THE RETURN OF THE KING
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This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth generation warfare. A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran. This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec. Christ is.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin ordered a guided missile submarine to the Middle East and asked a carrier strike group to get there as quickly as possible. Israel is bracing for a potential attack by Iran, an attack some anticipate could come within days. Russia is evacuating parts of its border region with Ukraine as Ukrainian forces continue operations inside Russian territory. The idea of not just raising tax rates,

but raising tax rates and applying taxes on unrealized income, that is a catastrophe of epic proportion. You will owe taxes with cash you literally do not have in your pocket to pay those taxes. That is a formula for a second Great Depression, and it is something that's been in the bloodstream of Democratic policy for a long time. So he knew he was going to Iraq. He decided to quit, to retire, whatever word you want to use. Retire. Because he wanted to run for Congress. He lied about that.

He said that when he decided to retire, he did not know that he was going to Iraq. That is another untruth, as even his senior military officer said. So again, I'm not criticizing the service. I'm criticizing the dishonesty. So what's interesting is that young voters, and also ended up

black voters didn't change all that much between where Biden was in Pennsylvania in July and where Harris is now. The Trump campaign says it was hacked. Politico first reported receiving internal campaign research documents from an anonymous sender. The Trump campaign suggesting Iran may be behind the hack. Are you worried at all about the size of Harris's crowds? Oh, give me a break.

Listen, I had 107,000 people in New Jersey. You didn't report it. I'm so glad you asked. What did you have yesterday? 2,000 people? If I ever had 2,000 people, you'd say my campaign is finished. It's so dishonest, the press. Mika, I mean, look at the numbers. I mean, the Philadelphia event I remember when we first, I mean, you saw it was so huge.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome aboard today's edition of Human Events Daily. Today is August 12th, 2024, Anno Domini. We're coming to you live from an undisclosed location in, let's just say, New England.

Well, folks, the return of the king, Donald J. Trump, returning to Twitter, now called X, for the first time since. Now, it's not the first time since January 6th, because we know that President Trump posted his mugshot just last year on there. And tonight, he's going to be participating in his very first live stream on X. Now, this is interesting, because for those of you who

Like me, you may remember when President Trump was using Twitter on the regular, he never did any live streams on Twitter. This was something that myself and so many people said, you gotta go back in the day we used to call it Periscope. And I said, what if President Trump started using Periscope? What if he started live streaming? What if he just popped up on there and started doing it? Elon did it like once.

and completely stopped after that. This is the next level. So Spaces are nice because they're audio only, but the live stream, the Twitter live stream where you get to go, you can take questions, you can bring people in. Yeah, I know Spaces has this video feature on it, but it's not quite getting there yet. It's not quite getting there yet. You need to be on top of this. But I think when we see him coming back, when you see him getting in there,

And by the way, this video that he's gonna be doing, not a video rather, this space he's gonna be doing later, apparently the European Commission is upset about this. So the European Commission has just written a letter to Elon Musk calling for him to censor President Trump tonight.

There, Mr. Musk, I'm writing to you in the context of recent events in the United Kingdom and relation to the planned broadcast on your platform of a live conversation between the US presidential candidate and yourself, which will also be accessible to users in the EU. We are currently doing the international stress test of the program. In this context, I am compelled to remind you of the due diligence obligation set out in the Digital Services Act.

Act, as outlined in my previous letter. As the individual entity ultimately controlling a platform with over 300 million users for fight, of which one third in the EU that has been designated a very large online platform, you have the legal obligation to ensure access compliance with the EU law and in particular the DSA in the EU. You will comply. You will comply. Folks,

No, all right, no. And by the way, please try to arrest Elon Musk over this. Please try. Look, we all know the backdoor censorship is gonna come in. The FBI censorship is gonna come in later. We've got a great writer from the Federalist coming up to talk about that in the second half here. But folks-

Keep your eyes on the prize. We are 85 days away from victory. We are going to win. Post through the ops. Post through the psy-opping. And I don't want to say any black pilling out there, all right? You got any black pillars in your life? You got to push them to victory.

the curb, take them out like the trash. Take them out and wait for the trash truck to come pick up the black pillars and off you go. You can sort them, all right? You can sort them into recyclables. You can sort them into plastics and paper, paper and plastics. The black pillars, take them out like the trash. - They talk about influencers. These are influencers and they're friends of mine, Jack Posobiec. Where's Jack? Jack, he's done a great job.

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I got to tell you, man, what did you think when you woke up? Or that being said, 3 a.m. when the first year up, you were probably still awake. You were probably still probably still out. As a matter of fact, probably hitting up the bodegas around 3 a.m. last night when when you saw that notification come in from President Trump on X.

Listen, my first thought was Stringer Bell, you know? Listen, I want you to put the word out there that we're back up, you know what I mean? Donald Trump's going to be out there. Our mean lord in chief is back on X, you know? And so we're going to get back. Not only are we going to take back the narrative on X soon enough with Donald Trump's return, but when I woke up this morning, I felt that joy, right?

Joy that Kamala Harris and all these Democrats talk about, I actually felt that. And I feel that a lot of people are gonna feel that joy now with Trump's return to him. And that's right. That's what they're talking about with Kamala Harris. That's what they're talking about. They're saying, Kamala Harris, so she's got that. She's the one with the joy. She's the one with all the joy this, enjoy that with the vibes. But here's what the real truth is, folks.

She's from now and I want to be clear about this by the way and it's interesting you brought that up because they're talking about the vibes election how she's got positive vibes Trump run on negative vibes and I I think all right, I think that

Trump's campaign and Trump himself and everybody out there, we need to take this seriously because people do kind of go with vibes these days. It's sort of something that's out there. And at the end of the day, yes, we know what the situation is. We know the situation is grim in this country. Two-thirds of Americans believe that we are in a situation where there's, you know, a country's on the wrong track. But

That doesn't mean that you can just complain. You have to offer a competing alternate vision. And that's where President Trump leaning in on patriotism. That's where President Trump leaning in on strength, where President Trump leaning in on leadership comes in because he has the ability now to articulate

how good the country was under his leadership and how good things are going to be again when we have four more years of peace and prosperity. And who knows, maybe even 12 more years of peace and prosperity if J.D. Vance, and we saw J.D., the man, just go into town in the ring yesterday morning with the fake news lying around.

snakes that he did, that he was able to rope-a-dope them for hours on end. Vispero, what is your sense, the vibes of the election? Well, I think right now the vibes...

were shaken up, but they were shaken up inorganically. So I think that right now we need to get back into our mode of happy warriors and winning, winning, winning, winning at all costs. Do not listen to the black pillars, okay? The black pillars are there as nothing more than a demoralization campaign. And you cannot allow

the black because the black pillars are essentially doing the left's dirty work for them, right? The left is trying to demoralize us and they're trying to get into our heads. But the way they do that is they get into these black pillars heads and the black pillars are the ones that distribute the blood, the divides and we need to remember that our vibes are on our side.

Well, so the black pill is contagious as we all know. So a lot of people out there in my audience and I get messages on this all the time and it's not just older people. I get messages from people my age, younger, etc. They say, what are all these pills you guys are talking about? Black pill, red pill, white pill, blue pill. What are all these? All right, all right. We'll do the quick like less than two minute explainer. Goes back to the Matrix. We all remember that movie Matrix 1999, 25 years ago. Yeah, I know.

and i was old enough to see it in theaters that um that morpheus gives neo the choice black the blue pill or the red pill and that means take the blue pill you stay in the false reality you take the red pill and you realize that your reality is manufactured and you can start to begin the journey to understand the true reality so that's kind of where the idea of pills come from but then the

the idea of black pill and white pill, these are a little bit more emotionally driven because the black pill means essentially that you have chosen to pill yourself with despair, to fill yourself with despair, to be nihilistic, to say, oh, woe is me, you're constantly, doomer is the same idea that, oh, it's despair, it's anger, resentment, and ultimately a defeatist attitude. So it rejects self-improvement, rejects positive change,

rejects actually doing something to build a positive community. And so the idea of the white pill is, again, emotionally based. That's hope. That's saying we can do something for the future. There is still an ability. So, Vish, it sounds like you're a little bit more on the white pill side. Am I right?

I'm always on the white pill side, baby. I mean, look, Donald Trump is back on X. I think it suffices to say that we are so back, right? We need to embrace that actually everything's really on our side if we take a moment and just think about how far we've come as a movement. In 2016, having Silicon Valley people talking about

Trump and getting behind Trump, that was unheard of back then. In 2020, you were being canceled or gulag for such a thing. And then 2024, it's a vibe, it's a trend, that's what's up, right? And so we've never been in a better position as a movement, and we should be overdosing on white pills right now with how many things are going on our side.

The problem right now that I see is that we are losing focus as a movement. Everybody's comfortable, everybody's complacent. Everybody thinks that Donald Trump winning is a foregone conclusion. And there are people now measuring the drapes in the White House, people who are trying to turn the guns inwards so that they can get themselves a place on the hierarchy of

higher than the next guy, this is all a distraction. This is all a way to demoralize our people, our movement and our victory. We need to get back on track and focus.

Focus, focus, focus, maniacal focus, the border, inflation, stolen valor, fake Kamala, Kamabla, whatever you want to call her, Kama Kama Chameleon. These are, we need to focus on what matters, and that is the next 84 days and a wake up to victory on November 5th.

This is so important that you just talked about the fact that look at where we were in 2020 and 20, and people say, where's the 2016 energy? In 2016, we didn't have the polls on our side ever. In 2016, we didn't have the metrics on our side, the betting markets, everybody's going, I'm on predicted, I'm on poly market, Trump's going up, Trump's going down, we've lost everything. Nobody was doing any of that stuff. Robert Barnes, yes.

had his one long shot amazing miracle play, but that is not. But the reason he was able to do that was because everyone in the betting markets was against Trump. We never had any of these things on our side. You mentioned social media, think about it. With total 180 from Jack Dorsey and really the leftists that were operating under him, censoring everybody,

back in those days, shutting everybody down, throttling everybody. Ricky got arrested and thrown in jail, by the way, for memes in 2016. Now you got the head of X himself, the owner, is sitting down with the man and doing a branded livestream when in 2016, Twitter was pushing Black Lives Matter everywhere, going back to 2015, 2014, when that really got started, and even 2013, honestly. And so-

That is why they're so mad at Elon. That's why the EU is trying to shut him down, shut this live stream down, because he took Twitter, which had been a tool for the left. And what is Elon doing? And by the way, I'm sure that if Tim Walz or Kamala Harris were interested, that he'd be happy to sit down with them and offer them the same information.

exact invitation to go on spaces with him and answer basic questions because why? It's about freedom of speech now. It's not about being a platform from one side or the other. And that's why they're terrified because we don't need the leg up. We don't need the help. We don't need the censorship like they do. That's what they need because we got memes on our side. We got Trumps on our side. We got and we've got the truth on our side. It's as simple as that, folks.

Quick break. Right back. Questions, comments, emails. 1776 at human events dot com. 1776 at human events dot com. Today's question. Do you think Tim Walz switched out as Kamala's VP? It's the resign. We'll see right back. And then boys had a saying. You can't be listening to all that slappy whack. Trim out as all it's a bam ship. Nippy bam bam. Like human events with Jack Posobiec.

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Vish, I loved what you were saying just there about complacency, that people are getting too comfortable. People are sitting around, they're getting complacent. They're saying, oh, Trump's got this in the bag. Things are fine. Measuring the drapes for the Oval Office again. Things are going to be good. This hierarchy, the backstabbing, people trying to get in and the pecking order. This is a human thing, by the way. This is what happens when movements develop, when people get a taste of power, when

when suddenly a movement goes from something that was impossible

right back in say 2022 when nobody was on board except folks like you folks like me now all of a sudden 2023 rolls around and now here we are 2024 and suddenly donald trump has a he is within striking distance of winning back the white house again in 85 days but suddenly people are looking around saying oh who's going to get this position who's going to get that position and that's when the backstabbing starts what's the infighting starts this is a historic process

This is something that's endemic in human nature. It's happened for every movement, even pre-democratic societies, all this stuff. But Vish, walk us through the current moment. Who rises to the top in these situations? Who should you trust and who should you put your faith in?

Right now, you should put your faith in those who have always performed, right? That's the idea, those who have always showed up, those that you can have faith in who have spoken to you through their actions, right? And so you've got to rely, you've got to look to those day ones who were there when you were down, who you look for when you're up. And so these folks, Jack Posobiec, a lot of people,

folks like Steve Bannon, they've taken away from us and put him in jail. But folks like Steven listening to the war room, Raheem, all of your OGs that have been here the whole time and have made sure that Donald Trump's interests and MAGA's interests were always priority. Those are the people that you should be looking to right now. Because there's too many new people who, because they have

They're part of this winning effort. They don't understand all the losses that we had to take to get here. And so those new people are the ones who are shaken up the most, who are shaken by the vibes the most. Those the people who have are either either new or or or pissed. Right. People who feel scorned. And so that's.

Out of these two, when you have new people who don't know exactly where we're all coming from, and when you have sworn people who don't care where we're coming from, they only care about what they want. In those situations, now more than ever, you have to look to your day ones who have been there with you. And those are the ones you need to look to for strategy. And so in this situation right now,

listen to your day ones, and I guarantee you folks, you won't be led astray. Donald Trump was with us since day one. We need to be with him since day, you know, till the very end.

In the crypto community, they talk about FUD. They talk about FUD, that's F-U-D, fear, uncertainty, and doubt. So if anyone's out there spreading FUD, if they're out there saying, oh, well, this isn't going to work. And by the way, I'm not talking about constructive criticisms or ideas to help, right? Everyone's got good ideas. Everyone's got an idea to help. Other people might have ways. Like, for example, a lot of people said, hey, Trump should get back on Twitter. I

I'll even admit that when I was down and spent the day at Mar-a-Lago last week, that was something that I said. I said, Trump, he's got the right message. He's got the right message.

He's got the right record for the moment. But there's a messaging platform that he has access to that is one of the most, probably the most powerful messaging platform in the world, and he's sitting on it. And this is the one where we gotta see it come back. So the fact that he is now utilizing this, we're within that 90-day window. We're within the 90-day window of the election.

I know we're still posting heat over on Truth. I wanna see that heat back on Twitter. I wanna see that heat back on X. I'm waiting for that first comma blah tweet. I'm just waiting for it. Folks, we've discovered there was actually a missing B at the end of a name. It's been there all along.

My top scientist, highly respected, they've discovered the bee that was there all along, comma, blah, that was her name. And like, just whatever it is, right? He's just trash talking, this basic New Yorker. And so for people to understand that

That's what they want. That's how you get the man back. It's not going to be sitting there and just going, well, the economy was good. By the way, where's the picture? You know, I'd love to see the way that he posted

the picture of his mugshot when he had that, I'd love to see him post the fight picture just by itself, no captions, nothing else, just on its own right there up on X as sort of a rallying cry. Folks, ladies and gentlemen, the beacons are lit.

It's time to go to work. It's time to get on the line. It's time to build the phalanx again. You know, first row, mount up. Second row, mount up. Let's go. Let's go. And because we are walking into the fight once again. Vish, bro, Vish, what do you think he should be doing on Twitter? What do you think you'd like to see there? Or just in general, what else would you like to see him doing?

Well, you know what? I wanna make sure that, I mean, I would love to see Trump on Twitter. I just wanna see him post memes. I wanna see him post real boomer memes, right? Just classic, just get under their skin. Because the left really, really hates that Donald Trump being back on Twitter is even still a prospect. I guarantee you they don't wanna see him on Twitter. And so I just wanna see him

Be almost whimsical a little bit. Just kind of post you. That's what we always loved about Donald Trump anyway, is his authenticity. So just be him and post. What I want to see out of Trump in general, though, he's got to go after Kamala for stealing his policies. I mean, you know, Tim Walz, Stolen Valor, Kamala, you know,

policies. I mean, what else do you expect from a party and a ticket and an administration that stole an election, right? So we need, and not only that, she's lying about it. She was the tie-breaking vote on the Inflation Reduction Act.

that approved $80 billion in funding for the IRS, additional funding, that approved the 87,000 IRS agents. Don't forget the $600 bank-opened inquiries. That was also Kamala, right? It's not just the tips of waiters and waitresses that Kamala and Walls are going to come after. They're going to come after the tips of all the OnlyFans girls that you see on the Whatever podcast, too. So y'all ladies need to get yourself

stuff together because Kamala's coming for your pockets too. Everybody, there is no way this administration is going to give up revenue and give up taxes. Donald Trump needs to hit this hard and make sure everyone understands that Kamala Harris and the Biden administration and Kamala Harris and a possible Kamala Harris administration is trying to steal all your money.

This is exactly right. I think there's a little connection hiccup there. But the idea, folks, is that you've got to make these people own exactly who they are. Make them own the fact that Tim Walz has committed stolen valor. And J.D. Vance did a fantastic job of that. Then also make Kamala Harris own the fact that she's the one who wants taxes on unconscionable.

income, unrealized gains. What does that mean? Well, when your stocks go up, that's unrealized gains because you haven't sold them yet. But then of course, if the stocks go down, you still own the taxes anyway, plus you just lost all that money. These are the most radical economic policies that we've ever heard espoused from a presidential candidate for office in the United States ever.

Ever! No one has ever said anything that crazy. Bill Clinton didn't run around talking about wealth confiscation. That's what she's talking about. Make them own it. One of the other things, just

What I was thinking about for Trump and Twitter is what would be great to see is have Trump actually at one of his rallies. I think he's doing one at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania later this week. Have him go up there and talk to the crowd and make a tweet in real time. Say who we should make a tweet about, and then he can get whoever gets the biggest, throw out multiple choice, and whoever gets the biggest vote.

applause line that to the it's almost like Mad Libs, right? It's it's madness. We'll call it Trump Mad Libs because Trump is making the lives mad. So

And Trump mad libs, he puts out, all right, this is what our tweet's gonna be about. This is who it's gonna target. This is what it's gonna go after. And then you just work your way through the tweet. And at the very end, he posts it. And then you put it up on the big screens up at the rally. And everybody gets to see it. I think it'd be a great moment. I think it would go viral. The tweet itself, but then also the fact that you got to see the crafting of the tweet by Trump and the people themselves.

And so this idea is you've got to do it. Now, the other thing, and I will say this is something that unfortunately that the assassin's bullet robbed us of, is the idea of having Trump with the people. What were some of the most powerful images you saw of Donald Trump in this entire election? Well,

was when his trial was going on he was forced to be in new york until he was running around and this was just talking about this a minute ago going to those bodegas going to see the construction workers going to attend the uh funeral of the police officer who lost his life out there on long island being with the officers of the nypd which of course is trump's hometown so

Being and interacting with the people in events like that, don't know how possible that is now given the security posture and the security situation around the president. But that being said, that being said, you know how you get around that? Town halls.

Go to town halls, take random questions, bring in people who are Democrats, bring in people who are liberals, bring in people who are uncommitted, and have them just answering basic questions of President Trump. Him in one of those settings, having people walk up and ask random questions, putting the reps in. Invite Kamala. If she doesn't want to come, fine, she won't come. Do the town halls. This is something nationwide, but of course, swing state after swing state, it's going to be

incredible. Stay tuned right back here. Quick break. Ron Alignment joins us next. Human Events Daily.

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with Blackout Coffee. That's blackoutcoffee.com/poso, blackoutcoffee.com/poso, promo code POSO20. All right, folks, we know Kamala Harris is the joy. Kamala and Tim Walz are the joy. You will feel the joy. You will be the joy. The joy will consume you. The joy is all. You will worship the joy. It's such a mess. It's ridiculous. And now President Trump's going on there on X.

with Elon Musk tonight. But of course, the EU is trying to censor him and saying they have this new Digital Services Act. This is the Digital Services Act for Musk. He's Elon. It's completely ridiculous. Our next guest, by the way, has also been writing about efforts to suppress not just Donald Trump, but also social media in general. This is also what we're seeing out of the EU.

Her name is Brianna Lyman and she's written an incredible piece in The Federalist. Brianna, how are you? I'm good. Thanks for having me.

Well, so did it. I suppose that now we're looking about 10 days ago, you wrote this piece in The Federalist and now here comes the EU. So you wrote about the FBI, quote unquote, briefing about potential threats on the company's platforms to to the to X and other social media like Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, et cetera. And now all of a sudden the EU is coming on. Sounds awful similar. What's going on?

Yeah, this is a 2020 book, but they've now kind of redoubled their efforts. And so, you know, back in 2020, Elon Musk did not own Twitter. But, you know, liberals and left wing activists did own social media companies. And we know how that went over when the FBI essentially went to these companies and said there might be a dump of mis or disinformation, i.e. the Hunter Biden laptop story. They throttled that story. They throttled the reach across all platforms.

platforms. It's why the New York Post and Trump officials were locked out of their Twitter accounts. You fast forward to today and Elon Musk now owns Twitter and has made it the de facto public square for free speech. And you have outside influence actors like the EU threatening Elon Musk for exercising his American right to free speech because they want to influence American elections.

So the fact that you bring that up is so important. I've only ever had the opportunity and was on spaces to ask Elon Musk a question one time and probably something I could do more of, but I haven't really, uh, hasn't been something we've been focused on, but I was on this sort of like super space with him and Vivek was there and Alex Jones popped on and like Andrew Tate and it was this whole just, just massive thing. Um,

And then Elon's there. And we're all sort of going around asking questions, ALX. And it came around to me and I said, look, you know, Mr. Musk, the one question that I have for you that you've done a great, this is when they just exposed the Twitter files, which really got into everything that had been done in 2020 regarding the FBI collusion with Twitter to censor. And Yul Roth is all up in this, the FBI and the Hunter Biden laptop.

I said that's incredible work that you've done in releasing these files, but we have an election that's also coming up this year. This is a couple of months ago now. And so my question was, what happens if the FBI comes around again and says the same thing? And they want you to censor something that you believe is public, is legal information, right? So not like doxing or something like that, or I don't know, like revenge porn, those types of things that

Would you censor it? And Elon basically over the space just said very clearly, I would take them to court. And I said, okay, what if the jury rules against you? What if you lose in court and the FBI says you still have to censor that information? And Elon said, then I'd be willing to go to jail.

I said, okay, that's pretty good standard. If that's what it actually comes to you. And of course, it's an interview, you know that once your interview, he gives you a question like, or gives you a response like that, you know, it's probably the end of the questions that he's not gonna go any further than that. But that being said, do you see anything on the horizon that would go down these lines? Do you think the FBI, the national security agencies are perhaps laying the groundwork for more of this censorship, maybe not on X, but on some of the other platforms?

Well, I think the Supreme Court, the groundwork in their Murphy v. Missouri decision, I mean, that would just essentially obliterated the First Amendment all because Amy Coney Barrett decided that the states lacked standing. Now, going back to the general idea here, though, is that this is all revolving around

election time, right? Democrats have a covert operation to censor any kind of information about elections, whether you're questioning the process of elections, the administration and the outcome of elections, which you have every right to do in America, considering our government runs our elections and yet has meddled in foreign elections for years, right?

And Democrats have tried to make talking about things like election integrity, which includes in some cases questioning election outcomes as a third rail topic. And they're now trying to say, okay, well, how can we censor all this information and this election information? And because they can't directly do it yet,

they are going to social media companies and asking them to do their dirty work. It's why Mark Zuckerberg, he said, look, the reason we throttled the story is because the FBI said there's gonna be a dump of misinformation. And he took that in conjunction with the Hunter Biden laptop story and said, okay, I'm gonna put two and two together, censor this, this must be that disinformation I was warned about.

And they're trying to sow the seeds of doubt now. They're trying to say, look, there's going to be foreign propaganda. There's going to be these foreign malign information operations. And they don't go into too much detail about that because they don't know what details they have to give these companies because it all depends on what will advance their political goals closer to November.

And we know, by the way, and by the way, it sounds like, you know, it sounds like this is something that would be out of a Hollywood thriller or some kind of, you know, fictional movie. But we don't need to theorize as to whether or not the national security agencies would do such a thing because they already did in not just in twenty twenty, but also in twenty sixteen.

We also saw this involvement as well when it came not just to social media, but also to the dossier, the Steele dossier, all of the information that was spread out in terms of that, all the stuff that was put there. This goes out all over Twitter. So we know that these agencies and the intelligence agency was obviously indelibly linked to that.

have always seemed to play an interesting role in our elections that they haven't done in the past. Or, well, I suppose that's another conversation. But the idea of course here is, so what can people do? What can people do to actually fight back and respond to something like this when they see these types of government intrusions coming in?

I think back to a quote James Madison said, I think it was 1791, but don't quote me. He said, public opinion sets bounds to every government. Well, what happens though when public opinion is misinformed, right? When public opinion is created by a monopoly voice, the government wants to be that monopoly voice. They want to be the purveyor of all information. They tell you what's truth and you can't question it. And so in order for people to set bounds to their government, they have to make sure that they have, I think, both

sides of the aisle when they're reading something. That includes you have to go to independent journalists. Twitter is a great space for that now. You have to read conservative media. You can even read liberal media. It's important to have a well-rounded view of what's going on on both sides. But they can't just go to one news source. They can't trust what the government says. They should always be skeptical of the government. And I think, unfortunately, Americans have lost that innate skepticism that we were born and bred with, that our founders

purposely instilled in our documents and in the creation of this country. So for the next three months, people should be getting their news from all sources and then coming to their own conclusions.

This, there you go. Get it from all sources. By the way, this is something that happens because of the information siloing that goes on in people's different ecosystems. So for example, this whole thing on no tax on tips. So Kamala Harris says that is at the Las Vegas rally that she's at. And I'm actually hearing that she ad libbed that line that wasn't prepared in her remarks. It wasn't a campaign thing because they know that obviously it was something that Trump's been running around saying. And of course,

He started saying it in Las Vegas as well, but here's what's interesting. You notice everyone in the crowd just claps. There's no awkwardness, there's no issue, and everybody acts as if it's the first time they've heard it. Why? Because it is the first time they've heard it, because they exist in an information silo and in this echo chamber where they're only consuming left-wing sources, and those left-wing sources

haven't reported on the fact that Donald Trump has been pushing this for at least a month or more at this point. Why? Because that only exists in his information silo. This is a huge issue, but it is something that is going on only here in the United States right now. You got to understand it. Right back.

All right, we're back live, Human Events Daily, 1776 at humanevents.com, 1776 at humanevents.com. President Trump gearing up for a massive live stream on X tonight with Elon Musk. Brianna Lyman is our guest. Brad, quick question for you. So let's talk Gen Z a little bit here that

so gen z consumption of social media long-form podcasts like this so i understand the x-base will be out there i'm sure people will be re-uploading it as a long-form podcast do you find that that's what what really attracts gen z or is it more the the short form videos yeah

I got to be honest, I have to go with short form. I think my generation is unfortunately obsessed with things like TikTok and our attention span because of our consumption of social media for the past, you know, 10 so years. We are kind of, you know,

bred to want quick information given to us fast, move on to the next thing. And so this will be a great live stream tonight. And I do hope that Trump's team is able to pick, you know, a hundred different parts in 30 second increments and post them to all social media platforms to get both sides, people who like long form, people who like short form.

No, I think you're right about that. And that's something where it actually just occurred to me as I was going to ask you the question, because, you know, I know it's it's the clip economy that everybody lives in. So the clip economy is what's great. You go on, Tucker, you want the clips, right? The show is great, but the clips will even go further. They spread further. One of the things that we do on this show on human events, which I don't think anybody else does yet, is that we actually do the clips. And it's incredible. Huge shout out to the team, by the way, for doing this.

Day in and day out and I don't thank them enough And not just the human event side but post-millennial and everybody that's involved shout out to the midnight writer Carly Bonet herself We post the clips as the show is running in real time So like you and I are talking by the end of the show or within 10-15 minutes all of these clips will already be Generated because you have to understand we live in a clip

Economy and so it's the same deal with what you're saying right now that those clips Yes, it will be audio only and I got to say with X space is being audio only that is going to be you're kind of going to be You're fighting an uphill battle a little bit because you don't have the same quality that you would have with a with two people sitting together in the same space and

Agreed. And you mentioned something earlier. You talked about the importance of Donald Trump doing town halls. So I think this is a good way to supplement that because Donald Trump is more willing than his Democrat counterparts to see opposing media, right? CNN, maybe even MSNBC one day if they would come to terms with something like that. And I think there's just a lot of opportunity for Donald Trump to reach people of all ages, of all political affiliations. And the

And that is going to be how he wins the election. He has to cut, you know, come together a group of independent voters that walked away from him in 2020. And it's not by a huge margin that he has to get them. I mean, Donald Trump lost the election by a very narrow margin. So he has this race in his pocket if he takes the right steps.

That's right. And to be fair, to be fair, President Trump was just on Aiden Ross last week. So he's been doing some of these other live streams. He's been going on places that and

going to places that are non-traditional and really non-political. So you also see this with a lot of the sports podcasts that he's been doing, UFC, MMA, going on places like Full Send, going on with the Milk Boys, because he understands that these are places where you can go to find people that aren't necessarily attuned to politics. By the way, it does typically, and I gotta say it, Brana, it tends to be a little bit more Gen Z males than it does Gen Z females, isn't it?

It is. It is. And you know what? If that's what it's going to take to get those Gen Z males to turn out and register to vote, I've had to convince at least four people I know. And granted, they've all been females. But people my age, are you registered to vote? And then they say no. And I say, OK, well, let's get you registered. And I think women might be a little more likely

willing to register to vote. So I can't imagine what people my age, my male counterparts are doing. And Donald Trump reaching out to men and speaking about things that they can relate to, right? The economy. Men have that burden on them to be the provider, and rightfully so. I mean, I think that's a good traditional gender role. Donald Trump speaks to them because he says, no. Well, hold on. You're not allowed to say that. Men being the provider, that's breaking all the rules now. Taylor Swift is going to be very upset with you.

Please, I'm an equal provider, half and half, according to these liberals and these feminazis. But that speaks to men these days, especially young men who are struggling in Kamala Harris's and Joe Biden's economy.

and that's a huge point by the way though the idea of family because this is something that i ha funny enough i will say it this way funny enough that i've heard more from jen i hear more from gen z than i do or i did with millennials regarding family formation and having kids it seems like gen z is more interested maybe it's the ones i talk to maybe i'm like

you know, getting a, getting a bias, you know, self-selected bias here. But I tend to hear more about that from the zoomers that I talked to than the millennials when they were in the same age or age range with millennials is more like, Oh, I want to go to more college. I want to do more of this. I want to get more degrees. Like that was the whole millennial thing. And you never really heard much about home ownership and having kids like that was just something that

came by later, whereas Zoomers, I think, have started to kind of learn from the mistakes of millennials in regards to that and are starting to say, let's get married earlier, let's have kids earlier, let's do all of these things, let's make it a priority.

Yeah, you know, unfortunately, you go back to the late 1960s and the government essentially incentivized a broken family, not having two parents in the household, especially for minorities. And that's led to a lot of the problems that we see today. And kind of restructuring that family unit, saying it's okay to have a mom and a dad in the household, having the dad go out to work and the mom stay home.

That's really important because that leads to a functioning society, right? When you raise kids who have values, you can't raise a child with values if both parents are never home, the child's being raised by the school system that we know goes out and indoctrinates students to be far leftist. You can't have a successful society when the bedrock is not sturdy. Having a successful family though, that's a good bedrock.

Couldn't agree more. Be a rebel, start a family. Briana Lyman, where can people go to follow you, get access to your writings? Well, check out The Federalist. I'm on there. And then you can follow me on Twitter, Briana Lyman, too.

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