Ep. 497 - The Bully Pulpit
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Summary
The left has long blamed President Trump for just about every political problem under the sun. They ve blamed him for the sun itself, and how much it s heating our planet. That s par for the course. But Trump derangement syndrome has now progressed to so advanced a stage that the American left is now blaming Trump for schoolyard bullying. We ll examine who the real bullies are and how they get away with it.
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The left has long blamed President Trump for just about every political problem under the sun.
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They've blamed him for the sun itself and how much it's heating our planet.
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But Trump derangement syndrome has now progressed to so advanced a stage
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that the American left is blaming President Trump for schoolyard bullying.
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We will examine who the real bullies are and how they get away with it.
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Then postmodern Pete Buttigieg declares that words have no meaning.
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Everyone comes out as queer and President Trump pardons a couple of jailbirds.
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I'm Michael Knowles and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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That's what our terrible, rotten president is doing.
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Washington Post just runs a huge article, news article.
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Quote, the president's rhetoric has changed the way hundreds of children are harassed in
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First of all, whenever I hear the Post found, I start to discount it.
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Then we're talking about a survey of hundreds of children when 50 million children in America
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go to public school and many more children go to private school and homeschool.
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Two kindergartners in Utah told a Latino boy that President Trump would send him back to
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And teenagers in Maine sneered ban Muslims at a classmate wearing a hijab.
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In Tennessee, a group of middle schoolers linked arms, imitating the president's proposed border
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wall as they refused to let non-white students pass.
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In Ohio, another group of middle schoolers surrounded a mixed race sixth grader.
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And as she confided to her mother, told the girl, this is Trump country.
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Since Trump's rise to the nation's highest office, his inflammatory language, often condemned
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By the Post, of course, goes on, has seeped into schools across America.
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Many bullies now target other children differently than they used to, with kids as young as six
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mimicking the president's insults and the cruel way he delivers them.
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I think that this article was just as likely written out of the constantly revolving fiction
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in its writers' minds as it did from speaking to any school children.
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Maybe some children are being bullied in America.
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There has always been bullying for the entire history of schools.
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So I guess that wouldn't be any different in Trump's America as it would be.
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The left is so deranged by Donald Trump that they are now blaming him for schoolyard bullying.
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By the way, before we get into why this is such BS, by the way, just as a statistical matter,
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schoolyard bullying is actually down and it's actually down significantly.
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That's obviously a pretty difficult measurement to take.
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However, in so much as we can take those measurements and much more scientifically than the Post calling some people around the country,
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there is a study that came out of the U.S. Department of Education.
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A recent study just showed the percentage of students reporting that they have been bullied has dropped by more than a third over the last 10 years.
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So bullying has not increased because of Trump.
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It's not a new epidemic invented under Donald Trump.
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Schoolyard bullying is actually down by about 33 percent.
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Look, the left is going to attack Donald Trump for anything and if they can't find anything, they'll make something up.
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But this question of bullying is pretty important because I think bullying defines a lot of our politics today, just not in the way that The Washington Post says it does.
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Some of Bernie Sanders' supporters have been accused of bullying.
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What our people are involved in, we are a campaign which believes in compassion, which believes in justice.
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So I don't tolerate ugly attacks against anybody.
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Talk to the people in my campaign, often the African-American women in this campaign.
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Talk to my wife about the kind of ugly attacks that have come in to us.
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So right now, which is a very serious national problem, we have an Internet, which is essentially the Wild West.
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Somebody could say, hey, I'm Anderson Cooper and Zippo say some ugly things.
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At the very end, Bernie Sanders is implicitly denying that his campaign is engaging in any bullying.
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He's saying, look, the Internet's a crazy place.
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A lot of people can pretend to be a lot of people.
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The implication being people are pretending to be my supporters.
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Never mind, by the way, that James O'Keefe at Project Veritas caught Bernie Sanders campaign workers on video saying that once the revolution happens,
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they're going to send all the conservatives to the gulag, that they're going to line them up on a wall and shoot them.
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Never mind that we can see examples of Bernie Sanders supporters saying they're going to burn Milwaukee to the ground if he doesn't get the nomination.
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Never mind the left's bullying tactics as a matter of course.
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But when you get past the rhetoric, when you get past the Washington Post newspaper, when you get past the CNN debate stage,
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you see that bullying is the defining tactic of the left.
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We'll get to that in a second with one particularly disturbing scene that came out of Ohio University over the last couple of days.
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That is right now probably the defining feature of the left.
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Look no further than a video that just came out of Ohio University yesterday from the conservative
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Caitlin Bennett walks into Ohio University, mobs and mobs of people throwing things at
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And my favorite moment of it is when some SJW gets in her face, crazed, hysterical, steam
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coming out of her ears, and screams, you don't understand oppression.
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I just think, and look, I don't really know anybody very well who's in that video, but
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I think the woman screaming, you don't understand oppression, I suspect she does not understand
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We had to bleep out a lot of that video just because of all this crazy expletives and people
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From a quick Google search, it would appear that people on the internet have very strong
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Regardless of what your opinion is, if you're on the right, left, or center, just actually
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take her out of it for a second or just replace her with a kind of like totally neutral figure
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Look at all the leftists screaming, degrading themselves, whipping themselves up into a frenzy.
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She took a photo in high school holding an AR-15 and somehow this became publicized and
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Took a picture holding a gun and now she makes videos as a conservative activist.
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She's a fairly petite young lady and you've got these mobs of people, men, women, giant
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people kind of swarming around her, vandalizing her friend's car.
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It happens to conservatives all over the country.
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There's obviously a lot of professional bullying.
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That's why people in big tech, why people in academia, why people in corporate America
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hide their political views because they know that if they voice their political views,
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There's a story across the pond out of the United Kingdom saying that the National Health
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Service is able to deny non-emergency care to people who make transphobic comments, whatever
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You don't go along with the latest leftist ideological fad.
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And of course, there's the political bullying, which we see all the time.
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And we see it from left-wingers who now want to make certain forms of thought effectively
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Now, I want to make sure that we get to some of these candidates on the Democratic side
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because Bernie Sanders says our campaign's about love.
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His whole campaign is saying you can't do this.
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The class of people he used to vilify was the millionaires and the billionaires.
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Now, it's just the billionaires because Bernie Sanders became a millionaire.
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But all of these guys, the whole ideology is based on bullying.
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Now, the Democrats are trying to tell us that there is a radical lane and a moderate
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The moderate lane is actually pretty radical itself.
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Pete Buttigieg showed up and he told us once and for all there is no moderate lane in this
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race because Pete Buttigieg came out and said that DACA, dreamers, illegal aliens, whatever
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you want to call them, are just as American as Americans.
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Do you believe that DACA deserves a protective plan to maintain DACA permanently?
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And I want you to know that I see you as an American, that you belong to this country
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You're not only contributing to your community, you're a taxpayer too.
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And it is one of the reasons it is so important to secure the benefits of citizenship for you.
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So yes, in the meantime, we must reinstate and establish DACA protections.
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But this is also why we must no longer have this hanging over your head and actually solve
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with a pathway to citizenship in which you are among the first to ensure that that uncertainty
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is cleared up because, you know, and again, the American people overwhelmingly agree that
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And it's a low priority for the ones who want to do it.
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He wants illegal aliens to be able to become citizens.
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I mean, he might as well have said more importantly, I want you to know that I see you as a future
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democratic voter just as much as he could say, I see you as an American.
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The radicalism here, though, is not even on the amnesty.
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You know, you're, you're as American as anybody else.
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If foreign nationals are as American as anybody, then the word American has no meaning.
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If the word American can refer to Americans and not Americans, then there's no meaning to
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It's, it's sort of like how we talk about the redefinition of man and woman.
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So man now means a person who is not a woman and also sometimes a person who is a woman,
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So the word man has no meaning and the word woman has no meaning.
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That kind of radicalism that the word American can mean not American too.
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On the one hand, it means there is no chance that the Democrats are going to nominate a
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We'll get to why Bloomberg is not really a moderate either.
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As of now, Buttigieg is the leading moderate and he is nothing of the sort.
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Buttigieg is not just your average hike your taxes kind of radical or soak the rich kind
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Pete Buttigieg is a words no longer have meaning kind of radical.
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And the left is increasingly embracing this kind of radicalism.
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So they're not just saying, hey, we're going to take our policies in a more extreme direction.
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They're actually saying words don't mean anything.
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American means whatever I say it wants to mean.
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The one place you see this most clearly, I think, the one word they've defined into nothing,
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is actually one of their terms that they like to promote.
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Rosario Dawson, the actress who was allegedly dating Cory Booker, but only while he was running
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And now it's very unclear what they're, if they're dating or not.
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She said, quote, people keep saying that I came out.
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I mean, it's not accurate, but I never did come out, come out.
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So it's never felt like an authentic calling to me.
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I know that's a very mealy-mouthed, vague and confusing statement.
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But when you break down what she's actually saying, it's pretty shocking.
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She says, people say a long time ago, I declared myself a lesbian or gay or transgender or bisexual
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or some part of the gender and sexual alphabet.
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But also, I've never had an LGBTQ, LMNOP relationship.
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So it's never felt like an authentic calling to me.
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So she's saying, I've never had a queer relationship.
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Replace the term queer with the older euphemism, gay.
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If I came out and said, hey, I've never had an intimate sexual relationship with a man.
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This actress came out as queer recently because she was cast in an LGBT show.
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And she got a lot of flack for this because they said, you're not LGBT.
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And then she just came out and said, no, I am queer.
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And how dare you force me to come out of the closet as queer.
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But Jamila Jamil is not queer by any meaningful sexual definition of queer.
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I don't, as a straight man, I don't know if I'm permitted to use the term hot guy.
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But what I do know is that this actress, who's now conveniently coming out as queer,
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How is it possible that Cory Booker's girlfriend and Jamila and James Blake's girlfriend can
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both come out as queer, even though they're dating men?
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The word queer doesn't have any specific sexual meaning.
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The word queer is just a means of claiming power.
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It does not refer, I know it's considered a sexual term.
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It's the Q in LGBTQ, but it is not a sexual term.
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If straight people can be queer, it's not a sexual term.
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If non-Americans can be Americans, right, then we're not referring to what we think we're
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The left simply uses these terms to claim power.
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For the left, American does not have any national meaning, does not imply citizenship in a country.
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So for the left, they think people that I like, people that I think will benefit me,
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I will call them American, whether or not they are American citizens or not.
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When it is convenient to me to call myself queer, I will call myself queer.
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That doesn't necessarily have to imply any sexual meaning.
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It's all about my desires and I can change it at any given time.
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Mayor Pete, postmodern Pete Buttigieg applies the same principle to the word Christian.
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So that was the other highlight of last night's CNN debate, is that we got a return of good
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old Pastor Pete, going to, he takes all the moralizing, Bible-thumping, judgmental aspects
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of Christianity and just distills them down into this kind of leftist pseudo-religion.
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Pastor Pete goes around and tells people how, what terrible Christians they are.
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Specifically, he criticized unsubtly the Christians who support President Trump.
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I won't be afraid to talk about how my positions are informed by my faith.
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So, you know, to the point you talk about, about God not belonging to any kind of a political
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party, at the last CNN town hall, you said, if your faith calls upon you to help the marginalized,
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those who are afflicted, to comfort, to comfort people, to strive for humility and decency,
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And then, I quote you, then, I just can't imagine that that requires of you that you
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Do you think it is impossible to be a Christian and support President Trump?
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Well, I'm not going to tell other Christians how to be Christians.
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But I will say, I cannot find any compatibility between the way this president conducts himself
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Now, I guess that's my interpretation, but I think that's a lot of people's interpretation,
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It's just so weird that the most pro-life president in American history, who constantly is defending
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people's freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, unlike his predecessor, and who
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has been uncommonly honest in office, meaning that he does more of what he says he will do
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than any of his predecessors, at least in my lifetime, it's so weird that Christians might
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like that guy, especially when he's running against the party that is running on the sacramental
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view of abortion, killing babies up until the moment they're born, and in some cases, even
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The party that is running on redefining marriage beyond any sort of coherence.
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The party that says America is a rotten, no good, terrible place.
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The party that is embracing a radical secularism.
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The party that is now, in many ways, worshiping the sun.
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I can't, oh man, I can't believe Christians would support that guy.
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You know, the other, the other great advantage that President Trump has, by the way, is not
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constantly preening and prattling on and spouting heresy and criticizing Christians.
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Christians wrongly about what terrible people they are and belittling them for their faith.
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I think that might be why some Christians prefer President Trump to Pete Buttigieg.
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And, and you, by the way, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting because most Christians
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His worst feature is when Buttigieg goes out and egregiously misinterprets the Bible.
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One would have to conclude he's sort of intentionally doing it.
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Just to use one example, Pete Buttigieg was on radio when he was interpreting the Bible
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and, and said that he found in the Bible somewhere, I'm not sure where, a, a great defense of abortion.
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He said, the way he, he tried to defend this, he said, in the Bible, there's such an emphasis
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And so it just, when I think about babies, I think that before they take their first breath,
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it's totally fine to, uh, mash them up and vacuum them out and chop them up with scissors.
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I'm not, I'm, I'm making more clear what he said, but the conclusion is exactly the same.
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Obviously not biblical, egregious, heretical, blasphemous, terrible thing to say.
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And yet you don't see the right regularly going out there and haranguing Pete for his personal
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behavior, saying you're a terrible, awful, no good, rotten, fake Christian, whatever he's,
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You don't see the right bullying Pete Buttigieg very much.
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You do see him, uh, wrongly, uncredibly, incredibly bullying Christians on the right.
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And, you know, people have been going after Mike Bloomberg for these videos that have been
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cropping up, videos from his past when, when he was mayor of New York.
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And they're saying it's evidence that Mike Bloomberg is a racial bigot.
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I don't think there's evidence Mike Bloomberg is a racial bigot.
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But I do think some of these old videos are damning for his campaign.
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Of course we spend most of our health care resources during the last few years of life.
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But this is, this line that the left always uses is taken as evidence that, oh gosh, if
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we could only kill people five years before they would otherwise die, think of all the
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Again, Mike Bloomberg throwing granny off a cliff.
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You know, it's so frustrating as a conservative because 10 years ago when guys like Paul Ryan
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and the kind of reformacon fiscal hawk guys, when they were proposing entitlement reform,
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They said, they, they ran ads on television, which said that Paul Ryan was trying to throw
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granny off a cliff because he wanted to slightly tweak social security.
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He wanted to make a few adjustments to Medicare entitlements for people who are 50 years old
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now, but you know, for when they get to be 65 and this was considered killing grandma.
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Now you have the surging moderate candidate in the race come out and say, yeah, we're going
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to, we're going to kill elderly people so that we can keep more money for ourselves.
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It also proves something that the left or that the right was mocked for, for a decade,
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So you remember when Obamacare came out, conservatives said Obamacare is, includes a provision of death
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And what was meant by death panels was a government board that was appointed to determine whether
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And if you did get healthcare, then I guess you got to live or you had a good chance of
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And if you didn't get healthcare, then you were going to die.
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Conservatives dubbed these death panels and the left mocked us for it roundly.
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What do you think Mike Bloomberg is describing?
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He said, elderly people are going to come in and then experts like me are going to decide
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based on how old they are or whether we like the cut of their jib, whether or not they
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You know, I don't think that when Mike Bloomberg talks about crime rates, that he's exhibiting
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I don't think he's a racist or a sexist or anything like that.
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But I don't think he respects people very much.
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And I don't think he respects the people that he governs.
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I think he's a nanny state liberal scold technocrat who has a very, very poor understanding of
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life and the philosophical issues that undergird our politics.
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And I think he's just a kind of technical expert who wants to make markets more efficient.
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And if you want to make it really efficient, you got to kill people five years before they
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And okay, makes sense that that totally computes, right?
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This is why Bloomberg would be a very bad president.
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It's also why Bloomberg is a pretty bad candidate.
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It's also why there's no moderate in this race.
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There is nothing moderate about killing granny.
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So Joe Biden falling apart, and he was running to the left even before he did fall apart,
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reverses his position on the Hyde Amendment, says that now people who are pro-lifers need
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to use their money to fund abortions and not just any kind of abortion, late term abortions
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Joe Biden then comes out and says, illegal aliens are just as American as anybody.
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The same line that Pete Buttigieg said last night, a line which means that words don't have
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And then you have Mike Bloomberg, the last moderate left, who says that we've got to
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kill people before they cost us too much money.
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You know, we started the show on the Washington Post accusing Trump of being responsible for
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The left always accuses the right of what the left itself does.
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I mean, there's no greater bullying than telling someone they got to die and you've got all
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I mean, that's a pretty extreme form of political bullying.
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And what's funny is you get this very hard line politics on the left.
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And increasingly, you're seeing a little bit of a softer politics on the right, because
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yesterday, President Trump sprung a couple jailbirds from the clink.
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There were two major pardons that President Trump announced yesterday.
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He pardoned Bernie Carrick, who was a New York police commissioner under Giuliani.
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He was serving during 9-11, kind of a hero in New York.
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And Rod Blagojevich, the former Democratic governor of Illinois, who tried to sell Barack
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Obama's Senate seat after Obama was elected president.
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And Trump decided to pardon Bernie Carrick and to commute the sentence of Rod Blagojevich.
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So he didn't pardon Blagojevich, but he said that he can get out of jail.
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And I think he was supposed to serve another six years in prison.
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It's ironic because all the left ever seems to want is decriminalization.
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The people who want decriminalization of everything are now furious that Trump pardoned a hero
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cop who cheated on his taxes, who's like relatively a pretty good guy.
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They're furious that President Trump used his constitutional pardon power to do this.
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And they're furious that Trump pardoned one of their own guys, the former Democratic governor
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So how should conservatives feel about this, beyond the irony of left-wing contradictions
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On the one hand, people should pay their debt to society and people should stay in prison.
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On the other hand, the Constitution gives the president the pardon power for a reason.
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The presidential pardon power is entirely legitimate.
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It's right there, clear as day in the Constitution.
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And part of this is because, I was just listening to a homily from my priest, the great father
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There's obviously a balance that must be had here.
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And so President Trump is using that balancing power that the Constitution gives him.
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And so now Blagojevich's family gets to be happy.
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It's nice that his kids and his wife get to see Blagojevich.
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Bernie Carrick doesn't need to rot in a cell anymore.
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The real question here is, why did President Trump do it?
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And here's, I think, why conservatives should be particularly okay with the pardons.
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What was the legal news that was dominating the headlines?
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The legal news dominating the headlines was that former Trump campaign advisor Roger Stone
00:38:53.980
is going to be sentenced maybe to nine years in prison for the unforgivable crime of working
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And they caught him on lying to Congress, a few things like that.
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Then there was word that the DOJ was going to try to reduce that sentence.
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Then Bill Barr came in and said, President Trump stopped tweeting about this.
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Then there were calls for investigations of corruption that Trump is interfering in a criminal case.
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And Trump completely knocked that out of the news.
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Just listen to the press conference that Trump gave.
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It was a prosecution by the same people, Comey, Fitzpatrick, the same group, very far from
00:39:43.960
They rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform.
00:39:52.160
So he'll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail.
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That was a tremendously powerful, ridiculous sentence, in my opinion.
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He's specifically talking about Blagojevich here.
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Because Trump pardoning Bernie Carrick, who served under a Republican and served under a
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Republican who's close to him, Rudy Giuliani, that's not huge news.
00:40:14.860
It's him commuting the sentence of Rob Blagojevich.
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As a defense, he's reminding people that there were these kind of illegitimate investigations
00:40:39.500
He just used it to kick the bar and stone stuff out of the news and to remind people,
00:40:45.260
that the Democratic Party and the left perverted the wheels of justice to go after President
00:40:52.080
And he wants to be able to flip that narrative.
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I don't see any other explanation for his doing what he was doing.
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I don't particularly care about Rob Blagojevich.
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But the president has the legitimate power to do that.
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Now, in other news on great justice around the world, Jeff Bezos, richest man in the
00:41:12.740
world, head of Amazon and the Washington Post, is giving $10 million to fight climate change.
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He posted it on Instagram, big picture of the earth.
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I think Jeff Bezos makes that about every 30 seconds.
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But still, it's a lot of money for most of us mere mortals.
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Now, of course, Jeff Bezos also owns a Gulfstream G650ER private jet.
00:41:38.760
Jeff Bezos flies that jet reportedly 12 times per month.
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His company, Amazon's carbon footprint, contributed more to greenhouse gas emissions in 2018 than
00:41:52.740
Well, so it doesn't seem like he's exactly practicing what he's talking about, other
00:41:58.640
than he gives, he writes a check, but then he keeps up all these practices that allegedly
00:42:05.300
LaRouche-Foucault said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue.
00:42:09.160
But I wonder if right here it's just a little bit of PR or if it's a little bit of empty
00:42:16.980
If it's, you know, the parallels between global warming and religion have been pretty clear.
00:42:29.660
You've got the sale of indulgences in the form of carbon tax credits even.
00:42:33.860
NBC News last year created a confessional for the climate.
00:42:38.380
You could go onto its website and anonymously give your climate confessions like you were
00:42:53.520
And so in the olden days, if Jeff Bezos wanted some good PR, he would have donated to the
00:42:59.320
But now the modern secular religion is global warming.
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And it just brought home to me a tweet that started to go viral the other night from a
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And the tweet said this, it said, Christianity, belief that one God created a universe 13.79
00:43:17.660
billion years old, 93 billion light years in diameter, consisting of over 200 billion
00:43:22.740
galaxies, each containing an average of 200 billion stars, only to have a personal relationship
00:43:29.920
Which, yeah, more or less a pretty good description of Christianity.
00:43:35.140
God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whoever believeth in him might
00:43:45.340
But I responded to this tweet and I pointed out that atheism is this belief that everything
00:43:55.740
Like we were talking about earlier, words don't have any meaning.
00:44:01.100
And we can't rely on any sort of objective reality.
00:44:11.940
Atheism, the theory that everything is physical and everything that is not physical doesn't
00:44:15.980
Except of course for the non-physical argument for atheism.
00:44:27.140
And someone said to me, you know, Michael, look, there are hundreds of gods.
00:44:31.420
I just happen to believe in one fewer god than you do.
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The difference between monotheism and polytheism is a difference in kind.
00:44:42.600
It's not just that monotheists have one god, you know, some fewer gods than the polytheists.
00:44:48.240
It's that polytheism or paganism or pantheism or whatever you want to describe is fundamentally
00:44:54.980
different than monotheism, which posits a god outside of time and space who created all
00:45:02.320
But on another level, what this guy is saying is, I believe in one fewer god than you.
00:45:08.760
My experience of atheists, having been an atheist for a while myself, is that it's not that
00:45:15.260
atheists believe in one fewer god than monotheists.
00:45:18.700
It's that they believe in many more gods than monotheists because they don't root their
00:45:23.580
belief in a god who is outside of time and space.
00:45:25.980
And so they are given to all of the tempting gods of this world.
00:45:31.540
Money, power, fame, sex, especially sex these days.
00:45:37.260
Ego, pride, the idea that you can redefine words to mean whatever you want them to mean.
00:45:42.280
Like Humpty Dumpty and in Through the Looking Glass in Alice in Wonderland.
00:45:49.020
And it goes to this fundamental worship of the creation, which we see in global warming.
00:45:59.720
Obviously, Jeff Bezos is buying into that false religion and the creation meaning ourselves.
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And that I think you're seeing broadly throughout the secular left.
00:46:13.200
Justice Kennedy wrote that in the Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision in the early 1990s.
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He said that we have a right to define reality for ourselves.
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And of course, the Democratic candidates running for president right now say we can define what
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That is the great conservative consolation as we were talking about yesterday.
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