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What I told people, I was making a podcast about Benghazi.

Nine times out of ten, they called me a masochist, rolled their eyes, or just asked, why?

Benghazi, the truth became a web of lies.

From prologue projects and Pushkin Industries, this is Fiasco, Benghazi.

What difference at this point does it make?

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Yesterday we celebrated Columbus Day, which represents not the founding of America, of course, that's not where Columbus arrived, not the United States of America, anyway.

But the modernization of civilization in the Western world, the European influence that would lead to a culture and a country that would be the hallmark of things like self-governance,

equality, the concept of natural rights put into effect those changed the world in in such a manner as to be mind-blowing it's

you can't imagine the world without the u.s in it because the influence is so profound.

It was important to President Trump that we recognized that date, and he has demonstrated

an understanding of why it is important to celebrate our history, celebrate who and what

we are, and not to allow groups among us to tell us we should

be ashamed of our history, should deny that history. You know, when in Syria, when ISIS was rolling

through, they made sure to shatter the great Christian artifacts.

It was important to them to do that.

The idea is to destroy history and deny history.

It's the ultimate authoritarian move.

It's a very Ray Bradbury concept that if you burn all the books, there is no knowledge, you create

your own new knowledge, the Orwellian notion of creating newspeak, your own language, where up

means down and down means up and go means stop and stop means go.

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