Ep. 1036 - The Left Taking L's
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The Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Christian high school football coach who kneeled during a prayer after a loss to a Muslim school in Washington state. Liberals were quick to point out that Christians should be allowed to pray in their own private spaces, too.
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Big win for religious liberty yesterday at the Supreme Court.
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The court ruled 6-3 in Kennedy v. Bremerton School District that the school violated coach
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Joseph Kennedy's rights when it fired him for kneeling and saying a private prayer
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after football games. The biggest takeaway is that religious freedom is not completely dead
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in America. But the second biggest takeaway, and this has been underreported, is that liberals
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have absolutely no idea what conservatives actually believe. Instantly after the decision
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came out, a bunch of prominent libs on social media jumped at what they thought was going to be
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conservative hypocrisy. You saw a million variations of, well, if you think conservatives should be
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allowed to pray privately at school, then you probably think that Jews and Muslims should be
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allowed to do that too, right? Ha ha, gotcha. To which all of the conservatives replied,
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uh-huh, yep, sounds good. It wasn't the first time that we've seen this kind of thing.
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We were seeing this liberal disconnect for weeks after the Carson decision from the Supreme Court.
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If you think Christian students in Maine should be able to spend their education funding at Christian
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schools, then maybe Jews and Muslims should be allowed to spend it at their own schools, huh?
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Huh? Huh? Uh-huh. Yeah, that's great. Sounds like a great idea. Let's do it.
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After the Dobbs decision, you want to ban abortion, huh? Well, maybe we should pass a law to make men
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support the women that they impregnate. What do you think about that?
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I think that's a great idea. Where do I sign up for that? I, cool. Let me co-sponsor that.
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You don't like gay marriage, huh? Well, if you're such a defender of marriage,
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what if we made it harder for straight couples to get divorced? Awesome. Mm-hmm. Right. You support
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the Second Amendment, huh? So you think it's fine for black men to own guns? I do, yes. One in four
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black men in America already own guns, and black rifles and black people, they're both great in my
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book. The list goes on and on. It is a huge political weakness for the libs. I think it
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probably explains in part why conservatives have been making such unusual gains in recent years.
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If you want to defeat your opponent, the first thing that you've got to do is try to understand
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your opponent. Right now, the conservatives generally understand what motivates the libs,
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and the libs don't have even the foggiest notion of what motivates us. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
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The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from
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Juan Estebas, who says, it's crazy how fast they went from my body, my choice to eugenics.
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It is. It's crazy. It's wild. It's nuts to see. But it's not crazy in the sense that eugenics is the
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logical conclusion of that. If your politics is just all about your will and just what you want
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all the time, and it's not about reason or logic or morality, it's just about what you want,
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then eugenics is going to be the obvious conclusion of that. That's not just true now. It's been true
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throughout all of human history. When you divorce reason and logic and the moral order from politics,
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things get ugly real fast. It's not even just the radical libs who have no idea what conservatives
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believe. It's even the squishy conservatives, the center left, the former conservatives. David Frum,
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David Frum, who was a speechwriter during the Bush administration. He was a vaguely kind of
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conservative guy, and now he's a sort of center liberal guy. He tweeted out after the Kennedy case,
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after the case that vindicated the football coach for praying privately after the football games.
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He said, Supreme Court opens way for rousing chants of Allahu Akbar before high school sporting events.
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Ha ha, you conservatives. Because David Frum's idea here is that the conservatives,
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while they're celebrating the Christian being able to pray privately after the football games,
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the conservatives hate Muslims. And so if the Muslims pray, we're really going to hate that,
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right? Which to me is not only false, it not only rings false, it rings extremely dated. Though I
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suppose it makes sense coming from Frum, because Frum came to prominence during the Bush years. And during
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the Bush years, it was at least commonly believed that the Muslims, they're our real enemy,
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the radical Islamic extremists. They're the real threat to civilization. I suspect today it feels
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a little bit different, doesn't it? Which group do you think poses a greater threat to your way of
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life and to your kids and to your rights and to your country? Do you think it's the Muslims or do you
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think it's the radical leftists? I got to tell you, these days, if I'm saying, what's the most
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immediate threat? Look, Islam, Muslim groups have been invading the West since the seventh century.
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So I'm not saying there's no threat there. Battle of Lepanto, Battle of Vienna, Battle of Poitiers.
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There, listen, this is a longstanding tradition, okay? But today, right now, in the year of our Lord,
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2022, what poses the greatest threat to me? Islam or radical leftism. It's radical leftism.
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No question about that. We're talking about schools. I would much sooner send my child to
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a madrasa than I would send him to most woke public schools. Because whatever differences I
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have with the Muslims on matters of theology, philosophy, and the like, at least the Muslims
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aren't going to try to convince my son he's a little girl, okay? Whatever disagreements I have
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with the Islamic world, frankly, the claims that are made by radical leftism, boys are secretly girls.
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Babies aren't really babies. Everyone who built our civilization is evil. There is no God. All the
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claims of the radical left are way more dangerous than whatever claims are being made by the Muslim
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world. But people don't quite get that. People don't quite, they really believe, someone like
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David Fromm, I guess, or the rest of these guys, they really believe that conservatives, we just
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hate Muslims. And it's just not true. Is it true? Ask yourself. If you are a conservative, if you're
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a center right, is that really what you think the fear is, Allahu Akbar at high schools? A Muslim or a Jew
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are making a private prayer? No, I think the far greater risk to our civilization comes from
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atheism. The libs are especially blind on issues of faith and morals. You saw this yesterday
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on The View, you know, that forum of elevated public debate, The View. Joy Behar made the claim
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that we are now living, because of decisions like the one yesterday, we are now living in a theocracy.
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Don't we have separation? No, we don't anymore. I mean, Clarence Thomas needs to have a seance
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and have Thomas Jefferson there and Alexander Hamilton. Hello? Yeah. Do we still have a
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separation of church and state here as in the Constitution? Yeah. It's the First Amendment
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guarantee, and we don't seem to have that anymore. Well, we're in a theocracy right now.
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Six of the nine. That was an amazing clip from The View, because nothing they said was true,
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and everything they said was false, and they managed to fit many, many false and ignorant
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statements into about 20 seconds. Joy Behar says, do we still have separation of church and state?
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We never had a separation of church and state. That's not real. Tuck that one away with the
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boogeyman. That's never existed. Is that still in the Constitution? It is not in the Constitution.
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Right now, pull up the Constitution, full text of the Constitution. Do a search for separation of
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church and state. You will not find it. Yeah, it's in the First Amendment. The First Amendment has
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something called the Establishment Clause, which says that there won't be a nationally established
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church. The reason for that at the time of the ratification of the Constitution is that the states
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had established churches. It's not a firm separation of church and state. Let's get Jefferson on the phone.
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Jefferson did use that phrase one time in a private letter. Let's get Hamilton on the phone.
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Hamilton was not some great defender of the separation of church and state, because it's not
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possible. Joy Behar says, we're living in a theocracy now. We're not. I mean, would that it were so simple.
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We are living in an extremely religious, increasingly totalitarian state. It has
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very extreme moral claims. But it's not a Christian theocracy, that's for sure.
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It's a different kind of religious state. All politics is, in a certain sense, theocratic,
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because everyone's making claims about human nature and how we're supposed to live together
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and what society should look like and what morality is. But the only difference is that now,
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instead of living in a Christian theocracy or a Muslim theocracy or Jewish theocracy,
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we're living in a theocracy of leftism, in a religious state of leftism. I don't know if you've seen
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Rockefeller Plaza recently. In Rockefeller Plaza in New York, one of the most famous scenes in New York,
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all of the American flags have been replaced by gay pride flags. I don't know if you've seen
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London recently. Any photos coming out of London? All of the British flags have been replaced by
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rainbow flags, pride flags. Those are moral claims. Those are religious claims. The religious claims
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that men can secretly be women. That's in the new trans pride flag. The religious claim that
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men and women are not meant for one another, that the purpose of our bodies and our sexuality is not
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to come together men and women and produce babies, but to just have whatever sex gives us pleasure,
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whatever sort of titillates us. Those are religious claims. Maybe you agree with those religious claims,
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but you have to at least admit they are religious claims. And the state is elevating them. The state
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is elevating them so much that we're getting rid of our old flags, the symbol of our nations,
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and replacing them with the new flags of a liberal empire based on new liberal international
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transnational values that are just as true in Tahiti, according to the libs as they are in our own
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countries, and flags that stand for morals, a certain moral view that happens to be at odds with the
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traditional views of our civilization. It's theocratic, it's extremist, it's totalitarian, just not the way
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Speaking of foreigners, I've got really bad news. I'm sorry I have to report this to you.
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As a result of the Dobbs decision, hundreds of thousands of babies per year will now be saved
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from being murdered. That's true. And the people of the states get to choose their own abortion laws,
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which is something, that's a right that they have not had since 1973. But on the flip side of that,
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Yes. The Roe vs. Wade news is absolutely terrible. I tweeted about it. I RT'd a couple things. I
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faved a couple things. It's just tough because...
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What more can we even say at this point? We've said it all. It's depressing. I booked a ticket back
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No, Pokemoney. Pokemoney, you're going back to Canada? No. How can you... First question,
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just before we move on. Who is Pokemoney? I don't know. I saw this headline come up. I had not heard
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of Pokemoney. I had heard of Pokemon, the Japanese cartoon, but I had not heard of Pokemoney. She is
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a Twitch streamer. And not only is she a Twitch streamer, she is not American. She is, from my
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very modest Googling, she is Moroccan and Canadian. But she's in America right now, and she's very upset
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by the Dobbs decision to save the babies. And why is she upset? She can't quite articulate it.
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She says, what is there to say? For someone like Pokemoney, probably there's not quite a lot to say.
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And she says, I'm going back to Canada. Okay. All right. I think that's fine. Why do I care what
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Pokemoney thinks? I certainly don't. Even further, why should I care what a Moroccan Canadian thinks
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about my laws? Why should I care about that? And why should I care that this foreign Twitch streamer
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is now going to leave my country because she's so angry that we're not going to kill quite so many
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babies? Why should her opinion have any effect on me whatsoever? It does not. She has influence on
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some people, but not with me. She's not the only foreigner who's weighing in on this issue.
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We've got Mr. Macron, Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France, who is very upset about the Supreme Court's
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decision in Dobbs for some reason. And he tweeted out, quote, abortion is a fundamental right for all
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women. It must be protected. I wish to express my solidarity with the women whose liberties are
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being undermined by the Supreme Court of the United States. Now, the irony, there's so many layers of
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irony to Macron's statement. But the top line is, in France, abortions are only allowed for any reason
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up until 14 weeks. Up until 14 weeks. The law in America, the Mississippi law that brought the Dobbs
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decision to overrule Roe v. Wade to let the states make their own abortion laws, the Mississippi law
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bans abortions after 15 weeks. Abortion is more restricted in France than it is in Mississippi,
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which is the center point of this case. And yet Macron weighs in and goes, this is terrible what
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you Americans are doing. You are getting rid. You are making your abortion laws almost as restrictive
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as a fundamental right. Abortion, obviously, is not a fundamental right. But even if it were,
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America would be, even in Mississippi, would be protecting that right more than Macron is.
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Denmark's prime minister, Mette Fredriksson, Mette says, my heart weeps for the girl. I'm not going to
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do a Danish impression. I just don't have, my Danish accent is not quite so good. My heart weeps for the
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girls and women of the USA. Whenever I don't have an accent, I just do Jordan Peterson. My heart weeps
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for the girls and women of the USA. Huge setback. The right to a free abortion is one of the most
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fundamental rights there is. Wow, they're really escalating the rhetoric. It's not just abortion,
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safe, legal, and rare. Every abortion's a tragedy, but we have to permit it for some reason.
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Then it became no abortion's a right. Now it's abortion's one of the most fundamental rights there is.
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Life is the most fundamental right there is. Without the right to life, no other rights can
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possibly exist. Now the libs are inverting that. They're saying the right, quote unquote,
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to kill your own child is one of the most fundamental rights. Does that seem coherent to
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you? Not to me. She goes, we must never compromise the unrestricted right of women to decide over their
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own bodies and future. You know the irony here? Layers and layers of irony. You probably are guessing it.
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In Denmark, unrestricted abortion is only allowed up to 12 weeks.
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The Danish laws on abortion are much more restrictive than the Mississippi law.
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It's so ignorant. It's they just don't either. They don't know what our laws are,
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the laws that they're weighing in on and pontificating on, or they just want to hold us
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to a different standard than they're holding themselves. The one good thing here, outside of
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the ignorance and presumption of Macron and this, and Fredrickson, is it shows you just how important
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the Dobbs decision is. Because the Dobbs decision doesn't just affect America. Because America isn't
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just a nation. America is in fact an empire. And everyone around, if you've ever traveled around
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the world, especially near an American election, you will know that virtually every other country
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on earth treats the American election as very important to their own countries. Treats the
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American election as though they are part of an American empire, because in many ways they are.
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And so when America does something like this, when America radically changes course and says,
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you know, we're not, we're not going to outlaw abortion, unfortunately, just yet, but we are
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going to restrict abortion and allow the people to make their own abortion restrictions.
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That has reverberations outside of just the United States. That has reverberations throughout the
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world. Even just in the fact that America in its foreign policy now will be more reined in in
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promoting abortion, because there is no national right to an abortion. There is no constitutional right
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to an abortion. Speaking of foreigners, another big win from the Supreme Court, not the U.S. Supreme
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Court, but the New York Supreme Court, which just yesterday ruled that a law in New York City allowing
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non-citizens to vote is unconstitutional. And it's not unconstitutional according to the U.S.
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Constitution. It's unconstitutional according to the New York State Constitution. This was Judge
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Ralph Porzio of the New York Supreme Court for Long Island ruled that the city violated the state
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constitution, which says that every citizen is entitled to vote. But if you're not a citizen,
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you are not entitled to vote. And this is a big deal. The law allowed an estimated 800,000 to 1 million
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non-citizens, illegal aliens living in New York City to vote. And I should be even more precise
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with my language here. It's not just that this law was aimed at allowing people who cross the border
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illegally from Latin America to vote. We're talking about non-citizens who have legal status. We're
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talking about non-citizens who have a green card, but they're not citizens. The law would have allowed
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them to vote in the city elections. There are only 6.7 million people voting age in New York City.
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So then you're going to allow another million people who are foreigners to vote. Obviously,
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that is going to swing elections. And the court came in and said, no, you don't have the right
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to do that. We are going to protect our elections. We are going to protect our people. We are going to
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protect our sovereignty. We're going to have a real country, guys. That's been the takeaway
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from the past couple of weeks. You get to practice your religion. Some woke lunatic isn't going to
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tell you no. You get to exercise your Second Amendment rights. Some woke lunatic isn't going
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to tell you no. We're going to protect our babies. We're not going to tolerate killing a million babies
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a year, upwards of a million babies a year, just because the Libs want us to. We are going to
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protect the integrity of our election. We're going to have a real country, folks. And that's really,
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really great news. Now, speaking of foreigners, there is another aspect to all of this, which is
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not getting a ton of play in the media, but we should mention it now so that when tragic events
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come to pass, we will at least have predicted them. All of this consternation that everyone's
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talking about, all of the rancorous debates in our country over the court decisions is giving up
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the perfect timing to this news story. Ghislaine Maxwell is on Suicide Watch. Now, you know,
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tomorrow we've got Backstage Live coming to the Ryman Auditorium, the historic Ryman Auditorium
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It was amazing. We were in the presence of greatness.
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The energy of having everyone on the same page was amazing.
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If your family member is still waiting for Fauci to give them permission to leave their house,
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it might be time to cut that off. I'm actually pretty excited to meet all of them. I love
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everybody's opinion individually. I don't have a favorite. I like them all.
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I had found out a way to make football players cry in high school. My high school experience
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had been a lot. I'm just excited to be here and be surrounded by like-minded people and to just,
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you know, feel that energy. Who should we remove from office? One politician. The most powerful
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politician in the country. Dr. Fauci. What are you talking about? We're doing culture here. I'm so
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thrilled to see this happening. If they say to half of the country, you can't, that half of the
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the pike. We'll be right back with a lot more. I'm pretty sure Hillary Clinton has already sent
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her condolences on the future suicide of Ghislaine Maxwell. It's so sad that she will have killed
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herself very soon. Ghislaine Maxwell, the romantic and business partner of Jeffrey Epstein, procurer
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of young girls, madam for Creepy Petto Island. Ghislaine Maxwell has been placed on suicide watch.
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She is therefore prohibited from reviewing legal materials prior to her sentencing for her crimes.
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She is not being permitted to meet with her counsel. She will be formally moving on Monday for an
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adjournment. This is according to her attorney, Bobby Sternheim. According to the attorney, this is
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what's really weird. Ghislaine Maxwell is being placed on suicide watch despite not being suicidal.
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It's according to the attorney and a psychologist who evaluated Maxwell backed up that assessment,
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according to Reuters. So Ghislaine Maxwell says she's not suicidal. Her attorney says she's not
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suicidal. A psychologist that independently came in and assessed her says she's not suicidal.
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But the government says she's suicidal. And so she's going to have all these new restrictions placed on
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her and hope she's okay. Hope a couple cameras don't go out. Hope those guards don't accidentally
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sleep through their duty while Hillary just sneaks in the back and chokes the ever-loving life
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out of her with her own bare hands and then walks out in a groucho classes or something and never is
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Ghislaine heard from again. I don't know if Ghislaine Maxwell will be suicided or not. Or you know if
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she's just really secretly depressed and will off herself. The only thing I would point out from a
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political perspective, if someone means to do Ghislaine Maxwell harm, if, for instance, Ghislaine Maxwell
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has extremely damaging blackmail on the most powerful people on earth, and she, she, almost she alone
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has it, this would be a good time to offer because everyone is focused on everything else. Everyone is
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focused on the repeal of, or the overturning rather, of Roe v. Wade. This is the most important Supreme
00:26:12.760
Court development on one of the most contentious social issues in 50 years. That would be a good time.
00:26:18.740
The end of the term, the fireworks from the Supreme Court, you've got the midterm elections coming up,
00:26:24.120
you've got this crazy economy at war in the Middle East. There's a lot going on in the news that could
00:26:28.840
distract people if certain influential people or institutions or corrupt politicians or whoever
00:26:36.060
want to, want to off Ghislaine Maxwell. I'm calling it now, Ghislaine Maxwell did not kill herself.
00:26:45.600
Speaking of weird sex stuff, there was a, there have been a number of protests of the Dobbs decisions,
00:26:53.820
politicians screaming, young women protesting with babies and fake blood and things like that.
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Women in Dallas took a different tack. They protested the Dobbs decision by, by twerking
00:27:08.220
everywhere in public. Just a lot of twerking. It seems to all be women. Or generally sort of
00:27:20.600
androgynous people. They're all twerking on each other. My, my body, my choice.
00:27:28.640
People kind of rolling on the ground and shaking and jiggling. There, there were various screams
00:27:41.060
and cries of the sort of, you know, slut walk chants. You forget about, I don't want to be a
00:27:46.480
mother down with the patriarchy. I'm a, I'm a proud slut and a hoe and all that kind of stuff.
00:27:51.620
My only take on these protests, the ladies, if they want to twerk, I suppose they can twerk.
00:27:59.400
My only take on the protests is if you are just a normal person, right? And you don't pay a ton
00:28:04.600
of attention to politics and you, you're not a pro-life advocate going out in the street,
00:28:10.560
praying rosaries in front of Planned Parenthoods. And you're not a pro-choice activist, a pro-abortion
00:28:15.480
activist who's going out there and, and making your voice heard. If you're just a kind of ordinary
00:28:20.960
person in the middle who goes about your daily life and goes to work and takes care of your family
00:28:25.340
and you see this and you see that, is that going to convince you to join their cause?
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I don't think so. I don't think it will. The, the women who are going out there and jiggling and
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twerking and screaming, I think they misunderstand what ordinary people want. I don't think that ordinary
00:28:46.480
people want to be just degenerate, promiscuous, degenerates there. I guess it's a little redundant,
00:28:55.060
but I don't think that's what most people aspire to be. And even if the twerking in the protest is
00:29:00.500
ironic, they seem to believe that the conservatives are, are trying to protect babies just because we
00:29:06.360
hate women or we, or we hate sexuality or we were really, if you look at pro-life people,
00:29:13.940
you'll notice they tend to have a lot of kids. They're not, they're not sex negative. Okay.
00:29:21.400
They're pretty sex positive. They just realized that sex is supposed to exist within certain
00:29:26.040
constraints. The fact that sex is so very important to our nature, which the libs have been telling us
00:29:30.860
for so, so long. I mean, that's behind the transgender movement. That's behind the whole
00:29:33.780
rainbow movement. They're saying sex is so important that we've got to take it very seriously.
00:29:37.520
That's what the pro-lifers are saying. They're saying, yes, sex is very, very important.
00:29:40.920
And it's a very powerful force and it can go off the rails like those ladies in Dallas are showing
00:29:46.260
you. And so we've got to make sure it remains within certain confines so that it can be ordered
00:29:51.060
in the right way. And we can channel that and don't end up like them. I hope these women keep
00:29:55.560
twerking. I think every time one of these women jiggles, we get another pro-life activist. Every time
00:30:00.220
someone sees one of these people shaking around, we're going to get another Republican vote in November.
00:30:06.120
However, the libs are very upset at this idea of limiting our sexual desires and behaviors.
00:30:13.460
Business Insider, I think they've rebranded just to Insider. This is a very far left-wing
00:30:19.200
news outlet. They're very upset that Gen Z right now is going to be having less sex. Actually,
00:30:29.180
Gen Z doesn't have a lot of sex. They have very open, promiscuous views on sex,
00:30:32.280
but they have less real-life actual sex than previous generations. Headline,
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Swearing Off Men and Avoiding Intimacy, Gen Z Reconsiders Sex in the Wake of a Post-Roe World.
00:30:45.400
Madeline V might be done with men altogether. A 24-year-old marketing assistant who identifies
00:30:50.660
as bisexual, Madeline, who asked that Insider only use her first name, has decided that sticking to
00:30:56.440
female partners may be the safest sexual route these days. It's not a fear of men, exactly,
00:31:01.480
that has inspired this young woman to consider swearing off an entire gender. It's the heightened
00:31:05.600
fear of unwanted pregnancy and a subsequent lack of options that has forced Madeline to proceed with
00:31:11.240
sexual caution in the wake of Friday's Supreme Court decision gutting federal abortion rights
00:31:17.380
protections. So Insider, this left-wing outlet, is writing this as though this should be horrifying to
00:31:25.320
everybody. It's just like those people at the top of the show. And this is, it's not that she fears and
00:31:32.680
hates men. It's that she doesn't want to have an unwanted pregnancy if she's not allowed to kill her
00:31:39.420
child. So now she's going to be a little more sexually cautious. Great. Good. Good. That's sort of
00:31:48.200
the point. That's good for the baby, obviously, the baby who will not be killed through abortion.
00:31:55.000
But it's good. It's good for society that we won't have this sexual chaos everywhere.
00:31:58.760
But it's good for Madeline. It's good for Madeline too. Does anybody still seriously believe years after
00:32:06.200
Me Too, years after the enough is enough movement? Does anyone seriously believe that hookup culture
00:32:14.960
is really, really good for women? The article goes on. I wish I could read the entire article for you.
00:32:20.020
They say, quoting a young woman, surprisingly enough, I've actually had dreams where I'm pregnant
00:32:24.800
and I can't find a way to take care of myself. Adeline said, correcting herself, saying the visions were
00:32:30.320
more akin to nightmares. She can't find a way to take care of herself. What about a husband? Have
00:32:39.460
you thought if you become pregnant, it's probably not going to happen because you sit on a toilet
00:32:45.120
seat. If you become pregnant, it's going to happen because you have sex with somebody. What if,
00:32:49.500
hear me out, I know this is crazy. What if you do what everyone did throughout all of human history
00:32:55.760
until about 40 years ago and marry that person? And then you don't, you don't need to worry about
00:33:01.980
just taking care of yourself. You will have a husband who will go out and make money for you
00:33:06.200
and provide food and shelter for you. And you can raise the family and you can, you can do some work
00:33:10.960
yourself as well, but you won't have to carry that whole, whole heavy load yourself. You'll have
00:33:15.860
what, something that's called a family. So family, this is an old fashioned concept. It existed,
00:33:21.680
well, as recently as, I don't know, a couple of decades ago, but a family is when people,
00:33:25.760
come together in something called a marriage and a marriage, I know we've, we've changed all the
00:33:30.240
definitions and we, nothing means anything anymore, but a marriage is when a man and a woman come
00:33:34.840
together and they love each other ideally. And then they produce a child like you're saying,
00:33:39.520
you know, well, that part would have come first, but whatever, that's okay. And you come together
00:33:43.700
and then you live together and you can even make more children and you can have a good life if you
00:33:47.600
want. Or, or you can just continue to live alone in a sort of miserable, isolated, alienated
00:33:54.980
existence, working for some other guy at a company, another guy who doesn't care about you and will
00:34:01.480
throw you under the bus the second that you're no longer profitable to him. And you, instead of
00:34:06.020
sleeping with a hundred different men, none of whom care about you at all, you can just sleep with
00:34:11.140
your husband. And instead of killing your own children, you can actually give birth to them and
00:34:15.460
raise them and have a loving, wonderful existence. I know it's radical and crazy. I'm not even,
00:34:20.980
I'm being obviously somewhat, somewhat humorous here in the way I'm describing it, but I actually
00:34:27.200
think people probably do need to hear it. I actually think that the younger generations who
00:34:32.960
have been raised in the madness of the sexual revolution and in the wake of the sexual revolution
00:34:37.480
probably don't think about these things all that much because the hookup culture is just,
00:34:42.480
it's just ubiquitous. It's just the way that things are. The idea of getting married young and
00:34:48.360
staying married and having kids and having a good life, it's, it's a foreign concept. Frankly, it was,
00:34:54.080
it was a somewhat foreign concept. Even when I was a teenager growing up in liberal places,
00:34:58.380
I can't even imagine now. Ever since the draft decision was leaked, Adeline has had to entirely
00:35:05.980
rethink whether or not she wants to start having sex, telling insider that she's terrified to make
00:35:10.460
a choice that could leave her with an unwanted child. Good. Catherine said, she's been left to
00:35:17.320
reevaluate the consequences of casual sex that have suddenly become very real.
00:35:23.140
Awesome. Great. She says, as much as I want to have fun in my twenties, what happens to me when
00:35:27.640
the fun stops? What happens to me when I might be in need of an abortion and can't access that?
00:35:33.020
What happens when the fun stops? Great question to ask yourself. In hookup culture, if you're just
00:35:37.540
hooking up, you don't just bring up that stuff right away normally, she said, but when it comes to
00:35:42.780
if you're actually going to sleep with someone, I think at this point that definitely needs to be
00:35:46.900
addressed. This is really great stuff. The hookup culture is terrible for everyone. It's very
00:35:53.240
enticing. It's very tempting. I know it seems fun at the time, but ultimately it's not fun and it makes
00:35:57.660
everybody miserable. It's also probably the primary driver of the rape culture hysteria that was going
00:36:04.860
on in recent years and the Me Too movement and all of that. None of that would have been possible
00:36:09.320
without a culture that encouraged promiscuous sex. Obviously, rape would still happen,
00:36:13.880
but the idea of a rape culture, this pervasive, endemic sort of men exploiting women and pressuring
00:36:21.020
women and Harvey Weinstein saying, come on up to my hotel suite and these drunken rendezvous that occur
00:36:26.320
all over colleges and bars where consent is very unclear and the lines that people want to engage in,
00:36:33.540
they're blurred lines. None of that would be possible without the sexual revolution and a culture
00:36:38.600
of promiscuous sex. And the consequences of that have been disastrous, especially for women. But the
00:36:44.900
main reason I want to bring up this article is not even all of that. It's to remind conservatives of a
00:36:50.880
very important truth. Namely, culture very often is downstream of politics. You know, Andrew Breitbart
00:36:59.340
had that famous line, politics is downstream of culture, which is true in as much as the movies matter and
00:37:05.920
the press matters and books matter and private civic associations matter. Yeah, that's all true.
00:37:12.220
But politics is downstream of culture is a slogan. And like all slogans, it cannot convey the whole of
00:37:20.300
reality. And if politics is downstream of culture is taken to its extreme, it's nothing more than an
00:37:28.380
excuse for conservatives and libertarians to ignore the political order and actual
00:37:34.320
government and the power that the people happily give us on occasion. Culture can be downstream of
00:37:42.220
politics too. The example that I frequently use is East and West Germany. East Germany was conquered by
00:37:50.380
the Soviet Union for the latter half of the 20th century. West Germany remained free, remained part of
00:37:57.540
the West. West Germany has very high rates of people who believe in God today. East Germany is almost entirely
00:38:06.380
atheist. Why is that? Is that because of regional variations in bratwurst and Bavarian donuts? No, it's because
00:38:15.680
East Germany was dominated by an officially atheist regime for 40 years. That's why. These women are showing you this
00:38:24.280
right now. They're saying, gosh, you know, when the law was a certain way, I engaged in this kind of
00:38:29.820
behavior in my private life. But now that the law is different, I'm going to, I'm going to behave in a
00:38:35.820
different way. This is something that we have known throughout all of history and that somehow
00:38:40.300
conservatives and libertarians forgot for the last 30 or 40 years. But the law is a teacher. The law
00:38:47.180
shapes society. Conservatives and libertarians especially are so good at understanding incentives,
00:38:52.500
but we seem to forget that when it comes to the law. When you create legal incentives for certain
00:38:59.020
behaviors, you get more of them. When you create legal disincentives for certain behaviors, you get
00:39:03.440
less of them. The incentives and disincentives created by Dobbs are absolutely magnificent and we
00:39:10.580
should double down on it, have much more pro-life legislation throughout the states. It will not only be
00:39:16.520
good for the babies, though it obviously will be. It will be good for everyone involved.
00:39:23.940
Speaking of the birds and the bees, there was a Lib Blue check, Carrie Gose. Gose? I don't know.
00:39:31.280
Haven't, haven't heard of her before. She tweeted out something that I think really typifies the
00:39:37.440
misunderstanding and misinformation going around the Dobbs case. She said,
00:39:41.120
reporters and editors, reporters and editors, it is not a fetal heartbeat. At six weeks, it is cardiac
00:39:51.280
activity, no organ has formed, in an embryo. It's not a fetal heartbeat. Stop reporting on these laws
00:40:00.900
that protect life after there is a fetal heartbeat. It's not a fetal heartbeat. It's cardiac activity in
00:40:06.740
an embryo. And cardiac, of course, is a synonym for heart. So it's a heart, it's a heart active,
00:40:13.100
it's a heartbeat. In an embryo, which is a synonym for a fetus. So it's a heartbeat in a fetus. And
00:40:20.100
by the way, fetus is just the Latin word for offspring, for child. So what's the difference?
00:40:26.060
What's amazing? This woman, she said it's not. It would be like saying, hey, hey, hey,
00:40:31.960
reporters, stop reporting on submarine sandwiches. Stop reporting on a delicious Italian sub. It's an
00:40:42.640
Italian hoagie. That's not an Italian sub. That's a Calabrese hoagie. You say, well, I know you're
00:40:52.660
using different words, but the words are referring to the same thing. And the libs have to change all
00:40:59.400
the words. This is the topic of my book, number one, national bestselling, speechless, controlling
00:41:03.840
words, controlling minds. Thank you to all of you who went out and bought it. This is the topic of
00:41:07.380
my book. The libs, because the facts run against their arguments, the only recourse they are left
00:41:14.400
with is to change the words and hope that people get confused. And sometimes a real problem for the
00:41:21.040
libs is that they believe their own euphemisms. They forget the purpose of those euphemisms, which is
00:41:27.500
to deceive people. And they end up deceiving themselves. They violate one of the most important
00:41:32.220
rules. It was the best advice my mother ever gave me when I was a young boy. And I was becoming very
00:41:36.820
cocky because I'd gotten a good grade on an exam or something. And she said, Michael, don't believe
00:41:42.760
your own press releases. That's very good advice. Don't believe your own press releases. The libs are
00:41:47.820
believing their own press releases. They are high on their own supply. And it's a political detriment to
00:41:53.160
them because they're actually not fooling anyone else. They're no longer fooling the Supreme Court.
00:41:58.620
They're no longer fooling the majority of Americans. If you look at polling, they only appear to be
00:42:03.580
fooling themselves. And the more they change the words, the more they seem to babble incoherently.
00:42:10.080
Hence, you get, well, actually, before I even get to our vice president, I do want to get to our
00:42:14.060
vice president. But before I get to her, I have to read this poem from probably the most prominent
00:42:20.080
poet in America right now. This is that young girl who spoke at Joe Biden's inauguration.
00:42:26.680
This is probably the most praised, lauded, fetid poet in America right now. She has 1.6 million
00:42:32.820
Twitter followers. Here is her take on the Dobbs decision. I have to try to not laugh while I read
00:42:40.540
this. We will not be delayed. We will not be masquerade to the tale of a hand made. We will
00:42:52.780
not let Roe v. Wade slowly fade because when we show up today, we're already standing up with the
00:43:01.420
tomorrow we made. Let's get to work. And then it's a link to some pro-abortion thing.
00:43:09.460
Not exactly Wordsworth. Not Shakespeare here, is it? One, at a grammatical level,
00:43:19.440
we will not be masquerade. This woman doesn't know what the word masquerade means.
00:43:26.320
A masquerade is a noun or a verb. You can masquerade as someone else. You cannot be masquerade.
00:43:38.040
So she doesn't know what that word is. She then misspells hand made. She spells it H-A-N-D-M-A-D-E,
00:43:43.420
not M-A-I-D. And then she rhymes made with made with the same spelling. Not very great poetry.
00:43:53.500
Then she follows it up. She says, pregnancy is a private and personal decision. It should never
00:43:58.780
require the permission of any politician. She's not a poet and she don't even know it.
00:44:06.420
But also, just the claim she's making at the top, pregnancy is a private and personal decision.
00:44:10.360
It's not. It's not. Whatever you think about abortion, you can't say it's a private
00:44:13.780
and personal matter. Pregnancy, by definition, involves another person. That's what makes it
00:44:19.640
pregnancy. It is pregnancy because it involves a baby. If it doesn't involve a baby, then it's just
00:44:26.920
you have some growth in you. You have a polyp or something. What makes it a pregnancy is the other
00:44:32.120
person. Completely incoherent. And the libs gobble this up. They don't know what it means. The poet
00:44:38.200
doesn't know what it means. They don't really have any interest in finding out what things mean. They
00:44:42.580
just go with the flow of the things that sound nice and they're not exercising their higher levels
00:44:50.380
of thinking, which is why they're getting out foxed right now. It's sort of fine by me.
00:44:54.480
Kamala Harris, our intrepid vice president, was just asked, hey, the number one issue for voters is
00:45:00.060
not abortion. It's not the Dobbs decision. It's not religious liberty. It's the economy and inflation.
00:45:06.060
What are you guys doing about inflation and recession? Now inflation is is really high.
00:45:13.440
Are you concerned about a recession? The administration said that they weren't that
00:45:18.140
worried about the about inflation. And then that changed. I think that there can be no higher
00:45:24.940
priority than what we have been clear is our highest priority, which is bringing down the costs
00:45:31.340
and the prices as much as we possibly can. And we will stay focused on that.
00:45:36.060
Kamala Harris, I think, is doing her impression of that poet. There can be no higher priority than
00:45:42.600
what is our is our priority and is the handmade and the way and the V and them. She's she's just
00:45:50.740
repeating the question. She's just repeating the she's making the first part of her statement.
00:45:58.700
There can be no higher priority than. And then she just repeat what is our highest priority?
00:46:04.660
Sort of tautological, isn't it? Isn't that a truism? Yes, it's true. There can be no higher
00:46:10.040
priority than what is their highest priority, but they can't articulate what the highest priority is.
00:46:14.980
And I think it's because they don't know. They don't have any answers. It is a failure of
00:46:20.460
understanding. It's not even this isn't just me throwing bombs, calling these people idiots.
00:46:24.380
They might be idiots. But that's that's sort of beside the point.
00:46:28.100
They simply do not get even what the question is right now. They do not get what is motivating
00:46:35.740
conservatives. They do not understand what is motivating the opposition to them. And so if
00:46:40.740
they don't get that part, they're certainly not going to be able to figure out how to solve anything
00:46:45.760
or how to beat us. And that's fine by me. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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