1 00:00:00,360 --> 00:00:04,640 Speaker 1: Thanks for listening. For earlier access to these episodes, access 2 00:00:04,680 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 1: to Ask Me Anything sessions, and extended breakdowns of historical 3 00:00:08,160 --> 00:00:12,760 Speaker 1: and current events, Please consider joining our Warning Premium community 4 00:00:13,320 --> 00:00:17,160 Speaker 1: by clicking the link in the description to this episode. 5 00:00:18,640 --> 00:00:23,040 Speaker 1: Can you hear the sounds, the stirrings of the mob, 6 00:00:24,440 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: the witch hunt that Kevin McCarthy is orchestrating in Washington, 7 00:00:28,680 --> 00:00:34,480 Speaker 1: DC to destroy the life of the President's adult son, 8 00:00:35,080 --> 00:00:41,240 Speaker 1: Hunter Biden. Let's be clear, everybody in America knows Hunter 9 00:00:41,320 --> 00:00:45,720 Speaker 1: Biden has had a deeply troubled and a very tragic life. 10 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:52,559 Speaker 1: Why wouldn't it be the position of every decent, normal 11 00:00:52,640 --> 00:00:57,200 Speaker 1: person in this country? Did they wish Hunter Biden luck 12 00:00:57,880 --> 00:01:08,120 Speaker 1: in his recovery? More than one million Americans, brothers, sisters, children, husbands, 13 00:01:08,160 --> 00:01:14,160 Speaker 1: and wives are dead because of the opioate epidemic. They 14 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:18,880 Speaker 1: were killed not through any fault of their own, but 15 00:01:18,920 --> 00:01:24,479 Speaker 1: by the greed, the insatiable greed of families like the Sacklers. 16 00:01:25,640 --> 00:01:29,240 Speaker 1: There are millions more who have survived the opio eight epidemic, 17 00:01:30,319 --> 00:01:33,720 Speaker 1: and there are millions more beyond that who are struggling 18 00:01:34,440 --> 00:01:38,720 Speaker 1: in a life and death battle at this moment. And 19 00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,480 Speaker 1: so it has come to pass that Kevin McCarthy, an 20 00:01:43,520 --> 00:01:50,040 Speaker 1: expedient and hollow man held hostage by the extremists around him, 21 00:01:50,960 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: has commenced a witch hunt against the President of the 22 00:01:55,320 --> 00:02:01,720 Speaker 1: United States. Troubled and only surviving son. He seeks to 23 00:02:01,760 --> 00:02:06,240 Speaker 1: impeach the President, not on the basis of any evidence 24 00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:14,000 Speaker 1: except for the obvious evidence of his unfathomable and bottomless 25 00:02:14,040 --> 00:02:22,440 Speaker 1: malice and ambition to please Donald Trump. Joe Biden, like 26 00:02:22,480 --> 00:02:27,240 Speaker 1: all people, has many flaws, and he hasn't been a 27 00:02:27,240 --> 00:02:34,079 Speaker 1: perfect president. But he has done nothing, nothing, and there 28 00:02:34,200 --> 00:02:39,679 Speaker 1: is no evidence whatsoever to suggest that he has done 29 00:02:39,800 --> 00:02:45,000 Speaker 1: anything that rises to the standards outlined in the American 30 00:02:45,040 --> 00:02:49,080 Speaker 1: Constitution for the removal of a President of the United 31 00:02:49,080 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 1: States under the standard of high crimes and misdemeanors. This 32 00:02:56,840 --> 00:03:02,000 Speaker 1: is a fake impeachment inquiry. It is conjured up out 33 00:03:02,040 --> 00:03:07,720 Speaker 1: of whole law. There is a sensational movie taking place 34 00:03:08,520 --> 00:03:12,840 Speaker 1: in shaping a conversation in America right now. The movie, 35 00:03:12,880 --> 00:03:17,640 Speaker 1: of course, is Oppenheimer, and really there are two tracks 36 00:03:17,680 --> 00:03:22,960 Speaker 1: within it. The first is around the awesome power of 37 00:03:23,040 --> 00:03:30,519 Speaker 1: atomic weapons. Nuclear weapons, the weapons that mankind has possessed 38 00:03:30,560 --> 00:03:35,400 Speaker 1: for eighty years and have the power to extinct all 39 00:03:35,480 --> 00:03:41,160 Speaker 1: life on earth. But it is also a story about 40 00:03:41,200 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 1: the excesses of McCarthyism. The age of accusation. The tradition 41 00:03:49,720 --> 00:03:52,760 Speaker 1: of the witch hunt is one that has flourished in 42 00:03:52,840 --> 00:03:57,640 Speaker 1: America from the Sale and Witch Trials, through the McCarthy 43 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 1: hearings right through to today. The false accusations being leveled 44 00:04:05,560 --> 00:04:10,400 Speaker 1: don't become true the louder they get, or more often 45 00:04:10,440 --> 00:04:16,000 Speaker 1: they are repeated through a vast propaganda network that includes 46 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:23,279 Speaker 1: Fox News. There are many people across America who don't 47 00:04:23,440 --> 00:04:28,719 Speaker 1: like Joe Biden, and that is their right as Americans. 48 00:04:29,920 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 1: But there is nothing that President Biden has done that 49 00:04:34,480 --> 00:04:40,440 Speaker 1: would disqualify him for serving another term of president through 50 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: any aspect of misconduct. It's simply made up. Thank you 51 00:04:46,839 --> 00:04:50,479 Speaker 1: for listening to my political commentary. If you like what 52 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,880 Speaker 1: you heard today, please also consider subscribing to The Warning 53 00:04:55,640 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 1: daily newsletter on sub stack. Our democracy hangs in the balance. 54 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,279 Speaker 1: The twenty twenty four presidential election is the most consequential 55 00:05:05,279 --> 00:05:09,760 Speaker 1: in America's history. It's not hyperbole, it's a fact. 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According to CNN speaker Kevin McCarthy, in 66 00:05:58,600 --> 00:06:02,160 Speaker 1: recent weeks has heard similar advice from both senior House 67 00:06:02,240 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: Republican and an influential conservative lawyer prioritize the impeachment of 68 00:06:08,120 --> 00:06:13,600 Speaker 1: President Joe Biden over a member of his cabinet. Part 69 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,479 Speaker 1: of the thinking, according to multiple sources familiar with the 70 00:06:16,520 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 1: Eternal discussions, is that if House Republicans are going to 71 00:06:20,000 --> 00:06:24,720 Speaker 1: expend precious resources on the politically tricky task of an impeachment, 72 00:06:25,320 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: they might as well go after their highest target, as 73 00:06:28,440 --> 00:06:32,560 Speaker 1: opposed to the Attorney general or Secretary of Homeland Security. 74 00:06:33,279 --> 00:06:38,400 Speaker 1: And McCarthy, whose sources said, has also been consulting with 75 00:06:39,720 --> 00:06:45,720 Speaker 1: wait for it, former House Speaker Nuke Gingrich on the issue, 76 00:06:46,120 --> 00:06:49,440 Speaker 1: has warmed up to an idea that has long been 77 00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:55,920 Speaker 1: relegated to the fringes of his conference. There is no 78 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:01,479 Speaker 1: fringe in the Republican Conference. There is no dividing line 79 00:07:02,040 --> 00:07:08,159 Speaker 1: between the normal Republicans and the extremists. The House MAGA 80 00:07:09,040 --> 00:07:16,280 Speaker 1: GOP majority is the MAGA Caucus. What MAGA is is 81 00:07:16,320 --> 00:07:21,960 Speaker 1: an extremist wrecking ball that seeks to flatten American history, 82 00:07:22,760 --> 00:07:29,080 Speaker 1: America's ideas, ideals in progress in the search for a 83 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,640 Speaker 1: just society that has gone on for almost two hundred 84 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:40,920 Speaker 1: and fifty years. There is nothing new regarding Kevin McCarthy's actions. 85 00:07:41,480 --> 00:07:46,080 Speaker 1: It is the logical next step and the continuation of 86 00:07:46,160 --> 00:07:49,880 Speaker 1: the Michael Flynn led chance of lock her up from 87 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 1: the floor of the Republican Convention. Why try to defeat 88 00:07:55,400 --> 00:08:00,280 Speaker 1: an opponent at the ballot box? Why try to would 89 00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:05,600 Speaker 1: cite an argument about ideas when you can simply lock 90 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:12,560 Speaker 1: up your opponent, destroy them, smear them into oblivion. By 91 00:08:12,600 --> 00:08:19,640 Speaker 1: the way, what normal parent would ever risk the mental 92 00:08:19,680 --> 00:08:25,520 Speaker 1: health of their children by running for office. Look at 93 00:08:25,560 --> 00:08:31,160 Speaker 1: what Kevin McCarthy is doing to the Biden family. In essence, 94 00:08:32,080 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 1: what he's gary king is that no family will put 95 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,920 Speaker 1: themselves forward to do this unless they're one that is 96 00:08:43,000 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 1: so hard, so tough, so shaped by tragedy, that they, 97 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:53,480 Speaker 1: by some miracle become I suppose immune to it at 98 00:08:53,520 --> 00:08:59,960 Speaker 1: some level, like the bidens. In the end, the America 99 00:09:00,120 --> 00:09:03,880 Speaker 1: and people should want normal people to run for the 100 00:09:03,960 --> 00:09:09,880 Speaker 1: highest offices in the land. But who will run, who 101 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:13,560 Speaker 1: will serve? If you know the price of that service 102 00:09:14,480 --> 00:09:19,960 Speaker 1: is the hunting and the destruction of your children, And 103 00:09:20,000 --> 00:09:23,920 Speaker 1: that if they do make mistakes and their life collapses 104 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:28,160 Speaker 1: and it falls apart, and as they struggle to get 105 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:32,360 Speaker 1: back up on their feet, there will be someone in 106 00:09:32,400 --> 00:09:38,600 Speaker 1: the opposing political party, maybe someone like Lindsey Graham, an 107 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:44,160 Speaker 1: exquisite scumbag who wants professed close friendship with you, who 108 00:09:44,160 --> 00:09:48,000 Speaker 1: will be trying to put his boot onto the throat 109 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:54,120 Speaker 1: of your troubled kid at their most vulnerable hour. This 110 00:09:54,200 --> 00:09:59,760 Speaker 1: is the politics of cruelty, of malice, and it goes 111 00:09:59,800 --> 00:10:04,920 Speaker 1: no were good when you strip your opponents of their 112 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:09,880 Speaker 1: basic humanity, when you look at your fellow citizens as 113 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:16,040 Speaker 1: existential threats and enemies. Where does anyone think that leads? 114 00:10:17,679 --> 00:10:22,839 Speaker 1: It leads where it has always been clear that it leads. 115 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:29,720 Speaker 1: It leads to chaos and mayhem and violence, And in 116 00:10:29,760 --> 00:10:33,840 Speaker 1: the end it can lead to the fall of a 117 00:10:33,920 --> 00:10:39,559 Speaker 1: democratic society. What Kevin McCarthy and House Republicans are doing 118 00:10:40,440 --> 00:10:47,200 Speaker 1: to Hunter Biden is wrong. It is deeply wrong, and 119 00:10:47,280 --> 00:10:54,479 Speaker 1: it is immoral. They are using political power to persecute 120 00:10:54,960 --> 00:11:02,079 Speaker 1: the child of a political opponent. Congress of the United 121 00:11:02,120 --> 00:11:09,199 Speaker 1: States is not the appropriate jurisdiction to examine Hunter Biden's 122 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:16,800 Speaker 1: life or to hold Hunter Biden accountable. Hunter Biden is 123 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:20,800 Speaker 1: in the criminal justice system, and he will be held 124 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:27,680 Speaker 1: accountable appropriately there. We don't want America's elected politicians involved 125 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:33,040 Speaker 1: in this space. It is rife for abuse, the type 126 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:38,719 Speaker 1: of abuse that has led to unspeakable tragedy in other nations, 127 00:11:39,400 --> 00:11:49,880 Speaker 1: but not here. Witch hunts, retribution, revenge. That is the 128 00:11:49,960 --> 00:11:58,360 Speaker 1: MAGA platform, vandalizing the nation, tearing down its pillars, and 129 00:11:58,440 --> 00:12:03,880 Speaker 1: you know what, it's absolutely working. We live in an 130 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,040 Speaker 1: era where trust has collapsed in nearly every institution in 131 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:13,000 Speaker 1: this country. One of those that had been immune was 132 00:12:13,040 --> 00:12:18,440 Speaker 1: the US military, but no longer. Trust in the military 133 00:12:18,559 --> 00:12:24,599 Speaker 1: is collapsing, and with no group faster than self identified Republicans, 134 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,520 Speaker 1: who've seen a collapse of more than thirty percent in 135 00:12:29,559 --> 00:12:35,319 Speaker 1: two short years. It's no surprise because they are members 136 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 1: of a religion that is faithless, that does not believe, 137 00:12:40,960 --> 00:12:45,079 Speaker 1: that has turned cancerous and hostile against the red, white, 138 00:12:45,080 --> 00:12:49,200 Speaker 1: and blue, against the American flag, against the American dream, 139 00:12:49,320 --> 00:12:58,520 Speaker 1: against the American creed. These faithless people, many of them 140 00:12:58,920 --> 00:13:03,720 Speaker 1: in the United States Congress, have lost sight of the 141 00:13:03,800 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: greatness and the majesty of this country as they have 142 00:13:07,520 --> 00:13:13,520 Speaker 1: been consumed by their ambitions and their selfishness. A great 143 00:13:13,640 --> 00:13:19,360 Speaker 1: nation certainly cannot endure for long when the lowest people 144 00:13:19,480 --> 00:13:25,840 Speaker 1: amongst us are its leaders, leaders like Kevin McCarthy who 145 00:13:25,880 --> 00:13:33,720 Speaker 1: know nothing of decency, of kindness, of empathy, of any 146 00:13:34,200 --> 00:13:38,679 Speaker 1: of the virtues that are necessary for political leadership in 147 00:13:38,720 --> 00:13:43,520 Speaker 1: a great country. What Kevin McCarthy and the Magic Congress 148 00:13:43,559 --> 00:13:50,640 Speaker 1: are doing to the Biden family is appalling. Hunter Biden 149 00:13:51,800 --> 00:13:56,120 Speaker 1: has made many mistakes in his life. These Congressional hearings 150 00:13:56,160 --> 00:14:01,719 Speaker 1: aren't about that. They are about his destruction. They are 151 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:08,240 Speaker 1: about politics. And after seven long years of Donald Trump 152 00:14:08,840 --> 00:14:12,800 Speaker 1: on the national stage in the third decade of the 153 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:17,920 Speaker 1: twenty first century, is this really what the purpose in 154 00:14:18,080 --> 00:14:24,080 Speaker 1: some of American politics is? The destruction of Hunter Biden. 155 00:14:25,680 --> 00:14:32,960 Speaker 1: It's sick, It's unworthy in anybody who thinks that this 156 00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:40,120 Speaker 1: is not a sign of American decay, of a rottenness 157 00:14:40,480 --> 00:14:48,000 Speaker 1: from within. Well, let's just say they have their head 158 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:52,000 Speaker 1: somewhere where it will be very hard to retrieve it from. 159 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:54,920 Speaker 1: Thank you for watching. Make sure you subscribe to our 160 00:14:55,040 --> 00:14:58,160 Speaker 1: channel so you never miss a video. 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