Ep. 701 - Conservatives On Trial
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On this episode of The Michael Knowles Show, Michael talks about the new impeachment trial of Donald Trump, and why it's not just about Trump. It's about anyone who would like to make a change in the narrative of American history.
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I mentioned yesterday on this show that the impeachment trial of Donald Trump,
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I'm sorry, the second impeachment trial of Donald Trump,
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was not going to be the end of this left-wing onslaught that we've seen in particular over the last four years.
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That, in fact, this is the beginning of something because Trump is not their intended victim.
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What the left is aiming at is all of us, anyone who would conserve anything about American history.
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A lot of prominent people on the left are calling explicitly for a trial of sorts
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to reframe our entire national self-understanding.
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For instance, Representative Sarah Jacobs, who's calling for a truth commission to reframe American history.
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So I think part of what we're seeing now is because we haven't really done the reckoning
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with the racial injustice and white supremacy of our past that we need to do.
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And so, you know, a truth commission, a lot of people will think of South Africa.
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And basically what it is, is it's communities all the way up to the national level
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having conversations about both the gory and the glory of our history and what happened,
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both throughout the history of our country and leading up to and on January 6th,
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so that we can come to a common narrative moving forward of what we want our country to be.
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And so I think that there are a lot of us who know that this impeachment trial
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was just the start of holding Donald Trump accountable,
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but that we need to make sure that we're doing accountability of anyone who incited,
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And then really looking forward at kinds of things like truth commissions,
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that we know are going to be the real fixes to what we've seen in this country.
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Everything that we've seen in this country up till now,
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They want a new sort of country, not just aimed at Trump,
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but aimed at any of us who would conserve that sort of thing.
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And if you don't get on board with that reframing,
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well, by golly, you're going to get blacklisted.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Sadface, who says,
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I hear after the third impeachment, you get one free.
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And by the way, you might be joking about that third impeachment.
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there's really no reason that they couldn't impeach Trump again.
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At a certain point, you know, Donald Trump will have lived his life.
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They'll probably dig him up and put him on trial again.
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Again, because they are litigating something that is not about the Trump administration.
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And it's about anybody who would conserve anything about it.
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People like this Democratic Congress lady and many others.
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It was probably the most insightful moment of Trump's 2020 campaign.
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He posted that meme, which said, they're not coming after me.
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Jonathan Chait, a very prominent liberal writer, not a writer that I particularly enjoy reading,
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but every so often he'll make a comment that contradicts the broader left-wing narrative.
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And he did this just over the past few days with regard to Gina Carano, who is my newest colleague at the Daily Wire.
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Disney fired her for simply being conservative.
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They slandered her, said that she made anti-Semitic comments.
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And they canned her, so now she's going to be working with us.
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One way to push back against cancel culture and the new blacklist in Hollywood.
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John Chait is admitting there is a blacklist in Hollywood against conservatives who contradict the liberal narrative.
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Anyone who's spent any even fleeting time in Hollywood knows this is true.
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In many ways, the Daily Wire was formed out of a super-duper secret conservative Hollywood group called Friends of Abe.
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Friends of Abe was a group that was really, you know, back when it was running, it's sort of defunct now,
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but was a terrific organization where conservatives who were actors, directors, writers, producers, people behind the scenes, gaffers,
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all sorts of people in Hollywood who were not liberals, met up to have some political fellowship.
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And the name came from an allusion to being Friends of Abraham Lincoln.
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Because back decades and decades ago, if you were a homosexual and you wanted to hang out with like-minded people,
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Instead of saying, I'm openly gay, you'd say, oh, he's a friend of Dorothy.
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And so if you're a conservative in Hollywood, you'd say, now I'm a friend of Abe.
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Because today in Hollywood, of course, you're far more likely to face professional repercussions for being a conservative than for being gay.
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You'd be celebrated now if you can claim some kind of intersectional identity.
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Because intersectionality has now taken over so much of our national conversation.
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It's even affecting the U.S. military, which we'll get to a little bit later.
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But if you're conservative, you will lose jobs.
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And Jonathan Chait is saying there is a Hollywood blacklist.
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Now, I'm pleased that Jonathan Chait is acknowledging something that is really happening.
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And as I've mentioned before with regard to terms like cancel culture, it's obviously true.
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There is a phenomenon going on right now where you will get your reputation destroyed,
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your livelihood destroyed, your career taken from you, if you contradict the politically correct left-wing narrative.
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In another sense, this is not the new McCarthyism.
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What I mean by that is the new Hollywood blacklist, which absolutely exists against conservatives,
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is like McCarthyism or the Red Scare, as people called it.
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Which I think is the silliest term for it because, you know,
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the Red Scare sort of implies that there weren't really communists running around in the country in high positions.
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And actually there were, which gets to my further defense of, for instance,
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the House Committee on Non-American Activities and some of what Senator McCarthy did.
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You've got professional repercussions for people on the basis of their political activities.
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The secret communists of the 1940s and 50s were punished for their political activities.
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And regular old American conservatives are punished for their political activities today.
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But in substance, they're completely different.
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Because on the one hand, you had these communists often working directly for the Soviet Union,
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or only slightly removed from the Soviet Union,
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the nation with whom we were at war for the entire Cold War.
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And in the modern sense in Hollywood, you've got people who like Donald Trump,
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or you've got people who like the Constitution,
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or you've got people who like George Washington or Thomas Jefferson or Abraham Lincoln.
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And to punish people for engaging in activities that would promote the Soviet Union and American communism
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is not the same thing as promoting George Washington and Abraham Lincoln.
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And conservatives have fallen into this trap for so long, for decades now,
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but it's the same limb that Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley Jr.
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and basically every conservative until five minutes ago would have gone out on,
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It is good that we destroyed the career of, for instance, Alger Hiss,
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who was a Soviet spy working at very senior levels of the federal government,
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If you want to read a good book on that, you can read Witness by Whitaker Chambers,
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one of the books that turned Ronald Reagan from a liberal into a conservative.
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I think if you go out and you say, I hate America, I hate George Washington,
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I hate everything our country stands for, and I want to overturn that system.
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I don't want people subverting our entire country in the American way of life,
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be it in the universities, be it in Hollywood, or be it in our government.
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It's so funny now, because the way this is taught in schools is just McCarthyism.
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You know, it's a perfectly universally terrible thing, McCarthyism.
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Or sometimes you'll hear HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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But you only really ever hear these terms from critics of those activities,
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from people who are sympathetic to the communists of the 1940s and 50s,
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What's interesting is if you go back at the time and read documents in support of these committees,
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I mean, similar committees existed well into the 1970s.
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You hear the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
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They conflate it with McCarthyism, which, of course, is very different, right?
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But we've only got a history written from these critics.
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I think we need to get much more serious about this and start talking about the particulars.
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Not just is it good to ever have repercussions for things we say.
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Of course we live in a world where you have consequences for things you say.
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Founding fathers knew that, and everyone else with two brain cells to rub together knows that too.
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You know, if the House Committee on Un-American Activities were around today,
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they would have to haul senior White House officials before that committee to ask them
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why they're engaging in such Un-American Activities.
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Take, for instance, Jen Psaki, the poor, beleaguered White House Press Secretary,
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who was asked what the opinion of the White House was on Mark Cuban's decision
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to ban the National Anthem from his basketball games.
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If you ask a politician, hey, either party, at least until very recently,
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hey, what do you think about these people disrespecting the American flag and the National Anthem?
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But now we live in a country that's been so eroded and corroded spiritually, politically,
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that the White House is taking the side of people who would ban the American flag.
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What does President Biden think about the Dallas Mavericks owner, Mark Cuban,
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deciding to indefinitely stop playing the National Anthem before his National Basketball Association games?
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Well, I haven't spoken with the president about the decision by Mark Cuban on the Dallas Mavericks,
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But I know he's incredibly proud to be an American and has great respect for the anthem
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and all that it represents, especially for our men and women serving in uniform around the world.
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He'd also say that, of course, that part of pride in our country means recognizing moments
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where we as a country haven't lived up to our highest ideals,
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which is often and at times what people are speaking to when they take action at sporting events.
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And it means respecting the right of people granted to them in the Constitution to peacefully protest.
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That's why he ran for president in the first place.
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And that's what he's focused on doing every day.
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So Joe Biden totally supports the flag and the National Anthem,
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except when America doesn't live up to her ideals.
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Well, no country ever lives up to her ideals because it's a fallen, finite, imperfect world.
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So she's saying, oh, Joe Biden, he loves the National Anthem and he loves the flag,
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except he hates the flag and he hates the National Anthem.
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And it's great that our sports leagues would, and sports teams rather, would ban the American flag.
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Joe Biden says this because he's an old school, old politician who remembers the old way of doing things,
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but he's an empty suit who's beholden to the political wins of his party.
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And the political wins are now no longer just against this candidate or against this policy.
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They are trying to, in the words of the 1619 Project at the New York Times,
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reframe American history in the words of this crazy Democrat congresswoman calling for a truth commission.
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They're trying to reframe the narrative that the country is bad and we've got to do something different.
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But it's actually something that conservatives, I think, still haven't made their peace with.
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There are still many conservatives, like, for instance, those loser, squishy Republicans
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who voted to convict at the farce impeachment trial.
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But, and many other people who maybe aren't quite as bad as they are, but who believe that,
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you know, ah, the left, they just hate Trump's tweets.
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If we just tone our rhetoric in a certain way, if we disavow certain Republicans,
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You know, this, I think, is why Joe Biden is so confused, is Joe Biden was always a moderate
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That's how he styled himself, because it was for his political interest to style himself
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So he's embracing the radical left of the Democratic Party.
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When you've got, say, a moderate Democrat and Republicans, you can kind of meet in the
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Well, you're going to disagree on abortion, right?
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And that's, abortion's a kind of a binary issue, right?
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Either you think we ought to kill babies in the womb or not kill babies in the womb.
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But, you know, there's going to be some compromise where abortion, maybe it'll be legal until a
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But at least it is possible to compromise in that regard.
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On immigration, well, you'll let this many people in, but not this many people in.
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Well, it's not going to be quite as high as the Democrats want.
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It's not going to be quite as low as the Republicans want.
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You can do that with moderate Democrats who agree, at the very least, this is a good country.
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But you can't do that with radical Democrats who support political violence and embrace
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It's funny that the left accuses Trump of supporting political violence.
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He explicitly said, be peaceful, don't be violent, always be peaceful.
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Whereas the left does explicitly endorse political violence, as I feel the Trump legal team showed
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quite well during their video presentation at the impeachment trial.
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Well, you can't compromise between one political party, the Republicans who support the country,
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and one political party that doesn't support the country, that doesn't support the idea
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of the country, that doesn't support the symbols of the country, like the American flag, that
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doesn't support the national anthem that calls for half the country to be utterly excised
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Because what is the compromise between have a country, don't have a country?
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What do you, where, you can't, you can't compromise between those things.
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Either we have a country with borders and loyalty to our fellow citizens and some shared sense
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Cenk Uygur, who is a very prominent left-wing commentator.
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He tweeted out something that I thought was incredibly stupid and revealing.
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There are many things Trump got right about right-wing voters.
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They're driven mainly by fear and hatred of others.
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They're greedy, incredibly selfish, and driven mad by envy.
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And lastly, they prefer violence to democracy if democracy means equality.
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We want to be able to keep more of our property.
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We want to close up our borders and have a functioning nation.
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We want to keep national sovereignty away from transnational institutions.
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But in fact, conservatives propose a politics ordered toward higher goods, right?
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Generally speaking, maybe the libertarian's a little bit less so, but the conservatives
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generally support a politics ordered toward a higher good, a transcendent moral order that
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maybe limits some of my appetites and desires, but ultimately it's for a higher good.
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Conservatives are not particularly envious, right?
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On the contrary, what did Winston Churchill call socialism?
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Conservatives say we ought to be able to keep the things that are ours.
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Well, they can be violent, I suppose, but much less violent than the left.
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Compare the three-hour madness of the Capitol riot compared to the six-month-long BLM and
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And, moreover, on this equality question, conservatives embrace a far deeper and more
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The left right now has created a new caste system whereby people have greater or lesser
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value based on their race, based on their sex, based on their sexual desires, based on
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We say, no, we have a sort of spiritual equality and a political equality as citizens, and that's
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But we do have this kind of spiritual and political equality.
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The left basically denies the spiritual equality through the various ideologies that they
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entertain, which are overwhelmingly materialist or even worse.
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But more than this tweet being wrong, it's extremely stupid.
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Just imagine dedicating your career to political commentary, and this is the best you can muster.
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I really would hope for better from our left wing commentators.
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It's why I began the show talking about Jonathan Chait, who I don't really like, but occasionally
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says something that's at least interesting, at least unexpected.
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I don't think that the left is uniformly driven by fear and hatred, and they don't care about
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But I think that the left is motivated by ideas.
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I don't know how, you know, he doesn't have too much going on in between the years, but
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I think there are many leftist intellectuals who shape the ideas that drive the left, and
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I think those ideas are bad, and I think their motivations are suspect, and I think their
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But I do want to take those ideas seriously, try to work through them.
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In fact, in many ways, my book that I just have coming out, Speechless, Controlling Words,
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Controlling Minds, available now for pre-order.
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However, the whole point of the book is to take the left's ideas seriously and say, this
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is actually kind of interesting, and maybe we can learn from this, and this is completely
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wrong, but here's what it led to, and, you know, take that seriously.
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Cenk doesn't want to take any of this seriously.
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The left, broadly right now, I think doesn't want to take any of us seriously.
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They just want to write off half the country and re-educate us and have truth commissions
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and bar us from running for office like they tried to do with the impeachment farce.
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It's not just some dumb, you know, sort of shallow-thinking left-wing commentator who's
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every other word is some sort of profanity because his vocabulary isn't particularly large.
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It's also the elected Democrats, like, for instance, Ilhan Omar.
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The decisions, sadly, that the Republican Party has made was a calculation based on power
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and violence being more valuable to them than protecting this democracy.
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What we saw in this week's impeachment trial where nearly every single Senate Republican
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voted to block even the consideration of charges against Trump tells us everything that we need to know.
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I won't rehash the obvious hypocrisy here, which is that the Democratic Party has openly,
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explicitly embraced violence, right, in their rhetoric.
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Kamala Harris bailed the violent rioters out of jail during the George Floyd riots.
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So, obviously, you know, they're accusing us of things that they do.
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But, moreover, forget the violence thing for a second.
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Frankly, I think Republicans are not that interested in power.
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We don't know how to use political power when it's given to us.
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We squander our political power because we're too cowardly to offer a substantive vision of politics.
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They know what they want, at least, on the left.
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Conservatives can't really muster much of a vision at all.
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So, I think the left's certainly better at power.
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Because you'll notice when it comes to the left, it's only democracy when the people support the left.
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When the people do not support the left, when, say, they vote for Trump by accident, you know, in 2016, somehow he gets through.
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That somehow was a perversion, a distortion of democracy.
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The left constantly outsourcing so many of our political rights to these technocrats, these unaccountable bureaucrats who run our lives for us.
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You know, Republicans are putting forward a pretty interesting pro-democracy bill that something tells me Ilhan Omar and many Democrats will oppose.
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As the left increases their political persecution of conservatives, it's only a matter of time
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Ilhan Omar claims that the Republicans and conservatives are trying to subvert democracy.
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These terms, things like democracy are very broad terms, so I want to bring it down to
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earth for a second, but I will make the broad claim.
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I think conservatives are much more interested in defending democracy than liberals and leftists
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and progressives and whatever term you want to use.
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And I'll give you an example of this that I think throws it into stark relief down in Tennessee.
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There's a new bill in the Tennessee General Assembly that is trying to create a legal procedure
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by which a man can prohibit a woman from aborting his child.
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It's SB 0494 in Tennessee Senate and HB 1079 in the Tennessee House, sponsored by State
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It, quote, permits a person to petition a court for an injunction to prohibit a woman who is
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pregnant with the person's unborn child from obtaining an abortion.
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We've been told by the left, men cannot have an opinion about abortion.
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And that baby, by the way, is not just the product of a woman.
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It's a product of the love between a man and a woman.
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It's not just the woman's child that she would be killing, but the man's child, too.
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So I sort of would offer the exact opposite advice that we hear from the left, which is
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I think a man should absolutely be able to prohibit an abortion.
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If we still have legal abortion, which is unfortunate, at the very least, the father should
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be able to stop a woman from killing his child.
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There's no, one, there's no constitutional right to an abortion.
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There was an invented fictitious constitutional right from Roe versus Wade that even honest
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liberal jurists will admit is nowhere in the Constitution.
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When you ask the constitutional scholars, you say, where is it in the Constitution you find
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They'll say, well, it's in the emanations, in the penumbras, in between an invisible ink
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Okay, I don't really, I don't see that in there.
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Of course, the Constitution doesn't say anything about abortion.
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The only thing it maybe could say about abortion actually is the 14th Amendment, which would
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But the question broadly has been left up to democratic processes.
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You persuade your fellow citizens, okay, we should have abortion, legal abortion, or we
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should not have legal abortion, or we should permit this kind of abortion.
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Okay, well, that's what's going on in the Tennessee legislature right now.
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Certainly, it's democratic to allow a man to have a say over the future of his child in
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Adding that say would be an increase in democracy, would it not?
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Or you have the alternative, which is some robed lawyer on a court invents a right and takes
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Now, I hope conservatives get behind this bill.
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I just want to show that Ilhan Omar is a hypocrite.
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But also because this is offering some real substance here.
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I think most of the pro-life activists, probably all pro-life activists, would support it.
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But I want Republicans, even who are moderate on this issue,
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There is no reason whatsoever that this bill should not pass in Tennessee.
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And as the states are laboratories of democracy,
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no reason why this shouldn't be tried out elsewhere in the country.
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We need to stop playing on the terms of the left.
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We need to stop allowing them to say, well, it's a woman's issue.
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If we're not willing to say that you shouldn't kill children,
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and if we do have a system where you can kill children,
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If we're not willing to say that, we're not willing to say anything.
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You know, they're promising to persecute conservatives right now.
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I mean, the congressmen are saying this out loud.
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If we're not willing to stand up for ourselves,
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You know, a lot of people consider this a religious issue.
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And, you know, it doesn't necessarily need to be argued in religious terms.
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You can just say like, hey, look, there's a baby in there.
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And therefore, this raises bioethical questions.
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And you should support keeping that baby alive.
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But all of these things were argued in religious terms.
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When we're arguing about, I don't know, taxes even.
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We are proposing ethical and moral considerations.
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which has a cultural basis and ultimately a religious basis.
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So, thankfully, some of our religious leaders are starting to take this seriously.
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You know that Joe Biden, he's a devout Catholic.
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He's the most radically pro-abortion president in American history.
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He was actually denied the Eucharist at a church in North Carolina,
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rightly so, because he's so opposed to the church's teaching on this fundamental issue.
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And some liberal clerics let him get away with this.
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Well, there's a bishop, the Archbishop of Kansas City,
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He says, quote, I can tell you this bishop is going to respond this way.
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The president should stop defining himself as a devout Catholic
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and acknowledge that his view on abortion is contrary to Catholic moral teaching.
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It would be a more honest approach for him to say he disagreed with his church
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on this important issue and that he was acting contrary to church teaching.
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we bishops have a responsibility to correct him.
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Although people have given this president power and authority,
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he cannot define what it is to be a Catholic and what Catholic moral teaching is.
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What he is now doing is usurping the role of the bishops and confusing people.
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who is imperiling his soul by carrying on the way that he has.
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And politics has a fundamentally moral aspect to it.
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I thought the Cenk Uygur tweet was going to be the dumbest thing I saw on the internet
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He actually is an excellent actor, but he's not a brilliant person.
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He had the dumbest thing I've seen on the internet in a long time.
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First of all, evangelical leaders probably will not be impeached by the Vatican.
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They don't recognize the authority of the Pope, the Vatican.
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Sean Penn doesn't understand that there is something called Protestantism.
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You know, I suppose Satan is this slippery sort of figure.
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But satin, much comfier than the father of lies.
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The reason I mention it is not really to probe Sean Penn's deep religious and political thoughts or the lack thereof.
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it's not what people don't know that gets them into trouble.
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It's what they know for certain that just ain't so.
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People, especially during the Bush administration,
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they tried to make Sean Penn out to be this intellectual leader of the left.
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Because he's a good actor, so he kind of looks really intelligent.
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He's got this kind of squishy, smoldering face.
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I think all that is going on in his head is the whistling.
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I don't think there's a whole lot going on in there.
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they just not only don't know what they're talking about,
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You know, you'll notice they always use this term narrative.
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That crazy Congress lady that we discussed at the beginning of the show
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who's calling for a truth commission does this.
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is because the way we tell stories affects how politics will play out.
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But also because the left seems to have embraced
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You know, when they talk about intersectionality or, you know,
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lived experiences, that's another term they use.
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What they're saying is that we can't rely on objective reality.
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There may be, there isn't any such thing as objective reality
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A lot of this comes from what some kind of radical academics
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during the mid to late 20th century, Derrida in particular.
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And some of Derrida's followers will claim that this is not really what he meant.
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It's a very famous line in this kind of radical academic movement.
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And what this has been at least interpreted to mean for many years is,
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To use Hamlet's line when he was feigning madness.
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And there's no fundamental reality that it's connected to.
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So if we change the words, we can change the culture.
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This is the fundamental premise of political correctness.
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If we just redefine reality, then reality actually will change.
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And it's why we kind of argue things a little bit differently.
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It's not just all being made up in our minds every day.
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We can't just redefine history however we want.
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The left, broadly speaking, isn't really playing that game.
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They're playing a different game, a game of narrative construction.
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Which is why they try to blot out history, tear down statutes,
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that have been so influential to our tradition.
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And the result is pretty unpleasant, unfortunate for a lot of people.
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You know, there's one very tangible, practical way
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that left-wing policies are disrupting people right now,
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that left-wing fantasies are hurting people's real lives.
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and the roads are icy and they don't want people to come in.
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This is really affecting Texas, all this crazy weather.
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Texas is getting hit with a horrible winter storm
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There are rolling blackouts all throughout the state.
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But the cause of the blackouts is not just the weather.
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The overall power input of Texas has declined pretty significantly
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after half of the state's wind turbines were frozen in a winter storm over the weekend.
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Parts of Texas are now down to zero degrees Fahrenheit.
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More than two million homes and businesses have experienced power outages
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Why is Texas, which is, you know, basically just a state made of oil, made of fossil fuels,
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Because radical environmentalists are so afraid of the sun monster
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that they say is going to destroy the world through global warming
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And Prince Charles said 18 months, but he said it like two years ago,
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They're so afraid that global warming is going to destroy the world
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that they reordered Texas's energy policies, and now Texans are freezing.
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We all, it's become sort of cliché to even say this,
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we could all use a little global warming right now.
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Except when it's convenient for us to say that weather is climate.
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Well, the weather conditions have nothing to do with climate.
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Okay, I don't want to relitigate the climate issue.
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The fantasy of imminent Armageddon because of the sun monster
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is leading to insane policies that are now, by the way,
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the way to rectify these wind turbine issues is to pour chemicals made with fossil fuels,
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You know, probably not really great for the environment,
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to make up for these policies that were put forward
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that is having very unpleasant effects in reality.
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Even the United States military is not immune from the crazy fantasies of the left.
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I thought this was like a Babylon Bee or an Onion article this week.
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A new report from the U.S. Navy on inclusion and diversity
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advocate for and acknowledge all lived experiences
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and intersectional identities of every sailor in the U.S. Navy.
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He's now talking like some woke blue-haired chick
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to analyze and evaluate issues in our society and military
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that are going to fly off of the aircraft carriers
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What the task force believes stops Navy readiness
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racism, sexism, and other structural and interpersonal biases
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and to attain significant, sustainable, inclusion,
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required to analyze and evaluate Navy-wide issues
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and proactively encourage others to do the same.
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to inform the development of Navy-wide reforms.
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Can you imagine the belly laughs they're having