Enough! So Monday, well you know it was 9.30 like 23 minutes ago when I didn't realize that my sound wasn't working. Now it's 9.53 but you know generally speaking ladies and gentlemen if you're listening on some other platform at some of the time we do this live you can call into the show 207 68814333's the number and I would love to have you listen to the show live to call in say hello you know I love hearing from you guys I really do. The more you talk less I have to I'm very fond of saying but you know this morning as I was writing the introduction for the show today my friend Ian Freeman he was you might recall I interviewed him for stage one episode 20 of this production he was awaiting sentencing in a federal district court in New Hampshire for the crime of selling Bitcoin to willing invented buyers prosecutors were seeking a 20 year sentence in more than three million dollars in restitution which it is worth noting defies the recommendations of the pre-sentence investigation and the evidence presented at trial restitution as you may know is for victims and there is no material dispute about whether Ian Freeman victimized anyone he did not and not even the prosecution argues that he did Freeman's customers lied to him when he asked them if they were being coerced or asked to purchase cryptocurrency by strangers the strangers who are coercing and defrauding them told them to deceive Freeman and the prosecution simply asserts that freedom Freeman should have somehow known that this was the case but lacking psychic powers he should be held responsible for the fraud of others whom the FBI has made no attempt to find. Freeman is fortunate that the judge dismissed one count of money laundering post conviction though the fact that this took place tells us a great deal about our legal system. Prosecutors charged Freeman with money laundering because an FBI agent posing as a drug trafficker purchased Bitcoin from one of Freeman's vending machines miles away from where Freeman was standing at the time he did this after Freeman explicitly refused to transact with the agent once the agent had asserted his unlawful purpose since refusing to commit a crime is not a crime in most jurisdictions the judge dismissed the charge after the jury had convicted him of it. Of course such blatant abuses by government are why pretrial motions exist the more charges a defendant must defend against the greater the burdens of trial and the looser the rules of evidence become for the prosecution without the money laundering charge the government could not have introduced evidence insinuating that Freeman was in league with drug traffickers and since perceptions of character carry much weight in a jury trial false accusations like this lend credence to other allegations. The court knowing the circumstances of the allegation refused to dismiss the charge pretrial and also at the close of the prosecution's case only after Freeman was convicted by a jury did the court intervene to dismiss the conviction for a crime Freeman plainly did not commit. And which the judge knew in advance of the trial he had not committed. So while Freeman is fortunate not to be facing an additional 20 years today he is unfortunate to be facing sentencing based on the verdict of a jury proven willing to commit him of a crime convict him of a crime he did not commit. Before a judge proven willing to deny him a fair trial against prosecutors proven willing to ignore investigators and positive assertions not supported by fact. A few hours drive south Donald Trump is attending his fraud trial in New York. This is a fraud trial at every respect of that phrase. Trump is accused of fraud and the trial is just such a crime in itself. And though Freeman myself and many others including Trump himself owing to the civil verdict stemming from E. Jean Carroll's fake rape lawsuit demonstrate the limited utility of a jury. Trump will enjoy not even these meager benefits. This trial will be decided by a judge. That same judge has already found Trump liable for fraud granting a motion for a summary judgment by New York Attorney General Latisha James. James ran on a platform that she would get Trump and in pursuit of racial justice set real criminals loose on the street. She may be a liar and a scumbag but at least she keeps her campaign promises. Her office is seeking the dissolution of the Trump organization through the revocation of their business certificate, which amounts to what has been called a corporate desk penalty as well as a $250 million fine. On the other side of the country, Rob Rundo awaits trial at a federal detention center in Los Angeles. Rundo stands accused of conspiring to riot and despite his charge being dismissed as unconstitutional by a federal district court judge years ago. FBI agents tracked him to Romania and extradited him here to face trial anyway. This small sampling of abuses, my own adventures in legal land demonstrate powerfully a simple truth. Latisha James this morning under the phrase all too familiar in a press conference. No one is above the law. You hear a lot of that these days, don't you? This off-sighted Democrat catch phrase stands in some contrast to the havoc set loose on our country by those who consider illegal immigration to be among our greatest strengths and whom warned of our country becoming a banana republic if Hillary Clinton were to be prosecuted for some fraction of the many crimes that she has committed. In 2016, we were to believe that prosecuting one's perlitical opponents was verbatim whatever the merits. But in 2023, it is the obligation of all decent people to prosecute exclusively their political opponents while murderers rapist carjackers, looters and arsonists skip gleefully to a wall is hellscape. So if Latisha James and those in league with her assert to believe that nobody is above the law and yet she does not believe that criminals ought to be held to account, one might presume this disparity in word indeed to be just one of many Democrat lies. By any measure, that would be a safe assumption, of course, with as much reliability as one might aspire to set a watch to, one might safely organize their life around the notion that if a Democrat is speaking their purposes to deceive. But this is hardly the only reasonable interpretation of the apparent disparity between word indeed here. Suppose for a moment, James Atal do believe that nobody is above the law. The Democrats believe that what then? She might believe that we all stand in some other directional relation to that law, namely beneath it. And you might reasonably conclude precisely this if you have ever been a crime victim. Forget about the fake prosecutions in lawsuits for a moment, at least with regard to these, you can in most cases avoid them by not challenging those in power. At least, and while challenging those in power in an alleged democracy ought not be punishable by conjured legal allegations, that is at least something that most people can safely organize their lives around. What is perhaps more frightening than these is what precedes them and has been accepted as an uncontroversial fact of our legal landscape. The government long ago decided that they have no duty to protect. That's a legal phrase, no duty to protect. And there is, quote, no right per se to have a case brought. That's another legal maximum. You are obligated to pay for courts, prisons and police. You are obligated to respond to subpoenas and submit to the jurisdictions of those elements of our legal apparatus. But that same apparatus purports no obligation to you at all. Rob Rundos accused of conspiring to write because he allegedly went to places where he expected that there would be violent criminals attacking people. He went to places where he was expecting people he didn't like to commit crimes so that he could go and stop them from doing it. Having witnessed countless incidents where Trump supporters and other decent people were violently attacked without provocation, that's not an unreasonable thing for a man to do by the way. Having witnessed time and again that those criminals went unpunished in his friends were accused of trying to help those people. Had police declared that those criminals were not above the law, had prosecutors sought harsh sentences for them, had the courts imposed some portion of those recommendations. There might have been no rise above movement. You might never have heard the name Rob Rundos. Offer that matter Christopher Cantwell. Trump stands accused of overestimating the values of his properties. That seems an unlikely thing for a man who pays millions of dollars in New York City property taxes to do. But let us assume the accusations true. Suppose that, as a letter, just Trump did this for decades and so long as he kept showering Democrats with campaign contributions instead of insults, nobody seemed to mind that much. Beast of all, the banks who gave him the loans on that basis and were very happy to collect their interest when he paid on time. What a New York real estate developer, no. If such practices were common in his jurisdiction, would he be put out of business if his competitors engaged in this practice while he stubbornly refused to do anything so disreputable? Quite certainly. But because we're all beneath the law now instead of above it, what must do, what must to compete in a lawless environment and as soon as he criticized those who had fostered that lawless environment, they used their powers to destroy him. And while I was composing this message this morning, federal district court judge imposed an eight-year sentence on Ian Freeman. None of the bankers who facilitated any of those transactions are joining him in that prison. None of the fraudsters who told his customers to lie to him have even been sought. So that they didn't catch the, it's not that they're running around the country trying to figure this out. So that's what they have failed to do it. They have declined to investigate. The fake trials would be less offensive if we had some real ones, you know. 217-688-1433 if you'd like to be on the program and I'm all you taught the less I have to. So please do give us a call. Now. You don't want to have a clip. Do I have a clip that I can play here? Do I have safe clips? I got to get safe clips for, for, for surreal politics. I have like the, I have all these clips that I can play on. I have all these clips that I can play on the, the unsensitive production. Yeah, do this. But if somebody finds you said something insensitive 20 years ago, you'll never be heard from again. Now, how could, look, if I belong to a despised minority group, I would so vastly prefer somebody who just says something insensitive about me 20 years ago to somebody who wants to bomb me. Like, what am I missing here, Chris? Well, I think the first thing that we're missing is that this will not, you know, expel people from the world, right? The fact of the matter is, is that really, James people up with this is when they backpedal in apologize, which I think is, you know, the worst thing that you can do when somebody calls you a racist, they think the best thing you can say is so what now get on with your argument, you know? I, you know, people call me a racist and a sexist and a misogynist and a bigot. And I'm like, okay, now make your point because all you did was launch an ad hominem attack at me. You haven't even refuted anything I've said. You don't win the argument by doing this. And I think if more people did that, then, you know, these, attacks would really lose a lot of their steam, you know. Me, people have been trying to run me out of the Liberty Movement for years now. And I just didn't, you know, people laugh at me for bragging about Alexa Ranks, but I just bypassed the free state project on toplibertarian.com. I'm actually right below you right now, Mr. Wood. Well, how about that? Well, lucky for you, I'm too busy making Ron Paul Home School videos to be at full octane, but, but good for you. I know. Good for you, that. I know that if you were, if you were writing, you know, you know, less important things than the obviously very important work that you're doing right now that you'd be driving a great deal more traffic. But still, no, no, that is good. I'm seeing my name right next to yours on toplibertarian. That is, and that really is, that really is an accomplishment. And what I like about it is that nobody to return to the privilege issue, nobody handed you a thing to the contrary, everybody try to take things from you. Like nobody said, here everybody, here's a platform where I'm going to introduce you to this guy. Now, I was lucky because I, you know, Ron Paul has promoted me to one degree or another and I've been with the Mises Institute for a number of years and that's been good for me. But at the same time, I'm not. Okay, welcome back to surreal politics. 217-688-1433, if you'd like to be on the program and I'm going to tell the last I have to, please, please, it gives a call. And by the way, like, if you want to get on, if you want to call into the show tonight, like, call in now, don't wait, don't wait until later because I'll end the show early. Okay, I've got a bunch of stories pulled up here. I'm really bent out of shape. You might have gathered like if it wasn't bad enough, my French has got sentenced to eight years in prison and then I got tech problems on top of it. I'm like, I'm like, not in the mood. Okay, so if you want to call in, do call in and then, and then I'll talk to you until, until I call the show off. But if you're not going to call into the show, then I'm going to, then I'm not going to stay here all night and just read the news to you because that's all I really have to do. 217688-1433, you'd like to be on the program. And the more you talk to less, I have to, so please, it gives a call. Now, come on. Where's the thing? A whole entire point of being playing this stupid break. Oh, so, Jumbo Bowman, this guy's pretty funny. So there's a guy, he's a Democrat. You might, you might guess this from his behavior. So this Democrat, he went, he decided that he was going to go pull a fire alarm in Congress and he did this with the intention of obstructing a government proceeding. You understand? Now, you might remember that thing, you know, obstructing a government proceeding. They use a call that insurrection back in the battle days of 2021. Now that we are living in a libertarian utopia, they don't apparently look at it that way anymore. But Jumbo Bowman, he went and pulled the fire alarm because he wanted to shut down the government of the United States. He wanted to make sure that there was not a vote on a continuing resolution to prevent a government shutdown. Now, you might say to yourself, like, wait a second, Chris, that doesn't make any sense. Government, the Democrats don't like to shut down the government. Democrats are the party of government. They love government. They need the government. And you would, you know, I don't understand that. If you listen to a lot of conservative talk radio, right? On conservative talk radio, they're like, go ahead, shut down the government. But Democrats are the ones who are going to suffer. They said it all the time because they don't understand anything or they're malicious, you know, it's a coin toss. Depending on the mood that you're in, you might believe one or the other. But so Jumbo Bowman, he wanted to make sure that this bill to keep the government open and did not pass. And so he pulled the fire alarm to prevent a vote from occurring. And then he was arrested for that, you know. And it's a big problem that he got arrested, not because, you know, not because of Congressman commit. It's a problem because he's black, right? So you don't allow to arrest black people anymore. The traces. And so then it turned, then he comes around and he gets out and he says, oh, no, no, no. I wasn't trying to obstruct an official proceeding. No, no, no, no, no, I wasn't trying to shut down the government of the United States. I was, I was trying to go out the door and the door, I couldn't get through the door. And when I went to go out the door and I had trouble getting out the door, I was like, maybe if I pull this handle, the door will open. And you know, that's like a trope, right? Because you, you know, like he's saying, like, look, I know that you guys are a bunch of racists and you think that I have a low IQ because I'm black. And so I think that you'll believe this, right? But that's not, he's not actually that stupid. Like he knows what he did. And so he's a criminal. And Marjorie Taylor Green went out there and she's like, no, look at, let me just demonstrate to you how preposterous this story is. And it was very preposterous. And so he's a criminal and he's lying. And I thought that that was pretty amusing. Two, one, seven, six, eight, one, four, three, three. You like to be on the program. We already talked about the stupid, bicky, hallowy thing. Tucker Carlson gave a speech not long ago where he has some some pretty dire predictions for the future. So they've done everything they can by legal means, which are in fact extra legal means if we're being totally honest, completely third world stuff, take the opponent out of the race. And they're still losing. So I mean, I don't know what's going to happen. This is not going to be a race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. I would bet my beloved fishing camp in Maine that that is not going to happen. That's not going to happen. So what will happen? Well, I don't know. One of like 400 distinct other possibilities. I mean, I just can't even pick one. Other way of Gavin Newsom, we all should be very, very concerned. That guy's scary. I mean it. I mean it's scary. Yeah, but that's a whole separate conversation. But the point is this is this will be forced. These issues will be forced soon, like in a year. And the road from here to November of 2024 is going to be filled with developments. Nobody in this room could foresee. I can promise you that. So it's about to get very serious. For sure. Only leadership of the world at stake, which is also by the way, we now know the most lucrative possible political franchise in human history. So everything's a sick. What wouldn't they do? What haven't they done? What might they do next? Let your imagination run wild. So the only one that you can answer is how will you prepare yourself for that? And because that really is the only question. And I mean, I just my my answers to that in my own way. I'll just say what I think. One be a little bit more serious. You know, like take this seriously. Much as you want to retreat and pretend everything's fine. Sit down. It's not fine. Okay? Two, you know, maybe if you look across at the people you despise, the small group of people running this country, it is small. It does not represent most people in America. It doesn't represent anything close to a majority at all. Again, just to restate, Donald Trump, who has hated as a blood enemy by over 40% of the population and who's been attacked in ways that no political figure has ever been attacked in the West is beating the incumbent president. Okay? I'm not sure that's entirely an endorsement of Trump to some extent it is and his empathy. That's real. But it's also a sign of revulsion, deep dissatisfaction with what we're doing. So most people are not unborded with this. But the people who are responsible for it are the most dishonest, the most ruthless, the most anti-human group I've ever dealt with. And I spent 35 years living in Washington. I don't even recognize these people and what they're doing. I really don't. It's so dark. They're doing things that can't even on academic level conceivably help the United States or the population that lives here, letting in 7 million people from the poorest countries in the world illegally and then immediately putting them all on public benefits. I mean, that right there will destroy the country and they did that on purpose. So these are really, really dark people, the darkest. So I need to be the opposite of that. And I'm not a super good person. The last thing I'm going to do is claim to be. But this is the moment to try a little harder to be a little bit better. This is not the moment to be drunk all the time. This is not the moment to tell lies. As they go lower, go higher. And there are many reasons for this. And one is spiritual. It's be totally honest. I do think this is a spiritual battle. There's no political explanation for it, whatsoever. But one other reason is for the way that you feel about yourself. When you're honest, you are proud of yourself. When you're honest, you are strong. When you lie, you become weak. That is true. Tell a lie. You become weak. Why do you lie? Because you're hiding something. Because you believe that the people around you knew what you really thought or said or did. They would think less of you. That diminishes you. Your power ebbs when you lie. Tell the truth. Good advice, Tucker Carlson. But Democrats, they don't like telling the truth. And that's why you know that they are all criminals. They lie all of the time. And so one of these guys, who is when people are in the habit of lying, they become journalists frequently. And that is a it's a great way to make like $45,000 a year lying your butt off. And so they do this. And they live modest lives, often in terrible neighborhoods. And one of these guys lived in a terrible neighborhood in Philadelphia. His name was Josh Krueger. And his Twitter has like a rainbow flag on it. And he's an idiot. And he was running around saying things that like that that COVID was much worse, for example, than the gun violence that had been loosed on the streets of Philadelphia by Larry Krasner setting, setting gun criminals free. Because they don't like guns, but they don't like, they don't like what they have a problem with law-biting gun owners. They like criminals. That's a weird thing about them. They talk about gun violence. But they don't actually have a problem with that. They're like, oh, well, as long as you're using it for crime, you know, it's all right. And so some criminal went into this guy's house and shot him. And he's dead. A Philadelphia journalist and community advocate. That's pretty funny. This is NBC News. He was a community advocate. Yeah, he was advocating for the members of his community to commit crimes and go loose on his street. And then one of those criminals came into his house and shot him. Police were notified of a shooting at Josh Krueger's home in a 2300 block of Watkins street at 128 AM on Monday. Krueger 39 sustained seven gunshot wounds to the chest in abdomen. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead at 2.13 AM. No arrests have been made shockingly enough. And a motive is still under investigation, please said. But it's hard to track down the motive of somebody who is a lying criminal journalist, isn't it? You know, they're like, there's a lot of decent people out there have been harmed by this guy. Where are we going to start? You know, we might normally go looking for criminals, but this guy, you know, there's decent people might have wanted to kill this guy. Krueger was known in the Philadelphia community as a social justice advocate. Long time journalists writing for news outlets, such as the Philadelphia Inquire and the Philadelphia citizen. He also worked for Mayor Jim Kenney's administration as a spokesperson for the office of homeless services. In his statement, Kenney said he was shocked and saddened by Krueger's death. Josh Kier deeply about our city at its residence, which is why which was evident both in his public service and in his writing. Kenney said in a Kenney said in a statement shared with NBC News on Monday, his intelligence creativity passionate, which shown bright in everything that he did and his light was dimmed much too soon. As a community advocate, Krueger focused on the on uplifting, the community's most vulnerable, including those experiencing homelessness addiction and members of the LGBTQ plus a P community. According to District Attorney Larry Krasner's office, as an openly queer writer who wrote about his own journey surviving substance abuse disorder in homeless, oh, this guy was a homeless gay junkie. I understand why they love him now. Oh, you're a homeless gay junkie. Could you come and like tell other people about the news? Could you help inform the voters homeless gay junkie? We think that that would be great for the citizens of our city. It was encouraging to see Josh join the Kenney administration as a spokesperson for the Office of Homeless Services. Krasner told said in a statement, Josh deserved to write in the ending of his personal story. Yeah, he did. He committed suicide by living in Philadelphia. That was his choice. That's how that's what happened. Sorry to my Philly fans. You know, I'm just saying. As with all homicides will be in close contact with the Philadelphia police as they work to identify the persons or persons responsible so that they could be held to account in a court of law. He said the investigation into Krueger's death is ongoing. And you know, and you know, if it turns out that some decent white person shot him because he was a lying scumbag, then you could bet that they'll follow through on that promise. But you know, if he's just like one more random guy shot in Philly, well, you know, two and seven six eight eight, one, four, three, three, you like to be on the program and I'm going to tell the less I have to. So please do give us a call. And you know, who else is a lying criminal, fill it by the name of John Kelly. Now, John Kelly worked for the Trump administration. He was a, he was what was his position there? The longest serving White House chief of Stafford Donald Trump as a, as it were. And he offered his harshest criticism yet of the former president in an exclusive statement to CNN. Cause you know, if you're like, if you, you know, if you are somebody who's like a reputable person and you're like, you know, that Trump guy, I think he's, I think that there's been, I think that there's a fair criticism to make about him. And I would like to put my criticism next to those other fair criticisms or I would like to go and rebut those people who are just, you know, Trump sick offense. The first thing that you do is you go to CNN, right? You say like, okay, you know, I want people to understand that I'm not just some bitter scumbag attacking the president because I'm a loser. So you, you definitely, when you want to give that message, you go to CNN, right? Kelly set the record straight. So CNN with an on the record confirmation of a number of damning stories and statements about Trump made behind closed doors attacking US service members and veterans, listing a number of objectionable comments. Kelly witnessed Trump make first hand. And he waited until now to do this because, you know, that's, that's what a reputable person would do. What can I add to this? That has not already been said. Kelly said, well, probably nothing. You're just coming in here to, you know, to make up nonsense and confirm the lies, right? When asked if I, when asked if he wanted to weigh in on his form of boss in a light of recent comments made by the, by other former Trump officials, a person that thinks those who defend their country and uniform are shot down or seriously wanted in combat or spend years being tortured as POWs are all suckers because there's nothing in it for them. A person who did not want me to be seen in the presence of military refugees because it does not look good for me. A person who demonstrated open contempt for a gold star family for all gold star families on TV during the 2016 campaign and Ranson, our most precious heroes who gave their lives for American defense or losers and wouldn't visit their graves in France. Oh, I get it. You're bent out of shape about John McCain. Oh, now I understand. A person who is not, is this just, this is funny. This is just like, it's just a rant. I can't even believe that I thought I pulled this up thinking that like he was going to go testify at the trial or something, but it doesn't have anything that approaches the level of evidence. They're just like, I hate Trump. You hate Trump. Let's do some Trump hating together. You know, this is a circle jerk, fundamentally. This is, this is something that you, this is, I'm not going to say it. That would be, that was obscene, the idea that went through my head. And so I'll tell you what I'm going to do guys. I'm going to call it a night because you guys don't want to talk to me and I'm pissed off and my friend just went to prison and so I'm going to go work on other things and I thank you very much for tuning into surreal politics. I'm not going to ask you for money because we started late and we're ending early, but I do appreciate you tuning into the show. I'll be back Wednesday in much better shape, but a Wednesday show. But remember that is those who do pay me. Thank you very much for that. We'll be back. And I'll be back on Friday for the, for the, for the, for the, for the unsanitary production. And I am, I am very grateful to all of you who make this production possible. So thank you very much for seeing us.