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Biden NAPPING ON A BEACH as an American Hostage is Killed by Hamas · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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Speaker 1: Hostages found murdered in Rafa. That is the headline that
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Speaker 1: unfortunately the media doesn't want to talk about today because
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Speaker 1: that is exactly where Kamala Harris told Israel not to go.
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Speaker 1: The six hostages whose bodies were found Saturday in a
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Speaker 1: tunnel underneath Gaza, including the American Israeli Hirsch Goldberg Poland,
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Speaker 1: were discovered in Rafa, the city that the Vice President
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Speaker 1: Kamala Harris clearly stated multiple times is an area where
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Speaker 1: Israel should not enter. Those were her words. In February,
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Speaker 1: the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said that Israel was prepared
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Speaker 1: to enter Rafa, a key town on the Gaza Egypt
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Speaker 1: border where Hama's leaders were thought to be hiding and
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Speaker 1: holding some of the Israeli hostages from the horrific attacks
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Speaker 1: that took place now almost a year ago. Kamala Harris,
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Speaker 1: echoing the Biden administration's warnings, told Israel not to enter Rafa,
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Speaker 1: saying that there could be many Palestinian civilians killed and
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Speaker 1: warning of possible quote unquote consequences that the US would
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Speaker 1: withhold weapons could be part of those consequences, Harris saying
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Speaker 1: at the time, I have studied the maps.
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Speaker 2: That was part of her warning.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm going to tell you more about what they
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Speaker 1: don't want you to know about how all this unfolded.
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Speaker 1: let's get back to this part of the story, and
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Speaker 1: it's the part that matters. Kamlairas says, quote, I've studied
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Speaker 1: the maps and if you go into this area called
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Speaker 1: this area called Rafa, we may withhold what you need,
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Speaker 1: including ammunition to protect to defend yourself.
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Speaker 2: That was the warning from Kamala Harris to Israel.
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Speaker 1: Israel had to do what was necessary right, and Israel
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Speaker 1: decided that it was necessary to enter Rafa. They entered,
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Speaker 1: by the way, with minimal civilian casualties. Israel has killed
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Speaker 1: hundreds of terrace in Rafa, though the leaders are thought
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Speaker 1: to have moved elsewhere within the Gaza strip. They have
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Speaker 1: also rescued one hostage and recovered the bodies now of
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Speaker 1: several others, including the American Israeli Goldberg Poland and five others.
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Speaker 1: Over the weekend, Israel also established control of a major
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Speaker 1: corridor there. It's a key strategic road along the border
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Speaker 1: with Egypt where Israeli forces have found and destroyed tunnels
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Speaker 1: that a mass had used to smuggle weapons and other
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Speaker 1: materials into Gaza that were clearly against the law. The
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Speaker 1: IDF spokesman said Sunday that the six hostages had been
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Speaker 1: murdered cruelly by Hamas as Israeli soldiers closed in on
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Speaker 1: their location, possibly based on intelligence provided by a hostage
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Speaker 1: rescued last week. This is the part that is so
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Speaker 1: sad about how barbaric Hamas is so what is hamas
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Speaker 1: to this administration? To Kamala Harris, they're an organization they
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Speaker 1: claim that you should listen to, that you should talk to,
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Speaker 1: that you should work with. They do not look at
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Speaker 1: them like they are a hardcore terrorist organization that is
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Speaker 1: willing to shoot hostages and torture them. For the last
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Speaker 1: year in the head because that's exactly what the reporting
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Speaker 1: is now and again Biden and Harris boat taking heat
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Speaker 1: because Biden on another beach vacation. He's been on vacation
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Speaker 1: since he was sent out to pasture. At the Democratic
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Speaker 1: National Convention, he had a statement that said, quote, I
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Speaker 1: worked tirelessly to bring hersh that would be the American home.
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Speaker 1: That unfortunately is a lie. Now President Biden issuing this
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Speaker 1: statement Saturday evening that he had worked tirelessly to secure
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Speaker 1: the release of Hirsh and other murdered hostages and claimed
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Speaker 1: he would keep working around the clock for a deal.
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Speaker 1: I don't know what his definition of working around the
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Speaker 1: clock is, but doing it from the beach in Delaware
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Speaker 1: week on in doesn't exactly look like someone to me
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Speaker 1: that's working around the clock. And that is not how
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Speaker 1: I would want our president to act. If one of
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Speaker 1: my family members was being held hostage for the last
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Speaker 1: year by a terrorist organization. Now Biden has been on
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Speaker 1: vacation now for not one week, but two weeks. First
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Speaker 1: he was in Santa Barbara, California, and second he was
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Speaker 1: back in Delaware at his favorite beach there. It is
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Speaker 1: not clear how he would have been working tirelessly quote
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Speaker 1: unquote or around the clock quote unquote while on a
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Speaker 1: two week vacation. His official statement, however, that was written
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Speaker 1: by his staff, read this way quote earlier today in
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Speaker 1: a tunnel under the city of Ratha, same place again
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Speaker 1: that Biden and Harris both said, Israel, don't go. Israeli
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Speaker 1: forces recovered six bodies of hostages held by Hamas. We
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Speaker 1: have now confirmed that one of the hostages killed by
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Speaker 1: these vicious Hamas Harris was an American citizen, Heirsch Goldberg, Poland.
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Speaker 1: I am devastated and outraged. Heirsch was among the innocent
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Speaker 1: that were brutally attacked while attending a music festival for
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Speaker 1: peace in Israel in October the seventh. He lost his
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Speaker 1: arm helping friends and strangers during the Hamas Savage massacre.
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Speaker 1: He had just turned twenty three. He had planned to
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Speaker 1: travel the world. I have gotten to Noah's parents, John
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Speaker 1: and Rachel. They have been courageous, wise, and said fast,
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Speaker 1: even as they have endured the unimaginable. They have been
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Speaker 1: relentless and irrepressible champions of their son and all of
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Speaker 1: the hostages held in these unconscionable conditions. I admire them
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Speaker 1: and grieve with them more deeply than words can express.
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Speaker 1: I know all Americans tonight will have them in their prayers,
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Speaker 1: just as Jill and I will. Then, he said, quote
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Speaker 1: I have worked tirelessly to bring their beloved her safely
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Speaker 1: to them, and am heartbreaking by the news of his death.
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Speaker 1: It is as tragic as it is reprehensible. Make no mistake,
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Speaker 1: Hamas leaders will pay for these crimes, and we'll keep
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Speaker 1: working around the clock for a deal to secure the
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Speaker 1: release of the remaining hostages, even though it's very clear
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Speaker 1: that the Hamas terrorists have no intention of giving up hostages.
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Speaker 1: They would rather shoot them in the head. Biden, by
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Speaker 1: the way, the same guy that tells you he has
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Speaker 1: been working tirelessly to bring home these hostages from the terrorists,
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Speaker 1: has been keeping a quote low profile since dropping out
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Speaker 1: of the presidential race in late July, spending most of
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Speaker 1: his time on the beach.
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Speaker 2: It's not a joke.
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Speaker 1: So you know more about Goldberg Poland he was an
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Speaker 1: actual dual US Israeli citizen. And this is the part
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Speaker 1: you need to understand about these terrorists, the same terrorists
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Speaker 1: that well, the Democratic Party is defending, the same terrorists
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Speaker 1: that have been defended on college campuses, the same terrorists
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Speaker 1: that are being defended by the radical mega donors like
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Speaker 1: the George sorosys and paying for these protesters to stop
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Speaker 1: traffic in America. This is the Democratic Party, Okay, They're
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Speaker 1: the ones defending these terrorists. So let me explain to
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Speaker 1: you what happened over the last forty eight hours. These
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Speaker 1: six Israeli hostages whose bodies were found in this area Rafa,
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Speaker 1: where again the Biden administration told Israel not to go,
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Speaker 1: were found in a Hamas tunnel underneath Gaza Saturday, and
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Speaker 1: they had been shot in the head, they said quota quote.
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Speaker 2: In the last forty eight hours.
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Speaker 1: According to the autopsy reports released on Sunday, the Israeli
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Speaker 1: military identified the hostages and named all of them. They
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Speaker 1: said that Hamas murdered the hostages in the belief that
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Speaker 1: Israeli Defense Force soldiers were closing in. According to IDFs spokesmen,
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Speaker 1: the soldiers did not know the hostage's exact location, but
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Speaker 1: it rescued one hostage nearby last week and were fighting
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Speaker 1: above ground at the location. According to our initial assessment,
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Speaker 1: they were brutally murdered by Hamas terras shortly before we
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Speaker 1: reached them. All six hostages whose bodies were discovered and
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Speaker 1: recovered from Gaza on Sunday were found with gunshot wounds
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Speaker 1: to their heads and other areas. Their autopsies showed, according
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Speaker 1: to the posts mortem, they were executed no more than
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Speaker 1: forty eight hours before being found, and signs of neglect
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Speaker 1: and in captivity were found on all of their bodies.
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Speaker 1: One of the hostages who showed no signs of being bound.
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Speaker 1: No evidence of torture was found. However, the condition of
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Speaker 1: their bodies indicated systemic neglect, including a lack of hygiene,
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Speaker 1: over a long period of time they were tortured. Additionally,
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Speaker 1: indications were present of previous injuries sustained during their abduction,
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Speaker 1: which had been treated over time. Israel's army noted that
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Speaker 1: this is not the first time during the war that
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Speaker 1: Palestinian terras had murdered Israeli hostages to prevent their rescue. Notably,
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Speaker 1: in the infamous nineteen seventy two Munich Olympic massacre, terris
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Speaker 1: murdered Israeli athletes they had taken hostage as West German
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Speaker 1: police attempted a rescue. Separately, on Sunday, three Israeli police
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Speaker 1: officers were murdered near a checkpoint in the West Bank
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Speaker 1: region by a drive by shooting by Palestinian terrorists as well.
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Speaker 1: So again, these are the people that this administration is
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Speaker 1: telling Israel to pull back from going after telling them
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Speaker 1: to not go into the exact area where they were
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Speaker 1: holding the hostages, and where they were they were clearly
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Speaker 1: going to kill the hostages. Thank goodness, they were able
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Speaker 1: to save one. Obviously. The sad part is they were
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Speaker 1: not able to save more than one of these hostages.
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Speaker 1: And this is the barbaric terrace. Now, this should not
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Speaker 1: surprise anyone. I also want to be clear about that.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to say that again, this should not surprise anyone.
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Speaker 1: Look at the barbaric attack on that day. Look at
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Speaker 1: the attack and how they killed innocent men, women and
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Speaker 1: children on the day they massacred the Jews. Why would
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Speaker 1: anyone think that you could then all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: out of nowhere, start negotiating with these people that they
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Speaker 1: would be willing to have normal conversations with you. You
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Speaker 1: cannot assume that people that can plan and do an
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Speaker 1: attack the way that they did their attack in Israel
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Speaker 1: on the people there would somehow then be like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: now we're reasonable, we're saying and we are normal.
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Speaker 2: That is not how this is going to work.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 1: The timing, by the way of all of this is
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Speaker 1: also one important aspect because you look at what just
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Speaker 1: try to attack Donald Trump, Donald Trump fighting back with
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Speaker 1: the facts and now winning big time. This obviously is
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Speaker 1: another important story. Trump released a statement this weekend from
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Speaker 1: gold Star families as Harris disgracefully twisted Trump cemetery visit
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Speaker 1: into a political attack on Donald Trump. Former President Trump
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Speaker 1: released a statement from the gold Star families of the
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Speaker 1: thirteen fallen United States service members who were killed during
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Speaker 1: the Biden administration's withdrawal from Afghanistan. In a post on x,
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Speaker 1: Trump shared a joint statement from the family members a
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Speaker 1: long list of family members of the fallen. The families
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Speaker 1: wrote in their joint statement. The Vice President Kamala Harris's
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Speaker 1: statement labeling Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery to take
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Speaker 1: part in a rethlaying ceremony to honor the family's lost
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Speaker 1: loved ones and fallen service members quote a political stunt
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Speaker 1: was false, hypocritical, and disrespectful. In the statement, the families
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Speaker 1: added that Harris had disgracefully twisted this sacred moment into
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Speaker 1: a political ploy for her Today. Gold Star families who
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Speaker 1: lost their loved ones in the Harris Biden administrations bought
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Speaker 1: withdrawal from Afghanistan released the following joint statement and heartfelt
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Speaker 1: video message in a direct response to Kamala Harris's false, hypocritical,
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Speaker 1: and disrespectful statement attacking President Trump, and then the statement
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Speaker 1: from the family began, we the families of the brave
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Speaker 1: service members who were tragically killed and the Abbygate bombing
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Speaker 1: are appalled by Vice President Harris's recent attempt to politicize
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Speaker 1: President Trump's visit to Arlington National Cemetery. The statement continued,
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Speaker 1: President Trump was invited by US the gold Star Families
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Speaker 1: to attend the solemn ceremony commemorating the three year anniversary
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Speaker 1: of our children's deaths. He was there to honor their sacrifice.
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Speaker 1: The Advice President Harris was disgracefully has disgracefully twisted this
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Speaker 1: sacred moment into a political ploy. Trump responded the statement
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Speaker 1: from the families by thanking them for coming together as
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Speaker 1: one and for thanking him for attending the ceremony. At
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Speaker 1: the ceremony and blasted Harris and President Joe Biden for
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Speaker 1: their incompetence and for being why the fallen service members
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Speaker 1: were no longer with us. Thank goodness that these family
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Speaker 1: members were willing to stand up and tell the truth
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Speaker 1: about the evil that is the Harris administration and her
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Speaker 1: political campaign. I don't know what world she lives in,
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Speaker 1: but when you start trying to use a anniversary of
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Speaker 1: fallen soldiers to take political shots, Donald Trump, who attended
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Speaker 1: that ceremony, you're a sick person.
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Speaker 2: You may have heard.
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Speaker 1: Also in another major story that is extremely important, that
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Speaker 1: Brazil has now banned X from the entire country. And
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Speaker 1: not only have they decided to shut it down. The
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Speaker 1: Brazilian government blocking X formerly known as Twitter, they are
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Speaker 1: now threatening to find its citizens eight thousand, nine hundred
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Speaker 1: dollars per day if you use the app for even
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Speaker 1: a single tweet or like or repost. Yes, the world
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Speaker 1: took a giantly forward into totalitarianism yesterday, as the Brazilian
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Speaker 1: government said, free speech, what's that we're banning X? In Brazil,
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Speaker 1: and we're doing it because we don't like people being
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Speaker 1: able to say what they actually believe.
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Speaker 2: Senator Ted Cruz.
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Speaker 1: And I talked extensively about this on our podcast, and
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Speaker 1: I want you to hear part of what he had
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Speaker 1: to say about this shocking attack on free speech coming
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Speaker 1: out of Brazil and what it could mean for other countries,
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Speaker 1: including the US. Senator I want to start, obviously with
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Speaker 1: what Brazil is doing. But one of the things I
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Speaker 1: love about this show is we can take time to
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Speaker 1: explain things that either people may not remember from school
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Speaker 1: or maybe they weren't even taught. And we have so
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Speaker 1: many people, they're younger that listen to this show. You
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Speaker 1: used a word describing what was happening in Brazil as
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Speaker 1: to talitarianism unfolding.
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Speaker 2: Let's explain that first and foremost to a listeners. What
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Speaker 2: does that mean?
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Speaker 1: Because there's a lot of words that we're that are
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Speaker 1: thrown out there, with socialism and communism and Marxism. So
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Speaker 1: when you say to talitarianism, what are we describing so
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Speaker 1: people understand setting the stage for this big issue.
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Speaker 4: Well, to talitarianism very simply is the government having control
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Speaker 4: of you, having total control over your life. Having the
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Speaker 4: power of censorship, the power of arbitrary imprisonment, the power
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Speaker 4: to lock you up, to confiscate your property, to do
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Speaker 4: whatever they wish with you. And sadly, we've seen in
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Speaker 4: many communist nations. Communist nations are almost invariably to talitarian nations.
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Speaker 4: And we see that whether it was the Soviet Union
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Speaker 4: and the Gulag where they locked up anyone who dared
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Speaker 4: stand up against the government, or whether it was maw
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Speaker 4: and communist China, or whether it was communist Vietnam or
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Speaker 4: communist Cuba, to talitarian governments or oppressive governments where the
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Speaker 4: government has total power over you. And in Brazil, let
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Speaker 4: me explain what's going on. I'm going to give some
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Speaker 4: context because just seeing the headlines it's hard to know
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Speaker 4: what's happening.
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Speaker 3: So let me give you some background.
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Speaker 4: So in twenty twenty two, there were elections in Brazil
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Speaker 4: and Brazil's electoral court granted a man named Alexander de Morez,
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Speaker 4: who is the nations election chief and he's a Supreme
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Speaker 4: Court justice. They gave him the authority to issue unilateral
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Speaker 4: orders for the removal of online content deemed false or misleading.
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Speaker 4: And this was in the context where Lula, the radical
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Speaker 4: leftists whom Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Love was running
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Speaker 4: against conservative president Bolsonaro, and these orders were used to
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Speaker 4: target the supporters of President Bolsonaro. As a court justice,
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Speaker 4: de Morees had ordered investigations into Bolsonaro and had jailed
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Speaker 4: some of the president's supporters. So this is a battle
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Speaker 4: between what is now the previous president and the current
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Speaker 4: oppressive regime. De Morees has very strong support from the
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Speaker 4: leftist president today, Lula de Silva. In twenty twenty two,
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Speaker 4: Bolsonaro won and his supporters attacked brazil federal government buildings
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Speaker 4: in the capitol in Brazilia. After the attack, De Moores
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Speaker 4: ordered several social media platforms, including X, to block specific
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Speaker 4: accounts that he said had been involved in the planning,
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Speaker 4: saying that the companies would be fined if they failed
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Speaker 4: to comply. Over time, de Morees ordered more and more
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Speaker 4: X accounts to be blocked, getting court orders to do so.
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Speaker 4: Over time, X refused to comply, and Elon Musk began
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Speaker 4: publicly criticizing de Morees. De Morees then opened a full
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Speaker 4: investigation into Elon Musk and into X, focused on quote
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Speaker 4: the dissemination of defamatory fake news, and obstruction, incitement and
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Speaker 4: criminal organization. De Morees was very unhappy that X and
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Speaker 4: Elon Musk were standing up to his orders. After months
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Speaker 4: of non compliance by X, de Morees threatened to arrest
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Speaker 4: the company's Brazilian attorney and staff over the continuing defiance
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Speaker 4: of the law, and in response, Elon Musk closed X's
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Speaker 4: office in Brazil and eliminated all the staff. However, Brazilian
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Speaker 4: law requires that any company doing business in Brazil must
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Speaker 4: have legal representation in the country. Therefore, on August twenty eighth,
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Speaker 4: De Moorrees ordered X to hire a new attorney to
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Speaker 4: represent it in Brazil within twenty four hours. And understand
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Speaker 4: this attorney that's being ordered to be hired. Once he's hired,
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Speaker 4: De Morees intends to throw the attorney in jail. That's
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Speaker 4: what this is all about. And if X did not
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Speaker 4: hire a new attorney, the site would be blocked. Elon
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Speaker 4: Musk refused to hire an attorney just to have the
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Speaker 4: guy thrown in jail, and De Moores ordered X blocked.
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Speaker 4: On August thirtieth, De Moores ordered internet service providers to
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Speaker 4: block access to X and threatened a daily fine of
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Speaker 4: about nine thousand dollars per day for users who bypass
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Speaker 4: the ban through virtual private networks, and De Morees also
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Speaker 4: froze Starlink's finances in Brazil. Starlink is SpaceX's satellite internet business.
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Speaker 4: To enforce the suspension against X, de Moorrees directed the
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Speaker 4: National Telecommunications Agency to take action. The order will remain
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Speaker 4: into effect until the platform complies with the decisions of
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Speaker 4: the Supreme Federal Court and pays accumulated fines totaling about
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Speaker 4: three point three million dollars and appoints and representative in Brazil.
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Speaker 4: De Morees had also instructed both Apple and Google to
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Speaker 4: remove both X and VPN applications from their virtual stores,
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Speaker 4: but he reversed this decision the same day, citing concerns
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Speaker 4: about potential quote unnecessary disruption. So where we are right now,
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Speaker 4: there is there's no X in Brazil, and this judge
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Speaker 4: is continuing to try to censor any criticism or any disagreement.
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Speaker 1: The most shocking part is the fact that they're saying
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Speaker 1: not just hey, we're gonna kick you out and we're
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Speaker 1: gonna shut it down and you can't use it, but
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Speaker 1: they're saying eight nine hundred dollars a day if you
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Speaker 1: do use it in Brazil. That is an insane well
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Speaker 1: it's a in sane amount of cash in America, but
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Speaker 1: it's really an unbelievable amount of money in Brazil.
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Speaker 4: And understand that's not directed at Elon Musk. That's directed
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Speaker 4: at an individual Brazilian. They're saying, if you just are
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Speaker 4: a citizen of Brazil and you go on to X,
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Speaker 4: they will find you almost nine thousand dollars a day.
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Speaker 1: I go to the back to the bigger picture here,
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Speaker 1: and that is the warning. And it feels like we're
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Speaker 1: seeing a surge in this type of activity around the world.
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Speaker 1: Is that because when people do things like this, and
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Speaker 1: governments do things like this, and leaders do things like this,
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Speaker 1: others like, well they're doing it. So yeah, maybe I'll
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Speaker 1: take that play out of the playbook because it doesn't
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Speaker 1: seem like we're head in the right direction here.
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Speaker 3: You're exactly right, and listen.
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Speaker 4: This podcast is dedicated to many things, but front and
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Speaker 4: center is the US Constitution and free speech. And we
27:18
Speaker 4: had a pod a couple of weeks ago that focused
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Speaker 4: on the United Kingdom throwing a British citizen in jail.
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Speaker 4: Sentencing him a jail for twenty months for a Facebook post.
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Speaker 4: This is a pattern we're seeing across the globe of
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Speaker 4: government power being used to censor and silence views they
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Speaker 4: don't like. And this is being done. Look, this is
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Speaker 4: the instinct we see in America with Joe Biden, with
27:44
Speaker 4: Kamala Harris, and with congressional Democrats pressuring We discussed on
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Speaker 4: this podcast a few episodes ago Mark Zuckerberg's letter explaining
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Speaker 4: that the Biden Whitehouse had pressured him to censor views
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Speaker 4: they don't like. This is a pattern, and it's a
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Speaker 4: very dangerous pattern. And the more we see leftists getting
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Speaker 4: away with abusing government power to silence dissent, the worse
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Speaker 4: it gets because it encourages everyone else. And this is
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Speaker 4: ultimately a threat to free speech in America. Let me
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Speaker 4: point out, among other things, X is an American company.
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Speaker 4: Where is the administration? Where is Why is Joe Biden
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Speaker 4: not denounced this atrocious violation of free speech? Why has
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Speaker 4: Kamala Harris been utterly silent? Why has the entirety of
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Speaker 4: the executive branch been silent? And the reason is they're
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Speaker 4: happy they want X band. And I got to say,
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Speaker 4: I think Kamala Harris wishes she could ban X here
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Speaker 4: because the left today, you know, been there was a
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Speaker 4: time when democrats defended free speech. Today more and more
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Speaker 4: democrats are very happy trying to silence anyone who disagrees
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Speaker 4: with them.
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Speaker 1: You also look at just this and the again, it's
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Speaker 1: a wake up call, I think, as we describe it here,
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Speaker 1: and Michael Sellenberger had this to say about the world
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Speaker 1: taking this giant leap into forward into detalitarianism in Brazil,
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Speaker 1: and I want to play part of that because I
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Speaker 1: think it's important what he had to say.
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Speaker 5: Budi. It's Mike Schellenberger for public. The world took a
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Speaker 5: giant leap forward into totalitarianism yesterday as the Brazilian government
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Speaker 5: blocked X formerly Twitter and threatened to find its citizens
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Speaker 5: eighty nine hundred dollars per day if they use it.
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Speaker 5: Brazil's the sixth largest nation by population in the world,
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Speaker 5: and it now joins North Korea, China, and Iran the
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Speaker 5: list of countries that have banned X. It's the twelfth
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Speaker 5: largest economy in the world in a superpower of the
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Speaker 5: Global South. It doesn't matter whether or not you care
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Speaker 5: about Brazil. It's totalitarianism is at risk of spreading around
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Speaker 5: the world, and yet neither Joe Biden, nor Vice President
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Speaker 5: Kamala Harris, nor anyone else in the US government has
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Speaker 5: denounced the censorship. That's probably because Biden, Harris and the
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Speaker 5: Democrats all support the censorship and have been directly funding
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Speaker 5: it for years now. Of course, there is authentic demand
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Speaker 5: for censorship from within Brazil, and it is ultimately up
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Speaker 5: to the Brazilian people to reverse its nation's descent into detalitarianism.
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Speaker 5: Brazil's powerful government funded news media corporations have been urging
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Speaker 5: censorship in part because it benefits President Lula's ruling Workers
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Speaker 5: Party and them directly. It's now up to Senate President
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Speaker 5: Drigo Pacheco to impeach the Supreme Court justice turned dictator
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Speaker 5: Aleschandra Jimais. At the same time, the Biden administration and
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Speaker 5: Democrats have played an influential role in instigating the censorship
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Speaker 5: in Brazil. The FBI went to Brazil and gave it
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Speaker 5: Supreme Court Justice's advice on how to censor its population.
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Speaker 5: The US government has been funding many of the NGOs
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Speaker 5: in Brazil that have been demanding censorship since the election
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Speaker 5: of a populous president there in twenty eighteen, and when
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Speaker 5: I testified before Congress in May of this year, the
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Speaker 5: Democrats on the committee and their witness all defended Brazil's censorship,
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Speaker 5: and Pacheco yesterday affirmed his support from Maris. The US government,
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Speaker 5: after the election of the populist president Jerob Bolsonaro in
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Speaker 5: twenty eighteen, funded these pro censorship organizations which have been
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Speaker 5: demanding censorship. Maris yesterday openly defended censorship to prevent extremist
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Speaker 5: populist groups from coming to power. As United States Federal
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Speaker 5: Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr noted yesterday, that's a direct violation
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Speaker 5: of the Brazilian constitution, which explicitly protects political speech. As such,
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Speaker 5: the tutulitarian takeover of Brazil is a model for what
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Speaker 5: the Democrats and the legacy news media went for the
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Speaker 5: whole world. Pro censorship scholars at Stanford and Harvard, Democrats
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Speaker 5: in Congress and the US news media have long recognized
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Speaker 5: that the First Amendment is an obstacle to their plans,
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Speaker 5: and so they have supported censorship efforts by nations around
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Speaker 5: the world with weaker free speech protections like Brazil, Britain,
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Speaker 5: Australia and the European Union. They're looking for them to
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Speaker 5: censor and even block X. We need to grow our
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Speaker 5: global free speech movement because if we don't stop the
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Speaker 5: spread of totalitarianism over there, it will make it harder
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Speaker 5: for us to stop it over here. I urge my
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Speaker 5: Brazilian friends to stay on X. Everyone knows that it
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Speaker 5: would be extremely difficult from Morice to enforce his insane decree,
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Speaker 5: much less fairly and equally. Proof of this comes from
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Speaker 5: the fact that the Brazilian government and the ruling Workers
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Speaker 5: Party are still using X, which means that they are
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Speaker 5: also using VPNs to illegally evade their own ban. Brazil
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Speaker 5: is thus not just a dictatorship but a lawless one.
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Speaker 5: Its leaders are behaving like the hypocritical pigs in George
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Speaker 5: Orwell's animal farm. Now, the good news is that Brazilian politicians,
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Speaker 5: including Senator Eduardo Jigau, Congressman Marcel van Hatten, and Vice
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Speaker 5: Governor of Mina Curis Matteos Simoy's, are all resisting the
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Speaker 5: ban and posting on X. I never imagine myself practicing
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Speaker 5: and propagating civil disobedience set simoins but censorship cannot be tolerated.
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Speaker 1: Ever, Senator, there's a lot to unpack there, and there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of accusations, which obviously I think are backed
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Speaker 1: up in facts that this administration not only is like
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Speaker 1: sending our government officials down to Brazil, but we're advocating
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Speaker 1: in supporting this type of reaction from the people in
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Speaker 1: government in Brazil. That right there, on its face is
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Speaker 1: just total insanity.
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Speaker 4: It is and part of the reason why I'm glad
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Speaker 4: we played that that clip from Schellenberger.
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Speaker 3: You know, Schollenberger is an independent journalist.
33:46
Speaker 4: He's been been very vocal and effective taking on some
33:49
Speaker 4: of the some of the extremes of the of the
33:52
Speaker 4: radical left on the Green New Deal climate alarmist. But
33:57
Speaker 4: also he was integral in highlighting the Twitter files, and
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Speaker 4: he was one of the individuals who went into great
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Speaker 4: detail when Elon Musk opened up how Twitter had been
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Speaker 4: actively censoring speech and doing so at the behest of
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Speaker 4: the US government. Schellenberger did a very effective job laying
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Speaker 4: that out, chapter and verse, and and I wanted us
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Speaker 4: to play that because I think he did a very
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Speaker 4: effective job of tying what's happening in Brazil. People might say, well, look,
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Speaker 4: I don't live in Brazil. Why do I care?
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Speaker 3: Well?
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Speaker 4: Number One, Brazil is a very important country and it's
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Speaker 4: the largest country in Latin America.
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Speaker 3: This is our hemisphere.
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Speaker 4: It impacts the United States significantly what happens in Central
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Speaker 4: and South America. But secondly is the interconnection. This is
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Speaker 4: foreshadowing where the American left wants to go some of
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Speaker 4: the facts that the Schellenberger laid out. The FBI went
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Speaker 4: to Brazil and coached the Brazilian government on how to
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Speaker 4: censor their opponents.
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Speaker 1: That's stunning, which is insane, and that be our tax
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Speaker 1: dours that are paying for that trip.
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Speaker 4: Well, not only that, but our tax dollars are funding NGOs,
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Speaker 4: non governmental organizations that are pushing for censorship. The modern
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Speaker 4: left has decided censorship is a good, good thing. And
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Speaker 4: by the way, they only censor those they disagree with.
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Speaker 4: They don't censor leftists, they don't censor Marxists, they don't
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Speaker 4: censor communists, they don't censor those on the left. They
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Speaker 4: censor anyone who stands up to oppression. And understand this
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Speaker 4: also in the broader context. So Bolsonaro, when he was
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Speaker 4: President of Brazil, Brazil made a hard pivot towards the
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Speaker 4: United States. He wanted to be friends with the United States.
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Speaker 4: I went and I had dinner with Bolsonaro. He came
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Speaker 4: to the United States, came to Texas. At dinner with
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Speaker 4: him in Dallas. He pivoted very much, wanting Brazil to
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Speaker 4: be an ally of America, for US to do more
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Speaker 4: trade and commerce with them, for them to stand with
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Speaker 4: US on foreign policy. That's unequivocally good. And Joe Biden
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Speaker 4: and Kamala Harris came into office and they hated him
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Speaker 4: because Bolsadaro was close to Trump and anyone who was
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Speaker 4: nice to Trump, they hated. If you like Trump, they
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Speaker 4: hate you. And it's bizarre. They define their entire foreign
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Speaker 4: policy by the way, whether you liked or hated Trump.
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Speaker 4: Iran hated Trump, so they love Iran. Bolsonaro loved Trump,
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Speaker 4: so they they hated him. But the Biden Harris administration
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Speaker 4: undermined Bolsadaro, constantly did everything they could to effectively cheer
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Speaker 4: on Lula, and we now have a radical leftist who
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Speaker 4: hates America as the president of Brazil. He's engaging into
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Speaker 4: talitarian censorship, and the Biden White House, I believe, is
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Speaker 4: cheering him on.
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