October 11, 2025 • 37 mins
Episode Description:
In this episode, Billy Dees takes a deep dive into three major stories making headlines — the fragile peace agreement in Gaza, Jimmy Kimmel’s controversial claim that Antifa “does not exist,” and the latest developments in the Letitia James case.
A consistent theme in Billy’s commentary is the importance of evaluating issues based on facts rather than personalities or partisanship. He challenges listeners to think critically, not emotionally. Billy also takes a moment to respond to some of his critics from a previous episode, addressing their feedback with his trademark clarity and reasoned approach.
Tune in for thoughtful analysis and honest discussion on today’s most polarizing topics.
In this episode, Billy Dees takes a deep dive into three major stories making headlines — the fragile peace agreement in Gaza, Jimmy Kimmel’s controversial claim that Antifa “does not exist,” and the latest developments in the Letitia James case.
A consistent theme in Billy’s commentary is the importance of evaluating issues based on facts rather than personalities or partisanship. He challenges listeners to think critically, not emotionally. Billy also takes a moment to respond to some of his critics from a previous episode, addressing their feedback with his trademark clarity and reasoned approach.
Tune in for thoughtful analysis and honest discussion on today’s most polarizing topics.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
You are listening to the Billy D's Podcast.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the podcast.
As always, I am absolutely thrilled that you are here.
If you've never checked us out before, my name is
Billy D's and we are primarily an interview and a
commentary based podcast. You can find a Billy D's podcast
pretty much anywhere podcasts are found, and we're always so
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glad when you do. We're going to talk about any
number of things. Today's going to be a commentary podcast
and it's part of our kind of weekly show. Sometimes
they're live, sometimes they're in studio. We're in studio today.
This is October eleventh, twenty twenty five, and in the
production cycle between October eleven and twelve, we're putting this
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together and a number of different topics today we're going
to cover. I'm also going to go back. Had a
wonderful interview episode in the playlist before this one, and
prior to that, it was another one where I covered
a number of different events and I spoke about my
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good friend Jimmy Kimmel. The only friend that I have
that's better is Keith Olberman, who infamous to me, infamously
blocked me a while back for whatever reason. He probably
had a good reason, right, But I got to tell you,
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the show has been in its current form for about
ten years, and over the years, I've said some crazy stuff,
even by my estimation. I'll go back and check out
an episode that's three or four years old, and I'll say,
you know what, Bill, that was pretty crazy, pretty crazy stuff.
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But I have I'm not sure how far back, but
with what I said about Jimmy Kimmel, I have gotten
more backlash over than anything else. You know. It's like
this Jimmy Kimmel thing was like he's a patron saint
of some kind of bullshit, And so I want to
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make sure people understand where I was coming from a
couple of weeks ago when I did that episode primarily
about Jimmy Kimmel. I talked about other things during that program,
but I'm going to kind of retread some of that
and cover it again. And in the process of retreading
the Jimmy Kimmel thing and trying to clarify a few
things there, I'm going to talk about what he said
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about Antifa, which is part of another new broad narrative
that I've been noticing, so a lot to go through.
First and foremost. As of October eleventh, twenty twenty five,
the big news is the peace still in Gaza. A
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lot of people were involved in this, and one of
the things that I try to cover, I try to
point out is hypocrisy and how we choose the news
that we want to hear. And when I say both
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sides figuratively speaking, you know, we're talking the far right
the far left, but there's a lot in between, and
a lot of people are guilty of this. When we
evaluate a situation. If someone we don't like is put
in a favorable light, when the spotlight shines wonderfully on them,
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we have a tendency to minimize it or ignore it.
But if somebody we don't like has a negative light
put on them on this stage, boy, we just we
just love that. And I hear so much. And I
have a few guests swirling in the wind that are
gonna come on and talk about this. With all of
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the hatred and some of the stuff that's gone on
online lately, a lot of people have said, what can
we find common ground? Can we find common ground? I don't.
For the first time ever, I'm starting to wonder if
that's possible. I'll get into them more of that later.
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Let's let's get into this thing going on now with Gosain.
The hope, certainly is is that this is going to hold.
I am not too quick to break out the party
hats yet say peace has arrived, because especially in that
area of the world, world peace is often a very
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temporary thing as a matter of fact, as hopefully peace
is coming to Gaza. What's happening right now in the
Afghanistan Pakistan border is that there's problems brewing there and
the Taliban is deploying reinforcements to the front line amid
heavy fighting with Pakistani forces. So it seems like there's
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always something going on. But as far as Gaza goes,
this is the first real breakthrough we've had in two years. Okay,
here again, shining a light. I don't know how anyone
can analyze this. You can give credit to a lot
of people, including Arab nations and so on and so forth.
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A lot of people contributed very positively to this whole process.
But one of the people is Donald Trump. And here again,
if you're new to this program, I have never been
a ya Trump. I wouldn't describe myself as mega. But
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when you evaluate these things, I don't know how you
cannot mention Donald Trump. Let's check out what a former president,
former President Barack Obama. Let's check out what he said.
After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli
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families and the people of Kaza, we should all be
encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is
within sight, that those hostages still being held will be
reunited with their families, and that vital aid can start
reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More
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than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians,
with the support of the United States and the entire
world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza
and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the
common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve
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a lasting piece. Now, I would you know, I guess
that's very eloquent. I believe that most of us can
agree with the sentiments of that. But I find it
very odd that in all this talk that Donald Donald
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Trump's name is not even mentioned. It's like he had
nothing to do with it. It just kind of it happened.
After two years, this moment has finally arrived. Like the weather,
it just drived today. We had seventy degrees in a bright,
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sunny day. It just happened. I find that very odd,
And I also find it very odd that the free
Palestine people, you would certainly presume, have something very nice
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to say about it. Right, Well, I don't know where's the.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Free Palestine crowd? Are the people who have played the
what about Palestine game every single time a human tragedy
has happened ever since Donald Trump has been in office.
The people that protested relentlessly, the people that cut off
any family of friends who didn't put a Palestine flag
in their bio, the people that harassed influencers and anybody
with a platform to speak out against freeing Palestine because
that was all that they cared about. Well, Donald Trump
has broken a peace deal for peace in the Middle East?
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So now what, Why do I hear crickets? Why don't
I hear you? It's like you can't give credit where
credit is due. Shouldn't you be celebrating? Isn't this what
you wanted? Isn't this what you have been crying for?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well? It is what they have been crying for, so
to speak. And here again, even with going into this
cautiously saying hoping that the peace deal in Gaza holds,
and in that region of the world, it could break
apart at any time, but this is the most positive
inroad we have had in a long time, and you
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would certainly expect some optimism from all sides, getting back
to that term again, from all sides on this, that hey,
this is a great thing. Maybe we can build on this.
But no, as a matter of fact, there are still
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protests happening, and the fact of the matter is is
that we have people whose mission it is now getting
back to finding common ground. You would feel that no
matter what side you are on when it comes to
the conflict in Gaza, that you would be happy for peace.
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You would be happy for killing to stop. But apparently
this is a point of contention because they've flat out
said that they're not going to stop, and there's a
lot of protests and people still not happy, mostly in
Western countries over this. From what I can tell, and
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who knows what the exact truth is, there is a
lot of relief in the Gaza area and in Israel.
Here again, though there's always tensions in that region, so
it's always hard to put on the party hats. But
this is a positive step, and you would believe you
would certainly expect someone to mention the name of Donald Trump,
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a former president in particular, And you would certainly expect
some of the people that have been calling for a
ceasefire for how long and complaining about the fact that
the United States was involved with Israel and the ceasefire
wasn't happening, you would expect them to say, finally, good,
We're glad. But you don't get it. And you don't
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get it because I always question the motives of people
who are in a constant state of protest their existence.
Their happiness is derived from creating unrest. You are never
going to make them happy. There is always going to
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be some sort of a problem. When you get one
thing resolved, it's another thing. There is never a point
when the smallest amount of progress is acknowledged. And I
ran across this clip and I wanted to share it
with you. Now, this isn't specific to Gaza, but with
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the protests in general around the world regarding the Middle East,
this was an interesting thing and I wanted to share
this with you.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Irani in here with another pro tip for anyone who's
not from the Middle East. No one in the Middle
East actually blocks intersections to prey in the streets and
yell a'la akbar. The reason that they do it in
your countries is because they're trying to assert their religious
dominance over you and claim your country and turn it
into Sharia law. Now you know.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Okay, again, that's just an example, but it's to me,
it very clearly illustrates what I'm talking about. With the
constant state of unrest that we always seem to have.
There is always a reason for people to lay in
the street, whether it's ice or something else. There is
never a time when somebody says, Okay, we got what
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we wanted. We're happy now. It just doesn't we move
on to the next thing. Like the soup dejure, the
old joke. What's the soup dejouur? I don't know, but
it's it's they have it every day, okay, And this
is exactly what what the protests are. Now, what's this
protest about? Well, I don't know, but we have one
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every day, and there is It's hard for me to
believe that there's middle ground when the issues of the
day aren't really what people are striving for. They're striving
for to get a a political agenda advanced, to make
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the other side look bad, to undermine any progress that's happening,
and that is their goal. So this kind of leads
into what I was talking about earlier with what happened
with me with the Jimmy Kimmel thing. Let's start, well,
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I'm going to very clearly stress this in and oven
by itself, what Jimmy Kimmel said, and we're going to
get into exactly what that was about. Charlie Kirk wasn't
really a free speech issue per se. What it was
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about was this happened on a broadcast network, and there
was a time when broadcast airwaves had a certain standard
that the common good had to be served. When Jimmy
Kimmel made the comment about the shooter involving Charlie Kirk,
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he was not trying to make a joke. He was
not trying to be generally funny. He was trying to
advance a political ideology. He was trying to sway people.
And here again in the context of free speech, that
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may be fine, but on the broadcast airwaves. Getting back
to the common good. When you are constantly going at
topics from the same angle, you're going after the same
people all the time, then how you're serving the common
good starts to be called into question. The other thing
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is that the airwaves are not only supported indirectly through
tax dollars and how the government manages the FCC, but
they are financed when it comes to networks by advertising dollars,
and advertisers have interests. You are beholden to the advertisers.
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This isn't so much of a free speech issue. For example,
if you get high to work at the local hardware store, okay,
and you're a greeter, people come in and they say,
I'm looking for water heaters, all right, and your job
is to direct them to the water heaters. Your job
is not to talk about President Trump. But you continually
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strike up conversations and provoke the customers with political talk,
and your boss says, hey, you got to shut up
about these politics. That's not what we're paying you to
be here for. You are here on our time. You
are representing this hardware store, and this hardware store does
not have a political opinion. We have hammers screwdrivers, drills, pipes,
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electrical fittings. That is what we want you talking about.
And you turn around and do it again and you
get fired. That is not a violation of your free speech.
You can still go out into the street and talk
about Donald Trump as much as you want. Okay. With
that being said, he is beholden to the advertisers. And
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when you have network programming, just like with radio stations,
now there's not just the individual station that's involved. So
you have a network affiliate in your local town which
may or may not be directly owned by the network,
that might be owned by another media conglomerate that owns
ten different network stations across the country. Just like a
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single restaurant entity can own more than one Burger Key
franchise or McDonald's franchise or whatever. So there's different layers
to people getting upset, and when you push the right
buttons and you get into trouble, it's not necessarily a
free speech issue. Now. As I said in the prior podcast,
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donald Trump ran his mouth too much, as he often does,
and I wish he wouldn't have. I wish he wouldn't
have made any public statements at all. The general understanding
is that the SEC in the government was not directly
involved in this, and I would actually hope they weren't,
but there were other factors involved in this, and this
happened because he played it kind of fast and loose
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with the facts. Now let's start there. This is where
I'm going to start because it's going to lead into Antifa,
which Jimmy Kimmel was involved in another controversy about that
just the other day, and we're going to get into
what that was. But keep in mind, this is shortly
after the shooting involving Charlie Kirk. This is what the
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authorities said.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so,
Robinson had become more political and had started to lean
more to the left, becoming more pro gay and Trance
writes oriented.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, so again this was the climate. You not only
had the authorities come out and state the facts that
were available at the time, and you had these people
saying these horrible things. And getting back to what I
was saying about finding common ground, I don't know how
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you find common ground with that.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Hey, maga, how bad does it hurt Jimmy Kimmel's back?
But you guys can't get your person back.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Charlie Kirk family, did you see all that blood that
came out of his body? I'm not saying that violence
isn't the way.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Everyone's saying that we are Charlie Kirk. Y'all sound like
y'all want to meet the same fate he met.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We are Charlie Kirk. You can meet the same.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Fait itch is.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Let's all join hands and bow our heads in thoughts
and prayers for Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Thoughts and prayers for Chow.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, there's some real sweethearts there on that last one,
in particular that she has that vocal fry with a
little bit of maniacal tinge to it.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Charlie Kirk in thoughts and prayers for Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But this was the climate. This was what a lot
of the people who really liked Charlie Kirk and followed
him they were being exposed to this. And then Jimmy
Kimmel comes out and says something that isn't exactly right.
He not only has signs blame to an entire group
of people, but he does so wrongly. Okay, and if
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you're gonna if we're gonna get into a debate about
what he said, well, let's just check in with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, that's pretty much what he said right there, And
you got to keep in mind the sensitivities, the shock
of what happened to Charlie Kirk, and even people who
didn't necessarily follow him were stunned by what happened to him,
as was I what a horrible thing to play out
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in front of a bunch of young people. How awful
is that? That is something that we all should universally
be able to say. All right, so those that shock
is still very fresh. When he said this, he said
it on the heels of what the official accounts were,
and he countered to that blamed an entire political group
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that he doesn't agree with, and he did it in
a fashion that to me was very glib. And this
wasn't comedy, this wasn't funny. He was editorializing. He was
trying to sway public opinion. And here again getting back
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to broadcast standards. Is this in the common good going
over the airwaves? Is this disrupting any number of broadcast entities.
Is this causing waves with the advertisers? This isn't so
much of a free speech issue. As I explained the
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on the last podcast, I got into trouble with broadcast
standards for a sound effect years ago, and I didn't
fight it. I took it down. Now, Jimmy Kimmel could
have come back on and taken some personal responsibility for this. Instead,
he talked about it in the very broad sense, about
the circumstances, and I understand and why people felt this way.
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There was no I'm sorry I said this. I shouldn't
have done it, and for my estimation, there should have
been some version of that, but there wasn't. And I
guess that's okay. If you're a big fan of Jimmy kimmeley,
you say he has nothing to apologize for, and that's fine,
But then don't make him out to be a martyr
because he sacrificed nothing. This was a self inflicted controversy
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that he did over the tragic death of a young
man and he was not martyred. In fact, he benefited
from it. When he came back to say whatever it
was that he said, trying to explain what happened, his
ratings skyrocketed. Now, I did predict that his ratings would
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initially spike, and they did when he came back, and
I kind of figured they would roll off, kind of
like a bell curve, and they've done that. But it's
hard to say. I believe. We're gonna have to check
this again in about three months to see where his
baseline returned. If it was higher or lower than before,
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we'll just have to wait to find out. But this
was not somebody who was martreed. This was not somebody
who was hardly negatively impacted at all, quite frankly, So
what happens this week, Well, he's my good friend. Jimmy
Kimmel spoke again, and this time about Antifa, And if
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you don't know what Antifa is, well that's a good thing.
Is according to him, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, there's no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization.
There is not an Antifa. This is no different than
if they announced they rounded up a dozen Decepticons. We've
captured the trooper Cabra everyone in it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, well, then what in the hell are all these
people talking about?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
It says it right in the name Antifa, anti fascism,
which is what they were there fighting.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Listen, there's you know, no organization is perfect.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
There are some violence.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
They are strictly principled anti fascists, and what they see
in the Trump administration and what they see happening in
this country they see they see the neo fascism that
we see.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
There's a group of anti fascists called the Black Bloc which.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Do tend to get violent.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Their idea is, look, non violence hasn't worked, and we
are going to try to stop this.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed,
self defense is a legitimate response to white supremacist and
neo nazi violent All right, now, I get it. Antifa
isn't exactly an organization that's listed on the Stock Exchange.
They don't have a board of directors, they're not publicly traded.
I get it. It's not that kind of an entity,
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but it is a something that last person on that clip,
Mark Bray, author Antifa, The Anti Fascist Handbook, M Boy,
that's on the real least serious. But apparently it's about nothing. Now.
Antifa does have a flag, they have a logo, they
have chapters in almost every major city, they have a
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unified ideology and have been a part of most of
the major protests for about the last five or ten years.
But they really don't exist. And it must be because
that's what Jimmy Kimmel says. All right, getting back to
how things can change, No one is above the law,
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no matter.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
How powerful you are, no matter how much money you
think you may have.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No one is.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Above the law. And it is my responsibility and my
duty and my job to enforce it. The law is
both powerful and fragile, and today in court it will
prove our case. I thank you all for being here,
and again justice will prevail.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Okay, I'm not going to get into all the legal
details of everything Donald Trump was involved in. But obviously
there was the hush money scandal, and there was the
value that was placed on mar A Lago when leveraging
some real estate and bank loans and some other things. Okay,
and as you heard, Letitia James could very clearly say,
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no one is above the law. Now let's hear how
she now is involved in some real estate issues. I
don't know how much merit they have and how much
they don't quite frankly, but let's listen to how real
estate and values of real estate. They're really not a
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big deal.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
And we're still getting the details. But if it's related
to this mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that
everyone in America, or many people at least, if you're
lucky enough to be able to buy a house in America,
you deal with this, right the federal government doesn't go
after all of these people. I'm for doing this.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh absolutely. We all misrepresent what our properties are worth,
and we all cheat on our taxes, and we do
all of these other kind of things. No big deal
at all, you know. Getting back to the hush money.
The hush money, that one involving Trump really kind of
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stuck in my side because I could say the same thing.
There are a lot of people in this country and
in this world who cheat on their spouse. And I'm
certainly not saying it's right. I don't like any form
of dishonesty, but a lot of people do it, and
in the process they juggle around receats they don't want
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reseats popping up on credit card bills for hotels and
other places, so they play a little game with the bookkeeping.
Everybody does it, and for some reason, with Donald Trump
in regard to that hush money scandal, this rose to
the level of having to indict a former president of
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the United States. And if it was anybody else, would
it have happened. In my opinion, no, And quite frankly,
with these cases in general involving Donald Trump, they probably
wouldn't have happened either if they were anybody else. And
it's not just my opinion.
Speaker 11 (29:27):
Any general's case in New York, frankly should have never
been brought. And if his name was not Donald Trump
any off, he wasn't running for president. I'm the former
aging in New York. I'm telling you that case would
have never been run. And that's what is offensive.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Quite frankly, at this moment in time, I do not
know how much merit the charges against Letitia James have.
I really don't. And if you feel the charges against
her are political retribution, then my question to you would
be how is retribution? How did the retribution get started?
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Let's go back a year when Donald Trump was being
prosecuted for fudging receipts involving getting laid. Did this rise
to something that a former president should be indicted on?
Was this starting a war under false pretenses? Was this
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lying to Congress doing some horrendous thing internationally? Where on
the scale does fudging the receipts about a sexual encounter
rise to that level? So my question to you is this,
where were you then? Well, you didn't like Donald Trump,
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so you didn't give a shit. And here again, I
am not a necessarily a pro Trump, a mega person,
That's not me, But I'm being practical here. If you
think that playing politics with the judicial system and indictments
and charges and district attorneys, if you feel that shouldn't
be politicized, It shouldn't be politicized for Letitia James, and
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it shouldn't be politicized for Donald Trump. You let those
precedents get through because you hated Donald Trump, and now
those precedents are set. And I believe it's a bad
thing for America now because as I said, I don't know,
I don't know how well fonded these charges are. And
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the fact that I don't know is because these precedents
now have been started everything now is how can we
get the guy or the woman that we don't like.
It's not a matter of what's best for America. This
is why I'm skeptical about this coming together thing. I
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know a lot of people, in the wake of the
horrible thing that happened to Charlie Kirk, a lot of
people are saying, well, we need to talk, we need
to have things out, we need to find common ground.
And I'm hopeful. I would certainly hope that the horrible
tragedy that happened to Charlie Kirk would have some good
come out of it. I would hope that is the case.
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But the practical side of me says, there's no dealing
with these people. These people that are upset about Letitia James,
you know, having charges put against her, will not in
any way, shape or form even one little molecule of
their being. Will they acknowledge that some of the stuff
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that happened to Donald Trump last year was questionable. They
simply will not acknowledge it. And that's the problem. The
problem we have in this country. It isn't just the politicians.
We have people now who are ingrained in their own reality,
(33:10):
in their own personal code of ethics where winning their
side winning is what matters you, Losing is what's important,
and that is a shame. I have mentioned before. I've
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been around a fair amount of time. I can remember
Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil. I can even you know,
more recently, Bill Clinton and New Gingrich. They had their differences,
to be sure, but they lived in the same universe,
playing by the same rules of physics. Up was up,
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down was down. There were things that they could acknowledge
about what the other side was saying, And even the
most simplistic things like a violent act committed against somebody
who was sitting in front of a crowd trying to
have a conversation, there are people who simply cannot say,
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oh my god, that's terrible. They can't bring themselves to
do it. And I wish I could say that it's well,
it's just a small fringe. No it's not. It was
a small fringe in the nineteen eighties, and it might
have been somewhat of a larger small fringe in the
nineteen nineties, but it is a sizeable group now. These
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especially on the far left. They exist everywhere in every
different political spectrum, but right now on the far left.
There's no reasoning, there's no acknowledging of any given point.
All's that matters is this cult like ideology. And I
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
All right, Well, hello everyone, and welcome to the podcast.
As always, I am absolutely thrilled that you are here.
If you've never checked us out before, my name is
Billy D's and we are primarily an interview and a
commentary based podcast. You can find a Billy D's podcast
pretty much anywhere podcasts are found, and we're always so
(00:34):
glad when you do. We're going to talk about any
number of things. Today's going to be a commentary podcast
and it's part of our kind of weekly show. Sometimes
they're live, sometimes they're in studio. We're in studio today.
This is October eleventh, twenty twenty five, and in the
production cycle between October eleven and twelve, we're putting this
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together and a number of different topics today we're going
to cover. I'm also going to go back. Had a
wonderful interview episode in the playlist before this one, and
prior to that, it was another one where I covered
a number of different events and I spoke about my
(01:16):
good friend Jimmy Kimmel. The only friend that I have
that's better is Keith Olberman, who infamous to me, infamously
blocked me a while back for whatever reason. He probably
had a good reason, right, But I got to tell you,
(01:37):
the show has been in its current form for about
ten years, and over the years, I've said some crazy stuff,
even by my estimation. I'll go back and check out
an episode that's three or four years old, and I'll say,
you know what, Bill, that was pretty crazy, pretty crazy stuff.
(02:00):
But I have I'm not sure how far back, but
with what I said about Jimmy Kimmel, I have gotten
more backlash over than anything else. You know. It's like
this Jimmy Kimmel thing was like he's a patron saint
of some kind of bullshit, And so I want to
(02:24):
make sure people understand where I was coming from a
couple of weeks ago when I did that episode primarily
about Jimmy Kimmel. I talked about other things during that program,
but I'm going to kind of retread some of that
and cover it again. And in the process of retreading
the Jimmy Kimmel thing and trying to clarify a few
things there, I'm going to talk about what he said
(02:47):
about Antifa, which is part of another new broad narrative
that I've been noticing, so a lot to go through.
First and foremost. As of October eleventh, twenty twenty five,
the big news is the peace still in Gaza. A
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lot of people were involved in this, and one of
the things that I try to cover, I try to
point out is hypocrisy and how we choose the news
that we want to hear. And when I say both
(03:32):
sides figuratively speaking, you know, we're talking the far right
the far left, but there's a lot in between, and
a lot of people are guilty of this. When we
evaluate a situation. If someone we don't like is put
in a favorable light, when the spotlight shines wonderfully on them,
(03:56):
we have a tendency to minimize it or ignore it.
But if somebody we don't like has a negative light
put on them on this stage, boy, we just we
just love that. And I hear so much. And I
have a few guests swirling in the wind that are
gonna come on and talk about this. With all of
(04:18):
the hatred and some of the stuff that's gone on
online lately, a lot of people have said, what can
we find common ground? Can we find common ground? I don't.
For the first time ever, I'm starting to wonder if
that's possible. I'll get into them more of that later.
(04:41):
Let's let's get into this thing going on now with Gosain.
The hope, certainly is is that this is going to hold.
I am not too quick to break out the party
hats yet say peace has arrived, because especially in that
area of the world, world peace is often a very
(05:03):
temporary thing as a matter of fact, as hopefully peace
is coming to Gaza. What's happening right now in the
Afghanistan Pakistan border is that there's problems brewing there and
the Taliban is deploying reinforcements to the front line amid
heavy fighting with Pakistani forces. So it seems like there's
(05:27):
always something going on. But as far as Gaza goes,
this is the first real breakthrough we've had in two years. Okay,
here again, shining a light. I don't know how anyone
can analyze this. You can give credit to a lot
of people, including Arab nations and so on and so forth.
(05:50):
A lot of people contributed very positively to this whole process.
But one of the people is Donald Trump. And here again,
if you're new to this program, I have never been
a ya Trump. I wouldn't describe myself as mega. But
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when you evaluate these things, I don't know how you
cannot mention Donald Trump. Let's check out what a former president,
former President Barack Obama. Let's check out what he said.
After two years of unimaginable loss and suffering for Israeli
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families and the people of Kaza, we should all be
encouraged and relieved that an end to the conflict is
within sight, that those hostages still being held will be
reunited with their families, and that vital aid can start
reaching those inside Gaza whose lives have been shattered. More
(06:53):
than that, though, it now falls on Israelis and Palestinians,
with the support of the United States and the entire
world community, to begin the hard task of rebuilding Gaza
and to commit to a process that, by recognizing the
common humanity and basic rights of both peoples, can achieve
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a lasting piece. Now, I would you know, I guess
that's very eloquent. I believe that most of us can
agree with the sentiments of that. But I find it
very odd that in all this talk that Donald Donald
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Trump's name is not even mentioned. It's like he had
nothing to do with it. It just kind of it happened.
After two years, this moment has finally arrived. Like the weather,
it just drived today. We had seventy degrees in a bright,
(08:06):
sunny day. It just happened. I find that very odd,
And I also find it very odd that the free
Palestine people, you would certainly presume, have something very nice
(08:27):
to say about it. Right, Well, I don't know where's the.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Free Palestine crowd? Are the people who have played the
what about Palestine game every single time a human tragedy
has happened ever since Donald Trump has been in office.
The people that protested relentlessly, the people that cut off
any family of friends who didn't put a Palestine flag
in their bio, the people that harassed influencers and anybody
with a platform to speak out against freeing Palestine because
that was all that they cared about. Well, Donald Trump
has broken a peace deal for peace in the Middle East?
(08:53):
So now what, Why do I hear crickets? Why don't
I hear you? It's like you can't give credit where
credit is due. Shouldn't you be celebrating? Isn't this what
you wanted? Isn't this what you have been crying for?
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well? It is what they have been crying for, so
to speak. And here again, even with going into this
cautiously saying hoping that the peace deal in Gaza holds,
and in that region of the world, it could break
apart at any time, but this is the most positive
inroad we have had in a long time, and you
(09:28):
would certainly expect some optimism from all sides, getting back
to that term again, from all sides on this, that hey,
this is a great thing. Maybe we can build on this.
But no, as a matter of fact, there are still
(09:49):
protests happening, and the fact of the matter is is
that we have people whose mission it is now getting
back to finding common ground. You would feel that no
matter what side you are on when it comes to
the conflict in Gaza, that you would be happy for peace.
(10:10):
You would be happy for killing to stop. But apparently
this is a point of contention because they've flat out
said that they're not going to stop, and there's a
lot of protests and people still not happy, mostly in
Western countries over this. From what I can tell, and
(10:31):
who knows what the exact truth is, there is a
lot of relief in the Gaza area and in Israel.
Here again, though there's always tensions in that region, so
it's always hard to put on the party hats. But
this is a positive step, and you would believe you
would certainly expect someone to mention the name of Donald Trump,
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a former president in particular, And you would certainly expect
some of the people that have been calling for a
ceasefire for how long and complaining about the fact that
the United States was involved with Israel and the ceasefire
wasn't happening, you would expect them to say, finally, good,
We're glad. But you don't get it. And you don't
(11:16):
get it because I always question the motives of people
who are in a constant state of protest their existence.
Their happiness is derived from creating unrest. You are never
going to make them happy. There is always going to
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be some sort of a problem. When you get one
thing resolved, it's another thing. There is never a point
when the smallest amount of progress is acknowledged. And I
ran across this clip and I wanted to share it
with you. Now, this isn't specific to Gaza, but with
(12:01):
the protests in general around the world regarding the Middle East,
this was an interesting thing and I wanted to share
this with you.
Speaker 4 (12:09):
Irani in here with another pro tip for anyone who's
not from the Middle East. No one in the Middle
East actually blocks intersections to prey in the streets and
yell a'la akbar. The reason that they do it in
your countries is because they're trying to assert their religious
dominance over you and claim your country and turn it
into Sharia law. Now you know.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
Okay, again, that's just an example, but it's to me,
it very clearly illustrates what I'm talking about. With the
constant state of unrest that we always seem to have.
There is always a reason for people to lay in
the street, whether it's ice or something else. There is
never a time when somebody says, Okay, we got what
(12:54):
we wanted. We're happy now. It just doesn't we move
on to the next thing. Like the soup dejure, the
old joke. What's the soup dejouur? I don't know, but
it's it's they have it every day, okay, And this
is exactly what what the protests are. Now, what's this
protest about? Well, I don't know, but we have one
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every day, and there is It's hard for me to
believe that there's middle ground when the issues of the
day aren't really what people are striving for. They're striving
for to get a a political agenda advanced, to make
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the other side look bad, to undermine any progress that's happening,
and that is their goal. So this kind of leads
into what I was talking about earlier with what happened
with me with the Jimmy Kimmel thing. Let's start, well,
(14:02):
I'm going to very clearly stress this in and oven
by itself, what Jimmy Kimmel said, and we're going to
get into exactly what that was about. Charlie Kirk wasn't
really a free speech issue per se. What it was
(14:22):
about was this happened on a broadcast network, and there
was a time when broadcast airwaves had a certain standard
that the common good had to be served. When Jimmy
Kimmel made the comment about the shooter involving Charlie Kirk,
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he was not trying to make a joke. He was
not trying to be generally funny. He was trying to
advance a political ideology. He was trying to sway people.
And here again in the context of free speech, that
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may be fine, but on the broadcast airwaves. Getting back
to the common good. When you are constantly going at
topics from the same angle, you're going after the same
people all the time, then how you're serving the common
good starts to be called into question. The other thing
(15:30):
is that the airwaves are not only supported indirectly through
tax dollars and how the government manages the FCC, but
they are financed when it comes to networks by advertising dollars,
and advertisers have interests. You are beholden to the advertisers.
(15:56):
This isn't so much of a free speech issue. For example,
if you get high to work at the local hardware store, okay,
and you're a greeter, people come in and they say,
I'm looking for water heaters, all right, and your job
is to direct them to the water heaters. Your job
is not to talk about President Trump. But you continually
(16:20):
strike up conversations and provoke the customers with political talk,
and your boss says, hey, you got to shut up
about these politics. That's not what we're paying you to
be here for. You are here on our time. You
are representing this hardware store, and this hardware store does
not have a political opinion. We have hammers screwdrivers, drills, pipes,
(16:45):
electrical fittings. That is what we want you talking about.
And you turn around and do it again and you
get fired. That is not a violation of your free speech.
You can still go out into the street and talk
about Donald Trump as much as you want. Okay. With
that being said, he is beholden to the advertisers. And
(17:07):
when you have network programming, just like with radio stations,
now there's not just the individual station that's involved. So
you have a network affiliate in your local town which
may or may not be directly owned by the network,
that might be owned by another media conglomerate that owns
ten different network stations across the country. Just like a
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single restaurant entity can own more than one Burger Key
franchise or McDonald's franchise or whatever. So there's different layers
to people getting upset, and when you push the right
buttons and you get into trouble, it's not necessarily a
free speech issue. Now. As I said in the prior podcast,
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donald Trump ran his mouth too much, as he often does,
and I wish he wouldn't have. I wish he wouldn't
have made any public statements at all. The general understanding
is that the SEC in the government was not directly
involved in this, and I would actually hope they weren't,
but there were other factors involved in this, and this
happened because he played it kind of fast and loose
(18:12):
with the facts. Now let's start there. This is where
I'm going to start because it's going to lead into Antifa,
which Jimmy Kimmel was involved in another controversy about that
just the other day, and we're going to get into
what that was. But keep in mind, this is shortly
after the shooting involving Charlie Kirk. This is what the
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authorities said.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so,
Robinson had become more political and had started to lean
more to the left, becoming more pro gay and Trance
writes oriented.
Speaker 2 (18:49):
Okay, so again this was the climate. You not only
had the authorities come out and state the facts that
were available at the time, and you had these people
saying these horrible things. And getting back to what I
was saying about finding common ground, I don't know how
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you find common ground with that.
Speaker 6 (19:12):
Hey, maga, how bad does it hurt Jimmy Kimmel's back?
But you guys can't get your person back.
Speaker 7 (19:22):
Charlie Kirk family, did you see all that blood that
came out of his body? I'm not saying that violence
isn't the way.
Speaker 4 (19:39):
Everyone's saying that we are Charlie Kirk. Y'all sound like
y'all want to meet the same fate he met.
Speaker 1 (19:46):
We are Charlie Kirk. You can meet the same.
Speaker 8 (19:49):
Fait itch is.
Speaker 6 (19:50):
Let's all join hands and bow our heads in thoughts
and prayers for Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 4 (19:57):
Thoughts and prayers for Chow.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Thoughts and prayers.
Speaker 6 (20:03):
Thoughts.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Yeah, there's some real sweethearts there on that last one,
in particular that she has that vocal fry with a
little bit of maniacal tinge to it.
Speaker 6 (20:16):
Charlie Kirk in thoughts and prayers for Charlie Kirk.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
But this was the climate. This was what a lot
of the people who really liked Charlie Kirk and followed
him they were being exposed to this. And then Jimmy
Kimmel comes out and says something that isn't exactly right.
He not only has signs blame to an entire group
of people, but he does so wrongly. Okay, and if
(20:46):
you're gonna if we're gonna get into a debate about
what he said, well, let's just check in with it.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
We hit some new lows over the weekend with the
Magga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and
everything they can to score political points from it.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Okay, that's pretty much what he said right there, And
you got to keep in mind the sensitivities, the shock
of what happened to Charlie Kirk, and even people who
didn't necessarily follow him were stunned by what happened to him,
as was I what a horrible thing to play out
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in front of a bunch of young people. How awful
is that? That is something that we all should universally
be able to say. All right, so those that shock
is still very fresh. When he said this, he said
it on the heels of what the official accounts were,
and he countered to that blamed an entire political group
(21:53):
that he doesn't agree with, and he did it in
a fashion that to me was very glib. And this
wasn't comedy, this wasn't funny. He was editorializing. He was
trying to sway public opinion. And here again getting back
(22:16):
to broadcast standards. Is this in the common good going
over the airwaves? Is this disrupting any number of broadcast entities.
Is this causing waves with the advertisers? This isn't so
much of a free speech issue. As I explained the
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on the last podcast, I got into trouble with broadcast
standards for a sound effect years ago, and I didn't
fight it. I took it down. Now, Jimmy Kimmel could
have come back on and taken some personal responsibility for this. Instead,
he talked about it in the very broad sense, about
the circumstances, and I understand and why people felt this way.
(23:02):
There was no I'm sorry I said this. I shouldn't
have done it, and for my estimation, there should have
been some version of that, but there wasn't. And I
guess that's okay. If you're a big fan of Jimmy kimmeley,
you say he has nothing to apologize for, and that's fine,
But then don't make him out to be a martyr
because he sacrificed nothing. This was a self inflicted controversy
(23:27):
that he did over the tragic death of a young
man and he was not martyred. In fact, he benefited
from it. When he came back to say whatever it
was that he said, trying to explain what happened, his
ratings skyrocketed. Now, I did predict that his ratings would
(23:50):
initially spike, and they did when he came back, and
I kind of figured they would roll off, kind of
like a bell curve, and they've done that. But it's
hard to say. I believe. We're gonna have to check
this again in about three months to see where his
baseline returned. If it was higher or lower than before,
(24:11):
we'll just have to wait to find out. But this
was not somebody who was martreed. This was not somebody
who was hardly negatively impacted at all, quite frankly, So
what happens this week, Well, he's my good friend. Jimmy
Kimmel spoke again, and this time about Antifa, And if
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you don't know what Antifa is, well that's a good thing.
Is according to him, it doesn't exist.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Yeah, there's no Antifa. This is an entirely imaginary organization.
There is not an Antifa. This is no different than
if they announced they rounded up a dozen Decepticons. We've
captured the trooper Cabra everyone in it.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Okay, well, then what in the hell are all these
people talking about?
Speaker 9 (25:00):
It says it right in the name Antifa, anti fascism,
which is what they were there fighting.
Speaker 7 (25:06):
Listen, there's you know, no organization is perfect.
Speaker 4 (25:08):
There are some violence.
Speaker 8 (25:09):
They are strictly principled anti fascists, and what they see
in the Trump administration and what they see happening in
this country they see they see the neo fascism that
we see.
Speaker 10 (25:19):
There's a group of anti fascists called the Black Bloc which.
Speaker 11 (25:22):
Do tend to get violent.
Speaker 10 (25:24):
Their idea is, look, non violence hasn't worked, and we
are going to try to stop this.
Speaker 2 (25:28):
I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed,
self defense is a legitimate response to white supremacist and
neo nazi violent All right, now, I get it. Antifa
isn't exactly an organization that's listed on the Stock Exchange.
They don't have a board of directors, they're not publicly traded.
I get it. It's not that kind of an entity,
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but it is a something that last person on that clip,
Mark Bray, author Antifa, The Anti Fascist Handbook, M Boy,
that's on the real least serious. But apparently it's about nothing. Now.
Antifa does have a flag, they have a logo, they
have chapters in almost every major city, they have a
(26:10):
unified ideology and have been a part of most of
the major protests for about the last five or ten years.
But they really don't exist. And it must be because
that's what Jimmy Kimmel says. All right, getting back to
how things can change, No one is above the law,
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no matter.
Speaker 9 (26:33):
How powerful you are, no matter how much money you
think you may have.
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No one is.
Speaker 9 (26:38):
Above the law. And it is my responsibility and my
duty and my job to enforce it. The law is
both powerful and fragile, and today in court it will
prove our case. I thank you all for being here,
and again justice will prevail.
Speaker 8 (26:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Okay, I'm not going to get into all the legal
details of everything Donald Trump was involved in. But obviously
there was the hush money scandal, and there was the
value that was placed on mar A Lago when leveraging
some real estate and bank loans and some other things. Okay,
and as you heard, Letitia James could very clearly say,
(27:19):
no one is above the law. Now let's hear how
she now is involved in some real estate issues. I
don't know how much merit they have and how much
they don't quite frankly, but let's listen to how real
estate and values of real estate. They're really not a
(27:44):
big deal.
Speaker 10 (27:44):
And we're still getting the details. But if it's related
to this mortgage issue, I mean, this is something that
everyone in America, or many people at least, if you're
lucky enough to be able to buy a house in America,
you deal with this, right the federal government doesn't go
after all of these people. I'm for doing this.
Speaker 2 (28:02):
Oh absolutely. We all misrepresent what our properties are worth,
and we all cheat on our taxes, and we do
all of these other kind of things. No big deal
at all, you know. Getting back to the hush money.
The hush money, that one involving Trump really kind of
(28:23):
stuck in my side because I could say the same thing.
There are a lot of people in this country and
in this world who cheat on their spouse. And I'm
certainly not saying it's right. I don't like any form
of dishonesty, but a lot of people do it, and
in the process they juggle around receats they don't want
(28:44):
reseats popping up on credit card bills for hotels and
other places, so they play a little game with the bookkeeping.
Everybody does it, and for some reason, with Donald Trump
in regard to that hush money scandal, this rose to
the level of having to indict a former president of
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the United States. And if it was anybody else, would
it have happened. In my opinion, no, And quite frankly,
with these cases in general involving Donald Trump, they probably
wouldn't have happened either if they were anybody else. And
it's not just my opinion.
Speaker 11 (29:27):
Any general's case in New York, frankly should have never
been brought. And if his name was not Donald Trump
any off, he wasn't running for president. I'm the former
aging in New York. I'm telling you that case would
have never been run. And that's what is offensive.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Quite frankly, at this moment in time, I do not
know how much merit the charges against Letitia James have.
I really don't. And if you feel the charges against
her are political retribution, then my question to you would
be how is retribution? How did the retribution get started?
(30:03):
Let's go back a year when Donald Trump was being
prosecuted for fudging receipts involving getting laid. Did this rise
to something that a former president should be indicted on?
Was this starting a war under false pretenses? Was this
(30:29):
lying to Congress doing some horrendous thing internationally? Where on
the scale does fudging the receipts about a sexual encounter
rise to that level? So my question to you is this,
where were you then? Well, you didn't like Donald Trump,
(30:54):
so you didn't give a shit. And here again, I
am not a necessarily a pro Trump, a mega person,
That's not me, But I'm being practical here. If you
think that playing politics with the judicial system and indictments
and charges and district attorneys, if you feel that shouldn't
be politicized, It shouldn't be politicized for Letitia James, and
(31:17):
it shouldn't be politicized for Donald Trump. You let those
precedents get through because you hated Donald Trump, and now
those precedents are set. And I believe it's a bad
thing for America now because as I said, I don't know,
I don't know how well fonded these charges are. And
(31:41):
the fact that I don't know is because these precedents
now have been started everything now is how can we
get the guy or the woman that we don't like.
It's not a matter of what's best for America. This
is why I'm skeptical about this coming together thing. I
(32:01):
know a lot of people, in the wake of the
horrible thing that happened to Charlie Kirk, a lot of
people are saying, well, we need to talk, we need
to have things out, we need to find common ground.
And I'm hopeful. I would certainly hope that the horrible
tragedy that happened to Charlie Kirk would have some good
come out of it. I would hope that is the case.
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But the practical side of me says, there's no dealing
with these people. These people that are upset about Letitia James,
you know, having charges put against her, will not in
any way, shape or form even one little molecule of
their being. Will they acknowledge that some of the stuff
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that happened to Donald Trump last year was questionable. They
simply will not acknowledge it. And that's the problem. The
problem we have in this country. It isn't just the politicians.
We have people now who are ingrained in their own reality,
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in their own personal code of ethics where winning their
side winning is what matters you, Losing is what's important,
and that is a shame. I have mentioned before. I've
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been around a fair amount of time. I can remember
Ronald Reagan and Tip O'Neil. I can even you know,
more recently, Bill Clinton and New Gingrich. They had their differences,
to be sure, but they lived in the same universe,
playing by the same rules of physics. Up was up,
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down was down. There were things that they could acknowledge
about what the other side was saying, And even the
most simplistic things like a violent act committed against somebody
who was sitting in front of a crowd trying to
have a conversation, there are people who simply cannot say,
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oh my god, that's terrible. They can't bring themselves to
do it. And I wish I could say that it's well,
it's just a small fringe. No it's not. It was
a small fringe in the nineteen eighties, and it might
have been somewhat of a larger small fringe in the
nineteen nineties, but it is a sizeable group now. These
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especially on the far left. They exist everywhere in every
different political spectrum, but right now on the far left.
There's no reasoning, there's no acknowledging of any given point.
All's that matters is this cult like ideology. And I
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don't know where it's going anyway. I am Billy D's.
Thank you very much for checking out our podcast this week.
More interviews, more discussions are coming your way very soon. Actually,
we're getting into a type of time of year that
I really enjoy. I don't particularly like cool weather. I'm
not a fan of that at all, but I do
(35:31):
enjoy you know, media starts to become more vibrant. You know,
you have your primetime TV coming back. People are paying
more attention to media in general because their attention has
turned indoors. And it's an exciting time and I enjoy
that part of it. Our ratings are listens, whatever you
(35:55):
want to call it. Of the podcast have a tendency
to go up during the fall season, and so it's
an exciting time. To be sure, do stay with us.
You can find the Billy D's podcasts. We've been around
now for over ten years. The podcast in its current form.
I've been doing this for longer than ten years, but
the podcast in its current form is about ten years old,
(36:18):
so we have a long history on all the major
podcast platforms. I don't care which one is the one
you listen to. We are on there. Just simply search
the Billy D's Podcast. You can find me on X
which is the old Twitter at Billy D's. That's kind
of like my social media home. I do have some
(36:39):
links in my bio there. You can find other social
media that I am on, but I'm going to say
X is pretty much the one I focus on in
my opinion, because of the fact that it is so
trending driven, it is so news driven, it is so
real time driven. It is perfect for what we do
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here the podcast. Thank you very much for listening and
we will talk to you again very very soon. I'm
Billy D's and host of the self titled podcast, The
Billy D's Podcast. We are primarily an interview and a
commentary based podcast featuring authors and creators talking about their craft,
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advocates for community issues, and myself in an array of
co host discussing current events. There's no partisan renting and
raving going on here, just great content. You can find
The Billy D's Podcast on your favorite platform and on
Twitter at Billy D's thank you, and I hope you
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