Ep. 230 - Kavanaugh Is ConFFFFFFirmed!
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On the heels of Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation to the Supreme Court, the Daily Wire celebrates the momentous occasion of him being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice on Saturday afternoon. But it s not just a day to celebrate. It s a day for a whole lot of boofing.
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Beach week came late this year, but Christmas has come early with the confirmation of Brett
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Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on Saturday afternoon. A joyous occasion all around with
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beer and boofing galore. We will examine what conservatives should learn from this wonderful
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turn of events. Then, socialist Looney Tune Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says nothing at all.
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The New York Times attacks white women. White woman Bette Midler calls herself the N-word,
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and Christopher Columbus discovers America. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the Michael Knowles
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Show. You know, I wish this were beer instead of flavored seltzer water, but unfortunately the
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Daily Wire didn't have any beer in its fridge. Nevertheless, I think this can stand in to
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celebrate for Associate Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. I wonder if anyone can shotgun
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a seltzer water. I don't think that's possible. This is a huge day. We have so much to talk about.
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If I weren't plugged in, I would get up on my desk and dance on top of it. Before we do that,
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I've got some extremely exciting news. Today, the Daily Wire has launched the next chapter
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in Andrew Klavan's podcast series, Another Kingdom, performed by little old me, Michael Knowles.
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Today and on every following Monday, subscribers to the Daily Wire will be able to watch new episodes
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of season two. If you are not a subscriber, you will have to wait until Friday to watch new episodes,
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and only the first 15 minutes will be available to the public as a video. So what are you waiting
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for? Everybody gets the audio eventually, but only the first 15 minutes will be available as a video.
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In addition to my dramatic reading this season, we have added a dramatic visual component you will
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not want to miss. Here is a clip from the first episode of season two.
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Then, finally, it was dark. Time to go. With the locket still in my hand, I rolled off the bed.
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There was nothing to pack. I had nothing with me. I ditched my phone so no one could trace me.
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I'd stopped at an ATM near LA to stock up on cash. I couldn't use credit cards. They could trace those
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two. I'd dismantled the GPS in my car. No internet. No social media. I was invisible.
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And I was utterly alone. I crossed the shit brown carpet to the door. I opened the door onto the
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night outside. There was Billiard Ball. He stood gigantically on the threshold, framed in the doorway
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with the parking lot lights glaring behind him. Before I could react, he jabbed me in the neck with
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a stun gun. The electric blast sent me reeling back into the room, convulsing, down to the floor.
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I dropped to the carpet, jerking and shuddering. My muscles were locked up, immobile. All I could do
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was lie there and judder and watch as Billiard Ball stepped calmly into the room and calmly shut the
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door behind him. His enormous shoulders were packed into a leather jacket. His muscles bulged through the
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thin sweater he wore underneath. He looked down at my quivering body without a smile, without a sneer,
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without any emotion at all. He hardly seemed interested in what he saw. He reached into his
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jacket and slid the little stun gun into his left inside pocket. Then he reached across into his
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right inside pocket and drew out a small leather case. Terror exploded inside me as I watched him
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unzip the case and deftly remove a syringe. I made a horrible, helpless, gurgling noise in my throat
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as I battled to get control of my body. It was no use. My muscles had been severed from my will.
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I tell you, I have the easiest job in the whole thing because I just go there and read the story
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protect your privacy. I know what you're thinking, conservatives. You're thinking conservatives are
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supposed to be doer. We're supposed to be pessimistic. We're supposed to be sad. We're always
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supposed to be angry and upset, you know, because the culture is falling away and the West is
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decaying. But not today. Not today. With the confirmation, the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh,
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it is hard to imagine how this could have turned out any better than it did. It just turned out
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so well. Didn't always have to. Pretty reckless game. Pretty risky. Jeff Flake could have screwed
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it all up for us. Could have wrecked the Supreme Court, wrecked our electoral chances. But that's not
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how it worked out. So who can we thank for this? Who can we thank for being the conscience of a
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conservative and being the backbone of the GOP? Susan Collins, Lindsey Grahambo, cocaine Mitch
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McConnell, and Donald Trump. If you had told me three years ago that the conscience of a conservative
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would be certainly Trump. Who knew that Trump was going to be a Republican? Susan Collins, Lindsey
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Graham, Mitch McConnell, I would have laughed in your face. But they stood up. They were the backbone
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of the GOP. And actually the GOP's moral conscience here by saying, no, we're not going to let you
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destroy Brett Kavanaugh. We're not going to let you assassinate his character based on nothing.
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Based on less than nothing. Based on smears that have fallen apart time and time again. We're not
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going to let you do it. And Susan Collins articulated this beautifully in a speech that I hope the entire
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country was watching probably they won't because she really came into the room and articulated what
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was so wrong with those proceedings. I found her testimony to be sincere, painful, and compelling.
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I believe that she is a survivor of a sexual assault. Nevertheless, the four witnesses she named
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could not corroborate any of the events of that evening gathering. I do not believe that the claims
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such as these need to be proved beyond a reasonable doubt. Nevertheless, fairness would dictate that the
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claims at least should meet a threshold of more likely than not.
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Duh. Yeah, of course. I mean, thank you for putting it that way. It's true. It's not a criminal
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proceeding, although the Democrats certainly were treating it as one. So sure, it doesn't need to be
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beyond a reasonable doubt, but at least more likely than not. At least the accusers should try to keep
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their stories straight for more than five minutes at a time, not get caught in a multitude of lies.
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Yeah, of course you shouldn't ruin a man's career with a decade of unquestioned integrity as a federal
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judge. Before that, staff secretary to the president, deputy independent counsel under the Star investigation.
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The guy has an unimpeachable track record. You don't get to ruin that guy's life just because, just because you
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want to. So we have to thank Susan Collins. We also have to thank the Democrats who
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filibustered Neil Gorsuch because this caused cocaine Mitch to go nuclear on Neil Gorsuch.
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People forget this. They get a little confused on what the nuclear option means. The nuclear option
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was first invoked by Harry Reid. He invoked it in 2013 because he wanted to ram through more of Barack
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Obama's judges at the lower level. So he said, nope, we no longer need a 60 vote majority to confirm
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judges. We're going to bring that down to a simple majority. As long as you get a simple majority,
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that's fine. We can confirm the judges. And for years, senators had talked about doing this,
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but they always backed away because they knew that when they're out of power, this is a very bad thing.
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And, but Harry Reid said, I don't care. I'm ramming Obama's judges through. That's fine.
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Once again, Senate Democrats are threatening to break the rules of the Senate, break the rules of
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the Senate in order to change the rules of the Senate. And over what? Over what? Over a court that
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doesn't even have enough work to do? The majority leader promised, he promised over and over again
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that he wouldn't break the rules of the Senate in order to change them. If you want to play games,
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set yet another precedent that you'll no doubt come to regret. Say to my friends on the other side of
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the aisle, you'll regret this. And you may regret it a lot sooner than you think. You're going to
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regret it, my little friends on the other side of the aisle. You're going to regret it, my little
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friends. A lot sooner than you think. A lot sooner. That's a cocaine Mitch McConnell in 2013.
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Prophetic words, totally prophetic words, because then when it came up with Neil Gorsuch, don't
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forget a lot of Democrats during this Kavanaugh circus have said, well, look, Kavanaugh is just
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a bad guy. Look, we weren't this bad about Neil Gorsuch. First of all, yes, you were. You tried to
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filibuster him. But second of all, the reason they didn't create a hullabaloo and accuse him of
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gang rape in the 80s is because Neil Gorsuch was replacing Scalia. He was replacing the originalist
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judge, so it didn't swing the balance of the court. Who knows, actually, if Gorsuch is as
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rock-ribbed as Scalia. Time will tell. So it didn't change the balance of the court. Now that you're
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replacing Anthony Kennedy, the swing vote who sided with the left of the court on very important matters,
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you know, like the gay marriage decision or Burgefell, for example, when you're replacing
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that guy, it's much different because then you'll actually have a conservative majority,
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an originalist majority on the court. So they went after them. They go after Gorsuch. They
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filibuster Gorsuch. Mitch McConnell says, well, remember when I said that you were going to regret
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the sooner than you think? Now it's sooner than you think. So he did it. He went nuclear for Supreme
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Court nominees, and that's how we were able to get Judge Kavanaugh through. It's a great
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turn of events for us that actually didn't hinge on this nomination. It was on the last one.
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So that's great. We can thank the Democrats who filibustered, too. We should also not forget,
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by the way, future Democratic presidential nominee, Michael Avenatti. You know, the creepy porn
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lawyer. The creepy porn lawyer played an integral role in this because he exposed the Democrat strategy
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of just finding random, unfalsifiable, unverifiable allegations from 50,000 years ago. He exposed it
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because he did it in his Avenatti way. You know, Dianne Feinstein, Deborah Katz, they were a little
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more subtle when they dragged up Christine Ford and at the 11th hour after the hearings were over,
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leaked her complaint to the Senate Judiciary Committee. They were a little more subtle.
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Christine Ford is a more subtle character. When it got to Julie Swetnick, Michael Avenatti's
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client, you know, she's accusing him of being like a leather daddy gang rapist crime boss in the 80s.
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That one seemed so ridiculous. The New York Times agrees. They wrote, quote,
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the tide seemed to turn, oddly enough, when a third woman emerged with even more extreme allegations.
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Michael Avenatti, a brash and media savvy California lawyer who has been careening from
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one Trump administration brush fire to another, produced a statement from a woman alleging that
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Judge Kavanaugh in high school attended parties where women were gang raped. The woman, Julie
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Swetnick, said she herself was gang raped at one such party, though not by the judge. And the woman kept
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going to the parties for some reason. Very, not a very smart woman, apparently, if any of those
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allegations had even the whiff of truth to them, which obviously they do not. Alan Dershowitz agrees
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with this. Famed liberal lawyer Alan Dershowitz, he tweeted this out. He said, Kavanaugh owes an
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enormous debt to Michael Avenatti, who may have turned the tide in his favor by diluting Ford's
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compelling accusation with an implausible story. Now, he uses that phrase compelling allegation.
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I'm not convinced by that. I don't really see why the allegation is compelling. It came
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after 30 years of silence and into a vague allegation six years ago, the first time Kavanaugh's
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name was floated. And then the story changed a few different times. By the time she wrote to
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Dianne Feinstein, it changed when she took the polygraph. It changed when she talked to the
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Washington Post. It was refuted by every person that she claims was there, including her lifelong
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friend Leland Kaiser, a lady, Lady Leland Kaiser. It's not just the guys here. A woman refuted her
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claims too. So I don't really think it's compelling at all and it changed a lot. Nevertheless, he's
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right. It was a much more subtle accusation. So you got to thank, you got to give credit where credit
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is due and thank Mr. Avenatti for that. The other, the other group that you have to thank, the other
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incident that you have to thank is Ford's changing story. Because if Ford was able to keep her story
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straight, this probably would have been a lot stronger. Even though it was 36 years after the fact,
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even though she'd never told anybody about it, if she could have kept the story straight,
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it probably would have been stronger. But she couldn't keep her story straight. Initially,
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it was four boys in the room. Then it was two boys in the room. Then there were four people there.
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Then five, six, seven people there. Then she named all the people. They refuted her. So then she said,
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okay, well, there was another person who I forget. She couldn't say who drove her there. She couldn't
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say who drove her home. And then she said she had to, she couldn't testify in Washington because she
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was afraid of flying. And she was afraid of flying because of confined spaces. The fear of confined
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spaces stemming from this incident 36 years ago. Then it turns out she flies all over the place,
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flies to French Polynesia, flies to Hawaii, flies to New Hampshire, flies all over. So that doesn't
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sound good. An ex-boyfriend of hers came out and said they used to fly in propeller planes
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in Hawaii. And she never expressed a fear of flying ever. So that part fell apart as well.
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Then she says the polygraph test was this long, long test. It took, she told her whole life story.
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It was, she was so nervous about it. Then we find out she knows a lot about polygraph tests.
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And the polygraph she took was only two questions and she volunteered to take it. And her team paid
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the polygraph examiner to give the test. That also didn't hold up very well. Then the one I think that
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finally cracked it was she said, I had a second door installed on my home when we renovated it because
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I was so afraid of confined spaces stemming from this 36 year old allegation. And this came up during
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a 2012 marriage counseling session. Turns out she filed to get the second door in 2008, four years
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earlier for a marriage counseling office for a room that she rented out to Google interns and to
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college students. Story just fell apart, which is why I disagree with Professor Dershowitz. I don't
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find it compelling at all. But if that story hadn't fallen apart, I think you'd still see the Democrats
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focusing on her. They wouldn't have started talking about Brett Kavanaugh, you know, throwing ice
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at a New Haven bar. So the other thing that's a little weird about this now and really diminishes
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Ford's credibility is she said she's not going to pursue her charges any further.
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Initially, she said Brett Kavanaugh not only groped her, but tried to rape her and not only tried to
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rape her, but almost killed her. And now she says, no, it's all right. Now he's on the court. I don't
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care. That's a little strange, isn't it? And that can be, you can impeach a judge. Why doesn't she want
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to impeach the judge? Her lawyer, Deborah Katz, said that she did not want the judge impeached.
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That's a little strange, isn't it? I wonder why that is. The reason that she doesn't want the
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judge impeached is because now it's not politically advantageous. That's why. There's no, what's the
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advantage now to doing it? He got through, he managed to squeak through. She doesn't want any
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more spotlight on her changing story. So now it's over. And I think Democrats realize that it's killing
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them in the polls. So they think that they have to move on from this. I hope forever we can retire
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the word credible, you know, for like the next, at least the next six months or so. But what this
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really gets to, this was highlighted by a writer for the Colbert show, Ariel Dumas, is they don't
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care whether Christine Ford's story is true, which story would be true. I don't know. They don't care
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about some story from when he was at Yale and he allegedly whipped it out at a party that other
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people there refute. They don't care about Julie Swetnick, certainly. They don't care about any
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of that. What they wanted to do is ruin his life. And hand it to Ariel Dumas, the writer for the
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Colbert show. She said, quote, whatever happens, I'm just glad we ruined Brett Kavanaugh's life.
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Because that's all they wanted to do. That's all they were after. They didn't like him. They didn't
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like him because it was an originalist. He's an originalist judge. He's going to change the balance of
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the court. They tried all these different tactics. They finally called him a rapist and a near killer
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and this and that. And at least they ruined his life. And that's what they were really after,
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to ruin this guy's life. For them, it reminds me of the godfather, you know, when they talk about
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killing and murder. This is the Michael Corleone theory of judicial confirmations. Mr. Corleone,
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what are your thoughts? It's not personal, Sonny. It's strictly business.
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It's not personal, Brett. It's not personal. That's my father, Brett. That's not me.
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Strictly business. You know, in the godfather part two, Hyman Roth, the least Rosberg, the Jewish
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gangster is there. He said, this is the business we've chosen. They treat it like business. And then
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the minute that the deal is over, they move on. So, okay, sorry we ruined your life, but you know,
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you know, that's business. We're not going to press, we're not going to pursue these charges
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any further. We're not going to try to impeach you. It's just business. Yeah, right. Exactly.
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It's just business. It's just shallow, hackish political business. Pretty sad.
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The question you have to ask yourself here is, is this the kind of politics that you want?
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Is this, do you want the kind of government where anybody who's put up for anything has their lives
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ruined? They have to either be squeaky clean, or even if they are squeaky clean, they're still not
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good enough. There's still, you know, if you're Mitt Romney, you're a dog killer, gay bashing,
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whatever. And if you're Brett Kavanaugh, who's lived an unimpeachable life, then you just become
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a rapist because of fantasies concocted out of whole cloth. Do you really want this kind of politics?
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No. I might suggest a detente. I might suggest a detente because what you get in this politics
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is only the worst people. It's only people who feel no shame. This is why Bill Clinton was so
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successful in politics, is the Clintons are immune from shame. They cannot feel it. So they accused
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Bill Clinton of, you know, having sexual affairs in the Oval Office. He says, I'm telling you, I did not
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have sexual relations with that woman. What was it? A month later, two months later, like,
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five seconds after he says that to the American people, he sits down in that next press conference.
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He said, look, I might've had some sexual relations with her, but I'm telling you the truth now.
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And they just, he can do that because he feels no shame. Actually, this is an advantage sometimes
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when it works with Republican candidates. You know, President Trump ran on this. He said, yep,
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I slept with a ton of women who weren't my wife. Sleeping with my friend's wives is one of the
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highlights of life. And I'm a playboy billionaire. Don't care. Don't worry about you. And it really
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makes you immune from attacks because they try to attack you. And he said, yeah, right. I wrote about
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that in my book. Barack Obama did this in his first book, the dreams from my father says, yeah,
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I did a bunch of Coke. I did a bunch of blow. I smoked a lot of pot. I ate a bunch of dogs in
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Indonesia. I mean, he outlays it pretty clearly. He says he palled around with communists. And by the end
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of the book, because he's exposed everything to you, you're not afraid of him because you see him
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and you see he's not an intimidating guy. Certainly Barack Obama is not an intimidating guy. And so
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you don't fear him anymore. But you get, you get bad people this way. It would be nice if we could
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have a little bit more of a, you know, Washington, Hamilton. That'd be, that would be, I'd enjoy that.
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James Madison, John Adams, but you don't get that in a politics where you are going to truly ruin
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somebody's life. I'm not, I'm not letting the press off the hook for some, for their treatment
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of Democrats over the years where they would treat the Democrats way nicer. They'd cover up for
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Democrats. They would, it was truly a conspiracy. But if you could have a little bit of an agreement
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between the, between the Republicans and the Democrats to say certain things are off limits,
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high school rumors and yearbooks, that's off limits. If you, you might have a more respectable
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politics, just a suggestion. But that's not what you're going to get. So you're only going to get
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people who are shameless, who are no nothings, who have nothing to lose, which of course brings us
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to Alexandria Occasional Cortex. I'm stealing Steve Hayward's line. Alexandria Occasional Cortex.
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She went on MSNBC over the weekend to give her agenda if she is elected to Congress. And I don't
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think I could have said it any better myself. Take it away, Alexandria. You're going at, there's
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time where people were talking about how it's broken and it's so polarized, both of which I
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think are true. Um, and you're also coming really as an outsider at a moment where I think people
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like are watching what happened today and want to storm the gates and you're going to actually do
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that. So what that's, what's, what's your plan? Well, I think a lot of it has to do with changing
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our strategy around governance. You know, there's a lot of inside baseball and inside the beltway as
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you, you know, you always hear that term thrown around, but there are very few organizers in
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Congress. And I do think that organizers operate differently. It's a different kind of strategy. And
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what it is, is really about organizing and, and really thinking about that word, organizing, segmenting
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people, being strategic in their actions, in really bringing together a cohesive strategy of putting
00:23:03.120
pressure on the chamber instead of only focusing on the pressures inside the chamber.
00:23:08.360
That's really interesting thought. That was, she answered nothing. She didn't say any, what did
00:23:13.240
she say? Zero. But this is why the Democrats have to revert to brutal passions, sex and race
00:23:22.200
basically, and say, yeah, we have the same skin color. Vote for me. Yeah, we, we have the same
00:23:26.740
genitals. Vote for me. Well, you have to, cause well, grunt, grunt, grunt. It's because they, they aren't
00:23:31.180
making any arguments. They're not advancing any agenda other than the, the increase of their own power,
00:23:36.280
which is why they're socialists. Socialism is just taking power away from people and giving it to the
00:23:41.180
government. And they're doing, they say, get me, me, me, me. They can't make an argument for that.
00:23:45.300
You can't make an argument to somebody to give away all of their freedom and property, right? You have
00:23:50.960
to, you have to appeal to these base, brutal passions. And it's really sad because there isn't
00:23:55.640
a public debate being had about socialism. It's just, uh, uh, the identity politics and the
00:24:01.660
intersectional politics of the left. And this brings us to not the dumbest article on the internet
00:24:08.300
today. This actually transcends that. This, this is a little higher than that. This is the dumbest
00:24:13.960
article on the internet this month. The award goes to Alexis Grenell from the New York times.
00:24:19.700
Uh, the, the column is white women after a confirmation process where women all but, uh,
00:24:26.280
oh no, I'm sorry. White women come get your people. That white women come get your people
00:24:31.900
is the, uh, head of it. The too long didn't read is that white women are the cause of all
00:24:36.800
the problems in the world. Here's how she begins. After a confirmation process where women
00:24:41.100
all but slit their wrists, letting their stories of sexual trauma run like rivers of blood through
00:24:48.280
the Capitol, the Senate still voted to confirm judge Brett Kavanaugh. And I wonder why men call
00:24:55.660
them hysterical. I wonder why they almost slit their wrists in the trauma of blood. I think
00:25:01.700
what you mean is that George Soros has paid protesters ran and shrieked throughout the Capitol
00:25:06.400
like a bunch of hysterical children. She goes on, Alexis goes on with the exception of Senator
00:25:11.720
Lisa Murkowski of Alaska. All the women in the Republican conference caved, including Senator
00:25:16.180
Susan Collins of Maine who held out till the bitter end. These women are gender traitors to borrow
00:25:22.120
a term from the dystopian TV series, The Handmaid's Tale. This, by the way, they can only
00:25:27.320
reference trashy modern TV shows because they don't know anything about literature or history
00:25:32.080
or philosophy. So like all, this is why people, uh, you know, when they're discussing myth these
00:25:37.000
days, they can only ever talk about Harry Potter and Star Wars. That's all millennials ever talk.
00:25:41.540
They say, you're like a Dumbledore. I don't know. I haven't read Harry Potter since I was nine,
00:25:45.580
but that's all they can reference because they have, they don't have any other cultural
00:25:49.020
inheritance to, to draw on. So she says, you know, to borrow a term from The Handmaid's Tale,
00:25:54.180
to borrow a term from Family Guy, I don't know. You're talking about some trash TV. Get over your,
00:25:59.560
like read a book, read a book lady. And then, you know, you can bring out that cultural inheritance.
00:26:03.740
She goes on. They've made standing by the patriarchy, a, uh, standing against the patriarch or
00:26:09.680
by the patriarchy, a full-time job. Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, whose response to a woman
00:26:15.160
telling him she was raped was, I'm sorry, call the cops. So the patriarchy thing,
00:26:23.500
we'll get to that in a minute. But the Lindsey Graham, Lindsey Graham, someone comes up to him
00:26:28.860
and says, I'm, I was raped. What do you expect him to say? What should he say? What? You should call
00:26:36.600
the cops. That's a horrible crime. That's a heinous crime. You should go to the, if you go,
00:26:41.500
my sister was murdered. Like, uh, yeah. Have you told the cops about that? They should investigate
00:26:47.000
that. Maybe prosecute the guy who did it. Find the guy who did it. But they're, they're just using it.
00:26:53.320
They're, they're just using the claim of sexual assault, which has been defined down to almost
00:26:59.080
nothing at this point. An unwanted kiss is a sexual assault. Some guy comes up to you at a bar and
00:27:04.200
you're talking and he tries to kiss you. That's a sexual assault by some definitions. And they're just
00:27:08.860
trying to use that to weaponize that, to borrow the left's term, uh, to tell Republicans to shut
00:27:13.880
up and to keep originalists off the court. Uh, really pathetic. The, the article concludes
00:27:18.540
recently, Ms. Conway even weaponized, I told you there's that word, her own alleged sexual assault
00:27:24.160
in service of her boss by discouraging women from feeling empathy with Christine Blasey Ford or anger
00:27:29.680
at Judge Kavanaugh. She's attacking, uh, Kellyanne Conway, advisor to the president for doing exactly
00:27:36.860
the same thing that the left has been doing. And it seems like she's not even believing her or she's
00:27:42.540
judging her skeptically about this. Um, really, really dumb column that, that just, it's just like
00:27:49.620
the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York times columns, which is, I can't make an argument.
00:27:56.060
I can't advance an argument. I'm relying on facts that simply are not. So I'm relying on fantasies.
00:28:02.200
So I am just going to appeal to brutal instincts and passions. Me, woman, you woman,
00:28:08.900
bad men that me, me swarthy, you swarthy, us white, bad. I mean, that's basically the argument
00:28:16.500
that they're making. And it's all of the sophistication of people whose greatest
00:28:20.600
cultural achievement that they can draw on is the handmaid's tale. Uh, and by the way, uh,
00:28:26.360
Bette Midler, the performer, the singer, the actress, Bette Midler really highlighted this very well
00:28:32.040
last week when she tweeted out a quote from one of the worst John Lennon songs.
00:28:37.000
She said, women are the N word of the world. Women are the N word of the world. This is from a,
00:28:43.340
one of the worst John Lennon songs that he wrote with Yoko Ono. And the song goes, women,
00:28:48.740
woman is the N word of the world. Yes, she is. Think about it. If you, if your second line is think
00:28:56.800
about it, your first line isn't that good. No man, but just think about it. So that's her.
00:29:03.140
Women, women are the N word of the world, raped, beaten, enslaved, married off, worked like dumb
00:29:07.940
animals, denied education and inheritance, enduring the pain and danger of childbirth and life in
00:29:12.720
silence for thousands of years. They're the most disrespected creatures on earth. But we know that
00:29:17.340
those numbers aren't so. We know that that isn't true. I think we talked about this a few days ago.
00:29:22.820
Now, the more men are raped in the United States than women. Men are more likely to suffer fatal
00:29:29.600
injuries on the job. Men are much more likely to kill themselves, three and a half times more likely,
00:29:33.740
I think. It is true that women are supposed to be the only ones to give childbirth, but don't forget
00:29:39.180
Planned Parenthood now says that some men have uteruses. So I don't know, maybe, maybe men can do
00:29:43.940
that too now. It's, it's just base passions that are totally ignorant of reality. You know, there are lies
00:29:52.680
damned lies in statistics. Sometimes statistics tell you something about the truth and this is
00:29:58.420
lies versus statistics. So, uh, obviously that, that isn't a good argument going into November.
00:30:07.540
Obviously that case isn't going to work. The problem runs so much deeper than just politics
00:30:12.580
though. It runs so much deeper than just politics or culture. Oh, I'm going to have to say goodbye to
00:30:16.020
Facebook and YouTube, but we've got to talk about one of the greatest stories of the last six
00:30:21.260
months. It's almost as good as Brett Kavanaugh being confirmed to the Supreme Court, which is that,
00:30:29.320
uh, grievance studies, you know, women's studies and African-American studies and this studies and
00:30:37.420
that studies, uh, are, uh, these hoaxers were able to get journals, serious academic journals to publish
00:30:46.560
their hoax articles just using random left-wing buzzwords. And they were able to get them through
00:30:51.380
because grievance studies are a farce and most of university campuses are farcical at this point.
00:30:56.340
Uh, we will get to some of the highlights of that. Then we've got to talk about how great
00:30:59.080
Christopher Columbus is, but only if you go to dailywire.com. If you're on Facebook and YouTube,
00:31:03.760
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00:31:07.620
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00:31:12.480
Why? You know, you get all the shows, you get to ask questions in the mailbag, you get to ask
00:31:16.560
questions in the conversation. Here it is. Here it is, folks. This is going to be a long beach week.
00:31:23.380
If you don't have a leftist tears Tumblr, this is going to be PJ and Squee are going to be the only
00:31:27.940
ones who survive when you drown in those leftist tears that have been unleashed. Because by the way,
00:31:33.920
we're just celebrating today that the guy got on the court. What happens when, uh, I don't know,
00:31:40.780
some Chevron deference cases come up. Ooh, is that not sexy enough for you? How about some cases that
00:31:46.240
get to the legality and constitutionality of abortion? Hmm. What happens then? Are you just
00:31:50.940
going, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. You're going to lift a hundred leftist tears Tumblr kegs over your head
00:31:56.820
in celebration of, uh, of this, this wonderful achievement of ours, of this wonderful f-f-f-f-f-f-freaking
00:32:04.280
achievement. It's going to be really, really good. Go to dailywire.com. We'll be right back with a lot
00:32:07.620
more and a celebration of Christopher Columbus. The grievance studies thing is so wonderful.
00:32:24.720
One, you know, there are, there's women's gender and sexuality studies, ethnicity, race, and migration
00:32:30.120
studies, African-American studies, this is, and that. And, uh, you know, all of the grievance studies
00:32:36.500
majors really like the thing that they're aggrieved about, you know, so they, they always, they really
00:32:41.140
like, um, gender studies. They really like women, you know, women and gender studies. African-American
00:32:46.640
studies is really complimentary of the contributions of African-Americans. The only one that this is not
00:32:51.240
true for is American studies, which is a discipline devoted to denigrating America in literature, in
00:32:57.760
history, all over the place. So I really like this because when I was in college and shortly after
00:33:03.000
college, I was running a blog with a buddy of mine where we would just take out quotes from peer
00:33:10.380
reviewed gender studies journals that are so absurd on their face and we would put them up. I think it's
00:33:16.820
still up there. I think it's at, um, gender studies department hyphen blog.tumblr.com. I believe they
00:33:23.640
still have that up. It was so, they would talk about things like vegetarian eco-feminisms and, uh, the role
00:33:32.080
of the werewolf as queer pederast in the Harry Potter. They had a book called queering elementary
00:33:38.880
education, which I think is a crime. I'm not sure. I haven't checked out the federal laws recently,
00:33:43.180
but I think that's a crime or queering the non slash human. And it just like total nonsense. So these
00:33:50.000
guys, uh, their names are Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, and Peter Boghossian have contributed
00:33:57.700
nonsense articles to grievance studies journals and they've gotten them published. So one paper,
00:34:03.920
which was published in the journal called sex roles said that the author had conducted a two-year
00:34:07.920
study involving thematic analysis of table dialogue to uncover the mystery of why heterosexual men like
00:34:17.300
to eat at Hooters. So just, just picture that image of what that two-year study is. I think I've done that
00:34:25.140
two-year study actually. I've probably done that study for about 15 years and I'm still doing it. I'm really
00:34:29.860
getting to the heart of why men like to eat at Hooters. Another one of these was from the, uh, feminist
00:34:35.500
geography journal. I don't know what separate, I actually, I could make a few jokes here, but they're, they're not
00:34:45.200
really that nice to think about. I guess there could be a feminist geography. Use your imagination.
00:34:50.060
Uh, it parsed the quote, human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at dog parks in
00:34:57.380
Portland, Portland, Oregon. The, uh, the human reaction to rape culture at dog parks and, uh, and,
00:35:06.360
you know, if you've ever been to a dog park, I think you can see a lot of heteronormativity there.
00:35:10.140
Although, I don't know, sometimes dogs have come up to me too. My, uh, my, my leg is an
00:35:15.060
example of some of the, uh, uh, non-heteronormativity maybe that, uh, the canines can
00:35:20.320
exhibit. And, um, and then there was another one that was published in a journal of feminist
00:35:24.560
social work. This is the best one of all. It was titled, our struggle is my struggle. And
00:35:31.860
what it did is it scattered left-wing ideology and little left-wing terms into a rewriting of
00:35:38.700
Hitler's Mein Kampf. Because Mein Kampf means my struggle. So it updates the, the book as, uh,
00:35:46.940
our struggle is my struggle and just changes it around a little bit. Really excellent work, guys.
00:35:53.000
I got to tell you something. When I published that blank book, I thought that I would get to
00:35:57.960
be the, the troller in chief for a little while. Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian.
00:36:03.440
Um, my hat goes off to you. It's really wonderful because it, uh, it really shows the universities
00:36:10.780
for what they are and especially these departments for what they are. One question that people are
00:36:14.860
asking is whether we should abandon the universities at this point if they're just so far gone that
00:36:19.540
there's no way to get them back. I don't think so at all. I don't think so at all. That's what the
00:36:24.600
left wants us to think. These people, you know, who read about how our struggle is my struggle and
00:36:29.660
the heteronormativity of dogporks. They, they want us to believe it's a lost cause and to abandon the
00:36:35.280
universities. They wanted us to do that to the mainstream media in the eighties and nineties.
00:36:40.120
Oh, we should, why would we have a conservative news channel? No, no, no one wants that. No one
00:36:44.540
would watch that. Cut to the 1990s. Fox News becomes one of the biggest names in news, the biggest
00:36:51.420
cable news network by far. Uh, same thing in public policy. Remember they told us in 2015, 2016,
00:36:57.120
Republicans give it up. It's Hillary's turn. She's going to win. There's no way, there's no
00:37:01.540
way Trump could win. He can't win. Don't even vote. Don't even go. You're not, look, we're not,
00:37:06.740
we're going to get Hillary. We're going to get some left-wing judges. They're going to get rid of the
00:37:09.780
first and second amendment, but what are, you can't do anything. And then we all just did something
00:37:14.620
and then it worked. I think they, I've mentioned this theory before. The left is like the opposite of
00:37:20.580
sand people. They don't hide their numbers. They exaggerate their numbers. They like, it's like one person
00:37:25.480
just hops left and right, left and right. Makes it seem like there are a lot of them. I think the
00:37:29.440
majority of the American people have a basic conservatism, lower C conservatism. Maybe it
00:37:35.000
doesn't totally line up with Edmund Burke or John Locke or whatever, but there is a basic conservatism to
00:37:41.920
the American people. And when you give them the opportunity to watch Fox News, or you give them
00:37:46.680
the opportunity to see conservatives through new media, Daily Wire is a good example of this.
00:37:50.720
They're going to do it. You're going to get huge ratings. You're going to get huge numbers.
00:37:54.460
People just want the opportunity. Same thing in public policy. When you give them the opportunity
00:37:59.020
to vote for building a wall, hopefully we're going to get that wall sometime soon, but not to
00:38:05.020
enforce immigration laws, to deport people who should be deported, to get serious about those
00:38:09.520
things, to care about the American worker, try to protect American jobs, to get serious about our
00:38:15.160
enemies abroad, to get serious about the economy, just institute a pro-growth deregulation
00:38:20.460
agenda, basic things. When you give them that opportunity, even in the package of Donald Trump,
00:38:25.120
who has a lot of flaws to him, they're going to go for that. There's a lot more people out there.
00:38:30.240
You know, the left, the line was always, in the 1970s, the media would write, they'd say,
00:38:35.760
I don't know a single person who voted for Richard Nixon. Nixon won in a landslide twice.
00:38:41.540
It's, oh, I don't know a single person who voted for Donald Trump. There are a lot of people out there.
00:38:45.060
And there's a demand for this at colleges. There's a demand when conservative speakers come to campus,
00:38:49.380
which, you know, I get to participate in that. I get to go to campuses too when groups request
00:38:53.660
that me and other people like me come and speak there. There's a huge demand at think tanks. There's
00:38:59.620
a huge demand for summer programs. I've gone to great programs. Hertog Foundation, Heritage Foundation,
00:39:06.040
were able to offer a supplemental education in the great books, in civics, in political philosophers
00:39:13.820
that are not covered at a lot of colleges. There's a demand for that. We just have to fight for that.
00:39:18.060
And if the left isn't going to give our guys tenure, we've got to fight back harder. We shouldn't
00:39:22.080
cede them an inch. And we should continue to expand our own academic programs because they work
00:39:28.260
and because there's a demand for them and because those supplemental academic groups lead to great
00:39:34.460
changes down the road. This Kavanaugh moment is the perfect example of this because 40 years ago,
00:39:41.200
the Federalist Society didn't exist. The idea of originalist judges, textualist judges, judges who
00:39:47.200
actually read the Constitution, not just constitutional law, but the Constitution, what it meant publicly at
00:39:52.420
the time that it was ratified. That was a radical, novel idea. Now you've got the Federalist Society
00:39:58.100
giving a list of two dozen judges and we're just knocking them down. Appellate judges, we've got two
00:40:03.840
Supreme Court judges now from that list. These can have a huge impact even decades later. So we should
00:40:09.980
not cede an inch. They want us to, but we shouldn't do it. Before we go, I know we're running out of
00:40:13.840
time. I do have to talk about this wonderful day. Am I talking about Indigenous Peoples Day? No,
00:40:19.280
I'm talking about Columbus Day, one of my favorite holidays of the year. Christmas, Easter, Columbus
00:40:24.000
Day. It's very, how can I rank them? How can I rank those days? Columbus, Ohio, named for the
00:40:31.380
discoverer himself, no longer celebrates Columbus Day. They renamed it Indigenous Peoples Day. There were
00:40:36.300
programs in Los Angeles, Seattle, cities across the country to rename Columbus Day Indigenous
00:40:41.300
Peoples Day, which is absurd. President Trump recognizes the absurdity of this. I wake up
00:40:46.560
today, you know, I kind of check my Twitter, see what's going on, and I see President Trump
00:40:50.580
tweeted this. He said, quote, Christopher Columbus's spirit of determination and adventure has provided
00:40:55.760
inspiration to generations of Americans. On Columbus Day, we honor his remarkable accomplishments
00:41:01.160
as a navigator and celebrate his voyage into the unknown expanse of the Atlantic Ocean.
00:41:08.540
I'm about ready to abolish the Congress and just name him president for life. Can we, if he has the
00:41:13.340
moral clarity to talk about how great Christopher Columbus is, get it to be the number one trend on
00:41:18.040
Twitter, like I want it to be Charles II, go in there, I abolish the parliament. I am the king. I'm
00:41:24.740
this close to that. I'm not quite there yet, but I'm very, very close because it's absolutely right.
00:41:29.480
This Indigenous Peoples Day nonsense has come up because of a fiction that the New World was
00:41:36.980
orderly and peaceful and probably utopian before European settlers got there. It's total nonsense.
00:41:43.780
Five years before Christopher Columbus came to the New World shores, the Aztec Empire slaughtered 84,000
00:41:50.800
people in the course of four days for the consecration of Tenochtitlan. You know, I guess if you're going to
00:41:57.260
slaughter 80,000 people, Tenochtitlan's a good reason to do it, you know. That was five years before
00:42:02.460
Columbus arrived. We were told Columbus brought murder, brought genocide, brought rape. There was
00:42:07.360
plenty of genocide going on before then. The suggestion that we name the day after the Indigenous
00:42:12.180
Peoples, which Indigenous Peoples are you going to name it after? You're going to name it after the
00:42:16.080
Comanche? How about the Comanche? They're an Indigenous people. Or will you name it after the Apache
00:42:20.320
from whom the Comanche stole their land? Who are you going to name it after? Are you going to name it
00:42:24.480
after the Caribbean Islanders, which gave us the word cannibal into our Western languages because we
00:42:32.560
discovered cannibalism among them, vicious cannibals? When Columbus pulled up and met the very peaceful,
00:42:37.800
nice Taino Indians, he noticed that they had a lot of scars on their body because of these vicious
00:42:43.640
warriors from the Isla de Caribe. How about the Iroquois Confederacy? Also cannibals, by the way.
00:42:48.620
How about them? Are we going to name it after those Indigenous peoples? They seemed pretty warlike.
00:42:54.440
They seemed pretty brutal, pretty savage. Who are you going to name it after? It's absurd.
00:42:59.000
Now, that question is responded to often on the left and they say, well, that's just whataboutism.
00:43:05.140
Yeah, they might not have been good, but Columbus wasn't good either. Columbus was a genuinely
00:43:08.700
wonderful man. He was a great man. He was devoutly religious. He was in many ways, Carol Delaney
00:43:14.700
has a great book on this, looking to create a crusade to go retake the Holy Land because Christians
00:43:21.600
at the time thought that the apocalypse was near. They saw the fall of Constantinople. They saw a lot
00:43:25.840
of signs in the skies. He wanted to go over to the great Khan in the east, the descendants of Genghis
00:43:32.880
Khan, and convert those who were not already converted to Christianity and also fund all of these excursions
00:43:39.880
with gold and spices and riches and a new trade route. He said his prayers constantly. He had the
00:43:45.920
young sailors say his prayers constantly on the voyage. He was accused of his political rival,
00:43:50.340
Francisco de Bobadilla, of being brutal to the Indians. We have no evidence that that actually
00:43:55.560
happened. In fact, we have a lot of evidence that Columbus was particularly kind to the Native
00:44:00.280
Americans. It would be like saying, you know, Hillary Clinton wrote mean things about Donald Trump,
00:44:05.840
so Trump was a terrible guy. No, he was his political rival. You can't take that as gospel
00:44:11.240
truth. And we know from Bartolome de las Casas, one of the great defenders of the Native peoples,
00:44:16.320
that Columbus was particularly kind to them. In Columbus's own writings, he complains about the
00:44:21.800
Spaniards who were mean to the Indians and who would, you know, cut them up and be brutal to them.
00:44:27.860
Was Columbus perfect? No, of course not. He threw in many ways the weakness of his government.
00:44:33.620
He enslaved certain Native peoples. He also adopted certain Native peoples, though. He raised
00:44:38.420
as a son, the son of an Indian friend that he had made on one of his voyages. So obviously,
00:44:44.600
the reality is much more complicated. But I think the reality points to a great man. And more than
00:44:49.900
anything, more than all of that, even if he were a mean guy, which there's no evidence that he was,
00:44:55.220
and there's a lot of evidence that he was a very good guy, even if he were a mean guy, he is the reason
00:45:00.120
that you're here. He is the reason the United States exists. He is the reason that the West came
00:45:04.320
over here, settled the land, made it, improved the agriculture, improved the systems of justice in
00:45:11.420
this country, and spread those systems of justice around the world. Led to the most prosperous,
00:45:17.740
charitable, free, equitable, just society in the history of the world. The world is so much better
00:45:24.800
off for this man having lived. He was the greatest navigator of his age. He was one of the bravest
00:45:29.260
human beings ever to walk the earth. He led to the greatest civilization in the history of the
00:45:34.100
world. He is a good guy. And in case I haven't driven at home, my feelings on Christopher Columbus,
00:45:41.760
We're having a discussion about Christopher Columbus.
00:45:46.220
They would make fine servants. With 50 men, we could subgate them.
00:45:55.040
And make them do whatever we want. That doesn't sound like a slave trader to you?
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George Washington had slaves, the father of our country.
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His history teacher, Mr. Cushman, is teaching your son that if Columbus was alive today,
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he would go on trial for crimes against humanity like Milosevic and, you know, Europe.
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It's not just my teacher. It's the truth. It's in my history book.
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Look, you had to walk in Columbus' shoes to see what he went through.
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People thought the world was flat, for crying out loud.
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Then he lands on an island with a bunch of naked savages on it. I mean, that took a lot of guts.
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You remember when we went to Florida, the heat, and those bugs?
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Well, like it took guts to murder people and put them in chains.
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And in this house, Christopher Columbus is a hero.
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