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Speaker 4Has the UK benefited from it? We did the right thing. Is it a better country than it was? To have defeated Hitler, yes. So the UK is a better country now. It's a healthier country now. Otherwise, we'll be speaking German.
Speaker 1Who cares? So you might be asking yourself right now, what the actual f*** is that, Tucker Carlson? You know, the guy from Fox News saying it would be better if Hitler had won World War II. Yes, it is. And in a moment, we'll examine why he would say something so disgusting and also stupid. Okay, we need to begin with a simple fact. There are lots and lots and lots of people in the United States who want to watch the system burn. So over the weekend, Tucker Carlson released an episode of his bizarre show with Jacob Rees-Mogg, who is a member of Parliament in the UK for years. He's a member of the Conservative Party. He was a leader of the House of Commons, Lord President of the Council from 2019 to 2022. And Mogg is a pretty normie conservative, which is why Tucker got into it with him. And the clips are legitimately insane. So we'll begin with the revisionist history section of this interview. So Tucker has this thing where he thinks that America was evil for dropping the A-bomb to end World War II. Presumably, he would have preferred if the United States had a million casualties in invading the Japanese home island. But here is Tucker and Rees-Mogg. I guess the question is, if
Speaker 4you are willing to kill non-combatants who committed no crime, if you're willing to murder the innocent, then in what sense are you better than the people you were fighting?
Speaker 5That once a war is engaged, the whole point of what I'm talking about, to go back to the opening part of your question. Can you finish the thought? Once a war is engaged. I will come back to it because it's to avoid war. And you avoid war by being strong. Once you're in war, you are justified in winning the war.
Speaker 4So you can behave like an animal once the war starts.
Speaker 5If the risk to you is sufficient, you can use nuclear weapons. I think that is morally justifiable.
Speaker 1Okay, again, Tucker has suggested that nuclear weapons were created by demons and also that America lost its soul when it used the A-bomb to end World War II. And I'm just going to point out that if the United States had ended the war, it would have meant that the United States had actually had to invade the home islands of Japan without use of the A-bomb to end the war, meaning six more months of war. That would have meant more dead Japanese and more dead Americans just by the fact. And then, of course, as you saw, Tucker Carlson essentially says that it would have been better if Britain had just surrendered the continent to Hitler and maybe just cut a deal with Hitler where it became a vassal state. Here's the exchange.
Speaker 4Hitler did not want to go to war with the UK.
Speaker 5He thought we wouldn't do anything about Poland as we'd done nothing.
Speaker 4Hitler repeatedly said, I do not want to go to war with the UK. Did we acknowledge that?
Speaker 5As we'd done nothing about Czechoslovakia, he thought we'd do nothing about Poland.
Speaker 4We acknowledged that Hitler said repeatedly in public and through diplomacy, I do not want war with the UK.
Speaker 5You seem to be putting more trust in Hitler than I would. He said all sorts of things. Just saying, he said that. He signed an agreement with Neville Chamberlain. Did he say that? I really don't care what he said because he signed a piece of paper with Neville Chamberlain saying he would not invade. Okay. I'm very surprised you're verging on defending Hitler. I think this is not really what you want to be doing. Yeah, I guess I'm just a seeker.
Speaker 4I'm a secret Nazi.
Speaker 1Um, well, well, I don't think it's much of a secret what Tucker Carlson actually believes we'll get to in a moment. And again, Rees-Mogg is saying something very basic here, which is on foreign policy, because we're gonna get to Russia, Ukraine in a second, on foreign policy, the way that you prevent war is to show that you are strong. Whereas Tucker Carlson believes the way to prevent war is to surrender to the Nazis. And it is the projection of
Speaker 5strength that avoids war. And this is the projection of strength that avoids war. This is what we should be doing now. We should learn from history that if your enemy thinks you are weak, then you find you get into war by accident. If you show that you are strong, then the invasion doesn't take place.
Speaker 1Okay. So why is this important? Because then Tucker gets into it with Rees-Mogg with regard to Russia and Ukraine. Rees-Mogg is a defender of Ukraine. He believes that Russia is the aggressor state, which of course it is. So begin with Tucker asking, why is the UK confronting Russia?
Speaker 4Okay. So he's asking, why is Russia the aggressor state? Do you disagree that they could, if they wanted to today, end this war? Of course they could.
Speaker 5Well, I think if they took it to another level, they would risk other people. If you keep pushing them, they'll do it. And maybe that's the basis of this conversation, which is why are you pushing them to that point? No, I'm not pushing them. I'm pushing us to be prepared because they are making attacks on the West. And we know this. They are making cyber attacks. They are making.
Speaker 4But do you see a connection between what the West is doing and Russia's attacks on the West? Or is this just. What would be the other explanation for why they're doing this?
Speaker 5I actually think the reason for Russia going into Ukraine, what allowed them to do it, was our weakness earlier over the Crimea.
Speaker 1And that made it look as if we didn't really care. And Tucker's entire mission here is to suggest once again that the enemies of the West are right and the West is wrong for defending itself. Rhys Mogg asked Tucker Carlson, do you even believe in the territorial integrity of nation states? And Tucker says, I do in America, but not really anywhere else. Do you believe in territorial integrity of nation states?
Speaker 4In my own, for sure. I'm not sure the territorial integrity of someone else's state is worth risking my life for. The question is, should. First of all, can you guarantee it? America did. So
Speaker 1do you think that was wrong? Okay, so again. I mean, Rhys Mogg was just stepping all over Tucker. And of course, Tucker is just unbelievably ignorant about the stuff that he purports to speak about. Here's Rhys Mogg talking to Tucker about Tucker's theory that NATO caused Russia to invade Ukraine.
Speaker 5Well, you're not listening. No obligation to be. You seem to be devoid of nuance. That the two questions are not the same. Just because you've signed a treaty does not automatically commit you to fighting a war.
Speaker 1Okay. And then it gets really spicy for Tucker. Because Tucker, he can't help but become a full-scale defender of the Russian regime, which again is a tyrannical and dictatorial regime run by Vladimir Putin, his friend. So Tucker humiliates himself by suggesting that Russia has a larger economy than Britain's, which is just not true. It still doesn't explain why
Speaker 4Russia would want to pick a fight with Britain. It's got a much larger economy than Britain's by, I think, basic measure.
Speaker 5No, no, no. It hasn't got a larger economy than Britain's. It's got a smaller economy than Britain's. It's got a larger military.
Speaker 4But it's a much larger economy. It has much more wealth and resources. It has a much larger manufacturing sector.
Speaker 5Its GDP is smaller than the UK's.
Speaker 4Yeah, but GDP is not, I mean, the only measure of an economy. It's a pretty important measure of an economy. It's one measure we can take.
Speaker 5Russia is an economic failure. That it could have a huge economy, but it's got a small economy because it's deeply corrupt and it hasn't managed to use its resources effectively. And so although the population of Russia is bigger than that of the United Kingdom, very significantly, its GDP per capita is so much lower that the total GDP of Russia is smaller than that of the United Kingdom.
Speaker 4Right. It's inherent. Wealth dwarfs that of the UK. It's the largest country in the world. But leaving aside that, I'm not in charge of central planning in Russia.
Speaker 5Yeah, but inherent wealth isn't very useful, is it? There are lots of African countries that have huge resources that have never been able to use them. It depends what your timeline is. Well, if you go over hundreds of years, they haven't used them.
Speaker 4Yeah. Russia has consistently been a poor country
Speaker 5in spite of its resources.
Speaker 1Sorry. The fact that anyone takes Tucker Carlson seriously as an intellectual interlocutor is just insane. I mean, Jacob Rees-Mogg being the most British person who ever Britished. And basically, in very kindly fifth-grade schoolmarm fashion, explaining to Tucker how economics works on a basic level is insane. But Tucker didn't even stop there. Tucker then claimed that the UK punishes people for free speech, but Russia does not. And again, Rees-Mogg looks like he doesn't know how he's found himself in a room with an ambulatory psychotic.
Speaker 4I just don't understand, given what you've already just conceded, that the government of the United Kingdom is punishing and prohibiting people and ideas it doesn't like. Russia is not doing that. So how is. What? To you. You can't say what it is in
Speaker 5Russia, it's doing it in spades. It's beating people up, it's arresting them, it's murdering them. In your country? Well, it's. No, your citizens are under. Russia has poisoned people in this country.
Speaker 4Okay. Russia has put fewer people in jail in the last year for. Were they just accidentally. social media problems. social media posts. than the UK has. than the UK has.
Speaker 5They just accidentally fall out of windows in Russia. Look, of course. And nobody dares say anything about Russia because they get bullied in their head. If you're a Brit, neither of us
Speaker 4live in Russia, but if you're a Brit, if you live in this country, and your ancestors have lived here for thousands of years, the threat to your freedom comes from your government, not Russia.
Speaker 5I'm not in favor of the way free speech is being policed in this country. So why not try to overthrow your government? Well, I hope to stand at the next election. We have a democracy that functions. But if they're oppressing you, if you can't say anything about it.
Speaker 1You can't say what you think. That's oppression. Again, just insanity. Total insanity. So, what the hell is Tucker doing here aside from making a total and complete ass of himself? Well, the answer is actually pretty simple. Tucker hates the West as currently constituted. He believes that at some point in the past, the West fundamentally betrayed itself, and he is intent on ripping it down. And he's not the only one, of course. This is why I've said many, many times that Tucker is the horseshoe right, and he joins hands with the left in hatred for the West. And the left believes that the United States, again, fundamentally went wrong. There's something deeply ill at the root of American society. Not that we have some problems, but there is something that needs to be completely destroyed. Here's Ben Affleck over the weekend at the premiere of a movie called Animals saying there's collective disappointment with American politics.
Speaker 6I think that there is a, whatever side of the aisle you're on, one of the interesting things that people can agree on is that a collective disappointment with the way that American politics has trended. There's nobody alive now who thinks, hey, we're really doing it right, and things are going great, and I love this political system.
Speaker 1Okay, but again, Ben Affleck is kind of the idiot clique of the left-wing political sphere. Abdul El-Sayed might be the next senator from Michigan. Here he was on Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay. Again, I'm not sure a more oxymoronic title for a show has ever been put forth than Higher Learning with Rachel Lindsay. Here's El-Sayed explaining that if you're black in America, you have never had access to capital. If you're black in
Speaker 7America, you've never actually had access to real capitalism. You had your labor extracted from you via the most fundamentally unethical, immoral act of placing somebody in slavery. And then we've excluded black folk in different ways. We still exclude black folk in different ways from full participation in capitalism via access to capital, via access to good schools, via access to health care. Via access to all these things.
Speaker 1Again, America is fundamentally broken and always was fundamentally broken. Meanwhile, Zoran Mamdani appeared with horseshoe commentator Theo Vaughn, whose mullet has grown deep into his brain stem at this point, considering that he has very little brain function, unfortunately. Zoran Mamdani explains that when he feels isolated, his solution was to join the Democratic Socialists of America.
Speaker 8I mean, the place that I found as my political home was an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America. It was a place where I would just go for meetings. I would meet people who felt the same way. And first, you would realize that you're not alone. You're not nuts. You are actually part of something much bigger than yourself. And you can be as well. And it feels like when people go through life, the further they get away from school, the more isolated they start to become from the world around them. And that is also a function of a society where people, people are what they call increasingly atomized, just separated out. And so much of the fabric that we used to have, it started to come apart at the seams. And for me, being a member of this organization, it was something that opened my eyes to how to make sense of it and also what I could do to change it. And that was something that, it didn't just help me with my anxiety. It also just helped me with my sense of my place in the world. It was like, okay, I feel this way. Here's a candidate that feels the same. I'm going to go and knock on doors for them.
Speaker 1Just going to point out. But again, Zor Mamdani, Theo Vaughn, Tucker Carlson, Abdul El-Sayed, they're all on the same train. And the train is that the West is bad and fundamentally flawed. We'll get to more on that in a moment. You need better wireless coverage at the best possible price. More than 120,000 wireless customers participated in a recent industry survey. PureTalk was the only wireless company in the country to earn five out of five stars in every single category. Coverage, support, value, data, unlimited high-speed data with PureTalk is just $34.99 a month. Those numbers are great. I know because I use PureTalk myself. I make calls. I send the text, the videos, the whole thing, unlimited data. I can tell you firsthand the coverage is awesome right now. You can also save 50% off your first month when you switch. So 50% off, $34.99 a month for the unlimited plan with five-star quality and experience. What do you have to lose except for, you know, the high prices? 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Now, the answer to that question for most Americans is simple. It didn't. It didn't all go wrong. America is a pretty fantastic place. It's the envy of the world. It's a place of opportunity and unparalleled prosperity. And it's a country that currently presides over the entire global order. So it didn't all go wrong. Some things have gone wrong and many things have actually gone right. That's what a normal person might say. The art of popularity. Politics for people who don't want to destroy the system lies in keeping what is good and taking away what is bad. We used to call that conservatism. GK Chesterton, the conservative theologian, once said, quote, The truth is that nobody has any business to destroy a social institution until he has really seen it as a historical institution. If he knows how it arose and what purposes it was supposed to serve, he may really be able to say that they were bad purposes and they have since become bad purposes or that they are purposes which are no longer served. But if he simply stares at the thing. As a senseless monstrosity that has somehow sprung up in his path, it is he and not the traditionalist who is suffering from an illusion. But the revolutionaries in the moment, the Tucker Carlson's, the Abdul Alsaids, the Zorah Mamdani's, that's not what they think. They think that their fathers and grandfathers were idiots who sold their birthright. Their birthright must be restored by ripping down all the systems. That's the story told by all the revolutionary movements in America. Things were going all right for the most part until everything, everything. Went wrong for us and people like us. So here's the basic idea. Forget Tucker and Abdul Alsaid or Zorah Mamdani. We are living in a uniquely terrible moment. Things suck, but they don't just suck right now. They are doomed to suck forever because the systems are fundamentally broken. That's because there is some historical inflection point, a point at which Marty McFly's mom and dad met the wrong way, thus unleashing a chain of inevitabilities that have culminated in Marty McFly's car crashing and him not being able to go to the lake with Jennifer. Right. That's why we have a terrible moment, because something bad happened in the past. Now, most Americans, why don't we believe that there was this terrible moment? Well, because we were lied to, right? We were infused with a false consciousness that has hypnotized us into accepting a decayed present and a dead future. So the goal of these revolutionaries on all sides is therefore to disabuse Americans of the false consciousness, to awaken them, to woke us about the reality of our terrible moment by exploding the supposedly false story of our past. And of course, the radical movement. Want to strip away this veil of illusion to unmask the satanic conspirators who purposefully and maliciously let us awry and continue to do so today. So who are these satanic conspirators who keep saying that things are going fine? Or more importantly, that even if they're not going fine right now, the institutions are not fundamentally broken. We've just screwed around with them. Who are the bad guys? The people who are doing well right now. If you're doing well, you're an exploiter. If you are doing poorly, you're a victim. So the people who have benefited from the selling of our birthright. Those are the ones who are in control. They've manipulated us. They must be. destroyed. This is the common thread to all the revolutionary movements happening right now in the West. America and the West were betrayed. The people who benefited from that betrayal lied to you about everything, so they and the systems they created, supposedly, must be destroyed. Okay, so let me give you a few examples, some of them non-Tucker. You can see what I'm talking about here. Okay, so there's a Marxist strain in the United States and in the West right now that wants to see the West destroyed. So what do Marxists at core argue? Well, they argue that long ago, human beings lived in a romantic commune with nature and one another. And, you know, they would wander the forests and the fields, and they would hunt, and they would gather, and they would live rich and rewarding social lives. And then, say the Marxist philosophers or pre-Marxist philosophers like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, things went wrong. People realized they could farm, right? This is the inflection point. And once they realized the power of agriculture, they began to fence off property and call it private property and monopolize resources, thus leading to the rise of jealousy and tyranny and oppression. People fell for that. So Rousseau's heirs, including people like Karl Marx, made the same argument. That argument is made today by people like Bernie Sanders, who insists that every innovation is actually a robbery from a mythical commons, and the only reason that you're not a communist and don't understand this is because you're implanted with a false consciousness. Marx said this. He actually wrote, the press, the pulpit, the comic papers, in short, by all the means at the disposal of the ruling classes, it is the secret by which the capitalist class maintains its power. Basically, you've been indoctrinated. In the modern era, that's the same argument that you see El-Sayed making in that clip. It's the same argument made by Nicole Hannah-Jones, creator of the 1619 Project. America went wrong from the start because it believed in meritocracy and individual rights and free markets, and those are outgrowths of greed and venality and racism. So all of those things have to be destroyed, right? This is why Nicole Hannah-Jones, back when she wrote the 1619 Project, said, quote, if I ever think everyone has the same opportunities in America, and where black people struggle, it's because of their own pathology, I support regressive individualistic policy that doesn't change the structure or hierarchy or inequality in our system. So again, who's the evil enemy who's manipulated us all? Well, you'll never guess. So Marx argued that in order to achieve the overthrow of all of these structures, right, a free market rooted in private property, who are the big problems here? The Jews, right? There's an argument that Karl Marx made in a famous essay called On the Jews. He said, let us not look for the secret of the religion in the real Jew. What is the secular basis of Judaism? Practical need, self-interest. What is the worldly religion of the Jew? Huckstering. What is his worldly God? Money. He says that the emancipation of the Jews is the emancipation of mankind from Judaism, right? So the Marxist left is still singing the same tune. If you wonder why the Marxist left today has turned anti-Semitic, this would be the reason. They argue that the Jews in both America and Israel are the beneficiaries of a racist system, that they are the propagators of all the institutions, that continue to foment racism. And it should not be a surprise to anybody that Black Lives Matters group were on the same side as Hamas on October 7th. Now, I'm using the Marxists as an example, but they are not the only example. Again, the revolutionaries who want to tear down the entire system. So a group from the right, the so-called Catholic Integralists. Again, the entire idea here is there was some historical juncture at which the entire thing went haywire and sideways. So this is a fairly small group of intellectuals. They argue that basically the West went wrong with the end of the Holy Roman Empire. The world was gradually falling under the sway of the universal church. Everything was great. The Holy Roman Empire was thriving. Everything was awesome. And then the Protestant Reformation broke everything. So according to Catholic Integralist Adrian Vermeule, who's a professor at Harvard, he says, now, what is at stake indeed is far more elevated than power. What is at stake is no less than authority. The full authority of a reasoned political order composed of both temporal and spiritual powers in right relation to the natural and divine law that would put a mere Rome to shame. That limitless ambition is why liberalism finds a genuinely political Catholicism intolerable. Why a liberal order will only accept a version of Catholicism that submits to be ruled, right? So basically he's saying Catholicism ought to win and liberalism ought to lose. And the argument that he makes is that history, again, went haywire with the Protestant Reformation. So in this view, Enlightenment progress has to be denigrated. Free markets, the single most obvious material feature of the Enlightenment era viewpoint of the Anglo-American Protestant world has to be downplayed or demonized as ineffective and dehumanizing. So Patrick Deneen, another Catholic Integralist, laments free markets as inherently unfree and ugly in terms that are basically the same as those of Karl Marx. He writes, quote, our main political choices come down to which depersonalized mechanism will purportedly advance our freedom and security. The space of the market, which collects our billions upon billions of choices to provide for our wants and needs without demanding from us any specific thought or intention about the wants and needs of others, or the liberal state, which establishes depersonalized procedures and mechanisms for the wants and needs of others that remain insufficiently addressed by the market. Indeed, it's really not a surprise to find this kind of language emanating predominantly from advocates for Catholic Integralism, because if we recognize that, say, free markets and individual liberty are actually kind of awesome, that the extraordinary freedom and prosperity of the West are downstream from the Protestant Reformation, you're going to have to admit that historically speaking, Catholic Universalism wasn't working all that well. And so instead, it's important to pretend that free markets, even though they enrich us, are basically robbing us of our spirit and our souls and our true freedom by creating new ones. Okay, now back to Tucker Carlson. It's a long digression just to show you that all of these revolutionary movements have the same structure. You need your sleep, which is why you need the best mattress in existence. And the best mattress for you is not the same as the best mattress for me. 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That is helixsleep.com slash Ben, a mattress made just for you so you can sleep the way you need to. Helixsleep.com slash Ben, get 20% off storewide. So what is Tucker's answer to the question of when things went wrong, right? That's the question, when things went wrong. His answer is World War II, which is why he is laser beam focused on World War II. So here's his story about, where the Marty McFly moment happened, where the parents met because dad was supposedly birdwatching, but was actually putting binoculars up so that he could be a peeping Tom. Okay, where did things go wrong? So according to Tucker Carlson, at one point in history, America was a land of white people like Tucker Carlson. The definition of white kept on expanding and embraced Irish and Scotch and Italians and Germans and Swedes. And sure, a lot of the people who immigrated to America were Catholic and not Protestant. But says Tucker, the story of America was never a creed. It wasn't the declaration. It wasn't about the constitution. It was a people. And those people were fundamentally betrayed by American leadership, which turned away from its people toward other shores, siding with communists and Jews and globalists, instead of ignoring the problems of Europe, or even siding with Germany, which again was full of white people instead. America's triumph over Nazism in World War II, so goes the argument, turned us from a white Christian country into a multiracial global empire and hot to free market capitalism and secular humanism. Now, again, this is not an argument unique to Tucker. This is an argument that Pat Buchanan used to make. He used to argue that World War II was a tragic mistake by people who resisted Hitler. So he wrote a book in which he said, quote, historians will look back on the 1914 through 1918 and 1939 to 1945 as two phases of the great civil war of the West, where the once Christian nations of Europe fell upon one another with such savage abandon. They brought down all their empires, brought an end to centuries of Western rule and advanced the death of their civilization. Now, what's weird about that, again, is that the outcome of that particular period was an America that was heavily Christian, dominating the world, dominating the world. The only two powers that were left after World War II were the Soviets and the United States. The United States was a heavily practicing Christian country, and the United States was not only dominant, it then proceeded to dominate the Cold War and win. Okay, so that's a weird narrative. It's a strange narrative. So what brought about the war? According to Buchanan, he said, quote, well, Irish and German Americans were the most vocal about staying out of World War II. Jewish Americans clamored to have the United States smash Hitler's regime. After World War II, Jewish influence over foreign policy became almost an obsession with American leaders. Okay, so that's the story. Hey, wonder why the obsession with World War II and why Tucker talks about Israel and the Jews more than a rabbi? This is why. So Tucker Carlson, his entire worldview is America went wrong during World War II. And so everything since then has been bad, which of course is not true. In fact, many, many things have been quite good. So his history is wrong. The way he tells the history is wrong. The way he talks about the modern world is wrong. And the way he talks about the current situation and past situation of the United States is wrong. But again, that's the narrative. So Tucker then paints Winston Churchill as the chief villain of World War II. And he makes the same case, while of course, hosting pseudo historians like Daryl Cooper, who say that Churchill himself manipulated the world into World War II on behalf of Zionist paymasters, which of course is historically false. So Tucker constantly says that while the allies defeated the Nazis, Western civilization was lost, so where's the victory? Now, again, as I say, that argument requires enormous revisionist history and historical ignorance. Nazi Germany was not a Christian paradise. Nazi Germany targeted Catholics. Nazi Germany was a barbaric, tyrannical dictatorship intent on mass murder and expansion and attacks on other Christian countries, including, for example, Poland or the Czech Republic or Austria. The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact had the Nazis siding with the barbarically anti-Christian Soviets to carve up Europe. It sided with the non-Christian country, Japan, and then went to war with the United States. After World War II, there was the Cold War, and that ended with the United States removing the most notoriously atheistic anti-Christian regime ever devised in world history. Again, in the 1950s, the United States was one of the most highly church-going civilizations on planet Earth. And by the way, since World War II, America's prosperity has led the globe out of abject poverty, increasingly, to the point where it's now a place where it's a place where it's a place where life expectancy and living standards domestically in unprecedented ways. Now, all of this has to be ignored or explained away by people like Tucker as false consciousness, brought about by propaganda, right? America has actually sucked. You didn't know it, but America has sucked since World War II. The propaganda, that's done by, well, you know who. You know who, wink, wink, nod, nod. American foreign policy wasn't actually controlled by white Christian Americans, predominantly. In fact, it was controlled by you know who. So, what's Tucker's end goal here? Where it's the same as Nicole Hannah-Jones is, or Adrienne Vermeules, or any other revolutionary who's seeking to overturn the system. First, you demoralize. See, here's the thing. America is responsible for the greatest movement away from poverty, away from tyranny, in all of human history. American citizens have it better than anyone else, anywhere, any time in human history. And so, the chief goal of all these radicals on all sides of the aisle is demoralization. So, Bernie Sanders tells us we're all poor and suffering victims of the supposed billionaires and millionaires, and that the solution to all of that is a central ized government redistribution. Catholic integralists will tell us we live in a godless, unrooted society, isolated, anatomistic, and the reason for that is capitalism. And the only cure is that we should get rid of the liberal principles of the Declaration and the Constitution, and return to a sort of new Holy Roman Empire, and listen to the Pope and Rerum Novarum. The Tuckers of the world argue we live in an overrun, impoverished, spiritually barren society. The only cure is a turn inward toward exclusivity and homogeneity. Nothing to do with ideas. It turns out we never won World War I. We never won World War I. We never won World War II. We never won the Cold War. Bin Laden, hell, he might have been right. Abdullah Syed might be right about 9-11. We never landed on the moon. We never overcame racism. We never alleviated poverty. Defeating transgenderism is a nothing burger. Fighting DEI is a losing battle. Our foreign policy has been outsourced to the nefarious Jews. Our domestic policy has been completely thwarted by evil people at the top who want to deracinate you. And who's to blame for all of this, according to Tucker? Well, I think, wink, wink. Okay, so here's the thing. Demoralization works. Just to the current midterms. Okay, now the midterms are actually really, really, really close. The midterm polls show that things are actually extremely close right now. So Republicans are polling really badly. Okay, they are. When it comes to key issues like health care tariffs, cost of living, doing what's best for ordinary people, what you see is the Democrats have a lead pretty much everywhere, except on being an effective senator. There, Republicans are running even in Alaska, Ohio. They're running ahead in Kansas. On immigration, Republicans are running ahead across the board. Okay, the issues where Republicans are really getting creamed in states like Texas or Ohio are actually on issues like doing what's best for ordinary people in Texas, plus 14 for Tallarico, or data centers, or health care. Okay, but this does not mean that this is a blowaway election for Democrats. Not yet. So there's a current New York Times-Siena poll that shows a fairly large lead for Democrats in some states that are really more like a dead heat. So the new New York Times-Siena poll, among likely voters, shows Tallarico up six, 51 to 45. It shows Maripol-Tola up on Dan Sullivan in Alaska by seven. It shows Sherrod Brown up three on John Husted. It shows Ashley Hinson up one on Josh Turek. Hinson's the Republican. And it shows Kansas as dead even. Now, what's the margin of error? The margin of error is that the Republicans is actually within margin of error. And when you look at the RealClearPolitics polling average, you can see that. According to the RealClearPolitics polling averages, Tallarico is up in Texas by 2.8, but the margin of error is going to be three points. Ohio, Brown is up by 3.1. Margin of error is probably three points. Michigan, Syed is up by 3.5. Margin of error is going to be three, four points. Turek is up by 0.7, dead heat. Peltola up 1.8 in Alaska. And Roger Marshall, the Republican in Kansas, up by one. All of these races are margin of error races. Not just that. Very often, very often, there is systemic polling bias. So Nate Silver ran down polling bias. Now, again, one of the things that is pretty clear about the polling bias is that it is quite rare that you have a polling bias toward Republicans. In fact, over the last nearly 20 years of election cycles, the only case in the polls was 2012. Right? That's where it was a little bit biased toward Romney. And Obama outran Romney. But since then, heavy Democratic bias in 2014, heavy Democratic bias in 2016, 2018, supposedly unbiased. In 2020, gigantic Democratic bias. 2022, supposedly unbiased. And in 2024, Democratic bias. But one of the points that Sean Trend over at RealClearPolitics makes is that when Nate Silver declares unbiased, that is an average of the poll. So it does not account for polling in a few important races being totally incorrect. So unbiased doesn't mean zero error. It means across the board errors all in the same direction. So it means that there are certain errors that were in favor of Democrats in certain states and in favor of Republicans in other states. Now, even if there were to be a blue wave this November, Sean Trend points out that would not be predictive of what happens in 2028. In 2010, the GOP picked up 63 seats and then Obama got reelected in 2012. Okay, so how are the midterms actually going to go? Well, according to the Harvard-capped Harris poll, the generic congressional ballot is actually a dead heat right now. The likely midterm voter breakdown has Democrats up two points. Two points. So what does that mean? It means all of these are very, very, very close races. And when you spend your days demoralizing Republicans and telling them all is for naught, see Democratic demoralization, the El Sayeds or the Mamdani's, that is demoralization with the system. And so you are outside the system. But if you're a Republican, supposedly, like supposedly Tucker is, and you're spending all day just ramming down this idea that you were betrayed 80 years ago and everything has gone wrong since, and Donald Trump is a tool of Israel and all the rest of this kind of stuff. If you say all of that and you drive down the polling numbers, you could cost Republicans the Senate. Which, again, would be insane. J.D. Vance was interviewed by Sean Hannity, the vice president, and he says, guys, you need to go vote. These are all close races.
Speaker 9I would love to have a Democrat party that we could work with. Not that we're going to agree with on every issue, but where you could come and find some common sense solutions like Newt Gingrich did with Bill Clinton back in the mid-90s. Era of big governments over and the welfare of the elite. Welfare reform. It doesn't exist anymore, Sean. But the only way, the only way to ever have any hope of bringing it back is to send a message. Do not send us radicals who are trying to tear up our country. Send reasonable people. The only way you can send that message is to vote against the radicals and vote for common sense.
Speaker 1Okay, so, again, J.D. Vance is correct. He says, guys, you need to go out and vote and you need to show them that the nuts shouldn't win. Well, you know, one element of making sure the nuts don't win is kicking the nuts out of your own party and making sure that they can't demoralize the people inside the tent. I will tell you what will not work. What will not work is the current attempt by the Trump administration to just throw money at people. So the president has now announced that he is going to give all adult citizens $5,000.
Speaker 10Our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make you this promise. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I'm going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. And Republicans can do it, and Democrats can't.
Speaker 1Okay, well, then he announced, by the way, that he was going to send $100 checks from the Medicare Improvement Fund to be sent to 20 million seniors. And just sending people money is not going to win you elections. That's not how any of this works. That really is not, especially not for Republicans. Now, this has happened before. President Trump sent out $1,200 COVID relief checks through the CARES Act in 2020. He sent another $600 COVID relief check in December 2020. He sent $1,776 as a warrior difference, a dividend check to 1.45 million active duty military right before Christmas in 2025. So this would not be the first check the president has tried to issue and has had basically zero electoral impact at this point. But here is why Republicans ought to vote. They ought to vote because if Republicans lose the Senate, things get very, very dicey very quickly. So Justice Samuel Alito says that he has considered retirement, but it's going to be too hard to predict what the political situation will be. So in other words, if the Republicans lose the Senate, it's going to be hard for Alito to retire and be replaced by somebody who's a textualist. If the Republicans win the Senate, he'll likely step down and you will get a 55-year-old, who agrees with Alito on the issues replacing Alito. You know, that's a pretty big incentive for Republicans to go vote.
Speaker 11You decided not to retire this year, despite, I think, some pretty intense pressure from Republicans who thought, well, Republicans are in control of the Senate, so it would be more easy, easier to confirm your replacement. What made you decide to stay on? I thought about it.
Speaker 12You did. You considered it. I will continue. Well, it's something I think that somebody at my age has to think about every term. But I thought that I could still make a valuable contribution, which is why I became a justice and a judge in the first place. So that was basically it.
Speaker 11So you'll be kind of reconsidering this probably every year, rethinking it.
Speaker 12Yeah, I think I have to.
Speaker 11Why does that not risk undoing all the work that you have done here at the court, like what happened with Justice Ginsburg?
Speaker 12I think it's too hard to predict. It's too hard to predict how. For anybody, and particularly when you reach a certain age, what your situation will be a year from now, two years from now and so forth. And it's too hard to predict what the political situation will be and what any president might do with respect to a replacement.
Speaker 1OK, so again, the Supreme Court of the United States right now has a. Six three textualist, conservative Republican promoted majority. What happens if Alito were to have to step down? There's a health crisis or something. And Democrats control the senator to the presidency. You got a problem on your hands, because remember, if Republicans lose the Senate, Democrats will just hold whatever nomination takes place until the next presidential election cycle, even if it means a year and a half. They will do that. OK, so control of the Supreme Court is up for grabs, especially because, again, Justice Roberts. It's very often a swing vote in favor of the left wing of the court. This is not really a six three court is more like a five four court in favor of the textualists. So it matters an awful lot if Republicans vote. And remember, this is all prelude to Democrats seeking a complete takeover of the government in twenty twenty eight. If Republicans lose the House and the Senate, what is coming? Well, if you thought woke one was crazy, wait until you see woke to Gavin Newsom, who wants to run for president, is now signing a bill requiring companies to search their records for ties to slavery and then publish their findings. Because, again, the idea is going. To be that if you're a company that. Two hundred years ago, one hundred and seventy five years ago. Engaged in slavery, then we're going to pretend that your profits today are a result of that slavery.
Speaker 13I have a bill in front of me, privileged to have this opportunity, a bill in front of me that I'm signing quite literally right now. This is a bill that requires large companies that operated before nineteen sixty five to search their records for ties to slavery. Going back to.
Speaker 11849 this is crazy again, but this is the kind of stuff they're bringing. If you think that woke one into remission, you are totally wrong. It is there is waiting to burst free. Meanwhile, Letitia James, it's this kind of woke Kathy Hochul, who is the governor of New York, has now appointed Letitia James, the attorney general of the state, to go after the so-called Cornell seven. We've been discussing this case because, again, the evidence shows no rape took place. The evidence shows a bunch of people engaged in disgusting, gross behavior. It's. It does not show that a rape took place. Letitia James, however, on September 28th, right before she was appointed, said, quote, What this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable. I'm holding her in my heart and in my prayers to her and all survivors. You're not alone. We stand with you. Do you expect that she's going to do a thorough investigation or she's just going to railroad somebody? Meanwhile, Kathy Hochul supports closing the so-called voluntary intoxication loophole, quote, Choosing to have a drink is not consent and it's never a license for sexual assault. New York law should reflect that. I support closing the voluntary intoxication loophole and we'll work. What the legislator get it done. There is no such thing as a voluntary intoxication loophole. That is not what the law says. What the law says is that you cannot be immediately prosecuted if you have sex with a drunk person who consents. That's what it says. So if you have two drinks and you consent to sex and then later you regret it and call it rape, you can't automatically just prosecute that guy because you're drunk. Again, the left is not going to go into some sort of retreat. They're going to go harder than they ever have if they win this election. You thought the trans radicalism has gone wrong. It will be back. Elliot Page will be the hero of the moment once again. Here's Elliot Page, again, pushing the idea that we must trans the children.
Speaker 14Since returning to office, the Trump administration has waged a coordinated assault on health care. He's already gutted Medicaid and 7.5 million people are projected to lose coverage. While these cuts have hit so many, trans youth and their families have been at the center of them. For decades, hospitals like NYU Langone, Mount Sinai and New York Presbyterian provided care for trans people. But earlier this year, they abruptly cut it. Despite statewide protections and express support for this care from officials like New York Attorney General Tish James and New York City Mayor Zoran Mamdani, these institutions cave to threats from Trump's Department of Justice.
Speaker 1It's all coming back here. All of it. All of the insanity. All of the wokeness. It is all coming back. Again, the fundamental belief systems of the left are all in place. I mean, here's Sharon. Stone with Michelle Obama talking about how the real reason that men oppose abortion, if they do, is because they're not the ones who have to bear children.
Speaker 2What kind of arcane bull is this? If men got pregnant, you could get an abortion from a vending machine.
Speaker 15There would be the birth Olympics, you know. Men would film themselves going into labor. They would be honoring their pain. And, you know, it would be there would be trophies given, you know. Well done, dude.
Speaker 1First of all, women actually do that. That's the thing that women currently do. I'll say I didn't take the epidural. Look at me. But beyond that, again, the insanity of the left is not going to be put to the side by them winning. This is why the demoralization efforts actually matter. Republicans don't give up. Get out and vote. Vote by mail. Yes. OK, I know. I know there's so many of you who think that if you vote by mail, it will be counted. If you vote right now, vote by mail. Just vote. OK, just vote. Go out and vote. Because the consequences on the other side are really, really, really ugly. Like, for example, a civilization that simply caves to terrorism. We have new updates, by the way, on that fly Dubai flight that miraculously was not hijacked after the intervention of Israeli passengers and the fly Dubai pilot. That fly Dubai pilot is a hero. His name is Smith Machar. And he explained to India's Prime Minister Modi how he opened the door to allow the Israeli passengers to get in and remove the co-pilot, who is a radical Muslim, who's who's essentially hacking him to death with an axe.
Speaker 16At that moment, I was fighting for my life. But there was a moment when I realized I had fallen down due to my injuries. And I realized that if I don't get up, I've been a pilot for 17 years. I've been a captain for the past 11 years. I know what's happening in a flight, even with my eyes closed. When I was on the ground, I realized that the aircraft is going down. And I told myself. This is the last push, Smith. The door is right there. And I was still getting hit. But I opened the door and everyone else who helped was just as incremental to this effort.
Speaker 1OK, so. Again, incredible heroism on his part. New details are now emerging about the co-pilot, the terrorist quote. This is the Wall Street Journal. A fly Dubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and sent flight 1073 diving toward the ground had previously been banned from flying by Oman over concerns he had adopted radical ideological views. People. Familiar with the matter, said the zone on trying to prevent responsibility here. Despite the ban, the pilot was hired by Fly Dubai, the people said, allowing him to fly on the sensitive route connecting the UAE and Israel. The alleged attacker is an Omani national in Tamam Al-Hammami, said other people briefed on the investigation. The UAE is leading the investigation. A UAE spokesperson declined to comment on the attacker's history in Oman. Meanwhile, CNN reviewed Al-Hammami's social media posts and found, surprise, surprise, a bunch of terrorist images. Apparently. A LinkedIn profile bearing the name Tamam Al-Hammami said he worked at Oman Air for seven years, leaving in February 2025 before joining the Moroccan airline Royal Air Maroc in June 2025 and departing in January 2026. Air Maroc said that the suspect had trained with the airline for three months in 2025 as part of the pre-employment process, but he was not, in fact, selected. Only two posts had been made to his LinkedIn profile. Both were published in quick succession on Wednesday, about nine hours after the incident, so unclear who published the post. One clip, which CNN geolocated to Dubai International Airport, the person filming zooms in on a plane that belongs to El Al. In the video, the cockpit screen showed the flight number OMA624 and the date, October 11th, 2023. The flight number corresponds to a flight that typically travels from Dubai to Muscat and the date matches the period of time he worked at Oman Air. The video has a bunch of clips of El Al, as well as one from Arkea, another Israeli airline, and the video ends with a photo of Ayman al-Zahiri, the Al-Qaeda. A photo of the Al-Qaeda leader after Osama bin Laden, and also a photo of Humam Khalil Abu Malal al-Balawi, who killed nine people, including seven American CIA officers and contractors in a 2009 suicide bombing in Afghanistan. And then there was a second post. It featured an AI-generated image depicting Islam's holiest sites, Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem, linked by a continuous glowing trail. By the way, Al-Hammami's LinkedIn page said he studied at Buckingham New University in England. Great. Again, importing all of these problems into the West. It's been great. Thank you. The story is even crazier than that. Apparently, according to some of the Israeli passengers, some of the crew of the hijacked plane actually clashed with the Israeli passengers. As the Israeli passengers went up, they yanked the terrorist co-pilot out of the seat. They put the new pilots in place, and apparently members of the crew were trying to prevent them from restraining the terrorist co-pilot. Two men who helped secure the terrorist suspects, the crew of the hijacked fly-to-eye plane, according to the New York Post, shockingly clashed with heroic Israeli passengers who subdued the axe-wielding co-pilot after he attacked the pilot. They were asking us to untie the terrorist. We had no idea why, said banking executive Tzvika Maines, one of the three civilians who took down the would-be hijacker. After the three Israelis subdued the pilot and restrained him face down with his hands tied behind his back, first with zip ties and then using headphone wires that Schlichter gathered from passengers. Apparently, Hayun, who is. This is the plumber, Yaniv Hayun. He heard the terrorist cry, kill me, kill me, apparently because he failed in his jihadist mission. Some crew members began demanding that he be freed. So the Israelis said, no, you guys go sit down. We are now in control. This is our plane now. No, no, no, no, no. No evidence that these crew members were actively associated with the terrorist. Maybe they were misinterpreting what was happening, but yeah, that was not happening. Now, again, if you think this sort of thing isn't a threat, then keep importing terrorists to the West. The Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne Mullen, spoke with our friends at the Ruthless Pod and pointed out that some 2,200 terrorists who entered the United States under a false name have been arrested already. Two is, underneath
Speaker 17President Trump, we've arrested, so far as my numbers walking into here, 2,210 terrorists that's in this country. That was in this country. That's significant. Most of them came over and gave, you know, claimed asylum, gave a fake name. Some of them came over, we didn't know they were here. Some of them we caught, but a lot of them came in and didn't identify them because the Biden administration was just kind of loose. 97% of the individuals that they made contact with was released in 27 hours.
Speaker 18That was the old on-your-honor system, right?
Speaker 17Yes, yes. We're not checking who you are. We're just assuming. That's why they lost 450,000 kids underneath the Biden administration, too, that we're now trying to locate. Unbelievable. But 2,210 terrorists. Now, these aren't individuals. You guys all know this. There's a difference between a suspected terrorist. No. Or a terrorist watch list. These were terrorists.
Speaker 1He is right about, again, the West can surrender to this sort of stuff. And the first step of that is surrendering to the far left. Okay, well, the good news, I guess, for the far left is that they have cultural figures on their side. So there is a half-country, half-rock star named Zach Bryan. His politics have always been idiotic. He's always been a left-wing guy. He was on Joe Rogan in June 2024. He was talking about his defense of, quote-unquote, trans people. Right? So, again, he's a very far-left dude. When I said that about,
Speaker 18like, whatever, Bud Light, because my sister's spouse is transgender, I, like, hired a security guy for a second. I was like, man, this is crazy. People are mad at you. Yeah. And not being a b**** either. I was like, man, it's kind of scary, bro. I live in a city. I don't want people to come for me. Because a lot of people were pissed. It's such a dumb reason to get mad. I woke up on a Saturday, bro, and I had a dude tell me I was, like, a Nazi and a mutilator. Oh, my God. I was on my Twitter, and I was like, bro, what the f*** are you talking about? It was psychotic. It was crazy.
Speaker 1Okay. Again, he's always been a very far-left figure. He cut a song in October 2025, Ripping on Ice, called Bad News. Quote, I heard the cops came. Cocky MFers, ain't they? And ice is going to come bust down your door. Tried to build a house no one builds no more, but I got a telephone. Kids are all scared and all alone. The boss stopped bumping. The rock stopped rolling. My middle finger's rising, and it won't stop showing. Got some bad news. Fading. We've got red, white, and blue. This land's your land. This land's mine, too. Is this all true, man, or is it just bad news? Okay. So, again, anti-ice songs. And then he put out a statement trying to sort of wrap himself in the flag as he attacked ice. He put out an anti-AI song in August 2026 that's sort of a populist anthem to the idea, quote, the rocket, the robot, he writes, killed the working man. Took the nail and hammer right out of his hand. So, I guess we have to just destroy all technology because the wheelwrights need their jobs, feedback. So, now, why is he in the news? He's in the news because he did a concert at Gillette Stadium, which is, of course, the same stadium where the infamous Ed Sheeran concert with Macklemore took place, and he wore a free Palestine t-shirt at Gillette Stadium. Here's some of the footage.
Speaker 19The palace is built in the sky, boy. Meetin' up into the machine all the day. The workin' rancor dies, boy. Cryin'. American Cowgirl!
Speaker 1Okay. So, um, first of all, I'm just going to point out he can't sing. But I'll also point out that he has not been banned from Gillette Stadium. Macklemore did a lot more than just say free Palestine. He has essentially sided with terrorists. He has shouted F America multiple times and all the rest of all of this. This has now become the de rigueur demand in the cultural community. You must say the words. You must lie and say Israel committed a genocide. You must take. The anti-Western position. The terrorist groups are somehow superior to Western allies. You must do all of these things. You must shout free Palestine. Again, the flag of revolution against the West is the flag of Palestine. Okay. That's what it is. That's why it shows up at every anti-Western rally. Every single one without, without exception. There's a reason for that. People should be advised of that. And again, it's a great way to, I guess, get a little bit of attention for your concert tour. And meanwhile, on the cultural front, Tom Cruise, who again, I'm, I've always said, I'm kind of a Tom Cruise stand as a movie star. Forget about his personal life or anything like that. As a movie star, he has done a very good job at picking good projects like the new Top Gun, for example. Well, he picked a bad project. His bad project is a movie called Digger. This movie is apparently, I haven't seen it yet, a pretentious piece of anti-corporate propaganda. It's all about climate change. Highly, highly, highly political. Okay. And it's just a bomb. It's a bomb. This movie had $125 million production budget. The movie grossed $3.3 million on Friday. The film is expected to open with $8 million across 3,300 North American theaters. They were hoping for an open between $12 and $15 million. So this is the lowest opening for a weekend since Cruise did a war drama in 2007 called Lions for Lambs, which debuted with $6.7 million from a significantly smaller budget. Digger has a 51% approval rating from reviewers on Rotten Tomatoes. Now, again, kind of astonishing that this thing even has a 51% approval rating, given what it looks like. I think that the director, Alejandro Iñárritu, is one of the most overrated directors working. He's the guy behind Birdman and The Revenant. Highly overrated. The preview looks awful. Here is the preview.
Speaker 10Oh, I don't believe you understand what's happening, sir. What did you just say? Sorry, sir. Well, I know perfectly well what's going on there, because I'm paying for the whole thing. I'm paying for your f***ing 90% Hungarian goose down winter jacket.
Speaker 19I'm paying your salary. You want to shut her down? Well, uh. Say it! Mr. President, we're utterly unprotected against a disaster of this magnitude.
Speaker 1What's our worst case scenario?
Speaker 19$18 trillion, sir. Is that all the bad f***ing news? Oh, there's the nuclear race, too.
Speaker 1Okay, this looks terrible. I mean, it just looks awful. It looks terrible. Across the board, terrible. So, it has a 51% rotten tomatoes from the critics, because you can never say that a movie with the right politics for the left, right? Left-wing politics is bad. You're not allowed. You have to pretend that the movie's good. Meanwhile, if there's a movie that is just sort of a fun shoot-'em-up that has right-wing politics, it's evil and terrible and can never be given the time of day, which is why Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, which is, again, the biggest entertainment success in the history of The Daily Wire, right? It's blowing. It's blowing the doors off in terms of subscriptions, people who are subscribing just to see the movie. And, by the way, there's much more awesome stuff coming. We're in the news again about another one of our big projects right now. With all of that happening, the critics, I think, rotten tomatoes like 20%. And the reason it's at 20% on rotten tomatoes is because it doesn't have the right politics. If it had the reverse politics, presumably, it would be much higher, because Digger, it looks like a piece of trash. I mean, again, I'll watch it. I'll tell you if I'm wrong here, but it looks awful. I mean, just from the preview alone and from what people are saying about it, it looks absolutely terrible. It has a 7.5. 71% audience score, which, again, people have generally an interest in pretending that they like movies, even if they don't like movies. But let's just be clear. If the politics of this thing were right-wing, it would not exist as a film. That is the way all of this works in the land of Hollywood. All right, folks, you think the show is over, but, indeed, it is not. If you're a Daily Wire member, not only do you get our great film, Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels, and more films to come, stuff happening right now in the entertainment sphere, but you're going to get more analysis and more news and access to the mailbag and answers. Here's some of your questions right now. If you're not a member, become one. Use code SHAPIRO at checkout for two months free on all annual plans. Click the link in the description and join us.
Speaker 4Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. You're a traitor. Uncle Tom. This is our generation's civil rights. Have no right.
Speaker 1No idea what the protest is about.
Speaker 8Bingo. Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
Speaker 20Can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close personal friend. I'm a friend of Chancellor Friedman. This is a decision I cannot fight. Islam will conquer the West. Assalamualaikum. Are we paying attention?
Speaker 2They've taken over the building. They're downstairs and they've blocked the doors.
Speaker 19I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
Speaker 20We cannot run and hide.
Speaker 19Mohammed is the messenger of God. There is no God but Allah.
Speaker 20What do you say we turn those SOBs into a fine red mist? As we move, one man will cover while the other guys go. They call that leapfrogging. Stretch them out and listen.
Speaker 5You need a course in safe weapons handling.
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