Ep. 1087 - Biden Throws A Party For Destroying The Economy
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When things look bleak, Joe Biden summons James Taylor to play a song about inflation. It's the perfect metaphor for the entire Democratic Party's failure to get over the 60s, and how they're doing it all over again.
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Joe Biden is in trouble, and he knows it. The writing has been on the wall for a while.
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The record inflation, the dismal growth, the open border, the drugs, the crime.
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We all can sense that the country is in free fall. But now we know it for sure,
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because Joe Biden has done what Democrats always do when things look bleakest.
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He's pulled out James Taylor to play a random ditty for reporters.
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Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
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At Joe Biden's press conference on the preposterously titled Inflation Reduction Act,
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which does not reduce inflation, it actually increases inflation, the president opened the
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questions with the same aging hippie that his party trotted out back in 2015 after the Obama
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administration had caused an international scandal by offending the French.
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Winter, spring, summer, or fall. All you got to do is call. And I will be there, yes, I'll be there.
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When people can be so cold, they'll hurt you, yes, and desert you. They'll take your soul if you let them.
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Why do they keep doing this? Why James Taylor? It's so weird. I actually like James Taylor, but
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it's so weird. And no boomer folk singer, no matter how talented, can paper over a national
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or international political crisis. In many ways, this is the perfect metaphor for the entire
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Democrat Party. The Libs just never got over the 60s. They never got over the 60s. Back in the 60s,
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the Libs thought they were on the brink of utopia. The cultural revolution was going to usher in
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the sunny days of the age of Aquarius. And it just didn't happen. Their schemes all failed.
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The 60s did not usher in utopia. The 60s just gave us the 70s. Crime, drugs, family breakdown,
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an energy crisis, a stagnant economy, and runaway inflation. Sound familiar?
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But the Libs stuck to their guns. And now they are proving a maxim of that OG pinko himself,
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Karl Marx. History repeats itself. First is tragedy. Now is farce. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is from Margaret Butler,
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who says, how can the border be secure and broken at the same time? Kamala Harris makes no sense. Yes,
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this is what they do. They say the border is very secure and it's totally broken and we need to fix it.
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And they can do that because what they're saying is the border is secure for the purposes of us doing
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our job. But the border is in crisis for the purposes of us getting Republicans to give us more
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of what we want. It's actually the same logic that John Roberts used when he heard the Obamacare
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case. Obamacare posed a difficulty for the Libs at the Supreme Court because if Obamacare presented
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a penalty for not buying the insurance, then it was unconstitutional. But if Obamacare was just a tax,
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then the court didn't have the right to hear the case yet because the tax hadn't gone into effect
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because the way Obamacare was built was that you got all the goodies. The government spent the money
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10 years before the tax went into effect so that there wasn't too much political pressure to kill
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the bill. So all of that as background, the Supreme Court was between a rock and a hard place. What did
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they do? They said, okay, Obamacare is a penalty for the purposes of hearing the case, but it's a tax for
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the purposes of deciding the case. And that's what the Libs do too. They just move those goalposts
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expressvpn.com slash nulls. What a sad press conference to try to defend this stupid bill
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that obviously isn't working. And it wasn't just James Taylor that made it ridiculous. It actually
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only occurs to me now, what is James Taylor's nickname? James Taylor's nickname, one of his most
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famous songs. Sweet Baby James. Good Night, You Moonlight Ladies, rock it by Sweet Baby James. Is
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he telling us something? Have the libs been wrong this whole time? Is James Taylor a secret
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conservative? Is he a Matt Walsh fan? I don't know. I don't know. Either way, it wasn't the most
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ridiculous part of the press conference. The most ridiculous and hilarious part of the press
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conference is when Joe Biden was celebrating the Inflation Reduction Act as the stock market
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tumbled. This couldn't have happened without every single one of you. And that's in the literal sense
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the Dow is down almost 1,300 points. Every single one was required. It's still dropping. Because the
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other team didn't want to play. And all our distinguished guests, CEOs, advocates, activists,
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thank you for joining us. What a great day. Exactly four weeks ago today, I signed the Inflation
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Reduction Act in the law. What a great day. The stock market's down 4%. The stock market is in
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freefall right now. I just signed the Inflation Reduction Act. Very, very awkward when Joe Biden
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is attempting to celebrate his economic bill, his big economic bill to save the economy.
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While you're on the very same screen, can watch the economy in freefall. And you say, well, Joe,
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I'm hearing your words, but with my own eyes, I'm seeing it isn't working. The numbers don't lie.
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Joe Biden does lie. The White House does lie. But the numbers don't lie. The bill is not going to
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do anything about inflation. If it does anything, it's going to make inflation worse.
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That's not just a Republican talking point. Even Bernie Sanders said that at the time that the
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bill was being debated. It's not going to do anything about that. It's not helping the economy.
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The economy continues to collapse. And so what can the White House do? All the White House can do
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is lie. And they're not just lying about the economy or inflation or jobs or whatever. They're lying
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about virtually every issue. Look at the southern border, a pretty much completely unrelated issue,
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but another major crisis under Joe Biden. We've got the largest number of foreign people for illegal
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foreign nationals coming across that border over 2 million this year, it's going to be. And so what
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does Corrine Jean-Pierre, the White House press secretary do? She says, nope, no, no, that's,
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that's not happening. Compare that to the Trump administration, which largely just tried to
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build a wall, an ineffective wall along the border and couldn't even finish that in four years.
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We're certainly doing a lot more to secure the border and could be doing even more if Republicans
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would stop their obstruction. So the story now from the White House is
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the White House wants to stop illegal immigration. It's just the Republicans won't let them.
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The Republic, you'll recall the Republicans come into office led by Trump in 2016 on a platform that
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was in many ways centered around building the wall and stopping illegal immigration. The Republicans
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succeeded at doing that for the first months of the Trump presidency. And you saw illegal immigration
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numbers plummet, but then the Democrats kept throwing all of these impediments, screamed their
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heads off to stop him from building the wall. And then the numbers started to go back up because
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they obstructed Trump the whole time. And then Biden comes in, he, he gets rid of what little law
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enforcement Trump had instituted at the border. And then the numbers, what do you expect? The numbers
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go straight back up. And now that's a big problem and it's deeply unpopular. So what's the White House
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doing? They're not changing the policy at all. They're, they're just lying about it. And they,
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they think that we're going to buy it. It actually, this demonstrates that same principle at the top
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of the show. It's the same kind of language they used with the border back when, when Trump tried
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to build the wall. They said, walls don't work and they're extremely cruel and inhumane.
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They said, well, which is it? If the wall, if the wall doesn't work, then it's not cruel and
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inhumane. It's not stopping anybody from doing anything. If the wall is extremely cruel and
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inhumane and it's preventing these poor people from crossing into our country, then obviously
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the walls work. Which is it? Well, they say it's, it's either one, either of these two contradictory
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ideas, according to the political convenience of Democrats. So that's all they can do. They can
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just lie. And if the lies don't work, and I don't think people are really going to be convinced by
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this, people know that we've got illegal aliens pouring into the country. You now have people in
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blue cities admitting this because the red state governors in Arizona and Texas are busing a very
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small percentage of the illegal aliens crossing into the country, busing them to DC and New York
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and Chicago and all the blue state mayors who, and blue city mayors who had previously said,
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oh, we're a sanctuary cities. Please welcome, welcome those people. Diversity is our strength.
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No human is illegal. Now, the minute that the illegal aliens actually show up, they're saying,
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this is horrible. It's a strain on our resources. Stop doing it. Please stop. So people know
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that's happening, no matter what the White House is saying. People know that the economy
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is collapsing. They know it because they've got retirement plans. They know it because
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they got their money in the stock market. Even if they don't have a retirement plan or money in the
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stock market, they know it because they have to fill up their cars. They know it because they have
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to go to the grocery store and they see that the prices are at 40 year highs. Okay. So when the lies
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don't work, then the libs are left with only one option. And it's at one option that you are seeing
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them exercise more and more vociferously in recent weeks. And that option is to threaten people. And
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you're seeing that now from Tim Ryan. He's running for Senate in Ohio. He's saying, not only do we need
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to stop these Republicans from getting elected, not only do we need to expose their lies, not only even do
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we need to investigate the Republicans. He's saying that Democrats need to kill
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MAGA voters. They need to kill the MAGA movement.
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to ensure your title is still in your name. Tim Ryan, Democrat, not just a Democrat candidate
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for Senate, but the Democrat nominee is calling to kill us. How do we fix all of these broken
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systems? Some of those answers will come from Republicans. It's not the extremists that we're
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dealing with every single day. We've got to kill and confront that movement. But, you know, working
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with normal mainstream Republicans, I think that's going to be really, really important because we have
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to reform these systems. Do we need to kill the, now notice what he says. He says, not the mainstream
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Republicans, I'm just talking about the MAGA Republicans. But this is a ridiculous rhetorical
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trick because statistically all Republicans are MAGA Republicans. Donald Trump got elected president
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at least once. He was the Republican nominee for president twice and very likely will be again.
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He is leading in the polls by a huge margin right now. The never Trump movement is pretty much just
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like five guys who meet for lunch at Bill Kristol's house at this point. So the, not only the mainstream
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Republicans, but pretty much every Republican is a MAGA Republican. And what the Democrats are saying is
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we want to not only oppose the Republicans, namely half the country, we want to do violence to them.
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They're terrorists. They're like Al-Qaeda. They're an extreme existential threat to our sacred
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democracy. We want to kill them. We want to, we want to kill you. That's what, that's what they're
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telling us. And they're trying to give themselves a little out by pretending there's some other giant
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group of anti-Trump Republicans, but that, that doesn't exist. That's completely fake.
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What they're saying is we want to kill you half the country.
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And, and it's not just Tim Ryan. It's all these people who are comparing us to terrorists and
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calling us fascists and saying that our very existence poses a threat to the country. It's,
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it's Joe Biden. It's Hillary Clinton. It's Kamala Harris. It's the people on CNN. It's Dino Bidaya.
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It's all these other people. Now, speaking of violence, there's a video that's gone viral right
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now. And it's a video from some school where kids, some kids are beating up another kid and the kid,
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there's one kid in particular who's beating up one other kid in particular. And then there's a group
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of kids standing around, one of whom is filming. And in the video, the kid who, the kid beating up the
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other kid is black. The kid getting beaten up is white. And the kids all standing around and filming
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all seem to be black as well. It's a horrible, horrible video, but it is basically everywhere
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on the internet right now. You see the kid, the kid throws the poor kid's head into a wall. The kid's
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now grabbing his neck. He walks up, kicks him in the face. I mean, just savage, absolute animal kind
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of behavior. And the kid who's doing the beating is bad enough, savage enough. In a way, the kid who's
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filming it is even worse. Maybe the kid who's doing the beating is just like some rabid dog who can't
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control his own emotions. But the kid who's doing the filming is clearly much more methodical about it,
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has thought this thing out. And it's just awful. Your heart breaks for this poor little kid who's been
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beaten up. I hope the kid is okay. Obviously, we can all pray for the poor little kid who was beaten
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up. And we can hope that justice is done for the savages who are committing the crime.
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The reason I bring it up, though, the reason I bring up specifically the racial terms is we all
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know for a fact that if the races were reversed, not only would this be spoken of on all of the news
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networks. This wouldn't just be going viral on the internet. This would be on every news network.
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The president would speak about it. There would be a national month of mourning. There would be riots
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in the streets. There might be a presidential address. There might be a presidential address
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about how we need to have a national conversation about race. And we all know that that would happen.
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And the reason I bring this up again is not to point out the hypocrisy and say,
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if the roles were reversed, that's actually not my point here. Because could you imagine if the
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roles were reversed is how conservatism is going to die? Because it's just, of course, it's hypocritical.
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The left knows it. They don't care. That's, yes. Uh-huh. You're not telling them anything they
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don't already know. The reason I mention it, the reason I even show that awful clip, is because
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because of the strength of narrative. Because if the roles were reversed, it's not just the libs who
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would cynically exploit it in the way that they're ignoring this clip. You would feel it too.
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You conservative people, you conservative people all throughout the country, sea to shining sea in
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every city, in every state, of every race, of every demographic group, you would feel it a little bit
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too. Such is the power of narrative. This is how there were plenty of people who were kind of center
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right, friends I know who would call themselves conservatives, who started to get sucked into the
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George Floyd stuff, who posted the BLM black square, who fall into this because it is the narrative that
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is drilled into us everywhere from every cultural institution and from the government and in our
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education system and in the media and just everywhere. And so we might know, yeah, statistically, this
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isn't real. Statistically, racist cops chasing down black men, it just doesn't exist. Lock that one away
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with Bigfoot. It's totally not real. We know that on an intellectual level, but such is the power of
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narrative. Even the centrists, even the center right, even some conservatives would feel that
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instinctively. Mentioning BLM, mentioning George Floyd and racial politics, there was a great, really
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incisive commentary from Sophie Corcoran, who's British. She's on GBTV, a conservative channel in
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Great Britain. She said, quote, Dear Americans who mock us for mourning our beloved queen, she dedicated her
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entire life to her duty and our country, even just two days before her death. You mourned a man who pointed a
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gun at a pregnant woman by burning cities to the ground. We are not the same. Harsh, but fair.
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What she's saying is, you're all laughing at us because you think it is ridiculous that we hold
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the queen sacred. You hold criminals as sacred. You think it's ridiculous that we have all this pomp and
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circumstance for her royal majesty, the queen. You had pomp and circumstance. You had four funerals
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that one of which was attended by the soon to be president, Joe Biden, for a criminal who resisted
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arrest and died of some combination of police force, possibly of police force and a fentanyl overdose
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because he had a toxic level of drugs in his system. Which is more ridiculous? You think that
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we've got this kind of crazy, sacred thing that we venerate and we pay respect to? Well, you've got
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them to, you're just not aware of it and yours are much more ridiculous. This is actually why I'm
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cautiously hopeful about King Charles III. Charles has been an object of derision for many years by
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conservatives because he says all sorts of kooky, weird environmentalist stuff. And he pals around with
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Klaus Schwab and he talks about the great reset. And there, there are plenty of red flags and warning
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signs. I'm not denying that, but there was a video that went around that was making the rounds after
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Queen Elizabeth died. And it made me wonder, is Charles a little bit more conservative than we
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all think? It's Charles describing tradition. The teachings of the traditionalists should not
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in any sense, in any sense, be taken to mean that they seek, as it were, to repeat the past, or indeed
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simply to draw a distinction between the present and the past. Theirs is not a nostalgia for the past,
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but a yearning for the sacred. And if they defend the past, it is because in the pre-modern world,
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all civilizations were marked by the presence of the sacred. As I understand it, in referring to
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tradition, they refer to a metaphysical reality and to underlying principles that are timeless,
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as true now as they have ever been and will be.
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Absolutely brilliant. And, and, and evidence that this guy, this kind of weird lib sounding guy who
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prattles on about global warming and pals around the World Economic Forum, this guy gets conservatism
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better than probably 70% of American conservatives or more. Because he's saying,
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and certainly better than all the libs do, he's saying traditionalism, you know, conservatism is not
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about a nostalgia for the past. Nostalgia is history after a few drinks, okay? When, when we make an
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idol out of the past, we're, we're really being saccharine and sentimental. The past was not nearly
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as great as we all like to imagine. We sometimes think that our childhood was the greatest period
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in all of human history. We think that because we were little kids and we didn't have any
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responsibilities and we had the comfort of our parents. And, and so, no, it's not just about this
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nostalgic yearning for the past. It is a longing for the sacred. It's a longing not for dusty old
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things. It's a longing for things that are timeless, that are ageless ideals. The tradition is not some
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dusty old thing. It's, it's the most vibrant thing in the world because it's that which has endured
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through so many years and decades and centuries and millennia even into the present. That it's those
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truths and institutions that the libs are attacking and trying to destroy. It's those sacred things
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that they are desecrating. And, and, and that is what keeps conservatives up at night.
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The libs want to attack the sacred. That's what it's all about. Because for the libs,
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at least when they begin their revolution, nothing is sacred. All the holy taboos that we have,
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they desecrate. You think one of the most famous pieces of lib art in recent decades was something
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called Piss Christ, and it was a photograph funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, I believe,
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funded with your taxpayer dollars, a photograph of a crucifix in a jar of piss.
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And he called it Piss Christ. Obviously, completely worthless as a matter of art,
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but it was part of a political movement. And the political movement is to take everything that we
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hold sacred and destroy it. The family, we hold the family sacred, they're going to destroy that.
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The Bible, we hold the Bible to be sacred, yeah, that's going to be banned from public schools.
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You can't teach that. You can teach Mein Kampf, you can teach genderqueer, you can have gay porn
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in middle schools. No Bible. You can't teach that. Because you hold that sacred,
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and the libs want to destroy that. Whatever, you're very nation, you're very country,
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you hold your country to some degree sacred. Yeah, we're going to get rid of those borders,
00:26:09.620
absolutely. We're going to ship your industry overseas, we're going to import millions of
00:26:14.260
foreigners a year. That's gone. Absolutely not. And especially in the question of sex,
00:26:18.960
which is so important to human nature, anything you hold sacred about sex, the idea of monogamy,
00:26:25.400
the idea of chastity, the idea of, I don't know, not having weird deviants in the street marching
00:26:33.480
around in leather girdles and things up and down Main Street while your kids watch.
00:26:39.120
The idea of not having transvestites jiggle around for little kids at the library. Just in any way
00:26:46.460
that sex might be held to be something that we take care of, that we hold sacred. No,
00:26:52.400
that has to be destroyed. And it has to be destroyed for younger and younger audiences,
00:26:56.640
not just for adults, but for teenagers, not just for teenagers, for little, little kids.
00:27:01.280
They have to do that. And then what's the consequence of that?
00:27:03.940
The consequence is not that nothing is held sacred. The consequence is that they hold new
00:27:08.780
things sacred, destructive things. We once held innocence to be sacred. Now we hold criminality
00:27:15.180
to be sacred. We've got those poor criminals, those poor beleaguered criminals. We need to let
00:27:19.360
them out of prison. John Fetterman, who is running for Senate in Pennsylvania, he says if he had a magic
00:27:24.800
wand, the first thing he would do would be to let murderers out of prison. This actually brings us to
00:27:29.940
Dr. Oz, because I hate this Senate race in Pennsylvania. I hate it. The Democrat is a radical
00:27:38.000
socialist with actual brain damage. I don't say that to be funny. The guy had a stroke and he refuses
00:27:43.980
to go into rehab for it because he's on the campaign trail. He wants to win and he can't string a
00:27:48.640
sentence together. And he's obviously in terrible, terrible health. And when he was in relatively
00:27:54.980
better health, he was a radical socialist. He has never held an honest job in his life. He's just
00:28:00.960
lived off his parents' allowance, which was up to over $50,000 at one point a year. So terrible,
00:28:07.900
terrible candidate. And then the Republican candidate is Dr. Oz. The Republican candidate is
00:28:14.520
pretty much a Democrat who I'm not even convinced lives in Pennsylvania. He was just a glib TV host,
00:28:20.500
sort of quack. And the most prominent political statements he's made in recent years were attacking
00:28:25.800
pro-lifers and now actively campaigning for enshrining gay marriage, so-called radical
00:28:33.520
redefinition of marriage into law. Dr. Oz just tweeted out, quote, I'm proud to join this effort
00:28:38.540
with fellow Republicans. I believe that same-sex couples should have the freedom to get married as
00:28:43.920
straight couples. The same freedom. Okay, first of all, homosexuals or people with any kind of
00:28:50.240
unusual sexual desire have always had the freedom and the right to get married. Always, for all of
00:28:56.100
human history. Because marriage intrinsically involves sexual difference. Two men cannot get
00:29:02.780
married to one another because that isn't what marriage is. And it never can be what marriage is.
00:29:07.520
If marriage is to have any meaning at all, it must involve sexual difference.
00:29:13.920
Or else there is no way of distinguishing marriage from any other social bond. Then it just becomes
00:29:20.380
a kind of financial partnership. It's no different than starting a small business. Then it becomes
00:29:27.420
sort of like an LLC. Okay, there is, if marriage is not the union of a man and a woman in perpetuity
00:29:35.740
for the sake of the generation and education of children, then I just don't know what marriage is.
00:29:43.160
Then there's no way really of defining it. My issue here is not that Dr. Oz, who's in a kind of purple
00:29:49.240
state, who's obviously a squish. It's not even that he's squishing on an issue. It's not even that he's
00:29:56.200
squishing on an issue as important, as fundamental as marriage, which is the fundamental building block
00:30:01.760
of society. It's that he's not even passively supporting it. He's not even just keeping his
00:30:08.860
mouth shut. He is actively campaigning to enshrine into law, federal law, one of the most radical
00:30:19.500
decisions, if not the single most radical decision ever handed down by the Supreme Court. He's actively
00:30:25.960
doing that. I have no evidence that Dr. Oz is even vaguely, slightly, in any way, a conservative on
00:30:37.680
any issue. All I know about him is that he makes fun of pro-lifers and attacks people for passing
00:30:44.960
pro-life laws, and that he holds a view of marriage that is so radical. It would be too radical for
00:30:51.640
Barack Obama in 2010. It would be too radical for Hillary Clinton around the same time. That's all
00:30:57.160
I know about him. And so I think, what's the point of electing him? Now, I know the point. I know the
00:31:01.060
point. I suggested this yesterday, and everyone yelled at me, but I think it's because they didn't
00:31:05.200
read what I said closely enough. I said, if I were in Pennsylvania, I would strongly consider staying
00:31:09.800
home when it comes to Dr. Oz. Sure, vote for the other Republicans, but when it comes to Dr. Oz,
00:31:16.520
I would strongly consider not voting for him. I didn't say I wouldn't vote for him. I'm saying
00:31:22.220
I would strongly consider it. Because this guy is such a loser. He's such a Democrat loser. It's
00:31:29.820
pathetic. He's running a terrible campaign. He's wrong on some of the most important issues. He just
00:31:37.240
is terrible. He's just an awful candidate. And I keep trying to get myself to say, hey, well,
00:31:41.900
here's the bright side. Here's one thing. He's got nothing. The guy's a complete buffoon.
00:31:47.040
Loser. But what's the alternative? The alternative is John Fetterman. Now,
00:31:52.100
if the Republicans were going to hold the Senate, let's say we had been in control and we were going
00:31:58.200
to hold the Senate, or we had a good electoral map and it looked like we were going to win the
00:32:02.900
Senate with a healthy margin, I would say, okay, lose the Senate seat in Pennsylvania. That's what I
00:32:11.560
would say. I would say if we were going to have 53-47 Republicans, we had plenty of safe seats,
00:32:17.680
and it was the difference between 53-47 and 52-48 in the Senate, I'd say lose the Senate seat in
00:32:24.120
Pennsylvania. The guy, one, look, conservatives are either social conservatives or they're not
00:32:30.160
conservatives at all. I was at the National Conservatism Conference yesterday. Father Benedict
00:32:33.500
Keeley made that very important point. And even in the purple states, at least keep your mouth shut
00:32:38.840
on these issues. At least kind of go soft. Don't actively campaign in this radical way. Okay,
00:32:43.280
fine. But I know, I know. Look, Pennsylvania could be, could be the deciding factor.
00:32:50.060
And John Fetterman is particularly radical. And Pennsylvania could be the deciding factor.
00:32:58.220
So I guess, I guess, I guess people should vote for Dr. Oz. I guess. He's just such a loser.
00:33:05.240
It's not even, you know, I just called him a buffoon. It's not even that he's a buffoon.
00:33:09.880
It's worse than that. He's probably too intelligent to be a buffoon. He's just a big lib. He's just a big
00:33:17.400
squish lib running a terrible campaign as a radical leftist Democrat circa 2014.
00:33:27.300
And it's just so pathetic. And I think, oh, that's what the conservatives are? Whatever. Give it to
00:33:31.320
the Democrats. If you're, if you're telling me I can get a Democrat who is 700% more radical than they
00:33:40.720
were seven years ago, or 650% more radical than they were seven years ago. Okay, give me the Democrat.
00:33:47.260
I don't care. I want a choice, not an echo. And Dr. Oz is nothing but an echo. All of that said,
00:33:53.120
all of that said, Pennsylvania could be the deciding factor between Republicans having the
00:34:00.180
Senate or Democrats having the Senate. And the Republicans having the Senate could be the
00:34:05.100
deciding factor in stopping Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominees. We've got some older conservative
00:34:09.120
justices on the court. And so as a matter of just sheer resignation, I guess if I, if look,
00:34:18.100
you're for those listening in Pennsylvania, you got to vote how you want to vote. I guess if I were in
00:34:22.340
Pennsylvania, I would, I guess I would lean toward voting for Dr. Oz, but he's just such a loser.
00:34:32.480
I don't expect him to win. Maybe he'll win. Maybe he'll pull it out because Fetterman is such a
00:34:37.300
terrible candidate. And because Joe Biden is so deeply unpopular, because things are going so
00:34:41.480
horribly. But you know what I would like though? Here's what I would ask. If I were a voter in
00:34:45.200
Pennsylvania and I were talking to Dr. Oz, I would say, Hey, Dr. Oz, can you give me
00:34:50.060
any even slight hint of a suggestion that you even would be the swing vote to the Republicans?
00:34:58.260
I'm not even convinced you'd be that. I'm not even convinced if it really came down to it,
00:35:02.240
you had to be the deciding vote that you wouldn't just squish and vote with the Dems on the important
00:35:05.660
issues on holding up the Supreme Court nominees on any issue. So can you just give me, just don't
00:35:12.340
make me look like such an idiot voting for you. Could you just give me anything, man? I don't know
00:35:18.960
that he can. It's pathetic. It's so pathetic. He's my, he's my least favorite Republican running in
00:35:24.220
this. It's so sad. So there weren't great options. General, I thought I liked Kathy Barnett. There
00:35:30.220
weren't generally, it wasn't one of these huge fields where you, but it's like, why do you have
00:35:35.380
to, why do you have to run as an activist leftist Democrat? Good grief. It all depends on, it all
00:35:43.240
depends on the map. Luckily, we're getting some good news out of Georgia that the Republicans might,
00:35:48.380
might be able to avoid grabbing defeat from the jaws of victory as they so often do.
00:35:55.420
Speaking of victory, if you've been thinking to yourself, hey, you know, it's, it's, well,
00:36:02.700
actually before I get to Candace Owens, thinking of victory, I don't know if you've been following
00:36:07.220
the fantasy football draft at the Daily Wire. I happen to be the football king. My team is called
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Team Nostradamus, and I am really pleased to say that my predictive powers, my powers of near
00:36:20.440
prophecy, they stretch not only from, into the realm of politics, they also go into the realm of sports.
00:36:28.480
I am winning. I am beating all the Craney Company guys. I'm beating Matt. I'm beating Drew. I'm beating
00:36:33.980
Ben. I'm beating Bickley. I'm beating everybody, okay? I am a football maven, and I think you could
00:36:40.540
probably tell that from my build, you know, and, and you could probably tell that from my just sheer
00:36:46.240
sort of Adonis-like athleticism, but follow, you know, follow the fantasy football. I've never
00:36:53.020
watched a complete NFL game, but I, I am going to win that golden tumbler. Also, if you've been,
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Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Good news out of Georgia. After all this,
00:37:37.720
just, I'm just going to bang my head against a wall looking at Dr. Oz and the ridiculous race in
00:37:42.980
Pennsylvania. How do you lose to Fetterman? I don't know. It's not looking great though. There's
00:37:47.740
some good news though in Georgia. Herschel Walker is doing very, very well. He's gaining speed in the
00:37:54.000
Georgia Senate race over Raphael Warnock, who is a much stronger candidate, by the way, the Democrat.
00:37:59.980
He also is a socialist. He's a radical. And he, he is much better on the campaign trail,
00:38:07.020
obviously, than John Fetterman is. But Herschel Walker is gaining a ton of ground here. According
00:38:13.020
to a poll conducted by Insider Advantage and Fox 5, Warnock has lost four points since July.
00:38:21.320
Herschel has picked up two points. So that means that Herschel is now leading Warnock 47-44.
00:38:28.300
Now, do I love those numbers? No. 47-44 means it's still anybody's race,
00:38:33.880
but the momentum is clearly with Herschel Walker. And the momentum is not with Raphael Warnock.
00:38:40.080
Even though Warnock is a much better candidate than, than John Fetterman, for instance, in
00:38:45.600
Pennsylvania. How's Herschel Walker doing it? Well, I think one of the ways he's doing it is he's not
00:38:50.680
sucking up to the libs on every issue. Dr. Oz, this show, I'm going to retitle this show, Dr. Oz,
00:38:56.780
stop blowing it. Why? Why? Why? You know what Herschel Walker is doing? He's being normal. He's
00:39:05.940
just being a normal guy. One of the knocks against Herschel Walker's candidacy was,
00:39:10.760
Herschel Walker, he doesn't know a lot about politics. He's not some egghead, you know,
00:39:14.640
sort of policy wonk. He is just a very famous athlete. Yeah, he's a very famous athlete who is,
00:39:21.740
seems pretty solid on the issues. I don't know, haven't sat down with Herschel Walker at length,
00:39:26.960
but he seems like he's pretty solid, good old conservative candidate. And he's normal.
00:39:32.480
Okay, and this is something that the Republicans are going to have to think about when we look
00:39:36.700
ahead to 2024. Because the people who are paying attention right now to the 2024 horse race,
00:39:43.600
or the people who are listening to this show, or the people who are reading up on the political
00:39:48.860
reports, or the people who know exactly what's going on in the economy and criminal justice and
00:39:52.960
immigration. And that is unusual. Okay, I'm not saying that to flatter you, the people who are
00:39:58.040
listening to this show. You are very high information voters. And I'm not saying it in a way to say I'm
00:40:04.460
just giving you all this truth, though obviously I am. I just mean, if you pay attention really at all
00:40:10.940
to politics, especially in off years, you just are a high information voter. Okay, and a lot of people,
00:40:17.680
maybe most people, are not. They're doing other things. And so when we're looking for candidates,
00:40:23.880
it's really good to get candidates who are normal. Okay? This is one advantage that Donald
00:40:32.220
Trump has. Is he normal in the sense that he's just like your average Joe on the street? No,
00:40:37.700
of course not. In many ways, Donald Trump is extremely unusual. He was born very, very wealthy.
00:40:42.160
He's been a major international celebrity for 40 years. He flies around on a gigantic airplane
00:40:46.780
and sleeps with supermodels. And he, you know, no. But the way he approaches politics
00:40:52.380
is pretty normal. Okay? And he talks to people in a normal way. And that, I think, is what we've
00:40:59.180
got to focus on. Sometimes you get political candidates like Dr. Oz, who are just spending
00:41:05.660
all their time sucking up to beltway Democrat people who really don't represent America. There's
00:41:10.100
a huge chasm between the liberal elite right now and ordinary Americans. And the Democrats know
00:41:15.540
that. That's why the Democrats are lying and threatening ordinary Americans and calling
00:41:18.460
us an existential threat to the country. So if you have to choose, you're running for office,
00:41:25.040
would you choose to side with the extremely out of touch and unpopular liberal elite? Or would you
00:41:29.480
choose to side with ordinary people? That's a no-brainer, I guess, unless you're Dr. Oz.
00:41:35.460
So that's one way that the Republican candidates stop being normal. You get someone like Asa Hutchinson
00:41:40.000
is the governor of Arkansas. And he refuses to sign a bill that will prevent quacks from
00:41:47.380
transing little kids. Not even stopping transgender surgery generally, just transing the little kids.
00:41:52.340
He goes, no, no, that's far too far. That's right. Because he is just beholden to liberal elite
00:41:58.420
consensus, which is completely detached from ordinary people. That's one way they do it.
00:42:04.180
And then the other way they do it, that conservatives get really, really weird,
00:42:07.700
is they get super ideological. And they say, well, actually, here's my five bullet point plan for
00:42:13.160
how I'm going to just completely remake all of the public policy in America to have my ideal,
00:42:18.800
I don't know, capitalist utopia or this or that or this. And it's just really strange. And when
00:42:23.960
they get extremely beholden to ideological platitudes, that turns people off too. This is why
00:42:30.440
it was my favorite line from Trump in 2016. And it was the one that irritated all of the
00:42:36.140
egghead four eyes conservatives is when Trump was asked, hey, what do you want to do as president?
00:42:42.700
What's your number one priority? He says, I want people to have good communities. I want people
00:42:46.200
to have good neighborhoods, be safe, do well, have the economy, be strong. And I want them to have
00:42:54.000
like a good life, you know? And then all the ideological eggheads, he said, that's actually not
00:42:58.760
the role of the president to give people a good life. No, that's not. That's a violation of
00:43:02.500
federalism and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. No, man. That's politics 101. Yeah. Hey, I'm running to
00:43:08.880
make your life better. What's my ideology? I want more good and less bad. How about that?
00:43:17.540
Yeah, that's how normal people think. That's not how the beltway thinks. That's how normal people
00:43:20.580
think. Do that. And frankly, in many ways, I think that's how Herschel Walker is campaigning.
00:43:24.280
Speaking of weird moves from senators and Senate candidates, Lindsey Graham. Lindsey Graham has
00:43:32.040
just introduced a bill at the federal level, obviously, to ban abortions nationwide after 15
00:43:39.480
weeks. The bill is called the Protecting Pain-Capable Unborn Children from Late-Term Abortions Act,
00:43:45.400
and he announced it during a press conference. Okay. In principle, I like this. I don't love this
00:43:53.820
because I don't want to ban abortions after 15 weeks. I just want to ban abortion because a
00:43:57.640
person's a person no matter how small, and we shouldn't be able to kill any babies.
00:44:00.740
But in principle, I guess I like it. I'd rather it be harder to get abortions than easier. And so
00:44:08.300
if this bill makes it harder, okay, that's fine. But practically speaking, I don't get it at all.
00:44:14.200
There is a 0% chance that this bill will go into effect. The Democrats have the House,
00:44:18.120
the Democrats have the Senate, and the Democrats have the presidency. There is a 0% chance this bill
00:44:22.260
goes into effect. Furthermore, the Supreme Court says this abortion is not a federal issue. It's
00:44:26.400
going to be a state's issue. Now, you might believe it could be a federal issue. I think there's a
00:44:30.540
strong argument that it could be a federal issue. But no branch of government currently will even
00:44:37.780
entertain this. So all this could possibly do is bring the abortion issue to the forefront
00:44:48.740
in the midterm elections. I don't know that there's any reason to do that. The abortion issue
00:44:53.940
motivates Democrats to get out to the polls. It may even motivate Republicans more. But still,
00:44:58.580
why would you take that risk when you've got great issues like the economy, when you've got great
00:45:03.260
issues like immigration, when you've got great issues like foreign policy, when you've got,
00:45:08.000
when Biden is, I say they're great issues because Biden is failing on all of those issues. Why
00:45:12.360
wouldn't you make that issue? Why would you get to bring up this really controversial matter
00:45:17.240
that, though extremely important and a central issue, cannot possibly go into effect? Why wouldn't
00:45:26.720
you wait until after the midterms when Republicans win back the House and very possibly win back the
00:45:31.520
Senate, though it's close? Why wouldn't you wait until then to bring this up when we have at least
00:45:34.740
a chance of kind of getting it some headway? Why? And I'm scratching my head on this. All this can
00:45:41.760
possibly do is make it harder for Republicans to win the Senate. Why? And then it hit me.
00:45:48.800
I have a theory. I'm not totally sold on this theory. It's just something that popped into my
00:45:53.920
head. I'm working it out in real time. I would love to hear your thoughts. Is Lindsey Graham
00:45:59.920
introducing this bill? He's obviously not introducing it because he thinks it's going to pass. It can't
00:46:03.120
possibly pass. And he's a relatively intelligent man. I don't think that he is under any illusions about
00:46:09.120
that. Is he introducing this bill because he doesn't want Republicans to win the Senate? Hear me
00:46:17.500
out. Why would Lindsey Graham, why would the sort of establishmentarian Republicans, why would they
00:46:26.440
want to win the Senate right now? Well, okay, you can stop some of Joe Biden's agenda, though some of
00:46:33.340
it. I'm not sure you can even stop all that much. Maybe you can stop some of the judges. That would be
00:46:37.480
good. But what's the downside? The Republicans almost certainly are going to win the House. If
00:46:42.360
Republicans don't win the House, we don't have a serious electoral system. It's all fraud.
00:46:46.380
So let's say Republicans win the House. There's going to be huge pressure for the Republicans to
00:46:51.640
impeach Joe Biden because the Democrats now just use the tool of impeachment as a political cudgel.
00:46:57.060
There's really no legal basis anymore. They impeach Trump twice over complete nonsense. So
00:47:02.400
there's going to be a huge amount of pressure to retaliate and impeach Joe Biden. I suspect the
00:47:08.140
House will do that. Then it's going to be up to the Senate to convict. Remember, Donald Trump was
00:47:13.460
impeached twice, but he was never convicted because the Republican Senate never convicted him.
00:47:18.200
If Republicans control both houses, there will be a huge amount of political pressure not only to
00:47:22.840
impeach, but to convict. And I think most Republicans do not want to convict Joe Biden
00:47:27.680
for a good reason because they don't want impeachment to just become this partisan tool
00:47:36.100
where you just automatically impeach whoever the opposite, the other guy is, you know, if the other
00:47:40.260
party is in power. Because that would effectively turn the United States into a parliamentary system
00:47:44.260
rather than the current kind of Republican federal structure that we have. That'd be one reason.
00:47:49.880
And then the bad reason is just cowardice. They just don't, they don't actually want that fight
00:47:54.040
because Republicans, Republican politicians are very often squishes and, and really their role
00:48:00.560
in the American political regime is as the junior partner of the ruling class. So their job really is
00:48:06.460
to lose and to lose with dignity and to, but to not really get anything done. That's why on pretty
00:48:11.740
much every single issue, the country has moved radically to the left over the last 50 years.
00:48:17.660
Abortion is one issue where we've made some headway going back, but even then not a ton,
00:48:22.260
even with the Dobbs decision, you're still gonna have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of babies
00:48:26.080
each year killed through abortion. So the, the, the, all of the momentum has been toward the left
00:48:32.520
and some Republicans are perfectly fine with that. Maybe they're trying to throw it. I don't,
00:48:38.620
I'm not saying that's my view. I don't want to engage in conspiracy theories, but it's, it's the
00:48:45.280
simplest, most convincing explanation that I can see. Going a little bit woke.
00:48:52.260
They're going a little bit woke. They're not really opposing the woke. Today, you know,
00:48:55.520
is woke Wednesday. So on the member block, the producers tell me that they, they have got a
00:49:00.360
video that is going to be impossible for me to guess. On woke Wednesday, I am presented with the
00:49:06.920
woke videos that are going viral and I have to either guess what they're talking about or try to
00:49:11.440
make some sense of their argument. And you know, specifically now white people are the cause of all
00:49:15.200
the problems in the world. White people have, I don't know, white people are probably causing the
00:49:18.680
crisis in Tibet for all we know. They're just the cause of all the problems in the world.
00:49:21.800
And my producers are betting that I cannot guess what the white people are to blame for now.
00:49:29.680
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