Ep. 208 - A Nation Of Dopes
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A new study shows that one in seven Americans has smoked pot in the past year. Is it cool to wear a bow tie? Is it disrespectful to the flag? And should pot be legalized? All that and more on today's Daily Wire show.
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As markets surge after Trump shreds NAFTA, we have to ask ourselves,
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is it possible that the smart people are stupid and the stupid people are smart?
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Then, speaking of dopes, one in seven Americans smokes pot.
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We will analyze the growing popularity of Haitian oregano in the U.S.
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Left-wing shill Lanny Davis admits that admitted liar Michael Cohen is a liar.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We've got a lot to get to today, as you can tell.
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For those of you who are not listening, you might be confused.
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I'm wearing an American flag bow tie right now.
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That is, of course, because it is National Bow Tie Day.
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This brings up a long-standing debate among American conservatives.
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Is it super cool to wear the American flag as clothing, or is it disrespectful to the flag?
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You wear, like, Chubbies has those little shorts, you know, the swim trunks, and they
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look like an American flag, and then some conservatives say that's disrespectful, and
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The reason you should do it, this isn't true at all times in history and in all cultures,
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Any way that you can get the flag out there, that's good.
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There's another debate, of course, over bow ties, which is, are bow ties, you know, like,
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American conservative mid-century cool, or do they always look terrible?
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You know which side of that argument that I come down on, but I'd be interested to hear
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We've got stupid smart people, smart stupid people, and everybody is getting high.
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There's a new study out that shows that one in seven Americans smokes pot and has smoked
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For comment on this, we turn to Daily Wire pot correspondents Cheech and Chong.
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The question is, who cares if we're smoking pot?
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This is this perennial debate among not just the left and the right, but within the right
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between the libertarians and the conservatives.
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And this issue, this issue of legal pot is one of the great examples of conservatives throwing
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I am going to make the point that perhaps we shouldn't be gung-ho about legalizing pot.
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One, right now, in America, one in five people live in a state with legal pot because lefty
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states with big populations are more likely to have legalized pot.
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The legal pot industry was almost $6 billion last year.
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I have no idea how big the illegal pot industry, which still accounts for the majority of it.
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In America, 50% of people have tried pot at least once.
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The majority of Americans have tried pot at least once.
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Judging by my outfit today, as you can guess, I too have tried the old Haitian oregano once
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A lot of people have done it and it leads to bizarre results as much as you're looking
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And one in seven have had it within the last year.
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They might not be waking and baking or smoking every night or something, but they have it
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every so often, you know, once or twice a year.
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This number has doubled within either the last decade or the last few decades.
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So for women, the number has doubled since 1984.
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For men, the number has doubled since around the year 2000.
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It's being mainstreamed by the culture and it's being mainstreamed by the government.
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A lot of states have legalized medical marijuana.
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A lot of states have legalized recreational marijuana.
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In my own town of La La Land, Hollywood, there are giant billboards on the street that
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Come on, it's really, use an app and you get pot delivered to your door.
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Uh, the, the debate around pot is very, very stupid.
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I'm not saying that there aren't good points on both sides.
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I'm saying that the debate is always extremely stupid because it usually goes something like
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Well, man, you know, man, pot is way better for you than, than booze because booze gets
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And it's totally not addictive and it's, oh, and it really expands your mind.
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You know, like what if the color you see is red, I see as blue, you know, man, it just
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And, and the, and one of the really awful things about pot, and I can tell you this from
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experience, it's not like I've never smoked pot before, is that you think, you think when
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you're smoking pot that you're smarter and funnier, but you're not.
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You just think that because you have become stupider.
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I remember, you know, in, uh, I'll give examples of this because when I say that I've, I've,
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uh, smoked pot on more than one occasion and I did inhale, I, it's actually very hard for
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me to inhale though, cause I smoke cigars and I've smoked cigars since I was a kid.
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So when I tried to smoke pot, which was much later, I couldn't do it.
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Like I just, I, I still would cough, you know, dramatically, even I can't have a cigarette,
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But in, uh, I think it was chef on South Park who says that there is a time and a place for
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So there was this thing at Yale, which is spring fling.
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And every, uh, every year on spring fling, you know, they bring bands in and, uh, you know,
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The, they treat pot brownies like it's a sacrament, you know, like it's just very popular.
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And so, uh, I would try this and this put to rest a lot of my thoughts on pot because
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There are new studies out that show that it is quite addictive.
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It can be addictive in between 11 and 17% of users.
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It actually can put you at risk, especially when you ingest it.
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Um, so when you ingest, unlike, you know, you smoke a joint or something, if you ingest
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pot, uh, depending on the concentrations of THC, which now are sold at your local dispensary
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You get, your heart rate gets much, much faster.
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It can lead to memory loss, especially if you do it when you're young, especially if
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Um, so what does this have to do with the policy debate, which is, should we legalize
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Obviously more Americans are using pot today than they did even a decade ago, dramatically
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This is coinciding with the laws being liberalized.
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I think you have to look at it from the social perspective, from a broader social context,
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not just some stupid libertarian talking point of, well, the government doesn't have a right
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to tell you what the government tells you a lot of things to do, or, well, it doesn't
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It could hurt the guy that you run over in a car when you're driving high.
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Um, but look at our particular point in time right now.
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They're killing themselves in record numbers with booze, with drugs, and with, uh, and,
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They're, they're committing suicide at very high rates right now in the United States.
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Self-injury is, uh, self-injury is the seventh leading cause of death.
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Um, and what the libertarians say here is, well, the government shouldn't intervene, but
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the legalization of marijuana is the government intervening.
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This is why the pot alcohol thing is so stupid.
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Alcohol has been around our culture since the dawn of time.
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We, you know, uh, Jesus Christ, his first miracle on earth, uh, after the incarnation was
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to make really good wine for drunk people, for people who were already very drunk.
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This is not an argument for booze, but it's, it's making a non-ideological point for conservatism,
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which is that we are, we don't just pop out of nowhere.
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We don't come into the world in floating in the air without any context.
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We come within a social and historical context, and that social and historical context has
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Rates of drinking have decreased dramatically since the 19th century, say, but it's just
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I don't think we really would want to get rid of it entirely.
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There's probably a reason it's stuck around so long.
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The question is, why would you want to introduce a new drug?
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Because in the West, pot doesn't come from our tradition.
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Jesus didn't perform the miracle of, I don't know, turning oregano into marijuana.
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All of the arguments that the pro pot people say against alcohol are also arguments for
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By saying that one is better than the other, it's not saying that they're good, right?
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It makes you stupid or it makes you, it also, one thing about alcohol is it's a social lubricant.
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So if you go, like, this is one of the reasons why it's persisted in culture for so long is
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you don't just, unless you're very depressing, you don't just sit in your room alone and guzzle
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You, I mean, I do it for breakfast, obviously, but that's just to get ready to meet you for
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I have a nice, nice short stack of pancakes and a gallon of room temperature gin.
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You get to talk to people, whereas pot is very much, it's best in solitude.
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Because it makes you stupid and because it makes you less funny, it really just, they
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It doesn't do that, but it's a drug for solitude.
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So if we've got this problem, we've got this major drug problem, this major opioid epidemic,
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these, these people killing themselves with stimulants and drugs and whatever, why would
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The government, the government just like us, doesn't come from nowhere.
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If pot is legalized, that is not the lack of government intervention.
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That specifically is government intervention to legalize that.
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Last year alone, 72,000 people died from drug overdoses in the United States.
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This is a record number and 2018 is already on track to blow past that number.
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You know, this is a, a big mistake of libertarianism.
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Whenever conservatives give up an issue, they always say, well, now I'm a libertarian on
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this issue, but it's only after they lose the issue.
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So they do this sometimes for the, for those who became, uh, uh, pro-choice in favor of abortion
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during the, the height of abortion advocacy, you know, the 1990s.
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Uh, they would say, oh, well, I'm a libertarian.
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There's nothing libertarian about killing a baby.
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There's nothing in the libertarian ideology or doctrine that says you have to be able
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Libertarianism protects life, liberty, and property.
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They'll say conservatives who, who said marriage has a definition and sexual difference
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Sexual difference has something to do in marriage.
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And that's why it's not that gay people can't get married.
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It's that marriage does not involve, uh, marriage demands sexual difference.
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Uh, now that the left seems to have won that battle at the Supreme Court and in the culture,
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There's nothing libertarian about saying we have to adopt this very radical new definition
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of marriage, but not previous definitions and not other definitions.
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There's nothing libertarian about saying that marriage has to now be defined as a union of
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two people, regardless of sex, who love each other for whatever purpose you want, rather
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than the previous definition, which is it's the union of husbands and wives for family
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Why, why doesn't, why isn't it libertarian to say that marriage involves the polygamous
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They say, well, when it comes to drugs, I'm a libertarian.
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This is, this presents a very mistaken view of virtues and of the tradition that we come
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I'm not, I'm not saying that you can't have, you know, a glass of wine in moderation, some
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whiskey in moderation, even a smoke of pot in moderation.
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I'm saying that when you become addicted to drugs, when you use drugs, uh, excessively,
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They shouldn't be, feel bullied and be intimidated by the left to give up points needlessly and
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And this point was, uh, underscored beautifully by President Trump, uh, just this past week
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Trump is, he's going to be terrible for the economy.
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And if he, if he gets rid of NAFTA, the North American free trade agreement, the agreement
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between Canada, the United States, and Mexico, the economy is going to implode.
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Prices are going to rise where it's going to be awful for Mexico, for Canada, especially
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He creates a bilateral trade agreement with Mexico and says, remember Mexico, we were never
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Now we've got a great relationship with Mexico.
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All the smart people told us it would be terrible.
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And he, President Trump says, Canada is more than welcome to come in, but if they're not
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going to agree to our terms, they can stay out.
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NAFTA ripped up bilateral trade deal, all the smarts that predicted it.
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Instead of the economy crashing, the markets reach record highs.
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This was the first time yesterday that the Dow was above 26,000 since February.
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The markets universally responded well to this news about NAFTA.
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We also found out today that consumer confidence is at an 18-year high.
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You've got to remember this because it always gets blown over in the media.
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Nobody ever talks about this in the mainstream media.
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You forget when these pundits, when the smart set, when the self-appointed bettors and sophisticates
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and self-styled smart people, when they predict things, they get it totally wrong,
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and then they get to go right on making predictions.
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Here, just to refresh your memory, here is a little prediction from the self-appointed smart set,
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the stupid smart people, of what was going to happen to the economy if President Trump was elected.
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Are you saying that if Trump wins, then a deal or two after that, the markets are going down 15%?
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It may actually, if it looks like he's close, it may drift a little before,
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He has no real strategy for creating jobs, just a string of empty promises.
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And maybe we shouldn't expect better from someone whose most famous words are,
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Donald Trump offers no real solutions for the economic challenges we face.
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In the event Donald wins, I have no doubt in my mind the market tanks.
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Donald Trump's ideas about the economy and the world
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will cause millions of Americans to lose their jobs.
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And let's, let's, because these guys say, Hillary Clinton, who is that?
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Mark Cuban, the billionaire who just goes, runs his mouth on TV, all these predictors.
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They're, they're making actual predictions, none of which happened.
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Confidence is the highest it's been in many years.
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Manufacturing the highest level of confidence they've had since they started doing it many
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And business, it has the highest level of confidence.
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That was President Trump in the cabinet room earlier today.
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He also pointed out, which he likes to do, but it's a fact.
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Remember when everyone said the market was just going to tank the day after the election
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Historic tax reform on top of that, 3% GDP growth and a forecast to potentially do 4%
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Moments ago, the numbers for America's economic growth or GDP were just released.
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And I am thrilled to announce that in the second quarter of this year, the United States economy
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We are on track to hit the highest annual average growth rate in over 13 years.
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And I will say this right now, and I'll say it strongly, as the trade deals come in one
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by one, we're going to go a lot higher than these numbers.
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During each of the two previous administrations, we averaged just over 1.8% GDP growth.
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By contrast, we are now on track to hit an average GDP annual growth of over 3%, and it could
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Because I think sometimes, sometimes I get accused of being a little too favorable to President
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Sometimes people think I'm flacking for him or something like that.
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Because what I'd like to point out are those two clips.
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All of the smart people, all of the serious, sophisticated, you know, they're stable leaders.
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They have been totally wrong in their predictions.
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And Donald Trump, who is regularly pilloried as an absolute idiot, not just by people on
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the left, but also by people on the right, by a lot of people on the right, pillory him
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as an idiot, an incompetent, political newbie, dummy, doesn't know what he's doing.
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That guy, that person who has been pilloried on the left and the right as an idiot, has been
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We're just talking about the economy right now.
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When you see someone and say, oh, he's being too favorable to President Trump.
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President Trump has been right about virtually all of these things.
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And all the smart set on the left and the right have been wrong.
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This should cause us to maybe take a step back and have a little moment of reflection
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Another great example of the smart set, actually probably the perfect example, is global warming,
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If we didn't sign on to the Paris Accord, where all the nations are going to get together
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and hug each other, and that's, for some reason, that's going to be really good for the environment.
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If that doesn't happen, the world will implode.
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We were told that even by some people on the right, but certainly by the entire left.
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And President Trump said, I'm not going to sign on to that Paris Accord.
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President Trump announcing that he's going to pull out of the accord and a little example
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The rest of the world applauded when we signed the Paris Agreement.
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For the simple reason that it put our country, the United States of America, which we all
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love, at a very, very big economic disadvantage.
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They were happy because they secured a landmark victory for the future of the planet.
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The whole world is not secretly conspiring against the United States.
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Trump's the idiot and John Oliver, representing the entire left and the anti-Trump right, he's
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Well, it turns out Trump was entirely right and that guy was entirely wrong.
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We have new numbers that have come out, which shows that the United States is leading the
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The United States, which pulled out of the Paris Agreement, which said, go pound sand,
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You're trying to entrap us in an agreement that forces us to give up some of our freedom,
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that forces us to play by unfair rules, that gives an international advantage to other people.
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You're not serious about helping the environment.
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That's what President Trump said, pilloried by dum-dums like John Oliver and everybody
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else, mocked, laughed by frivolous audiences on HBO.
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The United States is leading the world in reducing CO2 emissions and the signatories to the Paris
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Accord are not only not keeping their promises, they are increasing their CO2 emissions, which
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means that they weren't serious about the Paris Accord.
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It means they didn't want to help the environment.
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They weren't getting ready for this landmark international kumbaya moment.
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They just wanted to entrap the United States in an agreement that they would not play fairly
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It means that Donald Trump was entirely right about this and the left and John Oliver in
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Canada, Spain, the European Union, and China all increased their CO2 emissions since that
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We were told this agreement, this is so landmark because India and China are finally going to
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And that guy, the stupid guy, the stupid orange mango Mussolini, what an idiot, he doesn't know
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anything about anything, was completely right about this.
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And all of the really smart people with glasses were completely wrong.
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Imagine, just imagine that Hillary Clinton had won.
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I haven't watched a clip of Hillary in a while and I just watched her, you know, seeing it
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Imagine how awful that would be because she was the responsible choice.
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All of my friends who have lots of degrees, you know, they have PhDs and master's degrees
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and law degrees and doctors and all do, do, do, do, do, do.
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All of them, they were horrified that I voted for Donald Trump.
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All of Hillary's predictions were not, not only have not come true, but the opposite has
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And then we got news today that her email server, that competent Hillary, expert Hillary,
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stable Hillary, that her email server that we already know has been hacked by bad actors
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They installed a code such that her emails, emails that were going to or from her were
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being sent to these, to this Chinese entity in real time.
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I don't, have Donald Trump's emails been hacked by multiple foreign adversaries?
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That big, that big dummy who doesn't know anything, he's managed to avoid that.
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But all the smart people like Hillary Clinton, then they get their emails hacked by multiple
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It gets like a, if, if someone wrote this movie and then pitched it to a Hollywood studio,
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the studio would say, no, it's too on the nose.
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This, the, the hack by China was reported to the FBI multiple times and the FBI did nothing
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And, and who was it at the FBI who did nothing about it?
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Peter Strzok, ladies and gentlemen, that lover boy, disgraced FBI agent who testified
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before Congress and looked like the devil incarnate, you know, that maniacal face and smile and all
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And the reason that this would be rejected if it were a Hollywood pitch is that it's like,
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I thought there were more FBI agents than that.
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Aren't there, there are more than like five people that work at the FBI, right?
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But this guy, Peter Strzok seems to always crop up at the center of corruption at all
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The emails with his lover girl trying to nail Trump, investigating Trump based on faulty
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Then he's on the Mueller investigation trying to get Trump again.
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And he's the one who won't report that Hillary has been incompetently handling her emails.
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You know, all of this should serve as a warning.
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Then I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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All of this, I bring up to you all the way from the pot and those dope heads to the dope
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The left and the preening anti-Trump right always try to intimidate us by making conservative
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Just remember that in a broad array of issues over just the last year or two years, that
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self-appointed smart set has been utterly wrong, have been made to look like total fools.
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And the stupid people, the hacks, the partisans, the Trump apologists, the lackeys, the MAGA
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crowd, the blah, blah, blah, have been correct about everything.
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I'd like people to remember that because I think sometimes this gets forgotten.
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It's because not only are the news media stacked against us, but everything around the news
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Before we get to that, I've got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube, don't I?
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This is very frustrating because we've got so much more to talk about.
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But we'll talk about it once we see you at dailywire.com.
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If you're at dailywire.com, thank you very much.
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You keep me in silly bow ties and tweed jackets.
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If you're not there, if you're on Facebook and YouTube, you won't be for long because
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It's $10 a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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That's going to be the big boss, Ben Shapiro, coming up very soon.
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Was this brew, was this imported from Mexico or from Canada?
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Or was this made right here in the United States?
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This is the NAFTA brew and it, and it tastes like, yeah, it tastes like the NASDAQ hitting
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It tastes like the S&P hitting records and it tastes like, yeah, I'm getting a slight
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hint on the top of the pallet of the Dow Jones breaking 26,000 for the first time since February.
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I'm getting, just, you can kind of get a little hint on the nose.
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So why do we always forget that the smart people are stupid and the stupid people are
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The reason is that the news media are not only totally turned against conservatives and the
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Trump administration, but everything around the news media are as well.
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I suggest you go read it by Paula Bulliard that shows, she just searched Trump in Google
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I check it constantly and she just searched Trump.
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96% of the results, even for her, who's a conservative, you would think they might be
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96% of the results were from left-wing news sources.
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CNN ran a story about how Donald Trump knew about Russian collusion and knew of the Russia
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meeting at Trump Tower and knew about all of this, knew about all of this.
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The source for those stories was Lanny Davis, the left-wing hacky attorney for Michael Cohen.
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So the source really is Michael Cohen through that.
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But just within the last day, Lanny Davis has come out and said, oh, yeah, I was just kidding.
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I don't know that Donald Trump knew ahead of time about the Russia meeting.
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But last week he was saying, Bob Mueller should talk to Michael Cohen.
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We've got damaging information on Trump and Russia.
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It was reported everywhere after it made it to CNN.
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And all the confirming sources were Lanny Davis.
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And who knows if he lied or if Michael Cohen lied.
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But what I do know is CNN won't retract the story.
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Some people are noticing that CNN worded their story in such a way that they can probably get
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away with it because it's just extraordinarily misleading.
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I mean, these are people who are lying by omission or misleading in such a way that it's a lie.
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The Media Research Center is also showing the extent of big tech censoring us.
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Look, we see our views fluctuate very wildly depending on changes in these social media
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algorithms and depending on what, who they're censoring that week.
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The Media Research Center went in and went past the insinuation to get to some specifics.
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We know that Twitter specifically was shadow banning people whose profiles used the words
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America or God because they thought they were robots.
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Can you imagine for a second if you just, just pity the Twitter executives here?
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They think they're in such an anti-American bubble.
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They're in such an absurd left-wing bubble that they think that if you use the words
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They also won't run ads for pro-life advocacy groups.
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We know that they put specific care behind the trending hashtags Podesta emails and DNC
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They shadow banned those hashtags even though they were clearly making the rounds among
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On Facebook, Facebook shadow banned or suppressed trending stories from Mitt Romney, CPAC, and
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On the flip side, when Black Lives Matter was not trending, Facebook bumped that up and
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made it trending news to spread the message of Black Lives Matter.
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So when you search for any of these things, not in news, but in the regular google.com, you're
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going to get a slew of left-wing articles over right-wing articles.
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Is it any wonder that we think that the stupid smart people are smart and the smart stupid
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It's because all of the curation around our information is tailored to give us that false
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We know that Google, YouTube, and Twitter are partnering with far-left organizations.
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I have a great honor because it said that my PragerU video is the most egregious one.
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That's a great, I want to frame that statement and make it a prize.
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We know that Twitter's advisors on content are 12 to 1, skew leftist.
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And we know that they partner with these fact-checkers, which are far left-wing.
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Facebook partners with Snopes, the fact-checker Snopes.
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Snopes flagged the Babylon Bee, an obviously satirical publication, for criticizing CNN.
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We don't have a ton of time, but I want to call your attention to that because when
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you're using Google, when you're using Google News, you have to be aware that there is a
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very intentional narrative being built around you.
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There is a force at work that is trying to convince you that the smart people are stupid
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It's because people sitting at these companies are creating it for you.
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Speaking of fact-checks, speaking of fact-checks, we do need to fact-check the media and the
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We have to get to some more demagoguery of dead people.
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I've tried to avoid talking about John McCain or Molly Tibbetts too much.
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Two people who have died recently, who have become major news stories, obviously, and who
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I don't really blame people for injecting them into public debate.
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First of all, John McCain is a public figure, so that goes without saying, and that Molly
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Tibbetts' news story was a major national news story before politics got involved at
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But right now, there is a debate going on because Molly Tibbetts was killed by an illegal
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The left is so upset with this that they're trying to pretend that he wasn't an illegal
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All of the evidence we have at our disposal says he was an illegal alien.
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And this has been an obvious point for conservatives who say, if we enforced our laws, that guy
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If we enforced our laws, that guy wouldn't have been in the country.
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That's not to say that illegal aliens murder more people than native-born people do.
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That's not to say that illegal aliens murder more people than other immigrant groups, like
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It's just to say, very simply, that person wasn't supposed to be in the country.
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It was a failure of law enforcement and really a failure of politics that he was in the country.
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And that girl would be alive today if he wasn't in the country, if we enforced our
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And there's a statement that's floating around that people are purporting is from the Tibbetts
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family writ large, or that it's from Molly Tibbetts' mother.
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It's actually from a woman named Sandy Tibbetts Murphy.
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And Sandy Tibbetts Murphy is not Molly Tibbetts' mother, even though that has been reported
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And she sent out this statement that was very left-wing, excoriated the GOP.
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I just want to read this to show you how ridiculous it is.
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I'm not criticizing her because she's grieving, a family member has died.
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But we have to correct the record because you can't let this kind of actual fake news
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Here, Sandy Tibbetts Murphy sent out this statement.
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It reads this, quote, no, no, no, no, especially for those of you who did not know her in life,
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you do not get to usurp Molly and her legacy for your racist, false narrative now that she
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Molly was killed and a man has been arrested and charged with her murder.
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But I go on with uncertainty as to his legal status.
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He could have been a citizen born in this country.
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He could have been an older white man from anywhere.
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I'll go on and then we can discuss this because the political propaganda in this statement
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He is a man whose path in life crossed that of Molly's life with tragic results.
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He is a man who felt entitled to impose himself on Molly's life without consequences.
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He is a man who, because of his sense of male entitlement, refused to allow Molly the
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right to reject his advances, the right to her own autonomy.
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Molly was murdered because a man denied her right to say so.
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Our national discussion needs to be about violence committed in society, mostly by men.
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It is not your right to exacerbate this grievous act by hijacking Molly and all she believed
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You do not get to use her murder to inaccurately promote your permanently separated hyperbole.
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You do not have permission to callously use this tragedy to demonize an entire population
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Respectfully, respectfully, Sandy Tibbetts Murphy, you do not have the right to use this murder
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Just like you're saying that we don't, we don't have the right to push an ostensibly
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You don't have the right to push sexist propaganda.
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She said, it's not because he was an illegal alien.
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Again, I'm not, I'm not really criticizing this girl.
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Well, she's probably very much in mourning because her cousin is dead, but we have to
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correct this record because what she's saying is don't blame illegal aliens, blame all men.
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How is that, how is that fixing the painting with a broad brush?
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You're saying we're painting a small group with a broad brush.
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You're painting a gigantic group with a broad brush.
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She says, well, it could have been a different man.
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The reality, all of the probabilities collapse into this reality.
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And that's the reality that we have to deal with.
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She says that we shouldn't push the permanently separated hyperbole.
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Molly Tibbetts has been permanently separated from her family.
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We shouldn't have to tell a member of her family that.
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We have to deal in reality and not deal with a bunch of fake news and political propaganda.
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If people aren't going to, if the family doesn't want this to be politicized, I totally understand that.
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But then one should not be politicizing it on the other side as well.
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So I do want to get to Louis C.K. and Michael Ian Black.
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You remember when Louis C.K. exposed himself to a bunch of women and co-workers and people?
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Now he showed up recently in a comedy club and he started performing.
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You know, someone complained and said, I didn't know he was going to be here.
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This is nine months after five women co-workers, you know, accused him of assaulting them.
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So Michael Ian Black, lefty par excellence, he comes out and he tweets this, quote,
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We'll take heat for this, but people have to be allowed to serve their time and move on with their lives.
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I don't know if it's been long enough or his career will recover or if people will have him back.
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Okay, so Michael Ian Black is the guy who previously tweeted, quote,
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Tonight I explained sexual assault to my 13-year-old daughter, hashtag MAGA.
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This was when the race was going on in Alabama for the Senate.
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Just wondering if you've seen the latest allegation of sexual assault of a 16-year-old by Roy Moore
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And now he's coming around when it's one of his, when it was a Republican who's been accused of sexual crimes.
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Then he's on his high horse, he's sanctimonious.
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When it's a friend of his, all of a sudden we need a little grace.
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We need to let people have, you know, come on, man, let them recover.
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And it brings up this point that we've talked about a little earlier with the dupes.
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I think sometimes people think that I'm advocating too much for Donald Trump or I play favorites or something like that.
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People like Michael Ian Black, self-serious, on his high horse, sanctimonious, until it's his friend.
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And then all of a sudden it's completely different.
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Because Michael Ian Black obviously does not care about sexual assault.
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He doesn't seem to care about it one little bit.
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Had he not said that about Louis C.K., then perhaps we could take him seriously.
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And there are a lot of people, this happens in politics too.
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When people try to tell you, oh, I don't have a preference here.
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I'm above it all and I'm just, you know, I'm self-righteous in this or whatever.
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You can tell that those guys have a partisan agenda and they're just not being honest.
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Ben has said this very well about the Daily Wire and CNN.
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He said, yes, we have a point of view, but we're open about our point of view.
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That's why they're fake news and we're not fake news.
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This is very important because demagogues always do this.
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They always try to say, oh, I'm floating above all this.
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But honest people are going to deal honestly with you.
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And President Trump does this very much in his daily politics,
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which is he doesn't pretend to be something other than he is.
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He doesn't pretend to have different goals than he has.
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He doesn't pretend that his politics aren't his politics.
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Who have been soaked in this incompetent, mucky culture of lies and oiliness.
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And it's refreshing to others who say, oh, at least I know where I stand.
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Oh, he said he was going to rip up NAFTA and then he did.
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Oh, he said he was going to lower taxes and then he did.
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We have, you know, gosh, we have so much more to get to, but we're out of time.
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That's too bad because we have, I do want to talk about, there's a new study out of Brown
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that shows that transgenderism, gender confusion is a social contagion.
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And this has, of course, been suppressed by the PC crowd, the so-called party of science
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that can't, that doesn't like when science contradicts their own ideological narratives.
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And there are some very important reasons as to why this is happening in our culture.
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It dates back to this day in history, which is when Prince Charles and Princess Diana got
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divorced, not just their divorce, but divorced broadly.
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I guess we're just going to have to talk about it tomorrow.
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We've got to talk about it tomorrow so that this episode gets to stay up.
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It's probably the least politically correct thing you can ever say tomorrow.
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And my show will get canceled, but at least we'll have gotten a good one in the can.
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