Ep. 640 - Where We Go From Here
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The Trump administration is over. Democrats have officially assumed total control of the government. Where do we go from here? We ll talk about that today on The Matt Welch Show. Also, 5 headlines including Trump's confusing pardon of a corrupt politician, the media gets back to licking the boots of those in power, and the mayor of D.C. defends the political vetting of troops. And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel multiculturalism.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the Trump administration is over. Democrats have
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officially assumed total control of the government. Where do we go from here? We'll
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talk about that today. Also, five headlines, including Trump's confusing pardon of a corrupt
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Democrat politician. Plus, the media gets back to licking the boots of those in power. That's
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the position they're comfortable being in. And the mayor of D.C. defends the political vetting
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of troops. And in our daily cancellation, we will cancel multiculturalism. All of that and
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Before we get going here today, and we're going to talk about this, we have more to say
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about this as we get into the opening monologue. But one question we're all asking, especially
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online at charitymobile.com. Here we are now at the end of all things. Well, the end of the Trump
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administration. So not all things, but that thing, at least. Joe Biden, a man with the mental acuity
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and awareness of an oyster, is now in the White House where he will be taken by the hand, guided into
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a closet somewhere, given some coloring books to keep him busy while Kamala Harris runs the government.
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And it will be, let's face it, a radically far left government, the most far left government in
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American history by a mile. We can pretty much guarantee that. To make matters worse, there will
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be no constraints. There will be no restraining it. They will be unfettered. They will be free
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like birds to fly off and fulfill their Marxist dreams. Republicans, you know, aren't good for much,
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as we've learned, especially when it comes to actually enacting and acting upon their own agenda.
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But they can at least play defense. They're decent at that. They can block the Democrat agenda,
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even if they can't or won't push forward their own when they have the power. Only now they will
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be unable or certainly at least less able to block anything, given that the Democrats won Georgia and
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thus the Senate. The Republicans could have won Georgia, if not for the fact that the Georgia race
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became a circus sideshow of grifters and carnival barkers raising money for their own benefit while
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telling Republicans to stay home and forfeit Congress to the left. Also not helping matters,
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the Republican candidates in those races could not themselves have been any less exciting or less
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inspiring if they tried. And they did try, it seemed. The upshot is that, again, Democrats have full
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control and they will exploit that control to the fullest possible extent. They will show us what it
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looks like when power is wielded. Make no mistake. They will do everything that they have the legal
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right to do and a whole bunch of things that they do not have the legal right to do. Democrats impose
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their will when given the opportunity, love them or hate them. And I'm very much a member of the second
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club. The fact is that when put into a position of power, the Democrats do what their voters put them
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there to do. Republicans, on the other hand, twiddle their thumbs and bide their time waiting to be out of
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power again so that they can finally pretend to care about the agenda that they didn't enact when they had the
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chance to do it. Democrats don't play that game, as we have seen. And we will see even more in the
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years ahead. Making matters worse, the Democrats have a taste for vengeance now, a taste for blood.
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They feel that those who inflicted the last four years upon them, those responsible for making it
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happen, so 75 million people or so, should pay for what they've done. And they are determined to
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prevent such indignities from ever happening again. Whatever progress may have been made in the last
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four years, whatever good may have been done. It's all mostly stuff that can be easily reversed and
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undone, mostly by executive order. Trump actually reversed some of it himself on the way out the
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door. For example, rescinding his own executive order, banning administration officials from taking
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lobbyist jobs within five years of leaving government. So Trump saved Biden the paperwork on
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that one, I guess. The rest, Biden or his handlers, can do on their own without much trouble.
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Meanwhile, the conservative movement is fractured into a million pieces. Trump leaves office impeached
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and deplatformed, facing the possibility of a Senate conviction. Many others, many other much less
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famous conservatives have also been deplatformed and censored, with the powers that be currently
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dreaming up ways to silence the rest of us. We are under suspicion. We are under attack.
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The left won by whatever means necessary, and now we are on the outside. We are scattered. We are
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disorganized. We are weakened. That's the reality of the situation. It's best now that we look it
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straight in the eyes, as uncomfortable as it may be. I'm not here to tell you fairy tales or delude
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you into a false sense of security. The right has been deluding itself for far too long, telling
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itself stories about secret plans and 4D chess, and insisting that everything will magically work out
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in the end. Up until last night, I saw people still insisting that Trump would remain in office
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today, and the plan would unfold, and everything would be okay. They held on to the delusion until
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the bitter end. Some of them probably still holding on to it, even now. I wouldn't be surprised if the
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new theory is that Trump is really president still, and is secretly running the government from his bat
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cave somewhere. I'm not joking. This is what some people will believe. Those of us with the boldness to
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face reality, though, will face it. And reality is, as I have described it here.
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So the question is, what now? Where do we go from here? What does the road ahead look like?
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Is all hope lost? Are we doomed? Should we give up? Well, I can answer those last three questions with
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a no, no, and no. Hope is not lost. We're not doomed, and we should not give up. As for what exactly
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happens or what precisely the future holds, that I don't know for certain. Nobody does. But I do know
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that even if we're bruised and beaten at present, we are not in a hopeless state. Despair is not the
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answer. And though I may be known as a guy who can be quite bleak at times, I'm not exactly a ray of
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sunshine, I must admit, I have never been in despair, and I am not now. And you shouldn't be
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either. Despair is what happens when you have not only no hope, but no meaning in your life. Despair is
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when you wake up and look around, and you can't see that your life has any purpose. It's when everything
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is empty or appears to be, from your perspective. I would hope that nobody would ever be tempted to
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feel this way because of political events. But from the sound and look of it, it seems that some
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people really are teetering close to that. It's not that these are Trump-obsessed cultists who can't
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bear to live without the man. It's that they look around and they see that our government and our
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institutions are overrun and run by people who hate them, and they think it's all lost, and there's
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nothing ahead but more defeat, and there's no point. And that's where the despair comes in. But
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it shouldn't. In fact, there is a silver lining to our present condition. The silver lining is that
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now conservatives can stop looking to one man in Washington to save them and save their families,
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and instead focus on making an impact where it really matters, and where it can really be felt.
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You know, the fight going forward is where it's always been, though we've neglected and ignored it.
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Focusing instead on national politics as though national politics is the be-all and end-all.
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The fight is in our communities. It's in the culture, on the local level. The true battle for
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everything is happening right around us, right now, directly around us. And we can make a profound
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impact there if we're willing to put in the effort. Let me just give you one tangible example.
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The school system. Millions of children. Do you hear me railing about this all the time? Millions
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of children are sent into these buildings, or into Zoom meetings now, I guess, where they are
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conditioned and indoctrinated into the doctrines of the far left. We could have only Republican
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presidents for the next 50 years. It would make almost no difference culturally as long as we keep
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feeding our kids into this system. This is something we can change. We can change it.
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Right now we could. But it takes work. It's not always fun. We could pull our kids out. We could form
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homeschool co-ops, supporting each other in our communities, taking charge of our children's
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education. We can do this. We can do that. Lots of us are already doing it. If enough of us do it,
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we can radically change the culture in immeasurable ways overnight, no matter what anyone in Washington
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says or does. 50 million children are currently enrolled in public school. 50 million. Cut that
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number in half, let's say. We could have Democrat presidents for the next 50 years. And that would
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also almost not matter at all, because we will have so significantly taken back control
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of our own families and thus the culture. The condition of the family is what determines the
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condition of the culture. This, as I said, is just one example. There are plenty of others,
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including in the realm of politics, local politics. Go to your town hall meetings. Figure out who your
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local council members are. Do you even know? These people have more control over you than you think.
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Speak out when things are happening in your neighborhood and community that you don't like.
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Protest the drag queen story hours. This stuff matters. Don't listen to people who tell you it
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doesn't. In fact, at this point, any conservative who tells you that the culture wars don't matter,
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please, if there are going to be any change we make, disregard them, dispense of them,
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throw them out. We don't need them. How can you expect your voice to have any impact on anything?
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If there are drag queens performing for children at your local library two blocks away and you say
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nothing and do nothing about it. Oh, we can't do anything about it. Really? We can't. If all the
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people in the community that didn't like it showed up at that library, you don't think that'd be enough
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to put an end to it? It would. It happens because we don't show up and we don't do anything.
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We could, but we don't. It's not all a matter of protesting things either. You know, on the other
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end of it, we can support the people who are making a positive difference. Donate to your local
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pregnancy center. Give to your church. Get involved in your church. These are all things we can do.
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There are plenty of other things too. It may not be dramatic or flashy, but the real work of fighting
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to reclaim the culture and your country is rarely dramatic or flashy. The real work is being done
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by serious, sober-minded people, usually without fanfare and without notice.
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That's where our focus should be. It's where our hope lies. It's why I haven't given up.
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Fight in a meaningful way. And I hope you are too. So let's get to it. And now time for our five
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headlines. All right. I know we just had a serious talk there about all the things in the culture to
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fight for. Can I just mention one other thing? Not quite as serious, but it's on my mind because right
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before I went on the air here, I was in the break room and somebody brought donuts to the office
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and there's a box of donuts there. And there's this moment, of course, when you're walking to
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the break room and there's a box of donuts and a moment of joy when you see that box and you think
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the whole day is made. A free donut. I wasn't expecting this. But then what always happens?
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You open the box and this is what just happened to me. Nothing but powdered donuts and jelly donuts
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in there. That's all that's left. There's like one half of a powdered and then a few jelly donuts
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left. Okay. Here's my point. Why do we bother putting these trash filler donuts in the box?
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They are always the last ones left. Everybody knows this. At the end of the day, there's always
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a couple of donuts left and they're always the jelly and powdered donuts. So when you're going to
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Dunkin' Donuts to get the donut, why tell, it's not like they're cheaper. Why tell them to put those
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filler donuts in there in the first place? Stick with the classics, the ones everyone likes.
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Glazed, chocolate. There's never a glaze left. When's the last time you pick up a box and there's
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a glaze left? Never. Those get eaten. This is very important. This is another thing we could do to
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reclaim the culture. Just get control of the way that we set up our boxes of donuts. Okay. Number one,
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Trump released his list of pardons earlier today. Lots of people hoping he'd pardon Assange and
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Snowden. That didn't happen. Instead, he pardoned some rappers, some drug dealers. He pardoned
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Lil Wayne. He pardoned this guy Kodak Black as a rapper. By the way, a rapper who I believe made a
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music video where he's portrayed choking a Trump supporter. He's an anti-Trump rapper. Trump commuted
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his sentence. Also, one of the guys who, one of the guys behind death row records back in the 90s,
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also a drug kingpin. He was arrested for a bunch of charges, including kidnapping and attempted
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murder. And he got a pardon because his friend, Snoop Dogg, asked Trump. Now, Snoop Dogg also has a
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video. And in his video, I think he's actually killing Trump himself. Well, not actually Trump,
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but an actor. But he asked for a pardon. He got one. Assange and Snowden didn't. Also,
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this was kind of confusing. The ex-Detroit mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, got a pardon. Democrat mayor,
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cartoonishly corrupt, this guy is. He's like the mascot for corrupt politicians.
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He pretty much did everything that a corrupt politician could possibly do. He was corrupt in
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every possible way. Very efficient in that way, in his corruption. Let me read a little bit from
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the Detroit Free Press on this. It says, U.S. Attorney Matthew Schneider, who has long argued
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that Kilpatrick deserves his 28-year prison sentence and should not be released early for
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his crimes, blasted the commutation decision. He said, my position on the disgraced former mayor of
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Detroit has not changed. Kwame Kilpatrick has earned every day he served in federal prison for the
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horrible crimes he committed against the people of Detroit. He is a notorious and unrepentant
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criminal. Schneider added, Kilpatrick has served only one quarter of the sentence that was very
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appropriately imposed. Thankfully, thankfully, under Michigan law, he cannot hold state or local
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public office for 20 years after his conviction. But Detroit Mayor Mike Dugan, Democrat, had a
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different take. He said, Kwame Kilpatrick is a person of great talent who still has much to
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contribute. I know how close he is to his three sons, and I could not be happier for them being
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together again. This is the decision that President Trump got right. So it's not even that he's
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innocent or he didn't commit. No, he committed the crimes, but he's talented and he has kids. So
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just let him out of prison. Kilpatrick, who resigned from office in 2008 following a text
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message scandal disclosed by the Free Press, has been serving a 28-year federal prison sentence
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following his 2013 conviction on multiple corruption crimes, including racketeering, bribery, extortion,
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and fraud. All of his appeals failed over the years, though both Kilpatrick and a group of
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supporters, including millionaire businessman Peter Carmos, had appealed to Trump last year
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seeking clemency. And now he gets it. He does have a lot of debt, though. A lot of debt
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stemming from the fraud and corruption that he committed while in office, bilking the taxpayers.
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I mean, this is just, this again is a corrupt politician who actually got what he deserves.
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He got 30 years, he got three decades in prison. Thank God, right? How many of these people get
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away with it? Get to go on, become lobbyists or whatever, or they stay in office? He actually
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went to prison for once. And then Trump comes along and says, never mind, you can get out of prison.
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You're good. It is just outrageous. Law and order, right? Law and order, folks. This is what law and
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order is all about. Meanwhile, Trump also is, and he hasn't said this himself, but he is reported to
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have entertained the idea of starting his own political party, third party, that he would call
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the Patriot Party. I like the name. You know, I'll say that much about it. But I will say, though,
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you know, whatever your position is on this, just so you know, if somebody comes along from the right
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and makes a serious attempt at a third party, here is what will happen. We could put aside any
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fantasies about what we hope happens. It just, let's talk about, again, we're dealing with reality.
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Here's what will absolutely happen if we get a third party from the right.
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And it actually gets some attention. Like, it actually, it actually tracks some people.
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It makes a serious run. What will happen is that we will have Democrat supermajorities in Congress
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and a Democrat president for the next 20 years. Or really, forever. They'll just be in office forever.
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Because the opposition can, we barely have enough numbers as it is now. You split it in two or into
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thirds, you start fracturing. There's no chance. We just don't have the numbers. We can't do it.
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So that is just a horrible idea. And that is not something that we should at all entertain.
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But again, in fairness, this is just a report from the media. I don't think Trump said it himself.
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So hopefully that's all it is, just something from the media. Okay. The mayor of DC, Mayor Bowser,
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speaking of bad mayors, had some things to say in a press conference yesterday. Let's take a listen to
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that. Yesterday, I was also heartened to see Washingtonians posting photos of their neighborhoods
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on social media and tagging them with We Are DC. It is a much needed reminder to the world that our city
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has so much to offer outside of the federal enclave. And actually, all of these neighborhoods
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are what will become the 51st state of Washington, DC. So keep sharing those photos. Make sure that you're
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signed up for inauguration alerts. Remember that if you see something unusual, say something when you
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have guards coming guards, men and women coming from all over the country at this time. I do think
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that it is prudent to make sure that they are being vetted and that anybody who cannot pledge
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allegiance to their mission and may be pulled by other views needs not only to be removed from this
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duty, they need to be removed from the guards. Okay. So we have a couple of things there. First of all,
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you're talking about statehood for DC. Um, you want to talk about another thing that will guarantee
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Democrats in office forever. There's another one. And that's what, and that's why I said Democrat. Now,
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I don't know if that's actually going to happen or not, but, uh, Puerto Rico, they want statehood
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for Puerto Rico too. But once again, Democrats, when they have power, they use it. They will use their
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power when they have it. And they're going to use it this time. Not Republicans though. That that's
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the dirty little secret about Republicans that, that at this point, I hope is not really a secret.
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I hope everyone's caught onto it by now. They don't actually like being in power. Now they, they,
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they might like some aspects of, of having political power. They like some of the perks that comes with it,
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the prestige, the money, the, the, you know, the, the opportunities, uh, for money, both legally and
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not, but the responsibility that comes with power of actually having to do all the things that you
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said you were going to do. That's the part they don't like. And so they much prefer to be in power,
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but to not actually have the ability to do much with it. That for them is the sweet spot.
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Democrats say whatever, say whatever you want about them. They actually, they don't want just the
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prestige of being in power. They want, they want the control too. They want that because they, they
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want to do something with it. And that's what we're going to see here. And then also she's talking
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about political, uh, vetting, vetting of the troops, political vetting. And this is just blatantly
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illegal, but once again, this is what they, this is what they can do and will do. Number three, I have
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to say, this is almost comforting just in its normalcy for the media to be back to do
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what it does best, which is licking the boots of those in power. They haven't been able to do it
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as really at all in the last four years. And you could tell they they've been starving. They've been
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starving for some boots and, uh, now now, or, or some Chuck Taylors as you know, that's why they're
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so obsessed with, um, with Kamala Harris's shoe choices. So now they can get back, they can assume
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the position and they can get back to doing what they love to do. And, uh, here's it. And here,
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you just see the glee on their face. Like finally, once again, we can worship those in power.
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Here's somebody on, on CNN talking about fantasizing really about Joe Biden embracing the whole country,
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Joe Biden reaching out his arms and embracing the country. Um, personally, I don't want Joe Biden to
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embrace me, but let's listen to this. And the contrast on display tonight was so stark. I mean,
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those lights that are, that are just shooting out from the Lincoln Memorial, uh, along the reflecting
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pool. I look, it's like almost, uh, extensions of Joe Biden's arms embracing America.
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Embracing America. Oh yeah. He, Joe Biden will embrace America. All right. He'll embrace us all.
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It's Joe Biden reaching out. And if you will, sniffing the hair of America, he is, he is sniffing
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our collective hair only. I'm not very comforted by that. And this paternalistic, this is, this is the
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thing that's going to really nauseate me. Um, you know, the hero worship, the, the idolatry of
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politicians. I'm not a fan of that, but especially that when it, when it takes on this sort of
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paternalistic flavor, as if this is our, our, our, our great father that we are looking to for comfort
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in this time, but also it could take on a religious flavor. And that's what we hear now on MSNBC.
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Listen, I'm thinking about all of those folks who just for the moment, the nation shared their grief.
00:24:04.440
Oh, what a first step, what a beautiful step. So I'm, I'm going to, you know, I'm reminded of
00:24:09.580
the psalmist, you know, he heals the broken hearted and binds up their wounds. Um, maybe the
00:24:17.440
death will speak to us now. Maybe they can rest now. It sounds to me like he's, I don't misinterpret
00:24:27.520
him, but it sounds like he is comparing Joe Biden to God as healing the broken hearted,
00:24:37.280
repairing our wounds. Yeah, that's that. Yeah. I think, I think that's, I think, I think that's
00:24:41.660
what he was going for. Of course, during the primaries, you know, it goes without saying,
00:24:46.360
but the media wasn't saying any of this really about, about Biden during the primaries, uh,
00:24:51.000
or especially Kamala Harris. So this religious idolatry, this, uh, you know, this, this embracing
00:24:57.920
him as this almost God-like character that only happens after he wins, obviously. All right.
00:25:03.440
Number four, Axios has a story about that garden of heroes that Trump was trying to get off the
00:25:08.800
ground. Who knows what will happen with that now? But, um, that was all the statues of American heroes
00:25:14.340
that, that Trump wants to erect. Love the idea. Yeah. As, as I said yesterday, uh, I think whenever
00:25:21.160
a Republican is in office, if that ever happens again, uh, they should just put up statues all
00:25:25.380
over the place. And yeah, the Democrats are gonna come back around and start tearing them down,
00:25:28.200
but just, we, it's, it's just a, it's a war of attrition now. Just keep putting up the statues,
00:25:33.080
make them bigger and bigger and bigger. That's why I say 2024 Republican primaries,
00:25:39.780
whichever Republican gets up there and promises to build a 50 foot statue of Christopher Columbus
00:25:48.020
and put it right in the middle of Washington DC. I will vote for that person. I don't even care who
00:25:52.560
it is, but, um, Axios is complaining because, uh, their headline is Trump's American heroes are 73%
00:26:00.860
men delivering on a promise he made at a, at Mount Rushmore this summer. President Trump yesterday
00:26:06.320
released his 244 candidates for a national guard of American heroes. By the numbers, men outnumber
00:26:12.380
women nearly four to one, 86 of the nominees, nearly a third were born between 1900 and 1950.
00:26:18.900
Uh, and then we get some of the other numbers, but I guess we're supposed to be upset about that,
00:26:24.720
that so many of them are men. You know, there is, you could see that as sexist if you want to.
00:26:30.280
The other way of looking at it is, wow, there have been a lot of men who are American heroes.
00:26:36.100
That's great. Maybe we should be grateful to them. You know, maybe men aren't so horrible after all.
00:26:42.260
Maybe toxic masculinity isn't such a bad thing because when you go back through history and
00:26:46.020
you look at American history and many of the people, not everybody, but many of the people who
00:26:50.060
have achieved great things and have helped to form and establish this civilization that we all are
00:26:55.400
living in were men. Wow. Maybe a little bit of gratitude. Just a thought. Number five, a report
00:27:05.120
from Oregon Live. It says a car thief who discovered a small child in the backseat of the SUV he boosted
00:27:09.860
on Saturday in Beaverton, drove back to the child's mother, demanded she take the child out of the back
00:27:16.200
seat and drove off once more, according to police. Officer Matt Henderson said he actually lectured the
00:27:22.300
mother for leaving the child in the car and threatened to call the police on her. The crime
00:27:26.760
occurred at 9, 10 a.m. in the parking lot of Basics Meat Market. The mother parked just outside the
00:27:31.640
store, the store's front door, went inside to buy a gallon of milk and some meat. She was never more
00:27:36.620
than 15 feet from the car, but she made a critical error. She left the engine running and the doors
00:27:40.660
unlocked. What she did was not a crime. She was within sight and sound of her child, but she left the car
00:27:45.340
running. So that extra step, take the car keys with you. It's a good reminder to take extra precaution when we
00:27:50.960
have our little ones. This is the police officer being quoted. Anyway, in that little bit of time,
00:27:55.880
car thief jumped into the car, didn't realize there were kids in there, and he drives off and then
00:27:59.660
sees the kid, turns around, comes back, delivers the kid, gives the mother a little lecture about
00:28:04.260
parenting safety, and then drives off. You know, this thing, I don't want to get myself into trouble,
00:28:09.920
but this stuff about leaving kids in the car, oh, you never leave a kid in the car, ever, even for
00:28:14.640
one second. I mean, I hear from mothers who, this is their excuse when I go off on my normal rant,
00:28:20.360
about returning cart, your shopping cart in the parking lot. And one of the excuses I hear from
00:28:26.060
mothers, and I assume this is just an excuse, or maybe they really mean it sincerely, is that
00:28:31.780
they don't want to leave their kid in the car to return the shopping cart. So what you're saying is
00:28:38.700
you don't want to leave your kid in the car and walk 20 feet away when you could see the car the whole
00:28:46.340
time. You won't even do that? What do you think is going to happen? Now, yes, in this extreme
00:28:55.260
circumstance, the car was actually stolen. But even then, just to show you how rare it is, actually,
00:29:02.100
that kids are kidnapped by strangers, it almost never happens. In almost every single case where
00:29:08.020
it happens, it's a family member. So even in this case, it was a bad guy, stole the car. He still came
00:29:11.700
back around and said, here's your kid. So really, that's not much of a concern. So I don't quite
00:29:19.700
understand this idea of like, you never, ever, I mean, obviously, you got a young kid, it's 100
00:29:24.400
degrees outside, you don't leave your kid in a locked car, no AC. Obviously, you don't do that.
00:29:30.920
But it's a mild day out, no concern. You lock the door, you just, you run 15 feet away,
00:29:37.320
come back. I don't see a problem. I, when I was a kid, this was really common. I don't get my
00:29:43.800
parents in trouble. But I feel like when I was a kid, right? When, when, like my generation,
00:29:47.400
we were kids, this, I can remember many a time of like waiting in the car for my parents to go do
00:29:52.080
something. It wasn't, it wasn't hot. We weren't, you know, we weren't dying from the heat, but it's a
00:29:57.680
pretty common thing back in the day. And it's just another thing that we've decided now. There are so
00:30:02.900
many things that our parents used to do. And it was, it was normal for parents to do for
00:30:07.960
generations. And now we've decided that if you do that thing, you are an abuser and, and you should
00:30:13.980
go to prison. So many kind of like shortcuts and just little things like that, that our parents were
00:30:19.920
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00:30:26.500
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00:30:31.320
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00:30:36.000
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Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to cancel multiculturalism. Now what precipitates
00:33:36.560
this cancellation is a tweet from the now former Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo. Pompeo, as, as I'm
00:33:41.040
informed by the New York Times, infuriated many American diplomats and many other Americans when he
00:33:46.600
attacked multiculturalism saying, and this is, he tweeted this,
00:33:50.940
wokeism, multiculturalism, all the isms, they're not who America is. They distort our glorious founding
00:33:56.440
and what this country is all about. Our enemies stoke these divisions because they know they make us
00:34:00.380
weaker. That's what he said, Mike Pompeo. Now this of course is completely true and well said.
00:34:06.700
And the sort of politically incorrect truth that we certainly will not hear emanating from a
00:34:10.260
presidential administration at any point again in the next four years.
00:34:12.720
Um, he was condemned though as a racist for this. Just one example, our dear friend Ibram X. Kendi
00:34:17.860
said, in a multicultural society like the U.S., what happens when people oppose multiculturalism?
00:34:23.780
Well, they, the, uh, this, they standardize the cultures of white folk, call them America,
00:34:30.560
implore the rest of us to assimilate. When we refuse and opt to be ourselves freely, they call us
00:34:35.520
anti-American authoritarians. That's what Kendi said. Now this is an interesting critique because
00:34:41.060
he references the culture of white folk, but I've been reliably informed that white folk don't have
00:34:47.060
a culture. I've been told that there's no such thing as white culture. I've been told that this
00:34:50.900
is precisely the reason why white people aren't allowed to talk about white pride or express any
00:34:54.920
positive or affirming feelings about being white. I've been told that other races or ethnicities
00:34:59.920
are allowed to have pride in their race and their ethnicity because they are, you know, really
00:35:05.460
expressing pride in their culture, in their heritage. But white people don't have a culture or
00:35:10.120
heritage, I have been told. So that if a white person says he has white pride, what he really
00:35:14.800
means is that he's racist. Now though, even Rex Kendi, who we recall is an expert in matters of race,
00:35:20.540
he'll tell you himself, he says that white culture is a thing. Does that mean that white pride is back
00:35:26.200
on the table? Well, no, because you see white people have a culture, but the culture is racism.
00:35:32.700
That's all that defines a white person. So if you have pride in your white culture,
00:35:36.060
you have pride in racism, which means you're racist. And you're also racist regardless because
00:35:41.420
all white people are inherently, you know, and it's not racist to say that about white people
00:35:44.960
though, because only white people can be racist, which is a pretty sweet deal for everybody else.
00:35:50.820
You know, everyone else, you can just say whatever you want. Can't be racist. But this is all
00:35:55.260
irrelevant anyway, because the critique of multiculturalism has nothing to do with race.
00:36:00.380
Culture, if you believe the dictionary, is the customs, arts, social institutions,
00:36:03.620
and achievements of a particular nation, people, or social group. What this means is that a
00:36:08.520
multicultural country, not multiracial, multicultural is one where there is a hodgepodge of customs,
00:36:15.840
institutions, arts, et cetera. And if there is such a hodgepodge, such a multiple of cultures,
00:36:21.260
that means there is no shared culture. There is no shared American experience. If America is a
00:36:27.340
multicultural country, then America is a culture-less country. This is the paradox. If a country has
00:36:33.160
multiple cultures, then it has no culture. And so the critique of multiculturalism in America is
00:36:40.140
not that there are too many cultures, but that there isn't any culture. We have no shared cultural
00:36:46.040
identity as a nation. And if we do not have any shared cultural identity, then we do not have a
00:36:51.540
cultural identity, unless our shared identity is our lack of one. Christopher McCandless, whose story
00:36:58.880
was documented in the book and then the movie, Into the Wild, worth watching the movie, by the way,
00:37:04.160
if you haven't seen it. He left his family and friends to go off into the wilderness decades ago.
00:37:11.300
Eventually, he had traveled all the way to Alaska, where he lived in the forest for a time before
00:37:14.540
dying after eating some poisonous berries. Shortly before he died, he wrote in his notebook,
00:37:19.660
happiness is only real when shared. That's the lesson he learned in his journey, and he learned it
00:37:25.280
the hard way. We're learning a similar lesson also the hard way. We're learning that culture is only
00:37:32.200
real when shared. And that's the problem with multiculturalism. The left would say that this
00:37:39.040
is not a problem, that cultures can all live together in the same country in harmony and with
00:37:43.000
a common sense of purpose. But if that's possible at all, which I doubt, they are the very ones making
00:37:48.520
sure that it does not happen, because they pit cultures against each other, rank them on a hierarchy of
00:37:54.000
victimhood, and insist that cultures do not share anything with each other. Now, perhaps in theory,
00:38:00.620
the multicultural experiment could work if all of the cultures shared and were influenced by each
00:38:05.240
other, forming the fabled melting pot that we used to hear so much about. I'm skeptical about whether
00:38:11.340
such a thing could even happen theoretically, but we know that it's not happening in reality,
00:38:15.780
and the very people pushing multiculturalism are the ones ensuring that it doesn't.
00:38:19.640
We cannot borrow from a culture or be influenced by another culture because then we're accused of
00:38:26.360
appropriation, as if a culture claims actual proprietary rights over its customs and cuisine
00:38:32.300
and art. And if somebody else from the outside partakes in it, then somehow the members of that
00:38:37.320
culture are losing something. They're having something taken from them. You know, if you wear a,
00:38:43.260
you know, the traditional outfit of another culture, then, then, then in some way, somehow that means
00:38:50.800
that what you're, you're stealing it from someone in that culture, they are now being deprived of
00:38:55.620
something because you're wearing the same thing they do. If multiculturalism could work, it certainly
00:39:02.360
will not work if the interactions between cultures is treated as a zero sum game. And that is how the left
00:39:10.380
treats it, all but guaranteeing that their own experiment will fail. Fail at least to produce a
00:39:17.700
prosperous and healthy country, if that was their goal. But if the goal is to produce a shiftless, weak,
00:39:23.880
and decadent country, then it has succeeded beautifully. And that is their goal. And so we have to say that,
00:39:30.260
in fact, they have succeeded. But it's not a very good one, not a very, very good goal. And that's why
00:39:34.860
multiculturalism today is canceled. We're talking about what to do to fight for the culture, giving you some
00:39:43.660
ideas. Well, I'll tell you, this is another thing I'm going to do. I'm putting the work in, okay? For the next four
00:39:49.840
years, I am going to be canceling stuff. That makes a difference. Somehow. I hope. But probably not. We'll leave it
00:39:58.780
there for today. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Have a great day. Godspeed.
00:40:07.580
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