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00:02:13.000Yesterday, of course, the big news was President Trump announces that President Obama's Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program is dead.
00:02:26.000So, remember, all the people who were in the Ann Coulter in Trump We Trust
00:02:31.000They thought that this was going to be Trump's number one thing.
00:02:33.000He was going to come in, he was going to deport a bunch of illegal immigrants, he was going to move out the parents, he was going to take the kids, he was going to dump them also.
00:02:40.000There was going to be mass deportations, there was going to be a deportation squad, a deportation force.
00:02:44.000This is what a lot of people who were on the Trump train from the very beginning thought.
00:02:47.000In fact, remember back to the campaign, there's a revisionist history going on now where a lot of people say, well Trump was always soft on immigration.
00:02:54.000I was here every day doing play-by-play for the campaign.
00:02:58.000One of the things that Trump did to great effect was bash the living hell out of people like Ted Cruz, who is very strong on immigration, as not strong enough on immigration.
00:03:06.000If you recall, Donald Trump basically took Marco Rubio's head, stuck it in a toilet, and then sat on it over the issue of immigration and the Gang of Eight bill.
00:03:14.000The idea was that you could never give amnesty to anyone
00:03:16.000Well, now, Trump comes along, seven months into his administration, instead of getting rid of DACA on day one, President Obama's executive amnesty on day one, he waited for seven months.
00:03:25.000And then, he had Jeff Sessions come out and say that this is being rescinded because it's illegal.
00:03:29.000Here was Jeff Sessions, his attorney general.
00:03:31.000It shows you how uncomfortable Trump is with the actual policy here, that he sends out Sessions.
00:03:36.000If Trump were really comfortable, he'd go out and announce it himself.
00:03:38.000He did with the Paris Climate Change Agreement, if I recall correctly.
00:03:44.000The reason that Jeff Sessions stuck around, by the way, you remember like a month ago when Donald Trump was just humiliating Sessions on a daily basis?
00:03:51.000That was only like six weeks ago, okay?
00:04:36.000For the first time in months, he really looks truly happy with what he's doing here.
00:04:40.000The program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama administration is being rescinded.
00:04:48.000The DACA program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provided a legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term, worker authorization, and other benefits, including participation in the Social Security program to 800,000 mostly adult illegal aliens.
00:05:11.000Okay, so he's very happy about all of this.
00:05:13.000Now, he's right that this is unconstitutional, okay?
00:05:16.000It was being struck down by the courts.
00:05:18.000If Trump had just waited for about three weeks, there were a bunch of courts that were going to strike down Obama's executive amnesty, and then he wouldn't have to do anything.
00:05:25.000But he jumped the gun and announced instead that he's getting rid of DACA and then throwing it over to Congress.
00:05:31.000Let's start with, I got a couple emails yesterday, people wanted to know why is DACA unconstitutional.
00:05:35.000The reason that DACA is unconstitutional is because the President and the Department of Justice do have prosecutorial discretion.
00:05:41.000They can just decide who they want to prosecute and who they don't want to prosecute.
00:05:45.000It does raise questions about legality when you are just absolving friends and family, but
00:05:51.000They're allowed to do that, they do have prosecutorial discretion.
00:05:55.000The issue is that Obama went further than that.
00:05:57.000Under DACA, all these people were not just said, it wasn't just said they're not going to be prosecuted for being here illegally, they're actually handed work papers.
00:06:05.000Okay, so the Obama administration, without legislative approval, went ahead and did all of this.
00:06:08.000That is a usurpation of legislative authority.
00:06:11.000The legislature is given the responsibility to decide whether to give amnesty and work papers, whether people should be here legally, and the executive branch basically decided to overthrow all of that.
00:07:18.000If Trump, the left is going nuts over this, of course, because if he has a great heart for these people, then why is he just making them, why is he exposing them to possible deportation?
00:07:27.000The answer would be that he wants, his actual answer, what Trump is actually saying here, is not that he wants to get rid of DACA.
00:07:33.000He's saying, I want DACA to be permanent.
00:07:35.000I want the legislature to actually make DACA permanent.
00:07:38.000So he's actually ramming through Obama's executive amnesty as legislation.
00:07:42.000Something Obama couldn't do with a Republican Congress.
00:07:44.000Trump wants to do with a Republican Congress.
00:07:47.000This is Trump's Nixon in China moment.
00:07:49.000Nixon campaigned in 1968 and 1972 as a very anti-communist guy and then he travels to China and quote-unquote opens China.
00:08:33.000And what's amazing about this is that the entire threat here, let's say that you're a Republican congressperson and you're looking at your base and your base really does not want you to enshrine DACA.
00:08:43.000Not because of the unconstitutionality issue.
00:08:44.000They hate it mostly because they don't want 800,000 so-called dreamers to be in the country illegally.
00:08:49.000They want some of these people deported.
00:08:52.000So you're a Republican congressperson, and here comes Trump sauntering down to your office, and he says, I want you to pass this.
00:08:57.000And you say, well, I can't because then I'll get primaried.
00:09:01.000Mr. President, are you going to protect me from primary?
00:09:03.000And Trump sort of just hides behind the curtain.
00:09:06.000Trump's not going to protect any of these Republican congresspeople from being primaried, which is why you're seeing Paul Ryan say, I'm not going to push any bill at all unless Trump explicitly endorses it.
00:09:16.000Because Trump has set up this weird situation where all the Trump people are loyal to Trump, but Trump is now pushing a policy that is precisely the reverse of what he was pushing during the campaign.
00:09:42.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders says Trump wants comprehensive immigration reform, exactly what he used to denounce.
00:09:47.000She said, Trump's landmark election-winning immigration speech, 8-31-16, enforcement first, we can't even discuss amnesty until we have a wall.
00:09:55.000Weird how Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump's spokesperson, obsessively attacks Congress.
00:09:59.000Trump's not going to get out of betraying voters on the wall by blaming Congress.
00:10:04.000So she's absolutely hammering President Trump over all of this.
00:10:08.000And if you are intellectually honest and you thought that Trump was going to actually get rid of DACA, you should be hammering him too, because the fact is what he is now calling for is keeping DACA.
00:10:16.000And here was the threat that he was going to use, right?
00:10:17.000The threat that he was going to use against his own Republican congresspeople wasn't, I need you to pass this bill or I'm going to primary you.
00:11:20.000This says that Trump doesn't want to get rid of DACA.
00:11:22.000Okay, Trump was doing something that he thinks is going to be just sort of enough facade to fake out his base, but it's not really an actual policy.
00:11:32.000Okay, it's not an actual policy of changing immigration policy.
00:11:35.000His entire administration is on the same page here.
00:11:37.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders says this is not cold-hearted.
00:11:39.000He's upholding the law, but it's not cold-hearted.
00:11:42.000Dreamers, supporters of Dreamers say this is cold-hearted.
00:11:45.000You're leaving the future of 800,000 people uncertain, up in the air.
00:11:57.000And the day that we start to ignore the fact that we are that, then we throw away everything that gives these people a reason to want to come to our country.
00:12:05.000If we stop becoming the country that we were envisioned to be, then we throw away what makes us special, what makes America unique.
00:12:12.000This president's not willing to do that.
00:12:18.000We want to have laws that address these problems.
00:12:22.000But it's Congress's job to legislate, not the president's.
00:12:26.000And we actually want to uphold the Constitution.
00:12:30.000And I think people across this country should be celebrating the fact that they have a president that is standing up and upholding the Constitution as he was elected to do.
00:12:39.000But again, that doesn't wash because he's then calling on Congress to pass exactly the same policy that he's rejecting at the executive level.
00:12:45.000So even if I agree with the constitutional argument, which I do, I don't understand why Trump's base is not upset with him if he is going to push Congress into basically an amnesty program that he was elected to stop.
00:12:59.000Remember, this is the same Republican Party that rejected President Bush's amnesty program.
00:13:04.000This is the same Republican Party that rejected Marco Rubio for the Gang of Eight stuff.
00:13:09.000So this notion that Trump can push it and get away with it would be an amazing, amazing shifting of the goalpost by a lot of Trump's fans if that's indeed what happens.
00:13:17.000Now, what this means is that there's a conflict between left and right over nothing.
00:13:23.000And I'll explain about that in just a second.
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00:15:40.000Democrats and Republicans apparently agree on the Dreamers.
00:15:42.000Trump agrees that he wants them to stay.
00:15:44.000The Republicans agree that they want them to stay.
00:15:46.000The Democrats agree that they want them to stay.
00:15:47.000So naturally, that means that they're clubbing each other in the head with baseball bats.
00:15:51.000Because that's how our politics works now.
00:15:53.000The way our politics works is that people don't disagree on anything, but they have to invest their politics with a deeper meaning, and so they beat the living crap out of each other every single day over virtually nothing.
00:16:29.000Immigration can be a controversial topic.
00:16:31.000We all want safe, secure borders and a dynamic economy.
00:16:34.000And people of goodwill can have legitimate disagreements about how to fix our immigration system so that everybody plays by the rules.
00:16:40.000But that's not what the action the White House took today is about.
00:16:44.000This is about young people who grew up in America.
00:16:46.000These dreamers are Americans in their hearts, in their minds, in every single way but one, on paper.
00:16:51.000They were brought to this country by their parents, sometimes even as infants.
00:16:55.000They may not know a country besides ours.
00:16:57.000They might not even know a language besides English.
00:17:01.000Over the years, politicians of both parties have worked to write legislation that would have told these young people, our young people, that if your parents brought you here as a child, if you've been here a certain number of years, and if you're willing to go to college or serve in our military, you get a chance to stay, earn your citizenship.
00:17:17.000For years, I asked Congress to send me such a bill.
00:17:47.000It's not your fault your parents are in Brazil.
00:17:48.000Is it your fault your parent was a criminal?
00:17:50.000But we all live with the legacy of things that our parents did that were wrong.
00:17:54.000It's the country's decision as to whether people should stay or not.
00:17:56.000This is why I've always thought it's so weird that when it comes to immigration, we always treat people as a class.
00:18:01.000I'm not a big fan of treating people as members of a class, as you know.
00:18:04.000I know the left likes doing this, right?
00:18:06.000You're Hispanic, or you're black, you're an illegal immigrant, you're a Jew, you're a woman.
00:18:10.000I like treating people as individuals.
00:18:11.000So this seems to me as though we should approach illegal immigrants in the same case-by-case way that we approach people who are trying to come here legally.
00:18:19.000And when my father-in-law came to the United States with his wife legally, he had to go through a rigorous process, he had to show that he was employed, he had to show that he wasn't gonna be on welfare, he had to show that he was going to
00:18:28.000That he was going to be employed by this employer for a certain period of time.
00:18:33.000He had to go through this long process.
00:18:35.000It took my wife 10, 15 years to get citizenship.
00:18:38.000Okay, that seems to me the same way that we should treat DREAMers.
00:18:42.000That just because you were here from the time that you were two, let's say, just because you were here from the time you were two, that doesn't mean that you are automatically a citizen.
00:18:49.000And that means that the country has the ability to make the decision as to whether you are a detriment or benefit to the country or not.
00:18:54.000So, it seems to me we should be approaching this on an individual level, but the temptation for Democrats is always to treat everybody as a class and then say that if you want to get rid of some members of the class, you hate the entire class.
00:19:50.000And this is the routine that Obama is pulling today.
00:19:53.000He says, the action taken today isn't required legally, it's a political decision and a moral question.
00:19:58.000Okay, first of all, it was required legally, but Trump undercut his own case for why it was required legally by waiting seven months to do it.
00:20:04.000It's also weird that if you say it's unconstitutional, that you're saying that in six months you may reimplement it.
00:20:10.000So, Trump has a case, but he's undercut his own case.
00:20:13.000And then, Obama continues, he says, I'm very sick of this argument again, the no-fault, the through-no-faults-of-their-own routine is really a bad argument.
00:20:19.000Okay, there are a lot of people who we were, like, the vast majority of criminals are criminals
00:20:35.000Technically, through no fault of their own.
00:20:36.000Not the vast majority, but a significant minority of criminals are people who maybe grew up in bad circumstances without any sense of morality, and they make decisions because they're stupid.
00:21:08.000Like, we can't determine where we're born, but we can determine where we go from there, which is why I think we should offer a pathway to citizenship for dreamers who we think ought to stay in the same way that legal immigrants ought to stay, but they ought to go to the back of the line.
00:21:20.000He says this action is contrary to our spirit and to common sense.
00:21:24.000Business leaders, faith leaders, economists, Americans of all political stripes called on the administration not to do what it did today.
00:22:20.000I mean, if the Trump administration is all about jobs, a lot of them employ people also, by the way, but if they're all about jobs and saving money and having money in the United States, then why would you then get rid of people who contribute $24 billion a year?
00:23:40.000But again, the idea is that Trump is a racist if he wants to enforce the border.
00:23:43.000But the problem is Trump doesn't even want to enforce the border.
00:23:45.000Okay, that's the thing that's amazing.
00:23:47.000Trump isn't even interested in deporting all these people, and I'm going to explain why I think a lot of people are going to go along with this regardless, and it just demonstrates why partisanship has now taken a front seat over good policy on both sides.
00:24:21.000You upload your photo from your computer or directly from your Instagram feed or if you have a physical item they will send you prepaid packaging.
00:25:56.000There are a lot of people on the Republican side of the aisle who understand your dilemma and we want to find a fair solution because you have done nothing wrong.
00:27:09.000Okay, she got ripped up and down by her own party for saying what is obviously true, that DACA was on shaky legal ground.
00:27:15.000And it's really funny because you're seeing the media go nuts right now.
00:27:17.000Look at the uncertainty that's been created by DACA.
00:27:20.000Yes, the uncertainty created by DACA is because President Obama decided to use executive amnesty instead of trying to get something through Congress.
00:27:51.000I find it really distasteful because I think there's an honest argument to be made for deportation for a certain number of people who are here illegally and not benefiting the country as a whole.
00:28:32.000No, it's not good policy, and it shows you why partisanship on both sides is destroying the debate.
00:28:36.000Everyone on both sides basically agrees on this issue, even though they probably shouldn't.
00:28:41.000And yet they're bashing each other's brains in for this kabuki theater for their own base, because the Democratic base refuses to allow Democrats to work with Trump, and the Republican base wants to pretend that Trump is actually not in favor of DACA.
00:28:53.000Okay, so, when we come back, I'm going to explain to you a couple of things I like and things I hate.
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00:30:07.000Okay, so I want to get to some things I like and some things I hate because there's one thing I hate that really is astonishing today that I want to spend a little bit of time on.
00:30:14.000So, let's start with a thing that I like.
00:30:17.000So, the thing that I like today is when I was in law school, I tried watching this show.
00:30:22.000There are certain shows where, I don't know, when I was single and in law school and bored and it was winter, very often I would leave the TV on in my room just because you want some company.
00:30:31.000Right, just because you want to hear some voices in the room while you're reading an incredibly boring law book.
00:30:37.000And there are certain shows you can't do that with.
00:30:39.000Like, there are certain shows, particularly sitcoms, where you can sort of do that, but there are certain shows where if you don't watch them closely, because there's actually a lot going on, then you miss what's going on, you don't enjoy the show fully.
00:30:48.000So, one of those shows was The Wire, which I've recommended on the show before.
00:30:52.000When I first watched it, I was watching it sort of half-distracted.
00:30:55.000It's a show you really have to concentrate on in order to enjoy the show fully, because there's too much going on plot-wise.
00:31:00.000Another show that's like that is Deadwood.
00:31:01.000So when I first watched Deadwood, I really was not a big fan.
00:31:06.000There's an enormous amount of cursing in Deadwood.
00:31:08.000It was sort of, the way that it was created,
00:31:11.000The creator's a guy named David Milch and they use the F word and the C word and every C word actually that is possible to use, they use in that show.
00:31:19.000They use all of these words on a really frequent basis.
00:31:21.000The reason, apparently, that they use those words is because all of the actual curse words that were used in the Old West, things like Galdarn, they sound funny to the modern ear, so David Milch wanted you to be shocked by the language and how much people cursed back then, so he used modern curse words.
00:31:35.000The F word, believe it or not, did not come into common
00:31:38.000currency in the United States until like the 1920s.
00:31:40.000That's when it became an actual common curse word.
00:31:42.000Before that, the f-word was not a thing.
00:31:44.000Now, it is amazing how it's become so common that it's almost losing its impact, the f-word, and people are going to move on to new and more egregiously vulgar forms of language pretty soon.
00:31:53.000In any case, Deadwood is all about the mining community of Deadwood, South Dakota.
00:32:00.000This is back during the post-Civil War era, like shortly after the Civil War, and it's really well acted.
00:32:07.000A lot of the people who are stars on Deadwood are known for the parts that they played on Deadwood.
00:32:14.000Particularly, I'm thinking of the guy who plays the saloon keep.
00:32:36.000The guy who really is the best thing in the show and was underappreciated is Brad Zuroff.
00:32:40.000Brad Zuroff is one of the great actors of our time.
00:32:42.000Okay, so for people who don't know Brad Zuroff, watch this show, and then watch Lord of the Rings, and then watch One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
00:32:48.000Okay, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, he plays Billy Babbitt.
00:32:52.000It is one of the single greatest film performances ever, because if you read the book and then you watch the movie, he is the character.
00:33:53.000Okay, there's so many terrific, terrific kind of character actors in this.
00:33:59.000It really is a showcase for all of these character actors.
00:34:01.000So you get people like Powers Booth, right, who shows up as Sy Tolliver.
00:34:04.000You remember him as Curly Bill Brocious in Tombstone.
00:34:09.000And he shows up as the rival saloon keep to Ian McShane.
00:34:12.000Really a terrific show, and it has some depth to it as well, so go and check out Deadwood if you have a taste for that kind of stuff, if you're able to handle that kind of cursing and HBO-level violence and sex.
00:34:27.000Okay, time for some things that I hate.
00:34:34.000All right, so the first thing that I hate today, this is an amazing, amazing story.
00:34:38.000According to Tablet Magazine, some people working with the U.S.
00:34:41.000Holocaust Memorial Museum had a desire to whitewash former President Barack Obama for his inaction vis-a-vis the conflict in Syria.
00:34:49.000This is according to Hank Barian at The Daily Wire.
00:34:51.000They colored a new study offered by the museum so it read, quote,
00:35:04.000They were going to introduce this study on September 11th.
00:35:06.000It was supervised by former Obama National Security Council and Intelligence Officer Cameron Hudson, who now serves as director of the Simon Schott Center for the Prevention of Genocide.
00:35:16.000According to Tablet Magazine, using computational modeling and game theory methods, as well as interviews with experts and policy makers, the report asserted that greater support for the anti-Assad rebels and U.S.
00:35:27.000strikes on the Assad regime after the August 2013
00:35:30.000Guta chemical weapons attack would not have reduced atrocities in the country and might conceivably have contributed to them.
00:35:38.000The Obama administration, a bunch of Obama administration officials, went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum and they made them write a report.
00:35:45.000They wrote a report retroactively absolving
00:35:48.000Retroactively absolving the Obama administration of responsibility for war atrocities in Syria.
00:35:53.000This is the equivalent of the FDR administration former officials going to the Holocaust Memorial Museum and saying, can you write a report saying that it wouldn't have made a difference if we had bombed the train lines to Auschwitz?
00:36:10.000The whole point of the Holocaust Memorial Museum is that governments should do more to prevent atrocities, not to excuse governments for atrocities they didn't prevent.
00:36:18.000Leon Wieseltier, who's a literary critic and an author.
00:36:23.000He's a fellow at the Brookings Institute.
00:36:25.000He said, He added, I'm sure we could concoct the effing algorithms for that too.
00:36:47.000Tablet noted, since the outbreak of the civil war in early 2011, the Syrian dictator has repeatedly attacked civilians with poison gas, maintaining a network of prison camps where as many as 60,000 people have been tortured, murdered, and disappeared, their bodies dumped into crematoria and mass graves.
00:37:02.000Even Abe Foxman, who is a real leftist,
00:37:05.000He said, I assume the leadership understands it made a misstep.
00:37:07.000I served three times on the Holocaust Commission.
00:37:09.000The institution is very dear to my heart.
00:37:11.000I believe it's appropriate, indeed imperative, for the museum to deal with questions of genocide in contemporary current events.
00:37:16.000But in this case, several things are happening that are problematic.
00:37:55.000Holocaust Memorial Museum's Simon Schott Center for the Prevention of Genocide released a research study that examined several decision points during the Syrian conflict.
00:38:03.000Since its release, a number of people with whom we have worked closely on Syria since the conflict's outbreak have expressed concerns with the study.
00:38:09.000The museum has decided to remove the study from its website as we evaluate this feedback.
00:38:12.000The question is why they ran it in the first place and the answer is because they're a bunch of Democrats who wanted to absolve other Democrats of malfeasance in a genocide.
00:38:47.000So, Linda Sarsour, who of course is the terror-sympathizing Women's March organizer who's celebrated all over the left because she wears a hijab.
00:38:56.000She has spent a lot of time recently saying that as a person of color this and as a person of color that, well here she is a few years ago explaining that she's actually just a normal white girl and now she wears a hijab so she's no longer a normal white girl.
00:39:09.000When I wasn't wearing hijab I was just some ordinary white girl from New York City.
00:39:14.000Wearing hijab made you know that I was Muslim.
00:39:17.000She was just an ordinary white girl, you understand, but now she's a person of color because she threw on the hijab.
00:39:21.000This demonstrates that the left likes to conflate activity with ethnic identity.
00:39:25.000Okay, I am technically a white person, I guess.
00:39:29.000I mean, Jews have been kind of qualified as white and then not qualified as white, but for purposes of the left, I'm a white guy.
00:39:34.000I'm still a white guy even though I wear a yarmulke.
00:39:37.000It means I'm identifiable as a Jew in the same way the hijab makes her identifiable as a Muslim.
00:39:41.000But the idea that this makes me a quote-unquote person of color is just asinine.
00:39:44.000And what this really means is that for the left, the only real people of color are people who are quote-unquote victimized by the broader society.
00:39:56.000Not because you're actually a person of color, but because you're victimized.
00:39:59.000And this also means that if you're a black person who's a Republican,
00:40:02.000If you are Larry Elder, if you are Walter Williams, if you are Thomas Sowell, if you're Clarence Thomas, you're not an actual black person because an actual black person wouldn't act like that.
00:40:11.000An actual black person, like Linda Sarsour, is more black than Clarence Thomas because Linda Sarsour is a white person who wears a hijab.
00:40:16.000Color, in other words, is just another way for the left to say leftist.
00:40:20.000And that's what you see from Linda Sarsour here.
00:40:23.000She is a self-admitted not person of color by this tape, but she calls herself a person of color all the time.
00:40:31.000So, the Cleveland Browns have decided that they are not going to, a bunch of Cleveland Browns have decided they're going to kneel for the National Anthem, and a bunch of the cops said, listen, I'm not going to go there and hold the flag so that you can disrespect the flag.
00:40:42.000And Stephen A. Smith, who is sometimes right, but is more often wrong,
00:40:48.000He says that it's disrespectful for the police officers to refuse to hold the flag on the field in response to the Browns protesting the national anthem.
00:40:54.000Here's Stephen A. Smith making the case with the ex-Scribble Max Kellerman.
00:40:58.000What's your reaction to the Cleveland officers that they won't carry flags now?
00:41:03.000I think they're the ones disrespecting the flag as opposed to the athletes.
00:41:07.000For you to be the benevolent association or anybody else that then stands up and says we will not support an organization who is basically saying they agree with you but they're supporting the rights of their players because those players are American citizens.
00:41:25.000You are disrespecting the flag more than the players are!
00:41:27.000Because the players are exercising the rights given to them!
00:41:31.000Okay, this is the backwards logic you constantly hear from the left, and it's really stupid, I'm gonna debunk it really fast.
00:41:35.000Okay, so they constantly say things like, dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
00:41:39.000Well, it depends on dissent from what.
00:41:41.000Okay, because if dissent is the highest form of patriotism, and revolution is the highest form of dissent, then revolution is the highest form of patriotism.
00:41:49.000Which is weird, because that would mean overthrowing the government.
00:42:09.000But this is the sort of deconstruction that you seek when you're attempting to justify unjustifiable behavior.
00:42:13.000It's the players who are making a mockery of the flag, and if I decide not to go there and participate in their mockery of the flag, good on me.
00:42:21.000But again, Stephen A. Smith is coming to this with a prearranged conception of who's right and who's wrong.
00:42:25.000The people who are kneeling are right and justified, and therefore anyone who impedes their efforts must be wrong.
00:42:29.000Okay, time for—it's Wednesday, so time for a little bit of quick Bible talk.
00:42:32.000So, this week, the portion of the Prophets that we read in the Jewish community, because every week we read a portion of the Prophets, as well as a portion from the Torah, is from the book of Isaiah.
00:42:42.000There are a bunch of different sections from Isaiah that we read in the lead-up to the High Holy Days.
00:42:48.000Rosh Hashanah is coming up in, like, two and a half weeks, I think?
00:42:52.000And then Yom Kippur is coming up right after that.
00:42:54.000So these are considered the Days of Atonement for Jews.
00:42:57.000This month is, well the days of Atonement technically are the 10 days between Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, but the month beforehand is considered a time for repentance.
00:43:06.000And so, we like to read about the uplift of repentance, returning to God, and what you get when you return to God.
00:43:12.000So here is from Isaiah, chapter 60, 19 through 21.
00:43:35.000The point that I want to make here is that we live in a very naturalistic world.
00:43:37.000We live in a very materialist conception of reality.
00:43:40.000In the last 200 years, really since probably David Hume, the deconstruction of the notion that nature is part and parcel of God has taken on a rather sinister aspect with regard to religion.
00:43:53.000This notion that nature is a living rebuke to God.
00:43:57.000That there's always a naturalistic explanation for everything, so you don't need God.
00:44:00.000God is an unnecessary hypothesis, as a philosopher once put it to Napoleon.
00:44:05.000Well, what this is saying in Isaiah is that really nature is a mask.
00:44:44.000but exists beyond the light, and that light, that true light, infuses the nature with which we deal.
00:44:49.000So there's the sun for light by day, and the moon that we rely upon, but in the end, if we're not relying on God, then we're living in a universe devoid of meaning.
00:44:58.000And so it's not the sun that you should rely on, and not the moon you should rely on, but the everlasting light of God to infuse the entire universe with meaning, and in the end of days, when there is repentance, then that mask will fall away, and we'll all see clearly
00:45:10.000That nature, as beautiful as it is, the systems that God created for us to live in, they were created by a master hand.
00:45:17.000And that master hand has infused all of it with a meaning that makes your life worth living.