In this episode, I talk about how clueless I am when it comes to finding things in my own house, and why it's a good thing I have a daughter to help take care of the kids when my wife is out of town. I also talk about the left-wing mob reaction to Brett Kavanaugh's confirmation of the Supreme Court nominee.
00:01:41.680But what I've been reduced to is now I ask my five-year-old daughter where things are in the house.
00:01:48.360And sadly enough, she actually knows and will tell me.
00:01:52.000So I have my five-year-old daughter now pointing me in the right direction in the house.
00:01:56.840So yesterday, at various different points, she was able to bail me out and correctly locate a pair of scissors.
00:02:05.000I don't know why I always need scissors, but for some reason I'm constantly needing them and I'm never knowing where they are.
00:02:11.520But she found a pair of scissors, her brother's sneakers, her brother's socks, an extra blanket, a box of crayons, all those things she could find.
00:02:19.520Not that I needed those for related reasons, but at various different points.
00:03:35.160As we have seen, any time there's a mob of people throwing a hissy fit, it is almost always a leftist mob.
00:03:42.640I don't know if you've noticed that, but it is almost always, if there's a riot, if there are people screaming in the street, if there are people burning down buildings, turning over cop cars, whatever it is, destruction of property, making a fool of themselves, it's almost always leftist.
00:03:58.840The one exception, the one exception I can think of in recent history would be the one or two white nationalist rallies that we've seen.
00:04:06.100And really, really only just the one in there was there was really the one that was big and chaotic.
00:04:21.120But the one thing, the one image that kind of stands out from this past weekend in terms of the protests, especially is the image of the people.
00:04:31.180I don't know if you saw this, but there are people literally after the after Kavanaugh was officially confirmed, there are people literally clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court.
00:04:43.400It was like something out of The Walking Dead.
00:04:46.060You had these people screaming, just these guttural kind of unhuman sounding, demonically possessed screams while they were clawing at the doors of the Supreme Court.
00:04:59.160I mean, some of them were trying to knock that they were running into the door, trying to knock it over doors, which, by the way, look to be made of stone and probably weigh a couple tons apiece.
00:05:10.260But in their impotent rage, they thought they could break down the doors or claw them open.
00:05:46.360But it really is, we can laugh about it, we have to laugh about it, right, because, number one, it's hilarious, but number two, what else are you going to do?
00:05:56.320But as we're laughing, we have to recognize that this is real.
00:05:59.900I mean, these are real people who are behaving this way.
00:06:09.420Anytime things don't go the way leftists want, whether it's an election, Supreme Court confirmation, a grand jury, you know, a trial of a cop accused of shooting somebody, whatever it is, whatever item in the news they don't like, this is how they respond every time.
00:06:33.100And as we've watched this spectacle unfold, and we have heard leftists, more than one leftist, promise to continue with these kinds of scenes, promise to confront their opponents everywhere, including where they eat and sleep.
00:06:52.060I've seen this, this is not just Maxine Waters who said something like this.
00:06:56.140This is a very common thing now on the left where they say, well, we're going to, we have to confront Republicans anywhere, everywhere.
00:07:49.100And when I say radicalizing, I mean, we should be radically opposed to the leftist agenda and radically committed to making sure that they do not come into power.
00:08:18.040I'm talking about being firm in our convictions and absolutely unwilling to compromise with these people who want nothing more than the utter and total and complete destruction of those they disagree with.
00:08:48.340And I think it's important to establish this because there are still some people, some on the right, who envision a return to compromise and a return to civility and decency.
00:08:58.880When you have two sides who disagree fundamentally about the most basic questions of life, the only way to achieve unity is for one side or the other or both sides to abandon their fundamental convictions.
00:09:12.600The left, as we have seen, will not do that.
00:09:47.960He's so moderate that it's not even guaranteed that he would vote to overturn Roe.
00:09:51.780I think I think I mean, it's at least 50 50 whether or not he would even cast that vote if given the chance.
00:09:59.340I think we can be sure that he won't vote to strengthen abortion protections and we can be pretty sure that he won't vote to restrict religious liberty any more than it is and and so forth.
00:10:09.300But would he be in favor of something as severe as overturning Roe?
00:11:16.320What I'm saying is the left has if there was ever any choice of an in between, a middle, a compromise, the left has made that now impossible.
00:11:25.180They are not leaving that option open.
00:11:27.180So you have to choose one or the other.
00:11:43.960This is the only choice they've left open to us.
00:11:46.060It's either that or join them in their insanity and their moral depravity and their nihilism and their self-centeredness and everything else.
00:11:58.420Switching gears, I would be I would be remiss if if I were not to say happy Columbus Day today because it is Columbus Day.
00:12:08.520And this is it's not really a totally unrelated topic, actually, because talking about leftist insanity.
00:12:17.140Part of the leftist insanity we have today is where we're told that we cannot celebrate our our our heroes.
00:12:23.260We cannot honor those who built the civilization that we all now live in.
00:12:30.040And enjoy living in and prefer living in.
00:12:32.620But we all prefer this civilization to any other civilization on the globe currently or or or or really to any other civilization civilization that has ever existed on the globe.
00:13:17.040Founders, we have we have them to thank for.
00:13:18.640But the left says we cannot thank them.
00:13:20.300We have to hate them and despise them.
00:13:21.600And so they're going to spend today screaming about a fictional version of history where Europeans introduced rape, pillage and slavery to the peaceful and noble inhabitants of the new world.
00:13:32.900But, of course, it would it would have been impossible for the Europeans to introduce rape, pillage and slavery to an Indian culture where rape, pillage and slavery were totally commonplace and had been for centuries.
00:13:44.140So, you notice something about these self-hating, white guilt-ridden people.
00:13:52.100You notice that they would never suggest that the brutality of many Indian tribes should somehow outweigh whatever they accomplished.
00:14:03.720Even their propensity for cannibalism, we're told, must be understood within the kind within the historical and cultural context.
00:14:11.400Yet, somehow, the sins of the Europeans, or the alleged sins in some cases, automatically negate what the European explorers achieved and discovered.
00:14:21.660So, with everybody else in history, with all other cultures, with all other people, we have to have, there's got to be a historical context, cultural context.
00:14:30.200We have to put it all into perspective.
00:14:31.480But, when it comes to Europeans, they're the only ones who we have to take, we have to take from, from, from their point in history and bring them into the modern world and judge them by modern standards.
00:15:32.160In the future, if a team of intrepid astronauts were to set out on a manned mission to Europa, a moon of Jupiter, and when they get there, they were to discover a different moon, one that we didn't know about, and one that has primitive microbial life on it, it would be one of the great discoveries, maybe the greatest scientific discovery in the history of humankind.
00:15:58.120But, would we laugh at them and say, pfft, those idiots didn't even mean to discover that moon.
00:16:05.320They meant to go to Europa and said they found this other moon that happens to have life on it, and it changes the course of human society.
00:16:10.240But, these idiots, they didn't even mean to discover that.
00:16:12.980How did you, you guys didn't even know that moon was there, morons.
00:16:17.880Or, would we celebrate their enormous achievement, an achievement that was only possible because they had the guts and the wit and the tenacity to get into the ship in the first place and traverse that great expanse of nothingness at great risk to themselves, and only upon making that voyage were they able to make this discovery in the first place.
00:16:41.200Oh, but Columbus never set foot on North America.
00:16:49.580Now, I think the people that raise these objections, I think their first point in raising the objection is just to say, hey, I know this piece of historical information.
00:20:11.420But, of course, the biggest objection, the most common objection to Columbus is this idea that Columbus was a genocidal maniac who came to the New World hoping to pillage and enslave a peaceful people.
00:20:26.540And it's true, of course, that some of the Indians he encountered were peaceful, but we have obviously taken this image of the peaceful Indian and we have stretched it and turned it into this really ridiculous caricature.
00:20:41.740Because they were not peaceful, and in fact, peace did not reign across the New World.
00:20:51.440Also bear in mind that there was a tribe called the Caribs, and they reigned terror on the region where Columbus landed.
00:21:01.260These were violent people who feasted on human flesh.
00:21:04.240And Columbus, you know, he would have heard stories about them on his first voyage, and then he actually encountered them on a second.
00:21:11.980And, in fact, let me briefly read, just for historical edification here.
00:21:19.140Here's a brief passage about the discovery or a run-in with these Caribs.
00:21:25.660This is from Admiral of the Ocean Sea by Samuel L. A. Morrison, which is a great book, by the way.
00:21:34.240This is someone who not only wrote a book about Columbus's voyages, but he actually retraced those steps and made the same voyages in an effort to better understand what Columbus achieved.
00:21:54.020The searching party found plentiful evidence of these unpleasant Carib habits, which were responsible for a new word, cannibal, in European languages.
00:22:01.440In the huts deserted by the warriors, who ungallantly fled, they found large cuts and joints of human flesh, shin bones set aside to make arrows of caponized Arawak boy captives, who were being fattened for the griddle, and girl captives who were mainly used to produce babies, which the Caribs regarded as a particularly toothsome morsel.
00:22:21.940The search party brought in about 20 of these captives, and others made their way down to the shore and gave themselves up voluntarily.
00:22:28.220Also, a few Caribs were captured by force.
00:22:30.640Okay, so you have the Caribs eating, not only eating children, but raping other children to produce babies who they would then eat.
00:22:57.360But first of all, it would be difficult, it would be somewhat difficult to find archaeological evidence of this kind of activity 500 years later.
00:23:27.900But up until very recently, archaeologists and historians, at least modern archaeologists and historians, they said, they speculated, that the Spanish also fabricated or greatly exaggerated the extent of human sacrifice among the Aztecs.
00:23:49.700And the Aztecs, as we know, based on what we were told from the witnesses, the Aztecs sacrificed tens of thousands of human beings in these macabre rituals where they would tear out the beating heart, cut off the limbs, roll the limbless bodies down the steps, and then the limbs would be feasted on by some of the Aztec high priests.
00:24:16.260Anyway, for a long time, we were told that, no, the Spanish, they invented that, they fabricated, they exaggerated.
00:24:22.180Well, very recently, like in the last couple of years, archaeologists finally turned up evidence of wide-scale human sacrifices among the Aztecs.
00:24:33.460They uncovered these racks of hundreds of human skulls that clearly is evidence of exactly what the Spanish said.
00:24:43.420So just bear that, when you're told, oh, well, archaeological evidence doesn't support, yeah, up until like a couple of years ago, they said the same thing about the Aztecs.
00:24:53.120Turns out that the Spanish were not just making this stuff up.
00:24:55.540This is actually what happened, and they were telling us about it.
00:24:57.720But the fact that we have to deal with when talking about this clash of civilizations is that rape, slavery, mass murder, etc., all of these things were already a normal part of life in the Americas before the Europeans came.
00:25:58.380Now, that doesn't excuse any one particular atrocity, but it does put everything into perspective.
00:26:05.320And I think when we talk about Columbus, very often it seems like we divorce him from his context,
00:26:11.940and we hold him to a standard that nobody else from his time period has held to.
00:26:16.860And that just doesn't seem fair to me.
00:26:19.060It doesn't seem fair that Columbus is the one single person, or the Europeans in general are the people who we hold to this ridiculous standard.
00:26:28.800Now, we know it's true that Columbus was a very flawed man,
00:26:31.960but his flaws were mostly the flaws shared by all men of all cultures during that time.
00:26:37.980And he was also a great and gifted man, and his greatness and his gifts were not shared by all men.