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The Rise of the Smiling Socialist Elites, Nigeria’s Silent Christian Crisis & Bill Gates from Alarmist to Realist Week In Review · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Welcome in his verdict with Ted Cruz, we can review
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Speaker 1: Ben Ferguson with you. And here are some big stories
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Speaker 1: that you may have missed that we talked about this week.
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Speaker 1: First off, Mandani and Gavin Newsom. They're marketing Marxism and
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Speaker 1: socialism to the American voter like never before. Will there
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Speaker 1: be backlash. We're going to break that down for you. Also,
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Speaker 1: Center Cruse and I set down with an incredible leader
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Speaker 1: to talk about Christian abuse in Nigeria and why the
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Speaker 1: media isn't covering this story but we are here and
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Speaker 1: it's important. And finally Bill Gates reversing course on global warming.
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Speaker 1: So how much money was made off of selling you
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Speaker 1: on the big scam? It's the week in Review and
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Speaker 1: it starts right now.
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Speaker 2: Did you hear Gavin Newsom on the podcast discussing his rough,
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Speaker 2: hard scrabble life eating wonderbread growing up in the hood,
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Speaker 2: because you know, Gavin was an oppressed youth.
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Speaker 1: Did you see that it was almost as oppress as
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Speaker 1: he was during the COVID lockdowns when he was the
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Speaker 1: only one allowed to have dinner with his friends without
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Speaker 1: mass on.
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Speaker 2: You know, Look, to be clear, Gavin Newsom is California Royalties,
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Speaker 2: fourth or fifth generation California old Money. His daddy was
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Speaker 2: one of the lead lawyers for the Getty billionaire fortune.
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Speaker 2: He grew up, he was featured in the San Francisco
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Speaker 2: Paper in an article entitled growing Up Rich. And to
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Speaker 2: be clear, he started a winery with the Getty millions
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Speaker 2: billions actually but millions from them. Started a winery at
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Speaker 2: age twenty five. Now, Benjamin, let me ask you, did
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Speaker 2: you start a winery at h twenty five? No?
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Speaker 1: Well, I felt like I worked really hard, but I
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Speaker 1: promise you it was not a winery at twenty five.
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Speaker 2: And look, it's okay. I don't fault Gavin for the
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Speaker 2: success of his parents, or his grandparents or his great
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Speaker 2: great grandparents. And it's amazing how many leftists were raised
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Speaker 2: with silver spoons and inserted just about any place you
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Speaker 2: can insert a spoon. But when he pretends like he's
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Speaker 2: on this this NBA podcast and he's talking about, oh,
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Speaker 2: I just had to support myself. I had to support
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Speaker 2: myself playing ball, like what a load, what a croc?
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Speaker 2: And it's pathological Newsom is running a different scam than
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Speaker 2: Mandanni is, but it's the same scam. It is marketing Marxism, socialism,
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Speaker 2: confiscatory government power and trying to make it. I will
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Speaker 2: say this, I'm gonna compliment right now both Comrade Mondani
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Speaker 2: and Gavin Newsom they got great smiles. I mean, to
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Speaker 2: be honest, every dentist in America must be like, look
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Speaker 2: at those pearly whitesors smile like it. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I got to say and I'll say this as as
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Speaker 2: a Cuban American whose family you know, fled Cuba, it
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Speaker 2: really feels better if you're a dissident being lined up
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Speaker 2: from the firing squad, if you know that the communist
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Speaker 2: ordering your death or smiling like it really makes it
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Speaker 2: less painful as you're sent to the gulag. To know
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Speaker 2: it's a good looking tyrant who is sending me to
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Speaker 2: the Gulag, But sadly that's where we are. And can
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Speaker 2: I ask you one more question on this topic? Sure,
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Speaker 2: is there is there a single sane Democrat who is
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Speaker 2: calling out Comrade Mom, Donnie or Gavin Douso on these issues.
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Speaker 1: No, because they created these crazies and they allowed them
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Speaker 1: to fester in their party and they literally didn't police
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Speaker 1: their party. So this is the Democratic Party now and
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Speaker 1: their leaders are not Democrats. They are commies, they are socialists,
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Speaker 1: they are Marxists. Just look around the country. This is
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Speaker 1: who they are.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Look, the elected members of the Democrat Party, particularly
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Speaker 2: on the national scene, they're scared. They're scared of the mob.
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Speaker 2: They're scared of the angry left wing radicals with torches
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Speaker 2: and pitchforks. We saw this at the No King's rally,
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Speaker 2: where they're terrified. We're in the middle, we're in day
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Speaker 2: twenty seven of the Schumer shutdown, because they're terrified of
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Speaker 2: the mob, and so elected Democrats are terrified. But again, listen,
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Speaker 2: we endeavor on this podcast to try to be real,
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Speaker 2: to try to have facts, to try not to engage
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Speaker 2: in just empty partisan rhetoric. So maybe you might say,
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Speaker 2: all right, Cruz Ferguson that they're not the most impartial,
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Speaker 2: unbiased observers if you're not inclined to listen to us,
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Speaker 2: Although I will say, if you've made it twenty nine
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Speaker 2: minutes into this podcast and you're not inclined to listen
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Speaker 2: to us, wow, you've got some endurance. Bravos of you,
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Speaker 2: But indulge in indulge the setup. Nonetheless, if you're not
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Speaker 2: inclined to listen to us, perhaps you would be inclined
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Speaker 2: to listen to Bill Maher. Bill Maher is a liberal,
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Speaker 2: he is a Democrat. He's been a liberal and his
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Speaker 2: democrat a Democrat his whole life. Listen to what Bill
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Speaker 2: Maher had to say, the warning to Democrats he had
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Speaker 2: to say about comrade Mundani.
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Speaker 3: The Democrats, let's face it, they're kind of split. Now
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Speaker 3: there's the far left version that did not do too
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Speaker 3: well in recent elections, and then people like the governors
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Speaker 3: say we've got to come back to the middle, common sense,
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Speaker 3: And whenever this discussion comes up, this is what you
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Speaker 3: hear a lot. We need a sister soldier moment a
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Speaker 3: time when some issue with the Democrat says, look, I'm
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Speaker 3: not with the far left, and this is how you
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Speaker 3: know you can trust me that I'm not. I think
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Speaker 3: I have the issue, okay, and it's the mayor's race
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Speaker 3: in New York. I think he seems like a sweet guy,
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Speaker 3: mum donni. But I would just like to say, because
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Speaker 3: the election is in a couple of weeks, this is
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Speaker 3: not just New York that's on the ballot. I think
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Speaker 3: the whole demokrat credit in the country is on the ballot,
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Speaker 3: and the whole country would be looking at this race
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Speaker 3: to see which way are the Democrats going to go. No,
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Speaker 3: Andrew Cuomo may not be that exciting and that inspirational,
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Speaker 3: but you know, for a party that said we want
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Speaker 3: to get back to normal, he's kind of normal.
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Speaker 4: I mean, what, well, he's done some things in his history.
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Speaker 3: That well, we did a deep dive on that because
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Speaker 3: we had him on the show. A lot of it
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Speaker 3: is kind of bulls. I mean maybe he was a
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Speaker 3: little too handsy, a little too Italian, Uh, a little
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Speaker 3: too touchy. You know, he did not to Italian, that's
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Speaker 3: what he said. You know, yes, you know you did
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Speaker 3: not get the memo.
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Speaker 1: I mean it's when you're having to defend Cuomo to
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Speaker 1: try to save your party, you're not in a good place.
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Speaker 2: Well, but Bill Maher, and let's be clear, Bill Maher
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Speaker 2: did not vote for Donald Trump. Bill Maher would not
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Speaker 2: vote for me. He is a liberal, he is a Democrat.
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Speaker 2: But Bill Maher every day makes more and more sense
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Speaker 2: because his party has gone so batcrap crazy that he
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Speaker 2: believes in things like free speech, he believes in things
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Speaker 2: like not supporting a communist government that seizes private property
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Speaker 2: and the means of production in society. He doesn't want
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Speaker 2: to support Hamas terrorists and other jahatists that used to
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Speaker 2: be mainstream, that used to be all of those propositions
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Speaker 2: were things. It used to be the case that Republicans
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Speaker 2: and Democrats came together. Look Bill Clinton. When Bill Clinton
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Speaker 2: was president, neither you nor I supported Bill Clinton. We
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Speaker 2: did not vote for Bill Clinton. But you know what
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Speaker 2: the Bill Clinton election when he was elected, it was
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Speaker 2: not the fate of Western civilization. It was not do
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Speaker 2: we elect a communist jihadist. I would have rather a
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Speaker 2: Republican be elected. But the world didn't end when Bill
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Speaker 2: Clinton got elected. Bill Clinton's views. If you took a
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Speaker 2: candidate with the identical policy views of Bill Clinton and
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Speaker 2: ran him today, they would tar and feather him and
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Speaker 2: drive him out of the Democrat Party. He would be
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Speaker 2: completely an.
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Speaker 1: Entirely as president.
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Speaker 2: He would not get elected. He probably wouldn't get elected
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Speaker 2: as a Democrat dogcatcher because they have radicalized and they
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Speaker 2: instead want someone like Comrade Monami, whose party says release
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Speaker 2: the terrorists, who murders Jews because they're Jews. That's where
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Speaker 2: their radical base is. And and you know some of
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Speaker 2: y'all may not may not know what a sister Soldier
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Speaker 2: moment is. And and sister Soldier actually refers to Bill Clinton.
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Speaker 2: When Bill Clinton was running for president, Sister Soldier was
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Speaker 2: was this rapper and and and Bill Clinton denounced her
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Speaker 2: in the middle of the primary, and it was viewed
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Speaker 2: as as a brave moment of sort of taking on
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Speaker 2: his base. But it demonstrated to the voters, or it
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Speaker 2: was perceived to demonstrate to the voter that he was
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Speaker 2: reasonable and rational and not a crazy nutcase. And it
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Speaker 2: is an interesting question. Is there even one national Democrat?
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Speaker 2: By the way, Gavin Newsom wants to be elected president,
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Speaker 2: can he denounce Mundami? Jamie Pritzker wants to be elected president?
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Speaker 2: Can he do it? Corey Booker wants to, Chris Murphy
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Speaker 2: wants to. None of them are going to because look,
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Speaker 2: John Fetterman has been critical. But John Fetterman, I think
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party is being quite explicit that they're going
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Speaker 2: to do everything they can to drive him out of
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Speaker 2: the Democrat Party, just like they would Bill Clinton if
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Speaker 2: he were there. But I don't know a Democrat, And interestingly,
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Speaker 2: one ambitious Democrat is there? Nobody looking around Andy Basher,
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Speaker 2: who's pretending he's a moderate in Kentucky. Josh Shapiro, who
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Speaker 2: has got to be horrified at what Mondami's saying. Has
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Speaker 2: he said a word crickets? Crickets, crickets? There is not one,
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Speaker 2: and maybe that will change. But I fear not just
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Speaker 2: for the state of the Democrat Party, but I fear
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Speaker 2: for the future of our republic. I think we do
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Speaker 2: better when we have two political parties that are reasonable
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Speaker 2: and rational and have some meaningful disagreements than we do
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Speaker 2: with one party that is utterly whack job and trying
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Speaker 2: to destroy America. Look, we've seen through history it is
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Speaker 2: a pendulum, and it goes from one party to the other.
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Speaker 2: There will come a time when these lunatics are a
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Speaker 2: charge of the country again, and they've gotten so extreme
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Speaker 2: that I really shudder and fear for our great nation.
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Speaker 1: Now, if you want to hear the rest of this conversation,
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Speaker 1: you can go back and listen to the full podcast
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Speaker 1: from earlier this week. Now onto story number two.
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Speaker 2: Now, Nowijan tell us what's happening in Nigeria. And as
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Speaker 2: you know, I've been very vocal calling out the mass
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Speaker 2: murder of Christians over fifty thousand Christians have been ordered
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Speaker 2: in Nigeria. Since two thousand and nine, over twenty thousand
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Speaker 2: churches and schools have been destroyed, burned to the ground.
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Speaker 2: And you have Boko Haram and other radical Islamic terrorist
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Speaker 2: groups that are targeting and persecuting Christians in particular. And
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Speaker 2: I will tell you the government of Nigeria is very
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Speaker 2: unhappy with me. They have decried my saying this. I
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Speaker 2: have introduced legislation to designate them a country a special
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Speaker 2: concern And the government in Nigeria is very unhappy. And
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Speaker 2: I've said, look that there are far too many government
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Speaker 2: leaders who have turned a blind eyed to what is happening,
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Speaker 2: who have acquiesced in what is happening, who are enforcing
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Speaker 2: either Sharia laws or blasphemy laws and facilitating the persecution
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Speaker 2: of Christians. And as I said, the Nigerian government has
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Speaker 2: been vigorously resisting me in this. Give me your judgment.
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Speaker 2: What do you see happening in Nigeria and what do
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Speaker 2: you think is actually the truth.
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Speaker 4: Nigeria is the most important African country, largest population, and
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Speaker 4: obviously there's a vying for control between on the one hand,
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Speaker 4: the Islamic states of Nigeria and the Christian States of Nigeria,
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Speaker 4: and it used to be about fifty to fifty. But
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Speaker 4: because the Islamist movement Bokoharam and others, they want to
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Speaker 4: apply force that Ji had his force. It's sort of
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Speaker 4: gruesome killing that we've seen in October seven, twenty twenty
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Speaker 4: three in Israel. So what is going on in Nigeria.
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Speaker 4: The Islamists in Nigeria are killing Christians, They're burning their churches,
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Speaker 4: they're raping their women, they are invoking blasphemilos. So in
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Speaker 4: the southern regions of Nigeria, Sharia law is the law.
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Speaker 4: And if you say Taed Cruz has you know he
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Speaker 4: said something bad against Islam, you can have a mob
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Speaker 4: come and lynch you and there's nothing you can do
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Speaker 4: about it. But then the government, it should be doing
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Speaker 4: something about it. And the government isn't doing anything about it. Now,
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Speaker 4: what is the characteristic of the government of Nigeria. It's corrupt.
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Speaker 4: The elites in Nigeria, whether they're Muslim or whether they're Christian,
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Speaker 4: they're in this bubble, and I think that bubble has
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Speaker 4: to be burist in a comfort bubble. I don't really
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Speaker 4: think that they care about that much about or are
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Speaker 4: hell responsible or accountable or transparent for what is going
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Speaker 4: on with a large majority of the Nigerian population. And
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Speaker 4: that's what you see. And we give a lot of
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Speaker 4: money as the United States and legitimacy to this government.
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Speaker 4: We've got to hold them accountable. And I couldn't be
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Speaker 4: more pleased that you are involved in this, Senator Cruz.
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Speaker 4: You're calling them out and you're going to say, if
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Speaker 4: you want to be our Allian, our friend, we need
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Speaker 4: you to uphold your end of being a responsible and
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Speaker 4: responsive government. There's a goal.
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Speaker 2: There are more Christians being murdered in Nigeria than in
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Speaker 2: any country on planet Earth. One thing you said that
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Speaker 2: I thought was interesting and I think many of our
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Speaker 2: listeners will not have heard this before. You said in
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Speaker 2: your judgment, Nigeria is the most important African country. To
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Speaker 2: tell our listeners why that is because many will will
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Speaker 2: not have a deep familiarity with that.
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Speaker 4: It has the largest population, it has oil resources, the
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Speaker 4: population is very young, it's English speaking, highly educated. Let
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Speaker 4: me just give you an example. Kemi baranoch I hope
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Speaker 4: the future Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is from
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Speaker 4: Nigeria and is Christian. So if we were if you know,
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Speaker 4: in our relationship with right now Prussia, China, et cetera.
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Speaker 4: I think the continent as a whole, the continent of Africa,
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Speaker 4: which is home to over a billion people.
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Speaker 2: Yes, and growing a young population that is growing.
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Speaker 4: It's the youngest population and it's the only population on
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Speaker 4: planet art that is growing as happy as it's doing right.
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Speaker 4: And so Nigeria is strategically important. Nigeria is a sort
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Speaker 4: of country that should be our ally and there is
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Speaker 4: a huge Christian population that means they share norms and
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Speaker 4: values with us, and we should not be abandoning Nigeria.
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Speaker 4: And so the population is pro American, but then they
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Speaker 4: are let down by their government. And I think that
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Speaker 4: can change if we were even to bring a little
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Speaker 4: bit of leverage down on them, because we have that leverage.
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Speaker 5: When you say a little bit of leverage, what do
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Speaker 5: you mean, like, what would the leverage look like that
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Speaker 5: you think could could literally save lives, especially Christian lives
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Speaker 5: and Nigeria who are being attacked right now.
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Speaker 4: Well, it starts from the amounts of Development aid money
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Speaker 4: that we give them. We could apply sanctions we I
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Speaker 4: mean we.
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Speaker 2: Well, in my legislation with sanctions particular government officials, so
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Speaker 2: government officials at the local level who are engaged in
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Speaker 2: facilitating and acquiescing in this persecution. And so it's designed
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Speaker 2: to use the power of the US economy and US
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Speaker 2: sanctions to incentivize different behavior.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely and incentivized, as legitimates, is really important for them
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Speaker 4: to keep their money in America to you know, all
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Speaker 4: of these the private jets they come and they play
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Speaker 4: in America and American allies even when they play in Europe.
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Speaker 4: I think we have a say over that, but I
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Speaker 4: don't want to go into the details of that, but
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Speaker 4: I think we can leverage our influence to make the
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Speaker 4: Nigerian government stop the violence immediately. They have shari a
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Speaker 4: lot in the southern regions. We can and then we say, oh,
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Speaker 4: human rights is that and other where you have Sharia law,
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Speaker 4: you do not have human rights? Are you crazy?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely? Absolutely, And we need to stand up and we
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Speaker 2: need to fight vigorously to prevent it here in the
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Speaker 2: United States. Okay, final topic, and we're going to wrap
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Speaker 2: up in just a couple of minutes. But you were
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Speaker 2: born in Somalia, as you know. I've publicly called on
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Speaker 2: the Trump administration to recognize Somaliland as a separate and
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Speaker 2: independent nation. Tell our viewers what you think about that,
17:29
Speaker 2: and if you think that makes sense, tell them why I.
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Speaker 4: Think we should reward Somali Land for what they have achieved.
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Speaker 4: They have been since nineteen six I mean the former
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Speaker 4: dictatorial government si Bar, they were massacred. They llewed into
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Speaker 4: becoming part of Somalia. They became part of Somalia and
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Speaker 4: they have come to live to regret it. But at
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Speaker 4: the moment, very quickly, they are the only viable nation state.
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Speaker 4: They have a homogeneous population, they speak one language, and
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Speaker 4: there is a narrative of national identity, of common suffering
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Speaker 4: but also common survival. You know, as a Somali, I
18:08
Speaker 4: will tell you something I'm not. I'm an American, but
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Speaker 4: born in Somali. I will say that one of the
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Speaker 4: things that we Smaris excel at is in vengeance. But
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Speaker 4: the leadership of Somaliland have decided after nineteen ninety one
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Speaker 4: that they are not going to channel the energy of
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Speaker 4: their population into vengeance but build into building. What is
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Speaker 4: a nation and they are economically violent. I think they
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Speaker 4: that may have oil and gas. I think that they
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Speaker 4: could be a strategic partner I admire.
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Speaker 2: And they want to stand with America. They are standing up.
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Speaker 2: It is in our national interest to Recognizeiland to have
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Speaker 2: a major ally on the horn of Africa that is
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Speaker 2: standing with us. That's significant. And look, I am someone
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Speaker 2: who is very much America first. We should be putting
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Speaker 2: American national security interest first and recognize as Somali Land
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Speaker 2: enhances those interests.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely, they are absolutely on the same page as as
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Speaker 4: they Also they've recognized Israel. They have defined they have
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Speaker 4: a defined territory, they have a permanent population, they issue passports.
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Speaker 4: But the most important thing is that they hold elections
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Speaker 4: one man, one vote for president, for parliament and local elections.
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Speaker 4: And you can come and survey those and see that
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Speaker 4: they are actually in some ways better than our American elections.
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Speaker 4: And so I think Somali Land should be rewarded for
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Speaker 4: the fact that they have built a nation. They do
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Speaker 4: not rely on development aid. They never relied on US.
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Speaker 2: Eight.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, so please vibrate them from what is Somalia Mogadishi,
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Speaker 4: which is just a broken hiding place.
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Speaker 2: Well, Jan, thank you for taking the time, Thank you
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Speaker 2: for joining us. I think this has been a very
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Speaker 2: informative podcast. I think our listeners are really going to
20:12
Speaker 2: get a lot out of it. Let me encourage our
20:13
Speaker 2: listeners share this podcast if you want your friends, your
20:16
Speaker 2: family to understand, understand the threat of political Islam, what
20:20
Speaker 2: it means, what it's meant in Europe, what it means
20:23
Speaker 2: here in America. I think it is an incredibly important topic.
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Speaker 2: It is a very real threat. It is a threat
20:31
Speaker 2: that I am committed to combating. And one of the
20:34
Speaker 2: purposes of this podcast is to equip you to give
20:38
Speaker 2: you information that when you're talking with your friends and
20:41
Speaker 2: families and colleagues and co workers, that you know the
20:43
Speaker 2: truth and ayan I think this has been very, very
20:46
Speaker 2: helpful to our listeners. So thank you so much for
20:48
Speaker 2: joining us.
20:49
Speaker 1: As before, If you want to hear the rest of
20:51
Speaker 1: this conversation on this topic, you can go back and
20:53
Speaker 1: dow the podcast from earlier this week to hear the
20:56
Speaker 1: entire thing. I want to get back to the big
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Speaker 1: story number three of the week. You may have missed,
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Speaker 1: all right, So this one is just one of those
21:05
Speaker 1: segments that I'm just going to enjoy Bill Gates as
21:10
Speaker 1: a guy that was like the world's gonna end center
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Speaker 1: and we're all gonna you know die of heat and
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Speaker 1: global warming is real, and I'm investing in all these
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Speaker 1: projects and things, and the government should be doing the same.
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Speaker 1: And now he's like, all, right, screwed, it's not gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: It reminds me. I think it was Newsweek back in
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Speaker 1: the eighties where they said we're all going to freeze
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Speaker 1: to death from like arctic freezing of the entire globe.
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Speaker 1: That went away too, So they got it wrong in
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Speaker 1: the eighties. And now Bill Gates is admitting and Al Gore,
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Speaker 1: remember we were supposed to be dead like after ten years,
21:40
Speaker 1: and that was like ten years ago when he made
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Speaker 1: his prediction that we're all going to die of global warming.
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Speaker 1: None of it's actually happened. And so now Bill Gates
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Speaker 1: like a right, screw it. I was wrong, I guess.
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Speaker 2: So it wasn't ten years, it was twelve years. And
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Speaker 2: for some reason for the apocalyptic left, the world is
21:56
Speaker 2: always ending in twelve years. And that's been true for
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Speaker 2: about two decades now. They've been saying twelve years from now,
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Speaker 2: we're all going to die. Twelve years from now, we're
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Speaker 2: all going to die. And I got to say Bill
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Speaker 2: Gates was willing to be as hysterical as Greta, the
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Speaker 2: European teenager who shut down the German economy because they
22:15
Speaker 2: listened to a teenager and said, hey, why don't we
22:17
Speaker 2: shut down all of our nuclear power plants? And then
22:20
Speaker 2: they suddenly realized they couldn't power their country, and ironically enough,
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Speaker 2: instead they're now opening coal plants and polluting a lot
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Speaker 2: more so. The apocalypse the world is ending because of
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Speaker 2: climate change. Well, look, all right, don't necessarily believe me.
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Speaker 2: Let me just read what Bill Gates has done. So
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Speaker 2: this is from Daily Wire. Microsoft co founder Bill Gates
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Speaker 2: has done and about face on climate change alarmism recently,
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Speaker 2: saying that there are more pressing matters people should be
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Speaker 2: worrying about instead. The seventy year old tech billionaire, who
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Speaker 2: has been an outspoken environmental activist for years, said as
22:54
Speaker 2: much in a memo published Tuesday titled Three Tough Truths
22:59
Speaker 2: about Climate It. Here's what he wrote. Climate change, disease,
23:03
Speaker 2: and poverty are all major problems. We should deal with
23:06
Speaker 2: them in proportion to the suffering they cause. The businessman
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Speaker 2: admitted that the Earth's temperature is not the most important
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Speaker 2: factor for improving life on the planet, and said the
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Speaker 2: quote doom'sday view of climate change is wrong. Let me
23:22
Speaker 2: let me read that again. Bill Gates said the doom'sday
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Speaker 2: view of climate change is wrong. Here's what he wrote. Quote,
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Speaker 2: although climate change will have serious consequences, particularly for people
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Speaker 2: in the poorest countries, it will not lead to humanity's demise.
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Speaker 2: Shocking that, Bill Gates said that. And and and here
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Speaker 2: he goes on to say, quote what mean what does
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Speaker 2: that mean?
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Speaker 1: He can find his private jets now and like take
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Speaker 1: a nap, not be like having to buy carbon credits
23:49
Speaker 1: or get on his shot. I'm just confided, I want
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Speaker 1: to be here. What does this free him up to do?
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Speaker 2: Oh no, no, the carbon credits scam is definitely still on.
23:56
Speaker 2: But but but he's going to keep lying on his jets.
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Speaker 2: And remember, by the way, John Kerry the Zealot when
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Speaker 2: he discussed his private play and he said, you know,
24:04
Speaker 2: he flies private because he says, really, for someone like me,
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Speaker 2: it's the only reasonable way to travel. Yes, but likely
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Speaker 2: the utter hypocrisy. But here's what Gates wrote. This is
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Speaker 2: a chance to refocus on the metrics that should count
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Speaker 2: even more than emissions and temperature change. Improving lives our
24:23
Speaker 2: chief goal should be to prevent suffering, particularly for those
24:27
Speaker 2: in the toughest conditions who live in the world's poorest countries.
24:30
Speaker 2: And he added quote, although climate change will hurt poor
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Speaker 2: people more than anyone else, for the vast majority of them,
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Speaker 2: it will not be the only or even the biggest
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Speaker 2: threat to their welfare. And he wrote this seventeen page
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Speaker 2: analysis ahead of next months United Nations Climate Change Conference
24:48
Speaker 2: in Brazil, hoping to shift funding away from climate initiatives
24:52
Speaker 2: towards other endeavors that he now believes are more important. Look.
24:57
Speaker 2: I don't know about you, but I'm not tired of winning.
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Speaker 2: I mean this is climate change was an ex.
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Speaker 1: So it's scam to make a bunch of money. Is
25:05
Speaker 1: that what we can kind of get to here? It
25:06
Speaker 1: was just about all of the money.
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Speaker 2: Money and power. There's a lot of money, a lot
25:10
Speaker 2: of money, take power. Look look for for democrats. If
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Speaker 2: you are a socialist, if you are a communist, if
25:16
Speaker 2: you are a comrade. Uh Mamdani, I assume he's a
25:21
Speaker 2: climate change not I don't actually know that, but I
25:24
Speaker 2: know he's a communist. And and and climate change was
25:28
Speaker 2: the excuse for communists to seize control of our government
25:32
Speaker 2: and and and that today's Democrat party, it was a
25:35
Speaker 2: great we're all gonna die unless you let me, the
25:39
Speaker 2: Democrat politician control the energy and business and your life
25:44
Speaker 2: and and regulate every aspect of your life. The fact
25:47
Speaker 2: that Bill Gates is making this change, it really shows
25:51
Speaker 2: the momentum is moving and people are are are engaged
25:54
Speaker 2: in just just common sense is coming back.
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Speaker 1: Well, and not only common sense, but like you look
25:59
Speaker 1: at these solar farms, they're like being dormited right now,
26:03
Speaker 1: Like they're just shutting them down because they just can't work.
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Speaker 1: They're not working in the pollution that comes actually from
26:10
Speaker 1: the turbines and all the other things they are actually saying,
26:12
Speaker 1: it's like having a real negative effect on the environment.
26:14
Speaker 1: Shocker there. And then we also found out that like
26:17
Speaker 1: a pension fund in California lost like seventy plus percent
26:21
Speaker 1: of the investment that they went in green alternative energy
26:23
Speaker 1: that just came out, so like they screwed countless hardworking
26:27
Speaker 1: even liberals in California with this crap.
26:30
Speaker 2: And a point to understand, the climate change radicals have
26:35
Speaker 2: consistently hurt the environment. They are bad on the environment.
26:39
Speaker 2: If the only thing you care about, if you wake
26:42
Speaker 2: up every morning praying to Mother Earth. If that's your
26:46
Speaker 2: only voting issue, you should vote against Democrats. Why Let's
26:50
Speaker 2: take for example Germany. The Greens forced nuclear power plants
26:54
Speaker 2: to be closed. The result is today Germany is relying
26:57
Speaker 2: more on coal, which is much much worse for the environment.
27:01
Speaker 2: And what country is leads the world every year in
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Speaker 2: the reduction of carbon emissions?
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Speaker 1: Which one?
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Speaker 2: That would be the United States of America? Do you
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Speaker 2: know why?
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Speaker 1: Why is that?
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Speaker 2: Look, this is a question. Actually I pose when I'm
27:18
Speaker 2: when I'm in college campus, when I'm talking to college
27:20
Speaker 2: kids and they're Bernie Sanders supporters and they're they're freaked
27:23
Speaker 2: out about the climate, I'll ask him a question. I'll say,
27:26
Speaker 2: tell me what human being has done the most to
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Speaker 2: reduce climate in our lifetimes? And inevitably they have no idea.
27:34
Speaker 2: There is an objectively right answer. The right answer to
27:36
Speaker 2: this is George Mitchell. Now, who is George Mitchell. George
27:40
Speaker 2: Mitchell was a Texas oil man. He was the son
27:43
Speaker 2: of a Greek goat herder, and George Mitchell is is
27:48
Speaker 2: the man most responsible for pioneering fracking, and he did
27:52
Speaker 2: it in the Barnett Shale under Fort Worth and Dallas.
27:55
Speaker 2: Fracking unlocked the shale revolution, which resulted in massive production
28:01
Speaker 2: of natural gas, much of it in Texas, although also
28:04
Speaker 2: in Pennsylvania and Ohio and other states across the country.
28:08
Speaker 2: And the reason the United States every year leads the
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Speaker 2: world in the reduction of carbon emissions is because at
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Speaker 2: a wide scale level, we are replacing coal powered electricity
28:20
Speaker 2: generation with natural gas powered electricity generation, and that pollutes
28:26
Speaker 2: much much less, it emits much less carbon, and the
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Speaker 2: Greens and the Radical Dems have opposed that at every step.
28:33
Speaker 2: By the way, do you know what country leads the
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Speaker 2: world in pollution?
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Speaker 1: What's that?
28:38
Speaker 2: That would be Communist China, which pollutes massively, and yet
28:41
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