The following is a transcript from the Pro America Report.
Welcome. Welcome, welcome! Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. And it is great to be back. I hope you’re ready for a great week. There’s a lot happening across America.
Hey, I got to tell you one thing. If you’re listening to this, our San Diego listeners, St. Louis listeners, folks listening online, I tell you right now, it is fun to watch the St. Louis Cardinals. Now I know. I’m a Cardinals fan. I know there’s Dodgers fans on, that listen to the program. Certainly San Diego Padre fans, all kinds of fans, but Albert Pujols, Adam Wainwright, Yadier Molina finishing out a nearly 20 year career, each of them, and they’re just winning. It’s really fun to watch. I’ve been enjoying it with my kids, my family. It’s really great. So I hope you’re getting some baseball in. I do love that game. I love watching it. All right, we’ve got an interesting show coming up. We got a couple of interesting guests.
We’ll check back in with Terry Schilling of the American Principles Project and catch up with him on some of the school board races. And then we also will visit with candidate I’m going to try to talk to candidates over the next couple of weeks, people that are running, especially for Congress, but also for school board and others.
Leon Benjamin is running for Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District down near Richmond. We’ll talk with him. He’s been on the program before. He’s a fascinating guy. Navy veteran, pastor, a small businessman. I think he’s got three children. I know one of his children just headed off to college last week. We talked about that or texted about it. So he is a super guy. We’ll talk with him. All right.
But first, what you need to know today. I want to start the week with a lengthy description. I decided to do it as a comparison, okay?
So the comparison is between what happened with loan forgiveness, the Biden loan forgiveness plan, and what happened at Mar-a-Lago. And what I want to do is show the power of the narrative machine, okay? The power of the narrative machine.
Remember, the narrative machine is big tech and big media working together with big government to give us, to tell us what we are to believe, to define for us the narrative. Okay? That is what we’re talking about with the narrative machine. Big tech, big media working together with big government to deliver a truth.
So here’s an example. The loan forgiveness effort by Joe Biden. Now, pause and recall that when President Obama was in the White House, he announced that he really wanted to help the DACA recipients that’s often referred to as the Dreamers, illegal alien Americans who came in with their parents. So people who came in illegally but were underage and then went to school, high school, ended up in college, and now they were older than the age of minority. They were adults. What do you do about it? That’s what he said. He wanted to help them, and he demanded no, it’s not fair. He said, Congress, you should address this. You’re the ones that are supposed to address this. I’m President Obama. I don’t have the authority to address it. Please address it.
And they didn’t.
And he famously said, I’ll do it with an executive order.
And he said dramatically, I’ve got a phone and a pen, meaning he would sign the executive order. Then he would call up the grassroots and activists and tell them, and it would become politically so popular he’d be protected.
He had admitted himself that it was against the law. He didn’t have the constitutional authority, but he had a pen and a phone, and he did it, and it got very little. It got coverage because the Republicans opposed it. But it’s lawlessness, right?
I mean, talk about fascist. Fascist or that’s not the word, a dictator that just decides doesn’t care what the Constitution says, does what he wants.
So Joe Biden says, a year ago, I want to forgive the student loans in some way, too much student loan debt. And lots of people like me said, good, put a tax on the endowments of the universities that have 50 plus billion dollars in endowments, which is directly tied to the fact that they’ve been charging so much in tuition. And, I like that.
But instead, Biden said, I’m going to let Congress address it.
Nancy Pelosi said, President Biden does not have the authority to do this, to unilaterally forgive the loans.
And yet in the last week, we’ve heard Joe Biden say he’s going to forgive the loans. Then he says it’s paid for, this massive $300 billion expense. He says it’s paid for because, I don’t know, it would save money in the future, money we wouldn’t have to spend or something, I don’t know, in defaulted loans. It’s crazy.
And here’s my point. The narrative machine kicked in.
Big government acts. Joe Biden says he’s going to do something. Big tech and big media cover it breathlessly.
And the debate is, can he forgive 10,000? Can he forgive 20,000? Should he forgive 40,000? What’s the debate? The debate ought to be about the lawlessness, the blatant lawlessness of the President. All the coverage should be, Nancy Pelosi says it’s lawless to do that. Joe Biden says he’s going to do it. It’s not even a Republican fight. It’s a fight between two Democrats, and yet nothing.
All of the coverage is about, of course he can do it. Just how much? How big should it be? Okay, that’s the first.
That’s the narrative machine. Big government does something, Biden says he’s going to do it. Big tech and big media settle right in, and they cover. Okay, now on to the next example.
That’s the example of how the narrative machine goes for what the left wants, okay, versus what’s happened with Mar-a-Lago.
All that’s been reported is leaks from DOJ, all, that’s because no one else has any information. This is like the Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.
So what do we know about Mar-a-Lago?
We know that President Trump left office and took documents with him. And we know that at some point, somebody said, hey, wait a second. Some of those documents should be here in the government. They shouldn’t be there in your residence or in your building. It’s a fight over documents. It’s a fight over documents. And I admit it’s gone on for a while. I guess for six months or so, President Trump turned over some documents. But what is being reported now is that there were things that were redacted from the Affidavit, and therefore, we can’t tell you what they are.
But they’re serious. They’re serious. Oh, believe us, they’re serious.
Why should we believe you? Why should we believe the people, the media, the big tech and big media that are now telling us, oh, the walls are closing in? The walls are closing in? Really? How are the walls closing in? What is it that happened? What is in the document? What could be in the documents that would mean the walls are closing in, that it’s a national security threat? I don’t know.
Please don’t tell me that it’s the nuclear codes. Does anybody think that the nuclear codes don’t get changed when you have a new president? In fact, I don’t know, but I have to think the nuclear codes get changed all the time. You know, every now and then they get changed. So there’s not one set of codes that is drifting around. So what is it that the president of the United States, former president, has, that requires this kind of action, this kind of overarching over, uh, dramatic effort? Again, we don’t know.
But what we do know is the media, big media and big tech are going to sell it like that. Now, again, let’s do another contrast. Let’s do another contrast to the news that Jeff Zuckerberg admitted that the FBI came to them and said, hey, we want you to know, pretty soon we expect to see some Russian probably some Russian disinformation in October of 2020. And when we do, we want you to do something about it.
Zuckerberg goes, yeah, okay, we’ll see. And then out comes the Hunter Biden laptop. And what happens?
The FBI and the intelligence community, 50 former but recent intelligence community people say, that was Russian. It’s Russian disinformation. Don’t cover it. And Zuckerberg admits he didn’t cover it.
Now we know that was a lie. It wasn’t Russian disinformation. It was real. It is a laptop. It is Hunter Biden’s. And so big government comes and says, FBI says, hey, don’t cover this. Big tech, Facebook, big media, all the cable outlets say, okay, we won’t do it. We won’t cover it.
Frankly, how is that not an insurrection? If you actively have your FBI lying and getting one of the biggest players or one of the biggest controllers of information to act the way they want. How is that not influencing the election? It is.
Of course it is.
And my point here is the Narrative Machine, frankly, it has all the control. It has all the control because the whole country is talking about Mar-a-Lago instead of talking about lawless president. The whole country is talking about Affidavits and Redactions and the mystery of what’s there instead of talking about a lawless president and an FBI that’s utilizing Facebook to shut down information. It’s a breathtaking example in these days. Now is it the dog days of August and people aren’t paying attention. Maybe. Maybe.
It certainly feels like the Democrats and the left have moved off of January 6, that somehow January 6 is not working as a hit on this president. And they move from maybe we have Donald Trump obstructing official proceedings that’s the obstruction charge that a bunch of the people who were at January 6 got charged with and they realized, yeah, we can’t do that. We can’t stretch that law to try to charge. Let’s see if we can do obstruction of justice with regard to documents, like documents that you take out of a job if you’ve ever left a job.
I still have boxes in the corner. I didn’t even leave my job and I switched locations where I work and I have boxes in the corner. I don’t know what everything is in there. I’m not leaving the present.
The Narrative Machine is so dominant right now, it’s breathtaking. The Narrative Machine has the power to transform everything we’re talking about. The big government, big tech, and big media have the ability to control what we see and therefore what we know. What we know, what we believe is true because of what we see and what we don’t see. And the Narrative Machine controls what we see and what we know, therefore what we believe to be true, and it therefore controls what we do, from voting to protesting to whatever, pick a topic.
How much more power do we have to recognize? And let me be clear, I don’t know what to do about it. But I know right now the forces against We the People, or let’s say differently, maybe they’re not against us. Maybe you don’t think they’re against us. Maybe you think that what they’re doing is for the good of us. But it’s not how it’s supposed to be. We’re not supposed to be governed this way, controlled this way.
And I don’t know how you change it. I don’t know how you change it.
But far too many people that have authority and power seem to be comfortable with what’s happening, and they seem to accept the terms of the argument as presented by the Narrative Machine. So over the weekend, we had lots of people, including Republicans, who said things like, hey, I don’t really support the raid on Mar-a-Lago, but we should get to the bottom of the documents. Those are two different things.
Having a position on presidential documents is fine. It’s a great subject, but that’s different than the FBI raiding the former president’s home and then leaking and then the media covering it and then big tech covering it in a way that gives the country is tearing us apart. There’s nothing wrong with this country except the narrative machine. There’s nothing wrong with this country except the fact that the big tech, big media, and big government are trying to tear us apart. Big tech and big media are doing it to make money, and big government is doing it to advantage its power. That’s what’s happening around us.
We the people would get along fine with our neighbors. We the people would get along fine with each other if we weren’t being brainwashed and had our minds changed. Literally, our brains rewired by big tech and big media and big government working along with them. It is a crisis for this nation. It is a crisis. There is no doubt about that.
The question is, are we going to face it or not? Will we control what happens or not? All right, we got to take a break. That’s what you need to know. I’m Ed Martin. We’ll be right back.
We’ll talk again with our friend Terry Schilling as well as Leon Benjamin. Candidate. Be right back. Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Back in a moment.
