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Episode 209: Keeping the Swamp Swampier – For the People Act

Newt's World

Gingrich 360

Politics, News

4.66.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

H.R.1, also known as the “For the People Act”, passed the House this week with 220 Democrats and 0 Republicans voting for the bill. The Act sends federal dollars to fund political campaigns, would legalize voting for convicted felons all over the country and would weaken the security of our elections and make it harder to protect against voter fraud. Newt describes what’s in the Act in detail.

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0:00.0

On this episode of Newsworld, I want to walk you through HR1, which the Democrats misleadingly

0:11.9

called, quote, for the people act.

0:15.1

And I think it's important to recognize the pattern you're going to see for the next

0:18.2

two years, which is that they never will have an honest title, because if you actually

0:24.6

understood what they were doing, you'd automatically oppose it.

0:28.0

Instead, they'll have a really nice language that sounds morally appropriate, that the

0:33.2

liberal news media will repeat endlessly.

0:35.4

And you know, I've got to say to you, I have a for the people act, are you for the people?

0:40.4

That's what comes from.

0:41.7

But I strongly suggest to you, Google agreed at some point, George Orwell's extraordinary

0:47.6

essay on politics and English language, in which he argues that the more dishonest the

0:54.8

language, the more dishonest the action it's hiding.

0:58.5

I think it's exactly right.

1:00.3

I would have called this bill the corrupt politicians dishonest election reinforcement

1:08.2

bill or something like that, because this bill actually has its intellectual origin in

1:14.4

Tammany Hall, machine New York, in the Chicago machine, in the machine that's grown up in

1:20.5

California, a whole pattern of how do the politicians make sure that they win and the public

1:27.8

loses is captured and put into one bill, which is called HR1, 791 pages.

1:36.5

One came to go to the house, no Republican voted for it.

1:40.8

One Democrat had the courage to go against it.

1:43.7

Benny Thompson in Mississippi.

1:45.9

And in an interview, he said, look, I was for the bill until I went back home.

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