Ep. 693 - The Earthly Elect
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John Kerry says he has no choice when it comes to dealing with climate change. Michael Kinsley argues that the left has a big problem with climate justice, and that it s time for the left to wake up to the fact that they don t have all the answers.
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Climate czar John Kerry is dedicating his every waking moment to saving the earth,
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saving mankind. And while he's doing that, he's polluting a lot. He's polluting much,
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much more than basically anybody else on earth. But it's very important that he do that
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so that he can save the earth. He has no choice.
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On that issue, pollution, I understand that you came here with a private jet.
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If you offset your carbon, it's the only choice for somebody like me who is traveling the world to win this battle.
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I negotiated the Paris Accords for the United States. I've been involved in this fight for years.
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I negotiated with President Xi to bring President Xi to the table so we could get Paris.
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And I believe the time it takes me to get somewhere. I can't sail across the ocean.
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I have to fly to meet with people and get things done. But what I'm doing almost full time is working to win the battle of climate change.
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And in the end, if I offset and contribute my life to do this, I'm not going to be put on the defensive.
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I absolutely will not. It's the only choice for somebody like me, you mongrel.
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You think I'm going to step foot in a Toyota Yaris?
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Do you think I'll step foot in a G4, for goodness sakes?
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Olivia V, who says,
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AOC encouraged the BLM rioters, instructed them on how to avoid arrest.
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That's all true. So she needs to stop her whining about the Capitol rioters.
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Well, there's certainly a glaring double standard there.
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sort of a divinely ordained mission to save the earth.
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And so he's, look, maybe he's going to pollute a lot, a lot in the process,
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and he's going to get to enjoy lots and lots of luxuries that he wants to deprive everyone else from having.
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But it's all for the greater good because he is just so wonderful that he gets to play by a different set of rules.
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He says, I don't think it's hypocritical at all.
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I'm more special than you are, and so I deserve certain special privileges.
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And these new hierarchies we're seeing crop up all over the place,
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particularly with regard to left-wing identity politics, particularly in the realm of race.
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He's the author of the New Capitalist Manifesto,
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And he's some blue checkmark leftist who mouths off on Twitter.
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He had a tweet that was a little bit radical, a little bit, I say only a little bit radical,
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You have yet to make any amends, and even the good ones among you,
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and it makes the rest of us so, so sick and weary and disgusted with you.
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not one single thing that he said there is true.
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I don't know what has disgusted him, probably his sick ideology.
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and a sensible society would ostracize this person, right?
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Since we're now in the business of deciding who and,
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who ought to have this sort of public speech on Twitter and who ought not to,
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right, right now we're in a world where the duly elected sitting president
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He should not be permitted in polite company anywhere.
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we're not permitted to make any comment whatsoever about race,
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which we are told on the one hand is a social construct,
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and on the other hand, we're told it is so real
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that it is sort of the dominant force and evil in the world.
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as to why things like white privilege or white supremacy are just ridiculous,
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that you are not only allowed to condemn publicly,
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but you're actively encouraged to condemn publicly,
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Doesn't sound very supreme or supremacist or whatever to me.
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Now, you see increasingly liberal white people spouting the same kind of nonsense.
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explaining what a terrible oppressor he is because he's white.
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If you live in America, went to school, participate in the socioeconomic structures,
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participate in any sort of system, education, business, entertainment, what have you,
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and you are white, you are indoctrinated, you are oppressive, and yes, you are racist.
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It is something that we have learned, either consciously or subconsciously,
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Part of doing the work is pushing against dangerous narratives
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that are counterintuitive to that unlearning, like white people are also oppressed by racism.
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He has all of the various characteristics of a sort of liberal caricature.
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Well, if he really believes he's this terrible oppressor, how dare he mouth off in public?
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He needs to go away and let other people who are of the more blessed races or whatever
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My second thought, of course, is that this kid couldn't oppress his own cat.
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You know, he doesn't seem particularly intimidating to me.
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But he is showing us something that the left talks about a lot, which is that you'll hear
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the left describe conservative women as having internalized misogyny.
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So yeah, they're women who contradict the leftist feminist narrative, but we shouldn't listen
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We should completely ignore what they have to say because they are victims of their own
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This is a Marxist category, a Marxist concept that has existed for a very long time.
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You'll say, well, we shouldn't listen to Ben Carson.
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We shouldn't listen to any black person with whom we disagree here on the left because they
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And this is usually used in a very cynical way.
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However, you know, it's so preposterous that someone like this kid could be more conscious,
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more aware, have higher faculties of reason than Clarence Thomas, you know, one of the
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greatest jurists of his age, or Ben Carson, one of the most brilliant physicians in history,
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you know, first guy to successfully separate twins conjoined at the head, right?
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But no, these liberal idiots, they know so much more.
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However, there, there is a little something to it, right?
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Which is that this guy is a white guy, but he hates that he's a white guy.
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He, he hates his identity because of his skin, because of this sort of happenstance of his
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He, he hates himself and he feels bad and he, and he is clearly in a lot of angst.
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And it is now being encouraged with the force of the state.
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You know, there's, there's, there is one example of legal racial discrimination in the
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There's only one and it's called affirmative action and it disadvantages white and Asian
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And it gives an advantage to black and Hispanic and some other applicants to universities.
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A group of Asian students sued Harvard over this and the suit didn't, didn't really go
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So during the Trump administration, the DOJ filed suit against Yale.
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Yale has the exact same practices and they discriminate against white and Asian students.
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And it's funny because, because we live in this society where the, the only racial group
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that you're allowed to, you know, castigate in public is white people.
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Usually this issue is framed on the Asian side of things.
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But the DOJ suit against Yale did focus on them.
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They said, you're, you're not only discriminating against Asians.
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You're also discriminating against white applicants too.
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So now that we have a new presidential administration, the Biden DOJ came in, they dropped the case.
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They said, yeah, you know, whatever Yale is doing to white and Asian students, forget about it.
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And, and, and for a moment, let's, let's focus on the Asian students, you know, because I,
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I understand there, that whiteness in America evokes all of these images because it's so
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But focus again for us, like, like we were doing with the Harvard suit, focus again on,
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But you now have some admissions officer at Yale who's going to call up, you know,
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I know you've been working very, very hard since you immigrated here.
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And I know you've made very low wages and you've been slaving away in some,
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And your, your son has been working very, very hard to do well on his SAT to get into,
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Maybe that other student has had more advantages.
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Maybe that other student comes from a more stable background, but he's got the favored skin color.
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And your student, Mrs. Pham, has a disfavored skin color.
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And so he doesn't, he doesn't get to go to Yale.
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Anyone who is in the sensible middle, all the way to conservative, can recognize that.
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And yet, that is not just in the popular culture.
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That is not just something we're going to overcome by winning back the culture.
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That is a legal system of discrimination that we have in the country.
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Some people get to play by a different set of rules.
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Some people get special advantages, like John Kerry.
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I, you know, that, that white kid screaming at all of us while he talks about how white people are oppressors.
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It does kind of remind me of John Kerry a little bit.
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Listen, listen, you can't, I don't, don't listen to those oppressors.
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Do you think John Kerry has ever worked on his own car?
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You can get your own auto parts and you can save a whole lot of money doing so.
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Rockauto.com is so much easier than walking into a store and someone demanding quick answers to things.
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I just don't know any answers to those questions.
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I think they only ask them to intimidate me because they can tell by the cut of my jib I'm not the most familiar with auto parts.
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So they go online, they order the part probably from Rock Auto, then they charge me twice as much.
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You have access to rockauto.com at your desk or in your pocket.
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It's so easy to navigate that even I can do it.
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They are a family-run company serving auto parts customers online for 20 years,
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which, by my calculation, is the entire history of online shopping, just about.
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See all the parts available for your car or truck.
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Then write Knowles, K-N-A-W-L-E-S, in their How Did You Hear About Us box so that they know we sent you.
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Speaking of the official weight of the federal government, Jen Psaki, the White House press secretary,
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continues every few days, at least, to get one sort of slightly challenging question.
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And one that keeps coming up is on Joe Biden's Catholicism.
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Because Joe Biden says that he's Catholic, but he doesn't act like he's Catholic.
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This is why he was denied the Eucharist at a mass in North Carolina not so long ago.
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This guy, Joe Biden, he's promoting all these crazy gender theories.
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Will he use his faith to guide him in any policy decision making?
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And that's something that's important to him personally and to his family.
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And he's talked about the impact of his faith on healing and everything he's been through
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So certainly it's a guide to him as a human being.
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Does Joe Biden's faith guide him in his public life?
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But religion is not just about what happens from 8 to 9 a.m.
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Religion is supposed to infuse your entire life.
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Everything you do has this ultimate goal of knowing God and enjoying him forever, to quote
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And she says, yes, in this portion of his life, in his private, in his personal, he's very
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But in his public life, he's a complete degenerate.
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Yes, Sunday morning, he's really, he's a good little boy.
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But the rest of the week, he's a complete derelict.
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And this gets to a story that we touched on a little bit yesterday, Marilyn Manson's
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And I know it seems just like a kind of lurid Hollywood story.
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Marilyn Manson's sex scandal and the kind of answer that Jen Psaki just gave on religion.
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It actually gets to, I think, the central political question that we're all debating on the left
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and the right and even within the right, which is what is liberty?
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And most of the accusations against Manson, by the way, are not that he, you know, went
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But his, his behavior was nevertheless quite abusive.
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There was an old guitarist who toured with Manson who said, quote, I'm sorry to everyone
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on this podcast right now who doesn't like this, but that guy, he's amazingly talented,
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but he's effed up and he needs to be in check and he needs to get sober and he needs to come
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I don't know if Marilyn Manson did the things he's accused of or not, but, you know, there
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are multiple stories and he is the nation's highest profile Satanist.
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Now you've got this guitarist who's saying it too.
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He says, look, he's, yeah, he's very talented, but look, he's, he's an addict.
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He, you know, he's not totally in control of himself.
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He has demons and he needs to, needs to come to terms with that.
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Yesterday, when we were talking about this, we, we described how there are goods that
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How in kind of modern liberal society, we, we just say, well, you know, look, if people
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consent to something, they can do whatever they want.
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They can consent to do the grossest, filthiest, apparently most sinful things in the world.
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But as long as they consent, then we're all good.
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But the Marilyn Manson stuff, the, actually the Me Too movement generally raises some questions
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Because the, the kind of abuse that Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend was describing, where
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he's like tying her up and beating her and yelling horrible things at her, she consented
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She said, okay, you can tie me up and do whatever she, they did it a lot of times.
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So where this brings us is to this central political question.
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You've got the kind of modern lib version of liberty, where they say liberty is just being
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You can do the grossest, filthiest, most sinful things in the world.
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Your ability to be able to do that, that is liberty.
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They made a distinction between liberty and licentiousness.
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They said, yeah, it's not, it's not liberty to go look at porn.
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But the modern lib view is, yeah, it's just do whatever you want.
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The Christian view of liberty and the classic, classical view, even non-Christian view of
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The Christian view is that the man who sins is a slave to sin.
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The Christian view of liberty is that if you do whatever you want, if you, if you even do
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sinful things, not only is that not liberty, that actually destroys your liberty.
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And the non-Christian classical view, the sort of ancient Greek view, talk to old uncle
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Aristotle, is extraordinarily similar, which is that we attain liberty by practicing the
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This is where the term liberal education comes from.
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And only then will you be fully in command of yourself.
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You're not a slave to all your passions and you can be free.
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The, the classic example of this, the perfect example is the drug addict, right?
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Let's say you've got, you got a heroin addict, right?
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According to the modern lib view of liberty, his perfect freedom is to be able to shoot
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However, if you think about a heroin addict who's jonesing for a, for a fix, do you think
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I think if you go up to that heroin addict, who's really jonesing for some more heroin and
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you ask him to do anything, he'll do it because he, he has compromised his free will.
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If you hold the classic sort of Christian or even classical pre-Christian view of liberty,
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then this modern obsession with consent doesn't make any sense because, and actually this is
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something the Me Too movement kind of understands, they don't know that they understand it, but
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When someone like Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson's ex-girlfriend, or some of these other
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women or other women in the Me Too movement, when they say, sure, I consented to have the
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I consented to have him scream terrible things at me.
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I consented to go to Harvey Weinstein's hotel room.
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I consented to do it again and again and again, but he manipulated me.
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He, I wasn't, even though I consented, I wasn't in control of myself.
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This to me is the admission, even by liberals and leftists who don't know that they're admitting
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it, that the kind of modern, fashionable, liberal view of liberty is just BS, because
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they're admitting, they're saying, no, in order for me to be truly free, I need to not
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I need to be, I need to be practicing virtues, not pursuing vices.
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I need, I need to be in full possession of my liberty.
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I'm glad let's, I hope conservatives, while we're kind of, you know, skeptical of a lot
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of the me too excesses, I hope we can take that lesson and point it to the left and say,
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That the conservative version of liberty is the right one.
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And that is why you don't get to do all your crazy things that you want to do.
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That is, that is why during the pandemic, during COVID, we should close the drug shops in San
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We should close the marijuana dispensaries and keep the churches open.
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What we've done is keep, keep all the head shops open and close the churches.
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This question of free will keeps coming up and up and up.
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You'll, you'll hear this so much from the Biden administration.
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You'll hear this so much from really any liberal government.
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I think moving, moving forward, at least for the foreseeable future is they're going to
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say, look, we're not implementing crazy new policies.
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We, you all, you hear this when they mentioned the right side of history.
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Progress is moving in a predetermined direction and you're either on progress or you're standing
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We have to grab much more power for the federal government.
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It's kind of the same thing, but different words.
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The science dictates you have to give up all of your liberties.
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I'm, I'm just like John Kerry with the private jet.
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I can't, I can't do the things that are absolutely 100% demanded of me by history and by progress
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and to save the world, unless we follow this radical leftist agenda.
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You know, he's been signing what 40 some odd, maybe more at this point, executive orders.
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He's making this point explicitly from the Oval Office.
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There's a lot of talk with good reason about the number of executive orders that I have signed.
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What I'm doing is taking on the issues that 99% of them, that the president, the last president of the United States, issued executive orders I thought were very counterproductive to our security, counterproductive to who we are as a country, particularly in the era of immigration.
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As though the country is governed by progressivism and liberalism.
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And then accidentally, this guy Donald Trump managed to make it into the White House.
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And he had all these sort of illegitimate bad policies there that Joe Biden is now going to undo.
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Well, that's not making a new law because the law, the true law is liberalism and progressivism.
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So he, look, 42 executive orders, no, it doesn't matter.
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That's nothing because he's just eliminating bad policy.
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If you change the policies from the previous administration, you change them when you go into office, you are effectively making new law.
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Now, what he's saying is, look, laws, they're made in Congress and then I'll sign them and there's that process.
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I'm just doing executive orders here, but I'm not making new laws and I'm fixing the policy.
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Well, more and more of our laws are made out of the White House.
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And the reason for this is that the actual institutions that govern our country on a day-to-day are the administrative institutions, which are executive agencies.
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So the way I've, this is why I defend executive orders, actually.
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I don't defend his stupid executive orders, his bad executive orders, but I do defend good executive orders.
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Because if you want to harness the groups that are actually governing the country right now, the way to do that is through executive order, certainly more so than in Congress.
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But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came out and she made these big claims.
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She's been calling Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley murderers because she said they sent insurrectionists to come murder me at the Capitol Hill riot.
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And she said, you know, I'm a victim of sexual assault.
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And when I heard all these people coming for me, I, you know, this was very traumatic and Cruz needs to resign now.
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And you say, no aspect, no connection here between these random thoughts follows logic or is persuasive in any way.
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But I said, look, I wish that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were the kind of person that I could believe.
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She has been caught lying not just about massive political questions, but even about her own biography.
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She pretended to have been raised in the Bronx.
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I know this because I grew up in the town right next to her, the poorer town next to her at the same time.
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Maybe she could say a true thing, but there is no reason to assume that anything she says is true.
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She said, AOC, that she was nearly killed during the Capitol riot.
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People were yelling for her, banging on doors, coming down the halls.
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Turns out the person who was yelling for her and banging on the walls and on the door was a police officer who was there to protect her.
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I immediately realized that I shouldn't have gone into the bathroom.
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And so I, I opened the door when all of a sudden I hear that whoever was trying to get inside got into my office.
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Um, and then I realized that it's too late, that it's too late for me to get into the closet.
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And so I go back in and I, I hide back in, um, in the bathroom behind the door.
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And then I just start to hear these yells of where is she, where is she?
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We know we've seen on Twitter that they, they've been around the Capitol.
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Now, how do we know that this person was a rioter?
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Why, why should AOC have known that the person who was knocking on her door was not a rioter?
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Well, uh, that's because she wasn't in the Capitol.
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A, AOC, I should, how did I not realize this at the time?
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When the rioters entered, she was in an office building down the street.
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You know, members of Congress spend most of their time in, in, in office buildings.
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They're like a, you know, five to seven or eight minute walk away from the Capitol.
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Now I figured, well, joint session, maybe she was in the Capitol,
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And she has been saying now for weeks that she was, she first said that almost half of
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Congress was killed, even though no members of Congress were even injured.
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Unlike say the congressional baseball game when the Bernie bro almost killed Steve Scalise.
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She was, she had her life flash before her eyes, all these sorts of things.
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She has been insinuating, if, if not outright saying, I, I haven't followed every statement
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she's made, but she's certainly been heavily insinuating.
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And I guess implying that, you know, necessarily she's implying that she was at the Capitol,
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that, that she would have been there and she wasn't.
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I understand that vanity and dishonesty are occupational hazards of politics.
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This is especially true of members of Congress.
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Even, you know, Joe Biden is another one like this.
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This is why he had to drop out of the 1988 presidential race.
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Because it's, it's not even the kinds of lies he told.
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Joe Biden never went on TV and was crying and saying, this Senator tried to murder me.
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But it was, it was unsettling, not because of the quality of the lies, but because of the
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Joe Biden will lie about anything like it's second nature to him.
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There is no reason to believe anything she says.
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You know, most, I, I know a good number of politicians.
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And if some politicians want to bend the truth or they want to put some spin on,
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The vast majority of them that I've known have not wanted to outright lie.
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Because you, maybe you get caught in the lie and then AOC doesn't matter.
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Which brings us to a question that the, the left-wing media are really trying to,
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I don't even want to address it because I think this is a trap.
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I think this is a complete op by the liberal media.
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And I think it's so dishonest that I don't want to address it.
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Let's say hypothetically, and you can read between the lines.
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Hypothetically, there's some kooky Republican congressman who says things that are pretty kooky,
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And this congressman is a total backbencher, really has no power whatsoever and is not a thing.
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And the only reason that anybody would even maybe have heard this congressman's name
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is because CNN and MSNBC and the Democrats and left-wing commentators
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keep trying to make a big deal out of the kooky things this congressman has said.
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Do we think it is wise, prudent, in the interest of the Republican Party or the conservative movement
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or the country to take the bait and make a big deal out of this person?
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Whatever kooky, crazy, disreputable things this Republican hypothetical congressman might have said,
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pale in comparison to things that AOC has said, or Ilhan Omar, or Rashida Tlaib,
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or Maxine Waters, or Hillary Clinton, or Nancy Pelosi, or Kamala Harris.
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All these people who have actively encouraged violence, who have told people how to...
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Actually, my favorite comment from yesterday mentioned this earlier.
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AOC told people how to avoid getting arrested when they would go riot.
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Maxine Waters told people to commit violence against Republicans.
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Kamala Harris bailed out violent rioters from left-wing riots.
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We never see the left doing this sort of thing.
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We never see the left taking the bait, focusing in on their own people,
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wringing their clothing and rending their garments and gnashing their teeth over their own
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major political figures, to say nothing over their minor political figures.
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It would seem that this is only a big deal because the left is trying to make it a big deal.
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And let's say, hypothetically, there's some kooky, crazy congressman.
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Do you really think that the left won't just find somebody else and make us do the same thing to them?
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There might be some practical politics we can learn here from the left,
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which wields political power much more effectively in this country than conservatives do.
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We might be able to learn some political tricks without having to compromise our principles
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or compromise our integrity or compromise our morals.
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Maybe we could just get a little bit better at politics.
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John Kasich, that's enough of my hypothetical, very hypothetical scenario here.
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John Kasich, who is a liberal Republican, whose chief strategist was John Weaver,
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just mentioning that, John Kasich is now going on CNN.
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His job is to tap dance for the liberal establishment.
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His job is to play the court jester in the kingdom of liberalism.
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He went on CNN recently and said that the GOP will die if it remains the party of Donald Trump,
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rather than, say, the party of liberal squish John Kasich.
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I did so many things down there that were conservative.
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And now these guys are off on some, I don't even know where they are.
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They're on some crazy tangent here to get themselves power.
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They are, the House Republicans are very much representative of a very large chunk of the GOP.
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And until they, you know, unless they do something to say these views are not OK, and yes, they're speaking out, but take action about it,
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then talking about conservative fiscal responsibility and all those things, you know, it gets drowned out, don't you think?
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This gets back to what's going on inside the party.
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If it stays a Trump party in the long term, it will not be successful.
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Frankly, it's been dying already because a lot of people have left the party.
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This coming from John Kasich, who you'll recall defeated Donald Trump in the 2016 primaries and then defeated Hillary Clinton and became president.
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We were all told, remember, that no Republican was going to beat Hillary.
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We were told Hillary was going to win 99% with 99% certainty by some analyses when Trump got it.
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But even Kasich, does anybody really believe that John Kasich would have won in the general election?
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We're told if we don't ditch Trump and the sort of things that Trump said and stood for and the kind of attitude that Trump had, then we're going to die.
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Donald Trump did better among many, many voters than Mitt Romney did.
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Well, part of the evidence of this is that Romney lost and Trump won.
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But even in 2020, when you look at those exit polls, remember, you're told Trump is going to get blown out by the white suburban women.
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All the white suburban women I know really like Trump.
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But we were told, oh, the white suburban women, and he's going to lose among black voters, he's going to lose among Hispanic voters, and he's going to lose among this and lose among that.
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Trump gained with every single voter identity group except for white dudes.
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Totally the opposite of what we're hearing from the GOP establishment.
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And listen to what CNN says to their gelded little Republican, John Kasich.
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If we want to get back to fiscal responsibility discussions, that will permit.
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You know, we can't discuss immigration or manufacturing jobs or bioethics or patriotism or, you know, anything that actually matters.
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John, it's perfectly fine for you little castrati Republicans to discuss fiscal policy and tax cuts.
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But you, you are not allowed to talk about things that actually matter to people that the left doesn't like.
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This gets down to a battle for who is going to lead the Republican Party.
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We've discussed over the past week or two weeks that there's a fight right now for GOP leadership in the House.
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The person who is in GOP leadership, even though it's a small role to chair the Republican caucus, is Liz Cheney, daughter of Dick Cheney.
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This was, by the way, I have to clarify because Trump was impeached two times.
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But the second one was even more preposterous than the first.
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They impeached him for inciting an insurrection.
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Before, during, and after the insurrection, he's saying, be peaceful.
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But because there was a riot, they impeached Trump for this.
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The left actually incited riots and encouraged riots and bailed out the rioters, prominent leftists, one of whom is now the vice president of the United States.
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That, nope, no impeachment, no removal, no censure.
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And this lady, Liz Cheney, decides to vote to impeach him.
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That's her conviction and she's got the courage to carry it through.
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This is a very unpopular position in the Republican Party, and yet she's demanding to remain in leadership.
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Matt Gaetz was flying around the country, saying we need to boot Liz Cheney out of leadership.
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The vote was 145 to 61 House members voted to keep her in leadership.
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And this was the trick that was always going to permit Liz Cheney to remain in leadership.
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I said Liz Cheney is probably going to stick it out, but it doesn't bode well for the Republican Party.
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If this had been a public vote, do you think Liz Cheney would have won?
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Because congressmen would have had to go on the record and say, yes, I want the politics of impeaching the Republican president over nothing.
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I want the politics of rolling over for the left.
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I want the politics of returning to the time when Republicans lost and lost and lost and frankly didn't even care about most of the issues that the base cares about.
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That vote would have been unacceptable to a huge portion of the GOP base.
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And so that's why they had to conduct a secret ballot because now we don't know who voted for and who voted against.
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I bet if you took Republicans and trotted them on, Republican members of Congress, and trotted them on the Sunday shows and asked each and every one of them, did you vote to keep Liz Cheney in leadership?
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You would not have 145 Republican congressmen coming out and saying, yes, I support Liz Cheney.
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But they've kept her in this position and this is only going to allow the divide to fester.
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A lot of it getting down to the things we've been talking about.
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Are we going to be a party that just stands for nothing?
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And the only thing we can all agree on is tax cuts.
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But otherwise, we can let the left impose their moral vision on the country.
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That's kind of the old way of the last 20 years.
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It's not even the old way of the last 50 years.
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Last 20 years, they kind of lost their gumption.
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Or are we going to be the party that has a substantive moral vision?
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That has an actual political plan for the country and that's willing to wield power?
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If we can't resolve that question, if we can't resolve it in the right direction,
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then the left is just going to keep on keeping on.
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And they're going to be glib and they're going to be shallow.
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And it's going to be the party of Jen Psaki, you know, the White House press secretary.
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This is a branch of the United States military that was announced under President Trump.
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Obviously, Trump didn't come up with the plan for Space Force.
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And Jen Psaki was asked, hey, what's going on with Space Force?
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And her answer was to giggle and just make a glib comment deriding this entire branch of the military.
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I asked whether the president has made a decision on keeping or keeping the scope of Space Force.
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I am happy to check with our Space Force point of contact.
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I will find out and see if we have any update on that.
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Hey, when I handed you guys all out the list of questions that you were permitted to ask me,
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I'll circle back because I don't have the answer to anything.
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So this didn't play very well, even among Democrats.
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The top Republican on the House Armed Services Committee is asking you to apologize
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for some of the comments that you made yesterday in the briefing room about the Space Force.
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That said, we invite the members of Space Force here to provide an update to all of you
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And we certainly look forward to seeing continued updates from their team.
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I mean, does the Space Force have the full support of the Biden administration?
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Or is the president at some point perhaps going to try to get rid of it or in some way diminish it?
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They absolutely have the full support of the Biden administration.
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And we are not revisiting the decision to establish the Space Force.
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The desire for the Department of Defense to focus greater attention and resources on the
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growing security challenges in space has long been a bipartisan issue,
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informed by numerous independent commissions and studies conducted across multiple administrations.
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Just this kind of slightly toned down but still similar glibness.
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Yes, we've invited the Space Force so they can give us an update if they want.
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No, I'm not going to apologize because I am going to play by a different set of rules.
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How dare you ask me to apologize for my private jet?
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The arrogance, the absolute evasion of accountability, that is government by the anointed,
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We do have a choice if we can figure out what exactly our free will, what exactly our
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traditional American liberty is, what it actually means, and how to use it.
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