Ep. 1116 - The Power Is Shifting And The Libs Want A Truce
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A pandemic amnesty for all the people who got it wrong in 2020 and have been trying to get us back on track in 2020. It s time to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about the Global Pandemic.
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Big news, guys. Now that the Republicans are poised to retake the House, very likely the
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Senate, and probably many governors' mansions, the liberals who have tormented us over the past
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two years, who shut down our businesses, who made our relatives die alone, who kept our kids out of
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school, who forced us to choose between keeping our jobs and injecting ourselves with a dangerous
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experimental drug, the liberals who called us idiots and murderers for not wanting to destroy
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the global economy and turn our kids into lab rats, those liberals are now calling for a truce.
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What are the odds? Isn't that so weird? Headline in The Atlantic, let's declare a pandemic amnesty.
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We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.
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We just all did some things. Some of us kept your kids out of school and forced your relatives to
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die alone. And some of us had our kids kept out of school and had our relatives forced to die.
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It's just like we're all kind of the same here, right? Some of us destroyed the global economy
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and injected everyone forcefully with an experimental and dangerous drug. And some
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of us had that done to us. And so it's kind of all the same, right? And we all just need to move
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past it, don't we? I won't read the entire article. You should. Just some highlights.
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While discussing the social distancing and the stupid hankies on your face and all that,
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they say these precautions were totally misguided. In April 2020, no one got the coronavirus from
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passing someone else hiking. Outdoor transmission was vanishingly rare. Our cloth masks made out of
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old bandanas wouldn't have done anything anyway. But the thing is, we didn't know.
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We didn't know. Some of us knew. I knew. You knew. But no, we just, we didn't know.
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Some people thought that the hanky was gonna stop the global pandemic. You know, we just didn't know.
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In spring and summer 2020, we had only glimmers of information. Reasonable people,
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people who cared about children and teachers, advocated on both sides of the reopening debate.
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They didn't. They didn't. All the people who were completely wrong and who often had very bad
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intentions were on the side of keeping the schools closed. And all the people who had
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mostly good intentions and who were correct were on the side of reopening the schools.
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The people who got it right for whatever reason may want to gloat. Those who got it wrong for whatever
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reason may feel defensive and retrench into a position that doesn't accord with the facts.
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Treating pandemic choices as a scorecard on which some people racked up more points than others
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is preventing us from moving forward. No. No. You are preventing us from moving forward. You,
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you people, you libs who got everything wrong and who inflicted a great deal of pain,
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usually intentionally, usually with a lot of glee on people.
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You, by refusing to acknowledge your transgressions, uniquely your transgressions,
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you are preventing us from moving on because you won't let us learn a damn thing from the last two
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years. You won't acknowledge anything. You won't admit anything. You won't say that you're sorry.
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We have to put these fights aside and declare a pandemic amnesty. Moving on is crucial now because
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the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve. Yeah, right. The first problem we
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need to solve is you people. You're the problem. You're the one who inflicted all the problems on
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us. The pandemic, such as it is the virus, was just a virus. There are viruses. There are epidemics.
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There are pandemics. That was not the trauma of the last two and a half, three years.
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The policies that you all forced on us, the hideous anti-human policies, global economy,
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global political order, destroying policies that you inflicted on us. That was the problem.
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Pretty big change of tune, wouldn't you say? Because last year, you didn't get all this kumbaya,
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let's all get along kind of stuff. Last year, they were laughing at the thought of our deaths.
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LA Times. Mocking anti-vaxxers COVID deaths is ghoulish, yes, but it may be necessary.
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It's necessary to mock the deaths of conservatives who are skeptical of the dominant regime.
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They were making the moral case for mocking our prospective deaths. But that was then,
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you see, and this is now. That was back then when they had all of the power. But now,
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we conservatives might have even a little tiny bit of power. So let's just call it a day and
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move on, right? Right? I don't think so. I think the best that I can offer in response to let's have
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a pandemic amnesty is military tribunals. I want these monsters arrested and tried and shipped off
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to Guantanamo Bay, frankly. That's my initial negotiating position. And it damn well had better
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be the position of the Republicans that we're about to elect. Because anything less than a full
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accounting of the lies and deceit and outright crimes of the COVID era will be nothing more
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than an invitation for the libs to do it all again. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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you a free gold bar. Text Knowles, K-N-W-L-E-S, to 989898. It has been a rough few years, hasn't it?
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Hasn't it? But this year, seems like things are kind of turning around. I am not totally depressed
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and despairing and blackpilled, okay? I think this year's actually been pretty good. One, we're almost
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certainly about to elect a ton of Republicans, hopefully get some accountability for the last
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few years, hopefully move the country in a good direction. But just the Supreme Court would be
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enough to say that 2022 is one of the greatest years in American history, despite Joe Biden,
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despite the potential of World War III, despite the record high inflation, despite all of that.
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Just the Supreme Court. Let's not forget 2022 is the year that we overruled Roe v. Wade and Planned
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Parenthood v. Casey. And there's an analysis that just came out from 538, which is the sort of center
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left polling outlet. 538 by Nate Silver has new data which indicate that at least 10,000 women were
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unable to get an abortion in July and August because of the Dobbs decision. Now, of course,
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538, because it's left wing, is presenting this as a terrible, awful thing. Oh no, 10,000 women
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were denied that medical care and the reproductive rights. And isn't this terrible? And that was just
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in two months. Imagine later on when even more of these pro-life laws are implemented. I look at that
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number and I think, oh my goodness, this is some of the greatest news in American history.
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Because you're finally seeing 850,000 people a year are killed through abortion or were during the
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reign of Roe and Casey. And now that's turning around. 10,000. It's very difficult for human
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beings to conceive of numbers greater than 100. But 10,000 people is a lot of people. It's a lot of
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people. My graduating high school class was about 330 people. So that's three times my high school
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class is 1,000 people. So 30 times my high school class is 10,000 people. 30 times my graduating high
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school class, that number of people will be alive because five justices on the Supreme Court had
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courage. We think of these court decisions and these laws in very abstract terms, what they mean for
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society or humanity or the culture or whatever. We're talking about individual people. How many
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friends do you have? Like five maybe? People don't have a ton of close friends.
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Think about how valuable every single one of those people is to you. What you wouldn't give to make
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sure that that person gets to live, gets to be, if they were in danger, if they were in danger of death,
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to be rescued. Now multiply that person by 10,000. There will be in 10 years from now, 15 years from
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now, people will be doing interviews, maybe 20 years from now. They'll be doing interviews saying,
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my, I am alive today because Amy Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch and Sam Alito and
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Clarence Thomas had courage and moral clarity. That's incredible news.
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Now there's even, I'm not going to say better news, but there's more great news coming down
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the pike from the Supreme Court. The hits seem poised to keep on coming because now this term,
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the Supreme Court is going to take on another major social question that conservatives have fought
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in vain for, for many decades. And that even conservative appointments on the court, people like
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Sandra Day O'Connor and other people have kind of squished on. And so our hopes have been dashed
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on this before. The Supreme Court is going to take up the question of racial discrimination
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in college admissions, better known as affirmative action. But the idea that certain students will not
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get into college because of their race and other students will have an unfair advantage in getting
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into college because of their race. There's really, really good news on this front. The Supreme Court
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just heard oral arguments in two cases taking on affirmative action in college yesterday,
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and the signs are very, very promising. So the Supreme Court hears the oral arguments yesterday
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in these two cases about affirmative action in college being brought by a legal group that is
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challenging this on behalf of Asian students. You know, Asian students and white students are put
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at a disadvantage, and black students and Hispanic students get an advantage. Now, we have a conservative
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court. It's at least a 5-4 conservative court because Roberts is a squish who will usually side with the
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liberals on really contentious issues. But you've still got then 5-4, you know, you can at least kind of
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count on the conservative court. And then there's even better news because the newest justice,
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Ketanji Jackson, the justice who doesn't know what a woman is, she's had to recuse herself from these
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cases because one of the cases involves Harvard. And she was just recently on one of the boards at
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Harvard, and so it's a conflict of interest. So she's out. So the deck is even more in the stacked
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in the direction of the conservatives. There was an amazing poll that was done. Pew Research
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polled Americans and said, should race and ethnicity be a factor in admissions? 75%, three-quarters of Americans
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say, no, absolutely not. And don't forget, the Supreme Court watches the polls. The Supreme Court
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reads the newspapers. So the fact that public opinion is now with the conservatives and with
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justice when we're talking about affirmative action, this is a really, really good sign.
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So the cases are students for fair admissions versus Harvard and students for fair admissions
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versus the University of North Carolina. The most telling part of the oral arguments yesterday was
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when Clarence Thomas, the OG, the Mac Daddy on the court, Mr. Conservative, oldest conservative member
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there, was grilling the lawyer for UNC about diversity. Because the Libs say we need affirmative
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action because we need diversity because diversity is really good for education. And so it's in the
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interest of the university to have diversity, by which they mean giving extra points to black
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students and taking points away from Asians and whites. And Clarence Thomas, black man on the
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court, it's very difficult to call the guy racist. He says, okay, judge, I'm following your line of
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argument. Now, what is your, or okay, counsel, okay, lawyer for UNC, I'm following your line of
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argument. Now, what is the evidence that diversity is good for education? Here's a question.
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Mr. Park, I've heard the word diversity quite a few times, and I don't have a clue what it means.
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The, and I'd like you first, you did give some examples in your opening remarks, but I'd like you to
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give us a specific definition of diversity in the context of the University of North Carolina. And I'd also
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like you to give us a clear idea of exactly what the educational benefits of diversity is.
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diversity at the University of North Carolina would be.
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So Clarence Thomas, very good lawyer, he says, look, this word diversity is really slippery.
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So I need you to give me a definition of what diversity actually means, because I can't quite
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nail it down. And then after that, I don't want to hear about the social benefits of diversity,
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the political benefits of diversity. I don't want to hear about the benefits to the black students or
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the Asian students, or obviously it doesn't benefit the Asians very well, or anything else.
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I want you to tell me what educational purpose is served by diversity. Now, this should be a layup.
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If the UNC and Harvard have any case at all for their unjust racial discriminatory practices
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in college admissions, this should have been the first answer that they figure out and memorize, it should be so easy, right?
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Yes, Your Honor. So first, we define diversity the way this court has in its court's precedents,
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which means a broadly diverse set of criteria that extends to all different backgrounds and perspectives
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and not solely limited to race. And there's a factual finding in this record, PEDAP 113,
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that there are many different diversity factors that are considered as a greater factor in our admissions
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process than race. On the educational benefits question, Your Honor, I don't think it's actually
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disputed here that there are real and meaningful educational benefits that come with diversity of
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all kinds. SFFA's own expert, this is on JA 546, conceded and agreed enthusiastically, in fact, on the stand
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that a racially diverse and a diversity of all kinds leads to, quote, a deeper and richer learning
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environment, leads to more creative thinking and exchange of ideas, and critically reduced bias
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between people of different backgrounds and not solely different racial backgrounds.
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But you still haven't given me the educational benefits.
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I love Clarence Thomas there, just in that really slow plotting.
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He's almost like the Norm MacDonald of the court, which is that he's an extremely intelligent man,
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but he kind of plays dumb sometimes. And Scalia did this to some degree as well.
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So he says, okay, it's a simple question. What's the educational benefit of diversity?
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And the lawyer says, well, there's actually a total consensus among all the really smart,
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fancy people that diversity is really, really good. And they all say that it's really,
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really good. And they've said for years, actually, that diversity is really, really good. And that's
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why diversity is really, really good for education. And Clarence Thomas there goes,
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maybe I'm a little slow. Maybe I'm a little thick. I don't know. But you didn't answer the question.
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You're telling me that other people agree with you, but you're not telling me why. You're not
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presenting any sort of evidence. Even the definition of diversity, he doesn't really address.
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He just says a lot of jargon and gobbledygook and says, well, there's all different types of
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diversity. I think Clarence Thomas, I hope he never retires from the court. If he does,
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he's got to come straight to Daily Wire so we can make a Walsh-esque movie. What is diversity?
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What is a woman starring Walsh? What is diversity starring Clarence Thomas? The answers are going to
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be completely nonsensical in both. This was really devastating, I think, to the UNC and Harvard and
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pro-affirmative action argument here. On their most basic question, they don't have an answer.
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What good is diversity in education for education? They don't have an answer.
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Because the answer is obvious. Diversity in itself is not always or even often a good thing.
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Explain to me why diversity, take the word however you want to take it, because it's hard to pin down,
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like Clarence Thomas says. Why is diversity a good thing? On our money, does it say,
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out of many, even many different things? Out of many, more. Out of many, far greater distinction
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and difference and individualism. No, it says, e pluribus unum, out of many, one. We are not the
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diverse states of America. We are the United States of America. Unity is a strength. Diversity
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is not a strength. It's a weakness. So when you bring in people of different backgrounds or different
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experiences or different whatever, that can be all well and good. But it has to come with a unity.
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So if we're going to have a country made up of lots of different types of people, we need to all speak
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the same language. We have to broadly believe the same things. We have to be engaged in the same
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common endeavor. We have to recognize the same common good. In a university, you can bring in
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people of any kinds of background if you like. But this is the very point of the university. The
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university is supposed to bring you all together for the single-minded pursuit of truth. That's why
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it's a university. It's not a diversity. It's a university. It's right there in the very word.
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Absolutely devastating to the case. And so I think if the UNC and Harvard team can't muster better
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arguments than that, hard to see how affirmative action survives 2023. Really, really good news to
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look forward to. Speaking of attacks on diversity, big news from Apple. Apple has just announced that
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the iPhone is going to be getting USB-C ports. So right now, it's got that lightning port,
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but it's going to change the port. And they're changing it. They're really irritated they have
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to change it. They're changing it because the European Union forced them to. The European Union
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passed a law that requires all phones and tablets sold in the EU to use USB-C by 2024. And because it's
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such a huge market, they can basically force Apple to give that to everybody. And I mentioned this story
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not because I care about tech or Apple or anything like that. But this is the kind of story
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that's going to split people on the right. Because you're going to have the libertarian types
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who are going to hate this. And they're going to say, this is big government sticking its nose in
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where it doesn't belong. And Apple has a right to use whatever charging ports it wants. And this is
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a terrible thing and a great threat to freedom. And then you're going to have the conservatives who
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say, okay, who cares? That's fine. People have the right in our political community to decide how we
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live. And the phone is now essential to how we live, specifically the iPhone. And so we have a right to
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say, okay, we're going to use this charging port. The charging port itself doesn't really matter.
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But the broader issue of how we view politics actually does. And I think from, I don't know,
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the year 2010 to 2015, that more libertarian view really dominated. Let the corporations do whatever
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they want. Come on, don't let the government get in the way. I mean, and you heard kind of an undertone
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of that really even for two or three decades now. I think that is changing. And I think conservatives
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are beginning to realize the government is not always our enemy and the corporations are not
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always our friend. And sometimes it's actually a little bit tricky to tell the difference between
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where the public sector ends and the private sector begins, where the government ends and the
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corporations begin. And we need to wield political power where we can and when we can for justice.
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Does it matter with the charging ports? I don't really think so. But on bigger questions,
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on the kind of questions that the libs are trying to call a truce on now, on education,
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on healthcare, on drugs, on big pharma, on all of that, we must wield our power. Totally fine.
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Totally fine with that. Speaking of government tyranny, really important new report just came out from
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The Intercept. Haven't seen it going around as much as it should. Read this report from The Intercept.
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Truth Cops. Leaked documents outline DHS's plans to police disinformation. So what did we learn from
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this report? The report shows that basically big tech has been colluding with the government to censor
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right-wingers. And they've been doing it not just in a kind of vague way where, you know, maybe Zuckerberg
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and some big lib in the government go out and have a drink and they kind of come to an agreement. No,
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they did this in a very formal way. Facebook and Twitter set up special portals for the government
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to rapidly request the takedown of content. So if I go out there and I start posting some questions
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about the 2020 election, let's say, or I go out there and I start posting some questions about the
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vaccines or posting questions about the origin of the COVID virus or anything like that,
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the government could go in there and rapidly request that that content come down. And we know
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that that content has come down. I mean, we saw it happen during 2020 just with one story.
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The New York Post posts the Hunter Biden laptop story. It instantly comes down. You see big tech
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almost uniformly not only censor the story from being posted, but in many cases, stop it even from
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being sent through private messages. When you logged onto a lot of social media sites in 2020,
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you couldn't even privately send that story to your friends. Why did that happen? We now have it
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because of these leaks in this report. FBI agent Laura Demlow was in communication with Facebook
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that led specifically to the suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop story because the FBI told Facebook
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that it was disinformation. And then just this year, she met with Twitter and DHS to stress,
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quote, we need a media infrastructure that is accountable. We find out now because of emails
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and documents that have come out that Vijaya Gaddy, she was that Twitter apparatchik who censored Donald
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Trump, booted the duly elected sitting president out of the public square, that Vijaya Gaddy met monthly
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with the Department of Homeland Security to discuss censorship plans. One Microsoft executive even
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texted the Department of Homeland Security and said, platforms have got to get comfortable with
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government. Okay, so this is not just, oh, there's one bad actor. Oh, there's a little bit of corruption
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here. The whole system is extremely corrupt. And it finally makes sense now why the libs are losing
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their freaking mind over Elon Musk taking over Twitter. First of all, shouldn't they be happy
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that Elon Musk is taking over Twitter? We're finally getting more diversity. Big tech is finally,
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one platform is owned by an African American. They should be thrilled about this. And an immigrant
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for that matter. Gosh, it checks every box, right? Elon Musk is not some far right wing conservative.
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Didn't he vote for Obama? I mean, isn't he, he certainly holds a lot of positions that Obama would
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have held. He's kind of a, I always thought he was kind of a center left guy. He has some kind of
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right wing positions. But most importantly, most importantly, they can't totally control him.
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He does things that they apparently do not like. I don't think that he is going to be allowing
00:26:15.900
the federal government to come and run roughshod over our speech rights. He took over Twitter on the
00:26:22.860
promise that it will be much more open to all speech and especially to conservative speech.
00:26:31.240
And the libs don't like that because the libs never, ever want you questioning the narrative.
00:26:35.980
That's why they're so worried about this. Right now, they have a total lock on the narrative.
00:26:39.680
You know, I'm giving a speech tonight at the University of Kentucky. I'm going to be giving
00:26:42.760
it on conspiracy theories. Because you know, it's one of the two worst things you can be called
00:26:48.960
in the country. Worst thing you can be called as a racist is that means you're just the absolute
00:26:53.640
embodiment of evil. Racism is just a synonym for evil. And the second worst thing is a conspiracy
00:26:59.240
theorist because it means you're the dumbest, kookiest quack out there. And so those combined
00:27:04.940
are the two worst things. And yet, the strange thing with the conspiracy theories is, well,
00:27:10.080
one, just like racism, it's hard to figure out exactly what that term means. But two,
00:27:14.700
plenty of conspiracy theories have been proven true. Like this one, like the conspiracy theory
00:27:20.960
that the government is colluding with the social media platforms to censor the public square and
00:27:26.680
to boot out conservatives. That's just a, that's a conspiracy fact. Okay? That's a conspiracy theorem.
00:27:32.820
We've proven it. And it's true of so many other conspiracy theories. I mean, we know that the federal
00:27:40.300
government, the bureaucracy has been involved in controlling the media for many decades in this
00:27:45.080
country. You think about something like Operation Mongoose, which I'll talk about tonight. Well,
00:27:48.580
this is just a continuation of that, except with far greater efficacy, because here it's so
00:27:53.460
technologically advanced. You can actually just go in and say, nope, that person's silenced.
00:27:58.080
Boop, you're gone. Nope, that story nuked. You can't even privately talk about it. Boop,
00:28:02.680
boop, boop, boop, boop. And so much more highly targeted. This is why you have people in the popular
00:28:09.920
culture who are, who you might not expect, who are questioning the narrative. One of them is Kyrie
00:28:15.960
Irving. I'm not, not the biggest basketball fan, as you might know, you know, not, not the most
00:28:22.760
athletic fella out there. Kyrie Irving, I was just watching his interview, his press conference,
00:28:29.960
and I expect the press to be talking about basketball and stuff like that. And instead,
00:28:34.100
I find all the press wants to talk about is the fact that Kyrie Irving posted a generally innocuous,
00:28:43.620
seemingly innocuous Alex Jones clip once to his Instagram.
00:28:50.060
Kyrie, while we're on the topic of promotion, why did you decide to promote something that Alex
00:28:56.820
Jones said? That was a few weeks ago. I do not stand with Alex Jones'
00:29:04.260
position, narrative, court case that he had with Sandy Hook, or any of the kids that felt like
00:29:10.420
they had to relive trauma, or parents that had to relive trauma, or to be dismissive to all the
00:29:16.080
lives that were lost during that tragic event. My, my post was a post from Alex Jones that he did
00:29:23.120
in the early 90s or late 90s about secret societies in America of occults. And it's true. So I wasn't
00:29:31.220
identifying with anything of being a campaign, a campaignist for Alex Jones or anything. I was just
00:29:36.420
there to post. And it's funny, and it's actually hilarious because out of all the things I posted
00:29:41.400
that day, that was the moment post that everyone chose to, chose to see. It just goes back to the
00:29:46.800
way our world is and works. I'm not here to complain about it. I just exist. And to follow
00:29:51.860
up on the promotion of the movie and the book. Can you please stop calling it a promotion?
00:29:58.620
And it goes on. It goes, that was the nice part of the, this reporter just keeps going,
00:30:03.200
but why do you like Alex Jones? Why are you promoting Alex Jones? Why do you, come on,
00:30:07.180
stop, you can't promote Alex, you can't talk about Alex Jones. You can't, why, why, why? And Kyrie
00:30:11.060
Irving is saying, look, I don't, man, I don't know about the Sandy Hook thing or what, I don't care.
00:30:13.960
I'm not, I'm not saying anything about that. I posted a clip from 30 years ago. By the way,
00:30:17.860
here's the clip. The facts and common sense are in. Yes, there have been corrupt empires. Yes,
00:30:22.860
they manipulate. Yes, there are secret societies. Yes, there have been oligarchies throughout history.
00:30:28.240
And yes, today in 2002, there is a tyrannical organization calling itself the New World Order,
00:30:36.080
pushing for worldwide government, a cashless society, total and complete tyranny.
00:30:43.320
By centralizing and socializing healthcare, the state becomes God basically when it comes to your
00:30:50.140
health. And then by releasing diseases and viruses and plagues upon us, we then basically get shoved
00:30:57.080
into their system where human beings are absolutely worthless. That's just true. That's just, that's just
00:31:03.380
a fact. I mean, what's he saying? There have been oligarchies in history. People sometimes conspire in
00:31:09.480
small groups to seize power. And there is a popular phrase called the New World Order that certain
00:31:15.880
people are advocating for. Today, we would probably call that more the Great Reset. But it's the same
00:31:20.800
thing. You still have very prominent people using this phrase saying, we need a Great Reset. We need
00:31:24.300
a New World Order. That's just a fact. So why? Even, by the way, so Kyrie Irving, right? He's very quick
00:31:31.020
to say, I don't, you're trying to talk to me about a Sandy Hook shooting. I have nothing, I'm not saying
00:31:36.280
anything about that. I obviously, I think that's bad that he said that. I'm okay, bad Alex Jones. But
00:31:40.920
what's your problem? Why can't I post this clip about how political power is often different than
00:31:46.700
it appears to be? Well, no, you're not allowed to post that. I mean, it makes you wonder, the fact
00:31:50.800
that they're punishing Alex Jones this way, but you've now got a court order that he'd pay upwards of a
00:31:55.140
billion dollars for getting a story wrong on the air. Yes, he got the story very wrong. Yes,
00:32:01.160
it was horrible what he said. Yes, he's the worst person in the world. Okay, fine. Sure. I mean,
00:32:04.300
let's just grant all that. A billion dollars for getting a story wrong on the air?
00:32:09.760
Followed by now the demand for $2.75 trillion? It's just so bizarre when you think that many other
00:32:17.120
people in our culture have said way crazier things, way more harmful things that have had much more of a
00:32:24.380
harmful effect in the real world. I mean, just talk about what the kind of lies and misinformation
00:32:28.180
that went on during COVID from the libs who are now demanding a truce and an amnesty and pleading for
00:32:33.580
it. I mean, those lies resulted in much more actual real world harm than anything that even Alex Jones
00:32:41.220
has said. And sure, he's said totally wacky. Okay, sure, fine. But in terms of real world harm,
00:32:46.880
it hasn't been more harmful than what Anthony Fauci said. It hasn't been more harmful than what
00:32:51.080
Rochelle Walensky said or Joe Biden said or any of these other people. So why do they go? Because
00:32:56.400
when Kyrie Irving, I haven't spoken to him about this, but when Kyrie Irving sees
00:33:03.400
the kind of multi-trillion dollar requests, billion dollar judgments against someone for saying
00:33:10.160
something, when he's just being inundated at his press conference by these questions about this one
00:33:14.860
random clip he posted that was basically anodyne in and of itself, that is going to give him and other
00:33:20.540
people more reason to believe, huh? Maybe, maybe there is a kind of oligarchic political power here.
00:33:27.120
I wasn't totally convinced of it before, but now, but now I wonder, conspiracy theories such as they
00:33:34.960
are grow during periods of a lack of trust in our political institutions. And that's not the end of
00:33:44.660
the story. People lose trust in our institutions because of corruption and conspiracy that actually
00:33:51.880
takes place. We've got, we've got the evidence of it in black and white. You know, the corporate
00:33:58.040
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00:34:03.940
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Speaking of the deep state attacking conservatives, Lee Zeldin, he's the Republican candidate for
00:34:45.100
governor in New York. And all of a sudden, he's under investigation for super PAC violations.
00:34:51.940
Here he is being reported by The Hill. Lee Zeldin, the Republican candidate for governor in New York,
00:34:57.240
is under investigation by the state board of elections over allegations that he coordinated
00:35:01.020
with two super PACs supporting his campaign. What does this mean? According to our current
00:35:07.640
silly election laws, candidates can raise an unlimited amount of money. That is, people who support
00:35:18.200
candidates can donate an unlimited amount of money to support that candidate. But the election laws,
00:35:27.820
for some stupid reason, say, you can't donate the money directly to the candidate's campaign.
00:35:35.520
You have to donate it to something called a super PAC, which is a totally separate group
00:35:40.860
that, according to the law, can have absolutely no coordination or anything whatsoever with the
00:35:46.360
campaign. Now, the super PAC only exists to support the candidate. Or some con men have exploited this
00:35:57.400
law to pretend. They say, I've got a super PAC. I've got the new super PAC to support Donald Trump.
00:36:02.780
And they've really never talked to Donald Trump. And they really have never coordinated with Donald
00:36:05.940
Trump. And they really have no intention of giving any money to help Donald Trump. They just use it to
00:36:11.480
make money for themselves. And you saw a lot of these crop up since this stupid super PAC aspect of the
00:36:17.100
law has gone into effect. But when it works perfectly, the idea is, yes, you've got two entities,
00:36:22.400
the campaign PAC and the super PAC, both of which are designed to get this candidate elected. But
00:36:28.260
they're not allowed to coordinate with each other one little bit. So that's the background. Did Lee
00:36:35.740
Zeldin coordinate with his super PAC? I don't know. Like, maybe. I don't even, what does that even mean?
00:36:41.520
Was he at an event that his super PAC was also at? Well, that's true of every candidate of both parties
00:36:47.260
in the country. That sort of has to happen because that's where the action is, right? That's what the
00:36:54.520
money is for. Now, is it that Lee Zeldin or one of his staff members coordinated on a TV commercial
00:37:02.700
or a mailer? I don't know. I don't know. I don't really care. I know the Democrats do this sort of
00:37:07.780
thing all the time. And I know that New York is one of the most corrupt states in the country when it
00:37:11.020
comes to the government. It's New York. Illinois is really bad about that. California is not so hot.
00:37:17.080
itself. But New York in particular, Albany is really, really corrupt. And so why are they doing
00:37:24.240
this? Well, they're doing this, of course, because Lee Zeldin is not supposed to be leading in this
00:37:29.800
race. Because New York's a Democrat state, and Kathy Hochul is supposed to glide into re-election.
00:37:36.680
And that's that. And the fact that the people now seem to be supporting Lee Zeldin, that's a big
00:37:42.780
problem. And so the state, the bureaucracy, the corrupt powers that be, are going to have to come
00:37:51.480
in and kind of tilt that back for the Democrats. Would you call that a conspiracy? If you talk about
00:37:59.160
that, would you call it a conspiracy theory? I guess so. It's a theory about a conspiracy, but
00:38:03.960
there's some evidence for it. And especially in light of everything else that we're learning now
00:38:09.080
about how the government is putting its thumb, its boot on the scales for the Democrats,
00:38:13.980
the theory seems to have a fair bit of credibility. Speaking of people breaking the law, there's an
00:38:19.480
update to the Paul Pelosi story. Paul Pelosi, Nancy Pelosi's husband, ends up in an altercation
00:38:27.720
with this Berkeley nudist who was in the Green Party. And then, but now he's being portrayed as
00:38:36.320
a right-wing MAGA Republican. But if you look at the house he was staying at, it's got rainbow flags
00:38:41.320
and BLM signs. And he's in the Pelosi house at 2 a.m. How did he get there? I don't, it seems kind
00:38:47.200
of weird. I mean, listen, people have broken into Buckingham Palace before. So I'm not saying it's
00:38:51.120
impossible. But wouldn't you expect the Speaker of the House and the second person in the line of
00:38:55.220
succession to the president to have some home security? Surely she has cameras all over it.
00:38:59.360
The whole thing is just really weird. Then on the dispatch tape, Paul, the person relaying this
00:39:07.400
dispatch says that Paul Pelosi says he doesn't know the guy, but he names him, he calls him David,
00:39:13.820
and he says that he's a friend. And so that doesn't add up. Anyway, the whole story is really weird.
00:39:17.840
And now it's gotten even stranger, because the guy who attacked Pelosi, David DePape,
00:39:25.480
apparently is an illegal alien. And I'm not going to laugh. I'm not going to, don't,
00:39:34.160
Michael, don't laugh. I'm very happy that Paul Pelosi is going to make a full recovery.
00:39:39.500
It's good. Even if he's married to the Wicked Witch of the West, he's a fellow human being. I don't want
00:39:43.540
to laugh about anything, but he's an illegal alien. That's, he's, the Republicans have spent decades
00:39:53.680
trying, the conservatives at least, have tried to stop the illegal alien problem. Liberals like
00:39:58.760
Nancy Pelosi encourage illegal immigration. They say it's wonderful, illegal immigration,
00:40:03.500
diversity, it's our strength. And then it's ironic. It's not even ironic. It's just,
00:40:11.700
it actually is completely expected by people who look at this political situation. And the liberals
00:40:17.160
do it too. The liberals know that illegal immigration is really bad and dangerous for
00:40:20.680
a lot of people. They just think they're protected. This is why they threw such a hissy fit when
00:40:25.060
DeSantis sent the plane loads of illegals up to Martha's Vineyard. They said, this is a humanitarian
00:40:29.720
crisis. This is awful. It's a drain on our resources. It's dangerous. We've got to,
00:40:33.720
they shipped them off to a military base within 48 hours. Okay. Why? It's not because they suddenly
00:40:39.000
realized the reality of illegal immigration. They've always known that it's dangerous and bad
00:40:42.860
for the communities that have to deal with it. They just said, okay, it's for, it's just for those
00:40:46.220
poor people on the Southern border. It's for those Texans and those Arizonans. It's not for us in
00:40:50.660
Martha's Vineyard. It's not for us, the Pelosi's. Pelosi's dealing with it now too. Speaking of crazy
00:40:58.260
people, there was another attack on a painting. There have been all of these attacks. I actually was in
00:41:05.740
London. There was this attack on a Van Gogh painting where these lib environmentalist types
00:41:11.080
threw a bunch of soup on it and then super glued themselves to the wall. And then a day or two
00:41:15.240
later, I got to see the painting. I brought a spoon. There was no soup left. They cleaned it up,
00:41:19.580
which I guess was good. Well, there have been more and more attacks. And now another one,
00:41:24.000
this maniac is super gluing his head to a painting. Take a listen.
00:41:26.960
The painting that he's super gluing his head to is a girl with a pearl earring by Vermeer. I mean,
00:41:39.680
this is a very, very famous, very important painting.
00:41:42.500
Priceless being apparently destroyed before he arrives.
00:41:53.700
Well, you should be more outraged about the destruction of our earth. That's the point.
00:41:57.460
That's the thesis of this stupid protest. As you're saying, you're outraged. And this happened
00:42:01.660
at The Hague, by the way. They're saying, you're outraged that we're attacking this work of art on a
00:42:07.640
canvas. But you're all attacking the great work of art that is the environment with your pollution
00:42:13.960
and your plastics and all. And they're just going to keep this up. It reminds me of that scene in
00:42:20.920
The Jerk with Steve Martin, where the guy is sniping and trying to kill Steve Martin. And he's at a gas
00:42:26.880
station. He keeps hitting all the cans of oil. He says, this guy really hates these cans.
00:42:32.220
These environmentalists really hate these paintings. And eventually, they're going to destroy
00:42:37.440
one of them. And it's going to be very, very annoying. But that's the argument. And they are
00:42:43.340
getting the attention that they so desperately crave. And they are shedding a light on environmentalism.
00:42:51.760
Which could be a good thing, actually. Because the more we look into these radical environmentalists,
00:42:57.220
the clearer it becomes. They're not helping the natural environment.
00:43:02.360
There was a study. It's being promoted by Greenpeace, which is the environmental nonprofit.
00:43:10.700
Though I think it's actually a kind of self-undermining study from Greenpeace.
00:43:15.260
Turns out that plastic recycling is totally fake. It's so fake. So the study shows, of the 51 million
00:43:24.440
tons of plastic waste that U.S. households generated in 2021, just 2.4 million tons, just 5% of that
00:43:32.480
was recycled. And it's not because the people don't put it in the little blue bin. I mean,
00:43:39.640
I generally don't. But some people, people are very meticulous generally. I've got to put this
00:43:44.840
bottle in the blue bin or else I'm committing a sin against Mother Gaia and Mother Earth and so blah,
00:43:50.340
blah, blah, whatever. But part of the reason is just there are so many different types of
00:43:54.200
plastic. The plants are not very efficient at processing all of them. And so only 5% of it
00:43:58.620
ever gets recycled. It's just fake. You're performing a kind of ritual in the religion of
00:44:04.520
Mother Earth, but you're not really doing very much to help the natural environment. So it's obviously
00:44:10.040
totally fake and stupid. But there is a kind of conservative insight here. And I think conservatives
00:44:18.940
we're going to have to come to terms with the natural environment because for the past several
00:44:25.700
decades where we've just had this kind of Ayn Rand sort of political view where everything's just
00:44:35.760
about money and Wolf of Wall Street, greed is good, like that 1980s kind of political views.
00:44:42.580
We're coming out of that hangover right now. And the ethos of that political view was,
00:44:49.440
who cares about the environment? Whatever. I'm just going to throw these little soda can holders
00:44:55.000
into the ocean, see how many bottlenose dolphins I can nab. And I'm just going to set a bunch of
00:44:59.680
tires on fire. And I'm just going to, whatever, who cares? And it's funny and it's reactionary and
00:45:06.080
reacting to these lunatics and nuts who are gluing their heads to Vermeer paintings. But it's not
00:45:12.620
actually all that conservative. It's not conservative to trash our surroundings. That's
00:45:17.360
what hippies do. That's what libs do. They trash their surroundings and they make it look like the
00:45:20.880
Woodstock campsite. That's not what conservatives do. We like beautiful things. But the key here
00:45:26.420
toward a conservative environmentalism or conservationism, or don't forget Teddy Roosevelt
00:45:33.400
was one of the first conservationists. The key to it is the focus. Is it about Mother Earth and Gaia
00:45:41.260
and the Delta smelt and the rocks and the whatever? Or is it about human beings?
00:45:48.420
The libs basically think that we are the pollution. They think that we are the virus and we need to just
00:45:55.220
get rid of humans and stop building things and stop doing things and stop living. And then that'll be
00:45:59.360
really good because then we can serve the Delta smelt. The conservative view of it is, yeah, we want
00:46:04.920
to take care of the natural environment and we don't want to kill off all the species and we want
00:46:09.460
the air to be nice for us because we are stewards of the creation and we want to flourish. It is not
00:46:16.580
the end. It's not that we need to orient our industry and our economy and our way of life
00:46:21.120
towards serving the end of the rocks and the trees or whatever. It's hugging the trees and crying when
00:46:26.020
they cut one down. It's that we need to govern and steward our environment for our society so that
00:46:34.760
we have a good flourishing society and so that we can go out and go shooting those birds and chopping
00:46:40.200
down those trees in beauty and peace. So we've got the Love Don't Judge challenge today. It's very
00:46:49.340
spooky. It's a spooky post-Halloween Love Don't Judge challenge. The rest of the show is continuing
00:46:55.780
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