Ep. 410 - Democrats’ Climate Catastrophe
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Last night, the remaining Democratic candidates for president faced off to debate climate change in a seven-hour long town hall that released so much hot air into the atmosphere that climate change is now real and we are all going to die from it. We ll examine the winners, the losers, and the most disturbing answers of the night.
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Last night, the remaining Democratic candidates for president faced off to debate climate change
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in a seven hour long town hall that released so much hot air into the atmosphere that climate
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change is now real and we're all going to die from it. We will examine the winners, the losers,
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and the most disturbing answers of the night. Then speaking of climate change, it must be a
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chilly day in hell because the White House has received good news from the New York Times.
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Walmart bans guns from its stores and finally the mailbag. I'm Michael Knowles and this is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Seven hours of climate change. Seven hours of listening to Democratic candidates
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talk about climate change is much worse than any possible effect of climate change, including
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the end of the world. Mass starvation, mass environmental, it doesn't hold a candle to
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watching CNN and the Democrats for seven hours. This was a very, very bad night for the Democratic
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Party. So let's jump right in because we have a lot of ground to cover. Let's start with the most
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radical answer of the night when Bernie Sanders, the oldest candidate, I think in the history of
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politics, Bernie Sanders endorsed eugenics to combat climate change. Human population growth has more
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than doubled in the past 50 years. The planet cannot sustain this growth. I realize this is a poisonous
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topic for politicians, but it's crucial to face. Empowering women and educating everyone on the need to curb
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population growth seems a reasonable campaign to enact. Would you be courageous enough to discuss this
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issue and make it a key feature of a plan to address climate catastrophe? Well, the answer is yes.
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So he gives the answer yes right away. Craziest question of the night, of course. And also this brings up a
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question for law enforcement. Who let this member of the Manson family run away from prison and ask a question
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at a CNN town hall. I mean, the voice, the look, the topic that she's bringing up is sociopathic. It is
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something out of the nightmare of the late 60s and early 70s. It is like helter skelter on CNN. So,
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so creepy. She's saying there are too many people. There's a problem. Too many people overpopulation
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with the climate. It's harming mother earth. So we got to kill all the people, don't we? Now you notice
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what's so interesting about this. If she really thinks there are too many people on earth,
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why doesn't she do something about it? You know, it's all, they always suggest we kill babies or we
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kill the elderly or we kill the sick. The people who say we have overpopulation never look at
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themselves as the cause of the overpopulation. I think GK Chesterton mentioned this. It's never like
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me. I could, no, no. It's just those vulnerable people, the little babies and the sick and the elderly.
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Those are the ones we have to kill off, but not me. I'm not causing the overpopulation.
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First, even before you get to Bernie's real answer, look at how the terminology has evolved. We talk a
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lot about political correctness, how if you control the words, you control the culture because you,
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you basically smuggle in whole premises with the language that you use. So we went from in the 1970s,
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the environmental problem was global cooling. That was the term they used. Then in the 80s and 90s,
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it became global warming. Then in the early 2000s, it became climate change. Then just a couple years
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ago, it became the climate crisis. It's really speeding up. Now, tonight, as this woman is
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talking, it becomes the climate catastrophe. What is the catastrophe? There are weather events. I mean,
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weather events, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, but that's happened forever for all of human history.
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What about right now is catastrophic? Nothing's happening. It's all fine, right? It's not,
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it's not a catastrophe. It's not a crisis. I guess you could say the climate's changing because the
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climate always changes. It's not really getting warmer. It depends on what time periods you're
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looking at and what measures you're looking at. It's not really getting cooler. Again,
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depends on what, what time periods and measurements you're looking at, but it becomes catastrophe.
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And we're also supposed to buy that premise. Then she gets to the question itself, which is,
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are you willing to sacrifice children to appease the weather gods? That's the question, right? The
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question she's asking that she is implying is, should we control the population? That's the euphemism.
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Should we encourage abortion? Should we encourage killing babies to stop bad weather events from
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happening? This is exactly the same as in any pagan religion. When you sacrifice babies to the weather
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gods, there is no difference whatsoever, except the scale here in this case is a little bit larger.
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What is Bernie's answer? He immediately comes out. He says, yes, here's the rest of it.
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Would you be courageous enough to discuss this issue and make it a key feature of a plan to
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address climate catastrophe? Well, Martha, the answer is yes. And the answer has everything to
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do with the fact that women in the United States of America, by the way, have a right to control their
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own bodies and make reproductive decisions. And the Mexico City Agreement, which denies American aid to
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those organizations around the world that are, uh, that allow women to have abortions or even get
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involved, uh, in birth control to me is totally absurd. So what's so amazing about this answer from
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Bernie Sanders is how he goes right for it. He just goes right for the abortion question. A sensible
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politician, a more rational or moderate politician would have deftly, one hopes, evaded this insane
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lady's bonkers question by pretending that she's talking about contraception or birth control rather
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than about abortion itself. Right? So he could have said, yes, well, we need sex education in schools.
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We need to make sure that people aren't having children that they can't take care of or something,
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right? That, that could have been the direction that he went in, but he doesn't. He just goes straight
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for abortion on its own terms. And he doesn't even just stop at abortion in the United States.
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He says that we need to export abortion, promote abortion, pay for abortions all over the world.
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So we're not even content to kill a million of our own babies a year. We got to go out and pay to
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kill the babies of people all around the world to appease the climate gods so that we have a good
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harvest or something. When conservatives point out that the democratic party has embraced eugenics,
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remember this moment. We'll get into this and we'll get into even the worst night. The worst
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performance of the night was not even Joe Biden or was not even Bernie Sanders rather. It was Joe
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Biden. Bernie Sanders embraces eugenics to appease the weather gods. Somehow Biden still had a worse
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Now back to the horrific solutions to imaginary problems at the Democratic climate change town
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hall. When conservatives point out that the Democratic Party has embraced eugenics,
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this is the moment that you need to remember. Bernie Sanders is not just some random person
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on Twitter. Bernie Sanders is not just some fringe guy. Bernie Sanders is the number two
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leading Democratic candidate for president. And by the way, he was the number two Democratic
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candidate for president last time around too. This is a major political figure. This is a major
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leader in the Democratic Party. And he's saying that we need to sacrifice our children to appease
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the weather gods. Well, not our children, specifically your children. He's not going to do it to his own
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children, but he wants to do it to your children or disproportionately black children.
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Because black women have much, much higher rates of abortion in the United States. And this is
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encouraged by abortion hustlers like Planned Parenthood. And as you can see by the Democratic
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Party. This is, I cannot stress it enough, no different from what the Aztecs did. When the
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Aztecs would slaughter scores of people, you know, in 1487, five years before Columbus sailed across the
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ocean. The Aztecs slaughtered an estimated 80,000 people, men, women, and children at the consecration
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of the Temple of Tenochtitlan. And actually, you know, there is a little bit of a difference between
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what we do and what the Aztecs do. The Aztecs sacrificed all those people to appease their gods,
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their pagan gods. We're sacrificing way, way, way more, way, way more innocent people every single
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year. We're sacrificing a million babies a year in this country, killing them to appease a number
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of false gods. Credentialism. You're in college and you don't want to have a kid, but you're
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pregnant, so you kill it. Your career. You're not ready to have a kid right now. Your personal
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freedom. You want to go out and go, be able to go to the bar more often, not be responsible to a kid.
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We sacrifice our children to plenty of false gods. And in this case, we are being encouraged by
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leading Democratic presidential candidates to sacrifice our own babies in this country and
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abroad to the weather gods so that, I don't know, the rains will come and we can yield a good harvest
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this year. That's the kind of stuff that we are seeing here. And even with that absolute lunacy,
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Bernie did not have the worst night. Joe Biden did. Joe Biden was the biggest loser of the night at
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this town hall. Why? A couple of reasons. To begin, you can't ignore it. He did say crazy things. Not,
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maybe not quite as crazy as Bernie though. I mean, they weren't, they weren't as evil as Bernie.
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They weren't as evil as sacrificing your children to the weather gods, but they were as crazy. Joe
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Biden at one point in the, in the town hall blamed cancer and the Darfur genocide on climate change.
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And so where are we? Look what happened in Darfur. What's Darfur all about? Darfur is all about the fact
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that the sub-Saharan desert because of the change in climate, no longer had enough arable land. Look
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what's happening in Indonesia. They're talking about moving their capital because it's going to sink.
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What happens if you get 10, 12, 13, 15, a hundred million people on the move? It causes wars. And so
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it's well beyond whether or not it affects me personally, which it does. And it did my family and still
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does just like your families. This is personal. It's personal. Every one of you probably have a
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story that can talk about what's happened to something you care greatly about, whether it's
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a species or it's your son or daughter coming down with cancer because of it. Coming down with cancer
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because of climate change, because of what, what are you talking about? I mean, that has nothing to do
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with anything. And then genocide is because of climate change. Amazing how he ignores the political.
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He ignores the cultural. He ignores all of human agency, all of the choices that people make when
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they kill one another. And he blames it on the sky gods, on the weather gods. I mean, this, this theme
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that we see recurring is not just coincidental. It's not just accidental. It is a sort of fatalism
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that denies human agency, which means it denies human freedom. And this is a through line from the
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left. This is a through line from the democratic party. It's not even just on this one particular
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issue. You see it cropping up all over the place. The left increasingly denies our humanity, our human
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dignity, denies our, you know, human dignity, obviously by slaughtering all of these people.
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It denies our freedom. It denies our free will. It says we're just matter. We're just stuff. We're all
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just clumps of cells and we are moved along by impersonal forces outside of ourselves. It's a
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real sort of fatalism. Genocides, including the genocide in Darfur, are caused by people
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choosing to commit genocides, by governments choosing to do that. You know, this language,
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this, this religious kind of language is exactly what we were talking about yesterday. Climate change
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is not about science. It's about religion. And it is specifically about a false religion. It
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actually shows us this, this issue of climate change. We think of this as a very modern issue
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their children, that climate change is causing genocides, that climate change is causing cancer,
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that the way they're talking about it is not modern and it's not scientific. This is ancient. This is
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primitive. This goes back to our most pagan roots. And it tries to explain religious questions without
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true religion. What Joe Biden is doing is he's using climate change to try to answer the eternal
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question that has bothered mankind as long as we've been conscious, which is why is there suffering in
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the world? Why is there pain? Why do bad things happen to good people? And the traditional answer,
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well, I say traditional, let me be more specific. The Christian answer, the Jewish answer,
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the Muslim answer, is that man disobeyed God and so sin entered the world and so with sin,
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death pervaded the world. There is a fall of man. We were kicked out of paradise and that fall of man
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pervades the whole world. Now, the secular left, which doesn't believe in true religion,
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has updated this view for a world without God. So sin and death enter the world, not because
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we disobeyed God, but because we disobeyed mother earth, because we disobeyed Gaia, which is a term for
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nature, by polluting. Not that we disobeyed and we ate the apple from the tree. I guess it might be
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because of our interactions with trees, but it's because we polluted. So in the religious view, in the
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view of true religion, we cannot save ourselves. We cannot reconcile ourselves to God. Instead, we need a
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savior. In the modern secular view, we can save ourselves. We can do it. And the way we do it
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is not even by moral improvement or by living out the virtues. It's by recycling. It's by not fracking.
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It's by killing our babies. In many ways, it's the opposite of the virtues. And here we see how this
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view, this new religious view, what the left would call its kind of new metaphysical view, its new way to
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answer this eternal religious question, is not modern after all. It's not new. It's just the
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pagan view. We sacrifice people, you know? I mean, it's like actually the pagan view. We sacrifice
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people, even blood sacrifices, even sacrifices of our children to appease the gods and save ourselves.
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Even beyond Joe Biden, listen to the way that Julian Castro, who, by the way, he's still in the race.
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I don't know if you knew that. I don't know if you ever knew that he was in the race, but he was the
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former HUD secretary. And for some reason, he's still in the race for president. Here is Julian
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Castro talking about how we need to get climate change ideology into schools really, really young.
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We have to teach kids. He's not speaking in academic or scientific terms. He's speaking in
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religious terms, and he's speaking with greater zeal than any advocate of teaching the Bible in
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Our beliefs and habits start at an early age. Should climate change be taught in schools? And
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if so, how should climate education be implemented in the school curriculum?
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Yes, I believe that it should. In fact, I believe that it's essential if we want to raise a generation
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of Americans that will do right by our planet, make the little decisions in life that are going to help
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ensure that we can get where we need to get to net zero. Listen to those phrases, do right by our
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planet, get where we need to get, make the right decisions in life. How do you do right by the
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planet? The planet's a rock. The planet is a rock that has some animals and trees on it. You mean do
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right by the planet. We are moral creatures, human beings. We have the capacity to reason. That's what
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separates us from the brutes and from the animals and the rocks. What does it mean to do right?
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By the planet. He's speaking in religious terms. And Biden is buying into this too,
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because he knows the only way that he's going to get through this primary is by running to the left.
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So now he runs so far to the left. He is asked about the green new deal, $93 trillion, a ridiculous
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pie in the sky plan that would be horrific if it were enacted. And that doesn't even really address
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the climate or the environment in any way. He is now saying the green new deal doesn't go too far.
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In your plan, you say that the green new deal is, quote, a crucial framework for meeting the climate
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challenges we face. You say it has two basic truths that we need to combat the climate crisis with
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what you say is ambition on an epic scale and that the environment and economy are, in your words,
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completely and totally connected. You're not saying that you support everything in the original
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green new deal. Do you think it goes too far? Is it unrealistic, promising too much?
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No, it's not. But here's what it is. It doesn't have a lot of specifics.
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It doesn't have a lot of specifics about exactly what we'll do with regard to greenhouse gases.
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Okay, fair enough. It doesn't have a lot of specifics, but he says it doesn't go too far. I mean,
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these are pretty wacky answers. And Biden had the worst night, not just because of what he said,
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not just because of these wacky answers, but more importantly, because of how he said it. He just
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seems too old. Here's just one little quick example of Joe Biden stammering incoherently for
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10 or 15 seconds. Look what's happened in the Midwest. We have a number of significant
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bases that relate, military bases that relate to our national security, that in fact, were rendered
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almost useless, including, I can't go into the great detail to say it, but my point is it significantly
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reduced our national security. I want to bring up an example, but I can't, I'm not going to bring it
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up, but I, and what was the question again? Could you get to the question? And then things really went
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downhill from there when Joe Biden's eyeball appeared to explode. We'll get to that in just
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one second. I don't mean to laugh at it. He's, he's fine. He seems to be doing okay, but it is
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That is I cancel timeshare.com. So Biden's performance really went downhill, not with
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the wacky answers, but when his eyeball appeared to explode. So here's a question from a kid who
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says he's an ex-Republican. Now he's asking him a question about climate change and Joe Biden's
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eyeball just starts to fill with blood. China is currently the largest emitter of CO2.
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How, if at all, would you try to get China to lower its emissions as president?
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I would make it real clear. That's why we have to bring around the rest of the world. We have to
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reconfigure. Okay. He goes on. If you haven't seen the clip or you can't see it, go check it out
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online. Actually, it's a pretty good question. You know, leave it to the ex-Republican to ask the one
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normal question of the entire night. But the question didn't matter because no one listened to the
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answer because everyone was looking at the blood pooling in Joe Biden's eye. He had something called a
00:24:36.340
sub-conjunctival hemorrhage. That's when the blood vessels explode in your eyeball and it fills
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with blood. The man is simply too old. He's too old to be president. He's not, look, we've, Reagan was a
00:24:53.120
fairly elderly president by presidential standards. Trump, not exactly a spring chicken. Those guys
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looked young. They acted young. They had a lot of energy. Biden has had health problems for years. In the
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80s, Biden had two brain aneurysms that he suffered. They didn't pop, fortunately. If you've
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ever experienced brain aneurysm in a family type way, I have up close. I mean, that is a serious,
00:25:17.080
serious problem. Usually it leads to death. If it is caught before it bursts, you know, one,
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it can still burst and leave you dead or it can leave you mentally impaired. Luckily, Biden survived
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that in the 80s. But he's had major health scares like this since the 80s. And it kind of reminds me of
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Dick Cheney. You know, Dick Cheney had his first heart attack in like 1978 or something.
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Does anybody believe that Dick Cheney is up for being president of the United States?
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No, nobody did. What Cheney could do is be the vice president to a younger president. So he kind of
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has the elderly statesman role, the elder statesman role and also a bit elderly. Joe Biden more or less
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filled that role for Barack Obama, the younger president. But no one really believes that this
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guy is fit enough to be president. And then Biden, not just Biden, but other candidates too,
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demonstrated my favorite aspect of it, of the whole debate, which is the rank hypocrisy of the
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whole thing. You know, Biden by Anderson Cooper gets called out for preaching climate change on,
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on one, one night, you know, how urgent it is, how we need to stop it. And then attending a fossil
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fuel fundraiser the next night. There is a fundraiser tomorrow night. It's given by a guy
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named Andrew Goldman. He's a, he does hedge funds and stuff, but he also has a company called Western
00:26:34.420
LNG and their biggest project, which I think was announced in like 2018 is a floating liquefied
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facility for natural gas. It's off the coast of British Columbia, and it's going to provide
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Canadian gas to parts of Northern Asia. So what Andrew is saying is if you're going to a fundraiser
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that's given in part by this guy who has a company that is pulling up natural gas,
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are you the right guy to go after these? Well, I didn't realize he does that.
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Classic Biden answer. I mean, I assume Biden doesn't really care getting money from the fossil
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fuel industry, but in his defense, he is losing his marbles and he may well have not realized that
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the guy does that. Another area you see this hypocrisy last night, it's not just the kind of
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would-be moderate Joe. It's even in one of the most openly radical candidates, Julian Castro.
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He gets called out for completely changing his mind on climate change when it suits him.
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Reports warn that we only have 11 years to get off fossil fuels to have a safe,
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livable future. But as mayor of San Antonio, you welcome the fracking boom.
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Why should we trust you as president to transition our economy to renewables,
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given your past middle ground approach? I appreciate the question from Scylla. And,
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you know, I want to commend the Sunrise Movement. As you know, they've been pushing for
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a democratic climate debate, which I hope happens. I'm glad that we're having this.
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I'm glad that we're having this conversation today. So, first of all, she's right. When I was mayor of
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San Antonio, I did believe that there were opportunities to be had in fracking that was
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going on in South Texas. The thing is that back then, which was, you know, almost a decade ago,
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we had been saying that natural gas was a bridge fuel, right? We're coming to the end of the bridge.
00:28:27.260
Yeah. Okay, buddy. You said it because it was convenient, because you wanted the jobs and you
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wanted the money because it was helpful to you then. And now it's not helpful to you. So you're
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trying to come up with a bogus answer. When candidates thank someone for a question and
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then spend like 20 seconds talking about how important it is to have that question in this
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conversation, you know that they got nothing. They ran out. So, uh, total hypocrisy. That's fine.
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We, I mean, it's like Prince Harry, you know, Prince Harry's on one day, he says, climate change is the
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most important issue in the world. No one can go on vacation anymore. And then you look and he flies
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on a private jet four times in 11 days. It's just bogus. People don't believe it, but they're
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hypocritically paying lip service to their false religion. The funniest moment of the night came
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from Cory Booker. You forgot he was in the debate. Me too. You forgot that he's running for president.
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Me too. But here is the single funniest moment of the night when Cory Booker said that he will be
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president. So my plan says that we need to be at a zero carbon electricity by 2030. That's, that's 10
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years from the time that I will win the presidency of the United States of America. Oh, it's 10 years
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from February 31st, 20 never. Okay. Well then I'm not too worried about those 10 years. Uh, there was
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another hilarious moment of the night when it came to plastic straws. We'll get to the big winner of
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the night, not just the big loser, which was, uh, Joe Biden, but the big winner. Then we'll get to
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We'll be right back. Second funniest moment of the entire debate. I have to just get to Kamala
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Harris because Kamala Harris said she finally addressed the central climate issue. Forget
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fossil fuels, forget sacrificing our babies to the weather gods. The central issue, the plastic straws.
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She said, we need to ban the plastic straws. She then admitted the paper straws are terrible.
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She then laughed nervously, which is her tell when you can tell she doesn't want to answer a question.
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Do you ban plastic straws? I think we should. Yes. I mean, look, I'm going to be honest. It's
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really difficult to drink out of a paper straw when you had, if you're just like, if you don't gulp it
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down immediately, it starts to bend and then, you know, the little thing catches it. And then,
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you know, but so we got to kind of perfect that one a little bit.
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Don't make me please. I don't know what I'm supposed to think really bad. She's such a bad
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candidate. She could have been so good, but she's just really bad on stage. So funny though. Would
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you ban plastic straws? Yeah, sure. Doesn't explain why, by the way, people don't know this. The whole
00:31:22.680
plastic straw thing was started by a nine-year-old boy named Milo Kress in 2011, who came up with a
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completely baseless, evidenceless, bogus number that the U.S. uses 500 million plastic straws a day.
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And then the way he found that number was he just called a few companies and tried to put a number
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together, like for a fourth grade report. And then he put this out there and now leading democratic
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candidates for president are touting it. And we're now not allowed to use our plastic straws. We now
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need to use those sippy cups, which use more plastic, which is almost certainly just as bad,
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if not worse for the environment. Neither here nor there. Big winner of the night, Liz Warren.
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I didn't show any clips from her. Why? Because she played it safe. This is a big loser issue for
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the Democratic Party. The Democrats should not have agreed to this town hall. Climate change is a bad
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issue for them nationwide. It's good with their most fervent supporters. It makes them look like
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absolute lunatics to the rest of the country, to the soft left, the center, and obviously to the right.
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Liz Warren knew that going in. She's a really clever candidate. She played it really safe so she
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doesn't get any of these pull out stupid moments. Even more bad news for Democrats,
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who were, I guess, overall the Democratic Party is probably the big loser and Joe Biden as the face
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of it. More bad news for Democrats were not heading for a recession, according to an economist in the
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New York Times. It's very quickly, I guess it's a chilly day in hell on that climate change headline,
00:32:43.920
a recession is not inevitable, the case for economic optimism.
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They show in the New York Times the worrisome leading indicators on the economy are real,
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but so are the sources of resilience that could keep the expansion going. And the guy concludes,
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there are a lot of risks out there and it makes sense for CEOs and ordinary consumers to be wary
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of what the future could hold. But for now, a gloomy economic future remains a far from certain
00:33:06.780
possibility. Very important news for Trump. He just, in the last few days, getting funding for the
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border wall, has just shored up a major vulnerability. The other major vulnerability is the economy. If
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even the New York Times is admitting that we're not necessarily heading for a recession, they're
00:33:21.920
trying to tamp down expectations for a recession, great news for the White House. Other crazy news,
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we just have to get to it quickly. Walmart is now banning guns, banning the sale of guns,
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the sale of ammo, and they're discouraging customers from bringing guns into their own stores to protect
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themselves. Walmart is a massive, massive corporation, such an American company. Sam Walton
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creates Walmart. Good old American. Dies in 1992, I believe. The reason I bring up this story is not to
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show anything about Walmart. I don't care about Walmart. It's to show that in just a generation
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after the death of the founder, Walmart has so dramatically changed that it is unrecognizable.
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Sam Walton is probably turning over in his grave. The Second Amendment is the Second Amendment. You
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know, it's pretty important. It's right there in the Constitution. And even Walmart, that most American
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of stores, is now ditching it because of public pressure from the left. It just shows you how fragile
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institutions can be, how good the left is at going in and hollowing out institutions, how little
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protection there is for them. We need to be careful of that. And when we look, as we've been looking at
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the 2020 presidential election, we need to be very protective of those institutions of our government,
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which can change on a dime and increasingly can change radically. Let's get to the mailbag. Very
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quickly, we're going to fly through them. First question from Richard. Michael, President Trump was
00:34:47.320
elected to expose the media bias. He was also elected to expose the squishy Republicans. Who do you think
00:34:53.520
would be the best Republican candidate to maintain that level of confidence in 2024? Look, Trump was
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elected for a lot of reasons, two of which are, as you say, it's simply too early to predict who the
00:35:06.880
candidate will be in 2024. If you had asked five years out in 2016, you know, in 2011, who the
00:35:13.720
candidate would be, no one would have said Trump. Even the hardcore conservatives were pretty skeptical
00:35:17.840
of Trump because he'd donated to Democrats and espoused Democratic views, left-wing views for a lot of his
00:35:23.520
life. So just to use a recent example that was floated in the media, it was floated across a few
00:35:31.400
articles that Tucker Carlson could run for president. I'm not saying that's a good idea. I'm not saying
00:35:37.780
it's a bad idea. I'm saying that would be the sort of candidacy that you would expect in a post-Trump
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world where you no longer need to have held political office for your whole life, where you can be a
00:35:49.600
little more hardcore, where you don't need to be conciliatory and go to all the fancy lunches and
00:35:55.620
be friends with Democrats all of the time. You could see something like that happening. You could see
00:36:00.440
Kanye West running for president. I'm not saying that's a, definitely not saying that's a great
00:36:04.740
idea, but you could see that sort of thing happening. And I think what is important, whoever the candidate
00:36:10.540
is, is that we not buy the lie of the left wing and the squishes that the candidate needs to have gone
00:36:19.400
to exactly the right schools, gone to the right law school, then worked on the Hill or something,
00:36:25.980
then been a fellow at a think tank, and then, you know, speak really nicely about everybody and be
00:36:31.520
really moderate and conciliatory. I use the example of Marco Rubio. All the smart class, whether it was
00:36:37.260
cable news or a kind of coastal media types who are conservatives, thought that Marco Rubio was the
00:36:43.620
great candidate in 2016. When you looked at election analysis, the only people who liked Marco Rubio for
00:36:49.840
president were conservatives and Republicans who live in left wing places. But that's a losing
00:36:55.580
strategy. Doesn't matter what those guys vote for, because their votes are going to go through the
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electoral college to the Democrat. We need to stop falling into that trap. And I suspect that in the
00:37:08.400
post-Trump future, whoever the candidate is, I don't, I don't think we have any idea what that name is
00:37:13.080
going to be yet. It's going to have to be a candidate that bucks that party establishment, that bucks all
00:37:20.300
of the false niceness and false politeness in the way that in, in recent memory, only two candidates
00:37:27.880
have done, Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump. From Brian, Michael, I'm 32 with a seven-year-old daughter.
00:37:34.600
I was not raised with any religion, but over the years, I've begun to understand the importance of
00:37:39.760
religion and community. We want to begin to practice religion, but where do we start? Feels
00:37:44.860
strange to just Google a religion or drop in on a local church and say, we chose this one. Do you have
00:37:50.840
any advice? Yeah, you know where I ended up. I mean, I was an atheist for about 10 years, and then I was
00:37:57.400
convinced of the existence of God in part because of a Calvinist philosopher named Alvin Plantinga. I was
00:38:03.340
friends with many, many Orthodox Jews and would go to a lot of Shabbat dinners. I read the Quran, I think
00:38:10.540
at age 14, mostly because I suspected it was being misrepresented in the mainstream media, and then I
00:38:16.920
ended up now as a Catholic. I returned to the Catholic Church at 23, 24, and I, you know, now attend the
00:38:26.120
Latin Mass and pretty into it, pretty into practicing Catholicism. So I've run the gamut, and you know
00:38:33.120
where I landed. I landed on the Catholic Church, so I, of course, I would suggest that. You might begin
00:38:38.320
by reading C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. This is a really good introductory apologetics book.
00:38:45.580
I would recommend if you are going to try out different churches or try on different aspects
00:38:52.280
of religion, go figure out the differences. You know, if you conclude that God exists, which
00:38:58.480
is the correct conclusion, then you have to grapple with the person of Christ. Is Christ who he says he
00:39:07.280
is? If he is, then you get to the next question. What is the nature of his church? This is a question
00:39:16.040
that was uniform for the first at least thousand years of Christianity. There were different heresies
00:39:21.520
that would pop up, the Aryan heresy, the Marcian heresy, various aspects, which were rejected by the
00:39:26.720
church. Figure out why the church rejected those heresies. Then you get to the question of the great
00:39:32.560
schism between the East and the West, which wasn't really theological, so you don't need to grapple
00:39:36.740
with that as much. Then 500 years later, you get to the Protestant Revolution, and so you can examine
00:39:43.460
those arguments, and then you can examine the arguments against those arguments. I've gone through
00:39:48.300
all of that, and again, you know how I landed, but I think that's the order that you've got to progress
00:39:52.940
in. In the meantime, as you're grappling with that, those intellectual questions and those questions of
00:40:00.700
the constitution of the church, you need to pray, you need to behave as though God exists, and you
00:40:08.420
should find a church. And if your views change, then I guess you can change your church. But the most
00:40:13.060
important thing is don't just keep it in your head. Don't just stew on it in the abstract. You got to
00:40:18.100
do it. From Mitchell, Michael, I teach in a public middle school, and there is a poster in our teacher's
00:40:24.100
lounge that explains how gender and biological sex are completely distinct from each other and are not
00:40:30.000
connected in any way. I've also been told that I need to call one of my students by male pronouns when
00:40:34.660
she is a girl, and I disagree with this message. How do I address this in a public work setting? What are
00:40:39.460
some tips for supporting my argument? Thanks. Love the show. Well, I'm curious to see what that poster
00:40:43.500
would say about how sex and gender are completely different and not connected at all. I suspect it
00:40:48.960
just asserts that without actually giving any argument for it, because there is no argument for
00:40:55.040
it. It's merely an assertion. The whole concept of gender as being applied to human beings is a very
00:41:01.220
new concept, and it was really only popularized during the rise of postmodernism. Gender is a grammatical
00:41:08.140
concept. It refers to the nature of words, so they're masculine words and feminine words. You know,
00:41:15.800
in Italian, a good rule is a word that ends in A is feminine, like pizza, la pizza, and a word that ends
00:41:22.960
in O is masculine. So like cannolo, like cannoli, that's masculine. That doesn't refer to people.
00:41:33.520
Now, gender was applied to refer to people as separate from sex, specifically because of an
00:41:39.460
ideological agenda to separate sex from gender, but that is simply an assertion. That is an
00:41:45.060
assertion of the will. That is not a reasonable argument. Now, if you're being told to refer to up
00:41:51.160
as down or black as white or a woman as a man or a man as a woman, I couldn't do that. I would not do
00:41:56.940
that. If you don't do that, you might lose your job. That's how far we are into this coercive
00:42:01.880
gender ideology. That's a decision for you to make. You know what I would do, but I'm in a
00:42:07.580
different line of work, and I'm in part in a different line of work because I refuse to make
00:42:11.800
those decisions. I would always ask questions if you really want to change minds. So I'd say,
00:42:18.980
ask somebody, hey, how is it that gender and sex are different? Say, well, because gender refers to
00:42:26.600
your identity and sex refers to your biology. Say, oh, okay. All right. So if gender is just kind
00:42:33.080
of your identity, then it's just like how you feel, right? I'll say, no. I actually had this
00:42:38.680
debate with someone at an event in Michigan. Say, no, no, it's not just how you feel. It's how you
00:42:43.360
identify. You know, some people are women born in men's bodies. Say, okay, well, if they're born that
00:42:49.700
way, then it's biological too, right? Then gender is biological. They'll say, no, no, no. Gender is how you
00:42:55.980
identify. Sex is your biology. Say, okay, well, then where is this identity? Where is the,
00:43:02.820
if, if really, how can you prove to me that you're a woman in a man's body? And one of the arguments
00:43:07.500
they bring up, which is not scientific, but it's become a sort of pop science term is, or pop, pop
00:43:13.200
science notion is that really, if you examine the brains of men and women and transgender men and
00:43:19.180
women, they're very different. And the brains of men who identify as women are closer to women.
00:43:23.100
And the brains of women who identify as men are closer to men. Again, so much of this is,
00:43:28.380
is a mealy mouth language because the, the brains of men and women just aren't that different to
00:43:33.300
begin with. And this is based on very small sample sizes to even suggest this. And even if it were,
00:43:38.940
what would that mean? Am I simply my brain or am I more of my body? What is my identity? But even just
00:43:43.960
take them on the premises. Say, okay, so their brains are, are women's brains, but their bodies are
00:43:51.860
men's bodies. So then you are saying gender is biological, not merely emotional or, or psychological.
00:44:02.980
Then you were saying that that distinction you made between sex and gender doesn't really exist.
00:44:08.800
The hard distinction between how you identify and your biology. And they're going to get confused by
00:44:13.640
this. And then they might realize that the whole separation of sex and gender is a distinction
00:44:18.540
without a difference. Try to get to one more from Leanne. Dear Michael, podcaster, giant,
00:44:26.180
and philosopher. Wow. What a title. Thank you. Growing up in my time, there were women who stayed
00:44:31.500
home with their kids full time. And today the children are all in daycare because more women
00:44:35.220
are working. I've been told if I'm a stay at home housewife or a stay at home mom, that I'm not
00:44:41.400
fulfilling my potential. How did this change and why? Well, this changed in part because of World War II
00:44:48.000
when women started to enter the workforce. This changed in part because of the women's lib movement,
00:44:52.620
which then became known as second wave feminism. This, this changed in part because the more honest
00:44:59.960
feminists over the past 50 years have said not merely that women should have the choice to work
00:45:07.820
or to stay at home. The more honest feminists have said women can, I think it was Gloria Steinem,
00:45:14.040
but I could be getting that wrong. It was one of the very prominent feminists of the last 50 years.
00:45:18.000
It said, if women have the choice to stay at home, then too many of them will. And this will
00:45:24.780
compromise other women's ability to go into the workforce. So you, you actually have to discourage
00:45:30.280
the choice to stay at home. I mean, what is your potential? Depends. Some women thrive in
00:45:34.760
professional environments and some women thrive at home. Some women sort of can do both. You can't
00:45:40.380
have it all, but you can do two things at once. So what is your potential? I mean, if,
00:45:45.140
if the potential is you can be a loving housewife and have a beautiful family and have,
00:45:51.100
take care of your husband and be involved in your community and be involved in your church and all
00:45:55.780
those things, that seems like rather fulfilled potential. And if the alternative is that you're
00:46:00.420
a middle manager at the widget factory and you make a lot of widgets and then you die
00:46:03.680
and your husband is on his own. And if you have kids, you know, the kids don't get taken care of
00:46:09.680
or they go to some daycare. I don't, that doesn't seem like fulfilled potential.
00:46:13.860
It changed because of coercion and it changed because of the lies of feminism, which said that
00:46:21.540
men and women are exactly the same, but also men and women are completely different.
00:46:25.700
And, but also that now, now that we're back at the gender ideology, that men and women are exactly
00:46:31.620
the same again. I mean, it's a, it's an incoherent ideology based merely on the will.
00:46:35.360
Part of that will was coercing women into not being able to stay at home anymore and having
00:46:39.340
to go to the widget factory. But if you don't want to go to the widget factory and you stay home,
00:46:43.640
you'll be a housewife. You'll have a great life. Worked, worked very well for a long time for a lot
00:46:48.260
of women. That's our show. Come back on Monday. We'll have a whole lot more. In the meantime,
00:46:53.040
I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles show. See you then.
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