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ulsi. Tulsi is a good name. And that I would say Tulsi compared to AOC would be, I hate to say this because I really like Tulsi Gabbard as a political voice, but I feel like she's the Mike Pence to AOC being Trump. I hate to say that. That's really not a fair thing to say. But Tulsi doesn't bring the heat, you know, the energy. And partly because her personality is sort of low key. So she brings c…
← Previous segment →ere but damn it we're going to figure it out. We're going to figure it out. And if we can't figure it out well at least we tried. That's the leader I want.
I don't want somebody who says you know I'm not even going to try to get there unless I know all the steps. When Kennedy said we're going to the moon did he say we already know how to get to the moon? No. The reason Kennedy is called such a great leader for saying we're going to the moon is specifically because, wait for it, we didn't know how to do it. I mean we figured we could figure it out but we didn't know how when he talked about it.
We don't know how to fix immigration such that strong enforcement would not even be necessary. We don't know how to do that. AOC says let's figure it out. I like that. I don't know if we can figure it out but I also would not have known if we could figure out landing on the moon. I wouldn't have known. I was somebody who, AOC challenged the country to figure out how to do this without being cruel to people coming across. Is it impossible? If you say it's impossible check your thinking. It might be impossible. I can't see a way to do it. I don't think you can see a way to do it. But I don't want to live in the country where my leader agrees with me, right?
I don't want my leader to say, "Oh you can't see how to do it. I guess we can't do it. Guess we can't go to the moon." Anybody, anybody can. Somebody build a rocket. Anybody in the audience? None of you. Nobody knows how to build a rocket to the moon. Guess we can't go. You don't need that kind of leadership. You need the people who say we're going to make this work. We don't know how yet but we're going to make it work. We don't know how. Now or she's crazy in the comments. Somebody says or she's crazy.
Well let me put it to you this way. If she were crazy you'd see it in lots of different ways. I think you know it would be sort of obvious. But if she's smarter than you think she is she would talk like this. She says directly I don't know how to do it. If she said I do know how to do it but I'm not telling you well then she's crazy. Or if she said I do know how to do it and what she described clearly wouldn't work such as just throwing the gates open and opening the border. But she's not saying that. She is smart enough to know that that wouldn't work and she doesn't know what would work but she has a moonshot idea about how to get there.
All right. Chris Cillizza. Let's talk about the fake news. So I love how CNN creates news out of nothing using the opinion people. And they're not alone I suppose. Fox News does the same. But this example shows you how it's done.
So Cillizza in a larger article talking about a number of things talks about Senator Johnson said last week that he didn't believe what happened at the Capitol was quote an armed insurrection. So there's a quote from a senator saying he didn't think it was an armed insurrection at the Capitol. And then Cillizza finishes the sentence with comma, despite ample evidence that it was. So it's just put out there like common knowledge. Despite ample evidence that it was an armed insurrection.
To which I say I didn't see any. Did they report some ample evidence that it was an armed insurrection? I didn't see any evidence. In fact I saw lots of evidence that it wasn't. I mean lots and lots of evidence that it wasn't. It was just individuals who wanted a different election outcome or wanted transparency. But he just puts it out there in an opinion article as if that's just an established fact.
Now if you were a CNN consumer and you weren't let's say following the news every day but you read this article wouldn't you accept that this must be just an established fact? Never happened. Nothing like this established that as a fact. In fact it's obviously not true. You don't even have to be an expert to know that's not true. Just look at the photos of the actual assault. They're obviously not trying to overthrow the government. They could never have had any plan that says if we put the Viking hat guy and the zip tie guy in this room that's empty they will control the government of the United States. I mean it's just ridiculous.
So this is one example of CNN, their technique for perpetuating fake news.
Tucker Carlson had a real interesting piece about the disinformation campaign in this country, the so-called disinformation campaign. And there's a part I don't quite agree with Tucker but sadly I've had enough experience disagreeing with Tucker and then later agreeing with him that I'm not going to say that just because I disagree with him on a minor point he's necessarily wrong. So don't take that from it. I'm just saying I'm not on the same page but he could be right. We'll find out.
And here's his point. That there was a researcher who found out that around 2011 when the Occupy Wall Street stuff was happening, and remember Occupy Wall Street was really about going after the rich, the Wall Street rich, those rich people. So it was an anti-rich movement, anti-rich people movement. Have you heard about that lately? When was the last time you heard about Occupy Wall Street and all those rich people? It just sort of went away, didn't it?
What replaced it? Well what replaced it is the narrative that the biggest problem in the United States is race. It was just replaced. So instead of going after rich people it turned into the races going after each other. And who, how did that happen? How'd that happen? Was it did it just sort of naturally happen? Did it evolve into happening and there was no decision making?
Well here's where I might be on a different page from Tucker because the suggestion or at least what I took from it, I could be misinterpreting it, but I took from Tucker's piece that there was some intention there by important figures who are the puppet masters of our society to make people stop focusing on the rich because the rich people don't want that and give you a diversion. Something shiny. Here's something to back Tucker's point.
He says that let's see when people were asked how many unarmed, the key word is unarmed, people have been killed by police. Specifically how many unarmed African-Americans were gunned down by police in 2019. So they do a survey and they say take your best guess how many unarmed, key word unarmed, black citizens were gunned down by cops that year presumably meaning killed. What do you think people guessed?
Democrats guessed, 44 percent of Democrats or no actually 44 percent of liberals said they believed it was about a thousand or more per ye
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ar. That's because they listen to the news and social media and they believed 44 percent of liberals, almost half, believe that the number is close to a thousand or more. Now let me ask you something. If police were killing a thousand unarmed black men a year in this country you couldn't keep me off the street, right? Like I would be in Black Lives Matter. Like I would be a charter member. Due Sp…
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