Ep. 1039 - The Liberal World Order
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After well over a month of record high gas prices, President Joe Biden has finally settled on a strategy for bringing prices down at the pump. No, he is not going to issue new leases for oil and gas production, and no, he isn t even going to increase releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Instead, what Biden is going to do is ask gas stations to lower prices.
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After well over a month of record high gas prices,
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President Joe Biden has finally settled on a strategy for bringing prices down at the pump.
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No, he is not going to issue new leases for oil and gas production.
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And no, he isn't going to greenlight new oil pipelines to encourage domestic production.
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And no, he isn't even going to increase releases from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
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Instead, you see, what President Biden is going to do is ask gas stations to lower prices.
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The company's running gas stations and setting those prices at the pump.
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This is a time of war, global peril, Ukraine.
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Bring down the price you are charging at the pump to reflect the cost you are paying for the product.
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Your customers, the American people, they need relief now.
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He's blamed everybody but himself and his own stupid policies.
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And now he's blaming the poor Pakistani immigrant who runs your local ExxonMobil franchise.
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Do you know what the average profit margin is for gas stations?
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For the government, the profit margin on gas can be extremely high.
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But for the gas stations, you are looking at a profit margin of about 1.4%.
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To put that in perspective, that is way lower than the average profit margin
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7.7 for everybody across all industries, 1.4 for the gas stations.
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It's even lower, significantly lower, than the margins on infamously low margin businesses
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Biden wants you to believe that the reason you're having trouble filling your tank, I just filled
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He says, the reason that you're having trouble filling your tank is the couple of cents per
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gallon that the stations are making, the meager profit margin that they have to supplement
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by selling you chips and coffee and all that other slightly higher margin stuff in the gas
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The gas stations couldn't drop prices if they wanted to.
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Biden actually could take some concrete steps right now to bring prices down, if he really
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Because you see Nancy Pelosi, Gavin Newsom, all these liberal politicians in California,
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they think it's a really good idea to open up the border, flood the state with foreign
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nationals, to get rid of single family housing.
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You're not allowed to have single family housing anymore where you live.
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Okay, well, how about we subject the liberal elite Democrats, especially in California,
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to any of the policies that they push on everybody else?
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Let's subject them to that for, I don't know, five minutes.
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If Biden wanted to fix the gas issue, he could do it.
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It wouldn't happen overnight, but he could do it.
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He would green light the pipeline, the pipelines in America that he shuts down,
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even as he's green lighting pipelines for Vladimir Putin, which caused the war in Ukraine,
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according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, which causes the gas prices to go up.
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He would green light the pipelines in America because it's not just one or two pipelines.
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When you go after and shut down a pipeline, you are signaling to the industry,
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So when you shut down one oil pipeline in America, it means you're shutting down all the oil pipelines.
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Because there's always going to be local opposition.
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There are always going to be some liberal activists who fly out and try to shut it down.
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The government's either going to support the pipelines or not.
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And what Biden will say is, look, this isn't going to bring the prices down.
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It would take a year to get that pipeline up and functioning.
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Well, Biden told us that a year and a half ago.
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If he had just done it a year and a half ago, we wouldn't be in this problem right now.
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Well, it'll take a while to get the oil and natural gas pumping out of these new leases.
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Well, sure wish you did it a year ago or 18 months ago.
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Then we wouldn't be quite in the same predicament.
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He's bothered that the gas prices are hurting Democrats' chances in the midterm elections.
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But he is not bothered enough to compromise his long-term agenda.
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In the short term, yes, they want the lower gas prices because they think it'll help them in the elections.
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But in the long term, the Democrats have been advocating for higher gas prices.
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When Obama was running in 08, he said, yes, my plan is going to result in higher gas prices.
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Often Democrats would bemoan relatively low gas prices because they said, gosh, with these low gas prices, people aren't switching to electric fast enough.
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They aren't taking climate change seriously enough.
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And climate change is very, very important to the liberal agenda.
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Not because of the air or the water or the sun monster or anything like that.
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The climate change ideology is important to the political scheme of liberalism.
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It's important to the left's broader political agenda.
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That's why Kamala Harris, right now, she was asked about high gas prices.
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What we need to do domestically, what we need to do to bring down the cost of gas.
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I've seen a meme the other day that said me Googling online how to make gas at home.
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You can't afford to drive to the grocery store.
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You probably can't even afford groceries there because of how expensive it all is.
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And your kids probably aren't even allowed in school still because those damn teachers unions
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Man, so much to laugh about these days, isn't there?
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Hi, I'm the vice president of the United States.
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And they want you to shut up and go away and stop complaining.
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A Biden advisor went on CNN and he basically made this point.
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He didn't even try to weasel his way out of the gas issue, the inflation issue, the fact
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that people are really hurting right now in their budgets.
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He didn't do it in the way that Kamala Harris does or Joe Biden does.
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He just came out and he said, look, yeah, you're upset about high gas prices, but shut
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What do you say to those families who say, listen, we can't afford to pay $4.85 a gallon
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Well, what you heard from the president today was a clear articulation of the stakes.
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This is about the future of the liberal world order and we have to stand firm.
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Now, some people are trying to, some liberals are trying to walk back this comment because,
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They say we're all wearing tinfoil hats about international, supranational, transnational
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kind of governments that are going to take away our sovereignty on the 4th of July of all
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And then they say things like the liberal world order or the new world order, or they use these
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They say, wait, what was that phrase you just said?
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So he says that there's a liberal world order and the liberal world order depends on the
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war in Ukraine or just voting for Joe Biden and not complaining anymore.
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There is such a thing as a liberal world order.
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There is going to be some scheme according to which we organize the various nations and
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And the major debate that we're having right now is what is that world order going to look
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When people talk about a new world order, it doesn't need to be, you know, the Illuminati
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and the space aliens conspiring in a cave somewhere.
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The question is, what is the world order going to look like moving into the future?
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What the Libs want is for us to have this increasingly secular, increasingly leftist, increasingly
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homogenized world where we all just look at porn and go to pride parades and eat McDonald's.
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And that's what, and they think that that's going to spread around the world and that's
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And we're going to lose some of our political rights as Americans and other people are going
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to lose some of their political rights to chart their own national destiny.
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But that's for the best because that's the liberal world order.
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The flag of the liberal world order is the rainbow flag.
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The values of the liberal world order is secular leftism, and that's what they want.
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That one seems to have fallen by the wayside, unfortunately, in modernity.
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Then there's a major alternative right now, which is nationalism, an order of nation states
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The Trump election was about this, America first, nationalism, that's what the question
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What is the world order going to be going into the future?
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Do you want more rainbow flags over Kandahar and pride parades everywhere and drag queen
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story hour and abortion and secular liberalism?
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Or do you want something more like a nationalism?
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America first for America and not forcing every country in the world to fall under that secular
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I want the one that isn't going to keep increasing my gas prices.
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I like the idea of having the traditional American way of life.
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And I also, by the way, sorry, Pache, CNN, and Biden advisor, I don't want the high gas prices.
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of your time, and you're going to get peppered with questions you don't know the answer
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The libs, when they are constructing a world order, are very focused on global warming.
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Global warming keeps coming back, and it's not because they are concerned about the weather.
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Global warming keeps coming back because in many ways it is the linchpin to this liberal
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Here is the Australian Ambassador for Women and Girls, the Department of Foreign Affairs
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and Trade, discussing how global warming somehow relates to feminism and domestic violence
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As we confront the climate crisis, women and girls' human rights must be at the center
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Climate change and its consequences can exacerbate the risk of sexual and gender-based violence.
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This risk is most acute for women and girls facing multiple and intersecting forms of
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discrimination and inequality, including indigenous women and girls.
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Realizing women's and girls' human rights is an important part of securing the future
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How is recognizing the special rights and privileges of indigenous women and girls of color,
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what does that have to do with reducing the global mean temperature?
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What does that have to do with rising sea levels and sun flares and whatever else the libs tell
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us is going to be the apocalyptic event that wipes out the human race?
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What does that, I don't think that is happening because of the environment, because of the sun or
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Even if it did, what does that have to do with abortion or women's rights or intersectionality?
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She actually refers to intersectionality there among the indigenous women of color.
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What do the two have to do with each other?
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They're both given as reasons to give the left whatever they want.
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Well, why do we need to raise taxes on this thing?
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Well, because of the intersecting discrimination of the women and the global warming and the
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And that's why we need to take away your rights and your guns and your money and your sovereignty
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And they just use these liberal buzzwords, in particular, climate change, because it's
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It's going to be like the Sahara all over the earth.
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Climate change is not, it is not so much an end.
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It is not so much an event to be feared as it is a political process that is essential
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Kamala Harris was just addressing climate change.
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And she explained the way we're going to deal with climate change is we're going to work
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And then by working together, we're going to achieve working together.
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That is especially true when it comes to the climate crisis, which is why we will work
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together and continue to work together to address these issues, to tackle these challenges,
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and to work together as we continue to work operating from the new norms, rules, and agreements
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that we will convene to work together on to galvanize global action.
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This is a matter of urgent priority for all of us, and I know we will work on this together.
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I had it in my desk, and my producers took it away from me.
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But I need the Kamala Harris bong so that I can light.
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I don't, I'm not a fan of the Haitian oregano, as you know, but I need to light it up to understand
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What she's saying is this is very urgent, global warming, climate crisis, that's the
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It's very urgent, and that's why we need to work together and figure out a way to work
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And work, work, work, together, together, together.
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There's inadvertently a lot of insight in what Kamala is saying here.
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She's saying that the whole point of the global warming fear mongering is to get us to work
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It doesn't matter what we're working together on, whether we're trying to raise the global
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temperature, lower the global temperature, cut certain pollution, create other pollution.
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The thing that matters is that we work together, and we lose a little bit more and more of our
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national sovereignty, and we bind ourselves together in more international treaties and
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institutions and transnational governing bodies, and then we will have achieved the real goal,
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which is working together, which is ever more the liberal world order.
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The problem is the liberal world order is not working out very well.
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And people are seeing this in their pocketbooks.
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And most especially, they're seeing this with their own two eyes in education, in regular
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old society, and specifically with regard to children.
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A little worse off than we were when we started, but we made it through.
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There is a video of a little kid, sweet little kid.
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Probably four years old or something, at a Pride Parade, looking at some person jiggling
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in an extremely sexual way, not wearing a lot of clothing.
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This kid's staring up, and then some just absolute degenerate dancing and twerking and jiggling
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I don't know where, this might have been New York.
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No, no, they're just offering educational opportunities.
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Oh, that giant lady or man, or I don't know, twerking and jiggling right in the kid's face.
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There's another video came out of what looks like a strip club of a stripper.
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I don't know if it's a man or a woman, or it's a man who mutilated himself to look like
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Whoever the person is definitely has had some work done.
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Walking around, holding a little kid by the hand, dancing and stripping.
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So maybe they're skirting some of the laws here, but it's obviously extremely indecent.
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And this dancer is holding the little kid's hand.
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The most scandalous part of the video, by the way, is not that this dancer, prostitute,
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whatever this person is, it's not even that that person is holding the kid's hand.
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It's all the adults who are just sitting there kind of laughing, chuckling.
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How many of these videos have I played on my show?
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How many of these videos do we need to see before we realize that this is a feature,
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not a bug, of pride ideology, of leftist ideology?
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The increasing sexualization of little, little, little kids.
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I'm not even talking about young teenagers or fifth grade or sixth grade.
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I'm talking, that girl looks like she's four or five.
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The increasing sexualization of ever younger children is a feature, not a bug, of this
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They've been talking about it for 100 years, at least.
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And now they're doing it, and we're all surprised that they're doing it.
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They're doing it because this is the leftist vision of liberty.
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On that TikTok video, they say, kids should be exposed to drag shows.
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And we've got to accustom them to this when they're very, very young, because the leftist
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vision of liberty is that we're all oppressed by society, by the moral order, by rules, by
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And the way to be truly free and our authentic selves is to throw off all of those shackles
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We won't be limited by age of consent statutes.
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We're just going to pursue our own most disgusting appetites whenever we want, and then we're going
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The conservatives have a different view of liberty, which is that the man who sins is
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a slave to sin, and you shouldn't groom the kids.
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If your version of liberty involves grooming the kids, you've gone down a wrong path.
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There's another question that's raised by this video, which is why are these people not
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They should all be thrown in prison, and they should probably throw away the key.
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It's not because there aren't laws against this.
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There are laws against all this kind of stuff, and it doesn't get prosecuted.
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It's the same reason that BLM gets to go kill and rape and kill and pillage and burn, and
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And then the Horn Hat guy cracks a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda, and they're going to
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It's because of the ruling class that is enforcing and not enforcing those laws, and
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frankly, just enforcing their own capricious will.
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You need to pay $8 a gallon for gas to preserve the liberal world order.
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If what I am getting in exchange for my $8 a gallon is the liberal world order, I'm
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Even if you discount it, 20% off the liberal world order, no thanks.
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There is no amount of money I want to pay to preserve, because the liberal world order
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And I think transgenderism in particular, the drag shows and the grooming, and especially
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transgenderism, is really waking people up to this fact.
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There was a bulletin that came out of the Toronto Police Department over the weekend.
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It said, Toronto Police, blue checkmark, verified account, news release, missing woman, Ryerson
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Avenue and Bathurst Street area, Isabella DeGrace, 27.
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And then you look at a picture of this missing woman, and the guy looks like Joe Dirt, looks
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He's got the goatee, kind of reddish blonde, goatee, beard.
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Maybe the social media person for the Toronto Police just posted the wrong picture.
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Toronto Police Service requests public assistance locating a missing woman.
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She is described as 5'10", with a thin build, shaggy blonde hair, and a full goatee.
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She was last seen wearing a black t-shirt and gray pants.
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This is the kind of news release that is sent out by the official governing body of Clown World.
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The Clown World Police Department is releasing the headshot of a dude with a goatee and saying
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One, because of what we were just talking about.
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The liberation agenda from the libs is constantly accelerating.
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So it's not just being liberated from certain laws, or being liberated from certain traditional
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social mores, or being liberated from certain institutions, including the family, or being
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It's being liberated from biology, from human nature, from everything.
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So that's why the libs are pushing it in part.
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The trans agenda is really prominent for the conservatives because it's waking us up to
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the fact that we can no longer trust our authorities, the liberal world order.
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If the Toronto Police really believe that shaggy goatee guy is a woman, then I can't trust the
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I can't trust the Toronto Police or any one of these similar institutions.
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If you don't know that that dude is not a chick, you don't know anything.
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Now I see no reason to support the continued power and rule of these people who don't know
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Speaking of the police, there was this horrible shooting that took place yesterday.
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The one that first started to trend was a shooting in Highland Park, Illinois, where at
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They were killed by this young man who had really creepy stuff on the internet.
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And the usual suspects are all bickering over whether he was a Democrat or a Republican.
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And the libs are saying he was a Republican because there's a picture of him with a Trump
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And then the conservatives are saying, well, he was only ironically wearing the Trump flag.
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And actually, if you look at his social media history, he was posting all sorts of extremely
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Apparently, on his Twitter account, he was liking all of these tweets about how they need
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So I don't have an opinion, really, one way or the other.
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If you look at the guy, he's got crazy colored hair and all sorts of face tattoos.
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And he doesn't exactly look like a Trump supporter, okay?
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He definitely looks much more like a radical leftist.
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He has some music videos on the internet that don't seem left-wing exactly.
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So whatever his politics are, I'm not really all that interested in it.
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The reason this is becoming a major headline, unlike other mass killings, including at parades
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like the Waukesha Christmas Parade, the reason this one's becoming a mass killing is because
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it at least checks some of the boxes of the left-wing narrative.
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So it's a young white man that usually will encourage the media to report on a killing.
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He might have some tie to even plausibly being viewed as a right-winger, so that checks another
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There are lots of other mass killings that are not reported, and that's because they don't
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Again, that's the way the media are going to behave.
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In any case, really, really awful stuff on the 4th of July.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene, who is a conservative congressman, she tweeted out, when are we going
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to have an honest conversation about drug abuse, mental illness, and SSRIs?
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Are we really going to keep pretending we're covering for big pharma?
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Because I'm absolutely done with the political plays on this BS.
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So people raise different questions about what is causing this.
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The Libs say that the cause of mass shootings and mass killings is guns.
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Of course, guns have existed for a very, very long time and all throughout American history.
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And if the liberal argument is that these mass shootings are a newer phenomenon, which is
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a dubious argument to begin with, but let's just go with it, then the thing that changed
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Then conservatives will say, well, it's maybe fatherlessness.
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Well, it's maybe our, sometimes they'll blame video games.
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Sometimes they'll say, well, there are obviously cultural aspects here.
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Maybe, as Marjorie Taylor Greene is suggesting, maybe it's these depression drugs that a lot
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Again, on this issue, I'm not expressing an opinion one way or the other.
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I think a lot of these squabbles over, well, it was caused by this.
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But the broader point that Greene is making here on the depression drugs is a really, really
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Did you know that more than one in eight Americans regularly takes depression drugs?
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Did you know that even kids regularly take these kinds of depression drugs?
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But before COVID, the number of kids aged 12 to 19 who take these depression drugs regularly
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And since COVID, those numbers certainly have gone up.
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One in 29, the kids are taking depression drugs?
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Put aside the killers, the killers who have often been on these depression drugs.
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Don't you think that's a problem when a huge portion of your country, including kids, are
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hooked on their drug addicts for these very particular psychological drugs?
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Watch right now the liberals rally around SSRIs and other depression drugs with greater ferocity
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Those very, you know, those very safe and effective COVID shots because we totally should trust
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They, they, they totally know the difference between a man and a woman.
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It's really, really weird because nothing says fight the power quite like consistently
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I'm not saying there's no use for these depression drugs.
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I'm not saying no one should take these depression drugs.
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But if a huge portion of your country is regularly dulling some kind of pain that they feel with
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drugs and increasing those numbers, clearly there is a problem.
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Someone, someone said to me when I made this point on social media, they said, well, Michael,
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Dr. Richard Levine, the man who thinks that he's a woman.
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I don't have the same degree in medicine and scientific reality that the man who insists
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that he's a woman and advocates putting kids on cross sex hormones and sterilizing them and
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giving them osteoporosis and mutilating their bodies forever.
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I guess you should listen to his opinion because he's, he obviously knows what he's talking
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He has an MD after all and stiletto heels in a dress and I, I don't have that MD.
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So I guess what, I don't know you, you, you listeners out there, you don't have an MD.
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So how dare you question the medical, how dare you question Dr. Fauci, Dr. Levine and all those
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geniuses who, no, I, I am, I am not saying this to flatter you or pander or anything like that.
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But I trust the medical opinion of every single person, regardless of your political views of
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every single person listening to this podcast right now.
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I trust your medical opinion much more than I trust the opinion of Richard Levine or Dr.
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Because you at least have a, a basic modicum of common sense.
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But you've got something that the medical establishment does not.
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The problem with the medical establishment embracing all this kind of quackery and then
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trying to, trying to solve the problems created by their quackery by just plying us all with
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drugs all the time is that they don't have any credibility at all.
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There was a liberal blue check who last night when I made this point on the depression pills,
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he said, well, Michael, you ever consider that maybe America is just a depressing place?
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I thought, well, I don't think it's a depressing place.
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I still, I still look at fireworks on the 4th of July, take that grill pill, you know,
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But even if it were, doesn't that only bolster my point?
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So I think he probably agreed that it, it did bolster my point.
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If the thing that is causing you your, these problems is environmental and social, maybe
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These drugs are supposed to address very specific chemical and psychological problems.
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If your problems are not coming from within you, they're coming from without.
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It's because the people you live with, or it's because you don't like being in a society
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with guns, or it's because you don't like the founding fathers or the constitution or whatever.
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You solve that problem with getting to know your community and adjust and acclimating yourself
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to your community and to reality, which is something the libs don't want you to do.
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One way, I admit America is a little bit more depressing today than it was even in recent years.
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Things are getting, you know, the economy is no good, and we're grooming the kids, and
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One of the reasons is, and this comes from the late conservative philosopher Roger Scruton,
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if you want people to love your country, you've got to give them a country that is lovable.
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You've got to give them a place that is beautiful.
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You've got to give them a place that inspires and evokes their love.
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And this gets to an issue we talked about last week.
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Another thing I got in trouble for on social media, I posted two pictures of Picasso paintings,
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one from when he was a teenager and one from later in his career.
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And the early one is beautiful, and the later one was of the weeping woman from his much
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more abstract period, and it's an ugly painting.
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I'm not saying it's not technically proficient.
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And I asked the question, I said, why would someone who can paint a beautiful thing choose
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And it even inspired someone, there was a guy at the Independent, the British newspaper,
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to write an entire column about how I prefer Picasso's earlier work to his later work.
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An angry column about why I prefer beautiful art to ugly art.
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The headline is, why are right-wingers so afraid of modern art?
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Let me turn the question back on the libs.
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Why do the libs always equate disapproval with fear?
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If you disapprove of men putting on dresses and pretending to be women, it's a phobia.
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When Fox News ran that segment promoting transing the kids, the reporter at the end, he said,
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you know, people fear what they don't understand.
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If I ran into a bear in the woods, I would be afraid.
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And sometimes we disapprove of things we don't quite understand.
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And sometimes we disapprove of things that we do understand.
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Or all the stuff that the libs want to do.
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You can disapprove of something without fearing it.
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Because they want to pretend that conservatism doesn't make any sense.
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That it's just a series of irritable mental gestures.
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To quote the liberal Lionel Trilling many moons ago.
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The guy who pretended that a urinal was a great work of art.
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It's not that I don't get men putting on stilettos.
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So let's talk about what's going on in America.
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I urge all of you living in Florida to join the fight.
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Paid for by Newsom for California Governor 2022.
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I moved out of California because not only was I not allowed perfect freedom in the abstract.
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I wasn't allowed to go into grocery stores without covering my face like it was a burqa.
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Like I was living in Saudi Arabia and I had to wear the full niqab.
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I fled California because I had to give away so much of my money to the government.
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And then the California Franchise Tax Board continues to come after you wherever you go.
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I fled California because the regulations are so onerous that you don't even know when you're
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You weren't allowed to do anything in California.
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He opposes freedom because he doesn't want gay porn in kindergarten.
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You're not allowed to teach the Bible in schools.
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You're not allowed to teach the Bible in schools.
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You're not allowed to teach gay porn in kindergarten.
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During, during COVID, it was even at the end of COVID.
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And because I travel a lot for work, I joined the lounge where you get to go and get a cup
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of coffee and a little food before, before you fly.
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And so we go into the lounge and my very pregnant wife just needed to use the restroom and get
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They wouldn't let her in because she had, she had some kind of food with her.
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She's trying to eat, you know, things like that.
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But, but for the libs, freedom means doing drugs.
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For the libs, freedom means schdupping whoever you want to schdup.
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For the libs, freedom means taking kids to strip clubs.
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For the libs, freedom means mutilating your body so you look like the opposite sex.
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And that, that is, that is a kind of misunderstanding of freedom.
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But that's not, that's not what the founding fathers thought.
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True freedom is being in command of yourself and your appetites and your base desires.
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And having discipline and having a rational will and pursuing that, that higher political freedom.
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Charting your own course for your community and for your nation.
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Accepting reality and flourishing within the bounds of reality.
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Secondly, everyone believes that he is fighting for freedom.
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The terrorists in the Middle East, they think they're fighting for freedom.
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The Western powers that go in and fight the terrorists, we say we're fighting for freedom.
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The libs in California who are fighting to raise your taxes and trans your kids, they think they're fighting for freedom.
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The conservatives in Tennessee and Texas who are doing the opposite of that, they, we believe that we are fighting for freedom too.
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We're all, we all are motivated to fight for freedom.
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Is freedom the freedom to mutilate your body and go into the girl's locker room?
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Or is freedom the freedom of young girls to change without a man pulling out his genitals in front of them?
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We're arguing about freedom in the abstract is not going to get anybody anywhere.
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You've got to talk about specific political rights and how they're applied in society.
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That's, that's the only way you're going to do it.
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Even, even the libs are waking up to the fact that the left-wing version of liberty and freedom is not real freedom.
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When you get specific, even the libs wake up to it.
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Bette Midler, my absolute favorite Twitter account, Bette Midler tweets out, quote,
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women of the world, we're being stripped of our rights over our bodies, our lives, and even our name.
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They call us birthing people or menstruators or even people with vaginas.
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Now, who is it, Bette, that is, that is taking away the name of women?
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Who is it that is erasing women from sports and from the locker rooms and from reality?
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And who's doing that and calling everyone, birthing people and menstruators?
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Ah, it's so wonderful to watch someone realize that the thing they have been fighting for
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To realize that the people they've been fighting were right all along.
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Maybe this transgenderism is not the right thing after all.
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This is, this is what the liberal world order is giving you.
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And you're, you're even seeing it now in, around the world.
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You are seeing protests around the world protesting Roe v. Wade.
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You're seeing protests in France where the abortion laws are stricter than they are in
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the United States are much stricter than they are in the United States.
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You are seeing, because there is this thing, that Biden advisor was totally right.
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There is this thing called the liberal world order.
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And the, the reality of the liberal world order is pride flags everywhere and transing
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the little kids and promoting all sorts of awful, gross, terrible things and raising
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Maybe it's time to chart an alternative course.
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