Carlin, C-BS News, Communism

On Monday, Rich breaks down ideology-driven identities with some help from an AI-enhanced George Carlin clip. Then he slowly dissects the anatomy of a bias or fake news in media with a CBS News clip while musing on Nikki Glaser's joke, calling CBS News "See BS News" on the Golden Globes award Show. Later, a look at how communism infiltrates what the Constitution protects - namely, our right to speak about politics and religion.

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Speaker 5 (00:36):
Welcome, Welcome, Welcome.

Speaker 4 (00:37):
It's the Monday night edition of the program, and I
am blessed and happy to be here. I am your
liberty loving Latino amigo. We are seventeen miles away from
Madison Square Garden in New York City. The phone number
if you want to join me, it's eight seven seven
validest one. And I want to jump into a lot
of things because there's a bunch that happened over the weekend.
I was tempted to do a little bit of like

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an intern right a special episode on the weekends, just
because there was so much to talk about the bombing
that happened in Syria, the United States saying that it
was at Isis. Meanwhile, I got some people that are
in the know on things, and they told me, I
don't think.

Speaker 5 (01:12):
It was Isis as much it was the.

Speaker 4 (01:15):
Iranian factions within Syria. So it looks like we're putting
a lot of pressure on Iran in order to do that.
Speaking of Iran, you've got these I guess the word
that we use is protests.

Speaker 5 (01:26):
But it's nothing short of a color revolution that's going on.

Speaker 4 (01:28):
And I don't know if it's our intelligence agencies like
the CIA did back in the seventies, or if it
is other intelligence agencies and it's a global effort, but
people seem to be tired of Iran. I think the
age of the Malas is coming to an end, and
we'll talk about that a little bit as well as

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we move forward in the program. Plus Argentina, wildfires in
the Patagonia, some saying that they were started purpose. Most wildfires, right,
I think fires don't really get wild my opinion. I
feel like somebody starts all of them and then they
just go out of control or wild if you will.
But they grow quickly, I should say, and they spread

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quickly because of poor forest management. But I don't think
they necessarily start all by themselves when you have these
massive fires. But again I could be wrong. And then
there's this, right, it's the big question of the day.
There's plenty of things going on, there's no shortage of
things to talk about. But I had some thoughts, and

(02:33):
I have lots of thoughts that I write down sometimes
and I forget to bring to the table. But one
of the things I wanted to get into today was
how our friends on the left, right, our fellow Americans
that are more liberal, are fellow Americans that appreciate and
subscribe to Marxism. How they they're different, right, they see

(02:56):
things differently, And one of the ways they see things
differently is how they get offended, right, And how.

Speaker 5 (03:04):
They're moved by emotion.

Speaker 6 (03:07):
Right.

Speaker 4 (03:07):
I think some people naturally gravitate to being moved by economics,
by facts, by logic, and some people are just really
moved by emotion.

Speaker 5 (03:19):
And I get it.

Speaker 4 (03:20):
I guess different people have a different predisposition to how
they're moved. Got it checked understood. But thirty years ago,
a very wise man, and I mean this, I think
he's very wise. He's a comedian. His name is George Carlin.
He had a lot of good things to say. Not
only was he a heck of a funny guy, but
he was really smart and he really brought a lot

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of wisdom to the table. And Carlin, in my opinion,
he brought up a lot of very interesting things, a
lot of intelligent things. He talked about stuff that we're
going through today, things that you could compare to trans
ideology that you compared to this overly zealous addictitudes toward
people that you believe are just all the time oppressed, right,

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looking for people to be oppressed, people that don't even
see themselves as oppressed. Right for the Venezuelans, for example,
they are oppressed. And you got people out there that
are now saying, you know, we're going to go against
those people who cares what they want.

Speaker 5 (04:16):
They don't know what they want. We know what they want.

Speaker 4 (04:19):
And it's this philosophy that George Carlin talks about, where
your identity or your ideology becomes your identity, and that's
when you know you've officially screwed yourself.

Speaker 5 (04:31):
It's brilliant. Listen to this.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
When your identity is your ideology. Congratulations, you've officially screwed yourself.
Because now it's not just an idea, and now it's you.
And when the idea gets challenged, you don't hear disagreement,
you hear an attack.

Speaker 5 (04:45):
So what do you do?

Speaker 3 (04:46):
You build a bubble, a nice, soft, padded little bubble
where everyone agrees with you, uses the same words, hates
the same people, and collapse at the exact right moments.
And you will defend that bubble at all costs, even
if it makes you sound incredibly stupid. Facts don't matter anymore.
Logic's gone, humor dead because admitting you're wrong would mean

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admitting you are wrong, and that's unacceptable.

Speaker 6 (05:10):
So you double down.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Louder, angrier, dumber. And that's how you end up defending
nonsense like its sacred scripture, not because it's true, but
because without it, you'd have to actually develop a personality.

Speaker 5 (05:29):
So you no longer hear an idea.

Speaker 4 (05:31):
You hear an attack, because your identity is now made
wholly of your ideology. Man, talk about brilliant, talk about profound,
talk about deep, George Carlin, everybody, and this is totally it.

Speaker 5 (05:47):
You feel attacked.

Speaker 4 (05:48):
Rather than simply having a difference of opinion, your disagreement
now negates who and what they are, what they believe,
what they're opposed to, and it's all right. Instead of
just disagreeing with what they said or opposing what they said,
you now disagree with their existence. This is a crazy
way of looking at life. That's why you can't base

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your the entirety of your identity on your ideology. I
can't walk around the streets and say I am a conservative.
I can, but then I mean I would never be
able to do so many different things right. And again
it's it's to me, it's it's a part of who
I am. Doesn't mean that it's all of who I am.

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And that's the problem. When this stuff begins to consume you,
that's when you go and you say, I am a leftist,
I am a lesbian, I am a Marxist, I am whatever, right,
And you go and you live that instead of going
to work, You find jobs to pay you to protest,
and you go and you blockade ice, and you go
and you taunt ice, and you make fun of ice,

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and you go and make problems for them, which ultimately
makes problems for you. That's the type of thing that's
going on right now. So how did we get to
this place? Well, I think when people become consumed by this,
I think oftentimes it comes from.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
How we were brought up.

Speaker 4 (07:07):
If we were brought up in a very identity centric environment,
you kind of grow up to be a person that
starts saying things like, as a blank, right, so I
don't know. Let's say, let's say you were I don't know,
you fill in the ethnicity and the religion. If I
were a blank blank, Ask yourself, did you always talk
like this? Did you always start your sentences? You know,

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Let's say my parents are from Puerto Rico, which they are,
and I were to start just responding to things in life,
like I got a parking ticket, you know, as a
Puerto Rican or as an American of Puerto Rican descent.

Speaker 5 (07:40):
Neither one of those matter.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
In this context, right, What matters is I was a
person that parked my car where I shouldn't have. And
it's kind of like we forget what matters most here
because we're so concerned with this identity we've built for
ourselves that reality and circumstance become very secondary to the
fact that we want to live in this idea. I'm
not saying you should never not live in your identity

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I'm just saying, don't lead with it everywhere every time,
if that makes sense. Imagine if we were a pilot
and everything I did and I was like, well, you know,
I'm a pilot, and now some of you listening might go,
you know, it's exactly how I do things. Well, then
let me challenge you to say, don't do that. Don't
make your career you're the main source of your identity.
And I know this happens to a lot of people,

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right because these things that we believe, and the things
that we do for a living, and the things that
we are all these things make up.

Speaker 5 (08:30):
How we view the world.

Speaker 4 (08:32):
But most people don't live their lives being defined by
that one part of what makes up the totality of
their identity. And that's the point of trying to make
From my perspective, I would argue that in this world
that we're in, the situation that we're in comes from.

Speaker 5 (08:47):
Our faith and how we view our roles in the world.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
For example, if you see yourself as a child of God,
then this is going to alter many of the things
that you see in life because you don't believe you
were created by yourself, and you don't exactly know what
your own plan is in life because you didn't create yourself,
Whereas if you were an agnostic or an atheist or
something like that, you would think that you came from
the Big Bang theory or from the theory of evolution,

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and that you're totally in control of the rest of
your life and your destiny, and your purpose is what
you want it to be. If it feels good, do it.
That's part of the reason we are where we are.
On the other side of that coin, if you try
to live your life for God, then you think, hey,
I'm going to try and figure out what my plan
is in life, what God's will is for my life,
and seek that will and try to be informed by

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the Bible and other teachings in order to get to
that place. But if you don't use your faith as
the basis of your identity and employ a let's say,
a more secular view, a godless view, then you begin
to construct your purpose on your own. Right, then it
becomes well, I could adhere to the Ten Commandments without
having to acknowledge God. I can be a good person

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without being Yeah, sure, I'm sure you could do all
those things. I'm not trying to get into to an
overly spiritual conversation. My point is that is the game
that we play. You have to choose what you stand on,
because it's in that void that idealism begins to drive you,
as opposed to being driven by your godly purpose or

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the pursuit of that godly purpose. And it's this idealism,
this truth that we concoct for ourselves. It can take
on many forms. For some people, it's what they do
for their job, and that's the truth that they live
in that becomes the totality or the majority of their identity.
Some people feel, I'm going to say rudderless right throughout

(10:36):
the young part of their life until they find a
cause that they can align with. And that's why many
people on the left side of our political spectrum, they
find their purpose and their cause in college when they're
learning about injustice or about social justice, or the philosophy
that consumes most college campuses. Marxism the hallmark of Karl
Marx and his communist manifesto. And I would say that's

(10:58):
exactly where the radical isation happens for many people, especially
young people. But as we saw in Minnesota recently, this
woman that was killed her kids, go to a school
that is radicalized, right, it's radically focused on social justice
rather than on educating children. Social justice is the theme
of their K through twelve school.

Speaker 5 (11:21):
So think about that.

Speaker 4 (11:22):
Kindergartens that are going to kindergarten and whatever you and
me learned in kindergarten, all sorts of nice things. This
is all about being an activist, about being a leftist
wild but that's where we are today.

Speaker 5 (11:33):
So whether it was George.

Speaker 4 (11:35):
Carlin or the AI, George Carlin, bottom line was very wise.
Advice made a lot of sense to me. It's something
I think we can all learn from. I'm gonna jump
into this a little bit more when I return. I'm
gonna take a quick pause right here, Payson Bills, and we're.

Speaker 5 (11:48):
Coming right back. Don't go anywhere. I'm Richaldees.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
This is America, This is Amrita.

Speaker 4 (12:21):
All right, Ibd goes, welcome back, Thanks for sticking with me.
It is Monday, and I want to talk about this stuff,
this ideology, this identity, the reason people are losing it,
the reason people are off their rockers in my best estimation,
and I want to talk about il han Omar.

Speaker 5 (12:37):
Today.

Speaker 4 (12:38):
She said that the administration is calling for people to
be killed. But before I get into that, I want
to backtrack a little bit to a CBS report, CBS
News report, excuse me from a couple of nights ago,
where I guess they're trying to be objective and it
didn't quite go that way.

Speaker 5 (12:58):
Watched this.

Speaker 7 (12:59):
Tensions are hot in Minneapolis after an ICE officer shot
and killed a woman in her car yesterday. Officials identified
the victims thirty seven year old Renee Good. The Trump
administration says the ICE officer acted in self defense. DHS
Secretary Christy Nome claims Good had been stalking agents all day.
State and local leaders, however, demand Ice leave Minneapolis, arguing

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the federal presence leads to violence. Vice President jd Vance
addressed the fatal ICE shooting at a White House press briefing.
He reiterated the message from Nome, saying, the federal officer
who opened fire yesterday was quote doing his job.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
The president here is very simple.

Speaker 3 (13:37):
You have a federal law enforcement official engaging in federal
law enforcement action.

Speaker 6 (13:41):
That's a federal issue.

Speaker 3 (13:42):
That guy's protected by absolute immunity.

Speaker 6 (13:44):
He was doing his job.

Speaker 4 (13:47):
Now, before she gets back into this, I want to
quick pause here Yeah, that is part of what JD.
Van said, But the larger part of what he said
was how this woman weaponized her vehicle to attack him.
How is that whole thing being lost in this report?
They claiming self defense from what you're leading out, the
whole part with the car unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (14:04):
This flies as reporting. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (14:06):
I want to bring in Rodney Harrison, a law enforcement
contributor for CBS News. Rodney, thanks for joining us. So
when the Vice President says the officer has quote absolute immunity,
what exactly does that mean? What is the legal president
for federal agents when it comes to deadly force?

Speaker 8 (14:21):
So pretty much the Vice President is saying that the
agent cannot be prosecuted by the state. And once again,
is this I'm not saying in any way with any
conviction that the agent was wrong. You know, it was
a judgment by the agent and it definitely should be investigated.

(14:43):
I would like to see it be done by a
state attorney. But because of the bike.

Speaker 4 (14:50):
Now, Rodney, why would you like to see it done
by a state attorney? Because it was federal officers engaging
in the enforcement of federal laws and something that is
a federal issue like immigration, so yeah, might as well
have the state get involved since they don't adjudicate these laws,
since they don't prosecute these crimes, right, Rodney, This is

(15:12):
my question here?

Speaker 5 (15:13):
Why do we bring Rodney on the show? Right? And
this is a clip from CBS News, But why would we.

Speaker 4 (15:18):
Bring Rodney in just so he could say I think
they should be prosecuted by a state official?

Speaker 5 (15:23):
Why? Since when does that happen?

Speaker 4 (15:25):
Since when do you have the FBI do something, or
DHS or ICE or any other federal law enforcement and
then we say, oh, well, we're going to have the
local police handle this when it's a federal issue.

Speaker 5 (15:37):
That's my question.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
Now, if this were a different thing, a different situation
where this guy was not in his uniform, this ICE officer,
let's say, finished this shift, went back to his hotel
and went to the bar, and then at the bar
did something crazy. Well, then guess what he's doing that
on his own time and when he's off the clock.

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So now he's open to prosecution. But this is an
ICE officer exercising his authority as a federal law enforcement officer.
Why on earth would the state be involved in that?
Rodney go ahead.

Speaker 8 (16:14):
President's statements and saying that he's going to have this
type of immunity. There will be no investigation by the state,
and it will be investigated by the FBI.

Speaker 4 (16:24):
And now hold on a second. You know full well
the state is going to be investigating all of it.
They're not going anywhere, and they're going to try and
bring charges and they're going to try and ruin this guy.
So again, take phony and fraud, go right ahead.

Speaker 8 (16:36):
Because of the division that's going on in this country,
because of the finger pointing, because of a lot of
statements that were already made by the White House administration,
I'm already I'm already predicting a biased investigation.

Speaker 4 (16:48):
You're predicting a biased investigation because you, sir, are the
one that's biased.

Speaker 5 (16:52):
I mean, it doesn't get clearer than that. Go ahead.

Speaker 7 (16:55):
So, Rodney, we're learning more about the ice officer who
opened fire yesterday. So here's some information flitting his name,
his involvement in a separate incident several months ago that
actually took a violent turn. So back in June, ice
agents in Minneapolis attempted to arrest a man who refused
to get.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
Out of his car.

Speaker 7 (17:12):
One of the officers, the same man involved in yesterday's shooting,
then broke a rear window and reached inside the car
to unlock the door. The driver accelerated, dragging the officer
about one hundred yards. So, as you can see in
this picture, the incident left the ice officer with injuries.
The officer fired his taser at the driver, but was
unsuccessful in stopping him. He was freed when the car

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knocked him out of the window. So, Rodney, what does
this information tell you about the approach and experience of
this ice officer? Could this play a part in the
investigation into yesterday's shooting.

Speaker 8 (17:46):
Well, of course, a situation that's happened in such a
recent pass is going to have an effect in the investigation.

Speaker 4 (17:53):
How is it going to infect the investigation? And will
it in fact infect the investigation?

Speaker 8 (18:00):
Rodney, listen, I have some concerns. I have some concern
about that. What are you concerned about the tactics.

Speaker 6 (18:05):
I have some concerns about the policies.

Speaker 4 (18:09):
As concerns about the policies. Right, So, he's concerned that
if you point your car at a federal law enforcement
officer and hit the gas. He's concerned that they might
have the training and the policy in place to use
deadly force, because a car is deadly force. That's what

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he's concerned about.

Speaker 8 (18:32):
You can see this as being in law enforcement is
a very, very difficult and dangerous job.

Speaker 6 (18:39):
But the judgment that was made.

Speaker 8 (18:40):
By the agent regarding to use deadly physical force didn't
have anything to do with the incident that he had
to deal with some months in the past.

Speaker 6 (18:50):
Did he feel as though that his partner that was.

Speaker 5 (18:54):
And there it is.

Speaker 4 (18:55):
They're going to say that because this guy was a cop,
and because he has been involved then previous arrests, and
because he was trying to apprehend someone in a vehicle
and that person resisted that somehow, now that is influencing it. Yes,
you know what that's called. It's called experience, sir. It's
called experience. When you get into a boxing ring and
you don't keep your guard up and you get punched

(19:17):
in your face, hopefully you learn to keep your hands
up and you don't get punched in the face the
second time. That's what it's called. Ahead, let's finish this.

Speaker 8 (19:25):
Trying to open the driver side door of miss Good
was going to possibly be dragged as well. So there's
a lot of questions that have to be asked once again.

Speaker 9 (19:35):
Is this.

Speaker 4 (19:37):
Maybe the question we need to ask is the officer
says that he was ordering the person out of the
vehicle and his partner had his weapon holstered until this
woman pointed to her car and hit the gas and
in a split second, this man had a choice to
stop her and did so using lethal force. How about

(20:02):
that question?

Speaker 8 (20:03):
Unfortunately turns into a situation where it's going to be
a decision or a judgment call that was made by
the agent and unfortunately life was lost and a family
right now is morning?

Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 7 (20:20):
The shootings now being investigated by the FBI exclusively. So
Minnesota officials say federal authorities blocked its access to evidence
in the case. So is it typical for the FBI
to actually take full control of an investigation like this?

Speaker 6 (20:34):
No? No, Usually there's a partnership.

Speaker 8 (20:37):
Usually there's federal investigators involved along as state and maybe
even local.

Speaker 6 (20:44):
Investigators evolved with a case.

Speaker 4 (20:46):
Let me explain to you why there's no state and
local involvement here?

Speaker 5 (20:51):
Right?

Speaker 4 (20:51):
Because he feels like he's onto something swift. He feels like,
oh well, let me explain this is that you know
why this is happening, Rodney, because all you got to
do is watch the video. Watch the video, and you'll
see in the video Rodney very clearly that there are
no local cops there. Why because the local cops have

(21:14):
set these guys out to dry. They said, no, we're
gonna allow every protester and agitator and person that wants
to harm you.

Speaker 5 (21:23):
We're gonna allow them near you.

Speaker 4 (21:25):
There will be no perimeter, there will be no local
law enforcement to have your back while you're conducting enforcement
operations ahead. We're gonna go ahead and do crowd control.
None of that happened. Why because he got this guy
named Jacob fry Fray right, Jingo himmer Schmidt shout out
to him, and of course you've got Tim Wallas, Teeman
Tim Walls. These guys are an absolute disgrace, not Jacob

(21:50):
himmer Schmidt, but everybody else that I just mentioned, all
of them. They're doing everything they can to keep the
state and local police away instead of being on site
to help realize that had they been there to help man,
this lady might still be alive today. Crazy is that anyway?
Ill hand Omar going to switch gears and talk to

(22:11):
ill hand Omar ill han Omar says that the Trump
administration wants everybody dead so he can invoke the Insurrection
Act and have martial law. Oh man, I think she
went down one of the QAnon rabbit holes.

Speaker 5 (22:25):
Check this out.

Speaker 10 (22:26):
And what this administration is looking for is for there
to be deadly encounters so that they can revoke the
Insurrection Act and have martial law. And it is a dangerous,
dangerous escalation that they're looking for, and Minneapolis residents are
not going to give them that. We're not going to
take debate. People are going to be out there armed

(22:47):
with the knowledge of what their constitutional rights are and
what the limits are in them exercising it, and they
are not going to give them the riots that they
are looking for in the lawlessness, because we know that
it is these federal agents that would be lawless and
the small.

Speaker 5 (23:03):
Men, small man, you throw that at the end, because
there's small men. Man. I'll tell you.

Speaker 4 (23:09):
I let ilhan ol Mar go all the way with
that because I wanted you to hear all the crazy
that she wanted to share. And that was quite a
bit of crazy, right, really really was. I mean, you've
got it's just out there. But hey, this is what
happens when you have a Democrat party that's actively encouraging
the Iranian regime, a Democrat party that actively embraces every

(23:30):
last criminal, every last individual in this country that goes
against what is all good and holy. Sadly, Democrats love
to embrace criminals and criminality and communism. That's just where
we are today. It sounds hyperbolic, but sadly it's not.
We're like a ticking time bomb. Anyway, I want to continue.
All right, here's Congressoman Kelly Morrissey. She says that the

(23:54):
Trump administration wants to create a secret police force with Ice.
ICE is going to be i'm secret police that has
no accountability. And I say to myself, wow, secret police.
These guys get more attention than anybody. They're out there
during the day, all day, every day. What's so secret
about Ice?

Speaker 5 (24:11):
Listen to this, and we.

Speaker 11 (24:12):
Are seeing indiscriminate takings of people by this masked secret
police that is Ice. They are wanting to create this
secret police force that has no accountability and no transparency.
And I think the American public needs to ask itself,
is this the country that we want to live in?

(24:32):
We are a country of laws and It's what has
distinguished us from the rest of the world. And I
think most Americans want to live in a country that
follows the rule of law and the constitution.

Speaker 4 (24:44):
Yeah, most people do want that. The problem is you
saying that they're a secret police force doesn't help. It'sech
Illhanomer is saying Trump wants everybody dead so we can
have martial law. This is crazy talk, absolute crazy talk. Anyway,
Christy nom set the record straight to put a pin
in this topic and move on, and he couldn't have
been more clear or more correct.

Speaker 5 (25:02):
Listen to this.

Speaker 2 (25:02):
My position is I wasn't there. I didn't see it.
Some people say that it clearly showed that she was
trying to hit him and did. Some people say no,
she was clearly trying to move her car and flee
and get away. I don't know. What I'm saying is
how do you know? How can you assert for a
fact within hours before any investigation, this is what happened.

Speaker 12 (25:25):
The facts of the situation are that the vehicle was
weaponized and it attacked the law enforcement officer. He defended
himself and he defended those individuals around him. That is
the definition when there is something that is weaponized to
use against the public and law enforcement. That is an
act of domestic terrorism. Happened in our shores. It happened
here in our country. You don't get to change the

(25:47):
facts just because you don't like them. We will continue
to look at this individual and what her motivations were.
We know that there was throughout that morning she had
harassed and impeded law enforcement operations. This is the suspicion
level with all of these law enforcement officers as far
as paying attention to what her capacity is and as
you see on the videos, and they've proven out that

(26:08):
this law enforcement officer took the action that his training
prepared him for and he worked to make sure that
he could save his own life and those around him.

Speaker 4 (26:17):
That's Christy nom setting the record straight and straight ahead.
I want to talk to you about that CBS newscut
we just heard, Well, there's other people that are taking
shots at CBS News.

Speaker 5 (26:27):
Nikki Glazer, she's a comedian.

Speaker 4 (26:29):
And she had some jokes at the Golden Globe Awards
last night. I want you to check this out when
we return. Don't go anywhere.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
This is America. This is America.

Speaker 4 (26:46):
The forty fifth President Donald Trump thinks it's an honor
to speak with Rich Valdez.

Speaker 1 (26:52):
Oh, very good.

Speaker 4 (26:57):
The honor is all yours, conservative talk with a dash
of sofrito.

Speaker 5 (27:03):
Now here's Rich Valdez, all.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Right, and he goes, welcome back, And as promised, I
want to get into this comedy routine by Nicki Glazer
doing some stand up as she was hosting the Golden
Globe Awards, and I gotta tell you, I laughed at
least at half the joke. I thought it was pretty
humorous and it was fun to watch something like that
go down.

Speaker 5 (27:25):
Well, you listen, you tell me.

Speaker 13 (27:26):
The Golden Globe for Best Editing goes to the Justice Department, Yes, congratulations,
And the award for Most Editing goes to CBS News. Yes,
CBS News America's newest place to see. BS News. We

(27:53):
needed another.

Speaker 4 (27:59):
Nicki Glazer is an equal opportunity hater and good for her.

Speaker 5 (28:02):
Listen.

Speaker 4 (28:02):
I think, if you're gonna make jokes, you gotta make
jokes on both sides. And that was pretty funny to me, right,
CBS News. I thought that was very clever. And of
course the attack on the DOJ you know, tongue in cheek,
I didn't like it, but I get it right. She's
planned to the entire country, and that is what comedy
is all about. You make fun of everybody, miss everybody

(28:23):
in the crowd. It's always been that way. Somehow we
went off the deep end and only made jokes on
one side A La Colbert Alla Jimmy Kimmel, and I'll
have the other guy, the other Jimmy that's not as
bad all the time, but likely just as bad right
behind closed doors, but at least professionally he doesn't put
his Trump hatred out there too much. Anyway, I wanted

(28:46):
to get into this story that I was talking about earlier,
and it had to do with what we've been talking about.
Free speech, right, Nicki Glazer her free speech? All this
is free speech. In my opinion, I tend to be
by towards free speech. Why because I think free speech
is so important and it's literally what I do for
a living, and it's also what we all need and have.

(29:09):
It's the protections that we have, and little things in
life bring to my attention how important it is. For example,
I mentioned the other day that I was I was home.
A friend of mine calls me and he says, hey,
a mutual buddy of ours created a bar in his house,
a beautiful bar.

Speaker 5 (29:29):
He made it out of oak and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (29:31):
And I think I was talking about this before and
we go there, and you know, we get into lots
of different conversation guy stuff, blah blah blah. It's very
chill until it gets a little heated. And normally I
don't even take the bait. You know, my attitude of
talking about politics when I'm outside of a radio.

Speaker 5 (29:48):
Studio or a TV studio is I typically don't do it. Right.

Speaker 4 (29:51):
If you're not paying me, I'm not doing it. That's
typically the attitude I have. I just smile, I not
I go yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. I really don't want
to engage because I have an on and off switch. However,
that day it hit a personal note for me because
they were talking about how cops shouldn't have the right
to kill people, and I just thought that was insane, right,

(30:11):
because it's not that cops have the right to kill people.
But if you want to phrase it that way, I'll
play your game. It's cops have the right to meet
you with deadly force. If they think you're gonna kill me,
I'm gonna kill you first. And that's exactly why we
need cops unless we could do it for ourselves. All right,

(30:32):
we get rid of the police and arm everybody. Let
me carry two and three guns, then we're good right now.
Obviously people don't like that idea. They trust the cops
more than they trust me with a gun. Okay, so
we'll play your game. And I was trying to explain
why this was, from my view, a justified shooting, because

(30:58):
clearly the car hit it's the guy in that third
video that was released. In the first two, it looks
like she's going to hit him. In the third video,
you hear the thump. You know the guy, he gets
like he gets hit hard. But needless to say, the
standard is if the engine is revving and it's coming
at you, you don't have time to sit there and go.

(31:19):
Let me see what's the best way to Let me
see if I could shoot him in the pinky. Let
me see if I could take out a kneecap. Let
me see if I can shoot the tires. This guy's
at the bumper of the car, twelve inches away from
being under it. There's limited options here, right, And I
understand most people.

Speaker 5 (31:39):
Have never been in those situations.

Speaker 4 (31:41):
I clearly have never been in a situation like that,
despite having some training in the use of force at
the Essex County College Police Academy. I did some volunteer
police work back in the days where I learned this stuff.
But I understand I can put myself into the shoes
of an officer because I have brothers that were cops,
and I know what it's like. One of my brothers

(32:03):
was accosted, he was attacked, he was ambushed, they put
guns to his head, and it was his training that
kicked in immediately shooting two people, two men. It's the
reason he's still around today. So I get this from
a different perspective. And when I tried to explain to
them first that if the car's coming at you, that's

(32:25):
a legitimate reason for him to open fire, two of
the three guys that I was there with it was
four of us in total, look at me and they're like, yeah, no,
that's just nobody should lose their life. And I said,
do you realize in saying that, you're saying that the
police officer inherently should lose his that there is a

(32:46):
default that the cop should die. So that you don't
get shot, because that's in effect what you're suggesting, wait
till you run over. Maybe you live, maybe you don't.
They're like, oh, come on, I wasn't gonna wait. Maybe
she was going to break his leg, maybe he's going
to break a head. He wasn't gonna die. She's dead.
This was the negotiating that was going on with these guys.
So clearly the bias was against the police. And I

(33:09):
understand that I clearly have a bias for the police
because of having family members that were in law enforcement
and having you know, volunteered for a couple of years
myself in law enforcement. So I get that, and I
take it into consideration. And perhaps I don't wait it
as heavily as I should, but I do consider it.

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And the guy who was hosting the place, very nice guy,
super guy. He says, you know, that's why I have
a rule here. We don't talk about politics and we
don't talk about religion. And you know, normally I live
by that rule. If you know, in my own life,
I don't go looking for those conversations, but I'm not

(33:51):
afraid to have them, and I love to have them,
but I'm not necessarily looking to have them. But on
the other side of that coin, if you tell me
I can't have them, Well, now I feel like incled right,
I'm a guy that talks about politics and culture sometimes
religion on TV and radio. It's not all of what
I do, but it's a part of what I do.
I don't define myself by this. Right, I'm hoping that

(34:13):
people don't invite me to their family barbecue because I
me invite Richie because they'll talk about politics. No, that's
not the case, and I'm intentional about that when I
go places, to make sure I don't do that, so
that I'm not invited to be your entertainment, your built
in live talk radio show. I don't want to do that,
but on occasion it happens, mainly in my own family

(34:33):
gatherings where my brothers really you know, want to engage
in that. But all that aside, I thought to myself,
let me analyze this anthropologically, right. And I'm not much
of an anthropologist, and I rarely use anthropological analyzes. I
typically revert to cultural, religious historical analyzes. But I used

(34:54):
the anthropological one here. Why Because looking at things culturally,
I realized I was with two Cuban guys and a
Colombian guy. One was born in Colombia on the coast.
Two were born in Cuba. And I thought to myself,
these guys are a handful of years older than me,
three four years older than me. They didn't grow up

(35:16):
in the same Cuba that many of the Cubans that
I grew up with their parents had grown up in.
For them, the sting of communism was immediate. They had
a good life in Cuba as a child and saw
their parents' lives drastically changed. They saw their parents leave

(35:38):
and they followed suit. Those that were born in Cuba,
many of them were born in the United States to
parents that fled Cuba and can only tell them how
bad it was there and how great it was here.
And these people almost religiously vote Republican. They're very conservative.
They all send their kids to Catholic school. It's like, Hey,
this is how we're going to fight back. We're going

(35:58):
to open a business. We're going to become wealthy. Right,
you wanted us to be poor, We're gonna become wealthy.
And that was the going trend when I was growing up.
There were many a wealthy Cuban in the area I
lived in, but these guys had grown up under communism,
not when it started and during the revolution, or had
parents know they this was their system. They grew up

(36:20):
there and knew that there was a better way somewhere
else and wanted to get out. But that's the Cuba.
They know, the Cuba where the food is ration, the
Cuba where there's thirteen hours a day of electricity if
you're lucky, right, So you learn to live life differently.
And this is why I like hanging out with the Cubans,
because they find the humor, the goodness in everything because

(36:42):
life was so difficult for them.

Speaker 5 (36:44):
You're gonna laugh.

Speaker 4 (36:45):
You hang out with a couple of Cubans that were
born in Cuba, You're gonna laugh, You're gonna dance, You're
gonna have a good time. Because these guys are used
to numbing the pain. They're used to getting away and
trying to forget the realities of their life, of how
difficult life is in those circumstances. But they're also used
to growing up under the authoritarian hand of the government.
So I started to understand their anti police bias because

(37:08):
the police was never their friend. It was never somebody
that was helping them. It was always somebody that was
ratting them out or trying to take a bribe or
doing the wrong thing to them on behalf of the regime.
So they associate that authoritarian control with the authoritarian control
that they grew up with, and they perceive it as

(37:28):
authoritarian control rather than just really the authority that comes
with being a law enforcement officer. And I started to
understand that, and as he was saying, yep, he kept
going on, never talk about politics or religion. Look how
people get because I got pretty heated. I didn't get
heated over the politics or the religion. I got heated
because we were supposed to be having a conversation and

(37:51):
I was being ignored and then he was talking over me.
And I'm not going to get into an argument like
that right now. This was a friend of mine, so
I didn't expect that from him. So I was like, bro, WTF,
how are you gonna sit here and say we're having
a debate about something and then you're gonna just talk
over me, not even listen to the points I'm making.
I'm putting a video in your face to show you something,
and you're looking the other way and you just keep talking. Now,

(38:14):
granted they had invited their good friend. What's served a
good friend's name, Johnny Walker? Right, Johnny Walker was present,
So I'm sure that contributes to some of it.

Speaker 5 (38:26):
But boys will be boys. I get that.

Speaker 4 (38:29):
But I keep going back to that's why we don't
talk about politics and religion, and that always bothers me. Right,
And I said, I conduct myself that way. I don't
necessarily go out there preaching the gospel, although I think
my faith calls me to and it does to all
of us, But there's ways of doing that without me
pulling you to the side. And literally, I can show
you the gospel in my life, right, I can show

(38:49):
you the love of Jesus.

Speaker 5 (38:50):
I don't need to necessarily preach it to you.

Speaker 4 (38:53):
And I feel like this is how I've conducted myself
most of my life. When people ask me for prayers
because they're like, hey, man, I know you talk about
church and I know you're a faithful guy, and can
you pray for me or something like that, all right,
it's never because I'm trying to push my ideas onto you.
I'm hoping that you see the light shining and you're
looking for that light, just like I was. But anyway,

(39:14):
I realized here that that's how they grew up. There
was no freedom of speech, there was no religion. I
once asked my buddy Ruben, the Cuban. I said, hey,
do they celebrate Christmas in Cuba the same way they
celebrate it in Puerto Rico? And in Puerto Rico's I've
told you many times. You know that people go out

(39:34):
in the streets and they drink their festive holiday drinks,
and everybody's, you know, feeling a little tipsy, dancing in
the streets singing Christmas carols, what they call baranda. They
do through Yeah, right, it's a door to door marching.
Sometimes there's a car caravan. Beautiful tradition. And he said,
he looked at me in all serious and he said,
and como in Cuba, there's no Christmas. And it blew

(39:59):
me away that they don't celebrate Christmas in Cuba. Now,
it may happen low key, underground in the homes of
some some not many, but it's not allowed. It's not
a thing. There's one sanctioned Catholic church in Cuba.

Speaker 5 (40:14):
One.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
Now, this is a thing that you know, one diocese.
And I thought to myself, this is serious.

Speaker 5 (40:23):
Right.

Speaker 4 (40:24):
This is similar to China, right where it was many
for many years illegal to have a church. I know
guys that are Christian missionaries that have gone to China
having to smuggle in bibles, and then when they brought
them to wherever they were arriving, the people would begin
to systemically or systematically tear out the pages of the Bible.

(40:46):
And they had a system where they would like, all right,
you read Genesis one one through one ten, and then
we'll switch sheets, and then you'll do Genesis two through
you know, one through five. And this is how they
operated their underground church. And that blew me away, and
I thought, man, I have I don't know, at least
half a dozen Bibles right now in my house, five
or six or let's say four or five of which

(41:07):
I probably haven't read ever, and I use the same
one or two all the time. And I thought, man,
imagine what life is like where you have to secretly
convene in an underground church and the only word of
God you can get is from a smuggled Bible and
you only get one sheet of this bible one page. Wow,

(41:32):
that's wild, right. So I put all of that into
perspective and realized these guys are obviously they're not my enemy.
They just grew up in a different culture in a
different way where they feel it's safe, and where they
were taught it was reinforced. We don't talk about politics
or religion. Why because the regime might get you if

(41:53):
you talk about politics and religion, that can get you
in trouble in a communist country. And that is the
same reason, or I should say, the same philosophy for
different reasons quote unquote.

Speaker 5 (42:05):
That we use in the United States.

Speaker 4 (42:06):
People always say, look, you know politics religion, that never
talk about that? Why, I think you could talk about
absolutely anything as long as you're respectful. Charlie Kirk did it.
He's like the playbook for it, right, and he's the blueprint.
I think people should watch hours and hours and hours
of Charlie Kirk doing just that, talking about politics and

(42:26):
religion respectfully. Even when it got edgy, he was always respectful.
I think he always did it in a loving way.
So anyway, you know, to bring a long story short,
of course, you know, we tempers cooled and we switched gears,
and of course they always ended up back at politics,
and not because I brought it there because they brought
it there because inevitably, people love to talk about politics

(42:48):
and religion, and that is why in our country we
have the First and Second Amendment. And it comes as
no surprise to me that the first Amendment is the
one that lets you talk about politics and religion, and
then the second Amendment is the one that allows you
to defend yourself. And when you don't grow up in
a country that supports those things as their first and

(43:09):
second most important amendments, how can I expect you to
view things the way I do unless you've read them,
learned them, understood them, understand the history and the context
of it. So I get that, you know, because that's
where the conversation went.

Speaker 5 (43:28):
Next.

Speaker 4 (43:28):
It went to guns, and I heard both of them
say once that I've never even held a gun. In
other ones met either never held a gun, never shot
a gun, And I thought, wow, interesting, right.

Speaker 5 (43:38):
Just fascinating.

Speaker 4 (43:39):
But again, wasn't that fascinating when I realized these guys
were in Cuba into their twenties, a country where you
would you'd be in big trouble if you had a gun,
you could take on the regime. So it makes sense
that they would come here and continue that custom. But
then I said, how come the Cubans from Union City
all have guns. It's because they were from a generation
prior you still could do those things, and they have

(44:03):
an extra generation of assimilation in understanding American ways, where
you know, you don't have to like guns, but you
have to understand that we were once a colony of
the British, and if we don't want to be become
a colony of someone else, then it's a good idea
that you have some guns to protect you from the government,
so you can talk about your politics, so you can

(44:23):
talk about your religion, and everybody stays respectful.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
All right.

Speaker 4 (44:28):
Anyway, I'm falling asleep over here, or I'm putting you
to sleep one or the other. Keep it lock right here.
We're gonna come back. We're gonna wrap this thing up.
I'm richeld does.

Speaker 1 (44:35):
This is America? This is America? Bara or primal norodos Bara?
Richveld is e s nous America? Awara?

Speaker 5 (45:00):
Right, I he goes.

Speaker 4 (45:00):
Welcome back. Rich Valid's keeping your company here. You know,
I'm on the late shift. It's night talk, the night show.
I don't know coming up all sorts of names over here. Anyway,
I want to get into some of Venezuela again. And
I know I've been harping on about this, but there's
just so much good stuff out there that it's tough
for me to ignore, right, It's tough for me to

(45:21):
not want you to hear this stuff, because man, I
just think it's so good, right, so much good stuff.
Whether it's that Ai George Carlin that we played before, right,
and I don't know if it's Ai, but you know,
he's been gone for so long and I hadn't heard
that clip, so you got to wonder.

Speaker 5 (45:36):
Put the caveat out there just in case.

Speaker 4 (45:39):
But there is so many good things out here, really,
so many good clips. And my angle on this stuff,
as you know, is I like to do a little
bit of news and analysis might take on the news,
but I'd much rather go deeper right into the how
we can use our philosophical underpinnings to interpret and provide

(46:00):
our judgment on the news of the day, these cultural
topics and whatnot, because ultimately, you've got to make a
choice on absolutely everything, right, I mean, there isn't a
thing out there that that we can't not right, double negative,
We must analyze everything through whatever lens it is that

(46:23):
we possess in order to process, right, And again, these
lenses vary. It could be my lens is professional sports, right,
That's what I like, that's what I enjoy, So I'm
going to analyze everything through the lens of professional sports.
I happen to be that one geek that likes to
do things culturally historically, you know, through the lens of

(46:44):
you know, my biblical worldview. And I don't want to
put myself out there as a holy roller. What did
Paul say?

Speaker 5 (46:50):
I Paul.

Speaker 4 (46:52):
Centner greatest amongst them or something to that effect. I'm
in that boat, right, But you got to stand for something, right,
And that's what I've chosen to stand on because I
think it's unshakable ground and I am the shakable ground.

Speaker 5 (47:05):
Right.

Speaker 4 (47:05):
I'm the one that's fallible. The word is infallible, and
that's why I choose that. But ultimately, we've got to
look at things different ways. And I can't tell you
what it's like to live as e Venezuelan, right, but
a Venezuelan can tell you a real good what it's
like to live as a Venezuelan. And there's this one

(47:26):
clip here This woman speaks in English, and I happen
to have a thing for Hispanic women and accents.

Speaker 5 (47:31):
I think she has a great accent.

Speaker 4 (47:33):
And I want you to hear what she says because
it's very powerful and it impactful in my opinion. You know,
it's very genuine. Sometimes the people that give you the best,
the best take on something are those that know it
most intimately.

Speaker 5 (47:51):
That's usually often always the case.

Speaker 4 (47:54):
But in this case, some might think that the expert
here is somebody who's a professor of politics or anthropology,
or culture or political science on the region, maybe even
from the region. But I would submit there is just
as much expertise coming from someone who's lived that life.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
Right.

Speaker 4 (48:17):
I can only tell you what I've learned about life
in socialism and communism in Venezuela. This lady's about to
tell you all about it from a firsthand experience.

Speaker 5 (48:29):
Check this out.

Speaker 14 (48:30):
An American that hasn't leave that terror of socialism will
never understand what is going on right now. I don't
care if you have a master degree in whatever. Unless
you leave it in your own skin, you won't ever
understand it. And I think is terribly disrespectful for anybody

(48:52):
to tell of Venezuela. How we should react to that,
I think is terrible, disrespectful to the people that have died,
saying that madudash and be where he is. And I
left my country with just the clothes I was wearing
and a little bit of diapers and milk that I
had left.

Speaker 9 (49:09):
Don't you dare telling me that this is not a
reason for celebration. When I first come into the United States,
I cry and had to turn around to my husband
and ask him to please help me to open the
shower because I didn't even know how to open the shower.

(49:30):
When I walk into Oburning, I saw so many options
to it. I couldn't believe myself. Our reality is different.
We want to leave, and you guys have everything in
this country, more than you could ever imagine.

Speaker 6 (49:50):
And I just wish that you.

Speaker 9 (49:52):
Could love it a little bity more and respect it
a little bity more, because if I had to give
my life for America, I would.

Speaker 4 (50:02):
How about that? How about that? I'm a sucker for
those tears. They seem incredibly genuine. She seems incredibly heartfelt.
And I don't think any lies were told here, right,
No lies detected?

Speaker 5 (50:16):
This lady is the real deal.

Speaker 4 (50:18):
She's telling you exactly how it goes, and this is
this is someone again had that first hand experience right
likely felt what it was like to be able to
go get food and then saw a supermarket run by
the government where you couldn't get food. When you see

(50:38):
that type of shift, you can't help but be heartbroken.
If you grow up in a country that's already broken,
then you come to this country and have a new appreciation.
But you can never have the appreciation of your country
when it flourished but for the history, because you didn't
see it for yourself, Like she said, you have to
live it in your own skis in. I thought that

(51:01):
was so well put, so eloquent, really really powerful statement
from this woman, and I appreciate that. And it's funny
how you've got so many real Democrats. I haven't seen
any Republicans out there doing this, but really mainly Democrats.
And you know, for all the Democrats that are offended
by this, maybe you should check your friends, right, the
most radical amongst you, but tell them to stop with

(51:25):
this craziness.

Speaker 5 (51:26):
And again they're free to do it.

Speaker 4 (51:28):
But I'm seeing video after video after video on at
least on social media where you've got people going to
protest and there's always a counter protester that is a Venezuelan,
you know, an accent just like hers, going, Hey, which
one of you guys is Venezuelan, Which one of you
guys speak Spanish?

Speaker 5 (51:46):
And none of them can, and none of them do,
and none of them are.

Speaker 4 (51:49):
There are a bunch of people that were holding Palestinian
flags last month and Ukrainian flags the month before that,
and they're looking for the next cause, next injustice, so
they can be a social justice warrior, the next person
that can go ahead and you know, exploit the latest cause,

(52:10):
the latest grievance. And just like they've done with African
Americans and that whole grievance culture, we're now doing it
amongst the whites. And I've mentioned this in the past,
and maybe one of these days I'll do like a
whole show. I just don't know how often you guys
want to hear me do deep dives on stuff like
this that have nothing to do with current events but
really have to do with history. But I'm geeky like that,

(52:33):
and I love that stuff. And a couple of years
back and it's on this podcast feed if you look
for I just can't tell you the episode number or
the name of the show. And it was before we
had transcription in podcasts. It was about the term white guilt.
What they used prior to that. And when I say they,
I mean the Marxists. They used a term called exploiting

(52:54):
the national majority and the national minority right. They did both.
So it was fascinating. Every now and again, I will
go to two different websites. One is called Marxist dot
org and the other one is called Marxists dot org,
and both of them have writings from professors like Mamdani's

(53:14):
dad and others that or Pete Buddha Judge's dad. These
guys are all big communist professors that or even Jamie
Raskin's dad, Marcus Raskin. All of these guys were are
big think tank PhD level communist lovers. And these guys
are the Marxists of today. And I remember reading an

(53:39):
article and it was written I believe around the time
I was born, and then it was reprinted in like
nineteen eighty four, nineteen eighty six, so it was written
in the late seventies and then republished again in the
mid eighties, and it talked about using the white I
mean the national minority, which at the time were African Americans,

(54:02):
the largest national minority today it's Hispanics, but back then
it was African Americans. And it said utilizing and organizing
structure within organized labor. The job of the Socialist Party
of America was to infiltrate, to get in, to ingratiate
themselves with the labor union, to gain positions of prominence

(54:28):
to promote their social agenda. And in doing so they
had to invite and position individuals from the national minority.
And it was very clear that they wanted to give
these individuals what they said, a perceived sense of power,

(54:48):
perceived not actual power. They said a perceived sense of power.
And what I drew from this was that this is
the position of shop steward right within the union structure
in organized labor, where they get a shop steward that
is the shot caller. This is exactly how Castro did it,

(55:09):
how Mao does it. They have this structure in place, right,
this person that is the one that you bring your
grievances too, because it's a grievance based system. And it
was fascinating to read and it says how you do
that and you continuously elevate them and make them feel
like they have a seat at the table, because in
order for the Socialist Party or the Communist Party USA

(55:32):
at the time to succeed, they had to recruit minorities
that felt like they were empowered. And I thought, this
is brazen, right, I mean, this is brazen tokenism. This
is brazen, you know. And not saying that any other
political factions don't do that. I'm not saying that, but
I think most of them take a position of coalitions.

Speaker 6 (55:55):
Right.

Speaker 4 (55:55):
Of course they want your vote, and of course they
want the strength that comes in numbers, but it's not
necessarily to give you perceived power.

Speaker 5 (56:02):
Oftentimes there's a real exchange.

Speaker 4 (56:04):
If you get me the Dominicans to vote for me
and you pull it off, I will give you first
DIBs on ambassador to the Dominican Republic, all right. And
this is how these positions work. This is why presidents
have the ability to appoint thirty five percent of their administration,
because you've got to put the people that have been
able to move the agenda from the campaign into the administration,

(56:29):
should you choose to. It was just amazing to see
how they put it, because it was all about taking over,
it was all about infiltrating, it was all about that.
And I mentioned this the other day on the radio,
doing a show on WPHT in Philly, where I mentioned
a separate article i'd read about the use of fire,

(56:50):
and again, the communists have been using fire forever. They said,
it creates a sense of distress. So they instruct their rioters,
their activists to to set garbage cans on fire, to
set a car on fire. It's symbolic because they know
that it catches the media's attention, and it sends the
image of chaos. It sends the image of you know,

(57:11):
we are in control, right, we are burning your stuff down.
Of course, when you amplify that, you magnify that, it
becomes let's blow up the federal building symbolically, of course, right,
so they can turn around say, we're not domestic terrorists.
We were blowing up empty buildings that belonged to the
federal government. Come on and believe it or not, some
people go for it.

Speaker 5 (57:30):
They buy it.

Speaker 4 (57:30):
They're like, yeah, you know what, you're right, you're not
you're not an actual terrorist. Meanwhile, if you ever look
at Joe Connor and his documentary Shattered Lives. His dad
was killed by such a bomb. And these terrorists were
from Puerto Rico. F aln. This is a real thing.
It's not to say that all Puerto Ricans are communists
or all Puerto Ricans are terrorists.

Speaker 5 (57:50):
They're not, but they have them. They have them everywhere.

Speaker 4 (57:53):
It's not to say everybody from Vermont, like Bernie Sanders
as a socialist, or to say everybody from the Bronx
or Queens is a I mean, it's like aoc no.
But they have them right, so they are amongst us.
And it seems that we figured out the source right.
Universities seems to be the source. Labor unions seem to
be the source, or at least a breeding ground. And
as of late after this Rene Good shooting, we now

(58:16):
find out that her kid was enrolled in a school
where they teach people how to actively resist ice. And
there was a video I shared, I believe I shared
it on Twitter where people were at a church. They
were being trained in the church, trained literally like they
were on the pulpit there and they had people like
grabbing them as if they were cops and telling them
you know, rock yourself back and forth, drop your body

(58:37):
weight low, so that's hard for them to put you.
They're actively practicing how to not get pulled away from
the police, just like Antifa, and Antifa has a similar
method where they use their body weight to go low
while their friends come and start actively pulling them away.
So if you try to get one, three of them
will come and start grabbing on them, so it's three
people pulling against one cop. And they've perfected. This is

(59:00):
what they do in their free time. This is what
they're paid to do through the donations that are given.

Speaker 5 (59:05):
Whatever.

Speaker 4 (59:06):
I believe, it's a free country. If you want to
raise money to conduct these things, go ahead. I don't
do that in church on a Sunday, but these guys
do what I do. Think is important that each and
every one of us know that that's going on. And
should you be so inclined to join them in those
streets and be a counter protester, thannk God bless you.
That's not for me. I don't have the temperament for it.
I'll end up in jail, I know will. I can
barely have civil conversations without losing my cool. Most of

(59:28):
the time, right or on occasion, but I will say,
this is what they're doing, and we have to know.
We have to know that this stuff is going on.
We have to be aware. Like Reagan said, we have
to be informed patriots. Why the way I end this
show every time because the only thing necessary for evil
to triumph is for good people like you to do nothing.

(59:49):
We have to stand for something, because if we stand
for nothing, will fall for anything, Right, Sir Edmund Burke,
Alexander Hamilton.

Speaker 5 (59:56):
It's a quote that goes on for ages. Keep that
in mind.

Speaker 4 (01:00:00):
I start approximate, Take care, good night, and God bless
you America. I'm Rich Valdez, and this is America.

Speaker 1 (01:00:08):
This is America.