Ep. 184 - The Beautiful Game
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Join the conversation with Supreme Lord of the Multiverse Andrew Klavan on Tuesday, July 17th at 5:30pm ET on The Beautiful Game! Subscribe to our sister network, Daily Wire 2, to hear Jeremy King Boring's thoughts on all things politics and culture.
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Democrats allege that President Trump colluding with Russia stole the 2016 election.
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According to a new public opinion poll, most Republicans think the Mueller probe is a witch
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hunt, perhaps because President Obama installed a mole on the Trump campaign.
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The beautiful game wraps up in Russia as the real beautiful game of politics kicks off
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Then, Brits try to nix Brexit, and Ariana Grande proves Pat Robertson right on feminism
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So we've got the conversation coming up, it's coming up very soon, with the one and only
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Make sure you tune in for that, that will be coming up.
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If you're like me, I know you're incredibly excited to find out what I'm going to say
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You can catch our live stream on Facebook and YouTube, and if you're a Daily Wire subscriber,
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you get to ask me questions about issues like these.
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Everything the left does is magnified because they have the megaphone of the press.
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I don't understand why otherwise smart, educated people support leftist ideas so much.
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Ben says that he finds friends kind of useless.
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I find friends to be one of the great, great consolations of life.
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So, subscribe now, and you can ask me live questions on Tuesday, July 17th at 5.30pm Eastern.
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Also, you know, we've got to turn to our sister network, Daily Wire 2 pretty soon, to Jeremy
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Without further ado, I need to know what happened in the game.
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Let's turn to our sister network, Daily Wire 2, and Jeremy, the God King Boring.
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As has been pointed out ad nauseum by common trolls since this bit first began, the Femme
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Fatale World Cup is a true World Cup in which well-paid players from squads all over Europe
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change jerseys and play up their grandmother's accents to represent the districts beyond Capital
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City in a televised death match with indecipherable rules meant to provide circus for the masses
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while the muckety-mucks eat until they barf and then eat some more.
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Since it is a truly global competition, it seems appropriate to take instruction from
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the foremost citizen of the world and the first U.S. president not born on this continent,
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Barry Satoro, who, ignoring the actual Christian faith of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.,
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scolds us that the arc of the moral universe may bend toward justice, but it is not doing
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And, in the end, might finally made right even in the World Cup, with France GDP $2.46 trillion
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obliterating Croatia with its GDP of roughly $50 billion, pretty much destroying every funny
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Fortunately, we here at The Daily Wire 2 managed to secure an interview with one of America's
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top soccer players to explain what went so wrong for Croatia and so right for basic capitalist
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Well, here we are with one of America's foremost soccer experts.
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Let me ask you, what is your favorite thing about the beautiful sport?
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What did you make of Giroud's performance in the World Cup?
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How do you think that factored into their matchup with France, whose three chief exports are cheese,
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Well, I guess the only question in the aftermath of France and Croatia's final,
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Thank you, Ben, for that very important interview.
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Of course, the biggest news of the weekend was not France being on the wrong side of history.
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It was FIFA's bold and courageous decision to stand up to the patriarchy by no longer giving
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women any screen time whatsoever at future World Cup matches.
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In an official statement, FUFU President Eduardo on the take claimed that women have no place at the
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World Cup unless they are homely and insufferable, in which case it's still okay to show them as long
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as you pay them exactly 0% of what you're paying the male players who are far less interesting to watch.
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Feminists the world over celebrated the news that American men would no longer have any reason
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whatsoever to tune in to this mind-numbing snoozefest by crack-hackling like angry hens
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about how evil men are for no longer tuning in to this mind-numbing snoozefest.
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The trans community objected to the news that women can no longer be shown at soccer matches
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simply because they look like women by reminding us that while the gender pay gap is real,
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gender is not, and that looking like a woman is pretty much the definition of womanhood.
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U.S. President Donald Trump responded to the announcement that hot babes would no longer
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get airtime at the World Cup by pulling America out of hosting the games in 2026,
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calling America's traditional allies losers, and asking Republican super donor Elliot Broidy
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for the number of that playmate he definitely didn't have sex with.
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And that's all the news for the 2018 World Cup.
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I want to give a special thanks to Twitter handle StrangelandElf for being lovely in every way
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and for not flying to Los Angeles and killing us before today's broadcast,
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and to the six or seven people who actually thought this bit was funny.
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Soccer truly sucks, and Germany will rise again.
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Thank you, so I was really taken all around the world with that.
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I'll confess to being pretty much out of jokes.
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That doesn't mean we're going to stop the segment.
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I do have to wonder, though, so France won the World Cup.
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Is this not the great triumph of this segment that we've done now for weeks?
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I mean, after all, they did help us win the American Revolution.
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That was the last war in which they showed heroism, bravery, backbone, spine.
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And then all the people that helped us in that revolution, by the way, promptly had their heads cut off about ten years later.
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I can't wait to keep talking about this important, beautiful game.
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When will the next soccer match be that we can watch and talk about?
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I'm going to have to be just plainly honest with you, Michael.
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They built this brand new stadium in Los Angeles.
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I will say that according to social media, a lot of people do go to soccer matches at said stadium.
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Well, I have to give you a lot of props, though, Mr. Godking, because your network, our sister network, Daily Wire 2, really did stream phenomenal coverage of all of the game over the weekend.
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You've really shown me the light on this beautiful sport and great news that President Trump is reacting to the cancellation of babes in that way.
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I can't wait for the United States never to host the World Cup.
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Speaking of the beautiful games in Russia, speaking of the beautiful games, let's talk a little bit about the beautiful games of international politics.
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And Hemingway had this great quote about games.
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He said, there are only three sports, bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering.
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And a more Hemingway quote I don't think I've ever heard.
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The distinction that Hemingway is drawing is between something where you really could die, you know, your life is really on the line, and then games, you know.
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We're not, the Trump-Putin summit is not about war, precisely.
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And politics is a high-stakes game, but it is a game.
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And everything you've been hearing over the past few weeks, the Mueller indictments, the curiously timed Mueller indictments, all the way up to the Trump arrival in the United Kingdom, all the way to Trump meeting with Putin in Helsinki.
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The Democrats' play here, from just their side, is that the president colluded with Russia.
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And we have some video of it, don't we, of the president colluding with Russia.
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No, no, no, not when President Obama said that he was going to mislead the American people, when he promised that to the head of Russia on camera, he thought he was having a private conversation.
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I'm talking about the other time that the president colluded with Russia.
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You warned us about this, and you said there's about $145 million in kickbacks to the Clinton Foundation total?
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$145 million that we know about comes from a variety of sources, but it's basically nine shareholders in this Uranium One company, guys like Frank Chustra, Sergey Kersen, and others.
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And there's, there's a major story to be told there, not only about how this deal was approved, but how this deal was put together, and the fact that the Clintons made a lot of money by basically helping the Russians to corner the world uranium market.
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No, I'm not talking about that time that former future President Hillary Clinton helped the Russians, took a lot of money by helping the Russians to corner the global uranium market.
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I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when the president colluded with Russia, just like all the Democrats have been saying.
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I established, I think, an effective working relationship with Mr. Medvedev.
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And as a consequence, Russia's economy was growing.
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They had the opportunity to begin diversifying their economy.
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Their relations across Europe and around the world were sound.
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And since Mr. Putin made this decision around Crimea and Ukraine, not because of some grand strategy.
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Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat.
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Because a few months ago, when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.
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Well, not al-Qaeda, you said Russia in the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War has been over for 20 years.
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Well, I was looking for the tape of President Trump colluding with Russia.
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Maybe the producers in the back can try to find that.
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We just found a bunch of Democrats colluding with Russia, President Obama and then former future President Democrat Hillary Clinton.
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And this really does expose the whole Russia narrative as a farce.
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It's a political game and they're playing that game and that's fine, but that's the position we're in.
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These are not honest brokers here, not the Democrats, not the media, perhaps not even the bureaucrats who are pushing this narrative too.
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The stage it's being played out on is Helsinki.
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President Trump is getting a lot of flack from the left and from his critics on the right.
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Let's go right in to President Trump meeting with Putin.
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Before anything got started here, before the private meeting, before the press conference afterward, they held a little presser, a little meet and greet beforehand.
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And I've got to tell you, you know how it started off in the right way because President Trump made fun of soccer.
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Well, first of all, Mr. President, I'd like to congratulate you on a really great World Cup, one of the best ever, from what everybody tells me, one of the best ever, and also for your team itself doing so well.
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I watched quite a bit, and the United States, we call it soccer.
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And I watched quite a bit of it, and I watched the entire final and the semifinals, and they were really spectacular games, but it was beautifully done.
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So on the level, I don't want to read too much into this, you know, on the 98% of what this is, it's just a nicety, you know, trying to, what do you say about somebody who's like a vicious KGB killer who poisons people with polonium?
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You know, you just sort of say, oh, the games were nice, right?
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But he did get these kind of barbs in there, which is like, first of all, he implied that he'd never watched soccer before, which is obviously true because nobody has watched soccer before.
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He also said he refused to call it football or release it.
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You know, we call it soccer in America, that little weird thing that you kids do.
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But he also said that the ones in Russia were some of the best ever, which is obviously true.
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That's, I think, a little bit of a backhanded compliment, you know, damning with faint praise.
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But he opens up, he says, yeah, yeah, soccer, it was good.
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And I got to tell you, from the beginning here, part of the Democrat game is that Donald Trump is a total nincompoop.
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Ben pointed this out on the Bill Maher show the other day.
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The Democrats' angle here is both that Donald Trump is a total incompetent nincompoop and also he's a political mastermind genius who colluded with Russia.
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Democrats are trying to push both narratives right now.
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They're trying to push it so that any way Trump turns, he's trapped by this Democrat playbook.
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Here is just a quick example of, I think, the most basic level of political speech.
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I noticed this in my early days working on campaigns.
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And I'll just, I'll show you, this is how President Trump is exemplifying political talk.
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I think we have great opportunities together as two countries that, frankly, we have not been getting along very well for the last number of years.
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I've been here not too long, but it's getting close to two years.
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But I think we will end up having an extraordinary relationship.
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I've been saying, and I'm sure you've heard over the years, and as I campaign, that getting along with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing.
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And I really think the world wants to see us get along.
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And I think we hopefully can do something about that because it's not a positive force.
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So we'll be talking about that, among other things.
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And it plays out differently with different people because in order to affect a political agenda, you need to throw issues into stark light.
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Now, what kind of mealy-mouthed people do, what Barack Obama likes to do sometimes when he's being called out for not dealing properly with Russia or whatever, is he says, well, it's very complicated.
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It's really, and you can't say, do, do, do, do, do.
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When you're trying to obfuscate, that's what you do.
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When you want to call things into stark light and achieve something politically, you say, it's this, not this.
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And what dishonest politicians do, by the way, is they, whenever they say that, whenever they use that phrase, like, I want to lower your taxes, not raise your taxes, whatever they say after not is what they really want to do.
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It's like, look, I want to help alleviate poverty, not just help out the rich, right?
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I think his critics on the right and the left both say this.
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They say he's too, you know, he's too clear in what he says.
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He says he's going to try to work things out with Putin.
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He's got a good record on keeping his promises.
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It's why people don't really understand Donald Trump that well, is because what he says he's going to give you is what he actually gives you.
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So the press conference then afterward is being pilloried.
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They're saying John McCain sent out this blistering statement.
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You know, John McCain pulls no punches as though John McCain ever pulled a punch.
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You know, he's always criticizing the president.
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He has a penchant for criticizing people in his own party.
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He says, it's the worst press moment ever in the history of the presidency in my lifetime.
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And President Trump really achieved something important here, which is forget about the Putin thing.
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They had their private meeting and the United States is going to pursue its interest.
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The achievement that President Trump had in this press conference is he fended off the
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Democrat attacks and he offended off their game strategy.
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The Democrat game strategy is to put him in a corner such that anything he does is a loss
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Here's just a little bit from the press conference.
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The disagreements between our two countries are well known.
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And President Putin and I discussed them at length today.
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But if we're going to solve many of the problems facing our world, then we're going to have
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to find ways to cooperate in pursuit of shared interests.
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You know, President Trump called Putin a global competitor.
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They said, do you really think he's a competitor?
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Some of the Russian journalists said, do you really think he's a competitor?
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And we're going to compete for oil, giving oil to Europe right now.
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And I want them to buy more from the United States because we're the largest oil producer
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Putin said, you know, it was actually a concession to Israel.
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Syria needs to go back to the ceasefire from, I think, 1974 and, you know, basically ensure
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And Putin said, you know, President Trump was really specific about Israel.
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And this was a little dig in there to try to create some turmoil, some domestic turmoil
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for the United States, but just a little bit of a line.
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And then President Trump, when he was broadly deflecting questions about the Mueller indictment
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He did say like, well, you know, President Putin's going to answer some questions.
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You know, it wasn't this total saying, yes, Putin didn't interfere in our election.
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He said, well, he's going to have to look into that.
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He basically takes President Putin's denial for, you know, for what it is.
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But he did get in there like, well, OK, I don't, you know, well, let's see what we
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The media then, of course, come in and they try to trash this.
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So the real game here is the media trying to blow up this summit, put Trump in a position
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By the way, these indictments came out last week, the end of last week.
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I got to tell you, you know, people try to make Bob Mueller and the special counsel look like
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And the Supreme Court watches the election returns too.
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That's the longstanding political reality of things.
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Those indictments came out on that day to blow up the summit, to blow up the Putin-Trump summit
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Well, here is the big blow up on holding Russia accountable.
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Do you hold Russia at all accountable for anything in particular?
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And if so, what would you consider them that they are responsible for?
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I think that the United States has been foolish.
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We should have had this dialogue a long time ago, a long time, frankly, before I got to office.
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You know, he said there's blame to go around for the breakdown in Russia and U.S. ties and cooperation.
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Later on, he says, you know, the probe is a disaster for our country.
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You know, it's a, and that is, it is a disaster for our country.
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It's not drawing some sort of moral equivalence between Bob Mueller and Vladimir Putin, a KGB killer.
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But he's saying, yes, the probe, this has been pushed by Democrats, begun by Democrats,
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begun by Democrat OPPO, constantly touted by the Democrat media.
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That has been a trouble for our country, and it has strained U.S. and Russian relations.
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Is there blame to go around for the breakdown in U.S.-Russian relations?
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Why are we negotiating from a position of weakness?
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Well, Barack Obama did nothing when Vladimir Putin annexed Crimea.
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Hillary Clinton sold, took money from the Russians, and gave them control over a large
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President Obama leaned in and said, I am willing to lie to the American people.
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I'm going to mislead the American people through my election, and then I'm going to pivot
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and do the opposite of what I say I'm going to do.
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Do something different than I'm promising the election.
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Of previous administrations not to take a hard line.
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The Russian hacking, by the way, took place under the Obama administration.
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And that's not drawing moral equivalence between the United States and Russia.
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I'm very pleased that President Trump is no longer drawing moral equivalence.
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And the past administration and the former future president, Hillary Clinton, as Secretary
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of State, did a lot of damage to that relationship.
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And it's because they led from behind, because they negotiated from weakness.
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So the media still wouldn't let up here, though.
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You know, President Trump, or President Trump, President Putin almost admitted, by the way,
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As to who is to be believed and who is not to be believed, you can trust no one if you
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Where did you get this idea that President Trump trusts me or I trust him?
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He defends the interests of the United States of America, and I do defend the interests of
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There are issues where our postures diverge, and we are looking for ways to reconcile our
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differences, how to make our effort more meaningful.
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They're saying the big New York Times headline here is, Donald Trump gives in to Russia.
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He won't scream and try to rip his head off on stage.
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Putin just admitted right there that he hacked the election.
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Because the question is, who should we believe, the U.S. intelligence agencies or Vladimir Putin?
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And Putin actually comes out and says, why would you trust me?
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This is the whole story because President Trump defends American interests and Putin
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Because, you know, you never wonder with the Democrats if it's malice or idiocy.
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But either they're very obtuse or they just didn't understand what Vladimir Putin is saying there.
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Would you now, with the whole world watching, tell President Putin, would you denounce what
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happened in 2016 and would you warn him to never do it again?
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I mean, Trump is sitting there like, are you an idiot?
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What is to be gained from Trump going on stage and saying, you tried to spy on our election
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And then they say, okay, well, there goes the summit.
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I mean, the Mueller indictments coming out when they did was to stop the summit.
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Does anybody on earth really believe that Russia didn't try to interfere in our elections?
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Russia's been trying to interfere in our elections since 1917.
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Do we really think that all of a sudden they stopped interfering?
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In the 1970s, 1980s, you had Ted Kennedy trying to collude with the Russians to help his presidential election.
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You had Henry Kissinger was talking to the Russians, obviously.
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The notion that they're not interfering in our elections and that we don't have strategic interests to spy on the Russians is absurd.
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But does that mean that we shouldn't have any diplomacy now because a nation is spying on us, because a nation is aggressive, because a nation is trying to interfere in our elections and we're interfering in other elections and we're spying on other people, perhaps?
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If this were a Democrat president, they would absolutely be saying, great, finally, diplomacy is winning.
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And this is why you shouldn't get too riled up about this, folks, if you're on the left or the right.
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This is a game that is being played out by the Democrat Party and the Republican Party.
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You know, ironically here, ironically here, the New York Times is actually commending Donald Trump.
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And they're commending him because they can't ignore it anymore.
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On this foreign trip, he actually, the headline from the New York Times is,
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Trump got from NATO everything Obama ever asked for.
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Because if Barack Obama were doing these things, they would be cheering.
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The Democrat Party wants to put Donald Trump in a position where if he is too nice to Putin or he's diplomatic with Putin,
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then it's evidence that he colluded, even though we've seen no evidence that there was any campaign collusion.
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And what they're trying to do is back him into a corner where he has to be extremely aggressive with Putin,
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which will hamper his agenda to try to, first of all, bring the nations closer together and to cooperate where they can.
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Now that the smoke has cleared from the NATO summit meeting, the most tangible result is apparent.
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President Trump advanced President Barack Obama's initiative to keep the allies on track to shoulder a more equitable share of NATO's costs.
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Mr. Trump even signed on to a tough statement directed at Russia.
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For once, he saw eye to eye with his predecessor.
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Yet whether Mr. Trump himself is clear about the strategy he's pursuing or whether he, in fact, has one remains mysterious.
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Of course, you know, they've got to get their knock and Trump is an idiot, right?
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But on actually what he's getting, it seems that he's getting the right things.
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You know, Barack Obama sent campaign advisors to try to stop, to try to interfere in the Israeli election and kick out Bibi Netanyahu.
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We didn't hear anything about this because this is a political game.
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And I think, fortunately, was this a clear win for President Trump and the administration?
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Was this a clear he knocked it out of the park?
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And we should not be criticizing him for that because to do that is to deny the actual stakes of this game and to deny the reality of it.
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Oh, gosh, do we have to really want to get to these indictments?
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All right, I'm going to analyze the indictments tomorrow.
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But broadly speaking, I read through all of those Mueller indictments, those politically timed Mueller indictments.
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And what they show is that, what the Democrats are trying to show is that President Trump called out and he said,
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Hey, Russia, if you find the emails, you know, let us know.
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What the indictments show us very clearly is that the hacking started way beforehand.
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President Trump didn't make those comments until the late spring and summer.
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CNN says Trump asked Russian to get Clinton emails.
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All of this is about, this ultimate game is about overturning a democratic election.
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Before we go, and then I'll analyze Ariana Grande.
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Remember the Brexit when the UK is supposed to leave the European Union?
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You might not remember it because it hasn't happened yet.
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And the reason it hasn't happened is because, just like the left in America is playing their game,
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the left in the UK is also playing this game to undermine a democratic election.
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The British people said, we want to leave the EU.
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Because the first referendum didn't go his way.
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He said, quote, ultimately, it's up to the British people to decide what they want to do.
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It would be better, however, if they came to a decision sooner rather than later.
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That's the goal of the initiative, which I call best for Britain.
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And they just didn't give you the answer that you wanted.
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This pro-EU member of parliament, Justine Greening, wants a new vote.
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And what the left wants to do, they want to keep voting.
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They want to keep counting until they get their answer.
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The election results come in and the numbers aren't in their favor.
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It's being played out through the Mueller probe.
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It's being played out through the mainstream media.
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It's being played out on the global stage in Helsinki.
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You have to know the rules of the game if you're going to win the game.
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And denying the game that's being played is not the way to do it.
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But you've got to look at it with pretty clear eyes.
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And it's much more beautiful and entertaining and important than soccer.
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It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You've got me, the Andrew Klavan Show, the Ben Shapiro Show.
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Look, if you're saying, I just get the updates on YouTube, and that's great, and I'll watch it on YouTube.
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So you've got to go and you've got to ring the bell.
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You've got to click the little bell on YouTube.
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And then you'll start getting notifications again until they find some other way to try to kill us.
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So go to dailywire.com because, again, as none of that matters, this is what matters.
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This is like a nice, tastes like a mixture of borscht and vodka.
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We'll be right back to explain how Ariana Grande is a witch.
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In our remaining moments here, I want to turn to the question.
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If you haven't seen her new music video, here's just a clip, and we will analyze it.
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When all is said and done, you will believe God is a woman.
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So this song that Ariana Grande has come out with, Ariana Grande, I think, is about four years old.
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She's like a teeny bopper, and now she's a big pop star.
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I think she's got like a real sense for pop music, which, you know, I'm going to, this is worse than liking soccer for my mouth.
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But this song is really crazy because it's extremely cultic.
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And you see all of this imagery throughout the music video.
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You get this weird like flame thing and a bunch of screaming groundhogs.
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And Ariana Grande sort of caressing in a sensuous way a storm system moving over the globe.
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And by joking, I mean he probably really believed this.
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Ariana Grande is kind of proving that point here.
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You know, you immediately get all of this anatomic imagery.
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So you get like this flame that looks kind of anatomical.
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You get this watery paint bed that has certain designs.
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She was the one who painted very anatomical looking flowers.
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You know, when you go to the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe,
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people thought she was painting women's anatomy.
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And then you go look and every single painting is pretty graphic and contradicts the video.
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You're getting a lot of Georgia O'Keeffe imagery and a lot of cultic stuff.
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It comes from, it reminds me of like Gilgamesh.
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I guess what it would be like a sacred prostitute.
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A lot of ancient religions had these sort of sacred prostitutes.
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And I was thinking, I was like, am I reading too deeply into this?
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which is like Friday is the witch's Sabbath in the occult.
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And, you know, obviously everyone knows what Friday the 13th symbolizes.
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And then later on in the video, you get this book.
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It's all of these men sort of screaming at her from a book.
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And it's for a doorway surrounding the gates of hell,
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And the book that they're standing in is a history of agriculture.
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It's these men in history, the history of cultivation.
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It's written in French, but it's the history of aggravate.
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So at this point, I was pretty sure that that's what's going on.
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Then Ariana Grande appears in front of this three-headed dog, Cerberus.
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It calls to mind, you know, this dog of the underworld.
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When you try to come for me, I keep on flourishing, she says.
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And then there's this crazy scene where these groundhogs just jump up from the ground,
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this dry earth, and start screeching in this awful voice.
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And so I read a piece on Patheos, a great website that has a lot of religious stuff,
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And he says that this is all a reference to the pagan holiday of Imbolc,
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which coincides with the Christian holiday at Candlemas.
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And it's a celebration of this goddess's return to the land
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to bring water to this dry land and the light taking over the darkness.
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And you see a total one-for-one in the imagery there.
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The imagery of Groundhog's Day, the light taking over the darkness and the dry land,
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and then the water imagery immediately comes afterward.
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And then there's another image of Ariana Grande, like a she-wolf,
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and like the little kids Romulus and Remus sort of suckling from her.
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because all the times you hear these right-wing sort of people say,
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pop culture is awful, it's perverting the minds of people,
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Do I think that a whole generation is going to be destroyed by some stupid music video?
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Oh, you're, well, you know who else thought too much?
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They were putting images there pretty intentionally.
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There are a lot more references in it that we don't really have time to get into.
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People say, oh, who cares if you use illegal alien or undocumented immigrant?
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Those words, those little things, they really matter.
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One of the characters on The Crown a couple seasons ago, he said,
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you know, it's in the small things that the rot begins.
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And it totally reminds me of that Pat Robertson quote.
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I'll leave you on this note today because we've got to go.
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But it is the greatest quote in political history.
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From Pat Robertson, he's the squinty guy on the Christian channel.
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He says, the feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women.
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It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement
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that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children,
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practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism, and become lesbians.
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I'll let soccer, which is an outgrowth of that, do that for you.
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We've got some great guests coming up this week.
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Now that we've covered all of the political gamut for the last three days,
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we can get back to more broader things tomorrow.
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The Michael Knowles Show is produced by Senia Villareal.
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