Ben breaks down the centuries-old debate around gun control.

Debunked: Gun Control

Prominent Leftists in politics, media and culture protest America on Independence Day; the National Education Association pushes Critical Race Theory; and everyone wants to be a member of the intersectional coalition. 

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Ep. 1290 - Yes, They Hate The Country

Prominent leftists diss America on Independence Day, the nation’s largest teachers’ union promises to push CRT in all 50 states, and NPR adds a trigger warning to the Declaration of Independence.

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Ep. 799 - America Goes Through Puberty

Trump sues the oligarchs in Silicon Valley, a SF Gay Men’s Chorus is coming for your children and BLM attacks the American flag.

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Ep. 801 - Donald Trump v. Hipster Rasputin

In this episode, I discuss the link between George Soros, big tech, face masks, and the 2020 election. It’s all tied together. 

News Picks:
The JAMA study which addresses the dangers of masks on children.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/2781743

Why is Fusion GPS desperately trying to hide their documents?
https://technofog.substack.com/p/why-is-a-fusion-gps-attorney-risking

Democrats dug themselves a big hole with their bogus election narratives. 
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/elections/thudemocrats-dug-themselves-election-integrity-hole-courts-may-bury-them

Libs are panicking over cameras in the classroom, which means it’s a really good idea.
https://www.breitbart.com/the-media/2021/07/07/nolte-leftists-freak-out-at-the-thought-of-cameras-exposing-fanatical-crt-teachers/

Twitter is becoming a tool of the Chinese Communist Party.
https://hotair.com/jazz-shaw/2021/07/07/twitter-blocks-account-of-foreign-policy-expert-that-mocked-xi-jinping-n400867

Facebook is actively censoring science and they’re promoting misinformation. 
https://justthenews.com/accountability/cancel-culture/facebook-threatens-users-sharing-journal-american-medical-association

Will there be an election audit in Pennsylvania too?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/pennsylvania-forensic-investigation-seeks-election-materials

Spike Lee isn’t telling the truth about the police.
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2021/07/07/cannes-spike-lee-pushes-lie-that-black-people-are-being-hunted-down-like-animals-by-police/

The study about police shootings mentioned in the show.
https://www.policemag.com/596346/half-of-surveys-very-liberal-respondents-believe-1-000-or-more-unarmed-black-men

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The Soros/Big Tech Misinformation Campaign Explained

Dr. Fauci wants Americans to “get over” their political views and take an experimental drug, the White House declares defeat in Afghanistan, and prominent leftists run away from their most radical views.

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Ep. 802 - Getting Over Self-Government

Ben debunks the Democratic myth that the GOP became the racist party after the Civil Rights Act.

Debunked: The Southern Switch

A stunning letter emerges which will make you look at the 2020 election differently. In this episode, I discuss the letter and I address a Politico article about the left’s disturbing push to read your text messages. Are your emails next? 

News Picks:
There’s a civil war brewing within the GOP.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/gop-war-rages-moderates-hit-pro-trump-wackadoodles

Is the Biden administration planning to monitor your text messages? 
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/12/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278

Federal judge retracts his opinion after a liberal’s racist texts emerge. 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/federal-judge-retracts-opinion-antiwhite-texts

The libs are having a really bad week. 
https://spectator.org/cuba-hard-left/

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A Shocking Letter Surfaces About The 2020 Election

The trouble with trilobites

Finally! A random act of journalism occurs,
as Joe Biden is asked tough questions by a left wing media outlet. In this episode I address the embarrassing results. 

News Picks:
The twelve worst cases of big tech censorship. 
https://newsbusters.org/blogs/free-speech/brian-bradley/2021/12/16/12-worst-cases-big-tech-censorship-2021

There’s a mass exodus from broken liberal states. 
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/editorials/escape-from-democratic-governance

The Supreme Court is going to weigh in on the unscientific Biden vaccine mandates.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/supreme-court-to-hear-arguments-on-bidens-vaccine-or-test-mandate

The Democrats’ defund the police madness is tragically hitting home, as a congresswoman is carjacked in Philadelphia. 
https://www.theblaze.com/news/defund-police-philly-dem-carjacking

Vaccine mandates are spreading around the country. 
https://www.newsmax.com/us/district-of-columbia-vaccination-bowser/2021/12/22/id/1049679/

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Biden Humiliates Himself In New Interview

In Sylvia Plath’s “Stillborn,” metaphor operates almost as a counterfactual. The poem is a satirical critique of her creative process, conveyed in a self-mocking tone to imply an uncomfortable concept: if these poems/children had a better creator/mother, they would be alive today. Plath delivers a harrowing, ironic message loaded with self-deprecating gallows humor:

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.

O I cannot explain what happened to them!
They are proper in shape and number and every part.
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid!
They smile and smile and smile at me.
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start.

They are not pigs, they are not even fish,
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air --
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were.
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction,
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.

For this creative brief, Suss Müsik envisioned something beautiful and pristine contained in dusty glass jars of formaldehyde. A simple melody for fake woodwinds was slowly distressed using glitch technologies to accompany a VCVRack patch playing a Lydian chord progression. (The Schillinger System was used to define harmonic variations, for composition geeks out there, nearly undetectable under all the fuzz).

Although the final output doesn’t necessarily evoke images of rotten, grimy bodies left to decay, there remains a sense of something having “missed out on walking about” like a fully realized piece. To paraphrase Plath, Suss Müsik cannot explain what happened to it.

The piece is titled Plath and was recorded quickly to 8-track in three takes.

**Postscript:** admittedly, Suss Müsik's contribution this week skews more towards the concept of "metaphor." than working with a commonly known figure of speech. Apologies. The only example that came to mind was "raining cats and dogs," recalling a piece titled "Dog Puppet Born Out of a Sock" that Fred Frith and Henry Kaiser did in the 1980's using a rudimentary sampler. (It shows up on the *Friends & Enemies* compilation, if you're interested).

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