Ep. 1130 - Trump Is Democrat's Public Enemy No. 1
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Biden's DOJ announces it will continue to investigate and likely prosecute Donald Trump in 2024. Is this a political ploy to keep Trump off the ballot? Or is it a scorched earth strategy to prevent Trump from running for president in 2024?
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Joe Biden's DOJ has just announced that it will continue to investigate and likely prosecute
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Biden's chief political rival in 2024, Donald Trump. And in classic leftist newspeak,
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Biden's attorney general, Merrick Garland, framed the announcement as evidence that the
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investigation and likely prosecution would not be political because the DOJ would hire a special
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counsel. Now, the purpose of a special counsel is to avoid conflicts of interest in prosecutions.
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In the case of this investigation, the investigation of a former president currently
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running for president against the guy who took his job, we have never seen anything like it before.
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So the standard should be much, much higher to avoid the appearance of any sort of bias.
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The standard should be much higher that Biden isn't just going to throw everything he's got
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at Trump to stop him from running against him in 2024. So what did Biden do? He appointed Jack
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Smith, an Obama hack lawyer who most recently prosecuted war crimes at The Hague. So looking
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like Biden is going to go with the scorched earth strategy, kill the campaign in the cradle approach,
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to Trump's campaign. Because if you don't think that you can beat your opponent fair and square,
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your only chance at keeping power is to rig the system against him. I'm Michael Knowles,
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this is The Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. My favorite comment Friday is from Mike
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Hoff, who says, Beto listening to Michael say there's no such thing as a lost cause.
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So you're saying there's a chance. Yeah, that is what Beto is saying right now. I assume he's going
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If the Democrats truly believed that they could easily defeat Trump at the ballot box in 2024,
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they would not be investigating and very likely prosecuting him. So wait, that's the way it is.
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Notice you didn't really hear talk about the, an investigation and a prosecution from the DOJ
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of Donald Trump until it started to look more and more like Trump was going to run in 2024.
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Then all of a sudden there was one day in the summer where it looked like Trump was going to
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announce and he had been suggesting that he would, that he would make a big announcement on that day
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on truth social throughout social media. And what happens? That was the day that Biden's FBI thugs
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kicked down the door at Mar-a-Lago and raided the former president's home. So obviously this is
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nakedly political and then the Biden DOJ to pretend that it's not political. What do they do? They
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appoint a war crimes prosecutor to go after Biden's chief rival. It's just so transparent. And it's,
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it's clear enough to me that the Democrats believe that if they don't rig the system in 2024,
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that Trump will beat them. And that's probably wise for them to think that because you hear a lot
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of talk of, Oh, Donald Trump, he's the only Republican who could lose in 2024. You hear this from the
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Democrats. You hear this from the Republicans. Oh, those Republicans, they need to pick somebody
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better because Trump, he's sure to lose. He's sure. Okay. If he's so sure to lose,
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then why are the Democrats doing every single thing they can to keep him off the ballot?
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If he's so sure to lose, why did the Democrats keep testing out ways to argue that the 14th
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amendment stops people who led an insurrection from getting on the ballot? They tried that against
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Marjorie Taylor Greene. They tried that against other members of Congress. It was obviously a test run
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to keep Trump off the ballot. You hear left-wing commentators on, on MSNBC and elsewhere.
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Say that, well, Donald Trump, he's ineligible to run for president. Okay. If you think he's
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going to be so easy to beat, then why are you trying to keep him off the ballot? Because
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you know that you all were wrong when you said that in 2016 and he beat you in 2016 and he's
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a hell of a lot stronger than everyone is pretending right now. And so you think that if you kill the
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campaign in the cradle, that's going to give you a much better shot. Then you'll go up against
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a more standard Republican and the Democrats believe they can beat that Republican. Maybe not even
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because the Republican is weak, maybe just because they've already so thoroughly rigged
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the elections that it will be much easier. And when I say rigged the elections, what am I talking
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about? I'm talking about extend voter day to voter month. I'm talking about push widespread mail in
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ballots in some cases unconstitutionally or illegally. I'm talking about ballot harvesting. I'm talking
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about no voter ID. I'm talking about all the things that the Democrats have pushed for decades
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and really, really ramped up during the COVID-19 lockdowns. They used COVID as the excuse to change
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all the election rules, to rig it against the Republicans. And for some reason, those rules
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are still in place. That's how you know that it was total BS in 2020. Because if the argument was in
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2020, we need to change all the voter rules and get rid of all the election integrity measures
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because of this worldwide pandemic that we've never seen anything like it. So we got to change all
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the rules. If that were the case, then why were those rules still in place in Democrat-controlled
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areas in 2022? COVID is over. Joe Biden admitted the pandemic is over. So then why do you still
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have the widespread mail-ins? Why do you still have election season? Why do you still not have
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voter ID requirements? Why? Because the Democrats obviously want to rig it. I know we're not allowed
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to talk about that, but I'm going to talk about it anyway. Listen, Elon Musk bought Twitter.
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Social media feels freer. So I'm going to speak as bluntly as I possibly can. There are a whole
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lot of pieces of evidence that there was fraud in Arizona in 2022. There's a lot more evidence that
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there was fraud in 2020. But even just this last election, even in the midterms right now,
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there is a fabulous website, who'scounting.us slash Maricopa. You can see Maricopa election workers
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recounting in first person testimony the kind of shenanigans, the clear evidence, I think,
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of fraud from the midterm elections. My name is Sarah O'Neill. I've been an Arizona resident for
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the past three years. I was poll watcher for both the primaries and the midterms. And I wanted to
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relay my observations with no commentary or accusation. The door number three debacle,
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when I checked in, I was the afternoon and evening and closing poll watcher. I did confirm that our
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tabulators were cleared. They were all zeros. But I also did confirm that there was no instruction
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for inspecting to ensure the door three or the slot three was empty. So no one, not a poll worker,
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not a poll watcher, inspected to make sure it was empty. And the reason that's a point is at the end
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of the day, we were asked to report the number of voters checked in, the number of ballots that
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were transporting. And of those number of ballots, how many were door number three? We had 1,218 ballots.
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We had only 1,018 voters that checked in. And we had of those 1,218 ballots, 406 were door number three.
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So there you have it. If you don't remember the door number three debacle, what happened early in the
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day in Maricopa County, which is a crucial county and a crucial swing state that helped to swing the
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election, is that the voting machines stopped working. The voting machines reportedly in
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disproportionately Republican precincts stopped working. And so people had to file their ballots
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provisionally in what was called box number three. It was very convenient. There was this door number
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three. This was supposed to be a fail safe measure such that if the machine stopped working,
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don't worry. You don't run your ballot through the tabulator. You just put it in this box and
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don't worry. They'll count those later. And you hear this poll watcher's testimony. This woman
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sounds totally normal. Doesn't sound like a tinfoil hat lady. She said, I'm not going to include
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commentary or accusations. I'm just going to tell you exactly what I saw. I don't expect to see this
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woman hosting a show on Infowars. Though frankly, Alex Jones has relatively a pretty good record on
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getting stories right. But this woman doesn't sound like someone who's about to rip her shirt off and
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starts screaming about the gay frogs or anything. She's just calling it like she sees it.
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And she says, at the end of the day, we counted the number of voters who checked in versus the
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number of ballots we had. The number of ballots we had was 1,218. The number of voters we checked in
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was 1,018. So you have this really perfect even number, 200 extra ballots. And what do you know?
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They happened to be in box number three. And why were they in box number three? Because no one ever
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checked to see if the boxes were stuffed in the first place. You check to see that the boxes were
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cleared at the end of election day. But there was no measure in place to check that the boxes were not
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stuffed when the day started. Now, this has been a longstanding tool of election theft. And it goes back
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all the way, I mean, gosh, it probably goes back to ancient Athens, just stuffing the ballot box.
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But you see this especially in the campaigns of Lyndon Johnson. You see this throughout the middle of
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the 20th century. FDR and Lyndon Johnson joked about this after FDR lost an election. And by the way,
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he didn't lose his next election for Senate, specifically because he stuffed the ballot box,
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which came out in the 1990s. And that number, it's just such a strange number. Exactly 200 extra ballots
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compared to the number of voters who checked in. So what's that about? It wasn't only this woman
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who describes election irregularities. And the problem wasn't only with box number three,
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there were other issues too. Our rejection rate, which I confirmed with my Democrat poll watcher
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counterpart, I thought it was maybe 75% at least. He said, oh no, it's at least 90% rejection rate.
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The 17,000 number that has been publicized as door number three ballots is far understated.
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We were there. We were there. The discrepancy and the number of physical ballots that I had,
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they came from somewhere. We had physically had them. They were not voters that walked in and
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checked in. We had 200 more ballots than voters that checked in. And I just want that to be on the record.
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So she just wants this on the record. She says, look, the numbers just don't add up here, okay?
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You don't need to be a math whiz to know those numbers just don't add up. Now, who was running
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the elections in Arizona? It was the Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, who coincidentally was running
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for governor that year. But one of the rebuttals to this observation is, well, yeah, sure, Katie Hobbs
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was technically in charge of the elections, but it was really the county level people who were running
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it. And by the way, in Maricopa County, most of the board members who were running the elections,
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most of them were Republicans. So your argument, you crazy tinfoil hat MAGA people,
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So the argument against the election fraud claims in Arizona is it was mostly Republicans running the
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show in Maricopa. Okay, who were the Republicans, though, and what were their actual political views
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and preferences? Here, again, at just open testimony from the people who saw what was going on in
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Maricopa, here's the real story. So Chairman Bill Gates and Recorder Richer, you both have lost all
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credibility and any shred of integrity to conduct free, fair, and transparent elections here in
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Maricopa County when you both opened in 2021 a political action committee to specifically defeat
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MAGA candidates. That actually was almost our whole ballot for this primary from the Republican Party.
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So if you think that the public should believe the false narrative of well-run, fair, transparent
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elections and outcomes, you're sorely mistaken. That's not just a conflict of interest. It's a
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specific agenda and a pre-bias going into it. So at the very least, you should have recused yourself
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from any part of this election, having opened that in 2021. So these guys who are running the
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show on Maricopa, nominally they're Republicans, but they hate all the Republican candidates.
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It's like saying that Bill Kristol and David French are Republicans. They're not really Republicans.
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If ever they were Republicans, they certainly are no longer. They spend all of their time attacking
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Republicans and shilling for Democrats. It's like calling Liz Cheney a Republican. Yeah,
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she still sort of keeps an R by her name, even though she was booted out of her state's Republican
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Party by vote. But effectively, all she ever does is help the Democrats. And what this woman's
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pointing out here is she's saying, look, it's not even just that you guys have your preferences.
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It's not even just that you register a certain way. You have been actively campaigning within the
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last year to raise money for and help defeat all the sort of Republican candidates that were on this
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ballot. You've taken extraordinary political measures to do that. So at the very least,
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you guys should have backed away from running this election, especially an election that from the get
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go had so many convenient and coincidental errors and holdups and snags and snafus. And that took days
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and days and days to tabulate the results. It's just BS, okay? And I think this is one of the ways
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that you can sniff out the difference between the real right-wingers and the court jester conservatives.
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You know, the real people who want to advocate for a conservative society and the people who basically
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just exist to legitimize the dominant liberal culture, okay? Who exist to do a little soft shoe
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and a little dance routine to pretend like there's opposition in our politics when in fact there is not.
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All they really do is help to preserve the legitimacy of the liberal order. And one of the ways that you
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can distinguish between these two groups is who is calling out the system? It's not just enough
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to attack those socialist Democrats. Those socialist Democrats want to raise your taxes.
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Can you believe that crazy AOC? Oh, goodness, that crazy AOC. Look what she said now.
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Look, she's a crazy leftist. Donate to the Republican Party because she is a crazy. Yeah,
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AOC is a problem. Yeah, the socialists are a problem. What about the system?
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What about the system? As far as I'm concerned, in a post-2020 world, after the Democrats changed all
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the election rules to give them an unfair advantage, after we saw a large portion of the Republican Party
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outed as nothing more than wolves in sheep's clothing and doing the bidding of the Democrats,
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if you are not talking about election integrity and trying to fix that problem, then I think you're
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a fraud. I think you're a fraud conservative who doesn't want to actually fix something.
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If all you are doing in politics is trying to cut taxes and, look, I love tax cuts, all right? I'm not
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knocking tax cuts. I love it. I don't want to pay any more in taxes. I want to pay much less. But if
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that's all you're talking about, and then if the effect of the rest of your political views is to
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enshrine in power the liberal order, then I think you're a fraud. I'll give you an example of this.
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If you're one of these Republicans who says, well, listen, I don't like this big tech censorship,
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but it's a private company. Google's a private company. Actually, it's not. Actually,
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it was developed with direct funding from the government. And actually, they have more power
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than pretty much any nation in the history of the world. And they control our political order and
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our speech regime. But anyway, yeah, sure. They're a private company. And so therefore,
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just build your own Google. If you're saying that, you are wittingly or unwittingly a shill for the
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liberal order. Either way, you're not a real conservative as far as I'm concerned. If you're the
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sort of conservative who says, well, yeah, it's probably not good that we're flooding the country with
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a million foreign nationals legally every year and two million foreign nationals illegally. But you
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know, that's freedom. You know what the Statue of Liberty is alleged to say? You know, give us your
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poor huddled drug dealing Mexican cartels and we'll give you freedom or something. Oh, that's just
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America. You know, if the effect of your political views, your allegedly conservative political views
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is to just do everything the liberals want, censor conservative speech, flood the country with
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illegal aliens, outsource jobs, give more medical power to a bunch of weirdo bureaucrats like Dr.
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Fauci. If that's the effect of your views, then you're just a fraud, okay? You're not calling out
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the system at all. You are a pawn in the system. And I absolutely want nothing to do with those
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quote unquote Republicans, those quote unquote conservatives, okay? Now, speaking of the rigged
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system, some conservative politicians, I'm thinking of Trump. I'm thinking of Viktor Orban in Hungary.
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I'm thinking of Georgia Maloney in Italy. You know, I love her. They're the kinds of politicians who run
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and they don't just say the same old platitudes. They say, no, this is rigged. I know it's rigged.
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I've seen it be rigged. Trump famously would say, I know the system is totally corrupt because I've
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used it to my advantage. Yeah, I used to donate to Democrats because I'd grease the wheels and I'd buy
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them off. You're right. That's what happens in this form of government. So Georgia Maloney just
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did this. Georgia Maloney just put the rest of the EU, specifically France, on blast on their
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ridiculous arguments for why they've got to flood Europe with foreigners. Here's her argument.
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This is called the CFA front. It's a type of colonial currency that France prints for
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African countries. And it applies seniorage to these countries and it allows them to take
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the exports of the country. This is a child. She's holding up a picture. This is a child who
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works in a gold mine in Burkina Faso. It's one of the poorest countries in the world.
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France prints colonial money for Burkina Faso. In return, they demand 50% of everything that
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Burkina Faso exports. The gold that this child goes down to pull up mostly ends up in the French
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state. The solution here is not to take Africans and bring them to Europe. The solution is to
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liberate Africa from the Europeans who are exploiting it and allow these people to keep
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what they have and live on what they have. Beautiful, beautiful stuff. You can see here not
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only a good political end in sight, which is to stop the mass migration to Europe, which the European
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people rightly don't like because it's lawless and it's unsustainable and it will deprive them of
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their own culture. If you just flood a country with new people and you don't assimilate those people in
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any way, which is not even possible in the amount of time that these people are coming in, then you
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destroy your own culture. And so the way she's doing it, though, is she's making an argument that
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will be appealing to a broad array of people. She's not saying those awful Africans, we hate
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those Africans, don't let those Africans come in. She's saying the arguments that France is making
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are preposterous. France is making the argument that we need to take in all these Africans. And by
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the way, the Africans are mostly going to places like Italy. They're going to these first ports at
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Lampedusa and these kind of places where they first come to. And she says, but you're making the
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argument that we need to take these people in because their countries are so poor. But you,
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France, you're looting those countries. You're exploiting those people and you are profiting
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yourself and then you want other people to pick up the tab. And that's so often what happens.
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That's what happens here with our woke corporations. Our woke corporations will flood the country with
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illegal aliens. They will encourage, it's not just the Democrats encouraging illegal immigration,
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it's these corporations. It's the Chamber of Commerce too, because they know that it will give
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them cheap labor. It will reduce the costs of labor. And then all the externalities, all of the
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costs that go along, cultural, political, financial costs that go along with illegal immigration, crime.
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These companies say, okay, everyone else has to deal with it. It is just, it really ends up being
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pretty simple. It is a consequence of turning politics away from the common good of the whole
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nation to provide for the general welfare, to think of us as a community, as the United States of
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America, toward an entirely selfish view of politics, which we obviously see on the left.
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The left's new moral maxim, new, it's been their moral maxim now for 60, 70 years, is if it feels
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good, do it. If I want to do it, then I'm going to do it. You do you. Fine. But people on the right
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have done this too. This is the right's adoption of greed is good. There's no such thing as the common
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good, the virtue of selfishness, nonsense. Well, it's the left and the right both doing that.
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And what's the effect of it? To rob the country of any sense of the common good, of any sense of
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commonality, of any sense that we're a country at all, okay? But I am still an American. I'm a red
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blooded American, okay? And my blood is redder and more rich in iron because I eat good ranchers.
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Over the past two years, at least, though it's really been building for a longer time,
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the social media giants have clamped down on conservative speech.
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It hasn't been an even clamping down on speech. It's been
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almost entirely focused on the right. Now, what does that mean? In a country that's supposedly a
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self-government, where the way that we pass laws and govern ourselves is by persuading one another
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of arguments, if you control speech, you control the whole culture. This is the point of my book,
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Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Wines, a number one national bestseller. It makes a great
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Christmas present, just pointing that out before Black Friday. So that has been the situation on the
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ground. And then in walks Elon Musk. And Elon Musk comes in, and he buys Twitter. And at first,
00:26:05.600
it seems like a joke and a meme. And for a while, it looked like he didn't want to buy Twitter. But
00:26:08.820
then a judge sort of forced him to buy Twitter. And so anyway, he spends $44 billion, and he is having
00:26:13.780
a whole lot of fun. And there have been all of these debates over, do you let people on? Do you not
00:26:20.060
let people on? Do you have free speech? Do you not have free speech? I got into a little spat with Sam
00:26:24.540
Harris. Sam Harris made a splash as one of these atheists 15 years ago. He was one of the four
00:26:31.800
new atheists, which was much more a publishing trend than an intellectual movement. But anyway,
00:26:38.560
that's where he became somewhat famous. And he said, it's really dangerous. You can't have people
00:26:43.760
like Donald Trump or whoever on Twitter. It's really dangerous for these people to spread
00:26:48.260
misinformation. Can you imagine how dangerous it is? And I responded to him, and I said, Sam,
00:26:52.020
you're right. Elon should not tolerate the New York Times or the Washington Post remaining on this
00:26:59.180
platform. I mean, when I think of the dangerous lies that they spread, those guys need to be axed
00:27:04.180
immediately. And Sam responded with some sort of glib, you know, oh, yeah, you've really thought
00:27:08.280
about this, haven't you, Michael? Which, by the way, I have. And then I referenced my number one
00:27:11.900
national bestselling book, Speechless, which I recommend you get for Black Friday. So the point here,
00:27:17.520
I think, though, is that the New York Times and the Washington Post are responsible for a great
00:27:26.020
deal more evil because of their dishonest journalism than Donald Trump is. What do they accuse Donald
00:27:33.760
Trump of doing? Donald Trump led an insurrection. He didn't really do that. Well, he led those people
00:27:39.580
to go to the Capitol. Well, he sort of, a little bit he did that, though he said to be peaceful.
00:27:42.900
And people died. Yeah, the only person who died in the political violence of that day was a Trump
00:27:47.140
supporter named Ashley Babbitt who was murdered by a trigger-happy cop. That's it. And then I think
00:27:54.040
if you really want to add to the numbers, I think a couple of people died of natural causes that day.
00:27:58.760
There were a lot of people there and people had heart attacks and stuff like that. But no one died.
00:28:02.080
No cops were murdered. None of that. That was all completely made up, okay?
00:28:05.560
Furthermore, when you look at the New York Times' advocacy of certain wars, you can look at the New
00:28:12.920
York Times spreading propaganda and nonsense to justify some of our recent wars. Think about the
00:28:19.040
people who died as a result of that. You think about the nonsense spread by the Washington Post
00:28:25.660
and the New York Times with regard to the Russia hoax, which allowed or gave cover to the government to
00:28:32.640
spy on a rival presidential campaign and then undermine a duly elected president? Goodness
00:28:36.940
sakes, that's a big problem. I mean, I was joking a little bit with Sam Harris, but I'm pretty serious.
00:28:42.640
There's a strong argument to be made that the New York Times and the Washington Post should not be
00:28:46.540
permitted on Twitter because their dishonesty has led to really awful outcomes. It's led to death
00:28:52.200
in some cases, okay? And so Elon Musk is taking a middle ground here. He is not a free speech
00:28:59.760
absolutist, and he's getting a lot of flack from the right about this. But I don't think he should.
00:29:04.580
I think this is actually extremely based. I know this puts me on the outs with some of the right
00:29:11.600
wing, though I think actually the conservatives are coming much more over to my point of view here.
00:29:15.280
But there's nothing conservative about free speech absolutism. There's nothing conservative about
00:29:22.620
having a bunch of obscenity and porn and direct threats all over social media and in the public
00:29:27.240
square. That's not conservative. That's radical and leftist, okay? And it was the libs who tricked
00:29:32.420
conservatives into believing that nonsense, okay? And so Elon Musk comes out. He says,
00:29:36.500
new Twitter policy is freedom of speech but not freedom of reach. Negative hate tweets will be
00:29:40.280
maxed, de-boosted, and de-monetized, so no ads or other revenue to Twitter. You won't find the tweet
00:29:45.800
unless you specifically seek it out, which is no different from the rest of the internet.
00:29:49.880
Kathy Griffin, Jordan Peterson, and the Babylon Bee have been reinstated. Trump decision has not been
00:29:53.680
made yet, although you'll see what comes later. Alex Jones is not allowed on Twitter. Now, I don't
00:29:58.500
agree with all of those decisions. I think Alex Jones should be on Twitter. Kathy Griffin, I don't
00:30:03.940
mind if she's not on Twitter. I'm glad that eventually Trump did come back on, spoiler alert. But the
00:30:09.800
principle that Elon is describing here is totally right, okay? And you're hearing the right say,
00:30:16.820
well, new boss, same as the old boss. This is no different from what the left is doing.
00:30:26.520
When conservatives allow good and true and beautiful things to be present in the public
00:30:34.640
square and discourage ugly and false and evil things in the public square, that is not the same
00:30:43.540
as when the left exalts ugliness and wickedness and falsehood and suppresses goodness, truth,
00:30:51.860
and beauty. It's not the same. Yes, both involve having standards. Both involve having norms. Both
00:30:57.240
involve having taboos. Both involve limiting speech. But that procedural similarity does not mean that they
00:31:04.260
are substantively the same thing. To do good and avoid evil is not the same thing as to do evil and
00:31:11.240
avoid good, okay? And conservatives used to understand this. Conservatives used to be the
00:31:15.720
group of norms and standards and having higher ideals and being polite and understanding chivalry.
00:31:22.240
Chivalry is a code of speech and behavior that censors certain things, okay? Being a gentleman
00:31:27.580
involves censoring certain things and limiting what can be said and done and promoting other things that
00:31:32.260
are said and done, okay? But that's all regimes, okay? That's all states. That's all forms of speech.
00:31:38.840
There are always limits. And so I don't think we should knock Elon for having standards and norms.
00:31:44.900
I think that we should help to tweak his standards and norms, but his standards and norms are a hell
00:31:49.940
of a lot better than Vijaya Gadi. Was that her name? The Twitter apparatchik who banned Trump the first
00:31:56.940
time. And Elon's are a hell of a lot better than Jack Dorsey's. And I think he should be encouraged in
00:32:02.160
that. The libs are freaking out. CBS News said they were going to stop tweeting out of an abundance
00:32:07.020
of caution. Caution about what? Well, with the changing standards at Twitter, we're going to
00:32:12.380
stop tweeting out of an abundance of caution. What do you think is going to happen? And then,
00:32:17.360
by the way, this is the best part. 48 hours later, CBS starts tweeting again. Okay, but we're
00:32:22.060
monitoring the situation, they said. But we're going to be back on Twitter. Okay, that's great.
00:32:26.080
They're freaking out, all right? Trump is back. And the way Elon did it was brilliant. He threw up a
00:32:31.440
poll. He said, should Trump go back on? Most people said yes. Then all of a sudden, it started
00:32:37.220
to turn. There were tens of millions of votes in this poll. You could tell there were some,
00:32:41.080
maybe some political forces here that were trying to keep Trump off of Twitter. But Elon said,
00:32:45.800
Vox Populi, Vox Dei. The voice of the people is the voice of God, which is a principle I don't
00:32:50.660
exactly agree with. But nevertheless, it gave him a way of bringing Trump back to Twitter without taking
00:32:57.200
all of the responsibility for it. It's really important for the political order. When that
00:33:01.160
Twitter lawyer lady booted Trump off of Twitter, that was a revolution in America's political order.
00:33:08.080
That was saying that some billionaire leftists in Silicon Valley and their minions can censor,
00:33:17.340
can ostracize the duly elected sitting president of the United States. So it's a very important
00:33:21.600
restoration of America's political order. This is not just a minor funny little meme thing.
00:33:26.060
Oh, there goes Elon. Ooh, giddy, giddy. He put Trump back. This is actually a major
00:33:30.860
restoration of America's political order. The question is, will Trump actually come back on
00:33:35.500
and use the account? I hope he does. When they read and stated Trump's account,
00:33:40.480
he had zero followers. Now he's up to like 10 bazillion. He's got way more followers than Joe
00:33:45.800
Biden. He's obviously very popular, despite what the lying press wants to tell you. Despite the
00:33:51.320
constant negative press, covfefe is what Trump proved to us. And I think he should come back on.
00:33:56.060
The trouble for Trump is, he's made a deal with Truth Social that that will be his social media
00:34:02.320
platform. But no one looks at Truth Social. The only reason anyone checks Truth Social is to see
00:34:06.500
what Trump has to say, which is probably a sizable number of people, but is not actually being used as
00:34:12.420
a social network. If Trump goes back onto Twitter, he will have so much more reach, he will dominate
00:34:16.960
the conversation again. The guy is now a declared candidate for president. So I hope he figures out
00:34:21.680
some way to thread the needle. But I want Trump back on Twitter. Good on Elon for doing it. Good
00:34:27.040
on Elon for having standards too. The guy is doing almost everything right. And the libs are so
00:34:31.480
freaking out. I don't know about you. I feel like I am living in 2015 again. I am having deja vu
00:34:37.300
all over again. For some of our younger listeners, they might not even remember 2015 all that well.
00:34:42.780
I mean, it's amazing to think right now. That's seven years ago now. Within a month and a half,
00:34:47.120
it's going to be eight years ago. That was a long time ago. And it just makes me think that people
00:34:54.620
don't learn anything because all of the same stupid arguments from exactly the same people
00:35:02.940
we are hearing again trotted out as though it is fresh and new. Marx and Engels, talk about calling
00:35:09.460
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Really tough news for Trump out of the Huffington Post. Oh, it's from the Huffington Post quoting
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key evangelical figures. There's the headline here. Key evangelical figures turn on Trump.
00:36:49.820
He used us, Huffington Post says. One of these people ripped the ex-president for acting like a
00:36:57.500
little elementary school child. Another warned that if the GOP turns to him in 2024, we will get
00:37:03.480
destroyed. We will, Donald Trump can't save America, said one of these guys to the Washington
00:37:09.640
Post. He can't even save himself. People are done with Trump. The walls are closing in. They've got him
00:37:19.100
now. Do these people ever learn anything? No, they don't. They don't. The reason that some people
00:37:29.720
are surprised by this is because they have very short memories. They have short memories. And so
00:37:34.920
this is all being reported as, wow, the Republican Party, which was totally unified behind Trump,
00:37:39.660
now some of them are turning on him. Trump might not have that same lock on the GOP that he previously
00:37:45.960
had. Wow, certain evangelical leaders are turning on him, allegedly. Wow, certain institutional
00:37:51.580
establishment conservatives are turning on him. Wow, oh gosh. We've never seen this before. This
00:37:56.580
was exactly what happened when he ran. This is the whole story of Trump. He runs in 2015 and you have
00:38:04.360
certain leaders of the conservative movement, whatever you want to call it, say, oh, he's terrible.
00:38:13.140
He's awful. If we run with him, we'll lose. It's guaranteed. He's vulgar. He acts like a school
00:38:17.900
child. It's all the same attacks. It didn't matter then. I don't think it will really matter now.
00:38:26.140
Now, I'm not saying necessarily that Trump will get the nomination, but he has a good shot at it.
00:38:31.900
He has a good shot at it because, yes, a lot of conservatives, a lot of people on the right
00:38:36.660
don't like Donald Trump. Probably many listeners to this show don't even like Donald Trump.
00:38:41.080
You know, I like him a lot, but he's got, I understand. He's got flaws. He rubs people the
00:38:46.220
wrong way. Maybe it's just because I'm from New York that I get a little more of a kick out of him
00:38:50.240
than other people do. But it doesn't matter. He doesn't need to win over the majority of Republicans.
00:38:56.720
He doesn't. He needs to win over the plurality of Republicans. And this is what, and he doesn't
00:39:02.220
need to win over any of the establishment elite people who run the media outlets and who run the
00:39:07.360
think tanks and who even run the RNC. That doesn't matter. Okay. He just needs a plurality
00:39:12.600
of the voters in the early primary states. And so, sure, you're going to have, you just had
00:39:18.540
National Review just came out. Where are they? National Review says, no, a firm, unmistakable
00:39:26.600
no from National Review after he announces that he's running, which doesn't carry any water anymore
00:39:32.400
because that's what they said last time. When he ran in 2015, they had a big front page article
00:39:37.640
against Trump. And it was all these different people who wrote their own columns and reflections
00:39:42.120
on why Trump shouldn't be the nominee. And then most of those people ended up supporting Trump.
00:39:46.960
No, never Trump. And then what happens? Most of never Trump's ends up supporting Trump. So now you
00:39:51.600
can't go back. Paul Ryan apparently just said he's never again Trump. You can't be never again Trump.
00:39:56.820
Never means never, or you lose credibility. Okay. So, so these guys, they come out,
00:40:02.400
we hate Trump. And then for two years, they say, no, we actually really liked Trump. Four years,
00:40:06.520
we really liked Trump. And now they hate Trump again. Okay, fine. But if we gave any heed to what
00:40:13.580
you were saying in 2015, we're not going to give heed to it now because you're just blowing in the
00:40:16.680
wind back and forth. And we know how it turned out last time. So why do we believe it's going to turn
00:40:20.960
out any differently today? I don't think necessarily that Trump will get the nomination,
00:40:26.260
but I think he's got a good shot at it. Don't forget, people forget, they think that Trump was
00:40:30.220
inevitable in 2015. Had Marco Rubio dropped out of the race earlier, Ted Cruz would have been the
00:40:34.340
nominee. Would Ted have won the general? I don't know. We just can't know. It's a counter historical
00:40:39.860
question. But it is in fact the case that Ted Cruz would have gotten the nomination had Rubio
00:40:46.860
dropped out sooner. That I think we can say with some certainty. So a lot is going to depend now on
00:40:52.800
the candidates in 2024. But Trump right now, right now the whole thing looks and feels exactly like
00:41:00.160
it did in 2015. So we've got no reason to think that Trump isn't going to have a very good shot at
00:41:04.120
it. And the way the libs and the way that the establishment are freaking out over Trump right
00:41:08.200
now makes me think he's got a real good shot over it. Okay, the fact is Trump remains extremely
00:41:15.940
relevant. Trump's enemies remain less relevant. The fact is MAGA, the movement that supported Trump
00:41:25.160
with a different set of policy prescriptions than was being offered by the GOP, remains relevant.
00:41:31.200
The GOP establishment is much less relevant, certainly in the minds of voters. And you hear
00:41:37.460
people whining about this. I mean, you hear Adam Kinzinger, you know, the male, allegedly male,
00:41:43.020
Liz Cheney, comes out, he goes on MSNBC, and he whines and he whines. He says, this isn't the GOP.
00:41:48.240
This isn't, this is tribalism. It's all the same rhetoric from seven years ago.
00:41:53.460
Why do you think more people don't feel that he crossed their red lines in the Republican Party?
00:41:59.220
You know, part of it's tribalism, right? You know, the second, if one of them says, look,
00:42:04.400
I've had enough with Donald Trump, you get kicked out of your tribe. Look, when I got elected,
00:42:08.600
I remember I'd just gotten out of Iraq. This was 2009. I got elected in 2010. And I remember
00:42:13.820
thinking, if I'm going to ask people to be willing to die for this country, and obviously I'm going
00:42:19.240
to have to take votes on that, and I have, I have to be willing to give up my career for the same
00:42:25.060
cause. Now, that sounds innovative, but it's so true. You know, we swear an oath to the Constitution,
00:42:32.380
not because what we're going to do is easy, and not because I have to take a poll every time I vote on
00:42:37.360
things like, should Donald Trump be impeached? And what does my district say? It's because my oath
00:42:42.440
is not to my district. It's to the Constitution. And there he is, valiant Adam Kinzinger,
00:42:50.460
giving up his seat for the cause of our democracy and to fight that evil tribalism. First of all,
00:42:58.820
Adam Kinzinger did not sacrifice his seat for anything noble. His district was erased because
00:43:04.000
of redistricting in the state of Illinois, okay? Now, maybe had Adam Kinzinger played his cards a
00:43:09.480
little bit smarter and had a little bit more backbone politically, maybe he would have been
00:43:13.960
able to remain viable in politics. But he didn't, and his district was erased, and now he's pretending
00:43:22.140
to be a martyr when in fact he's not. But it's that first part that really gets me. Is there any
00:43:25.980
stupider word in our current political discourse than tribalism? Yes, there is. The one stupider word
00:43:33.960
is authoritarianism, because it doesn't mean anything. Because both sides accuse one another
00:43:40.180
of being authoritarian, and by that they mean seeking to impose any vision on politics, which is
00:43:49.600
just what politics is. That's just what self-government is. It doesn't mean anything.
00:43:52.100
You think we should live according to the laws that you and your community believe in? How
00:43:57.480
authoritarian? That's just what, that's just called politics, man. That's just called self-government.
00:44:02.520
So that might be the one word that's slightly dumber. But the second dumbest word is tribalism. It's
00:44:08.500
all this tribalism. What do you think politics is? Do you think politics, this actually is probably why
00:44:15.160
these people have a very skewed political view. Politics is a team sport. In order to do anything
00:44:24.360
in politics, you have to have allies, and you have to have shared goals, and you have to have a division
00:44:29.320
of labor, and you have to have a strategy, and you go and you work together, and you get something done.
00:44:33.480
That's politics. Politics means public. It doesn't mean personal. It doesn't mean you just do whatever
00:44:39.160
you want individually all the time. It is tribal. And why are there political tribes? Well, largely
00:44:46.320
because people have a shared view of the world. And if you believe that human life has value,
00:44:53.140
then you're going to oppose abortion, and you're also going to oppose transing the kids. They don't
00:44:59.200
seem like they're totally related, but they share basic premises about what human life is, who we are,
00:45:04.460
where we come from. There are many more examples of that. Very often, the political tribes that we
00:45:08.980
are so quick to decry these days are very coherent tribes. It makes sense. It makes sense that the
00:45:15.800
Democrats, who have no respect for our traditions, are happy to outsource our jobs, destroy our
00:45:22.300
communities, obliterate the family, open up our borders, throw away our sovereignty, give it to
00:45:28.780
international institutions. It makes sense. Frankly, we need more tribalism. We need clearer tribalism,
00:45:36.700
at least on the right, because you've got good tribalism on the left. Or good. I mean,
00:45:41.100
you've got effective tribalism on the left. That's why the left is much more effective at
00:45:45.200
wielding political power. The right needs to do that a little bit better. We're not going to do it
00:45:48.880
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00:47:06.660
really work on yourself, love yourself, know your value, know your worth, and then all of a sudden
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there's this awakening. And it's not easy. It's a hard journey. But at the end of the day, I feel
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like it is so, so worth it. My marriage was a success. I look at it as like a curriculum when
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you're in college or high school, right? You're learning, you're growing, you're evolving, you're
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creating. And I was able to create with Corey some beautiful, amazing children. And at the end of that
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curriculum, and at the end, there's a graduation, there's a celebration. And I feel like people look
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at, when they look at marriage, that success equals longevity. But no, at the end of the day, it's,
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are they happy? Are they thriving? Are they growing? And I feel like that is what is most important.
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It's not about staying in something because however long you are in that situation, that equals success.
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It's about really, again, are you happy? Because life is really short.
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All of that is wrong. Everything she just said is not true. The measure of marriage is in fact
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longevity. How do you have a good marriage? You don't get divorced. That's the basic element.
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There's more to it than that. But that's the basic element. And what liberal modernity does,
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one of the most pernicious aspects of liberal modernity, is it robs us of an awareness of the
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significance of time. What Christian civilization does is it reminds us of the significance of time
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because Christ is incarnate in a time and a place. And you can see salvation take place reading the
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journalistic accounts, seeing it happen in real time. Life is a process of sanctification. There
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are actual sacraments that we have in space and time. And then sanctification takes place over space
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and time. And we're just keenly aware of that. We measure our time according to the birth of our
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savior, right? Anno Domini is the year of our Lord. And BC is before Christ. And now the secularists
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want to rewrite that. And they say it's the common era and before the common era. What's the common
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era, guys? And we're talking about Christ, right? So we're measuring that time. And what liberal
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modernity does and says, no, time doesn't matter. You never need to grow up. You never need to do
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anything. You never really need to grow. You never, even when you engage in lifelong, what are supposed to
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be lifelong commitments, you just graduate and you start from square one again. And we never go
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anywhere and we never learn anything and we don't move on and we don't grow up. So we're living in
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Never Never Land. And it's awful. And when you hear this woman say things like, you know, I'm a huge
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fan of therapy. I love, you know, it's just self-love. It's just, look, we're just, you know, man, it's
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just kind of about self, you know, adulation and me and me and me and me. And she's using all this
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language of the sort of hippie dippy modern liberal people. And it's really, really sad. That is not
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happiness. She says at the end, she goes, life is short. Seize the day. And it reminds me of a
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quote from GK Chesterton. He says, carpe diem, you know, this idea of seize the day. The people who
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support the carpe diem religion are not the happy people. Carpe diem is the religion of very, very
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unhappy people because they're desperate. They're grasping at anything because they think that the
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story is going to have a sad ending. But if you really understand that life is a marathon, not just a
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sprint, it's not just about individual moments of pleasure, then you will be much, much happier
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in the end. Because then YOLO has a real meaning. It's not just you only live once or just have some
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fun and turn to worm food. So you only live once. You've got to make it count. You've got to build.
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You've got to grow. There is an end in sight. And you could go to the good place. You could go to
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the bad place, okay? So don't go to the bad place. Let's keep up the fight and let's keep the faith.
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