Ep. 481 - Shooting Down The Narrative
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A pro-Second Amendment rally in Virginia turns out to be a smashing success, and the mainstream media had no idea what to expect. Then, AOC has the dumbest conversation I've ever heard with leftist journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, and some great news for the pro-life cause ahead of the March for Life.
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Yesterday, white supremacist, Hitler-loving neo-Nazis wearing Make America Great Again hats and toting fully semi-automatic double-barreled AR-47 assault rifles descended on the Virginia Statehouse to take over the government and establish a Prussian ethnostate in the fevered imagination of the mainstream media.
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In reality, law-abiding gun owners of all colors and backgrounds showed up on Lobby Day to defend their constitutionally protected civil rights.
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And there was no violence whatsoever, and they cleaned up after themselves when they left.
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We will examine how Virginia gun owners shot down the leftist narrative on our Second Amendment rights.
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Then, AOC has the single dumbest conversation I've ever heard with leftist journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates, President Trump's impeachment trial kicks off, and some great news for the pro-life cause ahead of the March for Life.
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I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Yesterday was a very, very scary day for the mainstream media.
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It was a totally normal day, and there was a wonderful demonstration for some of our basic civil rights that took place in Virginia.
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But for the mainstream media, it was a terrifying day, presumably because their fellow Americans were demonstrating on behalf of their own civil rights.
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There was a pro-Second Amendment rally yesterday in Virginia.
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The left told us, politicians on the left, elected federal politicians and state politicians, and the mainstream media,
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told us that the rally was going to include white supremacists and domestic terrorists.
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They were going to come to the Commonwealth of Virginia and cause violence and mayhem.
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Here is a quick montage put together by newsbusters of the terror ahead of the Second Amendment rally.
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Right now, thousands of gun rights activists, white nationalists, militia groups, all swarming the Virginia state capitol.
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There are a lot of people nervous about what's going to happen.
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Such polarization, what may happen in Virginia.
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This entire rally stands in opposition to the meaning of this day.
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How concerned are you that there might be some people in this crowd that may want to get violent?
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There is real concern there about what the intention is behind this.
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There's a lot of concern about the potential for violence.
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Tensions high in Virginia may cause violence there.
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Northam clearly trying to avoid another Charlottesville.
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Men walk through the capital in Virginia carrying weapons of war.
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That is not a fraction of the hysterical coverage that we saw before this rally in Virginia.
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Obviously, there were a lot of tensions in the newsrooms over at the New York Times and CNN.
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Look, those threats which caused the governor to call for a state of emergency have simply not emerged.
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The police very clear in saying that they have not had a single arrest during this rally.
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You, the mainstream media, you created the tension.
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You tried to provoke a violent incident in Charlottesville.
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And it didn't work because the people who were demonstrating were not neo-Nazis.
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There are all of these new terms to try to gin up, in particular, racial division and racial hatred.
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Because, generally speaking, Second Amendment advocates are very concerned with obeying the law.
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I mean, they're basing their gun rights enthusiasm on the Constitution, right?
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That's where we get our right to keep and bear arms.
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Virginia gun rights rally concludes peacefully despite earlier fears of extremist violence.
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A large gun rights rally in Virginia's state capitol unfolded peacefully Monday,
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despite earlier fears of the kind of violence that took place in nearby Charlottesville three years ago.
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What on earth would link a lobby day demonstration in favor of a basic civil right to Charlottesville?
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Charlottesville, an event that took place, as they say, three years ago, completely unrelated,
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completely different groups, completely different point.
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Even the rosiest take of the Charlottesville event was that they were there,
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or some people were there, to protest the taking down of historical statues.
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The event that took place on lobby day was to demonstrate in support of our Second Amendment rights.
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But the left is so desperate to gin up racial hatred that they have to draw a comparison between completely unrelated events.
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So they go, it could be like Charlottesville three years ago.
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Security was tight as gun rights advocates descended on Richmond for lobby day to oppose legislation that would restrict access to firearms in the state.
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The Commonwealth braced for the potential of extremist and white nationalist groups to disrupt the peaceful demonstrations.
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Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency last week to ban open and concealed firearms and other weapons from the state capitol grounds.
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The crowd, however, was peaceful with no immediate reports of arrests or violence.
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The whole demonstration had nothing whatsoever to do with race.
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And actually, one citizen journalist approached one of the many black pro-Second Amendment demonstrators and asked him if he was a white supremacist.
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So the event in Virginia had nothing whatsoever to do with race, and one citizen journalist approaches one of the black demonstrators there,
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and he asked him, he said, I heard all these media reports that this was a white supremacist rally.
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So are you, sir, a black man, a white supremacist?
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But they mad because there wasn't no civil unrest.
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Now they're going to be mad because there wasn't no fight.
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Now they're going to be mad because then nobody get locked up.
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They're going to be mad because all the officers is at peace.
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They're going to be mad because there ain't nobody out here fighting.
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I'm from St. Louis, and I ain't even had to bring no weapon.
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White, black, Hispanic, Latino, Mexican, whatever.
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They're not going to make this no communist state.
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They're not going to turn our law enforcement officers against us just because y'all on some nonsense.
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You know, obviously, he's speaking very casually here, but there's a lot of insight in what he's saying.
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He's saying they're going to be really mad that there's not violence here.
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They're going to be really mad that there's not division here.
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They're going to be really mad that there's not hatred here.
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That's what they've been trying to gin up all week.
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Our constitution, our shared culture, our shared country, because we're all fellow countrymen here.
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We don't need them right here, but we got them.
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I don't pack a gun every place I go and I'm like armed to the hilt all the time.
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The reason that I don't feel that I have to be is because we do have the right to keep and bear arms.
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The very fact that the individual in America has the right to keep and bear arms is a wonderful protection against tyranny.
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It's a wonderful protection of our life and our liberty and our property and the loved ones around us.
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And because we have that right, we don't need to be so worried about it all the time.
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They went mad not even just in the sense that they were angry.
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They went mad in the sense that they went insane.
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NBC News reporter Ben Collins, he ended up, to his credit, deleting a completely baseless tweet alleging that the demonstration was a white supremacist rally.
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Reporters covering tomorrow's white nationalist rally in Virginia, I'm absolutely begging you, verify information before you send it out tomorrow.
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Even if it's a very sensational rumor you heard from a cop, don't become a hero in neo-Nazi propaganda circles with made-up stuff.
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This tweet, to me, sums up the entire mainstream media, which is a sanctimonious, sneering sort of advice to fellow Americans, and in this case, fellow elites, proving the point that he thinks he's making and proving the point with him as the butt of the joke.
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He's like, I'm begging you, do not tweet out baseless information and completely made-up stuff tomorrow at the neo-Nazi Hitler-lover rally.
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He's like, buddy, it's a Second Amendment rally.
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Not just him, at least to his credit, Ben Collins deleted the tweet, but the whole rest of the mainstream media did too.
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Another NBC News correspondent, Gabe Gutierrez, tweeted out a video of the rally, and what he wrote next to the video was,
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chants of, we will not comply from gun rights protesters in Richmond.
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I mean, if someone tries to take away my basic constitutional rights, I certainly won't comply with that.
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But let's just see, because I don't believe a word that these people say anymore, let's just see what they're actually chanting.
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And I clicked the play button, and this is what I heard.
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Congratulations to the pledge of the United States of America!
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All right, I didn't hear a whole lot of we will not comply there.
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But I'm not surprised that the mainstream media couldn't recognize the Pledge of Allegiance.
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I assume they haven't heard it and certainly haven't said it in many, many years.
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Only the mainstream media were surprised that the event yesterday went off very well,
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because the mainstream media believe that only nuts own guns.
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In a standoff, in a peaceful demonstration between people defending the Constitution
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and lawless legislators trying to run roughshod over people's basic civil rights,
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which group do you think is more likely to behave lawlessly?
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The ones defending the Constitution or the ones trying to shred the Constitution?
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Obviously, the Second Amendment defenders are the ones who are going to behave according to the law.
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They're the ones who are going to behave appropriately.
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It doesn't matter if they were elected to office and they can write laws.
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They can behave lawlessly, often more lawlessly than the rest of us.
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They're the ones who are going to try to gin up a bunch of division and tension.
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Just very quickly, we'll get through what these guys were protesting,
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because the gun laws being proposed in Virginia are absolutely, absolutely terrible and unconstitutional.
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One bill is to limit the number of guns you can purchase.
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Now you might say, who needs more than one handgun per month?
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I can think of situations where you would need to buy more than one handgun within a month.
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But the question is, why are we limiting people's basic civil rights?
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Maybe I haven't heard it yet, but maybe there is an argument to be made.
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If you were going to take away somebody's basic, fundamental, constitutionally protected
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civil rights, there needs to be a really, really high threshold in that argument.
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They want universal background checks on gun sales.
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This is really a way to prevent people from passing guns along to their kids.
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So who would object to universal background checks?
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The question is, am I not going to be able to pass along my antique Civil War rifle to my
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kids or something after I got it from my father and from his father and on and on?
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Then there is a new rule allowing localities to ban guns in some public areas.
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Again, you can have that argument, but the right to keep and bear arms is an individual
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So if you're going to deprive people of their fundamental civil rights, you better have a
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And those, those that just passed the State House, those are the most defensible of all
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The rest of these regulations are draconian and outright unconstitutional.
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This would allow authorities to temporarily take guns away from anyone deemed by law enforcement
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Now, I don't have a problem with depriving certain people of rights that they would otherwise
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be entitled to if they pose a direct threat to themselves or to others.
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However, I am very strongly opposed to taking away a person's basic civil rights in one case,
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I think the threshold needs to be very, very high.
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So for instance, if you really believe that somebody is an imminent threat to themselves
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or to others, they got a couple of screws loose, they are a danger to society, okay, that's fine.
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Then you ought to be able to have that person committed to an institution.
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Then you ought to be able to deprive that person of their voting rights.
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Then you ought to be able to deprive that person of their, of certain legal rights to
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You ought to be able to apply the same standard you're applying to the second amendment to
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Because I think very often what's going to happen here is law enforcement is going to
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say, yeah, you're a threat to yourself or others.
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So we're going to take away your second amendment rights.
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You can still do whatever you want, but just the gun, the gun is going to be the real
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If a person is, is too, too much of a threat to have their basic gun rights included in
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the constitution, then certainly they shouldn't be able to drive.
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You apply to get a driver's license from your state and you don't have any right to a driver's
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So again, I'm, I'm fully admitting that certain people are not in full enough possession of
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their faculties to access all of their, their rights.
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This would include people who are highly criminal.
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Of course the people have their rights deprived all the time through their own actions or their
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However, the threshold has to be very, very high.
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Another one is a new rules about reporting lost or stolen firearms.
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Again, this is a way just to take people's guns away, increased penalties for recklessly
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leaving loaded, unsecured firearms near children.
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Yeah, you shouldn't be able to leave loaded, unsecured firearms near children.
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Yeah, probably a ban on anyone subject to a final protective order from possessing firearms.
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And then, and then the piece de resistance, the one that the left is always going for a ban on
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Now, assault rifles have more or less been banned in this country for decades.
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When people say assault rifles, they're referring to guns like the AR-15, the most popular gun in
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America, which are not assault rifles in the sense that they're not fully automatic.
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And that's the image that comes to mind when people talk about it.
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But in another sense, all firearms are assault weapons.
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I mean, they're not there to make you feel really pleasant.
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They're not there to massage your temples when you've got a headache.
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Now, obviously, you want people who are responsible, who follow the law, who are good,
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But to say, OK, you can have all the pleasant firearms that don't hurt anybody, but not the
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The reason they use that euphemism is simply to confuse people.
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And the reason they go after the AR-15 is it's pretty much the most popular gun in America.
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They chose to do this on Martin Luther King Day.
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AOC was very upset that they chose Martin Luther King Day.
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We'll get to the dumbest conversation I've ever listened to.
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The mainstream media shrieked that the reason they chose Martin Luther King Day
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was because the people protesting were racist bigots.
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Now, actually, the reason they chose it is because there's this longstanding tradition
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But the coincidence of Martin Luther King Day is actually an important one.
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You know, Martin Luther King was a civil rights activist.
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He's probably the most famous civil rights activist in modern American history.
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That is a basic civil right protected by our Constitution.
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Listen to how shocked the leftist journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates are by the fact that this took place on Martin Luther King Day.
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You know, another thing that I've been really thinking and sitting with today is that we there's this gun rights protest that's happening down in Richmond.
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We celebrate MLK Day because of his work on civil rights.
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And so if you're going to have a civil rights protest in America, I guess it makes a whole lot of sense to do that.
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We will get to this extraordinarily dumb speaking event between AOC and Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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The dumbest conversation I've ever heard from AOC.
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So I just listened to the dumbest conversation I ever heard.
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It was between AOC and the leftist journalist, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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The reason I bring this to you is not because I want to just slowly kill each and every one
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It's because the conversation shows us something.
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One thing I love about AOC is she shows you what the left really is taken to its logical
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It shows you the hypocrisy and it shows you just the utter emptiness of leftist ideology.
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So AOC begins with the grand claim that people shouldn't have a lot of money.
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And really, you can never make a billion dollars because the only way that someone gets a billion
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Why specifically does, you know, I'm Joe Billionaire.
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I made billions of dollars, you know, selling those widgets, making those widgets.
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Because you employ thousands of people and pay them less than a living wage to make those
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That's one of those statements, like so many leftist statements, that if you're not thinking
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at all, sounds like it means something, but it actually has no semantic content.
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You take a billion dollars because you hire people to do a job.
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But when you hire people to do a job, you're not taking from them.
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You're giving them your money because you think that their skill, their service, their
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labor is more valuable than the money that you are giving them.
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And they think, because they're engaging in this free exchange, they think that your money
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is more valuable than the labor that they are giving you.
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And so they exchange their labor for your money and everybody wins.
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I mean, because taken to the logical extreme, which he's saying is that if you ever hire anybody
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The publisher hires some tree company to cut down the trees, make the paper.
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The publisher hires some delivery people to go deliver it to bookstores.
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The bookstores sell the books to somebody else who needed a car to drive there.
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And you can see the effects of this throughout the economy.
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My doing, even a blank book, will involve so many people to make that book happen.
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And if I write a book with words, then you're going to have to hire people to make the ink.
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Then you're going to have to, I mean, that's going to be a whole other avenue of people who have helped to make that happen.
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No, it means that I've worked together with other people in an economy, in a society, to produce a product.
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The employee who's hired at the widget company, as Ta-Nehisi Coates says, did that employee make the, I don't know, call it 50 grand a year?
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Surely they needed other people to make that money.
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They didn't come up with the idea for the widget.
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They didn't build the structures of the business.
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They didn't, presumably there will be people down the line of them who they rely on to make that job happen.
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No, this is the logical conclusion of Barack Obama saying when he was president that you didn't build that.
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You didn't build your own business, which was the, basically the economic motto of his presidency.
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So she denies that anybody can engage in an economy voluntarily.
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Then she says that people are literally dying because of commerce.
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You made that money off the backs of undocumented people.
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You made that money off of the backs of black and brown people being paid off a living wage, under a living wage.
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You made that money off of the backs of single mothers.
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And all of these people who are literally dying because they can't afford to live.
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If they're literally dying because they can't afford to live, then presumably you're doing them a favor.
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You're saving them by giving them a job, right?
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Does she know that I'm not paying people a living wage?
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Does she know that I'm targeting black and brown people and single mothers?
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She's just making total grand assumptions about other people's businesses.
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And she's beginning with the premise that people are entitled to other people's stuff.
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And AOC doesn't really think that we owe each other jobs.
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Because AOC then would have started a business, right?
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AOC would be just as on the hook as everybody else is.
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If I were a gambling man, I'd guess probably less than Jeff Bezos does.
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They're really good at criticizing everybody else, pointing out the flaws and the shortcomings
00:34:31.100
of everybody else, or pointing out how other people could do even more, which is always
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But they're never able to turn that lens around on themselves, analyze themselves under
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the microscope, hold themselves to the same standards to which they're holding other
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You know, they criticize a guy like Jeff Bezos, super duper wealthy guy, because he's only
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When was the last time you gave a million dollars to charity?
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When was the last time AOC did anything for anyone?
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Then she comes to the conclusion of her argument.
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This is like if I were in a freshman slam poetry meet, man, I would really feel the feels right
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When she gets to the end, she's talking about taking.
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Then she gets to the heart of her philosophy, which is not based on principles.
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It's not based on any kind of coherent argument.
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To be ethical, if you're a billionaire today, the thing that you need to do is give up control
00:35:56.620
So I don't want your money as much as we want your power.
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Okay, obviously, she's a very confused young lady who hasn't thought very much about important
00:36:14.200
But there were many contradictions in what she just said.
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And yet, she accidentally gave up her whole point.
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She said, to be ethical, you need to give up control and power.
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And then in the very same breath, she said, we want your power.
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So what she is admitting here is that her own system is unethical.
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If to be ethical, you need to give up power, and she wants power, then she is unethical.
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But her system of politics isn't based on ethics at all.
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Her system presumes that the only way that I can have more is if you have less.
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Then she says, we want, but I don't, I'm not saying we want the power.
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I'm saying the people want the power, but not me, even though I'm, I guess I'm a person.
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But more specifically, she's the one who wants the power.
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She's not giving the power to some guy who's working a low-wage job in the middle of Queens.
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She's taking it for herself through her instrument of power, which is the state.
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There are many more problems with what she's saying because she is not a systematic thinker,
00:37:41.420
And frankly, that's what the broader news story of this week and probably next week is as well,
00:37:49.280
Nearly as dumb as AOC's conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates is the impeachment trial of President Trump,
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There are all sorts of numbers going around out there over whether people want the president
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I strongly suspect that they do not want him to be removed.
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There is no indication at all that any Senate Republicans are going to turn on Trump.
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Okay, this impeachment, unlike the others in American history,
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There were no Republicans who voted to impeach the president in the House.
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There were Democrats who refused to impeach the president.
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So it was bipartisan in terms of letting him stay in office,
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but it was strictly partisan in terms of the vote to remove him.
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So when you have a strictly partisan impeachment, guess what happens?
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You're going to have a strictly partisan trial,
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especially when they don't have any legal basis for impeaching him.
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So the question that remains for this trial is whether or not they're going to call witnesses.
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You might say, why would they call more witnesses?
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We had the vote to impeach, so let's move on and do that.
00:39:11.880
Okay, that is what the American people seem to want to do, too.
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Most polls show that the American people want to keep the president in office.
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Until a very convenient poll from CNN, which just came out right before the impeachment trial,
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showed that 51% of Americans want Trump removed from office,
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showed that 69% of Americans want witnesses called at the trial,
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Numbers are obviously way off from every other poll on the subject.
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Okay, let's give CNN the benefit of the doubt for no reason whatsoever.
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I think what they mean is not what the mainstream media thinks they mean.
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The mainstream media thinks it means that the American people have finally turned on Trump
00:39:54.960
and we're going to kick him out, and now this way Hillary is going to be president again somehow
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What the mainstream media think is this is evidence of a public opinion change
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I think what it means is that nobody is paying attention anymore.
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hey, should there be witnesses at the impeachment trial?
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And I suspect people think, yeah, I guess there are witnesses at a trial.
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do we really believe that the president ought to be removed,
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Democrats are desperate for anything, even remotely impeachable.
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So they're just saying, please, if we have a hundred more witnesses,
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maybe one of them will give us something that's impeachable.
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Well, Republicans want the process to seem fair
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and it just seems like witnesses should be present at trials, doesn't it?
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Pelosi wants to seem like she's giving her base their money's worth
00:41:15.940
Maybe they want witnesses because they want to drag out this impeachment trial
00:41:18.820
because impeachment's been very good for Trump's approval numbers.
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Plus you could get Hunter Biden up there on the stand
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and that would be absolutely freaking hilarious
00:41:33.460
and he will expose more corruption from his father.
00:41:35.780
However, however, what's the argument against witnesses?
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And I think what the White House is looking at now is they say,
00:41:50.820
This impeachment thing could not have worked out better for them than it has.
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And I think what the White House and maybe Mitch McConnell are thinking is
00:41:56.760
you got to know when to hold them, know when to fold them,
00:42:02.540
And they maybe want to just cash out their money and say,
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Because, you know, in the 90s, during the Clinton impeachment,
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there was an organization founded called MoveOn.org.
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It's one of the most prominent left-wing organizations.
00:42:18.820
And what people don't remember is that MoveOn referred to the Clinton impeachment.
00:42:32.480
Democrats who were against Clinton's impeachment are now for Trump's impeachment
00:42:39.040
This is the problem with a long career in politics.
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Eventually, you're going to look like a hypocrite.
00:42:47.240
How can you avoid the trouble that Democrats and Republicans are now in?
00:42:50.980
Avoid sweeping abstractions and generalizations about politics.
00:42:58.160
It's just different when it's your guy or the other guy, and we can all be honest about that,
00:43:01.740
and at least then we're not being insincere, and have a little bit of a sense of humor about it.
00:43:06.440
The Media Research Center, again, you know, the guys who do newsbusters,
00:43:09.480
they dug up the mainstream media reaction to the suggestion of calling more witnesses
00:43:16.220
and you're going to be shocked to find out that it was a little different than their reaction in the Trump impeachment.
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The House acted improperly in passing it on to the Senate.
00:43:32.860
Why go through all this business about witnesses?
00:43:44.280
Will these people just get down to business and leave this impeachment thing alone?
00:43:47.980
It's going to be an enormous distraction to the White House
00:43:51.240
and all kinds of issues that the Congress ought to be considering.
00:43:53.540
There's a long line of the people's business that seems to have been put aside
00:43:58.280
and apparently is going to be put aside for weeks, if not months now.
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God Almighty, take the vote and get it over with.
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and you could listen to it for another five years probably,
00:44:22.260
I think in the interest of both parties, frankly,
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I think it's hurting Democrats' numbers the longer this drags out,
00:44:32.540
and making us a little too complacent about 2020 the longer we drag this out.
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And obviously, President Trump wants to accomplish more of his agenda.
00:44:42.080
and a partisan impeachment doesn't matter anyway.
00:44:44.940
Before we go, I've got to talk about some great news for the pro-life cause.
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Really, really great news ahead of the March for Life.
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Scientists who have been researching the question of fetal pain,
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You're almost cutting the amount of time in half now.
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that pre-born babies could feel pain that early
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and now says that that assumption is likely incorrect.
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And they've just written in the very influential
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that to carry on with abortions up until 24 weeks,
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on whether or not you're allowed to kill that person.
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It's unbelievable that we have to make these arguments.
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Now to the tune of a million a year in this country.
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The March for Life is not a philosophical debate.
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Going all the way back to the first story today,
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that people who want to keep their civil rights