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Rasmussen polls has a poll result today that says 55 percent of people who are asked, the voters I guess, say Bannon prosecution is politically motivated. 55 percent. Just think about this. 55 percent of the country thinks that they just watched a man be arrested without a crime and that the government is doing it to punish him for political reasons. Now, I don't know if there's a crime or not. I'm no expert on that. But it does look like it's a political prosecution. I mean, I guess technically it's a crime because he's not showing up to testify.
Also, Rasmussen asked about the O'Keefe raid, you know, the Project Veritas stuff, and 52 percent of the public say that's politically motivated. Bannon, O'Keefe, two people associated with the political right, and over half of the country. So that's more than just Republicans, right? This is over half of the country in both cases say this looks politically motivated. There's something happening. Do you feel it? This is part of the story. I'm going to piece together the whole tapestry as we go, but this is important. That it's not just the right who notices now that the government has overreached. Because at 55 percent, you're way past the number of Republicans. You're into the Bill Maher territory, where even the reasonable people on the left are saying, wait a minute, that's a little too far.
Let's keep going. You heard that Jacob Chansley, he was the so-called QAnon Shaman, the guy who was part of the January 6 protest. I called it the protest. He got 41 months in federal prison, one of the longest sentences handed down so far in connection with the event. So he got one of the longest sentences, did nothing violent, didn't threaten anything violent, didn't do anything violent. They said that his little flag thing was a weapon because it had a flagpole. This is a political prosecution.
So now we've got Bannon, O'Keefe, and Jacob Chansley. Now, I'm not saying he didn't break a law. I'm saying that the penalty is clearly to make an example of them.
Now let me say this as clearly as I can. I can't stand for the national anthem anymore. Just a personal thing. You can do whatever you want. I'm not trying to convince you, and I'm not siding with Black Lives Matter. And I'm definitely not going to kneel for the national anthem because I don't kneel for anything, right? I just don't kneel for things. It doesn't matter what it is. So I'm not going to b
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e kneeling for anything. But I don't think I can stand for a government. And I realize the national anthem is not the government per se, but you get the point. You know that our national symbols, they have two purposes. One is to unite the country, but the other is it gives us a protest focus. So they're kind of handy in two direct directions that way. And personally, I don't want to show respect…
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