2 Liberals vs. 1 Conservative: BAR FIGHT | Michael Knowles, Adam Mockler, Loren Piretra
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In this episode of Far Fight, Far Fight is joined by our first ever returning fighter, Adam Muckler, to debate the three most controversial topics of our day: abortion, the shutdown, and the Venezuelan strike.
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you guys are like yee-haw for like not feeding babies
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all right welcome everybody to far fight i'm delighted to be joined by our two esteem guests
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including our first ever returning fighter he's dusted himself off adam muckler you guys are quite
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literally taking an 80 20 position on this because they've been lied to about what happened if you
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want a job where you can go terrorize isis for you our second guest marketing an influencer sensation
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least necessary she her pronouns in her bio it's lauren peretra
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here's how it works we'll be debating two of the three most controversial topics of our day
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the bell rings we duke it out for that round and then our friends in the crowd can come up to the
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microphones and pick a fight with any of us but do not wait because there is a time limit for each round
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and anyone who comes up to the mic can win special prizes and a seat at our vip table
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sponsored by redneck riviera whiskey lady and gentlemen are you ready i'm ready it's time for
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round one yeah okay now i have all the topics here that everyone picked and i'm gonna try to make it so
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you don't know who picked what i might rephrase it a little bit first one the ice agent in minneapolis
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did nothing wrong that one's gonna win i bet okay hold on we got some more you can pick from
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trump is not corrupt at all sounds like the next the next one we have a major somali problem and
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we need white men to save us whoa all right then we will pick that one pro-life politics is about
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saving babies not controlling women's bodies whoa okay
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trump is putting americans first okay they don't sound too sure about that one i don't know
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the venezuela strike was as american as taco bell
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all right so we got some close ones i think the the pro-life one
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yeah okay all right now whose was that lauren it was mine okay how did you phrase it okay so
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hear hear me out pro-life politics are really just pro controlling women's bodies let's be real
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you guys don't really care about babies that much if you did
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if you did we would want to fund child care we would want to give them food we took that away you
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guys remember that we funded a lot of somali child care donald trump cut snap benefits medicaid he's
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cut uh aca subsidies that just expired i don't know how that's helping children he's actually
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taking food out of children's mouths i'm gonna ask the audience a question name one pro-life
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politician that is riding for child care it is that is what for riding for child care oh i hear a lot
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how about this one pro-life politician who fought against the uh cutting of snap benefits for not
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only children but families across the country yeah i we definitely i think a lot of us uh oppose
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snap benefits for well for the aforementioned somalis and people who are who are on fraud like for
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instance one in one in one in ten people in the state of tennessee was apparently availing themselves
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of snap we learned that during the shutdown we're talking about babies well we're just saying
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how many babies were fraudulenting their snap benefits well the babies don't apply it's usually
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their parents and some of them so then how do the babies eat if they can't apply how are they doing
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their fraudulent thing one in ten babies i guess my point is that snap is not really primarily about
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babies and i think we're getting off the topic that you chose which was pro-life doesn't really
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care about babies they care about controlling women's bodies and you're telling me that babies
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shouldn't get snap benefits because one in ten people have maybe fraudulented their things
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yeah i mean just as a rule like babies cannot apply for snap benefits they are not eligible for
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snap benefits we all agree with that we don't care about babies in here i mean i just want to
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narrow in on your point because i want you to make the argument for it the the point as i see it here
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is pro-life politics functions as control over women's bodies not about babies correct and i don't i
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don't think i the first part i don't totally disagree with in the sense that so i went in the
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well i mean you make something of a point in the sense that a vaccine policy or seat belt laws
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also function as control over people's bodies i disagree i think vaccine laws function as a
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public safety requirement yeah public health for the great this is my point for the greater good of
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public health but i think when it comes to abortion it is just restricting women and who's
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making the laws it's disproportionately going to be men making the laws that women can't get
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all right i'll tell you what let me just make my analogy and you tell me why i'm wrong yeah yeah
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uh that the vaccine policy certainly functions to control people's policies bodies especially if
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there's a primary function wait wait for it we'll get to it i'm gonna give you a couple minutes
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seat belt laws function to control people's bodies no they do you have to lock it in or you could get
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a ticket okay i agree with you adam yeah that's not what they're for that's not their chief objective
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and it is the case that abortion laws like not letting people have abortions does control women's
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bodies to some degree i want but it's what it's for is saving babies it's not about the control okay
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but what's the difference between a baby and a fetus have you ever spit in your hand that's what
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a fetus looks like at like six weeks old yeah that's not that's not what a fetus looks like
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okay you guys need to go back to science class okay maybe we should fund that in tennessee i have
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three kids i've gotten ultrasounds at eight weeks old you don't do them so much at six they don't
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look like you spit in the hand you can you can make out all their little parts you can you can
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even figure out if they're boys or girls at eight weeks no you can't and you can't do that
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with your spit can i ask you when do you think life begins uh well by definition at conception
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you think so so how do you define life a human a human life or just life general life from human
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what quality so life is described by various attributes so uh growth metabolism uh organic
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matter uh movement and so we we see these qualities and the potential for these qualities at the
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beginning so for instance when they're a fetus they can yeah so okay i'm gonna cut this just means
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why are we riding so hard for like a fictional fetus versus i don't i don't care about i let
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you finish i'm gonna finish now a fictional fetus versus real life human babies and snap benefits and
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child care and health care and taking care of the babies we actually have yeah so i guess my my point
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my very narrow point on abortion is i grant i think you're partially right abortion laws do involve
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controlling women's bodies because we say you can't kill the kid uh yes well what does fetus
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mean it's a fetus it means a baby once it's alive it's a lot well by science which you love it's a
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so the the word fetus just means offspring continue there's no distinction right there's no distinction
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between that and a baby and as much as there it's a human uh you had a point a second ago yes so
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the uh the very narrow point on abortion that i'm making and i'm open to all sorts of talk on
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welfare programs and all that's fine i'm not some like libertarian extremist however uh my only point
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is it would seem to me that we should not kill innocent babies in the womb or out of the womb
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that's my whole point okay yes yes i'm not for killing babies outside of the womb i'm for feeding
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them and providing the kids with access so then you agree we shouldn't kill them we should not have
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abortion and we should have welfare later on here's what i'll agree okay okay that's fine here's here's
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what i'll agree on you don't want an abortion which you don't seem to be able to have the ability to
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have a baby yourself you don't have to get one your partner your wife doesn't want an abortion
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she doesn't have to get one so therefore choice can we agree on that okay so i think for instance
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no look i'm not i'm not going to engage in an honor killing of my wife if she apostatizes from
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islam for instance now i'm not going to do that and look if a muslim immigrant to america as many
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have done actually wants to kill his wife in an honor killing because she has apostatized from islam
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that's his business right and it's not your business and stop sticking your nose in it
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right or no okay i think that a lot of liberals
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here i don't know how he got from abortion care to because you're you're saying that
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your fixation with muslims but we got there pretty quickly no you're saying to bring it back to
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children and babies and what i'm saying i can explain to you the analogy if you like
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it's not relevant to this conversation and i don't even i think it is i think it is no it's not
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because you guys are like yeehaw for like not feeding babies but you want to control women's
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bodies why is that why is that anyone want to come to the little i have personally fed three
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babies in my life all right that's pretty that's not bad yeah and i only have five kids so that's
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no i'm kidding i only have so listen you don't want an abortion don't get one but okay you don't
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you don't want to uh murder your wife don't murder your wife but surely you would outlaw
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murder is a matter of which i don't have in my fetus your wife i don't think is in your fetus
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correct so therefore i'm right again no i think the argument a lot of liberals would make is that
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killing uh a person is not the same as aborting a baby because the baby is not conscious life yet
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so the okay well that's a good point the main argument that usually happens here is trying to
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define when life begins and a lot of conservatives say at conception but there are studies showing
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that consciousness starts at about 20 to 24 weeks so hold on adam makes a great point i just want to
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push it one more so you can finish your argument if your your argument then would seem to be that
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being killed or not being killed having those legal protections is predicated on consciousness so my
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question is do you have the right to go into a hospital ward and kill somebody who's in a coma
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it's based on no i don't think so there you go all right we agree now we have questions from the
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audience i was going michael uh big fan um i've seen that guy before yeah big fan big fan michael
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don't be he looks like a republican but don't be fooled i'm just code switching if you want to
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donate me money i promise i'll put it towards all your terrible policies anyway i have a question for
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you michael and it's specifically regarding the topic of abortion um and if you have a lot if you
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let me uh expand upon this line of questioning couple questions first one do you think that abortion
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is morally comparable to something like the holocaust something that uh you know conservatives talk about a lot
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would you agree with that premise that abortion in the case of charlie kirk he said it was eight
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times worse than the holocaust because of the death or the amount of abortion that have occurred since
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roe was uh legalized yeah i would say you say so abortion is the killing of innocent human life
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intentionally and uh the holocaust as all genocides entails the killing of innocent human life
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and so in that way yes they're comparable so you think they're comparable so do you think that
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for example political violence would be justified to stop the holocaust let me give you an example right
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here let's say that i exist in nazi germany at the time and i see that a nazi is going to the
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concentration camp but he is going to kill or put in the cyclone b to gas a group of jews i think
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that he would be justified or i would be justified rather in killing that nazi officer on his way to
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work so if you think that abortion is morally equivalent to the holocaust how do you feel about
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violence against abortion doctors is there anything actually wrong with that because these people
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are morally equivalent in your eyes to nazis so very it's a very good question i think that a
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political revolution under certain circumstances could be justified saint thomas aquinas explains
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this very well in the summa theologian de regno uh however i i don't think that vigilante violence
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is justifiable in almost any case not because of uh the justification of the actions that are at
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discussion be it the holocaust or mass abortion 60 million babies being killed but but because of the
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downstream political effects that come from that and because there is such a thing as a civil authority
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so in the extreme case where revolution would be justified there would there would still have to
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be order to be undertaken so that greater evils would not abound from an act i understand that but
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do you think that during when the holocaust happened do you think that it would have been wrong for
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someone to kill a nazi officer on his way to the concentration camp to gas a bunch of jews would
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it have been wrong or not well in the case of the holocaust we're speaking specifically of war
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conditions so there that you're yeah you're there you're in you're in the midst of a massive war both
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within germany and throughout all the world engage with the question if i am engaging with the
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question so yes i think yes it would be justified my point here is rather that i don't really think
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that you think abortion is morally equivalent to the holocaust or you're not believing that it would
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be justified for people to kill abortion doctors i'm saying that different rules apply during times
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of war than during times of peace so if you so if the president suddenly declared it was a time of
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war against women who get abortions then suddenly it's justified well you know people to go out
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war against women okay fine michael very good if against abortion however you want to call it
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you could then it would be justified that would be a war though a war is when belligerent parties
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fight each other for territory and for political control michael's evading the question because
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i'm not i'm answering his line of reasoning leads to the conclusion that it is actually morally
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permissible to commit political violence no i don't like he's against that i don't in even
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circumstances i don't think most circumstances so this is not comparable to the holocaust it is
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comparable to the holocaust it is comparable as i mentioned to you in the respect of both of
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these things entailing the killing of innocent human life it is comparable in the in respect to
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the fact that one is in a polity during a time of peace and one is during a time of war they're not
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comparable it's just not very so they're not they're they're in different respects you would address
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them differently okay all right great questions hey nice to be here good to see you i guess this
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question is for uh loren is that um yeah so i just wanted to bring it back a little bit to the topic
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which was that abortion is really just a way to control women's bodies not really a protection of
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life um do you know of any other ways to bring life into this world besides using women's bodies
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no okay well i mean it's not really about controlling women's bodies and it's about
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you know providing a safe way for life to be brought into this world okay so how would you define
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safety yeah how would you define safety for this fictional fetus tell me yeah i'm wait waiting
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or even want a definition of safety i mean i think a fetus is pretty safe for a baby because
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that's okay let's talk about what is safe for a baby what is safe for a baby what is safe for a baby
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some wombs the actual place where it develops and grows and actually produces a baby what is safe
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for a baby the place where it can actually grow into complete it's no babies are not growing
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inside the body but baby's out now so you force the woman to give birth now now what's safety for
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that baby okay this is a separate conversation because now we're no longer talking about bringing
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life into the world we're talking about life after it exists in the world exactly that's the exact
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topic that we're talking about and i'll wait what's your name gregory gregory gregory i'm going to ask
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you again what is the what's safety for a baby it's just not that hard of a question do you need a
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couple minutes i mean have you ever taken care of a baby have you ever babysat have you ever done
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care of a baby gregory making sure it's fed yeah great okay fed what else does a baby need
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shelter okay exactly right great great answers gregory and now how does a baby get shelter if
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that mother is not in a position economically to provide that well that's a different conversation
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we're talking about i'm not asking these deputies over there i'm asking gregory we're we're talking
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about a different conversation which is after life has been brought into this world that's what i'm
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saying versus the birth of the baby after it's been caught into this world or we only care about
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absolutely absolutely that's a different conversation that we can have about support for single
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mothers have a lot of opinions on uteruses okay i'll tell you what let's say we all guaranteed
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that it's there's infinite taxpayer welfare dollars for any woman who wants it who has a baby
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in that circumstance would you oppose would you support outlawing abortion no if we guarantee okay
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then it's not really about what you're saying it's right exactly so you guys know um how often a
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miscarriage happens you should know you have a bunch of kids yeah yeah that's not an abortion
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that's not an abortion it actually is so the medical term for abortion yeah okay you guys
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that's not an abortion you can live in your little delulu but abortion is an umbrella term for medical
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care nope okay no i can't debate with people who are making up their little realities okay okay let's
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say then one has human intervention when we talk about abortion we're talking when we let's agree on
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our terms when we talk about abortion we're talking about the intentional ending of a pregnancy
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but that's not the legal definition of abortion abortion is care for that's the issue we're talking
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about an abortion requires human intervention a miscarriage does not when you have one in four
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people experience a miscarriage when they have a baby to complete that miscarriage you need abortion
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care so there are plenty of women dying in hospital waiting for us call a hospital call a hospital
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Gregory tell me what happened my sister had a miscarriage she would not everyone needs one but a lot
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women do it was not i think adam you have a point not an intervention that caused the baby to die
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there's a lot of argumentation going on i think one of the most contradictory things that bothers me
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with the conservative position on abortion is that everybody should be in favor of minimizing the
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amount of abortions that happen was it clinton that said they should be safe legal but rare now
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let's check in do you agree we should minimize the number of abortions safe legal i do not give a
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single what other people do with their bodies it's not my she doesn't agree with that she doesn't
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agree with no i don't well my position is among along with many democrats in the party that they
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should be safe legal but rare that's what the former democratic president said but the but the
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current democrats shout their abortion right they say they say there's no reason to minimize abortion
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plant parent had posted in power say it again what democrats in power have said this democrats
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in power bill clinton was president in the 90s man that was a long time ago
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i agree really quickly but the problem is in order to minimize the amount of abortions that happen you
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should have proper sex education at young ages now in the state that i grew up in indiana there was
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actually a slashing of sex education at really normal ages like when you're in seventh grade or
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eighth grade you can be learning about this stuff and when there's a lack of sex education you have
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more teen pregnancies you have more women that get uh that get pregnant so i think these are kind of
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contradictory positions beyond like when life starts okay so we have the moderate democrat position
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we want fewer abortions and we want all this other stuff and we have the women's perspective on the
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women's bodies what a concept one last point before we move on just this question lauren you
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say that the people who want to end abortion they only want to control women's bodies they don't care
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about babies at all or if i look you in the face right now i tell you i'm someone who wants to end
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abortion and i'm telling you i promise you my hand to god i care about abortion because i don't want
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babies to be killed and i don't really care about controlling women's bodies that is not in any way
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the primary objective i just want fewer babies to be killed do you believe me no you don't okay all
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right she rejects the framing that it's killing babies because if you don't if you don't want an
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abortion don't get one i'm not in your bathroom following around i don't want a baby don't have
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sex don't think about any of you guys having sex look i tried i tried okay so who won that round
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was it team libs whether moderate lib adam or less moderate lib lauren was it the libs
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no was it the me look at gregory's all right there we go okay all right i don't see it i don't see
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it it's ambiguous i can't tell okay more important question who won the round of questions we say
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are we hearing gregory who was it oliver gregory's going home alone with his lotion in his bottle
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what who won all right was it the guy dressed like a republican or was it gregory gregory you're
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one again trump is not at all corrupt the ice agent in minneapolis did nothing wrong
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it's gonna be that one okay that's my topic i say the ice agent in minneapolis did nothing wrong
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to get her to move and she didn't want to move she was there for quite a while and uh then uh the lady
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hit him with her car and so when you and she literally did that so she was dead we we now know
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though there was a lot of confusion at the time that the agent uh was in front of the car we can slow
00:22:48.400
down the footage and look at the tires we can see that the woman accelerated while her tires were
00:22:52.920
were aimed at the agent we know that when the agent fired his weapon he fired it through the
00:22:57.460
front windshield which means he couldn't have been on the side and we know that she hit him with the
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car because of footage from him body cams best thing for law enforcement ever uh and and we also know
00:23:08.100
that he suffered internal bleeding as a result of that so in that case when adam might not believe it
00:23:13.520
but it had you at least believe you at least believe that she had a portion or something no
00:23:18.020
i don't think it's on video what are you talking about you want to know what i saw in this video
00:23:21.440
yes my which video i mean there's multiple angles but very quickly you realize internal bleeding could
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just be bruising but if we're going to follow this administration what they're saying it can be if
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we're going to follow this administration's like what they're saying do you agree when donald trump
00:23:34.840
said that he was viciously hit and he's surprised that the guy's alive did you see that on the video
00:23:38.900
surprised he's alive i i'm yeah i'm surprised that wait wait do you agree with trump do you agree
00:23:43.840
with trump when he says this guy was viciously hit and he was he said basically like i'm surprised
00:23:47.540
this guy's alive in the hospital you're surprised he's alive yeah yeah because had the had the tires
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not spun out because of the icy roads in minneapolis she would hit him are you guys surprised you would
00:23:55.960
hit him are you guys surprised he's alive come on you guys are all coping yeah okay thank you
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you're not surprised he's alive what ai slop are you watching here's my problem you guys are quite literally
00:24:05.060
taking an 80 20 position on this and you guys are the 20 americans were polled on the
00:24:08.820
justification of this killing and 28 of americans only 28 percent percent thought it was justified
00:24:14.140
almost 60 percent thought it was unjustified because they've been lied to about what happened
00:24:17.540
do you agree that she hit him yes they've seen videos including by you no do you agree that she
00:24:21.420
hit him i mean she touched did she hit him with her car and the same way that i know people driving
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out of the walmart parking lot he's standing right there you hit pedestrians with your car you should
00:24:30.720
go to jail he walked off he walked off we're not talking about going to jail we're talking about
00:24:34.640
shooting her in the head four times and then calling her a bitch there's a difference
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he got her the first time she had a honda she had a honda two shots don't matter let me back up
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the general population does not agree with you and let me finish here because they've been lied to
00:24:46.340
no the general population does not agree with you because they saw the videos that happened this
00:24:50.000
administration before the investigation started said that she was a domestic terrorist and said
00:24:54.380
that the guy was lucky to be alive she was a domestic terrorist okay we'll talk about that one
00:24:57.620
second do you think it's responsible for them to say that before the investigation started trump said
00:25:01.360
it i think like 90 minutes after christy noem 45 minutes after said she was a domestic terrorist do you
00:25:05.980
disagree with christy noem i think that when you hit law enforcement with your car disagree with
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christy noem is she a domestic terrorist i agree that she was uh aiding and abetting domestic
00:25:13.900
terrorism so she's not a domestic terrorist i wouldn't i wouldn't use that okay so thank you you
00:25:17.680
just said that i'm lying to the american people but you seem to be conceding that christy noem and
00:25:21.040
donald trump both lied to the american people no i i say i don't agree with their wording of that
00:25:25.340
and and yet what i'm saying is the facts as they describe them happened you're denying the facts that
00:25:29.740
are on video can i tell you what i saw i saw a woman in a car who was waving people past
00:25:33.660
and listen i'm a i'm a moderate democrat she was waving him past no no not him but cars she was
00:25:38.940
waving multiple cars past if you guys haven't seen the videos that's your fault did you not see her
00:25:42.240
waving you're you're not allowed to block traffic did you not see her waving wait is that a death
00:25:46.320
sentence if you hit a cop with a car yes that's a death sentence okay i have a question you're gonna
00:25:51.020
deserve it if you if she was gonna hit someone with her car why did she first reverse then stop
00:25:56.640
then spin her wheel every time she didn't spin the wheel first she did she accelerated before she spun the
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wheel if you want to hit someone with your car why would you reverse why would you reverse she
00:26:04.240
clearly was a very confused woman i don't know why did she hit him so i want to ask no no you don't
00:26:09.280
we don't know why she reversed because she spun the wheel she didn't and then tried to drive off
00:26:13.380
she accelerated before she turned the wheel here's what's on video here's what self-defense counts
00:26:16.880
that's that's why he shot through the windshield because he was obviously in front of the car
00:26:20.580
you can reach over the windshield what about the second he reached over the windshield he
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had spaghetti arms that reached over in the moment to frame this innocent woman
00:26:27.160
did he even get knocked over did he even get knocked over yes he did that's on video too
00:26:30.360
was he on the ground after yes no he was standing the up he was standing there was literally video
00:26:35.620
dude he was walking down okay i'm gonna debunk this after yes so you're saying when renee nicole good
00:26:40.220
hit him he got knocked on the ground yes so you haven't seen the video so why isn't there any video
00:26:43.900
wait wait did he get knocked on the ground no no he did not thank you guys he's still standing you guys
00:26:51.380
are all lying because you've been gaslit by this administration to think that ice can do
00:26:54.620
nothing wrong over the past year listen over the past year let me over the past year we have seen
00:27:00.060
clips of ice cracking the ribs of 79 year olds grabbing u.s citizens and bringing them to the
00:27:05.060
ground deporting people with no due process and having to bring them back because they admitted
00:27:09.240
there was no due process that happened right they had to bring are we talking about we're talking
00:27:12.280
about the january 6th or are we talking about we're talking about those midwestern
00:27:14.660
they're using political force to stop the certification of election they're actual domestic
00:27:22.580
terrorist you want to call a 37 year old mother who was shot in the side window a domestic
00:27:26.560
terrorist she wasn't shot in the side window adam the bullet is through the windshield you're just
00:27:30.500
making that up you were making up that he was knocked over and you can't respond to why she
00:27:34.980
reversed why did she reverse adam it's a simple question did she hit him with her car or not
00:27:39.160
she didn't his did she hit him with her car or no yes or no listen you're wrong you're you answer
00:27:44.440
yes or no okay adam yes or no it's a simple question i give a legit answer you can give me one
00:27:48.600
word answer oh yes yes there you go can i answer the entire conversation can i answer though i want
00:27:54.700
to bring it back please go on tell me why he should not have defended himself when she hit him with her
00:28:00.320
car as you admit self-defense means there need to be two requirements by the law you need to be able
00:28:04.720
to reasonably perceive yourself as an imminent risk danger and then you need to be able to use a
00:28:09.940
disproportionate amount of force to take care of that danger it's the continuum use of force use of
00:28:13.820
force continuum okay okay i want to bring it back you have to use a proportionate amount of force
00:28:17.540
right you have to use a purport it was not proportionate a 3 000 pound suv is a deadly
00:28:22.140
i want to bring it back to you he was standing up you guys are lying you said in your original opening
00:28:26.780
you said that he was doing his job as instructed okay right okay so with his instructions surely
00:28:34.180
there's some other type of escalation steps in that process before shooting her in the face four
00:28:39.880
times and calling her a bitch no no lauren it it's a split second before she's running him over
00:28:44.920
it's not like she didn't run him as a mile down the road so she had a honda no no she didn't because
00:28:49.840
he shot her in the face she didn't because she turned her wheel and revert why would she okay i
00:28:53.920
have one final question yes i really want you to answer this that you you continue to kind of weave
00:28:58.180
around it why did she reverse her car before driving straight into him she didn't drive i don't know
00:29:03.300
she was a real confused lady and i'm really sorry she got killed and she shouldn't have done it
00:29:07.460
how did it work out at nuremberg how did it work out in nuremberg when they were following instructions
00:29:10.720
nuremberg yes you can't just execute moms you guys are a little weird if you think you can just
00:29:16.780
execute people huh okay okay uh we have questions we have questions yeah michael michael i i consider
00:29:23.700
myself a conservative i'm in favor of rigorous enforcement of our immigration laws um but i want
00:29:28.600
to ask you a question about tactics okay so even setting aside i think there are legitimate legal issues
00:29:32.820
here that we could ask about fourth amendment issues etc but i just want to ask you let's assume
00:29:37.480
that sort of the public backlash to what's going on right now with ice you know stopping people in
00:29:41.880
the street pulling them out of the cars going to door to door is sufficient to cause some sort of
00:29:46.180
landslide in the midterms against the republicans let's assume that that leads to donald trump getting
00:29:50.640
impeached let's assume that leads to maybe by the end of the trump term uh deporting fewer people than
00:29:55.640
we saw under obama would you not admit that maybe tactically mistakes have been made that this is bad
00:30:01.340
optically at the very least even if you dismiss the legal issues yeah i don't i don't think so
00:30:05.820
because i don't know what the alternative is well you know what the people voted for is mass
00:30:09.580
deportations what we've gotten so far the obama numbers are they vote for that the obama well when
00:30:14.660
people are trying to run over cops i voted for that okay so i thought you left due process no but
00:30:18.500
so was she guilty of you don't get due process when you're running someone over you just get to
00:30:22.620
there's there's no there's no trial they let the doj do an investigation then if they're so right and
00:30:27.240
correct there will be an investigation no they're not they shut it down there will be an
00:30:30.120
investigation no there's not so answer the question why won't they hold on i'm answering
00:30:32.940
his question okay so that's a deflection let's go back to it no it's not your turn to speak it's
00:30:36.620
my turn to speak because we're not really following those rules so what is that i'm following those
00:30:40.580
rules okay because that's because you don't want to answer the question okay go ahead we'll get to
00:30:44.600
whatever you want to talk about later but first it's his turn it's my what it's your topic but it's
00:30:50.560
his question this is this is why she doesn't okay it's like the order of events that's why we don't
00:30:54.960
understand what happened with the lady running him over so the so to your question tactically is this a bad
00:31:00.060
idea i don't think so some people say that barack obama deported three or four hundred thousand
00:31:04.160
people it's kind of fake because they're counting turnbacks among that he did deport some people but
00:31:08.200
it's kind of fake as they're counting turnbacks right now the border is totally shut down uh president
00:31:11.880
trump i think probably is deported in his first year a little over 500 000 people like 525 or 530
00:31:17.600
000 people i do believe and i buy the labor studies that have come out that there have been a lot of
00:31:22.620
self-deportations because of the uh optically brutal ice raids i think that's part of it too
00:31:28.200
so president trump says he's deported over two million people it's possible it's somewhere between
00:31:32.480
half a million and two million uh compared to the to the biden administration where they were letting
00:31:36.100
in three million people a year obviously that's a huge turn in direction my question is how are you
00:31:40.600
going to get mass deportations which most of the conservatives i think would agree we're not even
00:31:45.160
getting enough mass deportations how are you going to get that if you don't go from job site to job
00:31:50.140
site from town to town and try to round people up is that going to involve bad optics for the leftists
00:31:54.480
it is i just don't know what the alternative is well i think first it might require more funding
00:31:58.360
for things like immigration judges who could process yes asylum but if you think also we're
00:32:03.120
talking about like the fundamental question is basically if it turns out let's just assume a
00:32:07.320
hypothetical world where there is a democratic landslide and trump gets impeached over this and
00:32:11.100
we find as a result of surveying people who voted against republicans in that election that a big part
00:32:16.600
of this backlash was due to this type of ice enforcement are you not going to think that oh maybe we could
00:32:22.120
have done this a little bit differently what's the ultra so you mentioned we need yeah sure adam
00:32:25.300
can answer the alternative is a moderate immigration policy like we saw under obama do you know what
00:32:30.280
they called him the deporter-in-chief yeah but listen they were wrong okay they called obama the
00:32:35.240
deporter-in-chief the problem here isn't the mass deportations the problem as he points out are the
00:32:39.100
brutal videos coming out of those that ice is losing popularity with the public population
00:32:43.000
obama deported a massive massive amount of people but we didn't see the same do you dispute the
00:32:47.780
turnbacks but let me see okay the most of them were turnbacks they call ways there were turnbacks
00:32:52.320
but not most of them they called him the deporter-in-chief and he did that without cracking
00:32:55.880
the ribs of 79 year olds without shooting u.s citizens without deporting people with zero due
00:32:59.540
process and then bringing them back to the effing country do you agree that trump has deported more
00:33:03.320
people than obama yes but in a he's deporting people that he shouldn't be deporting 75 of them
00:33:07.820
have no criminal background no violent criminal record but they are they illegal aliens um they
00:33:12.000
should he's deporting people with no due process are they illegal aliens kilmar armando yes but
00:33:16.400
kilmar but then they should be deported do you think people should do you think illegal aliens
00:33:19.480
deserve due process illegal are we joking wait do you guys think that do you guys think that illegal
00:33:26.040
aliens then you're wrong the constitution specifically says in the fifth amendment that
00:33:29.580
person we can we can expedite their due process can you just say if i'm right or wrong does the fifth
00:33:35.160
amendment specifically say persons and that was upheld in a supreme court case that it's persons not
00:33:40.080
citizens in the enforcement of american immigration law we sometimes do things a little more
00:33:45.380
efficiently we in for instance deported a million people in the 1950s under president eisenhower
00:33:49.500
if we were to give a lengthy uh trial to the 16 to 30 million illegal aliens who are in the country
00:33:55.640
we would never deport virtually any of them i'm not asking for a lengthy trial for someone like
00:33:59.760
kilmar armando obrego russia right the thing is when he got deported over to el salvador
00:34:03.800
no i'm not i have a pretty moderate immigration policy i think people should be here legally illegal
00:34:10.000
immigration should be minimized we should know everybody that's here but like most americans guys this
00:34:14.260
isn't even me living out most americans do not like to see these videos that are going everywhere
00:34:18.240
most americans don't like to see grandmas and abuelas being pulled off the street and i keep
00:34:22.500
going back there aren't that many abuelas come on there are there aren't that wait wait are you okay
00:34:27.080
with the u.s citizens that have gotten caught up so i keep going back to this case but a 79 year old
00:34:30.700
u.s citizen got his rib cracked by an ice agent and is now suing the dhs so i think it's very
00:34:35.880
unfortunate when innocent it's a very small number but when innocent people or american citizens or legal
00:34:40.480
residents are caught up in these raids the problem is illegal aliens don't walk around the country
00:34:44.760
with a big sign saying i'm an illegal alien the problem so the problem was created by those who
00:34:48.760
allowed the millions of illegals to come in and now trump's cleaning up the problem is you guys can
00:34:52.160
never admit when ice does anything wrong whatsoever so there was an article from slate that came out
00:34:56.720
just two days ago where i'll never admit anything in slate no no this woman provided all the receipts
00:35:01.040
this liberal woman applied for ice in her whole internet history she was shitting on ice she smokes a bunch of
00:35:06.320
weed and posts about it and she wasn't me she didn't she didn't even submit the domestic battery
00:35:12.040
uh her history on it like she didn't submit anything and ice still let her in so the problem is
00:35:16.460
undertrained ice agents are giving or being in the funding of national militaries like they're funded
00:35:21.140
more than national militaries they're masking up in such a way that emboldens them and then they're
00:35:25.660
going around and why are they mass communities because they're a bunch of pussies and the administration
00:35:29.820
they take every they take every incel loser because they're being down high school and
00:35:34.520
they're being threatened as they should because they're a bunch of pussy losers and like okay
00:35:38.280
listen if you want a job okay if you want a job where you can go terrorize elementary school
00:35:45.100
students and pepper spray them element what what did they do roosevelt high school what did they do
00:35:50.060
after roosevelt yeah they went to roosevelt high school it was first they went to an elementary
00:35:53.500
students teddy or franklin was it teddy or franklin can you can you admit that ice does anything wrong
00:35:59.080
can you ever admit that ice does anything wrong or do you think they should have absolute yeah i
00:36:01.640
think i have admitted that they like they hired that i think that was wrong okay but do you think
00:36:06.440
they have absolute immunity like jd vance does i i think they should be given extraordinarily broad
00:36:10.560
immunity yes extraordinarily broad immunity for things they do on the job yeah for official
00:36:15.080
acts so they can just go shoot people yeah i think vance is totally right about this but how did
00:36:19.280
you think he's right since the inception of ice is not an excuse for morality like
00:36:23.100
again i want to bring it back to nuremberg like what happened to the people like carrying out these
00:36:28.200
atrocities in 1930s germany i don't think removing trendy ragway is akin to a nazi
00:36:33.120
what can you admit that ice has done wrong thus far because most americans just gave you an example
00:36:38.320
no obviously like a real example of ice doing something wrong you mean not vetting people i can't
00:36:43.480
think of a particular example so are you serious about the pot smoker do you think i should be vetting
00:36:47.040
people more for ideological reasons they can the problem is the the problem is so massive because
00:36:52.320
there are 16 to 30 million people and and ice was so understaffed that's a massive range bro 16
00:36:56.700
i know they're illegal we don't know where they are you call them undocumented that's the problem
00:36:59.880
we don't have any doctor what you call them dude i think that the administration that's why we have
00:37:03.240
a broad range we don't know how many of them there are hey adam i got a question for you sorry sorry
00:37:07.800
that was a little aggressive no you're good oh sorry what's up hey i just had a question um about
00:37:12.300
the due process for illegal immigrants versus like an american citizen um does an illegal immigrant
00:37:18.720
have an entitlement to uh legal representation an entitlement are they entitled to legal
00:37:25.120
representation they have all of the they have all the rights defined under the fifth amendment of
00:37:29.780
the constitution they're not guaranteed legal representation in their immigration case
00:37:33.540
well are u.s citizens so we can agree that no they're not u.s citizens immigrants are not
00:37:38.260
u.s citizens they do not you're illegal aliens they're they're not guaranteed can i ask you they're
00:37:42.280
not guaranteed legal representation wait can i ask you do you think only citizens or persons any
00:37:47.060
person in the united states deserves due process that's not the question that's no no i'm asking
00:37:50.760
an illegal immigrant in an immigration case in an immigration case someone is being deported for
00:37:55.580
being here illegally but are they are they guaranteed legal representation no but that
00:37:59.860
is not all that there is to do process do process looks different for immigrants versus american
00:38:05.680
citizens right wait wait but they're saying that immigrants versus american citizens they're saying
00:38:10.940
that immigrants get no due process wait do you guys think immigrants should get any due process
00:38:14.440
he's just arguing he's just arguing that due process for the illegal alien deportation cases
00:38:18.720
is markedly different from an ordinary a lot of different ways that's totally fine but what i'm
00:38:22.760
arguing that's a good point that's totally fine what you're saying is true but what i'm saying is
00:38:26.860
there was no due process for the cases like kilmar amando abrigo garcia there was no yeah but then
00:38:31.540
chris van holland went right out of romantic questions do we have a question over here
00:38:35.160
i've got a question you can make jokes i will make jokes about kilmar abrigo garcia yes what's your
00:38:41.040
he's back in the u.s buddy yeah what the this guy on the right you're a big boomer guy
00:38:49.860
don't talk to adam like that what's your name again with that blonde girl what's your name
00:38:53.620
my name yeah lauren yours all right michael my name's whitfield uh michael my question is for you
00:38:59.460
do you think that lauren prefers anthropomorphic minotaur smut novels
00:39:03.720
or ai generated ice romance novels thank you for the question good um i don't know what the
00:39:13.320
first one was well okay then it's the second i say it's the second then is that fair ice porn
00:39:18.580
there was a lady there was a millennial lady who went on tv or she wanted tiktok or whatever and
00:39:22.680
maybe i'm the boomer i say she went on tv and she goes there she says you know hating men for so many
00:39:27.300
years has trained me to stop ice and she was admitting it was this amazing psychological
00:39:32.420
admission that a lot of these protests are about like women who hate their dads basically and it's
00:39:38.060
unfortunate it's it's like that's what all of liberalism comes down to is three words screw you
00:39:41.840
dad but i don't even think it's primarily about the cops can i bring it back around to one final
00:39:45.220
thing screw you minotaur can you say michael michael you asked me a yes or no question can i ask you
00:39:51.340
one did the ice agent who shot renee good Nicole good get knocked on the ground on his ass oh my god he got
00:39:56.260
he got knocked over minute is your question was he flat on the ground everybody said he was not
00:40:03.020
wait was he flat are you saying guys head and toes flat on the ground guys was he knocked on his ass
00:40:08.780
okay he was he was knocked over he was not he was not flat he was not flat i please have that
00:40:15.000
i'm granting your point i'm granting your point he was i'm granting your point that he was not flat on
00:40:22.020
the ground he was okay but that's a free you guys are being really dishonest about that
00:40:25.720
He knocks the ice agent flat on his sultry ass.
00:40:39.880
Wait, wait, no, do you actually think what you just said?
00:40:55.040
Listen, I've almost gotten hit by a deranged retard in her car, okay?
00:41:00.180
I had a gun in my pocket, which I was not able to bring up here because of safety and
00:41:05.180
And I had to contemplate, am I going to shoot this black chick or not?
00:41:09.300
As a six-foot-four white guy, when a woman who was let out on the street by Gerald Ford
00:41:16.340
and Ronald Reagan to take some lithium instead of going to a state-run mental institution,
00:41:21.100
decided to drive up to Nashville at 8 a.m. in the morning and try to run me over.
00:41:41.780
I know you have to be Michael's foil, but I know y'all have to be Michael's foil here.
00:41:49.140
But dude, if a federal agent is having a car coming towards them, you're going to get smoked.
00:41:53.480
He was standing on his feet and the car missed him.
00:41:56.640
If a car hits a federal agent, they're going to smoke you.
00:42:01.460
In no other country in the world will they have as much pause and discretion.
00:42:08.840
No other country in the world is as good as America.
00:42:16.200
And in America, we have human dignity for our citizens.
00:42:25.180
All I'm saying is some of you guys, and I don't support violence, but some of you guys
00:42:30.620
have never had your ass kicked and it really shows.
00:42:42.840
Have you gotten your ass kicked or have men protected you your whole life?
00:42:49.500
If women pulled a gun every time they felt unsafe, none of you would be here.
00:42:56.100
Now, I will say this because you remind me a lot of my wife and Michael and you arguing really
00:43:07.360
If my wife was being menaced by a car and it hit her thigh and she had a gun and she
00:43:17.960
Yeah, because she's not a federal agent and if she was in a f***ing gay state like California,
00:43:23.280
She would get charged with manslaughter anywhere?
00:43:27.100
Dude, you wouldn't get charged with manslaughter in the state of Tennessee...
00:43:32.240
Well, you can also get married as a child in Tennessee, so anything goes here, you know?
00:43:58.240
Before we get to the more important question of who won the question round, I think I know
00:44:02.220
So who here thinks that the Libs won the debate on that topic?
00:44:25.040
The first time he was here, it was all very reasonable people.
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On the next few debates, there were a bunch of Libs that came in.
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Now, we have to figure out who won the question round.
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Mr. Whitfield, would you please go over to the John Rich Redneck Riviera VIP table?
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You can write the novel while you're over there.
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I hope you had Z-biotic before you started tonight.
00:45:23.520
Trump is a great president and not at all corrupt.
00:45:30.100
We have a major Somali problem, and we need white men to save us.
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The Venezuela strike was as American as Taco Bell.
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I actually think, I think it's between, gosh, I don't know.
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I believe, and I am correct to believe, that the Venezuela strike was as American as apple
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I support the strike, but I'm not arguing that it was a great strike.
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I'm not saying it was geostrategically necessary, though it probably was.
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Some people came out afterwards, said it was unprecedented and unlawful.
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It was funny because Kamala Harris said it was unlawful.
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And it was awkward because her own administration had called for precisely the arrest of Maduro
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and actually offered 25 million bucks to get it.
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So Trump did exactly what she wanted, but saved $25 million, which is great.
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And this is because we have been intervening in Latin America since 1846, really going
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But actively since the Mexican-American War, 1846, we have intervened 88 times in that period.
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We did it something like seven times in the 19th century.
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We did it a little more than that, 77 times in the 20th century.
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We've done it three, now four times in the 21st century.
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Following up on that, you just named a lot of the regime changes or at least removals of
00:47:50.780
Can you name a single time in the past, like 50 years, it's gone well for us, for the United
00:47:59.580
So I think part of the problem is that the prompt that you sent me, I was curious, can
00:48:05.560
you admit that the vast majority of times they've not only gone wrong, but it's led to
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the deaths of like hundreds of thousands of people?
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We go in, we take someone out, and then we kind of reform.
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We've basically created the nation of Panama out of Colombia.
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I don't think in Latin America it's turned out well 90% of the time.
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So the prompt that you submitted to me was that the strikes on Venezuela were as American
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And I was thinking, I agree in the sense that you regret eating Taco Bell the next day in
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the same way that most regime changes are regretful at some point.
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Genuinely, I want to put America first, and I want to prioritize Americans on the ground,
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not only economically when unemployment is up, not only small businesses, but I think
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And right now I see Donald Trump being caught up with things abroad.
00:49:14.160
So not only Greenland, not only Canada he talks about, he talks a lot about Europe, but he
00:49:20.540
I've seen him talk more about Venezuela and Greenland than inflation or health care at
00:49:25.540
And the problem is, with Venezuela or with Latin America, almost all regime changes we've
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done have gone poorly over the course of a few years.
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Like, I'm not going to defend Obama on this, but this proves my point.
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In the two to three weeks following the removal of Gaddafi, I was doing this research, looking
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People were celebrating, and people were saying, this is finally bringing an era of peace.
00:49:50.040
People were saying, now that Gaddafi is gone, the Middle East is going to be reformed.
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Like, two or three months later, they devolved into a civil war with open-air slave markets,
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So I'm not even going to argue against the removal of Maduro.
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I also think Maduro is the enemy of the Western civilization.
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So don't mistake me as defending Maduro, but I genuinely think there are problems with
00:50:19.240
regime changes being carried out, and there are also problems with the president unilaterally
00:50:23.300
striking other countries without the authorization of Congress.
00:50:26.580
So you're making one big error, because you've conflated two things.
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I said there have been 88 interventions in Latin America, and you've equated them with
00:50:37.080
Sometimes they were interventions to just make the regime act a little better.
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When you're militarily, but those are different things.
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The key here is, do you think the Venezuela strike was a regime change?
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I think it's regime coercion at this point, because the regime is still standing.
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The Maduro regime is still there, and you think that looks good for us?
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Because I agree with you that sometimes massive upheavals of regime are a bad idea.
00:51:09.280
The biggest problem in Iraq, of course, was not when we entered.
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The problem was when we disbanded the Ba'ath Party, when we de-Ba'athized Iraq and created
00:51:19.320
So in the case of Venezuela, what we're doing here is not Bush-era spreading of democracy,
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What we're doing there is kicking China out, kicking Iran out, kicking Russia out.
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We're taking out Maduro, who's been a target of the United States for 25 years now.
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And now we're leaving his deputy in charge, and we're saying, play ball or else.
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What's going to happen otherwise is we're going to treat you worse than Maduro.
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A lot of times when interventions fail, it's because there's not a solid backup plan.
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I think he should have at least endorsed Machado, who is the opposition leader.
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We are going in to pillage their resources like oil.
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First of all, some of those are our resources that they stole.
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Everyone in this room, most people in this room who voted for Trump,
00:52:27.080
Right now, what I see is Donald Trump focusing so much so on foreign countries
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that he is now pillaging Venezuela for resources, for their resources,
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It's helping oil execs that were sitting around that table.
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Oil executives, you do not care if you guys die uninsured, by the way.
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So it's like, you're riding for Chevron, but none of them know you.
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Donald Trump put U.S. troops' lives at risk during this operation
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Adam, you know, there was a legal order going back five years
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The previous administration called for this very action.
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No, you're saying that, do you think that the Biden-Harris administration only called
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Do you think the judge who issued the arrest warrant only did so to make oil executives
00:53:30.700
I think that Biden would have at least encouraged Machado to step into power and then help the
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We are subjecting the Venezuelan people to take their oil to just benefit us.
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How does this benefit the Venezuelan people at all?
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The dictator of Venezuela was inviting our enemies into the hemisphere.
00:53:55.060
They were sending illegal aliens by the busload, much more than the busload, into the United
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They were sending drugs into the United States.
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And so that was a national security problem for the United States.
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This has been the case as a cornerstone of American foreign policy since 1823.
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We removed him in accordance with 25 years of U.S. policy.
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I guess the question is, if Delce Rodriguez begins to not play ball and tries to lengthen
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Okay, so we are going to continue U.S. military force?
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And Michael Nose is up here saying that we might be in a prolonged war with Venezuela.
00:54:41.080
Wait, so are you okay with Trump starting a prolonged war with Venezuela without the authorization
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We are talking hypothetically if Delce Rodriguez doesn't help Trump.
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It's probably what happened the last time we replaced the leader of Venezuela is that
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it'll take about an hour and a half and we'll just go to the next guy.
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So you're just going to perpetually remove leaders that are handpicked by-
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That's what we've done for centuries in Latin America.
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This is the most ineffective, least American first policy ever.
00:55:27.120
The Mexican-American War existed before Chevron existed.
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Under the Trump administration back in 2019, they did a war game-
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They did a war game simulation of what would happen if we removed Maduro.
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It said within one to two months, there are three scenarios.
00:55:40.960
Either it devolves into a civil war that cuts us off from oil.
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Either warring militias begin to coup whoever is in charge, Delce Rodriguez.
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All of the scenarios in this war games showed that removing Maduro long-term doesn't help.
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So you just made the argument that we could be perpetually-
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No, you just made the argument that we could be perpetually removing leaders for the next
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few years while they draw out the negotiations, which is the United States being in a war with
00:56:09.880
Okay, Adamson, I want to hear what she has to say.
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First off, totally respect you for coming up here and debating.
00:56:20.640
Um, but I just think that Lauren to Lauren, I think if you use a little less ad hominem
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attacks and going after people's character, we'll all take you a lot more seriously.
00:56:30.060
Most of the comments you said have been reflecting on our like appearances or like our stereotypes.
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And I think we'll all listen to you a lot more if you back off on that and start using
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What I will say is like, I don't get to, everyone feels very entitled to kindness, but
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in the same breath, they're talking about killing mothers four times in the face.
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And then you're like, hey, Lauren, be a little nicer.
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I'm saying use facts instead of attacks on character because you should be able to defend
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your point with facts and not with going after how they look.
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And I have, but I haven't gotten to be able to.
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And when people are booing you, sometimes it's easy to get defensive when you're on stage.
00:57:11.640
Yeah, but here's a good example, since we're having a nice little therapy session, like
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when you were arguing about abortion, you, you didn't really focus so much on the policy
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You were trying to impugn the motives and psychoanalyze the people who say openly that
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like myself, that we just don't want babies to be killed.
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But the topic was wanting to control women's bodies.
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And what did we get to wanting to control women's bodies?
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And also a fundamental misunderstanding of abortion.
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And it's very difficult to have a debate with, uh, around facts when people are not connected
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to reality, which objectively the definition of abortion, which the room tended to just
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not agree with, which science is one of those things you either understand, you can't not
00:57:58.380
You make a great, you make a great point, Laura.
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I have a question for Lauren on the abortion topic.
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Actually, my first question leading into this is, do you believe that black lives matter?
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Second to that is abortion has killed nearly half the population of black people.
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If it's not for abortion, there would be almost double the amount of black people that
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Are you glad that those women were not encouraged to control their bodies and give birth to their
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What I'm going to bring it back to facts, because you guys love facts.
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So, okay, so, okay, okay, so, so the fetuses, the black fetuses that were removed from their
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mother's wombs would have, had they been born, grown up to be black children, black adults,
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and they would have almost nearly double the population that they have today.
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That is half of the black population that has been wiped out because these women were
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Even to grant your premise, let's say that fetus isn't really a baby.
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What she's saying is, if the abortions did not take place, left unimpeded, those fetuses,
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or whatever you want to call them, would have become fully grown black people, and the black
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Why are we talking about the black population when we're talking about control over women's
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If black women want to have the baby, they can have the baby.
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We don't only talk about what you want to talk about, Lauren.
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I think that what we'd say is we'd prioritize the autonomy of these women to make their own
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decision over them being forced to have a baby who may grow up in suboptimal environments.
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If these people got abortions, it's probably because they couldn't support a baby coming
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You guys always talk about single-parent households, and you guys talk about these.
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If a baby is going to be born to a mother whose father left, and she decides to abort it,
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I think that she's making a decision to prioritize herself over a baby that would be born to a
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Do you think that a baby who has been born to a single mother should be open to a post-birth
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In other words, he's going to grow up in a bad environment, all these problems that you're
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ascribing to these young black women, and we all know that, but he's been born, but he's
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Wouldn't it be better for that child to be killed?
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Then why would it be better for the baby five minutes earlier in the womb to be?
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I guess the point that Adam's making is interesting to me, because it's kind of like the
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You know, like they said crime rates went down because abortion rates went up, which is a pretty
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But I guess my point, if the premise of your argument is that a kid growing up in tough
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circumstances justifies just killing that kid in the first place.
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Mainly the bodily autonomy of women to make the decision for their own situation is what
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So it's really, because those are totally different.
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Really, I think you're saying the bodily autonomy is what it's all about, but also they grow
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But if we only isolate the latter one, you would throw that argument out.
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I'm saying the argument that she's trying to make, basically, is that women are prioritizing
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bodily autonomy over some nebulous idea of the black population growing.
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My whole thing is, if you don't want an abortion, don't get one.
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Whatever happened to accountability is the question.
01:01:44.800
There are long-term consequences to choosing to control your own body, whatever it is you're
01:01:51.360
There are long-term consequences, and half of the black population not being here today
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is a consequence of all of those women choosing for themselves not to get birth to their babies.
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So, what's the fixation with black women's abortions?
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Why did you come up here and choose to talk about black women's abortions?
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Because it'll tug on your liberal heartstrings.
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It is a statistical example of the long-term effects of abortion.
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Why did you choose that out of all the statistics you could have chosen?
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You don't want to talk a question about Venezuela and the current topic.
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Because the left, one of their pinnacle fights over the last 10 years has been black lives matter.
01:02:44.400
And I'm standing up as a pro-life conservative saying black lives do matter.
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So, black women who are alive and here and functioning on this earth, you don't believe
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that they have the right to choose whether having a baby is the right to...
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It's a choice and half of their population is not here.
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I can't hear Molly because everyone's hooting and hollering.
01:03:16.680
I don't know why you asked and what I answered.
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Like, again, succinctly explain to me why you chose Black Lives Matter and forcing black
01:03:25.880
women to give birth is your platform of choice tonight.
01:03:29.980
We are encouraging and showing the reality of that a fetus is a baby and that every life
01:03:40.240
We are encouraging and hoping that they will give their babies the right to life and the
01:03:47.140
And if they're born into shitty circumstances, maybe they'll turn it around and become an
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But there's a difference between hope and forcing.
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The only thing we agree on is that hope is not a strategy.
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Okay, bringing it back to the current topic, I would like y'all to answer or explain, define
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what about international law is legitimate or has any sort of grounding or force.
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Because based on U.S. law, every action taken in Venezuela was completely legitimate.
01:04:50.720
But based on, you know, all of the complaints about it are violations of international law.
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I didn't bring in a legal argument or an international law argument.
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I think there's a decent argument that Trump made legal strikes.
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Now, the distinction I'd make, Obama made a lot of, did a lot of strikes under the authorized
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Trump, when you're striking a country, should probably go through Congress before doing an
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But I'm not going to say it's illegal or it's going to be upheld as illegal.
01:05:19.020
The reason I say that every president should have to go through Congress, not only Trump,
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but Obama and Biden before doing this, is because we don't want presidents as Americans
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to be able to unilaterally strike or do act of war.
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Like, for example, Trump is talking a lot about Greenland lately.
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Would you be okay if Trump authorized a strike on Greenland?
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I want them to greet us as liberators from their Danish overlords.
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And you guys just cheered for somebody who wants F-35s to fly over a NATO.
01:06:07.780
Donald Trump has not ruled out military force against a NATO ally.
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Now, I want to talk a little bit about, like, international law and why it's important
01:06:14.720
In a post-World War II era, after the bloodiest conflict in human history, all the world leaders
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came together and said, we have to make sure the world doesn't devolve into chaos again.
01:06:23.280
So they created NATO, which says that you can't just invade countries for no reason.
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Well, no, it wasn't all the world leaders, right?
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There was half the world was aligned with NATO, half with the wars off.
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The countries that joined NATO got to enjoy decades and decades of not only economic growth,
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The countries that haven't joined NATO are honestly like third world shitholes at this
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So NATO exists to keep us safe, to make sure that we have a world order that is in focus
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and the United States benefits from that world order.
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So I just don't like Donald Trump trying to step all over NATO, trying to threaten our NATO
01:07:07.620
You realize we have US troops on the ground in Greenland, not to invade them, but because
01:07:12.000
We could call them up and just say, hey, can we put more troops on the ground?
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So we can call up Denmark and literally just say, can we increase troops to Greenland?
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Or I'm sure we can communicate with Greenland directly.
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That's not how you, that's not how property or international law works.
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Well, you mentioned international law is very interesting here because you mentioned NATO and it's very telling
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that you misspoke and you said that, you know, the whole world was,
01:07:42.180
That was a product of the Cold War where half the world was divided into NATO and the other
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And so when the Cold War ended now, um, 35 years ago, the role of NATO dramatically changed
01:07:53.780
and the role of the United States as the sole global hegemon changed.
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And so there is such a thing as international law.
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I don't, I'm not one of these people who says international law is fake.
01:08:05.660
The point he's making is a good one, which is that the, the modern instantiation of international
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law, like the UN and associated bodies is ridiculous.
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Article five of NATO has prevented nuclear war from breaking out.
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The military might of the United States has prevented nuclear war from breaking out.
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The military might of the United States has deterred countries from invading our NATO
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allies, which would also have military troops if they got invaded.
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So the might of the United States as a leader of NATO has benefited us.
01:08:48.500
It's been the policy of the US State Department since the mid 19th century to acquire Greenland
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If China and Russia did anything to Greenland, under NATO, article five would mean that we
01:09:04.840
You guys have no moral foundation if you're okay with French.
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So I appreciate people who've never seen conflict really like get emboldened and really
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like lash out about how they know everything about world conflict at a grand scale.
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As for a lot of people in this country, you know, we've never had conflict.
01:09:24.160
Wait, you just said you won F-35s over Greenland.
01:09:34.840
But my question to you is, do you think that America will survive if we do not take a country
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Most of our refineries and things that convert heavy oil is what we have here in America, which is on the Gulf of America.
01:09:56.360
But ultimately, when you have China, Russia, everyone teaming up with Cuba, Venezuela, who are taking over Guyana for all the resources,
01:10:06.100
consider the One Belt, One Road initiative that China is putting in place.
01:10:10.220
They're giving a lot of money to these regimes to make them look good so they can create infrastructure so they can win the voting power.
01:10:19.620
When they take over that region and they have all these resources that we do not, and then they start launching missiles into our backyard right across the Gulf,
01:10:26.900
you think as the leaders of the free world that we should not intervene and take over Venezuela?
01:10:35.580
Currently, Delce Rodriguez is in power, so your framing is entirely wrong.
01:10:40.400
She is sort of in power, but Rubio and Trump are running Venezuela.
01:10:44.480
How is America supposed to survive if we're not taking over countries like Venezuela the same way that we both survived and excelled over the past 70 years?
01:10:53.100
Over the past 70 years, we have seen a massive increase in quality of life, technology, medicine.
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It's because global wars haven't broken out in the same way they did before.
01:11:05.040
The luxuries of what you love here in America no longer exist.
01:11:08.920
Are you saying that pillaging Venezuela for their oil reserves and taking—
01:11:14.020
You're saying taking it away from the civilians.
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No, I'm saying taking a leader in a regime who is working with China and our enemies out of the equation and letting them come back in and trade and become an ally.
01:11:24.720
We want Venezuela to be an ally so we can have access to the resources.
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We want them to be an ally by taking over their country.
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Maduro is not on our team in any way, shape, or form.
01:11:37.520
So should we or should we not have taken Maduro as we did?
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Can I ask you, if you're so scared about Chinese aggression, would you be okay with protecting Taiwan if they were invaded by China?
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Yes, because they are the closest democratic ally that we have over there.
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Okay, if you're so scared of Russian aggression, are you okay with stopping Ukraine from being invaded by sending military, non-military troops, but military weapons like we are?
01:12:07.460
So this is, I love how you bring this into the chessboard in the world of economics.
01:12:13.520
Because you're getting into all of our allies and stuff.
01:12:16.220
But at the end of the day, when you're talking about the Russia-Ukraine war, yes, we should support.
01:12:20.360
What support should we do in what capacity, right?
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And that's where we're never all going to agree.
01:12:24.900
However, one fundamental thing is America does not create enough heavy oil to maintain the lifestyle and the strength of America without this type of oil.
01:12:44.560
And to your point, Adam, I think we agree we've reached a synthesis, which is you say, well, you know, the way we should do it is we should get along as we have for the past 70 years.
01:12:52.480
Well, over the last 70 years, we've intervened in Latin America like 50 times.
01:12:56.580
We've overthrown a lot of regimes, so we're going to keep on keeping on.
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And they're creating alliances to create a socialistic party with Cuba and other enemies of America.
01:13:11.840
Was it, and you raised your paddles, was it the liberal team?
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And it's Catholic, and it's called the Excommunicator.
01:14:06.440
Okay, but you can also point to Republicans who fucking raided the Capitol.
01:14:09.460
I mean, people are always going to be crazy in both parties.
01:14:10.820
Yeah, those guys, they're going to come shooting with us, too.
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Did we solve all of the world's problems or not?
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Is there one more topic we have to get to to hash out?
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I don't think you solved them, but I don't know.
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You don't have a, you know, is there anyone, is there any suggestion?
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I say we take on the transgender with the Supreme Court cases that they're hearing today.
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We take on that transgender issue just a little bit further.
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Okay, so the Supreme Court just heard oral arguments in two cases.
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The libs won't let this issue die, which is great for Republicans, because if we were
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going to get blown out in the midterms, this is like our absolute best hope of turning it
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And basically, the libs are arguing that states cannot pass laws banning boys who identify
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And Ketanji Jackson spoke something vaguely resembling English.
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Let's talk about our fifth place superstar, Riley Gaines.
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I think that's, is that, is that, you want to talk about trans women and women's sports?
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What I mean by that is like, you're the only moderate Democrat left.
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But there's a difference between, do you think there's a difference between sex and gender?
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Do I think there's a difference between sex and gender?
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Yeah, I think that there are two different terms.
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So, when you go up to someone in a grocery store and you're walking up to them, do you think
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Yeah, based on like physical appearances like hair length or other things like that.
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Okay, so if you're walking up to somebody in a grocery store and say it's a worker and
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you can only see them from behind and all you see is somebody with long, luscious hair.
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Say you're walking up to somebody in a grocery store and you can only see them from behind
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Do you go based on a vague assessment of social characteristics or do you check their genitals
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before you check to see if they're male or female?
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I would assume that they were a man or a woman.
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I'm saying, is it based on their genitals or do you base it on their broad characteristics
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So, when somebody out in public has long hair or jewelry from behind, in 2026, that
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So, the difference between sex and gender, as we laid out, is that sex...
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I'm saying that when you're walking up to someone in a grocery store and they have
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...and they have a bracelet or whatever, jewelry, they could be a man or a woman.
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I don't know if you're too smart or too dumb to realize it.
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So, when you walk up to someone in a grocery store and you don't know what they are,
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it's because you go based on social characteristics.
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Can somebody who has long hair and is a male then transition to look like a female?
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Well, the f*** you granted all my premises and now you have a problem?
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Because right there, you're conflating gender expression with sex.
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And then going, you know, they can change, bro.
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But in this 0.5% exception, people can transition, like you admitted.
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You're not representing your own side to argue.
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The point where I think you're diverging is you're saying, and therefore, this person
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Do you think somebody who has male characteristics can change themselves in such a way where
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they appear to be female when you walk up to them at a grocery store?
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When you say characteristics, what do you mean?
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I can't figure out which part you're asking about.
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Like, are you saying someone who, by all biological signs, is a man, but wears a dress?
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Or, like, what do you mean by the characteristics?
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Somebody who has a penis, but they have pants on, obviously, so you can't tell.
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And you're granting a wit, which is, yes, there is a distinction between sex and gender.
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And gender expression is this social performance in some ways.
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But the problem is you're making an undue leap, which is you're saying, therefore, one
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Just because these things are distinct does not, therefore, imply that they should be in
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So the pro-transgender side says, well, you know, you can have, you know, gullions.
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You can have gullions, and you can dress like a woman, and therefore, you're really a woman
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If you're a man who wants to put on a dress, you shouldn't.
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You should bring your gender expression into line with your biology, and you should act
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I think that 99% of people's gender aligns with their sex.
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If we just refer to women as trans women, would you guys be happier?
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No, I want them to act like who they really are.
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Wait, so do you think gender dysphoria is real, according to the DSM-5?
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I think people get confused, but we should treat it.
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Do you think gender dysphoria is a real condition?
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There was a conversation about women's sports and girls' t-ball, because that's what I thought
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It was about elementary school children's sports.
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We're talking about girls and boys, which is under the age of 18.
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It's less than after puberty, but they still have a physical advantage.
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So my question is, what's the fixation around kids' t-ball?
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I have a good question about transgender sports.
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The question is, who is going to star in Witt's romance novel?
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See you at the Daily Mail HQ tomorrow with a bunch of...
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And in the same way, because Venezuela maybe stole it.