February 19, 2025 • 39 mins
After Vice President J.D. Vance called out both Germany and Europe as a whole for their lack of free speech, 60 Minutes on CBS proves he was right.
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Speaker 1 (00:23):
All right, who missed Kamala Harris? Do you miss her yet?
I don't really, but I think most people probably don't.
The number of people who miss Kamala Harris can be
counted on no fingers. But we're gonna bring her back
just for a minute, just to open the show up.
We've got a lot of fun stuff to start things
(00:45):
off here today, A rare treat because normally we have
to start off with a little bit of doom and gloom,
but no, this time around, we actually have some fun stuff.
Kamala Harris has been pretty much disappeared for since she lost.
We didn't really see much of her until she certified
the election and then was sitting there watching as Trump
was sworn in, which was funny to watch. But she
(01:06):
hasn't really been up to much. She hasn't, by any means,
made any sort of public appearance. I mean, she's gone
to things. She hasn't had any sort of opportunity to
give a speech, for example, but she's been around. A
couple of videos have popped up of her. I found
this video of her on Broadway. I don't know what
she's doing on Broadway. It looks like she's actually backstage
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at some sort of production. I have no idea why
she's not a particularly talented singer or anything. To my knowledge,
she's definitely not a very good actress. If she was,
she would have won the election, because that's what politicians
are essentially as actors. Here she is on Broadway backstage.
I don't know what show this is, I don't know
what she's doing there, but she gives one of her
(01:54):
famous word salad speeches. And I gotta say, I haven't
missed Kamala Harris, but I have missed being able to
make fun of her word salad speeches. And here she
is to to give us another opportunity to bring that back.
I honestly didn't think we would see that again. I
didn't think we would have another opportunity to do this.
But the Lord has smiled upon us and granted us
(02:17):
Kamala Harris word salad. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Thank you for those rights to be maintained, which means
we have to be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it's just the nature of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What I mean in this beautiful play and everything that
we know, he ended that he was suppressed.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He had to suppress so much but he knew, and
you know, he shook those risks.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But we have to we have to be a clear eye.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty and everything, right,
these things all coexist.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But I believe we fight for something, not against it.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
And that's where than.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You what in the Disney Channel was that I don't
believe we're fighting against something, We're fighting for something. Okay,
they used this line in Star Wars. We didn't like
it in Star Wars either. I mean, she literally pulled
that directly from Star Wars. There's I can't remember which
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one it is, it's one of the three new ones
they did that were terrible, where one of the characters
was like, we don't save ourselves by destroying what we
love or what we hate, but by saving what we
love or some such nonsense. She literally just ripped off
almost an identical line and gave it in this little
speech to these Broadway actors, which again I can't stress
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this enough. What is she doing back there? She has
no reason to be behind the scenes at a Broadway show.
I mean, has anyone ever actually taken the time to,
like seriously critically think about what that means? Like we
don't fight against something. We fight for some thing. Okay,
it's a nice slogan, Does it actually make sense. No,
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If you're fighting, you're fighting for and against something. That's
just that's how fighting works. It doesn't make any sense.
It aggravates me, honestly, how little sense this makes. I
don't understand why she's considered to be some great order.
But that's neither here nor there. Go actually watch the video.
It's from libs of TikTok. I've re posted it on
my page so you can check it out on x.
(04:29):
I don't know how much time you may or may
not have spent around inebriated folks, socially lubricated folks, as
it were. She does not look particularly sober in that clip,
and I don't know if that's just her style of speaking,
if that's just how she is as a person. I'm
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not trying to defame her. I'm just calling it like
I see it. I'm calling balls and strikes here. She
looks like she's had a few, and I'm not judging.
We live in the United States of America. You're free
to have a few, but if you have a few
too many, you probably shouldn't go out and give a speech.
That's just me. That's my opinion. You know, grain of salt.
Take it or leave it. I don't really care. That's
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just that's how I feel about it. Okay, something else
that's fun that happened. Donald Trump went to the Daytona
five hundred again. And I'll say what I said about
the Super Bowl about this, I think there's something very
patriotic that just kind of brings people together. About this.
I think the head of our state should be more
than just you know, a political figure. And obviously it's
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a political figure. Don't take me too literally on this,
but the head of state should be involved in kind
of helping to build the culture of the United States
of America. They do this really well in Great Britain,
the royal family. The head of state actually goes out
and just sort of participates in things. He's just amongst
the people. I think that's a good thing. I think
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it's good for the head of state to be doing
more than making policy, also participate in the culture. I
think that would humanize politics quite a bit more in
a very productive way. So take a listen to what
it sounded like. This is Trump at Daytona five hundred spot.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What brings you back to the Great American Race.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
I think it's fantastic. It's great for the country. Our
country is doing well again and we have spirit all
over the world. This spirit again. We brought it back
and it's been less than four weeks, so you'll see
what we do and in a little period of time
it's going to only get better. But this is very exciting.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You brought your granddaughter. I know some of your other
family members are here. You get to take a ride
around in the beast. What is that like.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I'll let you know in about two minutes, because it's
going to be they're going to be going quite quickly,
I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
And you just got to meet some of the drivers.
You're gonna get on the radio again and talk to
them before the start of them.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
And I say, they have a lot of courage doing this.
I see it, and I've been here, and they have
a lot of they have a lot of guts, as
they would.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Say, mister President, enjoy your time.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's nice. That's a really good image. He's out, he's
got his granddaughter with him. He's taking her to see
and do cool things. That's amazing. It's adorable and you
can tell the kids having a great time. In every
video from the Daytona five hundred, she's just sitting there, smiling,
looking at things. She's interested in this, and Donald Trump
is having a good time, and she's having a good time,
and he's spreading a positive message of just hey, look,
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America is strong again. We're doing well, We're having a
good time, We're participating in hobbies, we're building a culture.
What is it to be an American? It's things like
Daytona five hundred. It's things like the super Bowl. How
do we know that? Because that's what Americans do. You
can see it. Stadiums are filled, the President is there.
This is a good thing. All right, we got a
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great show coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back,
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all right. This may be just a side effect of
the fact that I'm a Texan from Houston, but I
have been missing out severely on hockey. I just discovered
this over the weekend as a new possible outlet for
my ever growing levels of patriotism, which, by the way,
thanks to nobody for telling me how great hockey actually was.
(08:39):
So we've got this. Basically, the NBA All Stars of hockey.
I guess it's the Pro Bowl of Hockey. I suppose
I don't really understand the details. So if you're a
hockey nut and I'm butchering this, please forgive me. I'm
very new to this sport, because again, I just discovered
it this weekend. So it's the Four Nations Tournament for hockey,
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which I believe is just the US national team, the
Canadian national team, and then I assume probably two other
national teams just guessed off the names. I'm not a mathematician,
but I think that makes four. So this event is
going on, and of course Canada and the US we've
been sort of at odds lately. There's been some words
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shared back and forth. We said some not too nice
things about them, which they deserved, and they said some
not too nice things about us, which is undeserved because
we're perfect. We've never made any mistakes in our history,
and they deserve to look up to us. I'm kidding
and I'm not. At the same time, the rivalry game
here started out by the Canadian team booing our national anthem,
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because of course, our president and Governor Trudeau of Canada
have been at odds recently and he's tried to get
them all fired up with patriotism. They have no national identity.
I don't know how they do that. And of course,
whenever somebody comes after the United States, you better believe
we're getting patriotic. So let me start by just playing
you the clip of them booing our national anthem at
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the start of this hockey game. That's what it sounded like.
As you can imagine. Canada was the host for this game.
So we're on Canadian ice, We're in Canada, They're booing
our national anthem. Now the whole idea here is Canada's like, oh,
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we're never going to be the fifty first state. Trump
is a fascist, Lottie Dotty dot How dare he terrify US?
Et cetera, et cetera. You know, Canadians complaining about whatever
issues Canadians happen to have. Nobody really cares because they're Canadians.
Who cares about Canada anyway. Is something I, along with
the rest of the world and especially the Canadian national team,
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discovered right after this is the US national team is
actually incredibly patriotic, and when you boo our national anthem,
there is consequences to that. So Canada goes into this game.
I just want to make sure we really have the
picture set. Canada goes into this game. They're on their
home turf. It's hockey. Canadians are famously great at hockey,
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I suppose. And everybody's really excited because the Canadians are
going to go and just beat the crap out of
the Americans, right, that's what they thought was going to happen.
And so our national anthem plays, and in a show
of Canadian patriotism, if such a thing could exist, they
boo our national anthem. So here's what happens afterwards. Right
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after that, the game finally starts and immediately the American
players beat the crap out of the Canadian national team.
And I'm not talking about we won the game. We
did win the game, but I'm not there yet. I'm
talking about we really immediately threw off our gloves and
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just started throwing haymakers. This is what that sounded like.
This is the opening of that game. Moments after they
boot our national anthem, the game starts and we start
throwing literal punches on the ice. Take a listen, they're.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Way and the gloves are off.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hands.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You could Chuck at Brandon Hagel. The refs are just watching,
smacking him, smacking him, smacking him.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Go from Tampa Bay to Chuck from Florida.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The refs are not stepping in, and then they once
they finally like throw each other down onto the ice,
that's when the refs step in and pull them apart.
The US guy won that fight. I don't know if
it was obvious, but the US guy won, which which
is great. I didn't know that you were allowed to
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just do that in hockey. You're allowed to just start
fighting people in hockey. Normally, in most other sports, if
you start throwing legitimate punches at another player, you get
in trouble for that. The rest will step in and
pull you apart. The two teams will come together, grab
each of their guys that are fighting and rip them
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apart and sort of stop the fight. No, not in
the NHL. They just let you keep fighting until I
guess one of you hits the ice, and that's when
they're like, okay, enough fighting. Where was this my entire life?
Why did nobody tell me about this? I want to
get into this more. But that's not all In the
span of those first ten seconds of the game. No
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less than three fights broke out on that ice. So
that was the first one. Take a listen. This is
the second fight that broke out literally seconds later. Seconds
The time stamp at the beginning of the first one
is nineteen fifty eight. On this one it's nineteen fifty seven,
So literally within two seconds of each other, these two
fights broke out. Take another listen to this by right
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before the first fight, this was set up.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Again. The rest are just watching, supervising, observing.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
BAMD in the lineup for the cross time.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And they go down, the rapport pulls them apart. Amazing, amazing.
And then, of course I promised you three. Here's the
third one. Here it is. This is I guess J. T.
Miller and Colton Perreco. Again, I don't know who any
of these players are. I wish I could give you
some of the details on that. I just started paying
attention to hockey thirty seconds ago when we started beating
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up Canadians on the ice. Take a listen to this
third fight.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Now we're nine seconds in.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They're at the goal. Nine seconds in, he said.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
One second later, Oh, the center of the amercent It's
called paray going JT.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Miller.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Dorico's got a big size advantage. Miller's a top dude.
And this is like nineteen ninety six when this building
o Pendumbans and the rest step in to break them apart.
There's a solid argument to be made that that Canadian
won that fight. I'll give them that they got they
got one out of the three, fair enough. I absolutely
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love this. Now you might say, oh, this is bad.
We want people to just be able to go out
and enjoy the game and have fun and just you know,
compete and see who's best. No, screw that. If you
boo our national anthem, you might get your butt beat up.
That's a good thing. I like that. I like the
fact that our American team has some patriotism and is
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willing to, you know, stand up for their country because
that's what that's our national anthem and our flag. That
is what represents us to the rest of the world.
Is our national anthem and our flag. And if you
disrespect that, you're inherently disrespecting the entire United States of America,
and you might get smacks for that. That's what happens.
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Welcome to the real world. And of course, the fact
that we won the game three to one. Is just
sort of the icing on the cake here. I mean,
Canada went into this talking so tough. The tweets online
were just hilarious in retrospect because they were so confident.
They were sure that they were going to beat up
the Americans. They were going to win this game. They
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were going to really stick it to Donald Trump in
the United States by defeating us in a game of hockey.
And they went into that all cocky, and they boot
our national anthem, and we punched the crap out of
them and then won the hockey game. I gotta say,
it feels good to see some patriotism again. It's just
the Knight's feeling to be part of something. And this
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goes back to what Donald Trump has been doing at
different sports events, at the super Bowl and at the
Daytona five hundred. We have to have a national identity, right.
We have to have things where just about every American
can say, hey, this is bigger than me, this is
bigger than what I'm doing, but I am participating in it.
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I'm part of it. And that's a good thing. Even
if that's just you know, a flag in a national
anthem and you might think that I'm making a bit
much of this, and I may be that's true, but
I'm using this to try to make a bigger point.
You have to plant your flag on something, and once
you plant your flag on something, you have to stand
for it. You have to pick a hill somewhere to
fight and die on. And maybe picking a stupid hill
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is better than not picking a hill at all. And
I think that's where we've been as a country for
the last four years, and now we're getting out of that.
I think that's a good thing. All right, stay tuned.
We are going to be right back after just another
quick break. All right. So we talked in the last
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episode about JD. Vance on his sort of international speaking tour.
He gave a couple of different speeches. One of them
was on Ai and one of them was in Munich.
He talked about freedom of speech, and he called out
Germany and kind of Europe as a whole for their
complete lack of freedom of speech. And then, of course
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some German guy got up and said that him calling
them out for not having freedom of speech was an
acceptable speech, which is ironic. But this ended up becoming
the subject of an entire sixty minutes piece. I don't
know what exactly the point that sixty minutes was trying
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to make here. I don't know if they were trying
to excuse Germany's crackdown of freedom of speech, or if
they were trying to back up the vice president. I'm
inclined to assume they were not trying to back up
the vice president. But what they did is back up
the vice president. They unintentionally, I think, proved jd Vance correct.
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They went and they interviewed a bunch of German officials,
German organization executives, who all handle what they think is
freedom of speech, which is you can say what the
government allows you to and as long as what you're
saying doesn't cross the magical line that the government drew,
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then you're free to say it. Which that's not freedom,
that's not freedom of speech. And now I think a
lot of Americans sort of we don't think about the
First Amendment because it's so deeply ingrained in US. It's
just a basic thing that we have all always had,
so it's second nature even think about it. We don't
consider it. We don't consider that there are countries that
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are not like us at all, and don't have that
in those places I think, frankly, are probably pretty terrible
to live in for all of the numerous reasons we're
about to get into. First of all, let me open
with this clip of I guess this lady works at
some nonprofit. They'll describe her title in the cut, but
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basically her job is to help victims of online violence.
And trust me, we'll get into that in just a second.
Take a listen to her talking about the guard rails
that are necessary on freedom of speech and why this
is absolutely ridiculous that people think like this, but hey,
it's Europe. They're crazy over there.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Take a listen the criticism that you know, this feels
like the surveillance that Germany conducted eighty years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
How do you respond to that there is no surveillance.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Josephine Ballone is a CEO of Hate eight, a Berlin
based human rights organization supports victims of online violence.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
In the United States.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
A lot of people look at this and say this
is restricting free speech. It's a threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Free speech needs boundaries, and in the case of Germany,
these boundaries are part of our constitution. Without boundaries, a
very small group of people can rely on endless freedom
to say anything that they want, while everyone else is
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scared and intimidated in.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Your fears that if people are freely attacked online that
they'll withdraw from the discussion.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
This is not only a field, it's already taking place. Already.
Half of the Internet users in Germany are afraid to
express their political opinion and they rarely participate in public
debates online anymore. Half of the Internet users?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
All right, Which half of the Internet users do you
think that is? Do you think that the west wing
half of Internet users who are going out and having
massive pride parades in Germany and run the government? Or
do you think just maybe, just maybe it's the right
wing users on the Internet who know that if they say, hey,
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I don't want a bunch of Muslim illegal aliens coming
into the country and plowing through Christmas parades in a car,
I don't think that's a good idea. But if they
say that, they go to jail. Which half of Internet
users in Germany do you think are afraid to voice
their political opinions? Mull that over for a second, just
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sort of think about it. Which one I would venture
to guess that it's probably the right wingers who know
that if they voice their relatively mainstream political positions, they
will go to jail. Remember, you can get thrown in
prison in much of Europe, and I assume probably Germany,
though I'm not a lawyer there and I don't know
their laws to the t. You could probably go to
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jail for at least a little bit in Germany for
saying that Elliott Page is a woman, for example. Now,
this is something that we're free to discuss and have
a debate on here in the United States. I can
say that Elliott Page is actually a woman because Elliott
Page was born as a woman, has female DNA, female chromosomes,
and all the other And you can disagree with me
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because you don't have a solid definition of what a
woman or man for that matter, is, and you think
as long as somebody says something that that makes it true,
that's fine. We can actually have a debate and a
discussion about that. If I say that in Germany, I
go to prison. I mean, this is legislation that was
proposed in November in Germany. I don't know if this
ever went into effect, but they wanted to put a
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law on the books that would make dead naming, and
I assume also misgendering someone a punishable offense that can
be punished with a ten thousand eurofine or even prison.
That's insane. I mean. She claims we need restrictions on
freedom of speech so people aren't afraid to speak out
and voice their opinions, and literally thirty seconds later, explains
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that it hasn't worked. People are still afraid to speak
out and voice their opinions. I guarantee you this is
the right wing Germans that are afraid to speak out
about their opinions, not the left, I guarantee it. And
this is all done in the name of protecting people
from online violence. There is no such thing as online violence.
You know how you protect yourself from online violence. You
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turn your phone off, you turn your computer off, you
get off the internet. Online violence does not exist. It's
a myth made up by leftist so that they can
control you. I'm being one hundred percent serious, that's what
it is. But yet they've created a whole legal system
around this. In the next clip, she's talking with I
believe German prosecutors about what the actual laws about what
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you can and cannot say on the internet are. Take
a listen again. This is insane to me, This is
wild stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
It's illegal to display Nazi symbolism, a swasika, deny the Holocaust,
that's clear. Is it a crime to insult somebody in public? Yes, yes,
and it's a crime to insult them online as well.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The fine could be even higher if you insult someone
in the Internet. Why because in Internet it stays there.
If we are talking you face to face, you unsult me,
andsert you, okay, finish. But if you in the Internet,
if I insilt you or a politician.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
That sticks around forever. Yeah, the prosecutors explain. German law
also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats, and
fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and
then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they
committing a crime.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
In the case of reposting it as a crime as well,
because the reader cont distinguished whether you just invented this
or just reposted it.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's the same for us.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail
time for repeat offenders, but in most cases a judge
levy's a stiff mine and sometimes keeps their devices. How
do people react when you take their phones from them.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
They are shocked.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's the kind of punishment if you lose your smartphone,
it's even worse than the fine you have to pick use.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Your whole life is typically on your phone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now, I mean, they're literally treating their citizens like children here.
I mean, I'm part of the generation that's young enough
to like when I misbehaved, part of my punishment was
I would have my phone taken away. I would have
my you know, my little iPod that I had back
in the day. I would lose that. That was one
of my punishments for misbehaving. And they're doing this on
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a national level as the government. This is insane. Now,
I'm not in favor or advocating for insulting people, But
at the same time, do I think that you should
get jail time just for throwing an insult at somebody?
Absolutely not, that's that's ridiculous. But even she mentions at
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the end there, what if somebody just accidentally reposts something
that they didn't know is fake or made up. What
happens then is that's still illegal. And the German guys
just like yis that is crime. You go to jail
because we don't know if it's fake. We don't know
if you know, so you could literally be deceived and
get thrown in jail for being deceived. And I think
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it's important to note these aren't just laws that they
have on the books that nobody actually pays attention to.
They are actively militantly enforcing these laws. Take a listen
to the next clip. This is a CBS with them
as they arrest people for legitimately posting memes. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
It's six's oh one on a Tuesday morning, and we
were with state police as they raided this apartment in
northwest Germany. Inside six armed officers searched the suspects home,
then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those
electronics may have been used to commit a crime, the
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crime posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time,
across Germany, the born more than fifty similar raids played
out part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort
to curb online hate speech in Germany.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So here's where it gets dangerous. Who's deciding what is
and is not racist? Who's deciding what is or is
not hate speech? I don't trust the government to do that.
I don't trust the government to understand the difference between
a joke and actual hate speech, because there is a difference,
and you should be allowed to make jokes. Never forget
what the First Amendment protects us from. It is incredibly important.
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It's incredibly important. I remember the Second Amendment protects the First.
We are very lucky to be in the United States
of America, not in Germany. This should prove that clearly.
All Right, we'll be.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Right back after this quick break.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That song does not ever get old. It really doesn't.
I don't know what it is about it. All right.
We checked in on Kamala Harris. We saw how she
was doing. We've checked in on Donald Trump's approval rating
in past episodes. That's doing really well. Let's check in
on the Democrat Party as a whole. How were the
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Democrats as a whole doing? After coming up on a
month now, we're a day away from being a full
month into Donald Trump's second term as presidents. You know,
how are the Democrats doing? And I mean the answer
to that question is pretty simply not too well. So
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I'm looking at a Yugov poll right now, and this
poll is just a raw. Uh, do you have a
favorable or unfavorable opinion of the following political parties? And
the political party that follows that is the Democrat Party.
So right now, and get ready for this, because this
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is a big number that I'm about to throw at you.
Fifty eight point seven percent of people have an unfavorable
opinion of the Democrat Party. That is a disastrous number
for the Democrats, right, That's just that is a really
bad number. Fifty eight point seven. Basically sixty percent of
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people have an unfavorable opinion of the Democrat Party. Here's
why this matters. We're coming up on a midterm believe
it or not. I know, we just had an election
last year. Guess what, we have another one next year.
The midterm elections have basically already started. People are already campaigning.
You can see this, and I'm sure we'll talk about
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that in an episode not too far from now, because
there's definitely some stuff to talk about there. But all
that to say, this matters right now. If the Democrat
Party goes into the midterm election with basically a sixty
percent disapproval rating, they are going to lose so many seats,
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so many seats in the House, not even to mention
the Senate. We already have a strong majority in the Senate.
We have fifty three votes in the Senate plus jd
vance if necessary. Right, that is a strong GOP majority
in the House. I believe we have a one seat majority,
so it's a majority, but barely right, it's not a
very workable majority. We could end up with a super
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majority in both the House and the Senate if these
numbers continue, because remember this is going up. Since the
thirtieth of September, the disapproval rating of the Democrat Party
has gone from fifty one point four percent all the
way to fifty eight point seven. If those trends continue,
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then by the time we get to the midterms next year,
the Democrat Party will legitimately be less popular than cancer. Now,
if you're a Democrat right now, you're looking at this
number and you're thinking, Okay, how did we get here
and how did we fix it? Or at least you
should be that's what any sane person in your position
would be doing. Fox News was asking this question, and
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they just happened to ask it to Senator John Kennedy, who,
in my opinion, is probably the wisest man south of
the Mason Dixon Line. I've been waiting for so long
to have an excuse to play a senator John Kennedy
cut on this show, and it's finally happened. I couldn't
be more excited. Take a listen to John Kennedy's response
when he was asked by Fox News, Okay, what's going
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on here? Why are the Democrats so on pop? He
spells it up pretty clearly.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I've got a lot of friends of Democrats and they
haven't asked me for advice. But if I did, I
tell them, Look, you just got to try harder not
to suck. I mean, think about it. Over the past
four years, the Democrats mismanaged Congress. They mismanaged COVID, They
mismanaged the economy. They mismanaged inflation, they mismanaged the national debt.
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They mismanaged Afghanistan. More recently, in their opposition to President
Trump and mister Musk, the Democrats have chosen to support
the bureaucrats and the spending porn over the American taxpayer,
just like they support illegal immigration over the rule of law,
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just like they support transgender athletes over women's sports, just
like they support hamas terras over Israel. All Democrats are
not like this. But the party is controlled right now
by people who majored in online activism with a minor
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and puberty blockers. I know these people if they think
when they think men, they think men can breastfeed, they're
triggered by rage. They cry if you use the wrong
pronoun and most fair minded Americans look at this and
they go, these people are about keen exits passion normal,
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and that's what's kilmer Democrats right now in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
All right, so let me translate that for you from
why is Southern stage into direct English. What he's essentially
saying there is the Democrat Party has been sort of
absorbed and consumed and is now being controlled by the
very radical leftists at the very, very, very very bottom
of their base. This is not a majority of people
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in society. This is not even a majority of people
inside the Democrat Party, I think. But it's a big
enough portion of the Democrat Party for the higher ups
and you know, the people who actually run the party,
for the majority of Democrats to say, Okay, we can
capitulate to these crazy leftists because we need their vote
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in order to beat the Republicans, and for us as Democrats,
all that matters is winning power for our party. That's
all that matters to them. And so they'll give in
to these crazy leftists despite the fact that it's not
what most Americans want. And the farther down this pathway
they go, the worse their approval rating gets. It's easy
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to see that's why Donald Trump was able to pick
up so many moderates. That's why Donald Trump was able
to pick up the support of people like Tulca Gabbard
of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. That didn't just magically happen.
Donald Trump isn't just that winning of a personality. I
think he does have a very winning personality, but that's
not why he got those people. It's because they're looking
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at their party and they're saying, Okay, despite the fact
that nobody actually wants this, this is what my party
keeps pushing more and more and more, and I just
can't be a part of that, not in good conscience.
I have real, measurable, actionable priorities that I would like
to focus on. I want the Democrat Party to be
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a party that's focused on health, making sure Americans aren't
being poisoned by the FDA or the food industry. I
want the Democrat Party to be focused on making sure
that the government isn't being weaponized against American citizens. The
government isn't putting people on no fly lists for speaking
out against Joe Biden. That's my concern. But as Senator
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Kennedy points out, that's not what the Democrat Party is doing.
They don't care about actual issues. They care about pushing transgenderism.
That'll wing you some headlines, for sure, that might even
go as far as to win you some small local
elections in crazy radical towns. But is that going to
win you any sort of national election. No, it's not
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because the American people by and large just aren't on
board with that. And you can try to shame Americans
for not being on board with that, but I think
if there's one thing we've learned over the last few years,
that's not going to work either, because they did try that.
They've deplatformed people, they've shamed people, they've tried to use
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social media, movies, even music. Even Target has gone out
to bat for the LGBT agenda, and the American people
still have not bought into it. We like it even
less now than before. You did. All that four years
of Joe Biden and the radical left inside the Democrat
Party trying to push this down on us made it worse. Honestly,
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they're too far gone now. That's my opinion, and I'm
by no means a political science major. I'm no expert here,
but this is how I see it. They have gone
too far down this path to actually turn around. They
rely so heavily on these radical left voters, whose entire
identity is their activism. If they start to tack back
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to the middle, like most people inside the Democrat Party
want them to, they will lose those far left voters,
and they can't win an election without those votes. It's
such a big portion of their base. Now the Democrat
Party has fallen into a can't win with them, can't
win without them situation with these radical leftists. But you
know what, Frankly, I'm all for it. It makes the
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job of the right wing so much easier. The job
of Republicans, which is to win elections, is so much
easier when they're running against these Democrats. My job as
a political commentator is so much easier when I can
just point and laugh at these people. And they're giving
me plenty of material work with. Trust me. All Right,
that's all I've got for today. We will be back
on Saturday. Thanks again very much for listening. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
Don't take the play, Come Up the Storm,
All right, who missed Kamala Harris? Do you miss her yet?
I don't really, but I think most people probably don't.
The number of people who miss Kamala Harris can be
counted on no fingers. But we're gonna bring her back
just for a minute, just to open the show up.
We've got a lot of fun stuff to start things
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off here today, A rare treat because normally we have
to start off with a little bit of doom and gloom,
but no, this time around, we actually have some fun stuff.
Kamala Harris has been pretty much disappeared for since she lost.
We didn't really see much of her until she certified
the election and then was sitting there watching as Trump
was sworn in, which was funny to watch. But she
(01:06):
hasn't really been up to much. She hasn't, by any means,
made any sort of public appearance. I mean, she's gone
to things. She hasn't had any sort of opportunity to
give a speech, for example, but she's been around. A
couple of videos have popped up of her. I found
this video of her on Broadway. I don't know what
she's doing on Broadway. It looks like she's actually backstage
(01:31):
at some sort of production. I have no idea why
she's not a particularly talented singer or anything. To my knowledge,
she's definitely not a very good actress. If she was,
she would have won the election, because that's what politicians
are essentially as actors. Here she is on Broadway backstage.
I don't know what show this is, I don't know
what she's doing there, but she gives one of her
(01:54):
famous word salad speeches. And I gotta say, I haven't
missed Kamala Harris, but I have missed being able to
make fun of her word salad speeches. And here she
is to to give us another opportunity to bring that back.
I honestly didn't think we would see that again. I
didn't think we would have another opportunity to do this.
But the Lord has smiled upon us and granted us
(02:17):
Kamala Harris word salad. Take a listen.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Thank you for those rights to be maintained, which means
we have to be vigilant.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
And it's just the nature of it.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
That's what I mean.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
What I mean in this beautiful play and everything that
we know, he ended that he was suppressed.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
He had to suppress so much but he knew, and
you know, he shook those risks.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
But we have to we have to be a clear eye.
Speaker 5 (02:41):
And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty and everything, right,
these things all coexist.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
But I believe we fight for something, not against it.
Speaker 6 (02:55):
And that's where than.
Speaker 1 (02:59):
You what in the Disney Channel was that I don't
believe we're fighting against something, We're fighting for something. Okay,
they used this line in Star Wars. We didn't like
it in Star Wars either. I mean, she literally pulled
that directly from Star Wars. There's I can't remember which
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one it is, it's one of the three new ones
they did that were terrible, where one of the characters
was like, we don't save ourselves by destroying what we
love or what we hate, but by saving what we
love or some such nonsense. She literally just ripped off
almost an identical line and gave it in this little
speech to these Broadway actors, which again I can't stress
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this enough. What is she doing back there? She has
no reason to be behind the scenes at a Broadway show.
I mean, has anyone ever actually taken the time to,
like seriously critically think about what that means? Like we
don't fight against something. We fight for some thing. Okay,
it's a nice slogan, Does it actually make sense. No,
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If you're fighting, you're fighting for and against something. That's
just that's how fighting works. It doesn't make any sense.
It aggravates me, honestly, how little sense this makes. I
don't understand why she's considered to be some great order.
But that's neither here nor there. Go actually watch the video.
It's from libs of TikTok. I've re posted it on
my page so you can check it out on x.
(04:29):
I don't know how much time you may or may
not have spent around inebriated folks, socially lubricated folks, as
it were. She does not look particularly sober in that clip,
and I don't know if that's just her style of speaking,
if that's just how she is as a person. I'm
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not trying to defame her. I'm just calling it like
I see it. I'm calling balls and strikes here. She
looks like she's had a few, and I'm not judging.
We live in the United States of America. You're free
to have a few, but if you have a few
too many, you probably shouldn't go out and give a speech.
That's just me. That's my opinion. You know, grain of salt.
Take it or leave it. I don't really care. That's
(05:12):
just that's how I feel about it. Okay, something else
that's fun that happened. Donald Trump went to the Daytona
five hundred again. And I'll say what I said about
the Super Bowl about this, I think there's something very
patriotic that just kind of brings people together. About this.
I think the head of our state should be more
than just you know, a political figure. And obviously it's
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a political figure. Don't take me too literally on this,
but the head of state should be involved in kind
of helping to build the culture of the United States
of America. They do this really well in Great Britain,
the royal family. The head of state actually goes out
and just sort of participates in things. He's just amongst
the people. I think that's a good thing. I think
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it's good for the head of state to be doing
more than making policy, also participate in the culture. I
think that would humanize politics quite a bit more in
a very productive way. So take a listen to what
it sounded like. This is Trump at Daytona five hundred spot.
Speaker 6 (06:12):
What brings you back to the Great American Race.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
I think it's fantastic. It's great for the country. Our
country is doing well again and we have spirit all
over the world. This spirit again. We brought it back
and it's been less than four weeks, so you'll see
what we do and in a little period of time
it's going to only get better. But this is very exciting.
Speaker 6 (06:31):
You brought your granddaughter. I know some of your other
family members are here. You get to take a ride
around in the beast. What is that like.
Speaker 7 (06:38):
I'll let you know in about two minutes, because it's
going to be they're going to be going quite quickly,
I understand.
Speaker 6 (06:43):
And you just got to meet some of the drivers.
You're gonna get on the radio again and talk to
them before the start of them.
Speaker 7 (06:48):
And I say, they have a lot of courage doing this.
I see it, and I've been here, and they have
a lot of they have a lot of guts, as
they would.
Speaker 6 (06:56):
Say, mister President, enjoy your time.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
That's nice. That's a really good image. He's out, he's
got his granddaughter with him. He's taking her to see
and do cool things. That's amazing. It's adorable and you
can tell the kids having a great time. In every
video from the Daytona five hundred, she's just sitting there, smiling,
looking at things. She's interested in this, and Donald Trump
is having a good time, and she's having a good time,
and he's spreading a positive message of just hey, look,
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America is strong again. We're doing well, We're having a
good time, We're participating in hobbies, we're building a culture.
What is it to be an American? It's things like
Daytona five hundred. It's things like the super Bowl. How
do we know that? Because that's what Americans do. You
can see it. Stadiums are filled, the President is there.
This is a good thing. All right, we got a
(07:44):
great show coming up. Stay tuned. We will be right back,
(08:17):
all right. This may be just a side effect of
the fact that I'm a Texan from Houston, but I
have been missing out severely on hockey. I just discovered
this over the weekend as a new possible outlet for
my ever growing levels of patriotism, which, by the way,
thanks to nobody for telling me how great hockey actually was.
(08:39):
So we've got this. Basically, the NBA All Stars of hockey.
I guess it's the Pro Bowl of Hockey. I suppose
I don't really understand the details. So if you're a
hockey nut and I'm butchering this, please forgive me. I'm
very new to this sport, because again, I just discovered
it this weekend. So it's the Four Nations Tournament for hockey,
(09:05):
which I believe is just the US national team, the
Canadian national team, and then I assume probably two other
national teams just guessed off the names. I'm not a mathematician,
but I think that makes four. So this event is
going on, and of course Canada and the US we've
been sort of at odds lately. There's been some words
(09:28):
shared back and forth. We said some not too nice
things about them, which they deserved, and they said some
not too nice things about us, which is undeserved because
we're perfect. We've never made any mistakes in our history,
and they deserve to look up to us. I'm kidding
and I'm not. At the same time, the rivalry game
here started out by the Canadian team booing our national anthem,
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because of course, our president and Governor Trudeau of Canada
have been at odds recently and he's tried to get
them all fired up with patriotism. They have no national identity.
I don't know how they do that. And of course,
whenever somebody comes after the United States, you better believe
we're getting patriotic. So let me start by just playing
you the clip of them booing our national anthem at
(10:15):
the start of this hockey game. That's what it sounded like.
As you can imagine. Canada was the host for this game.
So we're on Canadian ice, We're in Canada, They're booing
our national anthem. Now the whole idea here is Canada's like, oh,
(10:38):
we're never going to be the fifty first state. Trump
is a fascist, Lottie Dotty dot How dare he terrify US?
Et cetera, et cetera. You know, Canadians complaining about whatever
issues Canadians happen to have. Nobody really cares because they're Canadians.
Who cares about Canada anyway. Is something I, along with
the rest of the world and especially the Canadian national team,
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discovered right after this is the US national team is
actually incredibly patriotic, and when you boo our national anthem,
there is consequences to that. So Canada goes into this game.
I just want to make sure we really have the
picture set. Canada goes into this game. They're on their
home turf. It's hockey. Canadians are famously great at hockey,
(11:20):
I suppose. And everybody's really excited because the Canadians are
going to go and just beat the crap out of
the Americans, right, that's what they thought was going to happen.
And so our national anthem plays, and in a show
of Canadian patriotism, if such a thing could exist, they
boo our national anthem. So here's what happens afterwards. Right
(11:40):
after that, the game finally starts and immediately the American
players beat the crap out of the Canadian national team.
And I'm not talking about we won the game. We
did win the game, but I'm not there yet. I'm
talking about we really immediately threw off our gloves and
(12:03):
just started throwing haymakers. This is what that sounded like.
This is the opening of that game. Moments after they
boot our national anthem, the game starts and we start
throwing literal punches on the ice. Take a listen, they're.
Speaker 6 (12:16):
Way and the gloves are off.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
Hands.
Speaker 1 (12:21):
You could Chuck at Brandon Hagel. The refs are just watching,
smacking him, smacking him, smacking him.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
Go from Tampa Bay to Chuck from Florida.
Speaker 1 (12:42):
The refs are not stepping in, and then they once
they finally like throw each other down onto the ice,
that's when the refs step in and pull them apart.
The US guy won that fight. I don't know if
it was obvious, but the US guy won, which which
is great. I didn't know that you were allowed to
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just do that in hockey. You're allowed to just start
fighting people in hockey. Normally, in most other sports, if
you start throwing legitimate punches at another player, you get
in trouble for that. The rest will step in and
pull you apart. The two teams will come together, grab
each of their guys that are fighting and rip them
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apart and sort of stop the fight. No, not in
the NHL. They just let you keep fighting until I
guess one of you hits the ice, and that's when
they're like, okay, enough fighting. Where was this my entire life?
Why did nobody tell me about this? I want to
get into this more. But that's not all In the
span of those first ten seconds of the game. No
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less than three fights broke out on that ice. So
that was the first one. Take a listen. This is
the second fight that broke out literally seconds later. Seconds
The time stamp at the beginning of the first one
is nineteen fifty eight. On this one it's nineteen fifty seven,
So literally within two seconds of each other, these two
fights broke out. Take another listen to this by right
(14:13):
before the first fight, this was set up.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Here you go.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
Again. The rest are just watching, supervising, observing.
Speaker 6 (14:25):
BAMD in the lineup for the cross time.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
And they go down, the rapport pulls them apart. Amazing, amazing.
And then, of course I promised you three. Here's the
third one. Here it is. This is I guess J. T.
Miller and Colton Perreco. Again, I don't know who any
of these players are. I wish I could give you
some of the details on that. I just started paying
attention to hockey thirty seconds ago when we started beating
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up Canadians on the ice. Take a listen to this
third fight.
Speaker 6 (14:53):
Now we're nine seconds in.
Speaker 1 (14:54):
They're at the goal. Nine seconds in, he said.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
One second later, Oh, the center of the amercent It's
called paray going JT.
Speaker 7 (15:03):
Miller.
Speaker 1 (15:07):
Dorico's got a big size advantage. Miller's a top dude.
And this is like nineteen ninety six when this building
o Pendumbans and the rest step in to break them apart.
There's a solid argument to be made that that Canadian
won that fight. I'll give them that they got they
got one out of the three, fair enough. I absolutely
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love this. Now you might say, oh, this is bad.
We want people to just be able to go out
and enjoy the game and have fun and just you know,
compete and see who's best. No, screw that. If you
boo our national anthem, you might get your butt beat up.
That's a good thing. I like that. I like the
fact that our American team has some patriotism and is
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willing to, you know, stand up for their country because
that's what that's our national anthem and our flag. That
is what represents us to the rest of the world.
Is our national anthem and our flag. And if you
disrespect that, you're inherently disrespecting the entire United States of America,
and you might get smacks for that. That's what happens.
(16:14):
Welcome to the real world. And of course, the fact
that we won the game three to one. Is just
sort of the icing on the cake here. I mean,
Canada went into this talking so tough. The tweets online
were just hilarious in retrospect because they were so confident.
They were sure that they were going to beat up
the Americans. They were going to win this game. They
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were going to really stick it to Donald Trump in
the United States by defeating us in a game of hockey.
And they went into that all cocky, and they boot
our national anthem, and we punched the crap out of
them and then won the hockey game. I gotta say,
it feels good to see some patriotism again. It's just
the Knight's feeling to be part of something. And this
(17:00):
goes back to what Donald Trump has been doing at
different sports events, at the super Bowl and at the
Daytona five hundred. We have to have a national identity, right.
We have to have things where just about every American
can say, hey, this is bigger than me, this is
bigger than what I'm doing, but I am participating in it.
(17:20):
I'm part of it. And that's a good thing. Even
if that's just you know, a flag in a national
anthem and you might think that I'm making a bit
much of this, and I may be that's true, but
I'm using this to try to make a bigger point.
You have to plant your flag on something, and once
you plant your flag on something, you have to stand
for it. You have to pick a hill somewhere to
fight and die on. And maybe picking a stupid hill
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is better than not picking a hill at all. And
I think that's where we've been as a country for
the last four years, and now we're getting out of that.
I think that's a good thing. All right, stay tuned.
We are going to be right back after just another
quick break. All right. So we talked in the last
(18:17):
episode about JD. Vance on his sort of international speaking tour.
He gave a couple of different speeches. One of them
was on Ai and one of them was in Munich.
He talked about freedom of speech, and he called out
Germany and kind of Europe as a whole for their
complete lack of freedom of speech. And then, of course
(18:38):
some German guy got up and said that him calling
them out for not having freedom of speech was an
acceptable speech, which is ironic. But this ended up becoming
the subject of an entire sixty minutes piece. I don't
know what exactly the point that sixty minutes was trying
(18:58):
to make here. I don't know if they were trying
to excuse Germany's crackdown of freedom of speech, or if
they were trying to back up the vice president. I'm
inclined to assume they were not trying to back up
the vice president. But what they did is back up
the vice president. They unintentionally, I think, proved jd Vance correct.
(19:21):
They went and they interviewed a bunch of German officials,
German organization executives, who all handle what they think is
freedom of speech, which is you can say what the
government allows you to and as long as what you're
saying doesn't cross the magical line that the government drew,
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then you're free to say it. Which that's not freedom,
that's not freedom of speech. And now I think a
lot of Americans sort of we don't think about the
First Amendment because it's so deeply ingrained in US. It's
just a basic thing that we have all always had,
so it's second nature even think about it. We don't
consider it. We don't consider that there are countries that
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are not like us at all, and don't have that
in those places I think, frankly, are probably pretty terrible
to live in for all of the numerous reasons we're
about to get into. First of all, let me open
with this clip of I guess this lady works at
some nonprofit. They'll describe her title in the cut, but
(20:24):
basically her job is to help victims of online violence.
And trust me, we'll get into that in just a second.
Take a listen to her talking about the guard rails
that are necessary on freedom of speech and why this
is absolutely ridiculous that people think like this, but hey,
it's Europe. They're crazy over there.
Speaker 8 (20:43):
Take a listen the criticism that you know, this feels
like the surveillance that Germany conducted eighty years ago.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
How do you respond to that there is no surveillance.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Josephine Ballone is a CEO of Hate eight, a Berlin
based human rights organization supports victims of online violence.
Speaker 1 (21:02):
In the United States.
Speaker 8 (21:03):
A lot of people look at this and say this
is restricting free speech. It's a threat to democracy.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Free speech needs boundaries, and in the case of Germany,
these boundaries are part of our constitution. Without boundaries, a
very small group of people can rely on endless freedom
to say anything that they want, while everyone else is
(21:29):
scared and intimidated in.
Speaker 8 (21:31):
Your fears that if people are freely attacked online that
they'll withdraw from the discussion.
Speaker 2 (21:38):
This is not only a field, it's already taking place. Already.
Half of the Internet users in Germany are afraid to
express their political opinion and they rarely participate in public
debates online anymore. Half of the Internet users?
Speaker 1 (21:53):
All right, Which half of the Internet users do you
think that is? Do you think that the west wing
half of Internet users who are going out and having
massive pride parades in Germany and run the government? Or
do you think just maybe, just maybe it's the right
wing users on the Internet who know that if they say, hey,
(22:16):
I don't want a bunch of Muslim illegal aliens coming
into the country and plowing through Christmas parades in a car,
I don't think that's a good idea. But if they
say that, they go to jail. Which half of Internet
users in Germany do you think are afraid to voice
their political opinions? Mull that over for a second, just
(22:37):
sort of think about it. Which one I would venture
to guess that it's probably the right wingers who know
that if they voice their relatively mainstream political positions, they
will go to jail. Remember, you can get thrown in
prison in much of Europe, and I assume probably Germany,
though I'm not a lawyer there and I don't know
their laws to the t. You could probably go to
(22:59):
jail for at least a little bit in Germany for
saying that Elliott Page is a woman, for example. Now,
this is something that we're free to discuss and have
a debate on here in the United States. I can
say that Elliott Page is actually a woman because Elliott
Page was born as a woman, has female DNA, female chromosomes,
and all the other And you can disagree with me
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because you don't have a solid definition of what a
woman or man for that matter, is, and you think
as long as somebody says something that that makes it true,
that's fine. We can actually have a debate and a
discussion about that. If I say that in Germany, I
go to prison. I mean, this is legislation that was
proposed in November in Germany. I don't know if this
ever went into effect, but they wanted to put a
(23:43):
law on the books that would make dead naming, and
I assume also misgendering someone a punishable offense that can
be punished with a ten thousand eurofine or even prison.
That's insane. I mean. She claims we need restrictions on
freedom of speech so people aren't afraid to speak out
and voice their opinions, and literally thirty seconds later, explains
(24:05):
that it hasn't worked. People are still afraid to speak
out and voice their opinions. I guarantee you this is
the right wing Germans that are afraid to speak out
about their opinions, not the left, I guarantee it. And
this is all done in the name of protecting people
from online violence. There is no such thing as online violence.
You know how you protect yourself from online violence. You
(24:26):
turn your phone off, you turn your computer off, you
get off the internet. Online violence does not exist. It's
a myth made up by leftist so that they can
control you. I'm being one hundred percent serious, that's what
it is. But yet they've created a whole legal system
around this. In the next clip, she's talking with I
believe German prosecutors about what the actual laws about what
(24:48):
you can and cannot say on the internet are. Take
a listen again. This is insane to me, This is
wild stuff.
Speaker 8 (24:55):
It's illegal to display Nazi symbolism, a swasika, deny the Holocaust,
that's clear. Is it a crime to insult somebody in public? Yes, yes,
and it's a crime to insult them online as well.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Yes.
Speaker 4 (25:09):
The fine could be even higher if you insult someone
in the Internet. Why because in Internet it stays there.
If we are talking you face to face, you unsult me,
andsert you, okay, finish. But if you in the Internet,
if I insilt you or a politician.
Speaker 8 (25:26):
That sticks around forever. Yeah, the prosecutors explain. German law
also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats, and
fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and
then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they
committing a crime.
Speaker 2 (25:45):
In the case of reposting it as a crime as well,
because the reader cont distinguished whether you just invented this
or just reposted it.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
That's the same for us.
Speaker 8 (25:55):
The punishment for breaking hate speech laws can include jail
time for repeat offenders, but in most cases a judge
levy's a stiff mine and sometimes keeps their devices. How
do people react when you take their phones from them.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
They are shocked.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
It's the kind of punishment if you lose your smartphone,
it's even worse than the fine you have to pick use.
Speaker 8 (26:18):
Your whole life is typically on your phone.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Now, I mean, they're literally treating their citizens like children here.
I mean, I'm part of the generation that's young enough
to like when I misbehaved, part of my punishment was
I would have my phone taken away. I would have
my you know, my little iPod that I had back
in the day. I would lose that. That was one
of my punishments for misbehaving. And they're doing this on
(26:41):
a national level as the government. This is insane. Now,
I'm not in favor or advocating for insulting people, But
at the same time, do I think that you should
get jail time just for throwing an insult at somebody?
Absolutely not, that's that's ridiculous. But even she mentions at
(27:04):
the end there, what if somebody just accidentally reposts something
that they didn't know is fake or made up. What
happens then is that's still illegal. And the German guys
just like yis that is crime. You go to jail
because we don't know if it's fake. We don't know
if you know, so you could literally be deceived and
get thrown in jail for being deceived. And I think
(27:24):
it's important to note these aren't just laws that they
have on the books that nobody actually pays attention to.
They are actively militantly enforcing these laws. Take a listen
to the next clip. This is a CBS with them
as they arrest people for legitimately posting memes. Take a listen.
Speaker 8 (27:43):
It's six's oh one on a Tuesday morning, and we
were with state police as they raided this apartment in
northwest Germany. Inside six armed officers searched the suspects home,
then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors say those
electronics may have been used to commit a crime, the
(28:06):
crime posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact same time,
across Germany, the born more than fifty similar raids played
out part of what prosecutors say is a coordinated effort
to curb online hate speech in Germany.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
So here's where it gets dangerous. Who's deciding what is
and is not racist? Who's deciding what is or is
not hate speech? I don't trust the government to do that.
I don't trust the government to understand the difference between
a joke and actual hate speech, because there is a difference,
and you should be allowed to make jokes. Never forget
what the First Amendment protects us from. It is incredibly important.
(28:46):
It's incredibly important. I remember the Second Amendment protects the First.
We are very lucky to be in the United States
of America, not in Germany. This should prove that clearly.
All Right, we'll be.
Speaker 5 (28:58):
Right back after this quick break.
Speaker 1 (29:25):
That song does not ever get old. It really doesn't.
I don't know what it is about it. All right.
We checked in on Kamala Harris. We saw how she
was doing. We've checked in on Donald Trump's approval rating
in past episodes. That's doing really well. Let's check in
on the Democrat Party as a whole. How were the
(29:47):
Democrats as a whole doing? After coming up on a
month now, we're a day away from being a full
month into Donald Trump's second term as presidents. You know,
how are the Democrats doing? And I mean the answer
to that question is pretty simply not too well. So
(30:07):
I'm looking at a Yugov poll right now, and this
poll is just a raw. Uh, do you have a
favorable or unfavorable opinion of the following political parties? And
the political party that follows that is the Democrat Party.
So right now, and get ready for this, because this
(30:28):
is a big number that I'm about to throw at you.
Fifty eight point seven percent of people have an unfavorable
opinion of the Democrat Party. That is a disastrous number
for the Democrats, right, That's just that is a really
bad number. Fifty eight point seven. Basically sixty percent of
(30:49):
people have an unfavorable opinion of the Democrat Party. Here's
why this matters. We're coming up on a midterm believe
it or not. I know, we just had an election
last year. Guess what, we have another one next year.
The midterm elections have basically already started. People are already campaigning.
You can see this, and I'm sure we'll talk about
(31:10):
that in an episode not too far from now, because
there's definitely some stuff to talk about there. But all
that to say, this matters right now. If the Democrat
Party goes into the midterm election with basically a sixty
percent disapproval rating, they are going to lose so many seats,
(31:30):
so many seats in the House, not even to mention
the Senate. We already have a strong majority in the Senate.
We have fifty three votes in the Senate plus jd
vance if necessary. Right, that is a strong GOP majority
in the House. I believe we have a one seat majority,
so it's a majority, but barely right, it's not a
very workable majority. We could end up with a super
(31:52):
majority in both the House and the Senate if these
numbers continue, because remember this is going up. Since the
thirtieth of September, the disapproval rating of the Democrat Party
has gone from fifty one point four percent all the
way to fifty eight point seven. If those trends continue,
(32:13):
then by the time we get to the midterms next year,
the Democrat Party will legitimately be less popular than cancer. Now,
if you're a Democrat right now, you're looking at this
number and you're thinking, Okay, how did we get here
and how did we fix it? Or at least you
should be that's what any sane person in your position
would be doing. Fox News was asking this question, and
(32:34):
they just happened to ask it to Senator John Kennedy, who,
in my opinion, is probably the wisest man south of
the Mason Dixon Line. I've been waiting for so long
to have an excuse to play a senator John Kennedy
cut on this show, and it's finally happened. I couldn't
be more excited. Take a listen to John Kennedy's response
when he was asked by Fox News, Okay, what's going
(32:57):
on here? Why are the Democrats so on pop? He
spells it up pretty clearly.
Speaker 3 (33:03):
I've got a lot of friends of Democrats and they
haven't asked me for advice. But if I did, I
tell them, Look, you just got to try harder not
to suck. I mean, think about it. Over the past
four years, the Democrats mismanaged Congress. They mismanaged COVID, They
mismanaged the economy. They mismanaged inflation, they mismanaged the national debt.
(33:26):
They mismanaged Afghanistan. More recently, in their opposition to President
Trump and mister Musk, the Democrats have chosen to support
the bureaucrats and the spending porn over the American taxpayer,
just like they support illegal immigration over the rule of law,
(33:49):
just like they support transgender athletes over women's sports, just
like they support hamas terras over Israel. All Democrats are
not like this. But the party is controlled right now
by people who majored in online activism with a minor
(34:11):
and puberty blockers. I know these people if they think
when they think men, they think men can breastfeed, they're
triggered by rage. They cry if you use the wrong
pronoun and most fair minded Americans look at this and
they go, these people are about keen exits passion normal,
(34:33):
and that's what's kilmer Democrats right now in my opinion.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
All right, so let me translate that for you from
why is Southern stage into direct English. What he's essentially
saying there is the Democrat Party has been sort of
absorbed and consumed and is now being controlled by the
very radical leftists at the very, very, very very bottom
of their base. This is not a majority of people
(35:01):
in society. This is not even a majority of people
inside the Democrat Party, I think. But it's a big
enough portion of the Democrat Party for the higher ups
and you know, the people who actually run the party,
for the majority of Democrats to say, Okay, we can
capitulate to these crazy leftists because we need their vote
(35:23):
in order to beat the Republicans, and for us as Democrats,
all that matters is winning power for our party. That's
all that matters to them. And so they'll give in
to these crazy leftists despite the fact that it's not
what most Americans want. And the farther down this pathway
they go, the worse their approval rating gets. It's easy
(35:44):
to see that's why Donald Trump was able to pick
up so many moderates. That's why Donald Trump was able
to pick up the support of people like Tulca Gabbard
of Robert F. Kennedy Junior. That didn't just magically happen.
Donald Trump isn't just that winning of a personality. I
think he does have a very winning personality, but that's
not why he got those people. It's because they're looking
(36:05):
at their party and they're saying, Okay, despite the fact
that nobody actually wants this, this is what my party
keeps pushing more and more and more, and I just
can't be a part of that, not in good conscience.
I have real, measurable, actionable priorities that I would like
to focus on. I want the Democrat Party to be
(36:26):
a party that's focused on health, making sure Americans aren't
being poisoned by the FDA or the food industry. I
want the Democrat Party to be focused on making sure
that the government isn't being weaponized against American citizens. The
government isn't putting people on no fly lists for speaking
out against Joe Biden. That's my concern. But as Senator
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Kennedy points out, that's not what the Democrat Party is doing.
They don't care about actual issues. They care about pushing transgenderism.
That'll wing you some headlines, for sure, that might even
go as far as to win you some small local
elections in crazy radical towns. But is that going to
win you any sort of national election. No, it's not
(37:10):
because the American people by and large just aren't on
board with that. And you can try to shame Americans
for not being on board with that, but I think
if there's one thing we've learned over the last few years,
that's not going to work either, because they did try that.
They've deplatformed people, they've shamed people, they've tried to use
(37:30):
social media, movies, even music. Even Target has gone out
to bat for the LGBT agenda, and the American people
still have not bought into it. We like it even
less now than before. You did. All that four years
of Joe Biden and the radical left inside the Democrat
Party trying to push this down on us made it worse. Honestly,
(37:51):
they're too far gone now. That's my opinion, and I'm
by no means a political science major. I'm no expert here,
but this is how I see it. They have gone
too far down this path to actually turn around. They
rely so heavily on these radical left voters, whose entire
identity is their activism. If they start to tack back
(38:15):
to the middle, like most people inside the Democrat Party
want them to, they will lose those far left voters,
and they can't win an election without those votes. It's
such a big portion of their base. Now the Democrat
Party has fallen into a can't win with them, can't
win without them situation with these radical leftists. But you
know what, Frankly, I'm all for it. It makes the
(38:37):
job of the right wing so much easier. The job
of Republicans, which is to win elections, is so much
easier when they're running against these Democrats. My job as
a political commentator is so much easier when I can
just point and laugh at these people. And they're giving
me plenty of material work with. Trust me. All Right,
that's all I've got for today. We will be back
on Saturday. Thanks again very much for listening. I appreciate it.
Speaker 6 (39:00):
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