January 6th Was Unforgivable

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0:09It's days like today where I am painfully reminded that most of my conservative friends, family, and even co-workers are just quite simply too far gone. That really sucks to admit because I'm a true middle-of-the-road kind of libertarian. The kind of guy who thinks that government pretty much sucks no matter who is in charge. that both sides are in fact absolutely the problem today and anybody telling you otherwise is pretty much full of crap or completely out of touch or quite possibly even both.

0:55If you had any idea how easy it would have been for me to cash in on the MAGA train over the last 10 years by pretending to be a Trump supporter, you'd realize that honesty has cost me more than most people will ever know. And to be honest, hearing my conservative friends, family, and even colleagues downplay the January 6th attacks makes me want to vote Democrat, but that's not me either.

1:29now i wouldn't go so far as to say that i'm some sort of political orphan because i know for a fact that there is a truth movement happening right now and it scares the living hell out of the people who benefit from keeping misinformation abundant

1:55I just don't know what to do about the right or the left in this country because each side is getting crazier by the day. Liberals are acting like Democrats could do no wrong. Conservatives are acting like Republicans can do no wrong. Both sides are acting like the opposition shouldn't be allowed to exist whatsoever. Along the way, politicians mastered the art of convincing people that they weren't full of shit. The only alternative explanation is that we actually do have a representative government of, by, and for an incompetent, corrupt, and degenerate electorate. Thankfully, I choose to believe that it's the former rather than the latter.

2:34The most powerful people in the world are the ones controlling the algorithms that shape our attention spans. And when you control the attention span long enough, it starts to look like digital brainwashing. At least that's how I convince myself that a total ass clown like Donald Trump remains in power. But that was a day of love from the standpoint of the millions. It's like hundreds of thousands. It could have been the largest group I've ever spoken before. And I do blame the left for creating and defining the space for this cancer to thrive. If Trump is lung cancer, then the left is big tobacco.

3:20The same Democrats that want to take the country back in 26 and 28 weren't even strong enough to enforce the law over January 6th. They couldn't protect us from Trump when Biden was in charge, so how the hell can they be trusted with anything else? Clowns to the left of us jokers to the right. Here we are, stuck in the middle with each other, wondering what the hell we should do next. 8208 with four members, the doors barricade, there's people flooded the hallways outside, we have no way out. I wish I could get excited about a seemingly inevitable Gavin Newsom presidency or the fact that Donald Trump has one foot in the grave, both politically and physically speaking.

4:04But deep down, I know that it's just going to get harder and harder for to working class unless something big breaks. And when it does, I mean, it's going to be it's going to be really ugly. And nobody with a rational mind should want that. Officers still remaining on the House floor and on the third floor to use the subway themselves. It's time to evacuate so we can secure the members on the other side. Copy. Look, power doesn't just shift overnight in a vacuum sealed container fresh on your doorstep the next morning. Look what Donald Trump and his goons did on January 6th. The single worst day in modern American history next to 9-11 because January 6th was us fighting each other, not some external problem like the Saudis that we couldn't fight together.

4:52And fighting each other is what we did. And that's exactly what the world's most powerful people outside of the United States want us doing more than anything else, because they know that when Americans are united, they can accomplish anything together and defeat any enemy, foreign or domestic.

5:25During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. No, Orwell didn't actually say it, but the truth still rings true. And I believe that speaking the truth, especially over facts, matters more now today than ever. And no, I don't think I'm right about everything because I know I'm not. Telling the truth means calling out the bullshit from your own people when you see it and smell it. Telling the truth also means abandoning your tribe and that warm collectivism for some cold, hard, and rugged individualism. MAGA is a failure. Wokeism is a failure. Yet these two extremes continue convincing people that they have all the answers, but thankfully there is a growing number of us that aren't buying it anymore.

6:10The problem is getting centrists to weaponize their message because we're all just a little too damn reasonable to cut through this toxic noise that passes for discourse.

6:23And I'm starting to believe that what both movements fear most right now is the lost art of persuasion. Because persuasion requires confidence in your ideas instead of control over other people. Trumpism and wokeism don't embrace any sort of real debate. That's why they mirror each other so perfectly while they pretend to be mortal enemies. They deserve each other. And both have dragged their respective sides away from credibility and seriousness and the ability to actually change minds. With rare, rare exception. The answer isn't retreating into quiet centrism or pretending that these two extremes somehow cancel each other out.

7:01I think it's about reclaiming persuasion as a weapon. There was a time when conservatives took pride in changing liberal minds and liberals respected conservatives who could argue without shouting. That confidence has been replaced by cult behavior on one side and ideological fragility on the other.

7:23If centrists want to matter, we have got to stop being polite spectators and start being unapologetic advocates for reality debate and adulthood. Not louder and sharper and cruel, but relentless. The future does not belong to the loudest extremists. It belongs to the people willing to confront them without becoming them. And shouldn't that be the entire point? Two wrongs don't make a right. I'm honestly starting to believe that the only thing that can save America is moderates on the left and moderates on the right uniting into a political alliance that rewards sanity and punishes extremism on both sides, not just in leadership, but among ordinary everyday citizens who want a country that does not constantly lie to them and take their money.

8:07We're not asking for perfection from government. We're just asking for better than this.

8:26They were peaceful people. These were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. And I mentioned the word love. The love, the love in the air. I've never seen anything like it.

8:42Look, this kind of coalition can't build itself. So if there are any millionaire or billionaire libertarians in the listening audience and you'd like to put something serious together, I'm not hard to reach. And until we can do it again, it's Newsweek Radio. I'm Jesse Edwards. Catch you next time. Bye. And we say bye bye. Newsweek Radio is a member of the Trust Project. But that was a day of love. This is now offensively a riot. 49 hours declaring it a riot. 5 to 50 B by the Capitol Police 1 advisor trying to breach and get to the Capitol.