WEBVTT - Abraham Lincoln, Not Woke Enough 0:00:03.360 --> 0:00:14.920 You are entering the freedom much. Why would the elites 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:19.439 want to cancel Abraham Lincoln Obama knew more about Russia 0:00:19.480 --> 0:00:23.560 Gate than we were told. Conspiracy theorist Jennifer Granholm for 0:00:23.680 --> 0:00:27.400 a Biden Energy secretary? And will there be a COVID 0:00:27.440 --> 0:00:32.760 relief package? Buck Sexton coding the news and disseminating information 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:39.120 with actionable intelligence. Make no mistake America great, You're a 0:00:39.200 --> 0:00:43.880 great American again. This is the Buck Sexton Show. Homeless 0:00:43.880 --> 0:00:47.720 CIA analysts. I can speak to three hours without a 0:00:47.760 --> 0:00:52.680 phone call. Try doing that sometime. No, Welcome to the 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:55.360 Buck Sexton Show. Friends, honored and privilege to have you 0:00:55.520 --> 0:00:58.680 here with me. There are only a few names that 0:00:58.880 --> 0:01:01.040 you can think of from a American history that we 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:06.640 are all supposed to that we all have some degree 0:01:07.480 --> 0:01:10.760 of reverence for right that we're supposed to believe. No 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:12.880 matter who you are, where you come from this country, 0:01:12.880 --> 0:01:15.080 you're supposed to think, well, that's a great man. There 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:19.559 are only a few names where that is the case. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:24.559 And you can start with the founding fathers, the people 0:01:24.600 --> 0:01:29.600 on Mount Rushmore, and you would add Martin Luther King Junior, 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:32.160 and you beat some people would add I don't know 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:34.560 you know, they're they're a handful of these names out 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.800 there that when someone says who's a great American and 0:01:37.880 --> 0:01:40.480 we can all agree on it, there are only a 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.760 handful of names that come to mind, And for a 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.120 lot of people, they were at least under the impression 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:51.280 until recently that Abraham Lincoln was one of them, that 0:01:51.440 --> 0:01:55.280 Abraham Lincoln would be free from cancel culture, that this 0:01:55.360 --> 0:01:57.640 would be a guy that we could all agree did 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:03.400 something pretty extraordinary and wasn't perfect by any means, But 0:02:03.560 --> 0:02:05.640 at the end of the day, he was on the 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:10.040 right side and was the commander in chief of a 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:14.120 military that ended slavery in the United States, and that's 0:02:14.120 --> 0:02:16.160 a pretty remarkable thing. So we tend to give him 0:02:16.880 --> 0:02:18.480 a lot of plaudits for this, and as we know, 0:02:18.520 --> 0:02:22.720 he was assassinated afterwards for it. But Abraham Lincoln would 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.720 be one of those names where you'd say, well, the 0:02:24.880 --> 0:02:29.639 greatness of what he accomplished with the ending of slavery, 0:02:30.760 --> 0:02:34.200 the greatness that he accomplished with all of this, wouldn't 0:02:34.240 --> 0:02:37.239 that then make him at least somewhat immune to these 0:02:37.320 --> 0:02:42.880 efforts to destroy historical figures based upon some perception of 0:02:42.960 --> 0:02:45.919 what they should be that's constantly changing and very new 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:49.079 to our current moment. But then I bring you the 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:55.639 modern American lib the left, the Democrats, and their wokeness, 0:02:56.040 --> 0:03:01.120 their psychological disorder known as wokeness. We have yet another 0:03:01.240 --> 0:03:04.359 example of just how far that will go. You have 0:03:04.480 --> 0:03:09.200 Abraham Lincoln as a name that a San Francisco high 0:03:09.240 --> 0:03:12.640 school board or some kind of a committee that's looking 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:16.040 to rename schools, and it's in San fran and they 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:18.600 want to get rid of Abraham Lincoln's name from a 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:22.120 school because he was I believe the quote is insufficiently 0:03:22.240 --> 0:03:27.880 committed to black lives mattering or to the matter of 0:03:28.200 --> 0:03:31.760 black lives. Now, for the man that ordered hundreds of 0:03:31.880 --> 0:03:39.160 thousands of Americans to their deaths or to extreme pain, mutilation, 0:03:40.360 --> 0:03:43.440 being wounded on the battlefield to end slavery, to say 0:03:43.520 --> 0:03:49.080 that he was insufficiently committed to black lives mattering would 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.480 seem to be the height of insanity, and it is. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.160 But there's a reason behind all of this. So we 0:03:56.240 --> 0:03:58.640 need to start examining what's really going on in this 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.840 country because we're at this point where we're told that 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:06.760 the Democrats are calling for unity, that Joe Biden and 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.880 his would be cabinet. They're saying unify, and as we know, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.800 unify really means bend the need of me. Do what 0:04:14.040 --> 0:04:17.520 I say, and we'll call it unity. But while they're 0:04:17.560 --> 0:04:20.960 calling for this, we also see time and again they 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:27.840 don't particularly have any sense of unity to America as 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.240 we know it. There's something very different going on. And 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:37.760 it usually is incremental that this happens. They start with 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.600 something where we say, okay, fine, you know, and this 0:04:40.800 --> 0:04:43.000 is why when there was that old dust up about 0:04:43.480 --> 0:04:47.880 about Confederate generals, I was saying, look, I'm I'm not 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:53.520 somebody that is going to carry any water for the 0:04:53.839 --> 0:04:56.960 keep up some of these Confederate General's statute side of 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.680 this brief it's, you know, it's a community decision, a 0:04:59.720 --> 0:05:02.480 commun unity standard. But understand this, they're coming for the 0:05:02.520 --> 0:05:06.720 founding Father's next. In fact, Donald Trump said at the time, 0:05:07.680 --> 0:05:10.920 well what about Jefferson? What about Washington area? Are they 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:13.760 going to tear down those statues? There is here in 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:16.440 New York City. I've seen this so many nights because 0:05:16.440 --> 0:05:19.920 I go for walks sometimes right near what is known 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:22.800 as Columbus Circle, named for Christopher Columbus, is a very large, 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:27.320 very prominent statue of Christopher Columbus. There is an army 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:32.320 of NYPD officers that are deployed in a huge circle 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:37.480 with barricades, and they've got they've got all kinds of 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:42.600 additional e su and vehicles deployed. It's it's crazy. And 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:45.000 I've asked the cops. I've said, is this really because 0:05:45.200 --> 0:05:47.960 you guys are worried that one night the radical left 0:05:48.080 --> 0:05:50.120 is just going to show up and destroy this statue 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:52.800 of Christopher Columbus. And they said, yes, absolutely, that is 0:05:53.279 --> 0:05:56.200 why we are deployed here. And this is in one 0:05:56.240 --> 0:05:59.280 of the ritzier parts of New York City. It's outside 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:03.360 the Time Warner Center. So even Deblasio realizes this would 0:06:03.400 --> 0:06:06.760 get some attention. But they say that Columbus was a 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:13.760 genocidal essentially a genocidal maniac who was engaged in the 0:06:13.880 --> 0:06:16.600 exploitation of humanity and so on and so forth. They 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.320 don't care that we celebrate Columbus for discovering the New 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:23.479 World for Europe and the rest of the world. They 0:06:23.520 --> 0:06:27.840 don't care about that. That's that's not enough. And as 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:29.760 we see with Abraham Lincoln, it's not enough that he 0:06:30.960 --> 0:06:33.960 was the commander in chief and the president who led 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:37.360 us into war, a war that did end slavery in 0:06:37.480 --> 0:06:39.960 this country, and that he called for the freeing of 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:44.920 the slaves during that war. What's really happening here? There 0:06:45.120 --> 0:06:49.360 is an essay that I came across. I've never I've 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.240 never even heard of this publication before, and I haven't 0:06:52.279 --> 0:06:55.320 heard of this author before. But I thought this essay 0:06:56.000 --> 0:07:02.040 was extraordinary. And I read constantly of the commentary all 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.080 over the web, and I'm always looking to see who 0:07:05.279 --> 0:07:08.040 who's worth reading because most of it, ninety percent of 0:07:08.080 --> 0:07:11.880 what's published on the internet, even by so called conservatives 0:07:11.960 --> 0:07:14.720 or whatever it is, really it's repetitive. It's an echo chamber. 0:07:14.800 --> 0:07:17.440 It's just not worth spending much time on, at least 0:07:17.440 --> 0:07:20.640 for me as someone who's reading this stuff all day long. 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.560 This was really good. It was at unheard dot com 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:29.760 and the author is Matthew Crawford, who is a fellow 0:07:29.840 --> 0:07:33.000 at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the 0:07:33.160 --> 0:07:38.680 University of Virginia. The title is How Race Politics Liberated 0:07:38.760 --> 0:07:46.120 the Elites? And this is absolutely top notch analysis. It's 0:07:46.320 --> 0:07:50.120 it's phenomenal. Really, it's a really really strong piece. And 0:07:50.320 --> 0:07:52.320 here let me give you some of what we're talking 0:07:52.480 --> 0:07:57.720 about here and why this I think defines our current 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.920 moment for the Democrat Party and for the left. The 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:04.160 idea of a common good this is a quote from 0:08:04.200 --> 0:08:06.920 the piece, has given way to a partition of citizens 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:10.520 along the lines of a moral hierarchy. Instead of feeling 0:08:10.640 --> 0:08:13.960 bound up in a shared fate with one's country a countryman, 0:08:14.600 --> 0:08:19.080 one develops an alternate, alternate solidarity that is placeless. The 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:23.720 relatability across national borders that the genteel folk feel in 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:28.600 one another's company, the gracious ease and trust, the shared 0:08:28.680 --> 0:08:32.920 points of reference in high prestige opinion has something to 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.720 do with their uniformly high standing in the moral hierarchy 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:42.360 that divides citizen from citizen within their own nations. The 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:45.720 decision making class has discovered that it enjoys the mandate 0:08:45.800 --> 0:08:50.800 of Heaven, and with this comes certain permissions, certain exemptions 0:08:51.080 --> 0:08:58.559 from democratic scruple. This is spot on, this is excellent. 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:03.040 He's talking about how in our country now, because America, 0:09:03.080 --> 0:09:05.679 I mean, the short version of this is that because America, 0:09:06.160 --> 0:09:12.400 according to the left now, is inherently racist and misogynist, 0:09:13.360 --> 0:09:16.719 it gives the elites that gives this ruling class a 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:23.319 mentality that they owe no allegiance to that entity, to America, 0:09:23.960 --> 0:09:28.240 at least to the idea, to the ideals of traditional America. 0:09:28.760 --> 0:09:33.079 They have something better, they're working for something better, and 0:09:33.320 --> 0:09:36.880 so there's no need for them to debase themselves by 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:41.079 pretending that our flag waving, jingo wistic we love the 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.880 founding Fathers and the Constitution nonsense, should in any way 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:48.120 slow their role. They get to do whatever they want. 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:52.480 They know better. You see, they're above it. But this 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:54.840 is a version of something I've said to you many 0:09:54.920 --> 0:09:59.160 times before. There are those of us who take tremendous 0:09:59.280 --> 0:10:02.880 pride being American, and then there are those of us 0:10:03.200 --> 0:10:06.320 who take pride in believing we are better than America, 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:11.240 and those are called liberals. Those are leftists. That's what 0:10:11.520 --> 0:10:14.880 they are. That's how they think. The reason that they're 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:22.440 constantly encouraging the most toxic identity politics, racial politics, gender politics, 0:10:22.640 --> 0:10:25.400 the reason they do this is because they've adopted a 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:30.920 philosophy that America is actually bad, that there's this moral 0:10:31.160 --> 0:10:34.240 rot at the center of this country. They've identified it. 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:37.120 It's almost like they stumbled upon some secret knowledge and 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:40.600 now they're spreading this great wisdom to all the rest 0:10:40.640 --> 0:10:44.080 of us, and anyone who rejects this, anyone who sees 0:10:44.160 --> 0:10:49.080 this for the intense hypocrisy that it is, is shouted down. 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:54.800 Part of the patriarchy, part of the racist, misogynistic system. 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.719 And also it gives the people at the top a 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.079 total pass for not working for what we think of 0:11:01.200 --> 0:11:04.520 as the common good, not working for what we consider 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:09.640 to be universal American values. They can live their lives. 0:11:09.800 --> 0:11:12.880 This is why they can fly on private jets to 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.079 climate change conferences where they're going to talk about how 0:11:16.280 --> 0:11:19.360 you should be. You know, walking three miles or biking 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.640 ten miles to work every day can put all that 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.640 co two in the air. Well, they're above you, you see, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:28.920 they're working for this better world, this better place. You 0:11:29.559 --> 0:11:34.360 are part of this traditional America that's just so racist 0:11:34.480 --> 0:11:42.439 and misogynistic and so awful. And so this goes way beyond, 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:47.880 even way beyond the usual liberal hypocrisy. This is a 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:54.719 kind of religion of elites excellence, and they are devotees 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.080 of it, and they also get to think of themselves 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.880 as great heroes for standing up for the pressed. I mean, 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:03.520 how many of you does this sound like your smug 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.760 neighbor who has a big Biden Harris sign in their yard, right, 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:11.560 don't they always think that they're somehow so morally enlightened, 0:12:11.640 --> 0:12:14.640 even if their own personal choices are really crappy, and 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:16.640 even if they don't really care about other people or 0:12:16.679 --> 0:12:20.280 help them very much. But they stand for equality. In fact, 0:12:20.360 --> 0:12:24.560 these days they stand for equity the preferred term, which 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.600 is just the quality of outcome, which is Marxism. Back 0:12:28.720 --> 0:12:30.760 into this piece for a second quote. In the Revolt 0:12:30.800 --> 0:12:33.439 of the Elites, Christopher Lash spelled out in greater detail 0:12:34.040 --> 0:12:37.200 the role that claims of racial and sexual oppression play 0:12:37.360 --> 0:12:41.000 in securing release from allegiance to the nation, not just 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:45.480 for those who identify as its victims, but for those 0:12:45.559 --> 0:12:49.120 with the moral sensitivity to see victimization where it may 0:12:49.200 --> 0:12:54.640 not be apparent, and who make this capacity a touchstone 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:58.400 of their identity. It becomes a token of moral elevation 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.520 by which we recognize one another and distinguish ourselves from 0:13:02.559 --> 0:13:06.400 the broader run of citizens. Both Lash and Hannah Arrant 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.679 argue that black Americans serve a crucial function for the 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:16.240 white bourgeoisie as the emblement proof of America's illegitimacy. They 0:13:16.400 --> 0:13:20.719 anchor a politics of repudiation in which the idea of 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:25.360 a common good has little purchase, and quote saying all 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:32.160 those elitist, white, college educated liberal democrats out there, the 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:36.319 libs who are always talking about racism, they don't do 0:13:36.440 --> 0:13:39.839 anything to solve racism. They don't spend any time in 0:13:40.000 --> 0:13:43.199 black majority neighborhoods. They don't really know what's going on 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.040 within the black community. But they love pointing out the 0:13:46.240 --> 0:13:48.560 racism all around them all the time, even where there's 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:54.000 no actual racism. Sometimes they do this because by demeaning 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:59.880 traditional America American values, by saying that this place is 0:14:00.240 --> 0:14:05.280 racist and wrong and evil, they're not bound by the 0:14:05.520 --> 0:14:09.559 generally held conceptions of what makes a good American citizen 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.400 these days, because they know better. They're above it, they're 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:16.719 elevated beyond it. Doesn't this all sound exactly like the 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:20.600 ethos the modern philosophy of a democrat. Don't you all 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:23.480 have friends that are just like this. They've never actually 0:14:23.920 --> 0:14:30.000 been in a high crime, majority minority neighborhood for more 0:14:30.080 --> 0:14:32.480 than a couple of hours or maybe driving through it. 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:35.760 But they want to give you lectures about BLM. That's right, 0:14:35.800 --> 0:14:38.840 they want to lecture you about BLM from their million 0:14:38.920 --> 0:14:42.440 dollar house in an all white suburb. These are the 0:14:42.560 --> 0:14:46.240 kind of libs we're talking about here, the ones who 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:51.480 are frauds, the ones who are fakes. How do they 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:54.560 get away with this in their own minds? This is 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:58.440 how they don't take pride in being Americans. They think 0:14:58.520 --> 0:15:02.440 they are better than America, they know better than America, 0:15:03.040 --> 0:15:05.640 and they want to transform this place in this image. 0:15:05.800 --> 0:15:11.240 And that's what we are facing now going forward. You're 0:15:11.320 --> 0:15:15.000 in the Freedom This is the Buck Sex and Show podcast, 0:15:18.960 --> 0:15:23.040 How Race Politics Liberated the Elites by Matthew Crawford. Unheard 0:15:23.120 --> 0:15:26.320 dot Com is the site. And I just I thought 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.760 this was a fascinating analysis. And I like to give 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:31.960 people credit when they do something like this that really 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:35.120 advances the conversation. Other people just like to rip people 0:15:35.200 --> 0:15:37.720 off and pretend it's there's no want. I want Matthew 0:15:37.760 --> 0:15:40.280 Crawford to get the high five he deserves for this. 0:15:41.400 --> 0:15:44.200 And he goes on, and I think we have to 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:49.200 remember there's a another way to prove this analysis or 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:53.840 this line of thinking, the legitimacy, the integrity of this 0:15:54.800 --> 0:15:59.040 philosophical approach, because it's not only in America that this 0:15:59.160 --> 0:16:03.160 actually has now spread. It's gone beyond American borders. So 0:16:03.280 --> 0:16:08.880 you'd think that the left's unique revulsion at the longstanding 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:13.520 history of slavery in this country and then Jim Crow 0:16:13.720 --> 0:16:16.840 and segregation, and you know, they say that they're they're 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:20.440 confronting that even today. That's what the left will tell you. 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:26.120 But yet there are BLM protests in London, in Paris, 0:16:26.280 --> 0:16:31.320 in Germany. And the author points this out. This illegitimacy 0:16:32.120 --> 0:16:38.960 transcends any particular historical facts about slavery and segregation, and 0:16:39.120 --> 0:16:42.760 indeed transcends America, as one can surmise by the ease 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:47.280 with which American grievance politics have been exported throughout the 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:51.800 Western world. In this we sometimes see the use of 0:16:51.920 --> 0:16:57.560 historical American references that have been weirdly transposed, as when 0:16:57.560 --> 0:17:00.760 a house once lived in by Rosa Parks was relocated 0:17:00.840 --> 0:17:04.879 from Detroit to Berlin, the financial seat of the European Union. 0:17:05.800 --> 0:17:08.760 Under the Empire of Christendom, the market for material relics 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:11.800 from the Passion of the Christ was similarly global. They 0:17:11.920 --> 0:17:14.200 left the Holy Land that ended up in various seats 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:19.120 of earthly power, most recently, the Transatlantic Festival of George 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:22.600 Floyd attests to the fact that it isn't simply America 0:17:22.720 --> 0:17:26.920 that stands accused the social order is corrupt. Then the 0:17:27.080 --> 0:17:29.920 labor movement once had an alternative order to offer in 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:33.560 its stead, drawing on the socialist tradition. It was one 0:17:33.600 --> 0:17:37.440 that included African Americans, not as African Americans, but as workers, 0:17:37.880 --> 0:17:42.159 and this movement was fairly successful. What happened then, The 0:17:42.280 --> 0:17:45.399 prominence of the term repressed in the nineteen sixties is 0:17:45.480 --> 0:17:48.359 significant and marks a shift into a new terrain of 0:17:48.440 --> 0:17:52.920 psychologized politics. The object of attack for the new left 0:17:53.000 --> 0:17:56.280 was no longer leis a fair capitalism, but society, the 0:17:56.400 --> 0:17:59.040 Freudian super ego more or less, with its insistence on 0:17:59.160 --> 0:18:03.639 standards of behavior that are binding on all society, is 0:18:03.680 --> 0:18:07.359 to be taken as inherently oppressive and discredited in the 0:18:07.520 --> 0:18:15.080 name of liberation. Effectively, America is so oppressive, racist, evil, 0:18:15.960 --> 0:18:20.040 gender discriminatory. It's such a bad place that the left 0:18:20.080 --> 0:18:23.280 can completely rewrite the rules of what we should be 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:26.080 trying to achieve in this country. And on a personal level, 0:18:26.359 --> 0:18:31.320 they feel no particular allegiance to traditional America, and they 0:18:31.400 --> 0:18:34.840 feel like their actions are always justified because they're working 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:39.520 for this greater idealized future. Isn't this every lib you know? 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:44.600 Isn't this every smug Biden voter you've come across in 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.359 the last year or so. I'm sure there are some exceptions, 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.399 but I'm betting it's most of them. Just to finish 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.920 this up quote, if the ideal of a demoralized public 0:18:52.960 --> 0:18:56.680 sphere was a signature aspiration of liberal secularism, it seems 0:18:56.720 --> 0:19:00.440 we have entered a post secular age populism, and because 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:03.040 it became widely noticed that we have transition from a 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:08.320 liberal society to something that more closely resembles a corrupt theocracy. 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:12.640 End quote. Yeah, this is the religion of the elites 0:19:12.840 --> 0:19:16.200 we are talking about. Thanks for listening to the buses 0:19:16.320 --> 0:19:20.119 and show posts. Remember to subscribe on Apple podcasts, the 0:19:20.200 --> 0:19:24.800 iHeartRadio app, or wherever you get your podcasts. I've been 0:19:24.880 --> 0:19:30.080 saying for four years now that it's a certainty that 0:19:30.200 --> 0:19:35.600 Barack Obama, when he was president, knew that his administration 0:19:35.720 --> 0:19:41.399 on the way out was running essentially a spying and 0:19:43.320 --> 0:19:49.280 and disinformation campaign against the incoming Trump administration. It's obvious 0:19:49.400 --> 0:19:54.240 there's no way that Komey and Brennan and Clapper and 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:57.280 go down the list there's no way that they would 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.440 have been able to that they would have felt comfortable 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:04.160 doing stuff if they didn't feel like ultimately they had 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:07.240 cover from Obama for it, that he had at least 0:20:07.280 --> 0:20:10.119 been informed. And you'd say, well, how does that protect them? 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:12.520 They would say, they went through chain of command. This 0:20:12.720 --> 0:20:17.800 is how bureaucracies avoid accountability. No one is ever really 0:20:17.880 --> 0:20:22.520 accountable for anything because everyone's accountable for everything. That's the 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:24.840 way they do it. So they just say, well, I 0:20:25.200 --> 0:20:28.240 didn't I approve this FISA, but somebody else wrote up 0:20:28.280 --> 0:20:31.399 the FISA. Well I wrote up the FISA, but somebody 0:20:31.440 --> 0:20:33.760 else provided the raw mature of the raw information I 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.320 used for the FISA. Well I approved it, but somebody 0:20:36.359 --> 0:20:38.280 else was supposed to review it. Right, So no one 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:42.439 ever really gets nailed. But they all know what they're doing, right. 0:20:42.480 --> 0:20:46.600 They're all part of what is almost like a federal 0:20:46.680 --> 0:20:51.639 government racketeering operation. You know, that's what you see happening here, 0:20:51.640 --> 0:20:53.120 they're all, they're all a part of it. You want 0:20:53.119 --> 0:20:56.200 to bring like a Rico charge against them because it's 0:20:56.880 --> 0:21:01.600 a multi layered conspiracy, and that is exactly what Russia 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:05.160 collusion was. And I understand right now, there's frustration because 0:21:05.200 --> 0:21:09.120 the Durham probe has not resulted and even a report, 0:21:10.000 --> 0:21:11.520 and I knew it wasn't going to happen on a 0:21:11.640 --> 0:21:16.000 timeline for the election, because ultimately, guys like Durham, guys 0:21:16.080 --> 0:21:20.359 like Bill Barr, they understand the politics involved here and 0:21:20.800 --> 0:21:24.440 they're not they for whatever, for their own reasons, for 0:21:24.520 --> 0:21:27.840 their own ethical choices and decisions, they will not bend 0:21:27.880 --> 0:21:29.879 the rules to be more political. They won't do it. 0:21:31.320 --> 0:21:33.879 They also maybe won't allow the other side to get 0:21:33.880 --> 0:21:37.080 away with doing it, but they themselves will not, will 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:39.680 not bend the rules in order to score political points. 0:21:39.720 --> 0:21:42.000 So they weren't going to accelerate the Durham probe, That's 0:21:42.040 --> 0:21:44.359 what I'm telling you. But now it's been it's been 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.840 designated as a special counsel, and as we know, the 0:21:47.880 --> 0:21:50.639 Democrats will just say, oh, who cares, We'll get rid 0:21:50.640 --> 0:21:54.240 of that as soon as there's a Biden, a Biden presidency. 0:21:55.320 --> 0:21:57.239 It will be more difficult, though, and it will give 0:21:57.320 --> 0:22:00.800 us something to work with and perhaps even escalate to 0:22:00.880 --> 0:22:03.440 where the Republicans are talking about impeachment. And I'm just 0:22:03.520 --> 0:22:06.280 gonna say this, I believe in using all the tactics 0:22:06.400 --> 0:22:11.760 and all the stratagems that the left engaged in against Trump. 0:22:11.840 --> 0:22:13.920 I think that we should hold them to their standards 0:22:13.960 --> 0:22:17.879 going forward, which means the bar for a Joe Biden, 0:22:18.240 --> 0:22:22.520 Joe Biden presidency, for impeachment, for special counsel, it's very low, 0:22:23.520 --> 0:22:27.320 very low. Take toll this with that phone call that 0:22:27.560 --> 0:22:31.480 Trump had with his Ukrainian counterpart. If that can get 0:22:31.520 --> 0:22:34.080 you impeach Joe Biden, better watch his step the moment 0:22:34.160 --> 0:22:36.720 the Republicans take back the House majority, and I'm not 0:22:36.760 --> 0:22:38.160 going to stand in their way. I'm gonna be cheering 0:22:38.160 --> 0:22:40.760 them on, saying, Yep, let's go for it. What's good 0:22:40.800 --> 0:22:43.800 for one side, good for the other. The only way 0:22:44.320 --> 0:22:47.520 to make them think twice about the kinds of underhanded 0:22:47.560 --> 0:22:50.520 tactics they use is to make them live by those tactics. 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:54.600 It's the only way. Now, let's get back to what 0:22:54.880 --> 0:22:59.520 the former president Obama knew and hat tip Sean Davis 0:22:59.640 --> 0:23:03.480 of the Federalist dot Com for this piece. D and 0:23:03.560 --> 0:23:07.920 I declassifies handwritten notes from John Brennan twenty sixteen CI 0:23:08.119 --> 0:23:11.639 referral on Clinton campaign's collusion operation. Here's what he writes. 0:23:11.800 --> 0:23:15.960 Quote on Tuesday, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe declassified 0:23:16.000 --> 0:23:19.240 and released to Congress handwritten notes from CI director Brennan, 0:23:19.560 --> 0:23:22.560 as well as a CIA investigative referral to James Coomey 0:23:22.680 --> 0:23:26.560 and Peter Struck requesting that they investigate Russian knowledge of 0:23:26.640 --> 0:23:32.159 Hillary Clinton's anti Trump collusion smear operation. He goes on 0:23:32.880 --> 0:23:36.159 top US intelligence officials were so concerned heading into the 0:23:36.200 --> 0:23:39.720 twenty sixteen election that the Russians were aware of and 0:23:39.880 --> 0:23:44.280 potentially manipulating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton's plans to smear 0:23:44.359 --> 0:23:47.960 Donald Trump as a Russian agent, that they personally briefed 0:23:48.000 --> 0:23:52.240 President Barack Obama on the matter. Newly declassified Central Intelligence 0:23:52.240 --> 0:23:56.320 Agency documents show CI officials also requested that the FBI 0:23:56.520 --> 0:24:02.440 investigate Russian knowledge of the Clinton campaign's collus Lusian smear operation. 0:24:04.359 --> 0:24:07.280 Newly declassified handwritten notes from the former CI director John 0:24:07.320 --> 0:24:10.760 Brennan show the US intelligence community knew in twenty sixteen 0:24:10.760 --> 0:24:15.320 that Russian intelligence was actively monitoring and potentially injecting disinformation 0:24:15.760 --> 0:24:19.760 into Clinton's anti Trump collusion narrative. The intelligence concerning Russia's 0:24:19.800 --> 0:24:22.720 knowledge of Clinton campaign plans was so concerning to Brennan 0:24:22.760 --> 0:24:27.480 and other national security officials that they personally informed Obama 0:24:27.680 --> 0:24:30.520 of the matter in the Oval office in the summer 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:34.040 of twenty sixteen. These are handwritten notes from CI director Brennan, 0:24:34.359 --> 0:24:38.040 So they were telling the president then Barack Obama, they 0:24:38.119 --> 0:24:41.680 were telling him, Yeah, there's Russian disinformation stuff going on here. 0:24:41.760 --> 0:24:44.520 We got real concerns about this. But you know, maybe 0:24:44.560 --> 0:24:48.600 we could also use this. Maybe we run with this. See, 0:24:48.640 --> 0:24:52.159 that's what the decision was. This would be something like 0:24:52.440 --> 0:24:57.240 if a person came in and said, you know, I know, 0:24:58.320 --> 0:25:04.080 I know that you know, John my neighbor assassinated not 0:25:04.240 --> 0:25:08.639 John Wilkes Booth, obviously, John my neighbor assassinated Abraham Lincoln. 0:25:09.200 --> 0:25:11.399 I mean, you could walk into a into a police 0:25:11.400 --> 0:25:14.160 station and you know, there's no statute of limitations on murder, 0:25:14.359 --> 0:25:18.040 so you know, they would usually say, okay, let's a 0:25:18.200 --> 0:25:23.000 normal reaction would be, let's take this person for psychological evaluation, 0:25:23.280 --> 0:25:24.800 or maybe you just ignore them and say get out 0:25:24.840 --> 0:25:29.040 of here, buddy. But it's not always the case that 0:25:29.119 --> 0:25:31.800 people will act ethically when they're presented with information that 0:25:32.080 --> 0:25:36.639 a normal analysis would tell them is absurd, and so 0:25:37.600 --> 0:25:41.040 it also provides an opportunity for the unscrupulous. They can 0:25:41.400 --> 0:25:46.679 use that as the basis for an investigation. That's exactly 0:25:47.240 --> 0:25:50.080 what they did in Russia Gate. All this stuff was 0:25:50.119 --> 0:25:52.280 being said, all these rumors, They had no real evidence 0:25:52.320 --> 0:25:56.119 at all, and there was Russian disinformation out there, and 0:25:56.280 --> 0:25:58.560 they figured, well, what if we just rely on the 0:25:58.640 --> 0:26:01.200 Russian disinformation and pretend and that we believe it, and 0:26:01.359 --> 0:26:03.480 maybe we do a little bit, but not really, but maybe, 0:26:04.240 --> 0:26:11.600 and then we start monitoring, investigating spying on the Trump campaign. Right, 0:26:11.680 --> 0:26:13.480 this would be like your neighbor John all of a 0:26:13.520 --> 0:26:17.000 sudden has police officers banging on his doors saying, we 0:26:17.080 --> 0:26:19.159 have a you know, we have a report that you 0:26:19.240 --> 0:26:23.719 assassinated Abraham Lincoln. They could do that, right, I mean 0:26:23.760 --> 0:26:25.760 they could say that. I mean maybe in that case 0:26:25.840 --> 0:26:28.159