Speaker 1: It's time for a refresher course. You long time viewers
Speaker 1: will enjoy it. You new viewers may find it enlightening.
Speaker 1: It's kind of a fancy word for our show. I
Speaker 1: don't know if enlightening is exactly the way I would
Speaker 1: put it, but you're gonna find it revealing because we
Speaker 1: use terms. I use terms that everyone doesn't use. Frankly,
Speaker 1: many of the things we talk about on the show
Speaker 1: are unique to our show. We realize that I have
Speaker 1: a little different way of looking at things, and I
Speaker 1: think explaining now and then what we're talking about is
Speaker 1: helpful to everybody, including myself. There is one term that
Speaker 1: we use a lot on this show, the system, because
Speaker 1: everyone at this point in time knows what the deep
Speaker 1: state is, right, deep state this, and deep state that,
Speaker 1: and people have their own version of the deep state.
Speaker 1: But I have always maintained, and I still do to
Speaker 1: this day, the deep state. Calling it a deep state,
Speaker 1: not that it's bad. You're underselling, underselling exactly what it means.
Speaker 1: Because when you think about something like the deep state,
Speaker 1: here's what you think about. It's this human nature you
Speaker 1: think about state employees. And don't get wrong, it's a
Speaker 1: big problem, but you think about the IRS, FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA,
Speaker 1: all these state groups, these government groups working together against
Speaker 1: you and against the elected officials you like, And that's
Speaker 1: what that's what comes to mind when you think about
Speaker 1: deep state, the swamp, Washington, d C. Right. But the
Speaker 1: truth is it's so much bigger and more nefarious than that.
Speaker 1: If it was only the deep state, it would be
Speaker 1: a problem, but it wouldn't be the end of the world.
Speaker 1: The problem is it's much more than a deep state.
Speaker 1: The problem is it's a system. That's why I call
Speaker 1: it the system. You can think of it as well,
Speaker 1: the thing that really controls everything in our culture. Now,
Speaker 1: now what is it? Who are these people? Name names,
Speaker 1: give me some details. I'm gonna give you an example
Speaker 1: of it in just a second. Just to set it up.
Speaker 1: I want to make sure that I reemphasize this equality
Speaker 1: is a lie. It's something that has been used to
Speaker 1: usher in equity and communism in this country. But this
Speaker 1: is something and this is going to come into play
Speaker 1: in a moment. Equality we're all equal, no're not, None
Speaker 1: of us are equal. That's a lie. Oh soul is
Speaker 1: equal in the eyes of God, maybe, but you're not equal.
Speaker 1: To me, I'm not equal to you. We're made different,
Speaker 1: different flaws, different skills, made for different purposes. I'm not
Speaker 1: equal to the guy on the sidewalk. You're not equal
Speaker 1: to this equality. That's something that doesn't exist. And here's
Speaker 1: something else that's true. And people find this hard to
Speaker 1: accept because we all like to imagine ourselves as being
Speaker 1: an important right. I'm no different. I want to be important.
Speaker 1: I have a TV show, I have a radio show.
Speaker 1: I'm important. Not really, not really, we have different levels
Speaker 1: of importance when it comes to the direction of society.
Speaker 1: We're not all equal. That's ridiculous. If you are a teacher,
Speaker 1: maybe you're a school teacher. We have a bunch of teachers.
Speaker 1: Believe it or not, there are a bunch of anti
Speaker 1: communist teachers out there. We have a bunch of teachers
Speaker 1: that listen to the show. You have an important job,
Speaker 1: of course, guiding young minds. It's a very important job.
Speaker 1: You're going to have some influence as a teacher and
Speaker 1: what the future of the country looks like, are you,
Speaker 1: Lord High Commander? Of course not. But every year, twenty
Speaker 1: thirty kids come into your classroom and they're given guidance
Speaker 1: by you. For an hour or two hours, three hours
Speaker 1: a day. They're younger, even longer. Okay, so you have
Speaker 1: a level of importance that's called here. Well, if you're
Speaker 1: in construction, you know that's how I grew up a
Speaker 1: construction guy. I'm a construction guy. My dad was, his
Speaker 1: dad was. And that's a great job. Great living, good
Speaker 1: hard work, keep you live longer, good exercise. I'm glad
Speaker 1: you're doing it. We need construction guys. But you're not
Speaker 1: where the teacher is as far as importance goes, as
Speaker 1: far as influencing the culture. Now, what you do matters,
Speaker 1: matters for you, your family, your paycheck, It matters to
Speaker 1: build the world around us. But as far as influence
Speaker 1: as the society goes, the teachers above you. Different people
Speaker 1: have different levels of influence. So let's talk about what
Speaker 1: the system is. The system is this cultures, all of them,
Speaker 1: whether it be a nation America, a big nation three
Speaker 1: hundred million people, or whether it's a tiny tribe of
Speaker 1: a hundred people out in the Australian outback. Cultures have
Speaker 1: killers on which the culture itself rests the most important things.
Speaker 1: What's most important in a society is your local book club?
Speaker 1: Important to society. Ah, not really is the religion the society, Yes, Marry,
Speaker 1: that's one of your cultural pillars. Religion, media, how information
Speaker 1: is shared about the things. Education, hugely important pillar business,
Speaker 1: the business part of your society, hugely important. The government
Speaker 1: huge These are the big pillars that hold up every society,
Speaker 1: the most important things. Everything isn't equal. The problem we
Speaker 1: have in America, the problem we have at the system
Speaker 1: is our most important pillars have all been taken over
Speaker 1: and governed now by the same cultural Marxist ideology. They
Speaker 1: all now instead of serving as a check on each other,
Speaker 1: now they're all working together at all times, and they're
Speaker 1: always working against you. You see. The deep state is
Speaker 1: simply one of those pillars, very very important, don't get
Speaker 1: me wrong. But it wouldn't be the end of the
Speaker 1: world if the other pillars were keeping it in check.
Speaker 1: But they're not. You see, the deep state they work
Speaker 1: right with the media, They work right with media. Now
Speaker 1: they work right with various other pillars, always against you.
Speaker 1: You want an example, here's a great example, the George
Speaker 1: Floyd thing. This is maybe the best example. Now what happened, still,
Speaker 1: go ahead and recap this. This is an important part
Speaker 1: not because of the case itself, not because Saint George
Speaker 1: Floyd matters, or the cops matter or anything else. This
Speaker 1: is a great example of the kind of culture you
Speaker 1: have now and the damage that can be done with
Speaker 1: a corrupted system. You woke up one day and there
Speaker 1: was this terrible video floating around the Internet, and then
Speaker 1: it got from the Internet to the news. What was
Speaker 1: on the video. What was on the video was there
Speaker 1: was this cop, white cop, with what looked like his
Speaker 1: knee on the back of the neck of some sweaty,
Speaker 1: shirtless black dude on the pavement. The black dude was
Speaker 1: kind of crying out. He didn't look well, it didn't
Speaker 1: sound well. And you're looking at this video. The cops
Speaker 1: are standing around the knee. It looks like it's on
Speaker 1: the neck. Oh my gosh. And then and then they
Speaker 1: got dies and right away you're watching and you know,
Speaker 1: as a human being, it doesn't look good, doesn't sound good,
Speaker 1: It doesn't really matter where you fall. And the whole
Speaker 1: thing that it was kind of ugly. No one wants
Speaker 1: to watch somebody sit there and die and sweaty. It
Speaker 1: was terrible, But that didn't mean it didn't mean we
Speaker 1: needed massive policy changes across the country. It didn't mean
Speaker 1: corporations had to realign themselves. The government had to realign itself. Okay,
Speaker 1: there's one internet video. Let's figure out what's wrong. Okay,
Speaker 1: where was this Minneapolis? Okay, well, hopefully Minneapolis investigates. There's
Speaker 1: someone did something wrong. Hopefully that. But that's not what happened,
Speaker 1: did it. What happened was the system. All those cultural
Speaker 1: pillars realized that they had been presented with an opportunity.
Speaker 1: They had been presented with an opportunity to crush more
Speaker 1: of your freedoms, to attack more of what you value,
Speaker 1: to push what they want forward, and so they use
Speaker 1: this innet video to shape our entire culture for six
Speaker 1: months to a year. You still see little remnants of
Speaker 1: it out there. Do you remember. Do you remember DJ's
Speaker 1: dropping beats on rooftops to George Floyd, the drug dealer.
Speaker 1: So disc is in honor of George Floyd, and I
Speaker 1: really hope we can see more unity and more peace
Speaker 1: when already things are so difficult. So shout out to
Speaker 1: his family, don't you more? We face sanfficult up today
Speaker 1: and tomorrow. I still have a dream. It is a
Speaker 1: dream relivoted in the American dream. I have a dream.
Speaker 1: I okay, that's what. And all of a sudden, George
Speaker 1: Floyd's statues, some many are still standing, all of them
Speaker 1: actually are still standing, began popping up across the country.
Speaker 1: There were George Floyd funeral services, multiple funeral services across
Speaker 1: the country. We had not just Democrats, Republican senators like
Speaker 1: Tim Scott deciding because of one Internet video in Minneapolis
Speaker 1: that the cops were the problem in the urban black community,
Speaker 1: which is ridiculous. And you could hate cops all you want.
Speaker 1: I don't care what you feel. I don't do universal.
Speaker 1: Back to blue, I don't do universal. Cops are evil.
Speaker 1: Everyone who does that kind of stuff is stupid. Each
Speaker 1: incident is on his own. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: it was just the thing to do on the left
Speaker 1: and the right. The cops sucked. The cops in a problem.
Speaker 1: The cops are ruining the black community. We had politicians
Speaker 1: and the media, those important pillars out there. In the
Speaker 1: wake of one Internet video calling for the defunding of
Speaker 1: police in Oakland tonight, defunding the police has become a reality.
Speaker 1: The LA City Council has taken its first step in
Speaker 1: defunding the LAPD. Today the council voted to cut the
Speaker 1: budget by one hundred and fifty million dollars, and we
Speaker 1: agree that we can redirect some of the funding. Yes,
Speaker 1: I do believe that we need to reallocate resources away.
Speaker 1: So yes, defunds or bust. The City Council passed the
Speaker 1: New York City budget, which includes redistributing one billion dollars
Speaker 1: from the NYPD budget. Yes, I support the reallocational resources
Speaker 1: from NYPD. We have to reimagine public safety. Not only
Speaker 1: do we need to invest foreign police, but we need
Speaker 1: to completely dismantle the Minneapolis Police Department. What she's still
Speaker 1: raptor minder on how crazy that was. And as the
Speaker 1: system begins to build this narrative, right, black people were
Speaker 1: oppressed in America, the cops of the problem, key fund
Speaker 1: the police. These things are all things that would have
Speaker 1: been insane to the normal American five minutes before Saint
Speaker 1: George Floyd died. Now the systems building this narrative and
Speaker 1: building this narrative, and this is where you're going to
Speaker 1: see all the cultural pillars. As I've said, that was
Speaker 1: the media, that was the politicians already professional athletes another
Speaker 1: cultural pillar athletic performance is an important part of your culture. Athletics,
Speaker 1: it's the reason, it's a part of the tiny tribes too.
Speaker 1: It's part of what brings people together together. Well, we
Speaker 1: don't have that pillar. The system has taken that pillar
Speaker 1: into here's Lebron James having you know, two boys of
Speaker 1: my own and me being an African American in America,
Speaker 1: and to see, um, what continues to happen with the
Speaker 1: police brutality towards my kind, continue to see what the
Speaker 1: what goes on with the just the injustum, it's just
Speaker 1: it's very trouble. Then, yes, Lebron and Lebron's kids definitely
Speaker 1: in a lot of trouble of getting in a bad
Speaker 1: running with the cups got stop. But again, the more
Speaker 1: ridiculous it got, the more it seemed defeat on itself.
Speaker 1: Soon you had Black Lives Matter plastered across NBA courts,
Speaker 1: NFL fields, and racism. This simply became a thing. And
Speaker 1: then it began to bleed from the obvious cultural pillars.
Speaker 1: Then this is what happens. It began to bleed into
Speaker 1: the right. You saw this over and over and over again.
Speaker 1: I remember seeing I remember looking on in horror. Hold
Speaker 1: on what you'd see? These people who you normally trust,
Speaker 1: normally go to for truth, they would in response to
Speaker 1: all this pressure from the system. Hey, Whitey, don't you
Speaker 1: have anything to say and see people? Wow? I mean
Speaker 1: we do have a lot of racism. None, I do
Speaker 1: prison reform. We definitely need some prison reform, for sure.
Speaker 1: It is a racist country after all. George Floyd, what
Speaker 1: happened with Saint George Floyd, It was the system in action,
Speaker 1: That's what you saw. They can create a false narrative
Speaker 1: out of nothing and totally change the direction of a nation.
Speaker 1: I remember this. This might be the best example. I
Speaker 1: remember my son logging into one of his video games
Speaker 1: and he says, Dad, come look, Dad, come quick, because
Speaker 1: they have these loading screens with the video games loading up,
Speaker 1: and I run in and they had done an update
Speaker 1: on the video game and updated it. So the loading
Speaker 1: screen when you loaded in was about Black Americans and
Speaker 1: how oppressed they are in this country. And it is
Speaker 1: unjust the video game. That's the system running everything, controlling
Speaker 1: the narrative at all times, so they can constantly put
Speaker 1: insane concepts out there and get half the country or
Speaker 1: more to either believe it or succumb that's what we're
Speaker 1: up against. All that may have paid you uncomfortable, but
Speaker 1: I am right. We have an outstanding show for you tonight.
Speaker 1: The Great Lee Smith joins us. Next. What does it
Speaker 1: need to master us a future? I think to have
Speaker 1: a platform, we're all stakeholders of global society are engaged.
Speaker 1: What does that mean? What do these words mean? Joining
Speaker 1: me now, my friend, the great Lee Smith, author of
Speaker 1: the book The Permanent Coup. Lee, Let's actually begin right there.
Speaker 1: For so many people who are just getting into this stuff,
Speaker 1: and they're waking up to this evil thing going on
Speaker 1: around them, and they don't really understand what it is.
Speaker 1: They can't put it into words. Would you please describe
Speaker 1: what exactly these people are talking about when they always
Speaker 1: talk about mastering the future and stakeholders. What's a stakeholder? Jessee?
Speaker 1: I gotta tell you, whenever I see Kloud Schwab, it
Speaker 1: always occurs to me that he'd be more understandable if
Speaker 1: he was a matre d at an upscale Nazi themed
Speaker 1: fondue restaurant, because that's as seriously I think people should
Speaker 1: be taking Kloud Schwab. These are lunatics, and I think
Speaker 1: it's important to understand what the World Economic Forum is
Speaker 1: really about, and I think it's basically an upscale think
Speaker 1: tank that is collecting money. The real problem I think
Speaker 1: that we have as Americans is the people who are
Speaker 1: now in charge of our federal government. Can you make
Speaker 1: that connection? Because that was actually going to be the
Speaker 1: next thing I asked you a World Economic form. Okay,
Speaker 1: we hear about these meetings in Switzerland and World Economic
Speaker 1: Forum and stakeholders, but then we talk about our own
Speaker 1: corrupt system and our own late stage republican what's the
Speaker 1: connection there? What's our people's connection with these people? I think, actually, frankly,
Speaker 1: at this point, I think that World Economic Forum has
Speaker 1: become something like a cover for a US China consortium, right,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of this stuff the World Economic Forum,
Speaker 1: I mean their center powers in Europe. It's been going
Speaker 1: on for more than half a century. Now. Klauschwab founded it,
Speaker 1: he's in charge of it, but remember he's also a
Speaker 1: protege of Henry Kissinger. The way that I see the
Speaker 1: World Economic Forum is is that the real power behind it,
Speaker 1: and if you look at the money that goes to
Speaker 1: the World Economic Forum, a lot of this money is
Speaker 1: American money, right. I think that what they're doing is
Speaker 1: I think our own global elites here in the United
Speaker 1: States are using the World Economic Forum in some ways
Speaker 1: to legitimize their own program here in the United States
Speaker 1: and their ambitions abroad. Look, I think it's absolutely correct
Speaker 1: that you and I we look at the United States
Speaker 1: and we say it's crazy. Everything the United States isn't crazy.
Speaker 1: Our leaders are crazy. Everything they're doing, whether it's from
Speaker 1: a woke military to open borders, it's absolutely nuts. But
Speaker 1: the globalists still perceive and understand the United States to
Speaker 1: be a powerful empire with lots of resources and lots
Speaker 1: of money. So I think that's what the World Economic
Speaker 1: Form actually is. It's an instrument for our global elites
Speaker 1: to project power, certainly in Europe and again to be
Speaker 1: able to be able to make certain connections with the
Speaker 1: Chinese that would be untenable if it were happening. If
Speaker 1: we're happening, and under other circumstances, what connections with the Chinese?
Speaker 1: To what end? Why do we want connections with the Chinese?
Speaker 1: Because I mean because the United States, Well, first of all,
Speaker 1: the big thing is the corporate and political elites see
Speaker 1: China as an enormous as an enormous asset. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's this is the source of their wealth, their power,
Speaker 1: and their prestige. And this has been going on for decades.
Speaker 1: So the relationship, I mean, the relationship with China is
Speaker 1: their center of gravity. Right. If you look at if
Speaker 1: you look at Wall Street, if you look at Hollywood,
Speaker 1: if you look at the university system, if you look
Speaker 1: at big Tech, these things do not have the power
Speaker 1: and certainly not the money without there, you know, without
Speaker 1: offshoring a whole bunch of resources to China, without a
Speaker 1: large Chinese market. That's how Hollywood perceives it. So China
Speaker 1: is extremely important for our elade. And that's why I
Speaker 1: say when people are looking when Republican led Congress is
Speaker 1: looking to target China, looking at push back hard on China,
Speaker 1: I think that's great. However, the big problem is there
Speaker 1: is an enormous wall between between pro America Americans and
Speaker 1: the Chinese Communist Party, and that's American ELDS. That's our
Speaker 1: fundamental problem. While China is our strategic threat, our main
Speaker 1: strategic threat, the fact is they are partnered with key
Speaker 1: members of the American establishment. Okay, the Biden family obviously
Speaker 1: is part of this whole thing. And deep, well, there's
Speaker 1: many people. The Biden family is just one example. I
Speaker 1: don't consider them to be leading anything. But what you're describing,
Speaker 1: and I don't disagree, is China and our leads partnering
Speaker 1: against us. Is what it sounds like, Lee, that it
Speaker 1: sounds like these people are joining forces against us. Absolutely. Look,
Speaker 1: I mean one of the things that we talk about,
Speaker 1: one of the things that's hurt the United States as
Speaker 1: we know, is offshoring the manufacturing base. And we heard,
Speaker 1: you know, two decades ago as the Clinton administration, as
Speaker 1: the Clinton administration gave China Most Favored Nations that permanent
Speaker 1: Most Favored Nation status in trade, and then under George W. Bush,
Speaker 1: China came into the World Trade Organization. And what were
Speaker 1: people saying, Oh, Americans don't need manufacturing, the United States
Speaker 1: doesn't need to be able to make anything. We'll move
Speaker 1: into services and such things like that. What people need
Speaker 1: to understand is they knew at the time what this
Speaker 1: was going to do to the American middle class, the
Speaker 1: working class and the American middle class. They knew what
Speaker 1: was going to happen to the manufacturing sector. They knew
Speaker 1: how much. It was going to hurt their political opponents,
Speaker 1: and they know what it's doing now as well. They're
Speaker 1: going after the small business base. They've been doing it
Speaker 1: for decades, and China is a significant part of their
Speaker 1: own strategic plans against the middle class, against small business,
Speaker 1: against entrepreneurs, against the middle of the country. That's the
Speaker 1: larger goal. China is fundamental to the elites war against
Speaker 1: the American public. Okay, now this is when people step
Speaker 1: in and I get these emails all the time, lee
Speaker 1: of saying, Jesse to one end, I don't understand if
Speaker 1: these people were working our leaders are working with China
Speaker 1: to torch our country. Aren't they going to be left
Speaker 1: with a torched country? What goodness it rule that? Why
Speaker 1: would they work against their own country? Explain a lot
Speaker 1: of these people for a long time, you'll hear people
Speaker 1: talking Henry Kissinger. Of course, he and Richard Nixon were
Speaker 1: responsible for opening China, remember their nineteen seventy two trip
Speaker 1: to Beijing. And Henry Kissinger has rationalized a lot of
Speaker 1: these things in terms of watching and declining America. So
Speaker 1: a lot of these people believe that America is in decline.
Speaker 1: Of course, they've steered US in that direction. So they believe,
Speaker 1: and they not only believe, they promote and they advocate
Speaker 1: the CCP's largest messaging operation, which is China is inevitable,
Speaker 1: China is indomitable, China is all powerful. Do not resist.
Speaker 1: If you jump on board, there will be rewards. Anyone
Speaker 1: who resists will find it's feudal. And so that that's
Speaker 1: what they're doing at that they have no stake in
Speaker 1: the United States and the success of the United States.
Speaker 1: Look at what's happening under the Biden administration. Look at
Speaker 1: what the climate change agenda is. How they've shoved this
Speaker 1: down the throat of school kids now for generations. And
Speaker 1: what is the climate agenda about. It's about transferring American
Speaker 1: middle class wealth and American power to Chinese Communist Party elites.
Speaker 1: That's who makes all the client change agenda. Infrastructure, whether
Speaker 1: it's wind turbines, whether it's batteries for electric vehicles, whether
Speaker 1: it's solar panels, and nonetheless, these people keep pushing for
Speaker 1: this same agenda and they know precisely where it goes to.
Speaker 1: It's the same thing with destroying our fossil fuel industry,
Speaker 1: that is the core of American power. Real genuine patriotic
Speaker 1: American power, and they want to destroy that and instead
Speaker 1: empower the Chinese Communist Party. We have to admit it's
Speaker 1: a very painful thing for Americans to acknowledge. We are
Speaker 1: used to reading in history books how this happens to
Speaker 1: how you have an elite who lose their minds and
Speaker 1: they go out and they sell out their country and
Speaker 1: they destroy their country. We have to acknowledge right now
Speaker 1: the reality, this is what's happening to us. We have
Speaker 1: to understand the nature of the people. Look, the fact
Speaker 1: that Donald Trump won the White House in twenty sixteen
Speaker 1: shows that many Americans understand what's going on. You have
Speaker 1: to keep that in mind. This is the nature of
Speaker 1: our struggle right now to preserve our contart to win
Speaker 1: back our constitutional republic. The problem is the people who
Speaker 1: are leading us. Lee Smith, you're the best man. Come
Speaker 1: back soon, Thank you, Jesse, love you man see soon.
Speaker 1: Speaking of deep state in the system about a former
Speaker 1: CIA ops guy, Brian Dean, Right, let's break down the bias.
Speaker 1: How does that even happen? Hang on, We do not
Speaker 1: have different rules for Democrats or Republicans, different rules for
Speaker 1: the powerful or the powerless, different rules for the rich
Speaker 1: or for the poor. We apply the facts and the
Speaker 1: law in each case a neutral, nonpartisan manner. Oh, of
Speaker 1: course I don't wherever we Byrus, I totally believe him.
Speaker 1: I bet Brian does to joining me now, host of
Speaker 1: the Daily President's Daily Brief podcast under twenty minutes every day.
Speaker 1: It's freaking outstanding, Brian Dean, Right, Brian, Look, the DOJ
Speaker 1: isn't biased. Stop being one of these conspiracy theorists. Well
Speaker 1: if that were only true. So what's embarrassing about his
Speaker 1: statement is the Department of Justice itself that the Inspector
Speaker 1: General has already said that the head of the FBI
Speaker 1: had some bias when he lead classified sensitive information to
Speaker 1: the New York Times. Of course, James Comey leaking at
Speaker 1: the Times to handicap then President Donald Trump. So we
Speaker 1: already have a established pattern, as it were, of someone
Speaker 1: at the very top of both the DOJ and the
Speaker 1: FBI trying to handicap someone based on politics. So his
Speaker 1: statement is just ridiculous on the face of it. Brian, Okay,
Speaker 1: So that we have an administrative state that votes all democratic,
Speaker 1: I think it's like ninety four percent of something crazy
Speaker 1: like that. This is something journal on the right already know, yes,
Speaker 1: exactly right, like our journalists. How did it get that way?
Speaker 1: That seems like such an insane thing for a country
Speaker 1: to allow to happen, and it seems like a suicidal
Speaker 1: thing to be frank, It just seems like the end
Speaker 1: of a nation. How did we allow that to happen?
Speaker 1: How that happened? Yeah, I think what you would probably
Speaker 1: see is over the past twenty or thirty years, the
Speaker 1: administrative state, you know, unelected bureaucrats are increasingly those who
Speaker 1: have like masters and phi's advanced education, which of course
Speaker 1: there's a direct correlation between when folks have those kinds
Speaker 1: of degrees and then when they end up voting, they
Speaker 1: tend to vote for Democrats. So I think that's a
Speaker 1: big part of the explanation. And then you kind of
Speaker 1: get this tribal experience, right, So when you start working
Speaker 1: around a certain number of people who all have generally speaking,
Speaker 1: the same party affiliation or beliefs, well, you feel a
Speaker 1: little bit nervous and anxious to speak up against that,
Speaker 1: and so you don't, and so are you join that
Speaker 1: crowd or you keep very very quiet. So I think
Speaker 1: that's probably you know, those two reasons are a big
Speaker 1: reason or part of why we've got this administrative state
Speaker 1: that is so wildly in one direction. Bryan, if you
Speaker 1: were CIA opts right. So people like to imagine CIA FBI.
Speaker 1: They like to imagine these guys as being you know,
Speaker 1: the pipe hitter types, and then we're constantly disappointed when
Speaker 1: it's revealed that this CIA director or this FBI guys
Speaker 1: a piece of trash. But there is a disconnect between
Speaker 1: the guys in the field and the nerds behind the
Speaker 1: desk is they're not. Oh absolutely. Look, most of your operators,
Speaker 1: particularly to the CIA, are tend to be conservative. It's
Speaker 1: because we deal with all the scumballs out in the world,
Speaker 1: I mean, the terrorists and the prime ministers who are rotten.
Speaker 1: We listen to the phone calls, we read the emails
Speaker 1: of these people, We know who they are were. Our
Speaker 1: eyes are very much open to the horrific nature of
Speaker 1: lots of companies and governments around the world. So that's
Speaker 1: why you find a more conservative leaning folks politically on
Speaker 1: the operators, the operational side, the analytical side, those are
Speaker 1: kind of the folks who typically leaned a lot further left,
Speaker 1: their further distance from the field and scenes some of
Speaker 1: the nasty, gross things that US operators get to see,
Speaker 1: and so it's a much more kind of academic conversation
Speaker 1: for them about what's happening in the world. These are
Speaker 1: people with the masters and PhDs that's sitting up in
Speaker 1: the Ivory towers. So there's a definitely disconnect inside the
Speaker 1: intelligence community and inside the CIA itself of who leans
Speaker 1: in which direction political Kevin McCarthy had some interesting things
Speaker 1: to say about kicking Shift and Swallowell off their committees. Here.
Speaker 1: It was the Intel Committee is different. You know why,
Speaker 1: because what happens in the Intel Committee. You don't know
Speaker 1: what happens in the Intel Committee. Although the secrets are
Speaker 1: going on in the world. Other members of Congress don't
Speaker 1: know what did Adam Schiff do with the chairman of
Speaker 1: the Intel Committee? What Adam Shift did use his power
Speaker 1: as a chairman and lie to the American public. Even
Speaker 1: the Inspector General said it. When Devin Nooneth put out
Speaker 1: a memo, he said it was false. When we had
Speaker 1: a laptop, he used it before an election to be
Speaker 1: politics and say that it was false and said it
Speaker 1: was the Russians when he knew different. When he knew
Speaker 1: the Intel He used his position as chairman, knowing he
Speaker 1: has information the rest of America does not, and lie
Speaker 1: to the American public. When a whistleblower came forward, he
Speaker 1: said he did not know the individual, even though his
Speaker 1: staff had met with him and set it up. So, no,
Speaker 1: he does not have a right to sit on that.
Speaker 1: And if you want to talk about Swalwell, let's talk
Speaker 1: about Swalwell, because you have not had the briefing that
Speaker 1: I had. I had the briefing of Nancy Pelosi had
Speaker 1: the briefing from the FBI. The FBI never came before
Speaker 1: this Congress to tell the leadership of this Congress that
Speaker 1: Eric Swalwell had a problem with a Chinese spy until
Speaker 1: he served on Intel. So it wasn't just us who
Speaker 1: were concerned about. The FBI was concerned about putting a
Speaker 1: member of Congress on the Intel Committee that has the
Speaker 1: rights to see things that others don't because of his
Speaker 1: knowledge relationship with the Chinese spy. Ryan tell people about
Speaker 1: the House Intel Committee. The only thing I know about
Speaker 1: it was all my time on Capitol Hill campaigning, trying
Speaker 1: to raise money, things like that, or just seeing friends.
Speaker 1: You go buy all these you're down the halls and
Speaker 1: you see all these committees, the labels on the hall, right,
Speaker 1: it's right there in the hall. This is where the
Speaker 1: House you know, House Armed Services Committee meets and whatnot.
Speaker 1: And then you get to this locked away area with
Speaker 1: an armed guard and sealed doors and you see that's
Speaker 1: where the House Intel Committee meets. And I never got
Speaker 1: to go in obviously, But what is this place? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, let me just mentioned about the McCarthy.
Speaker 1: What he just said. Put that in my veins. Man,
Speaker 1: that is so good. He is spot on. But as
Speaker 1: for these intelligence oversight communities, there's one of the House,
Speaker 1: and there's one on the Senate. And he's came about
Speaker 1: really back all the way into the nineteen seventies after
Speaker 1: there were some really horrific things the intelligence community was
Speaker 1: doing on behalf of the American people, allegedly. And so
Speaker 1: basically what Congress was us do from that point on
Speaker 1: is provide a lot of oversight of different intelligence operations,
Speaker 1: especially covert action operations. That's typically what gets the CIA
Speaker 1: and other intelligence organizations and a lot of trouble. They
Speaker 1: basically are responding to the President who says, go out
Speaker 1: and kill this person or that group of people, or
Speaker 1: blow up that building or sabotage that ship, etc. That's
Speaker 1: the stuff that the intelligence oversight committees on both the
Speaker 1: House and the Senate are supposed to be monitoring to
Speaker 1: make sure it doesn't go off the rails legally, and
Speaker 1: then to watch the performance of it. Is it effective? Right?
Speaker 1: Does it actually accomplish the goals that the President has
Speaker 1: set out? So those oversight committees are supposed to being
Speaker 1: doing those kinds of things. The question is are the
Speaker 1: people on those committees actually qualified to do that work?
Speaker 1: Do they understand the intelligence community? Because again the IC
Speaker 1: or the intelligence community is full of a bunch of liars.
Speaker 1: I mean, we are paid and trained to learn how
Speaker 1: to lie to people abroad. So are we doing that?
Speaker 1: Of course through the oversight committees, that's an important question.
Speaker 1: You got to staff those with really smart people. Is
Speaker 1: Eric s Walwell a really smart person? I don't think so.
Speaker 1: He also has this clear problem in terms of counterintelligence issue.
Speaker 1: That's a second massive concern. So there really is a
Speaker 1: really problem when you don't staff these oversight communees with
Speaker 1: smart people who know what they're looking for. Okay, finally,
Speaker 1: you mentioned earlier we read the ebayols of these bad guys,
Speaker 1: foreign bad guys. Americans are understandably concerned about an intelligence
Speaker 1: community now full of Democrat activists that has the ability
Speaker 1: to read emails, listen to phone calls, read text messages.
Speaker 1: How concerned should we Americans be about these spies who
Speaker 1: will apparently set their eyes on us. Well, look, it's
Speaker 1: an absolutely fair concern. And again that's why these committees
Speaker 1: are so important, is to make sure that they are
Speaker 1: looking constantly at what are these searches all about? And
Speaker 1: why are you engaging in these searches for any kind
Speaker 1: of ustis in a person? Now, there are rules and
Speaker 1: laws that folks in the NAY and the CIA are
Speaker 1: supposed to be following before they do any of that
Speaker 1: kind of stuff. There are some hinky little little shortcuts
Speaker 1: that some of these operators will take if they want to,
Speaker 1: let say, spy an ex boyfriend or an ex wife
Speaker 1: or something. Right, there are those cases. I remember them
Speaker 1: when I worked at the agency, and those folks were fired.
Speaker 1: But the issue is when you've got these highly politicized
Speaker 1: individuals willing potentially to use those powers for ill who's
Speaker 1: watching over that? The Inspector General the leaders of these
Speaker 1: agencies like James Gomi. All right, it ends up incentivizing
Speaker 1: people to use these powers or their own political ends.
Speaker 1: And when James Comy gets off scot free with doing
Speaker 1: what he did, that just incentivizes people to do it
Speaker 1: even more. Right, So, I think that the American people
Speaker 1: have every right to be asking, hey, have we given
Speaker 1: the NSA and the CIA too much power? Do we
Speaker 1: need to rein that in There are actually some Democrats
Speaker 1: who also believe this is a problem. Ron widen as
Speaker 1: a Senator in Oregon. I will tip my hat to
Speaker 1: him and say, he is one guy who's been on
Speaker 1: top of this privacy issue for a long time time
Speaker 1: of both the CIA and the NSA. So yes, it
Speaker 1: really is a bipartisan concern, should be nonpartisan. There are
Speaker 1: some profound powers and no, by the way, the numbers
Speaker 1: of people in the intelligence community, the numbers of employees
Speaker 1: has ballooned over the past twenty five years, that we
Speaker 1: should also be looking at because we have too many
Speaker 1: people with now profound powers that unfortunately some percentage of
Speaker 1: them are going to be engaged in impropriety. We should
Speaker 1: be concerned about that. Wonderful Brian Dean Wright hosted the
Speaker 1: President's Daily Brief podcast. Thank you Brother, as always. All right,
Speaker 1: I call it the system. Aaron McIntyre calls it the
Speaker 1: total state. But I like that what he calls it.
Speaker 1: Let's talk to him about that and why next? The
Speaker 1: team state or the system as I explained, that's why
Speaker 1: I call it. Why I call it, but I actually
Speaker 1: really like what Aaron calls it. Joining me now, Aaron
Speaker 1: McIntyre host at the Blaze. He's got an outstanding substack,
Speaker 1: and actually the title of his substack is what I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about because he calls it the
Speaker 1: total state, and I think that is so appropriate and true.
Speaker 1: But let's let him describe it in his own words.
Speaker 1: It's his substack, do mine, Aaron? Why do you call
Speaker 1: it the total state? What is that? Well? Thanks for
Speaker 1: having me, Jesse. The reason I call the total state
Speaker 1: is it's so difficult for people today to kind of
Speaker 1: understand what's happening around them. When we look at you know,
Speaker 1: Nazi Germany or Soviet Russia. We understand a total state
Speaker 1: in that sense that there's a top down, you know,
Speaker 1: specific official authority that is organizing the state and its
Speaker 1: influence and everything. We see around us, but kind of
Speaker 1: our Western liberal democracies. We notice that there's a lot
Speaker 1: of coordination between businesses, government, educational institution, and the media.
Speaker 1: And we say to ourselves, there's no official pull up bureau,
Speaker 1: there's no people who are supposed to be directly coordinating that.
Speaker 1: But somehow it seems like they're still always on message.
Speaker 1: Harvard agrees with The New York Times, agrees with you know,
Speaker 1: your CNN outlets. Everyone is kind of in sync. And
Speaker 1: the question is, if you don't have a specific person
Speaker 1: doing this, what's going on? And so when I talk
Speaker 1: about the total state, I'm talking about this decentralized network.
Speaker 1: Some people have called it the cathedral. It's this network
Speaker 1: of different influers, people who share the same values, who
Speaker 1: have the same ethical framework and the same beliefs, and
Speaker 1: they tend to share the same class, the same power
Speaker 1: structure inside Washington and incorporations, and when they all work together,
Speaker 1: we end up with a total state, one that looks
Speaker 1: a little different from the ones, of course, that you've
Speaker 1: seen in the past, but one that nonetheless is very
Speaker 1: capable of censoring people and controlling those things that they
Speaker 1: think about, the things that they express, and the way
Speaker 1: they live lives are. Can you explain the shame factor
Speaker 1: and how that comes into play, because I talk about
Speaker 1: this stupid sky's green theory all the time, But the
Speaker 1: truth is, the system or the total state really could
Speaker 1: convince a bunch of people the sky's green. But more
Speaker 1: than that, they could convince a bunch of people. Hey man,
Speaker 1: it's just easier if you just said it was green.
Speaker 1: Just go along with everything and stop stop worrying about it. Look,
Speaker 1: we'll shame you if you don't. Shame is a big
Speaker 1: part of all this. Sure, everybody wants to be popular.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to be seen as high class, seen as
Speaker 1: part of the ruling class. Everyone wants that social status.
Speaker 1: We can deny that all we want, but that's just
Speaker 1: how humans work. And so when the people who hand
Speaker 1: out status, the people will control all the status granting.
Speaker 1: Institutions in your society have a particular way of thinking,
Speaker 1: a particular outlook on social issues. They can ascribe that
Speaker 1: to other people's viewpoints. And so that's why, for instance,
Speaker 1: A loves to portray anybody who has certain positions on
Speaker 1: say marriage, are on the way that we should educate
Speaker 1: our young people. They like to portray those people as backwards.
Speaker 1: They like to put them in places that have been
Speaker 1: coded as low class, like you know, trailer parks, that
Speaker 1: kind of thing, so that when people push back, they
Speaker 1: can easily be shoved into a box of being discredited.
Speaker 1: It's not like everyone who holds those opinions just suddenly
Speaker 1: disappeared off the planet or suddenly all got put into
Speaker 1: these low status professions or whatever. But by continually pushing
Speaker 1: this message, making it clear that if you're one of
Speaker 1: these people who pushes back, you might not be allowed
Speaker 1: at the right cocktail parties, you might not be able
Speaker 1: to access the next rung on the ladder, they make
Speaker 1: sure to apply that social pressure, which to be clear,
Speaker 1: is prevalent in every society. The only question is which
Speaker 1: outlook is being pushed by those institutions. You have a
Speaker 1: great column up. I want people to go rate it
Speaker 1: on the Blaze about neutrality. It's one of these things
Speaker 1: that has driven me crazy for the law time about
Speaker 1: the right. Most people, in fact, most people watching both
Speaker 1: of us talk right now have probably uttered words like
Speaker 1: this in their lives. I wish we would get politics
Speaker 1: out of education or something along them. Get politics out
Speaker 1: of sports. Can we get politics out of education on them. Well,
Speaker 1: one of the things we have going on is a
Speaker 1: culture war. And one of the things that the Left
Speaker 1: was able to do, one of the ways it was
Speaker 1: able to enter into all these institutions like sports, education,
Speaker 1: all these places, was by arguing for cultural neutrality. It's
Speaker 1: this liberal notion, and by this I mean classical liberal,
Speaker 1: not progressive, that you'll be governed by these very specific institutions,
Speaker 1: these institutions that are objective, that are run by experts,
Speaker 1: and they'll come up with all the best policy. They'll
Speaker 1: be the ones that figure out how to do everything
Speaker 1: most efficiently, and they won't enforce anyone's morality. But of
Speaker 1: course that's not how any of this works. All institutions
Speaker 1: are following some kind of moral framework, some kind of
Speaker 1: moral vision, and they will make decisions based on that vision,
Speaker 1: and when they do so, they will communicate and transmit
Speaker 1: those values to the people they're overseeing. So, whether you're
Speaker 1: watching sports on TV, or whether your kids are in
Speaker 1: the classroom, or whether you're sitting in the boardroom at work, whenever,
Speaker 1: you have to live under people who are making decisions
Speaker 1: according to a certain way of seeing the world, a
Speaker 1: certain moral vision. You will be impacted by that. So
Speaker 1: we can hopefully one day get to the point where
Speaker 1: we have a shared culture where it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: politics is being shoved into every one of these things.
Speaker 1: But in the middle of a culture war, in a
Speaker 1: situation where people are scrambling for control of every single
Speaker 1: one of these institutions, they will attempt to shove these
Speaker 1: politics into everything, and just standing back and saying, well,
Speaker 1: my team doesn't do that. We don't believe that we
Speaker 1: play by the rules of neutrality. The other team doesn't
Speaker 1: believe that they do what's necessary to win. And if
Speaker 1: you continue to just pitch yourself as the team of neutrality,
Speaker 1: you're always going to lose the people we share our
Speaker 1: culture with. One to show four and five year olds
Speaker 1: well how to change their gender and things like that.
Speaker 1: Take a look at this video, I'm sure you've seen it.
Speaker 1: And the friend likes to ask a question, are you
Speaker 1: a boy or a girl? And Nash answers, I'm just
Speaker 1: a kid, but a kid that kids can lead boys,
Speaker 1: they can be boys or girls. Yeah, maybe non buy yeah,
Speaker 1: So Nash, just like me, is non binary. So they
Speaker 1: aren't sure if they're a boy or a girl. So
Speaker 1: when people ask them are you a boy or a
Speaker 1: girl right now, they just feel like saying I'm a kid,
Speaker 1: they're figuring it out. Or I'm actually not even gonna
Speaker 1: be me in here for once. I'm just gonna be
Speaker 1: very frank. I don't want to share a culture with
Speaker 1: that person person. I don't want to share a country.
Speaker 1: I don't really want to share a planet. But either way,
Speaker 1: I don't want my sons to grow up and raise
Speaker 1: families in a culture where that person has influence. But
Speaker 1: that person, in that way of thinking has a lot.
Speaker 1: So how does this end? Because there are tens of
Speaker 1: millions of Americans who think like me, everyone watching us
Speaker 1: talk right now, it looks at that and thinks, okay,
Speaker 1: we're not living together. How does this end? Well, Progressives
Speaker 1: again knew that neutrality was always bunk. It was a
Speaker 1: way to enter into the conversation, but their goal was
Speaker 1: always to remove view from it. I've seen a lot
Speaker 1: of Christians after some of these sports figures, like the
Speaker 1: hockey player who recently refused to wear a Pride jersey,
Speaker 1: was viciously attacked by the left, and they say, where
Speaker 1: is my tolerance? Where's the tolerance? I was promised when
Speaker 1: I extended it to the left and the culture beforehand.
Speaker 1: The answer is it's never coming. You can sit around
Speaker 1: and demand it, but they never intended to extend it
Speaker 1: to you. Look, the progressive religion wants to preach the
Speaker 1: mutilation of children. They want to inform twelve year olds
Speaker 1: on how to change their gender. They want to feed
Speaker 1: puberty blockers to eight year olds. That religion can coexist
Speaker 1: with people who want their kids going to church and learning,
Speaker 1: you know about America's founding fathers. These are two competing religions.
Speaker 1: Progressives realize that, and they're in and their indication is
Speaker 1: that they want to purge those that disagree them. That's
Speaker 1: why they viciously attack anyone who has any of these
Speaker 1: beliefs and try to remove them from power as soon
Speaker 1: as possible. The truth is, either they're going to expel
Speaker 1: people who have traditional values and understandings, or they will
Speaker 1: be expelled from these positions of power. That's all there
Speaker 1: is to These two systems will not coexist. Liberalism cannot
Speaker 1: mediate this with some kind of neutral institution. There will
Speaker 1: be a winner and there will be a loser. Remember
Speaker 1: it an appreciate you man, come back soon. Thank you
Speaker 1: appreciate it. I have some final thoughts. Next. There will
Speaker 1: be a winner and there will be a loser. We
Speaker 1: just got done talking about that with R and I
Speaker 1: just want you to remember that this is the one
Speaker 1: thing I want you to take from this whole show
Speaker 1: on the deep state and the system and everything else.
Speaker 1: We're not going to get along, We're not going to
Speaker 1: live together. We will win or they will win. All right,
Speaker 1: let's fight like we intend to win. We'll do it again.
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