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Welcome, welcome. Welcome it’s Ed Martin here on the Pro America Report. Very interesting show coming up today. We’ll get an update from Todd Bensman down at the border, but actually he’s written a piece I’m going to ask him about, which is about the The reality of the open border, the reality of the crime that is happening because of the open border and then including Department of Justice charges against people for sex trafficking and and the violence and and yet the unreality that the media is not covering it, that no one is looking at it because it reflects so poorly on the Biden or on the left’s policy of open borders. So we’ll talk with him about that interesting perspective. You know, he’s been down on the border and but he’s got this sense as a journalist about what we’re not seeing, the dog that’s not barking, which is why are people actually complaining? And saying, oh, you know, don’t get too excited about the sex trafficking story. There’s it’s not that big a problem. Well it it seems like it is and it seems so horrendous that it should be a a highlight. It should be. I I’m gonna ask him. I think there should be actresses having telethons saying, what are you doing to our sisters? Right. And and yet they’re quiet so.
And also we’ll talk today with a Hillsdale University professor Doctor Gary Wolfram and he’s been at Hillsdale since the ’80s. I think, like ’87 or ’88 or ’89. And I want to talk to him about, he’s a well regarded teacher. And has written a book on capitalism, but also just very, very well liked one of our our guys, our associate producer Mason Mohon has talked about him. So we’re gonna talk with him, and I’m really interested in a guy who’s got that much experience teaching kids young people, you know, since the ’80s, they’re almost 35 years. How things have changed. What’s going on? Because it’s. Hillsdale College is a very unique place. He may be insulated from some of the insanity, but I doubt it, and we’ll see what he has to say about that. So all that’s coming up, that’s what you that’s on today’s program.
But first what you need to know, today’s WYNK. I want you to go and get yourself a get yourself a signed up for the daily E-mail The Daily WYNK, which goes out right through on 8:00 AM, East Coast, 5:00 AM Pacific Time, and go ahead and sign up there over at proamericareport.com proamericareport.com and see what you can see and you’ll get each day you’ll get an e-mail that’s not Too long. It’s not a long thing. You have to read. It’s not an essay. Couple of links, couple of key stories and what you need to know the highlight, the highlight of what I see out there and what I think you need to know. So today’s WYNK on the program here is I I want to talk about an aspect of of things that are happening, which is the deterioration. Of certain. Things that we do.
So you heard me talk about the narrative machine and how poorly the narrative machine is is serving America, meaning the narrative machine, big tech, big media and big government is is pushing onto the American people things that aren’t true. It it really is brainwashing. I heard someone who’s savvier than I am on the sort of psychology of propaganda who said brainwashing is Telling people something and then keeping from the people what other arguments and facts could put some light on the subject and then repeating it over and over again. So if you’re in a silo and you hear only one thing, Trump is Hitler. Russia, Russia, Russia and you keep from people the from any other facts or arguments. Because if you allow facts and arguments, then you’re gonna have challenges to that truth, you’re gonna have people saying, well, what about this? What about that? How do I think about? It and it’s. Going to change how they are relating to it and it’s gonna in. Some cases break them out of that narrative, in other cases it might reinforce. It doesn’t mean that it’s automatic, but it would create how to say more movement and more autonomy of thought. And you can’t have that.
So brainwashing is tell people something. Tell them authoritatively with as much information as you can, and then deny them access to anything that counters that. And then repeat it over and over again. The repeating it’s a big point, big part of it.
I had this experience with someone said, well, Donald Trump’s been indicted again and again and again. And I wanted to say if someone does Something wrong to you and tells you something that’s incorrect, but they say it over and over again. Do you start to say, well, after a while? Yeah you do. You start to say, well, so and so must have done something wrong. Such and such may have must have been happening.
So you can see how broken the narrative machine is making our information gathering in this country. People are getting more and more frustrated with what they’re seeing and feeling, and I do think it’s growing. I do think it’s growing. Another example is medicine. You know the the the reality of medicine before COVID was that we deferred to the experts. The experts said something and we said OK, that’s what we’re going to defer to. We might still question it. We might. Still doubt it, but the. People that were regularly distrusting science and medicine were somewhat, accurately. Marginalized as being a little too, you know, counter, I mean, you can’t. You can’t get up in the morning and doubt gravity. You you can’t get up in the morning and doubt medicine. You can’t get up in the morning and doubt the science, right? That’s how the old thinking was. By the time COVID was over, and especially down to today. The It’s totally flipped and
So what you need to know is people no longer are saying. Let me start from the standpoint. At the at the. Beginning starting point is, well, I’ll. I’ll defer to medicine or science. No, it’s the opposite. It’s the opposite.
Now governments are the same because people just distrusted government, right? They didn’t. They didn’t count them at all. But it maybe it’s more stark now because people are seeing, for example. That the system of governing in America. Is replete with instances like what’s happened with the Bidens, where there’s family members making a huge living and money being transferred. And what we don’t know is whether there’s quid pro quo. Because I think it’s done too carefully. I did an interview last night with a A an outfit out of Australia. And it’s one of the national shows there. And I was talking to the reporter about that. And I was saying to him, you know, when when you see Hunter Biden it, it’s crass and bold and almost so brazen, but it’s also kind of clarifying. Hunter Biden became a painter in the last few years and sold his paintings for hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and guess what? Big people. Big, big money People that like Joe Biden bought the paintings.
Now you could say, well, isn’t that interesting? I mean, was Hunter Biden a painter his whole life? Did he go to you Know a fine art school? Was he someone I don’t? Know I haven’t heard that. I haven’t seen the images of him painting. I’ve just seen pictures of of the paintings. Have seen the paintings. Someone has taken photographs of the paintings and then people have paid millions. Of dollars for. Them. Isn’t it convenient? That that’s Hunter Biden became good at artwork, good at painting, right when he could do this. And there’s no criticism. There’s no sustained Sense of wait a second. Wait a second, that’s like. A you know? They they you’re paying Hunter Biden for something and again, back to the point we can’t prove yet. Maybe never that Joe Biden. Modified his behavior in favor of his son’s clients. But we can clearly find now that there were people paying Hunter Biden millions of dollars and Joe Biden was acting in the area. Ukraine is the most obvious example, and now that he’s president, you just wonder. So back to my point, what you need to know.
My take away on this is that the it’s not just In politics or in media that my new mantra works so well.
Because the new mantra for the modern era is distrust and verify.
Playing on the old Reagan saying, of course. But my point is the starting point is you have to distrust everything you’re told, and then you have to take the second step. Let me be clear. If you simply distrust what’s happening around you, science, medicine, media, government, the law. If you simply distrust it. You you, you will end up. You know, driven crazy by it. So you have to take the two parts distrust and verify. So you start from I don’t believe what’s going on. Therefore, I must verify it and to to get verification. What do you need? Well, you need sometimes transparency. Sometimes you need accountability. Sometimes you need just explanation. Sometimes you need contrast and sometimes it’s simple enough to say I don’t believe What you’re telling me. Tell me what the other factors remember I mentioned earlier in this around it. What are the other facts and arguments around it? And then when I contrast that, I could say, OK, I see it. I see that what you’re telling me has a higher chance of being correct. But the starting point is I cannot Take for granted your authority on this, it’s it’s a big flip, but what I want to say again, I want to make sure you hear me.
What you need to know is it’s a two step process. It’s a two step process. The starting point is distrusting even when you’re persuaded, even when you want to believe it, start from the start from the point that you’re distrusting what you’re being told fed, you know, offered. Et cetera. But very importantly there is a second step and that’s verify.
Don’t give up. Don’t give up. Find the ways and the paths to be able to function and to have hope and to expect for the future. Because what it says is distrust. Yeah, but verify not, you know, never find out, go to bed, never get out. Of bed. Verify.
And if you do that you’re gonna be more. Likely to get to the point of making smart decisions with understanding what’s happening, right? That’s what you need to. Know today.
Hey, we’ll be. Right back we’ve got Bensman. And Doctor Wolfram from Hillsdale. Be right back. Ed Martin here in the Pro America Report back in a moment.
