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Speaker 2 So, I couldn't sleep last night. I was

Speaker 2 just spinning spinning all night just thinking about stuff. And

Speaker 2 I couldn't get a couple of stories out of my mind.

Speaker 2 First, the Social Security thing we're going to talk about: that Elon Musk was in Wisconsin, along with a buddy of his, a guy who volunteered as a big CEO of a venture capitalist thing, and volunteered because he wants to clean up the government and all of the waste and the graft and everything else.

Speaker 2 And they made an announcement, we'll play for you, about Social Security. The other thing, Wisconsin has a big vote today,

Speaker 2 and this could mean the

Speaker 2 balance of the House, Republican, Democrat.

Speaker 2 And we'll see. And we'll see what happens today.
How many people are going to be out voting?

Speaker 2 We're going to talk to Ron Johnson about it here in just a second and the importance of it. If you happen to be in Wisconsin, probably a day to go out and vote.

Speaker 2 Not probably, definitely a day to go out and vote. Then I was also thinking about the protests again on Elon Musk.
I just can't get past these things because these are global protests.

Speaker 2 And this is what kept me up. These are global protests.
These are

Speaker 2 demonstrators outside of Tesla showrooms. We've seen fires.
We've seen people burning the cars and the lithium batteries.

Speaker 2 But

Speaker 2 we're seeing them all over the world.

Speaker 2 So can we just stop?

Speaker 2 Today's theme of the show is just can we think, ask some critically thinking questions? Can we do that?

Speaker 2 Before we accept this story, let's ask some things because this is what really kept me up last night.

Speaker 2 Can anybody tell me what these protesters are responding to? And I'm not talking here in America. I'm talking about in England, in Germany, wherever a Tesla showroom is, people are protesting.

Speaker 2 I would just like to know, what are the people in England protesting? What policy? What decision?

Speaker 2 Because Musk isn't pushing a global war.

Speaker 2 He's not erecting the tariffs. I mean, I would understand it if people in Europe were protesting on the tariffs, because that would actually affect the average person.
Okay?

Speaker 2 Here's what he's doing. He's helping lead a department focused on the United States federal budgeting and efficiency.

Speaker 2 Why would anyone in Germany or Sweden or Ireland care?

Speaker 2 Why?

Speaker 2 I mean, I looked last night. I tried to find, has there any been anything like this in history? No, you can go to, you know, people protesting the nukes and war and everything, but not this.

Speaker 2 There's nothing where a domestic policy dispute has all of a sudden swept the globe.

Speaker 2 So why would they care about this so deeply?

Speaker 2 Hmm.

Speaker 2 Getting out of NATO? Okay.

Speaker 2 Even if they were saying, you know, Greenland, America just wants to buy Greenland, and they're out, you know, protesting. Okay, I could see that for some degree.
But I can't see

Speaker 2 people in, I don't know, whatever city Greenland has, or the people in Denmark, you know, rising up and saying, this policy that Elon Musk is doing in the United States, trying to make the government more efficient, that's just outrageous.

Speaker 2 Come on, Sven, let's go out and burn a Tesla. Makes no sense.

Speaker 2 Have you ever seen a protest in foreign countries over a U.S. cabinet appointment ever in your life?

Speaker 2 Not over war, not over climate treaties, not over global trade, but over

Speaker 2 something that deals with cutting our budget that will not affect really anybody overseas.

Speaker 2 Yeah, it's unprecedented.

Speaker 2 It's never happened. So who benefits? That's the first.
The first question is, have you ever seen this before? Second, why would anybody in Europe care about this?

Speaker 2 Three,

Speaker 2 who benefits?

Speaker 2 Well, let's look at Tesla. This is the company that made electric cars mainstream.
It jump-started the global EV race.

Speaker 2 When everybody was saying, we got to have electric cars, we're like, no, hydrogen would be even better. Got to have electric cars.
Well, they don't work. Here comes Elon Musk, and he starts Tesla.

Speaker 2 He not only develops solar panels, battery storage, charging infrastructure, things environmentalists have been begging the world to adopt for decades.

Speaker 2 Okay, and then, wait, all of a sudden, the very people who claim climate change is the greatest, I'm quoting them, the greatest threat to humanity are now trying to cripple or even burn down the company doing the most to solve it.

Speaker 2 That doesn't make sense. Does that make sense to you?

Speaker 2 That's not activism. That's contradiction.

Speaker 2 It's a mental illness, really. That's what it is.
It's a mental illness. If that makes sense to you, then you should see a doctor.

Speaker 2 If you believe in saving the planet, how does driving the number one force for clean energy or torching lithium batteries help you at all? How does boycotting EVs help you?

Speaker 2 Terrorizing people that bought Tesla EVs? How does that help you? How does trying to destroy the most innovative clean energy company in the world move us toward your goal? Answer, it doesn't.

Speaker 2 It doesn't. So let's ask a deeper question.

Speaker 2 Are all of the claims you've made since the 19, really 80s, 90s, how we're all five years away from something worse than World War II?

Speaker 2 You know, we're all going to die in a fiery flood. Is that true, any of that? Or is this about control? Because if we only have five years to do something, why are you stopping Tesla?

Speaker 2 Why would you do that? We only have five years. These guys are helping us.
It doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 Elon Musk did not become controversial when he built Tesla or when he launched rockets or when he championed electric energy. When did he suddenly become controversial? And it's not Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 It's when he stood up and defended free speech.

Speaker 2 That's when they turned on him. When he bought Twitter and exposed the censorship that we now can prove happened.

Speaker 2 When he said he wouldn't be a pawn for either side, that's when it happened. That's when the outrage machine flipped on.
They had to put him out of business, have to put him out of business.

Speaker 2 And when people try to justify it, they usually pivot to one word. Well, he's a fascist.

Speaker 2 So let's ask some questions on that one. Well, this isn't about Tesla.
It's about stopping Musk. He's a billionaire fascist.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 2 Let's think about that for a second.

Speaker 2 What do you think I feel like, you know, I feel like Montoya and the

Speaker 2 fingered men, you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
What does fascism mean? What is a fascist?

Speaker 2 Is it simply somebody with a lot of money and a large platform? Is that what it is?

Speaker 2 Is it somebody who questions centralized authority? Is it someone who wants less government interference, not more? Because none of those things are the definition of fascist.

Speaker 2 Traditional fascism is defined by by state control, forced conformity, censorship, and the silencing of dissent. That's what a fascist does.

Speaker 2 So

Speaker 2 will you recognize you don't understand the word fascist or fascism? And maybe you can pick another word, but that one, you know,

Speaker 2 I could call my car a horse or a goat all day long. It's not going to make it a horse or a goat.
It's still a car. So you can call him a fascist all you want, but it doesn't make him a fascist.

Speaker 2 Let's find another word that might work for you.

Speaker 2 Maybe political opponent is better.

Speaker 2 By the way, Musk, that fascist, is the one being protested, censored, and attacked for trying to create platforms where dissent is allowed.

Speaker 2 How?

Speaker 2 Don't you have a headache? If you're on that side, don't you have a headache?

Speaker 2 We should bring our friends aspirin. You've got to have a headache.
This is heavy lifting you're doing. So here's the question.
Is he really a fascist

Speaker 2 or is he a powerful figure who doesn't obey the approved narrative? Because that's what it is. That's the same thing with Trump.
He doesn't care what the approved narrative is.

Speaker 2 He's just going to do it, whether you like it or not.

Speaker 2 That

Speaker 2 doesn't make you a fascist. It makes you a fascist if you're telling everyone they must conform.

Speaker 2 If somebody is a fascist for promoting open dialogue, transparency, and government accountability, what do you call the people who are trying to shut him down by any means necessary, including violence?

Speaker 2 See, because if you take the word fascist away and you apply it to him, there's no word for the people who are actually trying to silence people through violence or terroristic activities.

Speaker 2 There's no word. You've taken the word.

Speaker 2 And, you know, the worst thing is, and I said this about racism, how many years ago? 30 years ago? Can we stop calling everybody a racist? Stop calling us everybody racist.

Speaker 2 Just like in the 90s, you're overusing that word. It's going to let real racists go by the wayside because it will have no meaning anymore.
The same thing with the fascists.

Speaker 2 What do you do when actual fascists arrive?

Speaker 2 So let's get back to the root.

Speaker 2 These protests, they don't make any sense. Let's ask some more questions.
Who's organizing these protests? Who's funding these protests?

Speaker 2 Who gains power or influence if Tesla's brand is damaged, if Musk is silenced, or if the public believes the world is against him?

Speaker 2 Because regular people do not throw together rallies on a Saturday across the border, across the ocean, to protest over American federal staffing decisions. It doesn't happen.

Speaker 2 You know what I'm really upset about? Have you seen what they've done?

Speaker 2 They're cutting some teacher's salary over in Ireland.

Speaker 2 Oh, okay.

Speaker 2 I don't care. I don't live in Ireland.
I don't care. It doesn't affect my life at all.

Speaker 2 So how is this affecting their life?

Speaker 2 It takes planning. It takes money.
It takes messaging. It takes media amplification.
It takes global coordination. Gee, that doesn't sound like a grassroots operation at all, does it?

Speaker 2 And if the protests are being driven by a narrative and not facts, then isn't it fair to ask this question? What narrative are we being sold?

Speaker 2 And who's paying for all that advertisement?

Speaker 2 See, we're living in an age now where perception is power. That's it.
One viral video can topple a reputation. One headline can shape an election.

Speaker 2 And if you can convince the public that even climate heroes are suddenly now villains just because they challenge a certain system, not even the one you say is the most important of all time,

Speaker 2 then you can control almost any story, and they know that.

Speaker 2 So here's the challenge for you today.

Speaker 2 I think you're going to love it. This is for you and the people you love.

Speaker 2 Think.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 2 Think.

Speaker 2 Ask. Question with boldness.
Is this protest helping the environment or hurting it?

Speaker 2 Is this outrage spontaneous or coordinated is the word fascism being used to reveal the truth or to shut down a conversation and most importantly are we now burning down the lifeboats just because we don't like the captain of the ship

Speaker 2 because if we are we might win the argument today

Speaker 2 but did you see the end of Titanic

Speaker 2 Maybe we should maybe we should watch that I'm the king of the world was that Elon Musk on the did he actually sink that ship might be he's a fascist, you know and the number one thing that fascists do

Speaker 2 sink big ships

Speaker 2 Okay, they've never done that, but since we're redefining the word fascist they sink big ships

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Speaker 2 We have Senator Ron Johnson on with us. He's going to be joining us in just a few minutes.

Speaker 2 He is obviously a Republican from Wisconsin, the big vote. And what the Supreme Court would mean for the rest of the country, a liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Speaker 2 What would it mean for the rest of the country? Donald Trump is very, very clear on all of this. There's a very important election for state Supreme Court on April 1st.
That's today.

Speaker 2 Brad Schimmel is running against radical left liberal Susan Crawford, who has repeatedly given child molesters, rapists, women beaters, and domestic abusers light sentences.

Speaker 2 She is the handpicked voice of the leftists who are out to destroy your state and our country. And if she wins, the movement will restore our nation.
It will bypass Wisconsin.

Speaker 2 All voters who believe in common sense should get get out to vote early for Brad Schimmel.

Speaker 2 By turning out to vote, you'll be helping to uphold the rule of law, protect our incredible police, secure our beloved Constitution, safeguard our inalienable rights, and preserve liberty and justice for all.

Speaker 2 So important, please, Wisconsin, get out and vote today

Speaker 2 for Brad Schimmel. That's from the president.
Okay.

Speaker 2 Did you see that Elon Musk was out doing this as well? I mean, he's passionate about it as well.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 Really passionate about it. Really fired up and it's, they've spent a lot of money.
They're really focused on it. It's an important election.

Speaker 2 Senator Ron Johnson is with us now to tell us why this is so important in Wisconsin. What does it mean to the rest of us? Senator, how are you?

Speaker 3 Well, if Susan Crawford wins, we'll retain the radical left majority on the court that was established in 2023 when George Soros and crew came in and pretty well bought that Supreme Court race, spending tens of millions of dollars.

Speaker 3 Over the last two years, they've redistricted our state assembly and state senate, so our majorities in those chambers has shrunken.

Speaker 3 And if they retain that radical left majority on the court, they will redistrict Derek Van Oden and Brian Stiles' congressional seats, really put those things in jeopardy.

Speaker 3 If they put those in jeopardy with such a slim majority, we could lose the majority. in the second half of Trump's term.

Speaker 3 And I just think I would then be sitting for a third impeachment trial for Donald Trump. And he'll basically have two years where he can be effective.

Speaker 3 And then the second two years is just going to be a you know what ride

Speaker 3 for the president. So this is crucial.
In addition to that, they'll overturn voter ID law. They'll probably overturn any election integrity measure because Democrats want to cheat in elections.

Speaker 3 And we just may take Wisconsin off the map in terms of a battleground state for the 10 electoral votes for a Republican president.

Speaker 3 I mean, that's how serious this is, not to mention the fact that overturned

Speaker 3 Act 10, which is Governor Walker's signature achievement, saved Wisconsinites hundreds of millions, if not billions, of dollars in tax payments, that type of thing. So it's just a crucial election.

Speaker 3 And the good news, Glenn, is that this shouldn't be that hard. You were one of the 1.7 million Wisconsinites that voted for President Trump.
1.7. He's a record vote getter in Wisconsin.

Speaker 3 Our last Supreme Court judge in 2023 got 800,000 votes. That's a 900,000 vote difference.
So if you want to see President Trump effective and you voted for him, get out and vote.

Speaker 3 I mean, we should be logging 1.5, 1.6 million votes. So if you voted for him, use your text chains,

Speaker 3 use your email chains, talk to everybody you know that also voted for Donald Trump and get out and vote now. We have to win this election.

Speaker 2 I don't think I have ever heard, Stu, have you ever heard a state Supreme Court election be this

Speaker 2 trumpeted like this?

Speaker 2 It's so important to the nation. And that's why it's the most expensive ever, right? More money being spent on this because so many people are focused on it.

Speaker 2 I think maybe that's because George Soros is on one side and Elon Musk is on the other side. Okay, okay, yeah, that's fair.

Speaker 2 They don't exactly have to pinch pennies. You know what I mean?

Speaker 2 Guys,

Speaker 3 this started with Eric Holder, who started taking over all these district attorneys and

Speaker 3 George Soros funding these district attorneys that wouldn't prosecute crime. I mean this is the left is very smart.
They're relentless. So through stealth, they've taken over school boards.

Speaker 3 They've again they've gotten their radical left ideology infiltrated into every institution of this country, particularly our legal system.

Speaker 3 These radical left judges, I mean, those are the ones that are issuing nationwide injunctions against the actions that a duly elected president was elected to enact, right?

Speaker 3 I mean, they're frustrating those attempts. Same thing's thing's happening in the Wisconsin court.

Speaker 3 So they're the ones that, again, turned the 2023 Wisconsin Supreme Court race into the most expensive race in history, over $50 million.

Speaker 3 They're going to double that now. So all Elon Musk is doing is trying to level the playing field.
He's doing it brilliantly, by the way. I mean, it's brilliant what he's doing.

Speaker 3 I just hope and pray that he's successful.

Speaker 2 What is he doing?

Speaker 2 Explain what you mean by that.

Speaker 3 So he offered to pay people to sign a petition petition against activist judges. People who signed up for that petition were then eligible for a drawing to win a million dollars.

Speaker 3 I was at his town hall event where he gave up two million dollar checks. And of course, our attorney general challenged that, but even the radical left Supreme Court turned back that challenge.

Speaker 3 And so Elon Musk, the publicity he's getting for the million dollar checks dwarfs the cost of the million dollar checks. And he's getting millions of dollars of publicity.

Speaker 3 And so hopefully, enough Trump voters are paying attention and will get off the couch, get out and vote and secure this Supreme Court seat.

Speaker 2 How are the numbers on early voting? Do you know?

Speaker 3 Well, not good, quite honestly. I mean, Elon said at the event on Sunday night that 85% betting chance that Brad Schumel is going to lose.
That's why this is a real rallying point.

Speaker 3 There's no reason we shouldn't win this thing just running away if those 1.7 million Trump voters are serious about letting Trump be Trump and honoring his promises.

Speaker 2 It is amazing to me

Speaker 2 what the left is doing through the court system.

Speaker 2 And I mean, you know, we've seen George Soros coming for a long time, and now he's just, it's almost like he, it's almost like nobody pays even attention to him. What he has done to our country,

Speaker 2 how he has destroyed our states and many of our cities. I mean, look at what happened in New York.
Look at what happened in Los Angeles. Look at what happened in Minneapolis.

Speaker 2 Look at what happens wherever his fingers are. The destruction that comes with it.
And nobody says anything about George Soros. And yet Elon Musk is this boogeyman.

Speaker 3 That's because the corporate legacy media, they're a bunch of leftists themselves, but it's also because as conservatives, we really don't want to have to deal with government.

Speaker 3 We just want government off our bat. For liberals, getting in government, getting control of our lives, that's their lifelong ambition.
So it's not a level playing field. It's not a fair fight.

Speaker 3 And so what happens, we saw this under Reagan. We elect Ronald Reagan.
He drops tax rates down to 28%. We kind of

Speaker 3 clap our hands together and say, okay, we solved this problem. They're defeated.
No, the left is relentless. And they again, they do it through stealth.
So they infiltrate every institution.

Speaker 3 And we just we don't even see it coming. And we didn't see the Supreme Court race in 2023 coming.

Speaker 3 We haven't seen in even conservative school districts, the radical leftists take over school boards and city councils and county boards. So again, government is everything to the leftists.

Speaker 3 To conservatives, we just want it off our back. So we just don't pay the attention to it as the left does.
And that's what's happening in Wisconsin right now. The 1.7 million voters for Trump.

Speaker 3 They just aren't, they haven't paid enough attention to it right now. But now's the time to wake up, pay attention to it, and secure this Supreme Court seat.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I think this is your last chance to wake up in Wisconsin. I mean, you know, it's over today, so get out and vote.
Senator, thank you.

Speaker 2 Thank you for everything you've done in the Senate and protecting our nation and your state. We appreciate it.
God bless you.

Speaker 3 Thanks for having me on. You bet.

Speaker 2 Ron Johnson, the senator from

Speaker 2 Wisconsin. Boy, I tell you, that is,

Speaker 2 it is, it's amazing how this just never, ever ends. It just doesn't, it just doesn't ever end.
And I think that's the problem with most people. It's like, you know what? I did.
I fought really hard.

Speaker 2 I've lost friends. I've lost, but, you know, can I just have my life back? I'm sorry.
The answer is no, not really. This is your life.
I mean, this is your life. This is your responsibility.

Speaker 2 If you lose your country, you lose your ability to worship God. You lose your family.
Because if you lose your right to worship God, what happens to your family?

Speaker 2 We've seen what the godlessness of of this society so far has done to our children. So, I mean, I've always said

Speaker 2 God, family, country. It's actually, I think,

Speaker 2 country God family. It might be country family God.
I don't know.

Speaker 2 God's in last place now? Gosh. Well,

Speaker 2 if you don't have country, you won't have God.

Speaker 2 Yeah.

Speaker 2 So, and maybe it's maybe it's country God family.

Speaker 2 And also, that's not true. I mean, like,

Speaker 2 how many

Speaker 2 Afghanis have we talked to over the years?

Speaker 2 You won't have a god in their lives. Country.
If you're not participating, if the godly people don't come out and participate,

Speaker 2 your country is going to go to hell. You can be godly in a place

Speaker 2 where a government tells you you can't. Really? Is this what we're doing? Yeah, I don't know what you...
Oh, I just want to ask some critical questions, Glenn.

Speaker 2 I thought that's what the show was all about. You said critical thinking.
I'm being critical of you. That's what you wanted, right? No, that's not.

Speaker 2 You wanted criticism of you.

Speaker 2 That's how I took critical thinking. I've got a critical question for you.
Some critical thinking. Why the hell are you still here? Why are you still talking? That's really the point.
It is.

Speaker 2 It's actually what I'm asking myself. It's going to win that one.
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Speaker 2 So, you know, you don't have to like Elon Musk. You don't have to drive a Tesla.

Speaker 2 But when you start cheering for people to be attacked for what they drive, what they say, or who they voted for, you might have lost the plot. But I'm not sure the left gets that now.

Speaker 2 They're just going more and more insane. I mean, the minute you are on the wrong side of Martin Luther King, I mean, it's a pretty good, what did Martin Luther King say? What did he say?

Speaker 2 Oh, the opposite? No, I'm pretty sure I'm on the right side then. I mean, who thinks that? Who thinks that?

Speaker 2 Martin Luther King didn't say, you just got to hurt them and beat them in the streets until they agree with you. Can you imagine Martin Luther King?

Speaker 2 Yeah, you know what? I got to tell you, we're going to beat the snot out of those people every day until we get our way. No,

Speaker 2 in fact, he said the opposite. Hate cannot drive out hate.
Only love can do that. So when did the left flip the script? When did rage become

Speaker 2 righteousness now?

Speaker 2 When did we start thinking that violence was a valid argument?

Speaker 2 I mean, this is incredible. We just played this video of this guy who sneaks out of his his car.
Doesn't know that Teslas have cameras all over them.

Speaker 2 Sneaks out of his car and he's keying the side of a Tesla. They catch him and he's like, what? What? No, what are you talking about? Come on, man.

Speaker 2 And he's an adult.

Speaker 2 He's an actual adult. This isn't a 20-something.
This guy, how old do you think he is, Sarah? 35? 40?

Speaker 2 I was even going higher, maybe 50. Yeah, I mean, this is an adult.

Speaker 2 You know, this is much bigger than Tesla's. This is about the idea that violence is okay if your cause is just enough.

Speaker 2 You know, if you're allowed to destroy somebody else's property or their body, you can do it as long as you feel like you're the victim.

Speaker 2 And I get it. Some people are angry, I guess.
I'd hate to live my life. Wouldn't you hate to live your life that way all the time, being so angry all the time?

Speaker 2 The second you use force to silence or punish somebody for thinking differently than you, you're no longer the good guy. I don't know if you

Speaker 2 don't know if you catch that yet. You're a bully with a slogan.
That's all you are.

Speaker 2 So today I've been trying to concentrate on how to talk to your friends.

Speaker 2 How do you, you know, how do you talk to people who defend this kind of behavior? How do you talk to your family? Because I know I have members of my family that, you know, they don't listen to me.

Speaker 2 You know, because

Speaker 2 I'm Glenn. You know what I mean? Nobody in my family is is impressed by me.
Nobody.

Speaker 2 And, you know, it's good because it keeps you humble. But, you know, they don't listen to me.
I don't have my, no, nobody in my family is like, well, ask Glenn because I bet he was there and saw that.

Speaker 2 No,

Speaker 2 no, we saw it on CNN. That's enough for us.
Okay. All right.
Well, okay.

Speaker 2 We have to start asking people.

Speaker 2 First of all, we have to decide if we're going to be friends with our family or or not. Because I think anybody, it's a cult that tells you not to be friends with your family.
That's what a cult does.

Speaker 2 A cult says, divorce yourself from your family. Don't talk to your family.
If they disagree with you, if they don't believe in what we believe, get away from them and never talk to them again.

Speaker 2 That's a cult. That's a warning sign.
Okay.

Speaker 2 So let's be the opposite. Let's make sure everybody knows we love our family.
We want to be with you.

Speaker 2 But, you know, we don't want to disagree with you, but we're also not going to avoid the truth. But I really want to understand:

Speaker 2 if you're for all this Tesla stuff, and you'll say, well, I'm not for all of it. Well, I mean, you kind of,

Speaker 2 you know,

Speaker 2 you kind of have to take all of it here because this is all one in the same now. It's the same package.

Speaker 2 Ask them, would you feel good about this if this was done to your car?

Speaker 2 Now, who could say yes to that?

Speaker 2 Would you feel good if that was happening to your sister?

Speaker 2 Would you feel good if that 61-year-old woman in Phoenix, if that was your sister or your mom?

Speaker 2 Would you feel good about that?

Speaker 2 Nobody would.

Speaker 2 Nobody would. So how is it you're standing by and saying it's okay?

Speaker 2 Let me ask you, is violence the answer when when you don't get your way?

Speaker 2 Because this is what I always heard from the left, you know, war is just violence and you don't get anywhere with violence. Well, okay.

Speaker 2 Do you guys remember saying that? Because turns out, I think you're right, kind of, you know, war is different,

Speaker 2 but we've made a lot of mistakes in war, so

Speaker 2 why did you leave that? Why did you abandon that place?

Speaker 2 What happens when the other side starts doing the same thing back to you? Are you going to be okay with that? Or are you only okay with it on your side?

Speaker 2 Because if your ideology only works when it's enforced by fists or fire, then it doesn't, your philosophy doesn't work, okay?

Speaker 2 You don't win the hearts and minds of people with hatred. You don't fix injustice by committing your own injustice.
Now, I know that's not what we're being taught in schools now.

Speaker 2 The only way to be a race an anti-racist is the only way to not be racist is to be an anti-racist, right? Or pro-ra, what do they call that? Yeah, I think you're right.

Speaker 2 The only way to not be a racist is to be an anti-racist.

Speaker 2 Not being racist isn't. It is enough.
It is not enough. Okay.

Speaker 2 You don't, you don't, you don't build a better world by burning something down in somebody else's driveway. You don't.
And we have to stop pretending that this is okay.

Speaker 2 And you just have to start asking because it's not okay. It's never okay.
It's not from anyone. It wasn't on January 6th.

Speaker 2 Why are you okay with people doing things that are violent now? You weren't for January 6th. I'm here to tell you I proudly was against January 6th on January 6th and the 7th and the 8th.

Speaker 2 And I still am today for anybody who is there actually committing violence.

Speaker 2 Where are you? Because I'm against this violence and I was against that violence. And

Speaker 2 if we can't say that out loud anymore, then we're not a movement. You're not a movement anymore.
You on the left, you're no longer a movement. You're a mob.
That's all you are.

Speaker 2 And you're really half a step away from not being a mob, but terrorists. That's scary.

Speaker 2 Come back to common sense. Come back to reality.
You know that's wrong. You know it's wrong.
Do unto others. Do unto others.
Is that would you be happy if my side were doing it to you?

Speaker 2 No, you wouldn't.

Speaker 2 So why tolerate it? Stand up. It's okay.
It's okay to stand up and say, I mean,

Speaker 2 I did this yesterday.

Speaker 2 I mean, Stu and I, it's going to become very unpopular. I don't think it is now, but it's going to become very unpopular to say these things.
But the third term,

Speaker 2 you know, Donald Trump talking about, you know, possibility of third term. The

Speaker 2 New York Times is saying today, he's just doing that, so he won't be a lame duck in the last two years. Maybe, maybe.

Speaker 2 But I think there are some people around him that are absolutely serious. I think Steve Bannon is one of them.
He's dead serious about, you know, there are ways. No, no, there are not ways.

Speaker 2 There are not ways. You know, Roger Eale said to me at one point, he said, Glenn, we all love the Constitution, but there are things that we have to do from time to time.

Speaker 2 And I'm like, no, there's not. There's not things we have to do.
We always have to abide by the Constitution.

Speaker 2 That's the answer there.

Speaker 2 And this is going to get hard for a lot of people because I really, truly believe Donald Donald Trump is the only one with the backbone, the spine, the vision to stand up and to withstand all of the punches that he has received.

Speaker 2 Can you name one other person that could go through everything that he's gone through and actually turn out to be nicer?

Speaker 2 Because I don't know a soul.

Speaker 2 I believe, I can't tell you that the election was stolen in 2020, but I can't tell you it wasn't. I just think it was unfair.

Speaker 2 I think something was hinky about that. It actually turned out to be a blessing that he had those four years away so he could get his C-legs.

Speaker 2 And I also believe that

Speaker 2 by 2028, that's not enough time to fix the country. And it's not enough time to finish the job.
It's going to take 8 to 12 years.

Speaker 2 And I also believe extraordinary times call for extraordinary men. So I believe all those things about Donald Trump.

Speaker 2 Now,

Speaker 2 a separate question.

Speaker 2 You can believe all those things and not be against Donald Trump or anything else, not be un-American and say, no, you know, we don't bend or break the Constitution to keep my preferred leader in power.

Speaker 2 Because if you break the Constitution to do that, then you've already lost the country you're trying to save. Now, if you want to change the Constitution, that's legal.
That's what you have to do.

Speaker 2 But if you want to find a little trick to make it happen, then I can't go with you there because you're not saving the country. You're destroying the Constitution.
As I look at this,

Speaker 2 we have to reroute ourselves back into principles. So let me give you some principles on this one.
Principle number one, do the ends ever justify the means?

Speaker 2 When it comes to power, Do the ends ever justify the means?

Speaker 2 No.

Speaker 2 So letting your guy break the rules today sets a precedent for the other side to do the same tomorrow, only worse, with no resistance. Power grabs are never one-time exceptions.

Speaker 2 They become habits, and they always come around and bite you in the butt. Take Venezuela.
You remember Hugo Chavez? He rewrote the Constitution to stay in power for the people.

Speaker 2 And every butt one of his supporters cheered when he did it. By the time his successor, Nicolas Madura, took over, the economy had collapsed, elections became a sham, and millions were forced to flee.

Speaker 2 And the same crowd that was cheering for Chavez for the third term for Chavez, guess what? They were imprisoned, silenced, or exiled under the very rules they helped rewrite. It doesn't work out well.

Speaker 2 Principle two, if you love the Constitution, you don't make exceptions for your guy.

Speaker 2 If you love the rule of law, My guy broke the law, he's got to go to jail.

Speaker 2 Constitution is not a menu. It's not not like, I'll have a little of that and a little of that.
No.

Speaker 2 This is one of those restaurants you walk into and they're like, there are no substitutions.

Speaker 2 You don't get to pick the parts you follow based on your convenience or your loyalty. Your loyalty is to the law, is to the Constitution.

Speaker 2 And if you start saying, well, just this once, if you make exceptions like that, what you're doing is you're loosening all the bolts on the wings of an airplane. Well, just this one bolt.

Speaker 2 No, no, no, let's not take that one bolt because somebody else will say, yeah, let's just loosen this bolt just this one time. Eventually, you fall out of the sky.

Speaker 2 The nation's not held together by personalities, it's held together by principles, and that's why we're in the trouble we're in because not enough people understand no man is above the law.

Speaker 2 They certainly didn't understand that under Biden. No man is above the law, period.

Speaker 2 Principle number three:

Speaker 2 You got to ask yourself this question:

Speaker 2 Would I like this if it were somebody I despised

Speaker 2 would I like it if Joe Biden or Barack Obama was trying to change the rule so he could find a way to run a third term no I wouldn't

Speaker 2 so no

Speaker 2 if I don't like it if the other guy does it then I can't like it it's not right for me And it might work out for a while. You could get your policies and your judges.

Speaker 2 You might get your revenge, maybe even get healing out of it. And the whole whole world is great.
But what happens when that guy is gone?

Speaker 2 There are no term limits anymore. Who says that there are term limits? You can't ignore these things.

Speaker 2 Somebody, Newsom, AOC, or worse, comes along, seizes the president, declares they're not leaving either. This is what the Democrats do.

Speaker 2 You know, if they would have changed the number of the Supreme Court, how do you think that'd be working out for them right now?

Speaker 2 I don't think it'd be working out well.

Speaker 2 They would have handed us the key,

Speaker 2 but there is no key to this engine, okay? The country's engine only works with principles. It decays, it enslaves,

Speaker 2 it destroys without those principles. We're either guardians of that document or we're not.

Speaker 2 And if the Constitution cannot restrain your favorite leader, it can't restrain the worst one.

Speaker 2 You got to ask yourself, would I be happy with anyone else doing what I'm asking him to do? Would I be happy with that? Would I be happy with my side keying the cars, the sides of cars? No.

Speaker 2 Would I be fine with their side keying cars? No.

Speaker 2 You might win today, but you don't want to give your enemies weapons that will destroy you tomorrow.

Speaker 2 You know, if your house is infested with rats and you love your house, do you burn down your house to kill the rats? No.

Speaker 2 Wanting a third term to fix the system is like setting your own house on fire because you saw rats in the the walls.

Speaker 2 A fire is going to kill a rat, sure, but it also destroys your home, the foundation, leaves you nothing, no roof to protect you.

Speaker 2 The Constitution is your house. You don't burn it down to save it.
And the last principle is the easiest one to remember. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Speaker 2 If the answer is no, I wouldn't want them to do that to me, then it's not right.

Speaker 2 That's it.

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