Ep. 733 - Know-Nothin’ Country
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CNN is confused about gender identity at birth, and I m here to explain why it s a good thing. Plus, a new book from Alex Zuckerman, and why we need to stop pretending to know things we can t.
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CNN is spatting off on science again, and they seem pretty confused.
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CNN reporting yesterday that there is no consensus on how to assign sex at birth.
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Christy Noem's executive orders reference biological sex,
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a disputed term that refers to the sex as listed on students' original birth certificates.
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It's not possible to know a person's gender identity at birth,
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and there is no consensus criteria for assigning sex at birth.
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I will always be able to know whether a little boy is a little boy or whether he's a little girl.
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if we cannot know for sure the difference between little boys and little girls,
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My favorite comment yesterday comes from Alex Z,
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Knowles' transitions of promoting his book are as seamless as the pre-order process for speechless.
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Also, by the way, that was a great thank you so much for that transition, Alex.
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they've wanted to know if they can get an autographed copy.
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And I don't really know because I'm not particularly involved in the process
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of putting this out in different stores and all that.
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But I Googled it yesterday after I got some emails.
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And it turns out you can pre-order an autographed first edition of the book.
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It just, it's so much easier than, you know, having to wait in a long line to do something.
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If you want to get auto parts and you don't want to wait in line and you don't want to pay twice as much and you don't,
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Rockauto.com is so much easier than walking into a store and someone demanding quick answers to things like,
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They'll, I'll go back and say, okay, it's this kind of X.
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You can go to rockauto.com right from your desk, right from your cell phone.
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It's a family business serving auto parts customers online for 20 years.
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Go to rockauto.com to shop for auto and body parts from hundreds of manufacturers.
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It's not like a Tuesday, you know, it's 50% more.
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And then Wednesday, no, they're just always reliably low.
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Check out all the parts available for your car or truck.
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You need to be able to know things if you are going to govern yourselves.
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So you need to be able, I'm not saying you need to have 100% perfect,
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certainty for all times everywhere of the exact nature of justice and the regime of the exact
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But you need to kind of know what these things are.
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And you need to be part of the broader conversation that we have in our country and in our civilization.
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You need to be able to use your faculties of reason and your moral conscience to separate good from bad
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And if you can't do that, you can't rule yourself.
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While CNN is pretending that we can't know whether to put the blue hat or the pink hat on the newborn baby,
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while the elites are pretending not to know the most obvious things on earth,
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you'll notice that gender reveal parties are gaining steam.
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It seems like every week now we're hearing about gender reveal parties.
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This is clearly becoming more of a cultural norm that I actually was tempted to do it myself
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for Sweet Little Junior when he was going to come out.
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Sweet Little Lisa thought that this was just too ridiculous and that as a self-respecting man,
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But the idea is you go and the doctor figures out the sex of the baby,
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And then they write it down on a sheet of paper.
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Or, and then, I don't know, maybe you bring that to a baker and you say, you know,
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if it's a boy, then make, bake me a cake with blue frosting on the inside.
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And if it's a girl, bake me a cake with pink frosting on the inside.
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And now these rituals have become much more elaborate.
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There have been stories about people setting off fireworks.
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There was, and getting harmed in the way, by the way.
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People have died during these gender reveal parties.
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So there was actually a very sad story in Mexico.
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A couple hired some people to fly a plane with the gender reveal on the back of it.
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I think two people died in this incident, which is, you know, awful.
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But it is strange that we keep hearing about all of these accidents for gender reveal parties.
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Does this mean that no one should ever have a gender reveal sort of party ever again?
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However, it does speak to a problem that we, we have as a society, which is we're making too big a deal out of ordinary things.
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As the weddings get more and more and more elaborate, it seems like marriage rates are declining and divorce rates are skyrocketing and marriage itself means less of what it once did.
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As proposals, wedding proposals become more and more and more elaborate, the institution of marriage becomes much more confused.
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As the gender reveal parties become more and more and more elaborate, our grasp on what sex even is becomes more confused.
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I think everything is such a big deal that we, I know people who won't get married because they don't have $50,000 saved up to have a big, fancy, elaborate wedding.
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Even rich people had smaller affairs than we do now.
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There, there are people who want to take everything that we used to just do as a matter of course in society and agonize over it and, you know, try to figure out, is little Johnny really little Johnny?
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Or do I need to watch if he ever reaches for a Barbie?
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I think that this is very likely a, just a consequence of this critical process we've had in society.
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This is actually something you hear a lot about in the academy.
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Critical race theory or critical theory more broadly or the ruthless criticism of all that exists, which coincidentally I mention quite a lot and describe in detail in my book, Speechless.
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This has been an organized effort to analyze and criticize every single aspect of society, to deconstruct it.
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The end point of that is we can't do anything natural anymore.
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Now it's, well, we need to have a relationship and it's got to be very clinical and it's, and maybe we're going to have a new kind of strange relationship and maybe we're going to have a throuple like you see on those weird TV shows.
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And maybe we're going to, if we get married, it's, we're going to have to delay the wedding by two years of an engagement and then we, you know, it's, we're so clumsy about everything we do in society right now.
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Why can't we just act normally for lack of a better word?
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Whether or not a country is allowed to have borders, that's now somehow a disputed matter.
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Whether you salute the American flag and stand for the national anthem, that is now a disputed matter.
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Whether you should have ballot integrity, that is now a disputed matter.
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Heavily, we can't do any of the basic things that you need to do to get to the higher questions of society.
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He's always been very nice to me and I find a lot of his commentary at least thought provoking, but he gave a pretty weak answer the other day.
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He was, he was asked about that awful carjacking of those two young girls who, there was two young black girls who carjack a Pakistani guy and then kill him.
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And then callously, they just don't care at all.
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They walk past, they walk back to the crime scene, past his dead body because one of the girls forgot her cell phone in the car.
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And this topic was brought up in a discussion and Juan Williams tried to find every elaborate answer except for the obvious one.
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I think in part, what it is, is you got, it's tragic.
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I mean, they're little kids, not, they're not gangsters.
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They were looking to have a joy ride and it just went way wrong, way out of control and ended up in a gross tragedy.
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So usually you don't bring a stun gun to a joy ride, but go ahead.
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I mean, it's like, you know, kids finding guns in their parents' house.
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So the question is, why would these girls do it?
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And Juan's answer is, you know, that maybe, maybe they weren't trying to carjack the guy
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and maybe they actually weren't just callously disregarding his life.
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And then Jesse Waters says, well, you know, they brought a stun gun with them.
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And there, maybe their parents just left that around.
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And maybe they, maybe it was all a big accident.
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Maybe they're just bad kids and we all have fallen, broken nature.
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And maybe they, they're, they just did a very evil thing because they had evil motivations
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And they at the very least need to be locked up forever.
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There, there's this concept of Occam's razor, which without being too elaborate about it,
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is this idea that all things being equal, the, the simplest explanation for a phenomenon
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should be preferred to unnecessarily complex answers for it.
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Why is it that if I look at a little boy and he looks like a little boy and he, and he, he has all the body parts of a little boy and his DNA is that of a little boy.
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Why do I have to be confused about that and say, well, we don't know.
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Why, why can't we just accept what is obviously true before our eyes?
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If our country that we are now told is the worst country in the world and it's the source of evil in the world and we need to destroy our country and open up the borders and we owe everything to everybody.
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Why is it that everyone from the rest of the world wants to come here?
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Why is it that we, we, why is it that we have to have such a robust security system on our, on our border?
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Why is it that millions of people come here every single year?
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Is it possible that the simplest solution is the correct one?
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Is it possible that we're just a good country and an attractive place to live and, and have your life and raise your family?
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Somehow we are preferring the, the most ridiculous Rube Goldberg complex answers to the common sense that,
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and, and the obvious solutions that we can see before our very eyes.
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Mark Hamill's showing this recently, Luke Skywalker.
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He's saying that, he's advancing this narrative that America is a terrible country.
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No more filming in, in the state of Georgia, not the country of Georgia,
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because Georgia passed an election integrity law after they upended so many of their election measures in the 2020 election.
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He says, no more filming, Hollywood boycotting Georgia.
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Maybe they might make people vote, you know, in person more often than they vote by mail.
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They might not let you buy votes at the polling place.
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Mark Hamill filmed the first Star Wars in Tunisia.
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Hollywood films in a lot of places that have a lot of problems,
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but they never worry about anyone else's problems.
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They only focus in on the sins and even the, the false sins.
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They totally contrived, fabricated sins of America.
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What if instead of, and then they'll say, well, hold on guys.
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How are you saying America's worse than some of these other places in the world?
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They'll say, well, because actually, secretly, America in her innermost sin is,
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and so she looks really good, but she's really evil.
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If a racial minority attacks another racial minority, actually secretly, that's white supremacy.
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How about you just, how about we just go for the simplest answer?
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Delta Airlines, I guess the most woke airline, as far as I can tell.
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Coca-Cola too, are joining the bandwagon of people criticizing Georgia for trying to protect the election.
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They are sending out these mass missives saying, you know, yes, this, this is terrible.
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Okay, well, I'm, I'm all for free markets, as you know.
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If you are using your corporate power to undermine the basic protections of our constitutional republic,
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I don't know what political power the Republicans in Georgia have right now over these companies,
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If that's removing certain tax breaks, if that is removing certain privileges that these companies have,
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We should not permit corporations to run roughshod over our culture and upend our constitutional norms
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any more than we would want the government to do that.
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What if instead of the woke Delta Coca-Cola Hollywood explanation of this Georgia law
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that just brings back some very basic voter integrity measures,
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what if that's not about white supremacy and racism and suppressing the vote?
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And what if it's just because people want fair elections?
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When voter ID is put up to public opinion surveys, everyone wants it.
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The people who oppose voter ID are the people who want to steal elections.
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The Washington Post, as left-wing an outlet as the Washington Post,
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Joe Biden says that the new law in Georgia is going to shrink the opportunities of people to vote.
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Here is what the Washington Post fact checker says.
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On election day in Georgia, polling places are open from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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And if you are in line by 7 p.m., you are allowed to cast your ballot.
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However, the law did make some changes to early voting.
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But experts say the net effect was to expand the opportunities to vote for most Georgians, not limit them.
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So even the freaking Washington Post, as left-wing a mainstream outlet as it gets,
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is admitting that Joe Biden and the Democrats' narrative and Coca-Cola's narrative and Delta's narrative
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on the Georgia voting law is not only false, it's perfectly false.
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It's the exact opposite of true, of what's really going on.
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Now, I've got to give credit where credit is due.
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Sometimes, though, there's, I guess, a little pang of the old institution in these places.
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And more than that, I think they realize that some of the narratives that the left is pushing
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are just so beyond the pale that they're not going to be politically very effective.
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A prominent journalist, however, is in hot water right now for saying that fairness is
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Lester Holt of NBC News was winning some award, and he zoomed in to accept the award, and he
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And one of the lines that he's really catching a lot of flack for is that fairness is overrated.
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I think it's become clearer that fairness is overrated.
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Well, before you run off and tweet that headline, let me explain a bit.
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The idea that we should always give two sides equal weight and merit does not reflect the
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Any contrary view does not deserve our time or attention.
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I know recent events assure that you won't have to look far to find more current and relevant
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Decisions to not give unsupported arguments equal time are not a dereliction of journalistic
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Providing an open platform for misinformation, for anyone to come say whatever they want, especially
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when issues of public health and safety are at stake, can be quite dangerous.
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Holding those in power accountable is at the core of our function and responsibility.
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Lester Holt is absolutely right on the point about fairness.
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What he's implying, I think, and if you listen to the rest of his speech, you'll see he's implying
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that basically the conservatives are the bad guys and the liberals are the good guys, at
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So he goes off on Donald Trump and he's saying, yeah, we shouldn't be totally fair by giving
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Trump supporters or President Trump himself equal airtime or anything like that.
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But on the procedural point, that fairness is overrated, whatever we even mean by fairness
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today, that the idea that you should hear both sides of any question equally, Lester Holt
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And the left understands this and the right used to understand this and the left tricked
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the right into not understanding this, which is why we are in our present confusion.
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This is why, for instance, conservatives now embrace free speech absolutism, whatever that
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Free speech absolutism is very different than the actual American free speech tradition of
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our founding fathers and all the men who built this country and the men before our founding
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fathers and the broader, the broader Anglo tradition.
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Free, free speech has always had some limits on it.
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Sedition, threats, fraud, fighting words, obscenity.
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There, there have always been limits on these things.
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Free speech absolutism says there can be no limits whatsoever, but that's not practical.
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It's not possible because we, we need to get along together in society.
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Words cannot just mean whatever we want them to mean.
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And if words mean certain things, then words actually can infringe on people's rights.
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If you use your speech to commit fraud, you are committing a crime.
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If you are using your speech for obscenity, most people, myself included, who have considered
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this question before, especially on the conservative side, realize that obscenity is not protected
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speech because it actually undermines speech because it is simply prurient.
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It actually undermines our higher faculties of reason.
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And so liberty and licentious is not the same thing.
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We could go on for hours about what the founding fathers had to say about that.
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The right in America used to acknowledge that there is objective truth and that we can know
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We, William F. Buckley Jr. put it in this very silly phrase.
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He said that he was an epistemological optimist.
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Certain things are settled and we ought to acknowledge them as settled.
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No one thinks that there should be some kind of constitutional right to scream Zig Heil at the
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water cooler at the office and have you keep your job.
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We, we on the right now adopt the language of believing that because we pretend to be free
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speech absolutists who believe that everything ought to be in the free marketplace of ideas.
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But of course, marketplaces have rules that are set by the broader political regime and
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We should not tolerate in the academy, in the classroom, or in many other places in our
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public sphere, the idea that men are really women and therefore we should pump kids full of
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The only way you can make an argument for it is by making an argument to undermine reason.
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In the classroom specifically, we, we have this question of critical race theory.
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Should this sort of thing be taught in public schools, let's say?
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Because it's not merely some radical idea that perhaps will broaden our perspective.
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It is, it is, as Chesterton said, the thought that stops thought.
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It is an idea that undermines our, under our acknowledgement of reason.
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It is an idea that undermines the purpose of education.
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And no notion of fairness should, should impel us to give equal weight to those things.
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When, when the left speaks, I think very often the right just wants to dismiss it.
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This is the thing that I try to do in my book, Speechless, available now for pre-order.
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Church membership in the United States is below 50% for the first time ever.
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This, according to a new Gallup poll, Americans' membership in houses of worship continued to
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decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup's eight-decade trend.
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In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue, or mosque, down from
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So the way this is being reported is that this is a massive decline in the religiosity of Americans.
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I think it's just a change in the religiosity of Americans.
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I think that in 1999, 70% of Americans were Christian and there was a much smaller number
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were Muslim or Jewish and I think now 47% are Christian, Muslim, or Jewish and 53% are something
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else because to quote Bob Dylan, everybody's got to serve somebody.
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Everybody, the most hardened atheist has religious views because man is a religious being because
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all human conflict at the end of the day is theological and because we have natural religious
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They believe that God sent his only begotten son to die for mankind and redeem us, to die
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for our sins, to be crucified and buried on Good Friday and to rise again from the dead
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on Easter Sunday and then to ascend to heaven and sit at the right hand of God, the Father
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Almighty and that he will one day come again to judge living and the dead.
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If you are, let's say you're an atheist right now, but you're a woke atheist, then you believe
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What you are saying is that the soul, we have souls, first of all, that our souls are totally
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different from our bodies and when there is disagreement between our soul and our body,
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that the soul wins out, that we are physical, that we are metaphysical beings essentially
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and that our, the physical world has nothing to do with it and frankly can be evil because
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If you are, I don't know, one of these people who says I'm spiritual but not religious, you
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are religious, you're just narcissistic as well.
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I hate to be harsh about it, but I once heard a comedian describe spiritual but not religious
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as the same thing as saying, I, I, I don't really care that much about God, but I'm very
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What does it mean to be spiritual but not religious or to say, you know, I, I'm very interested
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in the spirituality, but I'm not interested in organized religion.
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What it means is you have, I'll give a more charitable read of it.
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It means you have natural religious longings and you acknowledge them and you recognize that
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obviously there is something beyond this physical world because the world doesn't make any sense
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if there isn't, but you just don't care to think systematically about it and you don't
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want the transcendent moral order to make any demands of you and you don't want to have
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And I say this as someone who for a period of time might've called himself spiritual but
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So I get it, you know, I, I understand why that's compelling and why it's, why it's very
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fashionable today, but that is a sort of religion, whether, whether one wants to admit it or not.
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The most hardened materialist, let's say an outright communist in the streets who says,
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you know, there is no God, religion is the opium of the people and we need to build the progressive
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society here on earth because of the science of history.
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I know that the arc of history is long, but it bends toward justice and we are going,
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progress is in the way and you're on the wrong side of history.
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It's a view that, that sees the end times, but the, the end time that those sorts of people
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Well, one where we build this wonderful society and the state falls away and we're all living
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And people who convince themselves that they're not religious, I think often fall into these
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Much better, I think, to acknowledge, yes, you are necessarily going to have religious views
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because our, our very faculties of reason rest on certain religious foundations.
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And then you have to start thinking about those views.
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Does that mean that I acknowledge that God exists?
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Does that mean I have to grapple with the person of Christ?
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Does that mean, what does that mean for other religions?
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What does that mean for how I should live my life?
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I would, I urge the 53% of Americans who are confused on this issue, don't be duped.
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Don't be fooled by people who are, who are trying to take your attention away from serious
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One sort of joke of this whole survey is, you know, gosh, can you believe that people
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Yeah, I can because the powers that be wouldn't let us go to church for a very long period of
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Remember when the public health officials who are actually the priests of our secular
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religion and who perform the liturgy of liberalism, remember when they said, hey, marijuana shops,
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those are essential services, but going to church, absolutely not, no way.
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And for those who respond to this and say, well, Michael, look, come on, politicians can
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never change the culture because politics is downstream of culture.
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East Germany was run by the communists during the Cold War.
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Now here we are three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
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West Germany continues to have a high degree of religious identification, Christian identification.
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There you might say, culture was downstream from politics.
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Or really, what you're seeing is just that politics and culture are not so easily separated.
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And there is a political regime in the West broadly, but specifically in this country right
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There is a president right now who sues nuns because they won't pay for abortion drugs and
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And so it's no surprise that that's having an effect.
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We didn't cover it on this show, but there was this awful suicide bombing outside a cathedral
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Palm Sunday is the longest liturgy of the year.
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So you had a lot of people who Hillary Clinton might call Easter worshipers, also known as Christians,
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who went to this cathedral and there was a suicide bombing.
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Muslim militants have committed these sorts of actions before in that part of the world.
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Fortunately, I don't think very many people were killed.
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I mention it because it's a reminder that as we are in Holy Week, as we approach Good Friday
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tomorrow and Easter Sunday after that, as we think back on our heritage as a Christian nation,
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no matter what the libs want to tell you, this is a Christian nation.
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It's a nation that is founded essentially on Christian principles and Christian ideas and
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even the practice of Christianity in varying ways.
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Christianity is the most persecuted religion on earth.
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Christians are the most persecuted religious group on earth.
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There was a survey to this effect that came out from Pew Research a few years ago.
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This is contradicted by the left-wing narrative where we're told that Christianity is actually,
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And there's such a thing as Christian nationalism that's rising up and we need to tamp it down.
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And Christians should not be able to follow their conscience and we should have
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the federal government suing nuns and that sort of thing.
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And you're seeing this more and more clearly as Christianity becomes a minority religion in America.
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You're going to see these attacks on the church become much clearer.
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If you think it's bad now with egghead public health officials shutting down churches arbitrarily
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and with the president of the United States supporting lawsuits against nuns,
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just wait and see what happens if that number continues to shrink.
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There is a new religion of wokeness, of leftism, call it whatever you want.
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In Marin County right now, the supervisors there plan to contribute funds to a universal
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basic income program that will give just a blank check to people to test out and see
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This was something that was pushed in the Democratic primaries in 2020 by Andrew Yang.
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However, this UBI system is not going to be you.
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The universal part of universal basic income is going to be taken out.
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This program is going to be restricted to people on the basis of race and sex.
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So tax dollars are going to be put into a fund, and then these supervisors are going
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to distribute those tax dollars only to non-white women.
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And they're going to call it universal basic income because they think that the only people
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who are entitled to these sorts of things, universally speaking, are the specific group of women.
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They'll spend $3 million to provide $1,000 to 125 low-income women each month,
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The women must also have a child who's under 18 years old, and now they're getting some
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pushback for that, and they say, no, we just want the money to go where it's most needed.
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And black women statistically are poorer than white women, and so we're going to give it
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If, if the point of the plan is to give it the money where it is most needed financially,
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Well, no, because black women are poorer than white women.
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Right, but there are, there are some black women who are, who are wealthier than some
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And so if the whole point is a financial one, then just give it to the white women, but
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that's, or just give it to the poor white women, and the poor black women, and the poor
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Hispanic women, and whoever else on the basis of finances.
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This shows you this conflict that we have right now, which is right now, most racial discrimination
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There is one carve out, which is affirmative action, the idea that black and Hispanic applicants
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to college and jobs get legal privileges, and that white and Asian applicants to college
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and jobs have a legally protected disadvantage on the basis of their race.
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And that's just, just a weird carve out in our law.
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But generally speaking, we do not permit racial discrimination in our law.
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Increasingly, leftist politicians want to enact racial discrimination.
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Against whites and Asians, and for black people and Hispanic people.
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And you're seeing most clearly in laws like this, but there, there are other sorts of laws
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being proposed, but they're not able to do that yet because the law remains what it is.
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So they're trying to pretend that it, no, it's really about economics.
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They're just trying to impose a racial caste system.
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Speaking of race hustling politicians, Kamala Harris is now,
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President Joe Biden has said he's putting his vice president in charge of it.
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And she said she has no plans to visit the border right now.
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What's going on is a stroke of political brilliance from Joe Biden.
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It's politically brilliant, but it's often done, which is when a president is faced with a really,
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really tough issue that has no political upside for them, whatever happens, they give the issue
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So this is actually, it's not just a party line thing.
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When the coronavirus hit and when the public health regime and many Democrats had basically
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put Donald Trump in this corner, where he, anything he did, it was if he embraced the masks
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and the lockdowns and, you know, really did a good job and kept those infection and death
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numbers down, then he would be accused by his own people of upending the constitution and
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overreacting and falling for the, for the trap.
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So sort of the criticism that I made at the time, but if he ignored the, the advice of
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the experts, any death from the virus would be put at his feet.
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And so he would, he would also have difficulty in reelection.
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He said, Mike Pence, you are leading the coronavirus task force.
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It's the same thing here with, with immigration.
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If he enforces the law and actually ships these foreign nationals back to their countries,
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The, the broader public supports enforcing our immigration laws, but the democratic base
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Yet, if Joe Biden says, okay, surge, come to the border, sort of some things he said during
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the primaries to win over democratic base voters.
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If he starts saying that borders wide open, come on through, he's going to lose support
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among the majority of Americans, according to public opinion surveys.
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She knows that if she goes to the border and she's identified in photographs and film with
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this, with this crisis, her political career is going to take a big hit.
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So she's saying, yes, I'm dealing with it diplomatically.
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Hopefully hear from the White House and don't worry, I'm in charge, but don't hold me too
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It's a, a classic political maneuver and they're, they're both playing it pretty well right now,
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but the crisis is getting worse and worse and worse.
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To a certain point, you think something's got to give.
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Speaking of clever politicians, remember Andrew Cuomo?
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No, he was going to be impeached or he was going to resign or he, but I told you weeks
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and weeks ago, I said, do not count this guy out.
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He's been in New York state politics since he was in diapers.
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And this guy is going to hold on until the very end.
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I said, I don't think he's going to resign within days.
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I know it's a really tough scandal, but Cuomo is holding on.
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And so what he's doing right now is not addressing the contrived sex scandal that he like winked
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He's not addressing the real scandal, which is that he sent sick people to nursing homes,
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needlessly killing thousands of elderly New Yorkers.
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Then he knew about that and then he covered it up because he didn't want a federal investigation
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into him now that he's, he is talking about marijuana and a bunch of big dopes are falling
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Uh, Cuomo is legalizing pot in New York, recreational marijuana, uh, for people over the age of 21.
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He's setting up a licensing process for the delivery of, uh, pot to potheads.
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And, uh, he's allowing New Yorkers to grow up to three mature and three immature plants for
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Uh, the bill was passed by both the, the Democrat led Senate and assembly and, uh, Cuomo's all
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Cuomo says this is a historic day in New York, one that writes the wrongs of the past by putting
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an end to harsh prison sentences, embraces an industry that will grow the empire state's
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economy and prioritizes marginalized communities, prioritizes marginalized communities.
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So those that have suffered the most will be the first to reap the benefits.
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Isn't this kind of offensive to say like, listen, legalizing marijuana, legalizing drugs
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is, is really helpful to black people because everyone knows black people love drugs.
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Black people just naturally, biologically, according to Andrew Cuomo,
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have a predilection for doing drugs and just wasting their day puffing on the devil's lettuce.
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And so as a matter of racial justice, we need to let people waste their time,
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waste their time puffing on that, uh, sin spinach.
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Uh, pretty offensive stuff, but what a, what a silly, silly distraction.
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First of all, I love the idea that the marijuana industry is somehow they're the good guys.
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I just spoke with my friend, Maddie Kearns from National Review about this.
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She has a great piece, cover story in The Spectator, uh, out right now, which you should,
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we, you should listen to, or read rather, called Big Dope.
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You should also listen to the interview where she points out, these are, these are bad guys.
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These are, you know, if you think big tobacco is bad, big dope is just as bad.
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These guys are trying to downplay the health risks of smoking pot, which has all the same
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health risks as smoking cigarettes, all the tar, all the fear of diseases.
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And by the way, some other diseases thrown onto it because it, it's, uh, messes with your head.
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I mean, I understand there is some argument for decriminalizing marijuana.
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I'm not convinced by that argument, but I understand there's some argument for it.
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But the argument is not that this is a matter of right, that everyone needs to be able to
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He's doing it, of course, to distract from his actual political scandals.
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Speaking of things that only make sense if you have been puffing on the Jamaican oregano,
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Demi Lovato, who I don't really know who she is.
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She went on Joe Rogan's podcast to describe sex and gender.
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The only thing that, that we're talking about these days, because the left has taken away
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We no longer debate important matters or rather eternal matters or rather higher matters.
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We're just talking about our loins and the, the longings of our loins.
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So Demi, Demi Lovato says that she's fluid now.
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And a part of the reason why I am so fluid is because I was like super closeted off.
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It's good to just have your loins titillated by anything.
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It's bad to say some things are good, some things are bad, some things are right, some
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So Demi Lovato is sexually attracted to anything.
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Because kids are within the subset of anything.
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She's attracted to my leftist years tumbler, right?
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I guess the leftist years tumbler, much, much less objectionable than the kids or the animals.
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I bet if I asked her this right now, I said, so you're attracted to kids and animals?
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You're somewhat closed-minded, as you should be.
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Skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction, to quote William F. Buckley Jr.,
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quoting a prominent liberal in God and Man at Yale.
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Some people are so open-minded that their brains fall out.
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We are in a moment where our culture wants to deny that we can say anything.
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And the right has fallen for this worse than the left has.
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At least the left continues to pursue their own political agenda.
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They at least continue to exert their will, if not their reason.
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Look, if I say one thing's good, then you might say another thing's good.
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Recognize that there is such a thing as truth, goodness, justice, beauty.
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And when we can kind of know these things, we can govern ourselves.
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Maybe we're all suffering a cultural short-term memory loss or something.
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