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00:02:35.000Well, there's a truism when it comes to politics, and that is that you run to your extremes during the primaries, then you run back to the middle during the general elections.
00:02:42.000It's true for both, both right and left.
00:02:45.000But one problem emerges for political parties when it turns out that people don't believe you when you run back to the middle.
00:02:50.000When you run so far to the extremes that everybody sees through the game of running back to the middle, you start to pay the price politically.
00:02:57.000And increasingly these days, this is precisely what's been happening with the Democratic Party.
00:03:49.000And when it turns out that the slippery slope keeps happening over and over and over again, people stop trusting you when you say that you only want to go so far and no further.
00:03:58.000That's particularly true when the arguments that you make are what we would call in law school arguments that prove too much.
00:04:02.000When you make an argument that quote unquote proves too much, this is when you establish a principle that doesn't merely justify what you're doing now.
00:04:09.000It justifies further action in the future.
00:04:11.000So, for example, let's say that your argument is love is love.
00:04:15.000All forms of sexual relationship are equally morally beneficial.
00:04:19.000And I said, well, that would eventually lead to you basically justifying every form of sexual arrangement up to and including pedophilia, right?
00:04:27.000That argument itself, just that argument, not saying that you're doing it, but the argument itself, that all forms of sexual arrangement are perfectly fine.
00:04:33.000That is going to justify pretty much everything from incest to pedophilia.
00:04:37.000And you say, well, that's a slippery slope fallacy.
00:04:52.000And so there's a graphic that's become quite popular online, and it shows what the supposed slippery slope fallacy looks like in broad terms.
00:05:01.000This is the slippery slope fallacy graphic that's become very popular on Twitter, and it's about right.
00:05:08.000It's a downward curve, and it's kind of gradually curving down and then boom, it drops off a cliff.
00:05:13.000And it has a bunch of arrows pointing to the gradually downslope curve saying you're overreacting, you're overreacting, you're overreacting.
00:05:18.000And then we are here pointing to the bottom of the slippery slope.
00:05:21.000And this is what keeps happening with Democrats on policy after policy after policy.
00:05:48.000They're never going to want to force you to do it in church.
00:05:50.000OK, so they're trying to force a baker to bake a cake for a gay couple.
00:05:53.000But does that really mean that they're going to come after you if you refuse to go along with their morality and how you teach your kids?
00:05:59.000Well, sure, they're doing that with the schools, but you think they're actually going to come into your home?
00:06:02.000If you keep going along over and over and over again with the lie that the slippery slope fallacy is in fact a fallacy and not a prediction, then you're going to end up at that bottom of the curve over and over and over again.
00:06:13.000And this is why I think Democrats are having a particularly tough time these days.
00:06:17.000They're having a particularly tough time because people can see that we are at the bottom of this curve.
00:06:21.000People can see that over and over and over again when Democrats assure us that we're just at the top of the curve and that we're overreacting.
00:06:26.000They don't actually want the things we say that they want.
00:06:52.000Joe Biden was just, you know, a typical Democrat, middle-of-the-road Democrat, who was never going to allow American society to slip off that curve and all the way down to the bottom of the cliff, Wile E. Coyote style.
00:07:02.000Except that Joe Biden did precisely that.
00:07:04.000And what we see over and over and over again is that Democratic politicians seem patently incapable, really since the end of the Clinton era, to tell their own base no.
00:07:12.000And to make the case to the American people that they should be believed when they take a moderate policy.
00:07:17.000Because over and over and over again, Outlying members of the Democratic Party.
00:07:21.000People who were considered crazy five years ago are now considered central members of the think centers of the Democratic Party.
00:07:27.000Bernie Sanders was a nut for all of his Senate career.
00:08:28.000You cannot name a position on which the Republican Party, except for perhaps immigration, has become more right-wing over the course of the last 20 years.
00:08:37.000I can name you half a dozen positions where the Democratic Party has moved significantly to the left, ranging from their tax policy, to their policing policy, to abortion.
00:08:51.000Over and over and over again, Democrats moved significantly to the left.
00:08:55.000If there has been a polarization in terms of policy positions, you can say that the Republican Party has polarized in terms of its stylistic moves.
00:09:02.000Donald Trump was stylistically different from Republicans of the past, were much more conciliatory and more civil.
00:09:07.000And by the way, the reason that Donald Trump was elected was because he was not conciliatory and not civil and because so many Republicans were angry at the conciliatory civil Republican Party that it seemed to go along with the lie that we were going to remain on the top of that slippery slope curve.
00:09:21.000And but Republican in terms of their positions, their policy positions, they have not moved to the right.
00:09:25.000If you look at the Republican platform in 2004 and you look at the Republican platform in 2020, they're basically the same.
00:09:33.000You now have mainstream members of the Republican Party voting in favor of enshrining same-sex marriage at the federal level after Obergefell.
00:09:40.000Meanwhile, the Democratic Party has moved wildly to the left.
00:09:43.000And so here is the problem for the Democrats.
00:09:45.000No one believes them anymore when they say they are not pursuing utopia.
00:09:48.000And so all Republicans have to do is point at the bottom of the slope.
00:10:04.000So the first time he runs for Senate against Ted Cruz, he campaigns as a moderate.
00:10:09.000He's somewhat of a moderate Democrat running in a very red state, and he loses a close election to Ted Cruz.
00:10:13.000Then he runs for president, and he says, we're going to take your AR-15s, and we are going to come after your religious institutions to remove their nonprofit status if they don't act in ways that I like with regard to social policy, particularly same-sex marriage.
00:10:26.000This is all stuff that Beto O'Rourke said, and that was like a two-year gap between when he ran for Senate and lost to Ted Cruz, and when he ran for president.
00:10:32.000That was maybe a one-and-a-half-year gap.
00:10:35.000All the quiet parts, he started saying out loud.
00:10:37.000It was the same thing, by the way, if you go all the way back to, say, 2011.
00:10:40.000Barack Obama was against same-sex marriage in 2011.
00:10:43.000By 2013, he was the greatest advocate of same-sex marriage.
00:10:45.000So, was that because he actually shifted his position, or was it because he was lying in the first place, and he was lying to the American people?
00:10:50.000The answer is he was lying to the American people.
00:10:52.000He was always progressive on that issue.
00:10:54.000He just had to lie to the American people because the American people didn't agree with him.
00:11:09.000Because while Democrats keep claiming they'll go this far and no further, we have no evidence to believe that this is the case.
00:11:15.000Historically speaking, we have no evidence to believe that when given the opportunity, Democrats will not shove us over that cliff every single time.
00:11:22.000So, for example, as you talked about on the show, there is a Virginia Democrat who has now introduced a bill to prosecute parents who refuse to treat children as members of the opposite sex.
00:11:32.000According to Yahoo News, Virginia Democratic delegate Elizabeth Guzman is seeking to introduce legislation that would hold parents criminally liable for refusing to treat their children as a different sex from the one they were born into.
00:11:42.000The legislation, which Guzman plans to introduce in Virginia's upcoming legislative session, would expand the definition of child abuse, so parents could be charged with a felony or misdemeanor for refusing to honor their child's request to be treated as the opposite sex.
00:11:53.000Guzman said, if the child shares with those mandated reporters what they are going through, we are talking about not only physical abuse or mental abuse, but the job of that mandated reporter is to inform Child Protective Services.
00:12:02.000Now, I've been warning about this for years, and there's going to come a time when Democrats, if given enough power, would sick Child Protective Services on any parent who refuses to go along with the lie that their boy is a girl.
00:12:12.000The move came in response to Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin's latest policy initiatives, which empowered parents to exercise control over whether and how children transition gender in school.
00:12:20.000Which, of course, used to be called the status quo.
00:12:22.000The status quo used to be called, your boy is a boy and your girl is a girl.
00:12:25.000Glenn Youngkin took the moderate position that if your boy seeks to be treated as a girl in school, at least you gotta tell the parents.
00:12:32.000And this is too much for the Democrats.
00:12:33.000They say that that should now be considered child abuse.
00:12:37.000Again, if you think the Democrats aren't moving in this direction, I question as to why you would think that.
00:12:43.000What makes you think that Joe Biden, if freed of all of the burdens of governance, if freed of public opinion, would not do that?
00:12:49.000He has said that health care requires that we trans the children.
00:12:53.000Health care requires hormones for nine-year-olds who say they're a member of the opposite sex.
00:12:59.000Gender-affirming health care requires that we carve fake vaginas into boys at the age of 16, 17, 18 years old.
00:13:08.000So why wouldn't it be considered child abuse if a parent refuses to go along with it?
00:13:12.000Again, the end point of the slippery slope is there specifically because the principle being established by the Democratic Party encompasses all of that.
00:13:19.000If you truly believe that it is child abuse to refuse to go along with the delusions of your child with regard to their own gender or sex, delusions promoted by a socially contagious media apparatus that virtues, that creates virtue in not believing that you are a member of your genetic sex.
00:13:37.000If that's your principle, why wouldn't that extend to the notion that a parent is abusing their child for not going along with all of that?
00:13:44.000I mean, we're already on the verge of that in California, right?
00:13:46.000California, as we mentioned yesterday, has become the first sanctuary state for transgender youth seeking medical care.
00:13:52.000So if you and your spouse disagree on whether your boy is a boy or your boy is a girl, and you grab your kid and you go to California and you start transing the kid, California now says that you are immune from prosecution.
00:14:05.000It's questionable as to whether even if a minor decamped from their home in, say, Oklahoma to California and started receiving transgender care without the permission of their parents, that would be any sort of problem in the state of California.
00:14:18.000The bottom of the slippery slope is there, and it is visible, and it is in sight.
00:14:36.000But the ground's coming closer, and we are going to hit it.
00:14:39.000And so if you wish to defeat the possibility of us hitting the bottom of that slippery slope, you actually have to put roadblocks in the way near the top of the slippery slope.
00:14:48.000And Democrats are being very clear about what it is they want here.
00:14:50.000It's not as though they're really hiding the ball.
00:14:53.000I mean, they lie and they say, well, we don't want, we're not seeking to create a social contagion.
00:14:58.000We're not seeking to take your kids away from you.
00:15:00.000We're not saying that you can't raise your kids.
00:15:03.000It's just a question of how long it takes for them to get to the logical endpoint of what it is they're already advocating.
00:15:09.000This, of course, will involve overthrowing religious freedom.
00:15:12.000House Democrats have already pushed the so-called Equality Act, which is an attempt to essentially destroy religious freedom in the United States.
00:15:21.000The basic idea is that federally, there would now be a prohibition on quote-unquote discrimination on the basis of both sexual orientation and gender identity across multiple sectors of American life, including employment, housing, public education, and financing, as well as credit markets and jury service.
00:15:35.000There would be no carve-out for religious freedom in this bill whatsoever.
00:15:41.000And they're saying the quiet part out loud.
00:16:22.000Look, abortion is a very personal decision that belongs between a woman and her doctor.
00:16:28.000The government and politicians don't belong in that decision.
00:16:32.000We need to let doctors perform the care that they are trained and take an oath to perform.
00:16:38.000So, if an Arizona voter were to conclude from your previous answer that you do not favor any specific weak limit on abortion, would they be correct?
00:16:50.000I support leaving the decision between a woman and her doctor and leaving politicians entirely out of it.
00:17:00.000And by the way, the corollary of this will be that doctors will be forced to perform abortions in democratic states, because after all, religious freedom would be you encroaching on somebody else's quote-unquote right to choose.
00:17:10.000It's true on issues of crime, for example.
00:17:13.000If Democrats had their brothers, as they do in many places like San Francisco, crime would essentially be allowed to flourish.
00:17:19.000John Fetterman is running for Senate right now.
00:17:21.000John Fetterman 11 different times called for releasing one-third of the inmates.
00:17:25.000Literally one-third of inmates in Pennsylvania.
00:17:29.000Here is John Fetterman talking about that.
00:17:33.000Dr. Oz is spreading lies on TV about John Fetterman.
00:17:38.000We could release a third of our inmates and not make anyone less safe.
00:17:41.000He said something remarkable that I agree with.
00:17:43.000He said we could reduce our prison population by a third and not make anyone less safe.
00:17:50.000You could release a third of our inmates and not make anyone less safe.
00:17:53.000If we could reduce our prison population, we could return these individuals Back to their families, back to their communities, and everyone is safer or better off.
00:18:44.000Or is it just kind of what you guys want, and you want to obscure that fact?
00:18:48.000Keep saying slippery slope fallacy as you continue to toboggan down the slippery slope.
00:18:53.000This is true on environmental issues as well.
00:18:55.000California has already made clear that they want to ban all sale of gas-powered cars by 2035.
00:19:02.000Meanwhile, they're not increasing the amount of power available to their grid.
00:19:06.000So they're going to prevent you from being able to drive the car that you want, and they're going to do so on the basis of a technology that's not ready, and on the basis of a grid that requires fossil fuels to run in the first place.
00:19:16.000So herein lies the problem for Democrats.
00:19:19.000Their base is more and more and more radical these days.
00:20:09.000And here's here's the real problem with that with that slippery slope and in the slippery slope graph it shows again a very shallow sort of curve and then boom you drop off a cliff.
00:20:18.000The problem is there is no end to the bottom of the cliff.
00:20:26.000And this is why Democrats are in a world of hurt right now.
00:20:29.000All they had to do was not be crazy, but they also had to convince Americans they were not going to be crazy.
00:20:33.000Instead, they decided to both be crazy and also to pursue incredibly crazy rhetoric that is going to lead Americans not to believe them when they then claim moderation in a general election.
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00:22:51.000Well, the wages of all of this are becoming clear in the latest generic congressional ballot.
00:22:58.000The RealClearPolitics polling average currently has Republicans up 2.8 points.
00:23:03.000That is the biggest Republican lead since late June.
00:23:22.000Economist YouGov has an R plus one, but again, this doesn't take into account the sort of red shift, because one of the big problems here is that polls historically have undersampled Republicans.
00:23:32.000So if it says R plus six in that Monmouth poll, it could easily be R plus eight.
00:23:36.000An Economist YouGov poll that has Republicans up just one, that could easily be an R plus three.
00:23:43.000There's a reason why 538 is now suggesting that the Democratic chances of taking the Senate are dropping like a stone.
00:23:50.000Just a few days ago, those chances were in the 70s.
00:23:55.000By the end of next week, I'd guarantee that it's in the low 50s.
00:23:59.000Democrats are falling apart, again, because of their radical attempts Now what this means for Republicans is when you take office, guys, do the popular stuff.
00:24:07.000Stop the Democrats from doing what they're doing.
00:24:09.000And then pursue popular policies that throw roadblocks in the way of the Democrats' radical agenda.
00:24:15.000Don't go with your most radical members of Congress.
00:24:19.000Because then Democrats will use the slippery slope fallacy in reverse, right?
00:24:23.000They'll say what Republicans actually want is they want to just dismantle the entire welfare state and they want to throw everybody on Social Security, off of their Social Security, all the rest of this kind of stuff.
00:24:31.000Republicans have thus far, you can't find a single Republican in office who's advocated for any of that stuff, but Democrats will do that.
00:24:37.000So put your best foot forward when you actually get into governing position.
00:24:40.000With that said, Democrats are in serious trouble right now.
00:24:43.000John Fetterman is now, according to the latest poll, in a dead heat with Dr. Oz.
00:24:47.000And not to pat myself on the back, but I said probably six weeks ago that that race was going to get a lot closer, and I thought that I might take that race.
00:24:53.000Well, yesterday, Joe Biden arrived in Pennsylvania for what has to be one of the most awkward campaign stops in recent memory.
00:25:02.000So, John Fetterman, who had a stroke and cannot process auditory information correctly, was meeting with Joe Biden, who cannot speak out of his face hole.
00:25:25.000It's less clear when he wears the Carhartt sweatshirts and the oversized baggy shorts, but when he's wearing a suit, he kind of looks like a thumb sticking out of his suit a little bit.
00:25:43.000And then Joe Biden made things even more awkward.
00:25:44.000So during his speech, he told John Fetterman's wife that she would be excellent in the Senate, which saying the quiet part out loud there, dude, John Fetterman's wife has suddenly become a campaign issue because she keeps going out there and saying that members of the press should apologize to John Fetterman for noticing that he is no longer with it and all the rest of this.
00:26:00.000So John Fetterman, his wife, Joe Biden, said your wife will be amazing in the Senate.
00:26:05.000I mean, just like Joe Biden is an amazing president, actually.
00:26:51.000With the help of your members of Congress here today, I signed into law a once-in-a-generation investment in roads, highways, bridges, railroads, ports, airports, and so much more.
00:27:01.000Over a trillion two hundred billion dollars.
00:27:08.000Over a billion, 200 billion, billion trillion, McPhillian.
00:27:43.000Meanwhile, John Fetterman's wife, who will make an excellent senator, says, we're not doing interviews, which is always the best sign of a great candidate is when your wife is jumping in going, he's not answering questions.
00:27:52.000So there is John Fetterman looking very much like Uncle Fester, accompanied by his wife, who says that he will not be answering questions.
00:28:00.000Mr. Fetterman, are you satisfied with the progress of the bridge?
00:28:04.000He's not going to be answering questions.
00:28:28.000They have to pretend that Joe Biden is wildly popular despite his 40% approval rating.
00:28:31.000Karine Jean-Pierre, the world's worst press secretary, she says that Joe Biden still plans to visit the battleground states, which left Mark Kelly screaming into his pillow last night.
00:28:41.000Is the president going to go to Georgia or Nevada in the next 19 days?
00:28:45.000I don't have any travel to preview for you at this time.
00:28:48.000As you know, we're going to be in Pittsburgh and Philly today, and the president's truly excited about that.
00:29:28.000They're all campaigning with me in my imagination.
00:29:31.000Mark Kelly was literally asked on national TV if he wanted Joe Biden to come and he's like, no, Tim Ryan was asked in Ohio, do you want Joe Biden to show up?
00:29:41.000Nobody wants this guy anywhere near them.
00:31:13.000He was the guy who really put him over the top in the primaries against Bernie Sanders.
00:31:15.000He had an interview last night on MSNBC.
00:31:19.000And first he tried to kind of walk his way through the idea that Democrats might still win the election.
00:31:25.000And then afterward, he sort of gave up the ghost.
00:31:29.000And I don't know of anybody who will say I would rather pay $10 or even 10 cents or even 20 cents less per gallon.
00:31:39.000And allow you to take my rights away, my voting rights away, and these other things that we know the other party is doing to suppress votes.
00:31:48.000That's a fool's choice that we will not make.
00:31:53.000But why ask people to make that choice?
00:31:58.000Okay, so that was Jim Clyburn trying to explain they're going to win the midterms because people care more about abortion than $10 gas.
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00:35:02.000It features a very special guest, President of Brazil, Yair Bolsonaro.
00:35:06.000Bolsonaro is in a very fraught election right now with Lula, a corrupt former leader of Brazil who was actually in jail and then he was freed from jail so that he could run against Bolsonaro.
00:35:15.000Bolsonaro was widely expected to lose in the first round of the election.
00:36:24.000So apparently, one of the outcasts from Highlander arrived on the subway station on the platform in New York City and just grabbed a sheath and smacked somebody with it.
00:36:35.000According to ABC7 New York, multiple reports came in about a man with a knife, sword, or machete who attacked a stranger on a northbound A train at the Chambers Street station, according to police.
00:36:44.000A witness who saw the scene unfold said the suspect shoved his way past a woman onto the train, and then stood between the train cars before crashing through the other car door.
00:36:51.000Out of nowhere, he just sort of like forcefully opened the two doors to the other train car behind it, said Rebecca Strasberg, and just whipped out what looked like a sword.
00:37:32.000The good news is that Eric Adams is partying it up.
00:37:35.000So Chris Wallace asked Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, you know, remember that time he was elected in order to supposedly lower the crime rate and then the crime rates didn't get lower, they actually got worse, remember that time?
00:37:44.000He was super pro-police until the time he wasn't.
00:37:46.000So anyway, he was asked about why you're partying it up every night.
00:37:48.000And Eric Adams was like, why shouldn't I party it up every night, man?
00:38:23.000He's doing it for public purposes, you see.
00:38:25.000He's partying it up, he's enjoying the New York City nightlife to encourage New Yorkers to go back out there and enjoy their lives.
00:38:30.000You know what would actually encourage New Yorkers to go back out there and enjoy their lives?
00:38:33.000People not getting hit with sword sheaths on the subway.
00:38:36.000Or randomly pushed in front of the trains.
00:38:38.000Like one of the cops from Superman 1 by the Lex Luthor door.
00:38:44.000Excellent, excellent governance happening right there.
00:38:46.000By the way, there is a good piece by Mark Thiessen pointing out the obvious here.
00:38:49.000So you've heard Republicans talking about crime over the past few months in advance of the election, and Democrats in the media responding by saying, well, you know, red states have higher murder rates than blue states.
00:38:59.000Well, I mean, that's true, but you know where all the murder's happening?