Ep. 1050 - AOC, The Instagram Martyr
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17 House Democrats pretend to be handcuffed outside the Supreme Court to defend abortion after Roe v. Wade is overruled, but in reality they were not handcuffed. They were LARPing a pro-abortion rally in the late 1960s.
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Yesterday, 17 House Democrats pretended they were living in the late 1960s as they pretended to be
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dragged away in handcuffs from a pro-abortion rally outside the Supreme Court, which they
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attended so they could pretend to defend legal abortion after the court overruled Roe v. Wade
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and returned the issue to the legislature. I feel like I'm doing slam poetry or something.
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There's a lot of ends in there. In reality, they were not handcuffed. You can tell because both
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Ilhan Omar and AOC briefly pulled their arms out of the pretend handcuff pose to make a black power
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fist for the cameras for some reason before they put their hands back and returned to the charade.
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Even more bizarre than the mime show that they put on was the fact that they were at the Supreme Court
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at all, since the Supreme Court has nothing to do with whether or not there will be legal abortion
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in America or to what degree there will be legal abortion. In the Dobbs case, the court said that
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the issue is for lawmakers to decide. Lawmakers, you know, like AOC and Ilhan Omar, if they wanted to
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enshrine legal abortion, these 17 House Democrats could propose a law and pass it. And the Supreme
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Court would not do a damn thing to stop them. They don't do that because they don't have the votes
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and they don't have the votes because this issue is a loser for Democrats. So instead,
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they LARP. They play pretend. The cameras eat it up. The media eat it up. The only people who are not
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buying it are the American voters. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Frank S., who says,
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not sure why the D.C. mayor is so upset. She should be thrilled about the best doctors,
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lawyers, and engineers being bused into her city. Yes, it doesn't make sense because the libs constantly
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say that unlimited illegal immigration is a net positive for our country and diversity is our
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strength. And these are the most wonderful people in the world. And we should all be so glad to have
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them in our country, completely unvetted. And yet the libs who say that never seem to want the
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immigrants in their neighborhoods or in their cities or in their communities. They only want them
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in the red states and in the conservative places and in the Republican states. It's so weird because
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the unvetted millions of illegal aliens are our strength and they're so wonderful for strengthening
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America. And it's so great. Bring that strength over to D.C. All of a sudden, they don't want it.
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Kind of tells you what they really believe. Kind of tells you the whole thing is just a big trick
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who the Democrats are fooling at this point are the squish Republicans in Washington, D.C.
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I am convinced of that. You look at the approval ratings right now among actual American voters,
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Democrats are in the absolute doldrums. It's pathetic. You can see through it. The fake
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handcuffs from AOC and Ilhan Omar. The ginned up outrage. The lame excuses for why the economy and
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the rest of the society under Democrats is collapsing. The American voters see through that. The only people
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who get fooled are the House Republicans. This was so pathetic. This was so pathetic. Last night,
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there was a vote in the House of Representatives. The vote was to enshrine the radical new definition
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of marriage that the Supreme Court foisted on us in 2015 with Obergefell. For all of human history
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until roughly seven years ago, it was understood that marriage is between a man and a woman,
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man and at least one woman, maybe more than one woman in certain cultures. But at the very least,
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that sexual difference, boys and girls, men and women coming together for the purpose broadly of
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procreation, family building, educating children, that that was essential to marriage. And then starting
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about seven years ago, the Libs said, no, actually that essential quality of marriage, that has nothing
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to do with marriage. Marriage is just a union between any two people. And it's a contract just like
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any other contract, but it's not like any other contract. And that's why we've got to redefine
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it. And anyway, that's the new definition. What's the new definition? We can't quite tell you, but
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just go with us. That's what they told us. That's what the Supreme Court told us.
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And the Libs pushed it and the conservatives broadly resisted.
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Last night in the House of Representatives, the Democrats brought up a vote on enshrining
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this new definition of marriage, this radical definition of marriage, of the fundamental political unit
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into law. And 47 House Republicans voted for it. 47 House Republicans did not vote to get the
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government out of marriage, which I think is an impossibility, but it's still a broadly popular
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position on the right. They didn't do that. They went much further than that. 47 House Republicans
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did not vote to accept the results of the Obergefell case from the Supreme Court.
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That's not what this vote was about. They did a lot more than that. They voted affirmatively to
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radically redefine marriage, family, the fundamental unit of society. And they voted to do it for no
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reason whatsoever. The Obergefell case is not in any way at risk. The Supreme Court made that extremely
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clear in their Dobbs decision. Justice Thomas is the only judge on the court who has expressed a
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willingness to revisit the Obergefell decision. None of the other judges, none of the other
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conservative judges said that they would do that. They wouldn't sign on to the concurrence from
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Thomas. There is no risk whatsoever at the moment or in the foreseeable future to that definition of
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marriage. The Democrats only brought this issue up as a wedge issue to trap Republicans. And these 47
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useless squishes took the bait, hook, line, and sinker. It is so pathetic. What are their names? I'm going to
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read their names out here. Drives me so crazy. It's so frustrating that these people, they can't win for
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freaking losing, these Republicans. They take the bait every time. They can't be counted on to conserve
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anything at all. If you can't conserve the fundamental basic political unit, if you can't conserve the
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difference between men and women, you can't conserve anything. So good, they're going to vote with us on tax
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cuts. Maybe sometimes. Cool. Great. A lot of good that does. Here they are. These are their names.
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Kelly Armstrong, Don Bacon, Cliff Bentz, Ken Calvert, Kat Kamek. That's disappointing. I like Kat Kamek,
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but it's very disappointing what she did. Mike Carey, Liz Cheney, of course, John Curtis, Rodney Davis,
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Mario Diaz-Balart, Tom Emmer, Brian Fitzpatrick, Andrew Garbarino, Mike Garcia, Carlos Guimenez,
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Tony Gonzalez, Anthony Gonzalez, Ashley Hinson, Daryl Issa, Chris Jacobs, David Joyce,
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John Katko, Adam Kinzinger, of course, Nancy Mace, Nicole Maliotakis, Brian Mast, Peter Mejier,
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Dan Muser, Marianette Miller-Meeks, Blake Moore, Dan Newhouse, Jay Obernolte, Burgess Owens. Burgess
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Owens, come on. In Utah? Utah, they're going to vote to completely redefine marriage? Scott Perry,
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Tom Rice, Maria Elvira Salazar, Mike Simpson, Elise. Oh, the rest of these squishes are lucky
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because my page cut out on my print. You're lucky. I know Elise Stefanik is the next one.
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Okay, five or six Republicans are lucky that I don't get to read their names on air because this
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didn't print correctly. Don't worry. Maybe I'll read it tomorrow. I'm just so frustrated with these
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guys. One, if you don't have the moral clarity on this issue, or at least the political clarity to
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know, huh, this really matters. I know a lot of Republicans want to say, oh, who cares? It's not
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a big deal. You know who cares? The Democrats care. The Democrats have been putting a lot of time and
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energy and focus into this issue for a long time. And they care because they know that it matters.
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Because if you can redefine men and women, then you can do anything. You can take any amount of
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political power. A lot of conservatives will say, well, look, I don't care about the marriage issue.
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I just want to stop this crazy transgender stuff. But what those conservatives don't realize is
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the transgender stuff is the marriage issue. The marriage issue leads inevitably to the transgender
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stuff. Because what the redefinition of marriage says is that men and women are exactly the same.
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That there is no significant difference between men and women. That's the only way that the union of a
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man and a woman that we call marriage can be the exact same as the union of a man and a man. Or the
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union of a woman and a woman. The only way they can be exactly the same, and we use the same word to
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refer to all of them, is if men and women are exactly the same. Which is the essential premise of
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transgenderism. That men and women are fundamentally the same. That's why a man can secretly be a woman and a
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woman can secretly be a man. That's so frustrating that these people don't get it. But they don't
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conserve anything and they don't even know how to play Washington games. The Democrats are pushing
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this right now. Not because it's an urgent issue. Obergefell's not going anywhere. They're pushing
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it right now because they're losing on every urgent issue before the country. So they're just trying to
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find wedge votes. And they know that the Republicans are split pretty much 50-50 on this. I took my very
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scientific poll on Twitter the other day. And it reflected what people who have been looking at the
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numbers would expect from the GOP. The GOP is split here. And the Democrats don't want Republican
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unity going into the midterms. And so these squishes here, they very easily could have said this is a
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ridiculous vote. It's a show vote. You Democrats are just putting us up to it. We're not going to
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take the bait. This is not an urgent issue. The Republicans could have held firm. But these ones
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can't because they care much more about what the New York Times says about them than what their own
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base says about them or what reality says about them or conserving a damn thing. It's just so pathetic.
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The only silver lining in this confusion and disappointment regarding the public view of
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marriage is Bennifer. That's the only silver lining, okay, when we're talking about marriage. Yes,
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I meant to get to it yesterday. I'm so glad I could get to it today. After what, 15 years? 18 years?
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Two-thirds of my life maybe? Ben Affleck and what's her name? Jennifer Lopez. Jennifer Lopez Affleck.
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story. I don't, I assume, I don't know anything really about these people's personal lives. I assume
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they've all been married a hundred times. I'm not totally sure that the, the Bennifer marriage that
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just took place is the most licit marriage in the world. I think it took place in the Elvis
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chapel in Vegas somewhere and they, these guys may have been married before and anyway, whatever.
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The, the aspect of the story that I find somewhat heartwarming and actually important for the public
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to pay attention to is they got back together. Those kids finally worked it out. These guys were both
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extremely famous, extremely successful. They were, I don't think they were married. They were engaged.
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They were dating and then they broke it off and they went with all sorts of other people and I'm sure
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that they gorged themselves on the pleasures of single life. And even after all of that,
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they wound up back together. They realized that something more valuable than just going and
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screwing around for your whole life and being single and just living for yourself, something more
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valuable than that. Ben Affleck is a wealthy, famous man. He could, he could be dating or marry a 22 year
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old of his choice right now. That's just the way Hollywood works. And he didn't. They, they said the
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thing that's most valuable is, is that old thing to get that old thing back again. Someone with whom
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you have shared experience, someone that you've lived with for a little bit to kind of come back.
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I don't know the particulars of Bennifer, but I do know that's an important lesson for a lot of people,
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especially in our culture, which is a swipe right culture, where you're told that if,
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if you're dating someone in high school, it would be preposterous to think that you could ever marry
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that person. Oh, that's crazy. That's what they did in the old days before we had Tinder. Now,
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oh no, you have to break up. You for sure have to break up for college and you've got to date a
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hundred thousand people. And I don't even want to use the word date. You should just be in a hookup
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culture and you go out and you, you go sleep with somebody. And then maybe you introduce yourself to
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that person the next morning when you wake up, possibly you go get breakfast, but you don't,
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you don't really live for anybody else. You certainly don't make any decisions that would
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affect your life for anyone else. You don't make decisions about where you're going to live or your
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job, your career, your school. You don't do any of that for anybody else. You live entirely for
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yourself and for your career and the widget factory you're going to work at. And then if a spouse fits
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into that picture, that's fine. But maybe you're just going to live in a studio apartment forever
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and just keep swiping right, right, right, and going on meaningless dates and have casual sex.
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And then at the end you will have, I don't know, gotten the promotion at work or something.
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That's what our modern culture tells everybody to do. And it's really right. You want to talk
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about radical redefinitions of marriage and the relationship between men and women. That's a
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radical redefinition. And what are the fruits of that? People are getting married much later,
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if at all. They're having many fewer children, if they have any at all. And they're freaking
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miserable. People are miserable. They're depressed. Antidepressant use is through the roof.
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The average life expectancy in America is declining because of deaths of despair, because
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of suicide, because of drug overdoses. Is this entirely about the collapse of the American family
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and the decline in marriage and the bizarre way that we approach sex and human relationships?
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It's probably not entirely that, but I bet it's a lot of that because that's the central aspect
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of human life, without which all the money in the world means absolutely nothing.
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Take that lesson from Bennifer. And if Bennifer is an imperfect vessel for that message, learn the
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lesson anyway. And also, when are we going to get the Geely reboot? I am here for the Geely reboot.
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It's been way too long. Bring it on. Speaking of heartwarming stories, this story about the hero in the
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mall in Indiana just gets better and better. So there was a potential mass shooter in this mall in
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Indiana. And he did sadly manage to kill three people and he injured some other people. But he only
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killed three people and he only injured, I think, five or so other people because he was taken out, not by
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the police, not by gun control laws, but by a good guy with a gun, a young good guy with a gun who was only
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carrying a gun because of the constitutional carry laws in Indiana. So that's what we knew about this
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story. Now it gets even better. 22 years old, guy's name is Elisha Dickon, and he's walking around the
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mall with his girlfriend. She spots the bad guy with the gun. She says, I see a long rifle over there.
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So he tells her, get down, do not get up. He gets behind some kind of edifice, a pole or something to
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that effect to give him a little bit more balance and a little bit of cover. And he fires off 10
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rounds from his Glock. So he empties the magazine on the Glock. He hits the guy. Some reports are
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saying he hit the guy. Some reports are saying he hit the guy with all of the bullets. I can't imagine
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that's the case. Some are saying he hit him multiple times. Some are saying he only hit him
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once. All it takes is one hit. The craziest part here is this kid, this 22-year-old with a Glock,
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with a pistol in a combat situation, hit the bad guy from 40 yards away. 40 yards away.
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If any of you have any experience with firearms or maybe you go to the range,
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you know that is not an easy thing to do. It's not an easy thing to do in the most peaceful,
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tranquil conditions of a gun range, much less in a combat situation. Apparently,
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while the kid was firing, he made sure that it was clear behind the bad guy so he wasn't going to
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accidentally pop off a good guy. And he was waving for the civilians in the mall to get behind him and
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to exit. This kid handled himself perfectly. And he took some amazing shots. He has no training
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with the police. He has no training with the military. He learned how to shoot from his grandpa.
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The reason this story really matters, other than it's amazing and they should make an action movie
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out of it or something, is everybody did everything right here. Because by the way,
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the girlfriend then, who the hero boyfriend saved, she's apparently a nurse. She goes and immediately
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starts tending to people and caring for people. And then we only know about this because she
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called her grandmother. The grandmother would talk to the reporters and the grandmother said,
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you know, look, this is amazing. We're so proud of the guy. We're so proud of my granddaughter.
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But it's going to be hard for this guy because taking a human life, even if it's a guilty life,
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even if it's a potential mass killer, that's a hard thing to do. So please pray for him.
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Please pray for everyone involved. And I read this story and I say, wow,
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everybody did everything right. Other than the mass shooter, obviously. Everybody did everything
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right. The kid who killed the shooter, the girlfriend who tended to the injured people,
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and the grandmother who said, just pray. Please pray. I'm praying. You should pray too. Prayers are
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efficacious. Everyone did everything right. My biggest takeaway from this story
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is that not that these people got lucky, not what a miracle it was, though in a way,
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it certainly does seem miraculous. But what doesn't seem, the part that actually makes it
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seem not like a miracle is that kid was prepared. It's not just that he was carrying his gun around,
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not just that he was flaunting his rights. That kid had earned the right to keep and bear arms.
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That kid was exercising his right responsibly. That kid had trained. That kid knew how to use it.
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Same thing is true of guns as is true of other features of life. It's not the size necessarily
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that matters. It's how you use it. Okay. You can tell that with a gun. He just had a little Glock on
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him, but he knew how to use it. He was very well trained. He was being a very responsible citizen.
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This girl was being a very responsible citizen. That's a lesson that we should all learn. Okay.
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If we want our rights, because this story completely undercuts the Libs arguments for gun control,
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completely undercuts the narrative that they've been pushing very hard for a couple of months now,
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but they've been pushing it for years, actually. If we want our rights, we need to know how to use
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them. If we want to be a free people and we want to have self-government, we need to be capable of
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that. This is why we go back to this John Adams quote a lot, but one of the implications of the
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John Adams quote, when he says, the constitution is built for a moral and religious people. It's
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unfit to the government of any other kind of people. Similar quotes from other founding fathers
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about how if we don't practice our liberty, if we don't practice the virtues, if we are not worthy
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of our liberty, we will lose it. We will lose the ability for self-government. That's just a fact.
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That's how it goes. If people are not virtuous, if people are not living up to their liberty, if they
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trade their liberty for licentiousness, then they're going to have a master. They're going to be in need
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of a master. They're going to deserve a master. They're not going to have their rights. This is a
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really, really great story, and it backs up a poll that just came out. There's a poll from the
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Convention of States Action and Trafalgar Group that surveyed Americans of all political
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persuasions and asked, who do you trust more in a mass shooting situation? The feds, local police,
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or armed civilians? The poll was taken, I believe, before this shooting happened or before the news
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reports of the shooting happened. Who do you think won? Well, let me ask you. You're in a mass
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shooting situation. What would make you feel better? You've got local police nearby. You've got
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the feds showing up at some point, or you've got a good guy who's trained a civilian with a gun.
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What would make you feel better? It's easy, and the majority of people surveyed gave the same answer.
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The good civilian with the gun. When you want to protect yourself from all these people in high
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more. Who do you trust in a mass shooting? 41.8% of respondents say armed citizens. 25.1%
00:26:36.940
of respondents say the local police. 10.3% of respondents say federal agents. Then a fifth of
00:26:46.180
the people choose none of the above. Some people are surprised by this answer. What do you mean? You
00:26:50.600
trust some wild American with a gun rather than the police? Yes, of course. First of all, the libs
00:26:55.820
have been telling us for years now that the police are evil, racist Nazis who just go hunting innocent
00:27:01.660
black men for sport. The police are so unspeakably evil. That's why we need to give them a monopoly on
00:27:08.480
the weapons. Does that make sense? No, of course not. If anything, the anti-cop argument is going to
00:27:13.340
increase one's faith in the Second Amendment and one's reliance on the Second Amendment. But there's
00:27:18.140
an even more basic reason here, which is the principle of subsidiarity. It is good as a matter of
00:27:25.600
government to have the broadest number of decisions that can be responsibly made, the greatest amount
00:27:33.300
of power that can be responsibly exercised at the most local level possible. And then certain things
00:27:39.540
that the local level can't accomplish, you go up to a higher level, you go from the township to the
00:27:43.840
state maybe, or the county, and to the state, and to the federal government. And when we want to
00:27:50.720
protect ourselves, we can't merely rely on, I don't know, the FBI jumping out of a helicopter and
00:27:57.600
saving us at our mall shooting in Indiana. And we can't even just rely on the state police, and we
00:28:03.700
can't even rely on the county police, and we can't necessarily even just rely on the local police.
00:28:09.000
We need to be able to protect ourselves because self-defense is a natural right. And this is one of
00:28:15.920
the reasons why our constitution recognizes the right to keep and bear arms. The geniuses and the
00:28:21.720
pundit class who are shocked by this, who want to take away all your guns, they don't understand this
00:28:26.680
very basic principle that at least a plurality of Americans do understand. Why would you trust the
00:28:33.840
feds? Why would you, especially after what we've lived through for the past three years, COVID,
00:28:40.940
the complete destruction of our economy, even going back a little bit further, the usurpation of power
00:28:47.780
from a duly elected president, the intentional undermining of a major presidential candidate,
00:28:53.360
spying on that candidate, trying to undermine his presidential administration while he's there.
00:28:58.720
Why would we trust the feds? What the feds do, this is an amazing tactic, and the Democrats have
00:29:05.580
really perfected it. The Democrats will go in and screw everything up beyond your wildest imagination,
00:29:11.940
and then they'll pull back a little bit from their agenda of utter destruction, and they'll
00:29:19.520
loosen up a little bit, and things will get slightly better, and then they'll take credit for things
00:29:23.760
getting slightly better. That's what Joe Biden's just doing. Gas prices are through the roof and
00:29:29.860
driving lots of, well, the cost of really everything up. The gas prices are up in many ways directly
00:29:38.020
because of Joe Biden, because of his stupid energy policy, because he killed the oil pipelines,
00:29:43.440
because he killed new oil and gas leases, because he took the sanctions off Putin and gave Putin a
00:29:47.800
new oil pipeline, which directly caused the invasion of Ukraine, according to the president of
00:29:51.920
Ukraine, because Biden literally invited Putin to invade Ukraine. Biden said, if Putin just invades in a
00:29:59.540
minor incursion, that's okay, we won't do anything about that. Because of all of these, and many
00:30:04.020
other actions as well, energy has gone way, way up. Now Biden is bragging because gas prices have
00:30:14.120
declined somewhat from what we've seen in recent weeks. And the way that he's bragging about it is
00:30:20.140
even a head scratcher. He says, I've been releasing about one million barrels of oil a day from the Strategic
00:30:26.680
Petroleum Reserve and rallied our global partners to release a combined 240 million barrels of oil
00:30:31.680
onto the market. Our actions are working and prices are coming down. Classic Democrats.
00:30:37.920
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there in case our nation goes to war. Well, I guess we are at war
00:30:44.580
right now with Russia through Ukraine. We just haven't declared the war. We have all sorts of
00:30:49.600
wars of empire that are undeclared that we just engage in willy-nilly and that probably the American,
00:30:54.640
majority of the American people oppose. But we're not in a major existential war right now.
00:31:00.900
The homeland is not being invaded. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is there for emergencies.
00:31:07.440
This is not an emergency, exactly. The reason that Joe Biden is releasing a million barrels of oil a day,
00:31:12.820
notably just until the end of October, is so that the Democrats can help stop the bleeding in the
00:31:18.020
midterm elections. Don't forget, when Joe Biden announced this in, what was it, April or May,
00:31:22.200
that they were going to release a million barrels of oil a day? He said, we're only going to do it
00:31:25.460
for six months. That is, we're only going to do it up until the midterm election. So it was so
00:31:30.160
nakedly political, even in the moment, he's going to deplete our strategic reserves of energy
00:31:34.600
so that he can, the gas prices can come down a very little bit.
00:31:39.820
What if he had dealt with the underlying problems? What if he had allowed American oil producers to
00:31:46.240
produce more oil rather than begging these other countries to produce more oil? What if he had done,
00:31:51.160
and so he screws up everything, and then he backs off a little tiny bit, and prices come down, what,
00:31:56.700
like 10 cents or something? And then he says, look, it's a big victory. Prices for gas today at the pump
00:32:02.980
are twice what they were on the day that Joe Biden took office. They have gone up 100 percent,
00:32:11.260
and Joe Biden is bragging about that. That's some great victory.
00:32:14.160
This is why the Republicans broadly are winning. If you look at what's happening right now at the
00:32:20.440
state level, it's unbelievable. In Kentucky, Republicans have just gained a voter advantage,
00:32:27.060
a voter registration advantage for the first time ever. Not okay, we've rebounded. It was bad
00:32:34.940
during the Bush years, and then it, I don't know, or let's say it was, you know, the Democrats made big
00:32:42.220
gains during the Obama years, but then now we're coming. No, this is the first time ever that there
00:32:47.240
are more registered Republicans in Kentucky than registered Democrats. Now, Republicans have won a
00:32:51.940
lot of elections in Kentucky, but as a matter of registered voters, the Democrats had the advantage.
00:32:57.780
There are lots of reasons for this. The charitable view is that Democrats are just much more focused
00:33:03.140
on on-the-ground community organizing kind of political action, and so they tend to register more
00:33:08.420
voters. The negative view of this is that Democrats cheat and keep a lot of dead people on the rolls
00:33:13.940
and buy a lot of voter registrations, but anyway, we'll try to be charitable on the show.
00:33:18.720
Either way, it ain't working anymore. You've now got more registered Republicans in Kentucky
00:33:23.180
than Democrats. The field is wide open for Republicans. This is why you are seeing a number
00:33:28.260
of people who might be interested in being president on the Republican side beginning to suggest that they
00:33:34.380
will run in 2024. You've seen Mike Pence make, I think, pretty unsubtle intimations this way.
00:33:44.680
Now you see it from Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley just tweeted out, this was in response to the Iran deal,
00:33:51.280
the potential reviving of the Iran nuclear deal. Nikki Haley says, if this president signs any sort of
00:33:59.700
deal, I'll make you a promise, I'll make you a promise. The next president will shred it on her
00:34:04.300
first day in office. Get it? So Nikki is as clear as I can see saying, I am going to run for president
00:34:16.040
in 2024. Now maybe it was just a throwaway line to gauge interest, but I don't know. It seems clear
00:34:22.700
to me that Nikki Haley would like to be president. She's already been governor of a state of South Carolina.
00:34:27.380
She was a very popular UN ambassador under Donald Trump. And I guess this is the real issue for her.
00:34:34.700
It's one of her great strengths. Now it's become her weakness. Nikki Haley had threaded the needle
00:34:40.340
pretty much perfectly during the Trump years. While lots of Republicans were completely destroyed by
00:34:47.860
Trump. Well, they were really destroyed by themselves and their own reaction to Trump.
00:34:51.240
Nikki Haley had done a very good job. She was a relatively moderate governor of South Carolina,
00:34:55.660
but she came into Trump's orbit. Trump named her the UN ambassador and she did a very effective job
00:35:02.800
as UN ambassador. And when she left the White House, she did so on good terms. A lot of people
00:35:07.300
who left the White House in prominent roles did so on very bad terms, but Trump really seemed to like
00:35:11.460
her and gave her a nice big press conference when she left. And she had managed to play both sides and
00:35:18.560
mollify both sides pretty well. She, but she, she made one mistake, which is she gave an interview
00:35:23.880
to Politico after January 6th, where she really attacked Trump. And this did not sit well in Trump
00:35:30.720
world. And then she tried to walk it back. So after that, she said, look, my words were misinterpreted.
00:35:36.860
And of course, look, I don't put it past Politico to, to paint a Republican in the worst possible light.
00:35:41.720
But whatever Nikki said to Politico, she then said, no, come on, this is being misconstrued.
00:35:49.320
And she said, I will not run for president if Donald Trump runs. But it seems like Donald Trump's
00:35:54.440
going to run. He's saying that he's almost certainly going to run. And now Nikki is suggesting that she
00:35:58.560
might run anyway. So she's got this problem, this political problem, which is she, she has to pick a
00:36:05.240
lane. I think at this point she has to pick a lane. And she has a good play for the moderate lane of the
00:36:11.620
Republican Party. She's probably the leading moderate candidate in the Republican Party.
00:36:16.400
But the problem for that is it's not a moderate year, probably. If the election were held today,
00:36:20.620
the moderate candidate almost certainly would not win. Now she could make a play for a Trump
00:36:26.240
friendly candidate. But if she's a Trump friendly candidate, then she, she can't be president because
00:36:31.660
Trump is almost certainly going to run. Unless she's betting that Trump is only pretending that he's
00:36:36.720
going to run, but he's not actually going to run, in which case she could be trying to make a play
00:36:39.900
for Trump to tap her as his successor. Or some other strategy. But all of these strategies are
00:36:47.740
mutually exclusive. She's going to have to make a play for what kind of candidate she is going to be
00:36:55.140
in 2024, if she is going to run. And it's not just Nikki Haley that's dealing with this problem. Ron
00:36:59.420
DeSantis is dealing with this problem. He, I think, knows what kind of candidate he's going to be. He is
00:37:04.940
running as the Trump successor, the heir apparent. The problem is Trump might not want an heir apparent
00:37:09.960
just yet. People who are still interested in wielding power don't always like it when there
00:37:16.220
are heirs. Sometimes they're a little tough on their heirs. They try to kick them out of the
00:37:21.460
political scene. At the moment, Nikki Haley doesn't seem to have a clear lane. And this is true of a lot
00:37:29.300
of Republicans. So at the moment, I know a lot of people have their preferred candidates. A lot of people
00:37:33.760
probably like Nikki Haley. A lot of people like Ron DeSantis. A lot of people like Ted Cruz. A lot
00:37:38.000
of people like, I don't know, any of the other candidates too. But right now, Trump is the
00:37:43.420
dominant figure in the field. And because he's an agent of chaos, until he settles down into what
00:37:50.620
he's going to do, which is probably going to be very late in the game, the entire field is going to
00:37:55.900
remain unsettled. Speaking of the United Nations, Prince Harry just showed up to the United Nations.
00:38:01.960
Prince Harry. I don't even know if he goes by Prince anymore. The artist formerly known as Prince
00:38:09.460
Harry has left the United Kingdom because he married that awful woman. And now they live in
00:38:14.400
America together because she didn't want to be a princess. She just wanted to play one on TV.
00:38:18.460
And so he's come to America. He's lived here for five minutes and he's decided to take to the UN
00:38:22.200
to scold America for not killing as many babies anymore.
00:38:25.700
This has been a painful year in a painful decade. We're living through a pandemic that continues to
00:38:33.280
ravage communities in every corner of the globe. Climate change wreaking havoc on our planet with
00:38:40.780
the most vulnerable suffering most of all. The few weaponizing lies and disinformation at the expense
00:38:48.160
of the many. And from the horrific war in Ukraine to the rolling back of constitutional rights here in
00:38:54.880
the United States, we are witnessing a global assault on democracy and freedom, the cause of
00:39:03.660
So Prince Harry, I think, is referring to the Dobbs decision here. I think so. When he's saying a rolling
00:39:09.500
back of constitutional rights, what could he be talking about? He's not talking about the Second
00:39:14.160
Amendment rights. I mean, there was a court decision that just increased that constitutional right.
00:39:20.120
He's not talking about religious liberty. There were two court decisions that just increased those
00:39:25.160
constitutional rights. I'm not sure that Harry agrees with either of those, but you couldn't say
00:39:28.320
that that was a rolling back of constitutional rights. The only one where you could pretend it was
00:39:32.240
a rolling back of constitutional rights was the abortion case because it said, no, there's not
00:39:37.640
actually a constitutional right to abortion. So Harry shows up and it's so ugly and he shills at the
00:39:43.180
United Nations for killing more babies in the United States, a country he's lived in for two
00:39:48.440
seconds. And not only is this a case of an immigrant coming to America in search of a better life,
00:39:54.200
this is a man who was a representative of his nation. His family embodies the nation. He's from
00:40:03.340
the royal family and he was senior royal. And he has the temerity to come here and lecture us.
00:40:10.880
Now, what's really funny, a lot of news organizations played the Harry speech at the UN as though he was
00:40:16.740
speaking to the General Assembly. This is a world shaping speech. If you look at the other camera angle,
00:40:22.840
if you look at the camera angle into the room, nobody was there. How many people are in that room?
00:40:28.680
50? Maybe? It's so sparse, the number of people who are in that room. So nobody cares what Prince
00:40:37.500
Harry has to say. Nobody is really showing up for this. It doesn't matter. But he is a good tool for
00:40:44.860
the liberal establishment. And so they air him and try to make him seem more influential than he is.
00:40:48.800
What bugs me most about this is not just the silly environmentalism. It's not even the shilling for
00:40:57.060
the abortion industry and the moral arguments for killing lots of babies. Those are unpleasant too.
00:41:07.320
It's the disloyalty that I find so tasteful, so distasteful rather, with Prince Harry. He's so
00:41:13.540
disloyal. He throws his family under the bus as his grandfather is dying, as his grandmother,
00:41:20.320
one of the greatest women in public life of the last century. This woman is 96 years old and he
00:41:26.320
just roils the family and he's disloyal. He throws all this dirt on his own family and he moves to
00:41:30.940
America. And then the second he moves to America, he's disloyal to America and just starts spewing all
00:41:36.140
this bile at the country that was nice enough to take him in. Though I wouldn't say we took him in all
00:41:41.560
that willingly. I certainly don't. I'm not glad that he's here. Listen, maybe we should ship him to
00:41:47.040
Washington, D.C. If we're going to ship the Guatemalans and the Nicaraguans and the Salvadorans
00:41:52.540
who come across the border illegally, let's ship this limey too. You libs like him so much, you deal
00:41:57.820
with him. They'll kick him back. They'll deport him in two seconds. Speaking of disloyalty, I just read
00:42:03.760
the saddest article I may have ever read in my life. This is in the New Yorker. And it ties into all these
00:42:10.640
discussions on marriage and human nature and sex and sex politics. A hookup app for the emotionally
00:42:18.680
mature. Modern romance can feel cold and alienating. Filled by encouraging open-mindedness and respect
00:42:26.800
suggests a way forward. It's written by a woman, Emily Witt. I'll just read you the first paragraph.
00:42:33.040
This thing goes on forever and it just gets more depressing the more you read. It says,
00:42:36.760
In the late summer of 2020, when much of normal social life was suspended,
00:42:41.360
a relationship that I had been in for several years abruptly collapsed. I was 39 and scared
00:42:46.720
by the idea that I would not be reproducing the kind of heteronormative nuclear family I had grown
00:42:51.040
up in. I wandered the sidewalks of my Brooklyn neighborhood where discarded masks littered the
00:42:55.300
gutters with a sense of having been exiled from my own life. My apartment with its cat and its plants
00:43:01.560
still existed but was no longer my home. I could get a glass of cold Prosecco at my favorite bar
00:43:08.820
but the people I used to see there seemed to have vanished. It did not take long to understand that
00:43:15.340
there would be no ladder back to the world I had known and that the portal to whatever it was that
00:43:19.780
came next was probably going to appear on my phone. This is when I downloaded a dating app called
00:43:25.140
Field. Field describes itself as technology for, quote, open-minded singles and couples who want to
00:43:30.400
explore their sexuality. You find out later on that Field started out as a threesome app. It was an app
00:43:37.140
for people who wanted to have threesomes. It was called Thrinder, I think, and then there was a cease and
00:43:40.600
desist from Tinder, the other dating app, and so they had to change the name to Field. And the headline here
00:43:47.100
is a hookup app for the emotionally mature. And what you find out during the reading of the article is these
00:43:53.320
are the most emotionally and spiritually and personally immature people ever. This first paragraph,
00:44:02.120
it almost reads like satire, like a satire of what it means to live in Brooklyn these days as a millennial.
00:44:10.160
The way, even just the way she talks, she doesn't say my husband left me. She doesn't say my love affair
00:44:15.640
collapsed. She says my relationship, the relationship that I had been in abruptly collapsed. And so I
00:44:24.340
went back to my plant and my cats, and I went to the place where I would get my Prosecco in the
00:44:31.080
neighborhood. But the people that I was waiting to see, they weren't there as much anymore. And she's
00:44:36.060
blaming this on COVID, but it's so much sadder than that because COVID has nothing to do with this.
00:44:41.340
That's called getting older. That's called life. As you get older, not everything stays the same.
00:44:52.960
In fact, almost nothing stays the same. So you go to the bar and fewer and fewer of your friends are
00:44:57.840
there. And you say, hey, let's go get a drink tonight. And fewer and fewer people can do it
00:45:01.660
because people go off and they get married, or they move for a job, or they move on with their lives.
00:45:07.900
And disproportionately, it's people in New York, often in Brooklyn, actually, like this woman.
00:45:13.160
But disproportionately, it's these sorts of people, people who are doing the kind of coastal,
00:45:18.080
cosmopolitan, elite jobs who don't grow up. The rest of America tends to grow up. And they go,
00:45:25.220
and they get married, and they get a job, and they have kids, and they just, they kind of grow up.
00:45:29.400
These people don't. And they get very sad because their life is changing. And so if they were
00:45:35.740
emotionally mature, what they would do is they would try to improve their lives, and edify
00:45:40.500
themselves, and have more stable relationships, and maybe have that relationship move somewhere
00:45:45.420
toward marriage. Or they could, not, marriage isn't for everybody. Maybe they say, I'm owing
00:45:49.880
to be single, but I'm going to consecrate myself in single life. I'm going to do something
00:45:53.000
for God, hopefully. Certainly something bigger than myself. I'm not just going to live for my cat
00:45:59.980
in my Prosecco anymore, in my New Yorker articles. But a lot of people can't do that. And so what
00:46:06.160
does this woman do? She does the opposite. She goes to the threesome app. And she describes having
00:46:09.800
a threesome. She goes, and she meets this couple at a bar, and they go, and they have a threesome.
00:46:13.120
And it's so sad because she says, you know, the sheets felt nice in their apartment, and they made
00:46:18.040
me a nice dinner, and then that was it. But I realized, you know, I felt like kind of an imposter,
00:46:23.780
and it doesn't, it didn't do it for me. But she never comes to the right conclusions. She never
00:46:28.880
says, okay, I should go get married. Because we've, we've lost so much of our understanding
00:46:34.320
of what marriage is, of what life is about, of what growing up means. We don't grow up anymore.
00:46:41.340
Sometimes you'll hear people say, it brings us right back to those squish Republicans who voted
00:46:45.300
for the Democrats' redefinition of marriage earlier. They'll say, well, you know, listen,
00:46:49.900
what marriage has lost so much of its meaning in recent years. You know, you've got divorce,
00:46:54.180
rampant divorce, galore, no-fault divorce. You've got this whole culture of selfishness. So
00:47:00.100
why shouldn't the gays get married? You say, oh, you're, you know, you're raising some interesting
00:47:04.480
points, but you're coming to the opposite conclusion. One, the answer as to why the gays
00:47:10.820
can't get married is not because we don't like gay people, or we don't want them to be happy or
00:47:14.260
anything. It's because it's ontologically impossible. Because marriage involves sexual
00:47:19.240
difference. And so if you don't have sexual difference, you can't get married. By definition,
00:47:23.220
you can try to redefine it. You can try to say, well, no, marriage is different now. But it is a
00:47:28.340
thing. Marriage is a thing. And no matter what we say, no matter what the Democrats and 47 Republicans
00:47:32.560
say, that's not going to change. Because the structure of reality isn't going to change.
00:47:36.720
I can call this Tumblr a microphone. It isn't a microphone. It is a Tumblr. It is what it is.
00:47:42.560
But furthermore, to this point, the people who raise these objections have a good point.
00:47:47.740
We have weakened marriage. We have lost sense of what marriage is. We've lost sense of what the
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purpose of marriage is. We've lost sense of what the purpose of our own lives and our relationship
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to our sexuality and the relationship to our fellow human beings and our relationship to our
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political community is. Because marriage is a political institution. That's why you do it in
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public. That's why you take vows before God, but before the public as well. That's why you sign the
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register. When states had established churches, then you would do it in the church, and that satisfied
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the state. When the state stopped establishing churches, you would register with the state as well.
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That's been true in every society for all of human history. People say we've weakened marriage.
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You're right. That's the problem. The solution is not to further confuse marriage or to further
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abolish marriage. The solution is to strengthen marriage. You're right. It's really sad that people
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are living this way. Don't take my word for it. They are sad. They are the ones who are taking more and
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more depression pills. They are the ones who are not living as long because of deaths of despair.
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They are the ones who are reporting to social scientists, decreasing levels of happiness.
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You're right, and I think it has to do with alienation. I think you're right. I think it has
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to do with a lack of community. I think you're right. I think it has to do with the collapse of
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the essential community institution. The solution is not to blow that up completely. The solution is to
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try to take it back and build it back and to have a more coherent culture. If not, even the
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conservatives can be counted on to get that, who can? I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles
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