THE RETRIBUTION
DINESH Podcast
Salem Podcast Network
4.7 • 6.8K Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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In this episode, Dinesh discusses the FBI raid on John Bolton and the ethics of retribution. Dinesh dives into the roots of Cracker Barrel’s bizarre decision to dump its logo. Film writer and director Ben Pauling joins Dinesh to talk about his film on child trafficking.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up, I'm going to talk about the FBI raid on John Bolton, overdue, in my opinion. |
| 0:07.3 | But I'm also going to talk about more broadly the ethics of retribution, or we can even say the ethics of revenge. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm going to dive into the roots of Cracker Barrel's bizarre decision to dump its logo. |
| 0:19.3 | It turns out there's a lot more behind that. |
| 0:22.6 | And film writer and director Ben Pauling joins me. We're going to talk about his new film |
| 0:26.4 | on child trafficking. If you're watching on YouTube, X or Rumble, listening on Apple or Spotify, |
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| 0:37.1 | It's really important. |
| 0:37.9 | It helps me get the podcast out more widely. I'd appreciate it. This is the Dinesh DeSuzza podcast. America needs this voice. |
| 0:56.7 | The times are crazy in a time of confusion, division, and lies. |
| 1:01.0 | We need a brave voice of reason, understanding, and truth. |
| 1:04.7 | This is the Dinesh D'Souza podcast. |
| 1:22.1 | John Bolton. Yes, that John Bolton has been raided by the FBI. This happened over the weekend, |
| 1:31.3 | and it is the first time that one of the anti-Trump, or in this case, more accurately, |
| 1:37.1 | never Trump leading figures, someone who's now allied with the Democratic Party, |
| 1:40.5 | allied with the people who went after Trump. |
| 1:47.6 | And so finally we're getting here a bit of, I'm not going to hesitate to use words like payback or retribution. I'm not even really afraid of the word revenge. Now, these words are loaded |
| 1:58.0 | and they carry a connotation, but I'm going to use these words for the very reason that you are afraid of them. |
| 2:06.2 | And when you think about it, you see that these words and these terms are fully and justly applicable. |
| 2:15.1 | Now, revenge is something that is an unpleasant thing, and it's an unpleasant thing because |
| 2:21.0 | not because the act is wrong, but because private people shouldn't take the law into their |
| 2:28.2 | own hands. So let's say, for example, that somebody comes and harms a member of your family, you go out |
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