Ep. 659 - Hope Springs Eternal
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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joins the show to talk about the ongoing Supreme Court challenge to President Trump's election victory in Pennsylvania and why he thinks the high court should hear the case. Also, former Vice President Joe Biden calls President-elect Joe Biden the new president of the United States.
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The Trump election lawsuits could be headed for the Supreme Court.
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And if they make it to the Supreme Court, if the court decides to hear them out,
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they are going to have a brand new lawyer giving the oral arguments.
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That very high-level lawyer would be Senator Ted Cruz.
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In Pennsylvania, this appeal to the Supreme Court raises very serious issues.
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And I believe the Supreme Court should choose to take the case.
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And as you noted, the legal team reached out and asked if I would be willing to present the oral argument
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if the court took the case, and I told them I'd be happy to, because particularly at a time when this country is so divided,
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when people are so angry, I think we need a sense of resolution.
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And we need the Supreme Court to step in and ensure that we're following the Constitution and following the law.
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Right now, it's not healthy for our democracy what we're seeing.
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And in Pennsylvania, the problem was made worse because the Pennsylvania Supreme Court is a partisan Democratic court
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that has issued multiple decisions that were just on their face contrary to law.
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And that's not how elections are supposed to work.
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At least in Pennsylvania, the law is very clearly on Trump's side.
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But there are many other arguments involving other states.
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Of course, this was the way the 2020 election had to end.
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Of course, this is the way the year 2020 had to end.
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Why are people calling Biden the president-elect when Greenland hasn't even reported their results yet?
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Everyone's been talking about, oh, we're going to make Puerto Rico a state.
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Oh, we're going to make Washington, D.C. a state.
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Some people are suggesting we could buy Greenland from Denmark.
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I think there was a real missed opportunity when John Bolton was the national security advisor.
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This is one area where I am totally in line with the Bush-era neocons.
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And now we would have all of those electoral votes for President Trump.
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If the Supreme Court agrees to hear the Pennsylvania election challenge, which we should know very
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soon because initially it looked like the Supreme Court was not willing to hear this
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case out before the deadline to determine where the electors were going to go in Pennsylvania.
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Then Justice Sam Alito moved that deadline up to today.
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So we will know very shortly whether or not the Supreme Court is going to deal with this
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If they do hear this case out, you're going to have Ted Cruz give the oral arguments.
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But before Ted Cruz was a senator, before he ran for president, his job was arguing cases
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He was a very skilled, very successful Supreme Court litigator.
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And so this would be the strongest way, I think, to go in and present this case.
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But as I have said from the very beginning, when one group of people said Trump is definitely
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going to win and another group of people said Trump needs to concede right now before the
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President Trump should pursue that every single step he can.
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He should pursue it right up until the final deadline when the electors vote.
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And we know who the next president is going to be.
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And we shouldn't give up before it's over, because here at the very last moment, there
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are some big plays going on that leave a little glimmer of hope.
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You've got Senator Cruz discussing Pennsylvania.
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I have to wonder, by the way, if the reason that the legal team asked Senator Cruz to present
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the oral arguments has something to do with the fact that we dedicated our recent verdict
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episode to the legal arguments in Pennsylvania.
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And Senator Cruz laid out the entire legal case.
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I don't, I don't want to say that they listened to the podcast, but the timing is coincidental.
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In addition, you've got questions about Michigan.
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Sidney Powell, who is now best known as the Kraken releaser, you know, she is not affiliated
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The White House took efforts to distance themselves from her.
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A lot of people in the administration have suggested her claims are sort of far-fetched and that
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they've, they've pursued a different legal strategy.
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Sidney Powell, however, is still sticking to her guns.
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She went on television last night to insist that Michigan and Arizona should also be going
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We also have a case out of Michigan that needs to go, a case out of Arizona that may very well
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There should be at least three states before the Supreme Court with enough electoral votes
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to change the outcome before the end of the week.
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Now, when people saw this last night, I think a lot of them thought, ah, this doesn't sound
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We've been waiting on the Kraken for a few weeks now.
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These states probably aren't going to the Supreme Court.
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Well, coincidentally, we've just gotten breaking news in the last 20 minutes that Texas, the
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state of Texas is going to be suing Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
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Why is this one state suing all of these other states?
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Because Texas is alleging, and I think we all know this to be true, that the states had bizarre
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and irregular election practices, many of which were unconstitutional, many of which
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were passed from judicial benches or from random election officials or through executive
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In the case of Pennsylvania, it just violated the Constitution outright.
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And so what Texas is saying is this violates the electors' clause and it violates the equal
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You can't have these states all messing around with how they're conducting the elections and
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not playing by the rules and then have the other states playing by the rules and then have
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It means that they're suing in the Supreme Court.
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They don't, when a state sues another state, there is original jurisdiction in the Supreme Court
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because you can't have a, a state isn't going to sue another state in a district court,
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It's going to go all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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Will the Supreme Court care about this argument?
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When everyone's been telling you, wait, let the process play out, the process is playing
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I mean, things are changing every single minute.
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And that's why patience is a virtue, courage is a virtue, and we will know very shortly how
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So I'm very pleased that the Trump legal team is pursuing every option they've got.
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However, there's a very good chance that the courts do not give this election to President
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The Trump administration is doing everything they can to make it very difficult for Joe
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Biden to reverse the accomplishments of the last four years.
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Don't put all your eggs in the basket of the Supreme Court.
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Don't put all your eggs in the basket of we're going to get a second term.
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You've got to take precautions in case, as it seems there's a very good chance, Joe Biden
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So number one up on the docket, President Trump has signed an executive order to make
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sure that Americans get the coronavirus vaccine first.
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Who, what American politician in the midst of this unprecedented, well, it's an unprecedented
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I don't know if you'd call it an unprecedented pandemic, but it's an unprecedented lockdown.
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What American president would say, okay, we're going to pay to develop the vaccine.
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We're going to lead the world fight on developing the vaccine.
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And then we're going to give it to other people before every American gets it.
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Because the Biden plan on the vaccine is that some Americans are going to get the vaccine
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and then they're going to give it away to the rest of the world.
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And then maybe some other Americans will get it later.
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So this executive order says that other countries may request shipments of the vaccine only after
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the quote needs of the American people have been met.
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This, according to a White House official, there are some minor exceptions to this rule
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because we've got deals with Canada and things like that.
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But as a, generally speaking, Americans, according to this executive order, will get the vaccine
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first and then the rest of the world can get it.
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Now you might say if, if Joe Biden becomes president, that executive order won't mean very
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much because he can just rip up the executive order.
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President Trump is still not permitted to rescind some of Barack Obama's executive orders.
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But as we all know, the left plays by different rules than the right does.
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So Joe Biden could just rip up the executive order, right?
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I suppose he could, but then he has to answer politically for why he is prioritizing the health
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Conservatives have always been a little skeptical about the experts' claims about this virus and
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Democrats have said this thing is going to kill you.
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So then that Democratic president is going to go, have to go back and say, hey, we're not
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And there are a lot of actions that President Trump can take right now in case Biden does become
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Another thing that Trump is doing, which some people might view it as the opposite of saving
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I don't view it this way, but while he's trying to make sure Americans get this vaccine,
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he's also ramping up executions for people on death row, which I think is actually an
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important way to save lives, but it's a little bit indirect because you're saving lives by
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killing criminals who have been sentenced to death.
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If the updated schedule of the executions is carried off, President Trump would become
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the most prolific execution president in over 130 years.
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Even many conservatives are anti-death penalty.
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I think the death penalty is very misunderstood.
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I think it's very important as a matter of justice.
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I think as our conceptions of justice in this country are completely distorted and perverted,
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and we replace real justice with a sort of liberal bastardization of social justice,
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I think it's important in a country that is a free country and has law and order that we have
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justice all the way up to including capital punishment.
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That is because there is a deterrent effect of capital punishment.
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It's not a very strong effect right now because people languish on death row for 30 years.
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That's one of the problems Trump is trying to fix.
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There is a retributive aspect of capital punishment, which is the purpose.
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That is the primary purpose of criminal justice.
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It is retribution because someone has committed a crime.
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That's why it's not called criminal rehabilitation system or criminal deterrence system.
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We have a pardon power, but there's also justice.
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We can't have only justice without any mercy, but we need the justice component too.
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And there's a rehabilitative component because hanging concentrates the mind very well.
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Some people are calling for these executions to be put off.
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Nobody's allowed to kill the people on death row.
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All these poor people, they committed a crime so long ago.
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You notice that the people who are calling for these executions to be descheduled and for
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these criminals to be pardoned, they never talk about the specifics.
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When they do talk about specifics, they say, he was so young.
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And so because they're, they have this particular race, you can't, it's bad to execute them or
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The left is in overdrive trying to get this execution descheduled.
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We actually mentioned Brandon Bernard some months ago on the show.
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Bernard killed two youth ministers, Todd and Stacey Bagley, in Killen, Texas in 1999.
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These two youth ministers, out of the goodness of their heart, pull over, give them a ride.
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He then drives them around for a very long time as he's spending their money trying to
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As they are pleading for their lives, they're reading him scripture.
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He then shoots them both, but he doesn't end up killing the woman.
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So then he sets the trunk of the car on fire and burns her alive.
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We all kidnap our benefactors, rob them, torture them for hours, shoot them and burn
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Come on, what kind of a just country would execute that man?
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I think any just country would execute that man.
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And a country that has no sense of justice would deschedule that execution.
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Alfred Bourgeois tortured and killed his two-year-old daughter, whom he regularly abused physically
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He killed her because he had a brief moment of custody when the mother of his daughter
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He killed her because she tipped over her potty training chair in his flatbed truck.
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So he slammed her head into a truck window, killed her.
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Come on, what kind of a just country would kill that man?
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Corey Johnson murdered seven people, seven people, spurred into this crime because he
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wanted to further his drug trafficking operation.
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He ended up killing his intended victims, family members and acquaintances too.
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So it wasn't even just other people involved in the drug trafficking ring, customers who
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didn't pay, which were some of his victims or other rival drug traffickers.
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Come on, we would be so awful if we killed him.
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Dustin John Higgs kidnapped and murdered three women.
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And finally, Lisa Montgomery, who strangled a pregnant woman to death.
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She strangled a pregnant woman to death, cut open her body, kidnapped her baby.
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Frankly, I think that, I don't think that the capital punishment by any measure could
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It's not, it's never been unusual in the entire history of the world.
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And it's not particularly cruel compared to say life in prison.
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I think that is, as a historical fact, that is unusual.
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Part of the reason that we have lost our sense of justice here is because we've gone from
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being a Christian culture to being a materialist culture.
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So we now believe that the worst thing that can possibly happen to someone is physical
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death because we have no sense of the spirit, of the soul, of the eternal moral order.
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So now we just think it's all about flesh and meat.
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And the minute you die, it's the worst thing that could possibly happen.
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I think there are things worse than physical death.
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And it's, I think it's very important that President Trump continue on his path and ramp
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If these people languish on death row too long, the answer to that is not to pardon all of
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This is a, you see, you see the defenses of capital punishment, not just in scripture, not just in
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moral philosophy, but we know them intuitively.
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We're not saying vigilantes should go out and kill their enemies.
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The state has a role in exacting justice and it ain't just giving out parking tickets.
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Good stuff from President Trump, because by the way, if these are delayed in any way,
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and if Biden does become president, then he's going to have to deschedule these.
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He's going to have to explain why these monsters should be pardoned, why these monsters should
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He's going to have to explain that to the victims and the victims, I guess not the victims,
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Something else going on right now, if Joe Biden becomes president, as he seems certain that he
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will, even though the Supreme Court has not heard these cases yet, he has announced that he wants
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someone named Xavier Becerra to be the director of health, or the secretary of health and human
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For those who don't know, because I was just living in la-la land, Becerra is the attorney
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Becerra is one of the worst elected officials in the entire country.
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His career has been spent attacking pro-life people, been attacking friends of mine, David
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Daleiden, who was attacked because he exposed the fact that Planned Parenthood sells baby body
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He was attacked, actually, not just by Becerra, but by Kamala Harris as well, who could be the
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He's an unacceptable nominee, if there is a Biden presidency.
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He said that he should be rejected by the Senate.
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All Republicans in the Senate should vote against Becerra if there's a Biden administration
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Any Republican that does not vote against Becerra should be primaried and removed from office.
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When I pointed this out yesterday on social media, someone responded to me and said, Michael,
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He says, because this is the kind of thing Democrats did to Trump.
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They held up Trump's nominees for certain positions.
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And so we can't then, if we didn't like that, then we can't go ahead and hold up Democrat nominees
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I think people misunderstand what hypocrisy means.
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I think some people are holding themselves over from decades ago when Republicans and Democrats
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when there was a great similarity and they weren't particularly conservative.
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It's a holdover from this old, now I think dead idea that all of politics is just about procedure.
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For instance, we can't stop drag queen story hour.
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We can't stop people from twerking in front of four-year-olds in their classrooms or libraries.
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Because if we tell them they can't do that, they might tell us we can't go to church.
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They might tell us we can't watch Monday night football.
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If we don't allow them to have whatever sort of institution or association they want,
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they might tell us we can't have whatever institution or association we want.
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The founding fathers are rolling over in their graves hearing that idea.
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Getting back to our point on the death penalty,
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you're getting back to the Federalist Papers, James Madison.
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The end of government is not letting people do whatever they want all the time.
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Using our brains, that's how we define justice.
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Using the moral order and our moral intuitions and our faculties of reason,
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If we do not have the ability to discern between good and bad,
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So please spare me these ridiculous ideas that anything Democrats do and anything Republicans do,
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These are different things and we have to fight over the issues themselves.
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Now on the public health front, speaking of health and human services,
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the left is still pushing these ridiculous lockdown orders.
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I think I have now heard the most coherent pro-argument lockdown from this entire many
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She was driving down the street in her car and I felt she articulated this better than
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Persuasive. This is who is teaching our students. I actually do think it's exactly as persuasive
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as everything Newsom or Cuomo or any of these other people say. At least she's being honest
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about how it has no basis in rational thought and it's just purely emotional.
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Getting back to our prior discussion, there's this silly holdover idea that the liberal culture,
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the secular culture is neutral. It's just neutral, okay? And we can never suggest,
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we can never impose our views on anybody else, we conservatives. And you know, the left is there,
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because if we impose our views, then the left is going to impose their views.
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I think they're imposing them. That's a public school teacher. I'm pretty sure she's imposing
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her views. If maybe she was having a bad day, but I think that's pretty good evidence of what
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you're getting in classrooms. And you're seeing this all around the country. It's not just on
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the stupid lockdown stuff. It's on the 1619 Project, which is being taught all around the country,
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anti-historical trash that is designed purely to get students to hate their country. And sometimes
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conservatives misunderstand this because conservatives, they say, look, we want education,
00:29:24.220
not indoctrination. Those words mean basically the same thing. Indoctrination comes from the Latin
00:29:30.460
word docere, which means to teach. You'll occasionally hear people say, we don't teach
00:29:38.020
students what to think. We just want to teach them how to think. That's not possible. All education is
00:29:43.200
coercive. You don't need to look like that crazy teacher, but you do need to teach people things.
00:29:48.560
You can't teach people how to think unless you teach them what to think. You can't teach people
00:29:52.780
how to think about mathematics unless you teach them the fact that two plus two equals four.
00:29:58.000
And a student might come to you and say, well, I want to believe that two plus two equals five. Well,
00:30:01.020
you're not allowed to believe that. I have to coerce you to believe that two plus two equals four
00:30:05.900
if I hope to teach you how to think. The left gets this. The left understands that education is
00:30:12.020
coercive. The right needs to get that too. It's not merely enough to say, hey, in addition to your
00:30:17.000
BLM curriculum where you're reading Kendi's stupid book about anti-racism, where you're reading the
00:30:23.460
1619 Project, which is fiction, but that's being presented as history. In addition to that, would
00:30:28.900
you mind reading Shakespeare? It's not enough to say that. You have to say, don't read the 1619 Project.
00:30:34.480
Take it out of the curriculum. Don't read Ibram Kendi's stupid book. Take it out of the curriculum.
00:30:39.540
By the way, you have to do that anyway because there's only so much time.
00:30:44.000
There are only so many semesters. There are only so many days in the week.
00:30:49.160
We've got to get much more serious about that if we want to avoid that teacher shaping the next
00:30:56.940
generation, which is currently happening. Some people are pushing back right now,
00:31:00.060
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with a lot more. Some people are pushing back on this stuff. Some people are saying no screeching
00:32:22.700
leftist teacher in a car. We're not going to acquiesce to your will, especially in my home state
00:32:28.880
of New York. New York gets a bad rap because there are a ton of libs in Manhattan and especially out
00:32:35.140
in Brooklyn these days. There's actually only one borough of New York which is conservative and that
00:32:39.720
would be Staten Island. So you'll recall, we played this on the show yesterday, Staten Island native
00:32:45.800
Pete Davidson on SNL made fun of business owners and customers who refuse to go along with the
00:32:53.460
lockdowns and lose their livelihoods and lose their businesses and lose everything that they've
00:32:58.120
worked for, lose their life savings very often. He made fun of them. He said they're babies.
00:33:02.380
They're not manly. Come on, just go sit at home, do whatever the government says.
00:33:06.260
I don't know, go work on Zoom, right? It's classic liberal elite rejoinder to lockdown protests.
00:33:14.100
They say, come on, just go look, telecommute. Just hop on your Zoom and commute into your job at
00:33:20.560
McKinsey. What's so hard? What? What, you need to leave the house to go to work? What is this?
00:33:24.940
The 1850s? Yeah, a lot of people have to leave the house to go to work, buddy. A Staten Island
00:33:30.260
activist, John Tobacco, who actually knows the king of Staten Island, Pete Davidson's father who died
00:33:36.380
on 9-11. He came out and he did not mince words about this kind of argument about these people who
00:33:44.580
have been hurt by the lockdowns. You have mega millionaires who are on the national spotlight
00:33:50.240
like the folks on Saturday Night Live. And instead of making fun of their friends and the
00:33:56.580
local business owners who are broke and crushed and bankrupt, instead of coming down here as fellow
00:34:02.820
Staten Islanders and standing up for them and bringing a positive light to this thing, what they want to
00:34:07.580
do is go on national TV and try to humiliate the little man when he's down. And to me, that's quite
00:34:12.720
disgusting. And as I mentioned before, my dad was a member of the NYPD, the king of Staten Island's
00:34:19.440
dad, was a proud fireman and a great friend of mine. And I saw Staten Islanders heavily come out
00:34:25.200
and support him, his mom, his family, and everyone else in a time of need after 9-11 when I cried
00:34:32.500
for his father. So when I hear stuff like this, it hits me emotionally when I think, wow,
00:34:38.560
if you came out of your perch in your affluent neighborhood and came down here and told the
00:34:44.040
liberal left this is a good thing because it's about our freedom and liberty, we probably wouldn't
00:34:48.760
be standing here today. Absolutely well put. I couldn't have said it any better myself.
00:34:54.840
Talk about babies. Who do you think's manlier? The liberals scoffing at the lockdown protesters or
00:35:01.420
that guy? I would not want to meet that guy in a dark alley in the middle of the night, okay? I would
00:35:06.160
not want to get into a fight with that guy. Obviously, that's the case. I was thinking about 2020. A lot
00:35:12.960
of liberal, wealthy friends of mine have complained about how terrible the year has been. And for them,
00:35:20.420
it has been terrible because they've locked themselves in their homes for no reason for the
00:35:23.860
whole year. They've refused to go do anything. Many of them have canceled weddings. They've canceled
00:35:28.560
their holidays. They canceled Thanksgiving. They're not going anywhere. And so they have had a difficult
00:35:35.500
year, a lonely year. We're a social creature. We're meant to interact with one another.
00:35:39.160
That is very difficult. But that is a problem of their own making. The reason those wealthy liberals
00:35:47.360
have had a bad year is because they have acted in a stupid and foolish way. They could have had a good
00:35:54.460
year. I feel I've had a relatively good year, especially because I got to move out of California,
00:35:58.760
to Tennessee. So now I can breathe the sweet air of freedom again. But I do feel I've had a pretty
00:36:04.060
good year. There have been difficult moments of it and there have been some hits. Obviously,
00:36:07.940
the economy took hit for almost everybody. But generally speaking, I've had a decent enough
00:36:13.420
time. Fortunately, Daily Wire has been able to keep a roof on over our heads. So that's a good
00:36:18.320
thing, right? All of these wealthy liberals, their companies are doing fine. NBC is doing fine. SNL
00:36:25.280
is doing fine. So I want to say it's your own fault if you're having a bad year. But that's not true for
00:36:32.020
everybody. There are a lot of other people who are having a bad year and it's no fault of theirs
00:36:35.720
whatsoever. A lot of other people are having a bad year because they lost their job because
00:36:41.480
of these policies, pointless, senseless, medically incoherent policies that guys on SNL and in the
00:36:50.840
liberal media are applauding, making fun of us for not cheering on ourselves. Those policies have ruined
00:36:57.920
lives. They've made people die alone. They've made people lose relatives and friends, never getting
00:37:04.700
to say goodbye. They've made people not even be allowed to have funerals for their dead loved ones.
00:37:11.840
They've made people push off weddings. They've made people put their lives on hold, often losing
00:37:19.080
what little money they'd scrape together to start a small business. Some people losing their life
00:37:24.860
savings. That's, that's not their fault. That is the fault. It is somebody's fault. It's not only,
00:37:31.420
it's not only the virus's fault. It's not only the Chinese government's fault. It is the fault of
00:37:35.780
Andrew Cuomo and Gavin Newsom and Eric Garcetti and Nancy Pelosi and a lot of these and Lori Lightfoot
00:37:46.520
in Chicago. It is the fault of people who have made specific political decisions that have hurt a lot
00:37:53.440
of people. It might not hurt Pete Davidson, but it's hurt a lot of other people around the country.
00:38:00.140
What's, what's manly? Is it manly to make fun of those people? Ha ha ha? Is it man, no, I don't think
00:38:05.800
so. I think the manly thing to do, the virtuous thing to do is stand up, push back, live your life.
00:38:12.920
Don't live your life in fear and stop these politicians from running roughshod over your lives.
00:38:18.140
Speaking of manliness, you remember this story that became a national news story the other day
00:38:22.800
because a girl kicked a football at a Vanderbilt football game. And this was a huge news story
00:38:30.520
because the Vanderbilt football team is men. But then a woman kicked a football one time during
00:38:36.280
the game. And so that's a huge deal. So Vanderbilt is really playing this up. The whole team is really
00:38:40.960
playing this up. There's now a small little feature that's been produced about this girl
00:38:45.120
kicking the football. And here's what the gal has to say about this historic moment.
00:38:50.380
When I was younger, it used to be an insult. Kids would come up and say, oh, you play like
00:38:56.160
a girl. We are about to witness history in college football. When you see someone else
00:39:02.140
who looks like you, who's lived a life like you, who's had a background like you, you know
00:39:06.860
that I can do that too. I want to change that narrative and show that like playing like a
00:39:12.600
girl is a compliment. It's something you want to strive for.
00:39:18.380
I do not want to make fun of this girl. It's very nice that she got to kick the football during
00:39:24.660
the game. And I guess it's probably pretty impressive, you know, relatively speaking.
00:39:29.340
How do I put this in a nice way? The fact that this girl kicked a football during a game
00:39:37.720
with boys does not change anything about sports or biology or competition. It doesn't change that at
00:39:50.440
all. This little video begins and says, you know, people used to say, if you kick like a girl,
00:39:56.840
then you're not as strong as if you kick like a boy. But now we're going to change that. No,
00:40:01.560
you won't. Because the boys still kick the ball further. The boys are still better at sports
00:40:08.420
because the boys are physically stronger, because the boys are different than the girls.
00:40:12.860
It's not a knock on girls. It's just a fact. We talked about the story of Karsten Brosh the other
00:40:18.420
day. When this kind of issue cropped up in the 90s, there was the battle of the sexes.
00:40:22.740
Venus and Serena Williams said they could beat any man at tennis ranked outside the top 200.
00:40:26.180
So this guy shows up. He was ranked like 203 or something, smokes a pack of cigarettes,
00:40:30.160
drinks a couple of beers, plays a round of golf, shows up and he beats the sisters six to one and
00:40:33.940
six to two. Not making fun of the sisters. They're very good female tennis players, but
00:40:38.320
women are physically less strong than men. And it's not going to be helpful to women
00:40:43.820
to pretend and delude them into thinking that they are physically as strong as men. Because if a woman
00:40:50.040
finds herself in a dangerous situation with a man and vastly overestimates her strength,
00:40:54.480
she's not going to be thanking the people who pushed that ridiculous ideology on them.
00:40:59.300
Then, as some people from the football team gave us a little insight into the moment on the field,
00:41:06.380
apparently some of the men on the sidelines, they were so touched and moved, they were crying.
00:41:12.140
There were some people on the sidelines tearing up. Like just the emotion in the crowd,
00:41:17.520
everybody cheering going. Everybody was excited. The entire stadium was electric.
00:41:24.500
The men on the sidelines were crying because a girl kicked the ball. Something tells me they were
00:41:32.400
also crying when the team lost the game 41 to nothing. That's another inconvenient fact about
00:41:39.440
this great story that they're probably going to make a feature film out of now. They lost the game.
00:41:43.420
They didn't get a single point. It's nice for the girl. Can we say, oh, that's nice for the girl
00:41:50.560
that she got this opportunity to kick the ball in the men's football game and not pretend that biology
00:41:56.100
has suddenly been upended? That now this is some magnificent advance for the human species?
00:42:03.820
That now women, now what? If women are as physically strong as men, what that means is when little
00:42:10.420
boys are taught never hit a girl, they can't be taught that anymore, right? Why? Men and women are exactly
00:42:14.880
the same. They're equally strong. Why not? Men should never hit a girl because women are the
00:42:20.100
gentler sex, weaker sex physically. That all remains true. I think these men now might be a much
00:42:29.680
weaker sex than they used to be if they're crying on the sidelines because a girl kicked a football one
00:42:34.500
time. Speaking of tearing up, by the way, there is something far more amiss in our culture than
00:42:41.760
college football. The left has so infiltrated institutions, so hollowed out our most beloved
00:42:49.500
rituals and traditions that now you have shopping mall Santa clauses. You bring the kid up and you
00:42:56.920
take a picture and the kid says, what do you want for Christmas? You now have woke shopping mall Santa
00:43:01.700
clauses telling little boys that he won't get them the presents that they want because they're not
00:43:08.640
politically correct. Kid's sitting there saying this across the table because I guess social
00:43:18.860
distancing now. I don't know. He doesn't know what he wants. What do you want? Come on, kid.
00:43:24.700
No, no, no guns. He said he wants a Nerf gun. No, not even a Nerf gun.
00:43:34.340
No, if your dad wants to get it for you, that's fine, but I can't bring it to you.
00:43:39.020
What else would you like? Lots of toys. There's Legos.
00:43:44.200
Santa tells the kid he won't get the kid a Nerf gun? It's not even a BB gun like in that movie.
00:43:51.340
Go shoot your eye out, kid. It's a Nerf gun. If you shoot someone point blank with a Nerf gun,
00:43:56.240
it's not going to do anything. Now the kid starts to cry because Santa Claus told him he can't get
00:44:00.920
the one toy he wants. What a sicko this guy is.
00:44:10.980
Don't cry. I can make a donation in your name to Planned Parenthood. Come on, I'll get you what
00:44:17.040
every kid wants. I'll get you a Biden-Harris bumper sticker. And the kid's crying.
00:44:21.580
I love that mother. I love that. Yeah, you'll still get it. Don't worry. We're still going to
00:44:27.880
get you the gun because this schmucky Santa Claus over here. First of all, that Santa Claus isn't
00:44:33.420
going to bring the kid anything because that Santa Claus is a guy working a seasonal job at a shopping
00:44:39.460
mall. If that guy shows up at this woman's house, the police are going to get called.
00:44:42.680
But he can't even say, okay, Johnny, sure, we'll get you a Nerf gun this year. No. He says, no,
00:44:50.080
we can't do that. Because if, look, if you get a Nerf gun, then that means you'll have some fun
00:44:56.140
and you can't have any fun. We're not allowed to do that anymore. But also, then one day you might
00:45:01.060
want to have a real gun, which means that you might exercise your Second Amendment rights.
00:45:06.700
And we can't have that because the Constitution, that's not in the spirit of holiday cheer. So
00:45:14.420
sorry, Johnny, you're getting cold this year. What a sicko. Who does this? Who allows
00:45:20.180
a political ideology to so warp their mind and soul that they take a job as a mall store Santa Claus
00:45:30.020
and make a little kid cry at Christmas? Now, of course, this is, this is the defining feature
00:45:37.520
of political correctness. Political correctness seeks to upend every old standard, every old
00:45:45.380
tradition, every old institution. It seeks, in Marx's words, the ruthless criticism of all that
00:45:52.080
exists. You often hear political correctness described in the same breath as critical theory,
00:45:56.640
which is an sort of academic field that developed in the 20th century. Well, what's the, the theory
00:46:01.380
is to criticize. That's critical theory in a nutshell is to criticize everything. And it derives from
00:46:05.800
this idea that you have to ruthlessly criticize all that exists, including these beloved holiday
00:46:10.860
traditions. A joyless leftist scold does not know the time and place and does not know his place,
00:46:17.660
does not know his job, does not have a sense of his duty, which is to go and make the kid feel
00:46:23.340
good and take a picture at Christmas. That is a total inversion of the way things ought to be.
00:46:32.300
And it's a glimpse of the future under political correctness. You know, we've had a very lovely
00:46:37.240
four years that were, that was a break from political correctness. Trump in many ways launched
00:46:42.620
his campaign against political correctness. He said that, he said, I don't have time for political
00:46:47.180
correctness. Political correctness is absolutely killing this country. And the possible election
00:46:53.880
of Joe Biden, I guess we'll soon find out, is not the election of some new vision for the country.
00:46:59.080
It's just a return to that politically correct, corrosive movement that is slowly decaying every
00:47:07.260
single thing that we like in this country. And often it doesn't even matter who gets elected.
00:47:11.760
For some reason, it keeps running its course through the culture. That sort of stuff is at
00:47:18.260
stake. Joe Biden is not going to know what end is up if he becomes president. But all those joyless
00:47:24.900
leftists, those bureaucrats, those radicals that he's already talking about appointing to his cabinet,
00:47:30.820
all those people are going to be shaping our country and they can have an outsized effect. And so we hold
00:47:37.120
out hope. We wait to hear from the Supreme Court. Hope springs eternal in the human breast. And we'll
00:47:43.460
know a lot more tomorrow. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you then.
00:47:52.560
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