Ep. 199 - Smart People, Frivolous Press
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Summary
The West Hollywood City Council has voted to remove President Trump s star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Then, speaking of Hollywood, some of the biggest players in Hollywood are very angry with me for pointing out that the critically acclaimed audience dismissed the movie Sorry to Bother You. We will analyze. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says more stupid things. Candace Owens stops by to discuss her white supremacy. And finally, The Mailbag.
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The West Hollywood City Council has voted to remove President Trump's star from the Hollywood
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Walk of Fame. I headed down to Hollywood Boulevard to gauge people's reaction, and I was actually
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shocked by what I found. We'll show you. Then, speaking of Hollywood, some of the biggest players
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in Hollywood are right now very angry with me for pointing out that the critically acclaimed
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audience dismissed movie Sorry to Bother You is lazy neo-Marxist trash. We will analyze.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says more stupid things. Candace Owens stops by to discuss her white
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supremacy. And finally, The Mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Oh, so much to get to today. We've got a lot. I'm sorry we're a little late. There is a ton going
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on, though. We were just down at Hollywood Boulevard. I will show you that clip. It was really, really
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Hollywood City Council voted to get rid of Donald Trump's star. Now, of course, when they voted on
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that, they had to then urge the Chamber of Commerce and the LA City Council and on and on and on
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to remove President Trump's star from the world famous Hollywood Walk of Fame. So I went down to
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Hollywood Boulevard to see if the people who are walking around on Hollywood Boulevard, the locals,
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the residents, people from Los Angeles, tourists, to see what they think about that local lefty
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government West Hollywood's idea. I was shocked by what I found. Here it is. The West Hollywood City
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Council has just voted to remove President Donald Trump's star from the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I'm
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Michael Knowles. I'm here to get people's reactions on the removal of Donald Trump's star.
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Should Trump get to keep his star or should they rip it up?
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They should rip it up. I mean, if it upsets people, just remove it, I guess.
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I don't know why he had one in the first place. I wasn't too sure.
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Well, he's a big TV star. He had that show, The Apprentice.
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I don't like that show. What about the other stars that upset people, like the Bill Cosby star?
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Oh. Well, they didn't, they weren't racist against people, I guess, or they didn't talk.
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You know, right next to Donald Trump's star is Kevin Spacey's star.
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Oh, that's right. That's also controversial. That's harsh.
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What do you think we should do about, say, Bill Cosby's star?
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Oh, it's kind of a hard question, but I think it's good.
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Would you say that you support Donald Trump or you don't support him?
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They just voted in the West Hollywood City Council to get rid of Donald Trump's star.
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I think that's wild. You should leave it there, you know?
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It doesn't feel like it's right to just remove it, just because someone vandalized it.
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Would you guys call yourselves Trump supporters?
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Not necessarily. I'm more, like, moderate, I guess.
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I think they shouldn't have to, you know, remove it or something or nothing like that.
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You know, I think that's just more spreading more hate.
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You know, it's just turning people against each other.
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And they actually have no power to get rid of that star.
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It's all up to the Hollywood here, Chamber of Commerce.
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No, there isn't, man. No, there isn't. It's just me and you, man.
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For me, it doesn't really matter if he has a star or not.
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So it's really just a symbolic thing that they've decided because they don't like the president.
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Believe me, it's good for business. Whether you like him or not, people want a picture.
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That's a true story. Donald Trump is good for business.
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That's what I think. And a bigger star, too, on like four blocks.
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All right, guys. Peace and love. I love you guys.
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The local lefty politicians here are so disconnected from the people who actually walk around Hollywood
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that they all say one thing about the star and the people on the street say exactly the opposite.
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An important lesson not to believe the mainstream media and lefty politicians.
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I like that guy who said he's going to build the wall around Trump's star.
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I think we need to build a wall around Donald Trump's star and we need to make the West Hollywood City Council pay for it.
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And that wall is going to get 10 feet higher and higher and higher.
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You're going to need a ladder to climb up and look down into it.
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We were going to go out there and do a video about how all these people are hypocrites, right?
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That's what we suspected we'd find in Hollywood.
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You go out there. You say, should they remove Trump's star?
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They say, yeah, I want to take a sledgehammer to it myself.
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The reason we thought that is because the media are always hysterical.
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So they'll always say, oh, yes, all these people in Hollywood, they hate Trump.
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I mean, look, President Trump's approval rating is quite high.
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It's around 50 percent, according to daily tracking polls.
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It's higher than Barack Obama's was at this time in his presidency.
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You know, the mainstream media run 92 percent negative coverage of Trump.
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And we found that to be true even in Los Angeles, even in Hollywood.
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And this brings us to this other issue, this huge disconnect between the ideologues and
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the media types and Hollywood types and people, you know, people who live wherever.
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But they're people who don't work in the media or who don't work in politics or don't work
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in those sort of rarefied social areas, which are considered very elite.
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That difference, you see this in a movie that I saw last night that I'm getting dragged all
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This movie is getting universal critical acclaim.
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That's now dropped slightly to 94 percent on Rotten Tomatoes.
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So I said, OK, well, I'll go see this movie last night.
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As always, we'll be getting that out to you right away.
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No, there's no amount of money that'll make me do that.
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Well, man, I'm going to have to get me some new suits.
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I can see that you want to say no, but I wouldn't do that before you see what I'm offering.
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I actually recommend that people go see the movie.
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Just to understand how degraded our society has become, our art has become, and our politics has become, you've got to see this movie.
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I'm not telling people to stay away from theaters.
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I mean, there were people who eventually, after an hour 45, they walked out of this thing.
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But I was determined to stick it out, and I'm glad I did.
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The director of that movie, Boots Riley, actually tweeted at me because I gave it a bad review on Twitter.
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And he said, well, I'm glad to have a bad review from you.
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You know, a bad review from you is great, great encouragement.
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It's a, I suppose I should say a neo-Marxist movie because there's a racial component added
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It's, you know, it's set obviously in the modern day.
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There are modern problems that it's allegedly dealing with, but it is a neo-Marxist movie.
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Boots Riley, the director, admits that himself.
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He's been a communist since he was 15 years old.
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Boots Riley joined the Progressive Labor Party, which is a Marxist-Leninist organization.
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So it's deeply perverse and it's deeply ideological, which just screws up art to begin with.
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But the reason that really matters is that, you know, art is supposed to reflect reality.
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We're supposed to consume art, a movie or a painting or a novel or something, and we see
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something about ourselves, about our experience of human nature or our experience of the world.
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This movie is based on a false ideology, an ideology that should have been relegated to
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And all of the premises just don't work, especially it doesn't work these days.
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What they're saying is that economic liberty in this is really slavery.
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Economic liberty means that people don't have jobs.
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We have lower taxes, less regulation, and the economy is booming.
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There are more jobs than people to fill them right now.
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So our own experience of reality contradicts this movie.
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There's so, you know, the communist slogan is that religion is the opiate of the masses.
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And there's a part in this movie where a guy, this broken down, working class man, he takes
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a crucifix and pops out what seems to be a Eucharist and eats it like it's his medicine,
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So ideologically, it's so wrong that you can't relate to it.
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People will pretend to relate to it because they want to feel like they're, you know, part
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So just as a technical aspect of filmmaking, directing, writing, it's really weak.
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And by the way, if you didn't get it, his nickname is Cass.
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It doesn't matter because the movie is so awful.
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You should go see it, but you know, it doesn't matter.
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But close your ears for 10 seconds if you don't want to hear this.
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The, the big reveal at the end is all the people that are working for The Capitalist are turned
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And, and, and, you know, look, I hate, acting is a hard thing.
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It's actually a couple, there are a couple very small roles that you, that you have a moment of,
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Broadly speaking, the acting is fine to not fine in the movie.
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It's not, it's almost clever at points, but it's pretty clumsy.
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Uh, 94% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics, 62% from audiences.
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St. Louis Dispatch says, Sorry to Bother You is an uncompromising and timely film of unapologetic brilliance.
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Chicago Reader says, Sorry to Bother You ponders the danger of trying to assimilate into the white world.
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But it's a multiracial, proletarian call to arms.
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One of the premises of the movie is you can't get ahead unless you use the white voice.
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So these black people have to talk like they're white people.
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The idea being that you, you, you, if you become upwardly mobile, you're selling out your race.
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And you would think that the experience of people under socialism and communism would banish those awful ideologies to, to the end of history.
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You know, we had Ji Song-ho come in here the other day from North Korea, the North Korean defector.
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I wonder if Boots Riley would ever look him in the face and talk to him about how great communism is.
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His family starved under a communist dictatorship.
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He was tortured for years and years under communism.
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I wonder if Boots Riley, this know-nothing from America who grew up in, relative to the rest of the world, utter prosperity.
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I wonder if that guy would look him in the face and tell him how great communism is.
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It's so, I mean, the thesis of the film basically is productive work is bad, upward mobility is bad, laziness is good, and we should be unproductive and make bad art.
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It actually, the film actually lifts up bad art, which is funny because it's very bad art.
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I've got to get to, we've got Candace Owens stopping by.
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Very quickly, I do want to cover Ocasio-Cortez saying stupid things.
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She is the leader of, no, no, she, I mean, Speaker, or rather Leader Pelosi, hopefully, you know, we'll see.
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She's the current leader of the party, and I think that the party absolutely does have its leadership in the House.
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Okay, well, so Nancy Pelosi is not the head of the Democrat Party.
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The chairman of the Democrat Party is Tom Perez, and Nancy Pelosi isn't the highest ranking elected Democrat, right?
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I mean, that would be Chuck Schumer, the leader of the Senate.
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Senate is a more powerful, more prestigious body than the House of Representatives.
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She just doesn't even know these basic things, and she's been running for a while now.
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Americans have the sticker shock of health care as it is, and what we're also not talking about is
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why aren't we incorporating the cost of all the funeral expenses of those who die
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because they can't afford access to health care?
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The reason that we're not doing that is people dying is not simply a function of our current health care system.
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I know you might be shocked to hear this, Alexandria, but under socialist health care, people will die too.
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Actually, we've seen people be killed by their governments under socialist health care.
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Just this year, we've seen those poor little babies in the United Kingdom.
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Baby Alfie, baby Charlie Gard, they were killed by their socialist health care system.
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At most in this world, one person has escaped death.
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We've got to bring on our dear friend, Candace Owens.
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Candace, as you know, got in trouble for being a black white supremacist the other day.
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A bunch of white lefty girls basically accused her of white supremacy.
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Candace, you know, I try not to have any white supremacists on my show.
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You know, you've been in the news a lot recently as a black female white supremacist.
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It is difficult in this country being a black white supremacist.
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It's even more difficult when you find out from white people that you're a white supremacist.
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But it's been a difficult week for me and my family.
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So, those girls, because you did find out from white people, those girls who surrounded you start doing the blow horn, start whistling in your ear, they were all white.
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It looked like all of them were these white girls who were yelling at you and calling you a white supremacist because you, a black woman, wouldn't do what they told you to do.
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I mean, these people, and it's funny because Philadelphia, it's a 44% black city.
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It's 44% black and that's not including other minorities.
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So, it's a majority minority city, Philadelphia.
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And it was just, I think, one of the strangest things that's ever happened to me.
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What was crazy is the entire police force is black.
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So, there was only one police officer that was white.
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The other 10 of them were black and Hispanic, and they started shouting at the police officers, you guys are race traitors.
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And I said to them, whose race are they betraying?
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We are, 100% of the black people in this situation are on my side.
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And this, I mean, this is one of many incidents with you this week.
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You sent out that tweet, it was so brilliantly done, where you took Sarah Jong, the Asian New York Times editorial board member, her tweets about white people, her tweets denigrating white people, and you switched the race.
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I was booted off of Twitter because for harassment, and you're not allowed to discriminate based off of race and gender.
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She hasn't even taken them down in lieu of the controversy.
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But instantly, as soon as I said it about black people and Jewish people, I was wiped off.
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And look, I agree that the sentiments are racist, and that was the point.
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But why, what is the platform saying when you say that it's all right to discriminate against white people, but it's not okay to discriminate against black people?
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So, you're saying that now you get suspended from Twitter, and then Twitter finally puts you back on after a day or two.
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So, three hours after I tweeted that, I was reinstated.
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I didn't even apply to be reinstated, but there was so much noise.
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And then their big people must have been like, oh, it was a big accident.
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And they sent me an apology, but I just logged on to my Facebook account.
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I just landed in Arizona, and I'm kicked off of Facebook, too.
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I'm in Facebook jail for 24 hours with a warning for the exact same tweet.
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The black people just sit underground like goblins.
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Big tech really cares about black people, not so much if your skin's white.
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You just posted the text or a screenshot or something?
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Yeah, it was a screenshot of the exact same tweet.
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So, I didn't even redo it for Facebook's platform.
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I just screenshot, like, black people should live underground like goblins.
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But the best part of the tweet is that I specifically say under.
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The following tweet is from Sarah Jong, New York Times editor.
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It's unacceptable because that's where we're at in this society.
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Maybe they're calling balls and strikes because of slavery, I guess.
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We're just allowed to just be blatantly racist to white people in this society.
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Because black people represent a minority, we're allowed to be blatantly racist to white
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The oppressed are not allowed to become the oppressors.
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It is incredible because that, the, the, your tweets so clearly showed that, that there is
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this racial double standard and that by big tech, by the New York Times, by all of these
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huge privileged institutions, uh, uh, bigotry against white people is tolerated.
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And they talk about white privilege, but it's hard to get more privileged than the editorial
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You know, that what the left says to this, by the way, is they say, you can't be racist
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against whites because whites are on top, even though, you know, they, they use the
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The wealthiest people in this country are, are, um, Japanese Americans and Indian Americans.
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So it's, it's completely false to even say, but they don't, they don't like those facts.
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You know, the people that are most likely to get approved for a mortgage loan at the bank
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Because it's based on credit and they have better credit than everybody else.
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So these are the facts they conveniently wipe away.
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They don't want to talk about Asian Americans, you know, because it completely blows up their
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entire argument that black people, um, are being discriminated against based off of the
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You know, most of these circumstances, especially when you talk about bank loans, we have bad
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And if you actually look at the statistics, I've been reading this book, um, currently, uh,
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Dr. Thomas Sowell's race intellectuals, and he just debunks all of these myths over
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and over again and gives you the, the concrete facts.
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Another part they don't want to tell you is that black people are more discriminated against
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You know, so it's, it's all about like society likes us divided.
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They like people to have an excuse to get through life.
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And I exist just trying to disrupt that narrative because it's not healthy for people on either
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Because it's funny when you mentioned, they say the wage gap and they compare everything
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to white men and you say, you know, when you look at median income, according to the Bureau
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of Labor Statistics, white men are not at the top, uh, the top earners in wages.
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They'll say, well, why, why are you talking about the Asians?
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I'm not the one who's talking about these racial categories.
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But, and so they bring them up, but then they get everything even then wrong.
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The wildest thing to me, there were two amazing things about that video.
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One is that it's all these white girls shrieking F white supremacy, which in itself is demonstrating
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But then the other aspect is when they, they run out of their tired slogans and they just
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Blood curdling shrieks like, I was like, this is what I would imagine hell was like, you
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know, like if you were just down there, like if Satan was in your soul, you would just
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I mean, you were there, you're the one who experienced it.
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Does it tell us something about their arguments?
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Why are they, you know, I was waiting for them to say like, what have you to do with us,
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You know, what does that, what does that tell you about where the left is right now?
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You know, to me, it's very clear that they're losing.
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So in the same week, we saw the Rasmussen poll that was released, which said that black
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support has doubled for Donald Trump since this exact same time last year.
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That's really significant because the left, since he has stepped in office, how many times
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do you think if we had to count, if you and I had to count on MSNBC and on CNN, how many
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times they have said the word racist and racism, we wouldn't be able to count.
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So, and yes, despite that, despite them aggressively pushing this narrative, black people are embracing
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And that goes to show you that it's not working anymore.
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You can't, you can only say it, but so many times before, at least for me, it was just
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I mean, anything that happens to a black person is called racist.
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That could not be based off of their skin color.
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I mean, there's strong evidence to support the claim that Maxine Waters is a low IQ individual.
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They're seeing their divisive coalition breaking apart right before their eyes.
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They don't, they, they've run out of slogans and lies and they just, it's this, this scream.
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But before I let you go, because I know I've got to let you go, I, I would be remiss if
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I didn't bring up my favorite conspiracy theory on the internet, which is that that video
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of you with all the white girls yelling at you really secretly, you staged all of that.
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You paid the cops, you staged everything, uh, because it's, I think it's basically left
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And I was like, explain to me, because actually the Washington Post called us and CNN called
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He got so angry at the question that he calls me up and he says, okay, could you actually
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And so, so I called them and I'm like, you know what?
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I was like, I'm not even going to answer the question.
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I want you to actually tell me how we could have staged it.
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And in the person on the phone, uh, the Washington Post editor couldn't come up with this scenario.
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I was like, do you understand how implausible it is that we created this scenario and colluded
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with Antifa to come harass us and colluded with the police officers and, uh, the restaurant
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owner who gave a statement and said, I didn't know what was going on.
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They just saw people at the window throwing things at them.
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And I, and the funniest part, which nobody's talking about is that, uh, the restaurant
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owner says, I thought they were vegans outside.
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They're very nice to the chickens and the fish, you know, that that's it.
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I'm sure I'm, yeah, you would have had to collude with everybody.
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You probably would have colluded with the Russians too.
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What I think what it is, is that the reality is stranger than the fiction.
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They try, remember our, our pal, Ali Stuckey did that fake interview with Ocasio-Cortez.
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And they said, you're making Ocasio-Cortez look stupid.
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You said, we don't need, we don't need to make Ocasio-Cortez look stupid.
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We don't need to make these lefties look racist and crazy.
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And what I think is good though, is that it really, it's, it's, it was such a strong
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Those images are so vivid of seeing these white girls shriek and these white guys shriek.
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And it actually helps us more than it hurts us.
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So I would just, I'm so happy with it because so many people that were on the left wrote
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to me and said, I don't recognize my party anymore.
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You know, this is where I draw a line in the sand.
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So, and this is how, no Democrat politician spoke out against it, by the way.
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But I think that stuff like this, the crazier they get, the more desperate they get.
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I hope you get your hearing back from all those blowhorns and whistles.
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I know you just landed in Arizona, but as always, Candace, very good to talk to you.
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I'll have no white supremacists on my show except for you.
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I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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If we haven't been shut off yet after yesterday's show, if you are on dailywire.com, thank you
00:31:51.920
You help keep the lights on and covfefe in my cup.
00:31:54.300
If you're on Facebook and YouTube, go to dailywire.com right now.
00:31:58.240
Well, you get me, you get the Andrew Klavan show, you get the Ben Shapiro show.
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This is very important because when white lefty girls are triggered and upset by that
00:32:18.320
black white supremacist, Candace Owens, you're going to, I lost the train somewhere.
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You're going to need the leftist years tumbler.
00:32:51.840
Your bit today about the leftist tears from Ohio had me in tears laughing.
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I would like to get your opinion on what makes the Democratic Party think that if they throw
00:32:58.140
a fit long enough or loud enough that they'll get their way.
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I look at them in pity because every time I see them throwing a fit makes me think of little
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kids at the store throwing themselves on the floor demanding their way.
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And then I see a bunch of parents, Republicans, dragging their butts to the car and giving
00:33:12.440
them a whooping, but then they don't come back any different.
00:33:17.140
I know y'all see it more than me, but what's your take on it?
00:33:21.860
The analogy is exactly right because the Democrats today, basically the whole party and certainly
00:33:27.480
the left wing of the party, which accounts for about 99.7% of it, behave like children.
00:33:37.680
Well, because they're morally ignorant, so they're not, you know, they do bad things.
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They are tempted to do bad things and they're not really at an age of reason.
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They're not really educated, so they don't know very much.
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They're very credentialed Democrats these days.
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They usually have degrees from good colleges or a lot of different degrees.
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But the quality of the education is so bad that the trouble is not what they don't know,
00:34:05.960
but all of the things that they know that just ain't so, like in history or political
00:34:14.480
You know, over 50% of millennials identify as socialist.
00:34:18.260
All of those millennials, virtually all of them, were born after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
00:34:25.620
And because they don't realize that life existed before they were born, they fall right into
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You've really got to, like with a child, be patient.
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And I think we're seeing this happen right now.
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There's a big growing up that's going on right now.
00:34:51.840
President Trump's approval ratings are quite high.
00:34:56.480
I think all around the country we're doing pretty well.
00:35:02.360
Thanks for being an Ask Me Anything guest at the New Right Network.
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You mentioned in an earlier mailbag that you would advocate for strategic voting.
00:35:10.840
I reside in Georgia and we have a huge governor's race this November.
00:35:14.820
I know Brian Kemp, the Republican candidate, is most likely going to win due to Georgia's
00:35:18.640
Republican majority against radical Stacey Adams.
00:35:21.400
But I'm considering voting for the Libertarian Party for them to gain ballot access statewide.
00:35:26.280
Our state Republican Party seems to be very swampy and does not seem to advocate for
00:35:32.380
They declare the district where my university resides a lost cause for the Georgia GOP.
00:35:40.040
I always advocate the Buckley rule named for William F. Buckley Jr. to vote for the most
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You should vote for the most right viable candidate.
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So in this case that probably means voting for the Republican.
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I don't know that it's a good thing for the Libertarian Party to get ballot access.
00:35:59.200
I don't know that we should have multiple parties, third parties, fourth parties.
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I don't see evidence that that helps our politics.
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But for instance, if you're in a place where you've got two Democrats and a Republican,
00:36:17.880
All of the evidence shows nobody's going to win.
00:36:19.560
And you've got a wacko socialist and you've got a Joe Manchin Democrat, a more moderate,
00:36:26.600
Then I think it's perfectly right to strategically vote for the better of the two viable choices,
00:36:31.800
for the more right of the two viable choices, even if they're awful.
00:36:35.240
But in a case where you just think, oh, I don't know if that Republican is strong enough.
00:36:38.940
I think there are better ways to move the party to the right than by trying to create
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a third party, for instance, or something like that.
00:36:49.040
He started the Conservative Party because the GOP in New York was so far gone.
00:36:54.960
John Lindsay, the Republican mayor candidate, eventually became a Democrat.
00:37:05.160
I'm not familiar enough with Georgia politics on the ground level.
00:37:10.120
But I think broadly, voting is about affecting certain government,
00:37:14.160
bringing about certain government, bringing about certain public policy.
00:37:17.340
It's not about you feeling really good about yourself.
00:37:19.420
So if the Republican isn't that bad, and the Libertarian Party, who knows what they will do,
00:37:36.580
In all seriousness, now you said you were an atheist for 10 years from 13 to 23.
00:37:41.120
I myself have been an atheist now for seven or eight years.
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However, when it comes to God, I don't see any evidence whatsoever that a God or anything supernatural exists.
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Literally can't find a scrap of evidence whatsoever that anything beyond the natural that we know exists.
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What evidence did you see that I didn't, that showed you something supernatural does exist?
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Or is it those 10 years you were being agnostic and really did believe in a higher power all those years?
00:38:13.560
Let me try to answer all of those questions there.
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First of all, I don't think there's any such thing as an atheist.
00:38:19.420
Because when the plane starts shaking, when the bullets start flying, even the most ardent atheist starts praying.
00:38:25.720
And also, the atheists who always talk about how they're atheists, they, I don't know, I don't talk constantly about things that I don't think exist.
00:38:34.580
I don't talk about unicorns all the time, you know.
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I think people are in a relationship with God and they either hate God or they are angry at God or whatever.
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I would have probably called myself an atheist, but I no longer think atheists really exist.
00:38:48.840
As for evidence of the supernatural, I think what you mean is the metaphysical, things beyond the physical world.
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Even though it has metaphysical importance, the left is tears tumbler.
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Obviously, things exist beyond the physical world.
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There's something outside of time and space that has a moral order.
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Consciousness is hard to explain as a matter of just physical processes.
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I don't, I don't, there's no evidence of consciousness as a physical process.
00:39:30.580
Your own thoughts, the spirit, the mind, the soul, ideas, those are all metaphysical things.
00:39:36.280
What convinced me that God exists is that the arguments for God are quite good and there isn't really a good argument against God.
00:39:44.820
The one that got me, my reversion experience was a lot like C.S. Lewis's.
00:39:49.620
And I, I've been told that this is very uncommon, but it was certainly true of me and it was very similar to Lewis in that certain arguments really convinced both of us.
00:39:59.880
The ontological argument for one is a really elegant little argument that, that did in fact convince me.
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There is the argument from the unmoved mover, the primary cause, the cosmological argument, the argument from beauty, the argument from consciousness.
00:40:19.280
There were, there were many, many arguments for God.
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Didn't, didn't quite happen like Saul on the road to Damascus.
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And what are the arguments against God existing?
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I guess those are some arguments against God existing.
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But, but really I think those are arguments for God.
00:40:43.060
A world with freedom will imply a world of, of sin and, and pain.
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Would we prefer a world that isn't the best possible world?
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So I, I would explore those arguments first of all.
00:40:54.760
And then I would ask yourself why all of the great geniuses throughout all of human history have believed in God and a, and a pretty similar conception of God.
00:41:03.620
Some girl was talking to Antonin Scalia in New York Magazine.
00:41:06.060
She said, what, do you believe in the devil too?
00:41:10.540
Many more intelligent people than you and I have believed in the devil.
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God doesn't exist because I don't understand metaphysics.
00:41:21.840
I mean, you said things in that question that are demonstrably untrue, right?
00:41:25.960
That, that there, there are only physical things in the world.
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You're writing that down shows that there are more than physical things in the world.
00:41:47.820
You have a, a pretty elementary grasp of all of those things.
00:41:51.740
Why on earth would you think that you have a grasp of God who is infinite?
00:42:02.780
What would make you think that you can understand all of metaphysics, that which created and
00:42:13.960
And it's very hard to be humble when you're an atheist.
00:42:17.620
There's this pridefulness that is just endemic to that affliction of the mind.
00:42:22.760
And fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, humility.
00:42:27.440
As C.S. Lewis said, you can't look for comfort when you're looking for God.
00:42:33.060
If you look for truth, you might find comfort in the end.
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But if you look for comfort, you'll find neither comfort or truth.
00:42:38.620
Just soft soap and with wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
00:42:42.540
So look for the truth, and I think you'll conclude what all of the great minds and spirits
00:42:55.260
My best friend is an alcoholic, and his parents threw him out of the house, and he is now
00:42:59.180
living with his girlfriend and her mother, who are also alcoholics.
00:43:02.860
He has a bachelor's degree and half a master's, and is working at a pizza place, and has dropped
00:43:07.720
His family has told me not to talk to him about it, and that they've done everything
00:43:11.200
they can do to try and get the help he needs, and that I shouldn't talk to him about
00:43:18.860
I don't know the particulars of your relationship.
00:43:29.240
Some people think that being friends now is being pleasant, being amiable.
00:43:33.340
Sometimes you've got to be really tough with your friends, and usually it's a sign of
00:43:39.560
Is it going to work if you're just screaming at him?
00:43:43.260
Is it going to work if you ease him into a conversation?
00:43:48.360
But people don't have a respect for tough love these days.
00:43:51.900
They think it's being really mean, you know, harshing people's mellows, things like that.
00:43:56.900
You need tough love, and real friends have that.
00:44:03.360
Shallow friendships, which I see all around, especially in this town.
00:44:07.760
That's when you go to brunch every so often, and you just, oh, how's the food?
00:44:13.240
But real friendship is you're digging into real things.
00:44:16.020
It's two people standing next to each other, looking at the same thing, dealing really
00:44:27.920
You got to know the relationship, because that's the substance of friendship.
00:44:33.160
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