Ep. 731 - No Time For Compromise
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As we reach the 380th day of 15 days to slow the spread, President Joe Biden is beginning to lose his grip on power as are the left-wing technocrats around the country. So the President is pleading with us to please, please, Please, Please.
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As we reach the 380th day of 15 days to slow the spread,
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President Joe Biden is beginning to lose his grip on power,
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as are the left-wing technocrats around the country.
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So the president is pleading with us, please, please, institute new mask mandates.
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I'm reiterating my call for every governor, mayor, and local leader
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precisely what got us in this mess in the first place,
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Look, as I do my part to accelerate the vaccine distribution and vaccinations,
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I need the American people to do their part as well.
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It's just me, the president, telling the mayors and the governors
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to institute a policy mandating that you all wear that filthy rag on your face.
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50 years in politics and Joe Biden does not know the meaning of the word politics.
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Maybe that seems a little more in keeping with his career.
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My favorite comment yesterday from Olivia V, who says,
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Once we achieve zero deaths from any cause whatsoever, then we can all go outside.
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The public health apparatus broadly, it just keeps moving the goalposts forever and ever and ever.
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So it was slow the spread, flatten the curve, find a cure, get vaccines.
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The only way it's going to stop is if you stop going along with it.
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Joe Biden, he's a liar and he's not the brightest bulb in the pack.
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And yet, somehow, I still prefer Joe Biden to the alternative.
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Here are some high soaring rhetoric from the would-be future president, Kamala Harris.
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More people are seeing that, yeah, affordable child care is a big deal.
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More parents are seeing the value of educators when they had to bring their kids and say, we're not paying them nearly enough.
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So I guess this is hers as she cackles like a witch.
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But the stranger thing is not that this is her particular nervous tick.
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It's that this woman who has reached a very high position in politics has so many nervous ticks or rather falls into her nervous ticks so often.
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The strange thing about Kamala Harris to me is what a bad retail politician she is and yet what a good behind-the-scenes politician she is.
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That's why she was booted out of the Democratic primary so early on.
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She's really not good at communicating with voters, at appealing to voters.
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But she is really good at working the system, as it were.
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She began her, how do I say this without being rude?
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She began her political career in the old-fashioned way, I suppose, in the really old-fashioned way.
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And then she made it to AG, then Senator, you know, I guess a little bit public, you know, in California.
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But still, she was kind of working the machine system.
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Then she tried on the national stage for president.
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She managed to make it all the way to vice president while being so unappealing.
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Which is why I think when Republicans look at her and say, oh, she would be easy to beat, let's say, in 2024 maybe or 2028, I wonder about that.
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Sure, she's weird on stage and she's not really likable.
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But she's a pretty talented politician, no question about it.
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And yet, he's made it very far, obviously, in politics.
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But he really is a vessel of the establishment in a way that, you know, he's kind of got the whole package.
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Whereas with her, it's just this behind the scenes kind of thing.
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But maybe that could take her even further in 2024.
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And 2024 is on a lot of people's minds right now.
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One of the candidates that's often talked about is Kristi Noem in South Dakota.
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But people are a little upset with me because I've been harsh on Kristi Noem the last couple of weeks.
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I'm going to keep being harsh on Kristi Noem because I think she could be a very interesting candidate.
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And I understand that she's making certain somewhat plausible arguments for going squishy.
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So Noem had her legislature put up this bill to protect women, to protect the sexual distinction
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between men and women, and specifically to prohibit men from participating in women's sports.
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She said she would sign the bill for K through 12, that she would kick men out of women's sports
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at the elementary, middle, and high school level.
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But she didn't want to do so for the college level because this would upset the NCAA and this
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would upset the corporations that are putting pressure on her.
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And her argument was, well, look, I don't, I don't have a ton of control over the colleges.
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And so I'm just going to go for the thing that I have control over and then maybe we'll
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Her exact line was, unfortunately, as I've studied this legislation and conferred with legal
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experts over the past several days, I've become concerned that this bill's vague and overly
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broad language could have significant unintended consequences.
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I'm also concerned that the approach House Bill 1217 takes is unrealistic in the context
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If she wants to be a leader though, she has to lead.
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If she wants to be, look, if she wants to be the governor of South Dakota and that's the
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If she wants to be taken seriously as a presidential candidate, it's not enough to, you know, do
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pretty good stuff and tinker around the edges, but really just let the NCAA and corporations
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And look, if they, if they want transformational gender ideology, they want that kind of radical
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She'll try to fight in her own little corner, but she's basically going to let them run rough
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Well, then she's not going to be a viable national candidate.
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And if she does want to be a viable national candidate, then lead, then lead.
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That's why when she won't sign the bill, she's issuing these executive orders.
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But then the second one was this weaker way of trying to get around the college thing.
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You're not going to defeat something so radical as the left's redefinition of sex, of human
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nature itself, by tinkering around the edges and dealing with what you know for certain
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But we don't want to go too far because then we might get sued by colleges or we might lose
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Maybe other schools won't come here and that's not great.
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Okay, I guess then we're just not talking about the same thing because if you're just
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going to fight within your own little corner and not push back against the broader narrative
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and the much more powerful forces at play on the national level, then you're not trying
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Managed decline is what we've gotten for 20 years, really more than 20 years in the
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I'm glad that you're fighting back, you know, in your own little corner, but on the national
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She said, our kids are being told that this, you know, he's the one with the Satan shoes
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with a drop of human blood in it and the pentagram.
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And it's obviously a publicity stunt that will only cost the rapper his soul.
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So, you know, that's a small price to pay, right?
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She says, our kids are being told that this kind of product is not only okay, it's inclusive.
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We need to fight hard and we need to fight smart and we have to win.
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When push comes to shove, though, are you really going to stand firm?
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Are you really going to push back on the issue where it counts?
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Because it doesn't just count as a matter of the public schools in South Dakota.
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It counts certainly at the college level and the governor has some say over that.
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It counts in the private sphere, so-called, where corporate America is just blasting these
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insane radical messages to American students and the people more broadly.
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We're going to say, okay, we're going to deal with the stuff in our state and these certain
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But hey, we're going to back away when the corporations and the colleges and the college
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If you're not even going to stand up to them, that's just not going to work.
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Lil Nas X, by the way, responded to the governor and said, you're a whole governor and you on
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Obviously, so many people taking the bait on Lil Nas X.
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I have a piece up at the Daily Wire today, actually discussing the things that I think
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we can learn from Lil Nas, not the stupid shoes, but from, from the music video.
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I talked about it a little bit yesterday in the show as well.
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Kristi Noem's got to change course if she, if she wants to be a viable candidate because
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other governors around the country are doing so and it's having great effect on their 2024
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Kristi Noem seems to be squandering her 2024 prospect here, which is pretty significant.
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There's another Republican governor down in Florida who is, I think, increasing his chances
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Governor DeSantis was addressing the issue of vaccine mandates in Florida.
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DeSantis has handled the rollout of the vaccine better than, I guess, just about any governor
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But what about this question of forcing citizens to get the vaccine, as we've heard recently?
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It's completely unacceptable for either the government or the private sector to impose
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upon you the requirement that you show proof of vaccine to just simply be able to participate
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Does that mean that Ron DeSantis is going to say, look, all I do is control the government,
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But if, you know, the private sector wants to do this, why, it's the absolute height of
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conservatism, capital C, to let corporations force you into whatever radical leftism they want.
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That's true conservatism, and we never can, through our politics, rein in that kind of craziness.
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No, because he realizes that's a bunch of bunk.
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And so what he's doing is doubling down on a message that he sent earlier this month.
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He's had clarity on this issue for quite some time, specifically with regard to the idea
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of vaccine passports, that you're not going to be able to go to businesses.
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You're not going to be able to engage in commerce unless you prove that you got the vaccine
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that was developed over the course of six months.
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We are definitely not going to require anything from the state's perspective.
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If I have businesses that want to do that in Florida, I think that that's more than just
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I think that impacts people, particularly disadvantaged people, in a way that would barely be negative
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So what form that would take, I'd have to discuss it with my folks.
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I'd have to discuss it potentially with the legislature.
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Look, if you want to go to a movie theater, a concert, all this stuff, go.
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But to require somebody to show some type of proof of vaccination, I think is completely
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And it's not something that we're going to support here in any way in Florida.
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Because he recognizes that there are two parts to the question and he's got the right answer
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So he says, yeah, from the government perspective, it's not even a question.
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I'm not even considering the vaccine passport thing as a matter of using state services or
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But when you're asking me about the private businesses, now we've got some debate.
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You've got the people who worship at the altar of the market or something who say, yeah, let
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And there are some people who consider themselves conservatives who believe that.
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And then there are the other conservatives who say, no, if I'm being coerced into getting
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the jab to participate in society, I don't care if it's the government telling me to do
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And he's saying, yeah, it seems to me that if a business is forcing you to expose your medical
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history, to get injected with certain things, that goes beyond just the private sector or
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the free market or something, I don't think we're going to do that.
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Now, he doesn't spell out exactly how he would prohibit it because it's kind of a newer idea
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or it's the return of an old idea on the right that perhaps we can interfere in certain market
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dynamics when those market dynamics completely upend our way of life and our constitutional
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And so he's like, well, I'm going to think about this.
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I'm going to, we'll see, but we're not going to let that happen.
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We need to go farther on the right than we have gone in the past because for the past,
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let's just call it 20 years, even though it's been a little longer than that.
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On the right, we have pushed back just hard enough to lose, to lose, to lose on every major
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issue except occasionally tax cuts, which then the taxes go right back up when the Democrats
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And so we just lose, lose, but we lose kind of slowly.
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We lose sometimes in a gradual way, though increasingly it's accelerating.
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So that means you got to push back a little bit harder, which brings me to two guys that
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I really, really admire who I just think we disagree on this issue.
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A professor, Robbie George, legendary conservative professor at Princeton.
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I actually hosted an event or moderated an event at the Roger Scruton Legacy Foundation with
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He was tweeting out about the issue of critical race theory.
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And he gave what I think has been the kind of conservative consensus opinion of the last
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20 or so years, where he said, I know I'm old fashioned, but I can't help thinking that
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what makes sense in academic institutions is not to ban critical race theory or any other
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view or approach, but also not to give it a monopoly or privileged position over other
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Pause there for a second, because I think there is something quite wrong with that, but we'll
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pause that, Christopher Ruffo, who's doing superb work in City Journal exposing critical race
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He responds, respectfully, professor, nobody is suggesting a ban on critical race theory in
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We're suggesting a ban on mandatory workplace trainings that force people to accept the values
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of race essentialism, collective guilt, and neo-segregation.
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I am not merely suggesting that we ban the mandates in workplaces or anything like that.
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I am suggesting in public schools and public colleges an outright ban on this stuff in the
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classroom and in private colleges and universities.
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I'm encouraging the faculty and the students and the parents and the trustees and the people
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I am suggesting that these people force this trash out of the classroom.
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Not to open up the classroom to other ideas and we're all inclusive.
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And the view that I'm espousing, I think, is the old-fashioned view.
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That's the old-fashioned view that has reigned until very, very recently.
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That's the old-fashioned view that William F. Buckley Jr. articulated in God and Man at Yale,
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subtitle, The Superstitions of Academic Freedom, which is widely credited with beginning the post-war
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I know it's very fashionable on the right right now to embrace academic freedom and to say that
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in the classroom, all views should be heard at all times.
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That is a liberal view that the left has tricked us into accepting and specifically did so in the
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1960s and 1970s through the extraordinarily dishonest Berkeley free speech movement,
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inaptly named because look where that free speech movement led us.
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Now Berkeley has more censorship of conservative views than anywhere else in the country, practically.
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This is the exact trick that I describe in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling
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Bill Buckley in God and Man at Yale calls academic freedom a hoax.
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We do not, first of all, it's not possible to discuss all views in the classroom and we
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In the classroom, we do not discuss, for instance, how two plus two can equal five.
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Some people might think that two plus two equals five, but it doesn't.
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In the classroom, we do not include the view that the Holocaust didn't happen, just to use
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There are actually quite a number of people who hold that view, but we don't teach that
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because the historical evidence is that the Germans committed atrocities against the Jews
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We do not include the view in the classroom that the moon is made of green cheese.
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Some people might hold that view, but we don't include it.
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The truth is exclusive and curricula are exclusive.
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When you go to a liberal arts college, you're probably not going to learn how to be a mechanic.
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Now colleges seem to have lost their sense of purpose, though they only really seem that
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They're just seminaries of subjectivism, of leftism.
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And I think we need to do that because I think falling for the trap of the free speech movement
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It got us the same exact limitations on speech we always had.
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It's only now the speech that was being excluded was ordinary, truthful, conservative speech.
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And the only views that were being included were liberal views.
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Critical race theory must be excluded from the classroom because it and associated academic
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Critical race theory and associated pseudo-academic movements reject objective truth for narrative.
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They say it's all just kind of words, words, words.
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So the people who develop this thing, who I describe in my book Speechless, describe it
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as a radically different academic sort of movement.
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It's meant to foment a radical ideology to upend our traditional culture.
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It is an example of what Chesterton would call the thought that stops thought, which of course
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But I hope I hope I've made my point, even though I greatly admire both of these men.
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I think what Professor George and what Christopher Rufo are describing is an opinion that is very,
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But I just I don't think it's the old fashioned traditional opinion.
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And I think we've we've got to be able to push a little bit further.
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further against the narrative today, describing why you've heard the name George Floyd, but
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Also, the Candace Owens show has great guests, including Jocko Willink, Brandon Tatum, John
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Rich, just to name a few, and a couple other great guests.
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Other countries are so much more politically astute than the leaders of our country.
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When I was a little kid, I never thought I would say, you know, Guatemala understands
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politics and government better than the leaders of the United States.
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Yesterday, the Guatemalan president, Alejandro Giammattei, declared a, quote, state of prevention
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at the border with Honduras as new reports emerged about a potential migrant caravan getting
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The AP reports that in January, Guatemalan law enforcement and military officials used tear
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gas, batons, and shields to prohibit a mass of 2,000 Honduran migrants from continuing
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That is what the police and the military are supposed to do.
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When you have massive foreign forces entering your country illegally, I think there's a word
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Here in the United States, we throw up our hands.
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The strongest country in the history of the world.
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And then, by the way, when we let them in, we don't even know what to do with the foreign
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President Trump at least created disincentives for that awful journey.
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Joe Biden's creating massive incentives for that journey, according to the migrants themselves
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They cram all these people into tiny little cages, to use the popular word, and then they
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prevent the journalists from going in and exposing it, and it creates a horrific situation.
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Maybe Joe Biden should fly down to Guatemala, fly down to a much poorer, less developed country
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But of course, he doesn't want to do that because Joe Biden knows his policy is not good
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It's not good for the country, but it is good for his political party because it's going to
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So they're going to open the floodgates and give a mass amnesty.
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Speaking of the rule of law, Georgia has passed this new voter law that's going to try to tighten
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up some of the ridiculous shenanigans that the Democrats foisted on that system leading
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So the, the, the big headline here is that in Georgia now, you're not allowed to bring
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food and water to people waiting in line to vote.
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I don't know why, but everything's white supremacist now.
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There are very strict rules around polling places.
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We've gotten rid of in-person voting as the primary way to vote.
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So now, you know, it's, it's up for grabs, usually being grabbed by Democrats.
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But in the olden days of a couple of years ago, we had strict rules around polling places
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because we know that voting is so susceptible to fraud and it's very important in our country.
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There were rules about how campaign workers can interact with people as they wait in line
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There were rules around where signs for candidates can go near polling places.
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They can't be very close because you want to keep this area protected from the machinations
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In the old days of the Democrat machines, Tammany Hall, Boss Tweed, you would have operatives
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go up to people waiting to vote or grabbing people to vote.
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And they say, hey, I'll give you a free drink if you go vote for my guy.
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Hey, here's a little, you're just buying votes.
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So George is reiterating a view that has been widely held, reiterating laws that have been
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on the books for a long time and saying, yeah, you can't do that.
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Let's say that when you go to vote, it takes more than half an hour.
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Generally, when I voted, it takes about half an hour.
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That's taken up to an hour, maybe in California.
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Let's say, I'm going to give the crazy left the benefit of the doubt.
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Let's say it's three hours waiting in line to vote.
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First of all, if you really get famished during that time or you really get thirsty,
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bring a bottle of water, shove a granola bar in your pocket.
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If you cannot go three hours without stuffing your face,
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Something has, you need to put the cupcake down.
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If you cannot go three hours without having a little nibble.
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Our bodies were made to go more than three hours without a muffin.
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But of course, these are not, these are not the real concerns of Democrats in Georgia
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Georgia, they want to be able to buy votes and to get really close to the polling place
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when they can't pry people away from the polling place in the first place and get them to vote
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by mail and maybe get a few of their dead cousins to vote by mail too.
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This is, you know, it's white supremacy to prevent Democrat operatives from bribing voters
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She's, she's done some, some pretty good interviews recently,
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but she just goes back to that typical Democratic narrative very often.
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She was shocked and appalled that Georgia Governor Brian Kemp would sign this new
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vote integrity bill in a room of that, of the worst beast that has ever roamed the earth,
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Joining me now is Democratic Georgia Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock.
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Senator Reverend, thank you so much for joining me this morning.
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I want to put up that picture of Governor Brian Kemp signing this law in a room full of white men.
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He's saying that we can't send our operatives to go give people slices of pizza at the polls
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It's so, all these white men, they know, they know that if they, they deprive voters of color
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of snacks at the polling, they know that they will suppress the vote.
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I don't, I almost don't want to say it, but imagine if somebody went, forget on CNN,
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let's say somebody on, on a conservative news channel went out and said, you know,
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I can't believe that, that this, well, we'll refer to the true governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams.
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I still think she hasn't conceded that race from a couple of years ago.
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If, if, if a conservative went on TV and said, can you believe that Stacey Abrams signed this
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But of course there's, they're not playing fair.
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So it's, it's almost pointless even to mention it.
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Everything, even the least racially relevant questions need to come down to race when it is
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People don't need to have any idea what they're talking about.
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They just know that that's a Trump card and usually it's going to work.
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Occasionally it doesn't work as we saw last night on Bill Maher.
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Heidi Heitkamp, the former Senator from North Dakota, not, not the brightest bulb in the
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I think there was one time a friend of mine was going down to, to serve in Congress and
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we were talking to a longstanding U.S. congressman and we asked, hey, what, what should you, what
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You know, what should we know about the halls of Congress?
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And this longstanding congressman whose, whose name I won't mention said, well, you're going
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And Heidi Heitkamp in her comments last night, I think proved this point though.
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She went on Bill Maher's show and they were, they were addressing my, my colleague here,
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And Heidi Heitkamp, just, just casually just said, Gina Carano, she's a, she's a Nazi.
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She was, she's a white, she's involved in white supremacy.
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I mean, it depends on what your definition of white supremacist is.
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But I think we have to, I think we have to be really careful.
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There's two things that Republicans think they're going to get Biden on.
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Cancel culture and this whole Dr. Seuss stuff that's going on where they're reading green eggs and ham, proving that some of these senators can actually read.
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And, and, and so we can't ignore the fact that we got Donald Trump was in part because of political correctness.
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I don't think she will because defamation suits are just really, really hard to win and you spend a lot of money on lawyers and if you're a public figure, it usually doesn't work.
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But I hope she does because what Heidi Heitkamp here is saying is just completely indefensible and, and worse than the slander of it all is the laziness to say this woman doesn't know a thing about Gina Carano.
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This woman has probably never Googled Gina Carano, but she read some Facebook post from, I don't know, her like blue haired niece or something that said Gina Carano is a Nazi and that's all, that's all it takes.
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And then Bill Maher, he goes a little light on her, but at least he calls her out.
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Wait, I think he thought she was kidding at first.
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And then Heidi realizes, she's like, uh-oh, I thought I could just get away with this casual, this drive by slander.
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Now I actually have to defend my views, but I can't because I have no idea what I'm talking about.
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So she dials it back from Nazi, from literally Hitler to, well, you know, but she's, no, she's a white supremacist.
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I'm not, yeah, no, oh yeah, everyone knows that, right?
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You're a, she's, how's she a white supremacist?
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And then Bill tries to dig her out of it a little bit.
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He's like, well, I guess it depends what your definition of white supremacist is, but what?
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And then Heidi tries to bring it back even further.
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She goes, well, yeah, no, she hangs with white, white supremacists and she, uh, she, uh, uh, uh, who, who, what do you know about anything, Heidi?
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And then the other guy who, the libertarian guy, whose name I forget at the moment, but he, uh, he comes out and he, he defends Gina, I think quite well and says, no, she just, she compared the actions of some other people to some actions that the Nazis did.
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She's not, she didn't even call anybody Nazis and she certainly, if you, if you accuse someone of being a Nazi as though that were a terrible thing, you yourself probably wouldn't embrace the label Nazi, right?
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And then, and then I love my, the button on the whole interview is she goes, yeah, and no, but Bill, you know, hold on, I can't defend my view.
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You just called a woman a Nazi without any evidence whatsoever, without knowing a thing about her.
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And then she pivots and tries to talk about something else.
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It's very much, she got caught in the way it was, I keep going back to this cause it was so funny.
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Uh, a black Democrat lady called in to David Webb's radio show once and he made a good point.
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And she said, well, you only think that cause of your white privilege.
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And I guess she didn't know she never met David Webb.
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And so David Webb goes, ma'am, I don't think you would say that if you knew me.
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David Webb, of course, is very much a black man.
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However, it's not the claim, the charge of white supremacy or Nazism or whatever.
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That's where, that's where they're starting from.
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And then if the premise is proven wrong, too bad or I will try something else.
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But usually they don't get called out on the premises.
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By the way, this is, this is not just affecting these radical Democratic senators or media people.
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U.S. Special Operations Command has an office of diversity inclusion.
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They appoint a guy to that, Richard Therese Estrada.
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And it turns out that this guy, the diversity and inclusion officer at the U.S. Special Operations Command,
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Except this guy is not, at least apparently, he's not a Democrat operative.
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Obviously, in practice, he's a Democrat operative.
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He's a leading figure within a certain segment of the military.
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I think anybody, I think, I'm willing to make this claim.
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Every single person who, who serves as a diversity and inclusion officer in any position in this country
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I, I would bet a lot of money that that statement is true, okay?
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The real issue here is not that this one diversity and inclusion officer made this ridiculous comparison and smeared the president.
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The issue is that we have diversity and inclusion officers in our military.
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The, I don't, I don't want diversity in the military.
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I mean, I don't care what race they are or anything like that.
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Here's, here's the, I want unity in the military.
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Love of country, the willingness to kill our enemies, and the ability to kill our enemies.
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I don't want diversity in that some people who want to kill our enemies and some people who want to hug our enemies.
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We just, well, okay, maybe we can have a diversity and inclusion officer, but, you know, they can't compare Trump to Nazis.
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Why on earth is, is what has been and what ought to be the most lethal, formidable fighting force on earth, wasting our precious resources and their precious time on this ridiculous nonsense of diversity and inclusion officers.
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The guy should be fired whether he did it or not because the position should not exist.
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This sort of radical racialism, the, the exaltation of diversity and inclusion, whatever other PC terms you want, is not unique to the United States.
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It's going on all around the Western world, down in, down in Australia, way down under.
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There, there is a school in Victoria, Australia that is having their young teenage boys at a, at an assembly stand up and apologize to girls on behalf of their gender.
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Some parents were pretty outraged by this, that 12 year old boys were made to apologize for just being boys.
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And so I think the school finally did apologize.
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All these, all these, I'm sure the boys were apologizing.
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They're like, I'm sorry that my male sex picks up the check for dinner.
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I'm sorry that my male sex historically has fought all the wars ever.
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I'm sorry that my, my male sex dies a little earlier on average because we, we work a lot.
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I'm sorry that we've, yeah, we could go on and on and on.
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The diversity and inclusion thing and, and whatever other politically correct initiatives that are being foisted on us are not about equality.
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They're not about restoring some neutral ground where we can all sing Kumbaya.
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They're about a cast, castigating white people.
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They're about a castigating, I guess, straight people now.
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I guess, I guess people who know that they are the sex that they are.
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That's an, and now with the advent of trans ideology, it's about to use a popular left-wing term,
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otherizing a very small group of people and saying that they're the source of all the evil in the world.
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And that even when racial minorities attack other racial minorities, the cause of that is white supremacy,
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which, which left-wingers actually have said in the last couple of weeks.
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And reordering society away from any semblance of justice, equality, or fairness.
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It is not enough to just sort of mildly push back against that.
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It is not enough to say, we will hear all views and tolerate all.
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No, you need to assert an alternative political vision, an alternative moral vision.
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The left is asserting political and moral vision.
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It's immoral and it'll destroy our politics, but got to give them credit.
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At least they have the courage to, to make that vision.
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We just get lost in these abstract, ridiculous procedural arguments
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totally divorced from the actual American tradition of free speech.
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Very often we make arguments that are contrary to the actual tradition of free speech here in America.
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We never talk about the actual academic tradition in the United States and in the West.
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You know, I, I explained this problem and outlined a way out in,
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my upcoming book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
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This probably will not be put on many high school curricula,
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certainly not in public schools, maybe not in many private schools.
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I promise you the Democrat governor of Kentucky, Andy Beshear, did not read it.
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Because Andy Beshear is, is showing us the, the double standards that the left is always using.
00:47:23.020
The left right now is very focused on maintaining the support of teacher unions.
00:47:27.200
And so they're very opposed to reopening schools and they're also very opposed to school choice.
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So for a lot of kids, the only way that they're going to escape,
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or by far the greatest chance they have to escape poverty, bad conditions,
00:47:41.220
and even just bad culture and even just bad interpersonal relationships is through education.
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Never met a guy at the top who doesn't read a lot, who, who hasn't educated himself.
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Very, very few, very few people who've made, I guess there are a few exceptions,
00:47:57.240
especially in like, you know, Hollywood or some of the crazy liberals out there.
00:48:00.300
But generally speaking, the people who make it to the top of the heap are pretty, pretty well educated.
00:48:05.020
So this governor, this Democrat governor is, sends his kids to private school,
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but he himself will not allow other students to have that same school choice.
00:48:16.760
When he is pushed back on about this, he says, well, hey, yeah, I send my kids to private school,
00:48:24.760
But in your most precious investors, investment, your own children, they go to public, to private school.
00:48:32.240
And is that kind of a, is that hypocritical that your children go to private school?
00:48:37.700
I believe in public schools and my kids will be going to a public middle school.
00:48:44.100
I, you know, I'm a product of the public schools.
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Well, it turns out there's a report just came out that Andy Beshear, at least for some period
00:48:54.680
And he's never disclosed this when he talks about how much he loves public schools.
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They want to exclude those privileges from other people.
00:49:10.540
And this is especially true during the coronavirus.
00:49:13.800
How many times has Dr. Fauci been caught in close proximity to other people without his
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Countless times at this point, he's been photographed doing it, filmed doing it.
00:49:24.260
And then he sees people have cameras on him and he pulls the mask back up.
00:49:27.520
Certain rules for the, for the peasants and certain rules for the elites.
00:49:32.780
Now they want to extend this forever and ever and ever.
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You might've thought I was being hyperbolic when I said this sort of thing a year ago.
00:49:42.100
Said, oh, Michael, it'll be, okay, it won't be two weeks, but it'll be two months, three
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And now they're calling not to start letting up.
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The president of the United States wants renewed mask mandates everywhere in the country.
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And then they want you to put your medical history on an app to prove to people that
00:50:05.200
you've gotten their shot that was developed quickly.
00:50:08.660
Seems to be doing well, but still, you know, it's developed pretty quickly.
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They want to force you to get that shot, to engage in commerce.
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They will not give up that power unless we stop allowing them to have it.
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