With the evidence is of cancer that has consumed so much of America's political life by elevating the worst amongst us to some of the highest positions of political power. And when they get there, because they are unprepared. They are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about
their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. It is April eleventh, and there are two hundred and eight days left until the American people will choose the next American commander in chief. This is the warning. Mike Turner from Ohio is the chairman of House Republican Intelligence Committee, and his colleague, Mike McCall of Texas is the chairman of the House Foreign Relations Committee. The two men said
something totally obvious but still rather remarkable. What they said is that Russian propaganda has influenced, has penetrated, has affected their colleagues. Think about that Russian propaganda has reached its way into the House of Representatives and into the Republican cloak grow where it has swayed the opinions. Now, what does this mean? What is Russian propaganda? Is it a magical elixir, a secret element, some type of enigmatic powder
that wasps through the vents. It's none of those things. What it is is is carefully constructed and packaged lies. And those lies have merged and melded with Donald Trump's magalies. There is a practical effect, an outcome, a cause, an effect, a consequence for a society. When the president of the United States over four years times lies by documented count more than thirty five thousand times to the American people, the incessancy and constancy of the lies has a practical
effect in the end. What it does is it erodes the ability of normal people to distinguish what is real and what is not, what is true and what is fake, what is false and what is real, What is the lie and what is the truth? And the distinguishment between what is the lie and what is the truth is elemental in a democracy because in a democracy, it is the people that are sovereign. Specifically, the American government is constructed on the basis of a republic of the people,
by the people, for the people. If the people can't tell what is real, can't tell up from down, down from up, red from blue, blue from red, then we are in big trouble. Democracies, the United States in particular, are constructed on truth, on elemental truths about the dignity of the human being, about this premissy of the individual
over any collective. These ideas about the dignity of life are perhaps most clearly and best manifested in these words from the American Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal and endowed by a creator, with certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This is a truth, an inalienable truth, that is at the center of the idea that created the United States of America, which has endured for nearly two hundred and fifty years.
But there are other ideas, and every one of those ideas subordinate the dignity and then the freedom and the liberty of the individual below the power of the state, or a party, or a man, or all three acting together in concert with the man declaring that I am the party, the party declaring that we are the state. When this happens, it's a recipe for atrocity and evil.
The most famous examples of lies overwhelming reality, consuming the world and a fire of rage and hate and violence was what happened in Europe during the nineteen twenties and thirties and forties, with the rise of the Nazis in Germany and the genocide they perpetrated and committed. All of it was built on a mountain of lies and delusions.
Lies that the Germans were a superior race, a master race, and that all around them were lesser people, some of them needed to be annihilated, exterminated, while others simply could exist as slaves. The German people would live in a paradise of open space, in an agrarian society where they would multiply, having many, many children, while all around them slave laborers would till the soil in their perfect utopia.
It was madness. But this idea, like all of the other ideas, all of the other isms, at its core, is built around a lie. And that lie is always sold on the belief that a man, a party, something can cure all the problems by blaming it on some type of common enemy, always the easy scapegoat for the Nazis. It was the Jews, who made up one percent of the German population and were held liable by the Nazis for all the wrongs that had come to Germany from
the defeat in the War of Aggression. Everything was blamed on one percent of the population. Today, there are similar lies being told by an autocrat, by a dictator who is waging a war of a great of violence, a war that involves kidnapping children and shipping them east, a war that involves systemic rape and murder and brutality under
the premise that the nation of Ukraine does not exist. This, of course, is a lie, and the lies that support it, the fake history that embodies it, or what Russian propaganda is. The notion that the war that is being fought is some type of reaction defensively by Russia to a greedy and over expanse of NATO. The notion that this is repeated on the floor of the United States House of
Representatives and in the Republican cloakroom. This propaganda, this lie by a foreign enemy at the disadvantage of our democratic action and the cause of freedom, is something that should be sickening to all Americans, because to fall for propaganda requires you to be something requires you to be a dupe,
a fool, a vessel that can be tricked, manipulated. And so when you see people like Marjorie Taylor Green and all of the loons and all of the cynics who have been so easily manipulated by the Kremlin, remember this that their manipulation has made life more dangerous for all of us, for all of our children, for all of the people in the world, because it serves violence, it serves the cause of dictatorship, that is attacking of people who wish to be free, who wish to have their
own life, language, their own traditions, their own customs. When two Republican chairmen say, when we look around, what we see are our colleagues who have been overcome, who have become dupes to foreign lives by a hostile country that has been our enemy for eighty years, trying to undermine America's standing in place in the world, which is the lynchpin and the guaranteur of peace and security, not just
for the American people, but for all people. Understand what these comments mean, Understand the honesty of them, how important they are. With the evidence is of cancer that has consumed so much of America's political life, elevating the worst amongst us to some of the highest positions of political power. And when they get there because they are unprepared. They are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to
lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. All propaganda is immoral, because all propaganda is a lie. We must remember this and understand that even when it comes from two complicit Republican chairmen, that when they tell the truth about the infestation at hand, that we must take
it seriously. There has never been an era in American life where there has been more voracious foreign influence directed openly at American policymakers with no rebuttal and no consequence, whether it's the army of Saudi agents and Katari agents and influence peddlers representing who knows what, dictator who knows what all, or gark from where that are all over Washington, or the obvious efforts of the Russians which are parroted every night, a mere shadow of what you can see
on Moscow on Fox News, lie after lie after lie, madness after madness, conspiracy after conspiracy. To the American people, that's what Russian propaganda is. And in the end, it's lethal because in the end, what it seeks to do is to smother the flame of liberty with a wet blanket of lies, to bring on the darkness that subjugates
the human below the jackboot of the state. And the American people's answer to that proposition has always been, for two hundred and forty eight years, never give me liberty or give me death. That has been the American position, and let it always be so. Thank you for listening to my political commentary. If you like what you heard today, please also consider subscribing to The Warning Daily newsletter on substack