Speaker 1: With the evidence is of cancer that has consumed so
Speaker 1: much of America's political life by elevating the worst amongst
Speaker 1: us to some of the highest positions of political power.
Speaker 1: And when they get there, because they are unprepared. They
Speaker 1: are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases
Speaker 1: just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to
Speaker 1: lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's
Speaker 1: why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about
Speaker 1: their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. It
Speaker 1: is April eleventh, and there are two hundred and eight
Speaker 1: days left until the American people will choose the next
Speaker 1: American commander in chief. This is the warning. Mike Turner
Speaker 1: from Ohio is the chairman of House Republican Intelligence Committee,
Speaker 1: and his colleague, Mike McCall of Texas is the chairman
Speaker 1: of the House Foreign Relations Committee. The two men said
Speaker 1: something totally obvious but still rather remarkable. What they said
Speaker 1: is that Russian propaganda has influenced, has penetrated, has affected
Speaker 1: their colleagues. Think about that Russian propaganda has reached its
Speaker 1: way into the House of Representatives and into the Republican
Speaker 1: cloak grow where it has swayed the opinions. Now, what
Speaker 1: does this mean? What is Russian propaganda? Is it a
Speaker 1: magical elixir, a secret element, some type of enigmatic powder
Speaker 1: that wasps through the vents. It's none of those things.
Speaker 1: What it is is is carefully constructed and packaged lies.
Speaker 1: And those lies have merged and melded with Donald Trump's magalies.
Speaker 1: There is a practical effect, an outcome, a cause, an effect,
Speaker 1: a consequence for a society. When the president of the
Speaker 1: United States over four years times lies by documented count
Speaker 1: more than thirty five thousand times to the American people,
Speaker 1: the incessancy and constancy of the lies has a practical
Speaker 1: effect in the end. What it does is it erodes
Speaker 1: the ability of normal people to distinguish what is real
Speaker 1: and what is not, what is true and what is fake,
Speaker 1: what is false and what is real, What is the
Speaker 1: lie and what is the truth? And the distinguishment between
Speaker 1: what is the lie and what is the truth is
Speaker 1: elemental in a democracy because in a democracy, it is
Speaker 1: the people that are sovereign. Specifically, the American government is
Speaker 1: constructed on the basis of a republic of the people,
Speaker 1: by the people, for the people. If the people can't
Speaker 1: tell what is real, can't tell up from down, down
Speaker 1: from up, red from blue, blue from red, then we
Speaker 1: are in big trouble. Democracies, the United States in particular,
Speaker 1: are constructed on truth, on elemental truths about the dignity
Speaker 1: of the human being, about this premissy of the individual
Speaker 1: over any collective. These ideas about the dignity of life
Speaker 1: are perhaps most clearly and best manifested in these words
Speaker 1: from the American Declaration of Independence, that all men are
Speaker 1: created equal and endowed by a creator, with certain inalienable rights,
Speaker 1: among them life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This
Speaker 1: is a truth, an inalienable truth, that is at the
Speaker 1: center of the idea that created the United States of America,
Speaker 1: which has endured for nearly two hundred and fifty years.
Speaker 1: But there are other ideas, and every one of those
Speaker 1: ideas subordinate the dignity and then the freedom and the
Speaker 1: liberty of the individual below the power of the state,
Speaker 1: or a party, or a man, or all three acting
Speaker 1: together in concert with the man declaring that I am
Speaker 1: the party, the party declaring that we are the state.
Speaker 1: When this happens, it's a recipe for atrocity and evil.
Speaker 1: The most famous examples of lies overwhelming reality, consuming the
Speaker 1: world and a fire of rage and hate and violence
Speaker 1: was what happened in Europe during the nineteen twenties and
Speaker 1: thirties and forties, with the rise of the Nazis in
Speaker 1: Germany and the genocide they perpetrated and committed. All of
Speaker 1: it was built on a mountain of lies and delusions.
Speaker 1: Lies that the Germans were a superior race, a master race,
Speaker 1: and that all around them were lesser people, some of
Speaker 1: them needed to be annihilated, exterminated, while others simply could
Speaker 1: exist as slaves. The German people would live in a
Speaker 1: paradise of open space, in an agrarian society where they
Speaker 1: would multiply, having many, many children, while all around them
Speaker 1: slave laborers would till the soil in their perfect utopia.
Speaker 1: It was madness. But this idea, like all of the
Speaker 1: other ideas, all of the other isms, at its core,
Speaker 1: is built around a lie. And that lie is always
Speaker 1: sold on the belief that a man, a party, something
Speaker 1: can cure all the problems by blaming it on some
Speaker 1: type of common enemy, always the easy scapegoat for the Nazis.
Speaker 1: It was the Jews, who made up one percent of
Speaker 1: the German population and were held liable by the Nazis
Speaker 1: for all the wrongs that had come to Germany from
Speaker 1: the defeat in the War of Aggression. Everything was blamed
Speaker 1: on one percent of the population. Today, there are similar
Speaker 1: lies being told by an autocrat, by a dictator who
Speaker 1: is waging a war of a great of violence, a
Speaker 1: war that involves kidnapping children and shipping them east, a
Speaker 1: war that involves systemic rape and murder and brutality under
Speaker 1: the premise that the nation of Ukraine does not exist. This,
Speaker 1: of course, is a lie, and the lies that support it,
Speaker 1: the fake history that embodies it, or what Russian propaganda is.
Speaker 1: The notion that the war that is being fought is
Speaker 1: some type of reaction defensively by Russia to a greedy
Speaker 1: and over expanse of NATO. The notion that this is
Speaker 1: repeated on the floor of the United States House of
Speaker 1: Representatives and in the Republican cloakroom. This propaganda, this lie
Speaker 1: by a foreign enemy at the disadvantage of our democratic
Speaker 1: action and the cause of freedom, is something that should
Speaker 1: be sickening to all Americans, because to fall for propaganda
Speaker 1: requires you to be something requires you to be a dupe,
Speaker 1: a fool, a vessel that can be tricked, manipulated. And
Speaker 1: so when you see people like Marjorie Taylor Green and
Speaker 1: all of the loons and all of the cynics who
Speaker 1: have been so easily manipulated by the Kremlin, remember this
Speaker 1: that their manipulation has made life more dangerous for all
Speaker 1: of us, for all of our children, for all of
Speaker 1: the people in the world, because it serves violence, it
Speaker 1: serves the cause of dictatorship, that is attacking of people
Speaker 1: who wish to be free, who wish to have their
Speaker 1: own life, language, their own traditions, their own customs. When
Speaker 1: two Republican chairmen say, when we look around, what we
Speaker 1: see are our colleagues who have been overcome, who have
Speaker 1: become dupes to foreign lives by a hostile country that
Speaker 1: has been our enemy for eighty years, trying to undermine
Speaker 1: America's standing in place in the world, which is the
Speaker 1: lynchpin and the guaranteur of peace and security, not just
Speaker 1: for the American people, but for all people. Understand what
Speaker 1: these comments mean, Understand the honesty of them, how important
Speaker 1: they are. With the evidence is of cancer that has
Speaker 1: consumed so much of America's political life, elevating the worst
Speaker 1: amongst us to some of the highest positions of political power.
Speaker 1: And when they get there because they are unprepared. They
Speaker 1: are disordered personalities, malignant, narcissists, ignorant, and in some cases
Speaker 1: just plain dumb. They are easy to fool, easy to
Speaker 1: lie to, easy to dupe, and easy to trick. That's
Speaker 1: why these two men, these two chairmen, are talking about
Speaker 1: their colleagues being under the influence of Russian propaganda. All
Speaker 1: propaganda is immoral, because all propaganda is a lie. We
Speaker 1: must remember this and understand that even when it comes
Speaker 1: from two complicit Republican chairmen, that when they tell the
Speaker 1: truth about the infestation at hand, that we must take
Speaker 1: it seriously. There has never been an era in American
Speaker 1: life where there has been more voracious foreign influence directed
Speaker 1: openly at American policymakers with no rebuttal and no consequence,
Speaker 1: whether it's the army of Saudi agents and Katari agents
Speaker 1: and influence peddlers representing who knows what, dictator who knows
Speaker 1: what all, or gark from where that are all over Washington,
Speaker 1: or the obvious efforts of the Russians which are parroted
Speaker 1: every night, a mere shadow of what you can see
Speaker 1: on Moscow on Fox News, lie after lie after lie,
Speaker 1: madness after madness, conspiracy after conspiracy. To the American people,
Speaker 1: that's what Russian propaganda is. And in the end, it's
Speaker 1: lethal because in the end, what it seeks to do
Speaker 1: is to smother the flame of liberty with a wet
Speaker 1: blanket of lies, to bring on the darkness that subjugates
Speaker 1: the human below the jackboot of the state. And the
Speaker 1: American people's answer to that proposition has always been, for
Speaker 1: two hundred and forty eight years, never give me liberty
Speaker 1: or give me death. That has been the American position,
Speaker 1: and let it always be so. Thank you for listening
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