Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino, folks who are approaching a very, very dangerous time, I can't say this enough. It is now absolutely critical that we fall back on basic principles because we don't have basic foundational principles and God given rights respected by everyone in the country. We don't have a country. We have a suggestion of a country and suggestions of countries have failed throughout human history.

And that's not good enough right now. I'm going to go through a litany of things right now. A litany of things on the show today. That should scare you, things that are happening. Tech tyranny lists being created of people targeting of people. And liberals and their media allies never letting a crisis go to waste rather than us on the conservative side, being interested in solving the crisis today show a bunch of expressive ladies and gentlemen express VPN. Go get a VPN now.

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And it is extremely dangerous. What am I talking about? I want to address two things specifically today, and I want to address some potential solutions and make sure I don't want to leave you on a bad note on Friday, but. Expect the left and their media allies from this point forward to double down on totalitarianism and cancel culture there, the same thing, they're no different. Cancer culture is a nice, cute way of saying we embrace totalitarianism and Soviet style tactics.

It's putting lipstick on. And I'm sorry. That's all it is. Anyone telling you otherwise is lying to you because they want to weaponize or die weaponized words. So I want to address that first. Then I want to get into how the normalization of political violence over the course of the last four years during the Trump administration has led to a very dangerous spot, a spot we are not going to join in on, never have and never will. Ever.

First. What am I talking about? Cancel culture. And the national suicide we're about to walk into as we embrace totalitarian tactics to crush the free speech of others. Ladies and gentlemen, I've warned you for years now, years, that cancel culture and the dangers of totalitarian cancel culture are that they constantly need new targets. Why? Let's think about this rationally for a moment. Again, liberal stepaside media people. I'm asking for people with triple digit IQ who think straight and use reason and rationale to think about this.

When you cancel people as targets, whoever they may be. I want to cancel conservative politician Joey Bag of Donuts because he posted on Twitter. He supports Trump. Get them off Twitter, get them off YouTube, get them off Snapchat, get them off Tic-Tac. Whatever it may be, they're effectively cancel canceled. Meaning you don't say anything I'm saying, Joe, that's unusual or weird. I mean, you cancel them, yet they're not a threat to you anymore.

You've effectively cancel them. Nice job. Of course, I'm being sarcastic. Well, the problem with that is in order for you to maintain your council culture power and don't think for a second there isn't power and cancel culture, there is. Oh, and the people in the totalitarians throughout human history who've used their power to cancel people. And throughout history, to torture, maim and kill people and politically imprison them, which has happened throughout regimes in the past, they love that power.

If they didn't, they wouldn't keep doing it. Reasonable reason, rationale if they didn't like what they were doing. They would stop, but they don't show any of this crazy man, we're doing good so far. OK, thank you.

I'm just asking the audience ombudsman. I'm just checking if you didn't like cancelling people and didn't thoroughly embrace the power you had, you would stop doing it. But they keep doing it. And by canceling people, as you put people on the canceled shelf, you have to find new people because you enjoy the experience of cancelling people. And what happens, revolutions always eat their own when they don't have basic foundational principles. I'll get to that in a minute to in my second segment here.

And don't forget this, never forget this unprincipled revolution's unprincipled revolution's. Throughout human history. Have always eaten their own. And totalitarian cancel culture is entirely unprincipled. It is not done because any rules are followed. It is done because people enjoy the power of torturing people into the platforming and non-existence in the public space. No, no, no, no, then it's based on some the principle is the principle is what people should be kicked off Twitter if they if they say things I disagree with.

Really, how come the Chinese government's not in D platform from Twitter? How come they haven't been D platform despite going out talking about the imprisonment of wiggers due to their religion? How come the Ayatollah and the Iranian death to America crowd has not been D platform from Twitter despite threatening national genocide? How come? What's your principle there? What's your genocide's? OK, but supporting Trump is. That's your that's your principle. I'm just checking. No, you don't have any principles, you're frauds, unprincipled revolutions always need eat their own because they always need new targets.

And as you cancel people, those people start to turn on themselves as they need new targets. You see the Portland mayor, Ted Wheeler. Radical leftist radical left, I thought he was in where your principles right excuse me, folks, having a tough time this morning. I mean, I feel OK, I promise. Do you see the Portland mayor, the video of the Portland mayor being attacked at a restaurant, he's a leftist. Why? Because unprincipled revolutions always eat their own as people embrace the power of attacking and canceling others.

And as you run out of targets, you eventually have to turn inward for new targets and then you get afraid you might be a target. So you preemptively attack someone else to make sure you're not a target, too. Ladies and gentlemen, this may be some deep stuff, but it is damn well true. And if you are any bit of a student of history, you know exactly what I'm telling you. Yep. And you know the accuracy of it.

Here's what I'm talking about to get the story, number one, Fox News.com, Michelle Obama, a very powerful figure. Oh, darn, she has no political power. Oh, you are grossly mistaken if you think political power is divorced from cultural power. This is a woman who is first lady of the United States who has a massive influence on our culture. Don't dare sell that short. She has real power. Cultural power. Fox News. Michelle Obama calls on the tech giants to permanently ban Trump.

Now is the time for Silicon Valley companies to stop enabling the monstrous behavior. That's Michelle Obama. This is a former first lady of the United States with massive influence over our culture, encouraging tech platform. Platforms to ban the president of the United States. What did I tell you about when we opened up warning danger. Danger zone if you lost in space. I know I said I'm afraid that thing may be like, yeah, about I don't say anything anymore and I seriously can't even say the Jeopardy sound.

Jeopardy sound. We are in a real danger zone. You have a former first lady of the United States essentially calling for and the weaponization of her cultural power to silence someone whose ideas she doesn't agree with. Well, I got a lot of these today. The left never let a crisis go to waste, and they seen one now, and instead of trying to make this country better and solve the crisis we're in right now, and it's a bad one.

Lost the Capitol Hill police officer I mentioned at the moment as well. They want to leverage this. Like any good totalitarian what? And I don't mean good morally, I mean good night, they're skilled at what they do. Story number two, guys, talk about a slippery slope, this could this could run down, this is a ball larded up with grease down a slippery slope. Washington Examiner story. They should all be up in my show notes today.

My newsletter is the show notes Bandino dot com slash newsletter. If you want to access the newsletter so you can subscribe free bungeni dot com slash newsletter will email you the stuff every morning. Angie Critelli, Washington Examiner, top Democrat, urges TSA and FBI to put Capitol rioters on no fly list. Again, you want to talk about a slippery slope? We talking about the rioters here, are we talking about anyone who showed up in Washington, D.C.?

What about the overwhelming number of people who showed up there and actually did protest peacefully? Which is an American institution, peaceful protest, is it not, or is that only for the left? You know, are they on a list now to. You don't think this is dangerous? You don't think this can come for you later? You don't think the mayor of a small town or a bureaucrat in the TSA or FBI, whether you align with their political cause or not, if they deem you to be a threat to their political interest, couldn't put you on a list later.

We sure we want to go down this path. They say these stories get worse. Oh, yeah. Ladies and gentlemen, they do. Hard to believe. But they do. Washington Examiner cover this the other day, President Trump, the president of United States, is now effectively locked out of communicating with a majority of his constituents. He addresses on Twitter because Twitter blocked his account for 12 hours after his tweets insisting election was stolen. Carlos Ortiz Leidel, social media producer at The Washington Examiner, to a headline.

Not sure about that accuracy of that headline was locked out of that may be Twitter's reason. I'm not knocking the author of the piece, but in the PC also told the protesters after the incident at the Capitol that broke bad, really bad. He also told the protesters to go home, but Twitter thought that it would be an interesting public policy to lock him out while allowing the ayatollahs and the Iranian regime to basically chant death to America and use their platform to call for genocide.

That's a principle guiding principle for Twitter or that's just the political attack on their platform to cancel people they don't like. Well, ladies and gentlemen, because I can't stand Twitter because I believe it's a company run by far left radical lunatics, and I don't believe it's a legitimate business, I believe Twitter is a political activist forum first and a business second. That is my opinion about Twitter's business model. They care more about radical totalitarian politics than they do about their actual business model, how how they have shareholders.

And our publicly traded company, Twitter is absolutely bizarre to me how there hasn't been a shareholder revolt around their ridiculous business practices. This is a company run by juveniles. With the maturity of kindergartener's. So because they wouldn't allow President Trump's statement, the president, United States on their platform, I put it up on my Twitter account. Well, I was probably locked out of Twitter myself, so you can see this article up on the rap. Headlines a little interesting, you have to read it on YouTube from my audio excuse me, read it up on our Rumball account.

Because some of the language in the headline wouldn't be appropriate for terrestrial radio or digital podcasts, where families listening to rap, Fox News's Dan Bongino won't return to Twitter after suspension.

Mm hmm. Afterwards, check out the video. Rumball Dotcom slash Mancino. Don't watch it on YouTube. YouTube's part of the Tech Tyranny Brigade.

Forgive me for that slip. There have sadly become habit. That's how much of a monopoly they have. I will not be returning to Twitter ever. They thought it was a good practice to lock me out. Let's see how that works out for you have locked myself out, the account is not inactive, will remain active. I just will never post again. My last post on Twitter was this morning. If you'd like to go to Twitter, you can go check it out, it will be pinned to the top of my account.

That will be the last post I ever make on Twitter. Twitter profits off high profile accounts like mine with nearly three million followers, they profit off the information I put up there that people share and then exchange. You won't profit any more from my posting. Count's not closed. But there will be no additional posts, and to all the Twitter shareholders out there, if you think this is an effective business model to have one of your most highly trafficked accounts leave.

Because you locked that account out because he dared to put up a video of the president of the United States making an official statement from the White House complex, if you think that's in effect, the business model for the future, you do. You folks, you can find me on parler, a platform I have invested in myself. I will be there. My handle is at Dibango, just put at Debone, Giteau at Parler, Dotcom, Computer, Eliade, Dotcom, and you can follow me over there where I will be making posts and where we actually respect free speech that of people we politically disagree with too, because we're not hypocritical, ridiculous frauds like Twitter.

So Twitter, you can take that and jam it right up your wazoo because I am absolutely done with you. You will not see me again. Let's not make the whole show about me, even though it's my show, because sometimes I can, you know, obviously a situation I know about personally because it's about me.

There's actually more. And this is the warning segment, we are approaching an extremely dangerous time. It is now critical we fall back on basic foundational principles with which the left in the media has entirely been. Let's go to the next story. John Solomon is just the news website. Headline We'll see you in court, Senator Josh Hawley says after his publisher cancels publication of his upcoming book, Simon and Schuster, quote, cannot support Senator Holly after his role in what became a dangerous threat to our democracy and freedom.

The company said in a statement. So we're now book burning now, but we're now back to book burning, folks. Listen, let me get the argument out of the way first, because liberals.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, boy. We're in the we're in the book burning state. Scary.

Way beyond it was scary a couple of days now it's like I what did I say to you tonight? Do I do what I said? I hope I'm wrong. I said this a couple of days ago, but I'm telling you, this is just the tip of the iceberg. We're now book burning now. I warned you to be very, very careful about who you do business with. This is why. We have to develop a parallel conservative economy.

I have taken my the lead role in it with parler and rumball and tech platforms that don't that don't subject the people to discrimination on their idea or ideological beliefs. But ladies, gentlemen, I can't do everything you have to do it to. Legal firms, h fax businesses, everything we need, an entire parallel economy. Where we will not cancel people, customers and clients based on their political beliefs, Simon and Schuster took a stand. I want to be clear on this, too.

I actually I don't want to lose track where I'm going. I mean, this is a very important show today. This is not a First Amendment issue. Simon and Schuster is a private company. They made it unbelievably stupid, I will never unbelievably ridiculous, stupid businesses, and I will never, ever, ever even consider Simon and Schuster in the future for any book ever, ever. I'm not I mean that if you write additional book, Simon and Schuster may not care, but I write a lot of really well read books that have made a lot of money.

But they won't make any money from Simon and Schuster. Because they're out. And to my author friends out there to be very careful who you do business with. Josh Holley's book, The Irony is literally about cancel culture and tactility. I'm sure that irony has slipped past the geniuses at Simon and Schuster who think they're catering to the blue checkmark Twitter Brigade and are building a business in the future. You're not liberal book suck. Nobody reads them outside of a few select authors.

People read conservative books because conservatives go to work and have money and buy them. And you've just eliminated about twenty five percent of your market.

Good luck with that. And good luck on Twitter as I ask the rest of you, if you can if you can, I make no demands on anyone and I understand. Follow me on Twitter to parler. I've got more. Let me get to my second sponsor, but I got a few more stories, and I'm sorry, I don't mean to depress you, but if we don't understand the fight ahead, we're not going to understand what the fight is going.

And the worst part about that is not understanding the tactics of political strategic about how to beat these people at their own game. You have to understand where we are. To know where we're going. Show also brought to you by our friends at Tommy John. Hey, guys, here's a quick win to start. Twenty twenty one off, right? Spring for some Tommy John underwear and stop the flopping around and think to yourself, I was a big fan of Tommy John way before they were sponsor their underwear, their pajamas, their clothing.

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And Joe said something interesting. I just want to throw in areas like, you know, Dan, this is a great opening to the show, but I'm a little afraid here because the punishment stage hasn't even started yet. All that. And I said, Joe, that's a great line. I'm going to bring that up. But you're right, Joe, the punishment stage. And that's why I'm saying like. I'm warning you about this stuff, not to depress you, but to let you know that this is just the beginning.

There's more bad stuff coming and you darn well better be prepared. But great line. Joe, thanks for that input. Yeah, we take a little break takes like less than five minutes, but it's a good way for us to recenter the show. You know me, I could go all over the place. All right. Let's get back to it. So more warning signs ahead. We just covered Josh Holley's book being canceled because he dared to say, hey, were there some issues with this election?

I've seen you like your Internet stuff, you got to, like, come back to my screen, so. Folks. Get worried. Be prepared. Here's an article, that legal insurrection here, it'll be up in the show notes today about more efforts by the totalitarian left to engage in a vicious cycle of cancel culture suicide and I mean national suicide, because eventually the country will collapse on itself as they find and try to find new targets. Facebook, YouTube.

Shopify moved the platform Trump and questions about the twenty twenty election. Says YouTube RNC platform Trump directly, but then double down and their promise to penalize channels of post false claims, which is awfully subjective. CNBC has a piece about this as well. You dare to question the election, the potential for election fraud. We'll continue to do that with YouTube and I don't give a damn if YouTube cancels me or not, because I'll be canceling YouTube and Facebook eventually as well.

I've got a strategy. Don't you worry. Twitter's already gone. So it done over there. But I'm not kidding. Visiting them at some point in the future, too, just got to wait for some things, but here's CNBC. YouTube says it will move more quickly to suspend channels posting videos claiming widespread voter fraud. YouTube suspended, I don't I don't care, I've told you will only make Rumbo more powerful. It's the whole Obi Wan Kenobi theory you think you can, which strikes out, you will only make me more powerful.

Aveda you. There's nothing you can do to me. Nothing, we are building an entire parallel economy that profits from your stupidity, I have said over and over you may laugh at this, but it's true. Parlor and rumbles best friends in marketing their brand. Have been Twitter and YouTube respectfully, huh, their competitors? No, they're not. They're our best friends. Parler jumps to what do we add in the App Store right now?

Let's see. Let's check this out. It's not a joke. I look at it. Yeah. OK, great. So right now, let's see where we are. Parler was like one hundred and an app downloads and we're here. Here's my phone. We're number 11. We're the 11th most downloaded app right now in the entire country because Twitter is the platforming conservative users that you're making us all rich at parler one day, one day. But his company goes public or whatever.

One of these days you're making everybody, Richard Parler. You're our best friends. YouTube, we're going to censor your video, really, we'll just take the video, put it somewhere else, people aren't stupid. They'll go find it. We'll put it on Rumball. There are best marketing friends because they're so stupid. That's why I cannot believe these companies Alphabeat who owns YouTube and Google or whatever it may be, and Twitter are publicly traded. And they have shareholders who are like.

So people are giving us free content we profit from and we're kicking them off in droves. These are supposedly the smart people and our competitor Parliament Rumball, their traffic is up ten fold, eight fold, 20 fold in one hundred fold as we kick people off, will go with post over their. These are supposedly the smart people. So I tell you to ban my channel. I don't care a whit, I will make a press story out of it and use it to advertise my channel on Rumball, where we have more subscribers than we have on YouTube.

We now have trouble again. I do this during the show, so I think I'm making this up. We now have a troubled nine hundred and one thousand compared to our seven hundred thousand subscribers on screwtop. How you hurting me? You're hurting me at all. More people find us on your competitor that I have an ownership stake in. Oh man. We're really damage again, are you? Good luck. On a serious note. Back to Joe's point, other things about the punishment stage has not yet begun.

Ladies, gentlemen, this is not a joke, I know we again, we use a lot of sarcasm and sometimes humor on the show to take the edge off. But I have been consistent from the start. In condemning political violence. From the start, why? Because, ladies and gentlemen, when you go down that path and I listen, I'll be honest with you, I got emails from people yesterday, a couple of them, not just one.

Just being candid with you. Then the time for violence is now wife. Are you insane? Are you crazy? Why do you think that? Where do you think that's going to go, if you thought this out? So out of all of the avenues to pursue changes you'd like in your government locally, at the state level and at the federal level, all the avenues, voting, activism, fund raising, joining political groups. Getting government petitions signed.

Fighting for candidates who believe in running for office yourself. Putting out a book or a podcast or a blog. There are endless opportunities for you to collect and leverage. To garner and hopefully effect some political change in the future. You're claiming we've exhausted every one of those and now we need to jump to violence and destruction. I'm sorry, I will never be a part of that ever. I never have been and I never will. And I've spoken out consistently about this for four years.

Political violence, ladies and gentlemen, is never a pathway to long term change. It isn't. We'll get the results of this, we lost this police officer up on Capitol Hill. Rest peacefully, brother, with the Lord, Brian Technik. Capitol Police officer dies following the chaos in D.C. Washington Examiner, sadly, this will be in the show notes to. People died up there. There was a woman who died, too, who was shot by Capitol Hill police officers.

These people had families. This isn't a joke. Listen, I don't want this to come off as chastising people in my audience, because you're not good people and it really the emails I got were very limited about that. But to a limited number of people may hear this that actually believe that No. This is the time to double down on big our God given rights and constitutional principles. This will only lead to additional radicalization, what happens? This schism where we cancel people and what the left is doing to us, but our response can never be to normalize political violence like the left has done.

We need to fall back on things that have worked throughout the 200 plus years of this great country, despite all its failures, we have had tremendous successes, more than any other collective group of human beings in human history. No one has managed to build what we build in the United States right here and right now. You live in the wealthiest country in the history of humankind, the most benevolent, heroic, patriotic place that everyone in the world wants to go.

Despite all of our shortcomings, you are still here alive right now in the greatest place on earth. The most innovative, prosperous and free place on earth. Hopefully we can keep that, and that's why I'm warning you about what's ahead, because you have enemies of liberty all around you. But this isn't the time to use their tactics. This is the time, the resort on tactics that have worked for 200 years. Bedrock principle, free speech, free assembly, freedom of religion, the right to defend yourself.

By the way, I should never be taken away. The right to defend yourself against violence. But folks, the other side hasn't been principled here. Here's what I mean, and I said this before, and I'll reiterate this again, because it's critical you understand this. Unprincipled revolutions always, always, always eat their own. You know why? Because there's no emergency brake. There's nothing to stop them from eating their own. Think about the contrast that's always spoken about in history books between a relatively unprincipled revolution in the French French Revolution, where eventually, you know, the insiders themselves were subjected to the guillotine.

As I always say, famous last words in the French Revolution as the gear team is about to come down on your head. Famous last words. I thought I was on your side, I. There are no sides in an unprincipled revolution because principled revolutions create sides. I'm on the side of freedom and liberty, and you are not. The American Revolution was a principled one. Fought for foundational beliefs that God's children had biga, God given rights from him, not from government and government was only there to ensure that.

Do you understand that was a unique idea that had never been tried any time in human history before. To the extent we tried it in the now fledgling United States of America that declared independence. You understand that had never been tried before. The idea throughout human history that was almost accepted is tautological. Was that rights were smaller rights given to you by government, not by God, government gave you those rights. The new idea we tried, was it?

No, those rights were granted to you by God, by your creator. And that government was only there to ensure the protection of your God given rights. Ladies and gentlemen, that was a schism. That was a breaking point in human history, no different than the advent of photosynthesis and the creation of human intelligence. I'm not kidding. It was that seismic of a shift in the thinking of humankind. We're in the past government felt like its rights were granted by it and government could unilaterally take rights away.

This is the first time in human history a group of men and women in this collective place we call the United States said, no, that's not the way it works. Those rights can't be taken away because government doesn't give them God does. Now is the time to fall back on those rights. And if someone else has God given rights to prosper, to live, to assemble, to petition the government, to practice their religion, to defend themselves, if someone else has those God given rights, me, I cannot take them away, whether as a government official or as a private citizen.

Because government ensures that person's God given rights, if I attack that person government in the form of a police force or in a military, if it's from overseas, will defend that person's God given rights on behalf of government. If government chooses to attack those God given rise, I can sue them in a government created entity designed to protect those rights, a court system. I'm not saying it always does a great job, but it's there and we're trying.

We have that emergency brake, we can't take rights from others. The left doesn't. Despite all of the wrongdoing that has happened and ladies and gentlemen, there can be no no lack of moral clarity on this, what happened at the Capitol was disgraceful. Period. There can be no lack of clarity and can never happen again. That's not to chastise, it's the state, something that's truthful. The overwhelming majority of people there, there are videos out, there are people booing people who are doing showed up to peacefully state their case and God bless you for what you're doing.

There's nothing more American than a peaceful protest, but we cannot turn into the left that for years has normalized political violence as a tool to take away the God given rights of others. I've refused to do it and I won't be on the side of it ever. We are not them, we have never been them. There is an emergency brake on our behavior. We don't engage in political violence because it takes away the big our God given rights of others, and if you believe you have big our God given rights, you believe your fellow citizen has them, too, and you are a hypocrite to try to take them away.

Disagree all you want. There's nothing better than peaceful protest than an American history of civil disobedience, but not that. This is what the left does because they don't believe in big God given rights. I'm going to show you some video here, because it's important we see this again where this goes if we embrace their tactics. When we normalize political violence. Ladies and gentlemen, it believes. It leads others to believe this is productive. If we normalize it and excuse it, it'll do what it'll lead to an outcome that happened on the left.

Where people showed up and burned cities down, the media incentivizes behavior, sometimes called for politicians. And it let others on the left to believe this behavior would lead to productive outcomes, which led to what a downward spiral of more riots, more death and more chaos. We can never, ever go there. So normalizing political violence one leads to malicious incentives that leads other others to believe this is productive. It's not. Second. Normalizing political violence spurs revenge.

And you have an endless cycle of violence where you attack me. It hurts. And the only cure for my herd is to attack you back. And if you live through that, it incentivizes your kids to attack my kids, which incentivize my kids to attack your grandkids, which incentivises my grandkids to attack your grandkids, which then incentivizes back my great grandkids to go after your great grandkids. You think this is productive? Generations engaged in counterproductive destruction. While simultaneously hoping it leads to a prosperous outcome.

Those two things will never happen. We can never, ever normalize political violence. Look at this video, if you think I'm making up that the media has normalized political violence and basically winked and not at the people on the left, that this is OK, it'll lead to productive outcomes, which is only led to more destruction. Check this out.

I argue to you tonight, all punches are not equal morally in the eyes of the law. Yes, but in the eyes of good and evil. Here's the argument.

They are strictly principled antifascists and what they see in the Trump administration and what they see happening in this country, they see they see the neo fascism that we see and they've taken a principled stand to stand against white supremacists and white nationalists wherever they may show up.

It says it right in the name antifa, anti fascism, which is what they were. They're fighting. Listen, there's no organization is perfect. There are some violence.

I think that a lot of people recognize that when pushed, self-defense is a legitimate response to white supremacy and neo-Nazi violence.

The problem is to equate the violence in reaction against bigotry with the bigotry itself is to misunderstand the fact that when you go to cancer treatment, the radiation is tough treatment, but it is meant to remove the cancer.

There's a group of antifascists called the Black Bloc, which do tend to get violent. Their idea is, look, nonviolence hasn't worked and we are going to try to stop this. But they wouldn't have been there. They wouldn't have been anywhere near there had it not been for the fact that white supremacists, neo-Nazis were out scaring the living daylights out of most of the people in that town.

Thuggishness is thuggishness wherever it comes from politically, and we should be the first to call it out. I disagree.

Of course, he disagrees. That's Jason Johnson. Verlie, not bright guy who I debated once on a political event and a political event who knew nothing about the topic he was here to debate, it was quite embarrassing. You see where this goes. When you justifies political violence, when you think it's a favored political group, you see where this goes and how dangerous this gets. How this turns into an endless cycle of destruction and sooner or later, there's nothing left to destroy with the intended outcome of what, creating prosperity in the future through destruction?

How exactly to those two values and those two goals align? Please explain that to me. I'd love to hear it. Gets worse, folks, here are people with followings, again on social media platforms like Twitter that allow this stuff, apparently because they don't have principles. Here's Sally Cohn, someone I used to debate on Fox News and other platforms, who is a prominent liberal, doesn't seem to have any principles. The left remember, we always have our God given big our God given rights, those that emergency brake that prevents us from ever attacking our fellow citizens.

They don't have this. But here's Sally Kohn, here is their own Twitter account. I don't like violent protests, but I understand them and those wagging their fingers against violent protests need to read up on their American history. May 30th, 2020, during the protests in the streets from Blenman Antifa, which were burning American cities, then noticed the excusing of the violence there. Her words, not mine, I just read them. But interesting now that we've had this incident at the Capitol.

Which should never, ever, ever be repeated and we have to have moral clarity on it's interesting now Sally Kohn all of a sudden isn't into violent protests anymore. Here's another tweet. See, there's no problem on our side. Here's number two. Interesting, Sally, KONE's had a change of thought because, again, the principals aren't there, these are just political tweets. These aren't principal ones. The mobs storming the Capitol right now are neither patriots nor revolutionaries.

They are traitors and cowards trying to upend their democracy by force because they fear peaceful change and not getting their way. Interesting how the change of tone depends on what her ideological alignment is with the cause, meaning it's ideologically driven, not principle driven. Shows you the problem with the slippery slope of not having principles, doesn't it? Here's a reporter. Again, these are their own tweets, these are their words, not mine. These are from verified accounts.

By the way, these aren't scam accounts or anything else. Here's a reporter by the name of Melissa Chan. Her own social media account on Twitter. Seems to be dictating the terms of how we talk about protest, she says, hi, I'm an American, a foreign correspondent here, just a reminder to my domestic media peers that we don't call them protesters when it goes down like this, when we report on other countries. And today, honestly, it's kind of a test of your judgment about that, talking about what happened at the Capitol.

Don't you dare call them protester or.

Interesting, Melissa Chan, because here's another tweet hat tip, Shawn Davis at the Threadless who found this huge Melissa Chan's Twitter account. If you're going to call a few bad apples, the cops, then let's call them a few bad apples among the protesters when the violent BLM antifa protest broke out. Interesting how, again, when you don't have any real principles. The language you use, the attacks you make on your opponents are based purely on what your ideological goals are, not your principal ones, because you're not bedrock in anything.

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The personal assistant there keeps doing its thing that. Here's another montage video of again, that was more media folks incentivizing ATF and BLM to continue the violence by. Insisting it was productive and not condemning it, but here's another video, it starts out with Nancy Pelosi when they were destroying statues all over the United States because they thought the destruction of our history somehow would serve as a reminder not to repeat it is that the logic there again escapes me. But this is the left's logic is not really their thing.

But here's a video begins with Nancy Pelosi discussed discuss what a slip they're discussing and discussing the disgusting attacks on our statues throughout the country where she says a. People kind of do what they do. Check this out. I don't care much about statues and respectfully, should that be done by a commission or the city council, not a mob in the middle of the night throwing it into the world would do what they do.

You're seeing behind me is one of multiple locations that have been burning in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Do not get it twisted and think that, oh, this is some something that has not never happened before and this is so terrible. And where are we in these savages and all of that? This is how this country was started.

People get mad and people get sick of it. People are risking covid to explain it to this country that we're fed up. Most of the major movements in American history have started at the grassroots level and at some point have turned into direct conflict with American government. So remember your history before you judge your present.

Thuggishness is thuggishness wherever it comes from politically, and we should be the first to call it out.

I disagree. There you go. Jason Johnson disagrees again, Hatif Greybeard for those two terrific montages and Supercuts there, Tom Elliott does a good job at Greybeard Credit out to him. You see what happens when you normalize political violence. You get a bullhorn and you scream to others, and the message they hear when you normalize political violence is not only is it OK, you'll be celebrated in the media, you'll be covered for and it's a productive way to get what you want.

Which does what if you're a reasonable, rational person, which does what incentivizes more of it? I'm talking about if you're using reason to discuss the ramifications of this. Because reasonable people who believe in believe in big our God given rights don't burn down other people's businesses or attack them. They don't. Folks, I want to add this note yesterday show we always do facts here, no matter no matter what, it's important matters to my credibility and my show's credibility.

We discussed an article by The Washington Times yesterday about a facial ID company that apparently identified two Antifa members and one of the rallies that company is now strongly refuting that. I didn't mention the company's name yesterday. I won't today. But you can read the articles because they're saying we had nothing to do with that. They've been categorical in their denials. So it will be up in the show notes today. You need to read both sides of what the story was.

Facial recognition company demands Washington Times retract story linking Antifa to Capital S. So they've been categorical in their denials that we had nothing to do with this at all. It's only fair to put that out. Give you the full story by Mike Bress, breaking news reporter. So please read that story in The Washington Examiner. I think The Washington Times link isn't working anymore. And last time we checked, which probably says that there's been some issues with that story, but the facts, facts matter, unlike, sadly, other places in the mainstream media which don't do that kind of stuff.

I want to leave you with this.

You know, this weekend, because it's been a tough week. I want to leave you with this story and. Just listen, I'm not I'm not into the whole virtue signalling nonsense, it's not my thing, but this has been tough. Ladies and gentlemen, this has been a really horrible week. I mean, for me personally, for the country, a lot went on. You know, with with me and my. I mean, I sat there this week and watched what was happening and just.

I mean, in just total horror. I warned for years about the dangers of this incentivizing and normalizing political violence, how other people would pick up on this as some kind of appropriate tool to effect change. And I warned you that. Not only is that immoral and unethical. But it will result in a strategic failure, the likes of which you've never seen before, and that's happening right now. But we are the United States. And again, you've been privileged enough to be blessed by God to live in the most prosperous, freedom loving country in the history of humankind at its most prosperous right now, but that freedom is not going to protect itself.

We need to be vigilant about the things I warned you against. And you need to be very careful in your business decisions, who you do business with going forward. And you need to be very careful in not being dissuaded by a couple of losses and moving back and saying, you know what, I'm just going to retrench. I'm going to worry about me and nothing else. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not the time. To fall back and forget the fight for freedom, I know it's been a tough week, it's been a tough year, we've just been through two ridiculously hard elections were things did not work out.

But I just want you to remember the left never gave up. This is the side that doesn't have guiding principles, we are the side that does if those principles matter to you, it's time to do in one respect to emulate with the right. After the election of Donald Trump, they were out in the streets with their pink hats on doing their thing. It's time for us. To dust off. They get back up. Acknowledged we took a tough one, tough one on the chin.

I know it's not the time for hurrah speeches, but I'd be remiss if I told you it's over, nothing's over, nothing's ever over. I can't say to you enough that a nice quote. Victor isn't victorious until the vanquished deems himself so. When you and your head deem yourself beaten and vanquished and declare so, then you are beaten. But you're never beaten until you personally decide you're the one to beat. I'm not going there. I have a final story I want to address, I covered it last night in the Sean Hannity Show and it's an important one.

I've been getting a lot of questions given my background in law enforcement and public safety with both the NYPD and Secret Service about the security failures at the Capitol, which were. The hard to describe in the the scope of how bad the security system failed at the capital. It's not Monday morning quarterbacking that's easy to do. Monday morning quarterbacking is typically done when you want to poke fun of it, that's that's if you're if you're getting that other segment, you were wrong.

Even in the Secret Service, when we had failures on protection missions, we used to have this thing online, these tips and tips would usually be here's what happened on this one, don't do it again. It was everything from don't put the sandbags on the president's side of the bike rack this whole trip over them. And they would be like, well, who did that? And it was embarrassing if you did it, but you knew never to do it again.

We need to do that now, the security failures at the capital. Wear a red siren for everyone that every single terrorist group around the world saw. But as I said last night on Sean's show, we will never, ever be able to address the security failures without addressing political failures first. The Capitol Hill Police, ladies and gentlemen, aren't stupid. There's twenty three hundred of them, they have a half a billion dollar budget that is a bigger budget than the city of Detroit, they protect just a couple of square miles.

The city of Detroit protects an entire city. And the Capitol Hill police have a bigger budget. They have almost as many people as the Suffolk County Police Department in New York, maybe more. Twenty three hundred. So you may say damn, with such a huge budget and an enormous police force up on Capitol Hill, how did everything fail so badly? Well, ladies and gentlemen, I've seen it. I've seen it during my time with the NYPD and I've seen it in the Secret Service.

And the reason the security, quote, failed is because of planning influenced by political partners in the security equation, not the security people themselves. When your security is influenced by political decision making rather than security decision making, you don't have security, you have political security which will fail every single time. We need better politicians, ladies and gentlemen, not new police officers, the police officers know what they're doing. Their failure was the failure of their management because their management, both in D.C. Metro police and their management on Capitol Hill, were influenced by politicians and some of the managers over there were too weak to stand up.

I know that from the inside. I've been doing these thought experiments over the last few days, and I'd like to do one now, if you think anything I'm telling you is controversial dance, 50 percent of security is political. Sadly, yeah. Maybe more police know what they're doing. It's the politicians that don't. You don't believe me, ask yourself a simple question. Why is it that the chaos at the Capitol was stopped within hours and thank the Lord hasn't returned?

Stop within hours. Yet the siege at the Portland courthouse, federal courthouse, a federal building, two went on for months. Why did the siege at the White House when Donald Trump was inside go on for days, if not that entire week? Why, why? Why did that happen? Why was that allowed to happen and go on for over a week and in the case of Portland, over a month, yet the happenings up on Capitol Hill were stopped within hours and have yet to return.

Well, the answer is obvious if you're playing this thought experiment with me. Because it involved political decision making is about favored versus unfavorite groups and had nothing to do with security. When Donald Trump decided to close off the area surrounding the White House because there was a legitimate security threat, I know it from people on the inside. You may say, oh, well, the media celebrated that this is about security, right? No, it was about politics.

The media saw an opportunity politically to damage Donald Trump, so attacked him for militarizing the area around the White House and mocked him for trying to use the National Guard to ensure public safety.

Interesting. Yeah, when we had a public safety situation at the Capitol and the National Guard was delayed due to Democrats, the media immediately turned to trying to blame Donald Trump for not sending in the National Guard. Wait, Joe. I thought when Donald Trump was going to send in the National Guard to defend the White House, that was a bad thing. But now when you're going to send in or there was even a minor delay about sending the same National Guard to defend the Capitol, all of a sudden Donald Trump made the wrong decision.

What's the wrong decision to send them or not send them? The answer is when you're an unprincipled lunatic like the people in the media. And you're trying to influence policing decisions based on politics by pressuring politicians, the answer is whatever hurt your political opponent, Donald Trump, is the right answer. So if Donald Trump deploys the National Guard to defend himself in the White House, he's a dangerous tyrant. But if Donald Trump waits 10 minutes to defend, to send the National Guard to defend the capital, clearly this man has lost control of the country and doesn't believe in law and order.

You still don't believe me that security and public safety is 50 percent, if not more political. How come the public safety response at the Capitol restored order in just hours and the situation, thankfully, has not been repeated yet. The situation was repeated for days and weeks at the Port Lincoln. What was the difference? Politicians and the media who saw an opportunity to put pressure on weak managers and police departments to make political decisions, not security ones, that was the difference.

Imagine the carnage that could have been stopped. If we didn't treat political violence differently. Based on the target of that political violence, and if the group committing it was a favorite or unfavored group by the media, imagine the carnage. It could have been stopped over the summer. If we would have taken a hard stand right away against civil unrest and the burning down of businesses and the attacking of innocent people by BLM and Antifa managed, I can't imagine the carnage.

It could have been stopped if we would have handled it the same way they handled the capital. We're in a bipartisan fashion. Everybody called out and said, this stops right now. Imagine that. But they weren't interested in that because the carnage then benefited them. I'll leave you one more example. New York City and liberal cities across America where people are dying as homicides explode. Imagine all those lives that could have been saved if political leaders would have done things differently.

I worked in the New York City Police Department, it's the same city they didn't just randomly bussin millions of criminals to start to commit crime and killing people in New York, the same city it was five years ago when the crime rates were at historic lows. So what changed? Political power change. People started forcing political leaders with no principles at all who hated the police, started putting pressure on weak police managers to make poor public safety decisions that have led to the loss of life.

Imagine the carnage that will be stopped when we swap out political leaders, we don't need changes in policing, we need changes in politics. Folks, it's been a tough week. Hang in there. I know that's not easy to say, and I know many of you are upset and I understand. But I ask you, what's the alternative? If not for us, for our kids, we got to fix this, we have a choice, I'm not going to let my two daughters grow up in a country that we've handed them down an absolute flaming mess.

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