Ep. 1077 - The Black Lines Of Corruption
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Summary
The FBI and DOJ admit that they rigged the 2020 election, but they don t need to wait three months to admit it. They're doing it right now, and they don't even need to say it in words. They just need to do it in black and white.
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Three months after the 2020 election, the Libs published an article in Time Magazine
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explaining how they rigged it. The secret history of the shadow campaign that saved the 2020
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election. In a way, Time Magazine wrote, Trump was right. There was a conspiracy unfolding behind
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the scenes, one that both curtailed the protests and coordinated the resistance from CEOs.
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Both surprises were the result of an informal alliance between left-wing activists
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and business titans. Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to
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change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding.
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They fended off voter suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of poll workers, and got
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millions of people to vote by mail for the first time. They successfully pressured social media
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companies to take a harder line against disinformation and used data-driven strategies
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to fight viral smears. This piece is thousands of words long. It's worth reading all of them.
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But the short version is that the Libs rigged the election. Now, of course, you're not allowed to say
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that. If you say that, you will be called a conspiracy theorist and a kook and an election denier
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and an insurrectionist. But they're allowed to say it. They boast about it in what Mike Anton calls
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the celebration parallax. When the Libs talk about rigging the 2020 election, it's a wonderful thing
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to be celebrated. Look, guys, we did it. Look how we did it. When conservatives repeat the Libs' own
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words back to them, it becomes a dangerous conspiracy theory and a threat to democracy. But they did rig the
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election. And they're doing it again. And this time, they're not waiting until three months after
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they do it to admit that they did it. They're admitting it right now. And they don't need
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thousands of words to admit it. In fact, they barely used any words, as you can see from the
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search warrant affidavit that Biden's DOJ used to justify the raid on President Trump's Mar-a-Lago home.
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Just black, black, black, all redacted text. There must be some really powerful stuff in here
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to justify such an unprecedented attack on a former president and current chief political rival.
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But I can't know that for sure because all of the crucial information in the affidavit is redacted.
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There are so many blank pages in this affidavit. I'm thinking of suing for plagiarism.
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On top of the stonewalling, they released the affidavit on Friday because, as with all Friday
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news dumps, they hoped to kill the story over the weekend and start again with some news stories on
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Monday. But this story is ongoing. And it's going to keep ongoing until Election Day 2024. And the
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story is simple as can be. The entrenched powers are going to do every single thing that they can,
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norms and procedures and rule of law be damned, to rig the 2024 election and ensure that the people
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don't have the chance to send Donald Trump back to the White House. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment on Friday is from Someday Glory,
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who says, this is how the conversation went between the FBI and Facebook. Hey, Mark, can you help us
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hurt Trump? Yeah, you're going to say anything if we spy using our software? Do we get a copy? Of
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course. Then no, that's probably how it actually went. That's probably true. I think that version is a lot
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closer to the truth than anything we're being told, certainly by the FBI and the DOJ, really by any of the
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the election. They're rigging the 2024 election in real time, and they're not even trying to conceal
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it. Well, they're concealing it in the sense that they're concealing almost this entire
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affidavit. Just look at all this black text. Everything's just blacked out. But after knocking
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down Trump's door at Mar-a-Lago, and after investigating his businesses for tax fraud or whatever,
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now, they're also just calling to indict him. So the New York Times editorial board
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has this piece, just ran August 26th. Donald Trump is not above the law.
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And they talk about how Trump's unprecedented assault on the integrity of American democracy
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requires a criminal investigation. And then they need to indict Trump,
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and then they need to just do anything they can to stop this guy from running for president.
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Now, they can do whatever they want. They can kick down his door. They can take all of his papers.
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They can arrest his campaign staff. They can arrest him. They can put him in prison.
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Donald Trump is going to run for president. Barring some unforeseen health problem,
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unless he gets Clintoned or something like that. Sorry, unless he falls into a depression and commits
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suicide, God forbid. The guy is going to run. He's telling everyone around him that he's 200%
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going to run for president. And they can't stop him. Whether they use the Presidential Records Act
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or the Espionage Act or whatever other nonsense they're trying to bring up, whether they throw
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him in jail, the guy can still run. Let's not forget the 1920 presidential election. Eugene Debs,
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who is the most prominent socialist in America, was arrested by his political rival. Eugene Debs,
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obviously, had never been a president himself. But he was running as a socialist. Even from prison,
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he got 7% of the vote. About 6.8%, I think it was. Donald Trump obviously would get a much higher
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percentage of the vote. So he'll run. He's going to run, I think, from pretty much anywhere. And
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that's what's driving the libs nuts. And that's why they're throwing spaghetti at the wall.
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Had Donald Trump not intimated that he was going to run again, I think they would let the guy sail
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off into the sunset. Someone pointed out yesterday, some blue check on Twitter said, gosh, can you believe
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it? Donald Trump, he's under investigation for tax fraud and for classified document possession and
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for this, that, and the other thing. He said, can you believe? And he's the Republican frontrunner in
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2024. Right. I think maybe you've got it backwards. Why do you think he's under investigation for all
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those things? Because the FBI and the DOJ regularly prosecute cases of ex-presidents having classified
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documents? No, of course not. They don't go after Obama for that. They didn't go after Clinton for
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that kind of stuff. Bill Clinton stole not just documents, he stole the furniture out of the
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White House. They went after him? I don't think so. They didn't go after LBJ. They didn't go after
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Richard Nixon on that, for goodness sakes. No, they don't. They're just throwing spaghetti at the
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wall because he is the Republican frontrunner and they don't want him to be the guy. Federal law
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enforcement right now is being used as the private police for the Democrats. The FBI is basically
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admitting that. So after Mark Zuckerberg shows up on Joe Rogan's show and he says, hey, don't blame
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us for censoring Trump. Don't blame us for censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story. We got a call from
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the FBI and we just went along with it. After that, the FBI had to respond. It was such an explosive
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allegation. Here's the response. The FBI routinely notifies US private sector entities, including social
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media providers, of potential threat information so that they can decide how to better defend against
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threats. And the FBI cannot ask or direct companies to take action on information received. We just
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kind of, you know, we just kind of let them know. So this is an admission of guilt. If the FBI did not
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pressure Facebook to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, they would have just said it. Said, we never
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told Facebook about this. We never told Facebook to suppress this thing. But instead they're saying,
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look, okay, look, sometimes we call up social media companies. We say, hey, hey, we sure wouldn't like
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this story to get out there. Hey, that's a nice big tech platform you got there. Sure would be a
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shame if something happened to it. Sure would be a shame if you got prosecuted, wouldn't it be?
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So anyway, maybe let's suppress this little story over here. And that's obviously what happened.
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And this was particularly significant because after the 2020 election, you had, according to one
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survey, 17% of Biden voters who said that had they known about the Hunter Biden laptop story,
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they wouldn't have voted for Biden, which certainly would have swung the election
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to Donald Trump. Unless you had a lot more, a lot more shenanigans in the weeks that it took
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to count the ballots. Unless you had a lot more shenanigans in say Pennsylvania, where they just
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sent out widespread mail-ins in violation of state, the state constitution. Even with all of that,
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if you swing 17% of Biden voters to Trump, I don't see how they could even pretend that Joe Biden won
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the election. So Facebook did that. And what we're now learning is actually the FBI did that.
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They did that in 2020. You don't think they're going to do that in 2024? They already are.
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They're kicking down the guy's door. Of course, they're going to do that.
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And it's not because they're even after Trump. It's not because of the Trump is so special.
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You know, they're all pretending that Trump is Hitler or something like that. Let's not forget
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until Trump started running in 2015, Donald Trump was one of the most beloved cultural figures in
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America. Everyone got a kick out of Trump. He had the most popular show on NBC. He had,
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he was in hundreds of rap songs. The Republicans kind of got a kick out of him. The Democrats got a kick.
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Everybody liked the guy. He was a popular celebrity, kind of helped that New York,
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fixed that ice skating rink. And then he runs for office as a Republican. And he actually does
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things that conservatives want him to do. He's really the first president of my lifetime to make
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a conscious effort to do what the conservative base wants him to do, not just the chamber of
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commerce. And what happens? They call him Hitler and they say, we've got to change all the rules
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and we've got to act in a lawless manner to stop him from running for president again.
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And according to Joe Biden, by the way, the Americans who voted for him, virtually the entire
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Republican Party, they're the fringe. They're the radicals. According to Joe Biden, it's the never
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Trump Republicans, which makes up, I think, about seven people at this point. The never Trump
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Republicans, they're the mainstream. Biden just tweeted out, quote, in this moment, those who love
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this country, Democrats, independents, and mainstream Republicans must be stronger,
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more determined, and more committed to saving America than MAGA Republicans are to destroying
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America. What percentage of the Republican Party is never Trump? The most generous, wild statistics on
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this would say about 6% or so. 94% of Republicans support Trump, at least. And really, I bet the number
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is even higher than that. And yet, according to Biden, that 6% tops, that's the mainstream. The rest of
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you, virtually half the country, they're the fringe. I'm sorry, we're the fringe. We're the radicals. We're
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trying to destroy America, half this country, according to Biden. And we've got to essentially be kept out of
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the electoral system, deplatformed on social media, have our votes suppressed, not be able to express our
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views, have our candidate locked up for whatever reason, to save democracy. Lock up half the country
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or CNN or the crazy blue checks. I'm saying according to the White House,
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ordinary conservatives are fascists, a threat to democracy, trying to destroy democracy.
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The actual mainstream of the Republican Party, 95% of the Republican Party, we are fascists,
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Only semi-fascism comment. Is it something we're going to hear more of, that phrase? Is it something
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the president's going to kind of embrace? Or is there any sense that it was, you know, a little
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impromptu and it's going to turn into a kind of basket of deplorables thing that he regrets and
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tries to be quiet about? Look, I was very clear when laying out and defining what, you know,
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MAGA Republicans have done. And you look at the definition of fascism and you think about what
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they're doing in attacking our democracy, what they're doing in taking away our freedoms,
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taking away, wanting to take away our rights, our voting rights. I mean, that is what that is.
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It is very clear. And that's why he made that powerful speech that you heard from him last night.
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If you look at the definition of fascism, I would be willing to bet my entire life savings. I would
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be willing to bet all the rights to my book with words, to my book without words. I would be willing
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to bet all of every single dollar that I ever will make that Corrine Jean-Pierre, White House press
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secretary, has never even heard of, much less read, the doctrine of fascism. The essay by Mussolini,
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Mussolini invents fascism for all intents and purposes. The essay by Mussolini and the Italian
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philosopher Giovanni Gentile that defines fascism, the doctrine of fascism. I guarantee you she has never
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even heard of it. I promise you that Corrine Jean-Pierre and all of the libs who fling this word
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fascism around have never read, I don't know, Filippo Marinetti, who was the founder of futurism,
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interestingly, and then becomes one of the founders of fascism, writes an early fascist
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kind of constitution. It was an early kind of constitution of the Italian fasci of combat.
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I guarantee it was one of the early manifestos. I guarantee you that she's never even heard of
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the thing or any of those people involved. Because for the libs, fascism just means something I don't
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like. Now, fascism has a meaning. Fascism was an actual discrete political movement that comes out
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of Italy. I happen to have read a fair bit about fascism. Just by happenstance, my majors in college
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were history and Italian. So if you don't read a thing or two about fascism, you've probably missed a
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fair bit of the last 100 years of Italian history, 130, 140 years of Italian history. But it's a real
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thing, okay? And it's lost its meaning. It is now, I think Orwell pointed out, too, all it really means
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is something that I do not prefer. The purpose of using this language, fascism, is not to refer to
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anything that the Republicans are actually doing. We're not. I mean, it is very, very silly to compare
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American conservatives in the year of our Lord 2022 to fascists. You have to be totally ignorant
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to do that. But the political effect of this, the reason that they're using this kind of rhetoric
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is because fascism, one, is elided with Nazism in the modern imagination. Even though those two
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movements are very different movements, but they blur the two. And it's a way of saying that my
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opponents are the incarnation of evil. Because in the modern conception, the fascists are the absolute
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perfect 100% incarnation of evil. And so they have no rights whatsoever. They need to be exterminated.
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They need to be kicked out of the body politic, ostracized at best. They need violence to be
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inflicted upon them. They are completely delegitimized. That's what that means. And that's
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what the White House is saying. That's why they're using that term. They're not using the term
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because it's precise. They're not using the term because they know what it means. They don't.
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They're just using the term to say, my political opponents, the Republicans,
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they're not mainstream, even though they're half the country. And they need to be ostracized,
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suppressed, pushed to the fringes, and exterminated. That's what they're saying.
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Do you remember there was some kind of white supremacist type a few years ago,
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Richard Spencer, who was out. He was, I don't know, he was talking on a street corner or something.
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And a guy walks up and just clocks him, punches him right in the face.
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And usually, no matter what someone's opinion in America, if they're peacefully expressing their
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opinion, we're all supposed to say, okay, no political violence. That's really not acceptable.
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And do you remember when Richard Spencer got punched in the face,
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all of the mainstream journalists laughed about it. They joked about it. Jake Tapper posted a comic
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of Captain America. He said, oh, well, that's what happens. We punch fascists in the face.
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It doesn't matter how odious you find Richard Spencer or his views. What you're seeing is
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a mainstreaming of political violence. And by the way, the libs see absolutely no difference
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between Richard Spencer or whoever, some kind of more fringy political character,
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and Donald Trump, and the average Trump voter, and ordinary mainstream Republicans. They see no
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difference. And they are implicitly, sometimes explicitly, calling for political violence on all
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of them. And it's happening. I'm not being hyperbolic. A lib tried to assassinate Brett
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Kavanaugh at his home, like a month and a half ago. Okay, you had mainstream Republicans for the
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past, mainstream Democrats, rather, for the past three or four years, Maxine Waters, Hillary Clinton,
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all the rest, calling for violence, calling for people to push back, quote unquote, on Republicans,
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mainstream elected and appointed Republicans in public spaces, to not be civil with them,
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Hillary Clinton's words, to go to their homes. Maxine, that's what Maxine Waters was calling for.
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Eric Holder calling for this kind of stuff. All sorts of, this is becoming mainstream. We're still
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two years out. We're not even two years out yet from the presidential election.
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Things are going to accelerate very, very quickly. And even with all of that,
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even with all the constant haranguing and being told we're fascists and all the rest,
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the GOP is still absolutely crushing it on the generic ballot. So before midterm elections,
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you have the generic congressional ballot. It's not measuring the actual candidates who are running
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in the different counties and different districts, rather, but it's just measuring Republican versus
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Democrat. And it's usually a pretty good indicator of how the parties are going to do in the midterms.
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A generic Republican candidate is now holding a five-point lead over the generic Democrat,
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according to Rasmussen. The midterm elections are 74 days away. The most recent report showed that
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Republicans are leading 47 to 42. Now, this is down a little bit from July. July, the Republicans
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had a 10-point advantage, which is just insane. That's a ridiculous advantage on the generic ballot.
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But the five-point lead is great, and the drop has stopped. So it went 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, but it's
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maintained five now for some time. And also, by the way, when Democrats took the House for the first
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time in eight years back in 2018, they had a five-point advantage. Okay? And by the way, they had
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a five-point advantage at this time in that cycle. Their advantage actually narrowed going into November,
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and they still retook the House. So the Republicans are sitting pretty right now. It's hard to imagine,
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short of some kind of crazy shenanigans in the election, that Republicans don't retake the House.
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Will they retake the Senate? It's a tougher map. It's kind of hard to know.
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But the momentum is clearly on the Republican side. Even with all the threats, all the risk of
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violence from the libs, even with the FBI kicking down the door and the social media companies clamping
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down, people realize that our Democrat-led ruling class is really corrupt and not doing very well
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for the country. We are in, I think, a period of renewal. And you're seeing this not just at the
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political level, though the political level is a representation of this, but at a cultural level
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and ultimately at a religious level. You're seeing this, oh my gosh, Eminem. I don't really like Eminem.
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I don't really listen to rap music generally. Eminem just comes out and posts a Christian rap song
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over Kanye West. Kanye West has had this very prominent kind of reversion or conversion to
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Christianity. Well, Eminem, who's a way more lib, kind of angry type rapper, he's just come out and
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rapped the lines, quote, Today is the day I put all of my trust and faith in you, Father. Please let
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this hate make me stronger, for they turn on me like a zombie. It's like I'm being strangled
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unconscious when temptation is almost like Satan is making you trying to take you away from your
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daughters. He's rapping about rectangular objects in the end, about coffins, about life and death.
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He's calling on his savior, and he's doing it over Kanye's song. We are living in a period of renewal.
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I'm going to get to this full song in the member block today. Every day we do something a little
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different on the member block. Sometimes we interview people, sometimes we go into music,
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sometimes we go into crazy woke ads that we'll react to. We're going to get into this song in
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the member block today because I really want to go over it lyric by lyric. But this is a period of
00:23:13.080
renewal, and it doesn't always feel like we're living in a period of great spiritual renewal,
00:23:17.220
but we are. It is happening right now. You are seeing it, whether you think it is
00:23:23.360
sincere or not, whether you think there are some other motivations here or not, is simply happening.
00:23:29.520
This Eminem song over this Kanye West song is a sign of the times.
00:23:37.200
Why is Eminem rapping about Christianity all of a sudden and doing so in a way that seems to
00:23:42.620
contradict some of his previous rap? Why is it? Well, there's two explanations. One,
00:23:48.160
the charitable view is that Eminem is really experiencing tough temptation, and he's realizing
00:23:53.020
the shallowness of a life lived for material pleasure and in this kind of squishy, secular,
00:23:59.700
awful, ultimately satanic kind of mindset. And he's saying, no, I want something better. I choose God.
00:24:06.560
Okay, I reject all that temptation, and I choose God. That's the charitable view.
00:24:10.520
Now, let's say that that's not the case. Let's say Eminem, this is all just kind of a performance.
00:24:14.800
None of this is really sincerely felt. At the very least, what it means is that Eminem is looking at
00:24:21.860
the culture and saying the future of this culture is with God. The future of this culture is with
00:24:27.680
Christianity. All that just atheistic, materialistic crap, that's old, that's passé, that's dated.
00:24:37.100
And if I want to remain relevant in the culture, I'm going to do that. Look at Kanye, who's essentially
00:24:42.780
the biggest pop star in the world. It's Kanye West in many, many ways. That guy is kind of the future.
00:24:48.300
You look at politics and celebrity culture. Who's the biggest celebrity in the world? Biggest
00:24:54.160
celebrity in the world is Donald Trump. And Donald Trump, again, whatever he sincerely believes,
00:25:00.120
I think he probably has some sincere belief, but whatever he sincerely believes, he talks a lot
00:25:03.580
about God. He talks a lot about Christianity. He talks a lot about rejecting our decadent,
00:25:08.500
depraved, atheistic, crazy culture, and pursuing a more traditional culture, and pursuing Christianity,
00:25:14.180
ultimately. Frankly, to be comforted by this, to be encouraged by this, none of these people even
00:25:22.520
need to believe it sincerely. The very fact that they are observing the culture and saying,
00:25:26.700
oh, this is the future. God is the future, which is, God is the past and the present and the future.
00:25:32.700
But the move toward God, the acceptance of God, the kind of spiritual reawakening,
00:25:41.420
the fact that all of these pop culture kings, moguls, celebrities, the fact that they see that
00:25:47.900
is a very, very encouraging sign. There's a related story here that I want to get to.
00:25:55.600
I meant to get to this last week. There's this heretical liberal Jesuit priest by the name of
00:26:00.460
Father James Martin. And James Martin, he's a spiritual type of advisor, I think, and at least
00:26:07.040
a friend to people like Stephen Colbert, Joe Biden, the Democrats, those kind of people.
00:26:12.700
And so the other day, a former archbishop named Rembert Weakland died at the age of 95.
00:26:18.560
And Archbishop Weakland was notorious. He was a really notorious figure in the episcopacy.
00:26:26.120
This guy shredded copies of the weekly reports detailing child sexual abuse by priests.
00:26:33.000
Weakland admitted this, by the way, in a 1993 deposition that he destroyed these copies.
00:26:37.720
He admitted that he was in a homosexual relationship. He was not celebrated. He broke his vows.
00:26:46.100
He pretended that he didn't think sexual abuse of children was criminal. He actually said in his
00:26:52.860
autobiography, he said, quote, we all considered sexual abuse of minors as a moral evil, but had
00:26:57.380
no understanding of its criminal nature. Are you kidding me? You don't need to get a PhD in
00:27:02.340
criminology to know that it's illegal to rape children. Are you kidding me? You never heard
00:27:07.400
about this anywhere. It's just so brazen, the gaslighting from this guy. It turned out he paid
00:27:13.700
half a million bucks, almost $450,000 in hush money to his former male lover. So he embezzled money from
00:27:20.280
his, from his diocese to pay off his gay lover. I mean, just, you know, probably the sort of fella
00:27:26.420
who ought to repent and we should pray for him obviously, but he should go off into the sunset
00:27:30.740
pretty quietly. And this priest, this liberal heretical Jesuit priest, James Martin, Father
00:27:35.920
Martin tweets out, Archbishop Rembert Weakland has died. An erudite scholar, gifted pastor and
00:27:40.860
Benedictine Abbott primate. His legacy was marred by revelations that he paid money to a man with whom
00:27:46.280
he had been in a relationship. I considered him a friend and mourned his loss. May he rest in peace.
00:27:51.820
This is the compliment sandwich. This is, he was a really great guy.
00:27:57.200
And yeah, he, maybe he did some bad things, but I'm going to really downplay those bad things.
00:28:00.620
I'm going to really downplay them. And he was a really good guy. That's, that's the compliment
00:28:05.500
sandwich. This reminds me of when that Muslim terrorist was assassinated by the U.S. and then
00:28:09.800
the Washington Post called him an austere religious scholar. The guy was the head of ISIS.
00:28:13.640
An austere religious scholar has died. I don't think that's the defining feature
00:28:17.820
of this fella. Why do I bring this up? Not even to talk about Archbishop Weakland,
00:28:22.980
not even really to talk about Father James Martin. It's just to point out,
00:28:28.440
no young person listens to Father James Martin or listens to him in a way that is edifying.
00:28:36.440
Sometimes we will listen to him just to figure out what the kind of
00:28:40.560
unpleasant forces within working within the church are talking about. But we don't listen to him and
00:28:48.240
say, wow, that was so sanctifying. Wow, that was so edifying. That really taught me something about
00:28:51.320
myself. The people who listen to Father James Martin are boomer lib secularists and lukewarm people
00:28:58.460
and squishes and Stephen Colbert and Joe Biden. And this is a really important fact because while the
00:29:06.000
libs and the squishes and the lukewarm people have told us for years that we need to destroy the
00:29:10.000
liturgy and water down Christianity and stop preaching the truth and go lib on everything,
00:29:14.720
and that's the only way we're going to attract the youths back to church. It's the only way we're
00:29:18.240
going to win the youths over to our cause. It's just manifestly not true. That's not what young
00:29:22.820
people want. Young people do not want squishiness and worldliness and lukewarmness. Young people want the
00:29:28.900
truth. Young people want clarity. Young people want courage. Where these squishes dominate,
00:29:35.460
where these lukewarm people dominate, when it comes to the church, it's in churches where the
00:29:41.020
median age is about 92 and there are three people who show up to mass. When these squishes dominate
00:29:45.660
in the culture, it is all just these kind of aged hippies who never got over the age of Aquarius,
00:29:52.260
just bitterly hanging on. But the young people who actually have vigor and energy and are willing to
00:29:57.160
retake the culture, those people are on the side of orthodoxy. Those people are on the side
00:30:01.060
of truth. Those people, they don't want to find some conciliation on concepts that are totally
00:30:08.180
opposed. They don't want to find a middle ground between right and wrong and true and false and
00:30:12.740
good and evil, okay? The young people who have clarity and courage, the young people who are really
00:30:19.080
fired up, they're the ones who are saying, hey, this transgender stuff is insane. Men are men and women
00:30:25.180
are women. And the squishes and the lukewarm people who say, well, actually, no, look, maybe,
00:30:30.420
okay, look, here's what we'll do. We're just gonna chop off people's genitals, but only once they've
00:30:35.660
turned 12. Not when they're 11, okay? We're gonna find a middle. No, you say there's no middle ground.
00:30:39.900
Boys can't be girls. This is extremely destructive nonsense. Just cut it out. That's what young people
00:30:45.700
want. That is why Donald Trump is the coolest thing to happen to politics in our lifetimes.
00:30:52.740
That's why he's got disproportionate support among young people. That is why the Democrat,
00:30:57.800
even forget about Trump for a second. That is why the Republican Party is filled with young,
00:31:01.480
vigorous talent. Ron DeSantis, he's a young man. He's vigorous. He's popular.
00:31:08.220
Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is 50 years old. I'm a little bit biased because I host a podcast with him.
00:31:13.500
That podcast is one of the most popular political podcasts in the world.
00:31:16.900
It has a disproportionately young audience. Why is that? Because the guy's speaking courageously.
00:31:22.740
Because the guy just calls it like he sees it. Who are the other prominent politicians on the
00:31:27.220
Republican side? Josh Hawley, super young. J.D. Vance, super young. Blake Masters, super young.
00:31:31.680
Marco Rubio, super young. I could go on and on. Even Nikki Haley, even Tim Scott, even some of the
00:31:38.600
more moderate Republicans. They're young. They're vigorous. When you think of the Democrats, who do
00:31:41.600
you think of? Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, all these people who are 150 years old,
00:31:47.720
who just never got over the 1960s and the 1970s. They have absolutely no idea what time it is.
00:31:56.700
Speaking of the Utes, horrible story. We've talked about him on this show. This young boy,
00:32:04.020
he's 10 years old, and his pervert mother calls him the youngest transgender model in the world.
00:32:09.780
And he goes by the name Noella. I don't know what his real name is. So the father of this boy has just
00:32:17.120
come out and said a really heartbreaking thing. He said, I have no say in this child's life.
00:32:23.440
So Noella, whatever his real name is, has a younger brother named Levi. They were born to D.
00:32:29.000
McCord and Timothy McCord. And then D and Timothy divorced. And D, I guess, became a lesbian or
00:32:39.860
something. But now D and D's lesbian partner, they identify as not women or as men or I don't know.
00:32:46.860
They're obviously very confused people. And they're forcing their sexual confusion and perversions on
00:32:51.260
this poor little kid. And now they're convincing the little kid to be a girl and to strut around for
00:32:55.200
other perverts on the red carpet. And this poor father has no say in his life. He says,
00:33:02.520
I have no say in it. She's not my kid anymore. And this is really interesting, that even the father
00:33:06.740
here is buying into this transgender thing. But he's saying, I'll use the she and I'm trying, but
00:33:13.540
I don't, but I just want to have some, maybe not, he shouldn't be modeling or she shouldn't be
00:33:19.660
modeling or whatever. Now, it's very difficult to know what happened in this breakup.
00:33:26.540
The woman is alleging some kind of abuse. But again, this woman is a complete lunatic.
00:33:31.800
So I don't believe a word that she says. And what the father says is, I was given the opportunity to
00:33:37.860
step back and let D's partner adopt the kids. And I did that in the hopes that they would not have all
00:33:41.660
the stress that this is causing in their lives. But obviously, it's causing a whole lot more stress
00:33:46.200
because of these people now raising this poor kid. The issue here is not men's rights or father's
00:33:50.580
rights. The issue is not even transgenderism. That's a kind of symptom of this. The issue is
00:33:55.080
divorce. The fact that a divorce could happen is the cause of all of these problems. The fact that
00:34:02.300
we have a no-fault divorce culture here and have for 50 years. Although in New York, they didn't have
00:34:07.460
no-fault divorce on the books until about 10 or 13 years ago. But that's what's causing this.
00:34:13.380
The problems run so much deeper. They've been building for so long. And now we see the extreme
00:34:19.480
expression of it in a 10-year-old strutting down in stiletto heels, you know, twerking around for
00:34:24.120
perverts. But the earliest manifestation of this began in the 1960s and the 1970s. And some people
00:34:33.260
still haven't woken up out of the age of Aquarius. But the young people, the people who are fired up,
00:34:38.920
they have. And they realize the problems are not just going to be fixed by having some conciliation
00:34:42.380
with transgenderism. We've got to rip this stuff out root and branch.
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Speaking of the kids, horrifying scene from a Charlotte Pride Parade. You know the Pride Parades,
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they're family-friendly events. They're really wonderful. They deserve our public funding.
00:36:31.100
They need space in the public square because it's all about love. Love is love and acceptance,
00:36:35.580
and they're really, really great, right? Except we all know that none of that is true,
00:36:39.340
and we have video evidence of it. There's a poor little kid who was brought up onto a stripper pole
00:36:45.260
with some half-naked, I think, woman. And he was riding on her bare midriff and lower parts,
00:36:53.040
and she was kind of shaking on the pole, showing this poor little kid how to strut for all of the
00:36:58.780
other perverts in the audience. This wasn't even really the craziest thing at this Pride Parade.
00:37:05.080
There's a video of all of these, I think a number of them are women, just jiggling,
00:37:12.000
and they're all not half-naked. They're all probably 95% naked. Take a look.
00:37:27.820
This is what we're being told is family-friendly, and it's just a sex show. That's all it really is,
00:37:33.540
and that's all really that it has ever been. I'm reminded of a line from Jason Whitlock.
00:37:39.340
You know Jason Whitlock over at The Blaze? I loved this line. I was on a show with him one time. I
00:37:42.960
wish I had the clip. We were talking about marriage and what to do about marriage. And
00:37:47.720
Jason Whitlock was explaining why redefining marriage is such a dumb idea. And I think this
00:37:52.680
advice applies to the Pride Parades and all the rest of it. He said, you know, not everything
00:37:59.660
is for everyone. When I was a young man, I was a little more promiscuous, and my friends and I would
00:38:06.680
go to strip clubs. I didn't get married because that wasn't for me. Because if you're the kind of
00:38:14.140
guy who's going to strip clubs, you can't simultaneously be the guy that's getting married.
00:38:18.640
Not everything is for everyone. And that's true. That's such a good point. And a lot of wisdom there
00:38:26.120
from Jason Whitlock. Pride Parades are not for children. Obviously, they're filled with leather
00:38:34.880
daddies and all sorts of sexually deviant people performing sexually deviant acts in public. Those
00:38:41.660
are obviously not for kids. And if you talk to any of the people who aren't so twisted in their head,
00:38:48.000
who aren't completely lost, and you said, hey, do you think a 10-year-old should be at this thing?
00:38:52.080
They would probably admit, no, it's probably not really appropriate. But we cannot, in public life,
00:39:00.340
we cannot simply tolerate things. This is one of the weaknesses of liberalism, the modern kind and
00:39:08.180
the classical kind. One of the weaknesses of liberalism is that it pretends that the public
00:39:12.600
square is neutral, and we can all just tolerate everything, and it won't affect our public life,
00:39:16.280
and that's not true. People have noticed that we've gone from moral opprobrium for the weird sex stuff
00:39:23.720
to then for about five minutes, we tolerated it, and then instantly it became mandatory celebration.
00:39:28.760
It's not just, hey, tolerate me. Hey, include me now. It's you have to celebrate me. You have to put
00:39:33.500
the pride flag on your shirt. You need to put the special square on social media. You've got to
00:39:39.160
actively celebrate it. And that's because that's how politics works. In order to have a republic,
00:39:48.040
which republic comes from race public, the stuff we've got in common, then we've got to have those
00:39:53.060
things in common, and we've got to have sacred things in common. We've got to exalt certain
00:39:59.940
things. We've got to cast down other things. We have to have taboos, taboos that are very high,
00:40:04.980
taboos that are very low and disgusting. And we have to come to some agreement on that.
00:40:12.500
The pride parades are sick and disturbing, and they should be illegal everywhere.
00:40:17.300
And because there's no way to have the pride parade on Main Street and say that the kids
00:40:23.340
aren't allowed to come. Because when you do that, then you're admitting that they're obscene and
00:40:26.940
perverted. And when you admit that, then you've undercut your argument for having them on Main
00:40:32.580
Street, right in the public square. So there's not going to be some squishy, weak, lukewarm middle
00:40:39.320
ground here, okay? And when you talk to the young people, I talked to a member of Congress
00:40:43.120
not all that long ago. And I couldn't believe how deluded he was on this question. He said,
00:40:48.960
you know, I've always, he's a very good member of Congress. I really like the guy.
00:40:53.380
But he said, you know, I just assume young people are kind of more libertarian. That's what I assume.
00:40:58.240
I don't think that's true. The young people that I talk to are way more hardcore. They have way more
00:41:03.080
moral clarity and way more courage than the kind of boomer conservatives who are largely just about
00:41:09.140
cut my taxes and leave me alone. Because they see it, because they realize the consequences of it.
00:41:14.340
And we didn't have to deal with the immediate consequences during the age of Aquarius. We
00:41:17.500
certainly do. Now, speaking of public celebrations, Drew Barrymore really stepped in it. Oh, yes,
00:41:22.880
she did. Drew Barrymore, beloved film and TV star, very well. I don't know anyone who doesn't like
00:41:29.280
Drew Barrymore. She just posted a TikTok of herself frolicking in the rain. And a black identity
00:41:36.220
activist got very, very upset by it. You and I both know that you are capable of enjoying the rain
00:41:49.860
and frolicking freely without filming it and then posting it to TikTok. Now, you've just co-signed,
00:41:58.320
okay, you've just co-signed at least three million 8.5 by 11 front and back people who just go out of
00:42:07.860
their way to disrespect and dismiss the boundaries that black creators have set. And now you're one of
00:42:16.520
those people. So, I guess my question would be, why? Why is it so important to all of you
00:42:37.700
Yeah, Drew. Yeah, Drew Barrymore. Why did you have to be so mean to black people by
00:42:45.180
frolicking in the rain? When I first saw this clip, I thought it had to be satire.
00:42:53.740
Maybe it is, but I don't think it is. And the woman isn't making any argument. I was trying,
00:43:01.460
I've listened to it multiple times now. I don't hear any argument. I hear words that are being said
00:43:06.440
in succession, but I don't see any of them forming a coherent English sentence.
00:43:11.880
But she's got the tone of an argument. It'd be like saying, pineapple microphone,
00:43:19.240
pineapple gibbety-goobbledy, gibbledy-goobbledy-gobbledy-glass, glass, wood, up, down, green,
00:43:28.380
purple, hammer. I've got the tone and the inflection of an argument, but I'm just saying gibberish.
00:43:35.020
That's what that woman is doing because it's really representative, actually, of how the left
00:43:40.340
is conducting politics because they're not making arguments that refer to the real meaning of words,
00:43:47.760
that use words in the correct way. That's what you hear when Karine Jean-Pierre calls everyone
00:43:52.620
fascists but can't point to any definition of fascism. That's what you see with political
00:43:56.620
correctness when the libs just change the meaning of all the words, sometimes multiple times in a
00:44:00.760
single sentence. Because it's not about any logical argument. It's all just about power.
00:44:08.160
That video, what that comes down to is white people, bad. Black people, good. White people do
00:44:15.780
what black people tell white people to do. That's all that really means. If you can pretend that
00:44:21.260
frolicking in the rain is a race issue and that you have the right, because of your race, to tell
00:44:26.180
someone else because of her race not to frolic in the rain, then all you're saying is you, as a result
00:44:32.420
of your race, need to be subservient to me as a result of my race. That's all that means.
00:44:36.400
It's about power. And that's what all of this is about. You're seeing a similar argument from
00:44:40.960
not just some kook on TikTok, but from some kook running for the United States Senate.
00:44:45.300
The Democrat candidate for Senate in Wisconsin, Jesse Mandela Barnes, has just argued that national
00:44:53.840
parks are, you guessed it, racist. Quote, it's important to create more welcoming spaces because
00:45:00.880
things haven't always felt welcome. And that's historical, just that perspective, given the
00:45:05.780
fact that national parks weren't made for the enjoyment of people who weren't white.
00:45:10.120
National parks are built on land that was indigenous. Things were bad. Things were terrible.
00:45:17.060
The founding of this nation, awful, he says. But you know, we are here now and we should commit
00:45:22.320
ourselves to do everything we can to repair the harm because it still exists and it's colonization
00:45:27.220
and slavery. So the claim he's making is right there in the middle. He says, the founding of this
00:45:34.580
nation, awful. And the proof of this is that racism is everywhere. And you can't see it.
00:45:40.900
It's in the parks. Okay. Where is it? Can you point to that in history? Can you point to that
00:45:45.540
right now in the parks? Do they have a whites only water fountain in the parks? No, but it's race.
00:45:51.220
It's, it's, it's all bad. America's all bad. And then the language we use for bad is race. It's the
00:45:56.900
worst. It's, it's the worst thing you can possibly be called in America is racist. So everything has to
00:46:02.820
be tied back to it. Even things that have absolutely nothing to do with race, like national parks and
00:46:07.220
frolicking in the rain. But all that that is about is power and it's power aimed at a very specific
00:46:13.700
target, namely the traditional American political order. The founding of this country, awful.
00:46:20.940
And it's all awful. And the word we're going to give to what's awful about it is racism. Even
00:46:25.520
though things, a lot of these things have absolutely nothing to do with race. And that's
00:46:28.560
our argument for why everything needs to be overturned. All the traditions overturned.
00:46:32.000
It's overturned. And anyone who defends the traditional American order, anyone who waves
00:46:35.620
an American flag, I guess at this point, mostly just Republicans, they need to be exterminated.
00:46:42.060
They need to be attacked in their homes. They need to be pushed back on in public. They need to be
00:46:47.020
kept from, from exercising their free speech rights. They need to be kept from speaking in the public
00:46:51.540
square and voting. They need to be ostracized. And sometimes we need a little violence to be inflicted
00:46:56.040
on them. That is the argument from the libs right now. The rest of the show is going to continue.
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song about the gospel and taking some of your questions and comments in the member chat.
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