'It's Too Risky Out There?' - 4⧸24⧸18
Episode Stats
Length
1 hour and 53 minutes
Words per Minute
149.04868
Summary
Progressive tech giant Bumble bans all images of firearms among its 30 million users in order to avoid controversy at cocktail parties. Meanwhile, Planned Parenthood donates money to abortion-supporting causes that kill unborn babies. What's the difference between Bumble and Planned Parenthood?
Transcript
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So, one of the hallmarks of progressivism is making policy that's not based on anything,
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not based on any principles, but on popularity.
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When the progressive gods deem something to be threatening, even if it's constitutional,
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it is their duty to fix. It's their duty to do something.
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And it's the duty of all other progressives to fall in line or face the same abuse and boycotts,
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I love this part of progressivism. It's when progressives start to eat each other.
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So, now, if you're a darling progressive millennial tech company like the dating app Bumble,
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oh, what to do when the progressive gods declare that guns are bad?
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What do you do? You leap into action immediately.
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You ban all images of firearms among your 30 million users.
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Now, remember, Bumble didn't hold that position that, you know,
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all gun images were bad prior to the shooting in Parkland.
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But Bumble, like a bunch of other gutless companies,
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sprinted all over the guns, bad, ban guns position,
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simply just to keep the appearance of being socially conscious.
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In reality, the only thing Bumble is doing here
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is they want to stay off the progressive blacklist.
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They want to avoid any controversy that might harm their bottom line.
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Well, then how come you announced a partnership
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and non-controversial organization called Planned Parenthood?
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it will trigger a Bumble donation to Planned Parenthood.
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to donate money themselves to Planned Parenthood.
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Because, as you know, Planned Parenthood is cash-strapped.
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They need all the money they can get their hands on
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And, you know, of course, the 300,000-plus murders that they do.
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bans members from posting personal photos with firearms
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Bumbling is kind of the perfect description here.
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and I can't wait to get through the other side.
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align with whatever sick organization it pleases.
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But it's probably not the best customer relations move.
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But it's something that's lost on too many Americans.
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The fact that if you're anchored by principles,
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He's got a new book called The Suicide of the West.
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It's kind of a happy pick-me-up kind of book, you know.
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It's a challenge, and part of the book is, part
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You have these kids who are very smart and very
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contracts before they go on a date because they
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And in some respects, it's understandable because
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they're going to end up running the country the
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And they live iPhone lives, but they vote for a
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drives me nuts is on college campuses, there is
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this weird notion that being liberal is rebellious.
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And I always like to ask these kids, I'm like, well,
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You know, your teachers in high school are liberal.
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You know, and they all look at me the way my old
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Founding fathers, hypocrites, yada, yada, yada.
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Let me see if we have time here to talk a little
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bit about your observations on what's driving the
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behavior of the left and the press to do everything
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Look, I mean, as you know, I've been a critic of
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My standard line on this, though, is I think the
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resistance people are making idiots of themselves.
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And whenever I talk to him, I try to tell him, look,
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he's not, you know, Donald Trump is not Hitler.
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It seems to me that that's undeniable if you actually
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hold constant your views of what good character are
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You know, there's a debate internally in Washington
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about how much of the good things that he's getting done
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But there is this, you know, it takes two to tango.
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And a lot of the problems on the right, a lot of the
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reasons why Trump was elected and why I'm sympathetic
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to a lot of his voters and a lot of the arguments for,
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And there's this sense that we needed a guy to fight
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for us because the old establishment wasn't getting done.
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And meanwhile, the left and the media, they're responding
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And they don't make distinctions about anything.
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And so this puts people like me and some of my colleagues
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at National Review and some other places in this weird
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place of not giving in to either the wild pro-Trump stuff,
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which says that anything he does is great, or to the wild
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anti-Trump stuff that literally says, you know, look, he
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And I think you understand that, too, is that you don't have
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to demonize everybody who likes Donald Trump or think he's
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Because, look, better than Hillary Clinton is an important
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I don't think it says a lot, as some people do.
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I think it's like saying, the best gas station sushi in
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Alabama, you know, it's a low bar, as far as I'm concerned.
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Jonah Goldberg, it's always great to talk to you.
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Thanks for your hard work on yet another great, great book,
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I love it because you could get, you know, those jokes in the
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middle of a really deep look at human civilization, which this
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He's one of my favorite authors because he can do both of those
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I think that is the funniest thing I've heard in a long time.
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How the rebirth of tribalism, populism, nationalism, and identity
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He is taking down the progressives and this neo-Marxism like only Jonah
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By the way, I have to tell you, I was walking around, and I saw something from Denmark,
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and we were talking about Denmark and Sweden, and I said, what's the capital of Sweden?
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And we were talking about it, couldn't remember, and somebody said, let me just Google real quick.
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Looks at the phone, wrote CAP, and the pull-down bar said, capital of Sweden.
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So they started Googling CAP, and the first thing in order was capital of Sweden.
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Why would that be there other than they just heard you as your...
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Welcome back to the program live from our studios in Sherman Oaks, California, just outside of Los Angeles.
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Don't forget, on Thursday, on The Blaze TV, Make America Dinner Again, an awesome, awesome episode of how people from different faiths, different beliefs, different walks of life can all come together and have dinner.
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Despite every attempt at trying to ease the progressives' outrage following the recent arrest of two black men into Philadelphia's Starbucks, they simply cannot.
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Starbucks' decision to close all locations on May 29th for racial bias training has now only led to further demands, deeper outrage.
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And the mainstream media has baited it at every turn.
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Washington Post naturally made the incident about police brutality.
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Yes, we need to restrain Starbucks employees, but we also need to restrain the police.
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The Huffington Post blamed white people, even brandished a poll about how somehow this is supposed to prove that white people are out of touch.
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But before we, you know, cash in on a Huffington Post poll, just remember that the HuffPo predicted that Hillary Clinton would win the 2016 presidential election with electoral votes by 98%.
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So their methodology on polls might not be the best, but progressives once again have made America out to be a festering, hate-filled Klan rally funded, of course, by the patriarchy.
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Two people went into a business that has a bathroom is for customers only policy.
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Yet the shrill progressives have stomped around, throwing tantrums, demanding things like a spoiled child.
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And like a spoiled child, nothing will ever be good enough for them.
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The mayor of Philadelphia wrote a letter to the editor in the Philadelphia Acquirer, groveling in a plea for retribution.
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I mean, unless the handcuffs were on too tight.
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Yes, if someone's not saying, I'm going to rape you and your dog, you're most likely in a safe zone.
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You might be uncomfortable with the ideas that are expressed.
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But if somebody is threatening you with rape or murder or whatever, then we need to get you to a safe space.
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But please, don't tell me that you're not in a safe zone when somebody is just expressing an idea that you don't like.
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Instead of the mayor standing up for his police and his black police chief who said this wasn't about a race.
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Instead of standing up for the police that followed protocol, did their jobs without any rude behavior.
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No training, no apology, no public evisceration will ever be good enough for the modern brand of neo-Marxist social justice warriors.
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Wouldn't you love it if we took the police and we tied a leg, one leg to one horse, another leg to another horse, and then the arms and the heads to three other horses?
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Because then we just slap them on the butt and they pull that person apart and we can all cheer.
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Yeah, there goes that Starbucks manager that we don't know anything about.
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These guys are never going to stop being victims.
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And every time someone pays attention to them, every time someone caves, they grow stronger.
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By forcefully demanding that the social justice warriors, the have-nots, aided by the mainstream media, are powerless,
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and that everyone else must shut up and do exactly what they say,
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they're able to rise into the position of power,
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that their entire ideology is hell-bent on destroying.
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But in doing so, they become the haves, while enjoying the benefits of the have-nots,
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and they don't ever have to take any responsibility.
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There's a philosopher, he's a Marxist, Slavoj G. Jek.
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He said that the left often dwells on past failures,
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in order, quoting, to maintain a moralistic position of powerlessness.
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This calculated victimhood, however, is exactly what gives them power.
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I think we should start a new segment on the program.
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but it's just the one at the top of the stack, okay?
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followed by the Boy Scouts announcement in October,
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This is good, because if I were to tune into the news
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and sitting next to a burning barrel to keep warm,
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The soft launch followed the Boy Scouts announcement
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from somebody who's hammered out of their mind.
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Sources say it came during a legislative battle
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that arose when Asian-American community activists
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I just really just would like to really just like,
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I don't want to assault an entire race of people.
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And this is a completely harmless way of saying,
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she's been subject to a legislative investigation
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over allegations of the sexual harassment and groping.
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in what she believed was a safe space of her office.