Ep. 1355 - The Government Is Gearing Up To Declare A ‘Climate Emergency,’ Which Will Wipe Out What’s Left Of Our Freedoms
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The Biden administration is gearing up to declare a climate emergency. What does that mean exactly? And why does it matter? To find out, we turn to the New York Times and the Washington Post. Plus, Joe Biden has his worst Ron Burgundy moment yet, and a leftist campus protester has trouble explaining why she s protesting.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Biden administration is gearing up to declare a climate
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emergency. What does that mean exactly? Well, we need only look to our neighbors in the north to
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see what that entails, and it's not a pretty picture. Also, Joe Biden has his worst Ron
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Burgundy moment yet. A leftist campus protester has trouble explaining why she's protesting.
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AI is about to wipe out a huge number of jobs worldwide. Should we allow that to happen?
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And Greg Abbott says that he's having pro-Palestine protesters arrested because,
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quote, anti-Semitism won't be tolerated in Texas. But is that a valid reason to arrest people?
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Of course not. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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slash Walsh. For several years now, it's been clear that the Biden administration has been
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thinking about officially declaring a climate emergency, quote unquote. Beginning on the day
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Biden took office, several politicians have floated the possibility, and some have gone further
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than that. The Democrats' leader in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, publicly called on Biden to make
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the declaration within a week of his inauguration. And ever since then, there have been articles and
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deep dives in various outlets, including Politico, New York Times, and others, suggesting that it'd be a
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really good idea to essentially go to war with the weather. Now, as of now, as his term winds down,
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Joe Biden has resisted these demands. Biden has said that he's practically declared a climate
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emergency, signaling that he likes the idea, but he hasn't actually gone ahead and done it officially.
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Even so, the demands have kept coming for several years, which is a little odd when you think about
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it, because the definition of the word emergency is, quote, a serious, unexpected, and often
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dangerous situation requiring immediate action. So, the very fact that you have to deliberate for
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three years about whether something is an emergency would seem to indicate that it is not an emergency.
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So, that's the most important point, that there is, of course, not, in fact, a climate emergency.
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And everybody pushing this hysteria understands that very well. Well, they'll never stop pretending
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that this is an urgent crisis, because the moment they stop pretending, they lose some measure of
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control over our lives, and, well, they can't allow that to happen. The Biden administration's flirtation
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with this whole idea also tells you something else, which is that the White House sees an emergency
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climate declaration as a potential sort of nuclear option to deploy when they get really desperate.
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And with pretty much every major poll showing Donald Trump leading Joe Biden right now,
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that desperation has really started to set in. So, right on cue, a climate emergency is now
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back on the agenda. According to Bloomberg, the White House is now seriously considering the idea
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of declaring a climate emergency in the very near future. CBS recently spoke to a Columbia climate
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The White House is considering declaring a national climate emergency to unlock federal powers and
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stifle oil development. That's according to Bloomberg. Meanwhile, the administration is announcing
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several projects this Earth Week. The plans include solar energy conservation, clean water,
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green transportation, and cutting pollution. Tell me what a climate emergency is and what that might
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entail. So, when we talk about the potential for the president to declare a climate emergency,
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what it's saying is, you know what, there's a national emergency going on, and I need extra powers to be
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Oh, so that clarifies that. What is a climate emergency? Well, it's when the president says
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there is an emergency. Okay, well, thanks for clarifying. So, the climate emergency is when
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the administration declares it, and it supposedly unlocks massive new powers over the economy and
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especially the oil industry. Of course, already the administration has done everything it can to
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gut the energy sector in this country. They've suspended new oil and gas leases. They've scrutinized
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and shut down many existing permits for the development of fossil fuels. And just for good
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measure, they've sold off much of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just to make sure that we're as
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reliant on foreign energy as possible. So, what Biden wants to do now is adopt new powers to destroy
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the economy, which exceed the powers he's already employed to destroy the economy. And specifically,
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these new emergency powers would potentially include the ability to ban all crude oil exports
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indefinitely. Now, put that in perspective, right now we export millions of barrels of oil per day,
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accounting for tens of billions of dollars in revenue. All of that could disappear overnight
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in the event of an emergency climate declaration. Additionally, the Biden administration would be
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able to kill all new oil and gas drilling on more than 10 million acres of federal waters.
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They'd also be able to cut overseas investments and fossil fuels and
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greatly reduce imports and exports of fossil fuels. That's according to various media publications
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that have looked into the emergency powers already. But the truth is that once it declares a national
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emergency, the federal government can pretty much do whatever it wants. The courts give the alleged
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experts vast and completely undeserved deference. On this point, there are really no guardrails in a
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national emergency. Everybody knows that after experiencing the COVID lockdowns, which of course were the
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pretext to the coming climate emergency, there were never any consequences for those lockdowns
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and mandates. There hasn't really been any reckoning with the destruction those policies
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wrought on our lives. There's been no accountability. In fact, it would have shocked people. You could go
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back in time and tell people in 2020 that the COVID lockdowns would not even be a factor in the 2024
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election. Nobody would even be talking about it like it never happened. Nobody would have believed
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you. But that's where we are. Because no one's even interested in talking about it. So what does
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that mean? It just means it's going to happen again. It means the government learned that they
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can do that. They can shut down your life completely and take away all your freedoms and it won't matter.
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Like you'll get over it. You'll just get over it as soon as they stop. You'll get used to it.
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And so what does that mean? It means that they'll keep doing it. And make no mistake,
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if they can force the entire country to stay at home because of a virus,
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including young people who are at virtually no risk from that virus,
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then they can absolutely restrict every single one of your freedoms in the name of saving the
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climates. But just in case you need a confirmation of that fact, you can always look north to our
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perpetually embarrassing neighbors in Canada. Several years ago, Canada's government declared a national
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climate emergency. And just to drive the point home, several major cities within Canada, including
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Vancouver, also declared their own climate emergency. So you have climate emergencies on top
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of climate emergencies. At the time, the idea behind this emergency was to enable the Canadian
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government to take steps to reduce the country's carbon emissions, even though the entire country
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of Canada essentially emits zero carbon compared to the rest of the world. The whole country could
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commit mass suicide, which they're sort of in the process of doing right now, and it would have no
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impact on global carbon emissions. But even so, Canada enacted a bunch of carbon taxes that made
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life even more expensive for its citizens. And it's worth noting quickly, although I've made this point
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many times before, that even if you buy into the idea that carbon causes climate change,
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there is nothing that the US, much less Canada, can do about it. As Zach Weinberg pointed out this week,
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China and India comprise the vast majority of carbon emissions in the world. The US accounts for less
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than 15% of carbon emissions and we're falling fast. Canada is well under 2%. So the whole idea of
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taxing carbon to reduce emissions and save the planet was always a scam, even if you subscribe to
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the left's theories on climate change. But it was never going to end there. Again, once you declare an
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emergency without any clear way to solve the emergency, things will continue to escalate. Give the
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government vast, undefined powers and rights will continue to erode until they're all gone.
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As Milton Friedman said, nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program. And Canada,
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once again, is a perfect example of that. Earlier this year, in the name of saving the climate during
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this supposed emergency, Canadian legislators introduced a bill to suspend freedom of speech.
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And what does that have to do with the climate? Well, Canada's NDP party, which is a key part of the
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coalition keeping Justin Trudeau's government in power, introduced legislation that would actually
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make it illegal to speak positively about fossil fuels. Okay. Yes, that's not an exaggeration.
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This legislation would make it illegal to express positive opinions about fossil fuels in any context.
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An NDP bill is seeking to criminalize the promotion of fossil fuels and prescribe
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jail time even for Canadians who say scientifically true things, such as how burning natural gas is
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cleaner than burning coal. The bill goes well beyond merely banning advertising by oil and gas companies
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violate this as a regular citizen, and the act prescribes summary conviction and a fine of up to
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half a million dollars. Violated as an oil company, and the punishment could be as strict as two years in
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jail or a fine of a million dollars. Now, even after reading this article, and as cynical as I am,
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especially about Canada, I still couldn't believe it. Now, I thought, like, are we missing something
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here? So I pulled up the text of the bill, and the text of the bill indeed says that, quote,
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it is prohibited for a person to promote a fossil fuel or the production of a fossil fuel in a manner
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that states or suggests that a fossil fuel or the practices of a producer of the fossil fuel industry
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would lead to positive outcomes in relation to the environment, the health of Canadians,
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reconciliation with indigenous peoples, or the Canadian or global economy.
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So basically, private citizens who say anything good about fossil fuels can be fined $500,000,
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which is enough of a fine to completely bankrupt 95% of Canada's population. You can't even say that
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Indians would benefit from fossil fuels, even though many Indians in Canada would disagree with that
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statement. Now, to be clear, this is not one rogue politician introducing this bill. Canada's
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federal minister of the Environment and Climate Change has said that he welcomes the bill, and
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various members of Canada's public health establishment have endorsed it. I want you to
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take a look at this press conference from the NDP party announcing this legislation. It's like
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something out of a satire film, but it's real. It's not overstating things to say this is the single
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most demented press conference to occur in the Western world in at least the last decade.
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At the very least, it's in the top five. Here's just some of it. Watch.
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Good morning. Bonjour à tous. I am Charlie Angus, Member of Parliament for Timmons James Bay,
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and very proud to be here on the unceded territory of the Algonquin nation.
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Last summer, over 200,000 Canadians were forced from their homes because of massive climate damage.
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In cities across North America, children could not go outside because of the risk to their health.
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This is why I'm so proud to stand here today with representatives of Canada's medical community
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to state that the time has come to ban all oil and gas advertising. The big tobacco moment has
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finally arrived for big oil. The legislation will make it illegal to falsely claim that the use of
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one fuel fossil fuel product is somehow better than another fossil fuel product in improving the
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environment. To claim that there are clean fossil fuels is like saying there are safe cigarettes.
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We know that is simply not true. This legislation will make it illegal for Canada's oil and gas giants
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to falsely identify themselves with the health and positive lifestyles of Canadians or with
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reconciliation of Indigenous people on whose lands the toxic contamination is highest.
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Bonjour. Hello, everyone. I'm happy. Oh, I'm too short. I'm happy to be able to join you today
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to put the full support of the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment behind the important
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legislation that Mr. Angus has introduced today.
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Disinformation is being promoted as though this is some kind of woke agenda. So the reality is I
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think that ordinary people know is that their kids can't go outside without choking on toxic fumes.
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That's something average people understand, no matter what the disinformation machine says.
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You've got to love every part of that, including the beginning. This is the unceded lands of the Algonquin
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people. He says, well, they haven't ceded it. So apparently the Indians have not ceded
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the land. So what does that mean? So who cares? You haven't ceded the land, but we have it. So what
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does that mean? Apparently, everyone knows, according to this guy, that their kids can't even go outside
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in Canada without choking on fossil fuels. You can't go outside. It's impossible. How are these
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people going to get from the press conference to their cars? Why are they even driving cars?
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You can't go outside. You need a gas mask, I guess, to go outside. That's the position of a member of
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Canada's parliament who, again, is trying to put Canadians in prison and bankrupt them if they
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disagree with him about climate change. Now, I listened to that whole press conference, even though
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it was excruciating because they spoke in French for half of it. But that was actually the better half
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because the other half I had to actually understand what they were saying, which is even worse.
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It was a half hour of Canadian public health experts and politicians saying that they're right
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and everyone who disagrees with them needs to be in jail. Keep in mind, everybody promoting this
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legislation got every conceivable aspect of COVID wrong, but they have no shame, only a desire for
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more power. So they're back and everything is a public health emergency now, even the weather.
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The press conference concluded with a question and answer session with Canadian media,
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which was even more surreal somehow. None of the journalists seemed outraged in any way by what
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they just heard. Instead, they mostly asked procedural questions about when the bill might
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come up for a vote. In fact, one reporter even asked if Russia was helping the fossil fuel companies
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spread disinformation. If you want to lose all faith in Western democracy, I recommend you go to
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YouTube and pull up the footage from this press conference yourself. It's almost unbelievable.
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And the point of talking about Canada isn't to suggest that we should care about Canada.
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I mean, that would be absurd. You know, the whole country just pretended that sewage sites were
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burial grounds for children in order to justify burning dozens of churches. This is not a serious
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place we're talking about. And the Canadian people have mostly given up on their country and on
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themselves. So good riddance. I mean, let the country burn. This is what they want and they deserve
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to get it good and hard. But Canada does have one purpose, which is to serve as a bellwether of what we can
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expect in this country if we get too complacent. If we allow Joe Biden to declare a climate
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emergency, that he won't simply dismantle the energy sector in this country and destroy our
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economy. Give him a few years and he'll throw you in prison if you complain about it. Or at least his
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successor will, because he's not going to be around in a few years, let's be honest. Those are the stakes.
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It's not worth going through how climate activists have lied for generations about this emergency.
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I've done that many times before. At this point, you know, they know they're liars. We know they're
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liars, which is why their ultimate goal is to silence you. That's why Joe Biden wants to declare
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his climate emergency. And unless we want to end up like Canada, which is a fate worse than death,
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death, we have to prevent it from happening. Now let's get to our five headlines.
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So I've got a couple of fun clips for you. I mean, fun if depressing things are fun for you. First,
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here's Joe Biden. Listen. Imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause.
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Four more years. Pause. He says, of course, reading the prompter.
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You know, in a just world, this would be the final nail in his campaign's coffin.
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A small thing on its own, a funny thing on its own. And if somebody who didn't have dementia did
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this, if they pulled a Ron Burgundy and just read, you know, a note on the prompter that was
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not meant to be read out loud, you would laugh about it and you would move on. But for Biden,
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of course, this, as we understand, this is another symptom of his dementia and of the fact that he's
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not present mentally. And it should be the final thing that makes people say, okay, this guy is not
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fully conscious. We can't elect him. We just can't. Like, we cannot have somebody like this running
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the country. But unfortunately, this is all baked in. You know, it's kind of like with Trump.
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That's what makes this whole election cycle so absurd that you got two guys that have been in
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the public eye forever and everything is so baked in that nothing, it's like, it doesn't matter.
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Nothing matters. Nothing happening right now matters politically, or at least very little of
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it does because it's all baked in. And with Trump, you know, there's nothing he could say.
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There's no controversy he can generate by saying something supposedly offensive that will have any
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effect on him politically, one way or another. Because again, it's all baked in. That's why you
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notice, like in 2016, it was just one news cycle after another with the media freaking out about
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something that Trump had said or tweeted. And we aren't getting nearly as much of that this time
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around. We're getting some of it. Every once in a while, he'll say something, then we get a news cycle.
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Well, this is the latest thing Trump said. It's so terrible. And usually they're lying about it
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and taking it out of context. And we know the whole routine, but they're not doing it as much
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because they know it's pointless. They know that we don't care. You know, that's if you're the kind
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of person that gets all bent out of shape about stuff that Trump says, you're not voting. It's like,
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there's no chance you're voting for him anyway. And everybody else, you've made up your mind. And
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that's who Trump is. We get it. Trump's being Trump. But like, what's the point of what's what's
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why point it out? We all know that. But with Biden, of course, it's much worse because the
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thing that's baked in is not that he's, you know, prone to speak in his mind and just saying whatever
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he feels like. With Biden, it's that he's a vegetable. And the people who have decided to vote
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for him know that. And they've decided to live with it. Which means that, I mean, look, the guy
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could like people who are people, conservatives are kind of waiting for that one final definitive
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moment or something so embarrassing happens where Biden demonstrates his dimension such a clear way
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as if that hasn't already happened a bunch of times. But he demonstrates it in such a clear and
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dramatic way that it has to be over like you can't vote for him. But that will never it can't
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happen. I mean, he Biden could he could fall down his pants and then fall asleep on the stage,
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you know, in in succession. And it would have no effect on his polling, like maybe two point,
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maybe he'd lose two percentage points temporarily if that were to happen.
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Um, but other than that, it would have no effect because everybody would see that.
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Like everybody who would be rightly horrified by that spectacle. Well, we're not voting for him
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anyway. And all the rest of them would look at it and say, yeah, well, yeah, he's, he's,
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he's basically dead. We already knew that he's like, he's essentially a dead man. And,
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but we're going to vote for him. Um, speaking of brainless vegetables, here's a, another clip.
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Uh, this is of a protester at NYU explaining or trying to explain, uh, the, you would think
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important question, uh, of why is she protesting in the first place? Listen.
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And what would you say is the main goal with tonight's, uh, protest? I think the goal is
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just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops. I honestly don't know
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all of what NYU is doing. Is there something that NYU is doing? I really don't know. I'm pretty sure
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whether, do you know what NYU is doing? About what? About Israel. Why are we protesting here?
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I wish I was more educated. I'm not either. I came from Columbia. I was there up at Columbia
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and we came down. They said NYU students needed our support. So I came down. I heard there's lots
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of cops. Some people were saying it was getting dangerous. So why are they protesting? Uh, well,
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yeah, I mean, that is the million dollar question, isn't it? Like that, that's the, that's if that
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should be the one thing, you know, when you're in a protest is why you're there because you're,
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it's like you must want something. Otherwise, what are we doing? And if you're protesting a certain
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institution, um, you, you should have some idea of like what you want that institution to do.
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Um, but these protesters, they're all shouting at NYU and NYU says like, why are you mad at us?
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Well, I don't know, but we're mad. There's, there's a reason. Um,
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and here's what I don't get. If you know, if you know that you don't know why you're protesting,
00:24:02.280
then why would you volunteer to talk to the guy with the camera in the first place? Like,
00:24:05.920
what did you think was going to happen? How did you think the conversation was going to go?
00:24:08.920
But she at least is, she's at least aware of her own ignorance. And if you're aware of your own
00:24:14.360
ignorance, then why, then if somebody tries to stop you with a camera and talk to you,
00:24:18.040
just say, oh no, I don't have, I don't have time. Sorry. Got to get back to protesting for reasons I
00:24:24.380
can't explain. Now, of course, it's not a surprise that they didn't know why they were protesting.
00:24:29.220
Um, and as much as we talk about the radicalism of these protesters, we, we can't forget that the
00:24:36.920
radicalism is really among the ringleaders, the most devoted ones, uh, the ones shouting on both
00:24:43.940
into bullhorns and so on. So yet you have like three levels, uh, when it comes to these kinds
00:24:48.520
of protests, you've got the people that are bankrolling it, you know, and, and they don't
00:24:53.620
really care about the reason. The, the, the pretense is irrelevant to them because they have
00:24:59.020
other, their agenda is beyond that. Um, and then you've got the ringleaders on the ground,
00:25:05.560
right? The people that are there on the ground in the bullhorns organizing it. They're there.
00:25:09.100
They're actually taking part. Those are the true believers, those people. And then those people
00:25:14.620
go and recruit people like this, um, who, uh, uh, you know, aren't really radical at all. They don't,
00:25:24.820
they don't even understand what the cause is. They don't care. Uh, they don't know why they're there.
00:25:29.900
This is just a social event for them. It's just what you do. All your friends are going protesting.
00:25:35.940
It's trending on social media. Seems like a fun thing. Uh, so let's go do it. And that's,
00:25:40.520
and that's, that's going to be the bulk. That's going to be the lion's share at a protest like this.
00:25:45.040
Um, you know, James Lindsay tweeted in response to that clip that protesting is leftist church.
00:25:51.340
And, uh, of course he's right. And that's, uh, kind of a great way of putting it. And just like
00:26:01.060
real church, it's like, it's a similar dynamic in real church. If you go, if you go to real church,
00:26:06.560
uh, you've got your devout believers who, who are, who are there and are the most excited and
00:26:13.280
all of that. But then you've got an even larger contingent of sort of social church goers.
00:26:20.780
And, uh, they go because it's what you do. It's, it's the culture. It's where they find some
00:26:27.820
semblance of community. It's where they find some semblance of structure and purpose in life.
00:26:33.940
Um, and so they go for that reason, but they don't necessarily believe all the doctrines or,
00:26:38.580
or even know what the doctrines are. Um, it's the exact same scenario for these protests.
00:26:45.040
So talking to this woman, it's like, it's like if, if, uh, you were to stop some casual Christian
00:26:51.540
coming out of Christmas mass, you know, one of these types that only goes to mass or goes to church
00:26:57.080
on Christmas. And, and this is, you know, this is Christmas for, for people that are in protest
00:27:03.160
church. This is Christmas. This is their big holiday event, um, for the year.
00:27:08.580
But it's like stopping one of those at Christmas mass and, and asking them really any question about
00:27:13.780
basic doctrine or, or theological questions. Like they're Christmas men, maybe stop them and say,
00:27:21.140
hey, um, which gospels have an infancy narrative? How many gospels have an infancy narrative and
00:27:29.280
which ones? And of course the answer you're going to get is like, uh, infancy what, what do you tell
00:27:36.900
which God, what do you mean? Is there more than one gospel? What are you talking about? Do they all,
00:27:40.580
do they not all say exactly the same? What do you say? They have no idea. Um, they're there to
00:27:45.960
celebrate the birth of Christ ostensibly. And they couldn't tell you the first thing about the birth
00:27:51.100
of Christ or where it is in the Bible. Like if you gave them a Bible and said, okay, I'll give you 30
00:27:56.380
seconds, find the part in the Bible or one of the parts in the Bible that has this story.
00:28:03.020
Uh, they wouldn't be, they would, they would not know how to do it. That's, that's like the
00:28:07.480
majority of people you'd find at a Christian church. Um, and again, very, so now I've really
00:28:15.300
just gotten into complaining about that because that is a bigger problem as far as I'm concerned
00:28:18.400
as a Christian, but it's a, it is a similar thing on the left. Um, and this is their, this is their
00:28:24.320
religion and, uh, they go just, uh, just to be there. So, you know, it, when we're talking about,
00:28:33.720
and we're going to get into this more, uh, actually in the daily cancellation, but we're
00:28:38.180
talking about the reasons why people go to these protests and what motivates them. It is important
00:28:43.320
to keep in mind that it's, it's not just one thing. There's a lot to end up with a situation
00:28:48.380
like this, where you have mass protests across the country. Uh, there's a lot that goes into it.
00:28:54.680
It's a multifaceted phenomenon. And one of the things that goes into it is a, is an immense
00:29:02.320
amount of ignorance. You need a lot of ignorant people who will just show up and they don't care.
00:29:08.240
And by the way, that's also one of the reasons why on the right among conservatives,
00:29:17.280
we have a harder time getting protest movements going or getting even a single protest going.
00:29:23.400
It's, it's a lot more difficult to organize. And, uh, it's, it's this sort of thing. If there's
00:29:28.980
a mass protest movement with people all across the country, especially one that seem, seems to
00:29:33.760
spring up spontaneously, even though it's not spontaneous, uh, it, it, even before you know
00:29:39.440
any of the details, you ought, you automatically know that it's a, it's a left-wing thing because
00:29:43.560
on the right, that basically never happens. Um, there is one that I could think of. There's one
00:29:50.220
kind of perennial, uh, consistent annual protest movement on the right, which is the pro-life
00:29:55.640
movement, the March for Life. Outside of that, it just never happens. And there are a couple of
00:30:00.260
reasons for that. But a big part is you look at, again, the three levels to have the pro-Palestine
00:30:06.840
protest. There are three levels. You've got the, you've got the big money backers who don't really
00:30:11.520
care about the issue, um, that are funding all of this. Then you've got your devout believers on,
00:30:20.080
on the megaphones, and then you've got your ignorant people who just show up because it's
00:30:23.240
something to do. The left has all of that, has all those layers on the right. We only have the middle
00:30:28.780
layer. We don't have, we don't have the big money backers. We don't have institutional support for
00:30:33.840
our protest movements. So we're not going to have, uh, uh, you know, shadowy billionaires coming along
00:30:38.500
and offering us lots of money and with a lot of different shell organizations and all this kind
00:30:43.120
of stuff, um, who are contributing to it. So we don't have that. We do have the true believers.
00:30:50.300
We've got the people that are the bullhorn types, right? The, like the actual activists. Uh, and then we
00:30:55.300
don't have the final layer either, which are just like the ignorant masses who will just show up
00:30:59.120
because it's something to do. So if you're on the right, and I know this is someone who's, who's a
00:31:03.380
time organized or been a part of organizing these kinds of rallies and things a time or two.
00:31:10.540
I know this from experience that like, you don't, well, the only people who will show up are the,
00:31:15.240
are the ones who really care about this, which is great. It's great to have them.
00:31:19.820
But if you want to have the mass event, you want to get thousands of people showing up,
00:31:23.460
especially all across the country. You need to get people who will just show up. Cause like,
00:31:26.840
I don't know. It's just what we do. The left has that because again, it's part of their culture.
00:31:32.180
That's part of, it's part of their culture. It's, but just, it's just a, it's a habit. It's what
00:31:35.480
they, it's a recreation for them. Um, on the right, it's not, it's not part of the culture.
00:31:40.840
It's not recreational. And so for conservatives, if you want to convince, if you want them to come to
00:31:46.680
a protest, you got to convince them that it's really worthwhile.
00:31:50.240
And even most of the ones that agree that it's worthwhile, they're like, eh, I'm not going
00:31:55.420
to go. I don't, I got to work. I don't, I'm not going to take, I'm not going to take, you want me
00:31:58.660
to take off work for this? I'm not going to do that. I don't care that much. That's the way most
00:32:02.920
conservatives look at it. Um, which is, you know, not really the right way of looking at it, by the
00:32:08.300
way. I mean, you do have to worry about your job and all that, but they're, but, uh, you know,
00:32:11.640
this, this, this is an advantage the left has that they, um, that, you know, they, they see this
00:32:19.140
kind of activism as a top priority and, and, um, they see it as an effective way of moving their
00:32:25.680
agenda forward. And, you know, oftentimes it is. All right. Uh, News Nation has this report.
00:32:31.640
The next time you order a Frosty, there's a chance you'll be talking to a robot. After months of testing,
00:32:35.680
Wendy's is expanding its artificial intelligence partnership with Google to streamline the drive
00:32:41.300
through experience at its restaurants. Starting in 2024, franchisees will get a chance to test the
00:32:46.660
company's fresh AI chatbot, according to the chain, which announced on Monday. Right now, the tech is
00:32:52.220
only available at four company operated restaurants in Columbus, Ohio. When he started testing the AI
00:32:57.420
chatbot back in May, company said service times at an AI pilot location were 22 seconds faster than the
00:33:03.380
local market average. In terms of accuracy, fresh AI has successfully handled 86% of orders without an
00:33:08.820
intervention from staff. That number is expected to improve as the AI model continues to iterate,
00:33:14.040
according to Wendy's. Um, now this article is from a couple of months ago there. They, they have now
00:33:20.020
started actually rolling these out across the country. And here's what the drive through chatbot
00:33:26.600
Welcome to Wendy's. What would you like? Can I have a chocolate Frosty?
00:33:43.200
Can I get you anything else today? No, thank you.
00:33:55.200
Okay. Now, first of all, if you really want this to feel real, then you need your AI chatbot to be a
00:33:59.760
lot less friendly, especially at a place like Wendy's. Uh, you need now, if this is a, if Chick-fil-A
00:34:04.900
goes to the AI chatbot, then that, that works. Cause that, you know, that's pretty, feels pretty
00:34:09.420
lifelike for, uh, for, uh, for Chick-fil-A, but at any other place like Wendy's or Burger King or
00:34:14.280
McDonald's, um, if you want it to feel real, you want us to feel like we're really talking to a
00:34:18.760
person, then you need, you need, you need the chatbot to be a lot more surly and a lot, a lot,
00:34:23.000
a lot less, uh, interested in you. So the chatbot needs to come on like, yeah, what do you want?
00:34:29.280
Uh, number one. Okay. Pull around. No, no, please. No, thank you. No, nothing.
00:34:33.880
Um, now I'm going to take a, an unpopular position as I tend to do sometimes. And this
00:34:42.260
is unpopular anyway with conservatives who tend to worship the free market with a kind
00:34:46.360
of religious conviction. And I believe in the free market too. Um, I'm a big proponent
00:34:50.820
of economic freedom. I'm such a big proponent actually that, uh, that I think that the income
00:34:55.060
tax should be abolished. And, and not only that, but I think a constitutional amendment should be
00:35:00.620
passed prohibiting the government from taxing income. So I am farther to the right on economic
00:35:06.200
freedom than most people, including most conservatives. But why do I favor, uh, economic
00:35:13.020
freedom? Well, it's for the same reason that I favor any kind of freedom because I think that it
00:35:19.140
leads to human flourishing. Um, if it didn't, if it interfered with human flourishing or prevented
00:35:26.480
human flourishing, then it would be bad. And I would oppose it because it's, it's not the freedom
00:35:31.420
or the right in and of itself. That's good. It's, it's what it leads to. Um, and anything that on
00:35:41.220
balance makes people's lives worse and more importantly, makes people worse, like makes
00:35:48.160
people into worse people. Anything that does that on balance is bad. Um, and this, this is what I'm
00:35:55.980
saying so far should not be controversial, right? This is like basic, like, if you don't believe
00:35:59.860
this, then what's the point if we're not fighting for human flourishing and for people to have better
00:36:03.920
lives and to be better people, then what the hell are we even fight? Who cares about anything? If
00:36:08.180
that does, if that's not the thing that matters, uh, most to us, then what, what does matter? Like,
00:36:15.740
why does it, what, what could rank above that? Um, so anything that prevents human flourishing
00:36:23.160
is bad, not something you want in society. And I think on balance, freedom makes people's lives
00:36:30.140
better. So I'm in favor of it, but I'm not in favor of complete freedom. Nobody is like,
00:36:36.520
I don't think that you should have absolute freedom. I don't think you should have the freedom
00:36:38.980
to do whatever you want. There are limits. Everyone agrees that there are limits. We just disagree
00:36:45.180
about where the limits should be. And one of the reasons we disagree about where the limits
00:36:49.380
should be is because we don't, many people don't have a clear idea again of like, what the,
00:36:54.120
what's the point of allowing people to be free? What is that supposed to accomplish exactly?
00:36:59.980
And if you understand what it's supposed to accomplish, then you clearly start to see where
00:37:03.900
the limits are. The limits are only confusing. If you have no underlying notion of what the purpose
00:37:11.800
of life even is like, what, what, what's, what's the project here? What are we even doing?
00:37:15.340
Why do we exist? Um, if you, if you have no notion of that, if you haven't thought about it,
00:37:21.140
then a question like, well, where, you know, where do you draw the line on freedoms becomes very,
00:37:26.460
very confusing. You know, it's, it's, it's because very vague, but if you have a clear idea,
00:37:31.860
then it's much, uh, those lines are delineate, delineated more clearly. So for me, the limits are
00:37:38.580
kind of clear. Um, with freedom, when you push past the point of human flourishing, when it gets
00:37:47.560
to the point where it now makes people suffer or it makes their lives worse, it makes them worse,
00:37:53.400
that harms the body and the soul, but the soul more importantly, then you have reached the limit.
00:38:00.020
That's where freedom should end. It should not go beyond that point, which is why I think,
00:38:05.140
for example, that you shouldn't have the freedom to kill your baby, uh, or gender transition your
00:38:09.800
child or, uh, bring a kid to a drag show. You know, all of that, along with many other things,
00:38:15.460
I don't, I think you shouldn't have the freedom to do. But, uh, the reason I take that view on those
00:38:21.040
topics is because that stuff is pretty well past the line, right? That, that, that is the kind of
00:38:26.740
freedom. It is a kind of freedom, you know, it's a freedom for people to do, but it's a freedom that
00:38:32.180
harms people and harms society and harms the soul and makes everything worse for everybody.
00:38:39.360
And so it's, it's bad. Okay. So that's my brief dissertation on freedom. How does that relate
00:38:46.880
to AI chatbots in the drive-thru line? Well, um, you know, if this is as far as it goes, the,
00:38:54.020
the drive-thru, if this is the limit, if AI is going to take over drive-thrus and that's it,
00:38:59.340
then I'd probably be fine with it. But we know that it doesn't end here. It only, it begins here,
00:39:06.960
which is why I feel quite strongly that there, there should be laws in place heavily regulating
00:39:13.420
the use of AI by businesses and outright banning it in some cases. I know again, if you're on the
00:39:20.620
right and especially if you're, you know, more, if you're kind of the Fox news conservative type
00:39:26.200
and you hear regulate, you hear the word regulation to go, how, this is blasphemy.
00:39:30.840
How could you possibly suggest that the regulation should be passed? Obviously there are, we have a
00:39:37.020
lot of regulations that are bad. We have too many regulations, but clearly there should be some
00:39:41.100
regulations. Like obviously we're not so stupid that we take the position that nothing should be
00:39:47.960
regulated ever. Um, clearly there is a place for some form of regulation in some context. I hope we
00:39:54.920
could all agree with that. And I think this is one area where it should be. Uh, and the reason I say
00:40:02.040
that is that if nothing is done, if no laws are passed, then AI is going to replace easily 80 to
00:40:10.900
90% of all the jobs on the planet. Like that will happen. It will happen rapidly within the next 20
00:40:17.520
years. Okay. 80 to 90%. And I think that's probably a conservative estimate. And it, it,
00:40:25.500
now it's speculation. You could say, well, how do I know that? I don't know that, but it seems very
00:40:31.140
likely to me. And all you have to do is imagine with current technology, how many jobs could be
00:40:37.280
replaced right now with current technology? Many. And, and, and, but then from there you said, okay,
00:40:43.460
well, how many jobs conceivably could be replaced with just a little bit of it, more advancement,
00:40:48.420
uh, in, in our technology? Um, well, many more. Uh, so like one, one big example is, um,
00:40:59.960
self-driving cars, AI that drives cars. And we already have a little bit of that. It's,
00:41:03.800
it's in that, that technology is in its infancy, but I think we all understand that without,
00:41:10.040
if, if nothing prevents it from happening, that certainly within 20 years, probably sooner than
00:41:14.060
that, you're going to have self-driving cars all over the road. And it'll be a very common,
00:41:17.960
it'll be like most cars that that'll be a standard, you know, um, eventually it'll be probably mandated.
00:41:24.020
And then there's a whole bunch of jobs that go out the window, just, just with that alone,
00:41:29.300
just that piece, uh, truck drivers, uh, any, you know, any kind of Uber taxi driver, anything in that
00:41:36.740
industry, all that stuff, delivery drivers out the window. That's, that's, uh, thousands and
00:41:43.120
thousands of middle-class jobs just from that piece gone. And I think that's bad. I think that's
00:41:52.280
very, very bad. Um, I think that will lead to suffering on a massive planetary scale actually.
00:41:58.160
And, um, and I think that we should prevent that kind of suffering. I think that, I think that,
00:42:03.520
I think that's, I think that massive planet-wide suffering is bad. And if we can prevent it,
00:42:09.520
we should. We can't prevent all of it, but if it can be prevented, then it should be. And if we see
00:42:17.760
ourselves right now actively creating the circumstances for future suffering, we should
00:42:26.380
probably stop and say, well, maybe we should stop doing this. Like we are, we are right now choosing
00:42:31.560
to do things that are going, that's going to harm a lot of people. And we don't, we can stop. Let's
00:42:37.540
not do that. So now you might argue as many people have that people have always predicted doom,
00:42:45.360
you know, whenever some new technological advance comes along. Um, and they've, and they've always
00:42:50.760
been wrong supposedly, right? Uh, they worried that cars would take, uh, jobs away from horse and
00:42:56.380
buggy manufacturers, right? And, and, and so on, but this is different. Okay. This is a different
00:43:02.500
kind of thing. It just is. Any analogy that you try to draw isn't, is going to, will fail because all
00:43:10.020
of that is different. Now I'm all about historical analogies, but not everything has an analogy. Not,
00:43:18.580
not every, there are unprecedented things that happen in history sometimes. And this kind of
00:43:23.620
technology is unprecedented. There's nothing go back a hundred years ago. What was their version
00:43:28.280
of AI? It didn't exist. They didn't have a version of it. It just was not a thing that existed.
00:43:34.220
It didn't. So, you know, with the horse and buggy example, that was a massive technological shift,
00:43:42.540
totally changed human society. Um, but people went from driving horse and buggies to driving cars.
00:43:50.760
The thing that they used, the tool they used changed.
00:43:58.140
And so, you know, you just had to learn how to use the new tool and that's a big adjustment, but
00:44:01.740
you know, it, it, that's it. That's all that happened. Uh, people went from writing one way
00:44:07.400
to writing another way with the invention of the printing press and, and any other example you can
00:44:12.220
think of, but this is a different sort of thing. It just is. Other technology has been artificial,
00:44:17.460
man-made, right? But this technology is artificially intelligent. We are inventing
00:44:24.620
intelligence, which is simply different from inventing a new tool for intelligent people to
00:44:30.780
use. We invented cars, right? But they didn't drive themselves, at least not at first. Now that will
00:44:37.520
happen. But, um, you know, at first and up until now, uh, it, it, they didn't drive themselves. So
00:44:46.280
all we invented cars and yeah, you're not doing horse and buggy. Now just use a car because the
00:44:50.580
car is not going to drive itself. We still need people to do that. So it's the self operation.
00:44:55.720
It's the, it's the intelligence, um, that, that sets this apart. And the problem is that it takes
00:45:02.760
away whole industries. It takes away whole categories of jobs and doesn't replace them
00:45:08.860
with anything. It gives people less to do a lot less to do fewer tasks to perform, um, rather than
00:45:16.680
giving us new things to do and new tasks to perform. It makes people themselves obsolete and
00:45:23.140
irrelevant. It creates a few jobs, comparatively few. They're the people that create, maintain the AI
00:45:31.040
and that sort of thing. But, um, but it is not a one for one trade at all. I mean, in reality,
00:45:40.500
we will just be erasing entire industries from the face of the earth. Where does that lead? Well,
00:45:47.700
the optimist, the AI advocate will say that it will freeze people up. I talked about, I was talking
00:45:52.980
about this on Twitter today. This is the response I got from a lot of people that it frees people up
00:45:58.460
to, to seek more fulfilling, worthwhile, creative pursuits. You know, why waste your time running
00:46:03.500
drive-through lines? Uh, now the would-be drive-through worker can become a poet or a
00:46:10.100
philosopher or, you know, go be a, be a painter or they could take up a trade. Uh, one of the few that
00:46:16.120
isn't, hasn't been consumed by the AI blob. They can take up one of the trades. That's the positive
00:46:21.200
spin here. It's also completely delusional. Um, you have to have some understanding of human nature
00:46:29.060
in order to participate in a conversation like this. And if you just don't understand how people
00:46:33.260
work, then your opinion will not be very useful. Um, and that is not how people work. That's not how,
00:46:41.040
it's not how it has worked so far. What will happen instead is that for one thing,
00:46:47.540
the welfare roles will explode even more than they already have. It's going to put millions more on
00:46:53.760
the government dole. Um, all those immigrants coming here to run our drive-throughs, guess what
00:46:59.480
they're doing? They're not going home. Okay. They're going on welfare, even more of them. So that's what
00:47:06.480
will happen. And while we become a welfare state, even more of a welfare state than we already are,
00:47:11.720
uh, people will be sitting around staring at screens, amusing themselves idly and pointlessly
00:47:17.240
with no sense of meaning or purpose. That has been the trend. Okay. I, you know, we, all you got
00:47:24.320
to do is look at even without AI, um, all these other technological advancements, although they
00:47:32.380
haven't made human beings obsolete yet, like AI will, they have freed up a lot of time for us,
00:47:38.020
right? So we, we, we do have a lot more free time. We have a lot more free time now than people
00:47:43.040
did a hundred years ago or 200 years ago. Okay. Well, how are we using that free time? You tell
00:47:49.120
me, is there any evidence, any evidence that on, that on the whole human beings will take all that
00:47:56.100
free time where they don't need to do anything and use it to pursue worthwhile pursuits? No.
00:48:02.580
What do we do? We spend 10 hours a day staring at screens. That's what we do. That's what people do.
00:48:07.400
That's just the reality. And that's what will happen. It has already been happening and it will
00:48:12.840
continue to happen. And so you take away all these jobs. That is what now you can say all you want.
00:48:18.220
Well, running a drive-thru is a soul crushing work. It's, oh, really? So just sitting at, at, at home
00:48:24.620
and like looking at your phone and doing this for 15 hours a day, this is better. This, this is better.
00:48:29.260
This is more enriching to the soul. Just this move all day that that's, that's, that's a, that's a heck
00:48:36.680
of a lot more enriching, isn't it? At least when you're working a job, like you're doing something,
00:48:42.620
you're, you're interacting with people, you're performing some sort of task, you're providing
00:48:47.920
a service or a good to people. You have like a reason to get up in the morning and, and take a
00:48:52.280
shower hopefully and get changed. Um, people need work. They need, people need something to do.
00:49:01.460
They need a, they need a purpose. They need like a task. They need to wake up in the morning and feel
00:49:07.180
like there's a, like, I've got something to do. I have a reason to get out of bed. They need that.
00:49:11.740
People need that. You cannot take that away from people. You can't take it away from millions of
00:49:17.480
people all at once and expect anything but total catastrophe to, uh, come as a result of that.
00:49:28.260
Um, and so that's, what's going to happen. Uh, don't say I didn't warn you, but you know,
00:49:38.860
I guess we'll check back in 20 years and I can do the, uh, I told you so game.
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Well, it is, I think, established that I am not a fan of the pro-Palestine protests happening on
00:52:20.880
college campuses all across the country. On this show just yesterday, I went into detail arguing that
00:52:24.680
these protests are BLM reborn. There was always destined to be some kind of race-related protest movement
00:52:30.160
in the spring and summer before the election. In 2020, it was George Floyd. This time around,
00:52:34.040
it's taken the form of sympathizing with Hamas. But at bottom, it's the same people, the same
00:52:38.600
activists, funded by the same wealthy backers who, just as in 2020, can ultimately be traced back to
00:52:43.340
George Soros. Who else? And they're angry about basically the same things, many of them. Even if the
00:52:50.140
conflict in Israel has nothing at all to do with racial grievances in the U.S., these activists,
00:52:55.980
and the left more broadly, are still viewing it through that prism. They see Hamas as revolutionaries
00:53:03.900
fighting back against white power structures and white colonialism. They see this as marginalized
00:53:08.580
brown people warring against white oppressors. It's all about systemic racism. Everything is
00:53:13.260
always about that. As I've said many times, they will always side with the less white side or the
00:53:18.140
browner side, if that's how you want to put it. So I'm not a fan of these people or their movement.
00:53:21.880
In fact, I despise everything they stand for. And I've also said, including just yesterday, that
00:53:25.880
any protester breaking the law should be rounded up and dragged away in handcuffs immediately.
00:53:33.120
Throw the book at any of the lawbreakers. If they're setting up illegal encampments,
00:53:36.900
if they're vandalizing or causing any property damage at all, if they're engaging in any acts
00:53:40.840
of violence at all, if they're making explicit threats of violence against Jewish people or any
00:53:45.160
other group of people, if they're standing in the road and blocking traffic, if they're engaging in
00:53:50.160
criminal activity of any kind, they should be thrown in jail. And if hundreds of them are
00:53:54.600
committing crimes at once, then arrest hundreds of them, put them in buses and take them to jail.
00:53:58.500
Very simple. And I've been clear about my feelings on that subject. But right now I have a bone to
00:54:04.200
pick with the other side of this dispute. And before we get to the more significant problem,
00:54:10.740
I will, first of all, confess some annoyance at some of the people who have been so bold in speaking
00:54:16.600
out against these protests. Take Speaker Mike Johnson, for example, who went to Columbia University
00:54:21.360
yesterday to denounce the protests and call for the president of the university to resign. Watch.
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Sadly, Columbia's administrators have chosen to let the threats, the fear and the intimidation of the
00:54:35.480
mob rule to overtake American principles like free speech and the free exchange of ideas and the free
00:54:42.460
exercise of religion. They have co-opted First Amendment arguments to protect genocide and to
00:54:50.100
elevate the voices of anti-Semitism. They have proven themselves to be incapable of achieving their basic
00:54:56.500
responsibility, which is keeping students safe. We just can't allow this kind of hatred and anti-Semitism
00:55:03.280
to flourish on our campuses, and it must be stopped in its tracks. Those who are perpetrating this violence
00:55:09.540
should be arrested. And I'm here today. I'm here today joining my colleagues and calling on President
00:55:16.500
Shafiq to resign if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.
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As Speaker of the House, I am committing today that the Congress will not be silent as Jewish students
00:55:29.800
are expected to run for their lives and stay home from their classes, hiding in fear. In the House of
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Representatives, we've already acted to address anti-Semitism on campuses. We have passed a number
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of statutes to address this matter, and we call upon the U.S. Senate to act upon our legislation.
00:55:46.980
Okay, we'll get back to the anti-Semitism bit in a moment, but the point is that Mike Johnson was
00:55:51.860
very clear about condemning this movement, and when asked about his message to Columbia students
00:55:57.280
participating in the protest, here's what he said. What is your message to the students inside the
00:56:03.860
encampment right now? My message to the students inside the encampment is go back to class and stop
00:56:10.400
the nonsense. Look, if we want to have a debate on campus about the merits of these things, let's do
00:56:15.560
that. But you can't intimidate your fellow students and make them stay home from class. Think about that.
00:56:20.760
Is that right? Do you think that's right? Stop wasting your parents' money, Congressman Lawler says.
00:56:26.280
I think that's right. So you're wasting your parents' money, he says, and he's right. They
00:56:32.360
are. I take no issue with what was said in that second clip. But it's hard not to notice a stark
00:56:40.720
contrast here. You know, when it comes to the pro-Palestine demonstrations, he is bold and loud
00:56:46.060
in his denunciations. But what did he have to say only a few years ago when BLM mobs were torching our
00:56:53.420
cities? Now, those protests, quote unquote, were far, far, far more destructive, like by an infinite
00:57:01.700
margin. What was Mike Johnson's response back then? Well, let's take a trip down memory lane,
00:57:08.240
shall we? What did you feel when you watched the video of George Floyd being killed?
00:57:15.420
I was outraged. I don't think anyone can view the video and objectively come to any other conclusion
00:57:22.080
but that it was an act of murder. And I felt that initially, as everyone did. And it's so disturbing.
00:57:30.260
And, you know, the underlying issues beneath that are something that the country is now struggling
00:57:36.300
with. And I think it's something we have to look at very soberly and with a lot of empathy. And I'm glad
00:57:42.180
to see that's happening around the country. You know, what it's taught me is we now have four other
00:57:45.940
children of our own. And my oldest son, Jack, ironically, this year is 14. And I've thought often
00:57:52.140
through all these ordeals over the last couple of weeks about the difference in the experiences between
00:57:56.800
my two 14-year-old sons, Michael being a black American and Jack being white Caucasian. They have
00:58:03.860
different challenges. My son, Jack, has an easier path. He just does. The interesting thing about both
00:58:11.180
these kids, Michael and Jack, is they're both handsome, articulate, really talented kids gifted
00:58:17.000
by God to do lots of things. But the reality is, and no one can tell me otherwise, my son Michael had a
00:58:23.180
harder time than my son Jack is going to have simply because of the color of his skin. And that's a
00:58:27.100
reality. It's an uncomfortable, painful one to acknowledge. But people have to recognize that's a
00:58:32.880
I think that we need, we really do need systematic change. I think we need transformative solutions.
00:58:41.440
Systematic change for our systemically racist country. How bold and courageous. So turns out,
00:58:48.780
Mike Johnson did not denounce the BLM rioters. He didn't hold any press conference at the site of
00:58:53.260
any of these riots and condemn the protesters to their faces. He didn't tell them to go home.
00:58:58.960
Instead, he went on national television and declared that George Floyd was murdered.
00:59:03.520
He threw Derek Chauvin under the bus. And then proceeded to validate and agree with the BLM rioters
00:59:09.500
and their claims about systemic racism in America. That's what he did. And now he wants us to give him
00:59:16.420
credit because he's at Columbia University making fun of the dumb college kids. I don't give him any
00:59:22.540
credit for that. And I'm picking on Mike Johnson here for good reason. He's a speaker of the house.
00:59:27.000
But I could play this game with almost any Republican politician who has been vocal in
00:59:31.860
their denunciations of the so-called free Palestine movement. Almost none of them showed even a fraction
00:59:38.620
of that boldness when BLM was terrorizing not just Ivy League campuses, but the entire country,
00:59:45.880
whole cities, communities of normal people. Not these dumb college, Ivy League college kids.
00:59:51.940
Now, of course, the same can be said, can even more be said for the people in corporate media,
00:59:57.920
academia, elsewhere, who have been speaking out against the campus protests this month. All of
01:00:02.180
them, literally all of them, were on the side of these same activists four years ago when those
01:00:07.940
activists were looting and burning our cities. Now, this is not just some cheap gotcha moment.
01:00:14.200
The point is that most of these people pretending to be shocked and appalled by the campus protests
01:00:18.100
are at least partially to blame for them. You validated these activists and their tactics. In fact,
01:00:23.940
you validated tactics much worse, much more destructive, much more disruptive than this.
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And now you're speaking out without ever acknowledging your own role in this or apologizing
01:00:35.060
for your cowardice. And why are you speaking out now? Why now, but not back then? Well,
01:00:41.240
because the BLM movement of 2020 was anti-white, and it is not safe to denounce anti-whiteism,
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which is why Mike Johnson never has denounced it and never, ever, ever will. And we all know that.
01:00:55.480
It is much safer and much more acceptable in polite society to denounce anti-Semitism.
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So they're happy to do so. There's nothing wrong with denouncing anti-Semitism, of course.
01:01:08.020
Anti-Semitism, actual anti-Semitism, which is the hatred of Jewish people for being Jewish,
01:01:12.520
is evil and should be denounced. And very often is denounced by both sides of the political divide.
01:01:17.760
However sincere or insincere that may be with their denunciations, they do denounce it all the time.
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But hating white people for being white is evil too. And yet again, most of these people have never
01:01:31.260
once, not once ever, not ever explicitly condemned that kind of bigotry or even acknowledged that it
01:01:37.680
exists. And that imbalance and double standard really matters. It does. So that's my first issue
01:01:45.980
with some of the people on the other side. Here's my second. Yesterday, students at University of Texas
01:01:52.260
Austin joined in the protest fund, but they were greeted with a much different response from what
01:01:58.040
their comrades and other campuses have experienced. As soon as they began their walkout, police were on
01:02:05.380
So the whole video is kind of like that. So according to CBS News, at least 30 of the
01:02:30.300
UT protesters were arrested. And why were they arrested? Were they threatening violence? Were
01:02:36.620
they setting up illegal encampments? Was this an unlawful assembly? Maybe so. But we can't know for
01:02:42.160
sure based on that video. You know, you can't really tell. So it's up to those in a position of authority
01:02:46.880
to communicate with us. They have to tell us why they are making these arrests. And especially when
01:02:53.800
you're arresting protesters in the middle of a political demonstration, it is very important to be
01:02:59.060
clear about why you're doing it. So what did Greg Abbott, the governor of Texas, say? Well, yesterday
01:03:06.220
afternoon, he retweeted that video of law enforcement swarming the area. And he said this, quote,
01:03:12.600
arrests being made right now will continue until the crowd disperses. These protesters belong in jail.
01:03:18.920
Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas, period. Students joining in hate-filled anti-Semitic
01:03:25.060
protests at any public college or university in Texas should be expelled. Now, there are plenty of
01:03:33.260
conservatives who have tried to twist themselves into pretzel-like shapes in search of some defensible
01:03:39.920
interpretation of Greg Abbott's own words. But we should not have to twist ourselves into any shape
01:03:45.800
for the sake of our political leaders. That's not our job. Your job is to communicate clearly,
01:03:52.640
especially in a time like this. And the clear, simple, most direct interpretation of Abbott's
01:03:58.600
statement is that these protesters are being arrested for being anti-Semitic. Again, quote,
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these protesters belong in jail. Anti-Semitism will not be tolerated in Texas.
01:04:12.580
Okay, if you tell me that that does not indicate that they're being arrested for anti-Semitism,
01:04:17.120
then you are being intentionally stupid and you know it. Stop it. The only way to avoid
01:04:23.560
interpreting this as a direction for protesters to be arrested for their anti-Semitic views
01:04:27.540
is to assume that the first sentence in that statement has nothing to do with the second
01:04:33.380
sentence. Like these are two completely separate, unrelated thoughts that just happen to be put
01:04:38.720
into the same tweet for no particular reason. But that is absurd, of course. And anyone
01:04:44.920
interpreting it that way is being willfully obtuse. And again, if you're in that category,
01:04:51.040
you know it, and I know it, so just cut it out. So we are left with two possibilities.
01:04:58.940
Either Greg Abbott really did direct law enforcement to arrest protesters for being anti-Semitic,
01:05:04.480
or he wants us to think that he did. Either they are being hauled away in handcuffs for being,
01:05:10.160
for anti-Semitism, or they're being hauled away for actually breaking the law, but Greg Abbott is
01:05:16.460
presenting it as a crackdown on anti-Semitism. In either case, it's a problem. It is a very big
01:05:23.220
problem, in fact. And that is because anti-Semitic speech is not illegal. Okay? Now, directly calling for
01:05:32.960
or inciting violence is illegal. And if somebody does that, then arrest them for that. Arrest them
01:05:38.960
right away. And tell us that's what you're doing. But anti-Semitic speech more broadly, that is speech
01:05:46.240
that conveys a hatred for or opposition towards Jews, is not illegal. You are allowed to hate Jews
01:05:52.340
or any other group in this country. You cannot make it illegal to simply hate a group of people or say
01:05:58.600
you hate them. Or you can do that. But if you do, free speech is over. It's just done. If we have
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free speech at all, then that umbrella must cover what we now call hate speech. And this is entirely
01:06:14.260
leaving aside the question of whether all of these protesters actually do hate Jews. And I think it's
01:06:19.000
clear that many of them don't. Some of them are Jewish themselves. Others are there because, as
01:06:23.560
established, they see Israel as a white Western power, and that's why they hate it. Others are
01:06:28.920
there just because they want to protest something, and they don't care about the reason or know about
01:06:32.640
the reason. We just heard from one of those people. She doesn't even know why she's there. And others
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are there because they oppose Israel as a political entity, but not Jews as people. And then some are
01:06:42.680
there, yes, because they hate Jewish people. That crowd is certainly present in many of these protests.
01:06:48.140
You can hear them. It's absurd to deny all of these other motivations and reasons and assume
01:06:54.260
that all of them are protesting just for that last reason. But even if they were, it shouldn't matter
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legally because legally we have the First Amendment. Now, if free speech does not include the kind of
01:07:09.360
speech society judges to be most vile and unpleasant, then there's no such thing as free speech.
01:07:15.040
If protesters don't have the First Amendment right to express views that those in power find
01:07:20.080
especially detestable, then they don't have the First Amendment. You know, if the governor declares,
01:07:24.900
you have the right to say whatever you want, except for that, because that's really mean.
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Well, if that is declared, then clearly you do not have the right to say what you want.
01:07:35.980
It's not hard to see what happens next once this precedent is set. If the governor can send you,
01:07:41.560
you can send the cops in and have you arrested for being anti-Semitic, if he can declare indeed
01:07:47.740
that anti-Semitic speech will not be tolerated in his state at all, which is what he said,
01:07:53.900
then why can't you also be arrested for so-called homophobic speech or transphobic speech or racist
01:08:00.340
speech? Is it now up to the governor of each state to decide which forms of hateful speech will be
01:08:06.200
tolerated and which will not be tolerated? Is that what it means to live in a supposedly free country?
01:08:11.560
There are many forms of bigotry, yet there's only one that Greg Abbott has decided will not be
01:08:17.580
tolerated in Texas. He certainly never declared during the BLM riots that anti-whiteism won't be
01:08:22.640
tolerated. He appears to have a lot of tolerance for that. Well, that's why our free speech rights
01:08:30.540
should not hinge on the tolerance and preferences of our political leaders. You as the leader might find
01:08:37.480
this form of hate to be especially appalling even more than other forms, I don't care. I don't give
01:08:43.360
a damn what you personally feel is worse. That shouldn't make a difference. You're allowed to
01:08:48.300
have your opinion. You can't arrest people according to that. No one has the right to directly call for
01:08:58.120
or threaten violence against anyone. But you do have the right to hate whoever you want and to
01:09:03.940
express that hatred verbally. I'm not saying hatred is good. I'm not recommending it. But you have the
01:09:10.860
right. Human beings experience hate and they talk like you. Yes, you have the right to do that.
01:09:16.700
It's that simple. If we legitimize the criminalization of so-called hate speech,
01:09:21.340
we embrace the final destruction of the First Amendment. And we invite the left to use this as a
01:09:27.080
weapon against us, which they will. And happily so. And that's why Greg Abbott is, once again,
01:09:34.700
I'm afraid to say, canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for
01:09:38.700
listening. Have a great day. Talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.