Ep. 1007 - The New Mouthpiece Of This Failed Administration
Summary
Joe Biden can t speak very well, and it s ruining his chances of running for president in 2020. And his press secretary is totally unprepared to answer a reporter s question about it. Plus, a new hire in the press secretary's office.
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The president has lots of challenges, as we all know.
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But probably his most significant political challenge is that he can't speak very well.
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But now he's old and senile, and he doesn't speak very well.
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And he's blaming it on a childhood stutter that disappeared for 70 years.
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But we all know the problem is just that he's lost a step.
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From the 2020 campaign up until now, Joe Biden has generally avoided speaking.
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He's had everything laid out in the teleprompter.
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He's let his press secretary, Jen Psaki, do the talking for him.
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It's worked out about as well as could be expected.
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And it turns out the new girl has the same problem that Joe Biden has.
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The president's Twitter account posted the other day,
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you want to bring down inflation, let's make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.
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How does raising taxes on corporations reduce inflation?
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He tweeted, you want to bring down inflation, let's make sure the wealthiest corporations pay their fair share.
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Look, you know, we have talked about we have talked about this this past year about making sure that the wealthiest among us are paying their fair share.
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And that is something that, you know, the president has been, you know, working on every day when we talk about inflation and lowering costs.
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And so it's very important that, you know, as we're seeing costs rise, as we're talking about how to, you know, you know, build an America that's safe, that's equal for everyone and doesn't leave everyone behind.
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If if Charlie Kelly from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia were trying to answer this question,
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he would not have been less coherent than Karine Jean-Pierre here.
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She didn't even know about this tweet that Joe Biden sent, which obviously is going to come up because it was such an opening for the conservatives.
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The way we're going to bring down inflation is by raising the taxes on corporations.
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There is almost no connection whatsoever between raising taxes on corporations and inflation.
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So not only was she unprepared, she didn't know what the tweet was that was going to be referenced.
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She actually just said, she goes, oh, yes, well, we raising taxes on corporations is something that we have talked about because because we want to raise taxes on corporations.
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And so we and filibuster and bird law and it's it's like a sketch from Always Sunny.
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But how does raising taxes on corporations lower the cost of gas, the cost of a used car, the cost of food for everyday Americans?
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So, look, I think we encourage those who have done very well.
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Right. Especially those who care about climate change to support a fair tax code that doesn't change that doesn't charge manufacturers, workers, cops, builders, a higher percentage of their earnings that the most fortunate people in our nation and not let this that stand in the way of reducing energy costs and fighting this existential problem.
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If you think about that as an example and to support basic collective bargaining rights as well.
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But look, it is, you know, by not without having a fairer tax code, which is what I'm talking about, then all like manufacturing workers, cops, you know, it's not fair for them to have to pay higher taxes than the folks that who are who are who are not paying taxes at all.
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Uh, Kareen, we're going to just try it again. How does this one thing, raising taxes on corporations, how does that have anything to do with the totally unrelated different thing?
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Uh, climate change, climate change, workers, babies, freedom, equality, unions. Are you glitching out? Are you, is there, is there a bug in your system somehow? Absolutely pathetic, cringe inducing.
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I almost, I almost, I almost feel bad for her, except that this is her job. When she was hired, when, when Kareen Jumpier was hired, Jen Psaki said that Kareen was a great choice because she's a black lesbian.
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That was the first thing Jen Psaki said. She said, it's so great that Kareen got this job because she's a black lesbian.
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And for some reason, it's really important that a black lesbian serve as press secretary. Couldn't tell you why.
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Now, of course, I have nothing against black lesbians, more power to black lesbians.
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Uh, it would seem to me that before the White House offered her the job of presidential spokesman, they might have considered making sure that the woman could actually speak.
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This is a perfect encapsulation of the Democrats' most pressing challenge today.
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They have no idea what their message is. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Climate change, filibuster, workers, unions. I don't know. I've got a lot more to say, actually, than Kareen Jumpier does.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from hashtag Nolstradamus, who says, Joe Biden says, I'm trying to carefully say this because he's trying to remember what they told him to say.
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That's true. Yesterday, when we played that clip of Joe Biden launching this new phrase into the culture, ultra-maga, when he was trying to drop this phrase, he took a moment.
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He took a beat and he said, well, the problem is these, hold on, I want to say this carefully, ultra-maga Republicans.
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He actually was doing exactly what you're describing. He was taking a beat there because he knew that he had to drop this line and it was focus grouped for six months and this was going to be the new Democrat slogan and he couldn't quite remember it because he's not so fast on his feet.
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I sort of excuse the 80-year-old president who was never the brightest bulb in the pack for having that little mental pause there.
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I really don't excuse the young press secretary who's supposed to be much, much better at this, all right?
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The Democrats cannot stay on message. They don't get it. Eric Swalwell just proved this.
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You remember Eric Swalwell. He's best known for his incontinence on a CNN camera and for dropping out very, very early of the 2020 presidential primary and for sleeping with a Chinese spy.
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Eric Swalwell tweeted out yesterday in an attempt to exploit the Buffalo massacre, the shooting that took place over the weekend.
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He wanted to exploit it for his own political purposes.
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My four-year-old just FaceTimed to ask what I'm doing to help the people of Buffalo.
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And why did the bad man do this? Absolutely gutting. This cannot be his normal.
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It's time to ban assault weapons. Hashtag end gun violence.
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Never mind for a second that Swalwell is using such a deeply insincere and ridiculous tweet format.
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They say, my three-year-old just called me and he asked me,
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Daddy, how do we reconcile deontological and consequentialist ethics?
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My 18-month-old baby just texted me and he said, Daddy, how do we resolve the Riemann hypothesis?
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And this is the kind of format that everyone makes fun of.
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And Eric Swalwell sent this out sincerely as though his four-year-old was FaceTiming him and asking him about these things.
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But even worse for Swalwell, he's not on message.
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He doesn't realize that while, of course, the Democrats are exploiting the mass shooting to advance their own political agenda,
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The way that the Democrats are exploiting the tragedy is to try to incite a race war.
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The way that the Democrats are currently exploiting the tragedy is to try to get Tucker Carlson fired.
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That's what they're, they are going to get to gun control.
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And so Swalwell, he's not even on the right moment of the messaging, of the propaganda, of the way that the Democrats are exploiting this tragedy.
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Megyn Kelly, our friend Megyn Kelly, just threw her hands in the air.
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She was so furious at the way that the Democrats had been exploiting this tragedy.
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She said, hey, before all the political maneuvering, can we just take a couple minutes to mourn?
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Some in the media have been quick to point fingers and even place blame on our friend and very popular Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
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Why do we have to go to that place immediately on these stories?
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Why can't we spend two minutes mourning the people who are dead and trying to understand that we have insane people in this country?
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We're not going to be able to get rid of them all.
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People have to inject their politics into everything.
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Megan is so good at these sorts of stories, at telling these stories, especially with this kind of level of tragedy to it and really conveying what happened and who these people were.
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But in answer to her question, can't we take two minutes?
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The reason that we can't just take two minutes to mourn before this becomes political is because the only reason that the media are having us talk about this at all is to attack conservatives.
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Megyn Kelly says, can't we just mourn for two minutes before we politicize a tragedy like the shooting in Buffalo?
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The answer is no, because if the shooting in Buffalo did not fit the predetermined Democrat narrative,
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if the shooting in Buffalo did not serve to advance the Democrat political agenda,
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Maybe you would have heard about it for a day or two, but it would have just disappeared.
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It would be like the Waukesha killing, where a black racist drove his car into a crowd and killed a lot of white people during a Christmas parade not that long ago.
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And you would have heard about it for a day or two, and then it would have just disappeared,
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because it wouldn't have served to advance the media's and the political establishment's agenda.
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It would have been like the New York City subway shooting.
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The New York City subway shooting was a black racist who went down there and shot lots and lots of people.
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Over 20 people, I think, were injured in that shooting.
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But it was a news story for a day or two, and then it just disappeared.
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Had the shooter been white, it would have been a news story until today.
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It would have been a news story for six months.
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So, just a very technical answer to Megan's question, no, you won't get the two minutes to mourn.
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It's sick, and it's really sad that this is the way the media worked.
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But the only reason that this is in the news, it's not the human tragedy.
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It's not the sorrow that everyone feels for the victims' families and for the victims themselves.
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It's not the anger that people feel at the shooter.
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It is solely to be used as a cudgel to attack the political opponents of the media and of the political class.
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There are really big shootings, really awful crimes committed all of the time that you will never hear of.
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They might not be quite the gruesome scale of what happened in Buffalo, but some of them can be pretty close.
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Did you hear about the story of, this was just a few months ago, in Los Angeles, of a woman celebrating her birthday, being targeted and killed in an ambush, where at least four people were killed.
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This woman's family, it was a birthday party, and just all gunned down, right?
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I guarantee you, you never heard of that story, because that doesn't advance a political agenda.
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This happened in Milwaukee just, gosh, just a few days ago, I think.
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It's May 17th right now, where how many people?
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16 people shot, and then, oh, maybe even more than that.
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And if you want to understand the national conversation and all the calls that are coming
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from Washington, you need to recognize that the only stories that will ever even get past
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the threshold to become a topic of national conversation are the ones that permit the
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So they're going after Tucker Carlson in particular now, but Republicans generally.
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After the media have determined that the story advances their agenda, then you get Joe Biden
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going in and saying, okay, I'm going to go to Buffalo.
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He said it required too many presidential assets.
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There's no way he could make it to talk to the victims and the victims' families, but
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he can go to Buffalo because Waukesha doesn't help him politically, and Buffalo does help
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Then after you get the political establishment going in and defending it, then you get the court
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Liz Cheney tweets out, quote, the House GOP leadership has enabled white nationalism,
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History has taught us that what begins with words ends in far worse.
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GOP leaders must renounce and reject these views and those who hold them.
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So notice, Liz Cheney is not saying, let's pray for the victims.
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Liz Cheney is not doing anything to help the victims' families in Buffalo.
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She is just doing exactly what the media and the Democrat political establishment are doing,
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namely, exploiting a tragedy to attack her political opponents, and her political opponents are
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Even though she's got an R next to her name, she's not really a conservative.
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Her job is to pretend to be a conservative, to pretend to put up opposition, but then on
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every crucial matter to cave to the dominant liberal establishment.
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She's just there to legitimize the liberals and the Democrats.
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Her real opponents, her real enemies are the Republicans.
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And specifically now, they're all going after Tucker Carlson.
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The current narrative, the current message is that Tucker Carlson has spread what they
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now dub the great replacement conspiracy theory.
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And by Tucker Carlson embracing the great replacement conspiracy theory, he is responsible for the
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It's being advanced by the media, but I repeat myself.
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And it's being advanced by Liz Cheney, but I repeat myself again.
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What is the great replacement conspiracy theory?
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The great replacement conspiracy theory, so-called, is that Democrats use immigration policy to
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change the American demographics and increase their political power.
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And if it doesn't sound like a conspiracy theory, it obviously is not.
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Democrats have bragged about this for many years, for most of my life, for my entire adult
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Democrats have printed article after article saying Republicans are demographically doomed.
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Immigration is going to kill the Republicans because the Republicans rely disproportionately
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And so as the white percentage of the population decreases, then Republicans' electoral power
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And this means, ha-ha, Democrats are going to be in power forever.
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It's not just the New York Times that has supported this, though they have.
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It's not just all the liberal media that have embraced this theory.
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Joe Biden himself embraced this theory not so long ago.
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Folks like me, who are Caucasian of European descent, for the first time in 2017, will be
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an absolute minority in the United States of America.
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Fewer than 50% of the people in America from then and on will be white European stock.
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If you're going to attack Tucker Carlson for embracing this crazy, wild conspiracy theory,
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then you need to attack Joe Biden for embracing the same crazy, wild conspiracy theory.
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And you have to attack the entire Democrat establishment and the media establishment
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because they're the ones who have bragged about this for decades, too.
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Now, some of what Joe Biden said there is not factually correct.
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He said in the very first part of that clip that throughout the entirety of American history,
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going back to the 18th century, we've had a steady stream, an unrelenting stream of immigration.
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We've actually had huge periods of American history where there has been relatively very
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And then really starting in 1965, when the Democrats, led by Ted Kennedy, completely changed
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the immigration rules and opened it up to a flood of new immigration, that's really
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when things started to change and really move in the direction of Democrats' political
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He says, we're going to have, because of all this immigration, we're going to shrink the
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white percentage of the population, and this is a really good thing.
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And if you're a Democrat, there is at least good reason to think that's true.
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I actually don't think it's quite as simple as that because right now you're seeing huge
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numbers of Hispanic voters moving to the GOP just within the past four years or so, and
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really starting with Trump, but then accelerating in more recent years.
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So there's a chance that Democrats get what they wish for, and it doesn't look like what
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There's a chance that actually Republicans are going to get some benefit here as well.
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But certainly the Democrats think that that is the case.
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He might be pretending to talk about American strength, but he's certainly talking about Democrat
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He's saying that because these immigrants are more likely to identify as Republicans
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than, or as Democrats rather, then that will be a great source of strength that'll change
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So the Democrats now are exploiting the tragedy to attack Tucker Carlson for quoting Joe Biden's
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They will exploit the tragedy to go after all sorts of other people.
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I have a piece up at the Daily Wire today on how to exploit a shooting to blame it on
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Because if you, I read the Shooter's Manifesto.
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If you look in the Shooter's Manifesto, you can find something, you can find a line to make
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it seem as though the shooter is on the other side.
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Whether you're on the left or the right, you can find a line or two lines or 10 lines
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to make it seem like the shooter is on the left.
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But you can find lines that make it seem like he's on the right.
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Score one point on the tragedy for the left wing.
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The future of the GOP is playing out in Pennsylvania right now.
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We've come down to the Pennsylvania Senate primary.
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Dr. Oz, the Turkish TV show, daytime talk show guy.
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David McCormick, who's former CEO of Bridgewater.
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He's a hedge fund guy, kind of a business Republican.
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He was an official, I think, in Treasury during the Bush administration.
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And Kathy Barnett, who's a little bit of a wild card.
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She is a military veteran, political commentator.
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Seems to be the more conservative candidate, more to the right.
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She's really surged in recent weeks and now would appear to be among the top two candidates.
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According to a survey from Susquehannapolean Research released just yesterday,
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Kathy Barnett has 27% of likely Republican voters.
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And McCormick, I don't have his exact numbers here, but I think he's fallen fairly significantly behind.
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But this race, you know I don't really do endorsements in Republican primaries.
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The voters there can decide unless there are all sorts of nefarious election maneuvers to lots of mules and things like that to misrepresent the will of the voters.
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Although I don't think you would see that in a GOP primary.
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I think you'd be more likely to see that in a general election.
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So it's up to the Republican voters of Pennsylvania to decide.
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The point of this election is to see how far the Overton window has shifted.
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I think if you just looked on the issues here, Dr. Oz would be the furthest left candidate.
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He's complained about pro-life laws around the country very, very recently.
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Dr. Oz has seemed to encourage transgender transition for minors.
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I mean, the guy does not seem really conservative at all.
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David McCormick seems like a business Republican.
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I think he submitted a brief to the court in defense of redefining marriage in the Obergefell case.
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So socially, he would seem to be more to the left.
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I'm not sure that he would be as far to the left as Dr. Oz.
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And the kind of business economic issues, he seems broadly what you would expect from a more establishment Republican type figure.
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Kathy Barnett seems to check all of the boxes on the conservative issues.
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So if you're just voting on the issues, probably you're going to vote, and you're a conservative, you're probably going to vote for Kathy Barnett.
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But then there is the question of electability.
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This is the old Buckley rule that you should vote for the most right, viable candidate.
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And so Dr. Oz actually has something to recommend him here, which is that he's a very famous TV host who's got a lot of name recognition,
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who is some, I guess, more centrist than the other candidates, and Pennsylvania is a somewhat blue state.
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He's worked in a kind of centrist administration.
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So that's the decision that people are going to look at here.
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The Sean Hannity show has become basically the Dr. Oz commercial.
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And this was before the Kathy Barnett surge, but Cruz seems to be for McCormick.
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Kurt Schlichter, who's a pretty rock-ribbed conservative columnist.
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Kurt just went in and he said, look, I'm not saying McCormick's the most conservative guy,
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I don't think Kathy Barnett can win in the general.
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She's a very, very impressive candidate as far as I can tell.
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Whether or not she's electable in a general, I just don't know.
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I'm not as familiar with the voters of Pennsylvania.
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The voters know her better than I do because she's been going door-to-door for many months.
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And we're going to get an answer very, very soon.
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If this election were happening 10 years ago, there's no question McCormick would be the choice.
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Dr. Oz would probably be laughed out of the room.
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Kathy Barnett would probably be considered too right-wing.
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And if it were 20 years ago, oh, there's no question McCormick would be the guy.
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But maybe the conservatives have moved more conservative.
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Maybe the whole country has moved more conservative.
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Frankly, it's more interesting to me even than the individual candidates and who gets to win.
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You look right now, one of the most popular governors in America,
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certainly the most popular governor for Republicans, but one of the most popular period.
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He's not one of these cut it down the middle, try to split the baby guys.
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Ron DeSantis, any time a conservative issue pops up in the culture, Ron DeSantis is there
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Ron DeSantis just signed a bill in Florida to make it illegal to protest outside of someone's
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DeSantis signed the Florida House Bill 1571 just yesterday.
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Under the law, law enforcement officers must issue a warning to protesters to disperse.
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The violators will be prosecuted and punished as second-degree misdemeanors.
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This obviously is in reaction to the protests outside of the homes of the Supreme Court justices.
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I have this sense now that Ron DeSantis, just all day, he's just on Twitter and he's waiting
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And you say, okay, here's the, boom, news story is there's protests outside of the judges'
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The news story is there's a plus-size swimsuit model on Sports Illustrated.
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There will not be plus-size swimsuit models in Florida.
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We're getting, the story is that Eric Swalwell's pushing for gun control.
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Okay, we are, in the state of Florida, we are going to mandate that every baby has an
00:33:53.700
Yeah, especially now because abortion is threatening the babies now more than ever.
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The guy is in the news every day because every national issue, and especially every issue
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that matters to conservatives, he's there doing something about.
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It shows you the advantage that governors have over senators and congressmen and cabinet
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Because senators right now, you might have the most rock-ribbed, reliable conservative
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But if the senators are in the minority, if there's a Democrat in the White House, the
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And cabinet officials, former cabinet officials, can't do anything at all other than give speeches.
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But the governors can go in there and pass whatever the bill is, whatever the cause du jour
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Eric Swalwell tweets about how his four-year-olds FaceTiming.
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It's a very effective way to get your name into the news cycle, to put yourself up in
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the pecking order when you're looking at the presidency.
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And it shows you where that Overton window shifted, by the way, folks.
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If you had told me five years ago that education was going to be the biggest issue or one of the
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If you told me that getting LGBT ideology out of schools was going to be one of the biggest
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issues in 2022, 2024, I would have laughed at you.
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I would have said that's a conservative pipe dream, but that's not really what's going to
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By this election cycle, by the next one, that remains to be seen.
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Some candidates, unlike Ron DeSantis, do not have very good political instincts.
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I'm thinking in particular, I'm thinking of the anti-DeSantis, the opposite of Ron DeSantis,
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namely Beto O'Rourke loses the run for Senate, loses the run for president.
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Beto O'Rourke, at the moment in which the pro-life movement is probably at the height of
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its influence, at the moment in which the pro-abortion movement is probably at the absolute
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lowest point of its influence among voters and among the institutions.
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Beto O'Rourke shows up to The View to demand no limits on abortion whatsoever.
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But I do want to press further because you're a progressive hero.
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There are so many people around the country who admire you and your leadership.
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Do you believe in any limitations on abortion, whether it's the third trimester or up until
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I think Roe versus Wade, which we should remind ourselves is still the law of the land today,
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And the way I think I can best express this is that I trust women.
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We should all trust women to make their own decisions that are in their best interest for
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themselves, for their health care, and for their future.
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That's the way it's been literally my entire life.
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But let me just finish this point super quickly.
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In Texas, under Greg Abbott's watch, 100 kids lost their lives last year in the CPS,
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Child Protective Services System in Texas, under the care and the custody of the state of Texas.
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If he cared about life, he would have cared about those kids.
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But he cares about political points and control and power over women's bodies.
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And if Greg Abbott really cared about life, he would have killed those kids much sooner.
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He wouldn't have let those kids live for however long they did live.
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Why is he even talking about the foster care system?
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Find me a Republican who thinks that the foster care system is just perfect.
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Or thinks that there's no way to improve the foster care system.
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Like, I don't know, I don't, there's no Republican.
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And if you really cared about, no, listen, buddy, we're talking about abortion.
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And your view on abortion is so hideous, morally idiotic, and unpopular that you don't want to talk about abortion.
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And you want to move on and talk about foster care.
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I would love to make it easier for parents to adopt and less expensive for parents to adopt in this country.
00:38:25.900
I would love to make it harder for parents to get divorced in this country.
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I would love to do all sorts of things that would help families in America.
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I would love to change aspects of our industrial policy.
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I would love to change aspects of our trade policy to make it easier to form families.
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If you want to have, oh, you don't want to have that conversation.
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Now you're talking about guns for some reason, Joy Beyer, and we need to talk about guns.
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But you're all running away from the issue of abortion because you know that your position on it,
00:38:53.500
namely that you should be able to kill a baby one minute before he's born, is extremely unpopular and obviously evil and wrong.
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Whenever Beto O'Rourke issues an opinion on something, if you are an aspiring politician,
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if you want to be effective in the political square, do the opposite.
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Okay, it's just, even regardless of what you think, it is a good bet that whatever Beto O'Rourke thinks,
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the opposite is going to be more politically effective.
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Turning now from a terrible show to a good show, from The View to the Joe Rogan show.
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Joe Rogan expressed last week, I meant to get to it last week, we can get to it now,
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And I think his view is actually where a lot of Americans are on the issue.
00:39:39.980
Joe Rogan's view is, I'm for a woman's right to choose, but.
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You know, it's just, I just don't like, you know, I don't like people telling other people what they can and can't do,
00:39:50.400
but it gets weird when the baby gets like six months old.
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You know, it gets weird when they're really, really pregnant, because in some states, for the longest,
00:39:57.520
I don't know what the rules are now, but I know that some states had late-term abortions.
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And sometimes you need one for medical reasons, right?
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Like, it's a decision that people have to make.
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Well, if you look back, what was your favorite part of being a fetus?
00:40:14.240
Well, what was your favorite part of being three?
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You know, should I be able to shoot you at three, because I don't want to take care of you anymore?
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It's one of those things, it's like, I am 100% for a woman's right to choose.
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But as a human being, just as a person observing things,
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there's a big difference between a little clump of cells,
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and a fetus with an eyeball and a beating heart.
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And for anybody to pretend there's not, you're not doing any argument.
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I think it's probably the majority view in America.
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So, I think the pro-life view, and even the pro-abortion view,
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you know, the pro-life view, which is, if human life has worth it all,
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it has worth from the very beginning, and we should defend it.
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The pro-abortion view, the really honest pro-abortion view, which is, yes,
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obviously the baby is a baby, obviously the baby is a human,
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but we want women to have maximal bodily autonomy,
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and in order for women to have the same degree of bodily autonomy as men,
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It's the view popularized by that girl who came on my show last week.
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That view, I think it's ghastly, I think it's evil, but I understand it.
00:41:39.720
but I can understand why people come along to it,
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which is, look, I don't want to tell women what to do,
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I want women to be able to do whatever they want to do,
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but, like, come on, at a certain point, it's obviously a baby, right?
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what was your favorite part about being a fetus?
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Should you be like, you know, give me a break, man.
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But then Joe says, well, there's a huge difference
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between a clump of cells and a six-month-old baby in the womb.
00:42:12.660
You know, either the baby, I think the big differences here,
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I think those are, the difference between alive and not alive,
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Then say the difference between having fully formed hands
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but those are much more superficial differences.
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And he realizes that the pro-abortion propaganda is BS.
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Now the only question for him, and really, you know,
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I think he so expresses popular views that it's a question for all of America,
00:42:56.720
is are you going to go all the way with your correct moral intuitions?
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Are you going to follow them to their logical conclusion?
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The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth these days is six to nine months.
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but probably had something to do with a laboratory and public health funding.
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Actually, the COVID vaccines, they might have some negative side effects.
00:43:34.420
And they might, no, no, that's not, that's a crazy conspiracy theory.
00:43:37.680
The COVID vaccines, they might affect a women's menstrual cycle.
00:43:47.180
All of, and I'm just focusing on the conspiracy theories of the last three years.
00:43:52.260
There might have been some shenanigans in the 2020 election.
00:44:04.060
And I think I heard Alex Jones talking about this some years ago,
00:44:12.960
are going to prolong their lives by consuming the blood and the vital liquids of young people.
00:44:31.640
Youth transplants really can slow the aging process.
00:44:36.600
Stanford scientists find infusions of cerebrospinal fluid can regenerate the brain's memory center
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They even acknowledge, they say, harvesting the blood and body parts of the young
00:44:52.000
in the hope of achieving immortality has long been a familiar trope in horror novels and conspiracy theories.
00:44:57.880
But as macabre as that sounds, science is beginning to discover that youth process really can slow down the aging process.
00:45:05.200
The fountain of youth, it seems, is youth itself.
00:45:07.220
And so these researchers at Stanford are looking at how if we just harvest the young
00:45:13.580
and then old people who are afraid of death just take the vital life-giving fluids of the young
00:45:22.560
and just inject them into their own desiccated bodies that they might get to live a little bit longer.
00:45:34.080
This is because of a delusion that elites have had since the dawn of time
00:45:38.800
and every generation that comes up with it thinks it's brand new,
00:45:41.180
which is, hey, maybe we can conquer death ourselves.
00:45:44.300
Now, I, being a Christian, believe that death has already been conquered in an eternal way by Jesus Christ on the cross.
00:45:55.160
That's not good enough for some elites throughout history.
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Even before there was such a thing as liberalism.
00:46:19.680
That they're always looking for the fountain of youth.
00:46:25.160
You see the Silicon Valley types talking about this all the time today.
00:46:27.820
And it's just as silly today as when the pharaohs were doing it.
00:46:34.760
It gets to an especially pronounced cultural issue today.
00:46:50.020
We have a society of overgrown babies these days.
00:46:52.540
Because no one wants to actually grow up and mature.
00:46:58.560
When 35-year-olds finally figure out how to pay their bills.
00:47:08.320
No, you should have been doing that for many years at this point.
00:47:12.420
And now people get married, you know, much, much later.
00:47:23.560
Often as a result of delaying these sorts of things.
00:47:25.640
But very often, people will choose not to get married.
00:47:30.020
And the reason that they'll choose that is because they want to continue to go to brunch.
00:47:47.880
I'm not just beating up on the millennials, my own generation.
00:47:50.880
It's true at the upper end of that spectrum too.
00:47:54.620
How come we still have baby boomers as president?
00:48:00.640
We had a baby boomer president in Bill Clinton.
00:48:14.140
And then we went back even further, if you can believe it,
00:48:17.080
to the generation before the baby boomers with Joe Biden.
00:48:25.260
The millennials don't seem particularly ready for it.
00:48:27.700
And the boomers have totally messed up the society from the mid to late 20th century.
00:48:36.740
And I think a lot of it just gets to not accepting this fact of time.
00:48:48.940
In my office at the Daily Wire, I have a picture, a print of Caravaggio's painting of St. Jerome,
00:48:56.080
who's writing, he's translating the Bible, and he's got a skull right there, the memento mori.
00:49:01.260
It's good to remember that you're going to die because that will motivate you to do the right
00:49:08.540
It will actually, ironically, put you at far greater peace than if you think that you can live
00:49:13.560
forever by sucking out the spinal fluid of young people.
00:49:21.620
This is, so much of this public health neurosis and insanity of the last two and three years now
00:49:26.920
has come because of people's irrational, ridiculous fear of aging and sickness and dying.
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A lot, before we go to, there's just an important point here.
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The White House just tweeted out, when President Biden took office, millions were unemployed.
00:49:46.880
In the last 15 months, the economy's created lots and lots of jobs and blah, blah, blah.
00:49:53.880
More than 3 million Americans were fully vaccinated, and more than 18 million had at least one dose
00:49:59.900
of the vaccine by the time Joe Biden was inaugurated.
00:50:02.100
Joe Biden himself was vaccinated by the time he was inaugurated, so that was fake news.
00:50:08.000
Is the disinformation governance board, the new ministry of truth, are they going to go
00:50:14.100
Is the White House ever going to get on message?
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Not with a press secretary like this, not with a Democratic Party like this, which has nothing,
00:50:20.260
which is gasping, which is desperate, which is running on straws.
00:50:25.000
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