The Secret to the Rise of the Socialists | Episode 347

Hey everybody, welcome to Vince on a Tuesday. It's so good to see everyone. I'm back. Yes, tan, rested, and ready after a nice vacation. I'll tell you all about it in just a moment. Great to see you though. You're the best audience anywhere and I'm glad to see you back here again with me. Appreciate everybody who was pinch-hitting for me during my time off, to include the great Hy Karania and Sean Ferish. God bless them for that. Thank you very much, guys. Appreciate you. What a great team to work with here at the Silver Lock operation. Appreciate those guys.

Uh, we will discuss a lot today. What happened while I was gone. We've got updates on the Save America Act. Of course, we always have to touch on that. And then what's going on with these socialists, you know, and the craziness that's behind their movement. Of course, there's a lot of infighting going on on the left, but who's voting for the craziest possible Democrats? I've got some details, some data that we're going to dive into. And also speaking of data, did you see these numbers that just came out about the COVID jabs leading to a whole bunch of unborn children being aborted in utero? Terrific data. We're going to talk to Jay Bhattacharya coming up with the Trump administration. We'll get his reaction to that and so much more all ahead on this edition of Vince.

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Yeah, indeed. So, aloha first and foremost. Um, I did go to Hawaii. That's where we went. We went to Hawaii. Uh, and the reason for that is it's Hawaii. How cool is Hawaii? Uh, but actually the motivating factor for us to go to Oahu is the fact that I lived there as a kid. For those of you who've been with me for a while, you'll know that my father's a Marine, Marine General. Uh, retired after 36 years in the United States Marine Corps. Uh, and one of his duty stations during his time in the Corps was the Kaneohe Marine Corps Base, Marine Corps Base Hawaii. And so as a kid, I lived there for three years on Oahu. But up until this moment in my life, I've never been able to share it with my wife and my daughter. And so I said, "Why don't we go to Hawaii?" So I took them and we spent a week there. And in addition to seeing some of the touristy things, of course, we were there on Waikiki Beach. It was all very wonderful in that way. Uh, but I got to take my wife and my child around to places that meant a lot to me in my childhood that up until this point they haven't been able to see. So we went to the town of Kailua, Kailua, which is on the eastern side of Oahu. Um, and that's where my school, my middle school was, Kailua Intermediate, for those of you who are familiar with the area, was where I went to middle school. So, I brought my wife and my daughter. We got to see that. And I took them around town, showed them these various places that I got to hang out as a kid. Uh, it was wonderful. And then of course I showed them the, you know, the regular awesome stuff that I was very well aware of in Oahu because when we would have family members come to visit us, I'd take them to all these various locations. So now I got to take my wife and my daughter there, including Sea Life Park. And we took them, I took them hiking on Diamond Head, which was great. My wife and daughter, by the way, are in much better shape than I am, so they handled Diamond Head even easier than I did. Uh, but it was wonderful. And then, uh, you know, we did a whole bunch, Polynesian Cultural Center, uh, and the Dole Pineapple Plantation. And by the way, in the midst of all of this, we ran into great viewers and listeners of this program. And thank you. It was funny, including I saw one gentleman who I had met in Virginia, uh, who was there at the Dole Pineapple Plantation. I'm walking out the door after we got a chance to tour the pineapple maze and we were eating Dole Whip. I'm walking out the door and this guy goes, "Vince." And I go, "Yeah." And he goes, "Hey, I met you in Virginia." I go, "Well, we've come a long way to meet again. It was great. It was super great." Anyway, really nice to see everybody. What a wonderful time. Uh, and a great experience. And the big, I would say the big highlight of the week though, in addition to getting to share all of that with my family, was, um, we got to take a really nice trip to the USS Arizona. Now, if you ever go to Oahu, I'm telling you, this is a must-stop to see this grave site for well over a thousand men who died, perished on that day in December 7th of 1941 in Pearl Harbor. You've got to check this out. You have to go. You have to see it. Uh, and because it just helps you really appreciate the value of our American history and the sacrifices that so many have made to keep this great country going, including the men who perished aboard that ship. And you know, one of the, I'll talk about this maybe in more depth today on the big national radio show, but just to give you kind of a quick summary here. Um, I had the privilege, I brought my wife and my daughter with me. Of course, we had the privilege of joining a small group from the Hawaii Department of Transportation. We took a little tour boat with them that was arranged by the Navy.

And we got on this little tour boat and right after we essentially did like kind of a small museum tour that they have there. We get on the tour boat, they took us around all of the various sites inside of Pearl Harbor along Battleship Row to see each of the different spots and kind of talk about them in some depth, which was nice. Just some remarkable stories. If you haven't really stared at all of the specific details about Pearl Harbor, I encourage you to do that. But here's one that really stands out to me. You know, the USS Nevada was struck. This battleship was struck by the Japanese alongside the rest of these ships that were docked in Pearl Harbor. And they tried to basically get the Nevada out of the harbor. The Nevada was already struck. They had already hit it with this torpedo. And they basically got the ship underway and they were heading out of the harbor. And as the Japanese see that this battleship is on the move, they begin concentrating all of their firepower on the Nevada for a reason. They're trying to use it to block the exit path for the harbor. And if they did that, if they blocked the channel, the US ships would have been absolutely stuck. The ability to get ships in and out of Pearl Harbor would have been destroyed entirely. So the captain of the Nevada runs the entire ship aground intentionally, which was a heroic and quick-thinking decision because it meant that we could actually keep moving the entirety of the United States Navy that was concentrated there in Pearl Harbor. Just so many amazing stories of heroism that day. And of course, then we get to the USS Arizona. We stopped there and one of the wonderful things for me was having my daughter and my wife, but my daughter especially, as I raise her to be able to contemplate that we were standing over a grave site. You know, when you stand at the USS Arizona, it's just a little memorial building that stands over the top of the wreckage of the ship, which you can still see below the waterline. For those of you who've been there, you know all about this, but just so people understand what this is. And there are thousands of men underwater still inside that grave. And in fact, as people have died through the years who were survivors of the USS Arizona, many of them, their families have actually entombed their bodies inside of the Arizona. And so we're standing there and I think this is very, I can tell my daughter is very affected by it. But one of the most amazing things about the Arizona to this very day is that the oil, the fuel that was within the ship when the ship went down, they were maxed out. They had about every last drop of fuel inside of that ship that they could possibly have, was about 1.5 million gallons of fuel inside of the ship itself. And so when the ship goes down, the fuel that's within it, you know, the Navy had to make a decision with that wreckage. Do we go in and do we drain the fuel or is that effort too risky? Are we going to cause an ecological disaster? And the Navy realized the latter is probably true. We can't drain it. If we attempt to, we may release 1.5 million gallons of fuel into the water here in Pearl Harbor. So instead, they made a calculated decision.

The fuel is going to continue to leak slowly for many years. In fact, each day the USS Arizona leaks about a gallon of fuel. A gallon. So, at the memorial, you will see a fuel sheen, an oil sheen right at the top of the water, a small one, but noticeable. Every day that you go to the USS Arizona, they call it the tears of the Arizona. And it was visible that day when we went, it was last week, Tuesday. And my wife, my daughter, we got to see this again. And I had seen it many times before as a child, but now as an adult looking at this and boy, I tell you what, what an emotionally resonant experience. And God bless the souls of the men who are aboard that ship. God bless everybody who has served in the United States military and especially those who have paid the ultimate sacrifice. Thank you for your service to this country. Uh, we really value you. We really value you and anyway it was an amazing thing. So I hope that's, I hope that wasn't too tedious for you. I just wanted to give you, I really wanted to take you inside. Hawaii is a nice trip and I did say to my wife, I was like, should I tell the audience I went to Hawaii? I feel so decadent to say I went to Hawaii. She's like, yes, everybody wants to know. Tell them what you were up to. I was like, okay, fine, I'll tell you. And it was really nice and thank you to the Navy for putting us on that boat and giving us that experience. That was a really, really valuable one and it means the world to me that I could share that with my daughter. So thank you for that and thank you American flags in the chat. We got so many great American flags in the chat.

Yeah, I do have some jet lag. Ah, Pinto asked, it's a six-hour time difference in Hawaii. So it's been, let's just say it's been utter chaos trying to figure out the sleep schedule, but we're here. I'm feeling good. I've got my blackout coffee. I feel very good. All right, let's dive into the things that happened while I was away. I apparently, there was some sort of like $20 burrito debate while I was gone. That was, I was kind of paying attention to. I was like, what the hell's going on? There's a $20 burrito debate. You want my quick and dirty on that? Affordability really matters and every single person should be encouraged to work as hard as they possibly can for their own success. Both of those things really matter. I know that doesn't make anybody happy, but I actually take both positions, which is that like, hey, America's leaders should work really hard to make life affordable, usually by getting the government out of the way. And meanwhile, nobody should be told that it's impossible for them to succeed. America is a story of people succeeding against all odds. And so you should work your ass off to do that. I actually take in that sense, I take kind of both positions here. You know, we shouldn't, the government shouldn't be driving up costs by like, let's see, how did Joe Biden do that? By printing trillions of dollars we didn't have. And meanwhile, young people should be working their tails off to succeed for themselves and for their families. That's just true. These are just true things. I don't know why this is some big controversial thing. And no, I don't think it's a great thing that burritos can run $20. That's crazy to me, a $20 burrito. So, there's the quick and dirty on that.

Um, also, the Senate adjourned this past week and they didn't pass the Save America Act. Oh, what a shock. I go away for two seconds and then they don't pass the Save America Act. Now I feel guilty about going on recess. Now of course this was something of a fait accompli. You know, these guys were always, you know, destined it seems to take a recess without actually doing what we wanted. The Senate has been driving all of us crazy all year long. But here they are, the Senate adjourning by voice vote. Cut one. Watch.

I move to adjourn pursuant to the previous order. The question is on the motion. All in favor say aye. Aye. All opposed say no. No. The ayes have it. The motion is agreed to.

The ayes have it. The ayes have it. And so a voice vote. Now, what's unusual about that, insofar as anything was unusual there, is that a voice vote took place at all. Usually that recess happens by unanimous consent, and nobody is there to voice their opposition to it. That happened. That actually happened this time because Mike Lee and a couple of other senators raised their voices in opposition. Now, that didn't sound, I don't know about you, but that to me did not sound like what was the number, like two dozen people or whatever it was supposed to be. It didn't feel like the full strength of the people who claimed that they were going to fight for us. But Mike Lee was among them and he said, "Look, this is the first time in decades where anything like this has even happened." Cut two. Watch this.

Okay, so it's about 5:00 a.m. and we just wrapped up in the Senate. A long night of voting. We got Todd Blanche confirmed as the attorney general. That's a good thing. We got the government funded through December 11th, and that's a good thing. Along the lines of the White House priority. And tragically, the Save America vote on the voter ID component failed. Not a single Democrat joined us. We're going to have to keep fighting on that one. We're not done. We're just getting started. We had the voice vote on adjournment and it failed. They outvoted us. That was the first time, as far as I'm aware, in decades when any vote has been held on any significant recess or adjournment. And I hope to have more of those in the future. I don't know what else to say other than thanks to all those who encouraged us to keep going, to keep fighting. We did our best. Left no stone unturned. I wish the outcome had been different both as to German and as to these votes. But this fight's not over. We're just getting started.

Look, I don't know about you, that video drives me a little crazy. It drives me a little crazy. And here's why. It's because like, you know, it just bums me out. It bums me out. And, you know, he says we're just getting started. Now, in fairness to Mike Lee, he's right. This is a part of a process. One way or another, we're getting what we want. If we don't get what we want, the country collapses. So, here are your options. One way or another, you get election integrity or you don't and the whole thing collapses. Do you understand the stakes here? And so when he says we're just getting started, he's right about that. Now, it's frustrating that it's not done yet. It's frustrating they're on vacation. It's frustrating that he was one of just a handful of voices to vote opposition to going into recess. But what are our choices here? Either we get this done or we are done for.

Again, I've said it not just today, but I've said it before. American history is full of stories of Americans succeeding against all odds. And right now the odds are stacked against us in the United States Senate. And not just because every Democrat opposes election integrity. It's because we have a bunch of lame-ass Republicans who oppose it too for whatever reason, including laziness. But we have to get this done and we have to fire the people who are standing in our way. So yeah. No, we're just getting started. But boy, that's very frustrating. It's hard to sound like Mike Lee in the midst of all of this. Now, the Senate, it's on vacation, but it ain't on actual recess. Do you understand what's going on with the recess, right? It's a pro forma session yet again. You want to see how crazy this is? Look at what Chad Pergram has summarized. Chad, Senate pro forma schedule through mid-September. Every three to four days, they gavel in. 10:00 a.m. yesterday, 8:00 a.m. this Thursday, 1:30 p.m. next Monday, 11:30 a.m. the following Thursday, then Monday, then Thursday, then Monday, then Tuesday, then Friday, then Tuesday, then Thursday. They just boom, boom, boom. They just gavel in. They just keep gaveling. That's all they do. They don't do the job of the American people. They gavel. And why do they do that? Why do they bang a gavel when they're supposed to be on vacation? Kind of seems inconvenient that a United States senator has to show up and bang a gavel. What is that about? The answer to that, quite unfortunately, is that the Republicans who run Congress are staying in pro forma session to prevent the president of the United States from having recess appointment power. If there's a better explanation for this, I've never heard one. The answer is only to preclude the president of the United States from having his recess appointment power. Now you explain to me how this makes it so that you're upholding the agenda of the American people.

Now, look, I get it. They finally confirmed Todd Blanche. Great. But there's all sorts of people the president of the United States could put into place immediately if he had recess appointment power. And the Republican Congress is denying him. That would be both Mike Johnson and John Thune. This is a joint conversation between the House and the Senate and they're in pro forma session. This is gross. The whole thing is so gross. They're in that August recess, you know, because they earned vacation. So crazy. It's so crazy to me. Now Todd Blanche is in place, which is good news. He's basically still in place. The only thing that really changed is his title. He went from acting attorney general to full-time attorney general. But now that he's got the job and now that he doesn't have Tillis and John Cornyn and bitter Bill Cassidy standing in his way, what is he going to do with it? Let me explore that in just a moment with you because there are some very good options on the table. Very good options on the table for the newly minted full-time attorney general of the United States. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince.

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All right, so now we got Todd Blanche. He's an attorney general. Congrats, Todd. You earned it, brother. Appreciate you being there. He's done good work in that capacity. Now, what could he do with the job? Well, how about this? What if he prosecuted Anthony Fauci? Anthony Fauci was just referred this past week to the United States Department of Justice for contempt of Congress. He's been held in contempt of Congress by the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, voted to hold him in contempt of Congress and they referred him for criminal prosecution now because Anthony Fauci has been obstructing a lawful, legitimate constitutional congressional investigation. Let's prosecute him. Let's go for it. Let's test it. This is a big opportunity for Todd Blanche to begin righting at least some of the wrongs. Although in fairness to the Justice Department, they've already prosecuted Anthony Fauci's top lieutenant. But why don't we go for the little dog, the diminutive big dog, Anthony Fauci. Go after that guy. Boy, does he deserve it. How about going after him? That would be a useful act as the attorney general of the United States.

And in fact, the evidence against Anthony Fauci is only growing. Did you see this news about Anthony? And we'll get to this coming up with our great guest, Jay Bhattacharya, is going to join us here in a few minutes. You see this horrific news that Anthony Fauci, this is not shocking, but it is appalling. Anthony Fauci knew that babies were getting slaughtered by the COVID jab, but he refused to tell the public. We know this thanks to Senator Ron Johnson and Senator Rand Paul who just got a hold of these text messages and shared them with the public. Dr. Fauci was so concerned in January 2021 that the second dose of the COVID shot, quote, "theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester." Senator Rand Paul and I released the texts between Fauci, Rochelle Walensky, and Vivek Murthy below. While I've been conducting oversight for years, now that we have the documents in Fauci's government-issued phone, my investigation has only just begun. And here's the message from Fauci. He says, quote, "I asked around a bit more and another issue came up that you need to be aware of since many people have significant cytokine storm and fever after the second dose. This theoretically could be associated with miscarriage in the first trimester." Now, he says this January 25th, 2021. This is when Joe Biden is president of the United States. Anthony Fauci is his top co-stooge. And he's admitting privately. He's like, "Guys, I think we could be killing kids at scale here." And yet he never said anything about this in public, not a word about this. In fact, Vivek Murthy said the same thing. Vivek Murthy was the surgeon general under Biden. And here's what he said in private. Bill Melugin captures these text messages in which he says, "This is really helpful. Thanks. I've been hearing the concern about the mRNA causing mutations in the developing fetus as well. That's a really good point regarding the cytokine storm post-second dose." And then another one, "Tony, Rochelle, did you see this announcement today from the WHO saying they advise against pregnant women taking the mRNA vaccine because of lack of data? It has led to a flurry of questions. What is your take? I imagine we will all get asked about this." So now, if this was actual science, they would be having this conversation in public. They'd be saying what they know, what they don't know, what the weaknesses are, what the risks are.

You notice, by the way, just to take you back in time, that every other drug on the market that's advertised in the free market, like you see a television ad, it includes a never-ending series of side effects. "Side effects include" and then they give you a sing-song voice where they tell you all these awful things that could happen to you. You notice that the COVID jab never had that. In fact, your tax dollars were used to advertise the COVID jab without any side effects being disclosed. Do you remember all of this? And then of course the big COVID jab companies were all given immunity from any sort of litigation. The whole thing was one gigantic, corrupt, and totally atypical scheme. And these guys are hiding data about the deaths of children. In fact, the data is really shocking because not only were they hiding the fact that these children were at risk, inside of the data, we find out, Katie Pavlich has this, that the miscarriage rates were catastrophic for women in their first trimester. For the babies that the women are miscarrying, the babies are dying. Here's what Katie Pavlich writes: The mandated and doctor-recommended COVID-19 shot for pregnant women was effectively an abortion shot. According to new documents just released by Senators Johnson and Paul, the authors claimed a miscarriage rate of 12.6%, but the raw data revealed an 82% miscarriage rate in women who were vaccinated during the first trimester. This is consistent with the 81% miscarriage rate noted in the Pfizer 5.3.6 post-market data. These figures mirror the effects of chemical abortion drugs such as RU-486.

You know what were the officials saying about this? Were they admitting the risk here? Were they saying, "Hey, look, there are things we don't know. Maybe you should be cautious." Or were they telling every pregnant woman to get the jab no matter what? Well, I don't know. Here's Rochelle Walensky. This is Vigilant Fox pulling this clip. And this also looks like it's from Real America's Voice in the War Room pulling this. Thank you to all of them for referencing this. Here's the clip of Rochelle Walensky and what she had to say in September of 2021.

Is it safe to get vaccinated while you're breastfeeding?

It absolutely is safe to get vaccinated. So, I would say if you are thinking about getting vaccinated, there is no bad time to get vaccinated. Get vaccinated while you're thinking about having a baby, before you're thinking about having a baby, while you're pregnant with your baby, or after you've delivered your baby. There is no bad time.

"There's no bad time to murder your child" was the message from the Biden administration, but they wouldn't acknowledge that that's what was actually happening. More in a moment with Vivek M— excuse me, with our great guest, Jay Bhattacharya. Vivek boy, can you imagine if we had him on? Jay Bhattacharya is going to join us here in a moment. We'll talk to him about all of this, including his crazy exchange with Margaret Brennan this weekend. It's all too much. It's all ahead on this edition of Vince. Good to have you with us as always.

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All right, let me welcome to the program now the great Jay Bhattacharya. He's the director of the National Institutes of Health, former interim CDC director. The guy has done it all and he was right about COVID quite famously, which is why the Biden administration spent so much time trying to censor him. As always, Jay, great to have you back on the show, sir. Thank you.

Okay, let me start with what I was just talking about, this data that shows that the COVID jab in the first trimester apparently had devastating effects on unborn children and yet this data somehow it was entirely kept from us and Anthony Fauci and all these other people, they knew about it, they were talking amongst themselves about it, but they refused to acknowledge it to the public. What do you make of this?

Well, and I would say not just irresponsible but downright tyrannical. I mean, if you are having a real robust scientific debate amongst yourselves, but not acknowledging to the public on which you are imposing all of these impositions like COVID jabs and losing jobs and destroying lives and killing unborn children. I mean, this is tyrannical behavior. And it worries me that this was considered kind of normal inside of the government, that you would have a debate like this but then not acknowledge it to the people who are supposed to be in charge, which is the voting public.

Yes, again with threatening their company if they didn't comply, that kind of censorship. I can't even imagine what was going through their heads. They must have thought that they were so morally justified in pushing the COVID vaccine for everybody that it was worth violating the First Amendment.

How deeply embedded, when you arrived at NIH, how deeply embedded was this worldview, would you say, this idea that like, hey, we are the science and the public better listen to us? What have you found and what have you had to deal with?

So was the staff horrified by the leadership then? In other words, like there's a lot of good people there, you say... syndrome?

So, speaking of the scientific process, I saw that recently the Trump administration has banished this very dangerous gain-of-function research, the federal funding for gain-of-function research in order to make viruses more deadly and infectious to humans. And correct me if I'm wrong, Jay, but there's never been a time that we've truly established that this gain-of-function research has resulted in a net benefit for humanity. It's always been like crazy lab leaks and peril and death. And at some point, you're like, well, let's stop doing that. It's actually the definition of insanity for us to keep doing this. So, the Trump administration is ending this. What can you tell me about that?

That's a big deal. Thank you for doing that. Long overdue, for sure. And by the way, wasn't Anthony Fauci's involvement in funding gain-of-function in like in Wuhan? Wasn't he like using some sort of creative definition for gain-of-function in order to justify how he was getting away with this?