Ep. 638 - All Politics Is Religious
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I got in trouble over the weekend. Oh was I in trouble. I said that it is not permissible for Christians to vote for Joe Biden. The tweet went viral. But the biggest objection that people had is that I was conflating politics and religion. And you're not allowed to do that. How dare you? Our founders are rolling over in their graves. That's what they all thought.
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I got in trouble over the weekend. Oh, was I in trouble because I tweeted out. I said that it is
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not permissible for Christians to vote for Joe Biden. The tweet went viral. Lots of ignorant
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leftists said a lot of very ignorant things about the tweet. But the biggest objection that people
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had is that I was conflating politics and religion. And you're not allowed to do that.
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How dare you do that? Our founders are rolling over in their graves. That's what they all thought.
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I've got news for you, though. All politics is religious. The way you vote says a lot about
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how you view yourself, how you view your place in the world, how you view your place in the world to
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come. And the consequences could last a lot longer than four years. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back. I hate getting in trouble. I actually I don't really
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mind. I sort of like it sometimes if we can change people's minds, then I am more than willing to get
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in trouble. And I think we can. First, though, my favorite comment from Thursday from Goggleman7.
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Actually, the Democrats are voting for country over party. They're voting for China. That's true.
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They're not voting for our country over the party, but they might be voting for another country
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over that party. You know, this is going to be a crazy, crazy week. Obviously,
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the biggest political night of every four years is happening tomorrow night. And somehow, by the way,
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for this tweet. But it actually it does show how the left misunderstands politics and how
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the left misunderstands their own political ideologies. And the right gets it a little
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bit wrong, too. Just to clear it up, though, just to clear up the point, because the tweet
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got ratioed. You know, many, many people were arguing about this. And I sort of thought, well,
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if you're speaking something that is true from the perspective of Christianity, you probably
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are going to get ratioed. You know, I mean, that's just kind of the rule, right? People tend not to
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love the truth, especially religious truth. But the church's teaching is very clear about this.
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I will I will refer to the teaching of the Catholic Church. You know that I am Catholic.
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Catholic Church is is the oldest church. But your mileage may vary if you are a member of a
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different denomination. But I bet it won't. The Catholic Church has taught the direct and
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intentional destruction of innocent human life from the moment of conception until natural death is
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always wrong and is not just one issue among many. It must always be opposed. Joe Biden seeks to not
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only defend, but to expand abortion in this country and to make taxpayers pay for it and to permit
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abortion essentially up until the moment of birth. In certain states, certainly up until the moment of
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birth. We cannot support that. It is immoral for faithful Christians to support that. Beyond it,
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as St. John Paul II taught in his apostolic exhortation, Christi Fidelis Leici, above all the common
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outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights, for example, the right to health, to home, to
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work, to family, to culture, you know, all the rights that the left is talking about all the time
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is false and illusory. If the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition for all
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other personal rights is not defended with maximum determination. Not acceptable to vote for Joe
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Biden. And then beyond the issue of abortion, which is singular, it is not just one issue among many,
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but beyond that, there is this worry about socialism. Joe Biden is empowering socialists. Joe Biden, Kamala
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Harris in particular, empowering socialists. Christians cannot support socialism. The church has been very
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clear about this from the beginning. Many, many, many popes have written about this. Pope Leo XIII,
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Blessed Pius IX, St. Pius X, Pope Pius XI, on and on and on. Pope St. John XXIII, rather, who was
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considered not the most conservative pope out there, but he, while he was invoking Pope Pius XI, said,
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a Catholic cannot subscribe even to moderate socialism. Even if you want to say, well, it's just kind of light,
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little moderate socialism. AOC is not Stalin. I'm not so sure about that, but maybe you could make
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that argument. Doesn't matter. Can't be even moderately socialist. Joe Biden has sued nuns
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because they wouldn't pay for abortion drugs. He is promising to do that again. It is not permissible
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for a Christian to vote for Joe Biden. If you do that, if you vote for Joe Biden, you are imperiling
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your soul for all of the reasons that I've just mentioned and many others as well. Religion defines
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politics. Cardinal Manning famously said, Cardinal Manning, a great religious thinker and a great
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political thinker too. He said, all human conflict is ultimately theological. When we're arguing about
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taxes, when we're arguing about immigration, when we're arguing about the death penalty,
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we are having theological arguments. There are, there are premises about spirit and religion and
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metaphysics that are presenting themselves in our political debates. We have a liberal country,
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so we get liberal policies. Other countries are not so liberal, so they have other kinds of
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policies. Poland, for instance, is a Catholic country. There's that great gif that everyone
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uses on Twitter of Pope, Pope St. John Paul II, where he's kind of like pointing out in the crowd
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and doing the fist bump sign. And he's, he, it's because he was standing up to communism and a million
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polls came out in defiance of the communists and chanted, we want God, we want God. So it's a Catholic
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country. And now they've got Catholic policies. Poland just last Thursday, essentially outlawed
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abortion in the country. Great, great news. This was a constitutional tribunal in Poland
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that ruled that abortions for fetal abnormalities violate the country's constitution. And they
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therefore imposed a near total ban, which are, uh, would, there was already very intense abortion
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laws in Poland. And now there's a near total ban. The way that this is being presented in the
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mainstream media is that this is awful, draconian, terrible, that you're not allowed to kill babies
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because they have disabilities. Meanwhile, the left is always prattling on and on about ableism
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and how we've got to be, and we can't say certain words about people with disabilities. We've got to
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watch our language and be really nice. They don't give a damn about people with disabilities. They're
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trying to preserve a fictitious constitutional right to murdering babies because they have
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disabilities that can you imagine making those opposite arguments at the same time? You would have to
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have the compartmentalized mind of a left winger. And Poland is now reconciling this and saying,
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no, you're not allowed to kill babies just because they're disabled. Sorry, buddy. Now there were some
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protests in the streets, presumably because a coronavirus is cured every time the left wants to
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riot. But nevertheless, nevertheless, they now have these correct, good, right, just laws there.
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New York times said in defiance of the dangers posed by coronavirus, these women took to the streets.
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Imagine if Catholics took this to the streets to protest abortion. Something tells me the New
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York times would not cover it in precisely the same way, not even anywhere close to the same way.
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There are religious politics going on now in France. France is under attack. Terrorist attacks
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took over France over the weekend. Okay. Don't forget, by the way, the French Republic,
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the current kind of French regime, was founded by killing priests and burning churches in the French
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Revolution, one of the worst events in the history of the world. The essence of the French Revolution
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was the de-Christianization of France. How did that turn out? Christianity remains persecuted in
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France today. There was a knife attack in Nice, France, in the Notre Dame Basilica. That's not Notre Dame like
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the church that was burned down for some unknown reason that we've never gotten the full story on how
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that church burned down. One of the most important churches in Western civilization. But that's not
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Notre Dame, that one. We're talking about a Notre Dame Basilica in Nice. Two people were killed and a fatally
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wounded third woman was able to escape outside. She was a mother. Her name is Simone Barreto Silva.
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She was stabbed several times. She made it outside and told the rescuers, tell my children I love them
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before she died of her wounds. Heartbreaking, heartbreaking scenes in France. Many other
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attacks have been going on on churches as well. This is the third terror attack on French soil
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this month. Who's the attacker? A 21-year-old, newly arrived Muslim migrant from Tunisia who is in
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critical condition after the police shot him. And I suppose it's good that he's still alive for now
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to get information about the attack. Those are religious conflicts that we're talking about.
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And this is, it's most explicit here, right? You have a Muslim man going in and killing people because
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they are Christian. And we've seen many, many such attacks, not just in France, not just in Europe,
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but also in the United States. This plays into another question, which is mass migration. Europe
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has essentially open borders. This, this man who killed these people was a very newly arrived migrant
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from a country that is known for extremism. Does that play a role in our immigration debate? We're
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not allowed to say it does now, but certainly it does. Two more people were taken into custody on
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Saturday who were apparently involved in the murder. Who knows how many people are involved
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total. That means that right now they've, they've got six people in custody. They may have even more.
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And do you know how the New York times covered this? You can't make this up. The New York times is
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covering this by saying, is France fueling Muslim terrorism by trying to prevent it? You could,
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you could predict it. You could always predict how the New York times is going to respond to these
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things, which is whenever the West is attacked, they will blame the West. They'll say, gosh,
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it's the West's fault that, that what, what, why did you wear such a short skirt? Why did you go down
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that alley at night? Why were, why did you burn the roast? That's, that's what the left and the New
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York times want to say a civilizational self-hatred. We will get to that very, very stupid story.
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Marseille, France begins the New York Times. Once again, terrorism strikes France. And once again,
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terrorism is exposing the country's dangerous contradictions. First, there was the murder of
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Samuel Pady, a history teacher who was decapitated near Paris on October 16th by a young Chechen man
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after Mr. Pady showed students caricatures of the prophet Muhammad in a class about free expression.
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Then on Thursday, three churchgoers were knifed and killed in the southern city of Nice.
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The prime suspect in that attack is a Tunisian man who later yelled, Allahu Akbar.
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Goes on and on and on about these awful kinds of events.
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But did France invite it? This is the same argument that you heard from people who said,
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the reason we got attacked on 9-11 was because we're involved in the Middle East or because we
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support Israel or because, who knows, because they don't like the cut of our jib over there.
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When you are attacked, that isn't your fault. When you were attacked for showing a picture of
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an historical figure, that is not your fault. When you were attacked for practicing your religion,
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Christianity, the faith that built your civilization, it is not your fault. You did not egg on
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the Muslim attackers. These are religious conflicts, but the left can't defend that anymore because we
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can't, or certainly the left, but the civilization generally, I suppose, cannot defend that because
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we can't defend our own civilization because we don't really believe it anymore. We have become a
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de-Christianized culture and civilization. Some people still go to church, I guess, but most people
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are leaving. They are leaving their religion. And so people who do believe in their religion
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are going to come in and take it more seriously. We can't even defend free expression. We can't even
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defend showing pictures of Muhammad. And this is not even just a left or right problem. Neither
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side can defend it because the left refuses to defend our Western tradition of free speech and the
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right can't articulate any standards by which free speech can be measured. What I mean by that is
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the left has completely abandoned our actual tradition of free speech, but the right has been tricked
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into accepting the trap of the left and of political correctness, which seeks to overturn our old
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standards. We've always had standards of speech, standards against obscenity, standards against
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fighting words, standards against sedition, standards against all sorts of things that actually
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circumscribe free speech. But the right now can't defend those standards. So we've fallen into the trap
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where we have no standards whatsoever, no compass whatsoever. And so nobody can defend
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our traditional civilization. And so it burns. The left summed this up. A Boston Globe op-ed columnist
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tweeted out a picture of a Trump parade, people in cars and trucks with Trump flags and American flags
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and an ISIS parade, people in the back of cars in Iraq or Syria holding up ISIS flags. And the Boston
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Globe columnist says, see the difference between these two groups, me neither. Me neither. Because
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what the left is seeing is that the form is all that matters and the substance doesn't matter.
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So if you believe in your religion, you're basically the same as Al-Qaeda. If you're a really devout
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Quaker, if you're like a really, really committed Lutheran, you're the same as ISIS.
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Now, you might mention to them, huh, actually, you know, I don't know if you know this, but
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Quakerism and radical Islam are different things. And one of them is fine and harmless,
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basically. And the other one is very dangerous to the whole world. If you said that you would be
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called a bigot, you'd be called an Islamophobe, you'd know different than, than these Muslim
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terrorists. But it is different. It is different. The devil is in the details here. There are
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differences. Now we are told if you wave an American flag and if you wave an ISIS flag,
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it's the same thing. They really believe that. And what the left doesn't understand
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is that that belief, that point of view is essentially a religious point of view.
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It's just a different kind of religion. It's the religion of secular liberalism,
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which is the most jealous God of all, perhaps, because it doesn't even acknowledge that there
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are other religions in the world. And, and the democratic party, the mainstream of the democratic
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party is totally captured by this. Now that people have been saying, well, Joe Biden, he's,
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he's kind of a moderate Kamala Harris. She doesn't believe in anything, right? She's kind of a
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moderate. I don't think they believe in anything deeply, but they have, because they lick their
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index finger, put it up in the air and figure out which way the wind blows. They have picked
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a side. They've picked the side of radicalism, of socialism, of out and out communism. It would
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seem Kamala Harris through the Biden Harris campaign put out an ad over the weekend describing
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the difference as she sees it between equality and equity. She could not have gone further to the
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left wing extreme. So there's a big difference between equality and equity. Equality suggests,
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oh, everyone should get the same amount. The problem with that, not everybody's starting out
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from the same place. So if we're all getting the same amount, but you started out back there and I
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started out over here, we could get the same amount, but you're still going to be that far back
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behind me. It's about giving people the resources and the support they need so that everyone can be
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on equal footing and then compete on equal footing. Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same
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way. So first of all, what Kamala Harris is saying here just isn't true. She's drawing a distinction
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essentially without a difference. Equality and equity are the same thing and they come from the same
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basic root words. If there is a distinction though, she completely misunderstands the distinction
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because equality is the state of having the same stuff, you know, being equal, being identical.
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Whereas equity refers more specifically to fairness. But what she's describing isn't fair. What she's
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describing is the opposite of fair. What she's describing isn't justice. It's injustice. She's
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saying that you're going to end up in the same place. And then what she says is completely
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incomprehensible. She says the problem with equality is we can all begin at the same place or rather we
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can all have the same shot, but we don't start at the same place. So we're not going to end up at the
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same place. So you need equity, this term that I'm redefining to make sure that everybody starts at
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exactly the same place, but then actually you've got to end up at the same place too. And then we can
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compete, right? So she says that's, we're going to compete, but how, how are you going to compete?
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If you are guaranteed to end up at the same place, you can't, that's just a meaningless addition
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because it sounds like the kind of rhetoric that you would hear in the American political tradition,
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but we're going to compete. And you know, every man is going to get what he can get.
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She doesn't really mean that when you all end up in the same place,
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that is communism, right? That she is describing, and I'm not surprised she's describing communism
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because she was a Senate co-sponsor of the green new deal, which was the most radical piece of
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legislation ever proposed in the history of the United States to redistribute wealth massively,
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to nationalize the entire energy industry, like something like 90% of American energy to tear people's
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houses to the ground and rebuild them as energy efficient green houses. This is a, this is an
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essentially communist plan. I know the distinction between socialism and communism is a little blurry.
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The way it was once described to me is that Christians go to heaven and socialists go to
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communism. It's just the utopian end state that of course you could never get to a vote for Biden.
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Harris is a vote for socialism, or as she's describing it here, a vote for communism. Even
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that is what you are getting. That is a very dangerous thing. And by the way, you are getting Kamala
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Harris. You are not getting Joe Biden. Joe Biden can barely pronounce any words. I will play you a
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sadder quote, Joe Biden's quote. I need you to tell me if you can understand what word or words
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the possible next president is trying to utter. I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true
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international pressure. I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true. I listened to this
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quote. I've probably listened to it now 50 times. I think at least some of what he's saying is true,
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true, true something international pressure. Can we play that again? Can we go back to that other
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true? I'll lead an effective strategy to mobilize true international pressure. So there are too many
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syllables obviously in there, but I think what he's trying to get at is true international pressure,
00:24:22.540
but I don't think he's going to mobilize true international pressure. I don't think that anybody
00:24:26.520
is going to pay him any heat at all because his brain is putting, I know it's sort of sad to say that,
00:24:32.000
but the man is past his sell by date folks. And so when you vote for him, I can't feel too,
00:24:37.740
but sometimes I say, Oh, I feel bad for Joe. I don't feel bad for Joe. I don't feel bad for guys
00:24:40.980
who sue nuns because they won't pay for abortions. I don't feel bad for that. I don't, I don't feel
00:24:45.520
bad for guys who have lied through their teeth for 50 years in government and who have engaged in
00:24:49.480
corrupt deals in Ukraine and China. Apparently I don't feel bad for guys who may become the president
00:24:55.660
of the United States. I think we shouldn't feel bad for that guy at all. I think we should feel bad
00:25:00.180
for us if he gets elected because that guy's not even going to be the president and that guy is
00:25:04.000
going to go, he's going to lie in bed and play Tetris all day. And either Kamala Harris or more
00:25:10.400
likely the bureaucracy is going to take over. Maybe it was just a gaffe. Maybe it's just his childhood
00:25:15.620
stutter that disappeared for 60 years, but then somehow came back all of a sudden. And we have to
00:25:21.400
pretend that it's a childhood stutter when it's obviously not, it's obviously decline. Well,
00:25:25.440
we got another one of these examples. Uh, again, this one, I, I don't think there's any chance we're
00:25:30.900
going to figure it out, but, but Joe Biden is very focused on the importance of
00:25:36.500
under Barack and me. It's also a host polluter. I'll call polluters accountable with most ambitious
00:25:45.720
environmental justice agenda ever. Okay. So there you do get at least the one word, which is
00:25:50.920
polluters. He is, he is saying polluters there, but there are all these extra syllables all around.
00:25:55.940
And then everything slurs at the back end of this. Joe Biden is obviously exhausted. The,
00:26:01.300
these incidents have gotten worse by the end of the campaign than they were at the beginning. Now
00:26:05.240
don't forget it for much of the campaign, Joe Biden has been hiding in his basement. So you haven't
00:26:09.840
gotten to see many of these. Why did the Biden campaign choose to hide him in his basement? They used
00:26:13.980
coronavirus as an excuse, but that obviously was simply an excuse because they didn't want these
00:26:18.880
moments because they have seen him and they interact with him. And they know that the man is
00:26:22.240
obviously in cognitive decline and he doesn't have any stamina. I get it. Campaigns are really
00:26:27.500
exhausting. I've been on a lot of campaigns and I've been on campaigns since I was 19 years old.
00:26:31.600
And even when I was 19 years old, I was exhausted doing them because you're working 20 hours a day for
00:26:36.600
18 months at a time. So I get it. But if you get tired from doing a modest number of campaign events
00:26:43.780
like Joe Biden is doing, how on earth are you going to stand up to the pressures of being president?
00:26:49.520
You can't do it. It is not possible. And he won't even if, and I hope it doesn't happen,
00:26:55.580
but even if he does get elected president, Joe Biden is not going to be a particularly hands-on
00:27:01.500
president. Other people are going to do the job for him. And unfortunately, the, the establishment
00:27:10.080
that, that he is empowering, the groups that he is empowering are socialists, radicals, people who
00:27:17.740
don't want equality of opportunity. They want equality of outcome. They will go in, they will
00:27:23.040
take your money, they will redistribute it. They will institute a new American caste system that
00:27:28.200
discriminates on the basis of race and sex. They are already doing that. And they are explicitly
00:27:32.620
promising to do it. That's what you're going to get with Joe Biden. And some people are endorsing him
00:27:39.500
somehow. Lady Gaga. I couldn't believe this was Lady Gaga. So I saw a video going around the internet
00:27:44.440
of a woman wearing camo clothing next to a big truck, cracking open a beer. And I assumed it was
00:27:50.900
some kind of satire or parody or, but no, it wasn't. It was just Lady Gaga endorsing Joe Biden.
00:28:00.560
Hey, this is Lady Gaga. I'm voting for America, which means I'm voting for Joe Biden.
00:28:08.460
And if you live in Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, Florida, or Arizona,
00:28:16.100
I encourage you to vote. And if you have a friend that lives there, tell them to vote.
00:28:21.340
I'm going to be in one of these states tomorrow. Guess which one I'll be in. Hint, I used to live there.
00:28:34.820
Where's the punchline? I knew, I assumed the setup was going to be Lady Gaga's wearing this kind of
00:28:43.440
silly camo clothing that no one would expect her to wear. She's next to a big truck that no one
00:28:47.740
expects her to drive. So I figured it was just going to be a joke about middle Americans, you
00:28:51.780
know, the typical deplorable, irredeemable, bitter clinger thing. And she's going to say like,
00:28:55.460
ah, gee ha, y'all. I'm voting for Trump because I'm dur. I'm an idiot. Ha ha. You know,
00:28:59.600
like the kind of thing that the left does all the time. But it wasn't that it wasn't that because
00:29:03.760
they know that if they do that, it'll turn off a lot of Americans and it will have the opposite
00:29:07.800
effect. So I guess it was just her doing her best impression of what an American looks like.
00:29:14.700
And she says, I'm voting for America. Right. So her best impression of what an American looks like,
00:29:18.280
which was not particularly persuasive. It's like that meme of Steve Buscemi walking.
00:29:24.440
How do you do fellow kids? How do you do fellow Americans? Oh yes. That's, oh, what? You think
00:29:30.660
I'm a left winger? No, no. I'm just an American doing American things like drinking beer, beer. Yes.
00:29:38.900
I'm drinking a beer standing next to a, uh, a pickup truck. Yes. This, that's what this one's a pickup
00:29:46.160
truck, right? The way, you know, it's completely ridiculous by the way, is think about all the beer
00:29:49.960
she just wasted. She took one little sip of beer and then crushed it and threw it on the ground.
00:29:54.900
You don't crush a can and throw it on the ground until you have finished the beer.
00:29:58.460
I'm not even much of a beer drinker. At least I know that I would never, ever do such a thing.
00:30:03.360
I think she probably turned off a lot of Americans that way too. These, these are
00:30:08.200
totally different visions of America. It's funny that this is a stupid clip. It's obviously not going
00:30:13.040
to convince anybody to vote for Biden, but it does show you how the left misunderstands America.
00:30:18.680
America doesn't get it. Doesn't like America. Doesn't want to have America. They can't do it.
00:30:23.940
They can't speak fluently in the language of being an American. They can't speak fluently in what,
00:30:28.540
what we want our country to be like because they want something different. They want equality of
00:30:36.580
outcome. They want a racial and sexual caste system. They want imported foreign ideologies such as
00:30:42.760
socialism. They want a materialist view of the world where electing them is going to save the
00:30:49.940
planet because they tell us that Armageddon is coming in 10 years. No one knows the day or the
00:30:53.940
hour, not even the son, but only the father. And apparently the left knows the day or the hour too.
00:30:58.740
It's a, it's an entirely separate worldview that they're offering us. Or you can vote for America.
00:31:05.480
And I don't care how much you don't like Donald Trump's tweets. That is, this is about more than
00:31:11.040
tweets, folks. This is a bigger election than that. This election is incredibly important.
00:31:17.080
We are talking about a different prescription. You know, very often we hear, this is the most
00:31:21.980
important election of our lifetime. And then the next election here, this is the most important
00:31:24.880
election of our lifetime. And then the next election, what do you hear? You hear the same thing.
00:31:27.360
And we make fun of that. We'd say, oh, it's just politicians trying to get votes.
00:31:32.740
Sometimes that's true, but sometimes it really is the most important election of our lifetime.
00:31:37.400
And there's no contradiction, by the way, if the next one is even more important. Actually,
00:31:41.760
that would make sense, wouldn't it? If we're in so dire a position politically in this country
00:31:46.780
that Republicans fear rightly that we could lose the ability to win elections at a national level
00:31:53.960
if the Democrats win. If the Democrats win, they're already promising to end the filibuster
00:31:57.040
pack the Supreme Court and add two new states, which would end the Republican Party as a national
00:32:02.120
governing party. You couldn't win a presidential election after that because you'd be adding two
00:32:05.740
democratic states to the country and upending the constitutional order to say nothing of packing
00:32:09.860
the court, which would end any chance we have of getting a halfway decent judicial ruling.
00:32:15.360
So, yeah, obviously that election is the most important election in your lifetime,
00:32:19.800
if it means the extinction of your political party, very likely. But then what's going to happen
00:32:24.420
next election? Presumably that's going to be the most important election too. Might be even more
00:32:29.740
important depending on how they're jockeying for power. There's no contradiction here. You've just
00:32:35.280
got to embrace the significance. Some elections don't matter all that much. Some elections really
00:32:40.740
do. Make sure you tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, November 3rd at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m. Pacific.
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00:33:13.040
with a lot more. So Halloween happened over the weekend. I know Halloween, I believe, was
00:33:29.780
technically canceled this year because you're not allowed to go outside or see people and we're
00:33:34.580
supposed to look at everyone like a big bag of germs. And by the way, Joe Biden says we're going
00:33:37.520
to have masks through what, 2022 or something like that. That's what Fauci is saying now too. So
00:33:41.720
if you like that kind of a situation and you want to vote for more of it, vote for Biden. If you want
00:33:46.740
to vote for reopening the country, vote for Trump. Some people still wore Halloween costumes. Alyssa
00:33:52.100
Milano went out there and dressed as, this is my, this is the favorite costume this year for the left,
00:33:57.840
R-B-G, the late Justice Ruth Ginsburg. So first she tweets out, uh, happy Halloween,
00:34:05.340
R-G-B forever. R-G-B. R-G-B. Is it R-G-B? Ruth Ginsburg Bader? No, that's not her name.
00:34:13.560
You love this woman so much, but you don't, you don't know her name. Okay. Then she deletes that
00:34:18.580
tweet and reposts, says happy Halloween. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, hashtag notorious R-B-G. But then I
00:34:25.420
how did she spell Ginsburg? G-I-N-S-B-E-R-G. Not how you spell Ginsburg. So the left, we are told we
00:34:37.320
have to take them seriously on matters of jurisprudence, on matters of political philosophy,
00:34:43.640
matters of the constitution, even the justices that they love, that they idolize, truly idolize.
00:34:50.660
They can't spell their names. Dude, maybe the third time was the charm. I don't know if she
00:34:56.660
tried a third go. They don't know anything about this. I mean, you saw it especially last week when
00:35:03.100
they redefined court packing. Court packing has a specific definition. So when you add justices to
00:35:10.260
the Supreme Court, you increase the number of justices so that you are more likely to get a
00:35:15.180
judicial ruling favorable to you. They redefined that absolutely definite possibility with adding
00:35:26.980
justices to replace justices who had left, meaning following the constitution, reappointing justices
00:35:32.740
to the court. They conflated those two things very dishonestly, but the mainstream media totally went
00:35:38.440
with them. All of a sudden, the minute you had one or two people mention this in the air, everybody,
00:35:43.720
New York Times, the cable news channels came in and they said, well, Republicans have been court
00:35:47.020
packing too. They haven't. They haven't. They've just been appointing judges as the constitution
00:35:51.040
tells them to do. Completely different situation. Republicans and conservatives have no responsibility
00:35:59.640
to engage in these bad faith debates with them. They're not having a debate. They don't know anything
00:36:05.380
about this and they don't want to know anything about this. They don't want to know anything about
00:36:09.020
the constitution. They don't want to know anything about the law. They don't want to know anything
00:36:12.460
about our founding. They don't like our founding. They don't like the country. The premise of
00:36:17.200
progressivism now going back a hundred years is that the founding of the country was wrong and mistaken
00:36:21.800
and now we need something else. We need to change it fundamentally. The premise of the 1619 project,
00:36:30.260
which is now the hottest framing of American history on the left, is that the country was rotten from the
00:36:36.200
very beginning, evil, terrible, and we need to undo the founding of our country and refound the country
00:36:42.840
in a different way along leftist lines to have a good country. Now we need to stop them from doing
00:36:48.260
that. The way we stop them from doing that is we suppress their anti-history. We boot them out of the
00:36:54.340
institutions that they've hollowed out and destroyed and most notably the universities and we beat them at
00:36:59.220
the elections and we don't allow them to mobilize the bureaucracy to overturn the results of the election like they
00:37:04.720
tried to do in 2016 after they had already spied on our candidate in 2016. That's how we went. We
00:37:13.300
don't, we have no obligation to engage in a bad faith debate. I like good faith debates. If a left
00:37:19.680
winger wants to come up to me in a good faith debate, I'm more than happy to do it. I love that stuff.
00:37:24.780
But there is no reason to, to take the bait. You know, we talk often about the free marketplace of
00:37:30.760
ideas. And I suppose there's something to be said for that. You want to, you want to persuade people,
00:37:34.880
but the left has to be playing by the rules of the marketplace. And if they're not,
00:37:39.500
if they are just coming in and redefining terms willy nilly and doing anything they can to club
00:37:45.860
you over the head and take away your political power, you have no need to engage with that.
00:37:52.680
Actually, it'll just be a waste of your time. You've got to win. There are, I think, three never Trump
00:37:57.660
Republicans left in the country. And what they are doing is wrong and immoral and they should,
00:38:03.460
they're doing it. And you can listen to their own arguments, you know, where they're over at the
00:38:07.440
bulwark, which gets three viewers every month or places like Bill Kristol's websites, things like
00:38:12.360
that. And what they, what they are peddling is sanctimony and self-righteousness because they say
00:38:17.860
Trump is icky and I don't like him. And I want to be really well-regarded by liberals. So I'm not going
00:38:22.880
to vote for him. That makes me so moral and pure. It doesn't, it doesn't, it's wrong. It's
00:38:27.480
wrong to do that, especially in an election like this. There is, I mean, I think, you know,
00:38:33.000
where I stand politically in this election. I haven't made any big secret of it. I have
00:38:38.400
criticized Trump on many occasions. No, I, I often criticize him on, on the language around
00:38:44.860
criminal justice reform and that, uh, jailbreak bill that he pushed a year or two ago, the first
00:38:50.540
step act. And there's there, I'm not saying we need to agree with the guy on everything,
00:38:55.460
but he is the best president of my lifetime. There's no doubt about that. And regardless of
00:39:02.520
mistakes that he's made in office, I felt he should have reopened the country much earlier with
00:39:06.920
coronavirus. He didn't, doesn't matter. He handled coronavirus better than any Democrat in this
00:39:11.260
country. And he gets no credit for it. Andrew Cuomo, his policies directly killed thousands of
00:39:17.280
elderly people. We can trace it. And now he's trying to cover it up by preventing investigations
00:39:21.840
into it. Donald Trump's policies did save people. I wish he had ended the lockdowns,
00:39:28.280
pushed in the lockdowns earlier. That would have been better, but he's still, look, it was a tough
00:39:31.940
situation once in a generation and it's difficult to handle. I don't know. There was no perfect way
00:39:37.960
to handle it. There was no way to handle it without a lot of damage around. Still, there's no choice.
00:39:42.460
There's no choice in this election. Obviously you got to vote for Trump. My favorite,
00:39:46.640
my favorite endorsement of Trump came, it was just, it went viral around the internet.
00:39:50.120
It's some older guy sitting in his car explaining in really blunt terms, the stakes of the election.
00:39:57.720
Barry, who are you voting for? Donald J. Don Trump. The Don. Why? Because he's the best president
00:40:04.280
since sliced bread. That is funny. The man do what he say he's going to do. I never see it in my life.
00:40:12.760
Everything the man say he's going to do, he do it. Then his sister, his family trying to put him down.
00:40:17.960
She don't even know what a great man this man should have in her own damn family. He's sick.
00:40:23.020
This girl, she got, you could see she gets paid to talk garbage. The man is a genius.
00:40:27.440
What about? The man could pick numbers and it's all the bottom line is the account receivable and
00:40:32.960
accounts payable. The books, man. What about, what about Biden? Biden, that criminal in 47 years,
00:40:40.080
he didn't do none for the black man. So you're telling people to vote for Trump, right? They have to.
00:40:45.380
If they do not vote for Trump, it's finished, brother. God is in the midst. He's sealed and covered
00:40:51.060
by the blood. They can't touch him. God sent him the right time. Believe me, I'm here 47 years
00:40:56.680
and this is the best. The best is the greatest thing since sliced bread, sliced bread.
00:41:04.940
You know, he said it in a funny way. So a lot of people are going to say, oh, this guy is a little
00:41:09.120
bit crazy. Show me the lie. Show me the lie in that guy's endorsement. I think he's spot on. It
00:41:16.300
actually goes on about a minute longer. He didn't have time to play the whole thing. I encourage you
00:41:19.500
to go find it though, because that guy makes a great point. Trump does what he says he's going to do.
00:41:25.400
That's what people have been so shocked about with him. The key example is moving the embassy
00:41:30.880
in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, which most people in America don't really care about that
00:41:37.780
all that much. But I think it's very important, not even just for moving the embassy,
00:41:43.540
but because of what it says about American power, American resolve, the way we treat our allies,
00:41:47.600
the way we treat our enemies, the way we treat our voters. When we say we're going to do one thing,
00:41:52.440
both parties in this country have been promising to do that exact thing for decades. It had been
00:41:56.740
the official policy of the United States and everyone just knew, oh, they're not really going
00:41:59.620
to do it. So when you'd hear a politician promise it, you'd say, okay, but what does that really
00:42:02.600
mean? It really means he's not going to do this. And then Trump gets in and Trump, I guess he just,
00:42:06.220
he never learned that lesson. So he goes in and actually does it. People are shocked. Oh my gosh,
00:42:09.720
you can't do that. The thing you promised to do the official U.S. policy. He's done it in so many
00:42:14.980
other ways, building the wall. He hasn't built the whole wall, but he's built a lot of the wall.
00:42:19.720
Actually, you'll, you'll notice there were people attacking him for lying about the wall. And then
00:42:24.040
all of a sudden, what do they have? Like 750 miles built or something? It's pretty good. It's actually
00:42:27.400
a lot of wall built. It was almost, almost half. So, you know, they need that second four years so
00:42:33.160
that you can finish building that wall. Rejiggering trade deals. NAFTA, they said, you're never going
00:42:40.320
to renegotiate NAFTA. He did. You're never going to get a trade deal with China. He did. He did.
00:42:44.520
It was actually a pretty favorable trade deal. Your trade fights are never going to work. They did.
00:42:48.740
They did. The guy said what he was going to do and he's doing it. Joe Biden has accomplished very
00:42:56.240
little in his entire career. And what he has accomplished is not so great generally. A
00:43:00.000
couple, a couple of things I like that Joe's done, but, but not many, not many. So it's a
00:43:05.620
question of which direction you want the country to go. And it's not really about these individual
00:43:08.840
guys. Sometimes you would hear, you got to vote for the man. I vote for the man, not for the party.
00:43:13.660
Yeah. If there's some really wicked, awful person, then maybe I would abstain from voting or vote for
00:43:18.020
the other party. But that's not what we're talking about. We're talking about two guys
00:43:22.800
who represent two different visions of America. Not two guys that represent two different interest
00:43:28.680
groups. And, you know, Trump represents this, the white people and the men and the, this and the,
00:43:35.500
but the Biden represents the black people and the women and the minorities. And no, it's,
00:43:39.660
it isn't that at all. Two different visions of America. Trump represents a good vision.
00:43:44.040
Biden represents a bad vision. That's it. And you see, you see this the way that the,
00:43:47.900
the endorsements are breaking down. Huge breaking news in the rap community.
00:43:53.200
Lil Wayne endorsed Donald Trump at the end of last week, following on the heels of Lil Pump's
00:43:59.300
endorsement, following on the heels of 50 cents endorsement. But then he, 50 cent, I guess,
00:44:03.760
unendorsed Trump. But I think it was probably just to do some creepy stuff with Chelsea Handler
00:44:08.420
again. I suspect he's actually going to vote for Trump still. And Kanye West, of course,
00:44:11.620
endorse Trump. People talk about how is Trump doing in the black community? I don't know how
00:44:16.100
Trump's doing in the black community, but I do know he's making huge inroads in the rap community.
00:44:20.140
He's making, it's insane. Rappers are voting for Republicans now. This is a reordering of politics.
00:44:27.260
And that's what we're talking about for tomorrow night. Tomorrow night is going to be this huge
00:44:31.760
election. And I don't have predictions over what is going to happen. I've got my money on Trump.
00:44:37.340
I've, I've bet a modest amount of money on Donald Trump. I can't really come to grips with the idea
00:44:45.380
that Biden is way up in the polls and yet no one shows up to his rallies at all. 18 people, seriously,
00:44:50.580
like 18 people at his rallies and you get 20,000 people at Trump's rallies. I can't, it doesn't make
00:44:55.860
sense to me that Hillary would lose in 2016 when there were many more reasons to doubt Trump and
00:45:00.620
be afraid of a Trump presidency. But now that he's done a good job, now he's lost support. And Joe Biden,
00:45:06.980
who can't pronounce the meaning of words, who picked maybe the worst running mate in presidential
00:45:12.000
history and whose campaign has openly embraced socialism now in that campaign ad, that that guy
00:45:20.380
is doing better than Hillary did, that that guy is beating Trump. It's hard for me to believe that.
00:45:24.900
However, we do know that we're up against a big issue in this country. The mainstream media,
00:45:29.060
big tech, big tech just took down the New Jersey women for Trump Facebook page, huge private
00:45:34.340
Facebook group, 23,000 members. That's a private group. So it's much tighter knit,
00:45:38.240
more intimate. They took it down three days before the election. So Trump just tweeted at him. He goes
00:45:41.960
at Facebook, put them back now. And then they did, they did go get your shine box too. They did put
00:45:47.440
it back, but there are a lot of shenanigans going on and, and big tech and the entire liberal
00:45:51.040
establishment and probably the bureaucracy as well. Probably the bureaucracy, people involved
00:45:56.300
in the election to varying degrees are trying to prevent Trump from winning. So we're up against
00:46:02.940
a lot. Tomorrow night could be over in five minutes. If for instance, if Trump loses Florida
00:46:07.860
or something like that, or it could, I could, I could see Joe Biden winning 40 States. I wouldn't
00:46:14.500
be surprised. Or I could see Donald Trump winning every state plus Greenland. And I wouldn't be
00:46:20.000
surprised either. I just don't know. This election will show whether or not the battle lines politically
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are so ossified in this country that we can never have a wide sweeping election again. We used to have
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that. Republicans used to win landslide elections before, notably before mass migration, that was a
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big factor in tipping it. But you know, Reagan 84 won 49 States. Nixon re-election was a landslide.
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I could see a landslide again too, in either direction, or we'll see if the battle lines
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have, have ossified so much that we're only fighting narrowly over these little States,
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these little electoral votes. And maybe some guy wins the electoral vote and another guy wins the
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popular vote. If that happens, that the temperature is only going to go up. It's anybody's ball game,
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but I will tell you my money's on Trump. And the only way to make sure that we have the best chance
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of winning that election is to go out and vote. Of people who mailed in their ballots early,
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it would seem the overwhelming number have voted for Biden. There was another poll,
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people who were casting their ballots on election day, overwhelming number for Donald Trump, which
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makes sense because Democrats are living and cowering in the corner in fear in their pods of the virus and
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the lockdowns. And Republicans are living their lives. And so we're going to show up on election day
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because we want our ballots counted because we know that some shenanigans take place.
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That is the stakes. We will see tomorrow how the next four years, next 40 years,
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