Ep. 1001 - The Abortion Demons Attack Pro-Life Justices
Summary
As expected, shrieking abortion supporters showed up at Brett Kavanaugh s home over the weekend to try to intimidate him and his family into changing his vote on Roe v. Wade. But there s a silver lining to the storm, which is that the political effect of the leak and the threats is favorable to Republicans.
Transcript
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As expected, shrieking abortion supporters showed up at Brett Kavanaugh's home over the weekend to
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scare his kids and to try to intimidate the justice into changing his vote on the Dobbs
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case to overrule Roe v. Wade. The only reason the mob didn't show up to the home of Justice Sam
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Alito, who wrote the leaked opinion, is because the threats against him were so severe that the
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entire family was moved to an undisclosed location. The angry mob was expected at Kavanaugh's house as
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well as the homes of the other conservative justices because last week after a leftist
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activist leaked the decision, a left-wing organization doxed the justices and published
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their home addresses. Then when the White House was asked about the leak and the doxing, the press
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secretary refused to condemn the mobs. Speaking on behalf of the president, Jen Psaki actually said
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that people are passionate and that the White House didn't have any official position on where
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people protest. You can't even really call that tacit approval. Psaki was asked directly to call
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off the dogs, at least to voice some modest disapproval of the mob showing up at the judge's
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homes and she shrugged her shoulders. This latest series of threats and intimidation against the
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conservative justices' families and children is no surprise because, as I pointed out, the moment the
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leak occurred, we are talking about people who kill little babies. There is no norm they will not violate.
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There is no depth to which they will not sink. They know that the Supreme Court reads the election
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returns and the opinion polls and they hear the mobs outside. So they're trying to pressure them
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to switch their votes. But there is a silver lining to this storm cloud, a silver lining that I also
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predicted last week. You know that I hate to say I told you so. That is that the political effect of
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the leak and the threats and the mobs is favorable to Republicans, favorable to conservatives, favorable
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Lots of mostly peaceful protests going on over the weekend, mostly peaceful threats against the
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children of conservative Supreme Court justices, mostly peaceful angry mobs outside the private
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homes of Supreme Court justices, and more and more. Thankfully, Kavanaugh's family seems to be safe.
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John Roberts' family seems to be safe. But I thought when I saw the protests first occur, I said,
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why are they focusing on Kavanaugh? Sam Alito is the one who wrote the opinion. Why aren't we seeing the
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mobs? Oh, because Sam Alito's family was moved into hiding because the threats against him were
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so much worse than the threats against Brett Kavanaugh. Was this just overreacting? Sam Alito,
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he would have been fine, right? Well, I'm not so sure. I think it probably would have gotten pretty
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violent. Here's my evidence. A pro-life group was hit with Molotov cocktails over the weekend. A
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Wisconsin pro-life group's office was set on fire early Sunday morning. I was vandalized with abortion
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themed graffiti in what the police are calling an arson. It was the Wisconsin Family Action
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headquarters. There was fire damage. There were flames coming out of the building at 6 a.m.,
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and there was a spray-painted message which said, if abortions aren't safe, then you aren't either.
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Fortunately, no injuries were reported. The first question you got to ask yourself whenever an
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incident like this happens is, is it real or is it a hoax? We've seen a ton of hoaxes,
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racial hoaxes, sexual hoaxes. We've seen a lot of hoaxes from the left. Threats of racist graffiti
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and things like that. 99 times out of 100, they turn out to be fake. Is this fake here? I don't
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think so. I don't think so. It's not just because I'm biased on my side, the right wing. It's just if
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you look at these sorts of incidents, they are almost, if not always, hoaxes on the left.
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You don't really see those. I could write, I mean, I actually have a full chapter of my book
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on all these kind of racial and sexual and just political hoaxes from the left. You just don't
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really see them from the right. And then you get to the second part, which is the left gets violent
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and the right generally does not get violent. I'm not saying that there are no exceptions to this,
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but if you look at incidents of violence, particularly in recent years, political violence,
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it's almost entirely on the left. It's not on the right. Would the left really do these sorts
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of things? I don't know. You remember 2020? Remember when the left burned the country down
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coast to coast for eight months? Yeah, I think they probably would throw a Molotov cocktail into
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a pro-life headquarters office. Actually, they did that sort of thing for more than half of a year,
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two years ago. So we're talking about real threats. I'm glad no one was injured here. I'm glad it
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was an empty office. I'm glad it wasn't one of the conservative judges' houses.
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But clearly the left is trying to scare the conservative judges into believing it could
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be in their houses. When Jen Psaki said the government, we have no official government
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position on where people protest. Go get them. Gosh, nice house you got there, Justice Kavanaugh,
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Justice Alito. Sure would be a shame if something happened to it. It's no different than what the mob
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would say when they walk into your business with a protection racket. The only difference is they're
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actually talking about these people's homes where their children sleep. The only silver lining here,
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I mean, this is really, really disgusting stuff. It's bad in and of itself for the families of the
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judges, but it's bad for democracy. I never again want to hear about our sacred democracy and the
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sacred norms and rule of law that the insurrect. Give me a break. You're telling me that January 6th
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was the worst event in the history of the country because a horn hat guy danced around the Capitol
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rotunda. But that sicking and angry mob on the justices' homes where their kids sleep because
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you don't like an opinion that's coming out, that's totally fine. That's democracy in action.
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Shove it, man. Go pound sand if that's going to be your argument. I never want to hear it
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again about January 6th. It's a joke. It's a complete joke. And you're going to hear later
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on this summer, you're going to hear all of the January 6th crocodile tears. You're going to see it
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from not just the liberals, but from a couple of the court jester conservatives, Liz Cheney, Adam
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Kinzinger. This is it. It's done. You show up to the judges' houses. You threaten the family of
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the judges. I never want to hear another word about January 6th. Not that I wanted to hear anything
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about it before. The silver lining here, though, this is really backfiring. This is really not
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working for the libs. There is a poll out showing the political effect of, forget about the mobs,
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this is just the political effect of the leaked decision. Okay. I think the mobs are actually
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going to move this even more in the conservative direction, but this poll is not from the Daily
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Wire. It's not from Fox News. It's not from some right-wing outlet. It's from CNN. CNN shows
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that the overruling of Roe and the leak of the decision not only will not help Democrats in November,
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but will actually help Republicans. The share of registered voters who say they are extremely or
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very enthusiastic about voting in the midterms rose six percentage points after the leak of the
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decision. Among Democrats, 43% say they are now extremely or very enthusiastic about the midterms.
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That's up seven points. So it seems like Democrats got a boost, except that right now the percentage of
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Republicans who say they're very excited about the midterms is 56%. So it's much higher than the
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Democrats, and it's up nine points since the leak. The voters who say that overturning Roe would make
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them happy are nearly twice as enthusiastic about voting in the midterms as those who say that a ruling
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would leave them angry. You know I hate to say, I told you so, but I had my Ulstradamus hat on.
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I had my crystal ball out. I said, guys, not only is overruling Roe the right thing to do,
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not only does the leak show that the libs are really desperate, but it's a political winner as
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well. You heard some of the squishes saying, oh no, why do we have to overrule Roe in the midterms?
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Oh no, this is just going to help the Democrats. This is going to take away our momentum. We had all
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the momentum on the economy and immigration and foreign policy. Now we're all going to squander it to
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save those babies. You're not going to squander it. It's going to help you. If you think that,
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if you and the squishes believe that abortion is a losing issue for conservatives, it's because you
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have bought the propaganda from the left, which wants to make us all believe that America is full
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of a bunch of bloodthirsty maniacs who want to kill babies up until the moment of birth.
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The conservative position on abortion is not the fringe position. It's the mainstream position.
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Don't kill babies is the mainstream, normal, popular position. Abortion on demand without
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apology into the fifth trimester. That is a fringe view. That's the radical view. Okay. People don't
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like that. Don't buy the propaganda. This is going to be a big, big win. It's the right thing to do,
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first of all, but it's going to be a big, big win for conservatives. This issue is backing
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the libs and the Democrats into a corner. Even the most practiced Democrats, even the smoothest
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operators out there. They have no answer on the abortion question. That's why, that's why they're
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trying to distract. They're saying, actually the Roe v. Wade overruling, this is really about
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contraception. This is really about interracial marriage. I kid you not there. You remember Eric
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Swalwell said, this is really about interracial marriage. What the hell are you talking about
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interracial marriage for? That has nothing to do with abortion. Oh, you're talking about that
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condition. Elizabeth Warren, Liawatha herself, who got red in the face, who was so angry that the
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Supreme Court might overrule Roe v. Wade. You saw fire in her eyes. You saw this fear that she no longer
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will be able to sacrifice all of those babies to her demon god, Quetzalcoatl. She saw her fingers just
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itching for the hatchet, but the conservative judges were going to take that hatchet away from her.
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Well, Elizabeth Warren is changing her tune a little bit. She's still radically pro-abortion,
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but she realizes that her bloodlust to kill these babies is not really playing very well in Peoria.
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And so Elizabeth Warren now was asked a question, point blank, should there be any limits on abortion?
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And she dodged the question. There's a question, should there be any limits on abortions?
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You know, I'm going to put it this way. I think that the woman who is most affected should be at
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the heart of this. Of course. I think that she should be able to call on her partner. Right.
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Her mother, her priest, her rabbi. She should be able to bring in the people she needs.
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But in a pregnancy, I don't believe that it is the state that should intervene with its heavy hand
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and make the decision. That's a whole lot of words to say no. It's a simple question. Should
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there be any limits whatsoever on abortion? And her answer is no. She thinks you should be able to
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kill babies up until the moment of birth, at least. And she knows that that is insane and evil and
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radical and doesn't sit very well with voters. And so she has to go on this word salad for three
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minutes to say, well, and I think a woman should talk to her partner and her priest. That's not
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going to go very well, darling. Have you, have you read the catechism of the church? And nevermind.
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And she should, and the decision, it's the same answer Ralph Northam made. Hey, should we be able
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to kill babies on the operating table? Well, now I think that we should, in that, in a case where a baby
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is born and the mama doesn't want it, we're going to make it comfortable. And then we're, maybe we're
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going to let it be, and we're going to kill it. Okay. And you just, he just, they just ramble on and
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on. Just give the honest answer. No, you don't think there should be any limits to abortion
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whatsoever. And then she has the audacity. This is the funniest, funniest part of it all. She says,
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I don't think that the heavy hand of government should be involved. This is the, this is the only
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issue in politics that Elizabeth Warren has ever come across where she does not believe that the
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heavy hand of government should be involved. It's the only one. She, she wants to regulate your
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light bulbs. Okay. She wants to regulate everything with heavy hand of government, except whether or not
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you should be able to kill an innocent little baby. It's so disingenuous. It's so radical. It's so
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off-putting. There is no, you can just tell watching this woman, listening to her, this woman is not
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ever going to be the president. Her, I think those dreams are dashed. And then you listen to the
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position more broadly, say this, this party that's running on this issue is not going to win. In a fair
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election, there's no way they win. Rosanna Arquette, she has a very excitable lib in Hollywood. Rosanna
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Arquette holds the same radical position on abortion as Elizabeth Warren, but she's more excitable about it.
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She, she is more hysterical about it. This is what she said over the weekend, quote, no, it's not
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hysterical or alarmist. They, the conservatives, the, and the conservative Supreme Court judges will
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traffic babies that many women can't afford to keep. There was a huge money-making market worldwide for
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babies. And behind that is organ trafficking. The majority Supreme Court justices are officially the
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satanic force. The funny thing about this quasi-grammatical, semi-coherent claim is that
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Rosanna Arquette and the Libs broadly are accusing the conservatives of doing exactly what they themselves
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are doing. What are, she makes two claims here. She says that the conservatives want to traffic
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flesh. They want to, they want to traffic living human beings in some kind of what,
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sex trade or something like that, in some, some kind of slavery trade. And they want to traffic
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baby body parts. So dead human beings, they want to sell them on the black market.
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Planned Parenthood officials have been caught on hidden camera multiple times, repeatedly
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haggling for the price of selling baby body parts. Not even just one official, multiple Planned
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Parenthood officials. The campaign was the Center for Medical Progress, David Daleiden, went in
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undercover because Planned Parenthood said, no, we're not selling baby body parts, the body parts
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of aborted babies in our clinics. And then he went undercover in meetings with multiple officials
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and they were all haggling over the price because they said, yes, we will sell these body parts to you.
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They even made jokes about it. They said, well, I'm not going to, I'm not going to give you my number
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first. You need to tell me your price first. I want to buy a Lamborghini. Ha ha ha.
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There, there is documents, footage, audio from meetings of Planned Parenthood officials saying
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that they do this very same thing that Roseanne Arquette is accusing the conservatives of doing.
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Furthermore, she's saying, what about just the, the black market in selling people, you know,
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just regular old human trafficking of living human beings? Which side is it that's trying to
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legalize prostitution? Which side, which it's the libs, it's the libs. They, everything that they
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are accusing us of, they do themselves. It's classic projection. It's, it's a good rule of
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thumb in politics. Whatever the libs are screaming about conservatives allegedly doing, it's a safe
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bet that they themselves are doing it. Speaking of defending the indefensible on camera, the White
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House is getting a new press secretary. That press secretary will be Karine Jean-Pierre. She was the
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deputy for Jen Psaki. She was somehow less impressive than Jen Psaki. Jen Psaki had a few moments
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of zingers, a few moments that were kind of funny. Karine Jean-Pierre so far has been extremely
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unimpressive in the job, but now Jen Psaki is going to go make, make some money over at MSNBC.
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So Karine Jean-Pierre is stepping in. Here's what Jen Psaki had to say about the appointment of
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Karine Jean-Pierre to be the press secretary. I'm reading it exactly in order. This is just what she
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said. Lots to say about how grateful I am to the president, first lady, and the Biden family for
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trusting me to serve as press secretary and plenty of time before my last day to share. But today is
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about Karine Jean-Pierre. So a few thoughts on this remarkable woman who will soon be behind the podium
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every day. She will be the first black woman and first openly LGBTQ plus person to serve as the White
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House press secretary. Representation matters and she will give a voice to many, but also make many
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dream big about what is truly possible. Karine Jean-Pierre has decades of experience from her early years
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working in government and politics in New York to her years as an outspoken advocate to serving as a
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longtime advisor to the president when he was vice president. So let me translate that for you.
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She says, today is about Karine Jean-Pierre. The first thing I'm going to say about her is that she
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is black and she has unusual sexual appetites. That's, we, it's so wonderful that this woman is the
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press secretary because of the color of her skin and her sexual appetites. That's why this is so great.
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Also, she's got some experience, but most importantly of all, I don't know if I mentioned
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this yet. She is black and is sexually attracted to women. I think, is that what, I don't even know
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what, which letter of the LGBTQ Karine Jean-Pierre is, but anyway, she's got some kind of eccentric
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sexual appetite and that's the most important thing. It's, it's an acknowledgement that this woman is
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another diversity hire. She's a diversity hire, just like the Biden, it does, that's not my words.
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I'm not the one saying it. It's Jen Psaki said that. If this woman were being hired for her merit,
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then Jen Psaki would have reversed the tweets. She would have said, this woman has so much
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experience. She brings so much skill and talent to the table. And also she's black and sexually
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attracted to women. But that's not what Jen Psaki did. It's, it's the same pattern we've seen from the
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Biden administration. The reason we need to nominate Ketanji Jackson to the Supreme Court is she is
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extremely black. And I would note a woman. And also she went to Harvard and, you know, she's got a lot
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of experience, but I am only going to pick a black woman. That is all I care about. I'm not going to
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pick the most qualified person. I'm only going to look at black women and exclude other candidates
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who might be more qualified. Biden did the same thing with vice president. He said, I am going to pick
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a black woman to be my vice president. So all you've excluded, what, 94% of the country at that
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point. And in terms of prominent black women who were up for that job in 2020, you had three women,
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Karen Bass, who's an actual communist member, member of Congress. You had, uh, Susan Rice,
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the fall man for Benghazi. And you had Kamala Harris, who was the first person out of the Democrat
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presidential primary, but somehow she was the best choice because you limited your options to three.
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Okay. And Michelle Obama probably didn't want the job. So that's it. You've got,
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that's what they're saying. I think that's ugly. I think that's unfortunate. I think it would be nice
00:23:10.340
if when people get big jobs in the government, they can say it was because of their merit.
00:23:15.180
They're not just looked at as tokens and not just looked at as diversity hires,
00:23:19.160
but the Biden administration clearly looks at this woman as a diversity hire. Just look at the statement
00:23:23.420
from the president's spokesman. And I love Jen Psaki says, representation matters.
00:23:29.980
Uh, yes, representation in our national government matters. That's true. I want,
00:23:34.900
I want my voice to be heard in the national government. I don't care if someone who vaguely
00:23:41.620
looks like me physically is in the government. I don't care. I don't care. In fact, I wouldn't
00:23:47.300
like it if Rachel Maddow were working in the federal government, that would upset me. In fact,
00:23:53.620
one of my favorite people in the government is Clarence Thomas. I don't look very much like
00:23:57.700
Clarence Thomas. I was going to say Sam Alito, but I actually do kind of look like Sam Alito.
00:24:01.560
You know, the Italians, we stick together, but Clarence Thomas, I love Clarence Thomas. Does
00:24:04.700
that mean I don't really look like him? Amy Barrett seems to be doing a pretty good job. At least I
00:24:08.620
don't really look like Amy Barrett. Do I? No, that representation does not matter to me.
00:24:15.440
I don't, I don't think it is a matter of political importance that we have lots of lesbians in the
00:24:22.140
government. I don't think that, I want people in the government to be nice to lesbians. I don't,
00:24:28.820
I don't want lesbians or other minority groups to be, to be unfairly targeted or any, but
00:24:34.820
this does not matter because there's no end to that, by the way. You know, we joke about how
00:24:38.960
the acronym LGBT just keeps expanding and there's no end to the expand, expanding. And so if we're
00:24:44.180
saying that we need someone from every single group, many of which are being created every single
00:24:49.000
day to be represented in the government, there's simply no end to that. Now, speaking of
00:24:55.340
representation, you all represented my book very, very beautifully, speechless on, uh, over the
00:25:02.040
weekend. We said that in honor of the 1000th episode, we were going to give away a big, big
00:25:07.300
prize, some kind of gift, gift bag or something like that, uh, for people who went over left a five
00:25:12.380
star review. So my favorite comment, the winner of the, of the prize is the Shuckmeister who wrote
00:25:18.880
on Amazon, a book that will play well in Peoria adorned on my shelf with the American classics
00:25:24.340
is a signed copy of speechless, controlling words, controlling minds. Ding. Reading this book
00:25:29.100
feels like the culmination of nearly 1000 episodes of wisdom from the one and only Michael
00:25:33.040
de Nolstradamus, a thoroughly researched work of literature juxtaposes the historical nature,
00:25:37.540
culture, and meaning of linguistics with a modern culture that seeks to uproot that foundation.
00:25:41.720
With recent events like Elon Musk's Twitter takeover, the thesis of the book is more relevant than
00:25:46.300
ever and lessons can be taken to ensure we not only have the ability to speak freely,
00:25:50.240
but have something substantial to say as well. With the countless recommendations I've given to
00:25:53.700
friends and family, this book certainly had not, has not left me speechless. Thank you very much.
00:25:58.360
That's very kind of you. Whatever the gift thing is that the producers came up with, we will be sure
00:26:02.560
to send that out to you. And I'm really glad the point you made there is so important with Elon taking
00:26:07.060
over Twitter with us as the conservatives, maybe getting a little more political power.
00:26:11.320
It's really important not to throw our hands up in the air and do the old shrug and say we're not
00:26:17.160
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00:26:20.360
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Identity politics is not working quite like it used to.
00:29:19.640
For the past 20, 25 years, all the Democrats needed to do was throw the word racist at someone
00:29:30.740
And it would make everyone cower and fear it's the worst thing that you can possibly be called.
00:29:34.760
They would wield woke identity politics to get whatever they wanted.
00:29:44.480
And I think someone who perfectly exemplifies how little that is working is Chet Hanks.
00:29:55.220
He is one of my absolute favorite figures in the culture.
00:30:02.420
And he first came to my attention, at least, when his parents got COVID.
00:30:06.500
And he came on Instagram and he said, hey, y'all, it's Chet here.
00:30:13.180
And I thought, no, the crazy thing is that you are Chet Hanks.
00:30:21.800
And he's made jokes about political correctness and the culture.
00:30:27.440
So anyway, Chet Hanks was talking to a TikTok star, Zeewee, a woman with whom I was not familiar before.
00:30:35.680
Zeewee asked Chet if there are any marginalized communities that just in general, he, as a white man, wants to apologize to.
00:30:46.160
Are there any marginalized communities you want to apologize to?
00:30:50.700
No, I don't feel like I've truly done anything offensive, so.
00:31:04.620
And then it's like social justice warriors can like go kick rocks.
00:31:26.940
Zeewee says, okay, so you're just refusing to answer.
00:31:45.820
It's not wrong that I have adopted certain aspects of what you are suggesting is a black culture or some other kind of ethnic culture.
00:31:55.820
It's obviously a catch 22, by the way, for white guys here.
00:31:59.760
Because if you do adopt characteristics of another culture, then you are accused of cultural appropriation.
00:32:06.400
But if you don't adopt traits of another culture, you're accused of cultural erasure or Eurocentrism or any of these other kinds.
00:32:15.720
So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
00:32:17.720
And he says, look, I haven't done anything wrong.
00:32:21.400
I've behaved in a way that I don't think is immoral.
00:32:24.020
I'm actually just encouraging people to go sort of exercise and, you know, think the right things.
00:32:29.240
And so, no, I'm not going to apologize for anything.
00:32:44.960
And I'm glad that people finally have the confidence again to say, no, I'm just going to reject the whole premise here.
00:32:51.240
That we have this hierarchy of races and certain races need to feel really bad about themselves and other races are the good races.
00:32:59.240
And this idea that men are just intrinsically evil and awful and they got to apologize.
00:33:05.960
Speaking of young, controversial men, I meant to get to this last week, but I'll get to it now.
00:33:12.600
Madison Cawthorne is a freshman member of Congress, young guy, young conservative member of Congress.
00:33:22.180
Boy, has Madison Cawthorne been in the headlines.
00:33:24.260
Oh, man, it seems like this guy can't do anything right.
00:33:27.420
He, just about two weeks ago, there were big headlines about how Madison Cawthorne might be guilty of financial impropriety or insider trading because he invested in a crypto coin.
00:33:39.620
And then there was another headline, Madison Cawthorne was caught driving with a license revoked because he had had some speeding tickets that he hadn't paid yet.
00:33:48.940
And then last week, this was a really weird one, there was this video that leaked of Madison Cawthorne.
00:33:54.500
And it looked like he was not wearing very much clothing.
00:33:57.180
And he was kind of like, he was, I don't know, he was like doing something on a couch with a buddy of his or something.
00:34:03.800
And I don't know, I don't know, I didn't watch it all that closely.
00:34:07.260
And so, but people were saying, this is really weird.
00:34:11.500
And I thought, huh, why, why is everyone going after Madison Cawthorne right now?
00:34:19.360
Because none of these, none of these scandals in particular seem all that, it's not like there was an actual sex tape of him that leaked.
00:34:26.740
It's not like he was caught committing some crime on camera or something.
00:34:29.840
It was like kind of a strange video, but I know there are lots of strange videos.
00:34:32.520
And then driving while his license was revoked, that's, is that the, when I think of the crimes that members of Congress regularly commit, that seems pretty low on the list.
00:34:41.680
And then he invested in some, in some stupid crypto coin that that's what, why are they going, oh, I, I, I,
00:34:48.540
I remember why they're going after him because Madison Cawthorne blowed the whistle on their, on their Coke-fueled orgies just a few weeks ago.
00:34:55.780
The sexual perversion that goes on in Washington, I mean, it, being kind of a young guy in Washington room with the average age of probably 60 or 70.
00:35:03.240
And I look at all these people, a lot of them that I, you know, I've looked up to through my life, always paid attention to politics, guys that, you know, then all of a sudden you get invited to like, well, hey, we're going to have kind of a, a sexual get together at one of our homes.
00:35:14.760
And I'm like, what, what, what did you just ask me to come to?
00:35:18.180
And then you realize they're asking you to come to an orgy or the fact that, you know, there's some of the people that are leading on the movement to try and remove, you know, addiction in our country.
00:35:26.840
And then you watch them do, you know, a key bump of cocaine right in front of you.
00:35:33.100
When Madison Cawthorne made these claims, I was not totally sure that he was telling the truth or that these things were actually happening.
00:35:41.000
I thought it was likely that what he was saying was true, but I wasn't totally sure.
00:35:47.740
Now that the, pretty much the moment he made those comments on air, now that every single day, it seems there is a new negative headline, there is a new hit piece against him.
00:35:59.440
I am now 100% certain that what he was saying was true.
00:36:04.720
And look, we, we know that Washington DC is extremely corrupt.
00:36:07.980
We know that members of our government are very frequently degenerate.
00:36:11.740
And we know that they've all got blackmail on one another.
00:36:14.540
Okay, that has been true for, at least the blackmail part has been true for the entire history of politics.
00:36:21.020
But what Cawthorne here is describing is now actually happening.
00:36:23.800
Because in that interview, he says, look, and the way that everyone covers it up is everyone says, look, you shouldn't say this thing.
00:36:30.000
You shouldn't do this thing because we've got some videotape of you or we've got some arrest record of you or we've got some bad stuff.
00:36:36.060
That would sure look bad in the headlines and they're all using this dirt to control one another.
00:36:41.980
This is the, this is the plot line of the, of House of Cards.
00:36:45.200
This is, you see this throughout LBJ's life and that Robert Carroll biography of LBJ in particular, he wielded blackmail.
00:36:53.440
Madison Cawthorne, when he made these claims, the Republican leadership too, we got really angry with him.
00:37:00.740
And he sort of recanted it a little bit, but not totally.
00:37:03.680
And they're obviously just pressuring him and now they're trying to send a message.
00:37:07.160
And this is another example of, I think the tactics are backfiring here.
00:37:11.780
I think the tactic of sending angry mobs to the conservative justices' homes, they thought that that was going to give them the outcome they wanted.
00:37:17.700
I think really it's just, I hope it's hardening the justices on this.
00:37:21.040
And it's certainly hardening the American people.
00:37:22.880
You can see, even just since the leak came out, you can see momentum moving in the pro-life direction.
00:37:28.520
If I was 50-50 on Madison Cawthorne talking about the coke-fueled orgies in Washington, D.C., I'm now more like 80-20.
00:37:37.200
I'm now pretty certain that what he's saying is true because the intimidation campaign against him is so blatant.
00:37:44.500
I refer to myself occasionally as an Olstradamus.
00:37:50.060
He said, look, they're going to start leaking a bunch of stuff about me if I talk about their coke-fueled orgies.
00:37:57.840
Speaking of anti-constitutional attempts to shut up conservative members of Congress, we got some good news.
00:38:05.900
A judge has tossed out a challenge to Marjorie Taylor Greene's candidacy.
00:38:14.220
Georgia Congressman Marjorie Greene is very popular among conservatives.
00:38:19.380
And there was a move by a left-wing organization to try to kick her off of the ballot.
00:38:25.800
And they tried to kick her off of the ballot using this very silly provision of the 14th Amendment to say that if you've engaged in an insurrection against the United States that you can't hold public office.
00:38:38.740
And so the Libs are pretending that the horn hat guy dancing around the Capitol was an insurrection, a coup d'etat.
00:38:47.540
And so they're trying to prevent Marjorie Greene from appearing on the ballot.
00:38:51.980
Because they know that they can't beat Marjorie Greene at the ballot.
00:38:54.640
They know that if she's on the ballot, she's going to win because the voters like her.
00:39:04.920
This was really just a test run to see if they can prevent Trump from running for president in 2024.
00:39:15.800
I guess ultimately it rests with the Georgia Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger.
00:39:20.020
But it would be highly unlikely that he would kick her off of the ballot.
00:39:23.220
So the judge has basically let her candidacy go through.
00:39:27.040
When I think about Marjorie Greene, I don't know Marjorie Greene.
00:39:29.640
I haven't even followed her career very closely.
00:39:31.780
But when I see stuff like this, it makes me more inclined to like her.
00:39:40.940
You can't follow the minutia of all of their lives.
00:39:42.980
But if all I know about Marjorie Greene is that some of the worst people in this country
00:39:47.500
are trying to subvert and pervert our law to prevent her from even running for office,
00:39:52.620
they're so scared of her, then I guess I kind of like her, right?
00:39:58.400
Oh, I don't know everything about her, but just as a rule of thumb, if the worst, most
00:40:02.340
radical leftist people in the country don't like somebody, that's at least a good indication
00:40:07.700
that that person is actually doing something in Washington, D.C.
00:40:12.800
They're trying to wield the state to suppress us.
00:40:17.260
They are trying to wield the state in ways that are not in keeping with our history,
00:40:22.680
not in keeping with the rule of law, to prevent us from having self-government.
00:40:27.080
Nowhere is this clearer than the Ministry of Truth that the Biden administration set up
00:40:35.400
Right after the Elon Musk news broke, that Elon Musk was maybe going to take over Twitter
00:40:40.160
and conservatives might have a little bit more free speech on just one of the social media platforms,
00:40:44.760
within hours, the Biden administration announces we are going to set up a new disinformation
00:40:48.700
governance board to prevent the spread of disinformation.
00:40:53.480
Now, when the Biden administration was asked, hey, hold on, are you saying you're going to
00:40:58.800
They said, no, no, this is just about foreign disinformation.
00:41:05.700
Then the conservatives raised the question, hold on, then why is it at the Department of Homeland
00:41:11.940
Oh, actually, there already is a disinformation agency at the State Department.
00:41:16.460
There already is an agency that does the same thing that you are saying that this agency
00:41:26.960
Oh, because you're obviously just trying to censor Americans.
00:41:30.380
And Rand Paul just absolutely ripped the Secretary of Homeland Security a new one over this Ministry
00:41:49.640
You can't even agree that it was disinformation that the Russians fed information to the Steele
00:41:54.840
If you can't agree to that, how are we ever going to come to an agreement on what is disinformation
00:42:00.540
I think you've got no idea what disinformation is.
00:42:03.500
And I don't think the government's capable of it.
00:42:05.060
Do you know who the greatest propagator of disinformation in the history of the world
00:42:10.660
Are you familiar with McNamara, the Pentagon Papers?
00:42:14.340
Are you familiar with George W. Bush and the weapons of mass destruction?
00:42:20.660
I mean, think of all the debates and disputes we've had over the last 50 years in our country.
00:42:29.540
We don't work them out by the government being the arbiter.
00:42:36.040
Now, Rand Paul is taking a really interesting tack here to go after this Biden administration
00:42:42.100
policy, the censorship board, because he's basically attacking them from the left.
00:42:47.140
He's saying, you know, the United States government spread a lot of disinformation in the Vietnam
00:42:53.480
And he's parroting lines that would have been considered left-wing lines in the 60s, in the
00:43:01.260
He's just throwing the Libs lines right back at them to say, why on earth have you shifted
00:43:09.560
Why are you pretending now that the government doesn't have an interest to push disinformation?
00:43:14.460
This isn't even an anti-American sort of line to use.
00:43:19.660
Governments have an interest in pushing certain propaganda.
00:43:24.380
And so if the government is going to get into the business of regulating speech, Rand Paul
00:43:32.480
I think there are plenty of regulations that our government traditionally has had on speech,
00:43:37.200
on obscenity, on threats, on fighting words, upholding standards.
00:43:40.500
But the government has done it in a very careful way, in a nuanced way, in a way with lots of
00:43:47.980
And then Joe Biden's going to come in here like a bull in a china shop and just set up
00:43:51.120
a censorship board to try to shut down all the conservatives on social media because mean
00:43:54.920
old Elon is going to maybe let us get a word in edgewise.
00:43:58.080
It's really important to see how absolutely cynical this is.
00:44:01.520
Do you think that's going to play for the Democrats in November?
00:44:07.160
When you can attack them from the right and the left, I don't think that's going to play
00:44:15.440
Conservatives need power in the culture, in the politics, and we need to wield it.
00:44:20.300
This is why I'm so pleased to read the headline, who knows if it's true or not, but the report
00:44:24.820
at least from CNBC is that not only will Elon Musk buy Twitter, but that he's actually expected
00:44:31.560
to serve as the temporary CEO of Twitter for at least a few months after the deal completes.
00:44:38.680
I love this in part because it's just been so delicious to watch Elon Musk toy with the
00:44:45.300
Twitter leadership, like a cat toys with a mouse, and get them to try to say, oh no,
00:44:51.120
we're happy that Elon's coming actually. No, we really like that. The CEO, Parag Agrawal,
00:44:55.740
said, no, I'm really happy and we're going to work together. And Elon's like, yeah, yeah,
00:45:00.160
we're going to work together. And then he says, yeah, I'm taking your job actually. No,
00:45:04.560
we're not going to work together. You're gone. You're fired. Totally just channeling Donald Trump
00:45:09.140
here. So the reason it's important though, beyond just how delicious it is to watch the Twitter
00:45:13.720
leadership squirm, is if Elon really wants this to matter, he's got to run it. Personnel is policy.
00:45:21.960
If he just buys it and becomes the big investor and doesn't make huge personnel changes,
00:45:25.920
and better yet, doesn't run the company himself for some period of time,
00:45:30.040
nothing's really going to change. This is a lesson that conservatives can learn when we win
00:45:36.020
elections. We can win elections, but if we are not actively in there running the government,
00:45:40.840
we're not actively in there just putting all of our people into all the important positions of power
00:45:46.520
and doing our best to fire all the libs who are actually making the decisions in the government
00:45:51.160
and replace them with good, solid conservatives, then it's not going to matter that we win the
00:45:54.600
election. The government is just so big and unwieldy. We've got to go in and actually make sure that the
00:46:00.440
election means something. Because the difference between the lifers, the careerists in Washington,
00:46:04.920
D.C., and the elected guys is the elected guys come and go every eight years, every four years,
00:46:10.400
sometimes every two years. And those career guys are going to be there. So where's the real power?
00:46:14.620
The real power is in the people who are actually affecting these policies. Now, it's not enough just
00:46:21.860
to count on Big Daddy Elon. I like Elon. He seems to have a pretty good head on his shoulders. He's
00:46:27.840
doing pretty great stuff in the culture right now. I'm very grateful for the things that he's doing.
00:46:31.300
I think what Elon Musk is doing right now, especially in the private sector, is some of
00:46:37.400
the most important stuff we've seen in my lifetime. But it's not enough. And he's not even really a
00:46:44.920
conservative, right? He's much more conservative than most people. But Elon made this point himself.
00:46:49.920
He posted a meme where he said that 10 years ago, he was center left. And then the left went completely
00:46:55.100
radical. And so they moved the center way further left. And so now I guess he's center right.
00:47:01.760
So it's good. I'd rather have a 2012 Democrat over a 2022 Democrat running things because the 2012
00:47:09.140
Democrat is relatively much more conservative. But that's not going to be the answer. My version
00:47:13.980
of conservatism is not just whatever the Democrats were doing 10 years ago. My version of conservatism
00:47:19.060
is conserving something. Conserving something deeper and truer and with greater tradition.
00:47:24.200
And that is in accord with the natural law and eternal truths and a transcendent moral order,
00:47:31.060
okay? We need more. You see this at Tesla right now. We covered Amazon last week. Amazon offering to
00:47:37.540
pay for its employees' travel out of state to get abortions if Roe v. Wade is overruled.
00:47:43.600
Unfortunately, Tesla's apparently going to do the same thing. According to Tesla's 2021 impact report,
00:47:49.160
the company added travel and lodging support for those who may need to seek healthcare services
00:47:54.260
that are unavailable in their home state. And this is going to be in their health insurance offerings.
00:48:00.740
Reportedly, that's going to include abortion. Do I blame Elon Musk for this? Not really. I mean,
00:48:07.740
is the guy supposed to be Mr. Conservative all of a sudden? No, I don't think he's ever presented
00:48:11.740
himself as such. What does Elon Musk think about abortion? I'm not totally sure. I do know that
00:48:16.020
Elon Musk has said that we don't have an overpopulation problem in the world. We have
00:48:19.480
an underpopulation problem. So that's good. Makes me think he's in the right direction on life.
00:48:24.740
But you can't expect this guy to just be Mr. Conservative and transform the whole culture back
00:48:29.220
to conservatism. No. We have to do that. The political community has to do that. The Supreme
00:48:33.840
Court justices have to do that. The presidents who appoint the Supreme Court justices. The people who
00:48:38.340
go out there to elect conservative representatives. We have to wield that power, okay? And we need to
00:48:43.980
create the political conditions that make it easier for a company like Tesla to not cover
00:48:48.240
these things. I made this point last week. Capitalism's great. I love free markets. I love
00:48:54.680
private property. I do. I'm not being glib or flippant about that. But I don't worship at the
00:48:59.000
altar of the market. I don't worship at the altar of the market because I think sometimes the market
00:49:02.600
can get things wrong. I think it is in Amazon's market interest to pay for the travel for its
00:49:07.740
employees, its female employees, to go get abortions because it will make those female employees
00:49:12.320
more productive. They won't be taking maternity leave, okay? They won't be raising children.
00:49:17.520
They won't be calling out of work when their kid's babysitter doesn't show up or when the kid gets
00:49:22.520
sick. So it's in the economic market interest of Amazon to encourage abortions. It's in the economic
00:49:28.940
market interest of Tesla to encourage abortions. And it's in the political interest of our community
00:49:34.280
to outlaw abortions. It's in our national interest. Markets are great, but they are an instrument
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toward a good society. You don't want to put the cart before the horse, okay? They're actually for
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something. And so what we need to do is go in and wield that power. And if we say, look, abortions are
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just not allowed, sorry, we're just not, we're not killing babies. That's not what we do as a country
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anymore. Then Amazon and Tesla, those are going to be the rules. And Amazon and Tesla and other
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corporations aren't going to have to compete with one another to try to offer their employees all the
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best sorts of healthcare plans with the most stuff and the most freebies and the most out-of-state
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travel covered for abortion. They're not going to have to, they're not going to have to worry about
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other companies who are paying for abortions for their employees having cheaper labor costs.
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They're not going to have to worry. Everyone's going to be on an even playing field and it's
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going to be on a much more just playing field. That's what we have got to do, okay? We need
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structural improvement here. We're talking about, this number came out just last week. Gas is up 80%
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almost since Joe Biden took office, 80%. That is such a huge spike in what, 14 months?
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A massive, not even 14 months at this point, a massive, massive spike in gas. That's, it's not
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just because of markets. It's not just because of the war in Ukraine. It's because of structural
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problems, structural problems on energy, structural problems on how even the states relate to the
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federal government. We've got to go in there and wield that political power and make things better.
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Joe Biden is the direct cause of the problem, but the problems run a little bit deeper and
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conservatives need to grow a spine, grow some muscle, and get a little bit more muscular as
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we look ahead to the future of our country. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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