Ep. 1278 - It's Time To Hold The Biden Crime Family Accountable
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In 2018, Jerry Nadler was about to become the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee when a conservative journalist overheard him on a phone call with someone who remains unknown to this day. The conversation he had with someone named Molly Hemingway would change the trajectory of the investigation into Joe Biden.
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into Joe Biden, but they're really just complaining about finally getting a taste of their own
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medicine. Also, the mayor of Boston throws a Christmas party where no whites are allowed.
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The White House confuses and disturbs the nation with its bizarre holiday video.
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Jada Pinkett Smith is back at it, publicly embarrassing her husband once again.
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Shortly after the 2018 midterms, Jerry Nadler, who was about to become the chairman of the House
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Judiciary Committee, boarded in a Sella train from New York to Washington. And when he got to his seat,
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he began loudly speaking on the phone with someone who remains unknown to this day. Unfortunately for
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Nadler, though, the editor-in-chief of the conservative website, The Federalist, Molly Hemingway,
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was seated nearby, jotting down notes about the whole conversation. And Hemingway overheard Nadler
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outline, in no uncertain terms, Democrats' plans for going, quote, all in on investigating and
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ultimately impeaching Donald Trump. It was much more important for Democrats to impeach Donald
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Trump than Brett Kavanaugh, Nadler said at the time, because going after Kavanaugh might remind voters
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of Joe Biden's disastrous handling of Anita Hill's sexual harassment allegations against Clarence Thomas,
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and that could harm Joe Biden's chances of becoming president. So Nadler said the safe play was to
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impeach Donald Trump for colluding with Russia, which is an accusation that Jerry Nadler has never had
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any evidence to support, because it's totally made up. Now, if Democrats went with that strategy,
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Nadler said on the phone at the time, it would clear the way for a Joe Biden presidency.
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Now, in one sense, what Molly Hemingway overheard wasn't surprising. More than a year earlier,
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just minutes after Donald Trump was inaugurated, the Washington Post announced that, quote,
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the campaign to impeach President Trump has begun. But in retrospect, Jerry Nadler's remarks on the
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train back in 2018 didn't just foreshadow Donald Trump's two impeachments or the presidency of Joe
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Biden. They also established the blueprint for how leftists would treat all political investigations
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moving forward. They have no interest in the evidence. They don't care about the law. Their
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goal instead is to use the force of the legal system to punish their enemies. This was a shift
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that was much bigger than Jerry Nadler. The same year that Nadler made those remarks on the Acela,
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Letitia James was campaigning to become New York's attorney general, and she said pretty much the same
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thing. She promised to find some way to take Donald Trump to court, however implausible it may be.
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And, well, she found a way. Now, one of the many problems with this strategy is that it's
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short-sighted. Democrats failed to ensure that they would hold on to political power forever.
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That's certainly their goal. It's the entire justification for their immigration policy.
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They haven't achieved it yet. So right now, Republicans are in control of the House of
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Representatives. And yesterday, they announced their own impeachment inquiry, and they're looking
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primarily at whether Joe Biden sold favors to overseas interests, particularly in Ukraine and
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China. Now, in a moment, I'll go into some of the evidence that justifies this inquiry, and there's
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plenty of it. But really, we don't have to go into all that, because once Jerry Nadler adopted the
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Stalinist standard for impeachment, basically show me a man and I'll show you the crime, evidence
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became moot. Impeachment is all about raw political power now. It's not about evidence.
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Certainly not about fairness or rule of law or any of that. The White House and the Biden family
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know all of this. That's why they're not even pretending to defend themselves. Hunter Biden went
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in front of the cameras and announced that he's not going to comply with the congressional subpoena
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that he was served. He's just not going to do it. Watch.
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It's already been a five-year investigation of me. Yet, here I am, Mr. Chairman, taking up your offer
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when you said we can bring these people in for depositions or committee hearings, whichever they
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choose. Well, I've chosen. I am here to testify at a public hearing today to answer any of the
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committees legitimate questions. Republicans do not want an open process where Americans can see
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their tactics, expose their baseless inquiry, or hear what I have to say. What are they afraid of?
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Hunter, are you willing to go across the street?
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So Hunter Biden received a lawful subpoena for closed-door testimony, same kind of subpoena that
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Donald Trump Jr. and many other Trump aides were forced to comply with for hours on end. But he just
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doesn't want to do it, so he refuses. And his justification for refusing is completely absurd.
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There's no legal basis for it. Hunter Biden isn't even pretending there is one.
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Instead, he's saying that he wants to testify in front of the news media instead of a closed-door
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session. It's just his preference. And he seems to think that his preference is somehow Biden-ing
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on Congress. It was just a couple years ago that former Trump advisor Steve Bannon
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defied a congressional subpoena. And unlike Hunter Biden, he had reason for doing so. He argued that it
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was unlawful for Congress to compel him to testify about his work in the White House, citing
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executive privilege. Now, whatever you make of that defense, it's clearly rooted in the law. There
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is a legal reason for it. And it's working its way through the federal appellate process as we
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speak. But what happened to Steve Bannon because he asserted that defense? Well, he was sentenced to
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Good morning. And thank you so much for being here with us on Live Now from Fox. My name is Christy
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Larson. And we have some big news to report here to you today. Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of
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former President Donald Trump. He's been sentenced to serve four months behind bars after defying a
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subpoena that was from the House Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection at the U.S.
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Capitol. A judge allowed Bannon to stay free pending appeal and also imposed a fine of $6,500
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as part of the sentence. Now, Bannon was convicted in July for two counts of contempt of Congress for
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refusing to sit for a deposition and the other for refusing to provide documents. U.S. District
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Judge Carl Nichols handed down the sentence after saying the law was clear that contempt of Congress
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is subject to a mandatory minimum sentence of at least one month behind.
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Okay, so the question is, is that going to happen to Hunter Biden? As of now, congressional
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Republicans are threatening to hold him in contempt of Congress, which they obviously should.
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But then there's the question of whether Joe Biden's DOJ will pursue criminal charges. Will they
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throw Hunter Biden in prison for this? Will they demand that he testify under oath about his father's
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involvement in his business? That's an open question. Right now, the DOJ is pursuing charges
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against Hunter Biden about his fraudulent gun form and his tax evasion. But those charges don't
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directly relate to the main issue in this impeachment inquiry, which is where Hunter Biden got all of
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his money from. And more importantly, Joe Biden's involvement in procuring that money. Now, yesterday,
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a reporter at Fox asked the White House press secretary about all of this, and she proceeded to
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make it clear that Joe Biden knew that Hunter would defy the congressional subpoena. And beyond that,
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you know, she just made light of the whole situation. It's all a big joke. Watch.
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He said that President Biden was familiar with what his son was going to say on Capitol Hill.
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If I called my dad and said, I am about to violate a congressional subpoena, he'd probably say,
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son, you shouldn't do that. Was there any attempt by President Biden to talk Hunter out of it today?
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Look, I don't have anything else to add. The president was familiar with what Hunter was
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going to say today. And, you know, look, he's proud of his son. He and the First Lady are proud
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of his son, how he's rebuilding his life back. He's going to focus on what is needed on the American
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people. Hunter, and I've said this many times, is a private citizen. And so certainly I would have
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to refer you to his representatives. I'm just not going to get into private conversations because
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what you're asking me is actually a private conversation. I'm just not going to.
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Now, this is the kind of question that should be extremely easy to answer. If you're asked
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whether the president told his son to defy a congressional subpoena, you should be able
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to respond and explain yourself. Instead, the White House press secretary cracks a joke and starts
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talking about how much Joe Biden loves his son and is proud of his crackhead son.
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What this means almost certainly is that Joe Biden did advise his son to defy the congressional
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subpoena without any legal basis whatsoever, because if he didn't, then you would just say
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that. Under the standards Democrats established with Steve Bannon and several other Trump aides,
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that's a crime. You should go to prison for it. And there's an obvious motive for why Joe Biden
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would want his son to commit this crime. Hunter Biden himself made that motive very clear during
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his remarks to reporters yesterday. Watch. Let me state as clearly as I can, my father was not
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financially involved in my business, not as a practicing lawyer, not as a board member of
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Burisma, not in my partnership with a Chinese private businessman, not in my investments at
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home nor abroad, and certainly not as an artist. So did you catch the qualifier there? Hunter wants
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you to know that his father was not financially involved in his business dealings with corrupt
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oligarchs in Ukraine and China. So this is not a denial that Joe Biden was involved in Hunter
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Biden's business dealings in general. It's a denial that Joe Biden was financially involved.
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This is a very different claim from the one that Joe Biden has been making for years. Let's remember
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that again. Watch. How many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business
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dealings? I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings. I have never discussed
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with my son or my brother or anyone else anything having to do with their businesses, period. And what I
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will do is the same thing we did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and
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private and the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss any of your
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son's overseas business dealings? Yes, I stand by that. Okay, so we went from I didn't talk to my son at
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all about this. There was no conversation to well, I wasn't financially involved. And the reason for this
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change is that the Biden family knows that they can't deny a direct link between Joe Biden's between Joe
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Biden and Hunter Biden's influence peddling operation. Devin Archer, one of Hunter Biden's business
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associates, has already testified in front of the House of Representatives saying that Joe Biden
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spoke with Hunter Biden's business partners roughly 20 times. Now, those conversations, according to
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Archer, took place while Joe Biden was the sitting vice president of the United States. The Wall Street
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Journal also reported that Archer testified that, quote, Burisma would have gone out of business if it
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didn't have the Biden brand attached to it. Burisma is the Ukraine oil company that paid Hunter Biden
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tens of thousands of dollars a month for a no-show job, despite Hunter Biden having no oil expertise
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whatsoever. Burisma was being investigated by Ukraine's attorney general up until Joe Biden
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threatened to withhold money to Ukraine's government until they fired him. And then there's the fact
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that Joe Biden used a fake name to email with Hunter Biden's business partners. There's also the many
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public comments of Tony Bobulinski, the Hunter Biden business partner who has repeatedly said that Joe
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Biden personally profited from Hunter Biden's influence peddling. Bobulinski, who had no reason to lie
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whatsoever, told Tucker Carlson that Joe Biden was the, quote, big guy referenced repeatedly in emails
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on Hunter Biden's laptop. The big guy, according to the emails, was slated to receive 10 percent of
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the profits from one business venture in China. Now, it's important to recount all this because even
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now, Democrats are claiming that there are no witnesses to support the idea that Joe Biden could
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possibly be corrupt. Here's AOC, for example. That not only is the committee not allowing Hunter
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Biden to testify publicly, but they have not called a single witness, a single first-hand witness
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to any of their allegations. They haven't allowed anybody to testify publicly because they do not
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have a single witness to any of their alleged allegations. They don't.
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So there are no witnesses except for the witnesses. This is how the left plans to respond to the
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congressional investigation into Joe Biden. They'll deny reality. They'll pretend that witnesses don't
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exist, even when those witnesses have appeared before Congress and on primetime television.
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They'll make fun of you, as Karen Jean-Pierre did yesterday. All this was foreseeable when Jerry
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Nadler, Letitia James, and other top Democrats decided to use the legal system and the impeachment
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process to punish their political opponents. It was inevitable that soon enough, they'd be forced
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to admit that they can't possibly live up to their own non-existent standards. Just five years after
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Jerry Nadler's conversation on that Acela, that moment is here now. Conservatives can either take
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advantage of it, or they can do what they usually do. They can make a big show for the cameras and
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completely fail to follow through. It's clear that Karen Jean-Pierre and Hunter Biden, that's what they
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think is going to happen. Total lack of follow-through. They don't believe that their political enemies are
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anywhere near as ruthless and cynical as they are. And I think for once, it's time for conservatives to
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at CozyEarth.com. Okay, I was going to save this for the end of the headlines, but since we're on the
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topic of Joe Biden's White House, I think now's an appropriate time. It's our top headline of the day,
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so the White House just released whatever this is. Jill Biden posted it, and it's some kind of
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Christmas dance thing that was performed at the White House. And if you're just listening to the
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audio podcast, you will be deprived or be spared anyway, however you look at it, from the visuals
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here. But let's just watch a little bit of this Christmas performance thing that Jill Biden
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apparently put together at the White House, and here it is.
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It goes on for like 14 hours. It doesn't stop. And it's the worst thing I've ever seen in my life.
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So thank you for that, Joe Biden. I mean, Biden should be impeached just for that. Like that's,
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there should be impeachment proceedings just based on what you saw there. And I don't even know,
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what's the idea? Like, what's the inspiration? Are you trying to combine like the nutcracker
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and eyes wide shut? Is this what like Christmas looks like on Epstein Island?
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You know what? Watching that, I felt like I had just been selected for the Hunger Games,
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and they were being held this year by the Who's down in Whoville.
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It's like that. If Santa was having a bad acid trip, it would look like that, is what I'm trying
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to say. I felt like I was being haunted by the ghost of gay Christmas. And this is why I prefer
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tradition. Okay, this is the point. I'm a traditional man. I prefer traditional things.
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And that's not a simple closed-mindedness. It's that traditions are traditions for a reason.
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Like they're time-tested. People have enjoyed them for generations. And so there's, you have
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like the testimony of your ancestors supporting traditions. I think, who is it that traditions are,
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it's like the, it's the democracy of the dead. C.S. Lewis, I think, or G.K. Chester.
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Um, so, Christmas time, I don't need some dystopian jazz fusion Christmas thing. How about
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you get a choir together, and they stand outside the White House, and they sing Christmas carols?
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That would be nice. I would like that. I would actually watch that. That would be the only,
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like, Jill Biden tweet that I'd be, I would, I would, I'd watch it. Who doesn't like a good
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Christmas carol? Have them sing, um, Silent Night, Hark the Herald, Angels Sing, um, you know,
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Away in the Manger. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel, really, because that's an Advent. I mean, we are still
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in Advent. So, if you want to be a stickler, you say there shouldn't be any Christmas, I'm not a
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stickler like that, but that's what you could do. Um, you can't get any, you can't get better than
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that. That's the thing. You can't improve on that. This is, it's the same thing at churches around
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Christmas time. Like, I've never seen anything that bad at a church on, you know, you go to
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Christmas Mass. I've, I've never seen that. Um, but you go to a lot of churches now, and they try to
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do modern interpretations on old Christmas hymns, and it's just never, it never works. The most you
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could hope for is a, is a pale imitation. Uh, but usually you end up with something like that, which
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is just bizarre and horrifying. And, uh, and, uh, it, it, but it could, you know, it could have been
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delightful. Just a Christmas carol is delightful. Even an old Grinch like myself would appreciate
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that. All right. Um, Fox News has this report. Boston's Democratic mayor has come under fire after
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she sent out invitations for a holiday party intended only for minority city councillors. Michelle Wu,
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the city's first Asian American mayor, recently had her aide, Denise DeSantos, send out an email
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for the event. Email said, honorable members, on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I accordingly invite
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you, you and a guest to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party. That's what the email said. The city
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leader quickly drew criticism after it became apparent, apparent that the email was sent to all
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city councillors, seven of whom are white. The invitation was meant only for the city's six
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councillors of color. Fifteen minutes after the email was sent out, DeSantos apologized and clarified
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that the invitation was only meant for minority city councillors. So just to be clear, she was not
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apologizing for having a racially segregated holiday party where whites were not invited. She was only
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apologizing for sending them the invitation. The apology was, oh, sorry, you, you white devils
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weren't supposed to get that. Apologies. DeSantos said, I wanted to apologize for my previous email
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regarding a holiday party for tomorrow. I did send that to everyone by accident. I apologize if my
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email may have offended or came across as so. Sorry for any confusion this may have caused.
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Now, it's not that the invitation that's offensive, it is the party itself that is racially segregated.
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The revelation about the holiday party quickly received responses from Boston City Council.
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Outgoing City Councilor Frank Baker, a white man, called the mayor's exclusion of certain members
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unfortunate and divisive. Citing recent tensions on the city council, Baker did not speculate about
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the reasoning behind the mayor's decision to host the party, but said he did not think it was a good
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move. Black City Councilor Brian Worrell held a different opinion and defended the invitation,
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suggesting the holiday party was merely a way to represent all kinds of special groups.
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Oh, like that makes it better. No, no, no, this is just for special groups.
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Now, you don't understand. We get to be at this holiday party because we're special,
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because we're black, and you're not. So that's all. Nothing to be upset about.
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Five-term Boston City Councilor Michael McCormick said the party was not typical of the mayor's office
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and said former city leaders would have invited the entire chamber, not just the black ones.
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That was me. That last part was my own editorial. Okay, so first of all,
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this is not the most outrageous aspect here, obviously, but I can't quite move past the phrase
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electeds of color. You know, that's the most offensive thing about this to me,
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even more than the racism. Electeds of color. Like, what is, nobody speaks like that. Okay,
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nobody, nobody, and this is actually a good thing about leftists, good for us, I mean, bad for them,
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but it's an advantage that we have in fighting against these people is that they're hamstrung
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by the fact that they insist on speaking in ways that no human being actually speaks.
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Like, I was just reading an article on the Daily Wire about a new book about Hillary's failed
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campaign in 2016, and some of the Democrat insiders interviewed for the book complained
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about this fact. They said that, you know, Democrat politicians like Hillary, they use phrases and
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words that normal people never use, and that's not because the Democrats are so smart, and they have
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such a big vocabulary, and they're using big words that us normal dumb people don't know.
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No, it's that they make up, they invent their own language, essentially, and it's intentionally
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exclusionary, which makes them sound out of touch. It's like, it's intended to make them sound out of
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touch, which is fine. I'm glad they're doing that to themselves. Again, it gives us an advantage.
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Electeds of color. I mean, can you imagine how bizarre that would sound if some normal person
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in conversation actually used that phrase? Like, if you were talking to a normal person,
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and they said, yeah, I was out at the state capitol yesterday, and I saw some electeds of
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color walk by. You'd say, what? You saw what? What? And by the way, this is something that,
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for all of their flaws, Republicans don't actually really do this. You know, they don't speak like,
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Republicans will speak like normal. Now, a Republican will use maybe a tone and a cadence
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that sounds artificial and, you know, politician-y, but they don't use words that nobody
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uses in real life. They use simple, normal, everyday words. Like, there is no latinx equivalent on the
00:25:49.560
right. Okay? Like, we're not making up buzzwords and phrases like that that would never be uttered
00:25:55.260
by a real human in actual conversation. That's something that only the left does. Much to their
00:26:02.360
detriment. But anyway, and this is also something that only the left does, which is racial segregation.
00:26:11.000
And that's the real point about this is the segregated holiday party, the no whites allowed party.
00:26:15.840
And the real point with that, I think, is the near total lack of justified outrage by the people
00:26:24.500
who have been discriminated against. Like, you've got one white guy who calls it unfortunate and
00:26:30.760
divisive, basically condemning it in the weakest possible terms that he can. This is a government
00:26:38.260
office holding a holiday party where you are excluded because of your race. And your only
00:26:46.520
response is, oh, that's unfortunate. Oh, that's unfortunate. I don't know about that. Oh, gee,
00:26:52.340
gee willikers. I don't know. And, you know, yeah, that's better than the other sycophants who
00:26:58.880
apparently have no problem with it or are pretending to have no problem with it.
00:27:01.880
But you should be a lot more upset about it than that. It's divisive.
00:27:10.200
You know, in these situations, we always say, imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine,
00:27:14.940
imagine, just imagine if the situation was reversed. And it's true that if the situation was reversed,
00:27:22.340
there would be a volcanic explosion of outrage. Like, you can't imagine if anyone, especially if any
00:27:29.740
government office or politician had a holiday party for whites only. Okay? Like, if there was
00:27:37.640
some white mayor who sent out a holiday party invitation to the city council and said, no,
00:27:42.520
it's just for the white ones. Then send a follow-up apology. Sorry, I only meant to send it to the
00:27:46.820
white guys. Didn't mean for you blacks to get that invitation. This party's not for you.
00:27:53.720
I don't know. It's okay. No, it's because we're a special group. That's why.
00:27:56.840
Don't you understand? We're special because we're white. Okay, there would be a nuclear detonation
00:28:04.780
of anger. We cannot fathom the level of indignation. There would be people self-immolating in the street
00:28:15.640
over this. There would be congressional hearings and FBI investigations. MSNBC anchors would be
00:28:25.800
weeping on air. They'd be like committing ritualistic Harry Carey or something on air
00:28:33.900
in protest of this. I mean, you can't even, you really, you cannot, whatever you imagine
00:28:40.000
would be the reaction, it'd be a thousand times that. And then compare that to the reaction in
00:28:47.180
the reverse. And the most you get is one guy going, that's unfortunate. That's unfortunate.
00:28:54.520
But we can complain about the double standards all day. It doesn't matter.
00:28:59.760
The left isn't going to suddenly decide to be consistent. They aren't going to hear what I'm
00:29:04.320
saying right now and say, oh, wow, you know, we are being hypocritical. I didn't realize that.
00:29:09.500
Good point. Thanks for calling us out on that. That's not going to happen. So we need to be the
00:29:17.740
ones who respond appropriately to things like this. We don't need to weep and set things on fire
00:29:23.840
the way the left does. We don't need to go and loot some random business that has nothing to do with
00:29:29.620
it the way that they do. But we need to be the ones who are actually as angry and outraged as we
00:29:36.500
should be. The mayor's office saying no white people can come to my holiday party is the kind
00:29:43.260
of thing that deserves outrage. There's a lot of fake outrage out there. There's a lot of faux
00:29:46.740
outrage. There's a lot of outrage over silly, ridiculous things. But this is not a silly or
00:29:51.880
ridiculous thing. Like the mayor of a major American city saying this is not for whites is outrageous
00:30:04.240
and infuriating. And that's how we should respond to it. You can't wait for the left to respond to
00:30:10.920
it that way. They're not going to. It needs to come from us. And we need to use terms not like
00:30:17.840
it's divisive or, you know, politics as usual being divisive. No, that's not. We need to call it what
00:30:24.600
this is anti-white racism. This is bigotry. And this is not reverse racism either. This is just racism,
00:30:30.900
just straight up racism against white people. And it is unacceptable and outrageous. And this
00:30:38.700
person, you know, there should be an investigation into this person. How is this even legal?
00:30:46.680
So we need to be the ones who react that way. We can't wait around for the left to do it.
00:30:50.940
All right. There was a rather harrowing local news report in Oakland a few days ago
00:30:55.240
that I wanted to play for you. Well, let's just go ahead and watch. Emotional and gut-wrenching
00:31:02.540
scene in front of 7-Eleven, a young woman devastated over the killing of her father.
00:31:14.000
She goes by the name Snow and says the security guard was 59-year-old James Johnson. I was
00:31:19.940
interviewing a longtime customer when we heard screams in the background.
00:31:23.440
I am talking to James all the time, you know. It's a good person. I'm very sad because I don't
00:31:29.080
see any more James. People were walking past her, so I went up to check on her to make sure
00:31:34.920
she was okay. Police say just after 10 o'clock on Friday night, someone shot the guard inside
00:31:40.400
the store as he tried to stop a person from taking merchandise. Police say James died at the scene.
00:31:46.620
Snow says her father worked at the store for roughly two years. He lived in a building right behind
00:31:51.760
7-Eleven. He was protecting the family of 7-Eleven because I know how my father is. He would do
00:32:00.520
that for anyone he cared and loved. She and longtime customers described James as a protector
00:32:07.040
and a kind man. He was a great man. He was a very great man. James is the good person, good
00:32:14.300
for the community, and this guy, you know, helped to everybody and take care of everybody here.
00:32:19.580
He was a nice man, giant man, pretty tall, and he would talk to everyone that came in.
00:32:26.800
Criminals have repeatedly targeted 7-Eleven stores in Oakland. On Monday, investigators say someone
00:32:32.340
killed a man pumping gas at the International Boulevard store. Two weekends ago, witnesses say
00:32:38.180
eight gunmen robbed a cigarette delivery driver and a security guard in front of the Grand Avenue 7-Eleven.
00:32:43.820
Well, obviously, tragic, gut-wrenching. You know, you feel uncomfortable with putting a woman on camera
00:32:54.100
like that when she's obviously distraught, doesn't even quite capture it. But at the same time,
00:33:02.380
it's important for people to see things like that because these are the consequences.
00:33:06.600
These are the consequences of not enforcing the law. These are the consequences of letting
00:33:13.600
criminal scumbags roam the streets. And, you know, I hate to be constantly harping on this.
00:33:21.720
It's hard not to harp on it when we're watching the destruction and decay of civilized society in real
00:33:28.500
time. But, um, this is what, this is what mercy for criminals gets you. This is your mercy.
00:33:36.660
So all of you merciful people, you know, who want to give, um, criminals second chances and third
00:33:43.280
chances and fourth chances and makes you very uncomfortable when, you know, I talk about
00:33:49.680
putting criminals away for life and saying that they need to be locked in a cage for life or,
00:33:55.440
or we need to start executing people. You know, it makes you very uncomfortable,
00:33:58.860
um, because you want to be compassionate and merciful. Well, that, well, that's your compassion
00:34:03.920
and your mercy. That's, that's what it looks like. It looks like, uh, a woman collapsed on the ground
00:34:09.580
mourning the death of her father, who was an actual contributing member of society, a good man by,
00:34:15.300
by all accounts, someone, and someone who was doing something worthwhile and productive.
00:34:22.400
Um, and, and, and once again, we are just trading that people in, we're making this trade one trade
00:34:32.120
after another, taking someone who is good and law abiding and productive, and we are trading them in,
00:34:41.820
trading their life in, in exchange for the worst people in the world.
00:34:47.600
The kinds of people who, if they all died tomorrow, we'd all be better off. Okay. The kinds of people
00:34:57.260
that get together with their friends to rob a cigarette truck, like we just saw there. The kind
00:35:04.080
of person who shoots a security guard. The kinds of people that are, they're, uh, you know, terrorizing
00:35:09.480
business, small business owners, the criminal degenerate scumbags.
00:35:18.420
If they all just were vaporized tomorrow, it's everything, everything, everyone's better off.
00:35:24.600
Contribute nothing of value to society. Uh, and, but we're taking them and we're saying,
00:35:30.980
let's have more and more of them and let's have less and less of the good people. That's the choice
00:35:36.060
that we're making. And, uh, it isn't, it is an active and deliberate choice. That's what we have
00:35:42.440
to understand. Okay. One other thing to hit to mention briefly, a daily mail has this. When a
00:35:46.300
marriage hits a rocky patch, couples find different ways of bringing back the magic date night or
00:35:51.140
perhaps counseling for Jada Pinkett Smith and her husband, Will, it took a public scandal to reset the
00:35:57.020
relationship. Pinkett now says in an interview, quote, I nearly didn't even attend the Oscars that year,
00:36:03.160
but I'm glad I did. I call it the holy slap now because so many positive things came from it.
00:36:09.840
She is of course referring to the 2022 Oscars at which her husband had been nominated and he slapped
00:36:14.420
because we know about that. She says, quote, that moment of the S hitting the fan is when you see
00:36:19.420
where you really are. After all those years of trying to figure out if I would leave Will's side,
00:36:23.800
it took that slap for me to see that I will never leave him. Who knows where our relationship would
00:36:28.740
be if that hadn't happened? So it's another interview that Jada Pinkett Smith is doing.
00:36:33.820
And in this interview, she says that she's glad that the slap happened because that's when she
00:36:38.160
decided that she's not going to leave Will Smith because it was strengthening of their relationship
00:36:44.660
or something like that. So first of all, Jada Pinkett Smith just will not stop talking.
00:36:49.100
She won't stop. She apparently subscribes to the school of PR crisis management that says,
00:36:55.360
when you're in a PR crisis, just keep talking, which is the exact opposite of what you're supposed
00:37:00.620
to do in these situations. But her idea is like, just say more and more things.
00:37:05.960
And I guess the hope is that you'll win the public relations war by attrition. Maybe the idea is to
00:37:13.000
say so many insane and disgusting and repellent things that nobody can keep track anymore.
00:37:18.820
So I'm not sure what the strategy is, but this woman will not stop. And now she says the slap was a
00:37:23.420
great thing for their marriage. And it's when she decided not to leave Will Smith, except that she
00:37:27.820
did leave him. So she did leave him. So she decided not to leave him, except in the sense that she
00:37:33.400
actually did leave. Like she left the house and moved in somewhere else and announced to the world
00:37:40.680
that they're not together anymore. So in that sense, she left him. But in some other sense,
00:37:47.760
some mystical ephemeral sense, she didn't leave him. I don't, you know, if that makes sense,
00:37:53.540
which it doesn't. But the real takeaway here is that, is that she sees the slap as a positive,
00:37:59.440
as holy. It destroyed her, her husband's life and career. Like his career is over because it's
00:38:04.840
probably never really going to, at least it's never going to come, it's never going to get back to
00:38:07.760
what it was. It made him into a disgrace, a punchline. Like that is the thing that people will
00:38:15.540
remember Will Smith for forever. That is his legacy now. And she sees it as a positive.
00:38:24.520
And why is that? Because she obviously enjoys watching this man debase himself.
00:38:29.120
As we know, she takes a great deal of pleasure in Will Smith's public humiliation.
00:38:34.840
Like it really is amazing how evil this woman is. She's like a cartoon. She's the kind of person who,
00:38:40.460
if she was a character in a movie, like it would take you out of the story because she's too evil.
00:38:47.880
You would say like, it's not even believable. But she continues to be at least a great cautionary
00:38:53.480
tale for young men. And that's why I always say anytime that there's a story about Jada Pinkett Smith,
00:38:59.460
now she, she is, she's a, she's a quite an extreme case to, to a somewhat, maybe a lesser degree.
00:39:10.660
This is not uncommon in relationships where you have one member of the relationship who, who like
00:39:20.820
And you, there are plenty of men who find themselves in relationship with, relationships with women who are like this.
00:39:32.660
But just talking about the Jada Pinkett Smith, like there, there are many Jada Pinkett Smiths,
00:39:36.740
maybe not quite. She's the, you know, she's the ultimate supervillain, but, uh, but there are many who are kind of in her,
00:39:43.600
you know, sort of in that vein. And you can see, you know, you see, uh, examples of it all the time.
00:39:53.100
Like we've all been around, you know, you're around a couple and maybe the wife or the girlfriend
00:39:58.720
brings something up supposedly in a joking way, but that's actually embarrassing for the man.
00:40:07.120
And you could tell that he's really embarrassed by it. You know, and, and yeah, you could do that in a way
00:40:14.180
that's actually joking, you know, and, uh, and you can't take yourself too seriously in a relationship.
00:40:19.680
And so you tease each other or whatever that, you know, and that can happen even, even in a publicly
00:40:29.800
But, um, there are plenty of times where we've all seen this and it's very awkward to be around it.
00:40:34.180
When you see a man get kind of like cut down and embarrassed by his wife or his girlfriend.
00:40:43.360
And, uh, you could tell, you know, Jada Pinkett Smith loves doing it. She loves to just embarrass
00:40:47.400
this man. And this is, it's red flag. You know, if you're with a, you know, men are always,
00:40:53.820
I get questions from young men all the time. What should you be looking for in a woman? What should,
00:40:57.840
you know, and there's a lot to be looking for, but when you talk about red flags,
00:41:00.520
you're dating a woman, if there's like one time, even once, when she does or says anything
00:41:11.040
that is intended to legitimately embarrass you, even in a small way, then get the hell out.
00:41:19.660
Just, just get out immediately. You got a Jada Pinkett Smith on your hands and it's not going
00:41:24.480
to get better as Will Smith, uh, unfortunately for him has discovered. All right, let's get to
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Sandy says, continuing to punish Bud Light for a marketing campaign which failed to recognize
00:42:29.980
and identify their target audience seems excessively punitive to me. Time to move on. Well, I'll
00:42:34.540
happily move on, Sandy. They just need to apologize. You know, that's all. Pretty simple.
00:42:41.780
And that's all they have to do. Acknowledge what they did and apologize for it. That's how you move on
00:42:47.880
from when someone does something wrong. That's how you move on. You can't really move on until
00:42:51.620
that. There has to be an acknowledgement. There has to be an acknowledgement and an apology.
00:42:56.480
In any relationship, that's the case. If you want to repair the relationship, the person who did
00:43:02.100
something wrong has to acknowledge and apologize. If they don't, you can't move on. And even in the
00:43:06.960
relationship, if you want to call it that, between a company and consumers, this still holds true.
00:43:12.440
So, and if we get bored and move on without that concession, without that acknowledgement and
00:43:18.360
apology, then what was the point? So that's all they got to do. And look, if they did that,
00:43:25.160
I'm not going to start drinking Bud Light because I, that's, I, as I said, I have functioning
00:43:31.100
taste buds, so I'm not going to start. But, but yeah, I would say, okay, like I'm not going to go out
00:43:36.460
of my way to rehabilitate the brand. I'm not going to try to help them. But then I would say, okay,
00:43:40.640
as far as I'm concerned, boycott's over. Like, well, I'll go our separate ways now.
00:43:46.000
Okay. The Bud Light chapter has closed. Um, but that hasn't happened yet.
00:43:53.260
Devin says, I thought free speech was to protect the speech you don't agree with. If putting a
00:43:57.040
display at a state house isn't speech, then shouldn't refrain from any, any display. I think
00:44:01.620
displays of any kind should be limited to local governments at most.
00:44:05.120
Well, nobody is saying that Satanists don't have free speech, uh, Devin. If they want to run around
00:44:12.180
like talking about Satan and how great Satan is, uh, they're allowed to do that, you know? But the
00:44:18.920
displays at the state house are for legitimate religious holiday displays. Satanism is not a
00:44:24.000
legitimate religion. It is a troll of religion. Okay. It is an anti-religion. And again, even the
00:44:30.080
Satanists themselves will tell you that they themselves will be the first to claim that they
00:44:35.480
don't actually worship Satan. They don't actually believe in him. Now they do worship Satan, but they
00:44:43.200
don't think they do. Okay. Their conscious intent is to troll religion is to make a mockery of religion,
00:44:50.320
not practice it. That's why this, this whole thing was, was, uh, uh, funded and facilitated by
00:44:59.700
atheists. What interest do atheists have in religious freedom? You think they care about that?
00:45:06.200
No, it's because these people, this, they don't consider it to be a religion.
00:45:12.700
And also, by the way, how many practicing Satanists are in Iowa? Okay. Iowa is like 80% Christian.
00:45:20.320
Less than 1% Jewish, 1% Muslim, Hindu, right? And the rest are non-religious.
00:45:26.700
It is a predominantly Christian state far and away. It has a Christian display around the holidays in
00:45:32.180
the state house that represents like the, the, the predominant, uh, faith and, and, and viewpoint of
00:45:42.940
How many practicing Satanists are in Iowa? Are there any, like, are there any, maybe there's one
00:45:52.040
or two. So again, the punish, the, the display was pushed and funded by national atheist groups.
00:46:00.120
So you have a national atheist group who rejects religion funding a supposedly religious display
00:46:08.540
in a state house to represent a community that doesn't exist in that state.
00:46:13.220
And the idea that we have to be accepting of that, of that total absurdity of this, of this, you know,
00:46:21.560
no pun intended, but this bad faith argument, we have to accept that if we want to have a manger
00:46:28.180
or whatever in a state house, which represents almost, you know, the belief system of almost
00:46:33.600
the entire state. Um, I just, I just find that to be absurd.
00:46:41.220
No, you know, this is a, this is, uh, predominantly a Christian state. We have a Christian display
00:46:47.140
and, uh, you know, the, the, the, the two eighth, the, the two Satanists in Iowa who then complain
00:46:55.420
about it and say, well, I want to have a display that makes fun of you guys. Cause it makes me feel
00:46:59.160
I don't give a, I don't give a damn what you want. And also, and let me also say if there was a state
00:47:06.720
or a community, um, where it was like almost entirely some other religion in that community,
00:47:16.580
and there was one Christian in the community and he wanted to put a, you know, a manger up on display
00:47:24.320
somewhere in a public place and they had a display for the religion that represents almost the entire
00:47:31.580
community. Then like, I would understand why they had that religious display, not the manger. Cause
00:47:37.600
there's, there's almost no, there's like this one guy here and this community is almost entirely
00:47:42.460
this, whatever other religion. Now, in that case, I would say that the one Christian in the community
00:47:49.140
has a much, a much stronger case than the Satanists do because Christianity is still number one, a
00:47:56.800
legitimate real religion. And number two, it's also happens to be the, the, the, uh, religion that,
00:48:03.440
you know, helped form this country. Um, there's a historical, I mean, that, that, that very much
00:48:11.060
lays foundationally and philosophically at the foundations of this country.
00:48:14.720
So even if you reversed kind of the, um, the population, you know, percentages, Christian
00:48:24.440
would still have a much stronger case. But my point is simply that, you know, somehow that is
00:48:28.460
getting overlooked in all of this. But on top of the, the absurdity and how objectionable Satanism
00:48:34.260
is and the fact that even the Satanists themselves will tell you it's not a religion. Um, aside from
00:48:41.020
that, there's like, there's like none of them anyway. So why should they be represented in the
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00:50:36.640
familiar, like someone's probably come up during this segment in the past, but I couldn't tell you
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much about him. What I do know is that apparently his wife is leaving him, and I also know that
00:50:46.340
by his own admission, he had been in an open marriage, quote unquote. Here's the daily caller
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with the details. The wife of popular streamer and YouTuber Destiny, who previously bragged about the
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pair's open marriage, is reportedly leaving him for a man she met in Sweden, according to
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online reports. Screenshots from what appears to be messages from Destiny in a Discord channel
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show him complaining about his wife, Swedish internet personality Melina Gorenson, and her
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alleged new lover. In the leaked Discord chat, Destiny appeared to lament his wife's choice to
00:51:16.100
leave him for a toxic, abusive guy. Quote, the last two months and two weeks have been a massive mind
00:51:21.200
eff for me, watching her become obsessed with a toxic, abusive guy. When I visited Sweden last,
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he gave Mel an ultimatum to divorce me and then threatened to kill himself when she didn't do it,
00:51:30.960
among 20 other abusive, manipulative things he's done, and endlessly makes excuses for him. So I'm
00:51:36.300
out. The political YouTuber appeared to write according to the Twitter post. Now, in the past,
00:51:44.260
Destiny had been very open about his open relationship, appearing on different podcasts
00:51:48.060
to talk about it. So here he is with Lex Friedman a year or two ago, along with his wife, explaining
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One interesting aspect of your relationship is you're in an open relationship. What's that like?
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From a game theoretic simulation perspective, what went into that calculation? And like, how does that...
00:52:11.000
Um, the only relationships I've ever done has been open relationships, since I was like
00:52:15.000
in high school, because I didn't really understand like, why wouldn't you be able to like, do other
00:52:20.140
things with other people, but then just like have your main partner, basically.
00:52:23.260
So what, what is an open relationship, generally speaking? That means you have one main partner?
00:52:27.840
Like a non-monogamous relationship. Like you're somehow allowed, like in different ways. Um, you
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Yeah, or it doesn't have to be there for some people, but like, I think it's probably easier
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and we probably don't really have time or the energy for like more than like one person
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Well, I said that Destiny explains the arrangement, but actually, as you heard, his wife does most
00:52:53.360
of the talking. And that's interesting because though I don't know who first decided to open
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the marriage in his case, I do know that most of the time one participant will seem to be
00:53:02.920
much more into the idea than the other. That's because an open relationship is rarely a mutual
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decision, no matter what they might claim. Both spouses are not usually going to simultaneously
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come up with the idea that they should have sex with other people and then in unison blurt
00:53:16.940
it out. In reality, one or the other is going to make this proposal. And the one who makes
00:53:23.120
it, in doing so, is already announced that they want to have an affair. So if the other
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supposedly agrees to the open marriage, they'll agree as someone who is shell-shocked and blindsided
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and devastated, whether they fully reveal those feelings or not. Now, speaking of feelings,
00:53:40.720
in that same interview, they talk about the complicated, quote unquote, problem of emotional
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It's really complicated. There's a lot of complicated stuff going on under the hood there.
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I think broadly speaking, you've got like polyamorous relationships and you've got like open
00:54:00.880
relationships where polyamorous is like, oh, I've got like three different girlfriends and
00:54:05.120
we all hang out or sometimes even live together or three boyfriends or whatever. And then you've
00:54:08.400
got like open relationships, which is like, oh, you know, like you can basically hook up with
00:54:11.400
other people and then you've got like your main relationship and that's it. I think ours is probably
00:54:15.120
somewhere in the middle of that to where like we've got like long-term friends, some of them
00:54:19.120
we hook up with and that's kind of how we, yeah, it's a delicate dance that explodes every six
00:54:30.300
I think it's mostly because a lot of people can't handle it and they agree to something
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and then they realize that we're way too cool and then they get really obsessed and they
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think that they can like get in there and then it gets really dramatic.
00:54:42.700
Usually like whenever I feel like he's not spending the, like the amount of time that
00:54:47.720
I'm asking for and he spends it on his video games or his stream or like he sees someone
00:54:53.200
else like more than he sees me or something like that, that would like not be good because
00:55:00.080
Now, obviously the whole idea of an open marriage is absurd. Not just absurd, it's an, it's a
00:55:07.200
contradiction in terms. Marriage cannot be open like a square cannot be circular.
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It's not because we've come up with arbitrary rules to stifle a square's creativity and
00:55:16.660
individuality. It's just because a square is a certain thing and by definition, if it's
00:55:20.880
circular, it's not the thing that a square is. The same is true of marriage. A marriage
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that is open is no longer the thing that a marriage is. So I've explained before that
00:55:31.860
a marriage can't be open for the same reason that you can't build a house without walls or
00:55:35.540
a roof. The walls and the roof are the whole point of the house. So get rid of those
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and now you're homeless. A blanket laid out on the pavement is not an open house or a
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new house or a consensually non-walled house. It's just not a house. It's a non-house. A
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marriage cannot be open. The whole point of the union is that it is closed. It is exclusive.
00:55:55.880
It has walls around it. Tear down the walls and you have obliterated the entire structure
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of the thing. But I don't need to harp anymore on that point, that marriages are an oxymoron,
00:56:08.280
a self-contradiction. I probably also don't need to explain that infidelity doesn't become
00:56:11.980
something other than infidelity just because it's mutual and consensual, supposedly, and
00:56:17.500
happening out in the open. Unfaithfulness is unfaithfulness. Cheating is cheating. You
00:56:23.080
haven't found some ingenious way of gaming the system simply by announcing that you're going
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to cheat. Rather than doing it in secret as adulterers have traditionally done, infidelity
00:56:31.800
is a cancer in your marriage that will eventually kill it. The fact that you have embraced the cancer
00:56:38.580
and welcomed it doesn't make your situation any less terminal. Now, there's a reason why you never
00:56:45.120
hear about couples celebrating their 50th anniversary of an open marriage. Because open marriages burn
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quickly and then burn out. They can't be sustained, as destiny is apparently finding out.
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I mean, he says himself in that interview that it explodes every six months. Well, that's not normal.
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Your marriage should not explode every six months. And that cannot be sustained.
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Like, one day it's going to explode and you're not going to be able to put it back together again.
00:57:15.940
Now, however, as I said, these are points that probably don't need to be dwelled on.
00:57:21.280
Instead, I'd like to briefly consider one other, perhaps slightly more interesting or surprising
00:57:25.400
point. You heard in the last clip, as destiny and his wife talk about how they deal with emotions.
00:57:31.380
And destiny says, well, it's really complicated. His wife talked about the problems of jealousy.
00:57:37.080
And this is something you hear pretty often from open marriage advocates. In fact,
00:57:40.600
any discussion about open marriages will always ultimately center around the problem of feelings
00:57:46.520
and emotions. That's why if you go to Google, you'll find hundreds of articles about how to
00:57:51.920
deal with emotions in an open relationship. Articles like this one from Elite Daily titled,
00:57:57.920
Five Ways to Handle Jealousy in Open and Poly Relationships According to Experts.
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Now, we're not going to go through all five coping mechanisms as outlined by experts,
00:58:07.520
but here's the first one. Quote, communication is the foundation of any relationship, and it's even
00:58:11.720
more important when there's more than two in a relationship. So if there's an issue, particularly
00:58:16.100
jealousy, you need to talk about it. Courtney Watson, a poly-inclusive sex therapist, breaks the
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process down to Elite Daily in four steps. Clarify your feelings of jealousy and explore where they're
00:58:26.380
coming from. Arrange a time to sit down with your partner. Pick a neutral setting, especially outside
00:58:31.480
the bedroom, where you have enough time and privacy to discuss your feelings. Tell your partner and
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negotiate a solution that addresses your feelings and takes into consideration their feelings and needs.
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See if the solution works and reconvene as needed.
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Now, if that sounds like useless nonsense, then wait until you hear the next recommendation,
00:58:54.080
Another way to get to the bottom of this is to outline your jealousy, literally.
00:58:57.320
With your partner or alone, make a little guidebook to your jealous feelings, and then rewrite it.
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Quote, draw a picture or describe in detail a personified version of jealousy to clarify how you
00:59:11.100
experience and relate to the feeling, they said.
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What does your depiction of jealousy look like and sound like? Is jealousy bigger or smaller than you?
00:59:26.480
What are your physical cues that jealousy is present?
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Once you have a good sketch of your jealousy narrative, as Skechinger calls it,
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work on reframing it in a less threatening way.
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Confront what you've laid out and re-evaluate what about these attributes or behaviors makes you less jealous.
00:59:45.320
the discomfort generated by envy and jealousy can increase self-awareness and highlight a need that may not be being met.
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So just to make sure we're all on the same page here,
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what this expert is suggesting is that you draw a picture for your spouse to help explain why you're sad when she has sex with other men.
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So grab some colored pencils and draw a picture of like a big scary monster and hand it to your wife and say,
01:00:16.640
This is how the relationship experts think that adults should communicate with one another.
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but there's something to be learned from the fact that this advice is given in the first place
01:00:28.780
and that there's so much of this kind of advice for those looking to open their relationships.
01:00:36.220
How to work through difficult emotions in open relationships,
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using a Buddhist practice as a tool to explore feelings.
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You can climb to the top of a mountain and consult with a polyamorous guru.
01:00:53.380
Or you can just stop trying to force yourself to be okay with something that you know is not okay.
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that people these days are always chasing their feelings,
01:01:12.900
something closer to the opposite is actually happening.
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Oftentimes, especially when it comes to sex and relationships,
01:01:21.300
They're running away from what would actually make them feel good.
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They're trying to close themselves off from their natural emotions.
01:01:29.100
This is necessary in order to maintain a promiscuous lifestyle.
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Whether you're in a so-called open relationship,
01:01:34.240
so you're just participating in a hookup culture
01:01:35.980
without pretending to be in any relationship at all,
01:01:38.560
in either case, you are going to be constantly at war with your own emotions.
01:01:45.380
You're following pleasure, temporary physical pleasure,
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You have to close yourself off from developing connections to anyone.
01:02:02.820
we naturally desire a committed, loving, faithful relationship
01:02:07.100
with one person who is devoted to us and loves us in return.
01:02:19.360
Now, you can't be guided entirely by your emotions in a relationship,
01:02:22.220
but you shouldn't see them as an impediment either
01:02:27.800
The emotional attachment that naturally forms with another person,
01:02:31.460
you know, who you're in a sexual relationship with,
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I would never say that my emotions for my wife are complicated.
01:02:44.560
Like, if I was talking to Lex Friedman and he said,
01:02:47.380
you know, what about emotions in your marriage?
01:02:58.000
Sure, you know, we have tension and disagreement sometimes,
01:03:00.920
but there's nothing very complicated about our emotional situation.
01:03:10.320
which isn't to say that they're superficial or insignificant.
01:03:13.380
No, your emotional attachment to your spouse is a simple thing,
01:03:19.420
It's something that you nurture, something to be cherished.
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if you're in a monogamous, committed, loving relationship.
01:03:28.560
You don't need experts to tell you how to navigate them.
01:03:31.120
And you don't need to draw pictures to explain them.
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That only becomes necessary when you've decided to do something
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that you know in your heart you shouldn't be doing.
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Feelings are a problem once you've decided to sever love from sex
01:03:47.880
and attempt to experience these things separate from each other.
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And if you listen to your common sense, you would know that.
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And if you listen to your feelings, you would know that too.
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Which is why, in the end, open marriages are, once again, today canceled.