According2Sam Podcast Samuel Winchester

There has been a lot of talk about democracy and threats to democracy lately, but what is democracy? Founding father, Benjamin Franklin described it as two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Franklin also famously said, after the Philadelphia Convention which created the United States of America, when asked what form of government they had created, "A republic, if you can keep it." Two hundred and thirty-five years later, when the survival of the republic is at risk, Americans are debating if we even are a republic, or a democracy. CNN recently aired a segment referring to the fact that our nation is a republic as, "conspiracy theories". Is the United States a democracy, or a republic, and why is it important to know the difference? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #222.


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You may have heard of 'deepfake' videos, the process of overlaying someone else's face on a video to make it look like they are doing, or saying something they never did or said, but have you heard of 'cheap fakes'? 'Cheap Fake' videos are videos that have been edited to change the context of what really happened in the unedited video. For example, video of President Trump saying, "there were fine people, on both sides", but cuts out him saying, "I'm not talking about neo-Nazis, because they should be condemned, totally", to make it look like he is saying neo-Nazis are fine people is cheap fake. The Biden administration is claiming that recent videos that have gone viral, showing the President struggling are cheap fakes as well, and that context has been edited out. Is this true? Do these videos of Biden classify as 'cheap fakes'? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #221.


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CNBC anchor, Andrew Sorkin recently reported that he spoke with some CEOs who told him, off the record, that President Trump seemed to be "meandering" in a closed-door meeting they had with him. On the same day, the New York Post published a cover page with a picture of President Biden at the G7 meeting in Italy seeming to wander away from the group of other world leaders with the headline: "Meander in Chief". Behind closed doors, we are told, President Biden sharp, focused, and functioning at a high level. President Trump, on the other hand, is incoherent and meandering behind closed doors, however Trump doesn't seem to be having any of the repeated issues we witness Biden having in public. Is the media using unnamed sources to raise questions about President Trump's age to cover for questions voters are having about President Biden's age? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #220.


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Voters were warned that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation in the fall of 2020, just before the November election, and there was certainly disinformation being disseminated to the American people in those final weeks of the campaign, but it wasn't coming from Russia. It was actually coming from the American intelligence community and those blaming Russia for the laptop. It was an American intelligence operation of disinformation, much like the operation that American intelligence officials pulled off in the 2016 election. Now that we know for certain that American intelligence officials tried to frame Russia during their election interference in the 2020 election shouldn't we reevaluate what these same officials told us about Russia's activities during the 2016 election? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #219.


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President Trump was just convicted for an illegal campaign contribution in the 2016 election when he defeated Hillary Clinton. It was a convoluted case based on novel legal theory, but what it comes down to is an illegal campaign contribution. Another example of an illegal campaign contribution is a contribution 'in-kind' that exceeds the legal limit. An 'in-kind' contribution is not a financial contribution. It's anything of non-monetary value that is donated to the campaign, like when the 51 former intelligence officials lied before the 2020 election by claiming Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. Then, without vetting these intelligence officials, the media ran with their lies and donated more to the Biden campaign by covering up the story. What is the value of this gift they gave Biden just before that election, and was it election interference? Join the conversation and get answers to these questions and more on According2Sam episode #218.


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When Joe Biden was a senator in the early 1990's he supported a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years for anyone caught with a piece of crack cocaine the size of a quarter. He didn't care if they had a problem with addiction, or how much their father loved them. It was five years in jail. "Judge doesn't even have a choice", he boasted in a speech from the Senate floor. Ironically, his son would later become a crack addict. He has photographed and recorded himself in possession of much more crack than a piece the size of quarter, but while many other Americans had to serve mandatory jail-time imposed by Joe Biden, his son has never spent a day in jail for possession of crack. What are some examples of a two-tiered justice system in America? Join the conversation and get answers to this question and more on According2Sam episode #217.


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