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Free Speech takes a Punch plus Dems HATE Waste, Fraud & Abuse when it's not Theirs · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: We've talked about this for a while and it is
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  Speaker 1: a warning of what happens if you allow the government
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  Speaker 1: to well silence speech. A lot of speech that you
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  Speaker 1: may not like, or I may not like, or may
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  Speaker 1: not agree with. But does it have a right to
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  Speaker 1: be said? Do you have a right to say things
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  Speaker 1: online without having to worry that someone's going to come
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  Speaker 1: and arrest you because the government was offended. Well, it's
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  Speaker 1: not the first time in Germany to have someone threaten
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  Speaker 1: to arrest you if you say something the government doesn't like.
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  Speaker 2: There was a guy by the name of Adolf.
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  Speaker 1: Hitler that had no problem using his goons to come
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  Speaker 1: after people in Germany if you said things they didn't like. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what, they're doing it again. And the worst part
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  Speaker 1: is CBS News was glorifying it in a sixty minutes report.
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  Speaker 1: That's right, the American broadcaster CBS followed German police as
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  Speaker 1: they rated homes for what they described as speech crime.
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  Speaker 1: So what were some of those crimes? Things like a
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  Speaker 1: quote racist cartoon or a meme that the government thought
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  Speaker 1: crossed a line. And now prosecutors in the country are
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  Speaker 1: saying they have no choice but to do this. Defending
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  Speaker 1: the move as what they describe as a safeguard necessary
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  Speaker 1: to protect democracy. Now, what makes his story so interesting
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  Speaker 1: is just days after the Vice President J. D. Vance
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  Speaker 1: Lamb blasted Germany and other European states for failing to
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  Speaker 1: live up to Western ideals of liberty, particularly on the
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  Speaker 1: issue of free speech, CBS's Sixty Minutes News magazine decided
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  Speaker 1: it was the perfect time to broadcast footage of these
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  Speaker 1: police raids over social media posts and interviews with the
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  Speaker 1: prosecutors defending these draconian practices. You know, the same type
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  Speaker 1: of thing that Adolf Hitler would use to silence Pole
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  Speaker 1: that we're against him. I want you to listen to
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  Speaker 1: how CBS News is trying to sell this to you,
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  Speaker 1: the American people.
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  Speaker 2: This isn't CBS News.
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  Speaker 1: In Germany, right, They're airing this to you in America,
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  Speaker 1: trying to get you to believe that the only way
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  Speaker 1: you can save a democracy is if you silence black
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  Speaker 1: people up and raid their homes for things they say
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  Speaker 1: that you may find offensive.
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  Speaker 3: If you've ever dared to read the comments on a
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  Speaker 3: social media post, you might start to wonder if civilized
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  Speaker 3: discourse is just a myth. Aggressive threats, lies, and harassment
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  Speaker 3: have unfortunately become the norm online or anonymity has emboldened
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  Speaker 3: some users to push the limits of civility. In the
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  Speaker 3: United States, most of what anyone says, sends, or streams online,
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  Speaker 3: even if it's hate filled or toxic, is protected by
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  Speaker 3: the First Amendment as free speech. But Germany is trying
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  Speaker 3: to bring some civility to the world Wide Web by
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  Speaker 3: policing it in a way most Americans could never imagine.
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  Speaker 3: In an effort, it says, to protect this course, German
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  Speaker 3: authorities have started prosecuting online trolls, and as we saw,
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  Speaker 3: it often begins with a pre dawn wake up call
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  Speaker 3: from the police. It's six oh one on a Tuesday morning,
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  Speaker 3: and we were with state police as they raided this
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  Speaker 3: apartment in northwest Germany. Inside six armed officers searched to
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  Speaker 3: suspects home, then seized his laptop and cell phone. Prosecutors
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  Speaker 3: say those electronics may have been used to commit a crime,
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  Speaker 3: the crime posting a racist cartoon online. At the exact
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  Speaker 3: same time, across Germany, more than fifty similar raids played out,
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  Speaker 3: part of what prosecutters say is a coordinated effort to
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  Speaker 3: curb online hate speech. In Germany, what's the typical reaction
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  Speaker 3: when the police show up at somebody's door and they say, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we believe you wrote this on the internet.
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  Speaker 4: They say, in Germany, we say that's loaf. And so
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  Speaker 4: we are here with crimes of talking posting an internet
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  Speaker 4: and the people are surprised that this is really illegal
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  Speaker 4: to post these kind of words.
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  Speaker 3: They don't think illegal.
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  Speaker 2: They don't.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, I love that the prosecutors are saying, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they're really surprised when we bang on their door. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: no crap, because they thought they had freedom of speech.
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  Speaker 1: And what you guys are doing is you're saying, we
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  Speaker 1: sanction the government. This is what Hitler did. This is
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  Speaker 1: in Germany, sixty minutes is glorifying this, saying like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we need this. In America is the government should decide
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  Speaker 1: what you can and can't say we went through this.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, with COVID, can't say the word ivermectin.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say the word Wuhan Institute of Virology. You
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  Speaker 1: can't say that the stop to spread isn't working after
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  Speaker 1: six months when they said it would only stop for
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  Speaker 1: two weeks. You can't say masks don't work. You can't
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  Speaker 1: say that the six foot rule is insane.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say that you're killing the economy because you're
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  Speaker 1: shutting down all these businesses. You can't say that kids
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  Speaker 1: aren't getting a good education, and then there's no way
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  Speaker 1: that this distance learning is going to be effective.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 1: These are all things where they're like, oh, you can't
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  Speaker 1: say this. You can't criticize doctor Fauci and the Wuhan
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  Speaker 1: Institute of Virology at all. Right, that we were silenced
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  Speaker 1: online now that we fought back, that's why Donald Trump's president.
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  Speaker 2: But what sixty men is saying is no, no, this
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  Speaker 2: is the civilized way of doing things.
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  Speaker 1: Do it the German way, right, And these citizens in
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  Speaker 1: Germany are shocked that you can't say things that we
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  Speaker 1: say you're not allowed to say in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they're telling you.
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  Speaker 4: Keep listening saying it was illegal, and they say, no,
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  Speaker 4: that's my free speech, and we said no, yeah, free
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  Speaker 4: speech as well, but it also has limits.
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  Speaker 3: Interpreting those limits is part of the job for doctor
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  Speaker 3: mataas Fink, Savina mining House and Frank Mihai l Lau,
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  Speaker 3: a few of the state prosecutors tasked with policing Germany's
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  Speaker 3: robust hate speech laws online.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, notice how they say it in the
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  Speaker 1: name of hate speech online, right Like they're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: where we had to do this.
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  Speaker 2: We're forced to do this.
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  Speaker 1: We're forced to take away your right to say things
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  Speaker 1: online because you guys just got out of control. So
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  Speaker 1: we had no other option but to stop and to
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  Speaker 1: auto correct the course here.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why we're.
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  Speaker 1: Knocking on your door, arresting you, taking your laptop and
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  Speaker 1: everything else. Now here's the next part the kicker. Listen
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  Speaker 1: to what they say, because they're going to bring up
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  Speaker 1: like Nazi Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's part of his part. That just makes me laugh.
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  Speaker 1: Here they put up an image of the people walking
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  Speaker 1: down the street with their hands up in the air
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  Speaker 1: of the soldiers to Hitler.
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  Speaker 2: Listen.
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  Speaker 3: After its darkest chapter, Germany strengthened it speech laws. As
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  Speaker 3: prosecutors explain it, the German constitution protects free speech, but
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  Speaker 3: not hate speech. And here's where it gets tricky. German
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  Speaker 3: law prohibits any speech that could incite hatred or is
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  Speaker 3: deemed insulting.
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  Speaker 1: So you just heard it there, Well, if the government
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  Speaker 1: deems it what you're saying could make someone angry or
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  Speaker 1: could trigger someone. Let's talk about transgenders in America real quick.
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  Speaker 1: A great example of this would be them saying, well,
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  Speaker 1: you have freedom of speech, but you can't say that
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  Speaker 1: a dude that dresses like a chick is still a
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  Speaker 1: dude that could incite violence.
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  Speaker 2: Makes one angry.
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  Speaker 1: So therefore we're going to come arrest you and take
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  Speaker 1: you down and take your property and charge you with
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  Speaker 1: because you incited a dude that's dressing like a check.
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  Speaker 1: That's the standard they're saying, is now the normal in Germany.
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  Speaker 2: Listen to prosecutors.
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  Speaker 3: It's illegal to display Nazi symbolism, a swastika, deny the Holocaust.
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  Speaker 3: That's that's clear. Is it a crime to insult somebody
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  Speaker 3: in public? Yes, yes, and it's a crime to insult
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  Speaker 3: them online as well.
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  Speaker 4: Yes. The fine could be even higher if you insult
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  Speaker 4: someone in the internet. Why because in internet it stays there.
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  Speaker 4: If we are talking you face to face, you unsult me,
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  Speaker 4: insult you, okay, finish. But if you in the internet,
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  Speaker 4: if I insilt you or a politician.
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  Speaker 3: That sticks around forever. Yeah, the prosecutors explain. German law
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  Speaker 3: also prohibits the spread of malicious gossip, violent threats, and
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  Speaker 3: fake quotes. If somebody posts something that's not true and
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  Speaker 3: then somebody else reposts it or likes it, are they
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  Speaker 3: committing a crime And.
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  Speaker 4: The case of reposting it as a crime as well,
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  Speaker 4: because the reader can't distinguished whether you just invented this
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  Speaker 4: or just reposted it.
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  Speaker 1: So to be clear, you find something online, you repost
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  Speaker 1: it to bring awareness to it. Maybe it's something you
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  Speaker 1: can't stand and they say it's not accurate or factual,
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  Speaker 1: they can come now and arrest you and charge you
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  Speaker 1: with a crime.
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  Speaker 2: In Germany.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what sixty minutes is advocating for. The
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  Speaker 1: only reason why you do this damn story is because
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  Speaker 1: you're saying, hey, we should probably think about doing some
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  Speaker 1: of this in America. Folks like you know, we need
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  Speaker 1: some of this tough love in America for people online.
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  Speaker 2: So you post something we don't like, all right? Let
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  Speaker 2: me let me give you an example.
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  Speaker 1: If we use the standard that was just laid out
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  Speaker 1: on sixty minutes, when people start talking during COVID about
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  Speaker 1: ivermectin and I post something positive about ivermectin, could they
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  Speaker 1: then come and arrest me for posting something about ivermectin
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  Speaker 1: that they then decide to declare as a horsty warmer
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  Speaker 1: even though it wasn't just because they didn't want you
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  Speaker 1: to use something that they didn't approve of.
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  Speaker 2: I think you know the answer to that. In Germany.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they'll come, arrest your ables, drag you from your home.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they'll do, and they have no problem doing it.
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  Speaker 2: And now sixty Minutes is putting it out there as
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  Speaker 2: propaganda of something we should all like aspire to. I
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  Speaker 2: put this out there as a warning, pay attention. They're
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  Speaker 2: not going to stop.
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  Speaker 1: Why are Democrats fighting doge and saving you money so much?
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  Speaker 1: It's because they're losing their pork barrel projects and their corruption.
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  Speaker 1: With this money that they can pay off their friends
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  Speaker 1: and indoctrinate the youth in this country and control the media.
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  Speaker 1: That has been very clear from what we've seen. But
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  Speaker 1: if you go back in history, they've had no problem
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  Speaker 1: saying that they are actually in favor of getting rid
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  Speaker 1: of waste, fraud and abuse. It actually used to be
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  Speaker 1: a bipartisan issue. How do we know it, Well, listen
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  Speaker 1: to the former presidents in this country talking about exactly that.
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  Speaker 6: Waste fraud, abuse, to waste to fraud, and to abuse
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  Speaker 6: waste fraud and abuse, waste fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 2: Waste and fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 7: Waste fraud or abuse, waste, fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 2: That would be unified.
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  Speaker 1: Did you did you hear all of those presidents, every
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  Speaker 1: one of them was saying at some point in their
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  Speaker 1: official capacity as president, that we need to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of waste, fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 2: So what changed? Why is it now that this is
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  Speaker 2: such a bad thing.
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  Speaker 1: Charles Pain, a friend of mine over at Fox Business Channel,
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  Speaker 1: had a very interesting moment talking about this and exposing
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, And I want you to hear what was
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  Speaker 1: said there.
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  Speaker 8: You have it, all the candidates, all the presidents, everyone,
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  Speaker 8: and go into the White House, all day view America,
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  Speaker 8: the same pledge.
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  Speaker 2: But here's the thing.
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  Speaker 6: Now it's happening, and politicians are going ballistic.
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  Speaker 2: We're winning in court.
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  Speaker 6: More than a dozen federal injunctions and temporary restraint orders
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  Speaker 6: have been issued against everything from their illegal seizure of
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  Speaker 6: computer data to their illegal attempt to ban birthright citizenship
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  Speaker 6: number one. You know the constitution, You know they can't
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  Speaker 6: just freeze these funds. This DOJA, I called the Department
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  Speaker 6: of Government Inefficiencies is causing a reign of terror, chaos
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  Speaker 6: across the federal government.
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  Speaker 2: Terrors. Yeah, I get so.
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  Speaker 6: If you've been stealing money, I'd be scared as hell too.
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  Speaker 1: If you are stealing money, I'd be scared as hell
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  Speaker 1: to Now. Something else that's really interesting is that Google's
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  Speaker 1: searches in and around DC have skyrocketed when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to asking about when.
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  Speaker 2: Do you need a lawyer?
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  Speaker 1: How long can you go to jail for corruption, government corruption,
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  Speaker 1: money laundering, and fraud. All of these different Google searches
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  Speaker 1: have skyrocketed since Donald Trump has come into office. That
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  Speaker 1: is part of the reason why people are asking so
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  Speaker 1: many questions now about each aspect of what the President's
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  Speaker 1: trying to do, which is clean up waste, fraud, and abuse. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Democrats, this is how they've been controlling society. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody understood just how corrupt the government was
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  Speaker 1: until we started seeing elon must give the receipts of
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  Speaker 1: where the money has actually been going. Now DOGE is
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  Speaker 1: also now seeking public help. This is the first time
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  Speaker 1: they've come out saying we need your help. They are
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  Speaker 1: now seeking the public's health help identifying government waste, and
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  Speaker 1: they are now setting up over two dozen affiliates let
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  Speaker 1: me explain part of this new plan that has come
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  Speaker 1: forward for transparency. The Department of Government Efficiency is looking
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  Speaker 1: for help identifying waste that these citizens may know about.
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  Speaker 1: They're now setting up this more than two dozen affiliates
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  Speaker 1: to help organize the mass effort to audit the federal
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  Speaker 1: government after years they say of unchecked waste, fraud and abuse.
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  Speaker 1: That again the Democrats are going to court because they
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  Speaker 1: want to keep it going.
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  Speaker 2: Quote.
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  Speaker 1: DOGE is looking for help from the general public. Please
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  Speaker 1: DM direct message insight for reducing waste, fraud and abuse
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  Speaker 1: along with any helpful insights or awesome ideas to the
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  Speaker 1: relevant DOGE affiliates found on the affiliates tab. For example,
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  Speaker 1: they have DOGE at USDA or DOGE at SSA. It
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  Speaker 1: announced this, adding it plans to have more affiliates as
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  Speaker 1: time goes on, so that we can have more power
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  Speaker 1: over where our money's going. Now, a brief look at
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  Speaker 1: Dog's affiliate tabs show more than two dozen DOGE accounts
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  Speaker 1: designed for various departments across the government. You could describe
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  Speaker 1: this also as a whistleblower's hotline. There is a DOGE
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  Speaker 1: for the Department of State. Now, the US Interior the
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  Speaker 1: Department of Housing and Urban Development, National Parks, the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Education, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Department of Transportation FEMA,
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  Speaker 1: the IRS, Treasury, and many more. The announcement comes on
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  Speaker 1: the hills of Doge, highlighting waste in relation to the
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  Speaker 1: Treasury Department, saying, in the fiscal year twenty twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: twenty five billion let me say that number again, twenty
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  Speaker 1: five billion in tax refunds were delayed or lost due
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  Speaker 1: to returned or expired checks. Doge wrote, the Treasury maintains
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  Speaker 1: a physical lock box network for collected checks for tax, IRS, Passport,
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  Speaker 1: State Department, et cetera. It costs approximately two dollars and
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  Speaker 1: forty cents per check to maintain this lock box network.
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  Speaker 1: Deleting paper checks would save at least seven hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollars per year alone. The Department of Government
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  Speaker 1: Efficiency also laid out, saying, in essence, why the hell
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  Speaker 1: are we sitting out checks anymore? The Treasury process one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and sixteen million paper checks in the fiscal year
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of money, folks.
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  Speaker 1: Seven one hundred and fifty million dollars a year is
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  Speaker 1: what we would save just deleting the paper checks. Now,
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  Speaker 1: of course there's going to be people that are going
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  Speaker 1: to freak out saying you cannot do this. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: the other thing that's interesting. DOJE also provided a list
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  Speaker 1: of massive wins for American taxpayers over the world weekend,
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  Speaker 1: listing some of the shocking ways that American taxpayer dollars were.
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  Speaker 2: Supposed to be used.
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  Speaker 1: This included ten million for Mozambique voluntary medical mail circumcision.
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  Speaker 1: That's where your money went, fourteen million for improving public
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  Speaker 1: procurement in Serbia. Why do we give a damn twenty
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  Speaker 1: nine million for strengthening political landscape in Bangladesh, another fourteen
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  Speaker 1: million of your money for social cohesion in Mali, forty
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  Speaker 1: seven million for improving learning outcomes in Asia again why
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  Speaker 1: do we care? And nineteen million for biodiversity conversion in Nepal.
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  Speaker 1: This is some of what do is finding now. We're
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  Speaker 1: finding out also that DOJ is saying it is going
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  Speaker 1: to take them maybe two years just to identify all
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  Speaker 1: of the waste, that is how much there is within
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  Speaker 1: the government. That's also why they're putting up these tip
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  Speaker 1: lines in essence, so that you can get involved if
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  Speaker 1: you know about government waste, and it seems very clear
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  Speaker 1: now they're also asking for government employees that if you
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  Speaker 1: know government waste, you've seen the government waste, you understand
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  Speaker 1: where the government waste is.
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  Speaker 2: Here's a way that you can then let us know.
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  Speaker 1: About it without having to worry about someone coming after
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  Speaker 1: you or attacking you. It is amazing, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: how quick all of this is coming undone for the left.
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  Speaker 1: So if you want to know why they're saying, we're
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  Speaker 1: going to court and we're going to fight, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get rid of Elon Musk, and we hate
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: This is why.
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  Speaker 1: This is how they've controlled not just America, this is
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  Speaker 1: how they've controlled our government institutions, and in many ways,
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  Speaker 1: this is how they've been controlling the world by buying
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  Speaker 1: everyone off.
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  Speaker 2: And the piggy bank is getting shut down.
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  Speaker 1: There are headlines that are supposed to excite you right
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  Speaker 1: now that are coming out of Mexico that Mexico is
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  Speaker 1: like cracking down on drug like curtel members and they're
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  Speaker 1: stopping shipments of drug and drugs into America. Let me
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  Speaker 1: explain to you why I wouldn't be excited about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I wouldn't believe half of this.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is all cooking the books.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, Number one, let me just go back and remind
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  Speaker 1: you when Donald Trump announced the tariffs on Canada and Mexico.
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  Speaker 2: This is what started all of where we are now.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, So we'll be announcing the tariffs on Canada and
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  Speaker 7: Mexico for a number of reasons. Number one is the
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  Speaker 7: people that are poured into our country so horribly and
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  Speaker 7: so much. Number two of the drugs vent and al
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  Speaker 7: and everything else that have come into the country. And
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  Speaker 7: number three of the massive subsidies that we're giving to
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  Speaker 7: Canada and to Mexico in the form of deficits. And
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  Speaker 7: I'll be putting the tariff of twenty on Canada and
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  Speaker 7: separately twenty five percent on Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's how all of this got started. It was
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: all about the initial threat. Mexico couldn't handle the tar
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: if they knew it, so they said, okay, what do
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you want from us? Now you fast forward a few
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: days after that, Mexico said, okay, We're going to give
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: you what you want. There was the breaking news that
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: the President Mexico came out and said this foss was alert.
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  Speaker 8: And the breaking news of the day is on tariffs.
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  Speaker 8: And we just have word that the Mexican president spoke
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  Speaker 8: to Donald Trump and they are going to pause the
• 20:36
  Speaker 8: tariffs on Mexico for one month. And Jackie Heinricht standing
• 20:40
  Speaker 8: by at the White House with more on this development.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Jackie, Good morning, Dana. Yeah, that was a pretty
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: short lived The President spoke with Mexican President Claudia Scheinbaum,
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: the two sides agreeing to pump the brakes on the
• 20:54
  Speaker 5: tariffs and then retaliatory tarifs that Mexico promised for the
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: period of a month while they work out the terms
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: of an agreement. The Mexican President just posted some of
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: the details. Mexico is going to immediately send ten thousand
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  Speaker 5: members of the National Guard to prevent drug trafficking from
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: Mexico to the United States, particularly fentanyl. Also, she says,
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: the US is going to work with Mexico to prevent
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: the trafficking of high powered weapons to Mexico. Something that
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: Mexico hit back at when President Trump was threatening these
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  Speaker 5: tariffs was they were calling on the US to curb
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: the flow of guns from the US down to the cartels.
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  Speaker 5: Scheinbaum says the two teams are going to begin working
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  Speaker 5: today on two fronts, security and trade, and President Trump
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  Speaker 5: posted on truth Social that part of that team is
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: going to include Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Treasury Secretary
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  Speaker 5: Scott Bessant, and Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick, as well
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  Speaker 5: as some representatives from Mexico.
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  Speaker 1: Now that is where they said, Okay, let's play game, right.
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  Speaker 1: We know we don't want to mess with Trump, so
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: we're going to do this. We'll send you the ten
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: thousand troops. Let's go back to the baseline here. Mexico
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: is a failed state. That is one of the things
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: that I really really want to make sure that you understand.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Mexico is a failed state. They Mexico is straight up
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  Speaker 1: run by the cartels. The president there is nothing but
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: what the cartel allows her to be. She has bought
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  Speaker 1: and paid for. She is not going to tell the
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: cartells what she is or is not going to do
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  Speaker 1: like she's not going to dictate they are dictating to her.
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  Speaker 2: The entire country is a failed state. Number one.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: So what we're witnessing is basically fake headlines. I'll give
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: you an example. There was a headline this week that
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: Mexican government like busted a bunch of drugs that were
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: headed towards America, and we were supposed to be really
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: excited about this. This is the old, this cartel corrupt
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: government play that's in the books. And they've been doing
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  Speaker 1: this from i mean decades ago, when the cartels were
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: running drugs and the government was under pressure to do something.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: You can go back to Runald Reagan and say no
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to drugs and the war on drugs. What the cartels
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: did is they would give up basically drugs to purposely
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: be busted, and then they would have these oh, we
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: busted this lab here, or we busted this massive shipment here.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: What we found afterwards, actually some of those drugs weren't
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: even real drugs. They were like fake drugs, and then
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: they would get the headline right in Mexico, Big C.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: We're cooperating with America, we're cooperating with the Reagan administration.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: We're all in on the war on drugs. And all
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: of this was set up for the TVs. It was
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: so they could say, hey, every Thursday, you guys can
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: have a big bust and you can celebrate.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: We'll throw it on TV.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: And then Monday Tuesday and Wednesday and Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: We can keep shipping our drugs, but we'll give you
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: a shipment here and there that will basically fake so
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: that you guys can have these fake victories all for
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: the cameras. And it worked, by the way, it worked
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: in the eighties, it worked in the nineties, it worked
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in the early two thousands.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: So when you see these headlines.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Now that like Mexico is you know, really having a
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: you know, a day, and they're and they're they're really
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: helping us crack down Like number one, it's propaganda.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: Do not believe it.
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  Speaker 1: The government is straight up run by the cartels. The
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: president is controlled by the cartels in Mexico. And anyone
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: that is sitting there telling you that somehow we're fixing
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: all of these things that I'm sorry, they're straight up
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: lying to you. Nothing has been fixed in the last
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: week or two or three by Mexico. Did they send
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: the troops, Yes, Why did they do that because they
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: knew the tariff was worse than them offering up ten
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: thousand troops. Now, I do believe they're helping us a
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: little bit at the border. When it comes to human
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: trafficking because they know that's the number one issue and
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: they want to make sure they've got ways for the drugs.
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: Is still flow? Are they still doing that? You better
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: believe it. They are absolutely still doing that. And anyone
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: that tells you otherwise is straight up lying to you. Okay,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: So understand there's a lot, I mean a lot of
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: propaganda here. There's a second part of this that they're
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: doing right now with this propaganda, and I'm going to
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: read this headline for you, says Mexico hypes up minor
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: cartel related arrests as Trump highlights their inaction on drug corruption.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: That means Donald Trump's not buying it either. Mexico's government
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: has been hyping up minor seizures and cartel arrests as
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: part of a pr strategy attempting to appease the Trump administration.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: Trump officials highlighted Mexico's in action against cartel's in corruption
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: the America can presidents threaten them with tariffs and other
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: punitive measures. The strategy is the brainchild of Mexico's Public
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: Secretary of Security, a longtime ally and associated of the
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: Mexican president, and they obviously have very tight connections with
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: the cartels directly.
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: Now.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Since taking over all federal law enforcement in Mexico, this
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: individual by the name of Harfuch has kept a tight
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: rein on disseminating law enforcement information quote unquote from the article.
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: Whenever a significant arrest occurs, noe of the press offices
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: at any Mexico's military or federal police forces are allowed
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to disseminate any information until this man approves it and
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: tweets it out first. Such was the case of a
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: recent mid level cartel figure in Nuevo Laredo. The man
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: announced just after the Mexican President had a phone call
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: with Donald Trump saying, Hey, we arrest an individual with
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: who's a top cartel leader? He was actually a read boss, okay,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: who let a strike team. US law enforcement sources revealed
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: that they were lying about the significance that this was,
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: in fact not a top boss. This is a mid
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: level guy, and they tried to make him into El
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: Chapo and he's nowhere close to that. Now, Mexico appears
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: to you act like this is some big victory, right
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: this is, and that this individual, Harfutch is a charismatic
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: professional lawman in Mexico.
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: That's crap.
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: He's been the target of much controversy of a corruption
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: and bribery allegations. In the most recent news release from
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: the Federal Security Cabinet, authorities listed the results of three
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: days of work during which they claim to have made
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: several arrests and seizures throughout Mexico. However, a closer look
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: at the end since listed show that Mexico has been
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: hyping up at cazars while in reality, criminal organizations continue
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: to operate with almost complete impunity throughout Mexico. In the
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: case of the erect authorities have been hyping up minor
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: cartel figures and simply hiding behind the terms violent generators
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: when they arrest easily replaceable cartel members. And by the way,
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: many of these guys will be right back out in
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: the streets. This is again what they're doing to try
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: to play the pr game, and the media in America,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: much of them, are helping them sell it. They're like, oh,
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: big drug bust and all this you know, all this
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: cash was found in illegal guns and they're really cracking down.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: No, they're not. I'll give you another example.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Our foods has a history of embezzling seizures and their
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: effect on criminal organizations. In December, authority sees hundred kilograms
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: of fetanyl during a raid in Sinaloa. At the time,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: authorities did not provide details on any arrest, but did
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: claim that the seizure was worth more than four hundred
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: million and was a heavy blow to organized crime have
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: According to a report, the production costs of fetnoh in
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Mexico's approximately seventeen thousand per kilogram, which would put the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: actual blow of the seizure at approximately twenty million, and
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: not four hundred million, as Mexico's government lied to you.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: So they're claiming that they had a four hundred million
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: dollar bus, it was actually a twenty million dollar bus.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: That's just the cost of doing business, like they don't
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: even care. In past interviews on Mexico's television stations, this
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: dude also talked about the effectives of his force in Sineloa, saying,
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: we're really getting into a turf war there. Well, guess what,
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: that's never happened either. His forces there are not actively
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: fighting cartel gunmen. In many parts of Mexico, they're not
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: even showing up after the cartel shootouts happen for hours
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: so that.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: They will stay safe they're lying to you. Don't take
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: the bait.