Welcome the conversations that that Matter Podcast. I'm your host John Harris. It is good

to be here and it's good to be back. I feel like I haven't been gone really but it's

just I haven't done a podcast now since I think

last Thursday if I'm not mistaken and so it's been a few days I had a busy weekend and I

have a lot of news stories that I want to talk about I saved. I don't think I'll be able to talk about them all because

the new cycle is going so fast and there's bigger things that are going on. In fact, just before I press the

record button, people were sending me news stories about

the FBI raiding Donald Trump's home which is unbelievable in my mind I can't I

don't even I'm going through the files in my mind on history and I'm thinking when has this

happened for an ex president to be raided by an intelligence agency I heard on the

radio this morning 87,000 new IRS

agents are being hired too by Joe Biden. Now I haven't seen anything indicating the reason for this, but if experience is any guide during the Obama administration, the IRS was weaponized against Tea Party groups.

And so my trust level is about shot.

It's it's not there anymore. It doesn't even exist when it comes to these bureaucracies

and to have that many more IRS agents being higher just

tells me that what we've been seeing what we saw what we're seeing right now

tonight with this one agency the FBI is happening in other agencies and it's it is the

weaponization of the the bureaucracies against political opponents.

It's totalitarianism.

That's the word for it.

It's totalitarianism.

That's what we are in,

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