Ep. 1053 - The Uncomfortable Truth About Monkeypox
Summary
Two little kids have monkey pox, and they're doing well. What does that have to do with gay sex? And what does it mean for the rest of the gay community? And why are these kids doing so well?
Transcript
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While everyone was focusing on the latest presidential horse race news over the weekend,
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Steve Bannon possibly going to jail, Trump possibly declaring his campaign,
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Biden's lackeys fighting over who takes the reins when the big guy drops.
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While everyone was focusing on the big headline news, most people missed the most disturbing
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political news story to come up in a very long time, care of CDC director Rochelle Walensky.
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Two little kids just came down with monkey pox.
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We do have seen now two cases that have occurred in children.
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Both of those children are traced back to individuals who come from the men who have sex with men community,
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And so when we have seen those cases in children, they have generally been what I call adjacent
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I should also mention, importantly, those children are doing well.
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The children who, for whatever reason, are living with promiscuous homosexual men,
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according to federal officials, just came down with a dangerous disease.
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A disease that is, by the way, especially dangerous for children.
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It's not super dangerous for lots of other people.
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A disease that you pretty much only get from having sexual contact with gay men who go to orgies.
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According to recent research in the New England Journal of Medicine, 95% of monkey pox cases have been transmitted through sexual activity.
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41% of them already have AIDS, HIV, not full-blown AIDS necessarily.
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The median number of sex partners that the people who are infected with monkey pox have had in the prior three months is five.
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And a third of them are known to visit orgies and bathhouses within the month of infection.
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According to our own federal government, 99% of American monkey pox cases involve men who have sex with men.
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Some activist groups are trying to blur this reality and they're claiming that monkey pox is not a sexually transmitted disease.
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Or they're claiming that it's affecting all sorts of other people, not just one group in particular.
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Remember when we were supposed to follow the science until the science was politically incorrect?
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A sane society would be demanding answers here.
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They would be interrogating the men who gave the kids this STD.
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The sane society would be demanding the closures of the gay sex clubs where the virus spreads.
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We just shut down the world for two years over a cough.
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A cough that nothing was able to stop anyway, no matter how hard we tried to shut it down.
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Now we can't shut down a few bathhouses for a little while to stop an entirely preventable disease that now a couple of kids have somehow.
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We can't even ask the obvious questions that this bizarre and disturbing story raises.
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My favorite comment on Friday is from Janelle Austring, who says,
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As a wise man once said, the kids aren't all right.
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You were saying that with regard to what we were talking about on Friday,
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but absolutely holds up even truer when we get to this extremely disturbing story today.
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When you hear a story like this, kids got this STD that you pretty much only get from gay orgies.
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And even the CDC is saying they got it from these gay guys without answering any of the questions.
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Right now, the CDC, the public health authorities are trying to have it both ways.
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They're trying to scare everybody about monkeypox and everyone's risk of getting monkeypox.
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But they can't get past the scientific facts, which is that virtually everyone who's getting
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So then when they say, well, actually, even kids can get monkeypox.
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The virus that only, essentially only affects this one very niche community.
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Stop asking questions, especially stop asking questions about the sexual revolution.
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This is something we've heard for 60 years now.
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At every single stage of the sexual revolution, going all the way back to the 60s, even going
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back further at every single stage, people will say, oh, what's the big deal?
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What's the big deal about ubiquitous contraception and then abortion, which followed shortly thereafter?
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What's the big deal with the transgender movement?
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What's the big deal if a guy wants to pretend to be a woman?
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What's the big deal with a guy going into the girl's locker room?
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What's the big deal with the guy taking the trophies from the women?
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What's the big deal now with transing two-year-olds?
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Stonewall, which is an LGBT group, just posted over the weekend, this new research.
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They said, research suggests that children as young as two recognize their trans identity.
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Yet many nurseries and schools teach a binary understanding of pre-assigned gender.
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LGBTQ inclusive and affirming education is crucial for the well-being of all young people.
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This would be part of the transing two-year-olds is part of the big deal.
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And it's not just the libs who shrug their shoulders and pretend, oh, what's the big deal?
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It's the squishy conservatives, even more than the liberals who are the problem here.
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The liberals know that this stuff is a big deal.
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That's why they've been fighting so hard for every aspect of the sexual revolution.
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It took a lot of energy, a lot of resources, a lot of time to get us to this point in society.
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And it was a political agenda pushed essentially all exclusively by the left.
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It was just abetted and permitted by the squishy conservatives who said, oh, it's not a big deal.
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We all know, we all know that it is wrong to trans the two-year-olds.
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But even if it were real, even if a two-year-old could, a two-year-old can barely speak, but
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if a two-year-old could come up with some conception of gender identity as divorced from biological
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sex and a sense of self that recognized that the little boy is somehow a woman, even if all
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of that were true, we all know it's wrong and should not be encouraged.
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To go from 1960s free love kind of culture to what you would call the gay rights movement,
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Then to go from the gay rights movement to redefining marriage, that took about, I don't
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Then to go from gay marriage, 2015, to transing kids, that took about, I don't know, five years,
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if that, and then to go from transing kids, including in elementary schools, to transing
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And every step along the way, people say, oh, what a big, is this a big deal?
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Yeah, it's a culture war issue, but it ain't trivial.
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That's why the Libs are spending so much time on it.
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We all know, if anyone here has ever had a two-year-old, and you can picture these predators,
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these political predators coming up and trying to trans your little two-year-old, you would
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It comes from the reticence of squishes to state plain truths because they don't want
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to offend people and they don't want to be politically incorrect.
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Pete Buttigieg just went on TV and lambasted Marco Rubio.
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Marco Rubio refused to vote for a bill that would redefine marriage, that would enshrine
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the new Obergefell definition of marriage, to say that marriage doesn't necessarily need
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It can be between a man and a man or a woman and a woman.
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Republican Senator Rubio told my colleague Manu Raju he's going to vote no and he called
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If he's got time to fight against Disney, I don't know why he wouldn't have time to help
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Look, this is really, really important to a lot of people.
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I started my day, as I try to do on weekends, I try to give Chaston a little bit of a break
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And that alone, that's no small thing, as every parent of small kids knows.
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It was one of those days where the tray table wasn't quite fitting into the high chair.
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And I'm trying to make sure that they're busy enough with their little cereal puffs to
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give me enough time to chop up the banana and get the formula ready.
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And it just, I don't know, that half hour of my morning had me thinking about how much
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And our marriage deserves to be treated equally.
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There is so much wrong with what Buttigieg just said, but my first reaction, listening
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to that clip, my first reaction is, man, that guy's got a point.
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Rubio comes out and he says, I'm not going to vote for the gay marriage bill because it's
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Sure, it is a waste of time because there's no threat to Obergefell.
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The Supreme Court has said explicitly they're not going to overrule it.
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Certainly not any time in the foreseeable future.
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It is a Democrat issue to try to save themselves from all the issues they're failing on this
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year, on the economy, on foreign policy, on immigration.
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And so they're trying to gin up a non-issue at the moment to give them some oomph in November.
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When Buttigieg says, what, you're telling me it's a, you don't have time to do this?
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You guys waste time in all sorts of different ways.
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You could find time if you wanted to, to safeguard my marriage.
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And on that point, Buttigieg is absolutely right.
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What I suspect, I don't know, I don't talk to Marco Rubio.
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What I suspect it is, is that Marco Rubio doesn't think that gay marriage is real.
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I think Marco Rubio believes that marriage, he believes as virtually every single person
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has for all of human history everywhere in the world, that marriage is between a man and
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a woman, and that there is no such thing as same-sex marriage.
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And that Pete Buttigieg, though he keeps calling his relationship with this guy, Chasen, a marriage,
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He has gone through a technological and financial process to purchase the eggs of a woman, and
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then to create a child in a test tube with the intention to deprive that child of his natural
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mother so that he and Chasen can feel more like they're in a real marriage, a real marriage
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which has the possibility of generating children.
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But I suspect what Rubio thinks is that none of that is real, and that actually marriage does
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have a meaning, and it's the same meaning it's always had.
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And conservatives generally don't want to say that, because it's very politically incorrect.
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The libs are pretty much on board with gay marriage, and half the Republicans are too.
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And so as a tactical matter, what Rubio is trying to do is say, oh, it's a waste of time.
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I don't want to answer on the substance of marriage, so I'm just going to make a kind of
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And Buttigieg is calling him out for it, saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, mister.
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And then he goes through this whole political routine of I wake up in the morning, and I'm
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the one who prepares the formula for my children.
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Because neither he nor his husband can breastfeed, because they've deprived these children of a
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And conservatives, I think, know that's wrong at a deep level.
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He's saying, I dare you to tell me that's wrong.
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So now you're going to make up some lame excuse.
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And in defense of Rubio, I don't think Rubio is necessarily inexcusable here in his tactic.
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I think this is probably the best political tactic that Rubio can use at the moment.
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And in the short run, it might get him past this vote, might get them past the midterms.
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Maybe it's the smart play to make in the short run.
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In the long term, though, that's never going to work.
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In the long term, all that is, that we don't have time.
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All that is, is a surrender on the issue of marriage.
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I go and I talk to these Republicans and we have a nice conversation.
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And then they go ahead and vote against my marriage?
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I don't understand how such a majority of House Republicans voted no on our marriage on as
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recently as Tuesday, hours after I was in a room with a lot of them talking about transportation
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policy, having what I thought were perfectly normal conversations with many of them on that
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subject, only for them to go around the corner and say that my marriage doesn't deserve to
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So let me explain it because I understand how this could be confusing.
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Most Republicans, most conservatives are nice people.
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Generally speaking, they're nice people who wish only the best for Pete Buttigieg and Chasen
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and everybody with all sorts of eccentric sexual views and desires and identities and everything.
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And the Republicans and the conservatives, they want to work with everybody in good faith,
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but they still believe that marriage has the meaning that marriage has always had.
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And there's no degree of nice conversation with Pete Buttigieg.
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There's no degree of Pete Buttigieg's earnest wish that reality were different than it is
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The problem here is not that conservatives and Republicans hate Pete Buttigieg.
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He's my least favorite Democrat, but it actually does not have to do with his sexual desires.
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It has to do with his extreme glibness and his extremely shallow politics.
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And that just kind of, you know, hey, come on, guys, let's just totally redefine society.
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And the fact that he looks like Alfred E. Newman, all of that bothers me.
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But the sex stuff is really secondary to all of that.
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The, when it comes to Pete Buttigieg's sexual desires,
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it's not that conservatives hate Pete Buttigieg, hate homosexuals,
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have some irrational animus toward homosexuals.
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It's just that Pete Buttigieg isn't really married.
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I know it's hard to say that in our politically correct culture,
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but it's not because you can't, two guys can't be married to each other.
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A perpetual union of a man to his wife for the sake of the generation and education of children.
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And that's not possible between two men and two women.
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Marriage essentially has sexual difference at the heart of it.
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And so if we call things that don't have that marriage, we don't expand marriage.
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If Pete Buttigieg and Chasen can be married, then marriage has no concrete meaning.
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We, you know, Walsh asked that question, what is a woman?
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Well, it's a union of two people who love each other.
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I don't know, some marriages, the couple, they don't love each other.
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They stay together and they remain in that institution.
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So, okay, it's a union of two people of no particular sex who may or may not love each other.
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Well, at least they, you know, they do that thing that married couples do.
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They're married couples who don't really have sex.
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So, okay, they may or may not love each other and they may or may not have sex.
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What God has joined, no man can rip us under, right?
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No, except couples get divorced all the time now.
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Well, no, it's impossible for homosexuals to have children.
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But they can purchase eggs from women and purchase, rent other women's wombs through
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surrogacy and then intentionally deprive those children of their natural mother and then
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raise them, you know, as though they were in a marriage.
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And so I guess that's possible, but they don't need to do that either.
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You don't, even in marriage today, there's no social demand that people have children.
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Lots of people get married and don't have children.
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A union of people who may or may not love each other, who may or may not have sex,
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who may or may not stick together, who may or may not have children.
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So it's just, just two people who have some relation to one another.
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It just doesn't, it just can't mean anything, man.
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Conservatives really, really wish that we could convince ourselves that Pete Buttigieg and
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It would feel a lot better that we don't have to say hard truths.
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But you can't convince yourself of that because it's just so obviously not true.
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Speaking, I think it explains it, but I'm not sure that Pete's willing to hear that.
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Speaking of transportation, speaking of transportation, the mayor of New York is very,
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But now the mayor of New York is very, very upset because the Texas governor, Greg Abbott,
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is shipping all the illegal aliens that the libs in New York and elsewhere are encouraging
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They're shipping them up to New York City and the New Yorkers don't like that.
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This is a real burden on New Yorkers as we're trying to do the right thing.
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We already, as I stated, we already have an overburdened shelter system.
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So now we're talking about, as you stated, food, clothing, school.
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This is going to impact our schools because we do not turn away individuals because they're
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There's just a whole host of things that this is going to produce.
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And that's why we need help in getting this done.
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And we need to write coordination to make it happen.
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And it's unfair to ask New Yorkers to bear that burden.
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So how come you don't want it in your backyard, Mayor Adams?
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And it's a strength for all those red states where they're going to see the electoral demographics
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But no, I was told that the migrants who are coming over don't need any additional resources.
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They aren't putting any burden on the criminal justice system or on the welfare system.
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They're a net positive in every way for society.
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You just want to impose those costs on the red states and on the other people down south
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Speaking of illegal immigration, Bill Barr, former Attorney General of the United States,
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just made a really important and interesting point about immigration that I think should
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be able to unite pretty much all of the conservatives.
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I think Mexico's well on its way to being a failed narco state.
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I don't think AMLO has either the disposition or the ability to take on the cartels.
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I think he was hoping for a modus vivendi, where he'd sort of leave the cartels alone
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as long as deaths, they wouldn't, you know, kill as many Mexicans.
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So the United States is relegated to working through Mexico to try to deal with the cartels,
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and I think that's a losing proposition because I don't think the Mexicans, at least with this
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I think they have to be forced and pushed into action with us.
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I think we have to be more active against the cartels.
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In my mind, we have to approach the cartels more like ISIS and less like the mafia, and
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the idea of a case-by-case prosecution down there to stop these organizations would be
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like going after, you know, ISIS and Syria on the same basis.
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They are increasingly building their connections with terrorists.
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They have, they are paramilitary, their paramilitary can take on the Mexican military, and they have
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The State Department and the Pentagon should be viewing these cartels in Mexico as priority
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The reason I say that Bill Barr's comments, I think, should unite a lot of conservatives here
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is that there are a lot of divisions on the conservative side.
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Some conservatives want to go in and go bomb a bunch of countries, and some conservatives
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are very isolationist, and they pretty much never want to leave American shores.
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Some conservatives are really tough on the drug war.
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Some of the more libertarian people in the conservative camp, they don't really care about
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But everyone here, I think, should be able to agree that Mexican cartels that essentially
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control the nation directly south of our border, that are pouring poison across our border illegally
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in contravention of our laws, in contravention of the desire of the American people, killing
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actual Americans in huge numbers because of this drug problem you're seeing for the first
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time in ever, and you've seen it now for several years, the average life expectancy in
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Everyone should be able to agree this is a big problem.
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This should be priority number one for the State Department and the Pentagon.
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I think even the isolationists should be able to agree with this.
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Certainly the people who want a more robust foreign policy.
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You say, look, look, Pentagon, look, State Department, you want to go deal with problems
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You think that America has a real strategic interest in keeping boots on the ground in
00:29:15.440
the Middle East because of the growth of terrorist groups or because of oil interests or whatever?
00:29:23.080
Hey, Pentagon, State Department, you think that America has a real strategic interest in fighting
00:29:27.100
a war with Russia, a proxy war with Russia in Ukraine, which is what's going on right now?
00:29:31.280
I know it's not a declared war, but we are at war with Russia in Ukraine.
00:29:38.740
Okay, but let's say you think that's really, really important for America's strategic interest.
00:29:48.100
But first, you've got to take care of the cartels on the border.
00:29:51.320
Whatever you think about the Middle East, whatever you think about Ukraine, I think it is
00:29:55.400
undeniable that the drug cartels, right at home, right on our doorstep, pose a much greater threat
00:30:06.480
The cartels are the ones who control the border.
00:30:08.520
So you have two million illegals pouring across the border every year, national security threat,
00:30:12.520
major economic problem, actual threat to democracy because it changes the voting base
00:30:19.460
You want to talk about threats to the public health?
00:30:22.240
You want to talk about threats to American lives?
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The fentanyl pouring across the border because of the drug cartels are a much greater threat.
00:30:41.460
I am pretty cautious about how we use the American military.
00:30:46.140
I don't think that guys in uniforms are just expendable because they happen to sign up and
00:30:51.300
They're there to protect American interests and American lives.
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Those two things, the American nation, American sovereignty, and certainly American lives,
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those are facing a far greater threat for Mexico.
00:31:03.240
Go in there, decapitate the cartels, go down and just rip them to shreds, salt the earth
00:31:10.600
where the cartels once operated, and come back.
00:31:14.060
And then the State Department and DOD wants to go play around in the Middle East or in Eastern
00:31:29.020
If the drug cartels in Mexico, if the failed narco state right on our border that is flooding
00:31:36.780
our country with poison and foreign nationals, if that is not a legitimate use of the American
00:31:42.720
military to stop that, then there is no legitimate use of the American military.
00:31:46.560
Bill Barr, Bill Barr is an interesting figure to raise this suggestion because he's got
00:31:55.940
And then at the end, he turned a little bit on Trump, but not entirely.
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But so he's got, still got a little bit of Trump cred and he's still got establishment
00:32:03.240
People, everyone's got all these kind of mixed feelings about him.
00:32:09.480
Speaking of America's role in the world and foreign interests, former CIA director James
00:32:13.880
Woolsey just made some headlines because he went on cable news and he was asked whether
00:32:19.380
or not the United States meddles in other countries' elections.
00:32:24.780
Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' elections?
00:32:28.940
But it was for the good of the system in order to avoid the communists from taking over.
00:32:34.460
For example, in Europe, in 47, 48, 49, the Greeks and the Italians, we CIA.
00:32:41.860
We don't mess around in other people's elections, Jim.
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Let's do a Vine video on this former CIA director.
00:32:50.600
Only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy.
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So he's saying, yeah, yeah, we interfere in other countries' elections.
00:33:00.840
This reminds me of something that John Bolton, the former national security advisor, got
00:33:09.560
And Tapper was trying to get him to say January 6th was a coup.
00:33:12.140
And John Bolton laughed at him and said, it's not a coup.
00:33:15.500
He goes, look, I mean, I don't like January 6th, but it's not a coup.
00:33:18.380
Look, as someone who's been involved in planning coups around the world, that wasn't a coup.
00:33:24.440
And Bolton came out and he said, of course, the United States helps to plan coups.
00:33:38.080
You might say, well, I wish that we weren't doing that.
00:33:40.400
I wish that the United States could just mind its own business and not have anything to do
00:33:46.900
And maybe there's a kind of admirable or noble aspect of that wish, but it's just a pipe dream.
00:33:56.080
Powerful countries pursue those interests around the world.
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And no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that.
00:34:07.240
I know you've got wishful thinking, but reality is reality.
00:34:12.220
And that's true on domestic issues, social issues.
00:34:16.860
So if you want to change some aspect about how things are going, you've got to deal with reality.
00:34:24.200
You've got to get past this question of should America intervene in other places around the world?
00:34:29.740
And you've got to ask what I think is a much more relevant question, which is how should we intervene?
00:34:36.960
All powerful nations always protect their interests around the world.
00:34:58.860
What should America, this is a big divide among Republicans and Democrats.
00:35:02.940
Should we be a little closer to Saudi Arabia and oppose Iran?
00:35:06.680
Or should we be a little closer to Iran and oppose Saudi Arabia?
00:35:11.440
It's not easy to answer that question on the back of a napkin with a few ideological bullet points.
00:35:15.680
But those are the real questions that are going to affect the rest of the world.
00:35:23.480
And we do it in such a way that will, we hope, benefit the United States.
00:35:28.140
And I don't see anything particularly wrong with that if we don't violate justice.
00:35:32.460
Now, speaking of dubious elections, speaking of elections that have raised some questions,
00:35:38.240
Joe Biden, you know, the most popular president ever.
00:35:47.440
Forget about the dismal approval ratings he's got.
00:35:51.800
And there's really great news coming out of the White House.
00:35:54.900
The White House COVID chief, Ashish Jha, wanted to update us on Biden's COVID condition.
00:36:00.300
And he told us that Joe Biden finished his breakfast like a big, big boy.
00:36:15.420
Didn't ask about the menu, but I did see an empty plate with crumbs.
00:36:20.240
That's good news that Joe Biden's a big, big boy.
00:36:24.680
And now if he, if he remains a good little boy, he might get some dessert.
00:36:29.260
Maybe they'll give Joe one of those ice cream cones that he loves so much.
00:36:35.660
This COVID chief is making a joke about how Joe Biden is senile.
00:36:42.720
And that's what the White House is laughing at.
00:36:44.640
But the joke is Joe Biden is such a simpleton in his dotage that he is, he can, when he
00:36:54.760
finishes his plate for breakfast and lunch, that's a really big accomplishment.
00:37:03.080
And then the, the press laughs because everyone knows that Joe Biden is senile and it's just
00:37:14.160
So what, what is the Biden administration going to do to turn around the country that
00:37:18.560
is collapsing in, in some part because Joe Biden is senile and missing in action.
00:37:29.720
Everything is much more expensive than it was a year ago.
00:37:32.160
It's over 9% more expensive than it was a year ago.
00:37:36.740
Well, they don't have to heat them right now because we have a heat wave going on, but they're
00:37:41.220
They're having trouble filling up their gas tanks.
00:37:45.040
So what is the White House going to do about this obvious recession that we're heading into?
00:37:50.480
Well, the White House is going to change the definition of recession.
00:38:02.940
Now the Libs, the primary instrument that they use for changing the political order is changing
00:38:11.800
They didn't win any debate over what marriage is.
00:38:17.360
They didn't win any debates over transgenderism.
00:38:19.340
They just changed the definition of man and the definition of woman.
00:38:22.440
Now if you Google it, the definitions are actually different because the Libs just try to
00:38:26.680
change reality by artificially altering the meanings of the words.
00:38:32.680
This from Jackie Heinrich, bracing for impact, even if Thursday's GDP report shows a second
00:38:40.080
consecutive quarter of negative growth, you won't hear the Biden administration using the
00:38:53.880
Well, some maintain that two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP constitutes a recession.
00:38:59.000
That is neither the official definition nor the way economists evaluate the state of the
00:39:08.740
It's clearly the way that some economists evaluate the state of the business cycle.
00:39:15.960
That's clearly, I don't know if there is an official definition, but that definition
00:39:20.240
that they just gave, that is the definition I've heard for my entire life about what a recession
00:39:23.780
Two consecutive quarters of falling real GDP is a recession.
00:39:29.820
But they say, no, that's not, who says, who says?
00:39:34.520
And then the White House concludes, it is unlikely that the decline in GDP in the first quarter of
00:39:39.040
this year, even if followed by another GDP decline in the second quarter, indicates a recession.
00:39:50.600
This is, this is exactly the same argument as when they say, just because a person has
00:39:56.760
two X chromosomes and breasts and womb, uterus, you know, and ovaries, that doesn't mean that
00:40:25.200
So that is a sign of real desperation here because they can't do anything about the economy.
00:40:31.120
He's released an irresponsibly large amount of oil out of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
00:40:35.700
to try to artificially keep gas prices a little bit lower than their record highs
00:40:43.540
It was just a political strategy to stop the bleeding for the Democrats.
00:40:48.100
He's begging Saudi Arabia to release more money.
00:40:50.260
He's trying everything that he can do other than ramp up American energy, which would irritate
00:40:56.780
They're so desperate that now the best thing they can do is just try to change the words.
00:41:05.260
They're also now attempting to jail their political opponents.
00:41:09.620
Steve Bannon, the CEO of the Trump campaign 2016, a top advisor to Trump in the White House.
00:41:19.180
He was then kind of booted out of the White House by Trump, and Trump did it in one of those
00:41:22.960
spectacularly Trumpian ways where he referred to him as sloppy Steve and got into a big fight
00:41:29.100
Steve Bannon, though, remained loyal and has remained a Trump supporter.
00:41:32.440
Steve Bannon may very likely be going to jail now.
00:41:35.800
A D.C. jury has convicted Steve Bannon of two counts of contempt of Congress.
00:41:44.180
Steve Bannon resists, and he cites executive privilege, and he cites all sorts of things.
00:41:50.320
This is not often that people will be prosecuted for this sort of thing.
00:41:54.340
And the D.C. jury convicted him, which means that Bannon now faces between 30 days to a year
00:42:01.800
I want to thank the jury for what the effort they did, the judge, particularly the court
00:42:08.180
I only have one disappointment, and that is the gutless members of that show trial committee,
00:42:14.100
the J6 committee, didn't have the guts to come down here and testify in open court.
00:42:21.140
So Steve Bannon, triumphant, even as he is convicted and very possibly going to be sentenced
00:42:28.100
to jail time, and it showed one of the real miscalculations here from the libs, which is
00:42:35.440
that this conviction for Steve Bannon, that they're all gloating over and they're saying,
00:42:40.220
ha ha, take that Steve C. in an orange jumpsuit.
00:42:43.100
This conviction for Steve Bannon is the best thing to happen to him since he was in the White
00:42:56.920
Steve Bannon has not been this politically relevant since he was in the White House.
00:43:01.640
And he left the White House sort of in disgrace.
00:43:04.640
Trump was really mean to him on his way out of the White House.
00:43:07.580
And Bannon remained loyal and he kept plugging away.
00:43:10.480
And now he's elevated to this very high position.
00:43:21.860
So I'm not surprised that Steve Bannon is gleeful there in that press conference.
00:43:25.780
He's probably hoping that he gets at least a week or two in jail just to build up that
00:43:34.420
What this says for Trump is, Trump is the main threat in the eyes of Democrats.
00:43:47.120
Some other Republicans as well they're probably afraid of.
00:43:51.100
I think that is a sign that they do fear Ted Cruz to some degree.
00:43:58.000
But Trump is the big one that they're going after.
00:44:00.540
That's why they're trying to jail his campaign staff.
00:44:03.800
That's why they're trying to take him to court.
00:44:10.080
That's why they're trying to bar him from running for re-election.
00:44:14.120
If I were Trump, I would be very happy with this news because I'd say, oh, I'm the number
00:44:23.240
Now, I actually just heard from a friend of mine who lives in Austria right now.
00:44:26.180
I heard from him yesterday who said that the Austrian, the Viennese newspaper ran a huge
00:44:34.920
You don't see this kind of thing in Europe this early before a presidential primary that
00:44:43.000
even the Europeans who are all big libs, they are afraid of Ron DeSantis as well.
00:44:47.840
So DeSantis can make that argument and say, no, they're really afraid of me.
00:44:50.320
But right now, right now, Trump is the main opposition.
00:44:55.460
And they're now making it harder to try to challenge elections.
00:44:59.360
That comes from the Electoral Vote Count, the Electoral Count Act update.
00:45:07.800
But there is an act being put up before the Congress, the Electoral Count Reform and Presidential
00:45:17.080
Okay, it's co-sponsored by Susan Collins, Joe Manchin, Portman, Sinema, Romney, Shaheen,
00:45:22.240
Murkowski, Warner, Tillis, Murphy, Capito, Cardin, Young, Coons, Sasse, and Lindsey Graham.
00:45:29.080
And the bill, got it here, the Electoral Reform Count Act.
00:45:32.700
The bill is to make it harder to challenge dubious elections.
00:45:36.660
So they've got some things in here that they want a single conclusive state slate of electors.
00:45:42.940
So there's no question of who the electors are after the election.
00:45:46.040
They want it to be clear that the vice president has no role in the count.
00:45:51.920
Does the vice president have any role in accepting or rejecting the slates of electors?
00:46:02.000
So the threshold to lodge an objection to the electors has to be at least one-fifth of the duly
00:46:07.040
chosen members of the House of Representatives and the Senate, which would raise the threshold.
00:46:11.740
Right now, it's just a single member of both chambers is all that's needed.
00:46:14.760
That's when Ted Cruz and Paul Gosar stood up and challenged the count.
00:46:19.300
And they want to protect the state's popular vote.
00:46:25.080
It's a bad idea because the point of this law and the effect of this law will just be
00:46:29.640
to make it harder to challenge dubious elections.
00:46:33.280
The problem is the elections are becoming more dubious.
00:46:36.600
The elections are becoming susceptible to fraud.
00:46:39.200
In 2020, whatever you think about Joe Biden or Donald Trump or who won the election, it
00:46:43.100
is undeniable that they changed so many of the rules right before the election in ways
00:46:49.800
that made the election much more vulnerable to fraud, even by the standard of Barack Obama,
00:46:55.760
By extending election day to election week or election months.
00:46:59.640
By pushing widespread, in many cases, unsolicited mail-in ballots in contravention of the state
00:47:05.860
constitution of Pennsylvania, for instance, by all of these, by taking forever to count
00:47:11.660
the ballots, by stopping the ballot counts in the middle of the night for some reason,
00:47:18.280
by on and on and on, you see elections that are more dubious, that are more vulnerable to fraud.
00:47:24.440
And at the very same time, the squishes are pushing to make it more difficult to challenge
00:47:32.360
That's a grave threat to all these sorts of things.
00:47:33.960
And then we'll get to this a little bit more tomorrow, but it's worth mentioning today because
00:47:38.140
it ties in that Dems are really afraid of Trump's radical plan for his second term.
00:47:43.220
The radical plan for Trump's second term that's being touted in Axios by Jonathan Swan is that
00:47:48.240
Trump plans to fire a lot of the deep state and replace them with his guys.
00:47:54.200
And the piece notes that ordinarily when a presidential administration comes in,
00:48:00.440
The federal bureaucracy is about 2 million people.
00:48:03.480
And so they usually swap out about 4,000 maybe.
00:48:08.740
And this is a huge threat to our democracy to get rid of the career leftist bureaucrats,
00:48:14.260
almost exclusively leftist bureaucrats, who exert a huge amount of control over our government
00:48:18.720
and who usually implement and even make most of the real laws that govern us.
00:48:23.260
They say that the huge threat for Trump's second term is he might actually be able to
00:48:30.260
If we allow the people to elect someone who's then allowed to govern,
00:48:37.100
That's what we hear from our extremely corrupt government.
00:48:41.540
You can tell something has changed in the country.
00:48:55.520
We've got kids who have freaking monkeypox, and we're not even really allowed to ask questions
00:49:01.460
If you don't like the trajectory that we are on, you need to get very, very serious about
00:49:05.880
the political process and have the chutzpah to stand up and say, no, we're not just going
00:49:12.220
We're not going to be the Democrats from five years ago and just go along the same path to
00:49:16.760
quote unquote progress, albeit a little bit more slowly.
00:49:18.860
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00:49:31.060
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