Ep. 1045 - Warning： The COVID-Midterm Variant Is Here!
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Biden and the rest of the Democratic Party are going to hell in a handbasket, and Joe Biden is the only thing they have to fall back on, and they know exactly how to do it: scapegoating other people.
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Democrats are doing terribly in the generic midterm ballot.
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They're underwater on almost every single issue.
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Many Americans are under vaccinated, meaning they are not up to date on their COVID-19
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Not all people over the age of 50 have received their first booster dose.
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Of those who've received their first booster dose, only 28% of those over 50 have received
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And of those over the age of 65, only 34% have received their second booster dose.
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It's essential that these Americans, as Dr. Jha said, get their second booster shot right
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It is essential, says the director of the CDC, that you all get your fourth shot of the totally
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safe and effective vaccine that was supposed to stop you from catching and transmitting
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COVID the first time, and never throughout all of the various boosters ever actually did
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Now, some intelligent people might be thinking, fool me once, shame on you.
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But for anyone who might be tempted to have an independent thought here, question these genius
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experts, Dr. Fauci is here with an important message.
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Everybody wants to put this pandemic behind us and feel and hope that it doesn't exist.
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He is actually telling you to stop hoping at this point because he and Walensky and most
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of all, Biden realize that people are finally seeing through their nonsense and pushing back
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But as a certain Mr. Nolstradamus may have predicted, hate to say I told you so, but as
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I may have predicted on this very show last week, COVID is the only issue on which Biden
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and the Democrats are even slightly above water, and it's also the key issue that allows
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them to mess around with all of the election rules.
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So you can bet your bottom dollar that this is going to be the issue that they hammer harder
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and harder as we approach what they fear will be a wipeout in the November elections.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop at Norm's Music, who says,
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When asked for comment on the First Lady's insensitive taco blunder, Joe Biden replied,
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That is actually my favorite comment I've ever read on the show.
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It's a great padre joke, and I'm absolutely going to steal it.
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If Biden is trying anything, it is spaghetti at the wall.
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If COVID is the only thing that even slightly works for him, he's going to go with COVID.
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The numbers are absolutely devastating for this guy.
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Obviously, I'm not talking about among independents or moderates even.
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Among Democrats, according to a new poll from the New York Times and Siena College,
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just 26% of Democrats want Joe Biden to be the nominee in 2024.
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One in four Democrats wants the incumbent Democrat president to be the nominee in 2024.
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A full 64% of Democrat voters actively want someone else to run in the 2024 presidential campaign.
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And then 10%, I guess, just have no idea what they're talking about.
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Scott Adams, the Dilbert guy, had a really great point on this the other day.
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You'll notice the way we're talking about Joe Biden and the way we're talking about Hunter Biden in particular
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We're saying, ah, man, Hunter Biden, what a degenerate he is.
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No one wants to talk to him at the White House gatherings.
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They have someone in an Easter bunny suit walking around to try to guide him places so he doesn't wander off.
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He's referring to the 96 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton versus the Republican Bob Dole.
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And at a certain point in the campaign, Clinton started talking about how he respected Bob Dole's military service.
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And he started saying sort of nice things about Dole.
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And what Scott believes is that's the moment when Clinton stopped fearing Dole.
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And that's the way people are talking about Joe Biden.
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No matter what happens in 2024, I'm not saying the Republican is definitely going to win that presidential campaign.
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But at the moment, it just seems so unlikely that Biden even gets the nomination that people are talking about him now.
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Even though his opponents are saying nice things about him, they're saying nice things about him because they don't fear him at all anymore.
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Now, compare and contrast what the way the Democrats are talking about Biden with the way Republicans are talking about Trump.
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The way Republicans are talking about Trump, they want him to run again.
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According to a morning consult Politico poll, so this is another left-wing poll, two-thirds of Republicans want Trump to run again.
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They took this poll last October, and they asked Republicans, how many of you want Trump to run again?
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And they've been hammering the sky, and they've had the January 6th committee, and you've seen other candidates position themselves in a strong way, especially Ron DeSantis in Florida.
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And even with all of that, even with all of that, do you know what the number is today?
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Today, 66% of Republicans want Trump to run again.
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Even after this deluge of negative press, booting Trump out of the public square, off of social media, even with all of that, he's lost one percentage point.
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This guy, if Donald Trump runs for the nomination, right now, he wins it.
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He's the greatest governor in Florida, maybe the greatest governor in America of my lifetime.
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It's going to be very, very hard to close that gap.
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The way that this was all presented to us a year ago, two years ago, you have Joe Biden, this unifier, the adult in the room, the man who's going to bring us together, return to normalcy.
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And here's Trump, a terrible, awful insurrectionist who's not even a true Republican, not even a true conservative.
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You've got the Democrats throwing Biden overboard, and you've got the Republicans essentially rallying around Trump.
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Trump is even getting support from unlikely places.
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This is my favorite defense of Trump that we've seen so far.
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You know, the January 6th committee is still rolling along, and they're so close.
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They've got just one more week, and they're going to prove that Donald Trump is secretly Hitler or something.
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Donald Trump secretly tried to overthrow the government, and they're just not proving it.
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They had an impeachment trial, didn't do anything.
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They had two impeachment trials, didn't do anything.
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John Bolton, who was Donald Trump's national security advisor, then he kind of turned against Trump.
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He wrote a book that was highly critical of Trump.
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He's gone on a lot of TV shows critical of Trump.
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He's broadly supportive of people like Liz Cheney, a lot of people who—
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So, John Bolton has a lot of bona fides these days with the libs.
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So, he's on CNN, and Jake Tapper says this was an insurrection.
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And John Bolton says, actually, Jake, not so much.
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It's Donald Trump looking out for Donald Trump.
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I don't know that I agree with you, to be fair, with all due respect.
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One doesn't have to be brilliant to attempt a coup.
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As somebody who has helped plan coup d'etat, not here, but, you know, other places, it takes a lot of work.
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It was just stumbling around from one idea to another.
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Ultimately, he did unleash the rioters at the Capitol.
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But not to overthrow the Constitution, to buy more time to throw the matter back to the states to try and redo the issue.
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And if you don't believe that, you're going to overreact.
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And I think that's a real risk for the committee.
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I know John Bolton is not the most popular guy in conservative circles these days.
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No, actually, John, we had you on this show to criticize Trump.
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And I'm pretty sure, listen, this was a coup d'etat.
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Jake, you have no idea what you're talking about.
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I can't even get the John Bolton ethos because I don't have that giant walrus mustache.
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But he's just standing there looking tough as nails.
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He goes, Jake, you don't know what you're talking about.
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As somebody who has planned plenty of coup d'etat around the world, I know what I'm talking about.
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I knew coup d'etat and January 6th was no coup d'etat.
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And if January 6th had been a coup d'etat, we would have a new government right now because
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the insurrectionists, so-called, they made it into the heart of the Senate, into the heart
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The horn-hat guy walked in to the chambers, being escorted by police, and then he stood
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And the various people showed up and they kind of made a mess of Nancy Pelosi's office.
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And they had a Coors Light in the Capitol Rotunda.
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There was no plan to rip up the Constitution, declare a new government.
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I'm talking about the most bizarre hearing that I have ever seen take place in the United
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I have not spent a lot of time around the U.S. Senate.
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And I said, hey, man, you were in that hearing today.
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And he said, Michael, in my decade in the Senate, I have never seen anything crazier.
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There was one person in particular who was testifying, Berkeley law professor Kiara Bridges,
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who had had the entire testimony to send into a debate over whether or not men can get
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This this occurred in particular during an exchange with Senator Josh Hawley.
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You've referred to people with a capacity for pregnancy.
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Many women, cis women have the capacity for pregnancy.
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Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy.
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There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people who
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We can recognize that this impacts women while also recognizing that it impacts other groups.
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Those things are not mutually exclusive, Senator Hawley.
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Oh, so your view is, is that the core of this, this right then is about what?
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So, um, I want to recognize that your line of questioning, um, is transphobic, um, and
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it opens up trans people to violence by not recognizing that.
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Wow, you're saying that I'm opening up people to violence by asking whether or not women are
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So I'm one, I want to note that one out of five transgender, uh, persons have attempted
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Because denying that trans people exist and pretending not to know that they exist is
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I'm denying that trans people exist by asking you if you're talking about women having pregnancies.
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They're told that they're opening up people to violence by questioning.
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You look at that woman's eyes and the crazy is there.
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Because you're denying that trans people exist.
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She uses this phrase, people who can get pregnant, people who are capable of pregnancy.
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All of these euphemisms because she doesn't want to say the word woman.
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And she believes the word woman, I guess, is transphobic.
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The real irony here is in the Harvard Law Review, this woman, Kiara Bridges, has an article from just a couple of years ago.
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This is January 2020, in which she uses the word woman 45 times and the word women 349 times.
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While talking about abortion, she's speaking, she's specifically an expert on abortion.
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And in just two years, she has completely changed her mode of speaking, her mode of thinking about human nature.
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And now the word woman, with regard to pregnancy and abortion, is considered transphobic.
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So I endorse this woman for the Democrat nominee for president.
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I think that Kiara Bridges, the more that we play of Kiara Bridges on TV, on the internet, we put her out on the campaign trail.
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I think that Republicans are going to win all 57 states if we put this woman out there as the face of the Democrat Party.
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They call this Berkeley law professor to come testify.
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And to her credit, by the way, I haven't seen a lot of conservatives defending this point, but we really should, to be fair.
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When she says that conservatives believe that trans people don't exist, she's right.
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Conservatives do not believe that trans people exist.
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Transgender is not a category of being that is real.
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Some people might say, well, listen, I believe that trans people exist.
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I believe that people think that they're the opposite sex.
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They're not really the opposite sex, but I think they think that, right.
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So you're saying people with gender identity disorder exist.
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You're saying people with gender dysphoria exist.
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They can't exist because to be transgender is to accept or to even accept the category of transgenderism is to accept the premise that a man really can be a woman.
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That's why there's a different term for transgenderism and gender identity disorder.
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This is why the people who are men who think that they're women identify themselves as transgender.
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They don't identify themselves as people with gender identity disorder.
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Sort of like saying, you know, a skinny person who thinks that he is a fat person is anorexic.
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In this analogy here, anorexia and gender identity disorder and gender dysphoria, those are all medical conditions that ought to be treated and corrected.
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Transgenderism, male to female or female to male or a transitioned person would be the analogous to a really skinny, very fat person.
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It's just, it's a, it's a logical impossibility.
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And conservatives don't want to say this because one will be deplatformed.
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If you tweet that out, if you say transgender people do not exist, I think that is a direct violation of Twitter's rules.
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And so you could be taken off the platform for that.
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We've accepted the left's premise that it's somehow bigoted to say that transgender people do not exist.
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No, people exist, confused people exist, sexually eccentric people exist, but transgender people do not exist.
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They cannot exist because that is not an actual ontological category.
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Until recently, not even the libs thought that transgender people exist.
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Look no further than the woman who created the TV show Friends.
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Friends is the absolutely liberal sitcom par excellence from the 1990s.
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These people living in New York, living kind of liberal, decadent lives.
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It pushes a broadly liberal, not exclusively, but broadly liberal message.
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And one of the jokes in the show is that Chandler's father is a transvestite.
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And now the co-creator, Marta Kaufman, has had to apologize for this.
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She says, we kept referring to Chandler's father, to Helena, the character, as Chandler's father, even though Chandler's father was trans.
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And she suggested that they ought to have referred to Chandler's father once he had transitioned as Chandler's mother.
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She says, pronouns were not yet something that I understood, so we didn't refer to that character as she.
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So the whole reason that they had this character of Chandler's father, who was a transvestite, is because it's funny.
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And so the juxtaposition, the incongruity there is funny, and it's supposed to make you laugh on the situational comedy.
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And so the things that were funny, even to the liberals 20 years ago, are now very somber and serious.
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And now this woman, Marta Kaufman, the things she's saying on her apology tour are much funnier than anything that ever aired on Friends.
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The idea that when a father pretends to be a woman, that he all of a sudden becomes your mother, that is much crazier even than saying that a man can become a woman.
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Chandler's father on Friends, I can't believe we're spending this much time on Chandler's father and this stupid TV show.
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But Chandler's father, even if he puts on a dress, even if he calls himself Helena, even if everyone accepts that he is now actually a woman, still would not be Chandler's mother.
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Chandler's father did not bear Chandler in his womb.
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Chandler's father did not give birth to Chandler.
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Chandler's father, even if he forces everybody to accept the absurd notion that he is now a woman,
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Chandler's father cannot possibly ever have been or be now Chandler's mother.
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A mother is an actual role that involves having done something to another person.
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To be a mother is to define yourself in a relationship to another person, namely your child.
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And if you do not have the relationship of mother and child, then you can't be that mother.
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This is the logical, illogical conclusion of radical individualism.
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But it reminds us, this is, I'm sure Marta Kaufman did not sign up for this when she went on her apology tour about the transvestite jokes.
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But it actually shows you why the leftist and hyper-individualist, even you sometimes see it on the right,
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why these views of humanity are ultimately insufficient.
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The view that we're just, we're just living for us, just me, me, me, all hyper-individualism.
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On the left, they talk about it socially, on the right, they tend to talk it more economically.
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But the idea that we are just individuals born as free-floating atoms, that's ridiculous.
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The way that we view our identities in society are relational because man is a social creature, the political animal.
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We define our roles in life in relation to one another.
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If you're a wife, that means that you have a husband.
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You cannot be a wife if you don't have a husband.
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If you're a child, a son or a daughter, it means you have to have a mother or a father.
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That's why you have to have some grasp on reality.
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On behalf of the transgender community, I discovered a great travesty that has gone on in Hollywood of all places.
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Ellen Page, she who must not be named, she who, if you name her on Twitter,
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you will be kicked off of Twitter and booted out of the public square.
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Ellen Page, the actress who now says she's a man and goes by Elliot Page,
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Deadnamed, that's when you call someone by their real name, not their new crazy fake name.
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She's being deadnamed by Hollywood, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, by the Oscars.
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If you go on the Oscars website, you will notice that they still list Ellen Page under their nominees
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because she was nominated for that movie, Juno.
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And we all laugh because, yes, of course, she, even if you think that she's a man now, which she isn't,
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It's a movie about a woman getting an abortion.
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Though I guess you could talk to that Berkeley professor and she'd say that men can get abortions too.
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We all look at that, we say, Ellen didn't call herself Elliot in those days.
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Ellen called herself Ellen and knew that she was a woman.
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She's called herself Ellen for 33 and for 35 years on earth.
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So, of course, but the new rule on Wikipedia, on social media, on Twitter, on Facebook, on YouTube,
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on all these places is if someone now identifies with a new name and new pronouns,
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you have to refer to that person by those names, by that name and by those pronouns
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The Academy still has its pride flag up on its social media profiles.
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So it says we're the LGBT, as LGBT as they come.
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Are they going to be booted out of the public square?
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Are they, probably not, they're probably not going to face any consequences at all.
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Well, what that's about is there's two sets of rules.
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Speaking of popular films, I hope that you have not watched too much of Hunter Biden's oeuvre.
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Hunter Biden's laptop was exposed and his cell phone was exposed.
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And the guy, the guy filmed himself committing all sorts of disgusting acts.
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I'm not sure that the guy has ever committed a crime that he did not film.
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Lots and lots of hookers, lots and lots of drugs, lots and lots of creepy stuff.
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We have video evidence of the guy committing all sorts of crimes.
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We have documentary evidence of him committing what are probably more serious financial crimes.
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Evidence of lots of, lots of financial corruption.
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And now they're saying it is being reported that Hunter Biden could face charges.
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Not for the financial stuff, not even for the drug stuff, just for the hookers.
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But according to experts in the mainstream media,
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Joe Biden's son Hunter could face federal charges related to prostitution
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while he's under investigation for other stuff.
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He could face charges according to the experts.
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But according to people who know how the political system actually works,
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He's not going to, he's not going to face any actual consequences.
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Do you, do you really believe that Hunter Biden is ever going to be wearing an orange jumpsuit?
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But do you believe right now that Hunter Biden is ever going to face actual consequences
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Because we know that there are two tracks in the justice system.
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Just as there are two tracks for ordinary people on the street,
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just as there are two tracks for the LM goes out and burns down buildings and kills people
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and robs stores and they get a slap on the wrist and usually get their charges dismissed.
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Meanwhile, the horn hat guy goes in and dances around the Capitol.
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They throw him in solitary and throw away the key.
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Two different tracks for political dissent and protest.
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So, too, there are different tracks for people who are connected.
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Now, speaking of crime and punishment, this is really important because when,
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when crime begins to spread, it has effects all throughout society.
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There are actually three kinds of criminality that we're talking about here.
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We're talking about crime, like regular thug on the street goes and robs a liquor store.
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Then we're talking about lawlessness in the enforcement agencies, the FBI and other law
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enforcement agencies, when they don't enforce the law and they let criminals off the hook.
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And then there's the third kind that you see typified by Hunter Biden and other members of
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the Biden family, where people who are connected to the government, the people who are supposed to be
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setting the better example, who are either directly or indirectly involved in law enforcement
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through family ties, when they are the ones committing the crimes.
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Those are three different types of lawlessness.
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You don't, when, when the law enforcement agencies stop enforcing the law, what happens?
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When the people at the top who were supposed to be in charge and setting the example,
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when they commit crimes themselves, that sends a message to the rest of the law enforcement
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agencies that now we're not going to take these things so seriously.
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No one really believes Biden's FBI and Biden's DOJ are going to go after Hunter Biden.
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And they're going to, by the way, when, when Kamala Harris is out raising money to bail out
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the BLM rioters, that's a message to the BLM rioters and to Antifa and just regular street
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thugs that they're not going to get in trouble.
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As long as they check a few different boxes, they're going to be just fine.
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There's a video that's just gone viral of little kids in Minneapolis screaming at, cursing
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So you see this little kid, two little black kids, yelling profanities at these cops and
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They're like three years old or something, walking around in their underwear.
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And you've got some older people, you've got some adults behind them, or at least older
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teenagers, maybe adults, also shirtless, not wearing all their clothing, pants down below
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How do you think life is going to turn out for those kids?
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The cop, one, the cops are not going to arrest little kids.
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The cops are not even going to stop little kids from hitting them.
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And especially they're not going to stop them because they're black kids.
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And because this is Minneapolis and we're living in the era post-George Floyd, where
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Ben Stein made this point the other day, where you have explicit calls from people in political
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Let black people off the hook for crimes, punish people of other races, specifically white
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people to a greater degree for crimes and have a two-tiered system.
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And they justify it with all sorts of piffle about systemic oppression and history and all
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But what they're saying is, even during the BLM riots, they said, we just need to let people
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vent their emotions by stealing Gucci handbags and Nike sneakers.
00:32:33.280
We just need to let people let it out by torching the city, but only for a night or two.
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Do you think these little kids, who obviously have complete deadbeat degenerate parents,
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if they have parents at all, I'm not even sure if the parents are around, whoever those
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older adults are in the frame, though, they're sort of just slightly out of frame.
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But whoever they are, they're completely irresponsible.
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They're neglecting the education of these kids.
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The kids are statistically very likely to turn out bad.
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I mean, they don't even put the kids in clothing.
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Do you think that's going to set these kids up for success?
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The best thing that could possibly happen to these kids is, and there's really no way
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politically for it even to occur right now in Minneapolis, is for those cops to grab
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Your parents, if they're even around, need to be punished a little more severely than
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You're not going to have a successful life if you do that.
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Wrong for you to speak to your elders that way.
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Wrong for you to speak to law enforcement that way.
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And if you continue down this path, you're going to have a terrible life and you're going
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That's, it's tough love, but it's, people need a little bit of tough love sometimes.
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The parents could use a little bit more than a stern talking to.
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The parents should be told, get your life together, get, get your kids in line or, or
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Or, or you're going to be wearing the orange jumpsuit that Hunter will not be wearing.
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Speaking of getting tough, the 2024 race is heating up on the Republican side and you
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are seeing now a battle of the two biggest, brashest billionaires on social media.
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You are seeing a battle between Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
00:34:45.740
Another one of our highest priorities under a Republican Congress will be to stop left-wing
00:34:50.900
censorship and to restore free speech in America.
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And go out, by the way, while I'm here and sign up now for Truth Social.
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Leon, I tell you what, Elon, Elon is not going to buy Twitter.
00:35:21.960
You know, he said the other day, oh, I've never voted for a Republican.
00:35:28.380
So he's another artist, but he's not going to be buying it.
00:35:45.360
And he's doing it in the way that Trump always goes after people.
00:35:59.480
Elon hit him first, in Trump's mind, by saying I've never voted for a Republican.
00:36:05.220
What that means is Elon's saying, I didn't support Trump.
00:36:08.340
So Trump says, okay, well, you told me you did when you came and groveled for more government
00:36:27.240
He then went on Truth Social, because Trump is not allowed on Twitter.
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He went on Truth Social, posted a picture of Elon posing with then President Trump.
00:36:37.380
And says, when Elon Musk came to the White House asking me for help on all of his many
00:36:41.800
subsidized projects, whether it's electric cars that don't drive long enough, driverless
00:36:45.820
cars that crash, or rocket ships to nowhere, without which subsidies he'd be worthless,
00:36:50.920
and telling me how he was a big Trump fan and a Republican, I could have said, drop to
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He just keeps going on and on and on about Elon Musk.
00:37:05.820
Now, you might say, Elon has every right to say that he's not a Republican and hasn't
00:37:14.840
But this is how Trump plays politics, and everybody knows it.
00:37:19.200
Frankly, I actually don't think that this attack on Elon Musk is designed as a message
00:37:25.200
I think this is a message for Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz and Mike Pompeo and Mike Pence
00:37:34.800
and Nikki Haley and anyone else who might run for president in 2024.
00:37:40.360
The message is, I'm going to be really nice, we're going to play nice, until you, in even
00:37:47.100
the slightest way, come after me, and then I am going to go nuclear on you.
00:37:54.740
And Elon happens to be the object of that ire right now.
00:38:01.380
The message is for the people who could challenge Trump.
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And it's a message that DeSantis and all the rest of the potential 2024 people should take
00:38:09.420
very seriously, because right now Trump is so far up in the polls, he's got the support
00:38:17.520
Even though I know a lot of very politically active, aware, very online conservatives are
00:38:24.760
saying, you know, I liked Trump, but he's had his time, it's time to move on.
00:38:35.840
Um, and I don't, that's not where the Republican base is right now.
00:38:41.600
That's not where the polls, the polls are right now.
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Actually, I think the way Elon phrased it was, he said, there should also be an age limit
00:38:51.780
You shouldn't be able to run for president over the age of 69.
00:38:54.740
And I think it was just so he could make a joke about the number 69, which is kind of
00:39:01.960
This is a high level game and people down in Florida, people down in Texas, people up
00:39:08.800
in all over the place, all over the country who might be considering a run for president
00:39:15.920
Now, I think there is a chance for some Republican candidates to beat Trump.
00:39:25.920
One of whom is the governor of Maryland, Larry Hogan, who in an interview that was just
00:39:33.400
published yesterday, told CBS News that more and more people are encouraging him to run
00:39:45.660
Are we, where is the nationwide wave of Hogan-mentum coming around?
00:39:50.440
Where is, I don't, I don't quite see it in the polls.
00:39:54.640
One of the ironies for the people who are most critical of Trump is that they themselves
00:40:02.240
embody all of the tics and even the worst eccentricities that they accused Trump of
00:40:14.740
The, that, speaking of pedophiles and sex crimes, the Lincoln Project was this group of Republican
00:40:22.600
consultants who got pushed out of the game because Trump didn't want to hire them.
00:40:27.520
And so, because they're absolute prostitutes, they just went and worked for the Democrats and
00:40:32.300
raised a lot of money from Democrats and then said, we, we, we're principled Republicans.
00:40:36.660
We're not like that unprincipled, boor, Bulgarian Donald Trump.
00:40:40.880
And then they ran the most vulgar, boorish, disgusting campaigns you can imagine.
00:40:46.200
We're not like this terrible man, Donald Trump, who has no character.
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Meanwhile, the Lincoln Project gets caught as being a bunch of pederasts, homosexual pedos
00:40:54.180
who were trying to groom young kids and offer them the prospect of jobs if they would, if
00:41:00.200
they would engage in sex acts with them while, while these guys cheated on their wives.
00:41:03.340
So they, they, whatever they could accuse Trump of on the sex front, on the rhetoric front,
00:41:08.820
on any front, they themselves were embodying much worse behavior.
00:41:12.140
And you're even seeing hints of that here with Larry Hogan.
00:41:15.380
He says, listen, more and more people are telling me to run.
00:41:21.780
They're all saying, Larry Hogan, we really want Larry to run for president.
00:41:25.580
It's like a really sad caricature of a guy trying to do a Donald Trump impression.
00:41:30.560
And obviously nobody wants this guy to run for president.
00:41:33.280
Probably most of his own family doesn't want him to run for president.
00:41:37.160
Hogan's argument is there's a diminishing number of folks that are wanting the former
00:41:42.220
There's a growing number of people that are looking for our kind of successful,
00:41:48.180
Even this, even this line, successful, bigger tent politics.
00:41:53.020
Donald Trump is the biggest tent Republican, the most successfully big tent Republican I've
00:41:59.660
Donald Trump expanded the Republican Party's reach to Hispanic voters.
00:42:05.460
Donald Trump expanded the Republican Party's reach to black voters.
00:42:09.220
Donald Trump expanded the Republican Party's reach to working class voters who were previously
00:42:14.980
Democrats, union Democrats, blue collar workers.
00:42:18.960
He greatly expanded the Republican Party's reach to that demographic.
00:42:22.340
Donald Trump expanded the Republican Party's reach to gay voters, for goodness sakes.
00:42:26.860
Donald Trump, he was the first presidential candidate to ever launch his campaign supporting
00:42:32.940
Joe Biden didn't start his political campaigns supporting gay marriage.
00:42:38.040
Certainly not Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton, all of whom said that marriage is a sacred
00:42:42.880
Now, you might say, well, I wish Donald Trump did defend the traditional understanding of
00:42:47.740
marriage that prevailed everywhere for all of human history until five minutes ago.
00:42:52.120
But one thing you can't accuse him of is not being big tent.
00:43:01.260
Does 66% of the Republican Party want Larry Hogan to be president?
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Speaking of governors that I don't like very much, Democrat up in New York, Kathy Hochul,
00:43:11.420
who is trying to take away New Yorkers' Second Amendment rights.
00:43:14.080
This clip came from a week or two ago, but I really want to get to it because it shows
00:43:18.380
you the kind of hubris that you're seeing from the ruling class.
00:43:22.080
So you had a major win for the Second Amendment in New York thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:43:26.840
The Supreme Court in the New York Pistol and Rifle Association case came out and said that
00:43:33.080
New Yorkers have a right to keep and bear arms and they can carry weapons and that's that.
00:43:42.760
And a reporter asked this Governor Hochul a question, said, hold on, is there, do you have
00:43:47.580
any evidence that the guns that you're banning and the people you're banning from owning
00:43:51.940
guns are actually involved in the homicide problem in New York?
00:43:59.040
Do you have the numbers to show that it's the concealed carry permit holders that are committing
00:44:05.700
Because the lawful gun owner will say that you're attacking the wrong person.
00:44:10.860
It's really people that are getting these guns illegally that are causing the violence,
00:44:15.020
not the people going and getting the permit legally.
00:44:18.760
And that's the basis for the whole Supreme Court argument.
00:44:26.020
I don't need I don't have to have a data point to point to to say that this is going to
00:44:30.180
make all I know is I have a responsibility to the people of the state to have sensible gun
00:44:35.760
And this one was not devised by the Hochul administration.
00:44:41.640
I don't need a data point to make the case that I have a responsibility to protect the people
00:44:48.240
You don't need you don't need statistics to know that you have a responsibility to protect
00:44:54.060
But the question is, do you have any evidence that your law will protect the people of the
00:45:00.600
Hochul is using a clever rhetorical device here because I also think that statistics are generally
00:45:06.040
And statistics come about in the last really only in the last 150, 200 years or so.
00:45:11.760
And it comes as part of this big expansion of the technocratic state.
00:45:15.820
The very word statistic refers to the the data that go into the management of the state.
00:45:22.080
And it it has all sorts of problems for conservative political philosophy.
00:45:25.720
And it really feeds into the progressive project broadly.
00:45:27.920
So I I'm also not that interested in citing statistic after statistic.
00:45:33.340
statistic, but you do need evidence, don't you?
00:45:40.000
Your job is to protect the people of your state and ensure the common good.
00:45:43.240
OK, what is your evidence that these gun laws will do it?
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I have no I don't have a philosophical argument.
00:46:01.460
And that is a kind of governance without logic.
00:46:05.620
That is we got we got two faculties we can use when we're talking about government here.
00:46:10.480
When we're talking about our even our own personal lives, we've got our will and we've
00:46:16.920
Intellect without will, you're not going to do very much.
00:46:19.260
Will without intellect, you're not going to do very many good things.
00:46:21.660
Ideally, you combine the two and you allow your intellect to inform your will and then
00:46:26.660
you act in a way that is in accordance with right reason and with the good.
00:46:33.340
And the founding fathers wrote about these sorts of things at great length.
00:46:35.840
That's kind of what this government was supposed to be about.
00:46:39.140
When you divorce the will from the intellect, then you get tyranny, essentially.
00:46:44.260
Then you just get people a politics that that devolves to people just pursuing their
00:46:48.860
own basist, immediate, unreasonable interests and desires.
00:47:01.500
There, it's just two teams clubbing each other until one side wins.
00:47:06.680
And unfortunately, it's not the troglodytes with the big thick eyebrows who are, you know,
00:47:12.280
look like Neanderthals dragging clubs around who are pursuing this kind of politics.
00:47:16.120
It's all the geniuses who went to all the really good schools who wear the really fancy lab
00:47:19.980
coats who tell you, get your 17th booster shot because this one's going to be very safe and
00:47:24.540
And that's going to do whatever we say, even when what we say contradicts what we said
00:47:29.300
just yesterday, even when there's no logic to it whatsoever, you will do what I do, what
00:47:37.500
That's why we got to get really, really tough here if we want to return in any way to a
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