Ep. 602 - Democracy On The Guillotine
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Democracy is on the ballot, and you only have one choice. That doesn t sound like democracy to me, and I don t think that's a good one. Plus, I try on a new shirt from Buttercloth, and it's the softest I've ever worn.
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You thought this election was going to be between Trump and Biden.
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You didn't realize that there's a third option on that ballot.
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That this election, democracy, is going to be on the ballot.
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This, in the words of every single Democratic official, up to and including Joe Biden.
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Decency, science, democracy, they're all on the ballot.
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Who we are as a nation, what we stand for, and most importantly, who we want to be, that's all on the ballot.
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Democracy is on the ballot, and you only have one choice.
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My favorite comment from Thursday comes from Justin, who says,
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Stacey Abrams has had a long and storied political career.
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Because, as you know, Stacey Abrams is the governor of Georgia,
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and then she became the running mate for Joe Biden.
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And I think, actually, she's just already been elected president.
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Pretty soon, she's going to be the head of the UN.
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I mean, the world is her oyster in make-believe land.
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Actually, that has a lot of bearing on what we're talking about today.
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Because we keep talking about democracy, democracy being on the ballot,
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Increasingly, we're just sort of play-acting self-government.
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But actually, all the government happens somewhere else,
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And even our elections, we're told, only have one legitimate answer to them.
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Which, last time I checked, is not how democracy works.
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I don't think that this election is about democracy so much.
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In a sense, democracy is on the ballot because you've got one candidate,
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look, the government bureaucracy, the establishment has taken way too much power.
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Then you've got another party that says, absolutely not.
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I think that Black Lives Matter is actually much more honest than Joe Biden.
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Black Lives Matter says that if you don't vote for us, we're going to kill you.
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Here is a Black Lives Matter activist explaining her demands.
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This is our city, our city, and we're taking this s**t back, point blank, period.
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And I feel like I've been saying this too much.
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We're telling you what's about to happen with your permission or not.
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I unfortunately was not at the action yesterday.
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I was actually taking a day between this organizing because it's taxing work, because we are kids
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And I took a day to myself to wake up to find out that my friends are being abused by the
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It's run over, but that's sort of a side point.
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I think actually what she's saying, though ungrammatical, is completely honest.
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And it's actually the same thing that Democrats are saying.
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I think right now what the Democratic Party, especially the Biden part of the party, wants
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They're saying, give us exactly what we want or we're just going to take it from you.
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We're going to pretend that this is democratic choice.
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We're going to pretend that you can go and actually voice your opinion on politics.
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Because if you vote for Trump, if accidentally Trump gets elected, we're just going to spend
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We're going to use the administrative government to undermine him.
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We're going to impeach him over Russia or we're going to impeach him over taxes or we're
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going to impeach him over Ukraine, which is a war with Russia.
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We're just, give us what we want or get run over.
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Actually, that woman in the clip says, we're kids.
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She's behaving like a kid, but she looks grown up.
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Joe Biden certainly doesn't look like a kid, but he's behaving like one.
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Hillary Clinton doesn't look like a kid, but she's behaving like one.
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The issue here is whether or not we can have self-government.
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To have self-government, you have to be willing to lose sometimes.
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You have to be willing to give some power to the people.
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This is why, if you go back to the Civil War, right, the issue with, there are many issues
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in the Civil War, but the reason why secession actually happened, why the war kicked off is
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because you had one side saying we cannot have self-government.
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If you can have secession, then you can't have self-government because it means that as long
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as you win, as long as you get everything you want, then you'll stay part of the union.
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And there's no way a free government can exist that way.
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People are trying to make the case that Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders are very different,
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You've got the Biden side of the party and the Sanders side of the party.
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Barack Obama made this point, and I think he's right.
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If you look at Joe Biden's goals and Bernie Sanders's goals, they're not that different from
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a 40,000-foot level, said Barack Obama to the New Yorker.
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They both want to make sure—I'll do it in my Obama voice—they both want to make sure
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They want to make sure everybody can get a job that pays a living wage.
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They want to make sure every child gets a good education.
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Okay, I think he's putting a little bit of a gloss on what they both want, but the fact
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that he's saying from a 40,000-foot level it's the same thing is absolutely correct.
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From a 40,000-foot level, what the Democratic Party wants and BLM wants is the same thing.
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Because they both share the same vision of politics and history.
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They both—and it's the same vision Obama shares, which is the arc of history bends
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You can be on the right side of history or the wrong side of history.
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Look, we're all going to move toward a socialist utopia eventually where we diminish the role
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of national governments and sovereignty and move toward a larger international government.
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That's eventually—we know that's going to happen.
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The only question is, do you do it quickly like Bernie Sanders wants?
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Or do you do it a little more slowly like Joe Biden wants?
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Or do you do it a little bit more slowly than that like most Republicans want?
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I say that actually the entire left and a segment of the right don't really believe in
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And one of the few weirdos who does is Donald Trump, who doesn't just go along to get along
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with the administrative government, with this view of history that is always progressing
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We're in the dictatorship of the lab coats here, where all of our political rights are
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now being dictated to us by people that we didn't elect, like the exalted Dr. Fauci.
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He says, I've got a big announcement coming at 530.
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The announcement is that there's a breakthrough in COVID treatment.
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But I think it's of secondary importance to how this breakthrough was arrived at.
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The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization, and that's such a powerful term, emergency use
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This is a powerful therapy that transfuses very, very strong antibodies from the blood of recovered patients to help treat patients battling a current infection.
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Today's action will dramatically expand access to this treatment.
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And I want to thank Dr. Hahn and Secretary Azar.
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I want to thank the FDA, all of the people that have been working very hard on this.
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You have the duly elected president of the United States announcing with glee an announcement that one of his administrative agencies has made.
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He's so excited that an administrative agency has made this breakthrough.
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But why doesn't he have more control over that administrative agency?
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You know, this announcement comes just a day or so after President Trump announces on Twitter that the deep state at the FDA is not allowing him to pursue progress on this issue
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because they want to basically keep the country locked down until November.
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Regardless of the merits of that, of the actual scientific discoveries that are being undertaken, the question is one of political power.
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Why is there such a gap between the FDA and Trump, who's theoretically the boss of the FDA?
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The White House Chief of Staff, Mark Meadows, explains exactly what's going on.
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Mark Meadows explains why it's been so hard to wrangle the administrative agencies.
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He explains on George Stephanopoulos' show that there is a deep state in the government.
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What evidence does the president have that the FDA is manipulating this process, this
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I don't think he said they were manipulating it.
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I've been personally involved in this, so I'll be glad to tell you.
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As we look at the protocols, and Dr. Hahn was very right to say we're not going to cut
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any corners because we're not cutting any corners.
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But what we have is we have a China virus that came here.
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And the president, each and every day, is saying, why don't we have an answer today?
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And so what happens is that we continue to look at some of the trials and what's happening.
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And we want to wear a belt and suspenders the way that some of these bureaucrats want
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They want to do things the way they've always done it.
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Trump tweets out, quote, the deep state or whoever over at the FDA is making it very difficult
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for drug companies to get people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics.
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Obviously, they're hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd.
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My focus on speed and saving lives, or we must focus on speed and saving lives.
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There are bureaucrats right now who are trying to delay things until November 3rd.
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You have whole school districts that say they're going to open on November 6th, right?
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Basically, they're going to keep this whole shit down until the election, make everybody
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Other places around the world opening up, it's just not an issue anymore in this politicized
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But other countries around the world don't have a very important presidential election coming
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There's a huge political incentive to keep the country locked down.
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But Stephanopoulos then asks what I think is a perfectly natural follow-up question if you're not that
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Stephanopoulos is familiar with the government.
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So I think from him, it's a little disingenuous.
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But the question is, if Trump's not happy with the FDA, why doesn't he just fire them?
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One, even if you fire the head of the FDA, you've still got the whole entity.
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You've still got the whole administration here.
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And the simple fact is, the president can barely fire federal employees.
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It's extraordinarily difficult to fire federal employees, even though they work for Trump.
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This is a process that's been building for 100 years now.
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Except it's not really shadow in that we know it exists.
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And even the president of the United States, the leader of the free world, can't get total control over it.
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You know, people always say, Trump's got to get off Twitter.
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Why are, if you even look outside of Trump, why are all these congressmen and senators and governors,
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why do they go on television all the time instead of doing their job?
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Well, it's because actually communicating is pretty much the only tool left to them.
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Because so much of government has been outsourced to the administrative state.
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Because the duly elected president of the United States can barely change his garden without people losing their minds that he's usurping power.
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She took 10 crabapple trees that were part of Jackie Kennedy's design back in the 60s.
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And she moved them from the garden to another part of the White House grounds.
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And she did this because the trees had grown so much that they were casting too much shadow on other parts and it was messing up part of the garden.
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This is not exactly, you know, World War III here, right?
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This is not exactly nuclear negotiations with North Korea.
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Think about how desiccated our view of politics is.
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You know, one issue we get into as conservatives is we always say we want more limited government.
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Because we've got our political process and then we've got this kind of government that actually isn't that open to the political process.
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We want that government that's not at all accountable.
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We want them to do less and stop regulating every single little aspect of our lives.
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We do want to be able to voice our opinion and have that opinion actually matter in politics.
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I think a lot of the Donald Trump election in 2016 is people saying our voice is not being heard in politics.
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Even when we elect the people who are running ostensibly on our program, they get into office, they don't do anything.
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And they don't do anything not just because they're lazy, though never underestimate the laziness of politicians.
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They don't do anything because they actually can't do anything.
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And so people get a little frustrated and want to work outside of the main framework.
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Frankly, I think this is true in some ways of Black Lives Matter.
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Black Lives Matter is a Marxist organization that is utterly antithetical to America, which we'll get into in just one second.
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But they are expressing that same kind of frustration.
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And all I know is there are historical parallels here to very difficult times in American history where you see the country kind of unraveling.
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And the only way that you're going to be able to let some of the steam out of that is to give people more of a say in their government.
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Because now on both sides of the aisle, people feel that they have no say.
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You want to hear that democracy is on the ballot.
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Democracy is on the guillotine, quite literally on the guillotine in Portland.
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The Portland riots still going on, still causing absolute mayhem.
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Portland is at this point essentially a failed state.
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So the protesters now, again, I've got to give them credit, like BLM, like some more radical parts of the Democratic coalition, they're being honest about their views.
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They're now wheeling a guillotine into the middle of their demonstration.
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We've been calling them these Jacobin revolutionaries for a while now.
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So they've got the mechanism of radical revolution.
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An American flag, which they set on fire and then they guillotined, which seems like overkill to me.
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Black Lives Matter is the chant of burning the American flag.
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Because the premise of Black Lives Matter is on the most shallow level that America is an evil country that's hopelessly racist that can never be redeemed.
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And we need to overthrow the government and overthrow the traditional society.
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And then when you look a little bit more deeply into it, you see the founders actually say, we are trained Marxists.
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We want to obliterate all of the American institutions.
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And then the flag is a symbol of the whole country.
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This is why it was so egregious when Colin Kaepernick decided to protest the flag.
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Because he's not just protesting some aspect of America.
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He's protesting the whole damn thing, which they're now doing.
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Setting it ablaze, putting it on the chopping block in Portland.
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And I think they're expressing the view throughout the entire country.
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Probably the only place that you're hearing about what's actually going on in Portland is perhaps on this show.
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And the reason the Colin Kaepernick protest, it bothered me because I love my country.
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But it also bothered me because it was so incoherent.
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Colin Kaepernick said, I have a First Amendment right in America granted to me in this Constitution.
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And so I'm going to use that right to burn the symbol of the country that gives me that First Amendment right.
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Same thing with putting the flag in a guillotine, right?
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You can't say, I'm using my free expression to burn the flag.
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Remember the press, the great defenders of democracy?
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They agree with BLM, which is that our democracy is at stake and you only have one choice.
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He comes out at the press briefing and he wishes them well on the convention that they just had.
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Hope you had a great weekend at your convention.
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You heard Ryan Lizza, this left-wing journalist who said, Barack Obama's convention speech is the greatest convention speech ever since his last one, which was so great.
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And his first convention speech wasn't that great either.
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Do you remember the first one that gave Barack Obama a national political career?
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This is the most brilliant Periclean line in the whole speech.
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It's like I'm listening to Abraham Lincoln or something.
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And the same thing happened at this Democratic National Convention.
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I think I mentioned this on the show last week.
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It's not going to be tax reform or anything like that.
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It's going to be exposing the press as part of the Democratic Party.
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And even beyond, the Democratic Party even is just one constituency of it.
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What we're really talking about is a liberal establishment that includes the Democratic Party.
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It includes these terrorists on the street, BLM and Antifa.
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That's the military wing of the liberal establishment.
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You've got the administrative government of the liberal establishment.
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They're the ones actually passing all of the laws, totally unaccountable.
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And then you've got the media, which is the propaganda wing of the liberal establishment.
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The communications director of the DNC is not the propaganda wing of the liberal establishment.
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And so when you look at that, in a way you see democracy is on the ballot because you've got this one guy, Donald Trump.
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A few other candidates, but obviously Trump is the most prominent and successful in my lifetime, who stand up against this thing.
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And against even the squishy Republicans who really just want to go along with that establishment, albeit a little bit slower.
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Probably the only place you would have heard about it is on Donald Trump's Twitter feed.
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During the DNC, during the convention, during two caucus meetings, they said the Pledge of Allegiance.
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But these leaders of the caucus meetings left out the phrase, under God.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands.
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One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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The Democrats, because they're still catering to an older generation, they say it.
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Now, I've been told reliably by USA Today, fact check, DNC did not omit under God from the Pledge of Allegiance.
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All the other mainstream media, misleading, not true, false.
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Take a listen to the opening of the Muslim caucus of the Democratic National Convention.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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Take a listen to the opening of the LGBT caucus of the Democratic National Convention.
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If you don't have a flag, I have flags here right in front of me.
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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And this lying, dishonest mainstream media are going to look us right in the face and say, no, you didn't hear that.
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I think even conservatives don't appreciate how thoroughly dishonest the press is.
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It's not just that George Stephanopoulos works for Bill Clinton for many years and then he becomes a fake journalist.
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It's that this entire apparatus exists to, not only to lie to you, not only, it exists to help the liberal establishment.
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And so if it helps the liberal establishment to tell the truth, they'll do it.
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But if it helps the liberal establishment to obscure the truth, they'll do it.
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And if it helps the liberal establishment to outright lie, even when we've got the audio, they will do that.
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Self-government requires an understanding of objective truth.
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Self-government requires that we be able to communicate with one another.
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And we are being denied that choice by that liberal establishment.
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Trump is the most democratic candidate that we have had in this government, maybe in 100 years.
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They're telling you that it is exactly the opposite.
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Because, you know, the left always talks about science.
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Thank you so much to everyone who has done that.
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We have exclusive content up there that you're not going to get elsewhere.
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I just did an interview with my friend Paul Kenger, who has a book out called The Devil and Karl Marx.
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And I actually wrote the foreword to that book.
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I don't get a royalty, though, so I'm only telling you to go buy it because it is an excellent book.
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So many people focus on the economic and political side of Marx.
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But you should know it because nobody's going to tell you about it.
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You're not going to learn about this in school.
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Well, anyway, you'll have to go check out the interview yourself.
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We're going to have a backstage coming up at the end of the week to talk about the RNC.
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This is where you get to participate in All Access Hangouts with the other members of the website in All Access
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To show you, you know, pulling back a little bit from the outright lies that the press tells you
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where you can actually listen to the audio and then they deny it exists,
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I'll give you a more typical example of how they do these things.
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State Department fighting to deny U.S. citizenship to gay couples' child.
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You got this American couple who I guess they're being discriminated against because they're gay
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and they've got their child and the child is being denied citizenship.
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State Department fighting to deny U.S. citizenship to gay couples' child.
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I'm an expert scientist, but I'm not specifically a biologist.
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But it seems to me, if I go back to my elementary learning of how children are made, where babies
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come from, gay couples can't have children by themselves, right?
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Maybe there's more to this story than meets the eye.
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Two gentlemen by the name of Rowey Kavidi and Adiel Kavidi, living in Chevy Chase, Maryland,
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are legally married under the new definition of marriage.
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Their daughter, Kassem, was born in Canada via a surrogate.
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So the State Department has argued in federal court that she's born out of wedlock and not
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There are so many things wrong with this story.
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First of all, we talked about this issue last week when we were discussing Kamala Harris's
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The question of birthright citizenship as granted by the 14th Amendment is very much an
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The Supreme Court has never held that there is blanket birthright citizenship for anybody
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Well, of course the child was born out of wedlock, first of all, given the definition of marriage.
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But even under the new definition of marriage that has come about, not through Democratic choice,
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whenever this was put on the ballot, even in very Democratic states, people rejected radically
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redefining marriage because it's the bedrock institution of society, but even using the
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new definition of marriage, these two men obviously can't have a child together.
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So the actual parents of this child are one of these men and this woman, and the child is
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being denied her natural mother, intentionally.
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How insane a legal system do we have that a child can intentionally be denied her natural
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You know, the focus is only put in this political issue on how this gay couple really wants to
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have a child, but because of nature, they can't have a child together.
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No thought is put on this little girl who will never be able to know her mother, her natural
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mother, who will be created in a legal regime that only prioritizes the desires of the parents
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to overcome the limitations of nature, and will never be directed toward the natural needs
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And yet, so, there are so many layers here of why this shouldn't even be a headline.
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Child is born out of wedlock in Canada and is not a U.S. citizen.
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But it serves so many aspects of the liberal establishment's goals.
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Namely, to radically redefine every institution that threatens any of the political power of
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the growing liberal state, most notably, most importantly, the family, which the left and
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the progressive establishment has been after, explicitly, you can read it in their writings
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It goes back further to that fellow I was just mentioning, Mr. Karl Marx.
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Then, you have another priority here, which is open borders, right?
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The liberal establishment wants open borders because it diminishes the political sovereignty
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of the people, the ability of the people to determine their own politics and government.
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It encourages everything that this group of people wants.
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That if you just, if you, just any normal person just looks at that headline, State Department
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denying U.S. citizenship to gay couples child, you'd say, oh, that's wrong, right?
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And then you read the story, you realize how wrong it is.
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Same, you know, you can even see this in the stories they don't run.
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So the NBA, the NBA, which I don't watch, has these two players, Montrezl Harrell and Luka
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I'm certain I didn't pronounce this correctly, but sort of secondary to my point.
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And so as he was walking away after this great play, you can see him mouth on camera into
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close-up the phrase, well, bleep me if I, I think I'm allowed to say, bitch-ass white
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I don't know if, I don't know if I'm allowed to say that on the air, but if I'm not, you
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It's like, it's like WAP, but another, but that's a variation of that phrase.
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Now, people in the heat of sports, these are obviously top athletes, these are intense
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You're going to say rude things, mean things, get in each other's heads.
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Imagine if it weren't a black athlete saying that to a white athlete, but a white athlete
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You would have wall-to-wall coverage, 24-7 news.
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Not only would the team be shut down, the league would be shut down.
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Maybe the country would be shut down with protests.
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But the reason that the media and the liberal establishment would encourage that is because
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it would serve their ends of sowing discord, diminishing American political unity, diminishing
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the ability of the American citizens to speak to one another, to communicate, to determine
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in our own deliberative bodies how to govern ourselves.
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And by pushing, or by ignoring this story, they move right along.
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They continue to stoke the flames of racial division when it comes to BLM.
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There is a degree of victimhood that has now, it's taken on such status, it's taken on such
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prestige, it confers such privilege, that you now have candidates for political office not
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making keen logical arguments for what they want to do and why their set of policies is
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They're faking their own kidnappings to give themselves the illusion of that privilege.
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There's a woman in Sumter, South Carolina, 29 years old, Sabrina Belcher, who ran as not
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the candidate who believes this or that, not the candidate who's going to push for this
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She fashioned herself, quote, the first black female candidate ever to run, which is something
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I don't care if she's the first female black candidate.
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I mean, I don't live in Sumter, South Carolina, but if I were a citizen there, or if I were voting
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for a candidate in my own jurisdiction, I would care about what they are going to do, what
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they believe, what they represent, is a matter of policy and politics.
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Now people are only running on identity and through identity, victimhood.
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So this woman was apparently assaulted and kidnapped by 34-year-old Christopher Eadie.
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Take a listen to the video that for some reason, conspicuously and coincidentally, all of this
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All right, looks like it's, looks like everything's fine.
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Tell you about f***ing with my motherf***ing people.
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With Hollywood shut down, obviously someone's got to create content for the public, and I
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guess now it's mayoral candidates in Sumter, South Carolina, because every single second
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This woman planned it all out with Mr. Eadie beforehand.
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This is just the latest in a line of actors, some professional, like Jesse Smollett walking
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through MAGA country in Chicago, and some amateur like Ms. Belcher, who are putting on these
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Because they see that the fastest way to political cachet, the fastest way to political change, is not by making honest arguments.
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And if you play on people's emotions and appetites and hysteria, you're likely to get a reaction.
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It leads to the collapse of your physical country that we can see all around us, and it leads to the collapse of your politics.
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Bill de Blasio was just asked in New York, when the city is going to open back up, what the plan is.
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And now it's, I don't know, when are we going to reopen?
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So de Blasio's asked, when are you going to open up indoor dining?
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But we do not, based on what we've seen around the world, do not have a plan for reopening indoor dining in the near term.
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They don't need to tell the American people what they're going to do, because they have the right to rule.
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Because it's not even about Democrat or Republican or left or right.
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But they feel, ultimately, that they are the ruling class.
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And they will make whatever decision they want.
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And they'll tell you whatever they think you need to hear to make it go down a little easier.
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But ultimately, they're going to do whatever they want to do.
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You know, blue-checked Twitter went crazy yesterday.
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Because President Trump announced the Republican Party is not going to have a real platform this year.
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But it doesn't really matter, because at least for the last, you know, 100 or so years,
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the president and the presidential nominee is the platform.
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This was also envisioned by Woodrow Wilson, that the president would become the leader of the party.
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So Trump says, okay, we're not going to waste time on this platform.
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I'm just going to give you my second-term agenda.
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And we can get into the second-term agenda a little bit later in the week.
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There's just one part that made the commentariat, the Twitterati, go crazy.
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And it was that he said, as part of his education plan, he's going to teach American exceptionalism.
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This would have been not only non-controversial.
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This would have been understood, expected, until very recently.
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And a lot of teachers on Twitter said, I'm a teacher.
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Some people interpret this to mean that America's the single greatest perfect nation ever, and it doesn't do anything wrong.
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It means because of America's unique history and founding, it's different than other countries, which is obviously true.
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America is a country that was founded in a new world with very distinct, highly conscious political principles.
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In a period of time when people were focusing in on the mechanisms of government in a more abstracted way than many people had in the past.
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This focus on a particularly 18th century conception of liberty that does, in fact, draw on the ancients.
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This conception of liberty and self-government and how we rule our own country.
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And it should come as no surprise that the left laughs at it and mocks it.
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But it's not just that the left, you know, sort of hates the country and they're burning the American flag.
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And they have been saying, at least since Woodrow Wilson, that they want to get rid of that.
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They say, I mean, if you read the writings of Wilson, he'll say, look, the American Constitution was founded on the principles of Isaac Newton.
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You know, these kind of eternal laws that balance power against each other.
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And Charles Darwin shows us that nothing is objective.
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So we just need power, like an organism, to do whatever we want.
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That's why it's important to overturn and rewrite the history of America and pull down the statues of America and tear down what we would call the traditional American nation.
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And most importantly, they've got to blot out democracy, Republican government, self-rule.
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Because that presumes that people have enduring rights that aren't just going to go away as the organism evolves.
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That's what the left is trying to impose on us.
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And when they tell you there's only one legitimate choice you can make, then you know they've taken it and put it on the ballot, perhaps.
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But they're not going to read your ballots because they're going to put it first on the guillotine.
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