Ep. 1064 - The Deep State Crossed The Rubicon
Summary
The FBI raid on Trump's Mar-A-Largo raises questions about whether the White House knew about it before it happened. And why is this even a thing? Is this about national security? Or is this about stopping Donald Trump from running for president in 2020?
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I wasn't sure if the White House knew about the FBI raid on Trump's residence at Mar-a-Lago beforehand.
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I'm not sure Biden knows his name half the time.
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But I was not even sure that the staffers at the White House who really run the show over there knew about the raid.
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Until yesterday, when White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the White House didn't know about the raid.
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Which convinced me with 100% certainty that the White House definitely knew about the raid.
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I don't know what you guys are calling it before it happened.
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I don't even know what you guys are calling it.
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If she had just said, yeah, we didn't know about that.
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But to pretend not to have read about the biggest news story in the country,
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which pertains to Joe Biden's predecessor and chief rival in the next presidential election.
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Karine Jean-Pierre was giving off precisely the same vibes that Hillary Clinton did in 2016
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when she tried to play dumb on wiping her email server of classified material.
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Under the law, that decision is made by the official.
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The strategy didn't work because while Hillary Clinton is many things, she's not dumb.
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But even Biden and his lackeys are not nearly as dumb as they play.
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What we're seeing right now is a systemic strategy of persecuting the ruling party's political opponents.
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We can say with certainty that this is not going to stop with Trump and with the raid on Mar-a-Lago.
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We can say that because we already saw it play out.
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Because less than 24 hours after the Mar-a-Lago raid, the FBI confiscated the cell phone of a sitting Republican congressman.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Schmuddle, who says,
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I work in archival work under a former director of the National Archives.
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I'm no expert, but I know of nothing that would prevent the president from taking paper copies of archives to his summer retreat.
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Even then, it wouldn't take two years for a raid to happen to get the documents back.
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The only paper copies we would care about in the archives are one-of-a-kind documents with no copies.
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Unless Trump has the Declaration of Independence at Mar-a-Lago, there's nothing he has that the National Archives doesn't already have in multiple forms.
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Also worth pointing out that the documents that Trump has, whether he has them or not, that he allegedly even has, would be outdated documents.
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Compare that to Hillary, who had real-time classified information on a server that was easily hackable by foreign governments.
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But, of course, there's no raid on Hillary's house, and there is a raid on Trump at Mar-a-Lago.
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This isn't about some stupid Federal Records Act.
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This is about stopping Trump from running for president again in 2024.
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This is about Joe Biden and the ruling liberal establishment killing its main political opponent's campaign in the cradle.
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Well, with the fireworks around the Mar-a-Lago raid, people have missed the story that took place right afterward,
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One day after the Mar-a-Lago raid, the FBI confiscated the personal cell phone of Representative Scott Perry.
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He's a Republican congressman from Pennsylvania.
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That was while he was traveling on Tuesday with his family, according to Representative Perry.
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This morning, while traveling with my family, three FBI agents visited me and seized my cell phone.
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They made no attempt to contact my lawyer, who would have made arrangements for them to have my phone if that was their wish.
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I'm outraged, though not surprised, that the FBI, under the direction of Merrick Garland's DOJ, would seize the phone of a sitting member of Congress.
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This is approaching the level of a constitutional crisis.
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I'm not sure that we're quite there yet, but if we're not, we're pretty close.
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The bureaucracy, which is now under the direction of Christopher Wray, who's a DOJ guy.
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The DOJ is one of the executive agencies under Biden's control, is now going after Republican members of Congress.
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We don't really know for sure, but all of the reporting we've seen is that this has to do with Donald Trump's attempts to cast doubt on the 2020 presidential election.
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You know, the most secure election ever in human history, where they totally didn't change all the rules beforehand,
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and where they totally counted the votes on time, and where they definitely didn't violate the state constitutions,
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and where they didn't obviously rig the damn thing.
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You know that, if you have any questions about that, if you cast any doubt on the election integrity that we saw in 2020,
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why you're an insurrectionist, and the feds have the right to go in, and what, seize the cell phones of sitting members of Congress?
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Go in and raid the homes of the, the home of the former president and the presumptive Republican nominee in 2024?
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I, I walk into work today, one of my colleagues greets me, says, hey, how you doing, Michael?
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I say, oh, it's another fine day in the Banana Republic.
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We're descending even further into a Banana Republic.
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I think a lot of people, especially the squishes, are going to say, oh, well, yeah, this is a little weird.
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It's a little weird for Biden's FBI, highly politicized FBI, highly partisan FBI,
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to go after the opposition party, members of Congress, and steal their data, and steal their cell phones.
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It's a little weird to be raiding the homes of the former president and the future, the presumptive nominee.
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It's a little weird, but okay, it's all right, we'll get back to normal, it's totally fine.
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No, what we are seeing play out in real time is a major power grab,
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and a shift in the way that our political structure works.
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Consider the way our government looks today, with the giant bureaucracy and the huge power
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that the federal government has over the lives of ordinary citizens,
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and the pretty much non-existent power that the states have vis-a-vis the federal government.
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Consider that and compare that to the government we had in the 1790s,
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or the very early days of the 19th century, or the late days of the 19th century,
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The way that the political order looks changes over time, and it changes with power grabs,
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and it changes with audacious campaigns, and it changes with shenanigans,
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and it changes with illegality, and it changes with rigging elections,
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and it changes with this branch of government just seizing power from some other branch of government,
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and this party just suppressing some other political party.
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Last night, I was sitting out with a cigar and a drink, and I was reading The Constitution of Athens.
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I was going back through some of my ancient Greek reading,
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just to try to get out of the tumult and the chaos of the modern news cycle,
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and try to get a little bit of a broader perspective.
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And when you just read how the government of Athens changed over time,
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it's a comedy of errors, it's a parade of villains, it's all sorts of things where people come in,
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and they say, yeah, that's the way your government operated before, this is the way it operates now.
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And you might say that's unjust, and you might not like it, well, I don't give a damn,
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And that didn't just happen in ancient Greece, that happens in every single state throughout human history,
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What we have seen play out over the last two days is the FBI, at the direction of the DOJ,
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which has become highly partisan, and it's clearly at the direction of the ruling party in the White House,
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they are saying, hey, we're going to do some unprecedented stuff.
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And we're going to do it, and you're going to think it's unjust,
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and you're going to think it's breaking the norms,
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and you're going to think that it's a ruthless power grab.
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And the answer from the squishes, and the answer from people who are just not rising to the call of this present moment,
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is, oh, let's just let it play out, nothing to see here, move along, move along.
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Senator Tim Scott, who I like personally, he's a nice guy personally,
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he just went on CBS, and he was asked about the raid on Mar-a-Lago,
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and I think he gave the single worst answer possible.
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There's been lots of questions before this raid about whether or not the FBI is doing their job apolitical.
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And we don't know the answer to that question yet.
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This is going to raise more questions, in my opinion.
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We need to let this play out and see exactly what happens,
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but we should all have been stunned and surprised and shocked at what happened yesterday.
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The real question is, A, what is the Federal Records Act, and B, what are we talking about?
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It has to be something of incredible magnitude for at least my side of the aisle to say that was warranted.
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Without that, I think we're going to find ourselves in a very big mess as it relates to the credibility of the FBI.
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So you don't have any concern that they're going to find anything at the Mar-a-Lago?
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Well, I think we should really, as opposed to rushing the judgment,
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the most important thing that we can do is let it play out,
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because I have no idea what they were looking for, and I don't think anybody knows what they were looking for.
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We do not need to worry about rushing to judgment.
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We've seen this play out for six years now, starting with the Russian collusion hoax.
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We've seen the FBI and the DOJ being wielded by the Democrats, specifically against this guy,
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against Donald Trump, to spy on his campaign, to try to stop him from becoming president,
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to try to oust him when he was president, now to try to stop him from running for president again.
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And it's so frustrating to hear Tim Scott say this, because the first part of his answer is
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Let's just let the DOJ and the FBI and the Biden White House destroy Donald Trump's presidential
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campaign and wield arbitrary, capricious, outrageous power over their political opponents
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and weaponize the federal law enforcement agencies to just go after and destroy Republicans.
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And then, you know, once we see how it plays out, then maybe we can think about doing something.
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It's even worse than saying it's not a big deal.
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Tim Scott may have an ulterior motive for not rushing to the defense of Donald Trump,
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which is that he's being floated as a potential presidential nominee in 2024.
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The reason that this is coming out right now is not just because of the usual idle chatter
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about will he, won't he, is this person going to run, is that person going to run.
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It's because Tim Scott's got a book coming out, and the publisher of the book accidentally
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Senator Scott is a rising star who sees and understands the importance of bipartisanship
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This book is a political memoir that includes his core messages as he prepares to make a
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Obviously, it would be 2024, unless it means he's preparing the bid in 2022, but he's going
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That's not just coming from the National Enquirer.
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And if you look at Tim Scott's career, it does seem that he is positioning himself such
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Maybe he could be a good presidential candidate.
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He ain't going to be a good presidential candidate with this weak sauce.
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We just need to let Biden's DOJ run roughshod over all of the Republicans and destroy all
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I formed my conclusion, frankly, back in 2016 when it was so clear that the Obama DOJ was
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spying on Donald Trump, and then it later came out that the FBI and the DOJ were spying
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It was a total operation, and there was no basis to the claims about Russian collusion.
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So I formed my conclusion a long time ago, and then you saw the ridiculous first impeachment,
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then you saw the ridiculous second impeachment, and then now this, now this.
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Republicans who haven't formed their conclusion yet, you're not going to make it.
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Will Chamberlain, who's a prominent right-wing voice, Will tweeted out yesterday something
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He said, quote, Democrats are behaving as though Republicans won't take power ever again.
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They say, oh my gosh, these guys are just, they're behaving as though they are now the
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permanently ensconced tyrants of the United States.
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Now, I think the implication of this tweet is, this is very foolish for Democrats to
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do, because Republicans are going to take power again.
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And once Republicans take power, those Democrats are going to get punished.
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I think the sentiment, it's true, Democrats are behaving as though Republicans won't take
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But I think they're behaving that way with good reason, because I'm not convinced Republicans
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are going to take any serious degree of power anytime soon.
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That's not to say that Republicans won't win back the House.
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I should hope in this election year, Republicans will win back the House.
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Not to say Republicans won't win back the Senate.
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It's a tougher election map right now for Republicans.
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So Republicans may or may not win back the Senate.
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Now, Republicans, I guess, kind of have the Supreme Court.
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Let's say Republicans even win the White House in 2024.
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If the FBI and DOJ keep acting this way, I'm not sure how likely that is.
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If the libs keep changing all the election rules to give the Democrats an advantage and
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to disenfranchise Republicans, then I'm not sure how likely that is.
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Maybe the Senate, maybe even the presidency and the Supreme Court.
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That's not even close to a majority of power in America.
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What are the other institutions that wield power?
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Big tech, oh my gosh, big tech controls the public square.
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In a republic, the people who control speech essentially control the political order.
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All of those other centers of power are controlled by the libs.
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And they wield even more dangerous power than the elected government.
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Because those other forms of power are mostly unaccountable.
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And because they wield a lot of economic power, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
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You're seeing proof of this right now from Nancy Pelosi.
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This was after her trip to Taiwan, which many people thought created an international incident.
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The United States traditionally has not acknowledged Taiwan as belonging really to China.
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China, Pelosi flies to Taiwan as China is threatening essentially to launch World War III if Pelosi
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goes to China, playing war games out all around Taiwan while she's there.
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We go there to acknowledge the status quo is what our policy is.
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It was only about saying China is one of the freest societies in the world.
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And it's just, I don't know why it is, except there's some commercial interests who would like
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China is one of the freest societies in the world?
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I guess you could sort of say that about Taiwan.
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I hope she was just getting confused here, but I'm not sure that she was because the Democrats
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have been carrying water for China for a very long time.
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And this is very confusing because the one China policy means different things to different
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The one China policy is a policy created by China, which says, we own Taiwan.
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Now, in 1972, I believe it was, the United States also used this phrase.
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We say, we acknowledge the one China policy, but we didn't acknowledge that Taiwan belongs
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We continue to support Taiwan in an ambiguous way.
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Do we support China's claims that it owns Taiwan?
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No, we totally acknowledge the one China policy, but then we use that phrase to mean different
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It gets even more confusing because pretty much every presidential administration has held
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And sometimes there have been different views even during the same administration.
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Donald Trump held the view basically that Taiwan is a totally separate entity at the first
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Then by the second part, he kind of loosened up a little bit on it and acceded more to
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And why is Pelosi not just implicitly acknowledging China's claims on Taiwan, but why is Pelosi going
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so much further to say China, this communist slave state, that China is one of the freest
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Because he who pays the piper calls the tune, because the Democrats in particular are owned
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by China, and because the United States is in large part owned by China.
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China holds a lot of natural resources that we need, increasingly that we're going to need,
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especially as we kill the American energy industry.
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It's as we commit American energy suicide because of the Democrats' environmentalist fantasies.
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Speaking of money behind politicians, you know, one of the biggest funders on the left
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George Soros is this crazy, radical, lib financier, and he's funded all sorts of terrible left-wing
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And right now, in particular, he's funding prosecutors all across America who don't prosecute
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They're prosecutors who are installed at dear cost to George Soros who will let the criminals
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off the hook, and this is leading to spikes in crime all over the place.
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One of those prosecutors in particular is Steve Descano.
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And Steve Descano is very, very upset because an official in the Yunkin administration called
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him out for being on the payroll of George Soros.
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Mike Cleary says, well, criticize Soros-funded prosecutors.
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Well, I think that that is an unfortunate way to frame this because when we are trying to
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have a discussion about a substantive matter, especially about crime like you and I are having
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right now, Nick, for one party to go and immediately get off topic and bring up George Soros is unfortunately
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He's not funding these radical prosecutors like me, except, wait a second, I've got here
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George Soros himself in a major newspaper comes out and says, I am funding radical left-wing
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prosecutors who are not enforcing the law, who are not prosecuting the criminals.
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And one of those prosecutors, Steve Descano, gets called out by a Yunkin official named Maggie
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Cleary, who coincidentally actually is a friend of mine going back to college.
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I'm watching this clip and it's this usual rigmarole.
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Oh, yeah, it's anti-Semitic, it's fake, it's fake news, it's a conspiracy, move along.
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She's terrific, totally mainstream Republican, great hire for Glenn Youngkin.
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She said, George Soros is bankrolling these guys.
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And these guys are destroying law and order in our communities all around the country.
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And they're leading to big spikes in crime, especially this guy, Steve Descano.
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He's one of the worst of these liberal prosecutors.
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And by the way, he's not just funded sort of indirectly by George Soros and because Soros
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is funding this movement and other people are funding him.
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This guy took at least $50,000 directly from George Soros.
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Through the Virginia Justice and Public Safety PAC, Steve Descano took at least 50 grand.
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The Justice and Public Safety PACs are the mechanism through which George Soros funds these prosecutors.
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Soros, in the last 10 years, do you know how much he's spent on just the prosecutors?
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This is just one tiny little aspect of the whole political project that Soros is engaged in.
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Just here in the United States, he spends money around the world too.
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$40 million, $40 million bucks on this kind of a thing.
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Well, you've got another report here, another news outlet, national desk of this news outlet
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says two dozen progressive prosecutors linked to Soros money.
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You saw a chase of Boudin who just got recalled up in San Francisco, led to all sorts of chaos up there.
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The LA prosecutor, George Gascon, and a bunch of others as well.
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That's the name that Mike Anton, who's the author of the Flight 93 essay, he's at the Claremont Institute.
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This is the name that he gives to this phenomenon, which is the Libs tell us that they are doing something.
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And they're really happy about that, and they're celebrating that.
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And then the conservatives just repeat back to the Libs exactly what they have been shouting and singing with glee.
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And then the Libs smear the conservatives as racists and spreading fake news and conspiracy theorists.
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For saying the exact same things the Libs just said.
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The Libs get to say it, and it's true and wonderful and worthy of celebration.
00:30:06.360
As an anti-Semitic, to read a fact about this one guy that he admits in the newspaper.
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As Ann Coulter told me when I was in college, when a liberal calls you a racist, you know you've won the argument.
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I think the liberals know that we've won the argument.
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They're just saying you're not allowed to say the same things that we say.
00:30:24.620
The phrase celebration parallax is kind of a, it's a very fancy way of saying it.
00:30:31.060
Because a parallax is the position of the same object seen from different angles.
00:30:42.460
And especially when you look at the raid on Mar-a-Lago, there's no raid on Hillary Clinton.
00:30:46.160
You see they're going after Republican congressmen for in any way associating with Donald Trump.
00:30:50.480
And yet there's video evidence of Hunter Biden, Hunter Biden committing all sorts of national security endangering crimes.
00:31:01.000
It's a, it's a, it's related to the celebration parallax.
00:31:06.180
The libs do the same thing that the conservatives, say the same thing.
00:31:15.700
The libs do the same thing the conservatives do.
00:31:21.400
The libs say the same things the conservatives say.
00:31:24.980
It's a crazy conspiracy when the conservatives say.
00:31:27.860
You're seeing this play out in New York right now.
00:31:32.020
Eric Adams is very upset because the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, is busing illegal aliens who are being encouraged to cross the border by the Democrats, by Joe Biden, by the libs in New York and D.C. and elsewhere.
00:31:43.780
He's busing them to New York and D.C. and all the other liberal cities.
00:31:50.920
He says it's putting a severe strain on New York's resources.
00:31:57.140
And Eric Adams says maybe he's going to bus some New Yorkers down to Texas to give Governor Abbott a piece of their mind.
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I already called all of my friends in Texas and told them how to cast their vote.
00:32:09.840
And I am deeply contemplating taking a busload of New Yorkers to go to Texas and do some good old-fashioned door knocking because we have to, for the good of America, we have to get them out of office.
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What is Abbott doing that is, he's sending illegal aliens to sanctuary cities?
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The sanctuary city, the whole premise is you want the illegal aliens to come.
00:32:42.100
You just want to say that you want the illegal aliens to come.
00:32:46.860
Because you say that illegal aliens are really, really good for America and they're net contributors and they don't bring any crime and they don't bring any social problems.
00:32:54.700
And yet the minute they show up at your doorstep, all of a sudden this is horrific.
00:32:57.840
So horrific you're going to load up a bus full of New Yorkers to go down there and beat up the Texans and get them to kick Greg Abbott out of office.
00:33:06.800
Speaking of New Yorkers whining, you know that I am really, really obsessed with the Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Skeet Davidson saga.
00:33:21.620
This story I'm really, really taken with because I think it actually cuts down to some of the core political issues in America.
00:33:30.080
And also because Kanye West is very, very funny and also because Skeet Davidson is just not very likable.
00:33:34.840
Well, there's a headline, comes out of People Magazine, Skeet Davidson is in trauma therapy because of the taunts from Kanye West.
00:33:44.300
The attention and negativity coming from Kanye and his antics is a trigger for Davidson and he's had to seek out help.
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Davidson has been in therapy, trauma therapy since April in large part due to his beef with Kanye West.
00:33:58.540
I'm not surprised that Pete Davidson is in therapy.
00:34:06.800
His dad famously died in 9-11 sort of heroically.
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Obviously, that's a trauma and he's engaged in all sorts of destructive behaviors.
00:34:22.560
Because Kanye West makes fun of him on Instagram, that's it.
00:34:29.280
But Kanye West was absolutely right, is absolutely right, to taunt Skeet Davidson.
00:34:36.220
Skeet Davidson played a large role in breaking up Kanye West's marriage.
00:34:45.200
Marriage is sacred and the fundamental building block of society.
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And some dirty-looking SNL actor does not have the right to come in and take your wife from you.
00:34:58.780
He would send him pictures, apparently, while lying in bed with Kim Kardashian and say,
00:35:07.520
This story, the reason I'm obsessed with it, is it's about a lot more than Kanye West and Skeet Davidson and Kim Kardashian.
00:35:13.760
And yes, I'm aware all of these people have lived extremely colorful, eccentric, in many ways, not particularly virtuous lives.
00:35:24.000
Because while they are really wild, crazy examples of Hollywood extreme and decadence, in many ways, they're very human.
00:35:31.780
In many ways, they're representative of a lot of Americans who have kind of messy lives and have had messy love lives.
00:35:37.640
And unclear and conflicting understandings of how we ought to behave.
00:35:45.100
And all I know is, through these imperfect vessels, you saw Kanye West at least trying to save his marriage.
00:35:55.520
At least saying that he wanted to save his marriage.
00:35:59.460
And this was after he had some kind of conversion or reversion to Christianity.
00:36:04.340
This is after he espoused some broadly conservative political views and social views.
00:36:09.260
And then you had Kim Kardashian go into a magazine and say, in my 40s, I'm just going to live for me.
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And then you had Skeet Davidson come in here and go and steal another man's wife.
00:36:26.580
And you think, among these three people, who am I going to pick?
00:36:30.240
Now, some people will then come out on this story and they'll say, Kanye has no right, no right whatsoever to try to save his marriage or try to attack the person who's helping to break up his marriage.
00:36:44.700
The people who say that are the ones who think marriage doesn't mean anything.
00:36:47.680
That marriage can be easily dissolved at any given time.
00:36:53.580
Well, it's a contract, except nothing about it is binding.
00:36:57.220
It's just two people kind of get along together for a little and then whenever you don't like each other as much anymore, you know, he didn't do the dishes last night and she's getting a little older.
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And so we're just going to split it up and move on.
00:37:15.280
And the lib view says we're all individuals and can do whatever the hell we want whenever we want to do it.
00:37:19.840
The conservatives say, no, the fundamental political unit is the marriage.
00:37:22.680
And when you make that vow, you're in it, buddy.
00:37:27.220
This was the mainstream view in America for a very, very long time.
00:37:32.940
People are actually saying, they're saying, Kanye's gone too far.
00:37:39.500
Neither his genius or his mental health are excuses.
00:37:47.120
Kanye West, some years ago, put on a big giant foam suit and danced around to a song singing,
00:37:58.320
When the first time they ask you, you want sparkling or still?
00:38:01.340
Are you trying to act like you was drinking sparkling water before you came out here?
00:38:09.700
I like a quick I'm a sick I like a quick I'm a sick I like a quick I'm a sick I like a quick
00:38:17.460
I like my I buy you a sick truck I buy you some new I get you the nip tuck how you start a family
00:38:23.520
the condoms slipped up I'm a sick I'm inappropriate I like hearing stories I like that
00:38:28.800
I want to hear more I like the host send me some motion you trifling hope
00:38:33.680
we had to blur out half of that song I kind of forgot when I sent the clip that we'd have to
00:38:39.500
bleep out actually half of the song that wasn't too far you're such an effing hoe I love it I like
00:38:45.280
to get my well I can't even say it I'd have to bleep out myself that's not too far remember when Kanye
00:38:50.600
West went on national TV and he said that George Bush doesn't like black people a lot of the people
00:38:56.440
that could help are at war right now fighting another way and they they've given them permission
00:39:02.200
to go down and shoot us and subtle but in even many ways more profoundly devastating is the
00:39:09.980
lasting damage to the survivors will to rebuild and remain in the area the destruction of the
00:39:14.440
spirit of the people of southern Louisiana and Mississippi may end up being the most tragic loss
00:39:18.820
of all George Bush doesn't care about black people please call in the past few days you remember that
00:39:29.960
that wasn't too far that was genius that was all an example of Kanye's eccentric genius but then Kanye
00:39:35.800
comes out and he says hey I don't want to get divorced I think marriage is a real thing and we should
00:39:40.500
stay together for the purpose of our for the sake of our children and because we took a vow and we
00:39:45.260
should take this marriage seriously and Skeet Davidson should get the hell out of my bed that's too far
00:39:50.560
that's crazy that you're defending marriage you don't think that this sort of filthy looking
00:39:56.480
New Yorker young guy should be crawling around in your bed around your house where your children
00:40:01.660
sleep you don't think that wow totally crazy there was an article in I think it was the week or
00:40:08.240
somewhere I don't know occasionally I'll get Google alerts and they were going after me because I said
00:40:13.460
that we should defend marriage and they said you know Republicans Republicans are coming for no fault
00:40:19.140
divorce next to which I say I hope so yeah you you damn right we should I don't know that we will
00:40:27.640
because so many Republicans are so squishy and useless but we certainly should go for no fault
00:40:32.240
divorce no fault divorce is insane and it's a complete aberration in American history New York did
00:40:38.660
not have no fault divorce on the books New York one of the most liberal states in the country did not
00:40:43.020
have no fault divorce on the books until 2010 no fault divorce is a very very modern invention
00:40:48.840
it really only began to be popularized in the 1960s and 70s before that you had something known
00:40:56.500
as wedlock you had something known as marriage you went out you took a vow before God most importantly
00:41:02.520
and before your spouse and before the political community and you said I'm going to stay in this
00:41:07.780
marriage forever till death do us part and if you wanted a divorce divorce has existed throughout all
00:41:14.280
of human history but it was hard it was discouraged all of the political and social and legal incentive
00:41:21.320
was to remain married and work it out and fix your marriage and then in the 70s up really up until
00:41:28.280
just some a few years ago there was this movement to say nah never mind whatever we should all just get
00:41:34.260
divorced and be single and live for ourselves and do whatever we want the minute the going gets tough
00:41:38.680
we should just cut and run and you know it's going to screw over our kids and it's going to traumatize
00:41:42.740
a lot of people and it's going to cause complete disorder in our country because if you if effectively
00:41:47.840
abolish the the fundamental political institution you necessarily are causing a massive amount of
00:41:54.580
disorder but whatever love is love the heart wants what the heart wants whatever it's too hard you can't
00:42:00.820
make me do anything choice choice choice individual autonomy above all else of course at a conservative
00:42:09.640
at the bare minimum must oppose no false divorce no fault people blame gay marriage people blame
00:42:19.800
the hookup culture people blame all sorts of things for our social uh disarray that we find ourselves in
00:42:25.600
and all those things have contributed to it no fault divorce might be the biggest cause it's certainly
00:42:32.300
up there i mean no fault is a major issue republicans are coming for no fault divorce uh-huh yeah i hope so
00:42:39.060
or the republicans aren't worth their salt speaking of going too far andrew cuomo you remember him
00:42:48.840
the disgraced former governor of new york big democrat he was being talked about as a potential democrat
00:42:54.660
presidential candidate he was thrown out ostensibly for a sex scandal but it wasn't really for a sex
00:43:00.680
scandal he was thrown out because he he lied about numbers during covid he hid covid deaths from the
00:43:08.020
federal government he was the absolutely the worst governor in terms of how to actually handle the
00:43:13.920
health of the population during covid and he was brought on cnn constantly by his brother who was then a
00:43:20.560
cnn host talking about what a great job he did so he got he got run out of town but he's a big lib i mean he has
00:43:24.720
got liberal bona fides he came out after the mar-a-lago raid he said doj must immediately explain the reason
00:43:31.700
for its raid and it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or it will be viewed as a
00:43:36.820
political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation and legitimacy of january 6th
00:43:42.560
investigations yeah that's true they've gone too far for andrew cuomo joe biden who we were told he's
00:43:51.540
the moderate he's the reasonable one good old uncle joe has gone too far in the radical left power hungry
00:43:59.860
direction even for andrew cuomo i love how at the end he says this will undermine the legitimacy of the
00:44:06.460
january 6th investigations yeah think that ship has sailed when they wouldn't let any actual
00:44:12.220
republicans on the committee i'm pretty sure that ship sailed when they let blm off the hook for eight
00:44:16.960
months for burning down and raping and killing and pillaging and burning they let those guys off with a
00:44:21.420
slap on the wrist at most but then they throw the grandmother you know who's standing around the
00:44:25.500
capitol rotunda they throw her in solitary confinement i think that the legitimacy of the january 6th
00:44:31.880
proceedings and investigations that went out the window but cuomo knows from an optics perspective
00:44:36.320
this is really not great this really does not look good for democrats speaking of new york and going too
00:44:44.260
far this is a story i had meant to get to last week i have to get to it now drag queen story hour begins in
00:44:51.780
the in the libraries and the real conservatives object to this and the squishes go along with the
00:44:58.160
liberals and they say no i'll let it go into the libraries don't worry it's not like it's in the
00:45:02.160
schools or anything what happens next what happens next the drag queen story hour goes into the schools
00:45:07.660
and the conservatives oppose it they say we're slipping down the slippery slope and then what
00:45:13.060
what happens the libs and the squishes they say no it's fine viewpoint neutrality everyone has the
00:45:16.960
right to do whatever they want whatever they want to do it at least it's not in the elementary
00:45:20.440
schools what happens next it goes to the elementary schools and then what's the final
00:45:23.880
plan they say look you might have moral opposition to drag queen story hour and that's look that's
00:45:29.400
your right that's your right and so that's why you know you've got your church for that you don't
00:45:33.900
have any right to impose your own moral views on the public in the public square for some reason the
00:45:39.860
libs have the right to impose their moral views in the public square but but you conservatives you don't
00:45:43.720
but you still have your churches and guess what happened you know it the drag queens have made it
00:45:50.300
to the churches her name is brita filter and she is the queen of new york there she is this is in a
00:45:59.640
really beautiful church in new york forget which one this is obviously a very prominent
00:46:04.480
episcopalian church and there you this is disgusting this is so disgusting
00:46:10.740
a dude dressed up as a chick walking down the aisle you're just waiting for lightning to strike
00:46:21.060
any second and then these these clapping seals in what was once a church getting up and clapping for
00:46:31.600
this degenerate show inside a church now this initially was erroneously reported as being a catholic
00:46:37.720
church which would be a an international scandal it's not it's an episcopalian church and the
00:46:44.040
episcopalian church has ceased to have anything even resembling a coherent theology long long ago
00:46:51.440
not sure that it ever had one but it certainly doesn't have one now i mean now they've got priestesses
00:46:55.060
and they do all sorts of crazy things that have very little to do with christianity if anything at
00:47:00.080
all so i'm not surprised but it's jarring to see because the church building it looks like a church
00:47:06.980
right it looks like a church i bet the men who built that episcopalian church even though they
00:47:12.640
were episcopalians even though which sometimes those guys were you know a little little squishy
00:47:17.440
but i bet they were serious men who seriously wanted to worship god and that's why they built
00:47:22.540
this big beautiful church and now what has happened the libs have crawled inside of it
00:47:27.440
and just eaten it out from within and taken all the christianity out of it and all the animating
00:47:32.980
spirit out of it and the essence out of it and filled it up with a bunch of drag queens and
00:47:41.280
if you wed yourself to the spirit of the age you will find yourself a widow in the next great quote
00:47:52.320
we're not really sure who first said it it was either fulton sheen or dean inge but good good churchman
00:48:04.040
initially this was being reported as a catholic high school here in new york invited me to their
00:48:09.380
pride chapel but no it turns out it was an episcopalian church that has a pride chapel
00:48:14.560
pride which goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall and i don't i don't even mean
00:48:20.380
to to be on my high horse here thank goodness this wasn't a catholic church thank goodness it wasn't a
00:48:25.620
catholic church but i bet there are a number of communities that call themselves catholic
00:48:31.340
that would be fine with this or something close to this and are only being held away from that by
00:48:38.060
the magisterium and the the weight of the catholic church for now but i bet they they want to go along
00:48:44.680
with that spirit of the age this will pass away this will be seen as a scandal in the not too distant
00:48:51.820
future and the people who participated in this will not be looked on kindly in history
00:48:57.760
and there will be a new spirit of the age and the people who stick to the true real things
00:49:03.660
the eternal things uh they they will fare a lot better than these people how did we get to this
00:49:10.720
point we got to this point because we abandoned all the other defenses because we we just left the
00:49:18.580
little individual churches on their own that's not how society works that's not how culture works
00:49:23.260
culture spreads threat you have a common culture that's not how politics works politics is in common
00:49:29.940
it's in the public it's how we all interact together this is this is the fruit of an idiotic
00:49:36.240
kind of individualist sloganeering that we've had in recent decades do you do whatever you want it has
00:49:42.260
no effect on me just that's fine you want to have drag queen parades in your school or your church or
00:49:47.380
you're that's fine and we can't impose our views to kick the drag queens out of the public square
00:49:51.780
this is the fruit of that idiotic ahistorical incoherent kind of thinking no of course it does
00:50:00.040
this is bad we have the right as a community to say no to this we have the right to suppress this
00:50:06.880
we have the right to stop these guffawing seals from bringing the drag queens all around the public
00:50:13.880
square and frankly we have a responsibility to do that the way that power works is power tends to
00:50:20.880
flow to the people who are willing to exercise the power and this is why the liberals are all there's
00:50:28.520
much more to be said about this but this is why the liberals when whenever they create an image of a
00:50:32.220
conservative in popular culture they try to do so in a kind of libertarian way they do think of ron
00:50:37.840
swanson is the greatest example in parks and rec he's the conservative character he's really kind of
00:50:41.780
like a libertarian and the reason they do this and the reason the libs are always pushing this idea
00:50:45.540
that the the right is libertarian is because it benefits the right the left to have an opponent
00:50:51.340
that doesn't want to wield political power because they know that if their opponents aren't going to
00:50:55.760
wield political power then they the libs will have the opportunity to do that it has led us to this
00:51:01.480
place where now you've seen a massive power grab so massive that joe biden is raiding the home of his
00:51:06.780
predecessor and political opponent are we going to wield political power again no the squishes tell
00:51:11.640
us wait and see let it play out let's just see how it goes we don't have the right we don't want to
00:51:15.160
jump to conclusions i've reached my conclusions i should hope you have too now that means it's time
00:51:19.620
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00:51:23.380
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