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Hey everybody, and welcome to Everything'sPolitical. I'm your host Taya Shoemach.
You can find us online at Everything'sPolitical dot substack dot com. Shout out
too, Magicman Joe Strecker, theEric Arthur Blair of podcast producers. Everything
was all right, the struggle wasfinished. He had won the victory over
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himself. He loved big brother here, that's right. Joe. Eric Arthur
Blair, or better known as GeorgeOrwell, died on this day in nineteen
fifty and he is, of coursefamous for most famous, I think for
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his two works of literature, thefirst being Animal Farm brilliant. If you
haven't read it, please do so, and if you have seventh graders and
up please read it with them.Great book, and of course nineteen eighty
five the first, I think AnimalFarm, a warning about what happens when
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the people who are in charge ofa revolution become the very thing against which
they fought and overturned. And thesecond work of literature warning that it could
actually be worse than that. Andfolks, I got news for you.
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We're seven eighths of the way there. Of nineteen eighty four. I beg
you to read it. I thinkthey both served as warnings. Unfortunately our
overlords used them as instruction manuals.Same okay, George orwell, brilliant,
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brilliant man. You know I bringthat up today. Not only was it
the anniversary of his death, butAnimal Farm, that book. I read
it. I believe it was myEnglish class and it was I think I
was in the eighth grade, andit had such an impact on me,
and I never forgot it. Andit really wasn't until I was at university
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taking a history of Russia course thatI really came to appreciate it even more.
You know, it's just this satiricalallegory, right, the novella as
they call them. And I lovedthe eq of that book, and again
the warning that the people on whomyou're relying to change a system or reform
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it aren't any less prone to thecorruption of power than the people currently running
it. And I think we needto be cognizant of that, because I
hear a lot of catterwall about justwait, just wait, just wait,
when my guy gets in there,when my girl gets in whomever it is,
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and I just caution people, Look, I don't like the status quo
any more than you do. Butwe have proof that the bowl of Jello
at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue is notrunning things right. There is a deep
state, There are overlords and elites, etc. And unfortunately people on both
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sides of the aisle are part ofthat. And I think it was it
was O'Brien in nineteen eighty played byRichard. They did a pretty good movie
or pretty good adaptation with the movie. And he talks about power, and
we've talked about power. Right,we stop at knowledge is power, right,
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Schoolhouse Rock gen X. That's howwe were brought up. Knowledge is
power. But that's not where weshould stop because those two attributes fully realized
knowledge and power are wisdom and virtue. You have to have wisdom to temper
the knowledge, and you have tohave virtue to temper the power. An
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animal farm just screams that lesson nineteeneighty four is what happens when you don't
learn the lesson. And you gotto bring in Huxley here, that men
don't learn the important lessons of historyis the most important lesson history has to
teach. So we need to bevery careful about what we're willing to seed
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to anyone in a position of power. And I don't care who they are.
I don't care what letter is aftertheir name. I don't care what
they've been. We are all underattack, we have all been persecuted,
sure, some more than others.And yeah, it's just a matter of
time. But that doesn't mean weseed our liberties to an entity and power
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to bully someone else, because thesecond we do that, it's gonna bite
you right on the bajibis. Bevery careful when you pray for a strong
man, because you just might getone. That was my problem with Nikki
Haley when she looked in the cameraostensibly to bb net Yahoo saying finish him.
Oh my gosh, the epitome ofway too much female frickin energy flying
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around this earth. But power cruptsabsolute, power corrupts absolutely. And I
looked up the quote here from RichardBurton. He's telling Winston the Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake.So he's being honest about it because he
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can. There's no one there tooppose him. That's the lesson of Animal
Farm in nineteen eighty four. Wehave to definitively and unambiguously and comprehensively push
back. The people who are awarewe must push back. And I'll say
this, I've amended my position thatthere are two groups in every situation,
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the ignorant and the complicit. Andmy nuance was I'm complicit in the agenda
of liberty, unbridled liberty, withthe understanding that comes with responsibility. But
I'm going to break it out intothree groups, those who are aware,
those who are ignorant, and thosewho are complicit. Now, the ignorant
enable, the complicit, by definition, are still malieable, and the aware
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must push back. We must learnthe lessons of history. And so he
says, I'll start again. TheParty seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the goodof others. We're interested solely in
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power, pure power. What purepower means you will understand. He goes
on to talk about how the PartyNgsok in nineteen eighty four was different than
the cowards of the Communists and Naziswho didn't have the courage to recognize their
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own motives. So it's, youknow, kind of a backhanded compliment to
themselves, flattery that they at leasthave the cojones to admit it. Those
oligarchies pretended, perhaps perhaps they evenbelieved, that they had seized power unwillingly
and for a limited time. Thisis a strong man here and not just
around the corner there lay a paradisewhere human beings could be free and equal.
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We're not like that. We knowthat no one ever seizes power with
the intention of relinquishing it. Poweris not a means, it is an
end. One does not establish adictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution.
One makes a revolution in order toestablish the dictatorship. Folks. That's where
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we are now. I don't knowall the answers and I don't know all
the options. I have a fewideas, none that I'm comfortable sharing right
now. But that's where we arebecause that's what's going on. That's what
the well, let's see. Idon't want to cuss mother puss buckets.
See sometimes it just doesn't fully graspthe fervor of mine thought. But we
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don't establish that's the strong man.And I hear so many people gunning for
that. You just wait, you'llget your And the reality is, if
we had a real media, ifwe had a real judiciary and real legislatures,
especially state legislatures that don't bend overfor every federal dime, who keep
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their citizens sovereign enslaved to federal dollarsand mandates and all the other bull crap.
But guess who's fault that is,folks, That's our fault because we
didn't keep the republic. You know, people think they're above politics and above
the engagement, and they're, oh, I've got better things to do.
Really, do you realize that ifyou don't keep the republic, you won't
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be able to continue doing those importantthings? Dumbass politics is pervasive. It's
a riskutalian. Okay, you engagein a discussion about how to approach a
problem or mitigate a problem, ordeal with a group or whatever, it's
political. That's politics. So you'vebeen political. You're just not calling it
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that because it's not the kind ofpolitics you see on TV, and it's
not just voting once every two,four or six years. And I bring
all of this up today because we'regoing to see a debate this week.
I don't know if I can stomachit. I'll be honest with you,
but I want to talk about whatwe're going to hear what we're not going
to hear, what we should hear, what we shouldn't hear. So I
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believe the date is Thursday night,and they're agreeing to all these rules.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Thatwould be the first time everyone follows rules.
But here we are. So ifMike's are genuinely shut down, you're
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not going to hear ostensibly not goingto hear people cutting in on one another.
You're probably not going to hear goodpoints made by one party. You're
probably not going to hear stutters becausethey'll cut his mic, meaning the bowl
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of jello. They're going to makeeverything every rule that they made for this
debate is trying to make Joe Bidenlook as lucid and aware as possible.
They're juicing him up. Just acceptit. They're juicing him up, just
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to the point of making the restof us wonder if there is not already
a cure for Alzheimer's, because bythe way, I believe there is,
just like I believe there's a curefor cancer, but the money's not in
the cure. So that's what we'llsee and not here. Now. I
heard a clip of Trump talking aboutwell, what should I do? Should
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I be mean? Should I benice? Should I just let him talk?
Well, you're gonna have to lethim talk because they're gonna cut your
mic. Now, I realize thisis a big ask, but time is
short and we don't have time forbullshit. For once, show some magnanimity.
If Joe stumbles, if the bowlof jello jiggles without making sense,
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bring him a glass of water,Put your arm on his shoulder. Are
you okay? Joe? Can weget someone up here for him? That's
exactly what I do, because thatsays more about both men then the entire
debate will say about either. Unfortunately, Trump's EQ is inconsistent. He knows
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what a crowd wants to hear,he feeds off of it. Great good
for him. It's inconsistent in itsapplication because he has no clue how to
apply it in these debate type situationsnone zero, and neither do the people
around him. And as we've discussed, that has always been a problem.
But if I were prepping Trump,that would be the first thing I would
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tell him if and when Joe stumbles, And this is why they're juicing,
this is why he's not being seenthey're either making a caricature of him or
maybe trying to send in a whoknows what they're doing. They're going to
try everything so that the day afterthe media can say, oh, well
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see he did just fine. Soany stumble whatsoever. And I mean,
maybe it's a lie. And it'sTrump's turn and he says, Joe,
are you okay? I'm concerned aboutyour memory because that was a lie.
Now come on, you know that. Da da da da da da da.
Don't be bombastic, save that foryour rallies. Just be a freaking
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grown up and conduct yourself, humbleyourself, and for God's sakes, own
up to Operation warp speed, becausethat is the only reason RFK Junior has
traction. Admit that they played youlike a stratavarius and that is not going
to happen again on your watch.Admit that we handled it wrong. Don't
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throw the governors under the bus.They'll have their own heat to take in
their next elections. But true leaderstake more blame and less glory than they
deserve. I don't know if thereis one person around Donald J. Trump
that would tell him that, Butthat's what needs to be done again,
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because time is freaking short. Whatwe might also hear is the breaking news
today that Julian Assange has reached aplea deal. And when we talk about
e Q and we talk about nothingis Trump's fault, da da da da
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da. Okay, whatever, Let'ssay it's not. And let's say he
was just constantly duped by the verydeep state he went in to drain.
Okay, I'll see that point.Temporarily, he was told Eric Snowden Julian
Assange, no, can't, can'ttouch him, let him rot. That's
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an unpopular position. The public wantsthese men free, and now Joe Biden
can say I freed one of them. I think Eric Snowden's situation is dependent
upon the numbers after this debate.If they still suck, Snowden's got a
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chance. So does Trump or anyof the people around him. Aware of
how badly he got played. Hejust got played by the very dj that
made a plea deal with Assage ata very political, politically convenient time.
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Huh. Imagine that. Now we'llget into that, the inner workings of
that in another show, the specificsof the plea deal. But at the
thirty thousand foot view, it's athat's a plus in Biden column. Not
for me, obviously, you knowwhat I mean to the people out there
who are ignorant, who just lookat x's and o's and not the big
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picture. So that's that might besomething Joe Biden throws out. We freed
Julie Massage. So what we'll likelyhear after the debate obviously depends on the
bowl of Jello's performance. If hedoes well, then all we're going to
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hear is how well he did Ifhe breaks down, you know, I
guess they could still try to,you know, fake it. They do
that a lot, but it'll bedifficult. It won't be difficult for Trump
to capitalize on a breakdown if hedoes what I just suggested and actually reach
out and follow that up in aninterview and say, you know, we're
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both uh, we're both running.And I just I didn't want to see
him break down there, and Ithought maybe he could use a glass of
water and just keep it very youknow, like it was your like it's
Trump's grandpa or whatever. So hopefullyhe's able to make that distinction at some
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point in the debate. Okay,I just want to drive home the point
as we wind down here that andI don't care what election it is.
It could be township trustee, countycommissioner, a state legislator, governor,
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judge, congressperson, president. Thereason we're in this mess is because everyone,
frankly, and I was as guiltyof this as anyone years ago,
people think that voting for a letterafter someone's name means they no longer have
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to pay attention and that they nolonger have to stay engaged. That is
the most dangerous type of person thatI know, because they're not keeping the
republic now. You don't have tobe as involved as I ever was,
but there are multiple levels of engagement, and you can certainly break down the
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tasks and you can actually have fundoing it. Did that for many years.
We had groups that went to townshipmeetings, we had group that went
to county meetings. We had agroup that went up to the state Central
Committee meetings. We all got togetherevery so often and had a fricking blast,
but we all knew what was goingon, and we tried to then
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educate our neighbors and friends, etc. Just because your guy or girl or
whomever gets elected doesn't mean you turnaway. Because I can guarant damn to
you. The second you turn awayis when the power will corrupt. And
I don't care who it is,folks, And it may be inadvertently the
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first few times, but it happensquickly. I'll end with this story.
There was a group going to thetownship meetings, the township in which we
live, and we found out thatsomeone we had all put on the ballot
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and for whom we voted was givingno bid contracts to a family member.
And so how did we find thatout? Well, we did a foya
basically public records requests, and wesaw a bunch of contracts awarded to a
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certain company in the amount of twentyfour thousand dollars nine hundred and ninety nine
twenty four nine hundred and ninety ninedollars, and there were multiple entries.
Well, in the bylaws of thetrustees it said any contract estimated over twenty
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five thousand dollars had to automatically putout for three bids. So this township
trustee, pretty flagrant right, didn'teven I mean he was O'Brien just decided
he was going to ride out twentyfour nine nine and then they did not
have to put out for bid sothat it automatically went to this family member.
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Now this is a guy, againostensible conservative. He wasn't. He
was just a grifter and he wasa crony capitalist. And frankly I felt
sorry for the family member because itreally cast an aspersion on him. You're
telling me you can't do it withouta political hand up. You're telling me
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you can't win this bid on yourown. And I believe he was a
fine at his craft. I thinkhe was good at his craft. But
it cast an aspersion nonetheless. Sothat's a township trustee. What do you
think is going on in DC?This is why they have very limited enumerated
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powers that verments that our closest tous are the most important, especially your
sheriff. So just because someone hasa letter by their name, just because
someone says the right things during aprimary, folks, that doesn't mean we
don't have to keep an eye onthem. And my concern is if Trump
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wins, that's what everybody's going todo. They're going to run back to
normal, like there is a normaland then guess what, then he's prone
to the corruption. Yeah, Iknow that they're I know what they're doing
to him. It's wrong. We'vesaid that two things can be true at
the same time. What they're doingto him is against every theme jurisprudence,
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you name it, against every fundamentalattribute of this republic. But that doesn't
mean that he's perfect, and thatdoesn't mean that he shouldn't go through the
proper channels. Now I know ourenemies don't. That's a problem, that's
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the rub, and that's why weget strongmen. So we'll just have to
figure that out, won't we.I'm sure there's a way. I do
know. It's not the concon aptlynicknamed the concon Mark Meckler, Please don't
fall for the constitutional convention. Theydon't follow the Constitution. Now, what
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in the world makes anyone think they'llfollow the rules of a concon? And
we'll have uh, we've got aguest line up to come on and talk
about that. I think what shouldwe should be concentrated on is the local.
Is the state? Is the local? Keep your states sovereign, encourage
your legislators to nullify. That's therightful remedy. You give the big fat
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middle finger to the federal government,but that means you can be addicted to
their money. That's a problem formost states. It's not for Rohnd DeSantis.
He just keeps on frickin' winning.Doesn't eat Joe. Okay, we'll
revisit this after the debate, butI want to thank everyone for listening today.
Thank you as always to magic ManJoe Strecker until next time, who
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will stand at either hand and keepthe bridge with me. Have a great day.
Hey everybody, and welcome to Everything'sPolitical. I'm your host Taya Shoemach.
You can find us online at Everything'sPolitical dot substack dot com. Shout out
too, Magicman Joe Strecker, theEric Arthur Blair of podcast producers. Everything
was all right, the struggle wasfinished. He had won the victory over
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himself. He loved big brother here, that's right. Joe. Eric Arthur
Blair, or better known as GeorgeOrwell, died on this day in nineteen
fifty and he is, of coursefamous for most famous, I think for
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his two works of literature, thefirst being Animal Farm brilliant. If you
haven't read it, please do so, and if you have seventh graders and
up please read it with them.Great book, and of course nineteen eighty
five the first, I think AnimalFarm, a warning about what happens when
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the people who are in charge ofa revolution become the very thing against which
they fought and overturned. And thesecond work of literature warning that it could
actually be worse than that. Andfolks, I got news for you.
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We're seven eighths of the way there. Of nineteen eighty four. I beg
you to read it. I thinkthey both served as warnings. Unfortunately our
overlords used them as instruction manuals.Same okay, George orwell, brilliant,
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brilliant man. You know I bringthat up today. Not only was it
the anniversary of his death, butAnimal Farm, that book. I read
it. I believe it was myEnglish class and it was I think I
was in the eighth grade, andit had such an impact on me,
and I never forgot it. Andit really wasn't until I was at university
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taking a history of Russia course thatI really came to appreciate it even more.
You know, it's just this satiricalallegory, right, the novella as
they call them. And I lovedthe eq of that book, and again
the warning that the people on whomyou're relying to change a system or reform
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it aren't any less prone to thecorruption of power than the people currently running
it. And I think we needto be cognizant of that, because I
hear a lot of catterwall about justwait, just wait, just wait,
when my guy gets in there,when my girl gets in whomever it is,
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and I just caution people, Look, I don't like the status quo
any more than you do. Butwe have proof that the bowl of Jello
at sixteen hundred Pennsylvania Avenue is notrunning things right. There is a deep
state, There are overlords and elites, etc. And unfortunately people on both
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sides of the aisle are part ofthat. And I think it was it
was O'Brien in nineteen eighty played byRichard. They did a pretty good movie
or pretty good adaptation with the movie. And he talks about power, and
we've talked about power. Right,we stop at knowledge is power, right,
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Schoolhouse Rock gen X. That's howwe were brought up. Knowledge is
power. But that's not where weshould stop because those two attributes fully realized
knowledge and power are wisdom and virtue. You have to have wisdom to temper
the knowledge, and you have tohave virtue to temper the power. An
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animal farm just screams that lesson nineteeneighty four is what happens when you don't
learn the lesson. And you gotto bring in Huxley here, that men
don't learn the important lessons of historyis the most important lesson history has to
teach. So we need to bevery careful about what we're willing to seed
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to anyone in a position of power. And I don't care who they are.
I don't care what letter is aftertheir name. I don't care what
they've been. We are all underattack, we have all been persecuted,
sure, some more than others.And yeah, it's just a matter of
time. But that doesn't mean weseed our liberties to an entity and power
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to bully someone else, because thesecond we do that, it's gonna bite
you right on the bajibis. Bevery careful when you pray for a strong
man, because you just might getone. That was my problem with Nikki
Haley when she looked in the cameraostensibly to bb net Yahoo saying finish him.
Oh my gosh, the epitome ofway too much female frickin energy flying
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around this earth. But power cruptsabsolute, power corrupts absolutely. And I
looked up the quote here from RichardBurton. He's telling Winston the Party seeks
power entirely for its own sake.So he's being honest about it because he
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can. There's no one there tooppose him. That's the lesson of Animal
Farm in nineteen eighty four. Wehave to definitively and unambiguously and comprehensively push
back. The people who are awarewe must push back. And I'll say
this, I've amended my position thatthere are two groups in every situation,
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the ignorant and the complicit. Andmy nuance was I'm complicit in the agenda
of liberty, unbridled liberty, withthe understanding that comes with responsibility. But
I'm going to break it out intothree groups, those who are aware,
those who are ignorant, and thosewho are complicit. Now, the ignorant
enable, the complicit, by definition, are still malieable, and the aware
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must push back. We must learnthe lessons of history. And so he
says, I'll start again. TheParty seeks power entirely for its own sake.
We are not interested in the goodof others. We're interested solely in
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power, pure power. What purepower means you will understand. He goes
on to talk about how the PartyNgsok in nineteen eighty four was different than
the cowards of the Communists and Naziswho didn't have the courage to recognize their
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own motives. So it's, youknow, kind of a backhanded compliment to
themselves, flattery that they at leasthave the cojones to admit it. Those
oligarchies pretended, perhaps perhaps they evenbelieved, that they had seized power unwillingly
and for a limited time. Thisis a strong man here and not just
around the corner there lay a paradisewhere human beings could be free and equal.
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We're not like that. We knowthat no one ever seizes power with
the intention of relinquishing it. Poweris not a means, it is an
end. One does not establish adictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution.
One makes a revolution in order toestablish the dictatorship. Folks. That's where
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we are now. I don't knowall the answers and I don't know all
the options. I have a fewideas, none that I'm comfortable sharing right
now. But that's where we arebecause that's what's going on. That's what
the well, let's see. Idon't want to cuss mother puss buckets.
See sometimes it just doesn't fully graspthe fervor of mine thought. But we
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don't establish that's the strong man.And I hear so many people gunning for
that. You just wait, you'llget your And the reality is, if
we had a real media, ifwe had a real judiciary and real legislatures,
especially state legislatures that don't bend overfor every federal dime, who keep
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their citizens sovereign enslaved to federal dollarsand mandates and all the other bull crap.
But guess who's fault that is,folks, That's our fault because we
didn't keep the republic. You know, people think they're above politics and above
the engagement, and they're, oh, I've got better things to do.
Really, do you realize that ifyou don't keep the republic, you won't
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be able to continue doing those importantthings? Dumbass politics is pervasive. It's
a riskutalian. Okay, you engagein a discussion about how to approach a
problem or mitigate a problem, ordeal with a group or whatever, it's
political. That's politics. So you'vebeen political. You're just not calling it
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that because it's not the kind ofpolitics you see on TV, and it's
not just voting once every two,four or six years. And I bring
all of this up today because we'regoing to see a debate this week.
I don't know if I can stomachit. I'll be honest with you,
but I want to talk about whatwe're going to hear what we're not going
to hear, what we should hear, what we shouldn't hear. So I
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believe the date is Thursday night,and they're agreeing to all these rules.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Thatwould be the first time everyone follows rules.
But here we are. So ifMike's are genuinely shut down, you're
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not going to hear ostensibly not goingto hear people cutting in on one another.
You're probably not going to hear goodpoints made by one party. You're
probably not going to hear stutters becausethey'll cut his mic, meaning the bowl
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of jello. They're going to makeeverything every rule that they made for this
debate is trying to make Joe Bidenlook as lucid and aware as possible.
They're juicing him up. Just acceptit. They're juicing him up, just
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to the point of making the restof us wonder if there is not already
a cure for Alzheimer's, because bythe way, I believe there is,
just like I believe there's a curefor cancer, but the money's not in
the cure. So that's what we'llsee and not here. Now. I
heard a clip of Trump talking aboutwell, what should I do? Should
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I be mean? Should I benice? Should I just let him talk?
Well, you're gonna have to lethim talk because they're gonna cut your
mic. Now, I realize thisis a big ask, but time is
short and we don't have time forbullshit. For once, show some magnanimity.
If Joe stumbles, if the bowlof jello jiggles without making sense,
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bring him a glass of water,Put your arm on his shoulder. Are
you okay? Joe? Can weget someone up here for him? That's
exactly what I do, because thatsays more about both men then the entire
debate will say about either. Unfortunately, Trump's EQ is inconsistent. He knows
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what a crowd wants to hear,he feeds off of it. Great good
for him. It's inconsistent in itsapplication because he has no clue how to
apply it in these debate type situationsnone zero, and neither do the people
around him. And as we've discussed, that has always been a problem.
But if I were prepping Trump,that would be the first thing I would
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tell him if and when Joe stumbles, And this is why they're juicing,
this is why he's not being seenthey're either making a caricature of him or
maybe trying to send in a whoknows what they're doing. They're going to
try everything so that the day afterthe media can say, oh, well
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see he did just fine. Soany stumble whatsoever. And I mean,
maybe it's a lie. And it'sTrump's turn and he says, Joe,
are you okay? I'm concerned aboutyour memory because that was a lie.
Now come on, you know that. Da da da da da da da.
Don't be bombastic, save that foryour rallies. Just be a freaking
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grown up and conduct yourself, humbleyourself, and for God's sakes, own
up to Operation warp speed, becausethat is the only reason RFK Junior has
traction. Admit that they played youlike a stratavarius and that is not going
to happen again on your watch.Admit that we handled it wrong. Don't
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throw the governors under the bus.They'll have their own heat to take in
their next elections. But true leaderstake more blame and less glory than they
deserve. I don't know if thereis one person around Donald J. Trump
that would tell him that, Butthat's what needs to be done again,
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because time is freaking short. Whatwe might also hear is the breaking news
today that Julian Assange has reached aplea deal. And when we talk about
e Q and we talk about nothingis Trump's fault, da da da da
(15:20):
da. Okay, whatever, Let'ssay it's not. And let's say he
was just constantly duped by the verydeep state he went in to drain.
Okay, I'll see that point.Temporarily, he was told Eric Snowden Julian
Assange, no, can't, can'ttouch him, let him rot. That's
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an unpopular position. The public wantsthese men free, and now Joe Biden
can say I freed one of them. I think Eric Snowden's situation is dependent
upon the numbers after this debate.If they still suck, Snowden's got a
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chance. So does Trump or anyof the people around him. Aware of
how badly he got played. Hejust got played by the very dj that
made a plea deal with Assage ata very political, politically convenient time.
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Huh. Imagine that. Now we'llget into that, the inner workings of
that in another show, the specificsof the plea deal. But at the
thirty thousand foot view, it's athat's a plus in Biden column. Not
for me, obviously, you knowwhat I mean to the people out there
who are ignorant, who just lookat x's and o's and not the big
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picture. So that's that might besomething Joe Biden throws out. We freed
Julie Massage. So what we'll likelyhear after the debate obviously depends on the
bowl of Jello's performance. If hedoes well, then all we're going to
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hear is how well he did Ifhe breaks down, you know, I
guess they could still try to,you know, fake it. They do
that a lot, but it'll bedifficult. It won't be difficult for Trump
to capitalize on a breakdown if hedoes what I just suggested and actually reach
out and follow that up in aninterview and say, you know, we're
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both uh, we're both running.And I just I didn't want to see
him break down there, and Ithought maybe he could use a glass of
water and just keep it very youknow, like it was your like it's
Trump's grandpa or whatever. So hopefullyhe's able to make that distinction at some
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point in the debate. Okay,I just want to drive home the point
as we wind down here that andI don't care what election it is.
It could be township trustee, countycommissioner, a state legislator, governor,
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judge, congressperson, president. Thereason we're in this mess is because everyone,
frankly, and I was as guiltyof this as anyone years ago,
people think that voting for a letterafter someone's name means they no longer have
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to pay attention and that they nolonger have to stay engaged. That is
the most dangerous type of person thatI know, because they're not keeping the
republic now. You don't have tobe as involved as I ever was,
but there are multiple levels of engagement, and you can certainly break down the
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tasks and you can actually have fundoing it. Did that for many years.
We had groups that went to townshipmeetings, we had group that went
to county meetings. We had agroup that went up to the state Central
Committee meetings. We all got togetherevery so often and had a fricking blast,
but we all knew what was goingon, and we tried to then
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educate our neighbors and friends, etc. Just because your guy or girl or
whomever gets elected doesn't mean you turnaway. Because I can guarant damn to
you. The second you turn awayis when the power will corrupt. And
I don't care who it is,folks, And it may be inadvertently the
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first few times, but it happensquickly. I'll end with this story.
There was a group going to thetownship meetings, the township in which we
live, and we found out thatsomeone we had all put on the ballot
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and for whom we voted was givingno bid contracts to a family member.
And so how did we find thatout? Well, we did a foya
basically public records requests, and wesaw a bunch of contracts awarded to a
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certain company in the amount of twentyfour thousand dollars nine hundred and ninety nine
twenty four nine hundred and ninety ninedollars, and there were multiple entries.
Well, in the bylaws of thetrustees it said any contract estimated over twenty
(20:52):
five thousand dollars had to automatically putout for three bids. So this township
trustee, pretty flagrant right, didn'teven I mean he was O'Brien just decided
he was going to ride out twentyfour nine nine and then they did not
have to put out for bid sothat it automatically went to this family member.
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Now this is a guy, againostensible conservative. He wasn't. He
was just a grifter and he wasa crony capitalist. And frankly I felt
sorry for the family member because itreally cast an aspersion on him. You're
telling me you can't do it withouta political hand up. You're telling me
(21:37):
you can't win this bid on yourown. And I believe he was a
fine at his craft. I thinkhe was good at his craft. But
it cast an aspersion nonetheless. Sothat's a township trustee. What do you
think is going on in DC?This is why they have very limited enumerated
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powers that verments that our closest tous are the most important, especially your
sheriff. So just because someone hasa letter by their name, just because
someone says the right things during aprimary, folks, that doesn't mean we
don't have to keep an eye onthem. And my concern is if Trump
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wins, that's what everybody's going todo. They're going to run back to
normal, like there is a normaland then guess what, then he's prone
to the corruption. Yeah, Iknow that they're I know what they're doing
to him. It's wrong. We'vesaid that two things can be true at
the same time. What they're doingto him is against every theme jurisprudence,
(22:49):
you name it, against every fundamentalattribute of this republic. But that doesn't
mean that he's perfect, and thatdoesn't mean that he shouldn't go through the
proper channels. Now I know ourenemies don't. That's a problem, that's
(23:11):
the rub, and that's why weget strongmen. So we'll just have to
figure that out, won't we.I'm sure there's a way. I do
know. It's not the concon aptlynicknamed the concon Mark Meckler, Please don't
fall for the constitutional convention. Theydon't follow the Constitution. Now, what
(23:33):
in the world makes anyone think they'llfollow the rules of a concon? And
we'll have uh, we've got aguest line up to come on and talk
about that. I think what shouldwe should be concentrated on is the local.
Is the state? Is the local? Keep your states sovereign, encourage
your legislators to nullify. That's therightful remedy. You give the big fat
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middle finger to the federal government,but that means you can be addicted to
their money. That's a problem formost states. It's not for Rohnd DeSantis.
He just keeps on frickin' winning.Doesn't eat Joe. Okay, we'll
revisit this after the debate, butI want to thank everyone for listening today.
Thank you as always to magic ManJoe Strecker until next time, who
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will stand at either hand and keepthe bridge with me. Have a great day.
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