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The Hugh Hewitt Show: Highly Concentrated
Elon Musk Confirms Twitter Shadowbanning
"After reading Barry Weiss's thread last night and continue to dive into it this morning. I am moving from the state of being shocked to the state of being angry and I am now officially outraged because Elon Musk responded three hours ago. I just saw this during the break. In miles Chiang. So here's a question for Elon Musk and Barry Weiss, were any political candidates, either in the U.S. or elsewhere. Subject to shadow banning while they were running for office or seeking reelection. Elon Musk answers quite simply at two 55 a.m.. Yes. Do you realize how hard it is to run for office what kind of sacrifice it takes? Do you realize the depth and degree of the difficulty of getting people to notice you and to raise money and to get your message out and to get any attention at all from anyone in the media? Do you realize what a tumultuous for someone whether it's school border president and everyone in between? To take the move to run and put yourself in harm's way. Anywhere in the United States, anywhere in the world to go and say, I will serve. I am willing to run for this. I am enough committed to this polity that I will be a participant in it. And then to have a little band of left wing ideological fanatics in the Twitter C suite, shadow banning you and blocking and doing it secretly. The Stasi of San Francisco. All right, so they're virtual Stassi. They're not knocking on your door. They're just virtually arresting you. And you disappear.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'The Devil's Triangle: Mark Judge vs the New American Stassi'
"Talking to Mark judge the new book is called the devil's triangle with the subtitle Mark judge versus the new American Stasi. That was the East German secret police. You're just telling us mark how they did extensive what you call opposition research on you to build this case. This is creepy that people would say, how do we concoct a lie? I mean, it's an amazing thing if opposition research is true. But you're selling saying that they tried to use whatever they could find about you to create a plausible story and they figured we've got it where this is going to work. All we need is somebody with the guts to lie in front of the whole world and they found Christine blasey Ford. It's chilling to me. I worry about people souls that they would participate in this. I know they believe so strongly and abortion that they're almost willing to do anything, but it's chilling to me, frankly, that these things go on. Yeah, and as I was saying, The New York Times two reporters wrote a book called the educational Brett Kavanaugh, and if they report on a guy named Keith kogler, who was friends with blasey Ford and he said in the summer of 2018 for 6 weeks leading up to this, he was researching my writing, my videos, but they might have been physically tracking me. I don't even know. And the way opera research works, the devil's triangles oppo researchers, the media and leftist politicians. But oppo researchers will find everything about you from your birth certificate up to last week and then they open the Bombay doors at the last minute and just dump it. And as one of them put it 90% of my job is getting emotionally upset people to start talking. So they opened the Bombay doors and dumped all this on me and because I've known about the Stasi and I've been writing about this for a long time, I thought I know what's going on. Every word you say is a shift that they are going to plant right in your back. You know, if you talk, it's over because they'll twist whatever you say, even if it's the truth. And that's when I thought of this great movie, the lives of others about the German Stassi. And I said, okay, you're living the lives of others right now. And as we were saying before, the commercial break, they thought it was going to be easy.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Mark Judge on His New Book 'The Devil's Triangle'
"Mark judge, welcome to this program. Eric, great to be here. Can you hear me okay? I can hear you great. People watching via rumble or whatever can see that you're outdoors at some breakfast places. They just hilarious to me what the production values are of things these days. Your book, the devil's triangle before I give you a word in edgewise. As you know, I read it. And I gave you an endorsement for it because I want my audience to understand yours is an absolutely vitally important story that we understand what is happening in our country right now. And so I don't know, we can go in almost any direction. But why don't you sum up for the audience what the book is about in your story? Yes, well, the book is about what happened to me during the Kavanaugh nightmare. And just to put it in general terms, my thesis, the subtitle is Mark judge versus the new American Stassi. And my thesis is that we in America are facing an analog to the German Stasi, which were the secret police under communism. And I think that's a more accurate way to look at things because the Germans thought the unlike the Nazis worked with artists and writers and entertainers, they liked working with celebrities and playwrights in order to propagate their message. Whereas the Nazis tended to be more hostile towards jazz and modern art and those things. So what happened to me in 2018 in regards to the Kavanaugh thing was an attack by the American equivalent of the German Stassi. I don't think that's an exaggeration. I think when I think when Ronan farrow from The New Yorker calls you up and you're sitting at home taking care of your elderly mother and he says, you've been named in a letter charging you with sexual misconduct with a Supreme Court nominee that you went to high school with and being a Catholic with what I think is a pretty decent conscience. I said, that sounds horrible. Who's the accuser? And he said, I can't tell you that. And I said, where did this allegedly happen? He said, I can't tell you that. I said, when did this allegedly happen? He said, sometime in the 1980s. So the church bells are ring. So I've been accused of sexual misconduct with a Supreme Court nominee by a reporter at The New Yorker who can't tell me who the accuser is where it happened or even specifically when it happened. I want
The Charlie Kirk Show
Elon Musk Officially Owns Twitter
"Elon Musk now owns Twitter. The head of Twitter is gone. Their entire sensorship regime is gone. It is like the liberation of France from the national socialist Workers Party. It's like the fall of the Berlin Wall. The censorship Stasi, the Gestapo that excommunicated the Babylon bee and doctor Malone and Donald Trump and the restriction on speech. It is gone. Because of who, a man that the entire uni party can't control. Now, the story of Elon Musk is such an interesting one. And I am by no means a Musk apologist. There's plenty of things he says and does that I don't like his business in China, neurolink. There's all sorts of stuff. However, Musk is doing something that we have been hitting on this program for quite some time. We believe in hierarchies because we believe in reality. In nature, you are going to have hierarchies. There'll be some people that are richer than others, some people that are smarter than others. Some people that are better at sports, some people that are better at making music. Some people are performing drama or acting. A law of nature is the pareto principle. There will be a small amount of people that owns and produces a lot of stuff. By definition, you're going to have elites. The Marxist egalitarian promise of utopian future is nonsense. You're never going to have that. That's why Marxism always results in smaller and smaller groups of people controlling a lot more and more.
The Eric Metaxas Show
'Tony Bobulinski Proves It: Our Elites Corrupted America'
"Okay, so we were going to talk about one more piece. Tony, Tony bob olinsky. You have an article about this is one of the principal business partners of Hunter Biden, go ahead. So the piece is called Tony Bobbie proves it. Our elites corrupt in America be perhaps beyond redemption and the image is a whale rotting on the beach, which I propose as the new American flag for Joe Biden's America should be a dead whale decaying on the beach because that corruption is what we what we heard when Tucker Carlson interviewed Tony bob olinsky. We heard all sorts of details about the Biden crime family and engagement with communist Chinese businesses, controlled by the Chinese government, their secret deals, influence peddling, just really squalid stuff you would expect from like Honduras in the 1950s. The United fruit company giving an envelope full of $20 bills to a guy with a really bad mustache. But the worst part of this that I could see Tucker cuts to footage of Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress. Admitting that the FBI came to him ten days before the 2020 election. And told him to censor all information about the Hunter Biden laptop. And so he did it. The secret police goes to the media, tells them not to not report any information that would help the opposition against the regime so they don't. So they obey. This is what happens in Belarus. This is what happens in the Venezuela and in communist Nicaragua. We are living under a secret police that act like the East German Stasi
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Sits Down With Jack Philip Barsky, Former KGB Sleeper Agent
"With us as Jack barsky, hello. How are you? I'm good. Yourself. This is really strange. You know, I walk around here and I see pictures of you and I know this man I've seen him so many times. That's so funny. Yeah, from afar. Yeah, yeah. Now, you were in the KGB. I wasn't the KGB. Guilty. How did they recruit you? How does that work? Like when you're 12, they just say, no, not at all. For the kinds of jobs that they had me and mine for, they were looking at people who already mature like 23 24. Not yet fully formed and not yet attached to what family in children and so forth. So I was approached and I was 22, I believe. And the recruitment process was a very drawn out, careful process. Because you don't send them over like potatoes. Was this in eastern Germany at the time? Yes. So you grew up in East Germany. Yes, I did. And East Germany was kind of a proxy state of the Soviet. And towards the end, when Gorbachev took. When he became president, the east Germans were further to the left and the Soviet Union. My best friend from college, he worked for the Stasi as a chemist. And when the Gorbachev book came out, the Stasi bought up all the books and pile them up in the hallways of the because they just didn't like the softening that the softening of the hard line.
The Dan Bongino Show
Sean Davis: How the FBI Raid Has Backfired on Democrats
"That Liz Cheney just lost by 762.7 points in a primary something we never thought we'd see again This raid seems to have backfired Sean Hilariously I mean it's an obvious political attack I think we all understand that And obvious political attack to keep Trump from running again which regardless of your feelings about him seems like it's a really bad move because it sets a dangerous precedent And yet it seems to be backfiring and I based that on objective data you're a data guy I am too Polling is up for Trump fundraising has been 5 6 7 times what they do on a daily basis They're usually a little smarter than this when it comes to Trump What happened here Yeah it's kind of amazing I don't know what they thought was going to happen or how they process was going to play out Like they're in such a massive self created bubble that I really think they thought they were going to get like high fived and back padded Finally getting that awful orange man out of there And in reality people are just horrified This is the kind of nonsense that happens in banana republics in third world countries in Russia and Ukraine And this doesn't happen in America We don't have a federal Stasi that gets to go out and throw anyone who opposes one political party into jail And yet apparently that's what we do have given what the FBI and this corrupt DoJ just did
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"stasi" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"Yeah, I think so. That's what it is. Even Kristen sinema has on occasion demonstrated courage. But by and large to be a democratic politician today. Mister willfully hurt this country. Eric Adams is an example the mayor of New York City, deeply contemplating busing New Yorkers to Texas to knock on doors in retaliation for governor Greg Abbott sending busloads of illegal immigrants to the sanctuary city of New York. I already called all of my Friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote, he said. Wow. Like they were contemplating voting for governor Abbott. He may needed a call from the democratic mayor of New York City. I don't even understand that. It doesn't matter. I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old fashioned door knocking because we have to for the good of America. We have to get him out of office. I hope they do. I want New Yorkers to go and knock on Texans homes and say, hi, I'm from New York, and I'm here to try to persuade you to not vote or not to vote for governor Abbott. I hope they send thousands of New Yorkers to Texas to do that. And I want a video of the responses of Texans. Listen, there are a lot of Democrats in Texas. They'll say, oh, what a joy to have a New Yorker knock on my door. We're Kindred spirits, us Texans in Austin. That that would be a hoot. He's going to send New Yorkers to knock on doors in Texas. I think it's a great response. And governor Abbott, you just keep sending illegal immigrants to New York City..
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"The last point that I made I'm not going to I'm not going to work on right now. I just want to repeat it though. We went from. Teaching children to have self control. To teaching them to have self esteem. And if I could summarize the tragedy of the last 50 years, 60 years, that would be it. Secular world produces idiocy. The self esteem movement is an example. All standards are shattered in the secular world. All of them. New York Times, chief music critic, says we should get rid of the blind auditions for orchestras. Where musicians play behind a curtain so you can't see their color, their sex, anything. You just hear how well they play an instrument. And he wants to get rid of that. You don't choose the best musician you choose the black musician. Black musician may well be the best musician. But that's not how he's chosen or she has chosen. The word standards is a dirty word on the left. The following story is actually almost funny. It's so it's so sick. New York City which produces a disproportionate amount of rot in this country. Its mayor was a gigantic fool, Eric Adams, threatens retaliation. Deeply contemplating busing New Yorkers to Texas. So New York City says it's a sanctuary, I guess the state is. Even sanctuary city for people who come into the country illegally. So the governor of Texas, governor Abbott has decided to take them up on it, and fly or bust people from Texas who've come in illegally to New York City. You're a sanctuary city. Here they are, give them sanctuary. This is ticking off the fool, well, he's a Democrat. So it is definitional. It's not meant to be an insult. Name me a non fool Democrat. I would have said Joe Manchin, but I can't believe that he got suckered in. It's painful for this horrible lie of the what is it inflation reduction bill? Of three quarters of a $1 trillion is that correct?.
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"stasi" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"I knew from the day it was announced the self esteem movement was stupid. It was counterproductive and destructive, I even interviewed John vasconcelos, the state senator in California who initiated the movement. Raised Catholic rejected religion because he was too sophisticated for it. That's what people who reject religion think. That's not for me. I'm sophisticated. Yeah, that's exactly how they think. I see all the attacks on me and I'm praying you on the Internet. I don't see all of them, but I see many they really have contempt for me in advocating God's existence. More than anything else this really bugs them. That I believe in me, what is it? There's something in the sky. I forgot the term that they use. They feel so brilliant because they can dismiss religion. It's. So pathetic. I don't know what else to say. Yeah, all these thinkers what fools they were. These the new secular morons, they are the wise ones of our age. They believe men menstruate. That's wisdom. Get it. Biological meant can and should compete against women in women's sports. That's secular wisdom. Okay. Indeed. Let me see here. I gave you the New York. I told you about the police leaving. The other day I told you about how AARP is hurting old or older people. I went through went through a lot of stuff here. Because there is so much and the thing that I know what happens is people forget. People forget how much they hear. Because they hear so much you do I do. That's right. I debate though I repeat something. It's a piece on Merrick Garland in town hall by Larry O'Connor. Turns out to be a very petty vindictive loser. Boy was I fooled I admit it when he was nominated by Barack Obama's Supreme Court. I knew he was a lefty, but I thought you might have some depth that he might even be a man of character. As he puts it here, whatever Biden the Democrats in their special interests overlords demanded, Merrick Garland was quick to comply. You want parents investigated, you got it. You want extra investigations into new voting laws and Republican states will double our investigative staff. You want hundreds of Trump supporters arrested for illegal parading on January 6th to languish in jail for over a year before they get a court date, done. You want midnight raids on advisers to the president to intimidate them into testifying to the January 6th kangaroo committee, you didn't even have to ask. You want Bannon arrested and convicted, no problem. Any chances petty little vindictive man had to use his department as a political tool to punish the enemies of the American left. He took. And it all led to the banana republic's coast play in West Palm Beach, Florida. We returned. Yes, it'd be doubled, by the way, this week we're fighting to help the fighters, folks, please. For the country's sake. Not for my sake. For the country's sake, prager U dot com a three three PragerU..
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"What a prager 7 7 6 talking to you last hour about the rage in America talking about this case in Oregon that's three weeks ago yesterday, and I never reported it to you. But it is it is haunted me. A guy turns out he is identity is 25 years old under 25. Some wiper fluid washer fluid. Got on to his car apparently. So he shot dead. He waited till the car caught up with him and then he shot dead. The 45 year old driver, father of three. What produces such human beings? Well, I'll tell you one thing that does. Not being taught that the most important thing is to control your instincts. This society because of secular stupidity, which is redundant. There's no wisdom and secular institutions. There are secular individuals with wisdom because they've inherited it from the judeo Christian world. Made me a secular institution with wisdom. Yale? Columbia, Berkeley, he realized that the stupidest institutions of the society are all the most radically secular. Universities. You think there's a correlation? It's like asking is there a correlation between cold and frostbite? Seems to be that seems to me and it seems to be that there is. So this stupid society decided on a self esteem movement not a self control movement. In a nutshell and I got a lot of nutshells for you in a nutshell. That's what went wrong. Self esteem not self control. Yes. That's it. If I had to summarize the issue in one sentence, that would be it. What was it the 70s, and of course it came from California, the center of idiocy in America. Well, I take that back. California is really challenged by New York City and Massachusetts. For overarching stupidity. An anti intellectual irrational approach to life. If you're interested more in your child's self esteem than in your child's self control, you might be raising a monster. You'll definitely raising a narcissist..
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"And that's what that's what makes it so fulfilling because they are going to learn our history if it is entertaining. Pre agree you kids dot com? Yes, yes, you can subscribe and get everything in your inbox for free. We also have our auto tails books for purchase now and some of our magazines for purchase on our website for anyone interested in doing that, but our videos and to be a part of PragerU kids is free to subscribe. And of course, we always are grateful, grateful for all of the, all of the people who contribute to keep these shows going because we have big goals ahead. So I want I want my listeners to understand. I want you folks to understand. I find me be personal for a moment. I don't only lament the crisis of the west and of America specifically. I have tried to do something about it. And we are doing something about it. With a billion views a year, now we're touching, we're touching so many people, do you know that The New York Times a few weeks ago? Had an article a front page piece on Elon Musk, and the one of the opening paragraphs it said, Elon Musk sounds like he's watching PragerU videos. Front page New York Times. They're going crazy at our influence on people who hold the wholesome influence, the left hates anything wholesome. This is fundraising month for PragerU, and this week anything you give is doubled. You can't lament and not help. You don't help us. Help another organization that's helping the country. But you've got to, you've got to help. It's doubled what you give this week, PragerU dot com a three three PragerU. It's my dear Jill still there. I'm here. So Jill, this is the news to me, because I can't keep up with everything PragerU does. You are going to go to two hours a week. Is that what you said? That's what our goal is, the end of this year, we want to get to two hours of children's shows per age category every week. It's a big goal. I'm not going to lie. When we all talk about it well, so that's a hundred hours a year. You do math a lot quicker than I do in my head, math is not my forte, but yeah, if you say so. Yeah, well, 50 times too, yeah. So they will really have a life filling world at PragerU little kids. It's true. It's true. And, you know, we often say, save America, but parenting good parenting is more important today. And you've said this to Dennis, how many times but good parenting. That's right. The most important thing. Well, all right, let me just say you are a godsend to this country and to prager you. Thank God for Jill Simone. Thank you. Tell me up and wrong..
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"Day I think how can I inspire more people to fight? And I don't know how successful I am. I don't. I don't even know how you count the success in this matter. If I touched a 100,000 people, is that a success? If I touch the million people, is that a success? There are 330 million Americans. There are 7 billion people on earth. What's a success? I don't think about your success. Think of what I have to do. That's it. I want to go to bed every night thinking I have fought as best as I could. So that the guys who died at Normandy beach didn't die in vain. Think about that all the time. If the left winds every body buried in Normandy beach died in vain. Sobering thought it should be a sobering thought. Keep that in mind. So I've covered the continue. I will continue. It might be a watershed moment. I hope it is. The invasion of the home of a former president. No one is above the law when they say that. I want to regurgitate. It is nausea inducing. Hillary Clinton was not above the law. Oh God, it's painful. All these all these democratic leaders who lied to us along with The New York Times and Washington Post for two years about Russian collusion. They're not above the law. Yep. Nearly 2000 New York police department cops are quitting New York Post before getting full pensions. A 71% jump from 2021, and there was a jump then. The New York police department is still hemorrhaging cups ever growing exodus figures show 2465 police officers have filed to leave the department this year that that's only August. 42% more than the 1731 who exited in the same time last year. More disturbing is the fact that the number of cops hanging up their holsters early before reaching 20 years for a full pension has skyrocketed 71% this year from the year before. A 1098 in from 6 41. The chief of the department, let's see. Who are they quoting here, lynch, you know, the New York police department. Police benevolent association president Patrick lynch. This exodus is the result of cops in the prime of their careers deciding they have had enough the NYPD should stop trying to explain the staffing crisis away. Admit there's a problem and help to fix it. Being New York's finest that's how the New York police department has been called since I grew up in New York. Has lost its luster for many of the rank and file. Who have endured anti ka hostility, bail reform, rising crime and the city's vaccination mandate. Currently on pause. Yep. They should move to places that respect the police. And they are many of them are doing that. I said 25 years ago, the north saved the union in the 19th century and the south will save it in the 21st. Well, if we're saved, it will be the south that saves it..
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"stasi" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"As by the way, taking the amount of schools, I have one more quick question you ended your column by noting Mitch McConnell's silence with regard to the raid of the ex-president Donald Trump. Can you expand on that? Well, I think I was suggesting that, you know, Trump, others have raised the problem of the swamp, the deep state in Washington. Mitch McConnell has been in Washington a long time. And this is a valid point that the problem of the inbred community in Washington has been there a long time. And I think Republicans, whether it's Mitch McConnell or all the others all right, all right, hold it there. That's very, very important. We just have one more segment if you can stay. Don't let summer end without seeing the movie event of the year. Experience Top Gun: Maverick from the biggest screen possible. Are you ready? Damn right. Tom cruise, Top Gun: Maverick, ready to PG-13. Well, everybody welcome back to the show. If it's not back, welcome to an important first hour it was entirely on the breakdown of the FBI national institutions of this country. Victor Davis Hanson compares the FBI to the east European communist security agencies and it is apt I compare Simone gold this remarkable heroic doctor. He was in prison as a political prisoner of the democratic communist regime in this country, terms I never used before. She is she is analogous to me to Andre Sahara, the dissident under the communist regime in the Soviet Union. This is the state of the left, unlike most conservatives, I am not surprised. Knowing the left very, very well, it was my field of study communist affairs. It was called 6 in the entire 6 or 7 in the entire Columbia University, majored in communist affairs. I know it because the advanced colloquium or seminar on communist affairs we sat around a one table in this big new brzezinski's office, he became the national security adviser to Jimmy Carter and he was my instructor. It was the overseer of the Russian institute of the school of international affairs that I attended for graduate work. I never, this is what I never thought. I never thought that when I learned about communism would be applicable to the United States. It didn't dawn upon me. Fighting the Democratic Party is akin to fighting the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. And of course your liberal relatives will scoff at you, not just your leftist relatives. Because they live in the state of denial. It is too painful to know that your life has been devoted to a crappy cause. It is, it's too painful. Most people don't rethink it. My life has been devoted to judeo Christian values, which are actually deeper than Columbia University. And to American values, E pluribus Unum in God we trust liberty. I don't have anything to apologize for. I don't have to face the God that failed, that any decent liberal or leftist would have to face. The God that failed. The nonsense that they believed in. Bigger government is not a threat to liberty, God is unnecessary for a prosperous, morally prosperous civilization. All these basic ideas, oh, we know better than the ultimate belief of every single leftist that they are morally superior. To essentially everyone who lived before them, including Washington Jefferson, Madison, Lincoln, you name it. Must be wonderful to be a leftist because you think so highly of yourself. You are a moral giant among pygmies. Naturally, they are the moral pygmies though. Every.
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"So I am not as optimistic as you, and I tell my listeners, it's irrelevant to me whether people are optimistic or pessimistic. It's only relevant to me whether they fight. The guys who stormed Normandy beach were not optimistic. But they stormed Normandy beach. I used them as my model all the time. So here is the reason the large macro reason why I'm not optimistic doesn't mean anything in terms of my behavior. I fight harder and harder. No matter what. But you're pointing out these recalls, it doesn't have legs in my opinion because almost none of the people recalling gascon or Buttigieg, whatever they're always forget that name. In San Francisco or any of these awful humans who are district attorneys or prosecutors, they don't say, oh, the problem is the left. The non liberal left. They say it's that individual. So there's no larger movement possible to correct the country. If one doesn't understand the left is the issue. The Democrats therefore are the issue. The mainstream media are the issue, then it's irrelevant if they recall a district attorney or a prosecutor here or there. That's my take. Well, in some ways, it's difficult to argue with you, for sure. We're having a demonstration case study of that here in New York City where Eric Adams was a elected mayor of the city. He was elected on an anti crime platform. If you looked at the neighborhoods who voted for him, it was all of the poorest, most embattled neighborhoods, and for Manhattan, Harlem, Brooklyn, The Bronx, and queens. Nonetheless, four of the boroughs have four of the 5 boroughs have progressive prosecutors and they can not be recalled. Derek Adams does not control them. They can only be fired by the governor. And so they persist with their policies and those of us who live here in the city are aware that awful crimes are committed against often innocent people day after day. And I think where this is going, Dennis is that ultimately will vote with their feet. There is a migration taking place out of these cities run by Democrats into the southeast into the southwest into states run by Republican governors. And I do understand the problem there. Texas is experiencing and often these people take their politics with them. Yeah. That has to be dealt with. But nonetheless, there is a migration taking place out of California states like Illinois and New York and that is pretty much the only option people have..
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"So we're in pretty deep water, Dennis. There's no question about it. I opened my show today by asking, who was this tougher for? Those of us who were older and new America, as a wonderful, essentially, means always corruption humans are human. But generally speaking, not corrupt in its primary institutions, or the young people who are aware of what's going on, and think what kind of future do they have in this country? I don't know who it's worse for. Those of us who knew it better, and those of us who are pessimistic about their futures. Do you have any thoughts on that? Yeah, I do. And I think I would refer to a column that I wrote, I think it was last week, which I believe it or not was called the conservative case where optimism. And there are good things going out there in the going on out there. All right, tell me Dan, tell me that as soon as we return. We'll do. This is thank you so much. He understands talk radio exists in America because there are people who support it through commercials. Hi, everybody. Dennis prager here. It's devastating. Column must have been tough to write for Dan henninger, who's written a tremendous number of columns for The Wall Street Journal. And it's difficult because he loves this country and to write what he wrote. It's tough. I know it because I have the same exact experience. So I asked Dan henninger who's back on with me. Who's it tougher for? I raised this question earlier. Those of us old enough to remember a much, much better and kinder and honorable America in terms of its institutions. Or young people who think what kind of future do they have? So you were saying, you wrote a column, the case for a conservative optimism. So take it away. Sure, Dennis. Yeah, I think we have been through over two very difficult years in the United States. Largely driven by the pandemic. I mean, when you have a pandemic of this magnitude with so many closures it has to have an effect on the way people think about themselves and their country. And I think at bottom what most of the public is thinking now is they really want the system to work again. And I've a couple of examples occurred to me. One rampant crime across the United States affecting city after city after city. Well, what just happened in San Francisco, the residents of San Francisco recalled its progressive prosecutor, chase the boudin, Dennis, there are not enough conservatives in San Francisco to make that happen. It had to be a lot of liberals and much of center people whose decided they had had enough. George gascon and Los Angeles and other progressive prosecutor over 700,000 people have signed a petition to initiate a recall against him and as my colleague strassel wrote in one of her columns recently, these actions votes against progressive prosecutors have indeed been taking place in states across the country. My second point was the schools, the closure of the schools during the pandemic to shut down by the teachers unions was an event that really opened a lot of parents eyes. It affected all of them simultaneously. And as we know, parents in many places are trying to take back control of their schools. That's why Glenn youngkin was elected governor in Virginia and as important as why in that election last year in New Jersey, a Republican Jack should rally came within an eyelash of defeating the incumbent Phil Murphy. There were lawsuits filed by towns all over New Jersey Dennis by parents in democratic towns, filing lawsuits against their school boards to reopen the schools. People want the system to work at bottom and despite all the political rancor that we deal with these days because the endless attacks on institutions, I have some confidence that given the chance the American people with their votes will cast their support for protecting those institutions and making the system work. Isn't working too well right now, but I think a lot of people out there want to make the effort to rehabilitate these very important institutions..
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"stasi" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"One of the most important voices in the country is Daniel heminger and heminger is on the editorial board of The Wall Street Journal. Perhaps the single most important daily page produced in the United States, the both the opinion and the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal, I read him regularly. So Dan, I have a thesis about you. You I'm well aware, but giving you divine qualities. Or characteristics of God, but I am comparing you there is a description of God, and I know it because I'm writing my Bible commentary and it's very much in the forefront of my mind, slow to anger. You strike me as slow to anger. And I picked up on your column today that you're angry. Am I right in both counts on both counts? You are right on both counts. For sure. On the first one, slow to anger. You know, I have been with the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal for a long time, and this means putting out a daily editorial page 6 days a week, opinions about what is going on around us, mostly in politics. And, you know, one doing that, one develops a respect for the institutions of the United States. And one develops the belief that those institutions need to be preserved and protected. They simply can't be banged and slammed without limit without cracking. And so my inclination is to try to at least defend them in theory. And what I wrote in my column this week is that I think we are getting to the point where because of things like FBI raid on the residents of the 45th president of the United States, those people who do believe that they are in opposition or they are being attacked by what they call Washington the swamp, the regime, the deep state. It's the coming, unfortunately, Dennis, more and more difficult to argue or suggest to these people that there is some aspect in which these institutions need to be preserved because they are indeed going so far as to discredit themselves and one doesn't want to simply make arguments that no one is going to believe and unfortunately I think that is what is happening with this FBI rate of Donald Trump's residence, people are beginning to simply throw in the towel on our institutions. Well, let me give you an example. I have no doubt you're aware of this wonderful thinker of Victor Davis Hanson. He writes today that the FBI is descending into the status of the Stasi of East Germany. Right. I mean, that's incredible. He's another man who is not a flamethrower. In that sense, he's very similar to you. Well, yeah. I mean, people are coming up with these extreme metaphors, one would never expect to have an associated with the United States, such as that we are a banana republic. We're Venezuela. I am most troubled Dennis by the idea that one might have considered responsible Democrats and democratic officials don't understand what's going on. But they don't. Attorney general Merrick Garland, former federal judge, just wind the tape back several weeks done as to the demonstrations were taking out place in front of justice gret Kavanaugh's home and justice Alito's home. We saw those images. We saw the groups walking by with their Tom Tom screaming, yelling, Kavanaugh had a very small front lawn. And attorney general Garland did nothing to stop that. It was really quite repellent. So it isn't just Donald Trump that is being targeted by the Democrats. And they're hyper partisanship. It's even the Supreme Court. We saw that with the dod decision..
Dennis Prager Podcasts
"stasi" Discussed on Dennis Prager Podcasts
"That's Andrew and Todd dot com. Hi, everybody. Bye bye, I was wrong. Elliot mess was not FBI. I checked it out. He was the bureau of alcohol and tobacco, I believe, and he had a Treasury Department, but he was not strictly FBI. I'm only doing it because every piece of data I give to you is just be correct. Well, he died at age 54. And the untouchables was the name of the movie, but as far as kids were concerned, and adults, the FBI represented an organization that was completely apolitical. And which fought on behalf of America against bad guys. They're now bad guys fighting against America. So I asked you a question, a thought question. I ask it to myself. For whom is this more painful? Young people who are aware of this or older people like me. Who knew a beautiful America? Not a perfect America. A beautiful America. An America wherein its agencies were filled with as every group will have its corrupt individuals, but it was generally speaking. Composed of people who wanted to help this country, not corrupt bastards who run every agency in Washington today. If Victor Davis Hanson sees the FBI as moving towards becoming the Stasi East German secret police deal understand how serious that this is..
The Charlie Kirk Show
The IRS Hiring Spree Is the Biggest Expansion of the Police State Ever
"The IRS hiring spree is the biggest expansion of the police state in American history by David harsanyi. The Democrats reconciliation bill I'm reading from the federalist dot com isn't just going to be the largest ever expansion of a government agency. It's going to be the largest expansion of the domestic police state in American history. Many of you watching right now will be audited and many of you will have to go through a very difficult time defending yourself, nonprofits, churches, get ready, they're coming. The Internal Revenue Service will embody their inner KGB, their Stasi and come after every single freedom lover. Be prepared. The average American has less reason to be concerned about cops with guns that the IRS is looking for special agents that can quote carry a firearm and be willing to use deadly force if necessary. The federal government that already collects $4.1 trillion every year or 12,300 for every citizen, why do they need they need 80 new battalions of IRS cops.
The Eric Metaxas Show
Naomi Wolf Has Her Own Opinions About the Raid of Trump's Home
"It's now my privilege and joy to have as my guest for the rest of the show. Naomi Wolfe, Naomi, welcome back. Thank you so much, Eric. Thanks for having me. Well, I want to talk to you about a hundred things. First of all, your book is out. We spoke about it, but there's a lot more to say. It's titled the bodies of others. The new authoritarians, COVID-19 and the war against the human, because today is today, I have to say that when I read the new authoritarians, the idea that the FBI, you don't have to like Trump, folks. This is not about that. This is about the rule of law. This is about are we free people, governing ourselves, or have we entered a new era. And I have to tell you, and Naomi, you probably know this, but Brandon strock had his door broken down by the FBI. They are terrorizing people. Simone gold. You must know Simone gold. She's in jail because she's a Doctor Who had the temerity to talk about the vaccines as a bad thing. And what we're seeing right now, it's nothing less than astonishing. It's frankly hard to believe that it's happening in our lifetimes that we're seeing this kind of thing. But you don't only acknowledge it. You've written a book about it. Yeah, thank you. I mean, this is horribly horribly predictable based on the trends that I analyzed in the bodies of others, but it's still such a shock. And I just want to kind of publicly and formally apologize. On behalf, I'm not aligned with the Democrats, but I voted for it that my voted for this administration. And I just truly am so sorry and just want to words can't express how appalled and horrified I am to witness that people I voted for are tasking our law enforcement with terrorizing private citizens in a way that is really reminiscent of the Stasi and the black shirts.
ToddCast Podcast with Todd Starnes
Newt Gingrich: Think About What the FBI Will Do to You
"Gingrich, one of our great American statesman. I've never heard Newt Gingrich I was watching his interview last night on Fox News. I have never seen him. So angry. I think you remember the sandy Berger incident. He went into the national archives and came out with those documents in his pants and his socks and anywhere he can stick them. Look, there's clearly a double standard. But I think what's even more troubling. And whatever American, whether you're Democrat, Republican, doesn't matter. Liberal conservative, it doesn't matter. If 30 FBI agents can take over the house of a former president of the United States and probable candidate for president, what can they do to you? And when you look at the Democrats who are trying to add 85,000 IRS agents to the already existing 77,000, that would mean a 162,000 IRS agents compared, for example, to 29,000 people that we have on the border trying to control the border. But the purpose of it simple. They want to control you. These raids, the kind of thing you talked about earlier with taking people off an airplane and chains, having people, a guy standing outside at three in the morning in his pajamas. These things are all designed to intimidate if this government can get away with third world tactics of worthy of Venezuela or the East German Stasi or Zimbabwe under Mugabe. If that's the future, then the constitution has a working document has ceased to exist.
Lex Fridman Podcast
"stasi" Discussed on Lex Fridman Podcast
"An idiot. He didn't know the basics about you interviewed him a little bit to understand like, you know, I started feel out. Is this guy full of shit? It's a stranger showing up to your dorm room. I knew that at that point I know he was wrong, but it doesn't matter because he was German and I had no idea that the KGB would be involved. So sorry to pause briefly. Did you have a sense, did people know that there's a Stasi type of organization that there is a large number of people doing this kind of work in East Germany in order for you to make that guess? We knew that the Stasi existed, we even had our James Bond, you know, we had a series quality invisible visor when a Stasi employee in East German would go into West Germany and hunt down Nazis? Yes. So yes, the Stasi was known to be there and admired in part. Or feared or both. I thought they were necessary and I admired them. James Bond. The reason I did so because I had no information to the contrary, I never knew anybody personally or even somewhat removed, who was followed by the Stasi was put in jail, I had no clue. I had no clue that they did a lot of damage and that they were like doing a lot of surveillance of the East German population. The same way the KGB did for the Soviet Union. So for me to be talking to somebody from the Stasi was it raised my interest, I was curious what comes next because I sort of knew something interesting would be coming at me. And I had no I had no other thoughts about that at that point. So when he was finally when he went and he went for the kill by reversing himself, he said, you know, I got to tell you that I really am not from courtside here. I'm
Past Gas
"stasi" Discussed on Past Gas
"Okay, say you have a cabin. And a really good dog. And you get up every morning, each shop would. You hang out with your dog, is that obscurity? Yeah. Yeah, that sounds great. I think you have to be involved in something kind of public, and then like a YouTube channel. Then move away from the public eye. Like YouTube channel. Obscured. So say you had a YouTube channel. Yes. And then you move to the Woods next to a nice Lake. This is really specific. And then you live like Nick cage and pig. Yeah, 'cause he was a famous chef in that and he had the spotlight for a while. And then he didn't want to be in he wanted to be obscured from the public eye. Yeah, I'm gonna live in obscurity one day. Let us know your address whenever, for sure. You can come by. Let us know that GPS coordinates because I know that there won't have an address. We'll make a video out of it. Yeah, you're on the channel. For sure, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Finding my long lost boss. Wait, your roommates with Rivers Cuomo and you guys are making an album? And it's gonna have Hurley from lost on the cover. Degner, meanwhile, would meet his end much sooner than kaden. Degner was a changed man after his fiery crash in 63, quote he lost his glow sense of humor, everything, said teammate, Jim Redman. Even when you return to the track, people close to him say a dark depression and washed over him. Degeneres personal relationships also began to deteriorate. Many friends said he pushed them out or cut them off. Degner even fell out with Paul Petrie, the friend who had risked his freedom by helping smuggle Degeneres family to the west. So I guess that's answers that question how they got to West Germany. As time went on, degner is reliance on morphine and other medications took an extreme mental and physical toll. His family says he began to experience delusions and paranoia. When he died in 1983 at the age of only 51, rumors quickly circulated that he had committed suicide or may have even been murdered by the East German Stasi after a decades long quest for revenge, but the most believable version of events that he died of heart failure from ill health. We can feel for danger's plight, but it's hard to arouse much sympathy for caden and all of this, given his status as an ex Nazi engineer. We mentioned Wernher von Braun earlier. According to writer max oxley's book, stealing speed, the biggest spy scandal in motor sports history, kaden had an opportunity to join the celebrity scientist state side after the war, but declined. Probably part of operation paper clip. 100%. Bernard von Braun was a Nazi war criminal, and we put him on TV. Yes. Caden's life could have easily taken a very different path. Both men reflect how complicated life was for Germans during and after World War II. Complicated is a good descriptor of that stuff. But I don't want to be seen. That's also an easy way to say, oh, it's complicated. It's a very easy way to excuse things, and I'm not excusing it. You know? A lot of these guys were spared. They were spared the hangman's noose by things like operation paper clip, or as we just read in this episode, the Soviets did the same thing. They had their own program saving these Nazi scientists. Yeah, we did. The USSR and the United States fought over the Nazis. They were chases and races to get to these scientists first before the other side got to them. And these guys, they get a new job and a new country and a new territory under new leadership and try their best to forget what they did in the past. And maybe try to make peace with it in some way, but it's not excusing it. But at least when it comes to Ernst degner, his legacy is that he took things into his own hands. You know, one of my favorite earnest movie is Ernst jumps over the iron curtain. Mine is Ernest scared stupid. That's a really good one with the tree and the leprechauns in it or something. Just like little trolls and then they don't like milk so they feel super full of milk. Oh, yeah. All right, we've got some listener mail, James, do you want to hit that? Hey guys, I just wanted to start off by saying how much I love this show and all the other media donut media makes. You guys brighten up my Monday every week. I wanted to chime in on what the yugos equivalent today would be. I think at around $14,500, the Mitsubishi mirage is pretty close. It's cheap and kind of cheaply made car that gets good mileage and that's about it. Thanks for all the great stuff you guys. I can't wait for the next high low. Steven. Space. Space coast coast to coast. Thanks, Stephen. That is a pretty good, pretty analysis car, I guess. I drove one on a race track. When? Driver. Oh yeah, how was it? Terrible. It's a three cylinder. It was the worst car that I could have. Well, all Stephen, you'll be happy to know that by the time this airs, I think the first video in a three part series we're putting V8s in the three 50 Z's, and yeah, we're right. We're currently in the throes of it. We've started both of our motors. I cut a hole in the bottom of high car and accident. We're putting on angle kits, Nolan's car. Is it on the ground right now? Not yet. Almost on the ground should be on the ground Monday. Hopefully, mine will be too, because we've got to go to the dino Tuesday, and then 6 days from when we're recording this, we're going to drag racing, and yeah, when is the alignment guy coming? I don't know, man. We'll talk about it. We definitely have to get a photo of both of you guys in front of your cars with your arms crossed. For sure. For sure. Classic drag race photo. Hit us up at pasca donut media dot com. We'd love to hear from you, hey. Thank you very much for listening to this episode. This was a really fun one. I don't know about fun. It was really interesting. Great story. I'm going to check out fun. Follow the boys at Joji Weber at James pumphrey follow me at Nolan J Sykes. Subscribe to the podcast, tell your friends about it. Leave us a review. That's how these things work. That's right. Stay in touch. Support our sponsors. And if you want to make a podcast, you still didn't make one. It's pretty easy. All you need is like microphone. Why is this why is this your sign off now? I want to encourage people to do things. Okay. I don't want to just say, hey, take care or be kind or I love you. I want to encourage our audience.
The Charlie Kirk Show
As NYC Crime Surges, Police Focus Attention on 9-Year-Old Girl Without Vaccine Card
"City, let me tell you what's going on in New York City right now. Every category of serious crimes, according to New York Post, in the city is on the rise so far this year, with police data showing an increase of 35% in a total increase in crime compared to the same time in 2021. Jessica Seymour, from inwood, Manhattan says, quote, I don't go anytime after dark right now, not safe. All my friends in New York are leaving. Or they are. They stay at home when it becomes night. A guy got stabbed and another guy shot right outside my son's window, said Seymour, whose boy is 7. We have two schools here, and this happens right here. My block has police on it all the time. There are shootings that are drug dealers on our corner right now. The fear is real, crimes are up. So what is the police force of New York City wasting their time doing? What is the focus of the New York police department that of course has our eternal respect after what happened with 9 11, but they've turned into an American version and I do not use this lightly of the Stasi. Play the tape, I'm going to narrate it. So here you have right here at a museum in New York City. That is a 9 year old girl. Now, I'm not trying to racialize this. Her name is jaila. I think she is a black girl. Is that right? So this is a black girl being escorted right there by two masked New York City police department, police officers, all the while crimes, murders, arsons, rapes, sexual assaults, are up, these two police officers are effectively arresting a 9 year old girl. Why? Because she did not have her vaccine papers at a museum. These two police officers now continue and bring the 9 year old girl into a squad car and put her in like she's El Chapo or Eric Rudolph or Ted Kaczynski the uniform. You know, forget the fact that gang activity is up and robbery and murders are up. This is a young black girl that has been put into a police department car and escorted up. Where is Black Lives Matter exactly? Protesting this? Now, what's her crime? Her crime is not being
Mark Levin
Mark Levin Destroys FBI, National School Boards Association on Hannity
"I said last night on Hannity respecting this move by the attorney general in his memo go You know Sean I served as chief of staff to an attorney general It means during the Reagan administration for some period of time it never would have crossed our minds to do anything like this The Biden Justice Department is made up of Obama retreads The same Obama administration that unleashed the IRS against the Tea Party in my recall These people do not believe in civil liberties at all They do not believe in competition of ideas or competition period With Merrick Garland is done here as he's trying to create out of the FBI some kind of East German Stasi That's what he's doing Spying on parents gathering intelligence on parents tracking parents a special phone number that they use to report domestic terrorists So a teacher who is offended or school board member who's offended or staffer who's offended can report a parent to their government And the pretext here is some kind of widespread violence There's no pattern or widespread violence That pathetic letter written by the left wing national school board association They don't even provide a list of crimes that they think are committed moreover The federal government has absolutely no authority whatsoever to even go into a school board meeting let alone a classroom These are state and local matters fully local police can handle any violence And I would remind everybody that the FBI did damn little when our cities were burning when Black Lives Matter and antifa were brutalizing people were committing acts of larceny were attacking our police The FBI needs to get its act straight So this is a pretext about widespread violence to intimidate threaten and suppress communities and neighborhoods all over the country to comply with the left wing radical marks of the critical race theory gender ism and anything else It's a cabal of the thug teacher unions these educational bureaucrats these Marxist school contractors and the Democrat party and the Biden
Mark Levin
Go Visit and Check out SchoolBoardWatchlist.Org
"There's a great website I'm putting on my social sites on getter and parlor but I'd like you to write this down It's called school board watch list dot org School board watch list dot art part of the turning point USA group School board watch list dot org I want you to go over there and check it out Everybody should go over there and check it out School board watch list dot org I want the attorney general not of the United States The attorney general the Democrat party in the American Marxist movement to understand something We're not invigorated more resolute more motivated than ever before We are a free people Men and women have died for this country So that we can speak at school board meetings without being intimidated by union thugs by educational bureaucrats by radical school board members and by the FBI The FBI That's acting like the East German Stasi We're not going to put up with this There's not this widespread violence at school board meetings I mean hell the national school board association writes this long outrageous letter to Biden which finds its way quickly within days to the Department of Justice that issues a memo It's an inside job And they have no examples They want example of one guy hitting somebody and based on that We need to federalize our school board meetings How we do
Mark Levin
Christopher Rufo's Reaction to the Federalization of School Board Meetings
"Chris ruco senior fellow Manhattan institute who's been on top of this critical race theory issue for years Chris thank you for all that you've done and all that you're doing You know this national school board association letter I was an old school board member when I was 19 or 20 years old This board represents nobody This looks like an inside job They write a letter on the 29th with all these allegations of very few examples And to the president of the United States and then within 5 days the Department of Justice issues this Stasi like memo What do you make of this Yeah I think it's absolutely clear from the timing and also the context that school board officials as well as the national teachers union including Randy weingarten and the NEA which represent millions of public school teachers They're starting to lose the argument about critical race theory about masking and schools And so they realized that they have to take more heavy handed measures So they reached out to their longtime partners people who are willing to do their bidding and the Biden administration And you see immediate compliance and then immediate celebration from the school board association president from the national teachers union president This is a very clear politicization of the Justice Department of the FBI of the office of attorney general to send it very clear signal If you're protesting against the authorities in your local area we're going to monitor you We're going to suppress you We're going to chill your speech and you're very basic rights of speech and assembly I think it's very concerning And I'm glad that people are starting to take notice and push
The Moratorium
"stasi" Discussed on The Moratorium
"That is a austin powers. That is all my god. I know we talk about these little You know kind of synchronicity. But the thing. I wanted to talk about is linked to austin powers since you brought up tom hanks though i should have looked for this before because i remember this being on the video store shelves we had at our video store. It was jim hanks. Which is tom hanks. Brother looks just like him. he's just a little bit more overweight but it was Buford's beach bunnies. Yeah every word that you have said. Oh my god. He does look like he's spitting image My god how. How is it that we look at. Imdb way more than the normal person and there is still shit that surprises me on a great great stuff Jim hanks was an extra three. What and he played. The voice of woody in the video games for tori stasi probably sounds disliking to exactly. They're like hey we can get you cheaper than we can your brother fuck. Yeah get him here right. Check your pants off. Yeah oh my gosh. I've got to stop. Because i'm now looking at psycho. Sushi is am tv. Credits are amazing. He's actually been in a ton of shit. I've just never heard of any of it except for something to do with tom. Or he's a god but the red delicious. I just know my happening right now. I don't know we're going to have to start another podcast. Various guy get off the hanks. Okay i i'm i'm minimizing it. I'm not closing. What was i talking about okay. Oh bikini summer go bikini summer so jet bats how we got there sorry guys. He's a photographer or posing as opposing photographer. So he can get girls in bikinis and that's actually a legal. I think so There's a all girl band who is trying to make it big and really what. It is a whole group of kids that have their site said on different things at all. Come together at the end. They're trying to save the beach from being evil developer. Exactly so it's plot of the goonies with ads. The plot like a hundred and thirty at slack. You just like spun wheel and that thought your plot is..
WMAL 630AM
"stasi" Discussed on WMAL 630AM
"Leader Mikhail Gorbachev on a tour of Red Square and the spring of 1988. Behind the boy stands a blond man dressed in tourist garb with a camera around his neck who bears an unmistakable resemblance to young poutine. And so, Pete Souza put this thing out. And sure enough, it really does look like now Putin was KGB at the time. And in fact, at this time he was assigned to the Stasi, These German secret police, murderers and torturers. At that time he was assigned to Dresden. I believe in East Germany, but he could certainly have made because President Reagan was coming and they needed all hands on deck and, according to intelligence officials, everybody gathered for this photo op with Putin out there in Red Square. There were KGB and KGB families, right? As they staged all this stuff. They're communists. They lie about everything so one agent said, according to the story said, Yeah, these are all KGB families out here. And it looks like poutine slipping into the frame with Reagan and Gorbachev, you know, and he looks a little nervous, but it looks like it's him. The pointy nose face kind of thing. Strong guy, you know, for killing people more effectively and things like that. That's good stuff. That's very good stuff there. It is back to a Democrats and racism because God knows they're Racists Chapman University Chapman universities and is that a four year school Chapman University hosts racially segregated quote..
90.3 KAZU
"stasi" Discussed on 90.3 KAZU
"Minister has suddenly resigned. And now that Donald Trump is out of office, how much control will he continue to have over the GOP? January 6 was the opening battle in the war for the soul of the Republican Party. Plus, if you're trying to avoid the coronavirus are two masks better than one. Now. The news Live from NPR news. I'm Jack Spear. Bide administration is working to purchase 200 million more covert 19 vaccine doses. That's NPR's Scott Tetro explains. The additional supplies will likely arrive over the course of the summer. President Biden says the federal government is buying 100 million additional vaccine doses from Fizer and an additional 100 million from the Durga. If the vaccines are produced and distributed on time, the U. S would have enough supply to vaccinate 300 million Americans by early fall. Biden's announcement came with a warning. This will be one of the most difficult operational challenges we've ever undertaken this nation. The administration is also increasing the short term supply of vaccines to states and territories by 1.4 million doses. A week to 10 million. Right and says the federal government will now give states and territories a three week forecast of how many new shots are coming so they can better plan distribution efforts. Scott Dentro NPR NEWS the Senate's longest serving Democrat, Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy is hospitalized tonight. The 80 year old lady taken to the hospital after saying he was not feeling well, according to one of his staffers. Senator spokesman says Leahy was taken the hospital out of an abundance of caution. Just hours earlier, the senator presided over the swearing in of senators for the upcoming impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Trial set to begin next month Old lady presiding as president pro TEM of the Senate. Congressional Democrats were threatening to move ahead with the next coronavirus relief bill without the support of Senate Republicans. NPR's Windsor Johnston reports Republicans have been pushing back against the bite administration's nearly $2 trillion proposal. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says Democrats may try to pass a large part of President Biden's relief bill using a process that would bypass a Republican filibuster and could pass with the majority vote. The work must move forward. Preferably with our Republican colleagues, but without them if we must Time is of the essence. To address this crisis. We're keeping all options open on the table. Many Republicans have said the proposal is too expensive. It includes another round of direct payments extends extra weekly unemployment benefits and provides additional federal aid for state and local governments. Windsor Johnston. NPR NEWS Washington Senators signed off on president binds choice to be his secretary of state. Lawmakers approving Anthony Blinken is nomination making in the third member of the Biden Cabinet to win approval as the administration works to move forward on its agenda. The 58 year old blink and pledged to be a leading force as the administration seeks to unwind some of the Trump administration's America first policies and re frame US relations with the rest of the world. After mostly flat trading session, stocks closed modestly lower The Dow down 22 points. The NASDAQ was down nine points today. This is NPR. With key easy You news. I'm Michelle Luxton as a major rain and wind storm heads towards our area. K easy use. Erica Mahoney checked in with a local animal shelter that's working to help her pets. After a summer of wildfires, a major windstorm last week, the Monterey Bay area is now bracing for debris flows. I checked in with Todd Stasi. He's the field services manager for the Santa Cruz County animal shelter. The disasters over the past few years have just been getting worse. We went from one every couple of years to now we're seeing disasters happen every couple months Since this storm is expected to be very dangerous. Santa Cruz County Animal Control officers are not going into any debris flow areas after 4 p.m. Tuesday. Stasi says ahead of the storm. Some pets have been trickling into their shelter, but nothing compared to what recent disasters have been. We think this is because people have had time to prepare for this disaster. People have had time to prepare where they're going to go with their pets. Stasi says. Emergency preparedness means always having an animal carrier by the door and supplies gathered and ready to go for a least a week. Food and any medications plus something to comfort your pet. In addition, you know people need to have an evacuation plan if they're not home who was a trusted neighbor that lives nearby that could come evacuate the pet Santa Cruz counties. Three evacuation points are pet friendly. Aren't evacuation shelters, but they provide overnight parking and information..
MyTalk 107.1
"stasi" Discussed on MyTalk 107.1
"You think about Madonna when she lived in it Makes use of my talk dirt alert. Dealer Dirt alert. Elizabeth Reese is here and she's brought all the dirt straight from Hollywood. It's a dirt alert. Hale is about what's happening with you. Can I just tell you, Bradley we have We're on Google Meats, and Bradley is the master of like the funny background. On. So he's just controlling rapidly switching his background toe like and um and Farrah Abraham and Sophie and now he's like in the Milky Way. My gosh, I love it. I gotta cool it for Elizabeth because she's she deserves our professional chin. It's okay. This is actually the best time to just go off the rails. I mean, that's what it's Friday and like it feels like a Friday, doesn't it feels like we need Uh, we need to Friday. Okay, um, all sorts of stories to get to today. Let's talk about Stassi Schroeder, who gave birth She had a baby. She was on that. Um, Vanderpump. Okay, So this isn't the Stasi. That's friends with. Kylie Jenner. I don't think they're millions. No, This is a different one. Yeah, I think this is different that there. I haven't seen photos of these two together, so I would be surprised, but she had a daughter. And, um so congratulations to read that stuff. See, baby. Stasi. Karen. Nick. Allow that. So that's a different one. Okay differently. How many sauces are there? Never noticed. Stop so weird, right? All the Stasi's I know, okay? You guys want to know why the bachelor contestants end up wearing the same dress is I didn't know that they did. Babe Do s 02. Contestants showed up to meet Matt James, wearing the exact same red dress on Monday night's premiere of the Bachelor, but probably wasn't a coincidence. So Demi, who was on Colton Underwood's season of the Bachelor, You know, she was a runaway hit People love Demi. She opened up about how the show's Producers Cokes contestants into wearing the same dress is so they can have these, like Twinning moments, she said. The producers tell you which of the dresses they think you should wear, So they probably wanted to stir something up. I just feel like okay, I'm gonna say something. It's going to sound mean. But I hope it helps somebody in life. I think that the worst job in the entire world the one you have to sell your soul, most for that. Exactly. Okay, So, yeah, not the worst job in the entire world. But the one that you would have to sell your soul the most for would be to be a producer on the bachelor bachelor. Absolutely. Because the manipulation Oh, my gosh. I hope that they have a therapist on set. Who's real Good, because I can imagine being the contestant on that show. I just read a book. About that was sort of based on a show similar to the Bachelor, bachelorette franchise. And like the producer and how the producer like manipulated the main character of the book just like and it felt very real. Well, there was that show that was on that Laurie and Julia were obsessed with that was based on real called on You. Yeah. Yeah, It's just I just feel like you have to have to, like, Put your conscience under the bed in a box and lock it in order to do that job. Well, they have all these tricks for trying to get all this all of these things to happen. Um, but Demi said that on her season Heather and Laura, two girls, I don't remember Heather in Laura, but they both have the same dress on and she and Demi thinks that the producers did that on purpose. But it backfired because Heather and Laura looked at each other and they were like, Oh, my gosh, This is so fun. We're wearing the same dress. And then they just complimented each other like you look amazing. No, you look amazing. And it was like this genuine fun moment. But if you do that, to the right person like somebody who's insecure right then you can get them being The caddy about it. Yeah. So dumb and you have to pay for your dresses. I mean, To like, Yeah, I have to pack and they have. I mean, they have to get all these different gowns and all this stuff. I'm not one to feel sorry for, you know, people that you know, are part of the bachelor bachelorette franchise. It's kind of ridiculous that they have to buy their own dress to be on that show. That's what he's gonna say. It's like maker. I generally don't feel bad for those folks. But what I do get the sense of is that you really do have to hustle for yourself. If you're gonna be in that world like nobody is just gonna hand you You're gonna get you might get a lot of publicity and maybe one or two people are going to get a really big deal out of the thing. But most of them the average participant in that universe is gonna Get very little return on their investment unless they're like, extremely good at their own hustle. Yeah, I mean, a lot of them become social media influence. Yes, after what they did, Oh, so Gwen Stefani and Gavin Ross till their annulment has now been granted by the Catholic Church. You know, Okay. Can I forgot how long ago they split 2015 August of 2015. So it's been five years And it was this annulment was finally granted by the Catholic Church. I'm not Catholic, so I don't know a ton about the ins and outs of getting an annulment. Um, but they had to have the Vatican tribunal. You have three options like that better be like really serious, so they wanted to get married. Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani. Want to get married in the Catholic Church. You and you can't get married, divorced. You have to. You have to have it annulled and by the end for those who are like, what the heck? In a no mint means that the church does not recognize the marriage as a marriage at all. Which seems kind of interesting when you have three Children that came from that marriage, right? Yeah, it's just like a big fat eraser that God gets to hold. Yeah, well, you just Yeah. Just the Catholic so Yeah, Yeah. Yeah, but they also get their own purgatory. I mean, they get special things. You know, everybody's got their own stuff. That's true. Yes, that's true. This was a huge relief for Gwen because she wanted to get married by her priest and have the marriage recognized by the Catholic Church. Listen, I mean, I'm not gonna throw stones, but I do think it's time to sort of like Move into the new century with that, right and not make it so just well, if you want to still have a relationship with your church Wouldn't want things that that that would be a wonderful thing. Well, yeah, I have other opinions, but I'm gonna not say them. Thank you for asking. You didn't I'm gonna be quiet. She did? Yes. I know. Ah, Kim Kardashian attending a Bible study amidst her split from Kanye West so well. She could use some of that, looking to the Lord in their new and past relationships, and Kanye West. Page six, has a list of the most over the top gifts that he's given Kim Kardashian over the years. So six years of marriage, That's it. You know, that's it Feels like 1000 jewels so long. I mean, it's also because the last year has felt like 10 years. Well, and also they were together for a long time. Yeah, right. Yeah. No kidding. But they were together for a long time before they.
Chicago's Afternoon News
Chicago Loop Alliance Releases ‘Holidays In The Loop’ List Highlighting Festive Activities For 2020
"The Chicago Loop Alliance has released holidays in the loop there trying to find some things that are available for people to get out and do to enjoy. The holiday season and joining us now is counted. The Stasi. She is with the Chicago Loop Alliance. Thank you so much for joining us here on Chicago's afternoon news. Thanks for not Merrick. So, Chiana, Like I said, everything is different. But there are still some things that you guys in partnership with a lot of other organizations are trying To do here, Tomo Little cheer to this holiday season. Some of the big things. One of the biggest things that I just heard about was the Joffrey Ballet with the art on the mark. They were putting The Nutcracker how holiday staple up on the mark for people to enjoy, but that's just one of many things that are available. Yes, definitely. So what we've done is we've put together on holidays and guide so we're picking. We're curating the best of holiday activities throughout Chicago, and this is really able to fit everyone needs in terms of what people are looking for the holidays. Even some people are looking for virtual events at safety is at the top of everyone's list. But there's also The ability for some folks to be outside and safely social, socially distance. So there's some of those activities and everything else you can imagine. Where each where the shop what's available outside so that as you mentioned are on the March is a big one. This is gonna really exciting new things that art for art on the mark. This year they're doing Joffrey Ballet. Chocolates and a nutcracker is displayed giant beautiful protection such as open on Thursday. It's going to be every evening seven and 7 30 from now until December. 31st. So that's outdoors, socially distance. Ah, lovely activity. I can't wait to do it. It's top of my list. I totally agree. Some other outdoor activities that people should know There's still happening. Still exciting things happening in the Chicago loop Me to State Street holiday when those are up Now you can go outside and showdown. Stroll down State Street, Maybe with a cup of hot chocolate. The city of Chicago 107 Christmas tree was going to be up November 20th through January, 7th. They're still ice skating in the loop at Maggie Daley Park on the skating ribbon. Now the traditional ice cream get part girl won't be open this year, but you can do the Magi Park scooting ribbon but by a reservation On. Then there's also how art institute Chicago just announced that they're gonna have the holiday filling rooms decorated in one of their events for the next little miniature rooms that you can see he's kind of decorated all with Christmas. Decorations. Absolutely lovely adoption sort of all over.
Z Morning Zoo
Stassi Schroeder and Kristen Doute fired from 'Vanderpump Rules'
"They've cleaned house on the reality show Vanderpump rules firing for people for being racists Stasi and Kristen they've been with the show since it premiered in twenty thirteen and they got fired after a black former costar name faith revealed some really discussing behavior on their part back in twenty eighteen after faith had already left the show sassy increasing call the cops claiming that she fit the description of this woman who was wanted for a string of robberies they should even fit the description other than being black now face never got in any trouble she even talk about until last week she brought this all up and then brought it was like yeah we can't have any of that behavior so they got rid of them Stassi Kristen lost voicestream deals their publicist drop then of course they're apologizing but you know what I would never like to begin with yeah I don't feel
Nintendo Voice Chat
Reggie Fils-Aime Prevented Nintendo From Having a Graffiti Logo
"You know ready. Fees Amee prevented Nintendo from changing its logo to a graffiti type logo which sounds awful awful and this revealed on the present value podcast and we got that news from there in an interview with him and he said that intendo wanted to appeal to the different audience and pitched one style visit graffiti. I can see it. A lot of companies modernize their logos over the years including Torres. We had this weird sideways logo. That had the SCIFI compass thing made it simpler and there were a lot of logos presented to us for our from the agency that I worked on our logo and there were some that. Were horrible that some people will I mean even the NBC logo right like I think Reggie came on in in two thousand and three and at this time. Nintendo was kind of still in the middle of the Game Cube era and in the doldrums of You know sixty four and game cube and the general conversation around Nintendo at the time was that it was babies right and that it was for children and intended was very concerned and especially Nintendo of America I was concerned about aging up their demographic and making sure that they appeal to like a broader audience. And so they wanted to age the logo by making it more like the age timeless rights and sixty four slamming colors Gamecube logo purple right. There you can sometimes thank thank you. You can make the argument that they weren't quite as cool but I think sometimes been on this site if they had a graffiti logo now super date. Yeah cool. It'd be Super Dave on the social team. We kind of poked a little fun at the idea of what a graffiti nintendo although logo would look like so if you follow on Instagram or twitter you've probably seen what are artists came up with and it's very funny. It's like a very sorely like you know there's like the Stasi S.'s around the the SNES and but it you're absolutely right. I think that it's one of those things that in the moment it would have been great but if they still had that logo now it'd be like Oh that's a very early two thousands. Yeah it's exactly right. I think the most important thing that I learned from the story was that the Nintendo Classic Nintendo logo the logo that we all know and love. And it's still their logo Internally call it the race track logo no yes no yes. This is the whole around it they call it they refer to it as the race track. Yeah it's
Monocle 24: The Foreign Desk
The East German punks who helped bring down the Berlin Wall
"Berlin Wall. Couldn't keep all Western culture out. And it couldn't keep old East berliners down inspired by the music born over the wall by radio radio stations in West Berlin. A spirited and resourceful punk rock scene flourished in the city's east to more author of burning down the House that's H. Cia. US punk rock revolution and the fall of the Berlin Wall joins me to countdown his East German punk rock top five tim first of all before we stopped. Stop playing the songs. How did punk rock find? Its Way to East Germany. You could pick up western radio almost the entire country of Germany and so everybody talks about the first time they heard the pistols usually on KNBR forces radio or BBC and that was just a moment that changed people's lives. It was so different from anything that ever heard. NFL Ika switches me sore inside them. How soon did it take root the first hearings that people had of the sex pistols? So I'm guessing this is seventy six seventy seven. How quickly did jump the fence? The first punk in East Berlin was a fifteen year old. A girl who went by the name major and that was September nineteen seventy seven and within less than a year. She already had thirty five opened on her and she was labeled enemy of the state and in her case case. That led to constant attainments interrogation and despite that a senior rounder. They wait until she turned eighteen and they arrested or tried her put in jail offer year and Stacey prison and that she slept with what's called the Berlin fabled meaning that when she got out of prison they took her mmediately to a textile facility in the middle of nowhere and she was expected to work there for the next next five years. And be sort of politically rehabilitated. And would not see your family or friends. She ran away almost immediately. Back to East Berlin was rearrested put back and Stacey prison for eighteen months and then at the end of that term ex patriot. Meaning they to ship off the West Germany to Take care of problem. This first strike is called. MFS which is the determine initials for the Ministry for State Security which is the study by benkhaled nominal since from nineteen eighty to about four or five years after ground zero of companies Germany. You can kind of see how the Stasi on GonNa go for conquer. Well they also make a direct comparison between the dossier and Hitler's S S which did not overrule on an explicitly. Anti Fascist in the music was their tool that is just how they fought dictatorships of the music. Wasn't they weren't trying to be tickly. Artful I don't think it was all about the message. And whereas other activists groups had a more reformist approach let's change Environmental regulations are some of the legal system. The punks just said screw. The system was bringing down and that was a really powerful message especially for bringing you to their costs. One of the interesting things about normalises day ended ended up going to prison for almost two years for their lyrics in nineteen ninety-three and I think what happened to them. During that process shows why the scene became so important as far as being a significant it can force in the revolution. They constantly were offered to go to the West. When they're in jail the wooden really rather just go to the west and the member the kept saying no? We're GONNA stay here and fight because that was quite coleman wave dispensing with troublemakers. Wasn't yeah exactly but two punks mostly rejected that and they insisted that they can stay and fight. And I think that basically the big Goan in in a place like East Germany was what happens when you run afoul of the secret police. The Sasi and the punks did that experiment. And what they proved was in going through the jail terms going through the payments going through interogations the blacklisting from jobs in schools the conscription into army units specialising political reeducation and the fact that they came back and kept fighting. That was a game changing revelation. Because it showed that you could resist and survive and that's deal the resolve of a lot of the opposition minded people within the country in that in turn allowed the protest move out into the streets worker then snowball into the big mass protests that we know from eighty nine. Let's move along out to sean climate. At what point to divide join the revolution. They're very early. Bantu and there are unique because they come from a little farm town in the south of East Germany and end and yet they became if anything. It's not really a star type culture but there was closest star system. We're in the eastern or Pengzi. How big was it possible to get? I'm guessing terrifically it couldn't record you couldn't play except in churches and get on the radio so yeah it was very limited seen it first and everything had to be done very personally. So you couldn't do mail wasn't security consent flyers for shows. The phones weren't security. Couldn't call friends say you're doing a Gig so it all had to be done through what they call the whisper network person to person. We're doing a GIG. And he told that friend Ephron told another friend but by eighty three they were getting concerts in the thousands. And that's when the stuff you really crackdown but Shaun calm created in nineteen eighty-four after they had some the trouble with this dossier has resulted crackdown. They created the song called clue which means sort of like the tomboys the people that get beaten by the police and it has a line in there. We are the people. We are power and punks from Leipzig claim that that is the source of the chant. That became the sort of signature chant during the marches of eighty nine lexus. which was the people? The