Will there be more protests in the future?

Today on the Jimmy Barrett Show:

• Will there be more protests in the future?
• Mike Gonzalez on the protests and Marxism.

Episode Transcript

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need some more information. What I'mgoing to try to keep up with is
the protesting that's going on, AndI'd like to smile on Friday's. I
like to laugh on Fridays. It'sgetting harder and harder to laugh. Did
just see the CBSU gov poll whereeight out of ten Americans believe the country

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is out of control? Eight outof ten believe the country is out of
control. That's almost just shy ofeighty percent think that the country's out of
control. I'm sure it's for avariety of different reasons, but I think
the campus protesting is a fine exampleof that. But as I said,
I want to start off with asmile. This should make you laugh.
Magan Kelly on her podcast. Onher show, we're talking about the woman

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who was in front of the televisioncameras at Columbia University. Turns out that
she is a PhD student. Therethe big surprise, right, and she's
also an instructor. There another bigsurprise. She is a devout communist.
Oh that's a shocking surprise. Buthere's the other thing. Well, her
name is hilarious, so they havefun with her name. Uh. She

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and her panel, the Fifth Columnis their paneled for this particular program.
And then they play a parody.That is a parody of her news conference
asking for food for the people occupyingthe building. It's hilarious. Let's all
take a listen and get a laugh. Here is this woman who her name
is unfortunately Johanna King Slutsky, andshe's at I know, sorry, that's

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what made her so bitter. Imean, that's you can see it.
I mean, if you really runwith her smith suggestions, I'm going to
read you sentence because miss Letsky isof course in a PhD program, and
this is what America. This iswhat we're paying ninety thousand dollars a year.

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It's for this because we need this. This is exactly what we have,
particularly when inflation and recession. Thisis up yea. This is her
about her own PhD dissertation. Mygoal is to write a prehistory of metabolic
rift, Marx's term for the disruptionof energy circuits caused by the industrialation industrialization
under capitalism. So this is Imean, mis Letsky has so many skills,

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and it doesn't surprise me that shedoesn't know how to get food.
Yeah. No, so listen,So she's so wonderful. I love her
introduction as a character in this story. I pray to God above, thank
him for taking care of us thisway. We don't know who puts this
together, but my crack producers WieCanadian Debbie found online a parody video that's

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been produced of Johanna King Slutski.Even I have not yet seen it.
Let's let's watch it together, shallwe. Basically, we would like to
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just don't send us anything. We'lljust go back home to mommy. Thank
you. That's funny. That isfunny. That is very very funny.
As long as we're doing funny,let's do this one as well. It's
not nearly as funny as that.But believe it or not, I've actually

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found, I think the one thingthat the pro Israel and the you know,
and the anti Israel protesters have incommon. You know, the the
the the the anti Israel and theand the pro Israel actually joined in.
This is it from the University ofAlabama. Where As you can imagine,

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there's been very little, if anyprotesting at any Southern schools, and when
there has been, has been veryvery small groups. And that's the case
at the University of Alabama. Butboth sides were out there basically on either
side of the street, protesting againstone another. But they all managed to
join in on a chant for theircommon enemy. Well, first on those

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on those protesters uniting. Joe Bidenpromised to put his whole soul in his
inaugural addressing to the uniting in thecountry, Joe, you did it.
Congratulations is number one. Number numbertwo. Uh that that picture of that
statue just proves these people don't justhate Jews. They don't just hate Israel,
they hate America. These are antiAmerican protests as well as antisemitic protests.

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And Joe Biden, you know,I know Leslie said she saw anti
anti Islamic signs of some kind.Maybe there are a few here and there.
These are The problem on our campusesright now is not is not Aslamophobia.
This is the biggest outbreak of antiSemitism we have seen in this country's
modern history. And for Joe Bidento go out and claim and do the

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two sides thing that he can gemnDonald Trump for and say there's you know,
they're they're bad people on both sidesof this protest is ridiculous. These
people are hateful, they are theyare harassing Jewish students. They are shutting
down campuses, they are preventing peoplefrom graduating. They're preventing Jewish students from
accessing the education they paid for.They're yelling at them go back to Poland.
You know, can you imagine ifthere were people saying go back to

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Africa to black students on these campuses. So the problem in these campuses,
Leslie, is not anti Islamophobia.This is a this is an anti Semitism
problem, and everything else saying thatpointing to one or two signs over here
is just a distraction. Well saidMark Thesson, Well said, I found
it hilarious so that both sides wereable to say, f Joe Biden maybe
the one thing that they actually agreeupon. All right, we need to

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out of control I think I started. I gave you a few stats on
the out of control thing. TheCBS UGO poll that says that almost not
going to just shy of eight outof ten Americans think the country is out

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of control. Forty eight percent ofDemocrats its disagree with that statement, but
that still means that the majority fiftytwo percent of Democrats do believe the countries
out of control. That's a majority. Only twelve percent of Republicans don't think
the country's out of control, sothat's pretty overwhelming, and only eighteen percent

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of Independence don't think the countries undercontrol. Here's here's a penal on Fox
discussing why so many of us feelthe countries out of control. Seven and
ten people are right, just lookat the scenes on your screen right now.
Does this look like an America incontrol? No, this is an
America out of control. And forthose people who say compare the riots,

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let's call them what they are towhat we saw in the summer of twenty
twenty when Trump was president, you'rejust looking at a calendar. You're not
looking at the underlying reasons for thoseriots in the summer of twenty twenty.
Those riots were because of Democrat policies, and they all occurred in Democrat cities.
So when you try to compare thetwo, the only similar is that

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this shouldn't happen in America. Andright now America is rotting at the head,
and the head of America is JosephRobinette Biden. He needs to speak
about this. He needs to getthis under control, or his precious re
election hopes are gone come November.So when we talk about this country being
out of control, they want tostrip us of our freedoms. We've got
more crime than ever, the borderswide open, awful, foreign policy,

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inflation is reaccelerating, the economy isslowing. From a growth standpoint. It
is out of control, and that'swhy people are looking for alternatives to President
Biden. He's a complete no show. He can't even get up there and
lead the country and speak to theissues we're facing, condemn lawlessness, behavior
like we're experiencing right now. Soyou know, obviously people are getting fed

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up with him. Yo. Hefinally did come out yesterday, Yeah,
after this recording. Obviously, hefinally did come out late in the day
yesterday and did have a few thingsto say. Was it forcefull. I'll
let you be the judge of that. But here's the question. There's a
track record here that he only comesout and speaks about something if he's absolutely

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forced to. The rest of thetime, he doesn't want to say anything.
He is more concerned about pissing offthe squad than he is about the
vast majority of Americans. He realizesthat that is the part of the party
that's in control right now. Youknow, the Democrat Party is a lot

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like our nation's campuses. We havethe minority controlling the majority. I don't
think the majority of Democrats, youknow, support Hamas. I don't think
the majority of Democrats won a weekleadership. But that's what we've got,

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So we'll share with I'll share withyou right now. Joe Biden when he
finally came out guessing. Here's whatJoe Biden had to say about the violence
going on in our nation's campuses andthe little response at the end there from
Jesse Waters. There's the right toprotest, but not the right to cause

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chaos. None of this is apeaceful protest. Threatening people, intimidating people,
and stilling foreign people is not peacefulprotest. It's against the law.
There is no place for hate speechor violence of any kind, whether it's
anti Semitism, Islamophobia, or discriminationagainst the Arab Americans or Palestinian Americans.

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It's simply wrong. There's no placefor racism in America. Force Hud beings
that the policies from out to theregion. No took them ten days to
tell us that bigotry is bad,Okay, And then he said Republicans don't
pounce, and any bounce downright,Churchillian, if you asked me judge up

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there with his strong statement, don'tyou remember, nobody listens to this guy.
And then Trump comes in and constantlybeats him to the punch. He's
always early and more descriptive. Whetherit's Lakeln Riley or East Palestine or here.
He gets in and he makes likeseven great points about the protest and
about what should be done about it. Well, Biden's just heads in the

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clouds. So true. There's abig contrast between you know how Biden is
handling this. You now Trump would, and you might if he hadn't already
been president and you hadn't already seenhow he takes charge of things, then
you might say, well, he'sjust saying he would do that. He
wouldn't really do it. Oh yeahhe would, Yes, he would that

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and more. Here is Trump inWisconsin talking about the violence on campus.
Every college president, I say,remove the encampments, immediately, vanquish the
radicals, and take back our campusesfor all of the normal students. I
say, where did these people comefrom? And they do come from other
countries and they are paid. Thepolice came in and exactly two hours everything

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was over. It was a beautifulthing to watch New York's finals. So
him go up in ladders to breakin the windows and getting in, and
they went and they knocked it outand they were incredible. Well, what
you heard there from Donald Trump wasleadership. What you heard there from Donald
Trump was that there have to beconsequences when you have bad actions like this,
whenever you're preventing people from attending class, when you're threatening students, when

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you're threatening Americans, when there's antiSemitism spewing out of our colleges and universities,
you need leadership, Maria. Wehave a lack of leadership at the
top with Joe Biden, who hasfailed to address this in the way he
should as President of the United States. People are yearning for someone to come

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in and lead this country. That'swhat you heard from Donald Trump right there.
As to what we saw last night. You know, around all these
college campuses, it's about time.But we didn't need to wait this long.
This is the sort of thing thathas turned criminals into running streets around
the country. They know that theconsequences are so few and far between.

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There is no fear for them tocommit crimes, to do things that step
over a line of our societal norms. And so thank goodness we have Donald
Trump there at least praising what hashappened, in calling out what we should
have seen happen a long time ago. You remember the beginning of this whole
thing at Columbia. When this wholething got going, Biden had a trip

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to New York City. Didn't goanywhere near Columbia. That would if you
really aren't interested in being a leader, that would have been the smart thing
to do, don't you think,go there and meet with the president,
say what the hell are you doing? Yeah, we need to get this
under control. There's no doubt inmy mind that at the Trump we're in

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New York, that's what he woulddo. And if he wasn't or couldn't
be in New York for whatever reason, he'd make at least make the phone
call and ask her what the hellshe's doing and demand is something get done?
Big difference in the leadership skills ofthe two. One more than happy

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to take charge, the other onenot in charge at all. You know,
whether he wants to be in charge, I don't know, but he's
not clearly not in charge. Andthat's how you end up with the situation
that you're in. You know,as I was saying yesterday on the show,
I really do believe this is goingto be quite an interesting summer.

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I don't know. I know theconventions will be messed up, you know,
they'll be protesting at the conventions.My guess is they'll be. I
mean, I wonder which one willhave more protesting. I think the the
so called abortion rights people, thepro abortion people, I think that they're
going to be at the Republican NationalConvention, you know, trying to make

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it sound like Republicans, you know, are going to try to ban abortion
nason wide, even though I thinkprisident Trump has made very clear that he
sees this as a state issue.While I think the the the anti Israel
crowd will be at the Democrat NationalConvention, raising arecus there. Either way,
we're gonna have a lot of protestinggoing on. I think at both

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political conventions. It's going to bevery interesting to see. All Right,
we need to take a break backwith Boar in a moment. It's the
Jimmy Baird Show here on AM ninefifty KPRC. All Right, I think

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our timing is good on this onebecause we're spending a lot of time today
talking about the college protesting going onand the Biden administration reaction to it versus
the Trump reaction to it. HowColumbia has handled or in many cases,
mishandled things, how UCLA handled thingsonce they got the l A. P.

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D. Involved Joys to talk aboutall this is Mike Gonzalez with the
Heritage Foundation. She also has anew book out called Next Gen Marxism,
What it Is and How to CombatIt. And I cannot think Mike a
better examples of Marxism on college campusesthan what we're seeing with this, with
these protests that are going on.Yeah, I had my my co author,

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Katie Gorka, and I have beenreally busy because if the book has
been unfortunately very very timely, allof this is Marxism. You know,
the spokesman who came out of HamiltonHall on Wednesday at Columbia University, they
were much derided, and with goodreason because they were saying they were going
to to dehydrate and and and startto death and all they had to do

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was cross Broadway and get a geta Hamburger. But if you look into
their background, they were completely Marxists. Well, yeah, she's she's she's
going for her pH d at Columbia. She's an instructor at Columbia, so
she so not only not only isshe a Marxist, she's teaching her students
how to be a Marxist exactly,and and and and her goal. If

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you go to her bio which disappearedfor a time and now it's now back
on the internet, it's UH youyou find out that her goal is to
write a book on a Marxist theory. And if you look at the other
woman who was there, there werethree of them. The guy was the
guy was very Marxist too, butthe woman is a senior leader Students for

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Justice in Palestine, which is fundedby Westpac, which is a complete Marxist
funder. If you go to Westpacthat website, you find out that the
only fund Marxist things and completely gotCommunist slogans. So so all of this
is showing how sadly right Katie andI have been. But if you if

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I like to actually say something aboutthe UH the school reactions, because I'm
very critical of Columbia's president, theNew Chaffique, but the ones that really
deserve are in Coomium are Rutgers inNorthwestern If you look at the at the
eight so Rutgers president accepted eight ofthe ten demands. One of them is

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to reserve some admission UH slots forPalestinians from Gaza that that is violative obviously
of the Civil Rights Act, isviolative of the Constitution. Another one is
to set up a Palestinian studies department, which studies will show that only fuels

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anti Semitism, so they're going toget more and more of the same.
These these presidents in Northwestern was alsovery, very bad. So these presidents
have to be dragged into Congress.Jimmy, I I I tell you,
I'm really you see A and Colombiahave been good by comparison. Mike,
I want to ask you, whatdo you think this is really all about.

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Is this about anti Israel, Isthis about pro Palestine? Or is
this is this just an excuse what'sgoing on right now between Israel and the
Palestines. Is this just an excusefor the Marxists to come out and do
their thing. Yeah, that's it. I mean, it really is that
there's some people who care about Palestine. You know that Horowitz, who was
a a radical in the sixties andthen had his eyes open, he says

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that he always you know that theslogan back in the sixties was the issue.
The issue is never the issue.The issue is the revolution. So
whether it's Gaza, whether it's climate, whether it's gender theory, whether it's
race. Really what's behind it isan attempt to dismantle American society, and
they say it. They say themselves, you don't have to scratch the surface

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very much to find out what theywhat they're after. They want to burn
everything down, Jim. They wantto burn down They say that racistm and
systemic, because the only logical conclusionis you have to get rid of the
system. The system is just afancy Greek word for the way everything works.
If were structurally oppressive, then youhave to go to the structures,
God of everything, and that's wherethey're after. Yes, that makes perfect

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sense to me, and I'm surprisedthat more people don't see that because,
again, to use this Columbia spokespersonas an example, I mean, if
you're going to take over a buildingand say you're doing it, you're standing
for Palestine and the Palestinians and you'repro Hamas. Clearly these women understand,

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do they not how the Islamic worldtreats women, They would have they would
have none of the rights they havein the United States. And it's in
Islamic state. Oh, it's muchworse than that the kid who was actually
expelled, who was the lead negotiator. This is the kid who's negotiating with
the president of Columbia University and theother administrators. He was fun only expelled

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two weeks ago when a video ofhis that he cut in December came out
and he say he wanted to murderol Zionists, that they will deserve to
die. The kid is gay.You can imagine what would happen to a
gay kid in in Gaza or Iran. They would be tortured and then after
the torture, they would throw themoff a roof. But the only reason

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they know that, the only reasonthey get together is because they have a
common enemy. The common enemy isWestern civilization. You know, in Europe
you see this a lot. Yousee an alliance between the Marxists in Islamic
forces Islamist. I should say nothingwrong with Islamic. It's is Lomist.
It's called the Red Green Alliance.And what would the Red Green Alliance has

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in common as an enemy is Westerncivilization, Spain, France or whatever in
our case the United States. Wehave to be very clear about this.
This is what my book is about. Do you think do you think that
these university presidents understand what you justsaid. Does the Biden administration understand what
you just said or are they justblissfully unaware. Well, some of the

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people around Biden do understand it,because they want to burn everything down.
You know, the an Anthony Blincolnjust appointed as the head of the EI
at the State Department. A womancloses a key Carl Johnson, who herself
has said in multiple videos in thingsshe has ridden that America has failed the
historical experiment, that we can nolonger tweak with America or try to improve

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America. We have to get ridof America. This is the woman who's
the head of the I, who'sin charge of the hiring in promotion of
thirty thousand people at the Department ofState, never mind our top diplomats.
Yes, they appoint these people.As to the professors. One of the
big problems, you know, asas we look towards Congress to do something

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about it, one of the bigproblems is that for decades now, universities
have hired structure professors, instructors whobelieve in this, who are very,
very woke. The ratio is onehundred to zero in between liberals and conservatives.
They admit students who write in theiressays how they have been traumatized by

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American society, how they're victims,or who can show their social justice warriors.
So correcting this problem, Jimmy,is very difficult. No, and
it's going on for decades. It'sjust is recently in the last I would
say, the last five years isreally ratcheted up to the next level.
There used to be a time wherethey tried to be quiet about it or

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more subversative about it. They're justin your face with it now. Yes,
it's really it's twenty twenty. Thetwenty twenty BLM riots was what,
you know, a lot of thegatekeepers of our cultural institutions just surrendered and
accepted fallacies such as the fact thatwe have systemic racistem where were structurally oppressive.

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I've lived I was in boarding thiscountry to be with, but I
was a foreign correspondent, and I'velived in seven countries at least a year.
I can compare and contrast. Okay, this is the least depressive country
in the world. Still, thisis the best country in the world.
Still, even with all our problemssince BLM and is invited so so,
but but but but you know thehead of the heads of our libraries,

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ahead of the Smithsonian, the headsof the all the Ivy League schools have
accepted this and are acting accordingly.So, yes, you're right. The
last four years this is accelerated.So I guess the question. I mean,
you've already highlighted my gonzales. Howhow difficult is going to be to
turn this around? Is it stillsomething that can be turned around? And
if so, how do we turnit around? Yeah? I have great,

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great hope. Somebody tweeted at methis morning, it's too late.
We we have taken over America nowand this is our way now. And
I just say, you know,you guys have you guys have the radical
snowflakes. I got on my side. The Columbia janitor who fought the students,
I got to my side. Thatfrid Brothers who didn't let the American

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flag touch the ground. I goton my side, A lot of good
Americans across the country. I travelextensively. Next week I'm in South Carolina.
Last week I was in Texas andCalifornia. The American people are weak.
Now this is going to be muchmore difficult for them. What we
need to do is give them help. Okay, And obviously, you know
the first place we need to givehim hell is at the ballot box in

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November, because that I think thisnext election is the fate of the country.
Am I being overly dramatic by sayingthat? Look kind of I can't
get into politics. People say thatall elections are key. I see this
election as I can't imagine any electionbeing more important than this one. Yeah,
I would agree, Okay, Ithink Mike gonzales, I guess what

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a lot of people are wondering isas relates to the And I know you
aren't really into the politics of it, but when you take a look at
the Democrat Party right now, forexample, you've got a very small fraction
the squad. You're familiar with thesquad Obviously that seems to be controlling everything.
How have we gotten to a pointwhere such a small fringe group of

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politicians are running the show in Washington, d C. Yeah, you know,
I mean the Democratic Party has abig problem. And you see it
with the anti semitism. You know, they Biden, you know, cannot
talk about anti semitism and denounce it. Well, he cannot denounce it anyway.
Even yesterday he said some things hecouldn't denounce anti Semitism, but he

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can't talk about it without mentioning inthe same sentences islamophobia, you know.
And I'm not for semophobia obviously,I think that's disgusting. But you know,
Jews have a real big problem inAmerica today is the most persecuted group
in this country. So, butlet me be clear, Republicans are not

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great either. A lot of themare lack of fine to be quite honest,
Oh yeah, they don't. Theydon't. They don't want to get
into issues of race or sex.They find that they're very squeamish about that.
Uh. And and unfortunately the enemiesof America have under the internal domestic
enemies of America I understood, arefighting this ostensibly over race and sex.

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That's not really about race and sex, we actually explained earlier. But but
so we have to talk about thesethings and Republicans don't always find the courage
to do so. To be honest, well, they need to get some
courage because we have read rapidly,I mean, talk about Marxism. We
have gotten to the point where youare either a victim or the or an
oppressor. That's it. That's theonly thing that exists in this society right

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now is act you're a victim oryou're an oppressor. Yeah, I mean
I should say that there are somegood politicians who get you know. So
as Senator Cotton talking about exactly this, what he just said about the victim
and the oppressor, he gets it. I think Mike Lee gets it.
I think some people obviously Jim Banks, Jim Banks offered a very nice glob
from my book. He's a memberof the House of Indiana. I think

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he gets it very well as well. But uh, you know, gee,
I'm running out of names. Now. How about Senator John Kennedy.
I think he gets it. Oh, oh my god, he's the gift
to the country. Yeah he is, Yeah, he is. He's quickly
become in the national philosopher. He'sI call him Senator Cornfuchius. You know
he's got a Confucius with a Southerntwist. Yah, yeah, yeah.

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Louiana has a way of offering thesepoliticians somehow he does. All right,
Mike, like, we got torun, But I want to wish you
all the best with the book.I hope you have a ton of sales
and people out there who, ifthey're at least at least been on the
fence about all this, they havea chance to read your book and get
some more insight. Thanks for beingon this show. The book is called
Next Gen Marxism, What it Isand How to Combat It is by Mike
Gonzalez. Take care, Mike,Yep, we'll be back in just a

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moment. Jimmy Barrett Show. You'rea name of nine to fifty KPRC.
All right, it's Friday and I'mready to start the weekend. I'm guessing

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you're probably ready to start the weekendtoo. So the sooner we can get
it started, the happier we're allgoing to be. But before we do,
you know, some some orders ofbusiness here to take care of it.
We talked a lot about the protestingtoday on the show. Let's let's
talk about this as well. Let'slet's talk about dark money. Dark money,

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to me is a very very interestingtopic. I believe there's a tremendous
amount of dark money. There's darkmoney is where you don't really know where
it's coming from. It's it's comingfrom a specific person or a specific group,
of people, but it's funneled throughvarious different organizations with you know,
interesting names that don't identify who's reallybehind it. For a great example of

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that is George Soros. You know, whoever's funding all this campus protesting,
they're getting most of that money iscoming from George Soros. It's coming from
a variety of different groups that arenot directly tied to George Soros, but
George be very very certain that GeorgeSoros is funding it. Well, there's
a lot of a lot of moneyon the left that's like that, and

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some of it's coming from out ofthe country. I think the Chinese are
honestly fund you know, funding someof these dark groups. But here's here's
one specifically to talk about for amoment, and that is the the Interior
Department. The Interior Courses is responsiblefor the Secretary of the Interior, and

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that department is responsible for taking careof national parks uh federal owned land.
And you know, one of thethings that they get lobbied on is protecting
federal land from things like drilling foroil, looking for precious minerals and those
types of things. Now, it'sinteresting to me that we have a Secretary

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of the Interior who's been called infront of the United States Senate to testify
about whether or not a dark moneygroup had anything to do with the Interior
Department deciding to change its policy ona particular track of line. I think
it was in Minnesota. Josh Hawleymanaged to through the Freedom of Information Act

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to get his hand on a wholebunch of paperwork that showed that members of
the Interior Department met with this darkmoney group environmental group, I should just
say, an environmental group funded bydark money, in order to try to
placate them, because evidently they weresuing the Interior Department. Anyway, we'll

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get to all that in the questioning. It's worth sharing with you because I
think it's a real insight, unfortunately, into how the government runs. It
gets funded by a lot of darkmoney that you don't know who's behind it.
And here's a prime example. Here'sJosh Holly with the Secretary of the
Interior Secretary Holland, do you knowthe group called the Wilderness Society. I've

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heard of it, yes, Andwhat to your knowledge, what is this
group? It sounds like the nameis explanatory. Well, it's let me
help you a little bit. It'sa left wing environmentalist pressure group. Do
you know who funds him? Ido not. Well, I can help
you with that too. It's fundedin large part by a foreign billionaire,

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Hans Orgwiss, who has routed hismoney through all manner of dark money groups,
including the Arabella Network. Hansergwiss wasinvestigated by the FEC for illegal campaign
contributions because he's not a United Statescitizen. He sits on the governing council
of this dark money environmentalist group.Has anybody in leadership at your department met

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with them the Wilderness Society? Senator, I do not know this individual,
and has anybody in leadership at yourdepartment met with the Wilderness Society? Well,
I'm sure we've met with a lotof groups and organizations in the work
that we do, and we're discussingthe environment. So does that mean you

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don't know or you're not going toanswer that, I don't have a full
list of who of everyone that everyoneis met with them. Well, I
can help you with that. Ican help you with that as well.
The answer is yes, your leadershiphas met with the Wilderness Society. They
met with the Wildernessness Society when thatgroup was a plaintiff suing the Department of

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the Interior with an adverse lawsuit againstyou, and they met with them off
the books. I've got the emailsin July of twenty twenty one, after
you had come to office members ofthe Wilderness Society when they're suing the Department
right to your top deputy and askfor a meeting to keep and keep it

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off of his calendar. Here itis July fourteenth, twenty twenty one.
Can we set up a meeting withthese folks July nineteenth, twenty twenty one.
They propose how they might calibrate thisso it doesn't look like they're violating
any of the rules of the court, and remarkably, it stays completely off
of everybody's calendars. We only knowabout it because Foyer requests were filed.
And then after they have these offthe book's meetings, their request is to

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cancel the mineral leasing rights in Minnesotain the Superior National Forest. This is
a critical mineral's mind. The societywants the mind shut down. After they
meet off the books with your leadership. You do it? Huh? You
do it? Go figure, Now, did they do it just to avoid

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a lawsuit, or did they doit because that's what they wanted to do
all along, or were they pressuredinto doing it by this group, And
if so, how were they pressured? I mean, other than a lawsuit,

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suing the government and winning against theUnited States government is not very easy
thing to do. I mean,anybody, you can file a lawsuit,
doesn't mean you're going to win thelawsuit. So you have to guess that
they either did it because they wantedto do it, or you know,
they just they just basically gave theInterior Department under this new administration marching orders

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on what they wanted done. Youknow, with all the environmental wackos that
are part of this administration, you'vegot to think that they was a pretty
easy sell, right. It probablywasn't hard. Hey, listen, we're
we're suing you because we don't wantyou to do this. We'll be happy
to drop the lawsuit, just youknow, close down the mine. That's
all we're saying, close down themine. And they probably went, oh,

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okay, well, we really don'twant to mind precious mintles anyway,
we're gonna get those from China.There's no there's no need for us to
do any mining there. You're right, I mean, it's not very we
wouldn't be very good stewards of theplanet. So I think it's pretty easy
to talk them into doing that.M But it makes you wonder I play
it more, not so much becausethis environmental story. I think it just

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I just wonder how many times everyyear, every month, every week,
every day that this happens at thefederal government level. You know where money
talks, and all you have todo is get to the right person who
can be the least bit sympathetic toyour message, or who you can maybe

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grease their palms a little bit inorder to be able to make this happen.
That's that's what you gotta wonder,how many times any year, any
month, every week, any daythat this happens. And you got to
think it probably happens all the time, doesn't it. All Right, listen
enough for now, stay dry,stay safe. I'll be back Monday morning,
bright nearly five am with Sheriff fryarOver on news radio seven forty KTRH.

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