Ep. 100 - The Obama Economy Tanks
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On today's show, we celebrate the 100th episode of The Michael Knowles Show by celebrating Valentine's Day with a heart shaped box of delicious beef jerky and snaffrodisiacs. Plus, we hear from future me, Michael from the 200th episode.
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The economy for which, as the mainstream media have been telling me for months and months,
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Barack Obama is solely responsible and Donald Trump is not in any way responsible, has tanked.
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We will analyze why stocks are down and most importantly, who to blame. Then it's our 100th
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episode. To celebrate, we'll be using Daily Wire's incredible streaming technology to interview
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future me, Michael from the 200th episode. Boy, that is going to be great. I can't wait to see
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how incredible our show looks by the 200th episode. Marshall, isn't that going to be great?
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Yeah. I can't wait. Then Amanda Prestigiacomo and Josh Yasma join the panel of deplorables
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to discuss Harvard's banning all single gender clubs except for the female ones. Equality.
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Hashtag equality. We will also discuss the English teacher who was fired and reported to a counter
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terrorism agency for telling a lesbian student that God loves her. And finally, satanic yoga.
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Then, because all nature is but art unknown to thee, this day in history is both Ronald Reagan's
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birthday and 73 years later, the day that the Gipper announced the Reagan doctrine. We will cover it
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all. I am Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show. There is a lot to get to today,
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especially me interviewing me from the 200th episode. That's going to be pretty wild. I've never seen
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something like that before. I wonder how much bigger our studio gets. It'd be nice to get out
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of this broom closet. We'll probably even be on network television by then. So we'll get to that
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right away, but not before we talk about man crates. Man crates are, you know, I talk about man crates
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To celebrate our 100th episode, we are lucky enough to be joined by a no doubt illustrious guest.
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He was not easy to find, but through our state of the art daily wire technology,
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we are going to speak with Michael from the 200th episode. Do we have him? Let's bring on future Michael.
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Michael, Michael, is that you? Subscribe to Michael Knowles Show dot trash and keep my
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tumbler filled with grain alcohol. I'll be right back. Michael, Michael. Not again, buddy. Not again.
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I'm not doing that again for less than $20. Cash. I don't care. Is that me?
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Yeah, Michael, it's me. It's me from the 100th episode. I can't hear you that well.
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Holy. How much covfefe did I smoke? Am I dead? Oh, finally. Oh, finally. Yes. Yes.
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Oh, yes. Thank you. You merciful. No more of this hell. This hell I walk through day by day. Oh, thank you.
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Michael. Michael. Michael, you're not dead. Michael. Michael, I am you from the 100th episode. Are you,
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are you doing some kind of shoot for the 200th episode?
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Sure. The 200th episode. Oh, I do it. Did you think Shapiro would let you get to 200?
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I guess I'm not the only one puffin' on fifth. No, you didn't make it to 200 episodes.
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200 episodes. What do you mean I didn't make it to 200 episodes?
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Are you? Oh, oh, Michael. Oh, you stupid swarthy lout. You, you thought you made it.
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Well, uh, here's an idea. How about you have some, you're stupid sketches. You got a podcast about
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politics. We want to hear about politics and culture and history. But no, you wear your stupid
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sweaters and your stupid bow ties and you're on a little panel of beautiful women. Yeah,
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it looks like our, it looks like the feed is cutting out. It looks like the feed's cutting
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out. Marshall, Marshall looks like the feed's cutting out. Uh, all right. Um, let's talk
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about the economy, man. Was that just, does, does future me have alopecia or something like that?
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That's very, that's very scary stuff. Okay. The Dow fell by 1175 points on Monday. Oh no,
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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I said that wrong. The Obama stock market fell by 1170 points on Monday.
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We just got to get, we're just going to get fact, fact, fact here. This, uh, this is not looking
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good for the future in the Obama economy. It's the Obama economy, right? President Trump
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has nothing to do with it. That's what Democrats have been yelling and telling me for a year.
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So Obama actually handed over a wonderful economy to Trump. A, an administration that has done,
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um, not very much to contribute to, uh, this strong economy. The economy was in a ditch and
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Barack Obama pulled it out the ditch, shined it up, put us back on the road, uh, and took us to
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another level. Donald Trump is riding the wave of the success of president Obama. He has done nothing
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to contribute to the success of the economy right now. Works for me. But if unlike Democrats, I'm
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being honest, the story is more complicated. The Dow fell 1175 points yesterday. The market
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sell-off began last week. It sped up on Monday, which affected global markets. Yesterday's drop
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was the single largest, uh, day drop in the Dow's history. The S and P 500 had its worst day in seven
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years. Market volatility has been accelerating in recent months, jumping by more than 100%.
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Japan's Nikkei dropped 4.7%. That was its largest single day drop since Brexit. Markets in Hong Kong,
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Europe, and the UK also tanked. Then this morning, the Dow dropped another 500 points.
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Uh, $4 trillion was wiped away from global markets yesterday. Bitcoin is down to around $7,000
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after hitting nearly 20,000 in December. I know it's shocking that a thing that's completely fake
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and made up has crashed. Uh, so more importantly, whose fault is it? Well, I am more than happy to
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follow the lead of Democrat hacks on TV and start calling this the Obama economy, but the situation
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is much more complicated. And with any complex system like the U.S. economy or the global economy,
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for that matter, the president has some influence. The, uh, the previous president has some influence
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and on many counts, the president has nothing to do with it. So of course, President Trump has been
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touting the record market highs since he's been in office. This is understandable, but ultimately it's
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not a great strategy because if you take credit when the market soars, you're going to have a more
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difficult time explaining why it's not your fault when the market tanks. Uh, I spoke to some friends
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of mine in the upper echelons of high finance, or as I am told to pronounce it, finance, finance in high
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finance. Uh, their expert analysis of the market drop is that nobody has any idea what's going on.
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That's the best they can give me. Sounds about right. You know, because financial analysts are like
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sports analysts and political analysts. They have no idea what's happening and most of their
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predictions are wrong. And then they just keep showing up to work and people keep listening to
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them for some reason. So there is one theory that's interesting. There's one theory that there
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are a bunch of short volatility strategies that are driven by algorithms. So when, uh, prices,
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prices fall abruptly, that actually triggers more selling. So, uh, it, it, uh, becomes a self
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fulfilling, uh, prophecy and feeds on itself and it gets you a crazy drops like we saw yesterday.
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So in this sense, we can't really blame Obama or Trump. Artemis capital management explains it
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like a snake eating its own tail. So in extreme heat, a snake's metabolism will spike out of
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control. And in this mania, it will be unable to differentiate between its tail and food. So it
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starts eating itself until it dies like this in a market where both stocks and bonds are overvalued
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a feedback loop of very, very low interest rates, debt expansion, asset volatility, and financial
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engineering will cause volatility to reinforce itself both lower and higher. Uh, it's too bad
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that we don't have one of those precious metal companies right now that's sponsoring the show.
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I guess we would be selling precious metals like gangbusters, but sad missed opportunity. What can
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we do? Donald Trump certainly gets credit for certain aspects of the economy. He gets credit for
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consumer confidence. He gets credit for the repatriation of corporate funds held overseas, uh, for
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cutting the corporate tax rate to make the U S competitive. Uh, he gets credit for economic
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growth at levels that Barack Obama's own economists said were impossible. Donald Trump gets credit for
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those things. Even the IMF, the international monetary fund admits as much. A couple of weeks
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ago, the wall street journal pulled 68 business financial and academic economists as to whether
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Trump gets credit for the strong economy. The majority of them agreed that he does. Uh, that said
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markets correct themselves. This happens. Analysts have been predicting this for a long time. Uh,
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HSBC says the correct correction is long overdue. The S and P was up 8% in January. That doesn't go
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on forever. I'm sorry to say you aren't going to get 8% a month for the next 11 months. Uh, the Dow's
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fall on Friday was an ominous 666 points. Probably not a good sign. Wharton professor Jeremy Siegel
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actually thinks the correction could be a good thing. Even up to a 10% fall, we still won't have a bear
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market in 2018, he says. And that would be good because we need to get through more months, uh,
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about what, eight more months now of, uh, at least the appearance of a strong economy or else the
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perception will become the reality of electing Democrats. I promise you that will not be good
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for the economy. So let's talk some news with the panel. That's on the markets. I wanted to just, uh,
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break that down a little bit because we're going to be hearing a lot of ridiculous partisan nonsense
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on both sides of the aisle for, for a little bit. And I at least want you to know,
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I want you to have some honest partisan nonsense. I want you to know where your propaganda comes from,
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honestly. So we have the lovely Amanda Presto Giacomo and the decidedly less lovely Josh Yasma.
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Thank you both for being here. Uh, the first question, Harvard university has banned all gender
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exclusive clubs on and off campus, except for the female ones, but all of the other ones, for instance,
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they have been the male organizations and they've banned the men's clubs and the group guys groups
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they banned and the fellas lodges. All of those are banned. Uh, it's just the female ones that
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aren't, uh, the move hits fraternities, but really it's directed toward Harvard's final clubs. This is
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kind of like the secret societies at Yale and it's these prestigious clubs. I actually have some
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experience of Harvard's final clubs. I was not allowed into one during my junior year of college.
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Uh, we were up in Cambridge for the game and I drank a lot of four loco when that was still legal,
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a lot of caffeine and malt liquor or something. And I repeatedly blew a vuvuzela into some Harvard
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guy's face and then they wouldn't let me into their club. So this is karma guys. This is what
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you get for not letting me in as far as I'm concerned. Amanda, women are allowed to keep their
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clubs, but men are not. The logic here is that Harvard men have privilege, true, but women enrolled at
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the oldest university in the United States. Harvard women somehow do not have privilege. Uh, this seems
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to tie in a little bit with the narrative here that men are predators who must be castrated and all
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women are victims. A poll shows 31% of female Harvard students claim to have been sexually assaulted
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on campus. Whatever that means, whatever sexual assault is, is means to say what is going on here?
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Is Harvard Yard more dangerous for women than downtown Fallujah? That's what those studies
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would tell you. But as we've seen time and again, a lot of those studies are super broad and ambiguous.
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Like for instance, if you had sex and then you regretted it the next day, that would count as you being
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sexually assaulted or, you know, raped. So, uh, there's, there are endless people. I know George
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Will did a really good piece on this, just debunking a lot of those, um, surveys. So no,
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that's not the case. And by the way, if that's the case, then, then if regret constitutes a sexual
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assault, then Josh has got to be the most wanted man in the entire country. I'm sorry. I finished
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your point, Amanda. Yeah. So, so you can't, you can't look at those, um, surveys, um, with any
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objectivity. Um, and then also it's just funny to see this. This is like the status of feminism
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today is that it's like cafeteria style feminism. So we know we're exactly the same, you know, uh,
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there's no difference between men and women. Um, so, you know, we're going to have all these
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policies that there is no difference. So there can't be a man's only club, a woman's only club,
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but at the same time, um, we want the women's club because we want special treatment. Like it's
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like really patronizing and weird how everything's the same, but we still get the good stuff. Like we,
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if I, you know, we're in a lower standard so I can fight in combat, but at the same time,
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I better not be in the draft. So it doesn't make any sense. You kind of just like cafeteria style,
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pick what you want. Um, and that doesn't make any sense. That's why you have to subscribe to
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real feminism, which is acknowledges that men and women are different though. They can be equal
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on the real feminism, which is anti-feminism. And we need it. We need equality so that we can treat
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people with special privileges so that we can have more equality or something. Josh, Barack Obama's
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centers for disease control spent a million dollars on a study to reduce
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rigid masculinity. Now I'm not suggesting you're an expert on this, but why does the left hate men
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and masculinity? I'm being very mean to Josh today. That's not good. Why does the left hate men and
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masculinity? Um, well, first of all, I really appreciated your beard in that, uh, future
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segment. I knew it was fake because you don't have the capacity to go. Real nice. Here we go.
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He's getting me back. Um, so as far as rigid masculinity, toxic masculinity, I think we need
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to acknowledge that sexual assault is a problem. You know, there doesn't acknowledge that. I think
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we need to acknowledge that murder is bad. Yeah, I agree. I, well, it's a problem on, I don't think
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that downplaying it helps. And I, I think that while these programs may be misguided, um, do you
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think 31% of women at Harvard university have been raped on campus? Does anyone actually believe that?
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No, I, I can't speak to those stats. Um, but Amanda, do you think 31% of women on Harvard's
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campus have been raped? No. And there's, there's harm to playing that stuff up as well. I mean,
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there's harm to just, because then we have, you know, memos from the Obama administration
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directing people that you don't really need evidence, right? If someone comes forward,
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you don't have to tell that person that they've been accused. All we have these kangaroo courts
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on campus because we overplay this, this rape culture nonsense that's backed up by nothing,
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by these ambiguous, uh, surveys. So it's actually, it's a danger. We need to go with the actual facts.
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We can't, it's a danger to play this stuff up when it's not really there. That's right. And
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this actually isn't the craziest example from campus, even in today's news cycle, an English teacher,
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uh, like the country, not like the subject, though she is a subject because she's English.
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An English teacher has been fired and, uh, reported to a counter-terrorism agency because
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she had the audacity to, uh, answer her students' questions about Christianity. She's now a radicalization
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threat. She told a lesbian student that God loves her. That's what makes her a terrorist. Amanda,
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I, I don't know. I mean, they're in this, in this report, in this writeup, um, apparently there's
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an atheist teacher who discusses his views openly, um, who has said some pretty crazy things that
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apparently he showed the children. I don't know how high school, I think I don't know how old like
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these, these, uh, high school, these kids are, but he showed them a picture of like a naked woman
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or whatever. He was suspended for three months and now he's back to teaching. And like, you know,
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that's just like a slap on the wrist. But if you have a religious person, so you see the extreme
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bias here, happen to say that they, you know, hold certain views and then tell somebody that God loves
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them, which apparently is harmful, you know, they're out of there that, you know, that it's just,
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it's another clear bias, uh, that we've seen here in the States over and over. And then of course,
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it's really strong on college campuses. We've seen that with Ben all the time.
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Right. And Josh, on this point, does this show the silliness and maybe the ultimate futility
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of a hard separation of church and state? Do jihadis and Christian teachers who say God loves
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you pose an equal threat to the public? So you're talking about the story from the UK, correct?
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Yes. Where, um, she was, you know, she was at a government funded school and she talked about
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her personal views. She was asked about Christianity and she answered. She was asked about her personal
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views. Well, she, her, she is Christian. She is Christian. So Christianity is her personal
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view. Right. I, I come from the camp. Maybe, you know, I hate to be a contrarian again, but
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I come from the camp where I don't think that the teachers should talk about her religious
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views at a government funded school. So she can't talk about Christianity. She can't talk
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about the religion of the West. Well, she wasn't teaching a segment on Christianity. She was
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asked, what are your personal views on homosexuality? And she answered. And I don't know if that's
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appropriate at a government funded school. So should she have said, I'm sorry. Uh, I'm
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sorry. You've asked a question about the Christian sexual ethic. And even though Christianity is
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the animating force of the West, even though it's the, it is the major world religion, I can't
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answer that question. Because if I answer a question about Christianity, the coppers are
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going to come in and call me a terrorist. That's how we should run government schools.
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Look, this straw man, I, I agree. I don't think that she should have been reported to a counter
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terrorism organization. You know, that that's, that's obviously absurd, but at the same time,
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you know, if you're teaching math or you're teaching, um, you know, geometry, something else,
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and someone asked a question about your personal religious beliefs, then I think there's a time and
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a place for that. And from what I read, it sounded like she, um, went on a tangent and at a time
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when she didn't choose to go on a tangent, she was asked a question. You know, this is one, and she
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said that very hateful statement that God loves lesbians, that hateful bigoted statement. It's a
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good thing that we didn't have, uh, that our scientists weren't selected based on their religious
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views and our, their teachers weren't excluded for being Christian in the beginning of modernity.
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Because then we wouldn't have had Isaac Newton. We wouldn't have had Kepler. We wouldn't have had
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Bacon. We wouldn't have had Pascal. We wouldn't, we wouldn't have discovered the big bang because
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George Lemaître was a Catholic priest. That's probably pretty bad. We wouldn't have discovered
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the human genome on and on and on. It seems to me a totally false separation between, uh, uh,
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faith and reason, between light and truth, between, uh, church and state. Obviously, uh, England is a,
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uh, Christian country. There is a church of England. The queen of England is the head of the
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church of England. And must we then pretend that the queen, the head of England and the head of the
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church of England reigns over a country that is totally separated from the religion that animates
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it, that animates the, its laws, that animates its traditions and its institutions. This seems like
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pie in the sky, leftist utopianism. Am I wrong, Josh?
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I think it's a little bit more complicated than that. I think that, you know, touting the
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achievements of Western civilization while accurate, you know, it is.
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No, I'm touting the Christianity of the great scientists of the West.
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The profound Christianity. Isaac Newton spent years interpreting scripture.
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I think the modern UK is a very different place than the, you know, the, than the England of years
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passed, you know, and, and holding up a ceremonial post like the church of England or the monarchy.
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The church of England isn't a ceremonial post. It's a church.
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But they have no political cloud. It's not, it's not the same. You know, the Anglican church
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has no political cloud. It's meaningless. I do think it's meaningless, but I do think it also has
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political cloud because the queen runs it. We have to move on to that. That is a, that is a good point
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though, because it has in many ways, the UK and the church of England have become husks of their
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former selves. And Josh may be celebrating, but I'm a little upset about it, man. Moving on to this
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final question. Our pal, Matt Walsh, I think we've all seen this article floating around. He sent out
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a tweet and became public enemy. Number one, Vox.com started writing hit pieces about him. And I don't
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know, he's had one tweet about how ridiculous yoga is and people lose their minds. Matt Walsh says that
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yoga is pagan and that Christians should not do it. Amanda, he's right, isn't he? Yoga is pagan. It
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relates to Hinduism. It relates to Buddhism and Jainism. The exercise is thoroughly spiritual.
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Some of the mantras that people repeat during yoga are things that say, I am the universal self or the
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unit, whatever, right? The whole point of yoga is that you cannot separate the physical from the
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spiritual. Why do Christians and even atheists indulge the spiritual ritual for their physical
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exercise? Shouldn't we just all do Pilates or something instead?
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I pretty much agree with Matt Walsh on everything. I'm very extreme, just like he is open about it.
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I know how hardcore I am. And I initially saw this because he wrote a full piece on it.
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And the comments section on it is lit. If you need something to do for Friday night, read that.
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But at first, I was like, okay, this is a little extreme. This is like a stretch. But then I read his
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arguments. And lo and behold, I'm just as extreme as Matt Walsh. It's definitely rooted in paganism.
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And if you I remember when I was in college, I was on the soccer team, and they made us take a yoga
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class. And I remember like being uncomfortable because it was so spiritual. There are like,
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it's not like it's totally like detached from this. It's not like, you know, like things that were
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pagan in the past that have been transformed into like Christian practices. It's not like that. It still
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has this very like, it's still a pagan ritual. And it still practices that in a lot of these like yoga
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studios, or even if you do it on your own, I mean, a lot of the poses and the things you say,
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like when you when you echo the the yogi or whatever, is pagan. So if you, I think his question
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is, how does this advance your Christianity? How does this bring you closer to the kingdom of God? And
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if you can't, if it doesn't, then why not choose a different exercise? That's right. And they do
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the world, you're going to hell, but and they do have these different poses, they have the downward
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dog and the sun salutation, and the worship ball. And some of them seem a little more demonic than
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others. Josh, you are a decadent pagan, but at least you're an insightful. Why do atheists embrace this
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sort of thing? Is the is the cultural fascination with yoga to play devil's advocate here, literally
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devil's advocate in this case, and disagree a bit with with Amanda? Is it possible that the cultural
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fascination with yoga is a good if dangerous phenomenon, in so much as it shows that self
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professed atheists, and the spiritual but not religious crowd are indeed themselves longing for
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the spiritual world, longing for the metaphysical world, longing for God?
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I don't think that it's that complicated. I think that yoga is just a product of cross-cultural
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communication. And what the yoga that's practiced in Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Portland, Seattle,
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is not the kind of yoga that's practiced at Hindu temples. I mean, let's let's be real. These are,
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you know, millennial, you know, kombucha drinking vegetarians go in and it's just like, it's part
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of their kind of like, secular ritual. It's it's stripped of all religious significance. It's not
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a religious activity. And frankly, Matt Walsh's argument is ridiculous. Like, this is just a fun
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little thing that millennials do for exercise. Yeah, no, worshiping Moloch is a fun little thing. No,
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it's really fun to, yeah, just kneel down before Baphomet. It's so fun and little.
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I do agree with you. Most of these people are just doing this sort of silly thing on their way
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between kombucha breaks. But nevertheless, the point of yoga is that the physical is spiritual
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and the spiritual is enfleshed. And there is a relation here. And everybody's got to serve
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somebody. I think a lot of people can pretend that they're totally independent. They're totally
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liberated. They're above themselves, above it all, floating in this ethereal world. And don't,
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it's okay if I do something with my body or if I partake in certain activities that has no
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spiritual significance or metaphorical significance or moral significance. But
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they're fooling themselves because these cultural culture is insidious, right? Politics is downstream
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of culture. And what you culture and cult come from the same root. And there's a relationship between
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what we do in our culture and the sort of things that we think about the world and the sort of
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things that we worship as a society. And that relationship should not be downplayed too much.
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But listen, guys, this has been a lovely panel. It was even nice having Josh, even having you here.
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It was very, very insightful from both of you. Thank you for being here. We have Josh Yasma and Amanda
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This is a providential this day in history because it's Ronald Reagan's birthday and the announcement
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It's time for This Day in History. This Day in History.
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Because nature is but art unknown to thee and chance direction which thou canst not see,
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on our hundredth episode on This Day in History in 1911, Ronald Reagan was born. And on this very
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same day in 1985, Ronald Reagan announced his foreign policy program, the Reagan Doctrine,
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which has been badly misunderstood by his political descendants. So Ronald Reagan was born a good
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American boy. He grew up and became a star of film and television. I'm sorry I've lost my place.
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Oh yes, he was called a dunce by the left and self-appointed elite conservatives alike. He
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entered the Oval Office in an advanced age. He was divorced and remarried. He fought cultural
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battles from the White House. He frequently added provocative lines to his speeches that drove his
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advisors crazy. He affected tax cuts and deregulation at home and strength abroad. And he restored America's
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leadership in the world after a disastrous Democrat administration. Yeah, that's where I was.
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That's what I, that's what I couldn't find. That sounds kind of familiar, doesn't it? That must be
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deja vu. I don't know. On this day in 1985, on his birthday, Reagan articulated the foreign policy
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strategy that would come to be known as the Reagan Doctrine. He explained, quote,
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freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is a universal right of all God's children.
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He went on, we must stand by our democratic allies and we must not break faith with those who are risking
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their lives on every continent from Afghanistan to Nicaragua to defy Soviet supported aggression and
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secure rights which have been ours from birth. Support for freedom fighters is self-defense.
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These lines have regularly been ridiculed in the wake of September 11th as we now fight groups of
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radical Muslims who appear similar to some of the freedom fighters we once supported. Even though
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really that point isn't even true. There's this left-wing suggestion that we funded Osama bin Laden in
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the 1980s that's patently false. But Reagan's words are entirely true. Unfortunately, they're usually
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quoted out of context. The freedom fighters risked their lives to defy Soviet supported aggression,
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to defy communism, our mortal enemy. The Reagan Doctrine does not exist in the ether floating
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above reality, above time and space. The Reagan Doctrine guided the country to its victory in the
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Cold War. We won the Cold War. Ronald Reagan won the Cold War and now we're here and we can long for the
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days of Ronald Reagan. The Gipper was a great man and the 1980s were a great time. In many ways it was
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more sophisticated and it was more polite and was more civilized. But now we're in a different time
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with different priorities and different challenges and different political leaders. Applying strategies
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outside of their time and context can prove disastrous as we've seen in several interventions.
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Longing for the good old days is the sign of a decadent culture. A healthy culture moves forward.
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Ronald Reagan didn't try to solve the problems of Chester Arthur or Grover Cleveland. So too,
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we should honor the Reagan legacy by living in our own time and space and applying his guiding
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principles along with timeless philosophy and enduring tradition to the challenges we face today.
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To quote two great men, that's the only way that we'll ever make America great again.
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That's our show. That's our hundredth show. Thank you for being here. Thanks for watching for
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these hundred shows. I appreciate it. I haven't been fired yet by Shapiro. That's really nice. We'll see what
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happens before the 200th episode. Really, it kind of worries me, is it? Can I affect the space-time
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