Dear Diary I Am Famous Now

He took the Fifth on nearly every question, and somehow that made the hearing even louder. We break down the Anthony Fauci Senate grilling, the bizarre “Fauci diaries” tone that poured gasoline on public anger, and the core legal wrinkle most people miss: if you make an opening statement that claims you were honest and cooperative, you may have just opened the door to follow-up questions you can’t dodge without consequences.

From there, we go back to what made this personal for so many of us: COVID-19 lockdowns, mask mandates, and the social enforcement that turned neighbors and businesses into hall monitors. We talk about the moments that felt like collective madness, the lasting harm to families and livelihoods, and Brett Weinstein’s point that even when evidence becomes widely visible, power and institutions don’t automatically correct course. That gap between “knowing” and “changing” is the real battleground.

We also dig into how politics swallowed science: Deborah Birx admitting blue states “overclosed,” Fauci’s door-to-door vaccine pitch, and why the lab leak theory became a partisan identity test. Then the lens widens to lawfare, government weaponization, public databases that put people on searchable lists, Federal Reserve interest rate decisions that keep housing stuck, and the Clarity Act debate over crypto regulation, consumer protection, privacy, and due process.

If you’re tired of narratives being used as a substitute for accountability, this one is for you. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend who still argues about 2020, and leave a review with the one question you want answered next.

Transcript

Morning Banter And Simultaneous Sip

SPEAKER_08 0:45

We're those people. We're those people.

SPEAKER_09 0:56

Good morning, peasants.

SPEAKER_08 0:58

Welcome to another episode of the Peasants Perspective. I had to get off that mute button. Took me just a second. Hey, Bray the Rosary Daily. You're already in the chats. Top of the charts. Make it a great Friday evening. Yes, it is Friday Eve. I was gonna say it is a great Friday. No, it's Thursday. Uh Thundering Oak, good morning. Welcome, welcome for Razor. Good morning, Douglas Wyatt. Good morning, peasants. Moddy Easel, good morning, Taylor. Oh, thanks, Moddy Easel. Hope you guys like the new studio lighting, it's a little bit different. I don't know. I feel like I need more front lighting. I'll figure it out. I'll figure it out. Lots of fun. Sarah sings, lovely morning here, rain shower before 101 degrees. Oh, Oklahoma. Oklahoma, how great it must be. It's so hot. Uh, I was talking to a good friend up in Wisconsin yesterday, and uh she was mentioning how she wasn't particularly enjoying the hot, muggy Wisconsin summer, and she was wishing she could be in the uh Pacific Northwest where it's nice and cool. I'm like, yeah, it's cool. We feel like it's hot, you know, it's getting about to be almost 80 degrees every day. Obviously, I'm still wearing a hoodie. Came into the office and uh all the windows are open in the house, so it was very chilly last night. Anyways, thanks for joining us bright and early. Glad you guys all made it. And I know why you guys all show up early. And we're waiting for Ron. He may even make an appearance here on the show. He's working on it on his end. But I know why you show up bright and early. You show up for the simultaneous sip. And all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tankered, a chalice of stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better. The simultaneous sip, and it starts right now.

SPEAKER_25 2:38

What day of the week is it today?

SPEAKER_16 2:44

On the advice of council, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the constitution. What color tie are you wearing? On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the fifth amendment to the constitution.

SPEAKER_01 3:01

What color is the carpet in front of you?

SPEAKER_16 3:06

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

SPEAKER_19 3:13

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

SPEAKER_08 3:14

Oh man. I fully support the right to uh not incriminate yourself, and I think the Fifth Amendment is incredibly important. And my interpretation of the Fifth Amendment is that you have the right not to say anything or let anything come out of your mouth, and you can control what comes out of your mouth. But uh, there is some legal jeopardy in the way that Anthony Fauci did that yesterday, which we'll talk about. But holy cow, every single question. What color is your tie? I'm exercising the Fifth Amendment, which is the right way to do it, by the way. You just have to do it for everything. Ron Cleaver says, the new filibuster, Mar Easel says, We are in still in Florida, heading home this afternoon. Oh, well, you'll be home in about a week then. Uh Ron Cleaver Jr. says, good morning, all. Glad you made it. All right, guys.

Fauci Grilled And Diaries Surface

SPEAKER_08 3:57

So Anthony Fauci obviously had his day on the hot seat yesterday. And uh I saw people saying, I need an Anthony Fauci cleanse from my timeline. It's just too much. I was like, yeah, there's a lot here. So Anthony Fauci was on the hot seat yesterday, being grilled inside the Senate, and uh there was a lot of really good clips, but let's just set the stage because a lot of yesterday, you know, it focused on different things, but these quote unquote Fauci diaries that came out. So my wife was like, Why would someone keep a diary like that? And I was like, it wasn't like he kept a diary. What this is is he was using some kind of you know electronic note-keeping system, whether it was keeping notes on his phone, voice memos on his phone, whether it was emailing himself, he just had some type of you know memorandum program that he was using, and it was on his own servers, although technically they were government servers. See, this is what happens when you're in government for 40 years. Oh, Anthony, this is your server. It's got all of your communications. And he starts going, oh, that's my personal server. No, it was never your personal server. It was always a government server, it was just designated for you. So apparently he just kept a lot of notes. People do this, people do this all the time. I personally had stuff read back to me off of my electronic devices, and you know, I was not like keeping super tight schedules and stuff like that, but it's it's like the one lingering trauma I have. I have a really hard time putting anything into my cell phone or on anything electronic because everything can be turned around and used against you, even things that you think are good, which is exactly what happened to me when some of like private messages between me and PB Brown scouts were read back to me in open court. I was like, oh my gosh, you know, he can't be here to defend me, but my words kind of hang out there, and it's like you can't you can't interpret rhetoric five years later, four years later. Uh John Attackis says, Good morning from Florida, my final dispatch from the nation's largest political retirement community. Heading back home to Boise, Idaho today. So fun. All right, so we've got another one of these uh readings of Anthony Fauci's Diary. So we're gonna listen to that. Readings of Anthony Fauci's Diary.

SPEAKER_16 6:08

Dear Diary. For better or worse, I am becoming an international celebrity. Calls from all over the world. It is not hyperbole to say that today I am the most famous and talked-about person in the country. Brad Pitt plays me on Saturday Night Live and thanks me in a very serious tone after his skit. The swag around me is getting really ridiculous. Had a great call with Barbara Streisand. Press still hot and heavy about me. Petitions to vote me sexiest man alive, major stories about my basketball career at Regis. Jeez! Deer Diary.

SPEAKER_08 6:55

So you got the Fauci Deer Diary notes, you know, major stories about my basketball career. Oh, geez. It's perfect. So, Senator Bernie Moreno did probably the best job yesterday of really there were many Republican senators that took a chance to lay into Dr. Fauci. But Bernie Moreno really made it personal. And it actually is really it's really interesting because Americans reacted very differently to COVID. Everybody had their own reaction. Some people capitulated early, some people straight up drank the Kool-Aid. I mean, you still see them driving around in their cars with masks on from time to time, right? They really drank the Kool-Aid. You had people that really drank the Kool-Aid, you had a lot of people that were just kind of confused. They didn't want to like tell anybody else what they could or couldn't do. And, you know, what's the big deal? I'll put on a mask when I go to a restaurant or when I go to the store. You had a lot of people that kind of capitulated in that fashion. And then you had a lot of people who really thought things were crazy and tried to stand up. You know, a lot of a lot of people have anecdotal stories about being banned from local grocery stores. I was banned from a local Goodwill. Oh my gosh, you know, I had the I had the sheriff's department called on me because I wouldn't wear a mask in the Goodwill. And keep in mind, it's not an enforceable policy and the sheriff's department wouldn't enforce it either. This happened everywhere. And there was a viral video that went around back in 2020 where a woman was in a stadium in Ohio. She was in a football stadium, open air, sitting with her direct family, not close to any other spectators. I mean, all other spectators were much more than six feet away. She wouldn't put on a mask to watch an open-air football game in Ohio in the summer. And police were called. She was arrested, tackled, you know, basically assaulted by the police and arrested over this masking policy, six-foot distancing, you know, this the forced capitulation to go along with COVID insanity was off the charts. And Bernie Moreno in Ohio saw that video and he decided to run for Senate.

Mask Crackdowns Spark Political Rage

SPEAKER_08 9:02

So he picks up the story in this clip where he saw this mother get arrested for watching this uh football game without a mask on.

SPEAKER_28 9:17

They were dragged out of that stadium and arrested. Those policies were put in place because you had moronic politicians that listened to the words of a megalomaniac who was more interested in having met a Kardashian than the suffering of the American people. And that is you. Your advice to communities like that, to idiotic politicians who enforce those rules, arrested that mom for watching a football game with her own family outside. When that story broke, I said to myself, I cannot stand idly on the side and watch this happen. It was about six years ago today that I decided I'm gonna give up my businesses, sell them all, run for office, run for the United States Senate. Here I am sitting in front of you six years later saying, Who the fuck do you think you were for doing that? It is a total disgrace what you did to this country. And if my Democrat colleagues are standing there defending you, I hope the voters of the United States of America watch the clips of every one of you doting on a guy who was more interested in being a celebrity than saving American people. I will make it my mission to make certain that every single one of those Republic uh Democrats who did that will see that clip over and over and over again. Because defending there is no defense of what you did.

SPEAKER_08 11:15

You may have had a 50 plus year legacy of public service, but it ends up but it ends in total shame, right? It ends in this cover-up lie, megalomaniac, Anthony Fauci nonsense. Now, obviously it's not every day that a sitting senator drops the F-bomb in a committee meeting in a in a hearing like that, but really truly, COVID affected Americans dramatically. This

COVID Absurdities And Real Harm

SPEAKER_08 11:42

podcast is a result of COVID. This podcast led directly to January 6th and a complete redirection of my life and my family's life, right? Why? Because COVID nonsense. Because people around me were putting masks on and it didn't make any sense. People around me were closing down their businesses and it didn't make any sense, right? Nothing made any sense. And here we are, four years later, and really we're people who were on my side were completely vindicated. Stuff like this, okay. This this is an example of how far the madness got. Yes, you had people, you know, one of the interviews that I did on uh Peasants Perspective was Sarah, of course, now I'm gonna forget her name, but Sarah, and she was in Meridian, Idaho, and she was arrested in a public park, you know, when they closed down the park and she got arrested. Anyways, I interviewed her, right? And she said, you know, if this is if this is what the world is, I wasn't meant to live in a world like this. And I remember thinking, I totally understand that, right? Like this is not the world I'm meant to live in. This right here, just as a flashback, so for those of you that follow golf, golf, this is Justin Rom, and he was playing in a golf tournament, and I think this was the Masters. He was ahead by six strokes. Okay, he was ahead by six strokes. This is him. What's going on here? Okay, so this is him. He's ahead by six strokes. He's you know, winning this tournament tournament, and this is outside. This is a golf tournament, for goodness sakes. And here he is getting told that he has to walk off the green.

SPEAKER_03 13:33

All right, so yeah, what's going on?

SPEAKER_15 13:36

All right. Um, is there any other information now down?

SPEAKER_30 13:40

Uh there is, and I've confirmed it through the PGA tour that John Rahm has tested positive for COVID-19.

SPEAKER_25 13:46

Oh, means that means he will have to withdraw from the tournament.

SPEAKER_08 13:54

That means he will have to withdraw from the tournament. That's what they did, right? That's what they did. And we could go on and on about the other nonsense and you know, kids playing flutes with their masks and kids playing their instruments inside of these little tents up in uh Wenatchee and Yakima, Washington. We could go on and on about, you know, grandparents being forced to put on plastic suits so they could hug their grandkids. And, you know, then you get into the actual suffering, the missed deaths, the people who died alone, the uh people who were given Remdemnosphere and were tucked away into ICUs where family couldn't visit. It just goes on and on, right? It goes on and

Winning The Science Losing Narrative

SPEAKER_08 14:33

on. And here's the here's one of the challenges. Brett Weinstein laid this out the best, right? One of the challenges we have is as far as COVID is concerned, as far as the science is concerned, the debate's been won, right? One side of the the argument here won every element of the quote debate, but the problem is we completely lost the narrative.

SPEAKER_04 15:01

Um I remember conversations that I had with people I cared deeply about at the beginning of COVID, right? As the lab leak story was beginning to crack. And what I saw was actually I think we're going to win the lab leak story. We're not yet winning the vaccine story, and we're way behind on the repurposed drug story, but we know the dimensions of it. And my feeling is we're actually way ahead in this COVID trajectory. Our side is punching way above its weight class. We need to go for broken, we need to get all of these things hashed out so the public gets them all because we're never going to get a better chance to see how our system works. This story diagnoses the system in 2026. Here's what we see. We actually won completely. All of these things are now visible to anybody who wishes to see them. And we've lost completely. Our capacity to do anything about this is now on full display. We have not. That is an amazing position to be in, but it does tell you what we have to do next. Because it means that your ability to simply get the story clear enough and enough evidence on the table does not have an impact on what happens next. We're still apparently dispensing these frickin' shots. How crazy is that, right? After all that we have unearthed, after all the people who lost their careers to unearth this stuff, they're still dispensing the freaking shots. So, okay, we won completely. Anybody who wants to know can now know pretty much what happened. We still have some loose ends. We don't know exactly what the ultimate objective was, but if you want to know what happened during COVID, you can find out. There are a lot of us out here who know. And we've lost completely. In terms of power, knowing completely what happened or having a really good record of all of these major uh victories and the evidence that, you know, was so hard won doesn't buy you anything in terms of the ability to actually change the trajectory of the ship. So I would argue that the right thing to do is with the part that we did win, the evidence, right? It's out there. Is that we need to figure out now how to talk to the people who actually have goodness in their hearts but are still so desperately confused. You have to figure out how to approach them with enough generosity of spirit that you can get them over the line to just seeing. You can get them to take off the blindfold.

SPEAKER_08 17:11

That is the question. How do you get people over the line to take off the blindfold? The people that that we care about, right? The people that we don't want to see continue to just do stupid stuff. In the chats, Thundering Oaks says, I walked out of a store where I was planning on purchasing $400 worth of stuff without making the purchase because they insisted we put masks on. I saw that story repeated a million times. I did the same thing. I don't know about $400, but I did the same thing. If I went into a store and they were mass anoxies, I did everything I could to bypass the store and go somewhere else. There are gas stations to this day that I used to frequent almost daily, right? Remember, I drove diesel trucks, semi-trucks, dump trucks, uh construction equipment. Like we went through diesel by the thousands of gallons. And so we spent a lot of money at a handful of gas stations where I directed everybody to fill up. And a couple of those gas stations, one of them I can think of right now, Hilltop, one of those gas stations, they were kind of masked Nazis when you go in. So I stopped buying gas there. Just period. To this day, I don't buy gas there. They had a regular stream of revenue coming from me, probably close to $1,000 a month just for my fill-ups commuting out to Port Angeles because they were the last gas station on the way out of town, right? Just for me, they made a ton of money. They lost all that revenue stream. Now it goes both ways, right? There were people who went to places that ended up being conservative and didn't care about mask policy. And the people were like, oh, Anthony Fauci said I should wear a mask. And so they went to other places that were masked Nazis. So it went both directions. And depending on the prevailing ideology in your area, some businesses, you know, performed better than others just based on that alone. It's a sad, sad thing. And then of course you enter in like the inorganic protests and stuff like that.

Boycotts And Fauci’s Track Record

SPEAKER_08 18:55

Here's the thing, though, during COVID, a lot of people did deep dives on the key players, right? Anthony Fauci, Deborah Burks, uh Robert Redfield, Redband, Redfield, you know, and many other players, uh, Scott Atlas, many other players. And some of them came out, you know, as at worst neutral characters, in some cases, slightly nefarious. In some cases, they came out kind of as benefactors. Like these people generally do good things and, you know, generally end up on the right side of whatever scientific discovery or proposition or whatever it is. But Anthony Fauci was not one of these people. Anthony Fauci, from the beginning of his career, found himself being exactly the Anthony Fauci we saw yesterday, right? A megalomaniac who's concerned about getting on the news, who's concerned about making an impact, regardless of whether the impact is based in any kind of truth. Anthony Fauci came to solidify his power within the NIH and the medical, you know, regulatory industry during the HIV crisis. Okay. That's where he really got his name out there and got embedded into things in the HIV crisis. And, you know, you can go back and you can look at his history of doing things like uh uh testing, you know, HIV and gaze clubs in San Francisco. And I mean, there's all kinds of stuff, medication that made people sicker, probably killed them. Um, there's there's like a whole bunch of stuff. Joe Rogan's documented this, RFK has documented this, many other people have documented this. It was totally normal. But there is another thing. As far as his interface with the public and how he talks to the public, there's I've got this clip I'm gonna play for you guys. It's a fascinating little look back in time, right? There's this idea like, you know, a leopard can't change his spots. That's kind of what we got going on here. We got one of these things where it's like, uh, you know, what do we know about HIV and AIDS today? It's only communicable through direct sharing of bodily fluids. You cannot get HIV or AIDS being in the same room with someone with HIV and AIDS. Not gonna happen. You cannot get HIV or AIDS by sharing a toilet seat or a doorknob or bed sheets or anything like that, right? The only way that you're gonna get HIV or AIDS is to insert into your body bodily fluid from someone who has HIV or AIDS. Okay, even kissing has been proven not to be able to pass on HIV or AIDS. It takes a little more than that. Now, HIV and AIDS is rampant amongst the homosexual population. I shouldn't say rampant, that might be an extreme word today. I don't know. I don't know what the percentages are. HIV is so well managed. Thank you, my Magic Johnson. So, anyways, it's rampant amongst the homosexual population, it's rampant amongst the intenous drug using population. And then, of course, it it exists in um children predominantly in Africa, where parents are infected with HIV and do not get treatment. Okay. But they can even prevent HIV from being passed on to the child if there's appropriate preventative care. So, why do I bring that up? Because I'm just barely old enough to remember some of the HIV panic. I'm just barely old enough to remember when the campaign to debunk things like you can get HIV from a toilet seat, right, was starting to come out.

Fauci’s HIV Comments Revisited

SPEAKER_08 22:16

So these were predominant thoughts for a while. This is Anthony Fauci talking about HIV and the spread of HIV. This is again just like talking about masks, just like talking about six-foot distancing, just like talking about natural immunity or how COVID can spread. He's been up to the same games. He's been up to the same games for decades.

SPEAKER_15 23:01

Let me say other close contact. Give me some examples. Well, for example, if if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS or at risk of AIDS, who doesn't not necessarily have to have uh intimate sexual contact or share a needle, but just the ordinary close contact that one sees in normal interpersonal relationships. Now that's say from the disease, this brings in the implication.

SPEAKER_08 23:29

So this is Anthony Fauci. Oh, sorry, I gotta pause it on my end so you don't hear the volume come through. So Anthony Fauci is sitting there saying, Well, you could get it from close contact. I mean, when we see it in kids, you know, it could just be because they're living with parents with age. If you see HIV or AIDS in kids and the parents didn't have it when they were pregnant, okay, you probably need to call CPS. Okay. There's probably a problem there. We saw this same thing with monkeypox, by the way. Monkeypox came out, oh my gosh, this horrible sexually transmitted disease. And then, oh, anybody can get it. And then these kids got it, and they're like, oh, these kids have it. Oh, look, it can spread just by the same same thing. Oh, by sharing a toilet seat. And then they're like, no, actually, that is not how it's spread. It's spread by, you know, sexual activity, basically. And then all of a sudden, these kids we find out some of them have been molested. It's like, ah, kill the story. And we stopped hearing about monkeypox ever again. Okay, but Anthony Fauci, like a leopard can't change his spots, and apparently he didn't change his. Same thing, right? False information. They knew from day one the AIDS was not transferable in the way that he just described it. Just like he lied to us about masks, just like he lied to us about every everything else. He was lying to us back then about HIV. Ron says, I remember the AIDS fear campaign. Yes, you're old enough to remember. I remember the mop-up story, right? I wasn't around when you were allowed to litter. I was around for the litter buck campaign, right? I wasn't around for when drugs were cool. I was around for the Dare campaign. I got I got all the I got all the campaigns to clean up the stuff. Ron, you grew up in a world that was much more libertine than the world I grew up in. I'm like, you know, first generation millennial. And uh last year, Gen X, first gen millennial. And so I I started to see some of the political correctness really actually creep into things. Um uh Pony Boy says, good morning. Ron Cleaver says the F-bomb was warranted. And uh John Attackis had said earlier. Oh no, he said later, John Attackis said, I'm not a big fan of the F-bomb. I know, Dad, you turn the show off if we say one or we have three strikes, we're out, rule. I think it's overused, but I like but like a fire extinguisher, they are in emergencies. They if they they are there are rare emergencies when you break the glass. This is one of them. Amen, amen. Thundering oak, thumbs up to John Attakis. I have family, Ron Cleaver Jr. says. I have family that is still watching the news and regurgitating it.

SPEAKER_21 25:49

Ugh.

SPEAKER_08 25:51

Well, at least at least we have talking points. Uh Thundering Oak, me too, two nurse daughters and a morning news anchored daughter. Oh, you should tell your daughter to to uh you know refer me for a commentator bit. I can come in and do some morning commentating. I remember the AIDS Fear campaign, Ron says it was an effective part of abstinence. Yeah, yeah, exactly. It was an effective part of

Fifth Amendment Strategy And Contempt Risk

SPEAKER_08 26:14

abstinence. Okay, so Anthony Fauci yesterday pleading the fifth is causing a lot of concerns. I think it's gonna be a huge problem for him in the long run. CNN had to address this because uh, like I said, you know, they got to get out in front of it. And but Anthony Fauci definitely has he definitely has some legal liability here.

SPEAKER_10 26:36

I mean, you can't even string all that together. It that that that that obviously it sends a message. Will that strategy work? Because he says, well, I had to do that because you know they're looking for perjury traps, or does that just make it worse and is he in real trouble?

SPEAKER_23 26:50

I think it and uh uh it makes it worse. It's even a curious uh way in which you wonder what his legal advice was, uh why they decided to do that.

SPEAKER_22 26:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_23 26:58

Because he does not face criminal jeopardy for the pardon in all likelihood. He's pardoned for all actions before January 2025. But that also means that you're forced to testify. That's how prosecutors use immunity or pardons, and they say now you're forced to forced to testify because you don't have any criminal liability. What we're gonna ask you about. So then to plead the fifth is actually he could then be held in contempt. There could be, theoretically at least, a Justice Department that goes after him for not answering when he is not really facing that criminal church.

SPEAKER_10 27:28

Yeah, and also when the when the reason put out is perjury traps, then of course, again, to the layperson, it's the same, well, why wouldn't you just say the truth? What would be the problem in that? Um so you know, I understand that's a layperson thing, but it doesn't sound good. Um Trump has repeatedly dismissed Biden's pardons when you talk about the pardon and everything before January, um uh January of 2025. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_06 27:46

Um let me just play Trump here to sign pardons and all of the things that he signed with an autopet is disgraceful.

SPEAKER_10 27:56

To sign pardons 112 times to invoke the Fifth Amendment. I mean, you can't even string all that together.

SPEAKER_08 28:08

I gotta move my mouse all across my screen. So, right, he opened himself up to legal jeopardy by claiming that, by claiming the Fifth Amendment. Now, I will contend that you always have the right to control what comes out of your mouth. That's how the Fifth Amendment is self-evident and it's self-expressed. You can choose every word that comes out of your mouth. That is the last and only human freedom you have. First Amendment, right? And then the Fifth Amendment protects your right to even remain silent. You don't have to provide an answer because anything you can you say can and will be used against you, including the answer that you're pleading the fifth. It can be used against you to implicate guilt, but you're making that choice. You get to make your choices on what you say, but you can't pick your consequences. As far as the legal system is concerned and um liability, so the accusation here is that Anthony Fauci is going to be held in contempt of Congress, like Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro were, for failing to answer questions. And then probably they might get an obstruction of a congressional investigation or something like that. There might be a couple charges centering around this. But the reason that he opened himself up to legal liability to be able to be held in contempt, he could have sat there and done nothing. He could have answered every specific question with I plead the fifth, which he ended up answering every question with I plead the fifth, but it takes a little something more than that. You see, he did something that crossed him over and opened him up to legal liability. He made a statement at 1776 live.us, we talk about this a lot because we learn how to express our fundamental rights, one of which being the Fifth Amendment. And one of the things we learn is you're all in or all out. You can't make an argument and then back off and not want to support that argument or support those claims. Anthony Fauci made claims in his opening statement. And that's where he that's where he's gonna end up having some problem. So I thought this was of all the things I saw yesterday, I thought this was the best breakdown of Anthony Fauci's legal problems with taking the Fifth Amendment so many times yesterday. And there's an interesting nuance. Again, he made a statement. The statement opens them up.

SPEAKER_14 30:16

I actually think that uh Fauci's lawyers uh uh made a big mistake um in the following way. In that opening monologue that Fauci gave, okay, I've I've taken many deposits, I've taken depositions where the uh the litigant uh uh pleads the fifth to every question, right? But um you heard at the end that they talk about well, you can't come and give a statement and then plead the fifth, and that's exactly right. Right. You can't you can't say, I didn't commit the crime, and then when they ask you a follow-up, you plead the fifth. No, once you've opened the door, so to speak, to a topic, pleading the fifth no longer becomes appropriate. Um, you can't use it as a sword and a shield, right? So you got you either don't use it or once you've used it. So, for example, in his opening statement, he said that uh uh Rand Paul slandered him. Well, I would ask follow-up questions about that. I'd say, well, how did I slander you, sir? How did I slander you? He opened the door. He said that Rand Paul slandered him. Well, what were the slander statements? He said, for example, I've had a decade-long cooperation with Congress. Okay, great. With regards to what? What did you cooperate on? He wanted to basically, he basically in that one statement to me said, I testified 200 times, and in all that testimony, I was cooperative to me, which means I was honest, I was forthright. Great. He just opened the door, in my view, to everything with that one statement. And they could have driven a truck through that, right? Um, and and they might still do that.

SPEAKER_26 31:55

You might well that that'd be my question is you're saying that right now.

SPEAKER_08 31:59

Okay, so it's important to understand that by saying I was cooperative, you're saying I didn't lie, I was forthright. If they're then asking questions to clarify that, he doesn't have the legal protection because they can say, Well, you did lie. Like the evidence shows you lie. What's your rebuttal? I'm not going to answer questions. Okay, so then you lied. Right now he has immunity for the original lie, but he doesn't have immunity for making a statement that implies that he did not lie. That happened yesterday. Okay. So by making that statement, he can't then lean back on the immunity. That's one issue, the pardon. Okay, and because he made a statement, he now has to justify those claims. He cast a stone, so to speak.

SPEAKER_26 32:45

Uh, is there a danger that they didn't jump on that? Is there a timing that is triggered there where Rand Paul had to drive that truck through or uh some of the senators there? Or can this be looked at retrospectively and say, hey, that open because they contemplated the end there, right? There was this dialogue because I think similarly in a previous hearing, because there was an opening statement, I forget the woman they were referencing, but because there was an opening statement, it undoes that that protection of the Fifth Amendment, you are not allowed to make a statement. So that's being dialogued. Did they need to address it right there, or is this something retrospectively that will play out legally and can play out legally?

SPEAKER_14 33:29

I think uh I they didn't it once you open the door, then they asked the follow-up questions relating to it. I I don't think they needed to affirm or say, since you opened the door, you now have to answer. Okay. The door was open. He said, for example, that uh he was being uh he he called Rand Paul unhinged. Okay, how is he unhinged? So there were the the the it will come down to a question of interpretation with regards to when he in that opening statement, how much door, quote to speak, did he open? How wide, and how much of the follow-on questions afterwards fit into what uh what fill into that opening statement. Um, I think that he's got six lawyers that was said, but uh I I don't I can't imagine they didn't think about this. I don't know. I don't know why they would have done that. If they want to plead the fifth, plead the fifth.

SPEAKER_08 34:19

Yeah, if you want to plead the fifth, plead the fifth. That's pretty good, actually. Okay, so we know, right?

Lockdowns Turn Into Election Politics

SPEAKER_08 34:26

Obviously, it's obvious Anthony Fauci lied. Anthony Fauci has an MO of misleading the public. Anthony Fauci is a megalomaniac. But this also became political. Despite what the political people tell you, this became political. Okay. And I'm gonna give you two examples of this. Yesterday, Deborah Burks came onto a news show. I can't remember, it's some, I think it's a CBS news show. I have the whole clip. It's about five minutes long. I'm not gonna play the whole clip. I'm gonna play a Fox and Friends morning clip that has that clip in it. But in that clip, she's partially coming to the defense of Anthony Fauci. She kind of throws him under the bus, and oh yeah, he was a little bit more concerned about getting on the media. And you know, in his office, he had a lot of pictures of himself and him with famous people. You know, it's not my style. She kind of tossed him under the bus a little bit for his style. Okay. But she did say something about um lockdowns, and she compared Republican states and Democrat states, red states, and blue states. And on Fox of Friends, they point this out. And I'm gonna show you another clip from Anthony Fauci after that. I'm gonna show you that this became political, right? When this became political, the science got left at the door because politics is a zero-sum game. You either have power or you don't. So the moment this became political, it became about acquiring power, which became about narrative warfare rather than actual science.

SPEAKER_07 35:52

It's writing a book. Right. Uh Deborah Burgs, who at one point led the coronavirus task force, weighed in yesterday. Here's what she said.

SPEAKER_11 35:59

If you get on test, instead of quarantine people who are exposed, you just only tell the people who are infected to stay home. That is a very different approach. It worked fabulously in universities. It's why we were able to keep them open. And Secretary DeVos was working on keeping K-12 open. There were solutions, but it became very political. And we all have to be aware, because it was the presidential election year, it was really important for blue states to show that they were taking it very seriously, and they overclosed. And we just have to be honest that that happened. And that's why that discussion from both sides of the aisle and a resolution and a way to go forward is critical so that we can do this right in the future.

SPEAKER_17 36:45

Right. Uh, and she's the one in person who was caught going visiting her family, which told everyone not to visit her family. She's also the one that was on with me who said, Oh, wear goggles. Wear two masks and consider wearing goggles. Can you believe this? So I have no patience.

SPEAKER_08 37:00

Now, Fox doesn't have a lot of room to talk here. Remember, Fox also had a had a mask mandate and a vaccine mandate for their employees. So Fox doesn't exactly have clean hands on this. But she said this became political during a midterm year, and so the governors, right, because Trump gave it to the governors decide, the Democrat governors all went max lockdown. I was talking to my wife about this yesterday. In Washington State, we experienced some of the worst COVID policies. We had a high rate of compliance. We had a high rate of self-enforcement by local businesses. Our local sheriff wouldn't enforce it. But the local businesses, some of them were maniacal. I remember there was one RV store. I needed to go in and buy like a plug part. It was right there. Buy it, go super quick. They refused me service. They refused me service because I wouldn't put on a mask. It was like, seriously, it's like 10 a.m. in the morning. I'm gonna, it's it's like a warehouse. I'm gonna step in, buy this part, walk out. What do you care? Well, we have other customers who care and they make complaints. Oh, so other customers might complain that you're selling stuff to someone without a mask. Yep, can't shop here. All right, well, I'll take my business to Amazon then, right? Which is like starts to make you wonder if that was the intent. Didn't Amazon like explode in uh deliveries during COVID, like way exploded?

Door To Door Vaccines And Bad Claims

SPEAKER_08 38:20

So even Anthony Fauci, right? This became political. In DC, Anthony Fauci and Muriel Bowser went walking around, and I think the director of health for District of Columbia went door to door trying to get people to get vaccinated. Here is one interchange of this day that they went door to door. There's another famous clip that circulates around where the where the guy's like, I'm taking the vaccine when the government tells you to take the vaccine, don't get it, and they're trying to talk them out of it. Well, here's another example of then face to face trying to talk someone into taking the vaccine. Pay attention to the advice they're giving. It's anti-scientific and bad advice in retrospective, very bad advice. And now we know they knew it was bad advice. But Anthony Fauci also makes a very clear statement about Republican states.

SPEAKER_09 39:09

What are we gonna do about those other states?

SPEAKER_16 39:12

Oh my god, they're gonna keep the uh uh outbreak smoldering in the country. It's so crazy. I mean, they're not doing it because they say they don't want to do it. They're Republicans, they don't like to be told what to do.

SPEAKER_29 39:25

Right.

SPEAKER_16 39:25

And we gotta break that, you know, unpack that.

SPEAKER_29 39:28

How are you guys doing with vaccines?

SPEAKER_12 39:31

I'm not having it yet. I'm waiting for them to be able to. Oh, you should get it first. Okay, that way you won't give it to them. Oh, I thought I thought I would give it to them if I get it.

SPEAKER_16 39:41

No, no, not at all. In fact, we gotta get you vaccinated so that if you were to get infected, you could pass it on to them. So you're actually protecting your family by getting him vaccinated.

SPEAKER_08 39:51

Okay, a couple things. The Republicans, they just don't like to be told what to do. We gotta end that, we gotta unpack that. Okay, so just because someone doesn't like to be told what to do, you've gonna make it your mission to uh force it upon them. Second thing, this mother says the truth. She says, Well, I thought if I get it, I could give my kids COVID-19. That is the truth. That is actually what happened. People would get the vaccine and then they would give COVID to other people. They became super carriers. So the advice he's giving is wrong. It's wrong. It's scientifically wrong. And they knew it was wrong, but they're literally going door to door trying to solicit people to get vaccinations. No, you get vaccinated first, then vaccinate your kids. You know, that's that's the way to do it. That's the way to do it. Yazaz. These people are crazy.

Lab Leak Partisanship Gets Challenged

SPEAKER_08 40:35

Yesterday, John Fetterman probably had the best take on the whole thing. Um, he he was the only Democrat yesterday that was introspective, that was introspective about what happened.

SPEAKER_31 40:49

It's not about much more your regrets, but I have one. And and that is early on that there was the theory that the virus could have emerged from the lab. And early on, that became like a right-wing kind of theory. And I thought it seemed to make sense. Now there was a really advanced lab that was close by, and then you have this unknown virus uh out. So uh, but that became a very partisan thing, and now uh it seems now it's more and more emerging theory that that would have come from the lab. Now, you know, I hope, I think, that the next time our nation's facing something like this, we are not become, you know, as I might have been, blinded by the partisan idea that maybe the truth might come from a side that's different than than you are. But I think we should really be willing to pursue truth, no, no matter where that may have emerged, you know, after all of that.

SPEAKER_08 41:55

Ron Cleaver says, or uh Mod Easel says, Fatchy's not wearing a mask. That's right. He probably should have. It would have just completed the whole look. So John Fetterman there is being the most introspective of all the Democrats yesterday. All the other, some of the Democrats kind of tried, oh, this is just a hit job because you did such a good job in public service, blah, blah, blah. I mean, it's just a bunch of nonsense, right? But Fetterman there being like, hey, you know, this became political. It became an ideological line. If you believe it came from a lab, you're Republican. If you believe it came from a wet market, you're a Democrat. This goes on to be exactly what the medical apparatus was the string they were pulling on. It was a it was a divide and conquered kind of a strategy. And the thing is, is even even comedians were making fun of this. Lefties like Jon Stewart and uh, oh, what's his name? Uh uh what's his name? Help me out here, guys. Jon Stewart and I can't remember, I can't remember his name there. Jon Stewart and whatever his name is. Anyways, even even back during COVID on their late show, when Jon Stewart didn't have a show, right? He would make occasional guest appearances. He made a guest appearance, Stephen Colbert. He made a guest appearance on here, Stephen Colbert's late show. He took over for Letterman, if I'm not mistaken. And uh, and he says the thing that everybody would think, and he makes the logical connections. And at the time, Democrats played this off like a joke, like Jon Stewart was making fun of Republicans. When the reality was he was making fun of the Democrats.

SPEAKER_18 43:26

Coffee, I wouldn't do that to you. I wouldn't do that to you. What do you take? But what do you what what do you mean by that? Do you mean like there's perhaps there's there's a chance that this was created in a lab, there's an investigation. A chance? Well, but I don't think there's evidence, I'd love to hear it.

SPEAKER_19 43:40

Novel respiratory coronavirus overtaking Wuhan China. What do we do? Oh, you know who we could ask? The Wuhan novel respiratory coronavirus lab. The disease is the disease delay. That's just that's just a little too weird. Don't you think? They're like, how did this? So wait a minute. You work at the Wuhan respiratory coronavirus lab. How did this happen? And they're like, and you're like, no. Look at the new. Look at the boob. Show me the business card. Oh, I work at the coronavirus lab. Oh, because there's a coronavirus. Look at who happened. How did that happen? Oh, that's the flu into the toe. Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god. There's been an outbreak of chocolatey goodness. Near Hershey Pennsylvania. What is it going to happen? Like, oh, I don't know. Maybe uh steam shovel made it with a cocoa bean. Or it's the chocolate factory. Maybe that's the that could be.

SPEAKER_09 45:14

That could be. Maybe it's the chocolate factory. Maybe it's the chocolate factory in Hersey, Pennsylvania. So they go on. They continue here. It's still good. It's still good.

SPEAKER_18 45:30

That could be away.

SPEAKER_19 45:31

I gave them all tuberculosis.

SPEAKER_18 45:35

That could very well be. And Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins and Anna H have said, like, it should definitely be investigated.

SPEAKER_19 45:41

Stop with the logic and people and things.

SPEAKER_18 45:45

Maybe with the disease. Wait a second. Wait a second. But I think it could be possible, you could be right. It could be possible that they have the lab in Wuhan to study the novel coronavirus diseases because in Wuhan, there are a lot of novel coronavirus diseases because of the bat population there.

SPEAKER_19 46:06

I understand bats. You won't find that Austin Texas has thousands of them. Is there a coronavirus in Austin coronavirus? The only coronavirus we have is in Wuhan. Where they have a lab called what's a lab called again? The Wuhan novel coronavirus lab. I believe that's the case.

SPEAKER_08 46:38

And how stop with the logic and the people and the authorities. There's a lab called the novel coronavirus Wuhan lab. Oh, this is pretty funny. So, you know, the audience is laughing because they're there's laughing. Oh yeah, this is Republicans, they're crazy, you know. Oh yeah. I mean, there's a little coincidence there, but you know, Stephen Kobert, they're they're kind of playing a part, but it's it's legit. I mean, they really, they really were that dumb. They really were that dumb. You know, believe it or not, they actually were that dumb. So that's

Calls For Punishment And Lawyer Drama

SPEAKER_08 47:10

that's that. Tommy Tuberville was on the news yesterday after the hearing, and he really unleashed on Tony Fauci. Tony Fauci is in a lot of trouble here. And uh I don't think it's I don't think it's over for Tony Fauci at all. I think Tony Fauci's gonna continue to have some serious consequences from COVID and then his lack of candor in front of the Congress.

SPEAKER_01 47:33

Uh the gain of function in the Wuhan lab. Uh, now we know that it is was released from the Wuhan lab. Now, whether it was on purpose or not on purpose, it killed millions of people and he lied through his teeth. He should be locked up before he leaves this building today and put in prison and then put on trial in front of the American people. We lost 20,000 to 30,000 people in Alabama alone. And I hope every damn one of them sues this Dr. Fauci, puts him in court. If we can't put him in prison, let's put him in court every day for the rest of his life where he where he has to be punished and listen to the death that he caused. Uh again, uh the vaccine, the death, the lies that he gave to President Trump, and then he took over for Biden, and Biden didn't know what day it was. And so he was free to just run loose across this country and just lie when the truth he knew was totally different than what he was telling. And again, it's embarrassing for what this is the this is the best country on the face of the earth. And we had this fool uh as the NIAID director. I mean, it's just absolutely uh appalling that he killed people and people are still dying because of this vaccine. Who knows what what any of these people that are dying every day are dying from? And a lot of it, I think, is from that uh vaccine that he forced on the people and used us as guinea pigs. It's appalling.

SPEAKER_08 48:49

He used us as guinea pigs, it's appalling, caused a ton of death. Who knows what's going to happen ultimately, right? But I think he's he's in hot water. I think that I think the Republicans smell blood in the water on this one. They know he lied. It's atrocious. The consequences of his lies were huge. And it's evidenced by that. Tony Fauci hired one of the biggest sleazebag criminal defense attorneys. This is this is like who OJ Simpson calls. You know, actually it's not. But you know, this is like, you know, known for representing the people that are bad news bears. Anthony Fauci hired him as an attorney. Bernie Moreno addressed this yesterday, right? I mean, why would you hire attorneys like that?

SPEAKER_28 49:32

Mr. Fauci, do you know who David Schertler is?

SPEAKER_16 49:38

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

SPEAKER_08 49:44

If you remember yesterday, one of the attorneys was hauled out. Rand Paul had him removed. That's that attorney. So he's saying, I don't know who he is. You know, uh Fifth Amendment. He knows who he is. It's his attorney.

SPEAKER_28 49:54

Well, let me tell you who David Schertler is for the audience because uh he was ejected by the chairman. He's a high-profile criminal attorney. He's represented uh some really great people, like uh Senator Bob Menendez. Maybe that's uh somebody who my Democrat colleagues might remember, uh, took gold bars as bribes from the Egyptians. And there's an article here in the Washington Free Beacon that talks about why you would hire a guy like Derver Shirtler. And the comment is if you're in deep shit, that's who you call. Do you feel like you're in deep shit?

SPEAKER_16 50:30

On the advice of counsel, I respectfully decline to answer based upon my rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.

SPEAKER_28 50:38

Clearly, what you think today is that somehow you're above reproach. Somehow you feel like you don't need to be treated like a normal American.

SPEAKER_08 50:55

You don't need to be treated like a normal American. He's in some deep trouble, deep trouble. So we'll see. I mean, a lot of the commentary on X is, you know, okay, another hearing, yeah, yeah, yeah, exposure, exposure, but still no accountability, still no arrests, still nobody that's been held

Influencers As Funnels And Psyops

SPEAKER_08 51:14

accountable. Meanwhile, we the peasants get thrown a bunch of bread and circus and we get thrown a bunch of eye candy. There's something that popped up, this was probably Monday. Okay. On Monday, for the first time ever, I saw this girl pop up in my timeline algorithm. And she was making political commentary. The clip I saw was one going around about her commenting on Ilhan Omar. Okay. And I remember thinking, first of all, not a great hot take, very edited clip. And second, what am I looking at? Right. I what I was looking at was not, okay, this is a podcast, right? I'm chest up, I'm in a little corner studio thing here, right? This is a podcast. Sometimes you see a podcast where you see a full angle of people sitting at a table or whatever. Well, what this was is this is what I call a thirst trap, right? So here is this uh clip here. So this is this is the woman, and uh, you know, obviously very interesting camera angle. And we'll just take a listen for a second.

SPEAKER_12 52:13

Can we please stop addressing Ilhan Omar as a congresswoman? I mean, she's literally a fraud. This is a person who came to the USA to corrupt its people and resources. She went from negative $65,000 net worth to over $30 million and denies it. She denies it and she blames it on an accounting error. That's not all. Then there's the winery with no clear location.

SPEAKER_08 52:34

Okay, so you get the point. Some talking points. Yeah, we want to hear that stuff. That's good. But what what am I again? What am I really looking at here? So Lauren Whitsky, who was a ran for Senate and she's kind of an extremist in her own right, but she said five years ago we had brilliant conservative female thought leaders like Michelle Malkin blowing the lid on mass migration and pissing off CPEC donors so badly that she was never invited back. Right? There was a real wave of powerful conservative influencers. Now, however, this is what you're getting pushed as a conservative influencer. Conservative female talking heads are just a bunch of shallow blank blank blank, right? So this is this I saw this clip, I'm like, this is retarded. And then I started seeing comments like this pop in. Well, a little more research was done on this girl. This is Ajax, right? Is everyone missing the fact that she's an OnlyFan girl escort and all her content is simply a funnel? So her content is getting promoted to conservatives. She's got conservative talking points, but obviously through interacting with her channel and you know, joining her newsletter, blah, I don't know. I have no idea. I'm not clicking on it. I don't want to know. But it eventually is gonna lead you sunk back to her OnlyFans page, right? Hi, I'm Savannah. I'm glad you found me. And you can read that. It's horrendous. So, you know, it it influence campaigns are real. Pay attention to who you're listening to, pay attention to where they get their money, who's paying them. You know, it it Laura Loomer, for all the great that she's done, anything she says about Israel or now Ukraine, I can't trust it because I believe she's on the payroll. Tucker Carlson, right, when he makes this these unfounded defenses of Islam, I'm like, you're on the Qatari payroll. Okay, we can just acknowledge it. It's just get your bias out there. Everybody's got to get paid. Everybody's free to do advertising for whoever wants to pay them, right? We the people, we can't sit back and expect them to disclose their biases, to expect them to disclose with us, hey, this is an ad, right? Not everything in the world, like in a magazine where you open up to an ad and it looks like a great article, and then you see the little fine print that says promotional material. Not everything is going to be disclosed like that. Sometimes you're actually going to have to filter the information, right? You're gonna have to filter the information and judge for yourself. That's that's really all I ever want, is I just want people to be able to make decisions for themselves.

Lawfare And The CCP View Of Law

SPEAKER_08 54:54

A couple things going on here. I kind of want to set a little bit of context. In our modern system, as people, as peasants, we often have this impression that our government is benevolent. Why? Because we the people believe we're benevolent. So we project that onto our government. We call this projecting our goodness onto them, right? We project onto them that they that we don't steal, you know, we want to do unto others as they would do unto us. So we project onto the government this concept that they won't steal. Yet they do every day. Right? They do every day. Well, we wouldn't want to commit murder on innocent people. Our government, nope, droning civilians, don't care. Kids in an elementary school in Iran, bombs away. You know, again, not saying like everything we do that's bad is not because there's a justifiable reason. You got to look at stuff in context. But nonetheless, the point still proves we project our goodness onto the system. This happens with attorneys as well. Most people don't go to law school thinking, you know what, I want to become an apparached in the system and I want to, you know, enslave people through law fair. They don't think that. They go to law school thinking they're gonna promote justice and truth and save the innocent and put the guilty in prison and whatever reasons they have. But then the system kind of corrupts people. Some systems are more overt about their corruption, some systems are less overt. This phrase lawfare that has really been popularized by Donald Trump and the overt, obvious lawfare that happened against him. It's a common concept. And it's actually a very common concept that was well established going all the way back to Marxist writings, Trotsky, Lenin, they all understood one of the ways that you've got to control the population in order to accomplish your utopic end goal of collectivism, is you need to control the legal system. If you control the legal system, you can create a mechanism by which you can compel people to do things under a quote legal framework. So the law becomes the tyrant, not the people executing the law. There's a woman named Lily Tang Williams. She ran, I want to say she was in, uh, I want to say she was in uh I want to say she was in Maryland. She could have been up in New York. I honestly can't remember. But she was on with the Tim Pool show and she is a she is a um, she is a refugee from China. So she she escaped China when she was young, came to America, and when she was in China, she went to go to law school. And she reveals something about how collectivists, how communist and socialist governments and leaders view the profession of law.

SPEAKER_00 57:28

I can make a difference. I can have a rule of law, but after I went to college, my professor first week told us what is a law. Law is a tool for the CCP to govern the Chinese. It's a tool. I said I come to study law for justice, for fairness, so regular people, you know, have a voice to be heard. Like a defended regular people, like my families. No, it's it's a tool. So you got to be politically correct in line with the party. So after Mouse death, I asked my first question. I want to search for truth. In college, I did not get my truth. I was feeling like, oh, I'm a tool. So if I study law, become a lawyer or become a government official, I'm a tool to be used by the party to go govern the people. I feel depressed again. I was totally lost. So I become rebellionist. And uh and thank goodness, in the 80s in college, that time was actually the best time of my life. I get to escape classes, I get to go to actually all the social clubs. And, you know, 80s in China, especially after Deng Xiaoping, decided, okay, you can have dancing parties now. Yeah, we can have a foreign student come here because uh he did a kind of like an open up reform, which is a good thing. So we had like a foreign student professor come to our college. So and they go to our dancing parties too. That's where I met, you know, and one of the actually students who told me to say, oh, Lily, come come to visit me in the foreign student's dormitory. I want to show you something from America. So yeah, so that's that's what I said.

SPEAKER_13 59:11

Uh I went to- This was an American?

SPEAKER_00 59:13

Yeah, American student. So I went to his dormitory. If you're an American student that time in the 80s in China, early 80s, you have guards at your building. Wow. And that means who is in, who is out, you have to register. So when I first went to visit him, I have to tell them my name, my major, my address, to go there, visit who to talk about what and time in, time out. And he, I thought he's gonna show me some beautiful art piece or something, and he showed me the um a declaration of independence, a little pocket-sized constitution. Wow. He's the one who changed my life. You know, I I my English was pretty bad.

SPEAKER_13 59:56

Was the government I I'd imagine that's very illegal to No.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:01

I learned after he told me, do you know about this? I said, No, this is our American funding document. And he just showed me one paragraph where he said we hold this truth to be self-evident. All men are created equal. I could not understand that. He had to explain to me.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:20

But I mean, would he get in trouble if they saw that he had that?

SPEAKER_00 1:00:23

We both will get into trouble. So, so so so next time when I um went back one more time, I I did not mention this at all. I I just say the socialization, I missed go chat. I know we'll talk about something we're not supposed to talk about, but he made my light bulbs turn on. He made my light bulbs turn on.

SPEAKER_08 1:00:46

I almost got emotional listening to that. For the first time in her life, that opening paragraph of the Declaration of Independence was a concept that was foreign to her. It was foreign to her, but it changed her life, right? Changed her trajectory. Because in her heart, she wanted to fight for truth and justice, and then she realized that she was just gonna be a tool of the CCP. I think there's a lot of people that enter into public service or that enter into law practice that feel that way. I know I felt that way when I entered into the septic industry. I thought, I'm gonna do this great thing, have a business, and then I I quickly found out I worked for the health department, right? I was a private business and I could make my own decisions on how to follow their rules. Right? I mean, it was it was really interesting. But the lawyers get used as tools of law fair, tools of control. Collectivists understand that. That they they clearly understood it, they taught it openly to their law students in China, right? This is a tool for the CCP to control the people. You can deflect tyranny onto the opaque smoke monster we call the government, and then we we uh give immunity to the Apparachaks who actually did those things, who actually went and did the law fair, actually went and violated people's

FACE Act Settlement And Weaponization

SPEAKER_08 1:01:59

rights. In America, we've gone through lawfare. This is part of it's around. Our system is designed to try to avoid it as much as possible, but it happens. And under the Biden administration, they practice law fair. Obviously, they came after Trump, they came after people in his orbit, they came after January Sixers, but they also, along with January Sixers, they went after another group of people. These are called the Face Act defendants. These were pro-life protesters who generally would protest around abortion clinics. And because of their activism, because of the protesting around abortion clinics, they were targeted. And many of them were put in prison. In fact, Doug Wyatt, who's probably listening to the show right now, was in Danbury's uh prison with other Face Act people along with Steve Bannon. Well, one of the Face Act arrestees settled a case with the Justice Department, Justice Department yesterday. It was reported on Fox News. This is part of the weaponization of the federal government. And so if the Face Act people do it, I imagine other people who faced weaponization, you know, these lawyers that become knights for the power fight over control of the people, other people who face weaponization, like Jay Sinxers, probably have a settlement upcoming.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:11

A pro-life father of 11 has settled with the Justice Department after being convicted under a 1994 law banning physical intimidation outside abortion clinics, pregnancy resource centers, and houses of worship. He was pardoned by President Trump in January of 25. Vaughn tells Fox News Digital that he recently reached a seven-figure settlement with the Justice Department over his prosecution.

SPEAKER_08 1:03:43

A pro-life father of seven-figure settlement over his prosecution. I like that. I like that, I like those numbers. Don't you like those numbers, Doug? Anyways, like those numbers, and I'm glad to see that there's that's the first um that is the first time. I guess General Flynn got compensated for weaponization against him. Um this is the first time I've seen a plebe, a peasant, get compensated for the weaponization of justice against him. It it's all the concern, weaponization of government. And if you were a part of the political parties, and I say parties because the Uniparty was definitely taking advantage of lawfare to keep the peasants

DOJ Power Fights And Confirmations

SPEAKER_08 1:04:22

down. We know that for a fact, right? And you're part of the old guard, and we're talking old, you know, leaders that have signed on to this uniparty mentality. These are the Jim Corns, the John Cornans of the world, these are the Tom Tillis's of the world, the Murkowskis and Collins of the world, right? Who, in many ways, were protected by the very same system they claim to be fighting against the Democrats, the Democrats. They were part of a uniparty. They would cross the line and vote on certain key issues and things like that, right? So, and and then also they were oftentimes doing a lot of Trojan horse stuff. One of the things John Cornyn will be remembered for is his support of red flag laws. This is a Texas senator doing red flag laws, right? Like holy smokes. Well, if you've been weaponizing government, you would be very concerned about putting someone in who was involved in that weaponization. And what I mean mean involved, I mean a victim of it. Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general right now, was Donald Trump's defense attorney who sat on the defense count as defense counsel against the weaponization. He has the potential to become the next attorney general. And he's done some good things, admittedly, he's done some good things as the acting attorney general. He's taken a lot of ire from others about you know not acting and maybe holding Pam Bondi back. And who knows? It might not actually be the case when the story's told in the end. But John Cornyn is potentially going to be holding up Todd Blanche's Senate confirmation.

SPEAKER_27 1:05:46

But for some reason, I don't know whether it's the staff of the DOJ or who it is, but they simply uh they know what they need to do, but they simply refuse to do it.

SPEAKER_22 1:05:57

So are you a no? Are you a no tomorrow if this comes to a vote?

SPEAKER_27 1:06:00

Well, Senator Grassley tells me that uh we need to know by four o'clock this afternoon uh whether the markup is still on. So we still got a little time and uh hopefully they now recognize the seriousness of this and we'll be uh be responding.

SPEAKER_22 1:06:15

If it stands as it is now, if it stands as it now, if it stands as it is now, right now, would you vote no?

SPEAKER_27 1:06:20

I'm not prepared to vote yes. Let me let me put it that way.

SPEAKER_03 1:06:23

Would you recommend would you recommend to Chairman Grassley that tomorrow's vote is postponed to allow for more time for discussions?

SPEAKER_27 1:06:29

We've still got uh we've still got what uh about another five or six hours. Um that's plenty of time to resolve this, but there's also a um, you know, there's no real meet need to have a meeting if they will just produce the documentation that we've requested. And and it's and that he testified to under oath uh during his hearing.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:51

So I'm not 100% clear what documentation he wants, but whatever it is, you know, they either can't produce it or won't produce it or it doesn't exist. I have a feeling whatever it is that doesn't exist, just my gut feeling about it. So that's gonna be interesting. If they don't confirm Todd Blanche, I believe that means by default he has to leave at the end of his term. It'd be interesting to see who Donald Trump puts in as A, the second nominee, and B, who he puts in as acting attorney general. Wouldn't it be interesting if Bill Polte ended up at the DOJ? And Bill Polte was the guy who then laid off 30 or 40 percent of the staff of the DOJ. And then the new, you know, attorney general can go in there and have none of the Apparacheks and the ideal ideologue loyalist embedded in the DOJ. How great would that be? Ha! We can dream, can't we? We can dream. Okay.

New York Tax Lists And Targeting

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Another thing, too, is um Mandani out in New York made good on one of his promises to tax people who own a second home in New York. So he did this, and one of the things he did in doing this was they released a list. They released released a list of all the homeowners in New York that own a second home that's above a certain value. They released a list, okay. For those of you at 1776live.us, this is just another reason why you should have property titled in a trust.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:28

He's a clown, and now he's putting the list of people that owns homes in New York. You know, don't put people on lists. They haven't done anything wrong. And they're behaving in truly bizarre ways.

SPEAKER_25 1:08:42

National correspondent Brian Yenish joining us live from right here in New York City with more on this. Hi, Brian.

SPEAKER_24 1:08:48

Hi, Bill. Good afternoon. Well, Mayor Zora Mamdani's rollout of this Pied etre tax on luxury second homes in New York City is causing confusion and raising concerns. For one, there is that searchable database of 960,000 properties in the city. It states on that database that all may be subject to the tax. It includes the names, addresses, and home valuations of every property owner in the city, even though just an estimated 31,000 properties meet the basic valuation criteria to qualify for this new tax. Critics say this database makes it too easy to search and even target or harass the wealthy at a time that the mayor has been hostile towards them. Today, Mayor Mamdani said this is not a targeted list, it's a total property role they had to release under state law. Critics also point out Mandani's pied de terre tax is wider in scope than what's been sold to New Yorkers. It's unclear, for instance, how the tax will be fairly levied on condos and co-ops worth more than a million dollars, according to the city's complicated valuation formula. Notices have been sent in the mail, like this one, to property owners who may be taxed. Real estate lawyers and property owners tell us their concern the August deadlines to respond are not enough time to prove they should not be taxed.

SPEAKER_05 1:10:34

There will be people who never get the notice and they're gonna end up paying the tax because they never got an opportunity to supply their information.

SPEAKER_24 1:10:44

Critics say this is the kind of tax that will push out the wealthy and the city's tax base. Mamdani says this tax will raise $500 million for free services like childcare. Those who want to appeal their tax, by the way, have until March of next year. Bill?

SPEAKER_25 1:10:59

All right, Brian.

SPEAKER_08 1:11:07

Yet they released 900 and plus thousand names of people's records, addresses, all their contact info. Uh, hello. I love what John Fetterman said. Don't be on a list, don't put people on a list that didn't do anything wrong. Yes, I've said that a million times. I don't want to be on a list. I don't want to be on a list. I've been on enough lists. I don't want to be on any list. Oh my goodness. You know, it's one of those things. When you let the collectivists get in charge, they're gonna do stuff like that. They're raising taxes to pay for free stuff for people who don't pay taxes, essentially. This is what caused the fall of Rome, right? When there were more slaves and there were more people on the pit on the check than there were people producing the check in Rome, it led one of the major contributors to the fall of Rome. They had to devalue their currency and everything followed from there, right? It was a disaster. This is inevitable, as history has shown us. It is inevitable. When the collectivists take over, they start buying off their support on the low end of the of the demographic spectrum, the socioeconomic spectrum. They start buying off the the plebs, the peasants, with free stuff. And what do they do? They tax the middle and upper classes, depleting the middle and upper class until you have a societal breakdown. And that's really what happens, and that's their intention. I mean, it's it's a controlled demolition of the system. There's no just you just really can't argue one way or the other about it. You see it happen over and over again, and you get someone like Mandami, and he takes what's been brewing for decades and he just accelerates it at a at a speed that is incredible. You know, nobody a year ago thought it would be possible that the city would release information like that, but they did. They did. Oh, just because we want to make sure people know they they they might be on the hit list, they might be targeted. Okay, serious, man. So, and again, just a total mess. And obviously, as you have to pay for things, how do you pay

Fed Holds Rates And Housing Pain

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for things? Usually you're gonna print money. Well, thank goodness we have Kevin Walsh at the Fed chair. So I'm I'm really torn on what the right answer is. The one thing I know I personally don't want to see is I don't want to see interest rates go up, right? I'm hedged against inflation, so I don't care if interest rates go down, cause a little bit of inflation, because it could get the economy stirring. And when money's moving, my objective is just to put myself in the way of some of that money, right? But I like to see money moving. But at the same time, inflation is bad on a whole, it's bad for everybody. And so the right thing to do would be to raise rates in the face of inflation. But the the Federal Reserve has decided to sticker stick stick to its same old tricks. So we listened to a clip yesterday where they talked about how they're going to adjust how they calculate inflation so that they can essentially again get closer to their target inflation. Well, yesterday the Fed had another one of their little press conferences where they announced if rates are going to go up or down, and they ended up deciding they were going to stay the same. So let's listen to Kevin Warsh, and then we'll talk about some of the impact of that.

SPEAKER_21 1:14:00

I'm truly lucky to work with colleagues so capable and mission focused and so determined, like I am, to sharpen the performance of the Federal Reserve. Today, as you know, our committee decided to vote by a nine to three vote to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate at 3.5% to three and three-quarters percent. The committee is continuing its policy of making ample reserves in the banking system. The economy is showing impressive resilience. Even with recent shocks, the trends are positive and reveal solid growth. Job gains have kept pace with the workforce, and the unemployment rate has changed little. Inflation remains elevated relative to the committee's 2% goal. The committee remains resolute. You've heard this before, but we will deliver price stability. I'm truly lucky to work with colleagues.

SPEAKER_08 1:14:59

They're going to deliver price stability. What does that mean? They're going to try to hit that 2% target rate, which they've missed for like 65 months in a row, right? At their calculated inflation. So their solution is not necessarily to raise rates and actually tamp down on inflation. They're going in and they're changing how they calculate inflation again. And so the market was expecting a different signal. And he basically signaled that the economy is resilient and strong, which means it's good, it's going to grow, that they aren't going to lower rates because they don't want to overstimulate it on their end. And they're not going to raise rates because they don't want to slow her down, you know, he it's resilient, aka all signs point bad, and the economy's still ticking. Yeah, it's because the American entrepreneur, okay, and high-tech AI. So in a certain way, it's good. They're going to maintain rates, which is going to create some stability in the market. Um, it's probably not going to spur on the housing market. Um, you're gonna have to get to a point where natural demand is willing to pay those prices. My wife showed me last night um someone was buying a house in the $400,000 range and their mortgage payment was the same as ours. And I was like, whoa, that's crazy. Crazy to me. She says, and the house isn't even nice. So not really great when you hear that from your favorite real estate agent. Yeah, my favorite real estate agent is my wife. So, of course, you've got the Clarity

Clarity Act And Crypto Control Grid

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Act, right? The revamping of the entire banking system and how it works. And the Clarity Act is incredibly important for that. Now, there's arguments both ways. Yesterday we heard kind of an argument against the Clarity Act that it's a surveillance bill. My attitude is like, well, you know, if someone has to dominate how the money system operates on a whole, I want it to be America. I don't want to have a money system that's dominated with a Chinese mentality. I don't want to have all the uh infrastructure built around the protocols of a collectivist communist state. I'd rather have it built around a country, at least like ours, that practices American socialism, right? And why is this important? In China, when you use their money system, if you jaywalk and they catch you on one of their cameras, they will automatically ticket you and deduct it straight from your account. No adjudication, no due process, no appeals. We'll take the money, and then if you want to appeal it, you can try to get the money back. But they take the money first. If they implement that form of a control grid, and if they implement crypt crypto programs that take that into account, here in America, we are not gonna have, we're gonna have to adopt that. And these tech companies are gonna allow for the, you know, a flock camera, take a picture of your jaywalking and charge your Coinbase account. It could be very bad. So it is important that America establish things like hey, if you get a ticket, you get something sent to you, and then you have a summons to appear, or you have an option to pay. Not we just pre-deduct it, right? We want to have due process before punishment. The communist system doesn't allow due process before punishment. It's punishment, and then we'll think about it if we made a mistake, maybe. But the state never makes mistakes. So it is important that the Clarity Act get passed. And obviously, if you think of Bitcoin or cryptocurrency in terms of number go up, then it's a good thing. So here's Cynthia Loomis, who took to the Senate floor yesterday amidst all the chaos to explore us, you know, exhort the Democrats to get on board and pass the Clarity Act.

SPEAKER_29 1:18:20

It's a very good bill. Good for the country, good for consumers, and good for the people we all represent on both sides of this aisle. And after 11 months of giving nearly everything that was asked of us, I am genuinely struggling to understand what else my colleagues across the aisle think it needs before we act. When I was elected to the Senate in 2020, I knew I wanted to work on digital asset legislation because Wyoming's legislature was already years ahead of Washington, building a legal framework for digital asset companies before most of the country was even paying attention. I wanted to do everything I could to keep those companies in Wyoming and more importantly, to keep them in America. The person I have been most proud to work with is Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand of New York. People have raised an eyebrow for years that a Wyoming Republican and a New York Democrat have worked hand in hand on this bill. But we have become genuine friends, and I trust her. In June 2022, we introduced the Lemus Jilla Brand, Responsible Financial Innovation Act together. The first real attempt at a comprehensive regulatory framework for digital assets, dividing oversight between the FEC and the CFDC, and regulating stable coins. That was a 168-page bill. We had to start by deciding whether to create a unique new standalone regulatory framework or lay digital assets over the existing framework. We chose the latter and then we took off from there. Now we reintroduced Lemus Gillibrand in 2023. That was a 274-page bill. It contained provisions that cracked down on mixers and tumblers and crypto ATMs, required plain language customer agreements, and regulated crypto advertising. It was a very strong bill for consumers. From a consumer protection standpoint, it had improved dramatically. That is why I reject any suggestion that this bill is partisan. This bill is bipartisan. It has always been about keeping an industry we want here, here to stay, but regulated in the right way.

SPEAKER_08 1:22:01

I guess we'll see if political partisanship either saves us from the Clarity Act or leads us down the path to hell because China takes lead on cryptocurrencies and uh the new banking system. So it could be really interesting. I'm not a fan of getting a serrage, I'm not a fan of you know all the get rich quick and they're gonna return the gold to us stuff. I don't think that's gonna happen at all. I think they're just gonna continue to over-leverage and fiat maxing is what they're gonna do with with uh cryptocurrencies. But if you're smart, play your cards right, you do Bitcoin self-custody, you can come out ahead in all of this. And, you know, uh I'm torn on the on the Clarity Act. I don't love, you know, I don't love the fact that now they're gonna have clear guidelines on how to prosecute people and use the the crypto world, you know, just like they use the dollar world for leverage and censorship and sanctions and deed banking, et cetera. That can all continue to happen. But at the same time, I do understand that to uh create freedom that the United States needs to put its rules into place and create standards that the world will generally adopt, which is what they did with our current

Final Links And Sign Off

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banking system. All right, you guys, that's it for me today. Don't forget to check out 1776live.us. We have our ignite presentation today focusing on controlling your estate, taking back your fundamental rights. And uh don't forget to visit political remodel.com and take back mycounty.com. And if you're feeling generous, they are getting ready to do their Christmas campaign and doing presents for incarcerated kids over at leftbehindandwithout.org. We'll talk to you guys again.