Ep. 680 - Impotent Impeachment
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Summary
Impeachment has passed the House of Representatives, and now it s up to the Senate to decide whether or not to bring it up for a vote. President Trump becomes the first president in history to be impeached twice, making him the first man to be removed from office twice for the same crime.
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Add another accomplishment to President Trump's record.
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President Trump becomes the first president in history to be impeached twice.
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House Democrats seem to think that they are destroying Trump's legacy.
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If anything, I think the impeachment actually might help it.
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Now, my favorite comment from yesterday is from James Colley,
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who says the National Guard at Joey's inauguration will be his largest crowd.
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Not just his largest crowd, you know, of the day at the inauguration, his largest crowd ever.
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We sort of forget because now we've certified the election results and Joe Biden's the president
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We sort of forget that the guy couldn't get more than like 12 people to show up to any
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And now one suspects he's going to have mostly a Zoom inauguration.
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It's all going to be virtual, all going to be digital, all, all pretty weird, won't it
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He's been impeached twice in just about two years.
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A little more, a little more than, no, when was it?
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It was the end of 2019 and now it's the beginning of 2021.
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So just a little over a year he's been impeached.
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Are we going to impeach him again before he is taken out of office?
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There was some rumor that Mitch McConnell, Senate Majority Leader, was eager for impeachment.
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Do you remember I read you that New York Times headline just this week?
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And I said, according to the New York Times, so take that with a boulder-sized grain of salt.
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Mitch McConnell is looking forward to an impeachment trial so that he can purge the party of Trump and so that he can prevent Trump from running in 2024.
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I said, you got to take it with a big grain of salt and it turns out you should because Mitch McConnell has said that the Senate will not take up the matter of impeachment before the inauguration, meaning the House impeaches and the Senate holds the trial.
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But if President Trump is no longer the sitting president, then he cannot be the subject of an impeachment trial.
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One thing that this should remind us, first of all, is, you know, always wait a day when you hear something in the New York Times and, you know, maybe have a little bit more faith in cocaine, Mitch.
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He's, he's served us better in recent years than perhaps some of us thought he might, but also it reminds us how much power one has if, if we control the Senate.
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You know, the fact that Republicans for at least a few more days control the Senate means that they can say impeachment trial completely off, completely ridiculous, and Democrats can't do anything about it.
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There were a handful of Republicans who voted for impeachment in the House.
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I think it's important to read their names so that we can remember those names.
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John Katko of New York, Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, Fred Upton, Jamie Butler, Dan Newhouse, Peter Meijer, Anthony Gonzalez, Tom Rice, and Tom Valadao.
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They, they just sound like some GOP backbenchers.
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Worth remembering, I guess, when they're up for re-election.
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Obviously, Trump will be gone at that point, but the squishiness and the disloyalty and the ignorance of the law, even just on the, on the objective legal matters of the impeachment, really makes one question their judgment.
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There is one name, though, that we can recognize here.
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So she's not, you know, the minority leader or the Republican minority leader in the House or anything like that.
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And it is a very strange thing that someone who is at least technically in Republican leadership in the House would vote to impeach the Republican president with no real legal basis.
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The legal, the legal charge here was that Trump incited a mob to attack the Capitol.
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You might say that Trump's actions in the last month or two have been imprudent, unwise, irresponsible, reckless.
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He did not incite the mob to commit violence at the Capitol.
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So whatever you want to say about Trump, it's a frivolous charge.
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Dan Crenshaw pointed that out just a couple of days ago.
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Very strange to have that kind of a person in GOP leadership.
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Really, really don't have a ton of faith in her judgment.
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And I don't have faith in the judgment of GOP leadership if they're going to have a person like that there.
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Now, all of this is symbolic, but that's all they, all they can voice on Trump right now is this kind of symbolism.
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And what the Democrats and the never Trumpers want to do is they want to say Trump is historically bad and evil.
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They were hoping they could prevent him from running in 2024.
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They failed to do that, but they just want to destroy his legacy.
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I want to put aside for a second anything about the Capitol.
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I want to put aside for a second anything about Trump's tweets.
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I want to put aside for a second anything about how you don't like the cut of his jib.
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I want you to focus on not just the House Democrats and the handful of squishy Republicans.
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I want you to focus on the broader ruling class, guys like Jack Dorsey, these Silicon Valley oligarchs, you know, hipster Rasputin, who decides that he ought to be able to censor the duly elected sitting president of the United States.
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I want you to think about guys like Mark Zuckerberg, another zillionaire master of the universe, who decides he can censor the duly elected president of the United States.
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I want you to think about everybody over YouTube and Google decides they can censor, they decide they can censor the duly elected president of the United States.
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When you think of that ruling class, and then you add the corporate class to that, and then you add the higher education part to that, then you add Hollywood, then you add the corrupt mainstream media.
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The ruling liberal class has come after Trump in a way that I've never seen them come after any Republican in my lifetime.
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They hated Bush, they hated Romney, even though now they love Romney.
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They hated McCain, even though other times they loved McCain.
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We know, you know, way back in the olden days, they hated Reagan in particular.
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They went after Reagan in a fairly similar way to how they've gone after Trump.
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If you have faith in that ruling elite right now, then they're impeaching Trump twice is a knock on his legacy.
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But if you think that that ruling elite is corrupt, wrongheaded, idiotic, malevolent in some cases, certainly malignant.
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If you think that that ruling elite is a rotting oligarchy that deserves none of our admiration or respect,
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then their second impeachment of Trump is a badge of honor.
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Taking away any argument that they made for the impeachment, the fact that they've come after this guy again and again and again.
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They were so threatened by this guy that when he was running for president the first time,
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the ruling regime decided they had to spy on him to try to undermine his campaign.
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Then the minute he gets inaugurated, you had Democratic representatives saying,
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we've got to impeach him because otherwise he might win re-election.
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Then they try to impeach him for the other thing.
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And then they finally do impeach him for some bogus nonsense.
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Then they go after him again and again and again.
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They rewrite the election laws in the weeks and months before the election.
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In some cases, explicitly violating state constitutions like in Pennsylvania.
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I don't know, they'll probably try to impeach him a couple more times.
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Is that a knock on his legacy or is that a defense of his legacy?
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I think in the long run, it's going to be the latter.
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And, and, and all the rest of them, by the way.
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Maxine, think about Maxine Waters, who explicitly called for violence against Republicans.
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Think about Hillary Clinton, who said you can't be civil with Republicans.
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But Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, she decides that the people's business,
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it's very, very important that House Democrats pass a resolution
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such that the House rules will no longer include gendered language.
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All the troubles we face right now, the draconian lockdowns, people losing their livelihoods,
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threats from abroad, rising China, all of these issues.
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We pass this resolution such that the House rules will not include gendered language.
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Listen to the arguments she makes for that resolution.
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I stand before you today as an officer of the Constitution,
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I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a daughter.
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She wants to pass a resolution getting rid of gendered language in the House rules.
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And to defend that, she says, I stand before you as a wife, a mother, a grandmother.
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That sounds like the most gendered language you can use,
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which is hilarious and it shows their sort of frivolity and ignorance.
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But it also shows something a little bit deeper about all these
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Namely, they will not hold themselves to those standards.
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President Trump says, go peacefully protest at the Capitol.
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Chris Cuomo comes out and says, protests don't need to be peaceful.
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They encourage the quote unquote peaceful protests that seem inevitably to turn into these riots.
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They say with buildings on fire, this is a mostly peaceful protest.
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They bail out the rioters like Kamala Harris did.
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And some squishy Republicans still don't get it.
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Those handful of people led by Liz Cheney that we named.
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That's the leadership that we're talking about.
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House Democrats are proposing a new rule demanding that members of Congress wear a mask while they
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are on the House floor or have to pay a $500 fine.
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The rule comes after three Democrats, Bonnie Coleman, Brad Schneider, and Pramila Jayapal
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claim they contracted COVID-19 while sheltering in place with Republican lawmakers during
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They say they were forced to share space with members of the GOP who refused to wear masks.
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Now, what's funny about some of these claims, you've heard other Democratic lawmakers claim,
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make these sorts of claims before and make a big deal out of the masks.
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And then some of them have been caught on camera not wearing the masks all the time.
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This is true of almost everybody who demands that people wear masks.
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Dr. Fauci, remember he threw out, he tried to throw out the baseball at the Nationals game
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and he had the mask on even though he's standing in the middle of a baseball diamond in an empty
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Nobody's around him anywhere, but he makes a big show.
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Then he goes back up to his seat and he's sitting with some of his friends right next to them
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And I suspect that's true of many of these Democratic legislators as well.
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Shows you what happens though when you can control the House and the Senate.
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So much of it is about how you can set the rules, how you can put off certain things.
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These masks, it would seem to me, are here to stay, at least for the foreseeable future.
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We're going to be talking about this two months from now, I bet.
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People are still going to be wearing these masks.
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On airplanes, they're going to be wearing them for a while.
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I've spoken personally to public health experts who have told me.
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I say, when are we going to get rid of the masks?
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I say, well, you know, maybe, maybe we should just keep wearing the masks.
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We used to be all these germs and we wouldn't wear them.
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These are the sort of frivolous people who impeach the president.
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Led by the most frivolous of all of them, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who just went on a long rant that is both hilarious, but I think insightful.
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She did not realize it was insightful, but she unwittingly gave a lot of insight into the way the left is thinking.
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So she opens up in this rant describing the tragedy of the scourge that we've been talking about all week.
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You know, this is the incarnation of evil in America.
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You know, don't you feel you're walking around?
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It's like you're surrounded by skinheads wherever you go, right?
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Maybe you don't know any neo-Nazis, but I am reliably informed by the Democratic Party that this country is teeming with skinheads.
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Doesn't matter that you don't know any of them.
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Trust me, that Trump supporter that you don't talk to very much, but maybe you saw him across the street.
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So AOC goes on to describe the tragedy of white supremacy.
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They would rather see our country burn than to see them be shoulder to shoulder equal to others.
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The tragedy of white supremacy is that it is doomed to fail.
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White supremacists will never, ever, ever live in a world where they will see their fantasies come true.
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Did AOC said the tragedy of white supremacy is that it will fail?
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I know politics is changing a lot, minute by minute.
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But am I to understand that AOC considers it a tragedy that white supremacy will fail?
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And I was trying to think, I thought, is it, is she describing tragedy in a sort of Shakespearean,
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You know, someone who starts off like really great and everything's working out really,
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No, I don't think she would say that about white supremacists.
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I don't think she considers skinheads to be these sorts of, you know,
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people where they're heroes and everything's going great.
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But then, ah, some character flaw makes it, makes it not work.
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She's saying it, the tragedy is that they're, they're doomed to fail.
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Because AOC, not, not the brightest bulb in the pack.
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She is very effective at communicating her views to rile up her base and to rile up our base too.
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She's, she is singularly talented at getting her radicals riled up, but also triggering all of us.
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I mean, that is, that is kind of her, her singular feature.
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And then she gets a lot of headlines in conservative media and that helps her become more popular
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and that helps her amass more influence within the Democratic Party.
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And it really, really has worked out for her pretty well.
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it was part of a larger riff about how she feared for her life during the Capitol riot.
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As for myself, I had a pretty traumatizing event happen to me.
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Um, and I do not know if I can even disclose the full details of that event due to security concerns,
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but I can tell you that I had a very close encounter where I thought I was going to die.
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Um, and you have all of those thoughts, um, where, you know, at the end of your life
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And, um, that's what happened to a lot of us on Wednesday.
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Um, and I thought I, I, I did not think, I did not know if I was going to make it to the end of that day alive.
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You remember AOC the other day said that almost half of Congress died.
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No member of Congress died and doesn't, doesn't appear that any member of Congress came even close to dying
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or really got so much as a scratch, uh, which is good, right?
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We're, we're very glad no member of Congress was injured in, in the riot.
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If you were a member of Congress, I'm sure it was terrifying.
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You don't, you don't want to experience that sort of thing.
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Now they're taking riots really, really seriously.
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However, where was AOC's concern when businesses were being burned,
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people's houses were being burned, when people's lives were being threatened and ended
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in city upon city upon city this summer during the BLM riots?
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That was a wonderful thing that we had to encourage in our words.
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And for some lawmakers with our money, Kamala Harris bailing the rioters out of jail so they
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I bet those business owners were pretty afraid.
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Many innocent people lost their lives during the riots.
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That the Democrats encouraged and, and, and made excuses for and said, we're mostly peaceful.
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If the riot on Capitol Hill was a riot, if the riot on Capitol Hill was not mostly peaceful,
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certainly the destruction we saw around the country during BLM was not mostly peaceful.
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These democratic lawmakers, they only seem to really worry when it affects them.
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But then AOC goes on and unwittingly gives a very important insight into the left-wing ideology.
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She said that the South is the Democrats for the taking.
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And I think what we saw in Georgia is a really good example with black women leading the way with multiracial and multicultural organizations leading the way.
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We, they proved that Southern states are not red states.
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They are suppressed states, which means the only way that our country is going to heal is through the actual liberation of Southern states, the actual liberation of the poor, the actual liberation of working people from economic, social and racial oppression.
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AOC said something very important during her rambly social media rant.
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She said that it is her view that Southern states are not red states.
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Meaning that when you go in there and you completely change the election laws
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and you get rid of election day and make it election season
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and you take away the election integrity measures that have been in place for decades,
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And, you know, maybe it takes a few extra days to count the votes,
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Now, I'm not saying Democrats are alone in questioning election results.
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Obviously, Republicans have been questioning election results for months at this point.
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Seems to me the Republican arguments for election integrity were,
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hey, guys, we've got these election integrity measures in place.
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so you can prove that you are who you say you are.
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You have to show up on election day where there are going to be poll watchers.
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You need to count the ballots on election day too
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while there are poll watchers from the Democrats and the Republicans
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You need to make sure that the election laws are followed.
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Like, for instance, in Pennsylvania, the Constitution was violated during this recent election.
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why are you getting rid of all of these election integrity efforts?
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It's not incumbent on me to prove every instance of fraud.
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The question is, was it enough to sway an election?
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But I think the best Republican argument, at least,
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was it's not incumbent on me to prove every single instance of fraud.
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I'm noticing that you're getting rid of all the election integrity measures.
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That would seem to me evidence of some shenanigans.
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Now, there were some more eccentric election arguments saying,
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you know, the CIA was involved and Germany was involved
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But we didn't see a ton of evidence for widespread fraud in that way.
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But I think the election integrity measures, totally legitimate argument.
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Their arguments on the legitimacy or illegitimacy of elections
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do not focus in on those kind of practical, tangible measures.
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that is sufficient evidence that the election was rigged.
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Okay, Republicans questioned the results of this election.
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This was an unprecedented election in American history.
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The entire system was upended in the weeks and months before it happened.
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Republicans did not contest the election in 2012, did we?
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We didn't contest the election in 2008 when we lost.
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No, we didn't contest the election in 1996 when we lost.
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No, didn't contest the election in 1992 when we lost.
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Hadn't really contested any election in modern memory.
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Elected Democrats contested the certification of the electoral votes,
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which we were told was unprecedented a few weeks ago.
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Democrats contested the election in 2016, refused to give it up.
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Hillary Clinton still insists that she was rightly going to be the president
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Democrats, Stacey Abrams still appears to contend that she's the governor of Georgia.
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regardless of any that doesn't matter if there's no change to the voter laws.
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And the reason they do that is for Democrats, evidence of democracy is their winning.
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And this has, this has actual intellectual basis, which is during the past century or so.
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You heard from the second wave feminists, this idea of a false consciousness.
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That idea is also articulated by the father of the new left, Herbert Marcuse.
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Herbert Marcuse, who came to prominence as a thinker with the Frankfurt School.
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This is an idea that you've heard from Antonio Gramsci, one of the great thinkers of Western Marxism.
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It comes from Marx himself, who describes this idea of a false consciousness.
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It's when the oppressed people don't realize that they're oppressed.
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This was the slogan used by the feminists in the 1970s.
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The version of it that we use today is called raising awareness.
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But the idea is that oppressed people, maybe, you know, a black person or a homosexual or an immigrant votes for a Republican.
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They might do it, but that's not legitimate because they are, are laboring under a false consciousness.
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If they were fully conscious of their own oppression, they would realize how bad the Republicans are.
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And that is the subtle premise, sometimes not so subtle premise, of all of these democratic challenges to elections.
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She's saying it's not just the southern states.
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It's people on the basis of social status and economic status and race and this and that and the other thing.
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They need to stop being suppressed and they need to be, to use her words, liberated.
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And you can't be liberated by the forces, the illiberal forces of Republicans or conservatives.
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We cannot tolerate the intolerance of conservatives or Republicans.
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This also comes from Herbert Marcuse, this very influential thinker of the new left.
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Or I suppose earlier than the new left, but he kind of gave birth to the new left.
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Herbert Marcuse wrote this very famous essay called Repressive Tolerance, in which he said that what we need for a liberating tolerance, we need to suppress and censor views from the right and we need to encourage views from the left.
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The old standards are suppressing radicalism, so we need a new standard and that's going to suppress conservatism.
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I don't think AOC understands that's what she means.
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I don't think she's a particularly sophisticated thinker, but she has been steeped in this kind of ideology and that's what she's, that's what she's communicating.
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Shows you how naive these Republicans are who would ever side with them, who would vote to impeach without a legal basis.
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Wait until you hear the guys on the other side.
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Jake Tapper, you know, straight-laced Jake Tapper, calls it like he sees it.
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You know, he's, he's fair, he's old school, he's the last journalist in America, Jake Tapper.
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Or he's a Democrat hack, which is, I think it's maybe the latter.
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Jake Tapper was just describing a, a congressman, member of Congress, who he doesn't like.
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And he, he used the most disrespectful language I've heard from CNN in at least several hours.
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But just one other thing, just, that's relevant, what you're saying right now is relevant.
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Because Congressman Brian Mast, a Republican from Florida, who lost his legs, by the way, fighting for democracy abroad.
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Although, I don't know what his, I don't know about his commitment to it here in the United States.
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Brian Mast, who lost his legs fighting for democracy abroad.
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Huh, I, I don't think he cares too much about democracy here.
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What do you mean he doesn't care about democracy here?
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You can tell Jake Tapper knows that he's crossed a line because he hesitates when he says it.
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And usually Jake Tapper is good at keeping a straight face.
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But even that, he thought, oh, yikes, that's, well, whatever.
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But he's using democracy in exactly the same way AOC is.
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There is nothing undemocratic about pursuing legal challenges to an election.
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There is nothing undemocratic about objecting to the certification of certain electoral votes.
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Now, if, for instance, Mike Pence had come out and unilaterally declared that he was going
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to reject the electoral votes, that would have raised some issues.
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That would have thrust us into a constitutional crisis.
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We've actually seen that, that constitutional crisis happened before.
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But to go out and follow the procedures that are available to you in a democracy as the
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people's representative and object to certain votes, that's not anti-democratic.
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The reason Jake Tapper thinks it's anti-democratic is because it's a guy on the other side.
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I don't remember Jake Tapper ever referring to the many, many democratic lawmakers who have
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objected to electoral votes as anti-democratic.
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Because if you support the Democratic Party, you support democracy.
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And if you support the Republican Party, you're a neo-Nazi skinhead fascist who should be
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deplatformed, who should be ostracized from society, who should not be able to engage in commerce.
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President Trump can't even use his bank accounts in certain places now.
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Parler, build your own Twitter, the left told us.
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Republicans need to wise up to this sort of thing.
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I can't believe we've allowed ourselves to be duped.
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I can't believe those extraordinarily naive or cynical Republicans who voted for impeachment
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I can't believe a member of the Republican leadership would either fall for something
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like that or ally herself with something like that.
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Really, really pathetic, really concerning stuff.
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You know, AOC was talking about allegedly aggrieved minorities.
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And the left is always talking about allegedly aggrieved minorities.
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When they can't find an aggrieved minority, they'll just invent one.
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Well, we did get some good news recently for an actually aggrieved minority.
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You know, there's a real problem in this country whereby people will abort babies on the basis
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This is specifically true of babies with Down syndrome.
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And it's disgusting, but it happens all over the place.
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I mean, when you're about to have a baby, you go into the doctor.
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They say, okay, we're going to do a screening, you know, and, uh, you know, then we're going
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to, we're going to figure out if, you know, if they have Down syndrome or something like
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Oh, the option is, do you have the baby or do you kill the baby?
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Do you kill the baby because you don't think he's perfect because he's got Down syndrome
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And it's led to extraordinarily high rates of abortion, of killing Down syndrome babies.
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You know, in Iceland, a few years ago, there was a big press release.
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They said, Iceland has eradicated Down syndrome as if they cured a disease.
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It's not like they figured out some kind of gene therapy that would fix Down syndrome.
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Yes, we kill babies because they have intellectual deficiencies.
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Well, uh, governor, Christy Noem in South Dakota has just, uh, just, uh, come out against this
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She says, children with Down syndrome are a gift to us all.
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I'm asking the South Dakota legislature to pass a law that bans the abortion of a pre-born
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child just because that child is diagnosed with Down syndrome.
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We must stand for the right to life of every pre-born child.
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And a good way, by the way, to, to go after this issue.
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You know, they're, what conservatives really want to do is get rid of legal abortion.
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And some, sometimes conservatives are honest about that.
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Sometimes conservatives make these really frivolous arguments where they say, you know,
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abortion, we want to get rid of abortion because it's bad for the mother.
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And in a way, I mean, psychologically, spiritually, I guess that's true, but no, you want to protect
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They'll say, we, you know, we want to, uh, we want to only have safe abortions.
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And that's why we're going to shut down the abortion clinics because they're not safe.
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Obviously that's not, you know, they're all kind of somewhat disingenuous arguments, but
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they're tactical and they think it's going to chip away at the edges here and there.
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This is actually a good way to do it because you are appealing to the moral standard that
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the left at least pretends to have, namely that they oppose racism or sexism or ableism,
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ableism being discrimination and bigotry against people with handicaps.
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What if, what if we passed a law and said, you can't abort a baby just because he's black?
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I'm sure they'd find some way to object to that, but it'd be very difficult for them to.
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What if we had a law that said, you can't, you can't abort a baby just because she's a girl?
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Not, maybe not so much in the United States yet, but certainly around the world.
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I mean, we saw that happen in China, which is why there's a lopsided population now.
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People were choosing boys and then aborting the girls.
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What if we passed a law, like Christy Noem says, to
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ban abortions of babies just because they have intellectual deficiencies?
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I'm sure the left would find a way to argue against it, but it would be a very difficult
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And as Christy Noem has this kind of solid spine and I think real evidence of political acumen,
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she is positioning herself very well for 2024, which a lot of people have been talking about.
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You know, I'm, I'm noticing, uh, there have been some people coming out.
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There was actually a very prominent professor who came out against Christy Noem who said,
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Christy Noem, your, your state has one of the highest levels of COVID and COVID death and
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It's up in like the top five or top 10 or something.
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And you know, you know, Andy Cuomo is being hailed by all of the left.
00:41:13.700
Christy Noem put herself in a very, very good position and seems to have a lot of moral
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We don't get a lot of wins these days on the right.
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However, we did just get a win at the Supreme Court.
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And this actually ties into everything we were talking about, about democracy and the legitimacy
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of elections and, and how Republicans are going to be able to win moving forward.
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That says that you can't have universal widespread mail-in ballots, that you've got to request
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it and you've got to meet certain criteria to get a, a mail-in ballot.
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They wanted to invent a constitutional right to universal mail-in ballots, which is ironic
00:41:59.600
because as we have noted many times on this show, there, there are states where the constitution
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The Supreme Court rejected a Democratic bid for universal vote by mail in Texas, leaving
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Now, if Democrats take Texas, they can just get rid of the law and then they'll have universal
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I think if Republicans do not fight this thing, the universal widespread mail-in, it's going
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to be virtually impossible for us to win important elections in the future.
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City machines, Democratic machines have long engaged in shenanigans with elections.
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They stuffed the ballot box in Texas in 1948, gave us Lyndon Johnson.
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Okay, I don't, I, I look forward to fact checkers coming after me on, on this notion and defending
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Democratic political machines because they've been going on a very long time, okay?
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And the way that they function is by getting rid of ballot integrity measures.
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If you have universal widespread mail-in, one, you can't check to make sure that the person
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who's voting really is the person who says they're voting, and two, you won't have people
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You're going to have it dragged out and out and out.
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It takes us a long time to conduct elections in this country now, doesn't it?
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We got to follow it up though with legislative achievements.
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Speaking of dubious legal doctrines like the right to a universal widespread mail-in,
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Mayor Bill de Bolshevik in New York, de Blasio comes out.
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He is severing the city's ties with the Trump Organization.
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Obviously, Donald Trump has had a longstanding relationship with the city of New York.
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Now, the radical mayor there is going to get rid of that relationship.
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According to a doctrine of the law that doesn't seem to hold up to me.
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The city of New York is severing all contracts with the Trump Organization.
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Our legal team has done the assessment and the contracts make very clear.
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If a company, the leadership of that company is engaged in criminal activity,
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Inciting an insurrection against the United States government clearly constitutes criminal activity.
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So, the city of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization.
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The Trump Organization has a contract, has multiple contracts with the city of New York.
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But you can pull out if someone is engaging in criminal activity and therefore Trump's engaging
00:44:59.840
in criminal activity, therefore we can sever the contract.
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Well, the criminal activity is inciting an insurrection.
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When was Trump convicted of inciting an insurrection?
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That then sets up a trial and then the senators at that trial convict or acquit.
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Donald Trump was never convicted of inciting an insurrection.
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Donald Trump was never convicted of inciting an insurrection, in part because he never incited
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Then he said it while they were at the Capitol.
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Then he said it after they were at the Capitol.
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Same can't be said of Maxine Waters, who said, get up in Republicans' faces, go to their homes,
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Is the city of New York going to sever ties with the Waters organization?
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Is it enough now to just accuse somebody of a crime and that has the full force of law?
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If I go out there and I say, Bill de Blasio is a communist.
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This guy is a red, he is a pinko, he's a subversive.
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One, because it would violate the law, but two, because I'm a conservative.
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And that is what they're doing and that's what they're about to do.
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They're going to try to continue this impeachment after Trump's out of office.
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It's not possible, so I suspect it'll fizzle pretty quickly.
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But there will be a movement, at least, among Democrats to do that.
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Then, I strongly suspect, there are going to be all sorts of investigations into Trump's
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You can indict a ham sandwich, so they'll try to find something.
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Then, I strongly suspect, there's going to be a movement among legislators to try to pass
00:47:27.100
a law saying Trump can never run for office again, because they're so afraid of him.
00:47:29.780
Now, that would violate the 14th Amendment, so I don't think it would work.
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We're in a lawless era now, where a baker can be sent out of business for not engaging
00:47:41.420
in a gay wedding that violates his religious beliefs.
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But social media companies, web companies can censor outright based on any reason they
00:47:51.140
want, can refuse to engage in business with anybody, because a mere accusation carries
00:48:00.440
Someone goes out there and says, 75 million Americans are Nazis.
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That would seem to be sufficient to begin to silence them, to begin to ostracize them,
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What a corrupt ruling elite would do that sort of a thing.
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And to incur their ire seems to me a badge of honor.
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Today on The Ben Shapiro Show, I'll be talking about President Trump being impeached for the
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Plus, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the Senate's not going to take this up
00:49:28.740
before the inauguration and law enforcement threats over the weekend.