Welcome back to Parker's Couch! Cameron Parker returns after a brief hiatus to delve deep into critical discussions. Join Cameron as he continues the conversation on Project 2025, covering the remaining principles and their implications on our society.
In this episode, Cameron revisits the first two principles of Project 2025 and dives into the third and fourth principles, focusing on defending national sovereignty and securing individual rights. With the recent buzz around Project 2025, spurred by public figures and media, Cameron offers a detailed breakdown and urges listeners to stay informed.
Tune in to understand the broader picture of Project 2025, its impact on American life, and the urgent need for collective action. Don't miss out on this insightful episode, available on YouTube and all major podcast platforms. Subscribe and stay connected for more engaging content!
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Music.
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Been a while, y'all. It has. Let's just say life took over.
You know, there were many things. My kid graduating, my birthday,
the 4th of July, all these things.
And then just going through your own personal struggles. You know how life goes.
But we are never going fully away. Just a little mini break.
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And we are back in business now on the couch because I got some things to talk about.
I got some content to put out there for y'all.
So just continue to listen and tune in and you best believe the couch is here to stay.
So welcome back to the Parker's couch. If this is your first time here,
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my name is Cameron Parker.
I usually am on the podcast with my brother, Carlin Parker and our oldest brother,
Carl Parker. And I do some things solo.
This is going to be one of my solo things that's going to be both on our YouTube
page, The Parker's Couch, and also on our podcasting platforms,
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wherever you listen to your podcast from.
Now, I started off, when was that? It was a few weeks ago in June talking about Project 2025.
And I left y'all completely hanging. I did the first two principles that I covered,
And I was going to cover the next two of their four parts that they have there
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and their four pillar there with their playbook.
And then I kind of fell off. But I am back because you need to hear this in
the entirety. So make sure that you go back and listen to the episodes dealing with Project 2025.
The first principle was around restoring the family to America's center of life
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and protecting our children.
And the second episode I did was about dismantling the administrative state
and returning self-governance to the people, so they say.
Definitely go back and listen to those so you get an understanding of what's in Project 2025.
Now, Project 2025 has been getting so much buzz lately.
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Now, on the couch, we were ahead of the curve, right? If you were listening,
you know we were talking about this because it's not new.
But praise be to the BET Awards and to Raji P.
Henson. because her announcement during the awards, whenever she told people
to go and look up Project 2025 and what they're trying to do.
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We'll show out when it's time to vote because it's not just about the presidential
election, you guys. It's time for us to play chess, not checkers.
It's about making decisions that will affect us as human beings.
Our careers, our next generations to come.
Did you know that it is now a crime to be homeless?
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Pay attention it's not a secret look
it up they are attacking our most vulnerable citizens
the project 2025 plan is
not a game look it up my god my god that woke people up i mean we can say what
we want about celebrities and some things a fair game to do but this This is
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an example of the power and how it can be used to do the right thing,
because she pointed people in the right direction to go and look this up and to start researching.
And then everybody's calling in. It's on all the shows. It's on every talk.
It's article after article.
Now you can't go anywhere without Project 2025 being heard of.
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It was so much that Donald Trump even had to come out with his useless tweet
to separate himself with the idea that he has nothing to do with it.
He doesn't know anything about it. He is like, I agree.
He doesn't know anything about it, but yet he agrees with some things,
but not with everything. And he wishes them luck.
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This man talks out of both sides of his mouth, out of three sides,
four sides, five sides of his large ass mouth so many times.
You can't believe a word this man says.
And I know everybody's up in arms over Biden. We all have our concerns.
We all have this and that. But there is a bigger picture out here.
And Project 2025 is one of those big pictures.
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And just so you know, all the people working on this too, the majority,
about 50 plus of those people are connected to Donald J. Trump.
They either worked in his administration in some kind of capacity or they're connected to him.
He had them in charge of so many various different aspects of his administration.
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So don't believe him at all whenever he says he has no idea what Project 2025
is all about. But you know what, family?
We are going to continue on and we're We're going to pick back up with number
three right here on the list of things that Project 2025 wanted to do away with or change or mend.
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Now, if you're watching on the YouTube page, the Parkers Couch,
you can follow along as I share the screen up here and you'll be able to read
along possibly with what I'm sharing. Aaron.
If you're just listening on a podcast, which is totally fine too,
make sure that you just listen up, pay attention, go to project2025.org to do
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your own research too as well.
As I said before that this is a 920 plus page document.
I'm not covering the whole thing on the podcast. I don't know.
I might dig into it more and do some more things coming up to the election because
I think it is just so uber important and we need to stay on their necks and
people need to be reminded, no matter how small my outreach is,
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what little I can do, I am here for to do because democracy is at stake.
And that takes priority. My life, your life, our rights, my rights,
all these things are super important.
And we got to make sure we stop those who are trying to take things away.
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So it is very important. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast and to the YouTube
page and look forward to content that's going to be coming out.
We don't only talk politics. We talk a lot of sports. We talk a lot of TV.
I definitely have some TV things coming up for you that I want to get into and
stuff on the YouTube page. and my brothers and I should be returning to our podcast very shortly.
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We've all been quite busy, but we will be back.
And thank y'all for listening, still downloading episodes while we've been on this little hiatus.
All right, promise number three, defend our nation's sovereignty,
borders, and bounty against global threats.
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So here we go. The United States belongs to we the people.
All government authority derives from the consent of the people and our nation's
success derives from the character of its people.
The American people's right to rule ourselves is the verse of our duty.
We cannot outsource to others our obligation to ensure the condition that allows
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our families, local communities, churches, and synagogues and and neighborhoods to thrive.
The buck stops with each of us. So each of us must have the freedom to pursue
the good for ourselves and those entrusted to our care.
To most Americans, this is common sense.
But in Washington, D.C., ooh, the boogeyman, Washington, D.C.,
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and other centers of leftist power like the media and the academy,
the statement of basic civics is branded hate speech.
I don't know why conservatives think they have the full authority over American civics.
Like, it's ridiculous.
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But anyway, progressive elites speak in lofty terms of openness,
progress, expertise, cooperation, and globalization.
But too often, these terms are just rhetorical.
Trojan horse, or rhetorical Trojan horses, concealing their true intention,
stripping we the people of our constitutional authority over our country's future.
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Meanwhile, that's all you see coming from the right is stripping of our country's
future. Just look at the Supreme Court, y'all.
America's corporate and political elites do not believe in the ideals to which
our nation is dedicated, self-governance, the rule of law, and ordered liberty.
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They certainly do not trust the American people, and they disdain the Constitution's
restrictions on their ambitions.
Instead, they believe in a kind of 21st century Wilsonian order in which the
enlightened, highly educated,
managerial, elite runs things rather than the humble, patriotic,
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working families who make up but the majority of what the elites continuously call fly over country.
This is hilarious to me. This picture of the left and progressive being full
of nothing but elites and the rich and stuff.
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And while everybody on the right is these humble, hardworking, patriotic people.
Y'all gotta keep falling for this scam. that elites only exist on the left?
Really? When you have an elite at the head of your party on the right running
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for president and he's convincing y'all that he's one of you,
that he's for the common people.
When, I mean, you can look at all of government as far as if you want to say
like elite and be that, it's no separate status here.
If you just look in general, The left and the right is full of all types of
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American people. No one has this whole.
The Republicans have been really good. And I think it's because of Hollywood.
It says Hollywood is so visible to our eyes.
And a lot of Hollywood is left. Well, it's this idea that everyone who is rich
or everyone who is in a public eye is leftist when there are many,
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many, many, many, many elites on the right, you best believe,
because how the hell do they finance all this stuff?
How? Okay. Anyway, this Wilsonian hubris has spread like a cancer through many
of America's largest corporations,
its public institutions, and its popular culture.
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Those who run our so-called American corporations have bent to the will of the
woke agenda, here we go, buzzword woke, and care more for their foreign investors
and organizations than their American workers and customers.
Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge
fund manager has more in common with a socialist European head of state than
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with the parents of a high school football game in Waco, Texas.
I just love the way they keep trying to picture this idea of left versus right.
Everybody on this right is just these honest, just hardworking, regular people.
Why everybody on the left is just there with their agendas. It's overtaken us.
So whiny, so whiny. But anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, it just throws me for a loop.
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But you can see how they're still even coming for education in this.
And they always paint education as being a leftist thing, as if people on the
right cannot be educated or are not within education themselves. selves.
It's very strange to me. Many elites' entire identity, it seems,
is wrapped up in their sense of superiority over those people.
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But under our constitution, they are the mere equals of the workers who shower
at the work instead of before.
Who shower at the work instead of before. Yeah, because everybody who showers
before work, they're obviously leftists, they're white collar,
dollar, they're elite, they have all the money.
While we hardworking farmers and everything like that, all of us are conservatives
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and we shower at the work, because we're doing the hard work of the land and all these things.
Meanwhile, your head that's running for president probably,
never mowed a lawn in his life, probably never raped a piece of grass,
leaves, never, ever, maybe something physical outdoors that he's done.
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Okay. But we'll continue to paint this picture with y'all. We'll fall for this
optical illusion that y'all try to continue to do on this right side.
This is as it should and must be.
This is as it should and must be. Intellectual sophistication,
advanced degrees, financial success, and all other markers of elite status have
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no bearing on a person's knowledge of the one thing most necessary for governance,
what it means to live well.
That knowledge is available to each of us, no matter how humble our backgrounds
or how unpretentious our attainments.
It is open to us to read in the book of human nature, to which we are all offered
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the key, just by merit of our shared humanity.
One of the great premises of American political life is that everyone who can
read in that book must have a voice in deciding the course and fate of our republic.
Progressive policymakers and pundits in America either fail to understand this
premise or intentionally reject it.
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They enthusiastically support supranational organizations like the United Nations and European Union,
which are run and staffed almost entirely by people who shared their values
and mostly insulated from the influence of national elections.
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You know, they can come for the United Nations, for NATO, for all this stuff.
That's why they're eager for America to sign international treaties on everything
from pharmaceutical patient patents to climate change to the rights of the child.
And while those treaties invariably endorse policies that could never pass through
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the U.S. Congress, like the progressive Woodrow Wilson a century ago,
the vote left today seats the world.
Bound by global treaties they write in which they exercise, I know they're not
saying it, dictatorial powers.
There's only one dictator. Somebody tried to be a dictator over all nations
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without being subject to democratic accountability.
Yeah, whatever. That's why today's progressive left so cavalierly supports open borders.
I'm going to call this open borders talk.
Despite the lawless humanitarian crisis their policy created along American
southern border, they seek to purge the very concept of the nation state from the American ethos.
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No matter how much crime increases or resources drop from schools and hospitals
or wages decrease for the working class,
open borders activism is a classic example of what the German theologian Dietrich
I don't know. I don't know German, y'all.
Called Cheap Grace, publicly promoting one's virtue without risking any personal inconvenience.
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Indeed, the only direct impact of open borders on pro-open borders elites is
that the constant flow of illegal immigration suppresses the wages of their
housekeepers, landscapers and busboys. boys.
Cheap grace aptly describes the left's love affair with environmental extremism.
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Extremism. Yeah, they want y'all. They love some environmental racism now.
They want all you Negroes and other minorities and everything to stay in them
terrible environmental areas.
Don't even, yes, environmental extremism. Those who suffer most from the policies,
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sees environmentalism will have us enact are the age, poor, and vulnerable.
It is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals'
ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.
I'm probably doing way too much.
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This is hilarious. It's very poetic. You better get in all that theology,
all those religious terms in here to to prove your point here,
but this is quite, quite a hoot.
At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human.
Stewardship and conservation are supplanted by population control and economic regression.
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Environmental ideologues would ban the fuels that run almost all of the world's
cars, planes, factories, farms, and electricity grids.
Abandoning confidence in human resilience and creativity in responding to the
challenges of the future will raise impediments to the most meaningful human activities.
They withstand human affairs on their head regarding human activity itself as
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fundamentally a threat to be sacrificed to the God of nature.
The same goals are the heart of elite support for economic globalization.
For 30 years, America's political, economic, and cultural leaders embraced and
enriched communist China and its genocidal communist party while hollowing out
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America's industrial base.
What may have started out with good intentions has now been made clear.
Unfettered trade with China has been a catastrophe. it has made a handful of
American corporations enormously profitable while twisting their business incentives
away from the American people's needs.
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For a generation, politicians of both parties promised that engagement with
Beijing would grow our economy while injecting American values into China.
The opposite has happened. American factories have closed, Jobs have been outsourced.
Our manufacturing economy has been financialized.
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And all along, the corporations profiting failed to export our values of human rights and freedom.
Rather, they imported China's anti-American values into their C-suites.
Say the reverse has happened i you
know what i'm gonna say something because this
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ethnocentric view of america and this whole closed-mindedness of like proud
to be an american and we got olympics coming up and all this stuff i'm gonna
be that's the only time i get like really patriotic it's like during the olympics
i'm cheering for all the americans yes yes definitely beat all those countries.
Some of y'all want to be cheering for Americans this year because of politics,
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definitely with sports and stuff.
We'll get into some of that on the podcast for sure.
But this idea that we know better than the rest of the world,
we're going to tell everybody how to run their countries.
We're going to tell all the people in the world what to do because Because we
hold the supreme of human values and dignity and human rights. What the hell?
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Look at this country now. Do you think we hold the standard on human rights
and value and respect, integrity, honesty?
And we think these are only American?
Like other people in the world don't hold to these same virtues and some,
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dare I say, do it better than us? Thank you.
I don't know. It just blows my mind. Just this narrow view, this ton of vision
of America is great, great, great, great, great.
Everything's just got to be great, great, great. You better say it's great.
You better not criticize. You better. You know what?
It's ridiculous because we have a lot of work to do.
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And while I will say that I am, I say I am respectful of those who have worked
hard and particularly my ancestors who have worked hard to make this country what it is,
for me to enjoy the freedoms that I enjoy,
for all of us to do that as Americans.
There are things to applaud and be thankful for, but just don't get it twisted
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that we reign supreme in virtue.
All right, let's continue. Even before the rise of big tech,
Wall Street ignored China's serial theft of American intellectual property.
It outright cheered the elimination of American manufacturing jobs.
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Learn to code, they would gloat. These were just the price of progress.
Engagement was at every step Beijing's project, not America's.
The Chinese Communist Party dictated terms only to break them.
Whenever it suited them, they stole our technology, spot on our people,
and threatened our allies, all with trillions of dollars of wealth and military
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power financed by their access to our market. it.
Then came the rise of big tech, which is now less a contributor to the US economy
than it is a tool of China's government.
In exchange for cheap labor and regulatory special treatment for Beijing,
America's largest technology firms funnel data about Americans to the CCP.
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They hand over sensitive intellectual property with military and intelligence
applications to keep the money rolling in.
They let Beijing censor Chinese users on their platforms.
They let the CCP set their corporate policies about mobile apps,
and they run interference for our rival's political parties in Washington.
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One side of BitTech's company's business model is old-fashioned,
American competitiveness and world-changing technological technological innovation.
But increasingly, the side of these businesses is overshadowed by their role
as operatives in the lucrative employ of America's most dangerous international enemies.
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If you want to understand the danger posed by collaboration between BitTech
and the CCP, look no further than TikTok.
And we all know what's been going on with TikTok and how that's been a bipartisan
issue actually in this country.
The highly addictive video app used by 80 million Americans every month and
overwhelmingly popular among teenage girls is in effect the tool of Chinese espionage.
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The ties between the TikTok and the Chinese government are not loose and they
They are not coincidental.
The same can be observed by many of many U.S.
Colleges and universities through the CCP's Confucius Institutes.
Beijing has been just as successful at compromising and co-opting our higher
education system as they have at compromising and co-opting corporate America.
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All right. That's a stretch.
A casual reader might take the last few pages as surveying a broad array of
challenges facing the American people and the next conservative president.
Supernational policymaking, border security, globalization, engagement with
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China, manufacturing, big tech and Beijing compromised colleges.
But these really are not many issues. But two, one, that China is a totalitarian country.
Excuse me, totalitarian enemy of the United States, not a strategic partner
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or a fair competitor, and two, that America's elites have betrayed the American people.
The solution to all of the above problems is not to tinker with this or that
government program to replace this or that bureaucrat.
These are problems not of the technocratic efficiency, but of national sovereignty
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and constitutional governance.
We saw them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves, but by ripping out the trees, root and branch.
International organizations and agreements that erode our constitution,
rule of law, our popular sovereignty should not be reformed.
They should be abandoned.
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Illegal immigrants should be ended, not mitigated. The border sealed, not reprioritized.
Economic engagement with China should be ended, no rethought.
Our manufacturing and industrial base should be restored, not allowed to deteriorate further.
Confucius Institute's TikTok and any other arm of Chinese propaganda and espionage
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should be outlawed, not merely monitored.
Universities taking money from the CCP should lose their accreditation,
charters, and eligibility for federal funds.
The next conservative president should go beyond merely defending America's
energy interests, but go on the offense, asserting them around the world.
America's vast reserves of oil and natural gas are not an environmental problem.
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They are the lifeblood of economic growth. American dominance of the global
energy market would be a good thing for the world, and more importantly, for we the people.
It's not just about jobs, even though unleashing domestic energy production
would create millions of them.
It's not just about higher wages for workers who didn't go to college,
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though they would receive the raises they have missed out on for two generations.
Full spectrum strategic energy dominance will facilitate the reinvigoration
of America's entire industrial manufacturing sector as we disentangle our economy from China.
Globally, it will rebalance power away from dangerous regimes in Russia and the Middle East.
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It will build powerful alliances with fast-growing nations in Africa.
Please leave Africa alone.
Haven't you done enough? Please leave Africa alone.
And provide us the leverage to counter Chinese ambitions in South America and the Pacific.
Locally, it would draw billions of dollars of private investment to the communities
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that have been harmed by globalization since the 1990s.
And it would clarify our intentions to Beijing that the next president can ensure
that a large part of America re-industrialization is in the production of the equipment.
We would need to dissuade future foreign meddling with U.S. virtual interests.
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This whole thing that wraps up number three, this whole idea of pulling back
from the world, out of the world,
pulling out of these organizations where we are connected because of serving
everyone else and not us.
I'm not the most learned man.
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I don't know all the things. I don't know all the ins and outs about international relations.
That's the area very weak on. I just know some bare minimum basics.
But just looking at it, just logically, we are in a globalized world.
And it's like, Like, how do you get around that? It is what it is kind of right now.
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Now, I say there are ways. I'm sure there are standards and ways,
you know, people much smarter than me can do with craft and the way trade and all these things work.
But everybody's going to be trying to get the better end. It's not like countries
wherever are not trying to look out for themselves and better themselves.
So negotiations are just going
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to be that. It's going to be a give and take going all kinds of ways.
But I don't understand how pulling away is going to benefit people.
How is that going to increase wages?
How is that going to create more jobs? It's the assumption that we have the
education level of all citizens here to do the tasks that are needed.
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There's a reason we outsource.
A lot of times, it's not always just about getting over, but sometimes it's
about who is capable of doing certain projects.
The way that you already go after education, who's going to be learning and studying?
Because y'all are trying to get rid of all these colleges and universities.
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What are we replacing it with? All y'all want to talk about is government and
the Bible and all these things.
I don't understand. I'm just really confused at the big picture and what this
looks like for an America in the future that kind of says globalization.
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No, we shouldn't do anything. But then you talk about working with Africa.
Like that looks a little bit dicey with me, like you're trying to slide in there
and take more and more resources.
Which I'm sure that you are.
I don't know. This whole thing, it's a lot to seek in, but it gives you an idea
of their global perspective and how they review the world.
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And talking about closing off borders, stealing them.
The whole illegal immigration thing, the whole immigration thing,
it just makes my ass hit, y'all.
The way that we deal with this in this country and the way that we continue
to talk about this and the talking points that go through with it.
I know stuff has to be done and there are ways to tighten up,
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but I just wish there was like a lot more care and heart and truth telling.
Compelling and more actual working
together when solutions are there than trying to make political points when
it comes to immigration and not letting something that happens with some immigrants
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that are bad or dangerous or crime dictate all immigrants or all immigrants
of a certain demographic,
because you certainly don't come for all immigrants.
They're definitely immigrants who you don't mind coming into the country.
And I think that goes without saying.
Well, that is part three. All we have left is part four, which is really quick.
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So I'm going to actually just go ahead and read through part four now.
And we have three or four, and you got the first four principles here that they want to do.
Number four, promise number four, secure our God-given individual right to enjoy
the blessings of liberty.
What the hell does this mean? Let's find out together, y'all.
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Secure our God-given individual right to enjoy the blessings of liberty.
I'm thinking about Scandal. What was the president?
She was running for president, but she was on the news show.
I cannot remember her name right now, but I just hear her saying and liberty.
Right now, the blessings of liberty and it's kind of tripping me out. But anyway.
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Let's get it. The Declaration of Independence famously asserted the belief of
America's founders that all men are created equal.
Yeah, they really believe that, right? While they allow millions to be enslaved.
But anyway, and endowed with God-given rights to life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of happiness.
I'm glad they wrote that down though. They didn't know consider us men, you know, at that point.
So, but I'm glad it's written there in paper, in ink.
It's the last, the pursuit of happiness that is central to America's heroic
experiment in self-government.
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And I'm not trying to say an experiment, because whenever Obama called America
an experiment on Twitter last week, y'all about had a hissy fit with him using that word.
But anyway, when the founders spoke of pursuit of happiness,
what they meant might be understood today as an essence, pursuit of blessedness.
All right. I'm feeling blessedness. What's the show?
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Hands made tail bobs coming up. But anyway, that is an individual must be free
to live as his creator ordained to flourish.
Flourish our constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want
but what we ought this pursuit of the good life is found primarily in family marriage and children.
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Thanksgiving dinners and the like bye this is probably this okay anyway yes
if you don't have any of these,
then you're messing up your life.
Many find happiness through their work. It's so funny they put Thanksgiving
dinners down there. That's hilarious.
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Many find happiness through their work. Think of dedicated teachers or healthcare
professionals, entrepreneurs or plumbers throwing themselves into their business.
Anyone who sees a job well done as a personal reward.
Religious devotion and spirituality are the greatest source of happiness around the world.
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And some of the greatest causes of unhappiness around the world, you can say too.
Still others find themselves happiest in their local voluntary communities of
friends, their neighbors, their civic or charitable work.
The American Republic was founded on principles prioritizing and maximizing
individual rights to live their best life or to enjoy what the farmers,
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the framers call the blessings of liberty.
It's the radical equality, liberty for all, not just of rights,
but of authority that the rich and powerful have hated about democracy in America since 1776.
They resent America's audacity and insist that we don't need them to tell us how to live.
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Is this inalienable right of self-direction of each person's opportunity to
direct himself or herself and his or her community to the good that the ruling class disdains.
With the Declaration and the Constitution, our nation's founders handed to us
the means with which to preserve this right.
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Abraham Lincoln wrote of the Declaration as an apple of gold in a silver frame,
the Constitution. So must the next conservative president look to these documents
when the elites mount their next assault on liberty?
Left to our own devices, the American people reject the European monarchy and
colonialism, just as we reject the slavery, second-class citizenship for women.
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Mercenarism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, fascism, communism, and today, wokeism.
To the left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs
of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority, proof that, in fact,
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we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.
But the next conservative president should be proud, not ashamed,
of Americans' unique culture of social equality and ordered liberty.
After all, the countries where Marxist elites have won political and economic
power are all weaker, poorer, and less free for it.
The United States remains the most innovative and upwardly mobile society in the world.
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Government should stop trying to substitute its own preferences for those of the people.
And the next conservative president should champion the dynamic genius of free
enterprise against the grim miseries of elite directed socialism.
Promise of socialism, communism, Marxism, progressivism, fascism,
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whatever name it chooses is simple.
Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people.
The problem is that it has never done so.
There's no such thing as the government. They're just people who work for the
government and wield this power and who at almost every every opportunity wielded
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to serve themselves first and everyone else a distant second.
This is not a felon of one nation or socialist party, but inherent in human nature.
Nighttime satellite images of the Korean peninsula famously show that the free
market South lit up with homes, business, and cities electrified from coast to coast.
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By contrast, communist North Korea is almost completely dark,
except for the small dot of the capital city, where a psychotic dictator and his cronies live.
The same phenomenon is on display in the infuriating fact that four of the six
richest counties in the United States are suburbs of Washington,
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D.C., a city infamous for its lack of native productive industries.
We see the same corruption expressed on an individual level whenever billionaire
climate activists who want to outlaw carbon fuel transportation fly to A-list
conferences on their private jets,
or when COVID-19 shut down politicians like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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and California Governor Gavin Newsom were caught at their hair salon or dining
at fancy restaurants at the moralizing about how everyone else must stay home
and forego such things. luxuries during the pandemic.
For socialists who are almost always well-to-do, socialism is not a means of
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equalizing outcome, but a means of accumulating power.
They never get around to helping anyone else.
The Soviet empire was a social and economic failure.
North Korea, despite the opulence of its tyrants, is one of the poorest nations in the world.
Cuba is so corrupt that its people regularly risk their lives to escape to Florida on rafts.
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Venezuela was once the richest nation in South America.
Today, a decade after Marxist dictator took over, 94% of Venezuelans live in poverty.
Even socialist Senator Bernie Sanders' home state of Vermont was forced to repeal
the state single-payer healthcare system just three years after creating it.
In every case, socialist elites promised that if only they could direct the
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economy, everything would be better.
Very quickly, everything got worse. In socialist nation after socialist nation,
the only way that the government could keep disgruntled people in line was to
subvert and terrorize them.
By contrast, in countries with a high degree of economic freedom,
them, elites are not in charge because everyone is in charge.
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People work, build, invest, save, and create according to their own interests
and in service to the common good of their fellow citizens.
There's a reason why the private economy hues to the maximum.
The customer is always right.
While government bureaucracies are notoriously user unfriendly,
just as there There is a reason why private charity are cheerful and government
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welfare systems are not.
It is not because grocery store clerks and PTA moms are good and federal bureaucrats are bad.
It's because private enterprises for profit or nonprofit must cooperate to give to succeed.
As the American people take back their sovereignty, constitutional authority,
respect for their families and communities, they should also take back their
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right to pursue the good life.
The next president should promote pro-growth economic policies that spur new
jobs and investment, higher wages and productivity.
Yes, that agenda should include overdue tax and regulatory reform,
but it should go further and include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies.
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It should promote educational opportunities outside the woke-dominated system
of public schools and universities,
including trade schools and apprenticeship programs and student loan alternatives
that fund students' dreams instead of Marxist academics.
Right here at the end, and what's so blowing my mind and is about to make me go crazy,
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I just know just even in North Carolina, in areas where Republicans are in control,
you take away from education all the time, all the time.
And some of these things I'm with, yeah, let's get more trade schools,
apprenticeship programs, do all this stuff.
Let's invest in education a lot more. But the idea you're saying for ways outside
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of public schools and universities,
you really mean let's defund those things pretty much totally and put in all
these other things, which is just weird, or these school choices and these charter
schools and all these other things, instead of working in what we have.
If we invest in what's already here, we can do this.
And this idea that the left are socialists and all these principles of socialism
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and leading us towards this is,
I think it's just a warped sense of the way people think people live in this
country that, I don't know.
No, the principles we have right now, they ain't working. I'll just say that.
Maybe a little more socialism won't hurt.
OK, you're there first, because I'm just saying you preach against all this
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stuff that we don't do or haven't been done and talk about the horrors of it.
And as if it's being enacted, it's just blowing my mind.
But just as important as suspending opportunities for workers and small businesses,
the next president should crack down on the crony capitalist corruption that
enables America's largest corporations to profit through political influence
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rather than competitive enterprise and customer satisfaction. fashion.
Well, okay, we agree on cracking down on stuff, but anytime we try to go at
the corporations or the bigwigs,
y'all fight against it. I'm really confused.
The tax breaks are always for the wealthy with a conservative president.
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I don't understand.
Anagulis pro-growth reforms for reforms for America's voluntary civil society are also in order.
America is not an economy, it is a country. Economic freedom is not the only important freedom.
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the freedom to assemble to represent
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key components of the American promise.
Yeah, y'all really don't believe in freedom of religion. You want everything to be Christian.
Today, in addition to the problem of big tech censorship, we see speakers at
universities shot it down.
Parents investigated and arrested for attempted to speak at a school board meeting
and donors to conservative causes harassed and intimidated.
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The next conservative president must defend our first amendment rights.
And we go more whining from the conservatives because y'all are definitely so disrespected.
Last, last little summary here. It's called best effort. for.
Ultimately, the left does not believe that all men are created equal.
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They think they are special.
They certainly don't think all people have an unalienable right to pursue the good life.
They think only they themselves have such a right, along with a moral responsibility
to make decisions for everyone else.
No, that's why you all up in women's private parts and telling them when they
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can and can't have abortions.
Yeah, that's totally the left doing that. You're all up in their reproductive rights.
You're all up in to the poor, the homeless, and how much you can get from a state.
You're all up in unemployment and SNAP and all these things.
Okay. Yeah, that's the left. The left is trying to take away.
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This book, this agenda, the entire Project 2025 is a plan to unite the conservative
movement and the American people against elite rule and the woke culture warriors.
Our movement has not been united in recent years and our country has paid the price.
In the past decade, though, the breakdown of the family, the rise of China,
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the Great Awakening, big text abuses, and the erosion of constitutional accountability
in Washington have rendered these divisions not just inconvenient,
but politically suicidal.
Every hour, the left directs federal policy and elite institutions over sovereignty.
Our Constitution, our families and our freedoms are a step closer to disappearing. parent.
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Conservatives have just two years and one shot to get this right.
With enemies at home and abroad, there's no margin for error.
Time is running short. If we fail, the fight for the very idea of America may be lost.
But we should take this small window of opportunity we have left to act with
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the courage and confidence, not despair.
The last time our nation and movement meant we're so near defeat,
we rallied together behind a great leader and great ideas, transcended our differences,
rescued our nation, and changed the world. It's time to do it again.
Now as then, we know who we're fighting and what we're fighting for,
for our republic, our freedom, and for each other.
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The next conservative president will enter office on January 20th,
2025, with the simple choice, greatness or failure.
It would be a daunting test, tests, but no more so than every generation of
Americans has faced and passed.
The conservative promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement
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in 2023 and the next conservative president's last opportunity to save our republic.
Y'all, this is serious. So like even the what's what's his name?
I think his name is I want to say Kevin.
Yeah. Kevin Roberts, who is the leader of this whole thing.
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He was he's been out talking. And I know y'all have heard the clips where he said, you know.
Basically, this fight is going to remain bloodless as long as the left allows it.
These people are willing to shed blood for this. We saw January 6th.
I just want you to know, when we show up to the polls and we stop this nonsense
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from happening, it's not going to be the end. These people are serious.
They see this as America's last shot.
Somehow in 2024, going into 2025, this is America's last chance to be America, whatever that means.
Whatever that means. So they're putting everything into these.
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These people are wacko that are left out here and we have to deal with them.
So yeah, January 6th was one thing, but just be prepared.
Once we do win this fight, there's going to be fight and love to do.
And I hope it doesn't get ugly, that it doesn't turn bloody, but the threat is there.
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And a threat has been issued.
And made with this. But ultimately, I think conservatives are really weak punks anyway, very weak.
The main ones that be out here, they talk all this noise and they would do stuff.
I'm not saying nobody won't do anything, but it's more of us and we can easily shut them down.
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So don't give in remain
strong realize this platform is out here and it's crap that they view everyone
that's not with them as being on the left you're a leftist they put you all
in one category they already know what you think and believe and all these things and the horrors,
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of it and they're trying to fight against you you and your principal you and
your own individual right.
It's so funny. They read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights,
and how every individual has the right, but no, they don't want you to have that right.
They want to make what they believe your beliefs.
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That's why you got to get out there and do it in a pose and show them what you want.
That's where our talking is right now. Well, as promised, that those are the four principles.
You can go back and listen to the previous two principles that are broken up
where I did both about 30 minutes a piece or so on those episodes with each
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principle and a breakdown there.
These were the final two that we did today.
Thank you to Raji once again, and welcome back to the couch,
y'all. Well, look forward to producing some good and fun content for you.
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Been a while, y'all. It has. Let's just say life took over.
You know, there were many things. My kid graduating, my birthday,
the 4th of July, all these things.
And then just going through your own personal struggles. You know how life goes.
But we are never going fully away. Just a little mini break.
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And we are back in business now on the couch because I got some things to talk about.
I got some content to put out there for y'all.
So just continue to listen and tune in and you best believe the couch is here to stay.
So welcome back to the Parker's couch. If this is your first time here,
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my name is Cameron Parker.
I usually am on the podcast with my brother, Carlin Parker and our oldest brother,
Carl Parker. And I do some things solo.
This is going to be one of my solo things that's going to be both on our YouTube
page, The Parker's Couch, and also on our podcasting platforms,
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wherever you listen to your podcast from.
Now, I started off, when was that? It was a few weeks ago in June talking about Project 2025.
And I left y'all completely hanging. I did the first two principles that I covered,
And I was going to cover the next two of their four parts that they have there
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and their four pillar there with their playbook.
And then I kind of fell off. But I am back because you need to hear this in
the entirety. So make sure that you go back and listen to the episodes dealing with Project 2025.
The first principle was around restoring the family to America's center of life
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and protecting our children.
And the second episode I did was about dismantling the administrative state
and returning self-governance to the people, so they say.
Definitely go back and listen to those so you get an understanding of what's in Project 2025.
Now, Project 2025 has been getting so much buzz lately.
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Now, on the couch, we were ahead of the curve, right? If you were listening,
you know we were talking about this because it's not new.
But praise be to the BET Awards and to Raji P.
Henson. because her announcement during the awards, whenever she told people
to go and look up Project 2025 and what they're trying to do.
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We'll show out when it's time to vote because it's not just about the presidential
election, you guys. It's time for us to play chess, not checkers.
It's about making decisions that will affect us as human beings.
Our careers, our next generations to come.
Did you know that it is now a crime to be homeless?
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Pay attention it's not a secret look
it up they are attacking our most vulnerable citizens
the project 2025 plan is
not a game look it up my god my god that woke people up i mean we can say what
we want about celebrities and some things a fair game to do but this This is
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an example of the power and how it can be used to do the right thing,
because she pointed people in the right direction to go and look this up and to start researching.
And then everybody's calling in. It's on all the shows. It's on every talk.
It's article after article.
Now you can't go anywhere without Project 2025 being heard of.
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It was so much that Donald Trump even had to come out with his useless tweet
to separate himself with the idea that he has nothing to do with it.
He doesn't know anything about it. He is like, I agree.
He doesn't know anything about it, but yet he agrees with some things,
but not with everything. And he wishes them luck.
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This man talks out of both sides of his mouth, out of three sides,
four sides, five sides of his large ass mouth so many times.
You can't believe a word this man says.
And I know everybody's up in arms over Biden. We all have our concerns.
We all have this and that. But there is a bigger picture out here.
And Project 2025 is one of those big pictures.
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And just so you know, all the people working on this too, the majority,
about 50 plus of those people are connected to Donald J. Trump.
They either worked in his administration in some kind of capacity or they're connected to him.
He had them in charge of so many various different aspects of his administration.
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So don't believe him at all whenever he says he has no idea what Project 2025
is all about. But you know what, family?
We are going to continue on and we're We're going to pick back up with number
three right here on the list of things that Project 2025 wanted to do away with or change or mend.
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Now, if you're watching on the YouTube page, the Parkers Couch,
you can follow along as I share the screen up here and you'll be able to read
along possibly with what I'm sharing. Aaron.
If you're just listening on a podcast, which is totally fine too,
make sure that you just listen up, pay attention, go to project2025.org to do
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your own research too as well.
As I said before that this is a 920 plus page document.
I'm not covering the whole thing on the podcast. I don't know.
I might dig into it more and do some more things coming up to the election because
I think it is just so uber important and we need to stay on their necks and
people need to be reminded, no matter how small my outreach is,
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what little I can do, I am here for to do because democracy is at stake.
And that takes priority. My life, your life, our rights, my rights,
all these things are super important.
And we got to make sure we stop those who are trying to take things away.
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So it is very important. Make sure you subscribe to the podcast and to the YouTube
page and look forward to content that's going to be coming out.
We don't only talk politics. We talk a lot of sports. We talk a lot of TV.
I definitely have some TV things coming up for you that I want to get into and
stuff on the YouTube page. and my brothers and I should be returning to our podcast very shortly.
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We've all been quite busy, but we will be back.
And thank y'all for listening, still downloading episodes while we've been on this little hiatus.
All right, promise number three, defend our nation's sovereignty,
borders, and bounty against global threats.
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So here we go. The United States belongs to we the people.
All government authority derives from the consent of the people and our nation's
success derives from the character of its people.
The American people's right to rule ourselves is the verse of our duty.
We cannot outsource to others our obligation to ensure the condition that allows
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our families, local communities, churches, and synagogues and and neighborhoods to thrive.
The buck stops with each of us. So each of us must have the freedom to pursue
the good for ourselves and those entrusted to our care.
To most Americans, this is common sense.
But in Washington, D.C., ooh, the boogeyman, Washington, D.C.,
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and other centers of leftist power like the media and the academy,
the statement of basic civics is branded hate speech.
I don't know why conservatives think they have the full authority over American civics.
Like, it's ridiculous.
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But anyway, progressive elites speak in lofty terms of openness,
progress, expertise, cooperation, and globalization.
But too often, these terms are just rhetorical.
Trojan horse, or rhetorical Trojan horses, concealing their true intention,
stripping we the people of our constitutional authority over our country's future.
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Meanwhile, that's all you see coming from the right is stripping of our country's
future. Just look at the Supreme Court, y'all.
America's corporate and political elites do not believe in the ideals to which
our nation is dedicated, self-governance, the rule of law, and ordered liberty.
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They certainly do not trust the American people, and they disdain the Constitution's
restrictions on their ambitions.
Instead, they believe in a kind of 21st century Wilsonian order in which the
enlightened, highly educated,
managerial, elite runs things rather than the humble, patriotic,
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working families who make up but the majority of what the elites continuously call fly over country.
This is hilarious to me. This picture of the left and progressive being full
of nothing but elites and the rich and stuff.
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And while everybody on the right is these humble, hardworking, patriotic people.
Y'all gotta keep falling for this scam. that elites only exist on the left?
Really? When you have an elite at the head of your party on the right running
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for president and he's convincing y'all that he's one of you,
that he's for the common people.
When, I mean, you can look at all of government as far as if you want to say
like elite and be that, it's no separate status here.
If you just look in general, The left and the right is full of all types of
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American people. No one has this whole.
The Republicans have been really good. And I think it's because of Hollywood.
It says Hollywood is so visible to our eyes.
And a lot of Hollywood is left. Well, it's this idea that everyone who is rich
or everyone who is in a public eye is leftist when there are many,
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many, many, many, many elites on the right, you best believe,
because how the hell do they finance all this stuff?
How? Okay. Anyway, this Wilsonian hubris has spread like a cancer through many
of America's largest corporations,
its public institutions, and its popular culture.
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Those who run our so-called American corporations have bent to the will of the
woke agenda, here we go, buzzword woke, and care more for their foreign investors
and organizations than their American workers and customers.
Today, nearly every top-tier U.S. university president or Wall Street hedge
fund manager has more in common with a socialist European head of state than
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with the parents of a high school football game in Waco, Texas.
I just love the way they keep trying to picture this idea of left versus right.
Everybody on this right is just these honest, just hardworking, regular people.
Why everybody on the left is just there with their agendas. It's overtaken us.
So whiny, so whiny. But anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, it just throws me for a loop.
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But you can see how they're still even coming for education in this.
And they always paint education as being a leftist thing, as if people on the
right cannot be educated or are not within education themselves. selves.
It's very strange to me. Many elites' entire identity, it seems,
is wrapped up in their sense of superiority over those people.
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But under our constitution, they are the mere equals of the workers who shower
at the work instead of before.
Who shower at the work instead of before. Yeah, because everybody who showers
before work, they're obviously leftists, they're white collar,
dollar, they're elite, they have all the money.
While we hardworking farmers and everything like that, all of us are conservatives
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and we shower at the work, because we're doing the hard work of the land and all these things.
Meanwhile, your head that's running for president probably,
never mowed a lawn in his life, probably never raped a piece of grass,
leaves, never, ever, maybe something physical outdoors that he's done.
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Okay. But we'll continue to paint this picture with y'all. We'll fall for this
optical illusion that y'all try to continue to do on this right side.
This is as it should and must be.
This is as it should and must be. Intellectual sophistication,
advanced degrees, financial success, and all other markers of elite status have
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no bearing on a person's knowledge of the one thing most necessary for governance,
what it means to live well.
That knowledge is available to each of us, no matter how humble our backgrounds
or how unpretentious our attainments.
It is open to us to read in the book of human nature, to which we are all offered
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the key, just by merit of our shared humanity.
One of the great premises of American political life is that everyone who can
read in that book must have a voice in deciding the course and fate of our republic.
Progressive policymakers and pundits in America either fail to understand this
premise or intentionally reject it.
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They enthusiastically support supranational organizations like the United Nations and European Union,
which are run and staffed almost entirely by people who shared their values
and mostly insulated from the influence of national elections.
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You know, they can come for the United Nations, for NATO, for all this stuff.
That's why they're eager for America to sign international treaties on everything
from pharmaceutical patient patents to climate change to the rights of the child.
And while those treaties invariably endorse policies that could never pass through
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the U.S. Congress, like the progressive Woodrow Wilson a century ago,
the vote left today seats the world.
Bound by global treaties they write in which they exercise, I know they're not
saying it, dictatorial powers.
There's only one dictator. Somebody tried to be a dictator over all nations
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without being subject to democratic accountability.
Yeah, whatever. That's why today's progressive left so cavalierly supports open borders.
I'm going to call this open borders talk.
Despite the lawless humanitarian crisis their policy created along American
southern border, they seek to purge the very concept of the nation state from the American ethos.
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No matter how much crime increases or resources drop from schools and hospitals
or wages decrease for the working class,
open borders activism is a classic example of what the German theologian Dietrich
I don't know. I don't know German, y'all.
Called Cheap Grace, publicly promoting one's virtue without risking any personal inconvenience.
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Indeed, the only direct impact of open borders on pro-open borders elites is
that the constant flow of illegal immigration suppresses the wages of their
housekeepers, landscapers and busboys. boys.
Cheap grace aptly describes the left's love affair with environmental extremism.
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Extremism. Yeah, they want y'all. They love some environmental racism now.
They want all you Negroes and other minorities and everything to stay in them
terrible environmental areas.
Don't even, yes, environmental extremism. Those who suffer most from the policies,
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sees environmentalism will have us enact are the age, poor, and vulnerable.
It is not a political cause, but a pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals'
ruthless pursuit of absolute power in the holy water of environmental virtue.
I'm probably doing way too much.
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This is hilarious. It's very poetic. You better get in all that theology,
all those religious terms in here to to prove your point here,
but this is quite, quite a hoot.
At its very heart, environmental extremism is decidedly anti-human.
Stewardship and conservation are supplanted by population control and economic regression.
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Environmental ideologues would ban the fuels that run almost all of the world's
cars, planes, factories, farms, and electricity grids.
Abandoning confidence in human resilience and creativity in responding to the
challenges of the future will raise impediments to the most meaningful human activities.
They withstand human affairs on their head regarding human activity itself as
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fundamentally a threat to be sacrificed to the God of nature.
The same goals are the heart of elite support for economic globalization.
For 30 years, America's political, economic, and cultural leaders embraced and
enriched communist China and its genocidal communist party while hollowing out
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America's industrial base.
What may have started out with good intentions has now been made clear.
Unfettered trade with China has been a catastrophe. it has made a handful of
American corporations enormously profitable while twisting their business incentives
away from the American people's needs.
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For a generation, politicians of both parties promised that engagement with
Beijing would grow our economy while injecting American values into China.
The opposite has happened. American factories have closed, Jobs have been outsourced.
Our manufacturing economy has been financialized.
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And all along, the corporations profiting failed to export our values of human rights and freedom.
Rather, they imported China's anti-American values into their C-suites.
Say the reverse has happened i you
know what i'm gonna say something because this
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ethnocentric view of america and this whole closed-mindedness of like proud
to be an american and we got olympics coming up and all this stuff i'm gonna
be that's the only time i get like really patriotic it's like during the olympics
i'm cheering for all the americans yes yes definitely beat all those countries.
Some of y'all want to be cheering for Americans this year because of politics,
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definitely with sports and stuff.
We'll get into some of that on the podcast for sure.
But this idea that we know better than the rest of the world,
we're going to tell everybody how to run their countries.
We're going to tell all the people in the world what to do because Because we
hold the supreme of human values and dignity and human rights. What the hell?
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Look at this country now. Do you think we hold the standard on human rights
and value and respect, integrity, honesty?
And we think these are only American?
Like other people in the world don't hold to these same virtues and some,
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dare I say, do it better than us? Thank you.
I don't know. It just blows my mind. Just this narrow view, this ton of vision
of America is great, great, great, great, great.
Everything's just got to be great, great, great. You better say it's great.
You better not criticize. You better. You know what?
It's ridiculous because we have a lot of work to do.
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And while I will say that I am, I say I am respectful of those who have worked
hard and particularly my ancestors who have worked hard to make this country what it is,
for me to enjoy the freedoms that I enjoy,
for all of us to do that as Americans.
There are things to applaud and be thankful for, but just don't get it twisted
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that we reign supreme in virtue.
All right, let's continue. Even before the rise of big tech,
Wall Street ignored China's serial theft of American intellectual property.
It outright cheered the elimination of American manufacturing jobs.
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Learn to code, they would gloat. These were just the price of progress.
Engagement was at every step Beijing's project, not America's.
The Chinese Communist Party dictated terms only to break them.
Whenever it suited them, they stole our technology, spot on our people,
and threatened our allies, all with trillions of dollars of wealth and military
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power financed by their access to our market. it.
Then came the rise of big tech, which is now less a contributor to the US economy
than it is a tool of China's government.
In exchange for cheap labor and regulatory special treatment for Beijing,
America's largest technology firms funnel data about Americans to the CCP.
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They hand over sensitive intellectual property with military and intelligence
applications to keep the money rolling in.
They let Beijing censor Chinese users on their platforms.
They let the CCP set their corporate policies about mobile apps,
and they run interference for our rival's political parties in Washington.
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One side of BitTech's company's business model is old-fashioned,
American competitiveness and world-changing technological technological innovation.
But increasingly, the side of these businesses is overshadowed by their role
as operatives in the lucrative employ of America's most dangerous international enemies.
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If you want to understand the danger posed by collaboration between BitTech
and the CCP, look no further than TikTok.
And we all know what's been going on with TikTok and how that's been a bipartisan
issue actually in this country.
The highly addictive video app used by 80 million Americans every month and
overwhelmingly popular among teenage girls is in effect the tool of Chinese espionage.
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The ties between the TikTok and the Chinese government are not loose and they
They are not coincidental.
The same can be observed by many of many U.S.
Colleges and universities through the CCP's Confucius Institutes.
Beijing has been just as successful at compromising and co-opting our higher
education system as they have at compromising and co-opting corporate America.
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All right. That's a stretch.
A casual reader might take the last few pages as surveying a broad array of
challenges facing the American people and the next conservative president.
Supernational policymaking, border security, globalization, engagement with
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China, manufacturing, big tech and Beijing compromised colleges.
But these really are not many issues. But two, one, that China is a totalitarian country.
Excuse me, totalitarian enemy of the United States, not a strategic partner
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or a fair competitor, and two, that America's elites have betrayed the American people.
The solution to all of the above problems is not to tinker with this or that
government program to replace this or that bureaucrat.
These are problems not of the technocratic efficiency, but of national sovereignty
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and constitutional governance.
We saw them not by trimming and reshaping the leaves, but by ripping out the trees, root and branch.
International organizations and agreements that erode our constitution,
rule of law, our popular sovereignty should not be reformed.
They should be abandoned.
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Illegal immigrants should be ended, not mitigated. The border sealed, not reprioritized.
Economic engagement with China should be ended, no rethought.
Our manufacturing and industrial base should be restored, not allowed to deteriorate further.
Confucius Institute's TikTok and any other arm of Chinese propaganda and espionage
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should be outlawed, not merely monitored.
Universities taking money from the CCP should lose their accreditation,
charters, and eligibility for federal funds.
The next conservative president should go beyond merely defending America's
energy interests, but go on the offense, asserting them around the world.
America's vast reserves of oil and natural gas are not an environmental problem.
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They are the lifeblood of economic growth. American dominance of the global
energy market would be a good thing for the world, and more importantly, for we the people.
It's not just about jobs, even though unleashing domestic energy production
would create millions of them.
It's not just about higher wages for workers who didn't go to college,
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though they would receive the raises they have missed out on for two generations.
Full spectrum strategic energy dominance will facilitate the reinvigoration
of America's entire industrial manufacturing sector as we disentangle our economy from China.
Globally, it will rebalance power away from dangerous regimes in Russia and the Middle East.
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It will build powerful alliances with fast-growing nations in Africa.
Please leave Africa alone.
Haven't you done enough? Please leave Africa alone.
And provide us the leverage to counter Chinese ambitions in South America and the Pacific.
Locally, it would draw billions of dollars of private investment to the communities
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that have been harmed by globalization since the 1990s.
And it would clarify our intentions to Beijing that the next president can ensure
that a large part of America re-industrialization is in the production of the equipment.
We would need to dissuade future foreign meddling with U.S. virtual interests.
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This whole thing that wraps up number three, this whole idea of pulling back
from the world, out of the world,
pulling out of these organizations where we are connected because of serving
everyone else and not us.
I'm not the most learned man.
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I don't know all the things. I don't know all the ins and outs about international relations.
That's the area very weak on. I just know some bare minimum basics.
But just looking at it, just logically, we are in a globalized world.
And it's like, Like, how do you get around that? It is what it is kind of right now.
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Now, I say there are ways. I'm sure there are standards and ways,
you know, people much smarter than me can do with craft and the way trade and all these things work.
But everybody's going to be trying to get the better end. It's not like countries
wherever are not trying to look out for themselves and better themselves.
So negotiations are just going
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to be that. It's going to be a give and take going all kinds of ways.
But I don't understand how pulling away is going to benefit people.
How is that going to increase wages?
How is that going to create more jobs? It's the assumption that we have the
education level of all citizens here to do the tasks that are needed.
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There's a reason we outsource.
A lot of times, it's not always just about getting over, but sometimes it's
about who is capable of doing certain projects.
The way that you already go after education, who's going to be learning and studying?
Because y'all are trying to get rid of all these colleges and universities.
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What are we replacing it with? All y'all want to talk about is government and
the Bible and all these things.
I don't understand. I'm just really confused at the big picture and what this
looks like for an America in the future that kind of says globalization.
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No, we shouldn't do anything. But then you talk about working with Africa.
Like that looks a little bit dicey with me, like you're trying to slide in there
and take more and more resources.
Which I'm sure that you are.
I don't know. This whole thing, it's a lot to seek in, but it gives you an idea
of their global perspective and how they review the world.
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And talking about closing off borders, stealing them.
The whole illegal immigration thing, the whole immigration thing,
it just makes my ass hit, y'all.
The way that we deal with this in this country and the way that we continue
to talk about this and the talking points that go through with it.
I know stuff has to be done and there are ways to tighten up,
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but I just wish there was like a lot more care and heart and truth telling.
Compelling and more actual working
together when solutions are there than trying to make political points when
it comes to immigration and not letting something that happens with some immigrants
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that are bad or dangerous or crime dictate all immigrants or all immigrants
of a certain demographic,
because you certainly don't come for all immigrants.
They're definitely immigrants who you don't mind coming into the country.
And I think that goes without saying.
Well, that is part three. All we have left is part four, which is really quick.
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So I'm going to actually just go ahead and read through part four now.
And we have three or four, and you got the first four principles here that they want to do.
Number four, promise number four, secure our God-given individual right to enjoy
the blessings of liberty.
What the hell does this mean? Let's find out together, y'all.
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Secure our God-given individual right to enjoy the blessings of liberty.
I'm thinking about Scandal. What was the president?
She was running for president, but she was on the news show.
I cannot remember her name right now, but I just hear her saying and liberty.
Right now, the blessings of liberty and it's kind of tripping me out. But anyway.
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Let's get it. The Declaration of Independence famously asserted the belief of
America's founders that all men are created equal.
Yeah, they really believe that, right? While they allow millions to be enslaved.
But anyway, and endowed with God-given rights to life, liberty,
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and the pursuit of happiness.
I'm glad they wrote that down though. They didn't know consider us men, you know, at that point.
So, but I'm glad it's written there in paper, in ink.
It's the last, the pursuit of happiness that is central to America's heroic
experiment in self-government.
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And I'm not trying to say an experiment, because whenever Obama called America
an experiment on Twitter last week, y'all about had a hissy fit with him using that word.
But anyway, when the founders spoke of pursuit of happiness,
what they meant might be understood today as an essence, pursuit of blessedness.
All right. I'm feeling blessedness. What's the show?
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Hands made tail bobs coming up. But anyway, that is an individual must be free
to live as his creator ordained to flourish.
Flourish our constitution grants each of us the liberty to do not what we want
but what we ought this pursuit of the good life is found primarily in family marriage and children.
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Thanksgiving dinners and the like bye this is probably this okay anyway yes
if you don't have any of these,
then you're messing up your life.
Many find happiness through their work. It's so funny they put Thanksgiving
dinners down there. That's hilarious.
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Many find happiness through their work. Think of dedicated teachers or healthcare
professionals, entrepreneurs or plumbers throwing themselves into their business.
Anyone who sees a job well done as a personal reward.
Religious devotion and spirituality are the greatest source of happiness around the world.
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And some of the greatest causes of unhappiness around the world, you can say too.
Still others find themselves happiest in their local voluntary communities of
friends, their neighbors, their civic or charitable work.
The American Republic was founded on principles prioritizing and maximizing
individual rights to live their best life or to enjoy what the farmers,
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the framers call the blessings of liberty.
It's the radical equality, liberty for all, not just of rights,
but of authority that the rich and powerful have hated about democracy in America since 1776.
They resent America's audacity and insist that we don't need them to tell us how to live.
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Is this inalienable right of self-direction of each person's opportunity to
direct himself or herself and his or her community to the good that the ruling class disdains.
With the Declaration and the Constitution, our nation's founders handed to us
the means with which to preserve this right.
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Abraham Lincoln wrote of the Declaration as an apple of gold in a silver frame,
the Constitution. So must the next conservative president look to these documents
when the elites mount their next assault on liberty?
Left to our own devices, the American people reject the European monarchy and
colonialism, just as we reject the slavery, second-class citizenship for women.
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Mercenarism, socialism, Wilsonian globalism, fascism, communism, and today, wokeism.
To the left, these assertions of patriotic self-assurance are just so many signs
of our moral depravity and intellectual inferiority, proof that, in fact,
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we need a ruling elite making decisions for us.
But the next conservative president should be proud, not ashamed,
of Americans' unique culture of social equality and ordered liberty.
After all, the countries where Marxist elites have won political and economic
power are all weaker, poorer, and less free for it.
The United States remains the most innovative and upwardly mobile society in the world.
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Government should stop trying to substitute its own preferences for those of the people.
And the next conservative president should champion the dynamic genius of free
enterprise against the grim miseries of elite directed socialism.
Promise of socialism, communism, Marxism, progressivism, fascism,
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whatever name it chooses is simple.
Government control of the economy can ensure equal outcomes for all people.
The problem is that it has never done so.
There's no such thing as the government. They're just people who work for the
government and wield this power and who at almost every every opportunity wielded
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to serve themselves first and everyone else a distant second.
This is not a felon of one nation or socialist party, but inherent in human nature.
Nighttime satellite images of the Korean peninsula famously show that the free
market South lit up with homes, business, and cities electrified from coast to coast.
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By contrast, communist North Korea is almost completely dark,
except for the small dot of the capital city, where a psychotic dictator and his cronies live.
The same phenomenon is on display in the infuriating fact that four of the six
richest counties in the United States are suburbs of Washington,
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D.C., a city infamous for its lack of native productive industries.
We see the same corruption expressed on an individual level whenever billionaire
climate activists who want to outlaw carbon fuel transportation fly to A-list
conferences on their private jets,
or when COVID-19 shut down politicians like former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
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and California Governor Gavin Newsom were caught at their hair salon or dining
at fancy restaurants at the moralizing about how everyone else must stay home
and forego such things. luxuries during the pandemic.
For socialists who are almost always well-to-do, socialism is not a means of
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equalizing outcome, but a means of accumulating power.
They never get around to helping anyone else.
The Soviet empire was a social and economic failure.
North Korea, despite the opulence of its tyrants, is one of the poorest nations in the world.
Cuba is so corrupt that its people regularly risk their lives to escape to Florida on rafts.
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Venezuela was once the richest nation in South America.
Today, a decade after Marxist dictator took over, 94% of Venezuelans live in poverty.
Even socialist Senator Bernie Sanders' home state of Vermont was forced to repeal
the state single-payer healthcare system just three years after creating it.
In every case, socialist elites promised that if only they could direct the
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economy, everything would be better.
Very quickly, everything got worse. In socialist nation after socialist nation,
the only way that the government could keep disgruntled people in line was to
subvert and terrorize them.
By contrast, in countries with a high degree of economic freedom,
them, elites are not in charge because everyone is in charge.
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People work, build, invest, save, and create according to their own interests
and in service to the common good of their fellow citizens.
There's a reason why the private economy hues to the maximum.
The customer is always right.
While government bureaucracies are notoriously user unfriendly,
just as there There is a reason why private charity are cheerful and government
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welfare systems are not.
It is not because grocery store clerks and PTA moms are good and federal bureaucrats are bad.
It's because private enterprises for profit or nonprofit must cooperate to give to succeed.
As the American people take back their sovereignty, constitutional authority,
respect for their families and communities, they should also take back their
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right to pursue the good life.
The next president should promote pro-growth economic policies that spur new
jobs and investment, higher wages and productivity.
Yes, that agenda should include overdue tax and regulatory reform,
but it should go further and include antitrust enforcement against corporate monopolies.
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It should promote educational opportunities outside the woke-dominated system
of public schools and universities,
including trade schools and apprenticeship programs and student loan alternatives
that fund students' dreams instead of Marxist academics.
Right here at the end, and what's so blowing my mind and is about to make me go crazy,
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I just know just even in North Carolina, in areas where Republicans are in control,
you take away from education all the time, all the time.
And some of these things I'm with, yeah, let's get more trade schools,
apprenticeship programs, do all this stuff.
Let's invest in education a lot more. But the idea you're saying for ways outside
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of public schools and universities,
you really mean let's defund those things pretty much totally and put in all
these other things, which is just weird, or these school choices and these charter
schools and all these other things, instead of working in what we have.
If we invest in what's already here, we can do this.
And this idea that the left are socialists and all these principles of socialism
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and leading us towards this is,
I think it's just a warped sense of the way people think people live in this
country that, I don't know.
No, the principles we have right now, they ain't working. I'll just say that.
Maybe a little more socialism won't hurt.
OK, you're there first, because I'm just saying you preach against all this
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stuff that we don't do or haven't been done and talk about the horrors of it.
And as if it's being enacted, it's just blowing my mind.
But just as important as suspending opportunities for workers and small businesses,
the next president should crack down on the crony capitalist corruption that
enables America's largest corporations to profit through political influence
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rather than competitive enterprise and customer satisfaction. fashion.
Well, okay, we agree on cracking down on stuff, but anytime we try to go at
the corporations or the bigwigs,
y'all fight against it. I'm really confused.
The tax breaks are always for the wealthy with a conservative president.
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I don't understand.
Anagulis pro-growth reforms for reforms for America's voluntary civil society are also in order.
America is not an economy, it is a country. Economic freedom is not the only important freedom.
Freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the freedom to assemble to represent
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key components of the American promise.
Yeah, y'all really don't believe in freedom of religion. You want everything to be Christian.
Today, in addition to the problem of big tech censorship, we see speakers at
universities shot it down.
Parents investigated and arrested for attempted to speak at a school board meeting
and donors to conservative causes harassed and intimidated.
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The next conservative president must defend our first amendment rights.
And we go more whining from the conservatives because y'all are definitely so disrespected.
Last, last little summary here. It's called best effort. for.
Ultimately, the left does not believe that all men are created equal.
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They think they are special.
They certainly don't think all people have an unalienable right to pursue the good life.
They think only they themselves have such a right, along with a moral responsibility
to make decisions for everyone else.
No, that's why you all up in women's private parts and telling them when they
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can and can't have abortions.
Yeah, that's totally the left doing that. You're all up in their reproductive rights.
You're all up in to the poor, the homeless, and how much you can get from a state.
You're all up in unemployment and SNAP and all these things.
Okay. Yeah, that's the left. The left is trying to take away.
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This book, this agenda, the entire Project 2025 is a plan to unite the conservative
movement and the American people against elite rule and the woke culture warriors.
Our movement has not been united in recent years and our country has paid the price.
In the past decade, though, the breakdown of the family, the rise of China,
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the Great Awakening, big text abuses, and the erosion of constitutional accountability
in Washington have rendered these divisions not just inconvenient,
but politically suicidal.
Every hour, the left directs federal policy and elite institutions over sovereignty.
Our Constitution, our families and our freedoms are a step closer to disappearing. parent.
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Conservatives have just two years and one shot to get this right.
With enemies at home and abroad, there's no margin for error.
Time is running short. If we fail, the fight for the very idea of America may be lost.
But we should take this small window of opportunity we have left to act with
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the courage and confidence, not despair.
The last time our nation and movement meant we're so near defeat,
we rallied together behind a great leader and great ideas, transcended our differences,
rescued our nation, and changed the world. It's time to do it again.
Now as then, we know who we're fighting and what we're fighting for,
for our republic, our freedom, and for each other.
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The next conservative president will enter office on January 20th,
2025, with the simple choice, greatness or failure.
It would be a daunting test, tests, but no more so than every generation of
Americans has faced and passed.
The conservative promise represents the best effort of the conservative movement
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in 2023 and the next conservative president's last opportunity to save our republic.
Y'all, this is serious. So like even the what's what's his name?
I think his name is I want to say Kevin.
Yeah. Kevin Roberts, who is the leader of this whole thing.
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He was he's been out talking. And I know y'all have heard the clips where he said, you know.
Basically, this fight is going to remain bloodless as long as the left allows it.
These people are willing to shed blood for this. We saw January 6th.
I just want you to know, when we show up to the polls and we stop this nonsense
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from happening, it's not going to be the end. These people are serious.
They see this as America's last shot.
Somehow in 2024, going into 2025, this is America's last chance to be America, whatever that means.
Whatever that means. So they're putting everything into these.
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These people are wacko that are left out here and we have to deal with them.
So yeah, January 6th was one thing, but just be prepared.
Once we do win this fight, there's going to be fight and love to do.
And I hope it doesn't get ugly, that it doesn't turn bloody, but the threat is there.
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And a threat has been issued.
And made with this. But ultimately, I think conservatives are really weak punks anyway, very weak.
The main ones that be out here, they talk all this noise and they would do stuff.
I'm not saying nobody won't do anything, but it's more of us and we can easily shut them down.
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So don't give in remain
strong realize this platform is out here and it's crap that they view everyone
that's not with them as being on the left you're a leftist they put you all
in one category they already know what you think and believe and all these things and the horrors,
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of it and they're trying to fight against you you and your principal you and
your own individual right.
It's so funny. They read the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights,
and how every individual has the right, but no, they don't want you to have that right.
They want to make what they believe your beliefs.
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That's why you got to get out there and do it in a pose and show them what you want.
That's where our talking is right now. Well, as promised, that those are the four principles.
You can go back and listen to the previous two principles that are broken up
where I did both about 30 minutes a piece or so on those episodes with each
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principle and a breakdown there.
These were the final two that we did today.
Thank you to Raji once again, and welcome back to the couch,
y'all. Well, look forward to producing some good and fun content for you.
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