Ep. 1854 - Why Did James Talarico Disappear For 10 Days?

On Friday, we will premiere our new special, the Real History of Communism, the Russian Revolution on YouTube. And we're making it available for free because it's too important to pay wall. As the elections approach, it's more important than ever to understand how and why the left takes power and what we can do to prevent it. Pre-Bolshevik Russia seems far away. It's not. You'll actually recognize it quite a bit when you see the special. But for now, speaking of Russia, we need to talk about the bizarre and maybe Soviet-style disappearance of James Talleriko, the very creepy heretic who, if polls are to be believed, is favored to become the first Democrat Senator from Texas in nearly four decades. So here's the timeline. It gets a little confusing, so we'll just lay it out. On September 26, which was a Saturday, Talleriko held a news conference on gas prices and the war in Iran in Carrollton, Texas. He also attended the State Fair of Texas later that day. Talleriko then reportedly attended a fundraiser on September 28 in New York with Robert De Niro. There's no clear evidence that he was there in person. It's all based on claims from the campaign since it was a private event. On September 30, Talleriko was scheduled to participate in an in-person interview with the CEO of the United States Hispanic Business Council, but he attended via Zoom. Instead, claiming he had the flu. Even though as the moderator at the event pointed out, he looked fine. Watch. They will tell you that I was looking forward to being down in the valley. I've been talking about it all week. I was ready to to eat my favorite quesadilla tacos, but I was turning the field under the weather a few days ago. Last night, it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas and I was diagnosed with the flu. I'm running a fever and I'm most contagious right now. I guess I've been shaking too many hands on the campaign trail. I want to keep everybody safe and if I was passing on this illness to somebody and got someone's grandmother or someone's baby sick, I wouldn't live with myself. I've felt the best thing to do was to put safety first and put everyone's health first. Thank you, Javier. Thank you to your team for being so flexible. Thank you all for making the technology work so we can still have this really important conversation that I've been looking forward to. Well, we're delighted to have you, James. By the way, you look ahead a little bit better, but I don't know if I feel better, but I appreciate that. You cleaned up. Okay, so I believe aside the fact that it is interesting that he went to a fundraiser in New York with Robert De Niro and then he's speaking to the Hispanic Business Council. So that kind of shows you, it kind of shows you his priorities, what he's worried about as a Democrat Senator, a senatorial candidate, no surprise there. But anyway, make a mental note of how he said he went to urgent care in Dallas because that's going to be important in a second as we are trying to solve this puzzle. But first, putting aside the question of his health, you know, it needs to be said that this has to be one of the most patronizing and phony candidates to ever run for office. In this country, which is obviously really saying something, but just by looking at him, you can tell that if he thought it would help him win this race, Jim Celerico would not hesitate to sacrifice your elderly grandmother to the gods as textile. Like no one's buying the idea that this guy made the decision out of the goodness of his heart to self-quarantine just a couple of weeks before early voting begins and one of the most important elections of the year. Or so some believe that he couldn't live with himself if he infected a random person with what a head cold. And that's the other problem in the video. In the video, he comes across as someone who's kind of congested, whatever fever he has obviously seems to be a pretty mild one. This event lasted an hour and for the entire thing, he was answering questions without any issues. This is why he felt the need to explicitly state that he's very sick and that he's trying to protect innocent men, women, and children from his horrific illness. If he didn't spell it out for for everyone in that way, nobody would have any idea that he's sick. Even the moderator of the event seemed confused by the whole thing. And then he claims he's at his most contagious during that event, which means that he shouldn't be much sicker than he currently is. You know, that should be the point where the fever kind of breaks where things start going in the other direction. He starts approving and he kind of gets back to normal in a couple of days. But that's not what happened. So after this virtual event, Telerico fell off the map completely. He didn't appear at a single in person campaign event from October 1st to October 8th. He was scheduled to appear at a fundraiser and a symposium. But he backed out of both of those, a meanwhile, Telerico's extended absence, as he'd expect, was making his campaign volunteers nervous. On October 7th, one of the leaders of Telerico's volunteer operation, Alex Valderes posted the following message on Slack. This was reported by the New York Post. It says, quote, "I suppose spokesman JTNS who works in the campaign should come out an update on James' health. Conservatives doubting he's sick, but conservatives leaving out the important part. James is diabetic. That's why it's taking a while for recovery. So basically conservatives and Paxton are being very immoral." In a separate post, Valderes wrote, "I think it'll be fine. It just conservatives blasting him. I'm just worried about him losing momentum." Now, it's true that Telerico has said that he has type one diabetes, which was reportedly diagnosed when he was running for the Texas House in 2018. He claims he slept for 36 hours before going to the emergency room. I have no idea if that story is true or not, but even if we assume it's accurate, it still doesn't come close to explaining what's happening right now. First of all, as the volunteers noted, Telerico's campaign hasn't claimed that his absence is caused by his diabetes. And secondly, even if his diabetes is making his recovery take a while, that still doesn't explain why he can't appear at all, even for a Zoom call. By the morning of October 9th, after Telerico had been missing for the entire month, the LA mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt posted the following message on social media, quote, "My sources are telling me Telerico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events and the vital home stretch of the campaign. If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Telerico as much as I don't want Telerico anywhere near government. I also don't want to wish him harm and no political offices worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't and it didn't work. I'm praying that this isn't true and he's okay. You want to win these fights in the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health." Several other reporters, including Sarah Gonzalez at the blaze, had posted messages suggesting that we're working on a similar scoop. Gonzalez, for example, wrote, "I received underefied information on James Telerico's whereabouts. If true, it will end his campaign." With an hours of Pratt's post by the afternoon of October 9th, Telerico's campaign responded to all of this speculation. The campaign posted this footage from the Austin City of Limits, the music festival in Texas, showing Telerico posing for a photo with some supporters. He looks normal basically as normal as he can look for a weird freak, such as he is. This is nine days after the Zoom conference and 13 days since his last documented in-person appearance in public, and instead of making any kind of statement or formal appearance, we get this footage here. But the mystery was not resolved. In October 10th, Caroline Ren, who's a prominent Republican operative, posted the following information on social media. It says, "One of the chances that a private plane took off from Austin and flew to tiny Hamilton Airport in Ohio, which is 20 minutes from the Lindner Center, a private and patient mental health treatment facility, and then turned around and flew back to Austin, landing yesterday morning at 10, 24 a.m., right before James Telerico magically reappears at the Austin City of Limits music festival that afternoon. Lindner Center also happens to be the same facility that Telerico's good friend and Harris County judge, Lena Hidalgo, spent seven weeks in when she had a mental breakdown three years ago. Sarah Gonzalez reposted repost of this reporting saying, quote, "Evidence is growing stronger by the day that my sources were correct," and Telerico was in a mental health facility. Two days ago, on the evening of October 10th, the investigative journalist Nick Sorter and an associate named Ryan Amacher decided to call the facility, the Lindner Center, directly, to see what they could find out. Now, under HIPAA laws, which protect patient privacy, a lot of people assume you can't do this. After all, HIPAA is supposedly the reason we're not allowed to know anything about the medications that mass shooters were taking, it's a privacy law so powerful that it blocks the public from learning relevant information about mass murderers even after they're dead. But actually, when it's not being used to protect mass shooters, HIPAA is pretty flimsy. Nothing prevents a reporter from calling a mental health facility and asking whether a specific patient has been discharged, because HIPAA only applies to medical providers, and HIPAA also doesn't prevent the mental health facility from answering the question. Believe it or not, that's the way the law works. According to HHS guidelines, the fact that a patient has been treated and released can be considered directory information, so the hospital isn't required to keep it confidential, unless the patient specifies beforehand that he wants it to be confidential. So under federal law, the hospital or mental health facility, can disclose this information to anyone who asks whether or not the person is related to the patient. As long as you ask for a specific patient by name, the hospital can tell you it might not, but it can tell you whether he was discharged and applicable what his condition is, you know, stable, critical, et cetera. This is how when someone prominent gets injured, you know, the media is able to report on their condition. So with this law in mind, Sorder and Amacher called the Lindner Center near Cincinnati, Ohio and asked about the status of James Tallerico. They recorded the phone call on the night of October 10th, and this call went all over the internet. Elon Musk and millions of others responded to it. So it was all over the place. Millions of millions of views and listens. And here it is. Okay. So now they're for James Tallerico. It looks, well, this is what it's today. It looks like just as he was discharged this evening, that's why I don't have it. Oh, he was discharged then? Mm-hmm. Okay. This is the hope. They should be. Okay. I'm sorry. So this is hope, Lindner? Yes. Okay. And you're in Hamilton, Ohio? No, we're not in Hamilton. No, we're in Mason. Okay. So that's why he's an assistant. He's a recent. Okay. All right. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Okay. So the Tallerico campaign has denied this call. Has anything to do with Tallerico? And they're saying it's a deranged conspiracy theory to suggest that he was shipped away to any kind of mental health facility. And to be fair, it's very possible at this call isn't what it seems like. There are obvious red flags. First of all, the woman at the Lindner Center clearly says the Tallerico was discharged that same day out to her 10th, but if that's true, it doesn't make sense with the timeline because Tallerico was spotted at the music festival on October 9th. So that's a big problem. And just by itself, that means we can't take the call as definitive proof of anything. And secondly, we don't have the full unedited, unedited phone call. And that's a huge asterisk because it's possible this whole conversation was a miscommunication. Even from this excerpt, it sounds like the woman is implying that she can't find Tallerico in the system. And that by inference, that means he must have been discharged recently. But she could have been basing that inference on the statements that a mocker was making in that call, which we can't hear. Indeed, according to the bullwork, the extent that you can trust them, quote, which isn't very much, but this is what they say. We obtained the full six minute audio of the linear recording. The employee there repeatedly denied anyone named James Tallerico was in her system at all, only towards the end. Did she say someone had checked out that day? Okay. So it sounds like this woman at the facility maybe was brow beaten into claiming Tallerico was there. And for his part, a mocker posted an earlier call that he had made to the facility, which makes a couple of things more clear. First, a mocker lied and claimed that he was Tallerico's relative. And secondly, the hospital, maybe to comply with state law, does have more stringent privacy standards than HIPAA alone requires. And in particular, they asked for some kind of code before they're willing to disclose any information about patients. Listen. I'm trying to reach my cousin James. I don't know if he's checked out yet, but I was going to send him a letter in the mail. I was just trying to--I don't know if he's still there. He told me he was going to go there last week, but I just don't know if I can send it to him yet, or still can send it. Do you have a code? A what? A code that I can't give you any information without a code. Oh, no. You should have had me. Oh, he didn't give me a code. Okay. Well, I really can't give you any information. Okay. Well, if I send it to him, I guess if he's not there, we'll get bounced, or we'll get bounced, or really slow down. Yeah. Well, if you send it to him, he would give it. Okay, but if he's gone home. Well, if he's there, he'll get it, but I'm saying if he's still not--I don't know if he's still there or not, we'll get sent back to me. Okay. Okay. All right. I'm sorry. That's all right. Bye. Okay. So, as for how a mocker eventually got this code, he claims he eventually just made up a four-digit code, and they accepted it. Is that how it works? They asked for a code. You can just say anything, and they'll--that's fine. The code is any four numbers at all, okay? So there are a lot of unanswered questions here, and everyone involved has an incentive to lie about where Telleriko really was. Now, it's one of those kinds of situations. The late last night, the Lindner Center put out the following statement after deflecting questions about Telleriko all day, they said, "Represented James Telleriko has never received treatment from Lindner Center of Hope." Okay. So that's a pretty definitive statement. For his part, Telleriko then responded to this post from the silly saying he's never even been to Ohio. So a couple of things about this. Number one, it's very possible Telleriko to campaign or hiding something. Talk about that in a second. We do have to concede that, as for the mental health institutional Ohio, this looks an awful lot like a fraudulent story that was planted by GOP operatives. Maybe they were right directionally, as people like to say. There are reasons to think that there's something strange going on here, but on the facts that were alleged in his particular case, this seems to be a massive overreach by a lot of people who on the right have been accurate trusted reporters. And that speaks to desperation among Republicans, including Republicans in Texas, who are seeing Telleriko's numbers and panicking. Healthy living has become unnecessarily complicated. It's no longer enough to eat reasonably well, exercise, sleep, go about your life. 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You can get election reminders, look up your polling location and pick a date to vote early. Go to GOPvotes.org today, paid for by SLF PAC, not authorized by any candidate or candidates committee. What we can say, with certainty, is that it's extremely unusual for a candidate who, at all appearances, was not seriously ill to disappear from the campaign trail at a pivotal moment for nearly two weeks. Yesterday, Tallerico finally appeared for an interview with a local news station to explain what happened, his version of it, and he didn't really help matters, I would say, watch. You are off the campaign for more than a week, roughly nine days, I believe. Your campaign said you had to flu? What happened? Yeah, I got the flu, and I'm feeling much better, and I'm glad I had a chance to recover, you know, if you don't, take the opportunity to get well, sometimes you can get even sicker, and so I'm glad we made the decision to just take the week, get better, and now I'm glad to be back on the trail. You talked about how you're diabetic, and that has, when diabetic get the flu, it could get really bad. How bad was it for somebody once in a while, is this just like in bed rest, or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital? I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu, and so I was in bed, and drinking lots of liquids, unfortunately the campaign made me work from home, so I didn't even get full days off, but it didn't want to be out on the trail and didn't want to get anyone else sick, it's important, I think, for leaders to be responsible in these moments, and I'm glad to be back, feeling much better. I want to get your response because the internet was the internet was invested in your outcome. I'm sure it's because they care so much about me. Well, no, it's because you're clearly lying, and you people lie about everything, so and everything about this interview is demeanor and his answer, it makes it seem more likely that he's lying about something. You know, he looks perfectly healthy, first of all. If you just spent two weeks battling the flu and illness that left you bedridden, unable to campaign for the most important election of your life, or even speak on a Zoom call, then you simply don't look this healthy and normal when you go out in public. You know, his weight hasn't changed at all. It's just, it's bizarre. And it gets worse. He's now admitting on the record that he didn't suffer some kind of severe diabetic complication, or even a particularly unusual bout of the flu. And most importantly, contradicts what he said during that Zoom meeting two weeks ago. 'Cause remember, he said in the Zoom meeting that he went to urgent care in Dallas when he said those became severe. But in this interview, he said he went to his primary care doctor. So let's play that side-by-side here. - And last night, it got so bad that I went to the urgent care here in Dallas and I was diagnosed with the flu. - How bad was it for somebody who wants to know, is this just like in bed rest or did you ever have to go to a doctor or hospital? - I just went to my primary care physician, but it wasn't anything worse than a nasty case of the flu. - Okay, so this is the kind of contradiction that by itself doesn't necessarily mean much. People make mistakes, saying primary care and then saying urgent care and then saying primary care is not that, it's a contradiction. It's not that glaring that someone couldn't have just been mistaken, but when you combine it with everything else, including how utterly bizarre his disappearance was and how he's acting now, it seems more significant. And also the, look, rumors themselves don't prove anything. There could be false rumors, but someone disappears in the campaign and then there's this rumor spreading that they're in some kind of mental health crisis. You know, very often that doesn't come from nowhere. Sometimes rumors could just be invented out of nowhere, but the fact that that rumor spreading in the first place, it's kind of an oddly specific thing, which makes you curious. And there's no doubt that James Delarico was a sociopathic liar and it's a grave indictment of our country that he's anywhere near, getting elected to the US Senate. And also we know that the Democrat party has a long history and a recent history of lying about the, health situation of candidates in really important elections. Most obviously Joe Biden. Federman is another example. So they do this and they've done it very recently. They've done it in a very high-stake situation. They told very brazen lies about someone's health status. And so that also gets factored in here. Now whether or not he spent the last week in an asylum just based on his public statements, the guy, even aside from that, we already know should be institutionalized. He told Joe Rogan that the enunciation supported his abortion politics because God supposedly asked for Mary's consent. He thinks God is non-binary. He called racism a virus that way people spread wherever we go. Maybe that's why he was, maybe that's why he went to urgent care and he left the campaigns. He didn't want to spread the virus of racism. I don't know, it could be it. Could have had a bout of racism that flared up and maybe that's what went on. He was also oddly specific about the number of genders he claims scientists have identified. Watch. - I want to talk to be aware of is that modern science obviously recognizes that there are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six, which honestly represents the heftener surprise. - Surprise me too. - Surprise me too. 'Cause I am not well versed in this issue area. I'm not a scientist, I'm a politician. A lot worse than a scientist. - Not a scientist, well, yeah, we could have guessed. Six genders, so he's obviously erasing the other 40, the other 46 that I think I thought we were up to 52. I don't know. It won't surprise you given how strange this guy is that a lot of his online support is fraudulent. This was in New York Times an outlet that you know, you'd think it'd be friendly to Taloriko and nonetheless they reported this quote. The Times found dozens of accounts on TikTok that were paid $4 per 1000 views to post positive clips about Mr. Taloriko according to a job posting and online records of creators who accepted the job. Mr. Taloriko's campaign said it was not involved in paying creators. The company claiming responsibility for the payments front-tier media could not be reached for comment. This is now a feature of American politics and yeah, to be fair, it's happening on all sides to some degree. But this election cycle has involved a massive new influx in dark money, which is to say untraceable money from unknown donors that's benefiting leftist radicals who want to destroy the country. This is from a report in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend quote. In Michigan this year, a new super pack, vowing to fight pro-Israel money, chipped in more than half a million dollars to help progressive Abdul al-Sayed's Senate bill. It's funders, a crew of virtually unknown political donors, many of whom had never given the politics before, for last year, but have since donated up to a million dollars each. In New York, billionaire Alex Soros cut checks directly to progressive politicians, including representative Permilla Giapal of Washington and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. Those donations are part of the millions of dollars that Soros and his father, George, planned to give the Democratic causes this year in Philadelphia, nearly a million dollars in TV advertising paid for by outside groups as boosting Democratic Socialist Chris Rab, highlighting his endorsement from a New York representative, Alex Angel Ks. Rites and his willingness to fight for Medicare for all. So we have no idea who they are, but some unknown donors are pumping $500,000 into Abdul al-Sayed's Senate campaign, another campaign as well. And incidentally, al-Sayed happens to be related to people with very close connections to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a terrorist organization, much. Abdul al-Sayed's candidacy for Senator and Michigan concerned. - Yes, sir, it does. - Why is that? - Well, to begin with, I look at the connections that his father-in-law, Chakaku Tayib has to brotherhood linked groups. This includes being the president one time of care Michigan, also his presence on the Islamic Society of North America Founders Committee, which is only for those most exclusively devoted to Islam and provide a significant amount of funding. There are other known Brotherhood members on that committee. I would also look at al-Sayed's ties to a group called MGAGE, which purports to be a Muslim sort of get out the vote or candidate recruitment organization, but it has close ties to care. It was created by a former care member who at one time was on a terror watch list and was also a consultant to convicted terrorist, Samuel Arian. Do you believe the Islamic Society of North America or ISNA is an ongoing part of the Muslim Brotherhood Network in the United States? - Yes, sir, I do. There were some HLF documents that reflected hesitation by the Brotherhood that they thought perhaps they were losing control. - Now, the extent the corporate press will touch this story, which isn't very much, they'll ask Syed a softball question so that he can deny it, and they can pretend that they investigated the allegations and he's refuted them, so kind of just symbolically checking the box. And that's what NBC tried to do the other day, but it didn't go very well, watch. - For Michigan voters who are hearing those attacks against you, who are looking to separate fact from fiction, can you set the record straight about whether you or your family have any ties to the Muslim Brotherhood? - No, but let's talk about this. - No, you don't have any ties and your family doesn't. - No. - Yeah, that's the kind of thing you don't want to but, you don't want to put a but after that. Do you have any ties to terrorist organizations? No, but it's always a bad sign and you have to do a no but on that. And this is just basic, this is communications 101. If you're denying something, don't do the no but. Just no. If you need to put the butt on it, then we've got a problem. So that was the fastest pivot that you'll see after the denial, if you can even call it a denial. It's the old mud or something and then move on and hope they don't notice strategy. Which if you're trying to do damage control, it's not the best option. He did it so fast, the anchor woman had to go back and ask the question again. Now is the Muslim Brotherhood funding this guy's campaign? We don't know for sure, but we do know that these donors clearly have the objective of destroying the United States as we know it. That's the only reason that a Senate candidate is going to talk openly about our duty to open the borders right out in the open, doing this during a televised debate. Watch. Would refugees be a part of this plan? Absolutely. We as a country, I believe, owe it to the world to open our doors and we're better because of it. So this guy is born into Egyptians. He spends his summers in Egypt. He claims he held Egyptian citizenship. His wife owns property in Dubai. He has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood. He's spoken positively about the Muslim Brotherhood. He mourned the death of Iran's Supreme leaders a few months ago and he's now lecturing Americans about their sacred duty to open the borders to let even more foreigners into the country. And he doesn't have anywhere near the charisma or the intelligence. that's necessary to sell this fraud to anyone. He's a dumpy foreigner who's telling us to our faces that he doesn't think America should exist as a country. And at the moment, he's favored to win the Senate race in Michigan. What's important to understand is that Syed and Taloriko is unsettling and un-American and creepy as they are are not remotely unusual, of course, by the current standards of Democrat Party. In fact, they are highly representative of the current crop of candidates on the left. They're very much in the mainstream. Here's Jocelyn Benson, for example. She's the former SPLC board member, who, if the polls are accurate, is about to be the governor of the state. Watch. [INAUDIBLE] I'm going to ask Alyssa to recognize folks. So thanks, Roop. Hi. Very good to see you. Roop, Roop, Roop, Roop, Roop, Roop. This keeps coming up, and I just want to give you an opportunity to answer it. With us in the press about your husband's involvement, potentially with this lead that was up. John James has said over and over again that the disclosures just aren't transparent, and then kind of checks where cashed and then the moratorium came. Yes, you and any of that. I think that the record speaks for itself. Just weird. She can't even take a question from a reporter who's not on her pre-approved list. But more than that, just like look at her mannerisms, look at her face. It looks like she does about 10 different facial expressions randomly, while she's listening to you guys. She looks like, I don't know, like an actress in the trailer, looking in the mirror, practicing facial expressions before she goes to shoot a scene or something. But she's doing that in front of everybody at a press conference. It's really strange. Taleriko has the same unnatural twitching motions. It's like uncanny. It's not simply these candidates are determined to undermine and demolish what's left of civilization. I mean, that's the real problem. But they're also just profoundly strange people. They look like animatronics. And you have to ask, where are they finding these people? What kind of person runs for office in the Democrat party today? It looks like based on what we're seeing, that you need to find like an apex narcissist. You have to be severely damaged in some meaningful way to stand apart from a sea of very unwell, confused people and to win their vote. Maybe that explains it. And then the foreign money flows in to put these candidates over the top. So here's another example. This is a quote from William Lawrence, a Democrat, and until recently, DSA member who's running for a house seat in Michigan. Again, he's favored to win. He went on a podcast just two years ago in 2024. And here's what he said. This is reporting from the Washington Free Beacon. Quote, "Laurent's in an episode on protecting our migrant neighbors mused about the political tactics of left-wing performers versus left-wing revolutionaries, siding decidedly with the latter. We are lacking for a framework that can make sense of how to be revolutionary in the sense of truly, truly wanting a world without borders and wanting to redistribute all the land and all the money." Lawrence also envisioned a humane society in which we would throw open the gates and welcome all of the migrants, the refugees, the asylum seekers from climate disasters and conflicts all around the world. Now you can go down the list. Troy Jackson and Maine has children with his cousin, Dan Osborne and Nebraska says calls for a border wall, our racism, grand platenor had to drop out. And it wasn't even the Nazi tattoo that did him in. Scott Wiener in California needs to have his hard drive checked and on and on. These people are in some ways totally unserious clowns in that real country where things are going reasonably well would never consider them. Or at least they wouldn't be viable options. But the polls show that they're probably going to win. And if we're being honest, we can identify a number of reasons, two primary ones jump out. One, the war in Iran, which was supposedly going to spark an internal revolution that never took place in high gas prices, which have made everything from transportation to the cost of groceries, increase substantially in cost. Now it's two big reasons. And because of that, these very unserious candidates have to be taken seriously, because some of them will soon be in the United States Senate. And once they're in, they can very quickly transform this country in ways that for most people are unthinkable right now. The reason we're making real history of communism, as I mentioned at the top, while we're making it free on YouTube on Friday, is that if you want to understand how leftists can seize power, even when their ideas are extremely unpopular, and when they're just creepy, weird, disturbing people, then you need to become familiar with the Russian Revolution. Now at no point in the Bolsheviks win a national election in Russia, they never had the support of the majority of the population or anything close to it. But they rose to power anyway, because unlike the conservatives, they were willing to fight and fight dirty. There were other reasons, which we talk about in the documentary, including a very unfortunate miscommunication that could have come straight out of a Cohen Brothers movie, called the Cornelaw affair, but that's the big one. And then shortly after the Bolshevik takeover, people were getting letters in the mail, giving them a date and time where they had to show up to the banks where they would be forced at gunpoint to empty out all their savings and hand their money over to the commissars. The government took everything. There was a mass exodus. Foreign investment went to zero soon. There was starvation, dissidents, including members of the church were executed in the streets. And as this catastrophe unfolded, every day, Russians simply couldn't believe what was happening. They never thought their country would become a socialist hellscape. And by the time they realized what had happened, it was too late. The Bolsheviks, who never won an actual election, again, ruled for more than seven decades, killing millions of people in the process. The real history of communism is as much a documentary about what happened in Russia in the early 20th century as it is a warning about what could easily take place. And in some ways is currently taking place in the United States. No matter how invincible we may think we are. Again, it's out Fridays, probably the most important real history documentary that we've done and probably the most interesting, especially at this particular moment, which is why you should watch it and share it and remember that whatever happens in November, the Bolsheviks did not win at the ballot box. They never do. They win when their opponents stop fighting, which is something that, especially given the current crop of Democrat candidates, we must never do. They'll do it for sure today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow of a great day. Godspeed.