Ep. 441 - Impeachment Gets Real
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Summary
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally agrees to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry at the behest of, wait for it, Republicans. We examine Pelosi s impeachment bind and the Democrats' biggest mistake: They believe their own press releases. Then a group of Indians attacks Black girls in New Jersey because of white supremacy, according to the New York Times and the dumbest article on the internet today. And finally, more bad news for Joe Biden as the nominally Catholic, nominal Democratic presidential candidate is denied the Eucharist at a Catholic church in South Carolina. Why? Well, because he supports killing babies. That s no good.
Transcript
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi finally agrees to hold a vote on the impeachment inquiry at the behest of, wait for it, Republicans.
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We examine Pelosi's impeachment bind and the Democrats' biggest mistake.
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Then a group of Indians attacks black girls in New Jersey because of white supremacy or something,
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according to the New York Times and the dumbest article on the Internet today.
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And finally, more bad news for Joe Biden as the nominally Catholic, nominal Democratic presidential frontrunner
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is denied the Eucharist at a Catholic church in South Carolina.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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The one thing we can say about the top story and the bottom story today is at least,
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finally, people are following their ideas to their logical conclusions.
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Nancy Pelosi has been talking about the super official, formal, totally serious impeachment inquiry for weeks and weeks now,
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even though she's never held a vote on the subject because nobody actually wants the political accountability on impeachment.
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Now we're going to get that. Same thing with the Catholic church.
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This priest down in South Carolina should be given a lot of plaudits because he's following the ideas of the Catholic church
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to their logical conclusion and saying, if you support killing babies, you are not in communion with the church.
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We will examine what both of both of those stories mean because the story for the left, not so great.
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The story for the Catholic church and for the culture, pretty good news.
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So Nancy Pelosi had her bluff called on impeachment, and she is finally going to take an actual vote,
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put people on the record on whether they want this impeachment inquiry.
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Nobody would be willing to do that right now, but she is willing to have a proper vote to authorize impeachment.
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Because so far, this impeachment has been absolutely lawless.
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In the history of our country, we impeached President Johnson.
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We then were about to impeach Richard Nixon, though he resigned, and we impeached Bill Clinton.
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In all of those cases, when the impeachment inquiry was taken up, the House went on the record and had a formal vote on it, except this time.
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Even without looking into the details of the case of the phone call to Ukraine, we know it's ridiculous because the Democrats have been trying to impeach President Trump since before he took office.
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Since right after the election, before Trump took office, Senate Democrats, including Elizabeth Warren and others, tried to set the stages for impeachment.
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Then, after Trump took office in 2017, Representative Al Green, the congressman, not the singer, put forward a resolution for impeachment.
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Then they tried to impeach him for Russian collusion.
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That was the premise of the Mueller investigation.
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Then they threatened to impeach him over Stormy Daniels and paying off a porn star.
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Now they're trying to impeach him over colluding with Ukraine, the sworn enemy of Russia.
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That alone shows you how lawless the impeachment is.
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So Pelosi doesn't want to get people on the record.
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Her caucus doesn't want to go on the record for this.
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But Lindsey Graham, Republican and Trump ally in the Senate, very forcefully went on TV and said,
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We need to take a vote where this is absolutely lawless.
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This is an unfair process being driven by sore losers.
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And there's not one vote in the United States Senate to impeach President Trump based on this phone call because he did nothing wrong.
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In the history of the country, we've never had the Intelligence Committee participate in an impeachment inquiry.
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Under the resolution they're going to pass tomorrow, the president's counsel cannot participate in the intel committee inquiry.
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And Republicans can't call witnesses without Schiff agreeing.
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The backlash is going to be wide and deep because what they're doing to the president Trump is unfair.
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It's sore losers can't accept the consequences of losing an election.
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And most Americans are going to say so when they understand what's happening.
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So Lindsey Graham has a lot of clarity on this.
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He's showing not just the irregularity of not voting to initiate the impeachment inquiry, but all of the other irregularities.
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Why does Adam Schiff get to do whatever he wants?
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Why is the House Intel Committee chairman, who has very publicly lied before about this president, who has dealt in a very improper way with the intelligence community and with the media?
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Why does this guy get to do anything and the White House has no right to fight back?
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The president has no right to face his accuser.
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All of the so-called whistleblowers are opaque.
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We haven't seen them, even though the IG has determined that the whistleblowers have an anti-Trump bias in three different ways.
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It's so murky, I think, when most Americans hear about this, their eyes glaze over.
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Their opinions have been made on this months and months, if not years ago.
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And so what Lindsey Graham is trying to do is bring some clarity to this, bring it all out into the open, not just on the witnesses, not just on the investigation,
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but the premise of the investigation itself, who's calling for it and who is not.
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So he comes out there and he passed this resolution.
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He said, Lindsey Graham calls on the House of Representatives prior to proceeding any further with its impeachment investigation into President Trump to vote to initiate a formal impeachment inquiry.
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Calls on the House of Representatives to provide President Trump, like every other American, with due process to include the ability to confront his accusers,
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call witnesses on his behalf, and have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment.
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And calls on the House of Representatives to provide members of the minority, that's the Republicans,
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with the ability to participate fully in all proceedings and have equal authority to issue subpoenas and other compulsory process.
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Trump needs to be able to call witnesses on his behalf and Trump needs to have a basic understanding of the accusations against him that would form any basis for impeachment.
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Let me ask you, this is kind of similar to the Syria question.
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When President Trump redeployed those troops from Syria, everyone had a lot of strong opinions about it and very few people had any knowledge about the situation.
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So, I'll ask the same for, for impeachment on this front.
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Tell me what they're trying to impeach Trump for.
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Specifically, what are they trying to impeach Trump for?
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What we've heard is they're trying to impeach Trump for a quid pro quo with Ukrainian military aid.
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Now, many Democrats are admitting that he didn't violate any law.
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That's why you have pieces in USA Today saying it doesn't matter if he didn't commit a crime.
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You can impeach the president for not committing a crime, which is false and it's unconstitutional.
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And it's very clear from the debates that took place at the founding of our country.
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And they're just the media and the left, but I repeat myself, are trying to run roughshod over this process with a lot of insinuation and not a whole lot in the way of specifics.
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So, Lindsey Graham is trying to get specific here.
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And he's trying to get the Republicans to participate much more fully in this.
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The Democrats are starting to believe their own press releases.
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The problem with the left right now is not that they're hurling some unfair or opportunistic attacks.
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The problem is they're starting to believe the nonsense that they're spewing.
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I remember, this is some of the best advice my mother ever gave me.
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When I was a young man, I don't know, I was probably 11 or 12 years old, and I was always very good at school, you know, top of the class, all this.
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So, there's a little 11-year-old Michael, and I was just getting a little full of myself.
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And my mother turned to me and said, Michael, yeah, you did great on that test, or yeah, you got that award, or whatever.
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Meaning, it's true that we all present an image to the world of some kind of success or achievement.
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But just remember, the image you're putting out to the world is not necessarily the reality of the situation, or it's certainly not the sum total of the situation.
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On social media, we put out a highlight reel of our lives, but that's not the totality of our lives.
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We also, there's a lot more to life than this best of reel.
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And for the Democrats, if they're going to go out there and they're going to say, all right, we caught Trump using Joe Biden's name on a phone call with the president of Ukraine.
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I think they know deep down, or at least they knew, that that is not sufficient basis to throw a president out of office and to overturn a presidential election.
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They're trying to make a meal out of a cupcake.
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President Trump, within just the past few weeks, he redeploys the troops out of northern Syria.
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The Democrats say ISIS is going to be reformed.
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Then, days later, President Trump announces, we've killed the head of ISIS, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
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They say, well, it doesn't matter if you kill al-Baghdadi.
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Some other guy is going to take over in his place.
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Two days later, we announce, we killed the other guy.
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We killed the guy who was going to take over for al-Baghdadi, the spokesman for ISIS.
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When you still have left-wingers at academic conferences and elsewhere, there was actually
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one the other day who came out and said, President Trump has aligned the United States and aligned
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The inspiration of leaders who are going to put people first is so important.
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Another reason why people are going to vote, because Donald Trump is manipulating the White
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House and has aligned himself with ISIS and Saudi Arabia.
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But just let me say, the most important thing that we can do today is vote for civility, vote
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for a president who's not going to align himself with the most dangerous foreign nations that
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So that was the Arizona Democratic Party chairman, Felicia Rotellini.
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And she says Trump has aligned himself with ISIS.
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That makes sense in a world where you believe all the BS that you're spewing.
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That does not make sense in a world where Trump just killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the
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head of ISIS, and the next leader of ISIS, the spokesman for ISIS, and took out ISIS in
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the first place, something that Barack Obama was not able to do.
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And it doesn't help politicians to just follow their opportunistic hack attacks forever.
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You've got to ballast yourself a little bit with reality.
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Scarborough hates Trump because Trump makes fun of him fairly regularly and said that
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And so Joe is on there with his girlfriend on MSNBC.
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And he was listening to President Trump announce the death of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, great thing.
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He said, Trump, it was so awful the way he talked about killing the worst terrorist in
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The raid that killed bin Laden was a seminal moment in the Obama administration.
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How will Baghdadi's death shape the Trump presidency?
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That's the question we're looking at this morning.
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And of course, Richard Haas, the president of the United States, went on talking about how
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Baghdadi died like a, quote, dog, a coward, a whimpering, whimpering and sniveling.
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Uh, he sounded not like a president of the United States.
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He actually sounded like Saddam Hussein after torturing people, uh, sounded like Muammar
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Gaddafi after he would torture, uh, uh, people.
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Uh, it was again, just like the chance of lock him up last night at the game.
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So what Joe did is the same thing the left does when they call right-wingers Nazis.
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They draw a moral equivalence between opposite things.
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So what, what Joe is saying, this is something that I've noticed left-wingers do.
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They'll say, okay, you've got a terrorist who killed a lot of people and raped, killed,
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And if you kill that terrorist, you're the same as the terrorist.
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If you kill that terrorist, you're the opposite of the terrorist.
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Because to exact justice is not the same thing as to inflict injustice.
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I mean, in the case of Baghdadi, that's not the case.
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Baghdadi was personally a rapist, a murderer, a, an absolute monster, and a dog who was tracked
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down and eaten by dogs before he blew his guts up all over the walls of a cave.
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But let's say that, let's say what we're really getting Baghdadi for is because he just killed
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Take all the rape and all the, the things that make it even more vicious out of it.
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The acts themselves look exactly the same, but they're not the same act because the killings
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that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was committing were unjust.
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And the killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is just.
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I'll give you another example from American history because what the left is banking on
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I mean, not forget 200 years ago or 300 years ago, they want to hope that you have no sense
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That makes him pretty much the same thing as a terrorist.
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Here's, here's an example from the second world war.
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A war I think we can all agree was a, a good, just war.
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You know, we, we were the good guys and the other guys were the baddies.
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During the second world war is very famous speech.
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Here's just, just a little sampling of the speech.
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He said, I don't want to get any messages saying I am holding my position.
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I'm going to, I'm going to abbreviate all of the copious swear words that Patton used
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We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything except the enemy's
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We are going to twist his gullioni and kick the living S-H-I-T out of him all of the time.
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Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether
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we have to go over, under, or through the enemy.
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We are going to go through him like crap through a goose, like S-H-I-T through a tin horn.
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We're not going to just shoot the sons of female dogs.
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We're going to rip out their living GD guts and use them to grease the treads of our tanks.
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We're going to murder those lousy Hun people who deal with male genitalia by the bushel effing
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You've got to spill their blood or they will spill yours.
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When shells are hitting all around you and you wipe the dirt off your face and realize
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that instead of dirt, it's the blood and guts of what was once your best friend beside you,
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It's a little more evocative than Trump saying that a terrorist died like a dog.
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Are we going to say that General Patton is the same thing as Hitler?
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General Patton is not the same thing as his enemy.
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Because General Patton was advocating just killings.
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He was fighting for our country, which was not just in the right because it's our country.
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But if Joe Scarborough were on the air in the Second World War, he'd say, oh, this General
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I mean, he sounds like the worst person on earth.
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Now, I think if you got Joe Scarborough out for a beer or a wine cooler or whatever Joe
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Scarborough drinks, if you got him out at a bar and you said, hey, I know that Trump made
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fun of your girlfriend and said that she has an ugly face.
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Putting the personal stuff aside, do you really think that Trump is the same thing as Saddam
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Do you really think there's a moral equivalence?
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I think he would have to admit, no, I don't believe it.
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I'm just getting a little carried away with my rhetoric, but it's okay because my audience
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buys it and I've whipped them up into a frenzy.
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This is not going to end well because the people are a lot smarter than the left thinks.
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And the people can see a nonsensical impeachment for face value.
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The people can see that Donald Trump is not the same thing as Saddam Hussein.
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The people can see, this is my favorite one of the whole day.
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Katie Hill is that Democratic congressman who was caught in a throuple with a 22-year-old
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female staffer and her husband taking nude photos, ripping bong hits that showed, she
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Then she decided to not only have this sexual relationship with a staffer, which is an ethics
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violation in and of itself, not just to cheat on her husband or cheat with her husband,
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I guess, but she then dumped the staffer and her husband for her male finance director.
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Katie Hill is pretending to be the victim here.
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She's pretending to be the victim of sexual oppression and abuse and a patriarchal society because
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she dumped her female 22-year-old staffer and her husband for some other guy on her staff.
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She's pretending that this, now how does she get away with this?
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Because in the Me Too era, we have to believe all women.
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In the Me Too era, all men bad, all women good.
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Even women like Katie Hill, who are engaging in extraordinarily inappropriate relationships
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But in the Me Too, she's banking on this Me Too era, widespread blanket rule that women
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Nobody believes that women are biologically incapable of lying.
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Nobody believes that women are biologically incapable of exploiting their staff members.
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This is Katie Hill announcing her resignation as though she were the victim.
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I'm Katie Hill, and last night I announced the most difficult decision of my life,
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I made this decision so that my supporters, my family, my staff, and our community will no
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longer be subjected to the pain inflicted by my abusive husband and the brutality of hate
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This coordinated campaign carried out by the right-wing media and Republican opponents,
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enabling and perpetuating my husband's abuse by providing him a platform, is disgusting
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and unforgivable, and they will be held accountable.
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But I will not allow myself to be a distraction from the constitutional crisis we're faced with
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And so I have to take my personal fight outside the halls of Congress.
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Too many Americans are counting on Washington to fulfill our promises of quality health care,
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housing we can afford, and a government that works for the people.
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And I cannot let this horrible smear campaign get in the way of that work.
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To my supporters in our district and across our great country, please know that we did something
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We proved that an imperfect woman, the 31-year-old daughter of a nurse and a police officer,
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who never planned to run for office, has a place in the people's house.
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She's resigning right now because of her abuse of power and exploitation of her staff
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Has she ever named a single actual instance of abuse?
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I guess she's saying her husband abused her by not just allowing her to leave him consequence-free
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without ever giving any of his side of the story for her other staffer.
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She proved that she has committed abuse, abuse of power.
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She's abusing her power to exploit her young female staff members.
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We'll get into the specifics of that because it actually ties in with the exact theme of today's show.
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She was found to having Nazi tattoo in the naked photos that she unbelievably irresponsibly allowed to be taken.
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She proved that she's a derelict and that even left-wingers have some sense of shame because they forced her to resign.
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But she can't admit it because facts can never get in the way of the narrative.
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If I were a left-winger, I would just let her go away quietly.
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They can't help but believe their own press releases.
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Katie Hill is the first millennial lawmaker to resign because of nudes.
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She's resigning because she exploited a young female staff member in a bizarre sexual relationship
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and then exploited another staff member in a relationship.
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Last year, Hill was one of 20 millennials, most of them women, who won seats in Congress,
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increasing the generation's representation six-fold in one cycle and giving voice to the
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This week, she resigned after nude pictures of her throuple relationship with a female campaign
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staffer were released online without her consent and after she came under a House ethics
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investigation for an alleged relationship with a male legislative staffer.
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Hill's case lands smack in the middle of the three-way intersection between tech, sex,
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And power is newly vulnerable to strains of disgrace that didn't exist a decade ago.
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This isn't a totally arbitrary, random intersection of technology which changed sex and...
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This woman violated her marriage bond with a young female staffer and then left both her
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There's nothing about technology that changed that.
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She committed very immoral acts and exercised extremely poor judgment, and now she's being
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I'm just saying there's consequences to your decisions when you sleep with your staffers
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This isn't, this isn't like cancel culture even.
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This isn't even that tweets or photos from a decade ago showed up and therefore what you're
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Because that, I guess that would be an example of technology changing the nature of sex.
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She has a sex scandal that is currently going on and she got thrown out of office for it.
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Technology provides new and humiliating ways to document sexual encounters and all sexual
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encounters, especially when they involve a public figure, are now subjected to brutal
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Sex scandals have always been part of politics.
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Let's not forget, in the founding days of our republic, Alexander Hamilton, one of our
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founding fathers, got caught in a major sex scandal where he was cuckolding some guy
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and then the guy and the wife decided to extort Hamilton for it.
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John Adams said there weren't enough whores in Philadelphia to contain Hamilton's secretions.
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Photographs have been around for a very long time.
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Hill may be the first millennial lawmaker to have to grapple with this particularly thorny
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21st century code of conduct, but she won't be the last.
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She's like, Hill is a totally passive person in this entire story.
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She decided to sleep with her staffers on the campaign.
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She decided to bring her husband into it for some reason.
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She decided to leave her husband and the staffers.
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And if you took Katie Hill out for a beer, well, I don't know what would happen if you
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took Katie Hill out for a beer, but if you took her out for a beer and just asked her
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very specifically, you said, Congressman Hill, did you do something wrong?
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I think she would say, yeah, yeah, you caught me.
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I shouldn't have slept with my staffers and I shouldn't have left my husband for it.
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But they can't allow that honesty to get in the way of their narrative.
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That narrative is just not believable to anybody.
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They can continue to pursue their narrative relentlessly or they can speak to the American
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And this is going to affect the presidential campaign because the people are a lot smarter
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We've got to get to the dumbest article on the internet today.
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I mean, talk about not letting the facts get in the way of narrative.
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In the New York Times, they are actually making the argument with a straight face that an attack
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by Indian people on black girls is an example of toxic whiteness.
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The New York Times must have, well, the New York Times invented the white Hispanic in the case of
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So I guess now they've invited the white, they've invented the white Indian.
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We will also get to a lot of BS on pot and Joe Biden being refused communion.
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But I have got to say goodbye to Facebook and YouTube.
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10 bucks a month, $100 for an annual membership.
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You get to ask questions in the mailbag coming up tomorrow.
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You get another kingdom and you get the leftist tears tumbler.
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As all the narratives collapse, make sure you have your tumbler or you will drown.
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Story is police in Lawrence Township, New Jersey arrested two 17-year-olds and charged them with a lot of harassment and intimidation because this group urinated on black girls and hurled racial slurs at them.
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New York Times already said, those are the facts they got.
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New York Times said, oh great, we're going to run a story about white supremacy and white bigotry and toxic whiteness.
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And they said, hold up, hold up, New York Times.
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The problem is, the people who did the attack are Indian.
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So the mainstream media didn't cover the story for a few days.
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And then the New York Times realized, they said, oh wait a second.
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An attack doesn't need to be perpetrated by white people to be the fault of white people.
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Whiteness is still the problem here even if the people are very, very brown.
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While it's tempting to see the reported ethnicity of the boys suspected in the assault as complicating the story
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and raising questions about whether the assault should be thought of as racist,
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Instead of asking what the boys reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack.
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By the way, I love, they keep trying to muddy up the waters here.
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Well, can, can someone who's not white commit a racist act?
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Instead of asking what the boys reported racial identity tells us about the nature of the attack.
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We should see the boys as enacting American whiteness through anti-black assault in a very traditional way.
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But they are enacting whiteness because, according to the New York Times, any racially motivated attack is white.
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Even, even if a black person attacks a black person on the basis of race, if that were possible, they would still be performing a white supremacist, white, bigoted attack.
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Because any attack on black people is white, somehow, in the bizarre logic of the New York Times.
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Not just something we are in our blood and in the color of our skin.
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You, I know, this is like what happens when people pass around the pot.
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They take, they take the Katie Hill bong and they just go, you know, man, what if race isn't really about our race?
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Like, if you really think about it, you know, and you really think, no, it's just your race.
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In the New Jersey incident, the heritage or skin color of the boys suspected of the assault doesn't matter.
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What matters is that they were participating in this pattern and thus enacting whiteness in a very traditional way.
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One potent way of being American, no matter where you or your parents are from, is enacting anti-blackness.
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And traditionally, acting out anti-blackness has meant acting white.
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So, they're very upset that the perpetrators of this crime are not white.
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They have the opportunity to expand their thinking.
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They have the opportunity to perceive something about the world that they didn't perceive before.
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They have the opportunity just not even to cover the story.
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They can't let the facts get in the way of their narrative because they are actually starting to believe their own narrative.
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Imagine if you took those New York Times editors out for a Zima after work and you said,
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Hey, guys, they're sipping on their Smirnoff ice or whatever.
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You're going to say, Guys, do you really believe that when Indians attack black people, that's white supremacy?
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After a couple sips, they'd probably say, Nah, you're right.
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But in public, they are clinging so desperately to their own narrative.
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They're saying, Yes, this, no, it is, it is white.
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This is why the New York Times readership is down.
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This is why people are making fun of the New York Times.
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What the left believes, ultimately, is that there's really no such thing as objective truth.
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It's that same cynicism that you see in Pontius Pilate who asks, What is truth?
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It's the same cynicism that you see in intersectionality.
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There's really no such thing as race or gender or it's all fluid.
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The only thing that is real is my subjective perception of my own suffering, of my own oppression.
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And if I can convey that oppression, that is the actual power and core of my identity.
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So, all that matters is the narrative that I spin.
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If Big Brother tells you that 2 plus 2 equals 5, you have to believe it.
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If Big Brother tells you that 2 plus 2 equals 5, then 2 plus 2 really does equal 5.
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I think that's what explains the 2016 election.
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The fact that you had this very flawed candidate in Donald Trump.
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You had the entire media political establishment, really on the left and the right, pushing for Hillary Clinton.
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And still, and still, they picked Trump because they just knew something was wrong with Hillary.
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They just, it's this James Burnham's major law.
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He had, the political philosopher James Burnham had these 10 laws, one of which is everybody knows everything.
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People are a lot smarter than we give them credit for.
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You know, I'm always wary of proclamations where we say, the American people believe X, Y, and Z.
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The American people believe everything that I want them to believe.
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The American people believe, look, I'm not saying that I'm the spokesman for the American people here.
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However, I think that the American people can see reality most of the time.
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I think they're a lot smarter than politicians and media elites believe that they are.
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They see that Indians attacking black people is not white supremacy.
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They see that an impeachment inquiry in search of a crime is not a legitimate impeachment.
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They just see that, even if they don't know all the details exactly.
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Same thing on, this is obviously slightly less relevant to these intense political fights,
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but it's the same sort of thing with the legalization of marijuana.
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People ask me this sometimes when I'm out on the road.
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Michael, what do you think about the legalization of pot?
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Never cared for it as much as stogies and a good drink.
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But the main reason that I oppose the legalization of pot is because of the people who are clamoring for it.
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The people who are clamoring to legalize marijuana.
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They're just so annoying about it that I don't want to give it to them.
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And one of the things they do is they say, you know, actually, marijuana is, like, really good for you.
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If you're depressed or anxious or if you are, like, have anything that's wrong in your life at all, a pot will solve it.
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I mean, the CBD oil, you can just, you just basically take a bath in that and all your troubles melt away.
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There's a new study out that actually debunks pretty much all of that.
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It shows that the use of cannabis, THC, the active agent in marijuana, the use of that to treat people with depression, anxiety, psychosis, other health issues, can't be justified because there's no evidence that they work.
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Actually, this new study, which was published in the journal Lancet Psychiatry, concludes that the risks very likely outweigh the benefits.
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That actually, it shows that there's very low quality evidence that THC helps these problems and there's a fair bit of evidence that it actually makes the problems worse, anxiety, depression, and psychosis.
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And having been friends with a lot of potheads over the years, I can say firsthand, I've sort of seen that happen.
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It's all that narrative that when people are, have a real interest in pushing a narrative, they're much more likely to ignore relevant facts.
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But the left is taking that right now to a radical extreme, to an absolutely outrageous extreme.
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And those of us who are not there, those of us who are not puffing on the Katie Hill gonge, you know, we're not smoking that Haitian oregano like the soon-to-be former congressman, we're not believing our own press releases.
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Those of us who see, we just have a little bit more clarity, and I think it's why the left is so screechy.
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It's why they're so emotional right now, is because the reality of what's going on in politics and culture is colliding with their narrative, and they're realizing that those two things, reality and their storyline, are not very well connected.
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Now he's saying he supports forcing people to pay for abortions.
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Within the Catholic Church, there's a lot of disagreement on public policy issues, and this is mostly tolerated.
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Abortion is sort of where the rubber meets the road, because in abortion, you're just killing babies.
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And the Catholic Church cannot support the killing of babies.
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So it has been the position of the Catholic Church that the Church is within its rights to withhold communion or to excommunicate you, to keep you out of communion with the Church, to withhold the body of Christ in the Blessed Sacrament.
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But so many priests and bishops are wishy-washy on this.
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They're afraid that politicians are going to attack them if they do it.
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So they'll allow people who openly advocate killing babies, they'll allow them to receive the Eucharist.
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This began with Chris and Andrew Cuomo's father, Mario Cuomo, when he was governor of New York.
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He pioneered the Catholic leftist line, which is, look, I oppose abortion personally, but I support the right of people to have them.
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But it's like saying, I oppose murder personally, but I don't think we should have laws against murder for some reason.
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And it's this wishy-washy way of having both sides of the issue and getting out of a tight spot.
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This priest in South Carolina denied Joe Biden the Eucharist.
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He was almost certainly referring to Canon 915 of the Canon Law, which says,
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Those who have been excommunicated or interdicted after the imposition or declaration of the penalty,
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and others obstinately persevering in manifest grave sin are not to be admitted to holy communion.
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One of the reasons it's the right thing to do, the most important reason from the pastoral point of view of the priest,
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Joe Biden needs to be aware of the grave sin of supporting infanticide.
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That is a grave matter that imperils his eternal soul and will have him roasting down below
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or greatly increase the chances that he's roasting down below if he doesn't correct his ways.
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That's the rehabilitative, that's the medicinal effect of withholding the Eucharist,
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is to clarify the reality, to take away that leftist narrative and just give Joe Biden a little dose of reality.
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You're not supposed to receive the Eucharist if you have committed a grave mortal sin without going to confession.
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So you'll see very often in Catholic churches, people just stay in the pews if they haven't gone to confession.
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Joe Biden out there refusing to acknowledge the reality of that sin.
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Joe Biden, I think after decades and decades of Democrats pushing this line that,
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look, I oppose abortion, but I also support abortion, that that could somehow be okay,
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We're now seeing the collision of that narrative and that reality.
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Some people who are a little more wishy-washy and squishy think that we should downplay those differences
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between reality and the leftist narrative, that somehow that will bring them back.
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When we're debating the left, we don't need to be cruel.
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But we should make clear the stark differences to wake them out of a stupor,
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a stupor that has been brought on by arrogance and pride and cynicism and dishonesty for decades and decades,
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the stupor that causes them to believe they're on press releases.
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We need to shake them a little bit, and we need to tell them the truth.
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