Ep. 238 - The Cold Civil War
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As Democrats amp up their assault against noted cocaine kingpin Mitch McConnell, are we in a cold civil war? Or are we all in the midst of a Cold Civil War? Michael Knowles takes a look at the similarities between Nazis and the weather.
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Can we all just get along, or are Americans in the midst of a cold civil war?
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As Democrats amp up their assault against noted cocaine kingpin Mitch McConnell and all of the other Republicans he represents,
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conciliatory conservatives are missing the only possible strategy for domestic peace.
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Then, a look around the most important midterm races, the similarities between Nazis and the weather.
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And most shocking of all, CNN does something worthwhile.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We are talking about war fresh on the heels of Politicon, where I don't feel like reconciling anything at all.
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I've avoided talking about this because I think it's typically exaggerated political rhetoric.
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I have avoided this rhetoric, this civil cold war.
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I know a lot of other people on the right and on the left have talked about it.
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You know, you've got Democrat elected officials calling for violence against the GOP.
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And then at Politicon, where we all were yesterday, I was there.
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I was on a panel which was called How the Bleep Do We All Get Along?
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And talking to the lefties on that panel, I'm more and more convinced that they are really
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And no less than Carl Bernstein, a lefty journalist on CNN, is saying the same thing.
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Then these two events, both the Mueller investigation and the Kavanaugh nomination,
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are almost the Gettysburg and Antietam, the absolutely essential battles of this cold civil war.
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Gettysburg and Antietam, that rhetoric is about as hot as you can possibly get.
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And so if they want a cold civil war, they're going to get it.
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If an aggressor is saying, we're going to be fighting you, we're declaring war on you,
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And you've obviously got Maxine Waters calling for elected, or for Democratic supporters
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So maybe we've got to start taking this seriously.
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They actually are running on this election on no issues.
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I guess there's a little vague talk about health care, but even that is very vague.
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No, because that's a huge loser issue for Democrats.
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Even among Democrat primary voters, that's a big loser issue.
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This might be the first issue-free election in a long time.
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They're just talking about how much they hate Donald Trump.
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I was on this panel, you know, and it was me, Charlie Kirk, you know, also on the right,
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And this guy, Bakari Sellers, who, he was the one who went on CNN and said that Kanye West
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And, you know, one thing I noticed is that some conservatives at Politicon wanted to conciliate.
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They wanted to give some concessions to the left.
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They were talking about areas where, oh, conservatives can abandon our ideas and let's just embrace
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Look, there's always been disagreement on the right over the death penalty.
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But there were some people saying, no, we don't.
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For one, maybe genuinely these people are more libertarian.
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On another level, maybe they think that the left is going to give them credit for this.
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And obviously, John McCain has fallen into this trap.
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You know, the lesson of the Trump era is to fight.
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Don't say, oh, well, I didn't strap my dog to the roof of my car.
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And the voters actually reward you when you fight.
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When you stand up to these guys and you make fun of Jim Acosta, they reward you.
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I have the strategy on, you know, they were asking, how do we all get along?
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If we have a civil Cold War, here's my strategy.
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That was Ronald Reagan's words on the first Cold War, the actual Cold War with the Soviet Union.
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He said, oh, he's not being sophisticated in his, oh, he's not, he's a cowboy.
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You know, there was a, there is a little Catholic corner.
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There was this Pope, Blessed Pius IX, who when they gave up all the papal states,
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the Pope had killed a lot of people and executed a lot of criminals.
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And the last criminal said, please, please don't execute me.
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And he said, I cannot move your execution and I do not want to.
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I cannot conciliate on the Cold Cultural War and I do not want to.
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Abortion was the center of the fight for Brett Kavanaugh's nomination.
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They made up these things about women and when he was 15 in 1982, it was all about Roe v. Wade.
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The other side says we should kill unborn babies up until right before birth.
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That is actually the perfect example of trying to split the baby.
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They're in the right morally, but they're in the right politically too.
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Pro-life cause has gained a lot of traction since Roe v. Wade.
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On a question like the redefinition of marriage,
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where the Supreme Court, Anthony Kennedy, yanks that issue out of the public sphere
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and says you can't debate this anymore because I, Anthony Kennedy, will wax poetic
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about the constitutional right to intimacy or whatever they made up there,
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which Antonin Scalia made fun of in his dissent.
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Do we say, okay, well, the Supreme Court can redefine certain essential human institutions,
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Oh, well, maybe, okay, here, so radical leftists want to redefine marriage to include,
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and normal people say that marriage has a meaning and sexual difference in here is in the definition
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So, okay, maybe it'll be three people of various, no, there's no conciliation.
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Where is the conciliation on any other policy, on foreign policy, on domestic affairs,
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One side says we want the government to have less control over your life.
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The other side says we want to give more and more power, more and more of your money,
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more and more control over your life to the federal government.
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And also, why would, have you noticed that the left only calls for conciliation when they're losing,
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I mean, this has been building for a long time.
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You know, after the Obama election in 2008, 2010, we win the House.
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This is capped off by the election of Trump in 2016.
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We get a more originalist judge, which changes the balance of the court.
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And all of a sudden, the left says, oh, no, no, now we need to get along.
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Where were you when Barack Obama was painting the White House in rainbow colors?
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Were you saying we need to be nice to one another and meet in the middle then?
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It's such a cynical and such a transparent strategy.
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On the Cold Civil War, look at what some hysterical millennial is doing to Pablo Escobar himself,
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cocaine Mitch, just trying to have a dinner with his wife at a restaurant.
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Are you going to compromise with some hysterical millennials going up to his table?
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Why don't you just go on and leave the whole country?
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How about you sit down, you hysterical child, and I will finish my meal.
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This is how you know he's been the head of the Medellin cartel for a very long time.
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He's just got his mound of, you know, booger sugar in front of him.
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I don't know what he ordered for dinner, but he's just there.
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This is a parable for the country because this hysterical millennial gets up.
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And then everyone in the restaurant who was just minding their own business, just sitting
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there trying to get on with their lives, they turn and they say, shut up.
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You know, you've got this hysterical group of people with the pink hats, screaming, ripping
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And I think for a long time, because the left had a monopoly over the media, had a monopoly
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We thought that not only were they half the country, that they were the majority of the
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That Walter Cronkite, world federalist left winger Walter Cronkite, he was the voice of
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And once you got a little freedom in there and a little bit of new media, we learned
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I think most of America are those diners sitting there just trying to eat who are getting increasingly
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annoyed by these insane, largely millennial people.
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You don't see older generations doing this so much, going up to the tables, shrieking
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at Ted Cruz and restaurants, going to people's houses.
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You know, millennials are a coddled generation.
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When they got to high school and college, they were indoctrinated in leftist ideology.
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They just confirmed the biases that they were raised in and presented any other point of
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view as evil or wicked and outside of the realm of public debate.
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And even politically, they always got what they wanted.
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By the time the millennials came of age, what did they do?
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And Barack Obama reigned as king for eight years.
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For the first time, they didn't get what they wanted.
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Children and we've got to treat them like children.
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The director of the insane institution doesn't compromise with the inmates.
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And it's the only way that you're going to help people get a little bit better.
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Unfortunately for our friends on the left, they're not learning this lesson.
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If you look at these races around the country, the polls are getting really interesting.
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In Indiana now, Indiana was really one of these swing Senate seats.
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Obviously, the Kavanaugh effect has been pretty profound in North Dakota.
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And now Mike Braun, the Republican, is leading Senator Joe Donnelly by four points.
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So you're now getting a little past the margin of error, depending on which poll you're looking at.
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But all of the analysts are attributing this to the Kavanaugh effect.
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It's when a mob of Democrats decided to institute lynch mob justice on a guy who did not have due process,
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That you've got the he-to movement out of it, you know,
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because women have husbands and wives and fathers.
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Especially now that you've got midterm elections coming up.
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So if you turn down to Florida, there was this debate.
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Andrew Gillum, the Democrat, this Democrat, actual socialist, out-and-out socialist guy,
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If you didn't catch it, there were a few really good clips of it.
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He immediately resorts to the oldest Democrat tactic in the book.
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Did you pay for the Hamilton ticket or did the undercover FBI pay for the Hamilton ticket?
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Did you pay to stay in the villa in Costa Rica?
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You have not proven that you paid for anything.
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I know that may not fit your description of what you think people like me do.
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But I worked hard for everything that I've gotten in my life.
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And I don't need anybody handing me anything for free.
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That might not fit your description of what people like me do.
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If he's referring to socialists, he's absolutely right.
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What he said is that you took gifts from lobbyists, which you didn't even deny.
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So the allegation that DeSantis makes is that Gillum took free Broadway tickets to Hamilton,
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which, by the way, as a New Yorker, I can tell you the price on those is like $7 zillion per ticket.
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And that he went on some trip and had things bought for him by some lobbyist.
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Well, do you have people pay for part of your trips?
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Do you have people pay for certain things on your trips?
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And he also just won't acknowledge the Broadway thing.
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And DeSantis also didn't get put off by the race comment.
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As Ann Coulter told me when I was a wee young lad of 18 in college,
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she said, when a liberal calls you a racist, you know that you've won the argument.
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I was on this panel with, I was roaming millennial.
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John Fugel sang, who I sort of like, though he was making very stupid points.
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And the person to my right was this alleged comedian, Randy Sklar.
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I think he has a YouTube channel, the Sklar Brothers.
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And this guy, he tried to land a couple punches.
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And, you know, he made some allegation about Donald Trump having business interests in Saudi Arabia.
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I pointed out that Saudi Arabia gave a bunch of money to the Clintons.
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He had no answer because all he had are these talking points.
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And then once he ran out of talking points, what did he do?
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He called me a racist, which is how you know that you win the argument.
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When you can't refute the claim, when you can't attack the claim, attack the person.
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I mean, we're so used to it by now that I think we forget how awful that is.
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In modern America, there is nothing worse that you can be called than a racist.
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We get so calloused because we're so used to them saying that all the time.
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We should fight him back tooth and nail because that's not very conciliatory language.
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That's not really let's all get along kind of language, is it?
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He also goes on and gets to the essential issue, the essential actual policy issue of these midterm elections.
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Will you honor a request from Donald Trump's ICE agency?
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If they provide a detainer request, will you honor it as governor?
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Jake, that's important because that's what happens when somebody's a criminal.
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You either turn them over to ICE or release them into the community.
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That tells me he would be willing to release them back into our community.
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I just think that the showboating is unnecessary.
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The guy who's playing the race card not five seconds before who's saying that DeSantis thinks
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Now he's, oh, I don't know why we should be showboating.
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They fall silent when you try to pin them down on any issue of policy, especially in the
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He says, DeSantis says, would you turn the criminals over to law enforcement or would you
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And there's that moment of silence and Gillum says, no, go on.
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Well, you wanted to interrupt on all the other questions.
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You've fallen silent on that question of immigration.
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I can't tell if our friends on the left are obtuse on this or if they're genuinely ignorant.
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The reason that illegal immigration is a big winner issue is not because illegal immigration
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It's not because illegal immigrants take welfare at higher rates.
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It's not even that illegal immigrants commit crimes, certain crimes at higher rates.
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It's because it is an offense to the country itself.
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It is an offense to the integrity of the country.
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When you have people disrespecting your borders, crossing back and forth willy nilly, coming
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over here and demanding that you give them something.
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It is so offensive and it puts Democrats in this awful position where Democrats are now
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If Andrew Gillum were just strictly looking at the numbers, he would come out and say,
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I'd deport half the illegal aliens in this country.
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I'd deport all of the criminal, the violent criminal illegal aliens.
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Because we know from the public opinion polling and from elections that that's a big winner
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There was a poll taken at the beginning of the year that showed the majority of Democrat
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voters did not believe that amnesty, even for dreamers, so-called, even for young illegal
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aliens brought here before they were old enough to think that that should be a top priority
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So if he saw that, he would just answer and it would be a gimme.
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But he can't because they're held hostage by that base, that screaming little millennial who
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goes up to Cocaine Mitch and yells in his face.
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That guy, that small number of Democrats is the Democrat base.
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And they go out and they write checks and they sign petitions and they carry petitions and they
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And they're increasingly at odds with other swaths of the Democrat voter base.
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So right now, President Trump has made great strides.
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He in particular, though it's true for Republicans broadly, among black voters and among Hispanic
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And that does have tails for other Republicans as well.
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Democrats can't afford to lose those demographics.
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They've relied on huge portions of those demographics for years.
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But the minute that they start speaking on issues that those bases care about, they lose their
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And it's why Andrew Gillum finally mercifully fell silent.
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They'll lose, which is why the Republicans are doubling down now.
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They're saying, oh, yeah, you like that tax cut?
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So this is really something I find charming about President Trump's political, I won't
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call it naivete, but, you know, he's not the subtlest guy in the world, is, you know,
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He'd say, OK, how am I going to package this to look like this and that?
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But President Trump, it seems like someone gave him a sheet that said tax cuts popular.
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I'll give you more tax cuts because they're popular.
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It's like, is there really that honest, you know, you know what the strategy is.
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And we'll get to the advantages of that in a second.
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They can't run on joblessness, which basically doesn't exist.
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They're going to run on the boogeyman hiding underneath the earth that then rises up and
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So fortunately, we can turn out of the thought leader of the Democrat Party to use Steve Hayward's
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nickname for her Alexandria Occasional Cortex, who has the American strategy on fighting
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The last time we had a really major existential threat in this country was around World War
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We had a direct existential threat with another nation.
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That if we put hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people to work in defending our
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show as a feminist country, we have to do the same thing.
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So just that last bit, she says, we put hundreds of thousands of people, maybe millions,
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Just, you think if she's going to use this talking point, she would have like Googled
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She says that the strategy to fight the sun monster, the strategy to fight global warming
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is the same strategy that we use to fight the Nazis.
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By which I assume she means evacuate Dunkirk and storm the beaches of Normandy.
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But we've never tried evacuating Dunkirk and storming Normandy.
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Maybe that's what they'll do if the Democrats win the House.
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Ironically, the other strategy that we would use if the way to fight global warming is the
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same as how we fought the Nazis is to collude with the Russians.
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We could not have defeated the Nazis if we didn't collude with the Russians.
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It would be Nixon going to China if the Democrats came into the House after the midterm elections
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and they said, you know what we're going to do, guys?
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Something tells me they're not going to do that, though.
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This is where the left whips itself up into a religious frenzy.
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You hear all the time about the religious right.
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This is the religious left because it's unfalsifiable, the cult of global warming.
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Anytime the reality doesn't match the computer models and the scientific models for warming,
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And they adjust their view of reality to match the scientific models.
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You've had the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, come out and say that greenhouse
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gases do not have a significant correlation to warming and that there hasn't been significant
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Good situation for Republicans in this election.
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If the economy cracks up or something, then the Democrats finally have an issue again.
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But for right now, they're running on nothing, which is why all they're doing is talking in
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To turn to another Democrat tribe, this time in Massachusetts, Laya Watha has been stepping
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Here is Laya Watha trying to defend it again after defending it before.
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Senator, when we spoke in March for an interview and I asked you about whether or not you would
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take a DNA test, you told me that you believe that the issue of your Native American heritage
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Why did you change your mind and recently release the result of a DNA test?
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You know, one of the things I see now is that confidence in government is at an all-time
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low, and I believe one way that we try to rebuild confidence is through transparency.
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Ultimately, I took a DNA test because I am an open book, and it's all out there, it's
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Because at the end of the day, this isn't about me.
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This is about what's happening to working families all across this commonwealth.
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This isn't about me at the end of the day, and that's why I have spent three weeks now
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exclusively talking about myself, and not just about myself and how I look and how I
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speak, but actually the DNA at the core of my cells.
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I've been talking about my genetic code, because this isn't about me.
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This is about something else that I don't want to talk about right now, so it's not about
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Also, that voice, that voice, you know, Trump talked about that face.
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I just, that voice makes our president sound like a songbird.
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It makes our senators, it makes Ted Cruz sound like a songbird.
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She, and I'm not saying it's because of the particular tenor of her voice.
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It's because she has that politician voice, or that old politician voice.
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You know, where it's a little breathy, and it's a practiced and emotional speech.
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Cory Booker has turned that up to 11 in his Spartacus moments and his tears of rage.
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I don't know where they think that this is going to help them in 2020, but I think that
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voice is kind of over now, because, you know, when Trump came out in 2016 and just talked
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like a brash guy from Queens who didn't use the right words and often said things that
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were offensive to both his opponents and his supporters, I think it cracked that up a
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I think people like straight talk, if you will, blunt speech, at least.
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How else do you explain Michael Avenatti getting on the TV networks?
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Michael Avenatti, for all of his flaws, he does speak plainly.
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Um, that voice, mercifully, I think that voice is over because the trouble with that voice
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too is you're constantly having to figure out what they're actually saying.
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Whenever I heard a politician say like, you know, we need to lower your taxes, not raise
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It was whatever they said after not was the thing they were actually going to do.
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It was a voice and addiction of such lies that they would do that.
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And fortunately, now we've got Republicans who actually do what they say for better or
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Um, then she goes on with pure grade A, Liz Warren and Liawatha Democrat sanctimony.
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I, I'm a kid who wanted to be a public school teacher.
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And by the time I graduated from high school, we didn't have the money for a college application,
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much less a chance for me to actually go to college.
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But my big chance was a commuter college that cost $50 a semester and it opened a million
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I am the daughter of someone who ended up as a janitor and I got to be a professor and
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My mother washed more floors for less money than your mother.
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This is a classic, uh, both parties do it, but this is especially a, uh, a classic Democrat
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Do you, do you, I don't know if you remember his father's a mailman.
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Did you know that John Kasich's father was a mailman?
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Liz Warren, I think almost mentioned it, but I, I want to direct your attention to one little
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She says, oh, you know, I couldn't, I wanted to be a school teacher.
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And you know, college was, there were a lot of twists and turns in my life and then I succeeded.
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So those twists and turns, when she's talking about twists and turns, she's saying that
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she got married and then her husband paid for her law school and then she cheated on
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her husband while she was in law school and then she left her husband and six months later
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married her law professor and now, and then she had her career.
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And I don't point that out to Cass Stones and Elizabeth Warren.
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Politicians are often rotten, dirty people and they do rotten, dirty things and everybody's
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I'm doing it to point out the hypocrisy and the sanctimony of Democrats, critics of the
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president, critics of other Republicans and the news media who focus on every one of President
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Trump's sexual misdeeds of which there are many.
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They focus on all of the president's failed marriages, but they don't point this out.
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They let her get away with twists and turns, twists and turns.
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She leaves her husband, cheats on her husband, leaves her husband, marries her law professor,
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There was an article that came out, you know, obviously praising Elizabeth Warren in the
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mainstream media and they said Elizabeth Warren's biggest mistake.
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So I figured this would be an article about how she left her husband and, you know, but
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No, the big mistake was marrying her husband in the first place, her first husband.
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That was the mistake because if not for that, she would be Saint Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth, the great, the great spirit, Laya Watha.
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And just that, oh gosh, I really can't stand that my mother washed more floors for less
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You know, if Mitt Romney in 2012 had just come out and said, I'm a rich guy.
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And yeah, I go on vacation and I have elevators in my house because I'm a rich guy.
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It would have played so much better than saying, oh, I'm not that rich and I, well, we had to
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Stop conceding points that you don't have to when your opponent is running away, when
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We have got a lot more to talk about, especially down in Texas with my buddy Beta O'Rourke.
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He's got a new song and dance number that is really going to take Texas by a storm.
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Probably just Austin, if you know what I'm talking about.
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But you've got to go to dailywire.com if you want to do that.
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Well, if you missed Politicon over the weekend, you can go over there now and see all of the
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You can enjoy all the leftist tears produced over the weekend.
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So make sure you get your mailbag questions in.
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Andrew Klavan's narrative podcast that little old me performs all the roles in.
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Non-subscribers have to wait like seven or eight years, I think, or just until that Friday
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You know, there have been a lot of twists and turns in my life.
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Been a lot of twists and turns in the political life of our country.
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But one thing that has always sustained me, sustained all of us, are those salty, frothy,
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And the only FDA-approved vessel for leftist tears, the leftist tears tumbler.
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But you knew that I wasn't going to leave you without an update on Beto O'Rourke, my pal.
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Before we talk about him in particular, just look at how ABC News, mainstream media, news
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network, treats Democrat candidates like O'Rourke.
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O'Rourke is kind of the special case, but he exemplifies how they treat all Democrats.
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This is on the trail, according to ABC, on the trail with Ted Cruz and Beto O'Rourke.
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One of the most simple, obvious strategies that I've seen employed in a modern campaign,
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we just literally show up everywhere, all the time, for everyone.
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You can't go 10 feet without an interruption from a Beto backer.
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No, no, there's just so many great people who are.
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O'Rourke, a three-term congressman from El Paso, has certainly captured the entire nation's attention as well.
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Oh, he's captured the entire nation's attention.
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And, oh, he's making certain female news anchors just go a little hot under the collar.
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Oh, does anybody have a little fainting couch for me?
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And she goes, and she says, oh, you're a rock star.
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There were, I don't know, 100 people there or something.
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So you're like a rock star because you have any supporters at all in a Senate campaign that you've raised $40 million for.
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You've got to take a look at the money that comes from out of state as well as in from Texas.
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The Democrats are betting big on this race that right now the polling doesn't seem so great.
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How did the mainstream media cover President Trump's rally?
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Because President Trump has a rally now in Texas, and he's got more than just 100 people waving at him in a bar.
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He has people, I think about, what was it, 1,000 people, camping out overnight 24 hours before his rally so that they can get in here.
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Just a little glimpse of part of the encampment trying to get tickets for this show.
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And look, this is the great advantage of Trump.
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The disadvantage is that he turns everything into a reality TV show, and people say it's tawdry, or it's not elevated, or it's not what our founders envisioned for the executive.
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The plus side is you've got a rock star as president.
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And you've got these people, 1,000 people, camping out overnight in MAGA hats, waving that flag with the picture of Trump on a tank, like shooting fireworks.
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I mean, this is like, you know, living inside an American pie on the 4th of July, level of excitement and patriotism.
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They don't call him a rock star, though, do they?
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You know, the GOP is not going to get fair treatment.
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And so back on this, oh, how do we all get along?
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How do we get back to some standard of objectivity in our discourse, in our news media?
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They want to bring you back to a time that never existed, a mythical time when the news people were objective, and they were just getting the facts, and they treated both sides fairly.
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They would huff and puff and go red in the face and get so excited when they were around Democrat candidates, and they would distort the views of conservatives, not just politicians, but rank and file activists and thought leaders as well.
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You know, they tell you, I saw this yesterday on one of the panels with Bakari Sellers from CNN and Kyle Kolinsky, this YouTube lefty, and they do it so well.
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They sit there and they say, you know, look, I just think we all need to come together.
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I think we can finally, you know, admit that we need to, you know, socialize health care and open our borders up to everybody and impeach the president and raise taxes.
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You know, just issues that we can all agree on.
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They put on their objective face, and then they try to push radical leftism.
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We should laugh at the force that the left-wing media have made of themselves.
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Speaking of Beto, Beto has a new campaign theme, a new motif that's gone around.
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These are a bunch of Beto supporters rallying in a park.
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You know, nothing says Texas like a bunch of leather daddy gay pop stars singing about, hanging around the schvitz at the YMCA.
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That's, that, I don't know who is writing these campaign strategies.
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Because I bet that this is about as close to grassroots as you get for a Democrat campaign in Texas.
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You know, there weren't maybe a hundred people there or something like that.
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And these guys really think that they're speaking for everybody.
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They really think that this is the cultural wave.
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And increasingly, because they're in their own little echo chambers, they've lost that control over the culture.
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And so they think that going out in ponchos in the middle of Texas and singing the YMCA is somehow cool.
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You know, they're all, I don't mean to be mean to these people.
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It isn't cool to see a bunch of 50-year-olds dancing around a park to 1970s pop music.
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I don't, there might be an esoteric message here for Elizabeth Warren.
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Because I'm pretty sure the Native American from the village people is like orders of magnitude more Indian than Senator Liyawatha.
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Maybe he'll come out with a DNA test sometime soon.
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I have a sign of the apocalypse for you, which is speaking of CNN, I'm going to say something nice about CNN.
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Because I actually saw something on CNN today that I sort of liked.
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And it proved to me why we're never going to get any more of it.
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Jared Kushner sat down to talk Middle East policy and specifically the U.S. relationship with Saudi Arabia.
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He sat down with very far left commentator, Van Jones.
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Here was, here's just a little tiny clip of their discussion.
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So, I mean, you said that you're going to try to get to the facts.
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Do you trust the Saudis to investigate themselves?
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I mean, it seems like MBS is like the prime suspect.
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I mean, do you trust the Saudis to sort this out?
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Yeah, like I said, I mean, we're getting facts in from multiple places.
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And then once those facts come in, the Secretary of State will work with our national security team to help us determine what we want to believe and what we think is credible and what we think is not credible.
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Even Trump says there's like deception and lies.
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I mean, do you see anything that seems deceptive?
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And so, again, I think that we have our eyes wide open.
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I'm actually, I'm joking there because I actually really liked this interview.
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I thought Jared Kushner explained the position of the administration very well.
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He had a pretty clear-eyed view, as he just said.
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He said the administration, he has a clear-eyed view and the administration is taking a clear-eyed view towards Saudi Arabia.
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Van Jones is a far-left guy, but he's at least smart and he can be serious when he wants to be.
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He wasn't trying to slam him or have a gotcha moment or twist his words or be unfair.
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But he was giving Kushner a chance to explain the policy of the administration.
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I now can see the Saudi policy, you know, the policy towards Saudi Arabia a little more clearly.
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I can see a little bit where the White House is going and what they're thinking and who's doing it.
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The only reason I saw this clip is because it was trending on Twitter.
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And it was trending because the left-wing base, the CNN audience, well, actually by CNN audience, the only people who actually watch CNN regularly are commuters in airports.
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Because without airport TVs having CNN on, the network would go bankrupt.
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But the five people who watch CNN were furious.
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And then the left-wing that saw CNN, saw this clip going around, were furious that Van Jones didn't get up and punch Jared in the face.
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Because you can't be civil to Republicans, says Hillary Clinton.
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And apparently their son-in-laws, says Maxine Waters.
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So they were so furious that we actually got a serious discussion out of it.
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You know, people blame politicians for the kind of politicians they are.
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They blame the media for the kind of media that they get.
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And if you, the reason that we elect certain people to represent us is because those people are behaving in a way that can convince us to vote for them.
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The founders and the framers were very wise when they created the House of Representatives.
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And the House of Representatives represents the passions of the people.
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So when you look at your politicians and you're disgusted by them, take a look in the mirror because you're looking at it.
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You're looking at people who are behaving in a way such that you're incentivized to vote for them and to keep them in office.
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You know, one thing I noticed at Politicon is that the lefties there were not sophisticated thinkers.
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I'm trying to say this in a nice way that doesn't sound very arrogant.
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If they had arguments at all, they weren't addressing questions.
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Fortunately, we have a new media that hasn't totally been censored.
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So you can get, you know, if there's an audience for a conservative podcast or this or that, you can go out there and get it.
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And, you know, when I hear how do we all get along, how do we have a better country, how do we have a more sophisticated politics, take a look in the mirror.
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We govern ourselves, at least for now, at least mostly, although we give that power away time and time again.
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And in the midterm elections, we're going to see what people want.
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