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So we have some developments in Georgia about the election. I think you're going to be interested in hearing about including finally some kind of an audit of these machines. I think it has a lot to do with the video I played on yesterday's show of that expert witness at the Georgia Senate hearing about the 2020 election, saying, hey, man, I hacked into one of the election machines at a polling location about the election going on right now in Georgia. And we were on the show yesterday, Joe and I, we were like, wait, why?

So now I've got some developments on that. I've got some canceled culture stuff. Also video that I can we say piss you off. We shouldn't say that. I'm sorry, but I'm going to say it anyway. Video that will upset you. Maybe that's the family friendly way to say it coming out of New York City last night with New Years of Mayor de Blasio there. You don't want to miss that Today show brought to you by Express VPN.

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All right, Joe, let's go. There it is. The bell, the first bell of twenty twenty one after that lengthy best of twenty twenty segment. Took up a lot of time there. Let's get right to the important stuff. So what's going on in Georgia? Remember that video I showed you yesterday about the expert witness at the Georgia Senate hearing, the expert witness saying, hey, fellas, I kind of hacked into this voting location for the Georgia Senate runoff going on now, saying that they had connectivity to it and also saying these things aren't even supposed to be accessible to the Internet, you know, polling locations and polling pads and stuff like that.

Kind of a big deal. It was the guy was under oath. So we'll assume he was telling the truth or trying to tell the truth or whatever. So that was kind of a big deal. That video, one nuclear Ron Bonjean report yesterday, we played it on the show. So now we're finally getting hopefully a little bit of progress. Listen, is this going to turn out well for us? I don't know. I'm not in the predictions business any more.

Predictions have all gone down the tubes. Who could have predicted what happened in twenty twenty? But check this story out and John Solomon say just the news, which is terrific. It'll be available on my show. Notes also known as the newsletter Bungeni dot com newsletter. Pennsylvania lawmakers appeal to McConnell, Georgia Court Sets Hearing in latest election challenges. Frenzied actions pile up as January six deadline for congressional certification approaches. So what's going on down in Georgia? Well, remember that other video we had in Fulton County at the State Farm Arena?

It's been going everywhere. They're running commercials on the TV. Remember where they took the ballots out from under the table after voters remember vote counts every year. They left for the night. They said there's no dispute that the vote observers, the election observers left. The reason they left again, to give both sides of a story, which we do fairly in the media doesn't the reasons they left is up for grabs. The state of Georgia is saying we didn't order them to leave the vote.

Observers were saying, well, we're not so sure. We we thought they were they told us they were done for the night. So there's this video out there. These ballots come out after election. Observers leave and they start getting counted. That happened in Fulton County. That was in State Farm arena. That's important. Why the screenshot from this piece? You'll see why. Now it says to the south, momentum was building among Trunk's Trump supporters in Georgia after the GOP controlled State Senate Judiciary Committee approved an audit of voting machines in Fulton County, the home to Atlanta.

That's where this whole State Farm arena ballots from under the table after observers left thing happened, they held a hearing where one expert claimed he could access voting machines that were not supposed to be connected to the Internet. Folks, I would love to see an audit of these Fulton County machines. Listen, if nothing happened, I've said this repeatedly and I will say it again and I will go to my grave with this. I don't obviously obviously, I don't want voter fraud to have happened.

Everybody wants an honest result. I've run for office. If you lose, you want to lose fair and square. You don't want to lose and be cheated. If you win, you want to win fair and square. No one wants to be known as the guy who won by cheating. Right? Again, I mean, this is a virtue signalling this common sense. If the. County machines and State Farm Arena and elsewhere are audited and everything comes back OK or there is some fraud detected, but it's not enough to overturn the result.

I'm not happy with the result, but that's fine. But I don't understand if you're interested in transparency, what the problem with an audit would be and why it took this long. It's now it's unbelievable, actually, to check the date that last night was New Year's. How stupid is that? I actually checked the date for a moment. I figure it's January 1st. We are record. This is not our show we recorded yesterday. We produced the show tonight.

This is the show. It is. Well, you're not supposed to say to time because you're a treasurer. It's whatever time you're listening to it on terrestrial radio. But it is January four. What took so long? An audit trail should not have been a big deal. If those State Farm ballots that were counted after election observers left were all legitimate, there were no recounts, there were no problems with the vote, fine.

But I don't understand what the problem with an audit would be, why would you want people to not have faith in the results of an election? So that's some good news, some semi good news. We'll see what happens. Second, from the just the news piece. Sorry, folks. The superior court in Fulton scheduled a hearing Monday and accepted an emergency petition from a group of Georgia voters. Called voter Georgia demanding a forensic inspection of November mail in ballots, soreheads, chemo stuff driving you crazy, bro.

We've just received notice that we will be granted a hearing Monday, January 4th at 11 a.m. and our emergency petition to visually inspect and forensically examine all Fulton County mail in ballots. Garlan Favorito, one of the petitioners, told the Epic Times this includes the ballot, those process that State Farm arena and those that auditors detected as potentially fraudulent. Again, ladies and gentlemen, Monday, January 4th, hearing what the ladies took so long. If you have nothing to hide with this and you want people to have faith that there was a free and fair and an election built around integrity and an actual loss or a win, then you don't hide an audit trail and you don't avoid an audit trail.

So now we're supposed to have an audit. We're supposed to have a hearing January 4th. We'll see how that turns out. I'd still like to get an answer on that video that the so-called fact checkers have tried to debunk and yet haven't actually debunked anything in the video. Nobody questions the authenticity of it. Nobody questions the observers left. Nobody questions. The ballots came out from under the table where they legitimate ballots they could have been. Of course they could have been.

Could it have been fraud, maybe worth checking out now? Insane that we're having to have this conversation, if this were Democrats, by the way, and Joe Biden had lost Georgia according to their tallies and there was a video in a primarily Republican county of Republican and a Republican county. Right. Of we don't know if they the people pulling ballots out from under the table while election observers left, there would be riots right now. People would be furious if there were no audit.

But because they think Trump lost Georgia, nobody really seems to care. All right, so I went up there to check that article out, it's really important, folks. All right. We do on our time here. Sorry, folks, a little bit a little bit of a rough morning so far. So I hope you bear with me. But I told them I'd never do a show if I don't feel ready to do it. I've told you that a thousand times.

I appreciate you sticking with. We've been the number one conservative podcast this whole week, thanks to you. So I really appreciate it. All right. Let me let me break this up a little because I want to get to some serious stuff next after this. But I want to play some video that's probably going to upset you. Well, first will make you laugh, then it'll upset you. But after that, I want to get to the there's there's one major myth about big government I could dispel.

I want to do a segment on this that you're going to love. And this is primarily directed at our younger audience on college campuses who have to defend freedom and liberty all the time. You're not going to want to miss this segment coming up. But before that, this is last night. A little bit of humor for you, Joe. Got to see this before, of course.

So, Andy Cohen, I don't know if you know Andy Cohen, but he does those Bravo shows and he's got the full moon. Will you ever see those like Real Housewives of every city in America? That's Andy Cohen's production deal there. Over there. He does those shows on Bravo. So every year, I think this is every year, the last few years on CNN, Andy Corwin and Anderson Cooper do a New Year's Eve special. And for some reason, I candidly don't understand.

They they start boozing it up on the air. I don't get that. It's live TV that could break bad really fast. I'm just saying, if you're down in bottles of Don Julio 1942 or whatever it is, or consider Gonyea's Tequila, you know, by by hour two with that, that could get pretty ugly on TV now. Joe, who was a broadcast professional for probably 30 years. Right. Things can happen on live radio and TV and adding the component of alcohol consumption.

Wouldn't you agree producer Joe could probably throw a curveball in this or actually a monkey wrench into the machinery, a curveball at the batter?

I'm just guessing maybe you think, well, this is the kind of stuff that this is hilarious.

So, Cohen, Andy Cohen last night, he's who knows how much he's had to drink, but he looks a little, let's just say buzz. So he's almost Anderson Cooper and they're they're talking about some other stuff. And I'll I'll play the video of this in a minute afterwards. But Mayor de Blasio, communist mayor of New York, who has shut down the entire city, was out there on TV last night after midnight when the ball dropped in Manhattan and was dancing up.

Now, no social distancing at all, dancing up a storm with his wife there with kind of weird, I thought, supposed to social distance or whatever. So setting a bad example for everyone. And Andy Cohen, who I'm guessing is a liberal. I'm just guessing, by the way, I've heard him talk on Bravo loses it on on de Blasio. Check this out.

This is hilarious when Donny is freaking Garner, so even flushed down the toilet. I definitely need this whole mess that it was. This is a little half.

I like saying that. I'm glad I brought two bottles of this.

Oh, my God. Yeah. All right. All right. Oh, my God. Like, that's how I felt when I saw Mayor de Blasio dancing just now. I just don't need to see that at the beginning of twenty twenty one, do something with this city, honestly.

Get it together.

God, goodness. All right.

Anyway, I'll we still got a lot of show tiptoeing back to Bravo in about 20 minutes, but well, I have this platform. I got some other stuff I want to say to.

What did he say, would you lose Walter Cronkite? Well, when you lose Andy Cohen again, I've seen him on Bravo occasionally. Andy Cohen, I'm reasonably confident Joe is not a conservative Republican, just based on what he said. I've heard some of his commentary in the past. When you lose Andy Kohut, he's got it together. He said it's over like when the Bosio doesn't have Cohen in his corner. That and that's that's the thing. Maybe maybe the maybe the I don't know what they're drinking there.

Who knows? I don't know if it's moonshine, tequila, vodka. I have no idea. But Corwin's not faking it. He has clearly got a blood alcohol level a little elevated to have, you know what I mean? And there you go. What do they say in vino veritas, man? You know, the truth comes out. The truth comes out. They can't stand this guy either. The Bosio and why? Well, here's the video of the Bosio communist mayor of New York City who has shut down the city, bankrupted all his restaurants, basically goes after the police department any time he can, wants to steal your money, believes in socialism and redistribution.

So while you're shut down and you can't make money in your restaurant, here's the Bosio dancing up a storm on New Year's Eve. Last I check this out. I'm sorry, wasn't who I was actually New York, because it was after the ball drop, so my mistake, precision matters. There's the ball right there. I'm sure he's having a great time while you're all going bankrupt in New York. Again, when you've. Lost Andy Cohen. Pretty much over much we was this man, you know, listen, do me a favor, Joe.

Yeah. You know, we just can you cut that as a as a drop for us in the future? You know, we don't use them too much. We use them sparingly, which I always appreciate is very good, you know, but we have. Come on, man, with Biden, we have Donnie Brasco, our Goto's. We have Muttley, which we haven't used in a while. But can you and Andy Cohen, can you cut that for me today?

Would you mind? We'll do it together. Thank you, folks. That could be a classic an instant. And I would give you discretion if you see one of those moments to drop in, Andy Cohen, you just drop it. Folks, please watch the. Because his facial reactions, Colwin, are even better. Rumbold, if you want to watch the video, check that out. All right. You know what? Before I get to the segment where we only have two sponsors today, don't worry, not a lot of spy.

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All right. Thanks, BCM. You know, I wake up every morning and I think to myself, what are the big, big principled issues we have to get across in the show? So the people who watch my show feel like they left in understanding more than when they came in. And if there was one big issue, I would get out of the way. It's that government is in it to help the little guy. They are not government is in the business of crushing the little guy always.

You don't believe me? Look at this. Just the news story. Be up in the show. No, it's available in my newsletter today, Bunshiro, that consolation newsletter, if you'd like to check it out.

Government force shutdowns, right, Amazon, Wal-Mart, so profits surge, Joe, am I reading that right? Profits surge in twenty twenty as small businesses decimated by the pandemic. Retail giants have filled the void left by shuttered shops and consumers scared to venture out. So we have governments shutting down small businesses, restaurant owners, telling people they can't go out, telling people they can't do this and that, and what happens, government that supposedly in it for the little guy.

Actually destroys the little guy while retail giant, ladies and gentlemen, I'm a Kapel, I'm a capitalist, I don't have any beef against Wal-Mart or Amazon doing what capitalists do.

I do have beefs with them doing non capitalist liberty things, but I don't have a problem with them making money. That's not the point. The point is this. I want you to look at this from the just the news piece Amazon's blowing up right now. It's you, the mom, and pops out there trying to earn a living and feed your kids. You're the ones getting screwed over. Quote, just the news. Amazon's third quarter earnings for this year.

The most recent available report, an operating cash flow of fifty five billion for the preceding 12 months, up from thirty five billion for the same period in twenty nineteen. Net sales increased thirty seven percent to ninety six billion in the third quarter, compared with 70 billion in the third quarter of twenty nineteen. The company said while its operating income, its overall profit increase 94 percent from three point two billion to six point two billion. Wow. That's really great for Amazon disclosure, I do have Amazon stock in a portfolio mine.

Good for Amazon, they seem to be doing great, but isn't that kind of weird how the same government that claims to be looking out for your best interests in a pandemic would shut you down, created a golden opportunity and a runway show for the Amazon plane to take off and then take all your business away from you as you were shut down.

I thought government was in it for the little guy. I'm confused. Now, of course, drawing a contrast with government is supposed to be in it for the little guy, you're telling me Amazon is not the little guy. Government created a runway for Amazon to take business away from little guys that was shut down. Well, what exactly happened to the little guy? That's the only way to show the contrast, right? Well, let's see from the just the newspaper what actually happened to small businesses.

Oh, it ain't good. It ain't good, folks. And it's a word in this case, small businesses have throughout twenty twenty suffered significant widespread closures as a result. Yelp, September 20 20 economic impact report found that the number of small businesses that had closed permanently in the US had increased approximately one hundred and sixty five percent from April to September, rising from about thirty seven thousand to roughly ninety eight thousand. Every one of those small businesses. As a mom and dad, a brother, a sister, a friend, the cousin or whatever, sitting at a table at night with his head in his hand, wondering what happened, wondering how his entire life got thrown away so fast.

Everything they put their time into your clothing store, your sandwich shop, your bagel shop, your electronics store, whatever it is you got buried because they shut you down. And when they shut you down, what happened? People went on their phones and computers and did what they always do. They go to Amazon. A lot of those people now maybe. Listen, ladies and gentlemen, creative destruction is a thing. Businesses go in and out of.

Businesses are created and destroyed all the time. That's not what happened here, folks. Let's be crystal clear. We're not talking about liberty and freedom. We're not talking about economic liberty and Joseph Schumpeter's creative destruction where bad businesses go out of business and good businesses take their place. And we crystal clear, Joe, if I miss this stop, is the audience. But that's not what we're talking about. We are talking about businesses now going out of business in this pandemic that we're perfectly fine, had great products, had good people, had dedicated workers.

They were put out of business by the government who then shut them down, who then gave an avenue to places like Amazon and Wal-Mart. And I'm not knocking them to take the business away. And some of those customers will then never come back.

So, again, if I could dispel one major myth about government, it's that they're in it for the little. They're not in it for the little guy. Why? Why is government not in it for the little guy? Well, let's think about this using logic and reason, something the left never does. What is government exists to do? Joe, remember? Chuck Ecker, the Howard County executive. Oh, God rest his soul fund, Maryland.

Yeah, we've told this story. Well, when I was running for office in Maryland, he was county executive for Howard County and I ran into an event one time and we got to talking about big government. And he said something to me. Some of you heard this on the show before. Some of you have seen some of our dualists. We were talking about big government. And he said to me. You know, Dan, governmental always grow, there's nothing you can do in a free society and a not free society.

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Government grows no matter what. And I said, yeah, I know that, Chuck. I understand. He said, Dan, you know why government always grows. He said, because there's no power in yes. It was brilliant. Brilliant. There's no power in yes. When you're a government bureaucrat. People naturally crave power if you tell people, yes, you can open a business, you mean I don't need a license or anything?

No, no, just open a business. Do your thing. When you tell people, yes, there's no power, there's only power and what no. Because then people have to come to you to get to yes. And when people have to come to you to get to yes. What do they do, lobby you? Maybe a campaign donation. Maybe if you're Hunter Biden, you kick up 10 percent to the big guy, Papa Joe. There is you understand this, this is if there was ever a golden rule, if there was one thing said to me in my time running for office that transformed the way I looked at the 9/11 and we must say transform, but really distilled it down to one sentence, that was it.

There is no power. And yes, there's only power and telling people no. How do you get to know why is government not in it for the little guy? Because what this government do, government gets to know because they exist to create obstacles. Obstacles are the nose, a license to braid hair. Why do I need a license to braid hair? Because we want hair braiding lobbyists to come to us and give our Democrat lobby or whatever our Democrat constituency money so we could get elected.

So it's not a joke. By the way, there are some states where to braid hair. You need a license. What the hell to do it, Professor? You need a license. What's the downside of braiding hair wrong? Someone comes back like, hey, I don't like my braids. This is not a joke. You can put in a search engine yourself. They want unions' of hair braiders to then come to the Democrats and say, here's a boatload of money so we can get to.

Yes, so we can braid hair. There is no power and yes, there is only power and no and the way you get to know is by creating obstacles to people. Shutting their businesses down and making them kiss your butt to open up again. How are obstacles dealt with? Ladies and gentlemen, that dealt with with lawyers and lobbyists. Bunch of lawyers and lobbyists that then go to these powerful county commissioners, congressmen, state reps, state senators, whatever they may be, and they spend all day at cocktail parties eating their foie gras lunches, having their two martini lunches, kissing their butts.

Isn't it great to have your butt kissed all day to try to get you to. Yes. Hey, I'd like to open up a business. Yeah, go ahead. Open. There's no power in that. No, no. You're going to need a light. Well, who controls the license? Commissioner Joey. Bag of donuts. Well, now let's get him to the table. You ever what now? You ever see that movie Casino? Yeah.

That most people have seen, you know, Bob Crazy, Bob De Niro's in it, but the movie is supposedly based on a true story. And there's that one scene where De Niro was running a casino in like 1970s Las Vegas when it was like the Wild West out there. And he's got to hire this incompetent buffoon who's like the nephew of a county commissioner. The guy winds up screwing everything up, costing the casino a fortune. Yeah, yeah.

The Nero fires the guy. He plays Ace in the movie. Then he was great, but he plays this guy Ace in the movie, apparently a real person. After he fires the kid, the county commissioner comes in with the Stetson hat, sits down, throws his feet up on the desk, and he says, I think we can find another position for him. And he's like, no, he's got to go. And all of a sudden, what happens?

Ace can't get his license to operate the casino because there's no power. And yes. Government is not in it for the little guy, Amazon and Wal-Mart are exploding because Amazon and Wal-Mart have lawyers and lobbyists that know how to get to. Yes and have a lot of money to pay for. Yes. When you don't. Mom and pop sandwich shop down the block. Poppies, hoagies we had when I was a kid growing up, we had a deli in the corner Niños at Nino's and Tommy's in Glendale, you grew up in Glendale and Liberty Park.

You know exactly what I'm talking about. They were two competitors. There was Tommy's Deli in Niños. Niños was on one corner. Tommy's was on the other. I preferred Tommy Swarens. But Tommy, Tommy had like three employees, Tommy doesn't have an army of lobbyists like Amazon to get the yes city inspector comes in and shuts him down, says that health related stuff. Sorry, buddy, you're out of business for a few months. Amazon can fight back.

So can Wal-Mart, a state open. How come you did? How come? Government, that's how come government who supposedly in it for the little guy. Government only exists. To create obstacles. Big companies, big tech companies, big pharma company, I don't mean big in an insulting way, again, I'm a capitalist. I don't fault people for creating business models that function. I'm simply stating a fact, a tautology, big companies will have big budgets and those big budgets will enable them to hire lawyers and lobbyists who can get politicians to.

Yes, while you're stuck it now. Never understood why people believe this fairy tale, that government is somehow in it for the little guy. Let me get to point you here. So problem one, talking about this myth about government being in it for the little guy. Problem one is, what is government, do they create obstacles, there's another problem here. The other problem with government is bureaucrats and politicians are human beings that nothing but, wow, transformative statement.

No, it's not. But folks even know what I said is there's nothing bold about it. Of course they are. People seriously forget that was it Federalist 51 if men were angels, right, we wouldn't need government. Oh yeah. But listen. We forget that. They're incentives, people you put in power government are not yours. They're human beings driven by their own quest for power, for money. For fame, for notoriety, for influence.

They can be greedy, mercenary, gluttonous, just like everyone else, there's nothing special about politicians. So, number one, they exist to create obstacles, but number two, they're only human and their incentives are not yours. So you should be asking yourself if their incentives are not your incentives, then why exactly would you give them dominion over your life? Would you give them power over your life? Why would you do that? What do I mean?

Joe was kind enough to cut this video clip from Right, Joe WGAN, so this is in Chicago, Illinois. I want you to watch this story for a moment. It's about, I don't know, 45, 50 seconds or so. You want to see how people you put in power over your life when you think big government is your savior, how they're incentives aren't your incentives. This is a school board official video about a school board official who wants schools to remain shut down but seems to live by a different set of rules herself.

Check this story out.

Sarah Chambers is on the union's executive board as an area vice president. As recently as today, she tweeted to rally special education teachers not to return to work Monday because it's unsafe.

But just a few hours earlier, Chambers posted a picture on Instagram that appears to show her poolside in Puerto Rico and talking about going to old San Juan for seafood.

Post also mentions that she previously had covid about a negative test result and consulted her doctor before traveling. Both chambers and the teachers union have not responded to our request for comment since we reached out, though Chambers has deleted her Instagram account. The Chicago Teachers Union is threatening the possibility of a strike if the district pushes ahead with plans to reopen school buildings.

So just to be clear. This official with some authority, some school board official, Sarah, whatever her name is. She doesn't think your kids should be back in school, but she's out there posting on Instagram an account she subsequently deleted photos of her on vacation. And the story is even more tragic after that, she says, you may be thinking, oh, well, this she's had an automatic out. So she said, well, I already had covid, so I probably have some kind of immunity.

So it's OK for me to travel. Oh, so just to be clear. Your individual circumstances matter for your life and you can do what you want, but thousands of others, individual circumstances, kids who may have had Koven, parents who could go back to school, no problem. We probably have the same immunity you have. Their circumstances don't matter. Only yours do. Do you now get the why big government is if I'm trying desperately to keep this show family friendly these days.

They can't possibly the people in power align their incentives with your incentives because they don't know anything about you, just like you don't know, this woman had covid. You get what I'm saying, Joe, please tell me this makes sense, yes, to me, yes, they have no idea she's making a blanket decision, this school board official, none of you should go back to school despite having no idea about your circumstances, risk tolerance, history with covid, whether you've been vaccinated, whether you're susceptible to it or not.

She has no idea. She then lives by a different set of rules, goes on vacation and incites her individual circumstances as the excuse. No, no, but I'm OK. Yeah, but I'm OK too. Yeah, yeah. But I'm in charge. And I didn't know you were OK because I'm in charge. That's the point. Let me do my thing and let you do your thing you made. But you made my my point. Not not your point.

Their incentives are not your incentives. They will never be your incentives. Whether it comes to policy based on your kid's schooling, their incentives are to get paid as school board reps and to keep power and to put obstacles in your way to get people to kiss their butts, to have them get to yes from no. That's their incentive. What's your incentive as a parent to get your kid a darn education? That's your incentive. Those incentives, ladies and gentlemen, are not even remotely aligned.

They're not even in the same cosmos. Do you understand that? So why would you give this person power over you if her incentives are to screw you over? It's not even her fault. I'm not talking about her decision to go to poetry that is her fault, I'm talking about the incentive that is simply the structure of human beings. They are rational maximizers. They will maximize their own benefit at your expense. She's not in it for you. So why give her power?

Now, you know, I talk about things like school choice, despite the fact it doesn't poll even in the top 10 of issues most of the time. Economic choice there, economic incentives aren't yours. Their health care incentives are you want government run health care because you believe with a straight face that bureaucrats like this, their incentives are to keep you healthy. You actually believe that? Why would you believe that they don't know you. They don't care.

Why do you believe that I don't understand. A faceless bureaucrat vacationing in Puerto Rico, whatever you think, she cares about your kids education and her fellow bureaucrats in the health care side of Chicago, Illinois, or the federal government that they care about your health, your cancer treatments, your diabetes, your insulin injections, you think they care about you. Why do you think that? I mean, it's almost delirious. All right, let me get to my last story, folks.

And I should have said Happy New Year and Happy New Year. I hope you it let's hope 20 21 is better. Obviously, the best of segment was really exhausting in the beginning. So I think I tweeted that someone didn't get the joke yesterday.

I was on Parler and Twitter and I was going to put on Facebook too. But I was doing the elliptical yesterday trying to get a get a little sweat. I'm trying to sweat these chemicals out of me and not Kambah. I'm not like a drug addict. It was the chemo stuff. And I put on on parler, I said, here's my best of 20, 20 lists with a semi, with a car, with a colon at the end.

And some people didn't get the joke again. Where is it? I'm like, that's the list. There's nothing there. That is the Parli the best of 20. Most other people got it. But a rough year. So happy New Year. Let's hope 20 21 will be better. I'm always an optimist because my last story, this will be up in the show notes to. Folks have warned you about cancel culture, cancel culture is not about and it's never been about principles that has nothing to do with trying to be anti-racist or anything like that.

Cancel culture is a power play. People who can't succeed in a meritocracy, a capitalist system where you have to work for a living to get ahead and obtain money and influence and power and all of that kind of stuff in a meritocracy, people who can't do that because they're losers, what are they? Do they have to find power other ways, typically through manipulation, chicanery, outright fraud or.

Attaching themselves surgically to the caboose of liberal movements and becoming cancer culture people, because there's power in that, the ability to cancel someone, how we think it's disgusting, but liberals love it. They find power in that because they can't find power anywhere else. Here's the problem with cancer culture going to get this Breitbart story and liberals, you better take note. Here's a warning for you. It is only a matter of time before cancer culture comes for you.

You may be thinking, not me, I'm a liberal, I'm safe, you sure, but you check out this Breitbart story in the show notes today. But ladies and gentlemen, there's a library and material out there on people who are let's not call them liberal. Let's call them not conservatives. You better be careful at that library material and come back and bite you to. Breitbart. Rapper Democrats USCIRF and Warnock, featured at a campaign rally, has a history of degrading women online by Ashley Oliver Breitbart.

The rappers bars cash, I have not heard of them cash with AK. I don't know, the guy never met him, don't listen to his stuff, I'm not even going to mention what he wrote in some of his tweets because it's pretty gross and disgusting. Involves treatment of women, that and by the way, it's not one of those things where you're like, oh, don't be a snowflake. No, no, it's disgusting. That's why I'm not reading it, because there are younger folks who listen to the show, what this guy brings, Cash tweeted, he was on the stage with Baunach and Asaph.

Mike, these are my guys. Is it a national scandal that this guy brings cash, this rapper happened to tweet some. Totally disgusting things about women. Again, I'm not talking about like, oh, you're being too sensitive. I'm talking about when you read it and if you read the Breitbart piece, should be like, uh. Was on the stage with us off more not. Why isn't it a national scandal? You may say, Dan, you're refuting your own point, you're saying eventually that this is going to come for liberals, but it hasn't because this isn't a national scandal.

No, no, no, no. Ladies and gentlemen, these tides have turned. And this is going to happen soon and why? Because movements that are based in principles are naturally self limiting, right? When you reach an endpoint and you reach that principle and that principle of your movement. Eventually peters out. And when I say Peters out, I don't mean disappears. I'm confusing it. Joe, let me give you a hard example so you understand what I mean.

Yes. When you see an obvious wrong I mean an obvious moral stain or blemish and you see movements develop around it. Jim Crow in the south. People get behind it, they see it's a moral and ethical stain on our society, people get behind taking it down, which we did. You understand that people understood that. No sane society of moral and ethical people can exist with it. There was never any separate but equal. No one was equal in that separation but the movement over time.

The two end Jim Crow, the movement, not the civil rights movement, but that ended because we got rid of it, thank God. It was based on a principle and a sound principle that this is wrong is no separate but equal. They weren't equal, it was the same size. There's nothing about separation that was ethically responsible or moral either. You get what I'm saying. This movement now, a cancer culture is not that I just told you.

It's not based in any principles. We could prove it because if people are canceled according to cancel culture, because mistakes they made in their youth. And how is Joe Biden cancelled for openly campaigning with the Ku Klux Klan member? It's not a joke. He did that. Robert Byrd, the photos are out there. Nobody just celebrated the man whose funeral. So why isn't Joe Biden canceled because it's not based in principles, castle culture is just based in power.

What does that mean and why is that going to boomerang on the left? Because folks eventually. The movement does peter out because you run out of conservatives to attack because conservatives are pretty responsible folks and you outside and you're not going to have a library of conservatives to continue to cancel. Once you're done with your library of conservatives to cancel, you have to move on others. And then what happens, or you like the power, you like the ability to cancel people?

I'm telling you right now. Market, January first, Friday, twenty twenty one. Bihar's cash and others, you've been warned. It is only a matter of time before these leftists come for you, all of those that library of rap songs weave out the ad out there dropping and bombs, calling women the B word and. The H word, if you know what I mean, am I going to say it on the show? You know where I'm going with it?

Hmm. I'm telling you right now you are not going to be able to run from that. You're not going to be able to say, oh, we were talking about the I've heard this before, how people talk in the streets and the rhythm that doesn't make it right. A lot of things are said in the streets that aren't right. The fact that you put them in a song and glorified it doesn't make it any writer. I'm telling you, once you start down this road, the cancel culture, it is eventually going to consume everyone, them included.

You need historical examples throughout human history, look at every movement that started like this, right, where eventually the movement consumed itself, you see it all the time. What do I always tell you? Famous last words in the French Revolution, right? While you were sitting under the guillotine. Wait, I'm on your side. There are no sides in this because there is not a side means there's a principle. There is no guiding principle to cancel culture other than the quest for power.

And people who do this and cancel people and feel empowered by it and strengthened by they love it and they feed off the right. Look what I did. I canceled this famous guy are eventually going to need new targets. And I'm telling you, people out there in the athlete community, the entertainment community, the music community, they're coming for you next. Make no mistake, this is just the beginning. All right, folks, thanks again for tuning in and a little bit of an abbreviated New Year's Day show, I hope you have a really happy New Year.

Just a couple of thank you's. I really appreciate my whole team working really hard for the whole year. It's been a great year for us. We finished the year this week. We were I mean, to be fair, Ben Shapiro is always number one. He was on vacation this week. So get better shout out. We we were the number one conservative podcast this week, but thank you. It felt good, even though, you know, Ben was on vacation, he had best ofs.

So I like Ben. He's a friend, but thank you. It's a real honor. I appreciate you being with me. I hope 2021 that we can continue growing the show. You mean a lot to me. It's been a busy year for all of us. Obviously, with the health and everything and everything going on with you at home. I really appreciate it. I'll see you on Monday. Good day, sir.

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