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We're facing an election, and there's a lot of things that I'm against, but there's a lot of things that I am for, and that's what we should be talking about. I am for our kids not being sexualized. I am for a return to innocence for our children, to allow them to be children. I am for our schools not indoctrinating our children, but teaching them math, reading, science.

I am for parents being responsible for their children. That doesn't mean just not the government. That means parents should take responsibility for their children. I'm for absolute equal rights. I'm not for special rights. I'm absolutely for equal justice, not social justice. I'm for a sane, legal, and orderly immigration policy that does what's right for America's future.

I am for the end of these endless wars. I am for the end of mutilating our children and actually following real science. I'm for safe neighborhoods, safe schools. I'm for the little guy, the hardworking person that keeps getting it in the butt from this government. I am for the end of the weaponization of this country. I'm for bad guys going to jail.

and justice actually to be justice. I'm for the end of the two-tier justice system, that if you're connected or you're in the right group, you get away with it. I'm not a believer in being a racist to end racism. That's ridiculous. That doesn't even make any sense, which means I'm for the return of common sense.

Steve Scalise is supposed to call in sometime today. I don't know if he's calling in. You know, I wanted to talk to him about what it's like to walk off or be carried off a field after being shot. How long does it take you before you aren't feeling the aftershock of that? You know, it takes a brave person to stand up in a crowd and speak again after you've just been shot.

And now he wants to go back to the exact same field. He's going next Saturday. Yeah. Right after the assassination attempt said, I'm going back. I'm doing a rally there. And, you know, it seemed like maybe the Secret Service had said, please don't do that or something because it didn't seem to happen. And but now it has been scheduled. He's going back to the exact same place. I mean, that is...

i don't know man i wouldn't be able to do that i don't think so certainly more brave than i am the one guy who would really know is steve yeah he would know what it's like steve scalese is with us now steve how are you doing great glenn how are you i'm really good it's good to talk to you i know i know um listen i i just wanted to ask you um because what i'm seeing from donald trump and now especially that he's going back to the same place where the shooting happened this summer

You are the one guy that can relate to being shot for your views, for who you are, and then walking back in crowds again. What does that feel like? How long did that take for you to not have that natural reaction of, you know, is there somebody, am I safe, am I safe? Or did you ever have that?

Yeah, Glennon, you know, and I was in the hospital for three and a half months. So, you know, you have a lot of time to focus.

to focus on what, you know, what are you going to do? Kind of how are you going to approach this, this kind of new attitude where, you know, you've been through something like that. And, and of course those three and a half months I was fighting for my life. So, you know, but part of that was I made an early decision because I really needed to put all my focus into getting better. You know, I had to learn how to walk again, had to, you know, learn, you know, was I even going to be able to do things like that, go back to work.

And so, you know, once I got that mindset, I said, you know what, I'm not looking back, like literally rip off the rear view mirror. I'm not going to worry about what got me here. God spared me. Like I knew I was given a second chance. And believe me, I've talked to President Trump about this.

since Butler. And, you know, and we, you know, talked about kind of, cause he came to the hospital the day of the shooting, you know, which was, it was his birthday, but he and Melania came really consoled my family at that lowest moment. But I just made a decision. I'm not going to be a victim. I'm not going to,

focus on why he did it, why I got here. I've got to put all my energy into getting better or else I won't get better. And once I did that, it really just kind of changed my outlook and my focus. I went back to the ball field when I got out of the hospital because I wanted to do that. I wanted to confront that.

And, you know, and go kind of like, I'm not going to live in fear. And just we, you know, we did that. And it was therapeutic, you know, it was emotional, but it was therapeutic. And then just, you know, I got on with my life. And I said, you know, God, I, and believe me, I have a deep faith, but I put my faith in God and he,

He took care of me that day. There were miracles performed. But you kind of at some point have to say it's in his hands. He knows what's going to happen next more than we do. He gives us the tools, but he also gives us the freedom to go fail, to go succeed, to do whatever we want to do. But he also looks out for us. And at some point, you have to just have that

that faith that God's got the bigger plan. You've got to control your day-to-day by, you know, what are you going to focus your energy on today? Are you going to be positive or negative? And I choose to be positive. Do you, in watching Donald Trump, I mean, he went down on the ground. I mean, he would have moved his head just slightly differently and he would be dead today. It would have been the worst live television broadcast of all time. And, but,

But, you know, he moved his head that way. I think that was God interacting there. It was divine intervention. Absolutely. And look, he knows that too, Glenn. You know, that was part of the conversation we had. He's like, Steve, I know I shouldn't be here.

And I think that recognition where you recognize life's bigger than yourself. You know, somebody else does have a hand in all of this. And you've just got to let some of that go and realize you can do everything right and get hit by a truck one day. Like, you don't know what's going to happen. So just go live your life. You know, do the best you can every day. I mean, here's a man, Donald Trump, who's

who's put himself up for persecution by so many different people who have gone after him. And yet, you know, figuratively, literally, legally, all of that. And yet he still moves forward. He still knows I have to do this for the country. And, and he believes that. And believe me, the country believes that too, because, you know, when you go to a Trump rally, you go to,

you know, any part of the country. And, and, you know, people know we are at a very volatile time right now and a, and a fragile time for the country. You know, which direction are we going to take as a nation? I mean, these are bigger questions than any individual, but Donald Trump represents that, you know, do we want to get back to what our country was really founded on? You know, free market principles, you control your destiny. Government is there to do the basics, not to control your life, not to tell you what you can and can't do this generation.

This is going to decide all of that on November 5th. And he knows he's the only one right now who can really turn this around. And I believe that. I think most people do. And so he recognizes, yeah, there's people that want to stop him. I mean, we've seen it twice now directly, and it's scary. But, you know, you just got to you can't let fear drive your life. I tell you, my favorite line from him was, come on, guys, let me play through.

After I was two, I was two under par. I was having a great, crazy, crazy, but look, you have to have that mind. You know, if you live in fear, just, just go lock yourself in a room and go in the fetal position and, and you'll be neutered. He's not going to be neutered. He's not going to live in fear.

And, you know, you've got to put your trust in other people. Obviously, Secret Service is one of those groups. And that's why we're fighting so hard to get reforms at the Secret Service, because they have a mission, one single mission, not diversity or wokeness. It's to protect presidents, former presidents, vice president. And they were failing at that. And we are pushing hard to get them to refocus, to increase the security. We finally got that done.

to increase the level of security President Trump has because they were not giving him that opportunity. And that led to some of these problems. But, you know, at the end of the day, you just got to say, I'm still going to go to the rallies. This is who I am. And that's who he is. You know, the majority of Americans think that there will be another assassination attempt before the election, which is really a sad commentary. Yeah.

Do you believe that this really was simply just a series of unbelievable mistakes? Or is there any room for maybe some of these decisions were conscious? I'm not saying that they set it up, but just let it slide a little bit.

like i'm not a big believer in coincidences you know you you live you live long enough you see things that you know not everything adds up but but if you if you connect the dots you know you realize okay wait there's something else going on here i i really do think that you know when you look there there are people who and this is why i'm really really vocal about the language you know when khamal is saying not just hey i don't like his tax plan i don't like this or that

He's a threat to democracy. He's like Hitler. He's this or that. That's telling people. And there are unhinged people out there, unfortunately, and they hear that as like a call to action. And that's what was going on. I mean, the second attempted assassin flat out used her exact language about threat to democracy in his mission to go try to kill people.

the president, you know, and so they've got to stop doing this. It's not, hey, we all need to dial it down. No, there's one side that's saying very specific things. It's being taken as literally calls to action to go try to assassinate the president. That's what they have to stop because

whether it's truly coordinated in a broad scale or not, it doesn't matter if somebody's taking what you're saying as, okay, I need to go take action in my own hands and try to kill somebody. You've gotta stop saying that. At some point, you gotta look in the mirror and go, my words are causing somebody else to wanna kill somebody. And if you think, oh, I can just say whatever I want, there's free speech and then there's yelling fire in the theater. I mean, there's a line.

And now you've seen where they've crossed it and they've seen it.

it. They need to stop doing it. So I had a brush, not nearly like yours or Donald Trump's, but a brush similar to the one that he had on the golf course. And I know that freaked me out. Immediately, I thought, what am I willing to die for? It changed my language. It changed. I was not going to die for things I didn't absolutely believe.

Did that go through you as well? It was more a shift in focus. Like, what is really important in life? You know, what are you doing all of this for? You know, especially you get into politics, you run campaigns and you say, you know, I'm going to fight for this or that. I mean, you know, I have strong beliefs. I go to

Washington and you find out quickly, not everybody believes in everything exactly like you do. So you need to then start putting coalitions together, you know, finding people that maybe believe in 80% of what you believe in, because you're not going to get it done on your own. And yet you still want to advance your cause. And I still want to advance the things I believe in, but I also know what was most important and that's my family. You know, I wanted to see my family. That was the first thing that came to my mind when I was laid out,

and not sure if I was going to make it through the day, you know, it wasn't, gee whiz, what's my next title going to be? Or what's my, you know, you know,

next bill going to be? You're not thinking about any of that. You know, we all are going to walk away from these jobs. And what are you going to look back on? What's the thing you want? Well, first of all, you better want to walk back home to the family you started with and have your integrity intact. And then you can start thinking about, you know, wow, I was able to move the needle on this. I was able to advance what I believe in, you know, 20,

30 more yards on that. And hopefully you can say you did that. There are some people that won't even be able to look back because they spent all their time, you know, just talking and trying to get attention and they never advanced their own causes. And you don't want to waste your time in life. And so you do realize time is important. Life is important. Make every minute count. Steve Scalise from Louisiana, the House Majority Leader. Thank you so much for coming on with me, Steve. I appreciate it. God bless you.

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Rob. Rob Schneider is with us. Hi, Rob. Hey, Glenn. Good to be back, man. It's been a while. How are you? Very good. I've been watching your clips on, I don't even know if it's X or wherever, but I've been seeing your clips come up. Very funny stuff. Very funny. Thank you. Wherever I'm allowed to pop up. You know, it's funny you're mentioning about bomb making. I was thinking, how is it that the Democrats seem to get away with, like, Madonna saying, I've often thought about bombing the White House.

And nothing happens. The Secret Service doesn't visit. You know, Johnny Depp can say, you know, who is the last actor who assassinated a president? Like, what is that? I mean, how is that not like on a list somewhere? Yeah. How did they get away with that? It's just because it's not an equal. It's not a it is definitely a two tiered system and one tier gets away with everything. So how do you feel about when you're traveling the country? How do you feel about how things are shaping up?

Do you think people are waking up fast enough to turn the tide this election? I think so. I think we have...

I think you have like that Stanley Milgram study, you know, 1961 Yale study, where he kind of, which we kind of reinforced in 19, well, during the COVID tyranny, which basically, you know, the study Stanley Milgram, he did this thing where he had people in white coats telling, seeing somebody in another room with these pushing these buttons that, and the guy was in the other room was an actor pretending to get these,

Electric shocks.

So it kind of broke down to me during the COVID tyranny and lies was that a third can get fanatical and will go along with whatever the government says. And a third will just go along because it's easier and they don't necessarily believe it. And then a third, and luckily a third in America said,

said no to it. Do you know why, Rob? Have you ever thought, why are you awake? Why am I awake? What is it about us that just says, no, I'm not going down that road? I think when you get attacked and you survive...

something rational and logic for using your brain. And then you see, you see people who are, you know, the word that I think really makes sense is bad faith actors. Because you have somebody who, who their, their faith, it's a knowing lie and it's evil. And, and then, but what happens is in our society, and I think it's become more and more prevalent now, I guess,

the rise in evil that we, you know, you and I have talked about, is that there's a higher prevalence for that, this evil that is rising. And I think people do wake up to it. And I think people are appalled by it. And I think once they try to destroy you and you survive, you get emboldened.

And that's really what I felt like. And I felt like the same thing when you were attacked. And how dare you try to start your own media company? How dare you try to follow your faith and to love your country? So I think that happens. And I also feel like...

you know, my parents, you know, raised me. My, my mother was a war survivor in the Philippines who came from nothing. And my father, you know, I remember my father, you know, telling me stories about, uh, you know, the, you can't trust the government completely because, um, they don't have your best interest in mind. And that kind of stuck with me and I didn't want to believe it, but I think we have come to the point now where I think it's hitting an apex where we need more people to stand up. But the good,

is that a third is all we need. And, you know, that's what we had during COVID. A third of the people said F you to the COVID tyranny. And, you know, during the revolution, you know, the, during the great American revolution, unlike the French revolution, which was bloody and awful people cutting off heads, our revolution, we still kept property rights and we kept the rule of law and

And so and it was a great revolution, something to be proud of. It was based under God and had principles. And basically a third of the colonists were loyalists to the to the crown to England and the greatest power in the world at the time. A third were ambivalent.

And a third were for getting behind the revolution. And we won that war. Yeah, and I think it was only about 15 or 20 percent that was actually diehard. That was like, we are not going back to the king. So it doesn't take that much. When we won the war, it was that 30 percent. Yeah. And so that 30 percent,

is roughly what we have right now. So I'm buoyant about it. And I do think when I travel around the country, I mean, the problem is, you know, people come up to me and say, thank you for speaking your mind. I can't go anywhere without it. And that's the title of my book, you know, my, you know, Rob Schneider's, you can do it, speak your mind, America, because we got to get back to that. I mean, and that when people come up to me, the problem is people aren't hearing the truth because we have, and that's why thankfully, you know, your program is so important. And,

Because we have to break the hegemony of this illiberal, because it's not liberal. It is illiberal media, which is 90% plus of what the media out there. And they don't want you to have that. They don't even want Glenn Beck. They don't want you to have yours. So it is dictatorial. And we have to break that. And people are waking up to it. And they're coming around, I believe it.

So Wanda Sykes was out yesterday and she said, you know, they're going to put us if Trump wins, they're going to put comedians like me in jail, which is just ridiculous. And and yet I was talking to Roseanne Barr yesterday, and I think you would echo this. I said, you know, comedy was almost dead. They almost killed it.

I said, but it's coming back. And she cut me off and said, with a vengeance, it's coming back. And the best comedy is conservative comedy right now, without a doubt. You know, and the Democrats, I'd love to hear like Oprah and Governor Pritzker talking, these billionaires complaining about, you know, middle class.

people and and uh how what the problems are no this is a land of opportunity it's not a guaranteed land of success it wasn't to be um a perfect system it was you know uh it was supposed to be an you know a better union it was supposed to be have an opportunity and so you know for them complaining it's funny because you know again the media is 95 percent in their camp

Yeah. What are they complaining about? Look at the wealth in America now. The Republican Party has become the party of the people. That's 80 percent of the wealth in America is in the hands of the Democrats. And what are they complaining about? I love that complaining about we're not going back. Well, they've been the ones in control. Yeah, we are going to go back. We're going to go back to where people know which bathrooms to use. I'm sorry that you don't Democratic Party.

but we're going to go back to a country that doesn't allow 14 year olds. Here we have 14 year old girls. And a lot of these are artistic, autistic girls. We need to get America healthy again. That's another point, but they're not allowed to drive, get a tattoo, to vote.

to get a gun because they're not mature enough to make decisions. And yet, you know, the evil of medical establishment is allowing them to make these life-altering choices. And in Europe and many countries, they're already stopping this mutilation nonsense.

the surgical conversions of young girls mostly, and they're outlawing it and changing it. The Cass report in England, if anybody wants to look to that, has changed everything. It just shows that this has all been based on all lies. And it's amazing to me that America is so far behind, that we are still pushing while Europe is running from this.

Absolutely. Because it is absolutely evil. And I just tell this to people. This really helps get through to people. I say, you can't even rent a car in America until you're 25.

You know, what does Hertz, Rent the Car, Avis, and Enterprise know that the medical establishment and the liberal intelligentsia seems to be so ignorant about? Right. But they're full of this kind of crap. It's racist to ask for somebody's identification somehow or another because I guess blacks can't figure that out.

But I guess Bolivia is all racist then because you have to show your ID to vote there. Well, they also wanted a vaccine ID. They wanted to make sure everybody had an ID of vaccination and everybody could figure that one out.

Thank God we did.

uh, learn their, learn their lessons. What didn't work. They learned that they couldn't control the Glenn Beck's. They couldn't control all the podcasts and that they're going to regroup and figure it out and do better next time. So, but we need to arm ourselves. And I will say, and I say this to everybody, and this seems to get through to people, even, even the on the fence liberals. And I tell this to people, I say, there are no real conservatives anymore in America. What we have is liberals that aren't crazy.

Liberals that aren't liberals have lost their minds. We all want, you know, not judge people by the color of their skin. We all want people to express and be able to live their life in freedom in this country. And that is the traditional liberal values that have been manipulated again by bad faith actors. And we need to move forward as a country. But that means moving back into our traditional values. And I tell this to people, and this gets through to people,

We need the people on the fence. We need the 100,000 voters in Arizona. I know. Who didn't vote. And if you're a Republican registered people, vote. We need to get people to go and do this. And it's simply this. There will be no Marines that are going to land on the beaches to save America. There will be no food drop in America while this administration is still allowing China to buy our farmland. Farms.

There will be no Marshall Plan. There will be no financial aid that will come to the United States while we're continuing to print and give another $800 million to that criminal Zelensky in Ukraine. There will be none. We are our Marines. We are our farmland. We are, you know, that's why, you know, Kamala Harris would love to disarm us because that's all we got. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.

So for people who think maybe bad guys don't ever pay for their crimes, good guys never win. You remember the IRS whistleblowers that blew the whistle on Hunter Biden's tax crimes? These are the guys who said, wait, there's something going on. We were told not to look into it. They slow walked it, etc., etc.,

Well, they were smeared and really destroyed. And one of the guys is pretty amazing. He's known throughout the world. This is an IRS agent. Known throughout the world for his work on global tax enforcement. He was selected to create a new international organization called the Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement.

He's a supervisory special agent of the International Tax and Financial Crimes Group, where he leads 12 elite special agents who are subject matter experts in complex international tax and other related financial crimes. The guy has, I mean, he started his career as an AmeriCorps volunteer. Then he went to work for the Defense Department and Intel. And then he joined the IRS and criminal investigations. He's out to get the bad guys.

He joins us now. Welcome, Gary Shapley. How are you?

Very good. Thanks for having me, Glenn. I appreciate it. Oh, yeah. Thank you for your courage for speaking out. Thank you for doing the right thing. I also want to bring in Tristan Levitt. Tristan is a guy who worked with Chuck Grassley trying to help all of the whistleblowers. He helped expose Operation Fast and Furious and a lot of different things and is really...

Thank you so much, Glenn.

Yeah, to be clear, we're the alleged defamation is against Abby Lowell, the attorney for Hunter Biden. And yeah, the the amount is 10 million for me and also Joe Ziegler for a total of 20 million. Yes. So what do you claim they did?

So the complaint alleges that Mr. Lowell defamed us and it was part of an overall smear campaign to attack both Joe Ziegler and I for coming forward, following the law, going to Congress and disclosing the preferential treatment.

that his client was receiving by the department of justice. And, you know, our disclosures weren't, weren't even though Hunter Biden was, was the topic. Our disclosures were against the malfeasance at department of justice, FBI and, and, and IRS. Um,

So it's really interesting that it was this third party that came in and became the, you know, as alleged in our complaint, the main defamer and smearer of both Joe Ziegler and I. So, Tristan, that is not uncommon, though, is it? I mean, you're a whistleblower. They attack whistleblowers now like there's no tomorrow.

Yeah, that's absolutely right. I testified yesterday in front of the, or maybe I guess two days ago, in front of the weaponization committee. And there were three of our FBI clients that have been there in the past. One was with me again. And it's very, very common for whistleblowers to be

you know, lied about and defamed. And so that's part of why we really want to create consequences for that. We started, you know, we are supporting, we are funding this lawsuit that Gary and Joe are bringing against Abby Lowell, our organization of power oversight that I'm the president of. And we want to, you know, if this is a way to hold people accountable, we want to do it in other cases because we just think that

There's never any consequences for people just lying with impunity. They just get away with it. And so we want to fight back, and that's not something that you see happen a lot. And so that's why we're trying to raise money from the public. You know, we have this website, defendwhistleblowers.com, to build up this fund precisely for suits like this, where Gary and Joe were just trying to do the right thing. And, you know, they went to Congress to what was right. But again, as so often happens, they were lied about. But in their case, it can have real consequences for their careers.

I will tell you, I saw one of the whistleblowers, Marcus Allen, with the FBI. That guy seemed like he was dirt strong in standing up for the right thing, but he looks like he had been dragged through and just punched repeatedly in the gut. It was amazing to watch him. These whistleblowers are really, truly the best of America.

Yeah, I sat right next to him as he gave that statement the other day, as I testified there also. And he has, unlike some of the other whistleblowers that testified with us a year and some change ago, he's not been on social media. He's just been holding it in so that we could get his pay reinstated and get his security clearance back. And now that he finally is through all of that, this was his real, you know, this was the first time people saw just what everything he's been through.

It's horrible. So what are the odds of, I mean, what are you fighting against? They're going to fight you with everything they have and lots of money. Law firms do not want this one to win.

Yeah, that's absolutely right. So the real thing that Gary and Joe, Gary can share this, right? But I mean, they're not suing for the money in any way, right? I mean, yes, it's a $20 million defamation suit. But the point of this is that they, as alleged in the complaint, it's not right for someone like Abby Lowell, who's well-known, well-identified as a really big name, a really big litigator,

He represented, you know, Jared and Ivanka Trump even. But for him to go, if he goes on TV and says, these guys broke the law by sharing Hunter Biden's tax information with Congress, lots of people believe it. And even Mitch Langberg, the defamation attorney who's representing, you know, our defamation expert on our legal team, who is one of the foremost experts in the country, you know, without having a background, he said, my general impression was these guys had broken the law until he studied this case and read what we shared. And he said, wow, they have...

they haven't been treated fairly here. And so we want to educate the public and set this right so that people know these guys did not only the right thing, but they did it in the right way. So Gary, did you at all have conversations amongst yourself of, should we do this? You know it's going to happen to us. Did you have that conversation? No.

Well, I mean, overall, right. People say, why'd you come forward? And it really wasn't a choice for me. Just my conscious wouldn't allow me to sit there knowing what I, knowing what I knew and seeing what was going to happen in this case.

Um, so, I mean, of course we talked about the risks, but at the same time, um, you know, fortunately for the American people, unfortunately for me personally, um, you know, the, the risks were real and, and many of them are coming to fruition through retaliation, um, by my employer, IRS and, and the department of justice against me. So I went in with my eyes wide open and I have no regrets. I feel like we've been vindicated by the, uh,

I mean, you went from charges that weren't even going to be charged that even before the, the generous plea deal fell apart where he was going to have to plead guilty of two misdemeanors. You know, there were, there were, they were going to give him a deferred prosecution agreement. And,

And when we were coming forward, you know, DOJ and David Weiss knew that we were coming forward. He said, oh, no, no, that's not going to work out. So we're going to have to make him plead guilty. Then, of course, the judge had the amicus brief from Congress where they included our testimony that they voted out and made public. And, you know, that information made it pretty clear that Hunter Biden was receiving that

preferential treatment. Once again, it's the Department of Justice and IRS here that is the one that engaged in the conduct in which we blew the whistle against. So, you know, I have no regrets and I hope the American people have confidence in the IRS and of government employees because of what Joe and I did.

Here's what I would like you to do. If you have $5, there is nothing better than cleaning out this rat's nest of liars and thieves in our Justice Department, really, all throughout the government. They have to be taught a lesson. And unless we do it from the outside, the inside's never going to punish itself, right?

And I would urge you to go to empower, E-M-P-O-W-R dot U-S. And if you can, make a donation. This thing's going to cost a lot of money. But we have to have the best lawyers on it. We have to have the strongest case possible.

Otherwise, this continues over and over and over again, and good people are destroyed. So please go to empower.us and give if you can. Thank you so much, guys. I appreciate it.

Thank you, Glenn. Appreciate it. You bet. Bye-bye. Let me just play this whistleblower. So this guy is the guy that Tristan was just talking about that he sat next to. I don't know if you saw this, but he's an FBI agent who was a whistleblower, life destroyed, hasn't said anything publicly until the other day.

And listen to what he said. It's cut three. I consider the hearing today my last act of service as a public servant for the United States of America. And I'll give you my professional opinion. I was an intel professional for our country for many years. And I would give recommendations and I'd also look at indications and warnings. So I would offer this to the American people as my warning to them. This is a warning to the American people, I say.

I personally have no confidence that the FBI will rein in its own conduct. I've been persecuted along with Garrett, Steve and Kyle and countless other whistleblowers. It is my opinion that the Bureau used reprisal and fear to control the workforce. It has been a seemingly effective tactic. I personally believe that there are no current effective checks and balances against them conducting lawless action with any type of correction in a legitimate timeframe.

I welcome the work of the IG, but I think any type of lawless action, there's no legitimate timeframe to rein them back in. Their ability to over classify information can allow them to stonewall forever. To the American people, you have a duty as a citizen to vote, and I strongly urge you to do so. It's how you participate in the American experience. I know people have doubts about election integrity, but you must vote. It is your claim.

State your claim and don't forfeit it willingly. Have your voice heard. My other recommendations are in the natural order. First, vote. The second is the Second Amendment. Arm yourself and know how to defend yourself.

Make three to four friends in your neighborhood and promise to come to each other's mutual aid in times of hardship. And during the Great Depression, people stocked up a pantry. So I think that's a good practice, especially in our economic times, and make sure you have three to four months of food. As a person of faith, I'd say pray the rosary. Go to the First Friday devotions. That's for everybody, all my brothers and sisters of all faiths, and I know I'm Catholic too.

and read the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and live it every day. And that's all I have to say. Thank you for the time. Do you hear how his voice is shaking? Yeah. This is—how do people dismiss that warning? That is—I mean, we are living in unprecedented times. And I tweeted that out the other day. I should retweet it now. These guys are so brave.

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