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Glenn and Stu react to Kevin Hart being cleared by Ellen DeGeneres of Homophobic Tweets and if he should return to the Oscars as host. They also discuss the Democratic Party's attempt to get rid of the Electoral College.
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So here's the podcast for today. We talk about the Electoral College.
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Democrats immediately coming after it. They're pissed off.
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They've lost two elections because they think we won the popular vote and we lost the Electoral College.
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Now they've introduced legislation to get rid of the Electoral College.
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He got cleansed kind of yesterday by Ellen DeGeneres.
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This is a new trend going on in Hollywood, bizarrely.
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We'll give you some examples of that, which are pretty cool as well.
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Kevin Hart had some tweets that haunted him from the past.
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Yeah, I think they were from 2009 to 2012 or something like that.
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And then these tweets, homophobic tweets, appeared.
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He'd already explained them, but they resurfaced.
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And Ellen DeGeneres, I think, is kind of washing him clean of his tweets.
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And this is really smart to do because, obviously, she's homosexual.
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It seems like if you want to get an okay from someone that you're not a homophobe,
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if you can get Ellen to say it, then you're clear.
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I feel like that is the position our society is in.
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I mean, Ellen is just such a high-profile person.
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She doesn't seem like someone who would just give anyone an excuse, right?
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Like if she believed you and she gave you an excuse and said, look, I know you did this a while ago.
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I feel in the United States in 2018, where we have like probably our next president is going to be Kanye West.
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It's probably another four years of Trump and then Kanye.
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So in a society like that, I mean, Kanye might be running against Khloe Kardashian.
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So in that society, I feel like Ellen is the authority that can come in and say, look, you are clean.
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Just the judge, jury, and executioner on this topic.
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And if you can get a clearance from Ellen, like you get a hall pass from Ellen, you're back in the game on homophobic tweets.
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And here she is begging Kevin Hart to host the Oscars.
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So I called the Academy today because I really want you to host the Oscars.
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I think that I was so excited when I heard that they asked you.
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I knew how important it was and how it was a dream.
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I have no idea if he wants to come back and host.
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And they were like, oh, my God, we want him to host.
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We feel like that maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong or maybe we said the wrong thing.
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So I hope he gets his salary doubled for it, too.
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This is why they haven't selected another host.
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It's as you suspected and were saying on my show earlier that they knew this was coming.
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They knew this appearance was going to happen on Ellen.
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And so they've been holding out for this to happen.
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And now he's been washed clean and they'll invite him back and he'll, okay, reluctantly agree.
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And when he does his open, somewhere in there, he will first make a couple of jokes about himself.
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And then he will have some heartfelt, you know what is great?
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And then there will be some special award to represent gays in entertainment.
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Then a singer who is a well-known gay person will come out and sing and dance or whatever they do.
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And they will give hugs to Kevin Hart and tell him they understand.
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Then Kevin Hart will announce that he is in fact gay.
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Kevin did respond or at least attempt to kind of respond to the Oscars offer, which is amazing.
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First of all, before we play that, now we're at the point where the Oscars are asking him to host again.
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Like how did, one call from Ellen DeGeneres goes from you're fired to please let him host.
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I think that you have said a lot of amazing things.
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So leaving here, I'm promising you, I'm evaluating this conversation.
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And I'm glad that it was as authentic and real as I could have hoped that it would be.
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Everyone thinks she's a talk show host and she's been a talk show host for a million years.
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She just did, I think it was a Netflix special.
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And she's probably, probably, I don't know this for a fact, but probably on the right side
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when it comes to the burning at the stake of comedians every time they make a joke people
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Comedians, even liberal comedians who will boycott you for, if a conservative commentator
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says something, they'll be on the front lines of the boycott.
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But when it comes to comedians, they're very forgiving.
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And I think that she's probably on the right side of that genuinely.
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Separately from the issues of, you know, gay issues and all that other stuff.
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When it comes to a free speech issue, I'd be surprised if Ellen was on the wrong side
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And I think it's interesting to watch this sort of happen because you, it really, we are
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in that, in that world in which the, we have completely abandoned free due process when
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We don't even, it's just an automatic outrage machine and we go after everybody all the time.
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Um, and we've abandoned that due process for this due process, which is, will Ellen say
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Like if Ellen says it's okay, then the guy comes back and no one cares.
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Like he will not even be a controversial figure.
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And I don't think this, he won't have any lingering side effects from this now.
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And again, the Oscars last year, we're dealing with Oscars.
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Then they fired him because he wasn't friendly enough to gaze.
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They have absolutely no idea how to keep up with their constantly changing standards
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of what's okay to say and what's not okay to say.
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Or who's okay to host and who's not okay to host.
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It, well, when liberals are eating their own, it is fun to, it is fun.
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And, and I, I think that's part of the problem here.
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But, but this is pretty interesting because I, I think that was, I think this was all sort
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of decided not on the show, but pre the show, before the show.
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And this was part of the plan to get him on Ellen.
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And, uh, I feel like I'm watching theater a little bit here.
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You go on Ellen and you get an okay from Ellen.
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I'm going to think about it in my space for a while.
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If you get a, if the Oscars announce a special, like a, who wants to be a host special with
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And Trump gets the final approval to Kevin Hart.
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I think the closest thing you could come to right now is Louis C.K.
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And Louis C.K. is not a conservative, but he occasionally makes points that are friendly
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They didn't, they, they would have let him back into the world if he was Mr. Liberal, uh,
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spokesperson, but he's come out and said, you know, some of the identity politics stuff
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And, you know, that thing that we've played before about, you know,
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without abortion is absolutely amazing from him.
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And it's too conservative, I think, for people's, for, for the left.
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Well, it's not really killing, but it's kind of, yes, it's completely killing babies.
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And I think, I think he even says in there somewhere that he's pro-choice.
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If I remember correctly, I don't even think, I don't, I don't even think he's a pro-life
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Um, he's just saying that if you want to be honest about it, admit the fact that this
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I don't want to ruin their day as they murder several babies all the time.
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But, I think that women should be allowed to kill babies.
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You know, like, when people say abortion should be legal, safe, and rare.
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And it's a way he just covered both sides, really.
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Just, but I don't know if the left considers that brilliant.
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Even his explanation, and the explanations and accusations against him and the scandal,
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we've gone over this before, are not anywhere remotely close to stuff we're talking about
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He just seemed like he was a creepy guy at one point in his life that did things that
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Uh, so, you know, I don't, I don't know, uh, that whole situation, if there's more to
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But, as it stands now, it's a real loss, I mean, as far as, he's able to do that.
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They loved this guy, he was, you know, and he was able to do that.
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I mean, that, that's the type of monologue that honestly can change opinions.
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When you approach it like that, you take someone who you've heard talk rationally and interestingly
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on a million different topics and you break it down like that, that is true.
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You know, I always think of it as, it's equivalent of plastic surgery, right?
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You're removing a, you're, maybe you're, you're enhancing a breast, you're lifting a nose.
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He puts you in a position where you have to sort of honestly question what you're doing.
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He puts that so, it's such a black and white and obvious truth that, you know what, you
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can, you can, he's, he's even saying, you can take the position of, uh, you know, uh, it's
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just a, it's just a, uh, cells or fat or poop as he kind of puts it.
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You can say that, but admit it, admit that's what you're saying.
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I mean, the lines you have to go to, to get to this position are, they're impossible to
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You can't, you, no gymnast is flexible enough to achieve it.
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The problem here is what we do as a society is we say, well, it's uncomfortable.
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And if we don't talk about it, you never have to think about it.
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And therefore you can just kind of say women's rights and move on with your day.
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And it's not, this is not about women's rights.
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If it was about women's rights, then conservatives would be like, you cannot have that liposuction.
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You cannot remove that, that, that clump of cells from your body.
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We would say that, you know, the government needs to crack down on women having liposuction.
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We don't do that because there's not another life involved.
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Yes, you are affecting someone else's rights when they don't have the right for their heart
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That is a major issue and it's uncomfortable to talk about.
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So people don't want to do it, but then no one has that conversation.
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I'm making the decision that yes, it's okay to kill the baby because women's choice takes
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I don't know how it's consistent with the constitution, but you can take it if you want.
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And some of them have made quite a splash already.
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Of course, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been making a splash for months now.
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But there's another congressperson who is willing to go out on a limb and do some things that
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haven't been done maybe ever, like call the president an MF-er.
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And here's what she had to say about President Trump.
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And when your son looks at you and says, Mama, look, you won.
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That's a great thing to say to your little young son, too.
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And that, like, yes, she swore about the president, but she, at least to her word, swore to her
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I said to my son, we're going to impeach the MF-er.
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Wow, that's a great thing to say to your 10-year-old son.
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It also highlights what the Democrats are facing.
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Like, a Nancy Pelosi, does she want Donald Trump impeached?
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But she is going to deal with the political realities of that and realize that
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if they do it for no reason, like, for example, nothing comes out really in the Mueller report
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The first thing she said when she was asked about this is, well, we have to wait for that
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Now, they're going to say all of it's a big deal, but if Nancy Pelosi is playing politics,
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which she will, she will likely try to slow play this to, because that is a real,
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what you just heard, is a real passion in the party.
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There's a lot of these new Congress people coming in who ran on, I'm going to go impeach
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There's a lot of activists who really care about that going into this campaign.
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Whoever says it the most is going to get the most points with these activists and these
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So Nancy Pelosi is in the middle there trying to say, look, I think if we do this, it's going
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Um, but I have to make it seem like we're very interested in doing it to make people
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Rashida Tlaib feel like she's, you know, cared about and wanted.
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They're going to slow, they're going to slow play them like the Republicans slow play us.
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Like when they say to us, oh, we really want that flat tax.
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Oh, the tax bill you proposed is just lowering it by like one point.
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I thought you were all excited about like a 10% flat tax.
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Well, we are, but we can't get that passed right now.
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If you keep electing us, oh my gosh, it's going to happen for sure.
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They're going through that same dance right now with their super left wing, you know,
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They have some real radicals in office right now.
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I mean, can you imagine if, if a Republican freshman congressman had called Barack Obama an MF-er?
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They had a cow when Joe Wilson screamed, you lie.
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That was the biggest story in America for how long?
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I mean, they still talk about it from time to time.
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If you called Barack Obama a socialist, which is a description of some of his policies,
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which is a description of some of the things that he believed in,
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like wealth redistribution, you were a racist if you called him a socialist.
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But they can call, they can call Donald Trump an MF-er.
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For Joe Wilson, because this does not get pointed out enough.
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Yes, he said you lie in the middle of an Obama speech.
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Joe Wilson shouted, you lie, after President Obama denied the health care plan would cover illegal immigrants.
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Here is, I kid you not, again, the next election, you know, the next president was Hillary Clinton versus Donald Trump.
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On Hillary Clinton's website, she has, in her platform, 112 reasons Hillary Clinton should be our next president.
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Number 70, quote, she believes we should let families buy into the Affordable Health Care Act care exchanges regardless of immigration status.
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It went from a controversial thing to say he was lying about it to in the platform of the next candidate.
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And I don't know that I've ever seen anyone other than us give him credit for that.
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The other thing about Rashida Tlaib, she's a Palestinian-American who ran on a two-state solution for and continued foreign aid to Israel.
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And then as soon as she won her primary, she decided she's for a one-state solution and no aid to Israel, which is...
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You've got U.S. Congress people advocating a one-state solution?
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And she's not getting any feedback from that that I can tell.
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And, you know, she's from Michigan in an area where I'm sure people are fine with her stance on a one-state solution.
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But I don't know how that works in the U.S. Congress.
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I don't know how that works with Democratic leadership.
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I don't know how that works in the mainstream Democrat Party.
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I mean, Ilhan Omar, who is one of the new incoming Congress people, this is a tweet from her from 2012.
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May Allah awaken the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel.
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That is unbelievable what's happening in the Democrat Party.
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But what we're told all the time is that it's Republicans who are so extreme.
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It's Republicans who are completely out of the mainstream.
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Take a look at what the Democrats are electing right now.
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Take a look at some of these new people that are going into office.
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They're completely out of the mainstream of the United States of America.
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And I'm sure they exist, but they're not in the mainstream, that's for sure.
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And they're certainly not getting elected outside of Michigan.
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I think when, let's say, Barack Obama's in power, there's something...
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Even though I agree with Joe Wilson's point, right?
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There's something appealing to a conservative to say,
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So people are like, even at the time, you're like,
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all right, well, I mean, I agree with this point completely,
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And so liberals make these points when Barack Obama's president.
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And they say, okay, look, you know, that's decorum.
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And there's something that appeals to conservatives generally on that point.
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We've talked about the Jonathan Haidt book of talking about how
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conservatives care about those types of things.
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and they act as if they never made those arguments.
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I mean, you know, we have a congressperson saying,
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We have another one yesterday who made a three-minute speech
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about the equivalency between the president and Adolf Hitler.
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Now, look, every politician is a liar as far as I know.
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You can only try to hold your own foundations steady.
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If you believe X, Y, or Z is wrong for one person,
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because society in general is not going to make you do that anymore.
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The inertia of society no longer forces you to be consistent over things.
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You know, the one example I keep going back to is how fast this has changed.
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I mean, you could argue John Kerry lost the 2004 election
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You can say something today and change your position tomorrow.
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and then in 15 minutes say the complete opposite
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And then switched it afterwards, after the primary.
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And, you know, you're going to get all these, you know—
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out of her dancing in, like, high school or something.
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And they're like, oh, congratulations, New York.
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when she was 20 years old at Boston University?
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And I do not make these decisions lightly, Pat.
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But I would encourage you to come along if you wish.
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What you need to do is you go to your Twitter page
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Then you go to—I think it's Content Preferences.
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And then it asks you a time and you say Forever.
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She, you know, she's a socialist congresswoman.
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So then it just—you just don't see the feed on her.
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I don't have to see every dumb dancing video that somebody releases
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or some stupid—her little she-thinks-she-clever tweet back at somebody.
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There's no way me reading some Ocasio-Cortez tweet
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I will read her new green jobs bill that we talked about yesterday,
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the new deal for the environment, which would cost us in excess of $50 trillion
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But do I really need to hear her snarky comebacks of somebody?
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Or, same thing, some dumb, you know, conservative site
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that thinks it's, like, the most exposing video of all time
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to see her dance on a roof for five seconds when she was 20?
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Like, none of this makes any difference in my life at all.
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When I see this—when one of these little trends starts coming out
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And I don't hear any of the crap anymore about it.
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You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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An amazing thing happened at a GameStop the other day
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where a customer came in and the clerk behind the desk
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Hey, you guys need—and then that set off the customer
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I guess we have to refer to people in the plural now.
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And I think that's the preferred pronoun for some.
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the controversial Louis C.K. thing from yesterday.