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and praise. Accept that at that email address. You can also textus three one seven two one zero twenty eight thirty. Texting and data rates may apply, not of course for me, but from your carrier anyway. You know, over the past uh gee, you know it's when you think go backwards in time. There's a lot of things to you know, to take into account, to think about how we got here as a nation, and specifically I mean here as a nation as it pertains to just the political climate,
right. And we've talked about this a lot, but I've I've warned you as you well know, any just as a rational, observant, logically thinking individual, do you know we know that we are about to embark upon the single most intense divisive political season in American history, well in modern American history, let's say that, because of course, and that's the first thing I always want to make sure that we stop and note is that we've had politically
divisive times at various points throughout the history of this country as well. I like to remind people that even according to the second President of the United States, John Adams, when he explained, this is a historical record, this is I believe somewhere in a maybe one of the historical sites in this country, or I believe that there's a placard or something with us on it.
It's elsewhere as well. But basically, John Adams points out that there is during the Revolution, during the American Revolution, it was basically, this is maybe a bit oversimplified, but there were basically three groups of people, and
each of those groups had roughly a third of Americans in them. There were those who were loyal to the king, those who were actual, actual fans of monarchy of dare I say, a type of authoritarianism, those that just wanted to not ruffle the feathers, those that trusted, I guess the king, and all have his infinite wisdom to do what was best for them and for their families, or at least they didn't want to upset the all knowing
king. There were those that were prepared and willing and who took action to fight for their freedom, for their independence. These were the American Revolutionaries. These were folks like Thomas Jefferson and Samuel Adams and just the founding fathers in general, and of course all the people that they inspired and helped to lead to American revolution. And then there was a third group that said, just leave us alone. Care who's in control of what We just want to be
left alone. We want to go about our business. We don't want to be basically thrust into this civil war. And so even when we're on the side that the American Revolutionaries were on the side of victory, the odds were typically not not in their favor. You go back to the Civil War, the Civil War, I mean, obviously, this nation reached a point, reached a point to where it was prepared, God forbid this should ever happen.
But they were prepared to or they were divided enough and were convicted or angry enough, or whatever, how you want to look at this different reasons for different folks, I imagine, but they were prepared to actually go to war with their fellow Americans. And you look at the people that led us through those times, I'm reminded of George Washington and his leadership. You know, he was the unanimous choice. It's a remarkable thing. He was the
unanimous choice of the founders. They all wanted him to be the President of the United States. In fact, they wanted him to run a third term, be president for a third term. And he basically told them, if you can't this nation can't work without me, this nation isn't going to make it. And so that's kind of where we got the idea of a two
term president eight years. Even though we of course had that, we didn't actually put that into set that into stone until Fdr Franklin Delano Roosevelt back in the what was it the thies and forties when he actually served I believe the
beginning of a fourth term. And that's when we you know, the the new it was set in place that you could only have to consect well, two terms as president of the United States anyway, So there was been points in history where there has been contention before, but this is largely new to many of us today. This in modern times, I suppose. You know, there was a lot of tension, of course, back in the sixties
and seventies, and I just it was different. It was it was different, but there was still tension, especially as it pertained to the Vietnam War and the protests and all that civil rights movement. Of course, a lot of a lot of intense moments. But for those that those, those things are far enough in the past to where most Americans can't can't really relate to
that. They may be if we're lucky today, maybe they've read a book on it, maybe they've seen video on this, but they didn't personally experience it. And I used to learn from Rush, and he had a way, of course, but he said that history began for most people, history begins on the day that they are born. That's unfortunately the perspective of a lot of people. They don't really think too much or grasp too much the
history that existed before them. I'm reminded of some of these men on the street interviews that I see where individuals are asked what y'ared in America when its independence, and people say things like nineteen twenty four, and ridiculous things. Who did America fight to gain her independence from? And you'll hear nations like Poland and Czechoslovakia or whatever. You hear the most ridiculous and absurd things, because again, these are just things. I mean, you know, there's
so many things that have gotten us to this point. I think one of them is we've been blessed with so much prosperity. Last week we talked about the true story of Thanksgiving. We talked about how the pilgrims before that second Thanksgiving. We talked about how they learned, or how Bradford would say,
how God showed them, taught them a better way to live. And that was basically in a free market economy, not where everyone owned an equal share of everything, but rather where people had their own private property and could do with it what they wished. And that basically ignited kind of an entrepreneurial spirit. It gave people an opportunity to reap the rewards of their hard work,
of their sacrifice, of maybe some risk taking. Before then, if you worked hard, you actually got less than you worked for because the people who worked less got more. Because everything was equalized, everything was equalized. So if you were a slacker, you actually got more than you participated in producing. If you were an achiever, you got less than you produced. So it was it served to make well, It served to deincentivize people, to
make them less motivated. Why work hard when Billy sits on his duff all day, we get the same thing at the end of the day. That doesn't make sense. And so anyway, we talked about that the true story of Thanksgiving last week, but I don't think you know that that started. That was just the very very beginning of this is four hundred years ago.
But now we have this prospers just unimaginably prosperous economic engine in this country that has survived so many, so many attempts, so many attempts that had been thrown at it by these radicals, these lovers of big government, who want to micro manage everything to the nth degree. This economy keeps chugging along.
It's almost it seems unstoppable. There's always unless a leftist is running the governments at the moment that there's you can generally, of course, there's been tough times, the depression and so forth, but you know, there's there's opportunities for jobs. In fact, I've shared before I'm always amazed by this. We have we pay for entertainment, say in the form of let's say professional football. Then there's people whose career is to talk about entertainment, and we
have people that are in sports talk and that sort of thing. So people who are talking strictly about the entertainment. Then we have another degree. It's so prosperous that we can have degrees of entertainment. Drilling another level down into entertainment. You've got people who talk about the fantasy aspect of professional football or basketball. Right, We've got fantasy sports, so meaning there are people whose entire career is to talk about a fantasy of which players you would have on
your team. And I'm just I'm not criticizing, I'm just saying this is where we've gotten as a country. But you have people who take entertainment, say football, and then there's a fantasy aspect of the entertainment, as though you could build your own team, a fantasy team of entertainers. Which again I don't mean any of this bad. I'm just saying it's so prosperous that we've gotten to that point. It's so prosperous to where people can sit around
and dream up problems make them bigger than they really are. You know, it's amazing to me. It's amazing to me if you look at some of the skeptical questions that people might have say about God, just as an example, these questions more times than not, more times than not come from places that have reached a level of prosperity where people can sit around and think about
these things in an ironic way. Some of the people who have suffered the most don't question God to the same degree that some of us Americans or people who have lived in the West under prosperity have dreamed up concocted as we've sat around and sipped our chardonnay or whatever, and some you know, Ivory Tower, some academics and so forth. But it's so prosperous, this nation is. It's so prosperous that I think people begin to dream up things that's not
rooted in reality. They either create problems and you look, I look at things like the trans movement and so forth. This is this is an example, in my humble opinion, of that where people have sat around we have no real direct problems of day to day survival, going out and you know, hunting something and bringing it in, or we starve and so we create other problems, or we magnify other issues. And I'm not saying there's not
Please don't misunderstand. I'm not saying there's not problems and people have to deal with other things psychologically and all that. I'm not commenting on that. I'm just saying that there's certainly an element that says these problems can be created because we're so overly prosperous this nation has been. And so you get these groups.
You get these groups who sit around and they talk about things, and they develop and deepen these worldviews into you know, they sit around on social media day they've got a way to connect and to share ideas and to build movements. And you can almost have a subculture that exists only online, for example, that average Americans may not even know. It's not out there in the world these you know, in the real world where we're walking around running
into these folks. They're organizing and communicating online and then they start to publicly display their thoughts and ideas and opinions, and it can be shocking at times. Where are these folks come from? How did they come up with these ideas? How could they be so far off from reality? And so it's in that climate I guess that we exist today as a nation. We have folks who have, because of prosperity, have been able to sit around not
really be productive members of society. You know, I'm amazed sometimes at how little people do and actually get paid. Some of you work your tails off. I'm not saying that this is universal, but there are a lot of folks out there that don't do anything and get pretty good pay. And it's again all due to the massive amounts of prosperity that we have, and so we were designed to have some sort of battle, right. I think there was a book years ago, and I've got to take a break. I'm
a little long here, but there was a book years ago. What's the John Elders was the author. Minute was that book? Eyes? Do you remember? Minute? Off to look it up during the break. But anyway, he talked about how every man has a battle to fight. We'll look it up during the break. I will look it up now. And there's an element of being a human being where we need to have something to fight. And when everything is you know, economically prosperous and it's relatively peaceful.
I know it's gotten more intense, but relatively peaceful. We don't deal with some of the things that people have had to deal with historically around the world. Wow, that heart there. It is a great book, by the way, I loved that book anyway. So these these things begin to fester and to grow, and there's real problems. So I'm not glossing over that. I'm just saying that there's there's a lot of factors into this. So
we create this political tension. There's the echo chambers, they're the massive hatred of President Trump. There's people who have been demonizing him. And of course you got that factor too, those in government who are absolutely terrified of someone like Trump coming in and basically uprooting their cozy little existence there inside the bureaucratic state, the deep state, the swamp. And you get all these factors working together, and now we've got a clash of ideologies, a clash of
worldviews, and this battle is being fought. It's being waged metaphorically on the political battleground. And I told you and you know this, that this is going to be the most intense political season that we've had in modern history. This is not going anywhere away. So with that being said, timeouts in order want to play some soundbites next segment. One of them is from Michael Cohen. I just it's incredible. I think I've got one from Whoope Goldberg
on the View and you'll hear this rhetoric, I mean the rhetoric. Remember, we are a year a little bit less, almost eleven months away from election day. There's a mystery pneumonia virus going around China, supposedly just in time for the election cycle. Anyway, you've got all this stuff brewing,
bubbling beneath the surface. It's starting to rear its ugly head here as we get into soon to be twenty twenty four and the actual year of the camp or the election, the actual physical start of primary season, which is just a little bit less than two months away now. Anyway, I want to share what's the craziness that's already being said. And this is just the beginning. It is going to get very rabid, very out of control. So we need to be prepared for that, so quick, time out play these
sound bites. On the other side of this break. Be back in the minute, my friends. Welcome back, my friends. So for the break, I mentioned to you that we were going to play some sound bites. Play some sound bites of some folks who are already in maximum fear mongering mode. These folks have absolutely lost their ever loving minds, and they know, they know without a shadow of doubt that the only chance they have, well,
there's two chances. One, oh boy. One is if they can cause people to be so afraid of a second term of Trump that they'll go and push the button for the other guy, no matter who it is. That's what happened in twenty twenty. Well, it's a lot packed into that
statement. The other is if they can somehow pull off something sketchy. We'll just say that if this is about ideas, if this is about the direction of the country, if this is about whether someone's life was better in prior to, you know, during Trump's administration versus Biden's, this is not even remotely close. Polling shows this. I know we're still a ways away, but that look, it's it's really bad. For it's really bad. You know. People will point out that polling can change, and you hear me
say that polling is just a tool, but it's still a tool. It's still a gauge. I know there can be some funny business going on with polling and all that. I know there's things called push polls. I know that the way that the questions are asked, who they call, what's the sample size of Republicans and Democrats, all that stuff can factor in obviously to the result of the poll. But it's still is still a tool, and
it typically I would I would dare say almost always. I would even go as far to say, oh, I hate to be I hate to say something that. There may be one exception to somewhere, but virtually every time, every time that I'm aware pulling, typically the closer we get to the election moves closer, it actually benefits the republic And I think there's lots of reasons for that. One of those reasons is because they're trying to communicate a
message that people don't like the Republican candidate or whatever. They're trying to shape public opinion with polls versus reveal it anyway. But all that being said, it rarely comes out where the Republicans' poll numbers are fantastic. And then it shifts dramatically to the other, to the Democrat anyway, So they so they've got a mess. They know that though Democrats have a mess. So Michael Cohen, does he have his own show? I don't know. I can't
be very good to listen to. But here it is Michael Cohen. I don't know if yeah, he's got a show. He's got a show. Here he's interviewing a congressman or senator that's not even relevant. He just goes on a rant here. And I want you to hear this rant. I want you to listen to the picture he paints. I want you to listen to the words he uses and how he describes what a second Trump campaign or excuse me, Trump term would look like. Now the audio is not feeding.
She was all right, I'm taking a break. This is aggravating a heck for me. All right, reconnect this. Sorry about the technical difficulty here. This happens sometimes when you're playing a sound bite. But let me figure this out during the break, quick time out my friends back in just a minute. I'm not gonna believe this, but literally literally, as it went to break, the SoundBite played through my head through the system. It would not do it. I cannot. You would not believe. You would
not believe when this acts up the system. Here it it works until I hit try to trigger the ad anyway, That's what it did last segment. So let's see, let's see if it cooperates. This segment, Michael Cohen doing his best to convince people not to vote for Trump by scaring them into believing that folks are going to be sent to Guantanamo Bay. That's right, my friends. Guantanamo Bay is the destination for many people who are the political
enemies of Trump. If you listen to Michael Cohen here it is I hope he is look at that this sounds I mean, think about this. We're talking about Donald Trump, a guy who's twice impeached for indictments ninety one criminal charges against him, you know, a sexual assaulter. I mean, on and on and on, his company found you know, criminally, you know, I should say civilly liable for fraud, et cetera. We can go on and on, and yet there's still like seventy million people that are following
this authoritarian wannabe. Do they not re anything? Do we need to sort of like dumb down the New York Times article for them, or even the New York Post article for them, or some article for them, so that they understand that if you vote, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote for the end of democracy. And I personally don't want to be led around. I don't want anybody telling me, as they're doing already right now, what you can and can't do in your bedroom. I don't want them to
talking, turning on and saying who can and who can't vote. All of a sudden, you're gonna have somebody knock down your door, and it's gonna be Trump's brown shirts pulling you out and sending you off to guantanamobey. And I know that sounds hyperbolic, but I know him so well. Yes, I know what's on his mind, and I know what he intends to do. He's looking to stere the piss out of everyone so that nobody, and
I mean nobody, like the way Kim Jong un runs nor Korea. He wants to run the United States of America that way, the way that Vladimir Putin controls Russia. He wants to control America the way that Mohammed ben Selman controls in Saudi Arabia. He wants to control America, the city. I mean, it's the stupidity of this. And you know what, it's not even that you know when I describe well, how they how they do this,
it's exactly what he did. They start going through, they start listening the number of indictments, the number of criminal charges, the number of well court cases, I should say, the number of whatever. You know, they make grandiose claims about Trump being sexual, whatever, whatever. They just start throwing these things out. I'm surprised he didn't say in office Trump lied thirty thousand, three hundred and sixteen times or whatever the stupid number is.
This is how they go about doing this. Do we not read Come on, Michael, you know if you want to persuade, if you truly want to persuade somebody, I actually just read this the other day, and it goes along a lot with what you know. It well, it goes along perfectly with the philosophy behind this program. You ask questions, you listen, you seek to understand. And by the way, persuasion is something you do with someone, not to someone. Is this is bullying tactics? What is
this? Their strategy is to get you or me, or the American people to be so afraid of being in this group of people that have been attacked and maligned and so forth, that we just say, fine, I capitulate, I give in. I'm voting for Biden, just so, just so I can show the world how smart I am, just so I can prove to Michael Cohen, just so I can prove to Michael Cohen that this is something I read. I read the New York Times. Michael, please please
know that I read the New York Times. Please know that come on, this is it's beyond stupid. Here's woop Be Goldberg on that wonderful show The View, talking about, well, we get what we deserve with Trump.
Here she is, well, listen, if he if he, if he gets re elected, we deserve what we get if we wait, if we put him back in, if we put him, if he gets back in, we deserve what we got because it meant that we were not loud enough or strong enough, or that a constitution wasn't strong enough to keep this bozo out. Well, you have James working against the good, and the whole world is getting a little weird. I mean, they just put a fascist
into an Argentina. Argentina, don't cry from me. Argentina has never been the pinnacle of democracy, and jokers and clowns abounds. We get what we deserve. We were too stupid. If we vote for Trump, we deserve to be authoritarian under the rule of an authoritarian regime. And this is beyond ridiculous, my friends. But this is this is all they've got. What are the reasons to not vote for Trump because he's going to be a dictator?
I've got the best one of all is actually one from Scarborough Morning Joe that was out. It was actually last week last week, I think right before Thanksgiving. I just haven't had time to play it. I'll play it and it's a little bit longer, but it's I would even say it's worse than Cohen's. Cohen wants people to think that Trump is going to send his special secret police after them and throw them in guantanam obey. I'm it is
Meanwhile, they do this, They do this simultaneously. These two things are happening at the exact same time. You have Trump being indicted. He has four criminal cases that he's fighting that are in different parts of the country. They have weaponized the Department of Justice against him and against others. Dare I say, and we're not supposed to even pay any attention to that. It's
this, It's amazing to me. It is amazing to me. And it reminds me of stories that I've heard that I read years ago from Joseph about Joseph Stalin. Stalin, of course, the brutal communist thug dictator, an actual dictator. I'm surprised Cohen didn't reference Stalin. Maybe Cohen didn't know about Stalin. Maybe Cohen is the one that's not reading. I don't know. But Stalin was the brutal dictator and the communist Soviet Republic. He in prison,
well, he killed is it twenty million? Twenty million of his own people? Is the estimate? Brutal, brutal dictator, thug, legitimate brutal dictator. Ironically, if you go to university campuses around this country, there's a lot of folks there that defend the likes of Joseph Stalin, that defend the likes of Mao Sedong, who, by the way, the Chinese communist dictator thug killed reportedly sixty million, I think is the number that they give
to Mao. Ultimately, we don't know it was massive amounts of people, but I've read stories not only did they kill people, they also put them into camps, into gulags, political prisoners, people who needed to be re educated, and so forth. That I mean people that, honestly, Michael Cohen, Michael Cohen would have been arguing, this is the way I look at it. If you want to know who's on whose side, look at who's weaponizing the government. Now, look at who's trying to do everything they
can to prevent using the government. Not just using argument. They can say whatever they want, they can campaign however they want, but using the government, using the Department of Justice to go after political opponents. Michael Cohen apparently is cool with that. Michael Cohen, if history was the same, group of people was to be laid into the reality of the world of the Soviet
Communist Republic back in the what sixties or whatever Stalin was. Of course before that, Stalin World War Two, so it'd have been fifties when he was really kind of getting things really really going there in the communist utopia. But anyway, so Stalin would have had people like Cohen making the case against his political adversaries. I remind would point out to Michael Cohen, which side do you really think you would be on in the nineteen fifties during the during that
period of time. Where would you have been in the nineteen thirties, Where would you have been the nineteen forties, fifties, sixties, during this whole build up of brutal regimes around the world in the twentieth century that killed more
than one hundred million of your own people. And as this is going on, as it's really going on now, it's not obviously to the extent that they dealt with in those places, but as we have people in power today that are weaponizing the government, that are getting i mean building you talk about building it like an oligarchy. Look at what these the ruling class has done. Look at what they've done, Look at how they've allegedly I'm going to
use the word allegedly enriched themselves. I'm gonna say this. Look, it's terrible with what's happened to these hostages. This first American that was released as a four year old girl, and absolutely atrocious what she's she's been through. But reports are and I'm just look, I'm just I don't know. I'm just sharing information. I'm not that that doesn't change anything that she's going through
what I'm about to say, but it is, it's just it. It's worth mentioning that her family, that poor four year old little girl, her family. I'm her aunt or someone not her mom or dad. I think it's an aunt I believe was one of the people that purchased Hunter Biden's art. It's just and again that that may be a coincidence because there's obviously a limited number of hostages. And I'm not I'm just saying. I'm just saying
that there is so much crap and corruption hunter Biden's art. He just got me to thinking about that is why I had to give you the bridge there. So I just read that as I was preparing for the show. The bridge to corruption is right? Is it's right there? I mean the Hunter Biden's art. If it's as worth, if it's worth as much as they want you to believe it's worth, I think Hunter should start doing auctions for the federal government. You want to get rid of thirty three trillion dollars or
thirty four trillion dollars of debt, give Hunter Biden a paint brush. Let him get after it. Let him just go to town. He'll have that paid off by the next weekend. The rate that he's getting for some of his paintings, it's just preposterous. It's preposterous. It's the same sort of crap that happened in these Soviet oligarchies, right, these communistic regimes, which was authoritarian, but there was a group. There was a group that was living high on the hog. There was a group that was on all of
the deals and so forth, that were fitting from everything. And then there was the peasantry, the people that couldn't survive because they had no way because the government was a boot upon their neck. And Cohen's out here comparing Trump to that. It's just Authoritarians don't cut taxes. Authoritarians don't reduce the level of bureaucracy. Authoritarians don't do things that are in agreement with religious freedom.
I mean, it's remarkable how historically stupid some of these comments are. That I hear anyway, time outs in order to tack my friends back in just a minute, I want to back my friends. By the way, you know that we're marching towards the end of the year. You know that we are. I mean we're knocking on the doorstep. Of December, the twelfth month of the year, health insurance premiums are set to increase five to eight percents. What I've read in twenty twenty four, your insurance may be going
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him out I sell health dot com. So, friends, I don't have a lot of time here, but I do want to say there's one other clip that I've got, one other SoundBite that I've got that I wish I had time to play today, and you would find it on the website and the stack of Stuff. You'll find it. You'll see it there. You go to to HP show dot com. Just go to the Stack of stuff and go to play the clip from Joe Scarborough. I've just run out of
time. He says that Trump's gonna execute people, He's gonna imprison, execute, drive from the country. He says, look at his past. It's not really it's not really hard to read. Absolutely delusion on my friends, Quick time out back in a minute, Welcome back, my friends, that is the actual clip, the SoundBite, the quote from Joe Scarborough. That's what he actually said. He actually said, and I quote Trump will well he said he but Trump will imprison, he will execute whoever he is allowed
to imprison, execute, drive from the country. Just look at his past. It's not really hard to read. That is what Scarborough says Trump is going to do. It's remarkable, really, it's absolutely delusional, insane, ridiculous. I just we know what's coming. We know it's going to get worse. Buckle up for the most divisive point politically speaking in your life. Twenty sixteen will look like a joke. Twenty twenty will look like a joke. I've got to go, my friends. Thanks for listening, See you
tomorrow. SDG