Summary
- I believe it's important for leaders to clearly communicate their visions and defend their policies. This helps people understand and trust them.
- Consistency in political messaging is crucial. Inconsistent actions and statements can lead to distrust and confusion among the public.
- It's important to remember the impact of decisions on small businesses. Lockdowns during Covid shut down 3.3 million American businesses, particularly affecting small and minority-owned ones.
- During the lockdown, businesses like Walmart and Amazon profited, while many small businesses never reopened, showing the disparity in the support given to different business sizes.
- The Covid lockdowns resulted in a wealth shift of $4.3 trillion from the American middle class to a new super-rich oligarchy.
- Historically, the Democratic Party represented the working class and the poor, but now it seems to represent the super-wealthy and Wall Street.
- Protecting free speech is crucial for democracy. The suppression of speech, especially political speech, can weaken democratic principles.
- The fight for free speech extends globally. For instance, in Europe, there's significant control over online content, and the U.S. is facing similar threats.
- Legal actions, like the cases against the Biden administration, highlight attempts to censor political opponents, which goes against the foundations of American democracy.
- It's important to stand against censorship, regardless of political affiliation, to protect the open exchange of ideas necessary for democracy to thrive.
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How To Take Action
I would suggest implementing the following strategies for your small business, entrepreneurial journey, or personal growth to make a big impact with minimal cost and effort.
First, clearly communicate your vision. Just like strong leaders, making your goals and plans clear helps people trust and understand you. Write down your vision and share it with your team or audience. This builds trust and unity, making it easier to move forward together.
Next, be consistent in your actions and messages. Just like in politics, inconsistency can lead to confusion and distrust. If you make a promise, stick to it. Regularly update your team or followers to keep everyone on the same page.
For small businesses, remember the impact of decisions, like during Covid lockdowns. Think about how big companies benefited while small ones struggled. Focus on building a loyal customer base and creating community connections. Support local initiatives and partner with other small businesses to create mutually beneficial relationships.
When it comes to communication, protect free speech and value open dialogue. Encourage feedback and listen to different viewpoints. This not only helps you grow but also strengthens your community or business by fostering a democratic environment.
Finally, consider the unequal support for businesses during tough times. Look for resources and grants specifically for small businesses. Many local governments and organizations offer support that can help you thrive.
In essence, communicate clearly, be consistent, support your community, value open dialogue, and seek out available resources. These small steps can make a big difference without costing much, ensuring you build a strong, trustworthy, and resilient foundation.
Quotes by Melissa
"It's inconsistent with her record"
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"It's not a privileged free speech to right in this country"
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"This largely happened mostly in blue states"
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"It's against every it's this essential foundation of American democracy"
– Melissa
"Democracy withers and dies"
– Melissa
Full Transcript
want at all. Not a good way to go out. Robert Kennedy Jr shocked a lot of people with his recent endorsement of former President Trump. And he joins us tonight to talk about all of this. And sir it's good to have you on, Kamala Harris today pushing for lower taxes, less regulations for small business owners in New Hampshire. What did you make of that as a message and what it looked like? Yeah, I think, you know, I agree with your assessment that, it's inconsistent with a with her record. Yeah. And you know what worries me is that we have not heard really any kind of coherent or consistent vision from vice President Harris. We know, you know, what her record was with the border, we know what her record is on censorship and surveillance. You know, she recently said that, that, Ellen Harris that Elon Musk was abusing his privilege of his right of free speech. And we know that it's not a privileged free speech to right in this country. Not a privilege. Yeah. And that Vice President Harris was also took the lead in gaslighting the country about President Biden's condition, she's trying to distance herself, apparently, from the policies that have brought this country record high inflation. Yeah, a debt that increases by $1 trillion every 90 days. And the destruction of the American middle class that's taken place over the past four years. Yeah, I would love to see her talk in an interview on to talk about her vision, about what this country is supposed to look like, to defend some of this criticism. I don't like to sit and snipe at her. I, you know, I would rather I understand I would just rather she engage and, and explain things and she keeps she keeps just walking by the cameras and she doesn't want to take, I mean, I would imagine what, what a conversation with a real journalist that actually wants to ask her a couple of tough questions would look like it would not be easy to do. I wantto give a reminder, though. I mean, as they as they work so hard to capitulate now to small businesses that it was it was her side. It was the left in this country and the Democrat Party that unequivocally decimated small businesses in recent years. The Covid lockdowns so draconian, what they did to restaurants and bars. This largely happened mostly in blue states. Small retailers shut down, small business revenues shifting to big box and online because of what they did to us during Covid, the assault on law and order that we saw and still see for the pastfew years, what that's done to businesses, all the looting in a lot of these big cities. How many businesses havegone out, for them, for them to have to hold what they held today and for her to, to basically steal more of Trump's general economic policy and pass it off as that they're good for small business.I mean, how hypocritical can you talk? Well, yeah, during during the lockdowns, they shut down 3.3 million American businesses. They left open the very, very big businesses like Walmart, like Amazon, Facebook,who profited enormously, but it really destroyed the American middle class. 41% of black owned businesses will never reopen. Many of those businesses had 3 or 4 generations of sweat equity and capital in them. And it's devastating to those communities, particularly because their capital stock starved already. Yeah there was a shift in wealth in this country of $4.3 trillion from the American middle class to this new oligarchyof super ric, and thatis now the basis of the democratic Party, the Democratic Party, four years ago, during the last election, got roughly 50% ofthe vote. But that party controlled 70% of the wealth in this country. And the Republican Party, which got 50% of the of the vote, had only 30% of the wealth in this country. So you've had this big inversion where the Democratic Party now represents the super wealthy, it represents Wall Street. It's completely abandoned. What the DemocraticParty that I experienced as a kid, which was the party of the poor, the party of the American working class of cops, of firefighters, of union people. It'sand that Democratic Party is gone. Yeah. It really that's a really interesting way to look at it. And I haven't heard that number before about that. That dramatic of a flip and, and where the wealth is between the two parties and the voters of the two parties. I want to talk about free speech for a second. We've got this big fight in Brazil happening right now, which is avery big country, Elon Musk and this Supreme Court justice, it's terrifying to think how this can happen first off. But also here domestically in our country, it'sa reminder of how radically, you know, the left has changed on the issue of protecting free speech in just the last 10 to 15 years, when Obama was the president of this country, we had an ACLU that activelyworked to protect the speech of neo-Nazis in the United States and protect their right to march, even though it was heinous. They did it because they knew how important it was toprotect free speech. That is all gone now, and we're seeing this as a wave move across that we need to now suppressspeech. If we don't like it. Yeah. And this is happening across the Western world, in the United States is really the last redoubt for free speech on Earth. And we're losing it here in this country and in Europe. They're now, you know, the European Community is now actively controlling content and eliminating content from the internet, last week, Pavel Durov, who was the founder of telegram, was was dragged off his his airplane by French authorities and put in prison. And thatwas a message to anybody who runs a social media, outfit that we are, you know, that free speech is gone and that and that, you know, the two weeks before that, thehead of the European Commission on the air, Thierry Breton, threatened Elon Musk with with criminal prosecution and with with penalties of 6% of the of the value of his company. Right. If he put if he interviewed President Trump live on X so this is really you know it's happening. It's happening and it is happeninghere in this country. We're seeing you know, I have a case against the Biden administration because of their which I got an injunction in a federal court two weeks ago against the Biden administration for their censoring me. They are, we knowfrom those lawsuits and from the from the Missouri versus Biden lawsuit, from the Kennedy versus Biden lawsuit, from the Twitter files that the Biden administration has been actively engaged in censorship. And last week, Mark Zuckerberg came forward and said, yes, the Biden administration pressured me to censor his political opponents. If President Trump had done that, the liberal world would explode. And they should. This shouldn't be a liberal or a Republican issue. This should be an issue that every American says, wait a minute. That's way over a boundary. We do not censor political speech in this country. It's against every it's this essential foundation of American democracy. Is this idea that the free flow of information is the life. It's the it's the water, the soil, the fertilizer of democracy. And when you start stifling it, democracy withers and dies. And there's never been a time in America, in history where we look back and say, the people who are censoring are the good guys, they're always the bad guys. And this administration and Vice President Harris in particular, has has been very clear that she believes that political speech should be censored in this country. And it's so strange to me andit and that's one of the that alone. How did they lose their way. So justify me supporting President Trump because he knows what the he knows he's against censorship. That's a it's a real existential thing. I mean that's an existential threat to the country, you know, of all the things they say are existential. That really is one. I don't know how we got so lost. Robert Kennedy Jr thank you, sir, for the time. We appreciate it. Thanks
