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Brad Johnson on Aftermath of Capital Riot

What is in store now?

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brad johnson it is january the 7th of
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2021 the day after
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what a lot of people are calling the
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reichstag fire
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uh it seemed like there was a lot of
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antifa leftist masquerading as trump
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supporters
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and doing attempting to look like they
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were doing some kind of a push
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of course media reported it way
00:24
disproportionately
00:26
to the way they reported black lives
00:28
matter and antifa
00:29
attacks on institutions anyway how about
00:31
updating us on all that and where things
00:33
stand with uh
00:35
the presidency and so on yeah it’s a
00:39
fabulously interesting but unfortunately
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mostly unhappy
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uh situation here how it’s going and
00:44
certainly the news reporting of the
00:46
of of the riots as they’re calling them
00:49
which by the way the mostly peaceful
00:51
riots
00:51
is is how that should have been reported
00:54
because that’s what they call the stuff
00:55
in
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tifa does and by comparison of course it
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was very peaceful they weren’t
00:59
burning down buildings they didn’t set
01:00
fire to the capitol and destroy it or
01:02
anything of that nature
01:04
and you know one of the great evils is
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that somebody sat in nancy pelosi’s
01:08
chair
01:09
you know omg what a what a terrible
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state of affairs some person off the
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street could sit in nancy pelosi’s chair
01:15
you know the only real terrible thing
01:17
that happened was this uh
01:19
woman veteran who got shot in the throat
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and died basically on the spot
01:23
apparently by
01:24
uh the police there and of course
01:27
they’re not reporting any of that
01:29
honestly i mean it’s just you know
01:30
they’re not they’re not talking about it
01:32
also it’s unusual for the police to wear
01:35
like a jacket
01:36
tie and cufflinks though like the guy
01:38
who shot her distinctly was wearing
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french cuffs it’s just an odd could have
01:42
been a secret service it could have been
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uh yeah who knows
01:45
who knows but that’s certainly not being
01:47
reported which
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that’s very interesting isn’t it why
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wouldn’t that be reported
01:51
and i’m not sure we’ll hear about that
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uh especially if biden comes to
01:55
to power i think that’s one of the
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things they’ll cover up and that poor
01:58
woman will just be dead and buried and
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forgotten
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uh but we’ll we’ll see how that plays
02:03
out there’s film
02:04
of her being shot and she was basically
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just standing there kind of milling
02:08
around in front of a door with a bunch
02:09
of other people
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not doing anything in particular was
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just chatting with the different folks
02:13
there so
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just kind of i would it was almost like
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it was a accidental discharge of the
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weapon
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uh i i don’t know why she would be
02:22
targeted in particular out of those
02:24
people there but
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uh i i don’t know time will tell i
02:28
suppose
02:28
um perhaps but interesting a lot of the
02:31
reporting out of this and stuff that i
02:33
just find so fascinating out of it in
02:35
such a sad way
02:37
like i said first of all this you know
02:39
all these crazy
02:40
violent terrible things and all these
02:43
republicans coming on who are supposedly
02:45
these big trump supporters saying
02:47
you know violence is never the answer
02:49
the irony
02:51
of all of these republicans out there on
02:53
fox news
02:54
this constant reporting of just oh how
02:56
terrible these riots are how could they
02:58
do this how could this be allowed to
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happen
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trump is so bad at the exact same moment
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where riots are going on out in portland
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and things are being burned down
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business is being burned down and this
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occupied seattle stuff
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all of that going on right now with
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armed antifa patrolling these
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zones and this is the great danger and
03:22
trump is this horrible guy
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the irony of this is just astounding i
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mean it’s all
03:28
it’s the stupidity of where we find
03:30
ourselves
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where anything that can be said negative
03:33
about trump and all these people jumping
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on the bandwagon
03:36
a couple of things that have happened
03:37
like that uh
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the reporting out of fox is that trump
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has politically destroyed himself that
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nobody likes him anymore and he’s lost
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at least half his base
03:47
you know i i you know i suppose that’s
03:51
theoretically possible but i i think you
03:53
have to have drank a lot of
03:54
kool-aid to conclude that i don’t think
03:56
trump has lost any of his popularity
03:59
i think he remains popular and and no
04:01
matter what happens he’s a force to be
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dealt with
04:03
and uh certainly could if could be uh
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run again himself or or be a king maker
04:09
perhaps too
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if we’re able to ever have an honest
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election again but some of the other
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reporting has come out that
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uh you know vice president pence
04:19
vice president pence of course has done
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nothing to help president trump
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and here it comes down to this and you
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cannot look at what goes on and say
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there’s no reason to suspect these
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elections were fraudulent
04:32
i mean any rational person would look at
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it and say yeah there’s reason to
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believe it’s fraudulent a lot of reason
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to believe it’s fraudulent there’s a lot
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of
04:39
proof of illegality in there in the form
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of
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dead people voting and things to the to
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a total number
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that’s more than enough to change the
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votes in the states
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those are things that are documented and
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proven to be the case and affidavits to
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that effect and
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and videotape of these things taking
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place there’s there’s
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stunning amounts of proof of all this so
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to just as the vp to stand up and say oh
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well you know
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can’t you know i don’t know i i just
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don’t see how i can do that
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i i it’s one of those to me that’s a
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it’s a real betrayal
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and one of those things where our vp
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pence has proven himself to be
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somebody completely without any moral
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fortitude or courage
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and for somebody who really positions
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himself to be this highly moral man
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i’m i’m stunned by it and we had newt
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gingrich come out
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who’s been out of washington dc for a
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long time he lives in italy now his wife
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is the
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ambassador to the vatican or probably
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for a few more days
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and uh he came out and said that
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what vice president trump or uh
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pence did was a profiling courage that
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he was under a lot of pressure to act
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to do something about the the voter
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fraud and yet did nothing and that’s a
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profiling courage what a brave man he
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was to do that
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you know the definition of brave i i
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just i
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that’s not brave doing what everybody
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wants you to do
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that doesn’t get you in trouble so that
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your personal political career is on
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you know is is something that has a
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future uh
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i i just don’t see that as as any any
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way to define bravery
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i am at fox news came out and reported
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that trump was the one after four years
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of loyal service
06:27
throwing pence under the bus so i it’s
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just
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it’s laughable joke there’s nobody who’s
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doing honest reporting about
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any of this uh only in in the
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blogosphere in places like this can you
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actually see the truth of what was going
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on
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and uh and a lot of news about the
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antifa people being there and
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being the ones to go in and break things
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up and make trouble
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and nobody’s going to report on that
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you’re not going to see these people
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that got arrested
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be looked at and find out where they’re
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really associated it’s all going to be
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blamed on right-wing
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white violence which we all know is
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bogus and we’ve got that
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report on the tevus the terrorist and
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extremist violence in the united states
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we did a study of that it’s on the
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website a 218-page report
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that reveals all of the falsehoods about
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right-wing violence it’s all left-wing
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violence in the united states
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but this has all been set up this way so
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that no matter what trump supporters do
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they’re already tagged as uh white
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right-wing
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violence violent groups and the full
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force of the federal government’s going
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to come down on them
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that’s just that’s the way we’ve been
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out foxed and it’s been set up
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that’s how it’s going to continue to
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play forward so
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uh it’s one of those things that
07:41
actually makes me very afraid as to
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what’s going to happen going forward
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we all know the situation there’s that
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we all know that this this the way i’m
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laying this out is straight up just how
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it is
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and what are you going to do for these
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conservative people who really want to
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do
07:55
something that uh that may take things
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into their own hands to some degree
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and i think you’re going to see some of
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those groups act this out because they
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know
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there’s no legal remedy there’s no legal
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way forward there’s nothing that anybody
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can do that’s
08:09
that’s going to get before a court
08:10
that’s fair trump didn’t get a fair
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hearing from anybody
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and not even his own party and i think
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that frustration is
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much deeper and the anger is much
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greater than
08:22
all of these guys on the hill all of
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congress all of the senate
08:26
all of mainstream media and i include
08:28
fox news in mainstream media they’re the
08:30
same kind of guys now
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and none of them recognize just how deep
08:35
this anger
08:36
is and i think that’s going to play out
08:37
in some ways that’s going to surprise a
08:39
lot of people and
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unfortunately i think there’s going to
08:41
be some violence involved now
08:43
for president trump himself uh he has
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said
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after yesterday’s
08:50
taking of the capitol building of the
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riots as they’re called around the hill
08:53
the mostly peaceful riots
08:55
they uh he has said that he’s going to
08:57
commit himself to peaceful transfer of
08:59
power
09:00
which implies that he’s essentially uh
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given up hope and is going to do
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transfer power and on the 20th
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uh which is the inauguration and
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certainly the
09:12
biden people have moved ahead and are uh
09:15
inserting themselves and all of the
09:17
trump appointees are
09:18
forced to resign on the 19th which is
09:20
basically standard practice
09:22
nothing really unusual there so
09:23
everything’s moving forward
09:25
in the white house many of the people
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have already left now these groups of
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people are all
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mostly young people that have that go
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into these positions and offices
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and most of them have gone off to some
09:35
other job they’ve been looking around
09:37
and they’ve jumped ship
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and and are going off to something else
09:39
that they can find
09:41
uh there are a few still around but
09:43
there’s one and so that of course all of
09:45
that pretends negative that trump is
09:47
has given up and is leaving but there’s
09:49
one funny little thing that came out in
09:51
today’s news that i want to point out to
09:53
everybody
09:54
just to give that little tiny slim ray
09:56
of hope to all of us
09:58
and that is that kamala harris reclaimed
10:01
her senate seat
10:02
now uh i don’t know there may be some
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reasons that she’s done that that lets
10:08
her pass it off to somebody that she
10:09
picks or
10:11
the governor does something that that
10:13
that you know
10:14
she’s stalling until there’s another
10:16
governor sworn in or something like
10:17
there may be something of that nature in
10:19
the background
10:20
but i heard that and it just it gave me
10:22
that little tickle in the back of my
10:23
mind
10:24
that perhaps she’s worried about it if
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she’s not giving up her
10:28
senate seat maybe she’s not fully
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convinced she’s going to be sworn in
10:32
as vp on the 20th now that may be a
10:35
little desperate grasp at hope
10:37
on my part but that was one of the
10:39
little things that entered in my mind
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and like i said i don’t know if there’s
10:42
a
10:42
backstory on why other what other
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reasons she would do that
10:46
but that gave me a little a little bit
10:48
of hope so
10:49
i’m praying still that that uh trump has
10:52
a chance and will somehow
10:54
uh pull this out of the hat and if he
10:56
has proof of the
10:58
corruption in the and the uh and the
11:00
voting and the machines and all of that
11:02
perhaps that would be enough to do it i
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don’t know how anymore i mean
11:06
things have just gone so far i i don’t
11:07
know how it’d be turned over maybe a
11:09
state of emergency based on an executive
11:12
order for foreign interference and
11:13
election
11:14
maybe something along those lines would
11:15
do that certainly that’s what bent
11:17
what general flynn for example has been
11:20
pushing publicly for a long time
11:22
uh i think trump has resisted that idea
11:25
so i tend to fear not
11:27
but i don’t know at any rate that was
11:29
there was that one little hope that i
11:31
that gave me just a second
11:32
uh you know a second of a pleasurable
11:35
thought so i wanted to mention that out
11:36
there the rest of it is all bleak news
11:38
so
11:38
looks like trump is going to be gone
11:40
biden’s going to be sworn in
11:42
i wouldn’t give biden more than six
11:43
months in office
11:45
uh he’s pretty clearly got a senility
11:47
problem going on he will
11:49
step down based on health he’s certainly
11:51
not going to go past one year
11:52
and no chance at all that he’s going to
11:54
finish this first full
11:56
four year term so kamala harris is going
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to be
11:59
sworn in in the short term and she’s the
12:02
radical left wing she’s a communist
12:03
socialist
12:04
progressive uh so i think the
12:08
chances of a of a broken economy are
12:10
nearly 100 percent uh coming in the near
12:12
future
12:12
uh high inflation high taxes
12:17
uh poor economy uh all of those standard
12:20
things that we see
12:21
high gas prices all of those things will
12:23
be coming back and on the world stage
12:25
you’re going to see a
12:26
a vacuum of power created and you’ll
12:29
start to see those countries that
12:30
are already have an aggressive stance
12:33
against the united states as the united
12:35
states pulls back inward
12:37
and starts to have you know more
12:38
economic problems and
12:40
biden is less forceful in the world
12:42
stage you’re going to see china act up
12:44
you’re going to see iran you’re going to
12:47
see turkey countries of this nature that
12:49
are already
12:50
creating problems on the world stage are
12:52
going to be far more encouraged to be
12:53
aggressive
12:54
so i i paint a very ugly picture for the
12:57
next few years of
12:58
maybe one year for biden and the next
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three years after that for kamala harris
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so
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uh it’s it’s unfortunate the way things
13:05
have gone but
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it looks like that’s where we’re at
13:11
james o’keefe of uh
13:14
project veritas sent out a bulk email
13:18
with the sentiments of p of people
13:21
who’ve been writing him
13:23
uh after yesterday and it’s it’s very
13:26
depressing
13:26
people are saying your work is of no use
13:29
uh we’ve already exposed them and
13:30
nothing happens
13:32
um it is there is i think a pretty
13:35
terrible sense of hopelessness and love
13:40
loss of faith in in in any kind of
13:42
system
13:43
of law and justice that’s in any way
13:46
equal
13:47
i i really hope uh something is done
13:49
that restores that
13:51
because it would be terrible if it isn’t
13:55
i get many similar notes a lot of people
13:56
write and make comments and ask
13:58
questions and
14:00
um they’re they’re you know
14:03
it isn’t lost forever i’ll put it that
14:06
way there are things that can be done
14:09
uh one of the things that we have to all
14:11
start looking towards and working for
14:13
is start to primary out some of these
14:15
republican rhinos that betrayed the
14:17
president
14:18
and i’m hoping that in two years we’ll
14:21
be organized well enough
14:22
to start doing some of that we need more
14:25
fighters
14:26
in the republican party that are going
14:28
to stand up for the people of the united
14:30
states of america and that is a way to
14:32
do it
14:33
and probably really the only avenue open
14:36
to us
14:36
and so uh that’s i think where we’re
14:38
going to spend some time
14:39
and and try to organize on at the
14:41
grassroots level
14:43
try to get good candidates for the
14:45
primaries so that we can start ousting
14:47
some of these guys
14:49
and make sure that the people that have
14:50
trade the president united states
14:52
just don’t ever get elected to anything
14:54
ever again
14:55
and and learn the lesson and that’s the
14:57
only thing they care about is where you
14:58
start to hit them in the
15:00
you know and in the pocketbook but but
15:02
where they where they where they have
15:04
power
15:04
if you start taking that power away from
15:06
them they’ll listen to that
15:08
yeah assuming of course that voting
15:10
actually
15:12
makes any difference i mean that’s i
15:14
think
15:15
i think in the primary we can count on
15:17
that but yeah you’re right general
15:18
election
15:19
that’s i don’t know if we’ll have an
15:21
honest i don’t think we had an honest
15:22
election here in 2020
15:24
and um uh and i’m not sure that it was
15:28
fully
15:29
honest in 2016 but i think in 2016
15:33
trump so surprised with his overwhelming
15:35
numbers that they weren’t prepared for
15:37
that
15:38
and i think this time they were prepared
15:39
for it so i think 2016 was the only
15:42
last semi honest election and i don’t
15:44
think we saw it in 2020
15:46
and i don’t think we saw it in georgia
15:48
those two uh senate elections there
15:50
so i think uh
15:53
2022 when we have the next uh
15:56
uh off off year elections uh we’ll see
16:00
it’s going to be tough to control all
16:03
elections everywhere
16:04
across the united states because they’re
16:06
so independent individual
16:08
things so uh but the general elections i
16:11
think we’ve we’ve maybe
16:12
seen our last honest election for a
16:14
while i’m afraid to say
16:16
well i think it bears remembering that
16:18
in 2016
16:20
um the the woman who was the head of the
16:22
green party united states
16:24
mysteriously came up with the money to
16:26
recount she
16:27
claimed to be totally neutral and she
16:30
was going to do as many as many recounts
16:31
as she could
16:32
but mysteriously she only picked the
16:35
counties where trump won
16:37
and discovered that in fact in the
16:39
recount he’d won
16:40
bigger than the official numbers and so
16:43
she gave up after three counties
16:45
if memory serves which leads me to
16:47
believe that 2016 wasn’t honest either
16:49
it’s just that they didn’t cheat it by
16:50
enough yep
16:52
i think that’s the case brad johnson
16:54
thank you very much for this
16:56
for this update thank you
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