Ep. 422 - The Democrats Have Nothing
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As Nancy Pelosi appears to whip sufficient votes for impeachment, the so-called whistleblower complaint that launched the whole impeachment circus is released, revealing definitively what we suspected all along. Then, new polls shake up the 2020 race. And a judge rules that a mother who identifies as a man cannot be deemed her child s father.
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As Nancy Pelosi appears to whip sufficient votes for impeachment,
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the so-called whistleblower complaint that launched the whole impeachment circus is released,
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revealing definitively what we suspected all along.
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And a judge rules that a mother who now identifies as a man cannot be deemed her child's father.
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We will try to understand what that sentence even means.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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A mother who identifies as a man, I don't know.
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That's, it's going to take me a whole show just to figure out what that means.
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First, we got to get to this whistleblower complaint.
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We got the transcript of that dread phone call between President Trump and the Ukrainian
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And I don't know if it was the most perfect phone call ever made, as President Trump said
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it was, but it certainly gave no grounds for impeachment.
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But now we have the real deal, because unfortunately that flopped and the media and the Democrats were
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So now we have the whistleblower complaint that got us the transcript of the call, that
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got us the impeachment inquiry, that's going to get President Trump thrown out of office,
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and Hillary still can win the 2016, I don't know.
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I'll just read a few little passages from it, and you can let the bombshells just settle in.
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Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff, I am reporting an urgent concern.
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That line is in quotes, and it's in quotes because the whistleblower is using this in
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a specific legal way, but I really like reading it because I'm reading it just sarcastically,
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like, Dear Chairman Burr and Chairman Schiff, I'm reporting an urgent concern in accordance
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I think the sarcastic way is much more accurate given the context.
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This letter is unclassified when separated from the attachment.
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Over the past four months, more than half a dozen U.S. officials have informed me of various
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facts related to the effort of the President using the power of his office to solicit interference
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This is important because the allegation is Trump is using his office to solicit interference
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Now, we know from the phone call yesterday, what he's actually doing is using his office
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to get the Ukrainians to investigate interference in the 2016 election, which was while he was running
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for president, but it was actually while Barack Obama was president.
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So even that language from the very first sentences is actually completely backwards.
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But what you hear from this first bullet point is, more than half a dozen U.S. officials have
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So what that means is he doesn't have direct knowledge of any of these phone calls or any
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He's just heard it from someone else, and then he writes this very meticulously crafted
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legal letter to try to spur an impeachment inquiry.
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He then admits that in the second bullet point, I was not a direct witness to most of the events
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However, I found my colleagues' accounts of these events to be credible because in almost
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all cases, multiple officials recounted fact patterns that were consistent to one another.
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What a beautifully crafted mixture of euphemisms.
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So it means I actually haven't seen any of this stuff happen, but I find the accounts
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Listen, I find them credible because I'm relating them is more or less what he's saying.
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And then he says, because multiple officials recounted, not facts, not the exact same facts
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We don't even know who the officials are, recounted fact patterns that were consistent
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I am deeply concerned that the actions described below constitute, quote, a serious or flagrant
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problem, abuse, or violation of law or executive order.
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That, quote, does not include differences of opinions concerning public policy matters.
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Again, it's in the quotes because he's trying to spur legal processes out of this, but it
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makes a lot more sense if you just read it sarcastically.
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I am deeply concerned that the actions described below constitute a serious or flagrant problem
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Okay, then it goes on and he outlines a lot of things we already know about from that transcript.
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This is the only new information that we're getting from the whistleblower complaint.
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In the days following the phone call, I learned from multiple U.S. officials that senior White
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House officials had intervened to lock down, in quotes, all records of the phone call, especially
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the official word-for-word transcript of the call that was produced, as is customary by the
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This set of actions underscored to me that White House officials understood the gravity of
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It's interesting to read the whistleblower complaint after you've read the transcript of the
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Even Trump's hardest, other than the most hardened critics, virtually everyone has said
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There's certainly nothing you could impeach him over.
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But he's trying to build this up as this big grave matter.
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What does it mean for White House officials to lock down the records from the call?
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Instead, it's a phone call between the president and the president of Ukraine.
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He goes on, he says, White House officials told me that they were directed by White House
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lawyers to remove the electronic transcript from the computer system in which transcripts
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are typically stored for coordination, finalization, and distribution to cabinet-level officials.
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Instead, the transcript was loaded into a separate electronic system that is otherwise
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used to store and handle classified information of an especially sensitive nature.
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One White House official described this act as an abuse of this electronic system because
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the call did not contain anything remotely sensitive from a national security perspective.
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The actual allegation is they got the transcript of this call between the two presidents and
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they didn't put it on the server that they usually use.
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We know that the phone calls between heads of state are sensitive just by definition.
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We don't know whether or not this happened, by the way.
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They were directed to put it on this different server, not another.
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Directed by whom, for what purpose did it actually happen?
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They released the thing to the public yesterday and we read it.
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So even that, this is supposed to be the most important new information here, doesn't really
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Then he goes on and complains about Rudy Giuliani and why is Giuliani in on these calls.
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We learned yesterday that it was Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, who brought up Giuliani
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If it were Trump bringing up Giuliani, you might see him trying to push some interactions
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to his campaign lawyer, but it wasn't Trump who brought it up.
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It was Zelensky, which, I don't know, maybe suggests Zelensky was being improper on the
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Then we'll get to the three bullet points at the end.
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Final three bullet points on the whistleblower complaint.
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On 13 June, the president told ABC's George Stephanopoulos that he would accept damaging
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information on his political rivals from a foreign government.
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In the whistleblower complaint, you're talking about an interview that the president did
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That's not anything you need a secret, super-duper deep state spy to tell you about.
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People don't watch network news as much anymore, but we already knew that.
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By the way, everybody would accept damaging information on their political rival from
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The second one, on June, June 21st, Mr. Giuliani tweeted, new president of Ukraine is still silent
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on the investigation of Ukrainian interference in 2016 and alleged Biden bribery of Poroshenko.
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Time for leadership and investigate both if you want to purge how Ukraine was abused by
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Now, this would be really super-duper incriminating if we hadn't just spent three years with Democrats
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clamoring to get an investigation of Russia's interference in the election.
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And moreover, this is so damning for this whistleblower complaint, we found out that
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in May of 2018, Senate Democrats sent a letter to Ukraine demanding that they investigate
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So you've got an official letter from sitting Democrats who sent that to Ukraine, and he's
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upset about a tweet from Giuliani who says, hey, Ukraine should investigate the Bidens and
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all the corruption that was going on there and their interference in 2016.
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If that's a big deal, the tweet, then the letter the Senate Democrats sent is much more
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And then finally, in mid-July, I learned of a sudden change of policy with respect to U.S.
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assistance for Ukraine, seeing closure for additional information.
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Change was Obama didn't give Ukraine a whole lot of help, and then he gave them some help.
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Trump gave them some help, and then he called on NATO allies and other people in the region
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to pay more, which has been consistent since the 2016 election, since 2015 when he started
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That's the whistleblower complaint, and it's nothing.
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The problem here is this is not sufficient for impeachment, this whistleblower complaint.
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They have so little actual information here, so little in the whistleblower complaint or
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in the phone call that Adam Schiff, the ironically named chairman of the Intelligence Committee
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in the House, this is the most ironic posting in history, I think, has to go out on television,
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on C-SPAN, and actually invent a different conversation.
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He actually just imagines what President Trump could have said in the fantasy world of Adam
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Schiff, and he relates that as though it were fact.
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Well, it reads like a classic organized crime shakedown.
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Shorn of its rambling character, and in not so many words, this is the essence of what the
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We've been very good to your country, very good.
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And I'm going to say this only seven times, so you better listen good.
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I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand lots of it.
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On this and on that, I'm going to put you in touch with people, and not just any people.
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I'm going to put you in touch with Attorney General of the United States, my Attorney General,
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He's got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him.
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You know what I'm asking, and so I'm only going to say this a few more times, in a few
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You can read the transcript that came out yesterday that is completely fictional.
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Adam Schiff just made that up in his head and then said it out loud as though that was
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And he's doing that because what Trump said doesn't implicate him in any crimes.
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The fact that Adam Schiff has to do this tells you everything you need to know.
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If they had something, they would read what they have.
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But they have nothing, so they have to read what Adam Schiff makes up.
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Nevertheless, the majority in the House is now backing some form of impeachment.
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And new polls show this could be absolutely dangerous.
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It could be disastrous for Democrats and could be very good news for the president.
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The majority in the House now backs some form of impeachment.
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A majority of the House backs some form of impeachment.
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They got all the Democrats and they got one Republican, in quotes, Justin Amash, who is
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a libertarian who's liberal on a lot of issues and hates Donald Trump.
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They've all agreed to support impeachment in some form, but in some form doesn't mean they're
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Might mean they want an investigation that could lead to impeachment.
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Might mean they want to open an impeachment inquiry, but not actually vote for impeachment.
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So it's a lot weaker than the headlines are showing you.
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Alan Lichtman, who was the political scientist who has accurately predicted every presidential
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election since 1984, he was one of the few guys to come out in 2016 and say, Trump is
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And he predicted Trump was going to win and he predicted that Trump would be impeached.
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And at the time, people didn't believe either of those.
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They never thought impeachment would be an option because Trump wouldn't be in the White
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And then he also suggested Trump would be impeached.
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And it looks like his predictions are coming true.
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My prediction of a Donald Trump victory was based upon a scientific method studying all
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My prediction of a Donald Trump impeachment, of course, could not be based on a mathematical
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model because there haven't been enough examples of impeachment in U.S. history.
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But my prediction of a Donald Trump impeachment in my book, The Case for Impeachment, was based
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on a deep study of the history of impeachments, the basis for impeachments, Donald Trump's record
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as a businessman, and Donald Trump's record during the first two or three months of his
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That was enough to point me towards what seemed to be an inevitable end to the presidency in
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Now, what he said certainly could be interpreted as being correct, especially if they do finally
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I mean, this is an inevitable end of the first term, or I'm sorry, an inevitable end in the
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But is it the inevitable end of the presidency overall?
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But when you look at other polls, you look at other surveys, you show it's not as clear
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cut on what this means for Trump, because the problem is, according to recent surveys, the
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Pretty clearly, this new morning consult poll came out.
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It's not exactly a hard conservative poll or anything.
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Poll conducted after the news of the Ukraine phone call broke.
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So this is not like new information has changed anything.
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This is after the Ukraine news broke, support for impeachment is actually down over that
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Nearly half of respondents, 49 percent, said Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings,
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The 49, I don't know the number who give the other answer, but it's significantly lower.
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49 percent, less than half Americans, say Congress should not begin impeachment proceedings.
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Is that what you, even though it's less than 50 percent, sure.
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Do you really want to go into impeachment with that number?
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Especially looking even at Democrats, or Democrats?
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Democrats support impeachment by a 66 to 17 margin, 66 percent for, 17 percent against.
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That means that not even two-thirds of Democrats support impeachment.
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But you need two-thirds in the Senate to actually convict on impeachment.
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So even if the Senate were comprised, there were no Republicans whatsoever in the Senate,
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no Republicans in the country, it's all Democrats.
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Even then, if the House impeached and it went to the Senate, it was all Democrats,
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Not a good sign for Democrats going into impeachment.
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Republicans have 5 percent for impeachment, 89 percent against impeachment.
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Independents have 33 percent for impeachment, 45 percent against impeachment.
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The only group that supports impeachment, the only age group is 18 to 29-year-olds who don't know very much.
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The top three demographics have majorities opposed to impeachment.
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Even Nancy Pelosi, not that long ago, during the Clinton impeachment proceedings,
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gave an impassioned speech against this sort of political railroading and against impeachment.
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Today, the Republican majority is not judging the president with fairness, but impeaching him with a vengeance.
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In the investigation of the president, fundamental principles which Americans hold dear,
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privacy, fairness, checks and balances, have been seriously violated.
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Because we are here today because the Republicans in the House are paralyzed with hatred of President Clinton.
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And until the Republicans free themselves of this hatred, our country will suffer.
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I rise to oppose these unfair motions which call for the removal of the president of the United States from office.
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The Independent Council knew that the president was exonerated with Travelgate, Whitewater and Filegate.
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Indeed, it is the responsibility of any prosecutor to immediately release information that is exculpatory.
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I bet I could give that same speech when we're talking about the Trump impeachment.
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Ah, except here's Pelosi just a couple days ago.
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Therefore, today, I'm announcing the House of Representatives moving forward with an official impeachment inquiry.
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I'm directing our six committees to proceed with their investigations under that umbrella.
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I thank our chairman, Chairman Nadler, Chairman Schiff, Chairman Cummings, Congresswoman Maxine Waters.
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Madam Speaker, you've never before has the president been convicted by the Senate.
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OK, so a little bit of a flip-flop, you might say.
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And Pelosi in the 90s was probably a little closer to being correct, at least if you're judging it by being in touch with the American people.
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The problem that the Democrats have is Pelosi is catering to AOC and Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley and the whole squad.
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And the squad doesn't represent America, doesn't even really represent the Democratic Party very well, at least at this point, at least as they're looking at presidential politics.
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So the leadership is out of touch with the American people, not just on impeachment, but even on their broader issue.
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This was actually, to me, more interesting from the morning consult poll.
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They have a new poll out on the issues, the top priorities for American voters going in to 2020.
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The top issues, according to this poll, are the economy, that's 19%, healthcare, 16%, national security, 8%, gun policy, 8%, seniors issues, 8%.
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Only after those top five issues do you get climate change at 7% tied with immigration at 7%.
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This is very interesting and it tells you something about the Democrats and the Republicans.
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The Democrats need to move off of climate change as their top issue.
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When they launched the 2020 race, it was all about climate change.
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It was all about completely changing the global economy, $93 trillion in federal spending.
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It wasn't serving them very well and it's way down there in the list of priorities.
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So now what the Democrats are doing is moving toward healthcare.
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I mean, you've got climate change and immigration ranking at the same number.
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Trump used to talk about the wall and immigration and border security all the time.
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You'll notice he's stopped talking about it as much.
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Even as we've gotten great news on the border, we're finally getting the wall built.
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We're finally getting money freed up to build the wall.
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And now at that moment, this moment of success on the issue, he's being a little quieter about it.
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Because he's seeing these same numbers and he knows that's not what's going to win in 2020,
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So the president really is talking more about the economy, less about immigration.
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And Liz Warren really is talking less about the environment and the Green New Deal.
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And she's moving much more toward healthcare because she thinks that's a winning issue for her.
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She actually just released, Liz Warren released, get your cringe ready.
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Just put your face into a cringe right now and lock it there so it won't have too much shock
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She just released a new Instagram video trying to look hip and cool.
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She did it with one of the personalities from the show Queer Eye.
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They're talking about healthcare, but it reveals some real weaknesses for Liz Warren.
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I know, but I wanted to give you a call just to say thank you.
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I'm glad we're going to be in this fight together side by side.
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I love the endorsement and for all the right reasons.
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Well, you know, I have to tell you what I realized.
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It was when it was at the last debates and I was like, this health insurance industry is a racket.
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And that's when we got to do it because it is right.
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Healthcare is a basic human right and we fight for basic human rights.
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I'm so excited to be shoulder to shoulder with you too.
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But I have to say, I really like this guy as just a media personality.
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It's quite a contrast with her because she is stiff as a board.
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You have this guy who is a professional entertainer and he's a huge personality.
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And then you have her and she's trying to be cool with him and it just doesn't work.
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And this is the real issue here is it just keeps her so awkward looking.
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I mean, I guess the video at first, what it highlights, it's actually a few problems.
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It highlights that at this time, what Elizabeth Warren needs to do, if she's really going to
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be the front runner, is show how she relates to racial minorities, blue collar workers,
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This guy, Jonathan Van Ness, while a very entertaining figure on television, I doesn't quite speak to
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Okay, I know these days you can be whatever race you want and whatever orientation you
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I'm just saying if you're trying to appeal to middle America, that's probably not the
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If she really wants to take Biden out, she's got to show that she appeals to more people
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than just the audience for Queer Eye, who are mostly on the coasts and who are mostly
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white and who are mostly already with her and not with Joe Biden anyway.
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And then you got the problem that she's so stiff.
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If she gets on stage with Donald Trump, there's going to be a Liz Warren shaped hole in the
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wall because he's going to blow her off the stage.
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It reminds us of that video, that horrific video she shot where she was sipping the first
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beer she's ever had in her life, I'm pretty sure.
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And, but she wanted to make it look cool and make her seem hip like AOC and Beto O'Rourke.
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So she shot a video sipping a beer and interacting with her husband like she'd never met the
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I'm glad for everybody who's joining this video.
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It's, she's talking to her husband like she just met him.
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Anyway, she's gotten a little bit better with the stiffness between now, between then rather
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and the Queer Eye video, but she's got a long way to go.
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She does learn things, but she, she does have a long way to go, especially when you're dealing
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We have to get to the most absurd BuzzFeed article I've ever seen.
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They sent out a tweet last night that said a trans man in the UK who gave birth and then
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sued to be recognized as the father has lost his case.
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We'll try to make sense of that because we're going to be giving a speech tonight to kick
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It's a free event, so come on out 7 p.m. to the Friends of USC Library Lecture Hall.
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The topic of the speech is Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths, and it's bound
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I will be talking about similar things to BuzzFeed, and we're going to be talking about the overall
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theme of this speaking tour, which is cancel culture.
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Some of us have noticed it even just this week.
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And reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated, but cancel culture is very real.
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And cancel culture, a lot of people don't understand it, how it relates to political
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But we are going to be moving on with that speaking tour.
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In addition to my show here at The Daily Wire, The Michael Knowles Show, we will be launching
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That is going to be coming in the next couple months.
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If you want to see the speech tonight and you can't make it out live, head over to
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It's more important now than ever to get subscribers so that the cancel culture can't cancel us.
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We appreciate all of your support and all of our subscribers.
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We'll be right back with the craziest BuzzFeed article ever and the mailbag.
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It said, quote, a trans man in the UK who gave birth and then sued to be recognized as
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So if you were just reading that quickly, it was a man gave birth.
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But the man is not recognized as the father, according to this judge.
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And you try to figure out if someone could translate that sentence into English.
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Because then the headline says, a high court judge has ruled that mother no longer means woman.
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A trans man, what they mean is a woman who now identifies as a man, but who is a woman.
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So the woman gave birth to a child and the judge refuses to let her be deemed the father.
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Okay, that makes sense because she's not the father.
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But then the headline says, a high court judge has ruled that mother no longer means woman.
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Well, that seems like the opposite of what the tweet said.
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Those two sentences seem to contradict each other.
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Until you realize that what BuzzFeed is implying in the headline is the outrage that the judge refuses to call this mother the father.
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And BuzzFeed is outraged because they don't think that this woman is a woman any longer.
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They think that this woman is now a man because she identifies as a man.
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Freddie McConnell thought that for him to become a father, the hardest fight would be personal, medical, first to transition into the man he knew himself to be, then to cease testosterone treatment so that he could conceive, and finally to give birth when right to his marrow he felt male.
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But you see how insidious this pronoun issue is.
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If you read that, even if you have total clarity of thought, if you constantly see he, him, father, father, you just naturally take that for what it means, which is that he is a he.
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Because only mothers can give birth and only women can be mothers.
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This ruling, the ruling which makes perfect sense, the ruling says a mother is not a father.
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We're now getting confused on the question a man is not a woman.
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But at least we're saying a mother is not a father.
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They say the ruling has implications for almost anyone.
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According to the judgment, mother is no longer a gendered term.
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Actually, though, the ruling is the exact opposite of that.
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Mother exclusively equals woman, according to both this judge's ruling and reality.
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But what BuzzFeed is doing is saying that gender is no longer a gendered term.
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What BuzzFeed is saying is that gender and sex are completely different from one another,
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and sex is reality, and gender is whatever we want reality to be.
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Then they say a mother is a person who gives birth regardless of whether she has a genetic link to the child.
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For instance, if the eggs are from another woman.
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This is raising another issue of bioethics, whether a child has a right to his own mother.
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Then a father is also not necessarily gender specific.
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Actually, the ruling is exactly the opposite of that.
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And transgender people may now only be recognized in their acquired gender until they have children.
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What that's really saying is, transgender people, they're saying,
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we as a society will pretend that men who are confused about their sex are women, and vice versa.
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We will pretend that until reality reasserts itself and biology reasserts itself.
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And we see that the man, allegedly, actually is a woman because only women can give birth.
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The transgender man, so the mother, this woman says,
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I will carry on fighting because this is threatening to set things back for LGBT people,
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as well as for society, gender, and how families are created.
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This slams the brakes on progress in a way that should scare people.
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I think this ruling gives people a little consolation that we have not just completely lost our minds as a society,
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and that we have not just completely disregarded reality.
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Not men who think they're women, not women who think they're men,
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not anybody else in the culture, not the 99.9% of people,
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or 99.85% of people who are not confused about their biological sex.
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We pretend these days that lies are comforting.
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You don't give people strength by lying to them,
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or by treating them like they're second-class citizens,
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Not only because we don't want to live in madness and lies,
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but because we have respect for our fellow human beings.
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Things even our fellow human beings are who are suffering and who are confused.
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We should help them and treat them like we would want to be treated ourselves.
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Sorry that went on a little late, but I couldn't get past that story.
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I needed to work it through in my own head, even just to understand it.
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Do you think the media will treat the Republican presidential candidate of 2024
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They did this all to Bush, and Bush was a moderate guy,
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If anything, our politics is getting more polarized now,
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largely because of the media, and I don't want to just blame the media
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So, just as a matter of time, they'll probably treat the candidate worse,
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but anyone who thinks this is simply about Trump is deluding themselves.
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This is the way the left treats anybody who contradicts their lies.
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I finally get to start my first full-time postgraduate job next week.
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What advice do you have for a guy who's beginning a career?
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and kind of part-time jobs during school, things like that.
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But the advice I would give to you is lose all your pride.
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so many people are taught that grunt work is not for you.
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You're no longer the one who's got to vacuum the floor.
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You're no longer the one who has to do grunt work.
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and the one thing I notice is that the people at the top
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I have seen people at the very top of their game
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or offer to vacuum their own hair for a haircut.
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and your job is to work hard and give your best.
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Is it wrong to be excited for the impeachment proceedings?
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but I feel as if the division is already there,
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that Democrats are basically just handing over the election to Trump now.
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If the Democrats had not pulled the Russia hoax,
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if they had kept their powder dry and gone for impeachment,
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I don't think it's going to work very well at all.
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and stop them from controlling their own country.
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and there didn't seem to be anything bad on it anyway.
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because it will allow her to keep control of her own caucus.
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I wouldn't be able to have my job and my career
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and I wouldn't be able to communicate with people
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So communication is not a totally positive thing.
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I mean, the negative side is you get social media swarms
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Maybe you said something 20 years ago that was wrong.
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and figure out how to try to make it a little better.
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What do you think of the White House announcing
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that there will be no more daily press briefings?