BUT I THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SEE THIS. I
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THINK IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT TO SEE THIS. I THINK IT'S
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REALLY what we're allowed to say in our own country.
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That is what concerns me, is how emboldened they feel
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based on what they're seeing on their TV, based on
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the language from our own politicians. And if we don't
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nip this in the bud, if we don't push back
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on communism, I fear what we're seeing in a place
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like Brazil can certainly happen here. And we have a
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lot of elections ahead of us, hopefully, to root this
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thing out. I got about 30 seconds left, but I
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want to give you the final word on this.
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There's an absolute through line from the campus havoc of
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the 1960s through the Black Liberation Movement of the 1970s
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Puerto Rican independence groups robbing armored cars.
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And killing people in the 1980s.
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Through Black Lives Matter and Antifa and the pro-Palestinian movement.
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It's all documented in that State Department report. And just
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one other piece. This isn't new for Cuba. They gave
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sanctuary to Ashata Sarkar, a convicted cop killer, Black liberation movement,
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a fugitive from United States justice. Her poster hangs in
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Angie Dixon's cafe. And so the idea that this is
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something new, that Cuba and worldwide communists support the most
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radical elements.
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Within the United States is not new.
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And you're right on the de Silva regime immediately threatening
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Flavio Bolsonaro, whose father remains in jail, whose brother has
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had to flee. It's absolutely crazy the way these repressive
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regimes absolutely must crushed dissent by both silencing and or
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imprisoning their critics.
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Yeah, it's something we got to pay attention to and
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it's something we have to speak out against. Now that
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Flavio is safely here in the United States, I'm hopeful
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that the president will take a stronger stance on what
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we just saw happen in Brazil on Sunday.
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Mr.
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Brown, thank you so much for being here. You better
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come back because I think we have a lot more
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to talk about, my friend.
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I'm looking forward to it.
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Thank you.
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Take care.
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HAVE PAID THE PREMIUM, GOOD LUCK USING IT. The average
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bronze plan, over 7,000. So doctors are walking away. Practices
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where patients pay the doctor a membership fee grew 83%
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in five years. And only about two in three doctors
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will even take a new Medicaid patient now. That is
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the unaffordable Care Act in action. And it was set
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on a path to fail so they could replace it
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WITH HEALTH CARE FOR ALL. YOU'RE HEARING IT ALL OVER
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THE TALKING POINTS FROM THE RADICAL LEFT RIGHT NOW. HEALTH
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CARE FOR EVERYBODY. THE MEDICARE FOR ALL BILL HAS 114
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CO-SPONSORS IN THE HOUSE. ROCANA CALLS IT ARGUABLY THE MOST
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IMPORTANT PRIORITY. WE KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN PARTS
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OF CANADA. YOU CAN WAIT UP FOR A YEAR TO
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GET AN MRI. A YEAR. HURT YOUR LEG? CAN'T GO
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TO YOUR DOCTOR? WAIT A YEAR. Over these subsidies, 43 days,
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longest full shutdown in history, and nothing's changed. Republicans have
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since put solutions on the table. Then the House passed
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one to lower premiums earlier this year. The Senate, of course,
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hasn't been able to act, thanks to people like Chuck Schumer,
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who says Republicans riddled their plan with poison pills. Democrats
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haven't budged on health care reform. They want it to fail.
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They want you to suffer until you demand the government
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take away your private insurance and replace it with a
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public option. It's another path towards socialism, and they're full
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steam ahead. President Trump already cut drug prices with Trump Rx.
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The Osempic went from $ 1, 028 a month to an average
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of 350 insulin, as low as $ 25 a month. But
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here's the bottom line. Healthcare needs reform now more than
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ever before. Election Day is next Tuesday. Republicans have to
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get this done while we still have the majority. How
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much more can your family pay before the coverage isn't
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even worth the premium? Joining me now is Dr. Robert Malone, physician, vaccinologist,
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early pioneer of mRNA vaccine technologies and former vice chair
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of the CDC's Vaccine Advisory Committee.
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Dr.
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Malone, welcome back to David Pollack Prime Time. We haven't
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talked about health care reform enough. It is unaffordable. It's
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not unaffordable because of President Trump. It's unaffordable because of
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Barack Obama's Unaffordable Care Act. And it's on a path
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to fail, and Democrats couldn't be happier about it. How
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important is it that Republicans pick up this issue now
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and run with it before we have to potentially lose
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the House and turn over this Congress?
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So the polling indicates that this is one of the
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most critical issues with today's voters, is the cost of
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medical care. And that really has been, let's say, under-addressed
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or poorly addressed during this election cycle, particularly by the
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party that has the biggest investment in trying to do
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something about it, and has a logical base for approaching this,
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which is, of course, the Republican Party, the right and
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the center-right. And we have a lot of talk also,
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not just about MAGA, but about Maha and its emphasis
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on improving Americans' health. And the record is now quite clear.
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The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, has been an abysmal failure.
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It's resulted in catastrophic loss and bankruptcy of an enormous
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fraction of the American population, particularly the elderly. And there's
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no end in sight. This idea of substituting more and
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more government regulation and more and more financial control, subsidies,
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et cetera, centralized planning, is an abject failure, no surprise
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to any of us that have followed Ron Paul for
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forever and are familiar with his logic. But it's not
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just what's happened to the patients. Medicine is being destroyed.
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Physicians are increasingly leaving. You mentioned the concierge medicine strategy
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that some are resorting to out of desperation. But we
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have a situation in which Obamacare or the ACA has
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accelerated corporatization of medicine. And that has resulted in the
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destruction of what used to be a staple small business
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of most towns, which was the independent physician and his
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practice or her practice. And so now we have a
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situation in which docs that are coming out are burdened
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by enormous medical school costs. They're forced to comply with,
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you know, widespread incentives to buy in to these policies
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of DEI, diversity, equity, inclusion, that's baked into medical curriculum
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as well as the selection process. And they're routed to
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work for the big corporations. They're not taught anything about
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how to run a small business. And there are... Essentially
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no federal programs that are written to support physicians as
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small business persons. It's all written to support the big
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corporations and the insurance companies. And the consequence is predictable.
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Yeah.
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And look. breaking it down to just the bottom line
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for a family, and this is Obamacare. Before Obamacare, you
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can pretty much get insurance at an affordable rate with
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pretty reasonable deductibles. I remember, because I didn't have insurance
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when I graduated college, and I remember shopping for my
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own insurance, and I remember finding it pretty affordable. And
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then I had a job with a company and they
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had health care coverage. And then recently I started shopping
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for insurance again as an independent business person. And I
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was shocked to see what the premiums turned into. And
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it is not affordable for people to buy insurance anymore.
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And the way it was sold when Obamacare was passed
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is that this would make health care more affordable. It
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hasn't done that. Healthcare has gotten so unaffordable just even
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by the plans. And then you have the deductibles, which
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makes it almost useless to even use it. You can
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go and get a cash price and then forget the
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prescription drugs because you're better off not using your prescription
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drug coverage and just paying cash and getting those silly
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little coupons. So basically health insurance has turned into something
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that if you have a decent income, YOU CAN'T EVEN
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USE HEALTH INSURANCE ANYMORE. YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST PAY CASH.
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AND THEN IF YOU HAVE NO INCOME, EVERYBODY WHO CAN'T
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AFFORD HEALTH INSURANCE IS SUBSIDIZING THE PEOPLE WHO DON'T HAVE INSURANCE.
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THIS WAS ALL PART OF THE PLAN. THIS IS THAT
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DEATH SPIRAL. SO THEN THAT WAY THE PEOPLE WHO CAN
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ACTUALLY AFFORD INSURANCE GO, WELL, FORGET IT. LET'S JUST GET
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THIS GOVERNMENT. THIS IS ALL PART OF THE DESIGN AND
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IT'S HAPPENING IN REAL TIME. People will have no choice
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but to either be beholden to a company that can
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pay for their benefits or beholden to the government to
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give you your benefits. This is the failure of health
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care or health insurance, I should say.
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Well, you mentioned the Canadian system, and there is an
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even darker side behind that, which is the policy having
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to do with the acronym is MADE, Medical Assistance in Dying.
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And it appears that the Canadian.
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Government has promoted a system in which individuals who are
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no longer contributing in a significant financial way to the
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overall economics of Canadian economy are being routed in many
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ways into this MAID program that, from an objective outside
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point of view, looks like it's designed to reduce costs
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for the Canadian government. by reducing those individuals that are
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more dependent on the, quote, healthcare system, the socialized system
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that exists. So if we do this, if we follow
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this track that the Democrats have been promoting of increasing
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socialism in healthcare, what we end up with is a
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situation in which we're entirely at risk for the whims
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of the state, large insurance companies, And this consolidated industry
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in which what's happened is you've had private equity come in,
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scoop up physician practices, scoop up hospitals. The real estate
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trusts now control most of the hospitals. And it's all
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being driven by how can you extract value, capital out
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of this system? How can you extract profit? from people suffering.
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That is really what's going on. And the state is
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completely compliant with this. They seem to be endorsing it
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and backing it. And frankly, for a skeptical Austrian school
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of economics kind of person, such as myself, what you
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see is the state giving one of the clearest examples
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of how it tends to promote monopolies or oligopolies. And
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it tends to promote the interests of the very large
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businesses that have the resources both to comply with regulations
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and to lobby Congress to get policies that favor their
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financial interests implemented, as opposed to the policies of the
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small business person who has no seat at the table.
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That's what we're facing.
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Yeah. And, you know, the last thing we need is
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government rationing healthcare and then deciding whose life is worth saving.
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How else does this end?
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Right.
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Well, that's exactly what it is.
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How else does this end?
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Yeah.
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And you can say all the pretty words you want.
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You can put all the propaganda around.
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It you want.
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You can listen to smooth salesmen such as Barack Obama.
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and feel compelled by those emotional ties that they're so
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good in promoting. But if you take a step back
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and look at the overall arc of this, which, by
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the way, starts with HillaryCare, and that was a thing
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as a young medical student that I foresaw that was
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going to completely destroy the economics of what I had
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intended to do, which was go into a pediatric practice
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in a small town in the U.S.A. It is when
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when Hillary care got rolled out and all that discussion
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started happening, it was clear to me what the arc
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was here and that my whole idea about being a
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small business person and running a private practice was completely
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obsolete and had no future in the American health care
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system that was being promoted by the Democrat Party.
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Well, look, and it's important for people to hear it.
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They have to know what's going on. I think we
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have to put this talking point out in front of everybody.
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They have to understand what's at stake in this next
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election and in the next couple of years, because if
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we let them socialize our medicine, I don't think people
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understand how bad it can be. Dr. Malone, thank you
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so much for being here. Please come back often. Please
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continue to spread the word. We have to save health
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care in America before the socialists take it over. Sir,
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thank you so much. Thanks, David.
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Thanks for having me on.
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Thank you. Coming up, Bernie Sanders says the billionaires are
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the enemy and Proposition 40 in California would hit every
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single resident here. worth a billion dollars or more with
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a one-time 5% tax. Just give it up to the government.
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But guess what? The oligarchs aren't having to pony up
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the cash. Meta's board cut Mark Zuckerberg a deal to
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pay it without affecting his majority voting control, and the
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campaign pushing the tax cheered. I got Dennis Neal joining
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me after this.
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For years, the left has told you the billionaires are
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the enemy. Bernie Sanders came to California this month to
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say to himself.
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Look, never before in American history have we seen a
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billionaire class with so much political power.
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And never before.
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Have we seen such an unprecedented level of greed, arrogance,
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and irresponsibility on the part of the ruling class of
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this country.
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Yay!
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We hate the people that give us jobs! Woo! You
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want to talk about arrogance and greed? Do you know
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what Proposition 40 is on California's ballot Tuesday? It's a
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one-time 5% tax on the net worth of every Californian
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worth a billion dollars or more. Think about this. They
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want to vote to seize 5% of the wealth of
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the wealthiest people in California. How can you vote to
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steal somebody's money? A health care union put it on
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the ballot, and Bernie Sanders calls it a fight against
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the greed of the oligarchs What about the greed of
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the state? And then as, you know, oligarchs do, they
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tend to exempt themselves from having to pay these taxes.
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Let's talk about what Meta did. Meta's board built Mark
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Zuckerberg his own way out of the billionaire squeeze. Every shareholder...
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gets a new non-voting share, and the board cut Zuckerberg
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a deal on his. The company's own filing says he
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can sell up to 20% of his new shares for
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any reason, including so that he may pay his potential
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tax liability under California's Proposition 40. without affecting his majority
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voting control. Nobody is building you a workaround. They're not
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building you a workaround. In California, a single filer hits
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a 9.3% income tax bracket at $ 72, 724. Every paycheck loses
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another 1.3% to the state disability tax with no cap.
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You pay 63.4 cents a gallon in a gas tax.
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Even the Iron Workers Union fighting Prop 40 warns it
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can turn into a trap door for working families. THE BUSINESSES,
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THE BUSINESSES, THE BUSINESSES, THE BUSINESSES. THE RICH, THE POWERFUL
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GET REWARDED AND THE GUY WORKING HIS WAY UP GETS
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THE BILL WHEN THE PEOPLE WITH THE MONEY EITHER DON'T
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PAY THEIR TAXES OR LEAVE. THEY SAY THEY'RE AGAINST THE
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BILLIONAIRES BUT IF YOU REALLY LOOK AT HOW THIS WORKS,
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they're really against the middle class climbing up behind them.
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Joining me now is Dennis Neal, former anchor at CNBC
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and Fox Business, former managing editor, Forbes, author of The
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Leadership Genius of Elon Musk, and host of What's Bugging
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Me podcast. Dennis Neal, welcome. Now, can you break down
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what in the world kind of a deal Zuckerberg made
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with California so they don't touch his billions? I'm confused.
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Yeah, it's interesting that the board of Meta, the owner
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of Facebook, was so intent on keeping him officially in
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California that they're willing to put up billions of dollars
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in shareholder money. And this means that the California proposal
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now ostensibly is taken, was supposed to be a soap
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the billionaires tax and spread it to rank and file shareholders.
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Of Facebook, including... teacher.
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Pension funds and nurse retirement funds and firefighter funds. That's
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what they've done here. And it's rather belated because let's
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also remember that $ 1 trillion of the total $ 2 trillion
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held by billionaires in California, $ 1 trillion has already left
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the state in anticipation of this passing. And that includes
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the billions held by Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk. And
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the co-founders of Google.
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So the losses already are counting.
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We underestimate how even the very richest among us will
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do almost whatever it takes legally to avoid and reduce taxes.
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Taxes are the most inefficient drain on your wealth. Not risk,
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not things going out of business.
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It's taxes. So if I understand, here's what's happening. California
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wants to steal 5% of billionaires' money, and the billionaires.
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Say— Only one time, though.
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Only one time, we promise. How many times can you
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steal 5%? I guess you can only do it, what,
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10 times or 20 times before there's no billions left.
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But the idea is— When you have people that can
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just take their money and leave the state, well, now
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you're not only not getting that 5%, you're not getting anything.
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And that's what's happening. Exactly.
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In fact, California's own projections show, I believe, that they
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could end up, is it $ 30 or $ 36 billion in
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lower revenue in tax collections? as a result in response
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to this kind of move. And let's remember, it's never
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going to be one time only. And the problem isn't that,
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I guess, Jeff Bezos worth $ 150 billion, let's say. So
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you take 5% of that. So that's $ 5 billion. Oh,
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it's just $ 5 billion. But he has to sell stuff
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to raise that $ 5 billion in cash.
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And then so he sells, say, $ 7.
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Billion because he's got to pay 20% capital gains on
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whatever he sells. And so then just ripples and ripples.
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And it's just terrible tax policy. You should be cutting taxes,
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not raising them. Government needs to get by with less
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because that then forces government to cut. Look at the
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federal cut span. Almost, what is it, 400,000 fewer government workers.
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Do we sense any change at all in the services
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we receive?
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None.
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Nothing.
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Yeah, well, it's all waste. And the crazy part about
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it is California, I think they have the seventh largest
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economy or something in the world. And yet you drive
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around the roads here, it's like driving on the surface
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of the moon, potholes and craters and nonsense. You have
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all these supposed social service plans, and then you just
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have homeless people still sleeping right outside of the public
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funded homeless centers. It's like everywhere they spend the money,
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it seems it just goes to waste. But the interesting
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part here, Dennis, is the fact that you have all
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these liberal billionaires and billionaires, especially the billionaires, they're all
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so liberal, but yet they don't want to pay their
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taxes and they want to leave California so they can
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avoid paying the taxes after they vote for the people
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that want to seize their wealth. This is just the
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craziest thing ever. And of course, Bernie talks about oligarchs
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and oligarchs that are putting this tax burden right back
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on the middle class. And it's just a lie that
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we see every Every time these people try to steal,
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steal money, they just steal it from us, isn't it?
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Well, the real trickle down economics is taxes because it
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starts on the rich and ends up down. Look at
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cell phone tax. It was originally just a service of
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the rich.
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Very high taxes.
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One of the highest.
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Taxes of necessary service today that most poor people have.
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And yet the tax rate is huge.
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Yeah, it's such a shame. Well, you know, good luck, billionaires.
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If you elect Democrats, there's not going to be a
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state in the country you can hide from. There'll be
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a federal 5% billionaire's tax. Dennis Neal, thank you so
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much for being here. As always, look forward to talking
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again real soon, my friend.
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Thanks, David.
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Still ahead, Texas just got even bigger. The land office
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confirmed nine more islands in the Rio Grande. About 66
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acres belong to the state of Texas. And it sent
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the coordinates to DPS and the Texas military department to patrol, inspect,
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and clear them. And later, in BioWare's last big game,
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a character misgenders a companion. and drops for push-ups as pennants.
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Gamers answered with their wallets. And last week, EA shut
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down BioWare's Edmonton studio. All that's coming up. Don't go anywhere.
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You've heard it your whole life, everything's bigger in Texas.
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And if you recall back in 2023, Texas looked at
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a 170-acre island in the middle of the Rio Grande,
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front an island in Starr County, and declared it state land.
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Texas DPS called that stretch the most violent region on
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the Texas-Mexico border, with armed gunmen coming across. DPS and
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the Texas Military Department cleared the brush, and the land
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office says crime at that hotspot was halted dramatically. But
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this week... Well, Texas got a little bit bigger. The
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Texas General Land Office identified nine more islands in the
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Rio Grande, about 66 acres in all, from the Laredo
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area south towards McAllen, and confirmed they belong to the
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state of Texas. In the commissioner's words, for years, the
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ownership of these islands has been uncertain. Customs and Border
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Protection had questions about 28 islands whose ownership has hadn't
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been established. So Texas went back to the historical records
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and surveys, did the paperwork, and sent the coordinates to
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DPS and the Texas military department so they can patrol, inspect,
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and clear them of any illegal activity they may encounter
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in Mexico. Well, of course, they pushed back, but the
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reality is Texas didn't grab everything in the river and
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of the 20 islands surveyed. She says the other 11
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are likely Mexico's. Texas took what the records say belongs
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to Texas. Let me explain why those islands matter to
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Texas so much. Because they remember what the Biden years
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looked like. In the fiscal year 2023, Border Patrol apprehended 338,000
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people in the Rio Grande Valley sector alone. This fiscal
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year through August, it's under 20,000, down 93% from the
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same months under Biden. And while Texas was trying to
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hold the line, the Biden administration fought it every step
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of the way. Biden's Justice Department sued Texas over its
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buoys in the river. Biden's Homeland Security Department demanded Texas
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open Shelby Park and Eagle Pass to back up federal agents.
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And the Biden administration went all the way to the
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Supreme Court and won five to four in order, letting
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federal agents keep cutting Texas's razor wire. President Trump, the
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Bowie lawsuit was dropped. And thanks to Trump, there's no
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criminal activity on these islands anymore. That's the point. This time,
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Texas isn't waiting for cartels to move in. It's making
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sure Democrat border chaos never comes back, no matter who
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sits in the White House. Joining me now is Dr.
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Dawn Buckingham, surgeon, former Texas state senator, and first woman
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ever elected to Texas land commissioner. Commissioner, welcome back to
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David Pollak Prime Time. Love having you on, and I
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love what you're doing in Texas. I mean, everybody loves
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big things in Texas. Texas isn't big enough. Let's get
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a couple of islands to make Texas safer, right? Talk
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about what the move is there to secure Texas's border.
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Well, we are really excited about this because we want
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to be sure that we are sleuthing out and eliminating
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every potential cartel safe haven. So the Border Patrol wanted
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us to look at 28 islands. We found that nine
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were actually Texas. We've got them declared as Texas. Texas
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is getting bigger and safer. Just like you said, this
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will give law enforcement access to those islands to be
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sure that we're not having any illegal activity on them now.
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And nor can we ever in the future. And we're
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just excited to be a part of making Texas bigger
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for the second time in a few hundred years. And
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we've done it twice in about two years.
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So now, obviously, Mexico is probably not happy to just
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give up islands that it thinks it's entitled to, from
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what I understand. You know, there's the Texas, there's the
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Mexico ones, and then there's the Texas ones. And you
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guys basically just took control over the Texas islands. And
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that's because they need to be secure. So cartel activity
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can't cross over to them. How does this play out?
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Because Mexico is its own country. You're a state. It
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gets in like a foreign affairs issue. This has to
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get messy, right?
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I don't think it's going to be very messy. But
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our treaty with Mexico from 1836, anything north of the
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center of the Rio Grande is Texas. It's the United States.
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And we were founded in 1836 as the mapping entity
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for the state. It's our job to determine just that.
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So we think this is plain and simple, easy to
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go back to that 1836 agreement. We don't expect any
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big issues from Mexico, but we'll stay on our ground,
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so to speak.
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Well, look, and I think, again, this is just such
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a smart move, and this is why Texans are so
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proud of their Republican government there in Texas. This is
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why they should show up next Tuesday, because you have
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to remember what it was like when Biden was president
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and what Texas had to do to just defend itself
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from Biden's open borders. I know you've got to run.
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How much better is it now with Trump's border policy
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for Texans than it was before?
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It is literally and statistically 99.9% better. We saw an
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immediate change when Trump took office. It's the perfect example
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of how we were saying it's the federal policies that
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actually drive illegal immigration. So Trump has really set that down.
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But we've got to be sure that we're ready if
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the pendulum swings back. If at some point in the
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future we have another administration that refuses to uphold its
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constitutional duty to defend our borders, we're going to be
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sure we secure everything up now. We're good going into
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the future. And again, we just love making Texas bigger
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and safer.
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Well, keep up the great work. Great, great job. And
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good luck on Tuesday, Commissioner. Thank you so much for joining.
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Thanks for having me on. Have a great day.
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85% of American teenagers play video games, and BioWare's last
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big game came, well, with a woke lecture. One companion
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gets a whole coming out storyline, and the main story
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makes you recruit them and then have to watch them
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get misgendered. Gamers answered with their wallets. Go woke, go broke.
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Hits again. My producer's coming on. Thomas joins me after
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the break.
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be the worst of all. The video games Pew Research
711
00:42:33.880 --> 00:42:38.139
found 85% of American teenagers play video games and 41%
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play every single day. One of the biggest names in
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that world was a company called BioWare, the studio behind
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games like Mass Effect and Dragon Age. They make role-playing
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games where you play a hero, make choices in the story,
716
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and travel with a crew of companion characters. Their last
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big one was called Dragon Age The Veil Guard, and
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one of those companions, Tash, Kits a whole storyline about
719
00:43:04.670 --> 00:43:12.059
realizing they're non-binary. Video game characters realizing they're non-binary and
720
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coming out to their friends, look.
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So, I'm non-binary.
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What does that mean?
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It means I don't feel like a man or a woman.
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If you are neither a man nor a woman, then
725
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what are you?
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Non-binary.
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Non-binary.
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00:43:31.679 --> 00:43:34.000
I just said, and I'm going to use they instead
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00:43:34.039 --> 00:43:34.860
of she from now on.
730
00:43:35.480 --> 00:43:38.480
If this is because I have criticized your dress or
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00:43:38.500 --> 00:43:42.599
your manners. It isn't. You couldn't avoid it. The main
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story makes you recruit Tash. And then in another scene,
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00:43:48.210 --> 00:43:53.010
a character calls Tash she. And there's this awkward pause
734
00:43:53.530 --> 00:43:57.070
before someone corrects them on the proper pronouns in the game.
735
00:43:57.449 --> 00:43:57.690
Look.
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00:43:58.389 --> 00:44:00.730
And this time, no dragon escaped.
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00:44:01.469 --> 00:44:02.349
Thanks to Tosh.
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That's why we recruited her.
739
00:44:05.869 --> 00:44:06.030
Um.
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Actually, Tosh uses them for themselves now.
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00:44:11.300 --> 00:44:13.800
They asked us to let folks know, so now you do.
742
00:44:14.380 --> 00:44:14.599
Yeah.
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00:44:15.679 --> 00:44:16.460
I appreciate it.
744
00:44:16.920 --> 00:44:17.679
Thank you for telling me.
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That's why we recruited them.
746
00:44:21.519 --> 00:44:25.119
The character creator even gives your hero an option. I
747
00:44:26.989 --> 00:44:32.570
can't even believe this. For top surgery scars. Mark Kern,
748
00:44:33.369 --> 00:44:36.750
a former World of Warcraft team lead, said the game
749
00:44:36.929 --> 00:44:41.869
lectures you on the right way to apologize for misgendering someone.
750
00:44:43.050 --> 00:44:46.550
Watch what happens when yet another character misgenders Tash.
751
00:44:47.059 --> 00:44:50.800
She's still holding the ruby in her other hand. Maker's panties,
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00:44:50.860 --> 00:44:52.300
I was so proud.
753
00:44:53.219 --> 00:44:56.769
Oh, um, ah, sh * *.
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00:44:57.199 --> 00:44:59.840
They, they're still holding it, sorry.
755
00:45:01.199 --> 00:45:01.780
What are you doing?
756
00:45:02.519 --> 00:45:03.219
Pulling a barve.
757
00:45:03.980 --> 00:45:04.079
Oh.
758
00:45:05.079 --> 00:45:06.559
Okay. A barve?
759
00:45:07.199 --> 00:45:09.420
Tradition in the Lords of Fortune, from one of our
760
00:45:09.480 --> 00:45:12.119
old members, Barve. Good guy, but like most of us,
761
00:45:12.159 --> 00:45:15.710
his plans went sideways a lot. Bad blood among your crews,
762
00:45:15.769 --> 00:45:18.329
not good for morale, but there's not always time for big,
763
00:45:18.409 --> 00:45:21.849
drawn-out apologies. So when one of us screws up and
764
00:45:21.869 --> 00:45:23.670
we know we've screwed up, we do a quick ten
765
00:45:23.710 --> 00:45:24.349
to put it right.
766
00:45:24.670 --> 00:45:28.320
Pulling a barve. Now, gamers answered with their wallets. EA
767
00:45:28.380 --> 00:45:32.019
says Veilguard drew about 1.5 million players, about half of
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00:45:32.079 --> 00:45:37.199
what it expected. This summer, EA's $ 55 billion sale closed,
769
00:45:37.599 --> 00:45:40.059
and the company went private. And last week, after the sale,
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00:45:40.199 --> 00:45:46.199
EA shut down BioWare's Edmonton studio, part of about 400
771
00:45:46.199 --> 00:45:51.300
job cuts. I guess go woke, go broke. Games, where
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00:45:51.340 --> 00:45:54.789
millions of American kids spend their evenings, And what's on
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00:45:54.829 --> 00:45:58.809
that screen shapes them. I see BioWare closing as a
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00:45:58.909 --> 00:46:01.449
positive step for kids' minds now that the rest of
775
00:46:01.469 --> 00:46:04.929
the industry, they need to get their message. Our kids
776
00:46:04.989 --> 00:46:07.389
want a good story. They want to play a video game.
777
00:46:07.429 --> 00:46:12.769
They don't want your nonsense woke lectures. Now, in order,
778
00:46:12.809 --> 00:46:15.230
I don't play video games, so in order to break
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00:46:15.269 --> 00:46:18.110
this down in a way I can understand this, joining
780
00:46:18.150 --> 00:46:21.940
me now is actually somebody who's usually behind your camera,
781
00:46:22.300 --> 00:46:24.519
and now he's in front of it, my producer here
782
00:46:24.699 --> 00:46:28.469
at David Pollak Prime Time on OAN. Thomas, Thomas, welcome.
783
00:46:29.570 --> 00:46:31.309
On this side of the camera. Now, you brought me
784
00:46:31.349 --> 00:46:34.869
this story because you're like, David, look at this video game.
785
00:46:35.050 --> 00:46:38.320
You showed me that scene where Tash is coming out
786
00:46:38.699 --> 00:46:41.239
and you can't even skip the scene. You're forced to
787
00:46:41.320 --> 00:46:44.280
watch this whole stupid thing play out. And I said, oh,
788
00:46:44.300 --> 00:46:47.539
my God, I did not realize how they were targeting
789
00:46:47.739 --> 00:46:49.800
our kids in these role playing games. Talk about this,
790
00:46:49.820 --> 00:46:50.940
because this is all new to me.
791
00:46:51.739 --> 00:46:53.760
Well, I think one of the biggest things here is
792
00:46:54.360 --> 00:46:58.860
even less so about just the forced woke ideology and
793
00:46:58.960 --> 00:47:00.929
all these things, as important as it is that that
794
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is happening, because like you said, you cannot skip this scene.
795
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And as we saw, people are, there's characters doing pushups
796
00:47:07.969 --> 00:47:11.849
as a recompense for saying she instead of they, and
797
00:47:12.710 --> 00:47:16.210
probably the most awkward coming out scene in any media
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00:47:16.230 --> 00:47:18.769
that I have ever seen, and they've been happening more
799
00:47:18.809 --> 00:47:21.530
and more often, But in addition to that, it's also
800
00:47:21.550 --> 00:47:25.510
the reaction to this because this was the latest game
801
00:47:25.590 --> 00:47:27.909
of one of the biggest studios. The Mass Effect games
802
00:47:27.949 --> 00:47:30.989
were huge. I played the last one, Mass Effect Andromeda.
803
00:47:31.010 --> 00:47:36.159
It was an amazing game despite its unfinished state. The
804
00:47:36.199 --> 00:47:39.840
last Dragon Age game, Dragon Age Origins, is widely considered
805
00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:43.699
one of the best RPGs of all time. And now
806
00:47:43.739 --> 00:47:46.119
they come out with The Veil Guard, and instead of
807
00:47:46.219 --> 00:47:51.989
making a... storyline that really captures audiences and really brings
808
00:47:52.050 --> 00:47:54.610
people in on what they want to do, which is,
809
00:47:54.710 --> 00:47:58.730
as you said, create a hero, fight enemies, save people.
810
00:47:58.809 --> 00:48:00.349
That's what these RPGs are about.
811
00:48:00.929 --> 00:48:04.699
Instead, it became this, well, now we're going to talk
812
00:48:04.739 --> 00:48:08.239
about this character's non-binary and you have to take them
813
00:48:08.260 --> 00:48:11.789
with you and you have to watch this happen. And Gamers,
814
00:48:12.610 --> 00:48:15.349
for better or worse, didn't react well to that. That's
815
00:48:15.389 --> 00:48:17.199
not what they wanted out of their game. And so
816
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:21.780
now that EA has been purchased and they shut down BioWare,
817
00:48:23.159 --> 00:48:26.340
that's all that happens. That's where everything ended for BioWare.
818
00:48:26.400 --> 00:48:30.190
And it's a shame that such a legendary studio had
819
00:48:30.210 --> 00:48:33.570
to be shut down because they couldn't make games people wanted.
820
00:48:33.630 --> 00:48:35.389
Instead, they make games that they wanted.
821
00:48:36.469 --> 00:48:38.829
And we talk about at the beginning of the show,
822
00:48:38.889 --> 00:48:43.699
we talk about sort of this battle between socialism and
823
00:48:43.719 --> 00:48:47.320
the West. And I don't want to make everything about that.
824
00:48:47.960 --> 00:48:51.059
But you have to understand this effort to divide people
825
00:48:51.199 --> 00:48:53.739
on every single issue, where you can't even escape it.
826
00:48:53.949 --> 00:48:55.710
You can't go to a sporting event now and escape
827
00:48:56.010 --> 00:48:58.210
the division. You can't play a video game and escape
828
00:48:58.230 --> 00:49:00.269
the division. You can't go to a concert anymore and
829
00:49:00.289 --> 00:49:02.320
escape the division. You can't go and watch a movie
830
00:49:02.340 --> 00:49:04.719
and escape the division. And it's on every single thing,
831
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:08.360
whether it's Palestine, whether it's a war in Iran, whether
832
00:49:08.400 --> 00:49:13.070
it's gender fluidity. A video game character, this one in particular,
833
00:49:13.090 --> 00:49:15.889
it's like some beast thing with horns.
834
00:49:15.980 --> 00:49:16.059
And.
835
00:49:16.079 --> 00:49:17.760
It's like a dragon. They're like part dragon.
836
00:49:18.820 --> 00:49:21.059
It doesn't even have an anatomy as far as I'm concerned.
837
00:49:21.079 --> 00:49:22.739
We all remember when we were young and we had
838
00:49:22.780 --> 00:49:25.500
our action figures. None of them ever had clothes on.
839
00:49:25.699 --> 00:49:27.670
And you know what? They didn't have any private parts.
840
00:49:27.730 --> 00:49:30.570
It was just either plastic underwear or nothing. It was
841
00:49:30.590 --> 00:49:32.809
just with their legs attached. None of us, when we
842
00:49:32.849 --> 00:49:36.210
were young and played with things, ever thought of... characters
843
00:49:36.230 --> 00:49:38.869
that are like non-human alien looking things of having any
844
00:49:38.949 --> 00:49:42.289
gender at all. It's just, it's not relevant to playing.
845
00:49:42.769 --> 00:49:46.190
And here they've gone out of their way, freaking top
846
00:49:46.210 --> 00:49:50.739
surgery scars to make characters have these. I mean, what
847
00:49:50.760 --> 00:49:52.409
would be really funny if they want to have fun
848
00:49:52.429 --> 00:49:54.300
with it, what they could say is he can look
849
00:49:54.360 --> 00:49:57.539
down and go, I have no gender. I guess I'm non-binary.
850
00:49:57.719 --> 00:49:59.380
Now that would be funny because we would all laugh
851
00:49:59.420 --> 00:50:01.579
because that's like a toy story joke from the way
852
00:50:01.599 --> 00:50:05.949
these things are made. Nobody wants this stuff force fed
853
00:50:05.989 --> 00:50:09.099
to them constantly. People go to video games to escape life,
854
00:50:09.159 --> 00:50:11.179
especially now more than ever, because it is just so
855
00:50:11.260 --> 00:50:14.280
overwhelming to be bombarded by all these politics. And now
856
00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:16.889
they've even ruined that. So where do people go? Now,
857
00:50:16.929 --> 00:50:19.070
what are people playing now if they're running away from
858
00:50:19.090 --> 00:50:21.170
these types of games? What games are successful?
859
00:50:21.920 --> 00:50:25.219
I think actually there's been a huge rise lately in
860
00:50:25.500 --> 00:50:29.519
indie video games, which is games made by smaller teams.
861
00:50:29.900 --> 00:50:32.280
Usually some of these big ones are made just by
862
00:50:32.639 --> 00:50:35.769
one person sitting in their garage on a computer and
863
00:50:35.869 --> 00:50:39.489
programming a game they want to make. And it's been
864
00:50:39.570 --> 00:50:42.539
crazy to watch in the last couple years how these
865
00:50:42.639 --> 00:50:45.280
big AAA studios, which is what we call the big
866
00:50:45.340 --> 00:50:50.170
companies like EA, and you've got BioWare up there, Obsidian,
867
00:50:50.190 --> 00:50:53.309
some of these really big companies that have made great
868
00:50:53.349 --> 00:50:56.469
games in the past, But lately they've been falling short.
869
00:50:56.769 --> 00:50:59.070
And so people have been turning more to indie studios
870
00:50:59.159 --> 00:51:03.800
and independent game makers. And just watching that rise as
871
00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:06.320
people have been able to play what they want to
872
00:51:06.360 --> 00:51:08.980
play and make what they want to make has been
873
00:51:09.420 --> 00:51:11.880
the big thing. It's amazing what happens when you have
874
00:51:12.059 --> 00:51:15.519
a small group of people that don't have to answer
875
00:51:15.539 --> 00:51:19.619
to somebody pushing Like, oh, we need more representation in
876
00:51:19.639 --> 00:51:22.250
this game. And I honestly think that's what happened with
877
00:51:22.670 --> 00:51:25.710
the last Dragon Age game. They just said, they looked
878
00:51:25.730 --> 00:51:27.869
at the game and went, oh no, we don't have
879
00:51:27.909 --> 00:51:31.610
any representation. And non-binary was the big thing when that
880
00:51:31.650 --> 00:51:32.829
game came out a couple of years ago.
881
00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:35.260
And so they said, well, here's our non-binary character. We're
882
00:51:35.280 --> 00:51:35.760
throwing it in.
883
00:51:37.539 --> 00:51:39.639
I think it's, everybody's just so sick and tired of that.
884
00:51:40.119 --> 00:51:42.980
I remember when I watched the Eternals and when Marvel
885
00:51:43.000 --> 00:51:44.579
really just fell off a cliff. I used to love
886
00:51:44.599 --> 00:51:47.400
all the Marvel movies. I watched Eternals. And they have, like,
887
00:51:47.420 --> 00:51:51.090
these are aliens from another planet that came to Earth and, like,
888
00:51:51.139 --> 00:51:54.070
blended in to shape human history. And each one of
889
00:51:54.110 --> 00:51:56.090
them checked some kind of woke box that had, like,
890
00:51:56.389 --> 00:52:02.210
a deaf one, a non-binary, minor-looking one that was attracted
891
00:52:02.250 --> 00:52:04.380
to an older adult. I mean, they literally went as
892
00:52:04.469 --> 00:52:06.559
far as they could. And I'm like, this has nothing
893
00:52:06.579 --> 00:52:08.900
to do with the story. Video games went the same way.
894
00:52:09.159 --> 00:52:10.579
You know, if people want a fun game, they can
895
00:52:10.599 --> 00:52:13.239
go to whitehouse.gov. They have real simple video games. I
896
00:52:13.260 --> 00:52:15.039
was playing that day. You just press the button, little
897
00:52:15.079 --> 00:52:15.840
bird flaps.
898
00:52:16.320 --> 00:52:16.420
Yep.
899
00:52:16.440 --> 00:52:19.940
Anybody who played Flappy Bird on the iPod back in
900
00:52:20.539 --> 00:52:23.320
the early 2010s, they have a version of it on there.
901
00:52:23.340 --> 00:52:23.590
Yeah.
902
00:52:23.619 --> 00:52:25.449
So we could just get rid of all the woke
903
00:52:25.469 --> 00:52:28.829
stuff and just play the whitehouse.gov games. And that's pretty simple, right?
904
00:52:29.230 --> 00:52:29.510
Oh, yeah.
905
00:52:29.530 --> 00:52:32.769
That's a really simple way to do it. And I mean, again,
906
00:52:32.849 --> 00:52:37.300
like nowadays... it's so easy to make a game. It's it,
907
00:52:37.380 --> 00:52:40.019
they've made it so simple with some of these ways
908
00:52:40.840 --> 00:52:43.280
that now like steam is the big way people play
909
00:52:43.300 --> 00:52:46.780
games on their computer. There's games on there that people
910
00:52:46.820 --> 00:52:50.619
are selling for $ 2 and some of them look better
911
00:52:50.739 --> 00:52:52.659
than some of the big AAA games that have come out.
912
00:52:52.679 --> 00:52:54.420
And that's the strategy is give back to the people
913
00:52:54.440 --> 00:52:57.780
that have built what they want. Thomas, my producer from
914
00:52:57.840 --> 00:53:00.760
behind the camera to in front of the camera. Thank
915
00:53:00.780 --> 00:53:02.849
you for being here. And, uh, You know, I think
916
00:53:02.869 --> 00:53:05.059
you have to run back now and make sure we
917
00:53:05.099 --> 00:53:06.199
have the rest of the show, right?
918
00:53:06.280 --> 00:53:06.539
Oh, yeah.
919
00:53:06.739 --> 00:53:08.280
Got to make sure that everything ends on time.
920
00:53:08.480 --> 00:53:12.389
That's right. Thanks for being here, Thomas. That is our
921
00:53:12.510 --> 00:53:15.710
show for tonight. Make sure you tune in tomorrow. We're
922
00:53:15.730 --> 00:53:19.170
going to break down the latest in Israel's election. It
923
00:53:19.190 --> 00:53:22.869
looks like Bibi Netanyahu is hanging on. We're going to
924
00:53:22.889 --> 00:53:25.269
break all that down for you tomorrow. And make sure
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00:53:25.289 --> 00:53:27.030
you stay in touch with us on social media. I'm
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00:53:27.090 --> 00:53:30.710
at David Pollak USA everywhere. Or send us an email.
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00:53:30.730 --> 00:53:34.139
David Pollak primetime at OANN.com. We'll see you tomorrow. Same time,
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same place. And until then, you stay classy, America. Good night.
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