Ep. 1044 - Brown People Are like ＂Breakfast Tacos＂ - Jill Biden
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At yesterday s Latinx inclusion summit in San Antonio, first lady Jill Biden attempted to woo back Hispanic voters by comparing them to tacos. The issue is not that anyone is actually offended by what she said, the issue is that she and her entire party are completely out of touch.
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I'm not joking, that was actually the name, in San Antonio, First Lady Jill Biden attempted to
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woo back Hispanic voters for her husband by comparing them to tacos. But we can't get those
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things on our own. Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the
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diversity of this community, as distinct as the Bogodá's of the Bronx, as beautiful as the
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blossoms of Miami, and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio
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is your strength. Black people, you are as effervescent as a bottle of grape soda from
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the corner deli. Italians, you are as slimy as a bowl of scungili on Arthur Avenue. Vote for us,
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the party of inclusion. The issue is not that anyone is actually offended by what Joe Biden said.
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I don't think anyone is actually offended. The issue is not that it's racist or whatever. We're
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all just laughing at her and her party. The issue is that this lady and her entire party
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are completely out of touch. The Democrats used to be good at pandering. They were especially good
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at racial pandering. Now they can't even pronounce bodega. What did she say? Bogota? What are the
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Bogotas of the Bronx? The issue is that the elite liberals are superficial. They are so removed
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from people's everyday realities that they haven't even noticed that it's going to take more than glib
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references to tacos to keep Hispanic voters and the rest of the Democrat coalition in line.
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The libs stepping on rakes when it comes to racial identity politics is something that I am absolutely
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here for. I love it. If I could just watch videos of various Democrats making stupid tacos comparisons
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all day, I would. Because the libs have benefited greatly by ginning up racial resentment, specifically
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racial resentment against white people for the past, I don't know, 40, 50 years at least. They have
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gotten an electoral benefit out of that. And the electoral benefit is starting to run out. And they're
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now starting to have to deal with the consequences of their own really cynical political strategy.
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Nowhere is this clearer than on TikTok, where an ethnic, some kind of ethnic lib is now demanding
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that the white libs keep their mouths shut. If you're a white liberal leftist or consider yourself
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to be a white ally, I have a challenge for you. Don't create any more content on TikTok until September
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22nd. And honestly, you deserve a break because every day is a white person day and y'all must be
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exhausted. So while you sit back, listen, learn, and truly de-center yourself, Black, Indigenous, and other
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people of color, we got it from here. Please though, continue to like, comment, and share our content
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because y'all are always talking about how you want to support us and create equity. But the truth
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that so many of y'all are unwilling to accept is that you do not want Black, Indigenous, and other
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people of color to lead and pave the way. Because what would we do without your perspective, your voice,
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your commentary, your education? We would thrive.
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So the campaign is white libs shut up. Finally, a TikTok campaign I can get behind. You go, girl.
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You tell them. You tell those white libs. And white libs, if you believe it, if you believe all the
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nonsense you've been spouting for years, then put your money where your mouth is, put your mouth where
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your rhetoric is, and keep it shut. Keep it closed. This is so delightful. So, so delightful to watch the
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libs hoisted on their own petards, specifically the white libs. The inevitable consequence of this
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is going to be an increase of white racial consciousness. It's the inevitable. Because
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what the libs have been doing for the past half century at least is been encouraging every racial
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group in the country to increase their racial consciousness. For a long time in America, we had
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been encouraging people to decrease their racial consciousness. We say race is not, it's not the most
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important part of your identity, especially in a multi-racial, multi-ethnic country. Things are
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going to go really bad if we all start dramatically increasing our racial consciousness. It's going to
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lead to all sorts of fighting and tension. It's going to cause a breakdown of American democracy.
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So we really, really encourage people to reduce their racial consciousness. The libs said, no way,
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no way. Listen, black people, increase your racial consciousness. Listen, Hispanic people,
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same thing. Listen, Asian people, even same thing. And it's worked. If you look at Pew Research,
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every racial group other than white people has a greater than 50% racial consciousness,
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meaning they believe that race is very important to their identity. If you look at black people,
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which that's the group with the highest racial consciousness, it's well over 70%. I think it's
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even over 75%, but it's certainly over 70. For white people, it's all the way down at 15%.
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But the white liberals have been cynically encouraging everyone else to increase their
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racial consciousness because they think it's going to help them win elections. It's natural
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for groups to have a racial consciousness, by the way. We pretend in America and in Western
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civilization that racism is the aberration, that racism is the exception in the world. It's not.
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That's the natural state of man because we're tribal beings and politics begins with a tribal
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sort of mindset. And then you can try to expand that into the city or the state or the nation.
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But it begins with a really tribal kind of identity. So that's the normal part. It's normal
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on the left. Obviously, the left is ginning up this racial stuff constantly, but it's natural on the
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right to. And the only thing, truly the only thing that will cut against that is Christianity.
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The only reason that you ever hear anyone inveigh against racism or suggest that people not have as
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strong a racial consciousness is because of Christianity, because Christianity says that
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there is neither Jew nor Greek nor slave nor free, but all are one in Christ Jesus. Because
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Christianity says there is something much more important to our identity, namely that we are made in
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the image of God. And if we're made in the image of God, then there is a solidarity among all people,
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regardless of their race or their origin or their skin color or anything like that.
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As Christianity declines in public life, you are going to see an increase in racial consciousness
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on the left and on the right. You saw it really beginning in the 20th century on the right, you know,
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in the far right movements like Nazism or, which is also kind of a left-wing modern movement,
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but that's a discussion for another day. But on the far atheist kind of Nietzschean right,
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there's a racial identity. On the mainstream left, there's a huge racial identity. It's only
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Christianity that is putting a pause on that. And as Christianity declines as an important part of
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public life, if it does, I hope it doesn't decline. I hope it increases again. But as it declines,
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you're just going to see more of that. That's all that can happen. It's a really bleak future,
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especially for America, because we have unique racial issues in the country. But that's what's
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going to happen. And the libs are going to find themselves hoisted on their own petards.
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And it's sort of funny to enjoy the schadenfreude at the moment. But ultimately,
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it will be really, really bad for the country. Now, speaking of secularization,
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there's, speaking of the decline of Christianity in public life, the Church of England, which has
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been a sort of farce for many decades now, some would say centuries, but certainly many decades,
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the Church of England has now declared that there is no official definition of what a woman is.
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Matt Walsh's comedy movie has become prophecy, and it describes the state of the Church of England.
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Comments provoke criticism with England's first woman priest saying she is not totally happy
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with the bishop in Europe's answer. So there's an irony here, which is that the Church of England
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for now half a century has been bragging about how it's erased distinctions between men and women.
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It has women priests, it has women bishops, and priestesses, I guess, and bishopresses, and things
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like that. And a lot of the Orthodox people within the Church of England left the Church of England
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because of that issue. But now they've erased that issue, and they're saying, actually, we don't know
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what a woman is. What is a woman? We don't know. Nobody knows. This is a reminder, and it's an
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important lesson, not just for people who are in the Church of England. If you join the Church of
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England now, I had one priest describe it to me as not just rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic,
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but actually diving down and grabbing hold of the Titanic as it sinks to the bottom of the sea.
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This is a reminder to anyone in any ecclesial community, any church group. People believe that
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we can grow the Church by making the Church more like the world. Every single time someone tries
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to make the Church more like the world in order to grow the Church, it doesn't do anything but
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destroy the Church. It shrinks. Fewer people show up, the Church fizzles away, it doesn't even resemble
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much of a Church anymore. People don't go to Church looking for more of the world. They go to Church
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looking for an alternative to worldliness, looking for salvation and the transcendence of the world.
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Speaking of death, not just the death of institutions, but physical death, great news coming out of
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Virginia because the culture of death in Virginia is being dealt a very tough blow by Glenn Youngkin,
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the Republican governor of Virginia here. The man I thought was a kind of moderate Republican in
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Virginia is now pushing for a 15-week abortion ban in what is a very blue commonwealth.
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You've said you've proposed a 15-week ban. Will you ever pursue a full ban on abortion in Virginia?
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Well, the reality is that as a pro-life governor in a state like Virginia, where I have a Senate
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that's controlled by Democrats and a House that's controlled by Republicans, we have to find a way
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to get things done. And I believe that's what we've been able to do, is get things done at a time where
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you have to bring people together in order to make progress. As I said, I believe life begins at
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conception. In Virginia, we've got to work with a Senate and a House. This is what we've been doing.
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But will you ever pursue a full ban? Well, I believe that what my job is, is to get something
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done. And I believe we can get a 15-week pain threshold bill done in Virginia for the first
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time. Think about it. This was a state, again, that just 18 months ago was talking about enabling
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abortion all the way up through and including birth. And now we're able to talk about a 15-week pain
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threshold bill, where a baby feels pain. This is a remarkable moment for us, and it's an opportunity
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I'm not going to let go. Great answer from Glenn Youngkin here. He's not willing to take the bait
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and give the Democrats some big scare quote. People are going to point to this. The Democrats are going
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to point to this and say, see, he's not a moderate. Glenn Youngkin's not a moderate. He's a far right-wing
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radical Republican. No, he is a moderate. He is still a moderate. What's so amazing about this
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is that the center has moved. The center has moved to the right. The moderate position on this issue
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has moved with the overruling of Roe v. Wade. This is where we always talk about politics as
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downstream of culture. Well, this is a great example of culture being downstream of politics. This is a
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great example of the law being a teacher and shaping the culture and shaping the democratic dialogue as
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well. Back when Roe v. Wade was in place, this 15-week abortion ban would have been a radical far-right
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abortion ban. This would have been like the Mississippi law that brought Dobbs to the Supreme
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Court in the first place. After the overruling of Roe v. Wade, now the scope of the debate has broadened
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so much. Rather than just trying to debate, okay, can we ban abortion at 20 weeks or 18 weeks or 15
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weeks? Now, look, there is no constitutional right to an abortion. So now the question is,
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do you want to ban abortion entirely or do you want to allow abortion entirely? And Glenn Youngkin
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has staked out the moderate position of a 15-week abortion ban that just two months ago would have
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been a radical far-right position. This is great news. This is largely thanks to the pro-life movement
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in Mississippi, certainly, all around the country. This is thanks to those conservative justices.
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This is thanks to Donald Trump and other Republican presidents who got those justices
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on the court. And this is thanks to the courage and prudence of Glenn Youngkin.
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Had Dobbs not come down as it had, had Roe not been overruled, Glenn Youngkin would not be able
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to push for a 15-week abortion ban. Now he has that ability. I bet Glenn Youngkin probably would
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pass a total ban on abortion if he could. That's not where the Commonwealth is. That's not going to
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work. But now the center has moved. So we can do it. So let's keep pushing, guys. Let's keep moving
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that center further and further and further because moderation is a wonderful virtue. We've just got to
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make sure that the Overton window is such that moderation is in a truly good, moderate, virtuous
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I'm really impressed with Glenn Youngkin. I think conservatives can learn a lot from Glenn Youngkin,
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who is ruling, ruling with an iron fist. No, he's, he's governing as a conservative in a blue state.
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He's doing it pretty effectively. There are, there are more ways than one to skin a cat.
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So you can get things done through orders from the governor's mansion. You can get things done
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through legislation. You can get things done through the courts and you can get,
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get things done just by running the bureaucrats out of power. 300 Virginia government bureaucrats
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have quit since May. What, why have they quit in the last two months? They've quit because Glenn Youngkin
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told them that they had to come back to work. That was it. He didn't pass some draconian new
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regulation or rule. He just said, okay, guys, you've been sitting at home for two years. Now
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you have to come back to work and 300 of them quit. Employees from five different state agencies
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resigned after Youngkin's new show up to work policy. And they, a lot of them cited the telework
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options and the loss of telework options as their reason for leaving. This is really smart.
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An important issue that no one is talking about, zero people are talking about, but it was an
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important issue in the early days of the Republican party. And every so often it crops up as an
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important issue is civil service reform. That, that name doesn't sound very sexy, but what we're
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talking about is the administrative state, the deep state, the, the career government workers who get to
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continue to govern us, whether the elected people come in or they go or they change parties or no
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matter what happens to the electeds, the, the permanent governing bureaucrats remain. And we need
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to reform that system. The civil service needs reform every so often. It's a long past due for reform
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right now. One way to reform it, make them come back to work and then they quit their jobs and then
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maybe we don't replace them. Or maybe we institute some new rules as to how we hire those bureaucrats.
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Personnel is policy. The people who are putting your policies into place have a lot of power over
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how those policies look. So you got to make sure you've got good bureaucrats in charge. You're never
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going to get rid of the bureaucracy. You can trim it around the edges. You can change the way it looks,
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but you're not going to get rid of the bureaucracy. That is a libertarian pipe dream. It's not going to
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happen. So you've got to make the bureaucracy work for you. This is a very, very big country. I'm not
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just talking about Virginia here. We're talking about a country of 320, 330 million people. There
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is going to be a bureaucracy. So how are we going to make that bureaucracy work for us? We can reform
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the way people are hired. We can reform the kind of power that they have. We can reform the way that
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they can make rules in the agencies. But we've got to do that because that is where so much of the
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government actually happens. It's not usually just the bill up on Capitol Hill and I'm going to
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something, something, something. It's not that. It's not schoolhouse rock. Okay. It's not even
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just the judges. The judges have a lot of power, but most of the power is in that bureaucracy. So
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we've got to, got to take some lessons from Glenn Youngkin. Okay. Glenn Youngkin, who won on social
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issues, by the way. Don't forget that. Everyone's looking at Glenn Youngkin, the moderate. He's the
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moderate Republican who's just talking about taxes. No, when he was just talking about taxes, he was going
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to lose his race to Terry McAuliffe, the Democrat. He won when he started talking about,
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about critical race theory in schools. He won when he started talking about transgenderism in schools
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and the Loudoun County rape story that actually the Daily Wire broke, not to toot our own horn.
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But that was a major issue for flipping that race and handing Virginia to a Republican governor.
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It was the social issues. That's where people want moderation. We don't really care that much
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about marginal tax rates. People don't, I like low taxes, but people don't wake up in the middle of
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the night sweating because of tax rates. Right now, if you tell me, Michael, the Democrats might raise
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your taxes and also they're going to pump your kids full of cross-sex hormones and chop off his
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genitals. So we're going to focus on the tax issue, right? I'd say, are you out of your mind? I don't
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give a damn about the taxes compared to them transing my kid. That's what Republicans have to run on.
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That's where the real moderation is. There's no, the, the far right wing fringe opinion that we
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shouldn't trans the kids. That is maybe not in the minds of the media or the minds of the lib
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politicians, but in the minds of voters, that's a pretty moderate, reasonable position. Okay. Don't
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trans the kids. That's the sort of thing we have to run on. You're getting more and more stories.
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We predicted this years ago. We said, you know, there's this insane new medical experiment going
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on where we're chopping people up and mutilating their bodies and making men look like women.
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And it's happening at a younger and younger age, people in their teens, even kids, this is
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happening to. And you're going to see in a few years, people are going to regret this. The kids are
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going to say, what the hell did you people do to me? And they're going to be really angry and
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they're going to go after their parents and they're going to go after these quack medical
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professionals. That is starting to happen already. There's one video in particular of a poor girl,
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Chloe Cole. Chloe is 17 years old, still a kid, still a teenager. Female, a girl, formerly thought
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she was a boy, started testosterone and puberty blockers at age 13, got her breasts chopped
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On the one hand, you've got lunatics and freaks and perverts in the woke activist left encouraging
00:26:52.540
you parents to trans your kids, to pump them full of chemicals, get them on a lifelong program from
00:26:59.600
big pharma that's going to be extremely expensive and harmful to their health, and chop them up six
00:27:04.560
ways from Sunday so that your little son can look more like a daughter or vice versa. That's on the
00:27:10.520
one hand. On the other hand, you've got the kids who have had these medical experiments performed
00:27:14.920
on them telling you the grisly reality of what it actually looks like.
00:27:19.400
I don't know if I'll be able to fully carry a child. And I might be at increased risk for certain cancers,
00:27:28.020
namely cervical cancer. And because I do not have my breasts, I no longer have breasts. I'm not able to
00:27:41.600
That realization actually was, um, one of the biggest things that leads to me realizing
00:27:57.560
that I, this was not the path that I should have taken.
00:28:01.340
You hear that pause where this girl is just processing that? Says, so I, I'm at increased
00:28:08.040
risk of cancer and people get all sorts of medical conditions, all sorts of awful ailments because of
00:28:15.520
the, the drugs that big pharma is pumping into little kids to make them look more like the opposite
00:28:20.000
sex. You get osteoporosis, all sorts of bone problems. So she says, yeah, I'm at an increased
00:28:24.660
risk of cancer. I might not be able to have kids. I might be totally sterile. And then it dawns on her,
00:28:30.920
she says, man, and even if I can have kids, I'll never be able to breastfeed my kid because they
00:28:37.060
chopped my breasts off when I was a little kid because quacks and psychos and my parents,
00:28:43.240
and just, they all, they chopped my perfectly healthy organs off when I was a kid because of
00:28:51.000
a politically correct fad, because of a leftist fantasy that they forced on me through a medical
00:28:58.780
experiment. And they might, they might've done it in the sincere hope that it would help me.
00:29:05.040
That's, that's the part about, I'm not saying that they're all just evil geniuses, you know,
00:29:10.180
in a cauldron, just trying to wreak havoc on the world. Some of them are just idiots,
00:29:15.760
the people pushing this stuff. Some of them are just ignorant. Some of them are just afraid and
00:29:22.220
they're afraid, oh no, the libs told me that if I don't pump my kid full of hormones and get them
00:29:27.060
on a subscription plan to big pharma for the rest of their lives, then my kid will kill himself.
00:29:31.900
Oh no. So I, I've really, I've got to do it. And I, I get it. I understand that fear.
00:29:38.040
And the people who have been, the people who should have known better, who are pushing this
00:29:43.200
stuff, should be held criminally liable for what they're doing to kids. But just as a rule,
00:29:48.000
this is not the first time that crazy medical experiments have been performed on poor,
00:29:53.960
innocent people. This is not the last time it's happened many times in the past. It's going to
00:29:58.560
happen again. We have this prejudice. Now we think we figured out all the medical problems in
00:30:04.960
the past, the medical doctors, they weren't even really medical. They were just crazy quacks,
00:30:10.320
shamans, witch doctors. But now we know science. Now back in the past people, oh my gosh, can you
00:30:16.400
imagine? They used to treat certain ailments with leeches. They would bleed you. That's not helpful.
00:30:22.360
That would kill people. Man, you believe those crazy guys. Thankfully, we have modern medical
00:30:26.700
science. What about the modern medical science of lobotomies? Remember when people used to put
00:30:30.040
an ice pick in people's brains and turn them into vegetables to treat psychiatric conditions?
00:30:34.720
That wasn't 300 years ago. That was 60, 70 years ago. That's, that seems, that seems like one of the
00:30:42.980
cruelest medical treatments, medical treatments, quote unquote, medical experiments that's ever been
00:30:47.760
done on anybody. Until this one. This one might be worse. Chopping off the healthy organs of innocent
00:30:55.600
little kids and making them sterile and giving them cancers and bone problems. And I think that
00:31:03.040
might be worse actually. And just permanently destroying their bodies. That might actually
00:31:07.200
be worse than the, certainly than the leeches. I think it might be worse than the lobotomies.
00:31:10.840
If, if the past two and a half years have taught you anything, it should be this.
00:31:18.540
There is not as great a difference between witch doctors and shamans on the one hand and the medical
00:31:26.280
genius experts in the white lab coats on the other as we might have thought there was. Okay. In fact,
00:31:32.360
right now, if you told me, if you, if I found out that I had some ailment and I was told that I could
00:31:38.600
go see one of two people for treatment, an African tribal witch doctor with a headdress or Dr. Fauci,
00:31:47.960
not even two seconds would it take me to come. Okay. All right. Get me my, get me my plane ticket
00:31:53.560
to Namibia because I sure ain't going to NIH. Ain't talking to the Fauci. If you told me right now,
00:31:59.800
let's make it even more obvious that I, I've got some medical ailment. I could either go smoke peyote and
00:32:05.740
ayahuasca with some native American shaman in the desert and hear his medical advice,
00:32:11.600
or I could be treated by Dr. Rachel Levine. Get past the bowl, baby. Get, where's the light? Where
00:32:19.580
can I get some of that peyote? Because the native American shaman smoking dope in the desert has a
00:32:25.980
much better grasp on medical reality than the man who thinks that he is a woman who wears heels and
00:32:32.520
dress to the office while he runs health for the United States. It's not even close. And there are
00:32:39.780
going to be more quacks and weirdos in the future, and that's not going to stop. And so if you're a
00:32:43.640
parent and you've got to decide what's best for your kid, you have to resist the fads. You have to
00:32:49.880
resist the really very credible people in authority with the white lab coats and the stethoscope. These
00:32:54.620
people have no idea what they're talking about. People who don't know the difference between men and
00:33:00.280
women don't know anything. And I'm not saying that they aren't coincidentally right about some issues
00:33:07.320
at some times. Stop clock is right twice a day, but they do not have the authority that they pretend
00:33:13.980
to have. Speaking of sterility and kids, there is a really, really messed up story in Pink News. Pink
00:33:22.400
News, I guess, is a gay website. And so this is a story, I guess, that's supposed to be sympathetic to
00:33:27.540
the couple here. It's a gay couple who wanted a son. Sue's IVF clinic after surrogate gives birth to
00:33:35.320
a daughter. You see, this couple, these two men decided that they wanted to purchase a baby. And so
00:33:42.460
they went out and they found an egg. They went through a catalog and they picked a woman. They
00:33:47.240
said, okay, that woman, that's going to be the mother of my child. And they purchased that woman's
00:33:51.280
eggs. And then they rented the womb of a poor woman. And then they did all sorts of things in
00:33:57.860
rooms and medical offices. And they had doctors combine the sperm and the egg in test tubes. And
00:34:05.060
then they implanted the little babies, the embryos, into this other woman. And very often this process
00:34:13.380
involves abortion. Very often this, obviously this process necessarily decouples the procreative act
00:34:20.860
from the, from the sexual act within marriage, which, which just by definition can't exist here
00:34:26.580
with this gay couple. And then they said, okay, we want, we want our baby to look like this, this,
00:34:30.780
this, this, this. Ooh, yuck, a girl. Send him back. I want a refund. Send her back. I want a refund.
00:34:35.780
Really, really messed up. But there, there are so many problems here on the, on the most shallow
00:34:44.360
level. It's sexism. This is real. They're actually saying, I don't want a girl. To me, a girl is less
00:34:50.320
valuable than a boy. I only want a boy. Send the girl back. That's so there's sexism. Sure. Then on
00:34:55.420
the next level, it's the homosexuals. Well, you know, that's not how biology works. Two boys don't
00:35:01.920
get to make a baby. And so when you try to poke and prod and change everything and, and manipulate
00:35:06.720
nature in this way, bad things are going to happen. Yep. That's true. But that's not even the deepest
00:35:10.700
level. The real problem here, I think it's the clinic. The real problem is the clinic. And it's
00:35:18.640
not just, it's not just the homosexuals. It is the homosexuals, but it's not just the homosexuals.
00:35:22.580
And it's not just the sexism. It's the clinic. It's, it's ultimately the big problem here
00:35:28.100
is this mistaken belief that we have a right to a child. You don't have a right to a child.
00:35:36.800
People struggle with infertility and it can be so extremely painful. Sweet little Lisa and I,
00:35:41.800
we didn't get a baby right away. Took, took a couple of years. And I know, I know, I know how hard
00:35:46.700
that is. I know it's really, truly hard. Still, you don't have a right to a child. The only person
00:35:54.460
who has any rights when we are talking about procreation is the baby. And ironically,
00:36:00.440
maybe not ironically, the baby's rights are the rights that we always discard when we,
00:36:05.660
when we talk about these issues in our society. Ironically, the only person whose rights we
00:36:10.220
completely ignore when we're talking about procreation are the baby's rights. The baby's
00:36:13.660
right to life, the baby's right to his natural mother and father. But the baby is the only person
00:36:20.000
with rights here. Babies are not just a commodity to be purchased on the free market. Okay. Babies
00:36:27.360
are a gift from God and a baby has a natural right to his mother and father. A baby has a natural
00:36:36.140
right to be conceived in the procreative act, in the sexual act, the specific conjugal act of his
00:36:41.720
parents within a marriage. Okay. The baby has that right. If the baby doesn't have that right,
00:36:47.280
nobody has any rights in this whole thing. Okay. But we view, we now view babies as commodities
00:36:52.860
because we have a right to it. And therefore, if we have a right to it, we have a right to do whatever
00:36:56.500
we want to do to be able to get it. Maybe that involves technology. Maybe that involves government,
00:37:01.740
maybe that involves the free market. If we have a right to a baby, this couple really hasn't done
00:37:08.340
anything wrong. If a baby is a commodity to be purchased on the free market, then look, this couple,
00:37:14.500
they didn't get the product that they wanted. They purchased a product. The company that produces
00:37:19.820
that product, this IVF company, didn't give them the product they want. So you have a right to a
00:37:24.340
refund, of course, maybe a 30-day money-back guarantee. I don't know. The problem here is that a baby is
00:37:30.800
not just a product, just a commodity to be bought and sold. A baby is a human being made in the image
00:37:37.160
of likeness of God, just like you, and the baby has rights here. This is a level. The libs either
00:37:46.820
don't get this or don't care. They just completely reject that idea that babies have rights and that
00:37:52.920
you shouldn't be allowed to just force your will on reality. But the conservatives tend to get this
00:37:59.120
a little bit more. Conservatives know that this is wrong. Conservatives know this is deeply,
00:38:02.320
deeply, deeply wrong. But are conservatives willing to go all the way here? Are conservatives
00:38:08.480
willing to say, well, if you don't have a right to a baby, then we need to have a much more serious
00:38:12.480
bioethical discussion about all of these reproductive technologies, not just for the gays, not just for
00:38:18.380
single women, but even for married couples. Maybe we need to talk a little more seriously about the
00:38:22.360
bioethical problems with IVF. I don't know that a lot of conservatives want to do that because a lot
00:38:29.360
of people have used these technologies and have gotten kids out of these technologies.
00:38:34.840
And so it's easy to ignore the stories that happen all the time. You hear these stories all the time,
00:38:40.260
not just with homosexuals, but you'll hear a couple getting the wrong baby. Oops, there was a mistake
00:38:45.200
with the test tubes and this couple got this other couple's baby and now there are lawsuits and
00:38:49.020
these stories crop up pretty regularly. But if you have personally benefited from it, it's easy to
00:38:54.480
ignore those stories. You say, oh, well, it's not a big deal or oh, well, it's the cost of doing
00:38:57.560
business. Right. But babies are not business. They're not business. It's not. We need to place
00:39:04.040
limits here, not just on the government, not even on technology, on the free market. You shouldn't
00:39:08.720
be able to buy and sell people. This goes to an even deeper level then. It's a way bigger issue.
00:39:14.920
And I don't know that conservatives are totally ready to open this can of worms. The FDA just
00:39:19.140
received its first application for an over-the-counter birth control pill. This is probably a pretty bad
00:39:25.020
idea, by the way, because, you know, birth control, I mean, it's just, it just messes with all of your
00:39:28.360
hormones. And as we're living at a time where all these quacks are pushing all these sorts of
00:39:32.640
hormonal treatments, I'm not sure that we want to make it easier, less regulated, less oversight when
00:39:38.440
it comes to shilling these drugs. But the application came in just weeks after the overruling of Roe v.
00:39:44.300
Wade. And the overruling of Roe v. Wade has raised questions about contraceptives. So the libs,
00:39:50.800
because the libs can't defend abortion or Roe v. Wade or Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the libs
00:39:55.880
focused in and they said, well, with this Supreme Court decision, pretty soon you're going to lose
00:39:59.900
gay marriage and the right to homosexual sodomy and contraceptives. Because the principle at play
00:40:05.120
in Roe v. Wade is the principle at play in those cases. And the majority of the court that overruled
00:40:09.000
Roe v. Wade specifically said, no, no, this has nothing to do with that. It has nothing to do with
00:40:13.420
condoms or birth control or anything like that. But Justice Thomas, in his concurrence, said,
00:40:18.480
yeah, this decision doesn't have to do with that, but probably it should.
00:40:22.360
So Thomas gave the really honest answer here. And the court is still right in practice because,
00:40:28.740
well, the proof of the pudding is in the tasting. Clarence Thomas couldn't get a single other,
00:40:32.960
even conservative judge to sign on to his concurrence. So the court is signaling they have
00:40:36.800
no appetite to overrule the quote unquote right to contraception. But there is no right to
00:40:42.200
contraception in the Constitution. There is no right to homosexual sodomy in the Constitution,
00:40:46.760
Lawrence v. Texas. There is no definition of gay marriage in the Constitution. Where did that come?
00:40:52.380
No one even suggested that you could possibly make that argument until what, 2012, 2013 or something?
00:40:59.340
You might like contraception. You might like homosexual sodomy. You might like redefining
00:41:05.720
marriage. And you might want to pass laws about all those things. But it's not in the Constitution.
00:41:11.600
It's just completely made up. And it comes from a substantive due process, which is an absurd
00:41:17.600
pseudo-constitutional theory. And it comes from a general right to privacy, which doesn't exist in
00:41:23.120
the Constitution. And it comes from all this sort of nonsense, all the same sort of nonsense that you
00:41:27.480
see in Roe v. Wade. So what do we say about this as conservatives? Well, if it were me,
00:41:37.400
I know some of the real pro-free market conservatives, they'll say, let's get that
00:41:43.220
birth control over the counter. Let's do it. Let's make everything over the counter. Let's reduce
00:41:46.540
regulations. That's a very libertarian point of view. As a conservative, I think this is a bad,
00:41:51.540
I think the FDA should totally reject this application. I think it's a terrible idea to
00:41:56.840
sell birth control over the counter. I don't think that our nation's problem is that we need more
00:42:02.220
birth control. I think the nation's big problem is we don't have enough babies.
00:42:08.380
America, for the past 50 years, has had a below replacement birth rate. The country is literally
00:42:16.660
dying. And now the libs want to make hormone birth control pills even easier to get your hands on
00:42:24.740
without regulation. Probably much younger people would be able to do it without parental notification.
00:42:29.020
It's a crazy idea. It's a really bad idea. In fact, the entire birth control regime is pretty
00:42:36.020
recent. It comes from Griswold v. Connecticut. That was a case decided in 1965, which said that
00:42:41.160
married couples have the right to birth control pills and condoms and stuff like that. And then
00:42:45.720
a case seven years later, Eisenstadt v. Baird, 1972, which says that unmarried couples have a right to
00:42:52.760
contraceptives as well. So this is very, very recent. These were cases decided almost at exactly the same
00:42:57.880
time as Roe v. Wade with almost the exact same stupid meanings at almost exactly the same part
00:43:02.780
where our culture really began to careen off of the cliff. Now, what some conservatives will say
00:43:07.920
is, well, hold on. If you don't want abortion, actually, it's mostly liberals who make this
00:43:12.000
argument. They'll say, if you don't want abortion, then we need to have contraception.
00:43:16.740
Between the two, it's much better to have contraception than abortion. Okay, why don't we
00:43:20.440
have neither? I'm not even saying, I'm not pushing for a nationwide ban on birth control
00:43:25.620
or something like that. Though I do think if people want to ban birth control, they want to
00:43:29.560
go to their elected representatives and ban it. Totally fine by me. Sounds great. We need more
00:43:34.520
babies and we have too much of a culture of contraception. Absolutely. But why are those
00:43:41.900
the alternatives? What if we do what we did in this country until 1972 and say, well, you can
00:43:50.240
either abstain from sex or you can get married and have kids and have a good life? What if we do that?
00:43:58.780
What people will say then is, well, in the modern hookup culture, that's just so unrealistic.
00:44:03.720
Where do you think we got the modern hookup culture from? Where do you think that just fall out of the sky?
00:44:09.720
Is that just politics as downstream of culture? No, that's some evidence that culture frequently
00:44:16.580
is downstream of politics. You get the modern hookup culture. One, sure, these legal decisions
00:44:24.620
can be influenced by cultural changes, but the legal decisions influence cultural changes as well.
00:44:31.260
And a culture that enshrines abortion as some right, and a culture that enshrines contraception
00:44:36.860
as some sacred right and pushes it everywhere is going to get more of those things. This is what
00:44:41.340
the libs have been complaining about. After the Dobbs decision, you had all these new stories in the
00:44:45.840
Washington Post and the New York Times and elsewhere talking to people who said, you know, I think I
00:44:49.800
might start abstaining from sex. I might start being a little more careful about my sexual partners
00:44:53.620
because now I can't kill my child. So I might have a baby and that means I'm going to have to be a
00:44:58.020
little more thoughtful. And then the conservatives all said, uh-huh, cool. Sounds great. Are the
00:45:05.980
conservatives really willing to go all the way there? Are they really willing to have that
00:45:10.220
conversation? Because very often it feels like what conservatives want to do is just roll back
00:45:16.340
the crazy radical cultural changes about six years. We just want to go back to the halcyon days of
00:45:23.880
2015 or so. I don't, not quite. But of course, if you only return to the cultural and political
00:45:33.720
circumstances of the recent past, you're very likely going to end up in exactly the same place
00:45:37.800
we are now. We have to address root causes. Why is our country literally dying? You're going to have
00:45:44.320
to look back at some changes that took place 50, 60 years ago to figure that out. How did we get to
00:45:48.840
the spot where we're mutilating our little kids because of political correctness? How did we get to the
00:45:53.260
spot where we're killing 850,000 babies a year? How did we get to the spot where a homosexual couple
00:45:58.380
is basically complaining about how they want to return their baby because they got a little girl
00:46:02.780
instead of a little boy at the baby store? We got to go back a little bit further than just the past
00:46:09.260
few months or years. Another question, another big question on this, and some Democrats are starting to
00:46:14.580
ask this. If Roe v. Wade is so important, if abortion is so sacred to the Democrats, why didn't they
00:46:18.880
codify it into law when they had the chance for 49 years of Roe v. Wade being the law of the land?
00:46:24.960
Kamala Harris gives a typically eloquent answer. When you look back, did Democrats fail past Democratic
00:46:31.000
presidents, congressional leaders to not codify Roe v. Wade over the past five decades?
00:46:37.380
I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed,
00:46:47.000
but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled. Certain issues are just settled.
00:46:53.160
No, that's right. And that's why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.
00:47:00.460
Certain issues are settled, and when you unsettle the issues, they're no longer settled. And so we
00:47:04.700
should have settled them a long time ago. Sure. Okay. In as much as Kamala Harris, I actually kind
00:47:10.680
of want to defend Kamala Harris here. In as much as she said anything, she is right. The libs didn't
00:47:16.600
codify Roe v. Wade into law, because they didn't think they needed to. Because they control everything,
00:47:22.320
and yeah, maybe sometimes conservatives get a slight majority on the Supreme Court for a few cases.
00:47:27.180
And yeah, maybe they win the presidency, but they don't have the executive agencies. And yeah,
00:47:31.420
maybe they win the House or something, but it doesn't matter. The libs control everything.
00:47:34.700
So they felt they didn't need to. And they still probably don't. I mean, even this major decision
00:47:40.100
that overrules Roe v. Wade, abortion is still legal almost everywhere. And the pro-abortion side is
00:47:48.800
still the major side in the American power structure. We're not living in a world in which
00:47:55.460
abortion has been made illegal. We've just given a little place for people to pass pro-life laws
00:48:01.380
if they want. Now, speaking of settling things down, Rage Against the Machine has gone viral.
00:48:10.860
You remember them? They were a band from like 25, 30 years ago. Rage Against the Machine has gone
00:48:14.320
viral because they're so angry about the Supreme Court decision that they want to abort the Supreme
00:48:20.480
Court. You see, they've got in their state this forced birth in a country that's the only country in
00:48:28.260
the world without guaranteed paid parental leave at the national level. They have to add all those
00:48:33.440
words because we do have lots of maternity and even paternity leave these days. Forced birth in a
00:48:39.520
country where black birth givers, they won't say women, they say birth givers, experience maternal
00:48:46.600
mortality at a higher rate. And where gun violence is so bad, it's something completely unrelated.
00:48:53.600
They say forced birth in a country with gun violence. Abort the Supreme Court. Yeah, abort them. You tell
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them, guys. Regardless of the politics of Rage Against the Machine, this is the most I've ever
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listened to Rage Against the Machine, and I can never get those 55 seconds back, and I regret that.
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I regret that, and now you've got to experience that with me too. Regardless of their politics,
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this music is just unbearably awful. It's just so, so bad. But I had to play it for you because the
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whole thing shows you who's really on the side of the machine here. Who's really, forget about,
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okay, you get five judges on the Supreme Court for one case, okay, and they're losing their minds over
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this. Who's on the side of the machine? When it comes to abortion, when it comes to the sexual
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revolution, when it comes to racial politics, when it comes to immigration, when it comes to every
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single issue, Rage Against the Machine, these multi, multi-millionaire rock stars, they are saying the
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things that the ruling class says. They are pushing the ideas that the ruling class pushes. They are raging
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for the machine. BLM rages for the machine. They go out, they rage, they burn the country down, but they
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are raging for the machine. All of the power structures support them, and they bail them out of jail when
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they get arrested and go to jail. That is the side of the machine. I think people are waking up to this.
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I think the pandering has become much more transparent. I think it's going to take a whole
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lot more than taco comparisons to keep that coalition together, especially as the machine
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becomes so much more destructive. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. See you tomorrow.
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