Peasants Perspective
Peasants Perspective: A Voice from the Edge of Freedom
Join Taylor Johnatakis, a self-proclaimed “peasant” turned podcaster, on an unfiltered journey through family, faith, and the fight for American ideals. From the depths of DC Jail—where he recorded during a 14-month sentence tied to January 6—to his triumphant return home after a Trump clemency in 2025, Taylor delivers raw, heartfelt commentary for the common man. Expect a mix of gritty storytelling, reflections on liberty lost and reclaimed, and timeless lessons drawn from his life as a septic designer, father, and reluctant rebel. Whether he’s reading Dr. Seuss to his kids or dissecting the state of the republic, Peasants Perspective is a bold, unpolished call to stay grounded amidst chaos. Subscribe for a front-row seat to a story that’s as real as it gets—no filter, no apologies.
Peasants Perspective
The Common Man's Guide to Understanding Political Corruption
This was the episode that got this podcast banned from Spotify at one point.
Behind every king and queen stand countless peasants – ordinary people whose lives are shaped by decisions made in distant corridors of power. In this raw, unfiltered examination of political corruption, we connect disturbing dots between seemingly unrelated figures: Ghislaine Maxwell, Wayfair, Mitt Romney, and Joe Biden.
The connections are more substantial than most realize. Drawing from mainstream sources like Mother Jones, we explore how Robert Maxwell (Ghislaine's father and known Mossad agent) invested $2 million in Romney's Bain Capital – the same company that later financed Wayfair buildings. Meanwhile, photographic evidence shows Maxwell with Wayfair's president of operations, establishing direct links that mainstream media dismisses.
Most shocking is the documented corruption surrounding Biden's dealings in Ukraine. Through recorded phone calls between Biden and former Ukrainian President Poroshenko, we hear firsthand how they orchestrated the firing of a prosecutor investigating Burisma – where Hunter Biden conveniently served on the board. We also hear their disturbing conversation about manipulating information to damage Paul Manafort during the 2016 election.
These aren't conspiracy theories but documented facts that deserve scrutiny regardless of political affiliation. When we triangulate information from multiple sources, patterns emerge showing how wealth and power concentrate among a remarkably small circle of interconnected figures.
As modern-day peasants, we must see through the manipulation tactics employed by both political parties. Whether it's AOC misrepresenting crime statistics or Jenny Durkin's vague platitudes about "community resilience," the disconnect between political rhetoric and genuine solutions grows wider daily.
Join me as we cut through the noise and examine the uncomfortable truths that shape our world. Subscribe, share, and help spread the word – because the revolution might just come through podcasting after all.
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Speaker 2:We're getting screwed, man. Every time we turn around we're getting screwed. Oh, the revolution's gonna be through podcasting for sure. That's the only way we talk. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the brunt of everything. It's gotta stop. Peasants, man, we're just peasants, every one of us. You watch those old movies. You see the peasants in the background with the kings and queens walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Hello peasants, welcome to another episode of Peasants Perspective. You can find me on Twitter, at PeasantsPod, at PeasantsPodOnParlor. At Facebook, you can find me at the Peasants Perspective and you can email me at PeasantsPod at gmailcom.
Speaker 2:Feel free to leave a review. Hey, whoever left that one-star review without telling me why? One star? Come on, man, was the audio bad? What's going on? Anyways, if you'd like to go leave a review, four and five stars, please come on.
Speaker 2:I put a lot of effort into this thing. It's like really early in the morning. I'm even wearing my cowboy hat today, which it's not a nobody gets the pleasure of seeing it. Okay, on to the show today. Yesterday we talked about Ghislaine Maxwell and we talked about Wayfair. Now I don't want to.
Speaker 2:One thing that is kind of easy to do is to try to get. You know, get off into the weeds, get off into the going out and trying to find every link and going out and trying to find every little connection and stuff like that. I don't particularly like to get out into the weeds. I like to research something, especially when it's salacious, like Pizzagate or, you know, pedovores, things like that. I try not to get into the details and all the sword pictures and the just. There's a dark, horrible side of this that will repel any decent person quickly to not want to continue looking and make you angry and make you resolute to vote for anyone who's willing to fight against this above all other causes. But but at the same time it can be a rabbit hole and there is disinformation abounding. So that's another thing too.
Speaker 2:One of the things us peasants fall victim to is disinformation. Since I've started doing the show, I get sent a lot of links, a lot of little videos, a lot of memes, a lot, of, a lot of different things, and not all of them, but there's been a handful of things, stuff that I have even fallen for. I've even forwarded on a few, a few things that I've had to go back and say, hey, it turns out that was fake. I've even been called out on Twitter once or twice for for you know, retweeting something that was essentially fake or doctored or something like that. So it's always good to go check and, as peasants, when we're wrong we only have the information that's in front of us. When we're wrong, we get corrected and we just need to adjust our paradigm and move on.
Speaker 2:I was talking to my wife last night. One of the great positions that I'm in right now as a human being is I don't have to defend anybody, like no one else. Being a good person or a bad person makes any difference to me If Bill and Hillary Clinton are completely falsely accused and it's just been a 40-year psyop against them from their political opposition, which is what they would like you to believe. If that proves to be true, I don't know how they would prove it at this point, but if that proved to be true, forgive them and move on is what it is, right. I mean there's lots of characters in history that get demonized. It's like what's the difference between a terrorist and a founding father? Well, it's whether they won or not, right. I mean, that's really the way you look at it. I mean, look at England they still talk about the you know, the Revolutionary War. What do they call it? The War of Rebellion. No, that's what they call the South, I can't remember, but they have a different name for it in Britain the Revolutionary War. Right, because they viewed us as traitors, they viewed us as seditious, they viewed us, as you know, wrong. I mean, it's just the way it works. So, anyways, as peasants, we got to get fact-checked from time to time. Now the fact-checkers on Facebook are horrible. Don't trust them at all. They're horrible. They're just blatantly wrong.
Speaker 2:So again we're back into this circle where we have to to just conglomerate information. One time I think I mentioned this once before on the podcast, but I heard Rod Rosenstein, who I do not admire, say that he gave his daughter some advice about information and he said read broadly, get as much of the information as possible, and then you can usually triangulate to the truth when the DOJ leaks, for example, the FBI leaks. One of the things we've seen as a Russiagate has unfolded is they would take information and they would break it up, and then they would leak a little bit to the Wall Street Journal, a little bit to the Washington Post, a little bit to the New York Times and then between the three stories you could kind of pull together whatever it was that was leaked or, you know, figure out who the source was, whatever. But that was Rod Rosenstein's advice and I have found that advice for me to work very well. The other thing is to inform yourself with history. History repeats itself if we don't learn from it. I mean, we are going through a Maoist revolution, we're going through a 1930s domestically, like with Hitler and the brown shirts, and I would actually venture to say that, as far as like historical context, we're probably close to 1943, somewhere between 1939 and 1943. As far as world aggression, we're not in a hot war, but we are around the world. We're in a lot of proxy wars, believe it or not.
Speaker 2:Okay, so let's jump in. I want to cover a couple things dealing with Wayfarer Galene Maxwell, and then I want to introduce another character to this story. Now remember one of the things you can always ask yourself, and this is a little bit of like a Q-ism. So now, remember one of the things you can always ask yourself, and this is a little bit of like a Q-ism, which you know, I do not believe in Q, I'm not going to defend Q. I have a strong opinion about what Q is, who Q is, and I think I that are sending these people to Gitmo.
Speaker 2:I don't believe it for a second. I don't believe it. Sorry, if they're on TV and talking, they're alive, they're real. It's just the way I believe it. I don't think that you can put body doubles out there and things like that and get away with it. I think that doesn't serve justice and if we administer justice that way in secret, then we are a third world country. I mean, we're there, we're done. Even if Trump's doing it, it doesn't matter, it's over. I mean, the next time a liberal gets in office or someone that's not of your ideology, look out, look out. There's going to be retribution if this isn't done by the book and done correctly. So I have real concerns with some of the stuff, the conspiracies or some of the things that are thrown out there. I think they're just outright faults.
Speaker 2:Okay, let me read you something here. So well, actually we're going to watch this video. So this is a video that somebody dug up yesterday and this is an old video. This has been around for a little while and this group that posted this was trying to get this to the attention of somebody because it just seemed wrong. It seemed awkward, and when you go look, there's a lot of other interesting video from suspected people that's very similar. You've got a John Podesta video that's real similar to this. Anyways, let's listen to this video. So what this is, this is a little girl and she's just, you know, little girl. She's in a house, there's a little baby doll on a sectional sofa and she starts out standing behind like a bookshelf kind of thing, and she's kind of being guided by her parent and then she's quoting a poem that's kind of an adult poem. Okay, so just listen to this.
Speaker 4:Button, nose hang on hey, not button. I don't have a button nose, do I?
Speaker 5:Stand very still. I'm going to try and get all of you in.
Speaker 2:So she's describing her body right, I don't have a button nose and then the camera backs up and it shows her. She's wearing cute little coverall shorts, little green shirt.
Speaker 5:Ready. She's wearing cute little coverall overall coverall short overall shorts. Little green shirt, ready, ready to play Go ahead.
Speaker 2:Now she jumps over on the couch, does a little cartwheel. Now she picks up this little baby and she feeds it a toy bottle. She can't get the bottle in the baby's mouth a.
Speaker 5:Fine example of true opulence. But surely the price on this Regency-style sofa can't be correct.
Speaker 4:With Wayfair, it can.
Speaker 2:Okay, did you catch that With this Regency-style sofa right? And then the girl puts her arms out wide and says with Wayfair, it can. This isn't a Wayfair commercial. What is this? What is this Right, given the accusation against Wayfair that they're packing kids up in these lockers, or even if they're not, okay? You've got this British woman behind the camera having this girl right prance around and then do a little baby act on the couch, and then they quote this poem and then girl puts her arm out and says with Wayfair, you can. So you've got this interesting British woman talking to a child mentioning Wayfair Don't really love that, right. And so let's listen to Ghislaine Maxwell's voice, just so we can have a little bit of a comparison here. I think it's worth it. So here's a quick recording of Ghislaine Maxwell. Okay, so this is just her talking about being a submarine pilot, basically at the UN, Started when I was a little girl.
Speaker 5:I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau on TV and became mesmerized with the oceans. It led to me was a little girl. I grew up watching Jacques Cousteau on TV and became mesmerized with the oceans. It led to me becoming a deep worker, submersible pilot and ultimately, on one of my first dives, when I went down expect.
Speaker 2:Okay. So the only reason I played that was I just wanted you to hear her voice for a second. So she's just got a British voice. No big deal, not a big deal at all, right, I mean, you can only read in so far if you want to, but that's interesting. So British woman talking to a little girl advertising a sofa says the name of the sofa. The little girl says you know, only at Wayfair. So that's kind of interesting. Okay, so we're connecting Ghislaine to Wayfair and then a little.
Speaker 2:Another piece of supporting evidence is I've got right, ghislaine Maxwell, who is standing next to in a photo. No big deal again, because photos are just photos, right? I mean, if you go to a big party or get together with a bunch of mucky mucks and who to do's, group photos are common. So just because you see a group photo with someone, it doesn't necessarily mean they're linked up or they're in business together. It just means they attended a fundraiser or dinner or a party or whatever. Okay, but nonetheless it does mean that there's an affiliation, they've crossed paths. They probably know people in common. So here's just an interesting picture, a candid picture of Bill Hutcherson. Now, who's Bill Hutcherson? Remember the names? He is the president of operations at Wayfair standing next to Ghislaine Maxwell.
Speaker 2:So here we have another little connection. You've got Ghislaine Maxwell connected with Wayfair. You've got this problematic video that looks like it may be, you know, one of the an advertisement for one of these high priced pieces of furniture with a kid associated with it. I mean very odd. The kid, by the way, was could not have been more than six or seven years old. I mean right in that age group five to seven, somewhere in that age group. Okay, so there's that. Now let's talk a little bit more about Wayfair and Ghislaine Maxwell. So they're connected, right, we see some affiliation there and I think there's some other evidence floating around that I've seen that. I just didn't drag up for this particular podcast.
Speaker 2:But here we have another little interesting thing Now. This comes from motherjonescom. Now, mother Jones is a it's about as far left as Breitbart is far right. So if you read Breitbart news, then there's a good chance. If you were on the left, you'd probably read Mother Jones. I mean it's. I wouldn't put it in the category of like, salacious or extreme, I would just put it in the category of left. Well, this particular article comes all the way back into 2012. So 2012,. What was happening in 2012? In 2012, mitt Romney was running for president against then President Barack Obama, and so, of course, as a presidential candidate, people are going to go dig it into his background.
Speaker 2:And something that happened around that time frame I don't know the exact time frame, but this little thing called the Panama Papers were released. The Panama Papers essentially disclosed a lot of the banking that was going on in Panama. As you know, panama has a lot of international banking and the main reason for that is they don't do any extradition. So when countries don't do any extradition whatsoever, they generally do that to appease their bankers, because bankers don't want to be. If they need to run for reprieve or they want to hide their money, they do it in Panama, because Panama just doesn't participate with other countries when it comes to law enforcement of pretty much anything. There's a couple of other countries like that, right, you got the Cayman Islands, you got you know there's a handful of spots where you're going to get money, international money accumulating, because it's tax shelter, tax haven, easy to hide a lot of reasons. So, anyways, the Panama Papers kind of disclosed a lot of the people who had money in Panama and during that investigation, mother Jones dug into Romney. So let me read you a little bit of this. So some of the sorts of shady clients have been a part of Romney's portfolio at Bain.
Speaker 2:Nicholas Shaxson has written one of the most comprehensive stories about Romney's offshore investments in a lengthy article in the August issue of Vanity Fair. So on Vanity Fair this is mentioned and I'm, of course, reading it out of Mother Jones. It explored the name of some. It explored the nature of some of Romney's early Bain investors. So why does it matter that we look at his early Bain investors?
Speaker 2:Being someone who's started a few businesses as well as bought a business, I can tell you this you need investors, and those investors that go in with you early that are investing capital into someone that's untrusted or a new business venture you know them personally. This is not a situation where you just go out and apply for some kind of blanket line of credit at your local Wells Fargo. That's not what this is. This is going out and finding accredited investors, giving them a sales pitch, meeting with them, you know, determining how much money they're going to invest, all that kind of stuff. So initial investors, especially in something like a hedge fund. These people are personally involved, so it matters.
Speaker 2:This isn't. You know, this isn't Donald Trump being invested in HQC, where he has $15,000 invested in a mutual fund which is then divested into another mutual fund that then has, you know, 15 cents of shares in HQC. And then people accuse Donald Trump of promoting hydroxychloroquine because he has a financial interest in the drug company. It's just kind of like beyond belief. So you're telling me over 15 cents worth of potential shares in this company that makes HQC. Donald Trump is corrupt and it's through two layers of mutual funds and nobody knows what mutual funds invest in, except for the guys that actually make the investments. So that's kind of unreasonable, right? But we're not talking about that. We're talking about actual investors in your investment company, bain Capital.
Speaker 2:So who are these people? They included late Czech born British media tycoon. Okay, I hope you're sitting down. I hope you're sitting down. Who could this late Czech-born British media tycoon be? Who could it possibly be? His name was Robert Maxwell. Oh, who's Robert Maxwell? He's the father of Ghislaine Maxwell. Robert Maxwell was a Mossad, which is Israel's CIA was a Mossad agent. He's buried on the Mount of Olives After he suspiciously died. He drowned off the coast of England. Off his yacht he was taken by Israel and given a state burial. Essentially, nobody knew he was Mossad until after he died. What would he possibly have been doing? He was a rich financier, media mogul and he was an agent of Israel.
Speaker 2:A lot of people think that Epstein was just the construct for the Maxwells, that Ghislaine Maxwell kept on with her father's business. A lot of exposés and things like to paint Ghislaine Maxwell as lost after her father's death, not knowing what to do, you know, running around for a few years until she finally linked up with Epstein. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's true. I think, more than anything else, ghislaine Maxwell continued on in her father's business. You know, it seems a little unreasonable to me. What she got involved with later in life didn't stem from what she was involved with earlier with her father. It's possible she was a victim herself. I mean, who knows? But nonetheless, here you have direct connection between Ghislaine Maxwell's father, robert Maxwell, and the article continues a fraudster, notorious tax evader, who put $2 million into one of Romney's first Bain funds, as well as a trio of anonymous corporations from other notorious tax haven, panama. So he invested not only in Bain Capital two million directly. He also invested in a trio of other corporations that Romney had in Panama. Other early investors, according to numerous new accounts, were members of the wealthy Salvadorian oligarchy with ties to right-wing death squads. Romney has credited Salvadorian investors for helping him get his company off the ground.
Speaker 2:A significant amount of Romney's personal wealth is sequestered in his deeply opaque financial system that not only caters to the global uber rich, but is also a leading cause of global inequality. The amount of money siphoned out of the US alone via tax havens is staggering. America corporations have now estimated $1.7 trillion in foreign profits stashed offshore and beyond the reach of the IRS. According to various government estimates, america multinational companies now keep at least 60% of their cash offshore to avoid paying US taxes. That's all companies together According to. So you know someone like Mitt Romney. Mittens he might have a lot more percentage of his money held offshore. According to a recent Senate report, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations found that some companies, such as Hewlett Packard and the pharmaceutical companies Johnson Johnson, keep almost all their money offshore and rely on dubious methods to bring it back to the US without paying taxes. Hp, according to the committee, uses an endless series of short-term loans from its offshore accounts to its parent, a move that has saved the company billions in taxes.
Speaker 2:Romney, who has decried the 40 years old, anyways, interesting, right. So you always ask yourself, like, why do people hate Donald Trump so much? Why do they go to such lengths to impeach him, such lengths to slander and smear him? Right, and you go. Well, it could be this. They could just hate him ideologically. Come on, hate him ideologically. They just got to wait another four years, wait another eight years. Donald Trump could make some mistakes, right, you could probably attack Donald Trump directly on his policies, but you can't attack him directly on his policies when you've been pushing, you know, policies that don't work for one for years and years. But also, when, how are you going to work with the guy who's essentially trying to put your entire organization out of business?
Speaker 2:So we approach this situation with Mitt Romney, who has been, you know, as far as a Republican goes. Him and Justin Amash and Toomey are the biggest critics of Donald Trump. In fact, justin Amash left, or essentially was kicked out of the Republican Party. Justin Amash is involved in a lot of foreign investments with China, and Mitt Romney voted one of his votes was against Donald Trump to remove him from office, which you know. Had he had a couple more defectors on the Republican side, they would have removed the president from office, which, keep in mind, they were going after Ukraine. I just want to mention Ukraine real quick because we're going to touch on that a little bit later.
Speaker 2:So again, mitt Romney, directly involved with Ghislaine Maxwell's father as an investor and directly involved with Wayfair. How was he involved in Wayfair? Well, that brings me to my next topic. So Wayfair has a nice little office in LA. It has a couple offices around, but it has this particular office is down in LA and this office is surrounded is a is a Wayfair office. Hold on, I got to find it here real quick, okay, so this has a Wayfair building, one of their corporate buildings, okay, and it was financed by a company called Bain Capital. So Bain Capital holds the mortgage on this Wayfair building. So now Bain Capital, which is, was founded by Mitt Romney. I'm not sure if he runs it or is divested from it. I'm not 100% sure, but this obviously predated him running for office again and getting elected. So he probably did control this investment or at least have some say. And they also have a office next door. Wow, okay, again, these connections are getting closer and closer and closer. Bain Capital was funded by Ghislaine's father. Ghislaine is involved in Wayfair. Wayfair has created at least one mortgage for one building, for one Wayfair center with a operation next door. And then next door to both of those offices are a couple different children's hospitals. Again, now we're getting close to kids.
Speaker 2:I don't think this thing's debunked. I mean, depending on who you look at on social media, you know you almost goes right into the narrative, right, if you're hardcore left, then you think that you're. You know this is all just innocent nothingness. And if you're a little bit more inclined to believe in the pizza gate type of things, then you know evidence just lines up a little too close in my opinion. Okay, one other thing.
Speaker 2:So last night in Bothell Washington there was a police, there was a shooting, and this is actually quite sad. I don't really love that this happened. But Bothell's north of Seattle, it's a little bit north east of Seattle, it's across the Lake Washington which is Washington's biggest bridge. So last night an officer went to do a traffic stop, just a normal traffic stop, and there was a small pursuit. So I'll just, I'll let, I'll let, I'll let, I'll let the police officer kind of tell it. Tell the story and then I'll, I'll, we'll listen to a reporter this morning, after it's kind of wrapped up. Tell the story and then I'll, I'll, we'll listen to a reporter this morning after it's kind of wrapped up.
Speaker 8:Thank you everybody for coming tonight. Uh, I'm captain mike johnson from the both police department and I want to let let everybody know that the police activity behind us is response to an officer-involved shooting. I can confirm one of our officers has been hit and is at harbor view being treated and another officer is deceased. At time we're not identifying that officer. The suspect is still at large. He is armed and dangerous. We're asking anyone with any information to please call 911. If you see something, say something. The suspect is described as a black male wearing a gray tank top, baggy sweatpants, and a witness described his hair as large afro.
Speaker 2:Okay, so you have a description of the suspect. So last night. There's a couple things I want to touch on. This is sad, this is tragic. I I back the blue. This is. This is a horrible situation and the suspect has been caught.
Speaker 2:So I'll jump ahead and talk a little bit about the suspect. He is one of these adamant black lives matter protesters. He's from all of the pictures that have been surfacing of the actual suspect. He looks like a thug. You know he's got pictures with him with guns, pictures with him with big wads of cash, Just what I would attribute to like gang member type affiliation. On top of the fact that the Black Lives Matter stuff Wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in Chaz.
Speaker 2:None of that would surprise me at all. This is all very, very close. I call it same side of the water. I live on the other side of the Puget Sound, so I call this the same side of the water. You can drive around by car all day long. Get from Seattle to Bothell, From where Chaz was located to Bothell at two in the morning is probably only a 15-minute drive through city, so you never leave the city to go from Seattle to Bothell. This is sad. So a little bit later this did resolve. They did find the suspect. He was actually hiding out on a roof. So this is Denise Whitaker. She's a local reporter for Como News and she's just kind of wrapping up the story for us this morning.
Speaker 7:Good morning, it is Tuesday. I am in Bothell, right here at Bothell Way, at the intersection of 522, where police do have things roped off after a tragic shooting overnight. Last night about 940 Bothell police officers were trying to make a traffic stop. There was an exchange of gunfire after a short chase and in the end one Bothell police officer is dead, another is in the hospital and a person just a civilian on the sidewalk was also hit by the man who was accused of shooting those police officers as well. The manhunt for that man went on all night long and eventually they were able to capture him here in downtown Bothell overnight. He had been hiding all night, apparently on the rooftop of a building, but he is now in police custody and the investigation continues again, so tragic overnight, good morning.
Speaker 2:So we've had a whole slew of things going on in Seattle. We had Chaz, we had shootings in Chaz, we had rapes in Chaz, we had all kinds of property damage and extortion and things like that. Jenny Durkin is being sued in a class action lawsuit. There's calls for her to resign on the right and left. Some big advancement in that there was a court case that was petitioned to a court in order to recall Jenny Durkan. That has been allowed to proceed, so she's able to be recalled. If they gather up, I think, 25% of the necessary signatures, then there'll be an election. So they need about 50,000 signatures in the city of Seattle to recall Jenny Durkin and I think they'll get it. I think they'll get it because people on the left are fed up because she uses tear gas to stop protesters, which to me is like. But then on the other side, you know there's there's the conservative side that's like hey, you didn't protect the city, so they're going to get those 50,000 signatures.
Speaker 2:I wouldn't be surprised if Jenny Durkin gets ousted sometime this year. It just wouldn't surprise me at all. People are really unhappy with her and she did not handle this year well. Now it's culminated in a gunfight with a police officer. You've got a police officer dead.
Speaker 2:Now we're going to see if the state and Bothell is going to back the blue here if they're going to go after this guy and throw the book at him. Not only did he shoot a police officer, he shot a second police officer and wounded him, who's fighting for his life at the hospital, and then additionally shot a third person who was just a bystander, someone walking, and who apparently is underage because they're calling it a child. So this is this is tragic. I mean, it's just tragic. And in light of all this, I've had to really go back and think about some things and I've talked to a few of my friends who are Democrats and liberals and I've got this one guy that I know he's a black guy and I asked him just point Blake. I said dude, who are you voting for? His response just caught me so off guard.
Speaker 9:This is what he said I'm voting for Joe Biden because he was Barack Obama's vice president. I'm voting for Joe Biden because he likes to walk up behind women and grab them by the neck and shoulders. I'm voting for Joe Biden because he likes to sniff little girls' hair. I'm voting for Joe Biden Because he likes to sniff Little girls hair. I'm voting for Joe Biden Because he's been in office For over 43 years and ain't done a damn thing. I'm voting for Joe Biden Because he don't know the difference Between his wife and his sister.
Speaker 9:I'm voting for Joe Biden Because he has no damn clue where he is half the time. I'm also voting for Joe Biden because he cannot remember his own name. Oh, I'm also going to vote for Joe Biden because he supports Black Lives Matter, the communists, the communist organization. I'm voting for Joe Biden because he's going to make everybody in his family rich and ain't got to do a damn thing to do it. Mm, hmm, mm, hmm, mm, hmm. And I'm voting for Joe Biden because I think Donald Trump is going to kick his ass. Going to kick his ass. Biden, biden, 2020.
Speaker 2:Okay, I'm just kidding, that's not my friend, that's just a random video I found, but it's so true. Everything he said is so true, right, every single person who's supporting the liberals, the Democrats right now. I mean that's why they're voting for Joe Biden. There's all those reasons that could only be the. I've never heard a guy speak so much truth. Basically, we're rallying around our guy.
Speaker 2:I've seen so many of my left friends on social media post things like vote blue, no matter who Guys, vote blue, no matter who is how we got here in America. It's how our inner cities have decayed and crumbled and fallen. Combine that with all the globalists sending all of this foreign aid money overseas and condoning tax shelters all over the planet. I mean, gosh, you want to talk about the draining of wealth? What if we would have elected Mitt Romney? Would it have been any different than Barack Obama? Has Mitt Romney ever shown the desire to create one single American job? Has he? I mean, really, sure, sure, he's employed people, but the real name of the game is just build a business and tear it down. Joe Biden, he never run a business. He's never created anything in his life. He's never created anything but corruption. Which brings me to my next thing. So Joe Biden okay, joe Biden, it just gets old. You know, joe Biden's just one of those guys. It's like I constantly ask myself like how did we get here? How did we elect this guy as a senator over and over again? And then how did we elect him as a vice president? It just doesn't make any sense.
Speaker 2:Now that the Biden-Bama presidency is over, we're starting to find out a lot of things. Last night I had someone come to my house and we had a real long political talk over the dinner table and she mentioned a lot of different things and she's had her own issues with some of the local government and some of the oppressive rules and things they have, and so we had a long session just complaining about local governance. And then we started talking about Joe Biden and I started mentioning what he had done in Ukraine. She had no idea what Joe Biden had done in Ukraine, and because it's being totally unreported by the media In fact, I've even seen some things trying to debunk this, but it's not the case. So let me give you a very quick rundown. I'm not going to get out into the weeds and all the details, but essentially here's what's going on in Ukraine.
Speaker 2:So Ukraine is known as one of the most corrupt countries on earth, and so it attracts a lot of foreign investment. Because corruption seems to attract foreign money. Because when there's corruption it means you can't track the foreign money. So Ukraine is constantly getting foreign investors. It's got a lot of foreign businesses that work in Eastern Europe and Russia. They're all staged out of Ukraine, including a company called Burisma. So Burisma is a natural gas company, and the president, owner, founder of Burisma, whatever you want to call it ran for a political office in Ukraine or was appointed. I'm not exactly sure how he got there, but he got into a political office where it was his job to issue natural gas drilling licenses. So, on behalf of the people of Ukraine, that resource that they have, that's under their feet natural gas the government gives out permits to drill into that natural gas Not very different than most of the Western world where law and order rules, except for the fact that you have an owner of a natural gas company running that department. And what does he proceed to do? He proceeds to give himself, his own company, a whole bunch of natural gas permits, including. So they gave him a whole bunch of natural gas permits. So then they take it a step farther. They get the president of Ukraine In order for this to happen. You know, they've got the president involved and the president of Ukraine's name is Poroshenko. So Poroshenko gets involved and he basically allows this to happen.
Speaker 2:Simultaneously with this, poroshenkoko, along with his American counterparts, specifically Joe Biden scheme to nationalize a bank in Ukraine. The bank is called Privat Bank, private bank as we would say it in English. So Privat Bank. So Privat Bank, which is private bank, is a privately owned bank. It's a private bank that serves the citizens of Ukraine, no different than Wells Fargo Key Bank, bank of America U Key Bank, bank of America US Bank. A lot of the banks that we have in this country are private. They're not nationalized banks, they're private banks. So their policy, their savings, everything is determined by a board of directors that's appointed. They have to respond to market conditions. Obviously, they're regulated, but they're private.
Speaker 2:In Ukraine, with the help of Joe Biden and all the levers of power that the president of Ukraine had, as well as the vice president of America, they manipulated the system in order to nationalize Przhevot Bank. So they nationalized it. They took it from private ownership to national ownership. This was opposed in Ukraine, but they did it for national security reasons, to end corruption, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, what did they do? So now Burisma's got this nice fancy gas lease license and what they did was they charged a sales tax on the gas, so all of the gasoline in Ukraine, because of these gas licenses. They started and they privatized this bank. So they start taking all the sales tax from all the gas licenses. They started and they privatized this bank. So they start taking all the sales tax from all the gas that they're selling around Ukraine for heating, for cars. All the gas is getting through Burisma, not just natural gas. I guess they create this little sales tax. You know, a couple pennies on the dollar, no big deal, right? Well, it ends up putting over a billion and a half dollars in Privat Bank that has just been nationalized, which means now it's under nationalized control, government control, which meant that Poroshenko was able to put his people on the board. And wouldn't you know it, there was an accountant there that was grifting off the sales tax and it funneled $1.5 billion into Joe Biden and Poroshenko's hands dollars into Joe Biden and Poroshenko's hands.
Speaker 2:This got caught because in the process of doing this. They wired the money through Cyprus and a few other places and Cyprus is a known hub for money laundering and for these illegal international transactions. So they're kind of hip to the gig. They've got a whole law enforcement department just looking at these financial transfers. And so Cyprus notified Ukraine, as well as US authorities including. They reached out to Rudy Giuliani finally, because they couldn't get the US to act on it and they said look, there's obvious corruption with this money coming out of Pryvot Bank. So they sent that back to Ukraine.
Speaker 2:And then you've got this Ukrainian prosecutor gets a hold of it. Ukrainian prosecutor looks at it, goes oh, this looks bad. So he prepares a bunch of subpoenas for people at Burisma, including Hunter Biden, joe Biden's son. Why Hunter Biden? Hunter Biden sits on the board of Burisma Energy. So Hunter Biden sitting on the board of Burisma Energy, who's getting illegal I got to go through this illegal permits from the owner of Burisma who is a government employee now granting himself these gas contracts. And then you've got the president of Ukraine, in collusion with Hunter Biden's father, joe Biden, the sitting vice president of the United States, helping Poroshenko nationalize a bank, create an account in that bank where they grift off some of the sales tax money to the tune of 1.5 billion, stolen straight out of the pocketbooks of Ukrainians who worked for that money to put gas in their homes and gas in their fuel tanks. The prosecutor said this isn't cool, so he initiated an investigation towards the mid-end of 2016.
Speaker 2:The US found out about this. The US starts calling Joe Biden, specifically starts calling Poroshenko, and they start figuring out how to make this prosecutor go away. There's no charge of corruption. Prosecutor go away. There's no charge of corruption for this prosecutor. There's no reason why he should leave. He's got the support of parliament. He's got the support of the Ukrainian people. In a recorded phone call, poroshenko reports back to Biden that, as he was instructed, he personally went over to the prosecutor and asked him personally to resign, essentially demanded he resign, and he agreed to resign and he did, and then he had to flee out of the country because there were attempts on his life. This is where that recording of Joe Biden sitting at the Atlantic Council saying oh, I told him to fire the prosecutor and in an hour, by golly, they did it right. You can call the president. So the president was in on this. Joe Biden implicates the president, so this was all happening.
Speaker 2:Then Donald Trump gets elected. There's some recordings of Joe Biden and Poroshenko talking about the election of Donald Trump and what would happen post-election, and how Joe Biden wanted to hurry up and get funneled through Privat Bank. Of that billion dollar loan, which was given, by the way, 700 million of it got siphoned off into different people, corrupt people who took that money. So the International Monetary Fund gave a loan to the people of Ukraine, backed by the American signatures, as in our full faith and credit, as in, we co-signed on this loan that then went to Privat Bank. That then 700 of million of it got funneled off for reasons that it wasn't given for. Okay, wow. So Donald Trump gets elected and then all of a sudden, we have an existential threat because you've got billions of dollars in corruption in one spot in Ukraine, one spot in Ukraine.
Speaker 2:This isn't anything about the $1.5 billion housing contract that Joe Biden's brother got in Iraq. If you've ever watched Arrested Development, that entire show is based off Joe Biden's brother. The entire basis of that show is you know, get this contract to build houses in Iraq and then didn't build any. Okay, so that's Joe Biden's brother. We're not even talking about that. We're just talking about Ukraine and his son, hunter Biden, and nationalizing a bank and foreign control over a foreign sovereign country, specifically Ukraine, by, as the Ukrainians call it, their puppet master, joe Biden.
Speaker 2:Okay, so Donald Trump gets elected, donald Trump makes a nice little and then, at the same time or in 2017, ukraine votes out Poroshenko because he's corrupt. He's corrupt. So they vote out Poroshenko and they vote a new guy who's never run for politics before, who's a comedian. So they elect their own reality star. Just like we elected Donald Trump. Just like, down in Brazil, they erected Bolsonaro. Just like in Poland, they just elected their guy. Right, there's a populist wave sweeping across the world right now. So, anyways, they elected the comedian, donald Trump. The comedian spoke and this is where you get the impeachment and Donald Trump mentions Burisma, hunter Biden and CrowdStrike, which CrowdStrike we'll have to get to at another time. Crowdstrike was the firm that investigated the Democratic National Convention hack and is the entire basis of spying on Donald Trump, and we'll find out. Well, I'll just tell you now CrowdStrike is partially owned by George Soros, and you know that name, so he's everywhere, and he's also involved in Burisma, so he's involved in this foreign corruption as well.
Speaker 2:So you get to this point, right with Ukraine, and it's just like wow. I'm just giving you a really simple rundown. I'm not even getting into the details. I've watched over four and a half hours now of the actual Ukrainian prosecutors going over this case. They are right now investigating and putting on trial their former president Poroshenko, okay, and they would like to extradite Joe Biden, but he won't get extradited, at least until after the election. Right, hopefully, assuming he's not president.
Speaker 2:Voter fraud, huge issue, hashtag Okay. So there's that Now. Once Donald Trump gets elected, then it becomes okay. We got to get this guy out of office because if he gets sniffing around, everybody's deals are going to be messed up. Oh, by the way, mitt Romney's chief of staff sat on this same Burisma board as Hunter Biden. Just keep Mitt Romney in the conversation here, okay, all right.
Speaker 2:So this is a phone call between, uh, joseph Biden, joe Biden and president Poroshenko, and what they're going to be talking about is Paul Manafort. Who's Paul Manafort? Paul Manafort, for a very short period of time, was president Trump's uh president of his campaign, and Paul Manafort had been involved in a lot of international business, a lot of international stuff, and you know he was a pretty good tactician. He was a really good political operative, and so you know he was a huge value to the Trump campaign. Media wouldn't make you believe that. They'd make you believe this guy's a criminal everywhere from Sunday, but he's not Okay. They actually had to set him up to even create the investigation, which is what we're about to listen to now, and another things it's just a joke we released the.
Speaker 2:Okay, this is Poroshenko talking in Biden. You'll recognize the two voices. Poroshenko's talking in English and what they're talking about is Paul Manafort, and they're talking about the Black Ledger book and in other things.
Speaker 10:It's just a joke. We released the the important documents from the former regents party. As far as I understand, one of the key advisors for mr trump so what's significant about this?
Speaker 2:the black ledger was proven in court to be a total, total fraud. What's significant about the party of regions? A party of regions is the party in Ukraine that earlier in this trial is known as the party that only knows the language of corruption, as in they can't you can't get anything done with them on an ideological basis, because their entire party platform is based on corruption. That's the former party of regents, okay, which the entire anti-corruption stuff was to break up the party of regents, which here you can see, they actually use to release a fake ledger that is supposedly these payments. It was found in some locker, it was delivered to the FBI and they used it to investigate Manafort. In court it was proven to be a total fraud. So here's Poroshenko saying that through the party of regents, they got that out.
Speaker 10:As far as I understand, one of the key advisors of Mr Trump, paul Manafort. He resigned today.
Speaker 11:Yeah, I think he's going back to Russia.
Speaker 10:I don't know and I think he's going back to Russia, I don't know, and I think this was a bad idea to take the Yudukovich advisor to the Trump team.
Speaker 11:I think so too, but there's a lot of bad decisions he's making. All right, I'll talk to you at the beginning of the week, all right?
Speaker 10:Good Joe. Thank you very much and let me know about after meeting with the after lunch with Obama, and I can share with you the information from Berlin. Maybe we can do that tomorrow or up to you, whenever you would be ready. Just let me know about that.
Speaker 11:All right Okay.
Speaker 10:Stay safe, goodbye. Goodbye, joe, thank you.
Speaker 2:All right, these guys are on a first-name basis. They talk on a regular basis. There's probably a couple hours of these phone calls and every one of them every one of them is like wait, what? So this is August 19th 2016. This is before the election. So this is August 19th 2016. This is before the election.
Speaker 2:They released a fake ledger saying that Paul Manafort, president of his campaign, president of Trump's Trump campaign that Paul Manafort was receiving illegal payments through all these corrupt oligarchs and things like that. Via this black ledger that was released by who? By Poroshenko, through the party of regents, at whose behest Joe Biden, who interfered with the 2016 election? Joe Biden did. Joe Biden and the Democratic Party. I mean, this is smoking gun evidence here. Smoking gun. Why is this not on every headline in America? This has been out for months. I watched this months ago. I don't understand.
Speaker 2:Why are you voting for Joe Biden? Is it because he touches kids? Are you voting for Joe Biden because he he mistakes his wife or his sister? Are you voting for Joe Biden Cause he thinks he's running for us Senate? Are you voting for Biden Because he believes in the? The? The? You know we were all created equal in the name of the. You know what I'm talking about.
Speaker 2:This is Joe Biden, the most corrupt politician our country may have ever seen ever. These are the smoking gun things. He got the prosecutor fired. He nationalized a bank. He grifted off sales tax money for gas. He's the entire corruption department in Ukraine that they created. He put his people on it essentially to protect his corruption and eliminate all the other people.
Speaker 2:This is as bad as it gets folks. It's as bad as it gets. The rest of the thing is in Ukrainian and you have to listen to it and read the subtitle, so it becomes a little bit daunting to just kind of sit. And because I can't play it on, here is this is this is a man who's got nothing going on. He's fighting for his life. Why is a man with dementia being allowed to run for president? Why? Because while he's running for president, this stuff won't come out, because it'll look bad. It'll look like we're trying to influence the election, and that's not the case. It's not the case. These guys are actually going to trial.
Speaker 2:I pulled that off of Nabu. Okay, that video came off of Nabu, which is the Ukrainian anti-corruption investigation force that's running this investigation in Ukraine. These are these are their phone calls. They keep their phone calls recorded. So every time Joe Biden called over there, they captured the phone call and a lot of these. At the beginning of the phone call you hear the White House operator you know hold for Joe Biden. You get that. What you would, exactly what you would expect from a phone call White House to another sovereign nation state house. I mean it's. This is too much. Here's a video of Joe Biden with George Ramos doing an interview talking about the border and talking about the unaccompanied kids. So again, we're still talking about human trafficking and we're still going to be talking about Joe Biden. What's going on in the southern border? There's a ton of human trafficking going on. Look at how Joe Biden answers this question about kids in cages. Just listen to the way he answers this.
Speaker 6:At the debate in Houston. You said that during the Obama-Biden administration, and I quote, we didn't lock people in cages, but you actually did. I didn't say numbers in the Trump administration, but you did. We found a picture of an eight-year-old boy from Honduras.
Speaker 11:Yes, and what this was, did you know?
Speaker 6:It was taken in 2014 in a detention center in McAllen Texas. I spoke with the photographer, John Morrow.
Speaker 2:So, just for context here, when Trump got into office, one of the things they ended was the catch and release right, that you would catch these people that crossed the border, take their names and then give them a little thing and say, okay, show back up in court at this date, and then they would release them out into the public. If they were minors, they wouldn't just let them go walking on, they would detain them, put them in a detention center and then they would find a place for them. Donald Trump ended that policy. He said, nope, we're going to detain them until they're hearing, because less than 2% of people come back to their hearing and we've just got this flood of people coming over the border.
Speaker 2:So I'm assuming you're mostly familiar with the border crisis that is being resolved as we speak with the building of a border wall and then, I think, 27,000 or 14,000 Mexican troops patrolling the southern border, which I let you listen to. The president of Mexico praise Donald Trump about how they've respected Mexico's sovereignty, and I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that Trump said you got to take care of this, or I will, and put it on Mexico as a sovereign nation to clean themselves up and sounds like they're making a serious effort. So remember that it's Trump that stopped the policy of the catch and release, which is why the numbers swelled. It's not that the immigration swelled, it's that the numbers swelled. But listen to Joe Biden's justification here.
Speaker 11:All the unaccompanied children were coming across the border. We tried to get them out. We kept them safe and get them out of the detention centers essentially that center that are run by Homeland Security and get them into communities as quickly as we can. Many people would say there were cages. Well, look, you know you're not telling the truth here about the comparison of the two things.
Speaker 6:I'm saying that the numbers in your administration were not the same as the ones we're seeing right now with the Trump administration, well beyond that but look how quickly we got them out and got them back to families.
Speaker 11:Look how we didn't engage and we sought the relatives here. We sought to get them into safe communities. We sought to get them out of the control of Homeland Security, to get them safe, but they came unaccompanied, unaccompanied. Them safe, but they came unaccompanied, unaccompanied. And, by the way, one of the things we should be doing and you may recall, I'm the only guy that got it done was to provide for $750 million so people didn't want to leave in the first place, by going down to Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador and making sure that we in fact change the circumstances which is causing them to flee. To begin with, you may remember, I spent hundreds of.
Speaker 11:Well, no, they didn't. They dropped off extensively, extensively.
Speaker 6:And then there was another wave of Central American immigrants coming.
Speaker 11:Yeah, and what happened? Because they stopped funding it. This administration, three years ago, stopped spending the money. They stopped going after the gangs. They stopped the street lighting. They stopped building Boys and Girls Clubs. They stopped going after the gangs. They stopped the street lighting. They stopped building boys and girls clubs.
Speaker 2:They stopped the. So Joe Biden's lying. So let me go through a couple things. First of all, unaccompanied it was just the unaccompanied minors. That's false. That's false. You always separated the parents from their kids, because the parents are now criminals for crossing the border illegally. You didn't necessarily charge the kids, but you detained them, okay. Next thing yes, there are some that were genuinely unaccompanied and, yeah, you would expect them to go. But here's the thing what are they doing on the back end? They're not sending them back to where they came from, the country of origin. No, no, no, no. They're housing them in foster homes, essentially, or they didn't track down family, let's be honest. Okay, then they would send them to the family.
Speaker 2:There are thousands and thousands of these kids crossing the border every year during the Obama administration, thousands, and you're just sending them out into the community, placing them with families. Guys, if the government wants to insert itself at any point to pick up these kids, these unaccompanied minors, this is the moment. You look at what Germany was doing. Germany, they're using their CPS, their Child Protective Services, their foster care program and their adoption programs. They were all government-run agencies and those were being run by pedophiles who were using those agencies to find kids to then place in homes of other abusers for a fee. This was happening in Germany. This was government-sponsored pedophile rings, essentially. Now they're out looking for 30,000 of these pedophiles who abused these children that were placed in their homes by the government.
Speaker 2:There's a lot of accusations floating around our country about child protective services and the foster care program. I've read firsthand accounts of people whose children were trafficked from them you know, taken from them for stupid reasons, and then they can't get them back for years and years and their kids end up finally coming back with horror stories about being trafficked and that's assuming the parents got them back. I've heard a lot of stories. I've got dozens of people I follow on Twitter that are still fighting to get their kids back. You know what would seem like normal, competent parents that had their kids taken away for all kinds of crazy reasons and they can't find them. Okay, this is real, this really happens in our country. And here you've got Joe Biden saying oh no, we just we placed them with homes in the US. What homes? Who? I don't know anybody that's harboring a foreign child that's being placed in their home while they wait for an asylum hearing. I don't know anyone. I don't know a single person. So where are these kids going? Okay, next question. Next thing 90% of the kids that cross the border with an adult are with an adult that's not their parent. So Joe Biden makes it sound like you know, it was like a small problem. It was just the unaccompanied kids.
Speaker 2:No one of the things that Trump found out, and one of the reasons why we don't hear anything about the crisis at the southern border, was Trump instituted a policy of DNA testing. So, because they're walking across the border without driver's license, birth certificates, documentation of really any kind, you can't. You got some guy with a 10 year old there and he says, well, this is my kid. Well, he just beat the kid 20 minutes ago, saying you better agree that it's that I'm your dad. When the border patrol shows up because he's going to get caught and released, walk right across the border and grab another kid. The kid's going to go to detention center and then he's going to get put out, put out into the, into the U S right for free. Why free? Why would the coyote cross the border with a kid that's not his, knowing that they're going to be separated? Guys, it's a racket. They know that this is happening. So when Trump instituted the DNA policy, you had to test the adult and the kid to see if they were a match, to keep them together or not, or determine how you were going to deal with the situation. 90% of the kids coming across the border with an adult were coming with an adult that was not biologically related to them. 90, 90, nine zero percent. This wasn't a small problem.
Speaker 2:Next thing, he talks about sending money down to Central America and Mexico to stop them from coming. We all know that's a lie. We all know that the numbers went up and up and up. Joe Biden's lying through his teeth about any kind of decrease in numbers. It's a flat out lie. We know what happens to foreign aid money. They weren't building boys and girls clubs in Mexico City or in Honduras, like Joe Biden says. That's a fault flat out lie. Okay, all that money went to corrupt NGOs like George Soros, who's got an NGO that promotes open borders? And all that foreign aid money wasn't going to keep them from traveling. It was going to help them travel.
Speaker 2:The whole thing is a mess, guys. Why are you voting for Joe Biden? Got to ask yourself that question. Why are people voting for Joe Biden. They're so dogmatically entrenched it's unbelievable. What is it exactly that they have done, that Joe Biden has done for the last 40 years? If you follow Joe Biden, follow the money, follow his family, you'll find nothing. Nothing but just criminal enterprise. Nothing but criminal enterprise. There shouldn't be any. They're running this guy as a presidential candidate. He's a criminal. And you wonder why our streets are ablaze. You wonder why there's a Marxist movement across the country? Because Joe Biden has dementia and they're getting behind him, because he won't stop him, because no sane person would take endorsement from Black Lives Matter. They're communist.
Speaker 2:It takes two seconds to figure that out on the internet, right? There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences either. We have known that Mitt Romney got money from Ghislaine Maxwell's father as far back as 2012. We've known it since then. He got it a lot earlier than that, but we've known about it since 2012. I didn't have to make a new theory on that. I didn't have to make a new connection. Nope, 2012. And I even pulled it from the liberal rag Mother Jones.
Speaker 2:This is real stuff, guys. This is real stuff. This really affects us. Why are our taxes so high? Why are our roads crumbling? Why are our inner cities being burnt to the ground? Why is George Soros money spread all over, including locally? Isn't it unbelievable? You follow these local DAs that are charging people for defending their homes, charging officers who defended themselves. In the case of Rashard Brooks, I saw a video of two people being arrested for not wearing a mask. I don't know the whole context around that, but the DA in that area is a Soros DA. You know, I go to Seattle and I see streetwalkers every time I go, whores and hookers on the street. They're not going after them. They're not going after any of that. It's unreal.
Speaker 2:So let me just wrap this up. I got to bring this home. There's a national crisis here, but it's being manifest at a very local level. Okay, there's two things I want to show here. Here's a quick video and I just got to cover it. It's made its rounds, but I want to make sure I include it in this show because, again, this just goes to the gaslighting. This goes to all the silly stuff that's going on there. So listen to this. This is AOC. She's a thought leader in the Democrat Party, and listen to what she says about where the crime is coming from, because keep in mind all the inner cities where there's been all this writing New York City, atlanta, st Louis, kansas City, chicago, seattle, la have all had huge upticks in major violent crime. But listen to how AOC plays this off to her base.
Speaker 4:I think there's something about this uptick in crime. Let me make something super clear for everyone here having this question the New York City Police Department has not been defunded, even with these budgetary changes that were proposed in city council. A they're not fully enacted. B they aren't a real $1 billion in cuts. Um and see, it's not really like. These cuts aren't really real and again, they haven't even happened yet.
Speaker 2:Okay. So the only thing she said that's real is that they haven't happened yet. Everything else she said is real, so she's playing off the fact that. Oh, don't worry about the vote, it was largely symbolic, even though we're marching down this road and we're putting it on the record and we actually want this done, and we've got a complicit mayor and governor de Blasio. No, don't look at that. Don't pay attention to the lack of police funding or the billionaires. It hasn't actually happened yet.
Speaker 4:We've just proposed it Literally have not even happened yet. So keep in mind that this uptick in crime that's happening right now is with a $6 billion New York City Police Department budget, so our $6 billion up to $11 billion.
Speaker 2:So she's basically the increase in crime hasn't happened because of the police cuts. Okay, that's fine, but you know how people react when they know that no one's going to enforce rules. Right, I mean, are we going to consider that at all?
Speaker 4:Our $6 billion budget has not prevented this uptick in crime.
Speaker 2:Because De Blasio's got handcuffs on the cops.
Speaker 4:We have funded more and more. We have shoved more and more and more money every single year into the nypd six billion dollars because you don't let them actually do law enforcement not prevented this uptick in crime. So why?
Speaker 2:because that's a policy issue.
Speaker 4:Why is this uptick in crime happening? Yes, why, let's really think about it. Well, this uptick in crime, you, you know, the NYPD themselves, have told a story that's disproven by their own data. At first, the NYPD they went out and they said, ok, this uptick in crime is happening because of bail reform, because of all of these reforms that we had.
Speaker 2:Now Wait, but they just so bail reform is the idea that you know when they arrest you for turn turnstile jumping you go to, you go and then there's a thousand dollar bail. So you got to put a hundred dollars down, get a bail bondsman who's then going to trace you down if you don't go to court. Or you have to put a thousand dollars and then just walk away from it. But now you have a warrant out for your arrest. So bail becomes really problematic for petty criminals because a they don't want to have to actually deal with the consequences of their choices while they wait for trial, you know, by being out on bail and all that kind of stuff. So they have this bail reform. So essentially, they book you, they tell you what you did, they give you a little ticket that says come back on this date and then they let you walk out on the street. No costs, no collateral, no reason to ever actually show up to your court case.
Speaker 2:So you know that's a real cause for an uptick in crime, especially petty crime, because of bail reform. So the police are saying that. They've been saying that since those policies were enacted. Again, it's not about the money at this point when you're putting handcuffs on the cops. So bail reform. That's one reason that the police have cited for an uptick in crime.
Speaker 4:Police data a couple of weeks ago that showed that out of almost all the people who have been found to have kind of committed crimes etc. Almost none have been re-released due to the bail reform.
Speaker 2:Why is that? Well, because of the uptick in petty crime. That's massive rooting, rioting, lighting, vandalism, graffiti. We've pretty much stopped even arresting them, because it is a turnstile, it's a revolving door. That's the story the New York police officers are telling you. So it's not that the crime has dropped, it's just that they don't enforce anything. They don't enforce anything because of the bail reform, because it's pointless to take a cop off the street for three hours while he books a guy and then, by the time, maybe that's why there's been a drop in petty crime. Uh, because they've had this long tick of this long, uh, policy of bail reform and no bail, and so, yeah, cops just aren't enforcing those rules. So, yeah, the numbers do show that now, but they didn't show that a couple months ago. Right once these riots broke out, they stopped going after the turnstile jumpers actual crime.
Speaker 4:Data from the nypd, not even independent data, disproves what they're saying. So why is this uptick in crime happening? Well, let's think about it. Do we think this has to do with the fact that there's record unemployment in the United States?
Speaker 2:One thing she's going to neglect, which is what the NYPD has said the uptick in violent crime has been, is the fact that there were 5,000 violent criminals let out into New York City. In fact the police chief said which I don't have the video so you have to trust me on this but the police chief said he can trace all up to the 379% uptick in shootings last week. He can trace it all back to the criminals that were released from prison due to COVID. So that's the real reason why the uptick in the crime numbers. Now AOC just got done telling you that it's not petty crimes, it's not because of the bail reform. So what she's about to propose to you would fall under the category of the bail reform type crimes. So the crimes that are happening are ones that they're not getting out on bail reform. Why?
Speaker 4:Because they're violent, because they're rearresting these criminals that they've let out right now, the fact that people are at a level of economic desperation that we have not seen since the Great Recession. Maybe this has to do with the fact that people aren't paying their rent and are scared to pay their rent, and so they go out and they need to feed their child and they don't have money, so you maybe have to. They're put in a position where they feel like they either need to shoplift some bread or go hungry that night. Maybe it's the fact that unemployment provisions have not been given to everyone.
Speaker 2:Maybe it's because the Okay, did you get that? So bail reform means that they're not arresting low-level offenders because it's pointless. There's been an uptick in crime. She's saying, well, it's not because of bail reform, because those people aren't even being arrested. It's because they're going hungry and they're stealing bread. Well, hold on, wouldn't stealing bread and those petty crimes fall under the bail reform category? So there, you just told us they're not getting arrested. So this uptick in crime percentages is violent crimes, which is what the statistics actually told.
Speaker 2:She's lying to her constituents, she's lying through her teeth and she's doing it in such a smooth way. But people who are uninformed, who think she's a rock star, they listen to this and they believe it. It's false, it's false. Okay, here's a little more local for me. This is Jenny Durkin, again the mayor of Seattle, and she's talking about what's happening in Seattle and solutions. Now, when I listen to this, I have to ask myself this question she's going to get asked a question, but she's going to answer a different question. So let's figure out what that other question is and then let's figure out how we would answer it as peasants.
Speaker 3:I think the more we have people in Seattle in a room to talk to the mayor and city council and demand and hold us accountable, the better it is. And I think again, this goes back to what we're saying. I think Judge Robart recognized it today Policing in Seattle is a tough job right now and our police are doing a very good job on trying to get it right. But we need a lot of resources on the table that aren't police. We are not going to solve the issues related to homelessness by policing. As the judge said today, we need to have a whole range of tools. I said it last night, I'll say it again Real public safety starts with strong and resilient communities. It means good health care, good education opportunity. Kids know that they have a future for themselves. If you have all those things in place, the need for police goes down. And when we need police, we want them to be exercising the best constitutional policing and community policing possible, and I think that's what the chief has instilled in this department. Thank you very much okay.
Speaker 2:So she answered a question about today police we need to have, and she didn't really answer anything, right, because she said, oh, we need things outside of the police. So so what's the question she asked? She's talking to her constituents, citizens of Seattle. A lot of the people that are going to be paying attention to this are going to be in the middle class to upper middle class, because politics is generally a middle class to upper middle class problem. You know a lot of lower class people. They're just worried about putting food on the table, right, like AOC had mentioned. And so what's the question Jenny's being asked? How do we fix this problem so that everything's not on the police department to go enforce all these rules? Well, a lot of these petty crimes do stem out of the desperation of being hungry, quote-unquote even though it's not really hunger in America. It's more just desperation in general. So here's what I would answer, instead of saying these are the things we need, because those are the results we need. Now the answer isn't what are the results? We all agree on the results. We need safer communities, we need more resilient communities, we need less street crime and homeless Everybody. Yeah, all right, that's the answer to the question how do we make it safer so that we don't need to have a heavy-handed police department? All right? Well, yeah, that would work great if we gave the kids all the opportunities. So here's what I propose A here's how we actually do that.
Speaker 2:First and foremost, school choice and school vouchers Allow kids in the city of Seattle and all across the country really, but we'll just focus on Seattle, okay, mrs Durkin. So in the city of Seattle, give every single student a voucher for the amount of tax money that they're allocated per head. So every kid in the county or in the city gets a certain amount of education money that goes to the public schools to pay for them. Kids in private education do not get that money. Their parents have to pay not only property taxes that goes to public education, but then they also have to pay private tuition. So let's break that cycle, because what that does is it makes private education a better.
Speaker 2:Education generally only in the hands of the rich. So let's break education generally only in the hands of the rich. So let's break it and put money in the hands of everybody for their kid's education. Everybody who's got a kid give them the five, 6,000, 8,000, 10,000 bucks, whatever it is that that kid is allocated for education and then allow them to take that money and shop with it. What's that going to mean? It's going to mean private schools are going to be really elite for a year or two. It's just the way it is because they're going to be looking at kids who can A pay Now, everybody can pay, so now they're going to look at test scores. Even some of the private kids won't get into the schools anymore. Okay, so now you've got rich parents sending their kids to public schools because they really don't have any other choice. Their kids aren't smart enough to get into the private schools. And so it also means that the school administrators know that the moment a spot opens up in a private school, those parents or another school a private school opens up because this will bring in competition. Right that they're going to lose those kids if the education results are not on par. So they're going to focus on improving outcomes of education rather than just trying to take the kids in and babysit them for eight hours, which is how we get high illiteracy rates in poor neighborhoods. So by giving parents the power to choose, it introduces the market into education. It gives parents the ability to shop for education where education outcomes will be the highest. This will. This will, in turn, create a more inclusive community, a better educated community. There'll be less subject to mind viruses like communism. It's better all the way around. So that's my proposal on how we create a more resilient, strong community.
Speaker 2:Second, broken windows theory of law enforcement. Take the gloves off the police department. Let them go after the turnstile jumpers. Let them go after the jaywalkers. Let them go after the guys smoking marijuana in public. Let them go after the guys defecating in public. Let them go after the vagrants. Let public Let them go after the vagrants. Let them go after the low-level crimes, because what we found in New York City under Rudy Giuliani is, when you take out the turnstile jumper, it's the turnstile jumpers that have no respect for the law that are also raping people. It's that simple. So you get them off the streets. You get them off the streets, crime drops. Those people go spend six months a year in jail. If they hit rock bottom, they reform. If not, they end up in a cycle coming back into the system. That sucks, but why did it happen? It happened in the first place because our communities were not resilient. They weren't well-educated.
Speaker 2:Next thing, c.
Speaker 2:So that's A school choice, school vouchers, b, broken windows, theory of law enforcement. And C less regulation across the board will create a vibrant middle class to develop, which is currently a barrier of entry in the city of Seattle. Seattle has some of the highest business fees, has the highest licensing fees, it has some of the highest building you know to get building permits and things like that. It creates a high barrier of entry. So someone who's just starting out, wants to start a business, wants to develop a property, whatever the case, is the barrier of entry just to get through the city aspect of it, the permitting aspect of it, is so high. People in lower classes, lower income brackets, just can't do anything in the city of Seattle. So take away the regulation and you'll see the middle class bounce back Because right now Seattle's splitting. You've got an upper class and you have a homeless class. Those are really the two classes that are developing in Seattle.
Speaker 2:That has to stop before it gets worse. I mean it gets much worse than it is now. Oh, my goodness, it's going to be bad. The only way to bring business and investment back to Seattle is to dump the regulation. It's that simple. Those are my three ways on how you actually achieve what everybody knows we need to achieve in our city, and that's why I should run for mayor somewhere. Somebody find me a place where I can run for mayor as a carpetbagger.
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Speaker 1:Who are the Britons? We all are. We are all Britain and I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship, a self-perpetuating autocracy, in which the working class is oh, there you go, bringing class into the gang. That's what it's all about. If only people would Please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then that castle? No one lives there. Then. Who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What I told you? We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Speaker 1:We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see, by a simple majority in the case of pure internal affairs, be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in a case of more measures, be quiet. I order you to be quiet, all right.
Speaker 1:Who does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, how do you become king then?
Speaker 1:The lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest, shimmering semite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying, by divine providence, that I, arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Be quiet. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up. If I went round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had loved a scimitar at me, they'd put me away. Shut up. Will you Shut up? Now? We see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Shut up. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Help, help. I'm being repressed. Bloody peasant. Oh, what a giveaway. Did you hear that? Did you hear that? Eh, that's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you? © transcript Emily Beynon.
