Charlie Kirk of TurningPointUSA and Dave Sussman of WhiskeyPolitics discuss today’s young revolutionaries and how they can reclaim liberty for a new generation.
From Kanye West to college kids understanding American history, to the #WalkAway movement and the Left’s thought police, Charlie covers multiple subjects in front of this live audience at FreedomFest in Las Vegas.
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Brandon Straka, Founder of the viral #WalkAway social media movement, joins Dave Sussman for this special Independence Day edition of Whiskey Politics. “The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the Democratic Party has become.” Brandon discusses his personal story, how the movement is growing, how the Left has reacted to him as a threat to their power, his thoughts on leaving the Democratic Party and why other’s should follow. With millions of views, reposts and retweets Brandon is a busy man being interviewed by news channels including Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson on Fox News, numerous newspapers, and blogs. Our discussion focuses on how Brandon went from crying over Hillary Clinton’s loss to within a year speaking out against the Left, how others liberals are joining him and answering some Ricochet member questions.
Brandon’s Facebook Group provides the ability for members to “encourage and support those on the left to walk away from the divisive tenets by allowing people to share their stories, or watch the video testimonies and read the posts of others who have walked away.” Also, follow Brandon on Twitter @usminority
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Victor Davis Hanson joins Dave Sussman at the Whiskey Politics “Malibu Studio” where they discuss whether America is in a new civil war, illegal immigration, Mexico, NAFTA, Europe, the FBI, cronyism, the Left going Lefter, California splitting, and the increasingly overwhelming news cycle. VDH answers questions from Ricochet Members and Whiskey Politics Facebook fans in this long form interview.
Victor Davis Hanson is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, contributor to National Review, Townhall, and The Federalist. You have frequently seen Victor all over the news channels and he is also an author of several books. His newest book is The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.
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Evan Sayet and Mark Tapson on the Left and the Culture War. First Evan Sayet discusses how “the Left is at the point of their end game” pertaining to culture, politics and Donald Trump. Then Mark joins us to discuss how the code of chivalry that many of men were raised to practice, has now become “toxic masculinity”, whether society no longer needs alpha males, ‘benevolent sexism’, and why the war on masculinity is the most important cultural issue of our time.
Evan Sayet is a comedian, Author, and Speaker. Formerly a writer for The Arsenio Hall Show and Bill Maher, Evan has become one of the nation’s leading conservative political comedians as well as a highly respected political pundit. His lecture to the Heritage Foundation remains, ten years later, by far the single most viewed lecture in that organization’s storied history. Evan is also a speechwriter for President Donald Trump and author of the bestselling book, The KinderGarden of Eden: How The Modern Liberal Thinks. Follow Evan on Twitter.
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John Tamny discusses President Trump’s trade policy and the impact on the economy. John also discusses his fascinating new book The End Of Work where we learn how the idea of work is forever changing, ie: people now make millions on coaching video gamers. John’s the Political Economy Editor at Forbes, Editor of RealClearMarkets.com, a Senior Fellow in Economics at Reason Foundation, and his articles can be seen in The Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times, National Review and London’s Daily Telegraph. He’s also a weekly guest on Forbes on FOX. Follow John on Twitter @JohnTamny.
Register for Freedom Fest in Las Vegas this July 11-14 at FreedomFest.com and use code “WHISKEY100” for $100 off your tickets!
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Omar Qudrat, an American Muslim Republican Congressional Candidate, joins us for this Election Day special interview. Omar is an American-born military veteran, Department of Defense lawyer and may become the GOP’s first Muslim American Congressman. Omar was born in California to Afghani Reagan Republican parents and became a Counter-Terrorism Prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Defense where he prosecuted Guantanamo Bay Detainees, and his office handled capital cases against Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and four co-conspirators of 9-11. Omar served in Afghanistan with the International Security Assistance Force, a political advisor to the NATO Ambassador in Afghanistan. Now Omar is running for San Diego’s 52nd District who tells voters’ “I am an American Muslim and I’ve Dedicated my life to destroying radical Islamic Terrorism”.
We cover a lot of issues, including illegal immigration and sanctuary cities, education and fighting the entrenched teacher unions, and national security. Find Omar at https://www.electomar.com/ and Twitter @OmarQudrat1
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Brian Maloney from the Media Equalizer Project joins Dave at Whiskey Politics to discuss bias, double standards, and malfeasance by our mainstream media. From Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee to Don Lemon and David Brock to Google, Facebook and Twitter, Brian covers how the institutional mainstream and social media conglomerates control what most people hear and see.
Since 2004, Brian and his team have cut through the noise and demonstrated media bias where they find it. Brian’s a longtime radio host and founded the Radio Equalizer in 2004. You’ve likely seen him on the cable news channels including Fox News, CNN, Newsmax and OneAmerica News. Find MediaEqualizer online as well as the very popular private membership group “Stop the Scalpings” on Facebook. Apply here.
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Michael Walsh returns to Whiskey Politics to discuss his new book Fiery Angel, Art, Culture, Sex, Politics, and the Struggle for the Soul of the West. From movies to sex in Japan to the #resist movement, and even the Rosanne firing, we get Michael’s perspective on everything in our culture and politics.
Michael is an award-winning journalist, author, screenwriter and was a classical music critic and foreign correspondent for Time Magazine and is currently a contributor to PJ Media, American Greatness and a columnist for the New York Post.
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Live from the American Freedom Alliance School Shooting Conference, Dave interviews 9 speakers on one of the most heart-wrenching issues of our time, the epidemic of school shootings. This is the first of three episodes, each with three speakers.
Andrew Klaven, Author, Screenwriter and host of the Andrew Klavan Show, discusses culture, how the right can reclaim the narrative from the opponents of the second amendment; the progressive left who believe they can run things better through the administrative state and how we all now get our information.
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Nonie Darwish is a human rights activist, founded the group Arabs For Israel, is an outspoken, fierce advocate for reforming Islam’s authoritarian ideology, has called for stricter immigration laws on Muslim and Arab immigrants and to stop multiculturalism. Nonie has been featured on many news channels and written articles, was awarded the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute “Woman of Exceptional Courage” Award and is the author of several books including Now They Call Me Infidel and her latest, Wholly Different, Why I Chose Biblical Value Over Islamic Values.
Nonie is an unlikely supporter of Israel. Born in Cairo, Egypt, and raised in Gaza, her Father was killed by the IDF. Nonie attended Islamic schools where she learned Jihad before becoming an “Infidel” and Apostate by leaving Islam.
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David Sheehan, CBS and NBC broadcaster, interviewer, host, and reporter shares some wild stories about the Rat Pack, Marilyn Monroe, JFK, and the biggest stars of the last few decades and today. Sheehan’s storied news career spans 5 decades and at 80 years young, Sheehan doesn’t hold back his opinions about some of our favorite entertainers and how Hollywood has changed, politically and culturally. David just released his latest special And The Winners Are (40 stars over 50 years) on YouTube. Proceeds from the production are being donated to three very noble causes; St. Judes Children’s Research Hospital, Children of the Night, and the Los Angeles Mission.
David started at UPI in the 1960s, and started on television in 1970 on CBS. Sheehan was a reviewer and interviewer covering movies and television on a daily local newscast. He went on to host three annual national network specials: Summer Movie Magic, Holiday Movie Magic, and Academy Awards Movie Magic. Sheehan moved to NBC from 1984-1994, and finished up his 34 years of daily newscasting back at CBS from 1994-2004.
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Mark Weinstein is the Founder and CEO of the revolutionary social network MeWe, and MeWePro. Mark served on President Obama’s ‘Steering Committee’ overseeing internet privacy and he single-handedly prevented the Obama Administration from creating the Orwellian sounding ‘National Identity Database’. Mark Weinstein is a leading privacy advocate, is one of the inventors of social media and is ranked as one of the “Top 8 Minds in Online Privacy.” Mark has written about privacy and the social media industry in many well-known publications including HuffPo, USA Today, and the Daily Mirror (UK). He has been interviewed by many media outlets, including Forbes, CNN International, Fox News, and ABC. Mark is often a featured keynote speaker and expert social media/privacy panelist at conferences worldwide.
Mark and Dave discuss the state of social media today and Mark openly shares his concerns about Facebook, calling them a ‘dirty player’, saying the two-billion member platform isn’t a social media company, but a data company. We discuss Mark Zuckerberg’s visit to Congress, how Cambridge Analytica may be just the beginning of Facebook user’s privacy concerns and whether social media should be regulated by the government.
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Gary Graham, television and movie actor, musician, and outspoken conservative provocateur joins Dave Sussman at the Whiskey Politics Studio overlooking the Pacific. Gary and Dave take in the sun and enjoy the view and a couple of mimosas while discussing how Gary went from medical school to acting, Star Trek, on-set stories, and the craziness of Star Trek conventions.
We also venture into the unlikely relationship Gary had when meeting and writing for Andrew Breitbart, working in Hollywood in the age of Trump, and his thoughts on the Never Trump conservative movement. We wax spiritual before closing with one of Gary’s songs from his band The Sons of Kirk. We had a great time and hope you have as much fun listening as we did chatting outside on this beautiful Left-Coast morning. Find Gary at GaryGraham.com.
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Let’s call this the “Earth Day” episode where we continue this weeks theme of arguing about the “science is settled” approach and how politics has permeated our hard sciences. In our last episode, Dr. Brian Keating discussed how politics impacts who wins the Nobel Prize. One such winner was the Former Vice President Al Gore for his focus on global warming and climate change. A decade later, much of Al Gore’s predictions have not only not come true but Gregory Wrightstone’s comprehensive book Inconvenient Facts, The Science Al Gore Doesn’t Want You To Know demonstrates newer climate data from the United Nations and NOAA showing over 60 inconvenient facts invalidating much of what Al Gore, the left, academia, and our media have been reporting for years.
Gregory is a geologist with more than 35 years of experience researching and studying various aspects of the Earth’s processes. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Waynesburg University and a master’s from West Virginia University, both in the field of geology. He has written and presented extensively on many aspects of geology including how paleogeography and paleoclimate control geologic processes. Gregory is a strong proponent of the scientific process and believes that policy decisions should be driven by science, facts, and data, not a political agenda. Greg has been interviewed on many news networks and speaks at events all over the world on his findings. Greg and his data can be found at InconvenientFacts.xyz and on Twitter @GregoryWrightstone.
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Dr. Brian Keating, PhD, is a professor of physics at the Center for Astrophysics & Space Sciences (CASS) in the Department of Physics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a public speaker, inventor, and an expert in the study of the universe’s oldest light, the cosmic microwave background (CMB), using it to learn about the origin and evolution of the universe. He has written for many publications including Scientific American and is about to be the first speaker from the hard sciences at Prager U. Brian bravely counters much of scientific academia where he believes the overwhelming majority of scientists are atheists and “hardcore leftists” and their beliefs actually impact the politics of science. How does this affect scientific findings and those who are awarded?
His latest book, Losing the Nobel Prize: A Story of Cosmology, Ambition, and the Perils of Science’s Highest Honor where Brian “provocatively argues that the Nobel Prize, instead of advancing scientific progress, may actually hamper it, encouraging speed and greed while punishing collaboration and bold innovation. In a thoughtful reappraisal of the wishes of Alfred Nobel, Keating offers practical solutions for reforming the prize, providing a vision of a scientific future in which cosmologists may, finally, be able to see all the way back to the very beginning.”
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Annie Duke, world champion poker player (retired), sought-after speaker, and best-selling author joins Dave Sussman to discuss how Thinking in Bets can be applied to politics (the November 2018 election), business, and our personal lives. It’s a fascinating, scientific approach to life that led Annie to win millions and has given her the title “Dutchess of Poker.”
For two decades, Annie was one of the top poker players in the world. In 2004, she bested a field of 234 players to win her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. The same year, she triumphed in the $2 million winner-take-all, invitation-only WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she won the prestigious NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Prior to becoming a professional poker player, Annie was awarded a National Science Foundation Fellowship to study Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Daniel Hannan joins Dave Sussman to discuss England leaving the EU in less than a year, Leftism in Europe, the media (BBC and CNN), trade/tariffs, his opinion of Donald Trump, Jeremy Corbyn, and much more.
Daniel has been Conservative Member of the European Parliament for almost 20 years. He was the first Secretary-General of the Alliance of Conservatives and Reformists in Europe (ACRE), serving from 2009 to 2018. Outside of Europe, he is probably most known for being one of the founders of Vote Leave, the organization that campaigned for Great Britain to leave the EU in 2016, which won, stunning not only England and Europe but the world. Many think the referendum, known as BREXIT was a predictor of the voters’ mood not just in England, but also in America which lead to the election of Donald Trump.
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Bill Whittle joins Dave Sussman on a beautiful Malibu hillside where he waxes poetic about gun rights and the Left’s attack on 2A, California’s upcoming catastrophe and how it can be saved, and Bill announces a new $180 million project to bring video games to youngsters teaching them conservative values.
This is not your typical Whiskey Politics episode length, but if you were sitting at a Malibu mansion above the ocean drinking whiskey with Bill, you may have gone long too.
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Sharyl Attkisson is one of the few journalists respected on both sides of the political divide. In 2014 Sharyl resigned from CBS after 21 years of investigative reporting, and now can be seen at her program “Full Measure.” Sharyl chats with Dave Sussman about media bias, the dark forces behind “fake news,” social media’s influence, and how we can stay informed while acknowledging the inherent bias in much of the media. Sharyl can be followed on Twitter at @SharylAttkisson and found at http://sharylattkisson.com/ and http://www.fullmeasure.news.
Sharyl Attkisson is an Emmy award-winning investigative journalist, host of Sinclair’s Sunday morning news program “Full Measure,” and author of the New York Times bestsellers: “The Smear” and “Stonewalled.” She was a correspondent for CBS News from 1993-2014. Before joining CBS, Attkisson was an anchor and correspondent for CNN (1990-1993). From 1996-2001, in addition to her CBS News duties, Attkisson hosted a half-hour weekly medical news magazine on PBS entitled “HealthWeek.” Prior to working on the national news, Attkisson was a reporter, anchor and producer at WTVT Tampa (1986-1990), WBNS Columbus, Ohio (1985-1986) and WTVX Ft. Pierce (1982-1985). Attkisson was one of the first journalists to fly on a military combat mission: a B-52 sortie in Kosovo. She also flew on an F-15 fighter jet Combat Air Patrol (CAP) flight.
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Brett King joins Dave Sussman to discuss Artificial Intelligence, Singularity, and his book Augmented: Life In The Smart Lane which covers the incredible leaps technology has taken and the profound impact it will have on all our lives, from medical and healthcare advances to the application of computer technology to solve many of the world’s problems.
Brett King is a Futurist, an international bestselling author, a renowned commentator and globally respected speaker on the future of business. He has spoken in over 40 countries, to half a million people, on how technology is disrupting business, changing behavior and influencing society. He has spoken at TED conferences, given opening keynotes for TED, Wired, Singularity University’s Exponential Finance, The Economist and many more. He advised the National Economic Council on the Future of Banking and been invited to meet with regulators from the United States, China, the European Union and the World Bank. He has been featured in countless television interviews and publications throughout the world. Find Brett at AugmentedBook.com and BrettKing.com.
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