Ep. 1107 - Tulsi Gabbard Dumps The Woke Democrat Party
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Summary
In political debates, it s easy to fall into abstractions, to think of politics as simply a matter of ideas floating in the ether rather than real policies that affect real people. This is especially true when we talk about transgenders, a topic that s a very popular topic of discussion on both sides of the aisle.
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In political debates, it's easy to fall into abstractions, to think of politics as simply
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a matter of ideas floating in the ether, rather than as real policies that affect real people.
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This is especially true when we talk about transing the kids, which is a very popular
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topic of discussion on both sides of the aisle. The whole thing is so bizarre,
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most people have no idea what it looks like in practice. This is what it looks like.
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This is what giving a 16-year-old girl testosterone looks like.
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So I got out of my haircut because my hair was driving me nuts, and I shaved it because
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I'm tired of watching my hair thin out, and it's less distressing if I shave it. So when I talk about
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being too far gone, I don't really know what else to call it. This is what I mean. This is how deep
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my voice is. It's gotten deeper over time, and it's settled. This is what I mean by hair loss.
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And it just keeps getting worse. It keeps thinning. It keeps receding backwards.
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You know, and I'm not exactly sure that's coming back. Those are the main things when I talk about
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being androgenized to a point of no return. I really don't see those being fixable.
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So that's when I talk about, you know, just kind of staying how I am, regardless of how I feel.
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That's why, just because I don't really see me personally being able to come back from
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what's happened so far. So I hope that's a little explanatory.
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Your heart just breaks for this girl. And it breaks because deep down, you know that she's
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right. There is no way to undo the damage inflicted on her body by the adults who mutilated her body.
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I'm not saying that all hope is lost. It isn't. I'm not saying that she can't live a wonderful life.
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She certainly can. But something really was taken from her by every adult who should have known better
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and who allowed this to happen from her immediate family all the way up to President Biden,
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who pushes this stuff at the federal level. Okay, something was really taken from her.
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And we labor under this delusion in modern life that nothing's permanent. Everything's reversible.
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There's no, all of your commitments, all of your obligations, all of your decisions about your
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own body and your life. None of it's permanent. You can just change whatever, but that's not true.
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That there is a lot of irreversible damage that came as a result of this transgender
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insanity, this fad that's going to pass, but the damage is not going to pass. You'll notice the
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left never promotes these videos. The left never shows you mutilated kids. Or forget about
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transgenderism for a second. Left never shows you dying babies in the womb. The left never shows you
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crime in the border towns. The left never shows you addicts who overdose on drugs. The left never shows
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you any of the actual effects of their policies. The left does the opposite. The left relies on
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euphemisms. That's what political correctness is. Vague words intended to hide harsh realities,
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intended to deceive. That distinction tells you everything you need to know about American
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politics in 2022. In order for the left to win, it needs to hide the reality of what it is doing.
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In order for the right to win, it just needs to convince people to open their eyes. I'm Michael
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Knowles. It's The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment yesterday is
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from Heather Webb, who says, Madonna is going through the world's longest midlife crisis. That's so true.
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The country is going through a midlife crisis. The country is going through this absolute,
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what is a midlife crisis? A midlife crisis is a refusal to acknowledge the reality of one's own
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age and the passage of time and the passing away of certain frivolities and the taking on of new
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responsibilities. And so what do we all want to do? We want to all pretend that we're kids again.
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But the sad thing about a midlife crisis is pretending to be a kid again is never going to
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help. It's only going to make things worse. And that's what we're all going through. As a country,
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we're refusing to get married. We're refusing to have kids. We're refusing to take on
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responsibilities. We're refusing to do adulting, you know, to grow up. We're in just a never never
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land. And it's great when little kids act like kids, good for them. But when adults act like kids,
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whole life, even people who were professionally Democrats, even people who ran for president in the
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Democrat primary, and then dropped out and endorsed the Democrat nominee, Joe Biden,
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even they are waking up and they are leaving the Democrat party, namely Tulsi Gabbard.
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I can no longer remain in today's Democratic party that's under the complete control of an
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elitist cabal of warmongers who were driven by cowardly wokeness, who divide us by racializing
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every issue and stoking anti-white racism, who actively work to undermine our God-given freedoms
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that are enshrined in our Constitution, who are hostile to people of faith and spirituality,
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who demonize the police but protect criminals at the expense of law-abiding Americans,
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who believe in open borders, who weaponize the national security state to go after their political
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opponents, and above all who are dragging us ever closer to nuclear war. Now, I believe in a
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government that's of the people, by the people, and for the people. Unfortunately, today's Democratic
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Party does not. Instead, it stands for a government that is of, by, and for the powerful elite.
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Now, I'm calling on my fellow common-sense, independent-minded Democrats to join me in
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leaving the Democratic Party. If you can no longer stomach the direction that the so-called woke
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Democratic Party ideologues are taking our country, then I invite you to join me.
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She is 100% correct. Every word she said, every syllable she said is correct. There's no but.
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There's no but. I often do not focus on the stories of so-and-so's leaving the left,
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or the liberals, or the Democrats, or whatever, because I just think, okay, yeah, we always cheer
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when some lib, you know, is no longer comfortable in the Democrat Party, and we make a big to-do out
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of it. But usually, the person remains fairly liberal, or vice versa. You know, some liberal
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Republican finally says, okay, I hate these conservatives. I'm thinking of Adam Kinzinger or Liz
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Cheney or whatever, but some big lib who pretends to be a Republican says, okay, I'm not going to be
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a Republican anymore. And all of a sudden, the libs cheer, and they go crazy, and they make a big to-do
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out of it. And I think it's often disingenuous. But what we're seeing here from Tulsi Gabbard
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is something genuinely novel, you don't get the impression, listening to that, that she,
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well, she was just mistaken to be a Democrat. Come on, Tulsi, you know, you're just, you're a
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Republican. You just don't know it yet. No, that's not, you don't get that feeling. You get the feeling
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that she could have fit into the Democratic Party maybe at some point, but there were always things
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that are a little different. I think Tulsi Gabbard genuinely isn't independent. The things she's
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talking about there are kind of edgy. She's calling out anti-white racism. That's the sort of thing that
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you really are not permitted to call out in either party. Certainly not until very, very recently you
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were not allowed to call that out. She's calling out warmongers in both parties. Again, this is the
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sort of thing that you're not really allowed to talk about. Right now, the Democrats are absolutely
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belligerent over the war in Ukraine. They seem bloodthirsty for a more direct confrontation with
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Russia. That's certainly been the effect of what the administration has done. That's what she's
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calling out. She's totally right. And Republicans are kind of mixed on it. Republicans, certainly during
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the Bush era and since then, they've kind of just gone along with the national security state.
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Speaking of the national security state, she's calling out the government spying on us.
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Neither party really calls that out. The Republicans cheered it on as, especially during the Bush era,
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the national security state began to take more and more power to spy on civilians. The Republicans
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were totally fine with that. And now the Democrats are the ones wielding that power. The Democrats are
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the ones who wield the IC and all of those surveillance powers to spy on the Trump campaign, to undermine the
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Republican nominee for president, to undermine his administration, to go after ordinary conservatives,
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to attack not just Trump, you know, and to knock down the door of Mar-a-Lago practically,
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because Donald Trump is the chief political rival to Joe Biden, but to go after parents who say we don't
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want our kids to be taught weird stuff in schools, to go after ordinary conservatives who are now maligned
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as insurrectionists and terrorists and far-right semi-fascists. So you can't really call it out
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in either party. Tulsi Gabbard is actually just kind of opening her eyes up to the problem of the liberal
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blob, the liberal establishment that is pushed by the left and that is largely tolerated by the right.
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So I cheer her on. I have no but here. I suspect she and I disagree on certain issues that she did not
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bring up in that video. But in that video, in her declaration of why she's leaving the Democrat
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Party, she expresses a clearer view of political reality than every Democrat and than most Republicans.
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Incredible stuff. I cheer her on. And frankly, I think what you're going to see, and you're already
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beginning to see this, the Trump movement, I think, was fairly representative of this. You're going to
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see a kind of third force in politics emerge that really sees far greater similarity between the
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establishment Republicans and the Democrats than difference. They're going to say that the
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Republican-Democrat game that we've seen certainly for the last 20, 30 years is really just kind of
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two sides of the same coin. It's a kind of sock puppet battle where whichever party wins, the problems
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that really matter to Americans are going to get worse. Whichever party wins, immigration is going
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to become more and more of a problem. Whichever party wins, the hollowing out of American manufacturing
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is going to get worse and worse. Whichever party wins, the foreign policy is just going to be the
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same old swampy stuff that's been conducted since the end of the Cold War. And they're going to see,
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this seems like kind of a rigged game and you're going to see more independent thinkers. Whether or not
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People are leaving the Democrat Party. They're identifying less strongly with the Democrat Party
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because the reality of Democrat policies is now undeniable because we see it when we go to the gas
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tank and we see it when we go to the supermarket and we see it when we look at the first major war in
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Europe since World War II. And we see it when we see these poor little kids getting transed. Okay,
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you can't deny that anymore. And so as a result, the Republicans are just much more popular. There's
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a survey just came out. This is from Morning Consult. It's the political intelligence poll.
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It's just a ranking of the popularity of governors. And you can see here at the top, here are the top 10
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most popular governors in the country. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine of them
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are Republicans. Nine of the top 10 most popular governors in the country are Republicans heading
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into the midterm elections, looking forward to 2024 and the presidential election. Really, really bad sign
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for Democrats. So are Democrats guaranteed to get completely blown out? No. And why? Why not?
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Because the Democrats still wield an insane amount of power. And the only way that they're going to
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win is if they rig the game. I'm pretty confident to say that. I don't think that that is tinfoil hat
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or anything. Barring some major change in world politics right now, if you look at all the numbers
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today, Biden's approval ratings, the generic congressional ballot, you look at the specific races,
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you look at the most popular politicians in the country, there is no way that the Democrats don't
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get blown out of the water unless they cheat. And they can cheat in ways that are technically legal
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too. So I'm not saying that it's going to be a cabal of shadowy alien reptiles who are working with
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Hugo Chavez to change voting machines. It could be that, I guess. But I'm not saying it has to be that.
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What they can do is similar strategies that they've tried, especially in 2020 and before that,
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which is that they can push for widespread mail-in ballots. They can push poll watchers out of the
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room where they can take a long time to count the votes so that there is less oversight on counting
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the vote. They can encourage non-citizens to vote. They can extend election day to election season.
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They can do all the stuff that they have ordinarily done. And we know that they are doing some of that
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right now. So there's a story out of Colorado. Voting is generally controlled by the secretaries
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of state, the state secretaries of state. The Colorado Democrats' secretary of state
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accidentally sent 30,000 voter registration notices to non-citizens.
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Oops. Whoopsie-daisy. Yes, that's right. 30,000 or so non-citizens living in Colorado
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were mistakenly sent postcards late last month encouraging them to register to vote because
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Jenna Griswold's office, the Democrat secretary of state, sent them out. They compared a list of
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names of 102,000 people provided by the Electronic Registration Information Center to a database of
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Colorado residents issued driver's licenses. And because of the difference in the lists,
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the non-citizens, the non-citizens rather, got the notices. Maybe this was just a mistake.
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I'm a little skeptical of that. A lot of mistakes, don't you think? It's amazing the election of
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Democrats is the leading cause of mistakes and coincidences and whoopsie-daisies in the whole
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country. I'm a little skeptical that it was a mistake, but let's say that it is. That's no excuse.
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The fact of the matter is non-citizens are being encouraged by Democrats, by the state,
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to go out and register to vote. We know that Democrats want non-citizens to vote. Democrats
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in certain cities are trying to make non-citizens eligible to vote, places like New York, places
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like San Francisco. We know that Democrats are trying to make it easier for people who should
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not vote to vote. We know that they're doing this with convicts. We know that they're doing this with
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people when they go get their driver's licenses. We know that the Democrats are flooding the country
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with non-citizens to get an electoral advantage. They've written about this. They've bragged about
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this. This is the strategy. You're not allowed to say it because you'll complain about it, but they
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are allowed to say it because they're celebrating it and they're pushing that strategy. That's what
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they're going to do. Why are they doing that? It's not because they support democracy, I'll tell you
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that. If they supported democracy, then they would allow the people to run their own government,
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but they know their policies are not popular, and so they've got to rig the game. These politicians,
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these Democrats look really, really bad. There's a Louisiana Democrat who's running for Congress
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who just released an ad focused largely on defending abortion. In the ad, there is a video of her
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actually giving birth to her son. I'm Katie Darling, and I live on a farm in St. Tammany Parish.
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Our family compost collects rainwater and grows our own food. My husband and daughter help take care of
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the chickens. And there's someone else who's going to be joining us and helping to pitch in with farm
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life very soon. But these days, I worry about storms that are stronger and more frequent because of
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climate change. About our kids underperforming public schools. And about Louisiana's new abortion ban,
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one of the strictest and most severe in the country. We should be putting pregnant women at ease,
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not putting their lives at risk. I haven't spent my career in Washington. I've worked my way up from
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bartender to CEO. Now, I help nurses organize our complicated health records. Because nurses aren't
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just heroes. They're saints. Louisiana deserves better than the path we're on. I'm Katie Darling,
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and I'm running for Congress because I want that better path. For you, for her, and for him.
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That is the most psychotic ad. Forget even psychotic. It's the most psychopathic political
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ad I have ever seen in my entire life. Excuse me. I wasn't getting choked up. I just hiccuped.
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But I could be getting choked up. That is absolutely psycho. One, if you run for office at all,
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you have at least a 15% chance of being a psychopath, just generally, in either party.
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Then, if you invite a political film crew in to roll tape while you're giving birth,
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you have a 99.7% chance of being a stone-cold psychopath. And then, if you can hold your
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newborn baby boy and look into the camera and celebrate the right to dash his brains out,
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that's actually not what happens in an abortion. If you would defend the right
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to poison him and then dismember him, this little newborn baby that you are holding in your hands,
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the legal right to rip that baby limb from limb, not five seconds before that ad could have been
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filmed, you have a 100% chance of being a psychopath, which this woman obviously is. And it got me
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thinking, why the hell would she ever air this? She looks nuts. She looks like a stone-cold killer.
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And I suspect the thinking here was to try to split the baby on the issue. Because Louisiana is a
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largely pro-life state. She's running as a Democrat. And so, she doesn't want to seem completely cold
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and callous like the infanticidal maniac that she is. So, she says, okay, what I'm going to do is,
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with my words, I'm going to defend abortion. And then, in my actions, I'm going to seem like a
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loving mother. And so, I'm going to appeal to both people, the kind of traditional voters and also the
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psychos who want to kill all the babies. And for me, at least, probably for you, the effect of that
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is the opposite. She just looks like Lady Macbeth, out damn spot, you know, dashing her baby's brains
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out. But I suspect that was a little bit of the thinking there. The other really telling thing here is,
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everyone in the ad is seen. Every subject of the ad is seen. The husband gets a lot of FaceTime. The
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little daughter gets a lot of FaceTime. The candidate, obviously, gets a lot of FaceTime.
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The only person who we see a little bit of the person's back, but we never see the person's face,
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is the newborn baby. Now, this, I think, ties right in with what we were talking about at the top.
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It's very hard to support abortion if you see a little baby. And newborn babies are cute. Their
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faces are all kind of smooshy and cute, you know. So, you would think in a political ad, if you're
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stone-cold psycho enough to put your birth in a political ad, you want the cutest part of the
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whole scene in the ad, right? The most appealing, attractive part. But she can't put the baby's face
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in the ad. For the same reason that the libs can't show you the actual transgendered kids
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who have had their bodies mutilated. For the same reason they can't show you the actual border towns
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where all of those illegal aliens show up. For the same reason that they can't show you all of the
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overdose victims of their drug policies. They can't show you the reality of the policies that they
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The libs used to split the baby a little more artfully on the issue of abortion. This is how you
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got the Clintons' incoherent but somewhat politically attractive scheme of safe, legal, and rare abortion,
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which appealed to centrists, even though it doesn't make sense because if abortion is murder,
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then it shouldn't be legal. And if abortion is morally neutral, then there's no reason for it
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to be rare. But now the Democrats have taken the much more aggressive sort of sacramental view of
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abortion on demand without apology up until the very moment of birth. And at least they're being
00:24:28.780
honest about their views. In some ways, I appreciate that more than them trying to pretend,
00:24:33.060
trying to have it both ways on the issue of abortion. But they're making claims on abortion
00:24:37.040
that just don't make any sense at all. One of which is now the Democrats frame all of their
00:24:42.380
political issues as essential to democracy, democracy with a capital D. And everything
00:24:48.800
the Republicans do, it's not just that it's bad. It's not just that it'll lead to a less
00:24:52.460
flourishing society. It's that it's a threat, an existential threat to our democracy.
00:24:58.240
And so now the Democrats are claiming, this is a panelist on MSNBC, claiming that
00:25:08.500
And the backdrop to that candidacy is women losing the right to an abortion for the first
00:25:17.280
I mean, the rollback of women's rights here is very concerning and it is tied. And I think,
00:25:21.580
look, many of us understand how profound the rollback of abortion rights after Dobbs is for
00:25:26.840
women's autonomy and ability to thrive in this nation. What I think we talk less about or think
00:25:31.660
less about is what that does to undermine democracy, that ultimately women's full and
00:25:36.520
equal participation in society at every level, including bodily autonomy, is fundamental to
00:25:48.180
Democracy is government by the people. That's all democracy is. Democracy is when people vote and
00:25:56.740
the majority rules. That's democracy. In what world is abortion necessary for democracy?
00:26:07.040
What if most people vote to outlaw abortion? That would be an expression of democracy.
00:26:15.080
Most people are women, by the way. Women are the only majority that has ever somehow been presented
00:26:20.840
as a minority in public. It's kind of strange. But why? So you get, and you're seeing this now in a
00:26:30.500
lot of red states, not just a slim majority of people, but a strong majority of people through
00:26:37.360
their elected representatives banning abortion or severely restricting abortion. That would be an
00:26:42.620
expression of democracy just by definition, but not according to that woman. Why? Because when the
00:26:49.520
liberals use the word democracy, they don't really mean democracy. They don't like democracy. That's
00:26:52.820
why when the people elect Trump, they say this is an assault on democracy. Of course it's not.
00:26:56.620
It's an expression of democracy. When the people elect Georgia Maloney in Italy, it's an assault on
00:27:00.340
democracy, even though most people voted for it. When, or at least the plurality of people, and the most
00:27:04.800
people voted for the coalition. When the majority of Hungarians elect Viktor Orban, who's a
00:27:09.940
conservative, they say, oh, this is an assault on democracy. Because this woman is saying not that
00:27:16.660
abortion per se is a prerequisite for democracy. She's really saying liberalism writ large is
00:27:25.420
essential to democracy. Now that's not true. It's not. You can have, you can have a conservative
00:27:30.480
democracy. You can have a communist democracy. You can have a liberal democracy. You can have a fascist
00:27:35.840
democracy. You can have, democracy is just what the, what the majority of people want, right? That's all
00:27:42.140
that is. So they specifically mean a liberal democracy. A democracy where the people don't
00:27:51.720
really have a right to question the central tenets of liberalism, which include self-definition,
00:28:00.080
which include maximal autonomy, which include, in practice, killing babies and transing the kids
00:28:08.580
and destroying the family and tearing down beauty and ruining your society. That's what it means.
00:28:20.120
And they're saying that stuff's non-negotiable. In order to have the democracy as we envision it,
00:28:25.300
that stuff is completely non-negotiable. The liberalism is what it's all about. The liberalism
00:28:30.980
is not supported by the majority of people. Where that MSNBC lady and where the left thinks that
00:28:36.580
liberalism and democracy are synonymous, sane people realize they're actually at odds
00:28:41.320
because most people don't want all that crap. So they're at odds. And when they're at odds,
00:28:47.680
the left is pushing liberalism. Liberalism is a minority political movement pushed by a small
00:28:54.080
group of elite, yet very powerful people from the top down on the rest of us. And the rest of us
00:29:00.440
cut across all sorts of demographics, racial, religious, geographic, even partisan these days.
00:29:07.180
That's what you're seeing. When Tulsi Gabbard says, I'm leaving the Democrat party, it doesn't represent
00:29:10.120
me anymore. She's saying, I can't, I know the Democrats theoretically are in power, but they're
00:29:16.320
not representing me. They're not representing what most people want. Liberalism and democracy are at odds.
00:29:22.400
Whenever you hear people call America a liberal democracy, it's just completely bogus.
00:29:26.840
Even that term, I gave a speech on this not that long ago at the National Conservatism Conference.
00:29:31.820
That term, liberal democracy, is a very new term. It appears nowhere in the Constitution,
00:29:36.420
nowhere in the Declaration of Independence, nowhere in the Federalist Papers. Every time democracy is
00:29:43.580
not mentioned in the first of those documents at all, every time it's mentioned in the Federalist,
00:29:47.200
it's only done so negatively. Liberalism is not used to refer to a political philosophy in any of
00:29:51.520
those documents. The term pops up in the 1930s, and then it starts to gain a little bit of
00:29:56.240
traction in the 50s. It doesn't really explode until 1982. If you just look at a simple Google
00:30:01.160
Engram search of English literature, it doesn't really begin to take off until the 80s. So if
00:30:07.040
America's a liberal democracy, that would be news to everyone for the first 200 years of America's
00:30:12.200
existence. It's just bogus. It's just totally bogus. And you've got to pick a side. In this particular
00:30:19.660
battle between liberalism and democracy, which side are you on? Well, that's the battle right now
00:30:24.860
between not the left and the right, exactly. Not between the Democrats and the Republicans,
00:30:29.460
exactly. It's between what you would call the modern liberal establishment and the kind of
00:30:38.760
Trumpian MAGA populists. That's where that fight is, okay? And it's why you're seeing a kind of weird
00:30:48.360
shakeup of the political climate, where you've got even a Democrat presidential candidate like Tulsi
00:30:52.240
Gabbard. She's now clearly moving to the right. She's at the very least leaving the Democrat party.
00:30:56.180
You're seeing establishmentarian liberals like Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger move over to the side of
00:31:02.980
the kind of Democrats. That's what the never Trump movement was. You're seeing this total shakeup
00:31:09.900
right now. It's why Joe Biden is excluding Trump supporters from his even scheme of politics. He's
00:31:14.640
saying, look, I have no problem with Republicans. I just have a problem with MAGA Republicans.
00:31:19.240
They're not mainstream. What are you talking about, dude? 90% plus, probably 93% of the Republican
00:31:26.460
party supports Donald Trump or has supported Donald Trump at some point. You're talking about a tiny
00:31:30.900
sliver. I'm being as generous as I can to the never Trump movement and saying it's six or 7% of the
00:31:35.860
Republican vote. And Joe Biden says, no, that's the legitimate mainstream Republican view. No,
00:31:40.700
it's not. Joe Biden is actually proving the point of the populists. Joe Biden is proving the point
00:31:44.460
of the independents and of Tulsi Gabbard, where he's saying, listen, I support Republicans as long
00:31:49.560
as they're part of the uniparty liberal establishment that only gives you the illusion of choice but
00:31:53.940
doesn't actually offer you any difference. Well, no, damn it. We don't want any kind of uniparty or
00:31:59.800
any sort of sock puppet game. We want a choice, not an echo, to use the words of Phyllis Schlafly
00:32:05.180
in the early days of the post-World War II conservative movement. That's what we want.
00:32:09.860
That's what Tulsi Gabbard wants. That's what Donald Trump wants. That's what the people called
00:32:15.440
the new right want. That's what the people who are disillusioned with this, this is what Republicans
00:32:20.340
other than the Liz Cheney's and the Adam Kinzinger's of the world want, okay? Which side are you on in
00:32:27.020
that battle? You can't just go back to the 1980s. There are some very nice, amiable Republicans who just
00:32:34.760
wish we could go take a time machine and go back to the 1980s. Wasn't that so great? I love Ronald
00:32:39.340
Reagan. Yeah, I like Reagan too. I don't like the caricature that some squishes have made of Ronald
00:32:45.820
Reagan. Ronald Reagan was a tough dude, okay? Ronald Reagan got the same kinds of attacks that
00:32:50.260
Donald Trump got. They called him a Nazi and a racist and outside the mainstream and fringe and
00:32:54.540
a cowboy and all that stuff, okay? And I think a lot of the people who extol the virtues of Reagan today,
00:32:59.380
they would have been Bushies back in the 80s. They would have been on the establishment side.
00:33:02.740
It's just my hunch, okay? But we're in a different age now. The battles that were going on 40 years
00:33:09.160
ago are not the battles that are going on today. And nostalgia is history after a few drinks. And we
00:33:14.200
are, I think, obligated to exercise some political courage and say, no, we're in the battles right
00:33:20.240
now. It's not enough to bury your head in the sand and go along with the kind of established view
00:33:26.980
that the Disney World version of politics. No. Because Disney is transing the kids too.
00:33:33.820
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I found my favorite Washington Post article this week. Every week, I think they've reached the absolute
00:35:02.680
bottom of the barrel. I mean, the Washington Post is Pravda on the Potomac, the absolute archetypal
00:35:09.440
megaphone for the political establishment. They are nothing but a propaganda rag. They would fit
00:35:17.480
in great in North Korea or China or Russia or anywhere else. This is the headline in the Washington
00:35:25.000
Post. Spread of Catholic hospitals limits reproductive care across the United States.
00:35:33.620
Religious doctrine restricts access to abortion and birth control and limits treatment options for
00:35:41.480
miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies. None of that is true. That's just a complete lie.
00:35:52.300
Think about the logic here. They're saying there are a lot of Catholic hospitals. That's true. The
00:35:57.160
Catholic Church is the most philanthropic organization in the history of the world. You might love the
00:36:02.020
Catholic Church. You might hate the Catholic Church. That's just an historic fact. The church has been
00:36:05.380
around a long time, got a lot of resources, and has done a lot of charitable activities. Schools,
00:36:11.140
hospitals, all the rest of it. So especially this is true of hospitals. There are Catholic hospitals
00:36:15.840
all over the place. The Catholic Church builds hospitals. The church considers that part of her mission
00:36:21.920
in the world. How does building more hospitals restrict any kind of quote-unquote care?
00:36:33.680
Let's say, I'm just making up numbers here. Let's say you've got five lib hospitals. And the lib
00:36:39.860
hospitals trans the kids, and they kill the babies, and they do all the stuff that the libs like to do.
00:36:43.860
And then the Catholic Church comes in, and it doesn't knock down the lib hospitals, even though
00:36:49.520
it probably should. It doesn't go to the representatives and say, you've got to get rid of
00:36:53.840
all these lib hospitals, even though it probably should. The Catholic Church just builds more
00:36:58.440
hospitals. So you've got five lib hospitals, and then you've got, let's say, 15 Catholic hospitals.
00:37:03.480
And the Catholic hospitals won't trans the kids and won't kill the babies.
00:37:10.940
In what world is that limiting access, even to the fake care that the libs are, even to transing
00:37:17.920
the kids and killing the babies? It's not doing that at all. It's just offering something different.
00:37:27.580
But no good deed goes unpunished, especially in this liberal establishment.
00:37:31.860
The libs can't take that. If the Catholic Church were going in and shutting down liberal
00:37:36.920
hospitals, I would cheer that on. I would be there on the sidelines doing jumping jacks,
00:37:42.500
waving pom-poms, and praying the rosary. I would absolutely love that. But that's not what's going
00:37:46.040
on. That's not what the libs even have the problem with. The libs have the problem with the Catholics
00:37:50.120
just being Catholic. The libs have the problem with the Catholics building hospitals to do wonderful
00:37:55.320
work to offer all kinds of services if they won't also kill babies and trans the kids. That is how
00:38:00.900
coercive the left is. That is how insistent and totalitarian the left is. The left is insisting
00:38:07.120
on a total state, not just where they get to commit all their crimes against humanity and against poor
00:38:14.080
little kids. Not even just a state where they have special privileges because the state is liberal.
00:38:19.960
They are pushing for a state where Catholics don't get to be Catholic, where Catholics don't get to have
00:38:25.080
hospitals, where it would be better to not have hospitals at all than to have hospitals that don't
00:38:29.520
trans the kids and kill the babies. That is what we're talking about. Do you think that that would
00:38:35.840
be the majority view of the people? Do you think the majority of the people think, as the liberals do,
00:38:41.540
as the Washington Post does, that if a hospital won't kill the babies and trans the kids, that it
00:38:45.920
shouldn't be built or that it should be shut down? Of course not. The majority of people, when you
00:38:52.160
really get down to the pro-life question and you get into the nitty gritty on if abortion is to be
00:38:58.760
tolerated, at what point abortion should be tolerated, the country is overwhelmingly pro-life
00:39:03.340
in the vast majority of cases. That's not what the people want. It's what the liberal ruling class
00:39:10.180
wants. The battle here is between the democracy and the liberalism. The liberalism right now is ruling
00:39:17.200
and the liberalism right now is winning. Even though the people are being convinced more and
00:39:20.940
more and more that liberalism is bad, it doesn't matter. The liberals still have so much of the
00:39:24.540
power. Speaking of church, there is some kind of fake church somewhere. And actually, there are a lot
00:39:33.320
of fake churches that have been doing this. You've seen a lot of clips of this. I've even heard stories
00:39:37.440
of this anecdotally from people I know who know of these churches or who even attend these churches
00:39:42.900
that will invite drag queens in to preach a kind of transvestite pseudo-gospel, specifically to kids.
00:39:52.700
This is one that's just been going viral over the last few days.
00:40:01.660
Yeah. You like her eye shadow. That's great. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe she'll let you borrow it.
00:40:06.080
When you're older, when you're allowed to wear makeup.
00:40:07.700
Yeah. Of course. Yeah. Well, one of the things I think is great about Ms. Pentecost is she reminds
00:40:14.920
us that we follow a God who calls us to not conform to things of this world, that we're
00:40:21.960
supposed to be transformed by the renewal of our minds. And that means that what I think
00:40:26.680
today may have to change tomorrow if I continue to renew my mind. And it's so cool that we serve
00:40:32.400
a God that calls us to continue to grow and continue to change into something new.
00:40:37.700
This is horrifying for many, many reasons. But I will tell you, just as a sort of, not
00:40:46.120
a defense, but just in all fairness to that drag queen who calls himself Ms. Pentecost,
00:40:54.140
so just this sacrilegious mockery at the Pentecost when the Holy Spirit descends and makes so many
00:41:00.500
thousands of disciples. I am much less offended by the guy who puts on a dress and pretends to be a
00:41:08.380
woman than I am by the other guy next to him who dresses up and pretends to be a priest.
00:41:16.340
The man is obviously not a valid priest. I don't know which heretical, schismatic sect of Christianity
00:41:23.640
this is. I read somewhere it was some version of Methodism, but whatever, who knows? It's some
00:41:29.740
obviously gone completely insane, heretical, blasphemous, schismatic sect of Christianity
00:41:38.080
that's preaching an anti-gospel just completely the opposite of Christianity. But worth pointing out
00:41:46.460
too, Christ speaks very specifically in the gospel about what that priest is doing and what that
00:41:54.360
transvestite is doing too, but more so the priest. And it's a verse of the gospel that is frequently
00:41:59.720
invoked in the transing the kids debate or especially in the abortion debate where he says,
00:42:06.020
you know, the people who lead the littlest ones astray, it would be better for them to have
00:42:14.260
millstones tied around their necks. That is basically the effect of what will happen if you
00:42:19.240
lead the little ones astray who offends the least of these people. And the verse is often
00:42:26.580
misinterpreted to mean people who just, you know, go out and smack a kid or abuse a child or,
00:42:33.000
you know, kill a baby in the womb or something like that. But it's, the verse is not really speaking
00:42:38.980
about, you know, beating a child. The verse is speaking about the sin of scandal, leading someone
00:42:44.940
astray, causing someone to stumble. That's what the priest is doing. And it's a, it's an absolutely
00:42:53.420
horrifying scene, obviously, and no one should attend that ridiculous church and the priest should
00:42:59.460
get another job and beg forgiveness from God. But it shows you what leftism does. It ties in,
00:43:07.520
forgetting the religious question, we're putting it aside for a second. It shows you what leftism does.
00:43:11.780
Leftism goes into every institution and cuts it open, like the opening scene of the empire strikes
00:43:17.840
back and pulls out the guts of that thing and then crawls inside and starts to animate it like
00:43:23.080
Night of the Living Dead. That's what it does. And it does it with priestly attire. It does it with
00:43:28.420
the churches. It does it with the universities. It does it with our systems of government. And it
00:43:33.360
creates a kind of a show, a deceit, a sock puppet theater of our public institutions, of our politics.
00:43:42.540
And when I say politics, I don't just mean Schoolhouse Rock, you know, Capitol Hill and everything.
00:43:46.140
I'm talking about all of the power centers that we have, the businesses, the universities,
00:43:52.000
the classrooms, all of it. It goes in and it makes a kind of show of everything. And it often
00:43:57.500
pretends that there's even political opposition, but there's not. There is just ultimately the kind
00:44:02.900
of uniparty. And it's leading people to be deeply distrustful of the established institutions. This is
00:44:08.320
what is leading Tulsi Gabbard to fall away from the Democrat party. It's what's leading a lot of
00:44:15.300
Trump supporters to say, look, I like Trump. I want to make America great again. I'm conservative.
00:44:19.360
I'm right wing. But I'm not some establishment Republican. I disagree with the Republican
00:44:23.780
establishment on many, if not most issues. Okay, I guess I'm just something different. I'm just a
00:44:28.480
crazy guy who doesn't want to kill the babies, doesn't want to trans the kids, wants to wave the
00:44:35.040
American flag, wants to have actual borders, doesn't want to engage in adventurism overseas and lead to
00:44:42.100
nuclear Armageddon. I call me crazy. That's just what I, that's just me. And a lot of people are
00:44:49.840
there. I bet a plurality of the people are pretty much somewhere right around there, if not an outright
00:44:55.040
majority of the people. And increasingly, as the liberal establishment doubles down, right, whenever
00:45:01.260
people question the liberal establishment's power, what do they do? They start putting up big fences
00:45:06.220
and barricades and barbed wire in Washington, D.C. What does the liberal establishment do? They start
00:45:10.480
censoring you. They kick you off social media. They de-platform you. They take your money out of
00:45:14.580
PayPal. They freeze your accounts. They arrest you. They investigate you in some cases. I mean,
00:45:18.560
they're really getting much more aggressive. They call parents domestic terrorists for questioning what
00:45:24.360
their kids are learning in schools. They call half the country semi-fascist. They're really,
00:45:28.300
really tightening their grip right now on power. And so you're, you're going to see this debate
00:45:32.780
as we move into 20, the end of 2022, 2023, 2024. The battle is not going to be Republican versus
00:45:39.840
Democrat necessarily, even really left versus right exactly. You're going to see a battle in this
00:45:46.700
cracking up of what has been understood to be the American system in recent years, which is liberal
00:45:50.720
democracy. It's going to be that crack up there and it's going to be a debattle between the liberalism
00:45:54.760
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