Ep. 1131 - Ye Is RunningĀ For President
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A week after President Trump announced that he would seek re-election, Kanye West announces that he too will be running for president in the Democratic primary. What does Kanye have in common with the other potential Democratic candidates? He s a rapper, a singer, a songwriter, and a self-proclaimed hip-hop artist. But is he also a presidential candidate?
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The field of candidates planning to take on Joe Biden in 2024 has just doubled.
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Yesterday, a week after President Trump announced that he would seek re-election,
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Kanye West announced that he too will be running for president.
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That's the H-24, you know what I'm talking about.
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You know, if I tell me, you know, you should say this, you should say that.
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You know, it's just we're moving towards the future.
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Like, so what we do here is I'll cut up, you know, 100 hoodies from Yeezy, from Balenciaga,
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from the stuff we did at Gaff, from the stuff we did at Adidas.
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We need to make sure that everyone can receive the same level of cuts, the same level of food,
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the same level of water, the same level of education, the curriculum, the engineering.
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Some people are making fun of Yeezy's somewhat digressive campaign announcement.
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But he is certainly no less coherent than the current occupant of the Oval Office.
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Another potentially disqualifying factor would be his recent nasty comments on race,
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But then on that front, Kanye hasn't said anything more racially offensive than, say,
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Joe Biden or Richard Nixon or LBJ or Woodrow Wilson.
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No, racist or anti-Semitic comments would not especially distinguish Kanye from past presidents
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What does distinguish him from past presidential candidates and what connects him with the only
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other challenger candidate in the field right now is something much stranger.
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Kanye West, like Donald Trump, is currently and consistently banned from large parts of the
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They've recently had their Twitter access restored, but they are both still banned from Instagram.
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Trump is banned from pretty much all of social media.
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We're currently living in a country in which the entire field of the sitting president's declared
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opponents are being largely censored out of the public square.
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Whatever you think of Donald Trump or Kanye West, that poses a far more direct threat to
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our republic than whatever either of them have to say.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Crystal Parker, who says,
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It is so very obvious that Tia, oh, this is that actress lady, was attempting to explain
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I was thinking the whole time, was she trying to convince me or herself?
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Seems to me she just felt like she needed to explain it all away and make it okay somehow.
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It would have been much better to just admit failure, since we all fail and sin from time
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That's so true, and it's something that in our culture, which largely views itself as
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post-Christian, which rejects the wisdom and truth of Christianity, we can't acknowledge
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when we sin and then repent and seek forgiveness.
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Oh, no, it's really, I'm really glad that I got divorced.
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Oh, I'm really glad that I screwed up my whole life.
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No, it's really good that I did that, actually.
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Actually, when you really think about it, those are all wonderful things.
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You're obviously just trying to convince yourself.
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I messed up, and it was bad, and I messed things up for a lot of other people, too.
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You can say that, but it's very difficult to say that in a culture that no longer believes in
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God, because then you don't get forgiveness, and then you go crazy, as our culture has.
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Speaking of Kanye, you heard there in his sort of meandering campaign announcement, Kanye
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Balenciaga is a very high-end luxury fashion house.
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And Balenciaga has weird imagery for a long time.
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I mean, one of their runway fashion shows was in a bunch of mud and dirt, black, and it
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Well, they just put out some ads that are more disturbing than anything that I had ever
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Of these two little girls, very little girls standing on a bed or on a sofa, surrounded by
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some Balenciaga products, holding little stuffed animals that are wearing weird sex gear, like
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weird S&M, leather, chains, harnesses, all that kind of stuff.
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And so that, in and of itself, is very disturbing.
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But the look on their face on the website, not very happy.
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You say, why are these kids holding this weird, not just sexual symbol, but actually
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But then, if you zoom in, you can see that there are some weird papers underneath the
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Balenciaga handbag and some other items that they're selling.
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And if you really zoom in on one of them, you can see speech coalition is just a line
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of text, and it refers to sexual depiction, but some of it's covered up.
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So, if you look up the text, if you just pull out some of the fragments of the sentences,
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you see that the case that this comes from is United States v. Williams.
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And it was a decision by the Supreme Court that a federal statute prohibiting the pandering
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of child pornography did not violate the First Amendment.
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I mean, this was a good decision that said, yeah, you can ban people from not peddling
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kiddie porn, and that doesn't violate their First Amendment.
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But it is just weird that the Balenciaga company is not only putting kids in these weird sexual
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associations, but then referring to child pornography not all that subtly in the advertisement.
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And then the case that is referred to within that case, United States v. Williams, is a case
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called Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition, which was a case that determined whether or not
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simulated child pornography was protected by the First Amendment.
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And the Supreme Court wrongly concluded that simulated child porn was, in fact, protected
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So, we're not talking about child pornography of actual kids being exploited, but, you know,
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cartoons or very highly developed renderings that look just like kids, but they're not
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actually real kids, that that kind of porn is protected, which is really, really disturbing.
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It's kind of a strange juxtaposition here, because you've got one case that was so wrongly
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You've got the other case, which is the actual text that's there underneath the bag that suppresses
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And then you've got these kids with these weird sexual associations.
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It's just, I don't know, I feel like a conspiracy theorist even bringing this up.
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But then what have we learned over the past three years, at least?
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The difference between a conspiracy theory and the truth is about three to six months.
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And we've heard little murmurs of weird child porn, child sex stuff throughout the culture.
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And they're always poo-pooed as a sort of crazy conspiracy theory.
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There go you radical right-wingers with your tinfoil hats again.
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Obviously, the weird kid sex stuff is happening.
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We uncovered one of the biggest child sex rings in the world.
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That was called Jeffrey Epstein and his creepy pedo island.
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And it involved some of the most famous, wealthy, powerful people on planet Earth,
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who took dozens of trips on the Lolita Express.
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Yes, Jeffrey Epstein palling around with royalty, with major CEOs, blackmail, compromat galore.
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When Jeffrey Epstein was first prosecuted for this, according to then U.S. attorney,
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then future nominee for labor secretary, Alex Acosta, Acosta was told,
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I don't want to hear, oh, you guys, you're looking too much into this Balenciaga ad.
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It's just, it's a totally harmless image of a little kid looking sad, holding an S&M teddy bear,
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standing on top of a Supreme Court case about child pornography.
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And right now, if you present to me CNN and Alex Jones or whoever, insert radical,
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crazy conspiracy theorist right winger, I am going to be much more inclined to believe the latter.
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And the former are not only dishonest and frequently wrong in their stories,
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but they're shills for the power structure that is so obviously corrupt and so obviously creepy
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In the world in which we know that the creepy petto island is real.
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Explain that ad to me as something totally innocent.
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Speaking of conspiracy theories, we found out another conspiracy theory is real.
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As Republicans take control of the House, Hunter Biden, the president's son,
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And that means data from a laptop reported to belong to Biden could be crucial to the
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CBS News has obtained its data, not through a third party or political operative,
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but directly from the source who told us they provided it to the FBI under subpoena.
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And we commissioned an independent forensic review to determine its authenticity.
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Senior investigative correspondent Catherine Harrods joins us now with what we found.
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The laptop data we had analyzed showed no evidence it was faked or tampered with.
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You're confident based on your analysis this is Hunter Biden's data and that it's real.
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Breaking news from CBS telling us something that every sensible person has known
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But two years ago, we weren't allowed to talk about that.
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We actually weren't allowed to talk about it even on social media, not even just publicly post.
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You weren't allowed to privately message a New York Post article about Hunter Biden's laptop
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because the entire power structure clamped down on it and said, no, this is disinformation.
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Our independent forensic investigators have proven.
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Could you guys not have hired those independent forensic investigators sometime over the past
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two years, maybe during the presidential campaign or even like six months later, six months after
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Just now that Hunter Biden is about to be investigated and it's all over and the Republicans retook
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It's so transparent what they're doing and it just, they're doing it to save face because
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when it's obviously the case that the Hunter Biden laptop is real, which we all already
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know, then they'll be able to say, no, we ran this report.
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These guys are liars and hacks and propagandists and they're covering up for very bad people doing
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And there is no reason to take a word that they have to say seriously.
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A random right-wing lunatic broadcasting from his RV on a shortwave radio has more journalistic
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credibility and a higher standard of ethics than CBS News and all the rest of the establishment
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Speaking of conspiracy theorists, the race for a Democrat minority leader in the House
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You know, Nancy Pelosi has lost her gavel.
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She's not interested in being the Democrat minority leader in the House.
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The leading candidate to replace her is this guy, Hakeem Jeffries.
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If the name Jeffries sounds familiar, it's because his uncle, Professor Jeffries, was a CUNY professor
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who popularized the idea that white people are the people of the ice, and black people
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And the white people are intrinsically evil, and the black people are intrinsically good.
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And the white people don't really have souls.
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And you remember all that stuff that Nick Cannon was talking about a few years ago, how
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the white people are like animals and dogs and just evil, evil people.
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And then the black people are the only good people.
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Well, that comes from Hakeem Jeffries' uncle, who was allowed to get away with this for years
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Eventually, he sort of strayed into the anti-Semitic territory as well.
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And so he really kind of broadened his attacks.
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But he was allowed to spread his bile and filth for a very long time.
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The whole, I don't mean to imply guilt by association here for Hakeem Jeffries, but when
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we hear Hakeem Jeffries say radical leftist things, it's important to know the context.
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This guy comes from an extremely radical, somewhat prominent family, especially in New York.
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And so Hakeem Jeffries has peddled the most left-wing kind of wacky theories, including
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There's a cloud of illegitimacy hanging over the White House right now.
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Russia interfered with our election for the exclusive purpose of trying to artificially
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place Donald Trump at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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He wants to continue to play footsie with Vladimir Putin.
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Donald Trump's going to continue to stand for Vladimir Putin, and that's shameful.
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They're under criminal investigation in terms of the Trump campaign's possible role in
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colluding with Russian spies to attack our democracy.
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It seems that the Trump campaign conspired with Russian spies to sell out our democracy,
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and now you have members closely affiliated with the Trump administration and possibly
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Seventeen different intelligence agencies have concluded that Russia interfered with our election,
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attacked our democracy for the sole purpose of artificially placing someone at 1600 Pennsylvania
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Oh my gosh, he's like the January 6th people, except he's not.
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Yes, it is a little bit awkward and a little bit hypocritical to think that the Democrats
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who have spent the last two years screaming until they're blue in the face about the evils
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of election denial and the threat that that poses to our sacred democracy and how if you
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ever question the results of an election, you're evil, you're a terrorist, you need to be cast
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into the outer darkness, it is a little bit awkward if those Democrats now make an election
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And Republicans are probably not going to figure it out until it's too late and we're going to
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waste a lot of time shouting, look at the hypocrisy.
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Look, if the shoe were on the other foot, look, can you imagine if the roles were reversed?
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They do think the 2016 election was illegitimate.
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Whether Vladimir Putin did anything or not, the libs believe that any time the Republicans
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That it was either the result of some fraud or even more broadly, it was the result of the
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misinformation that has lulled people into a false consciousness to vote against their
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interests because no sensible person would ever vote for a Republican.
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And so anytime the Democrats win, that's legit.
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Anytime the Republicans win, that is not legit.
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To quote Adrian Vermeule, the great Harvard law professor, as I quote him frequently, it's
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It's just they get to play by a different set of rules, okay?
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It's like when Republicans say, well, Democrats are the real racists, right?
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And then the Republican response is, no, you're the racists.
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That's never going to work because by definition, according to the left, the Republicans are
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And the Democrats are not racists and can never be racists.
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Racism, according to the Democrats, is whenever someone does something that the Democrats don't
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I will never forget when a liberal caller to a talk radio show coincidentally hosted by David Webb
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And she said on the radio, well, David, you only say that because of your white privilege.
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And this was very funny because David Webb, for those of you who know him, is very much
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But this was radio and the caller couldn't see him.
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She just goes to that because that's just what the Democrats go to.
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Whenever you disagree with them, you are a racist.
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And it is a fool's errand to retort and say, well, no, you're the real racists.
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They're the ones who deny the elections going at least back to the year 2000.
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And they've denied elections a hell of a lot more than Republicans have and with far less
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And so you can say, no, but don't you see the hypocrisy?
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OK, they just don't view it that way, which is why we need to win.
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We need to stop trying to convince them of their own hypocrisy about which they do not
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OK, and so you're seeing a major fight play out in the Senate right now.
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The liberals aren't talking about it because they think they've got the fight in the bag.
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And the Republicans aren't talking about it because they're absolute cowards and moral
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It's over the redefinition of marriage and the not only destruction of the institution
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of marriage, but the obliteration of religious liberty from American public life.
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And this is through something called the Respect for Marriage Act, most preposterous euphemism
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And what the Respect for Marriage Act does is it not only enshrines the legal definition
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of marriage from Obergefell, which is preposterous, but it actually goes much further than that.
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And it prevents lots and lots of Americans from objecting in any significant way to that
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So if you believe, as do Christians and Jews and Muslims and sensible people throughout all
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of history until five minutes ago, if you believe, as did Barack Obama in 2011, well into his first
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term, that marriage is an institution between a man and a woman, that sexual difference has
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something to do with marriage, then you're basically booted from public life at this point, if you express
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that in any significant way, if this law passes, it's a disaster. And a dozen squish morally vacuous
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Republicans and intellectually vacuous Republicans voted for this thing. So they voted to get past
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the filibuster, which means now it's on a fast track to get a vote. We can still hold this thing
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up a little bit. We're not going to defeat the bill. The bill is going to pass. But what Mike Lee,
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the great senator from Utah, who came pretty close to losing his reelection bid, and we had him on
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this show because it was just awful to think that Mike Lee was not going to win reelection.
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Well, Mike Lee coming to the rescue here with the Lee Amendment to give protections for Christians
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and Jews and Muslims and sensible agnostics and atheists too, to be able to express the real meaning
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of marriage without facing punishment from the federal government in the public square.
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here to insert this amendment into the new redefining marriage bill in the Senate. Why does this matter?
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A lot of conservatives write in. They say, you know, Michael, I'm with you on a lot of things,
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but I just don't care about this marriage stuff. If the gays want to get married and be as miserable
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as the rest of us, you know, who cares? That's fine by me. And ha ha, yes, I know, we all tell
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that joke. It's a little bit glib, but I get it. It's a kind of funny barb. However, it obviously
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matters. It obviously matters because marriage is the fundamental political institution. It's the
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building block of all of politics. The libs think and want for the building block of politics to just
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be the individual because it's much easier to dominate individuals when they're atomized and
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broken up from intermediating institutions, most notably the family. The conservatives understand
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that the family is key and the family is not just some socially constructed institution where we can
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say, okay, we're going to make a polycule with three girls and two guys and a goat, and that's going
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to be the new definition of a family. No, marriage is not socially constructed. There are social aspects to
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it and intellectualized and ritualized aspects to it, but it is a natural institution as Aristotle
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observed, as St. Thomas Aquinas observed, as smart people throughout all of human history have observed
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because man is naturally a pairing being. We are drawn to the complementarity of the sexes and by the
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complementarity of the sexes, and within that unit of one man and one woman, there is the possibility
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of life, and marriage is instituted for the good of the spouses and the sake of the generation and the
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education of children. Okay, that is what the thing is for, and so if you find yourself in a position
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where you say, well, who cares? I just don't care. I just don't see what the big deal is. Then maybe ask
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yourself, why don't you see what the big deal is? Maybe just take a step back and say, you know,
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with a little bit of humility here, this institution has been viewed for all of human history by all the
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smartest people and pretty much everyone else too as extremely important, and it still remains viewed as
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extremely important by the liberal activists who are trying to radically redefine it. And actually, the only
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people ever in the history of the world who don't think this thing matters is just like me and some of my
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live and let live kind of laissez-faire libertarian friends. Why is that? Maybe you're missing
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something here. Maybe a lot of people are missing something here as to why this thing has been viewed as so
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important by pretty much everybody ever. So what the Lee Amendment proposes is based on an infamous exchange
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from the Obergefell decision that redefined marriage. And it was when Sam Alito, conservative judge, asked
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whether religious universities that were opposed to same-sex marriage would lose their tax-exempt
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status if marriage were redefined at the federal level. And Verrilli, speaking for the government,
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said, it's certainly going to be an issue. I don't deny that. I don't deny that, Justice Alito. It is
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going to be an issue. So Mike Lee writes, it is an issue. Obergefell did not make a private right of
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action for aggrieved individuals to sue those who oppose same-sex marriage. It did not create a mandate
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for the Department of Justice to sue where it perceived an institution opposed same-sex marriage, but the
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Respect for Marriage Act will. This radical bill that the libs are pushing through, that the squish Republicans
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are going along with. What we can expect, should this bill become law, is more litigation against those
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institutions and individuals trying to live according to their sincerely held religious beliefs and moral
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convictions. And even most absurdly, the people who are going to be on the back foot here and who are going to
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have to constantly defend themselves against lawsuits are going to be the people with sincerely
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held religious beliefs and moral convictions that are correct. They're not just sincerely held,
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they're true. And they're going to be the ones who are going to be destroyed by this. We're all going
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to be Jack Phillips. We're all going to be Masterpiece Cake Shop. It will obliterate any defense of what is now
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called traditional marriage. It's also known as marriage. It's going to obliterate what remains of
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that defense from the public square. I urge you, call your congressmen. Call your senators. Tell them
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to vote against this bill at least until the Lee Amendment is adopted. It might be a largely lost
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cause for the moment to defeat the bill entirely, which we should do. We can, I think, still get the
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Lee Amendment through. Call your senator, especially if your senator is one of the dozen squishes who voted
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to override the filibuster and get this thing on a fast track. Call your senator and tell them to
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stop this nonsense. Speaking of LGBT politics, LGBT politics, identity politics is everywhere these
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days, including the head of FIFA, including the head of the International Soccer Organization,
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who made this odd declaration the other day. Today I feel gay.
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I don't have much commentary for that. I think that's just the whole quote. The head of
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International Soccer says, I feel gay. There it is. It's everywhere. That identity,
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that identity is everywhere. Even at the World Cup in Qatar. Okay, that's very much in the zeitgeist.
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It's very much in the spirit of the age. We need to make sure, though, that these sorts of political
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fashions do not go so far as to destroy the institutions and building blocks of society.
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Speaking of the Middle East, I don't know if you heard. I don't know if you heard about the biggest,
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most important news story ever, according to the liberal establishment media.
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Joe Biden is not going to destroy U.S.-Saudi relations at a time of a major energy crisis,
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where we are reliant on cooperation with Saudi Arabia not to plunge the world even further
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into recession. Biden is not going to throw all that away over the killing of Jamal Khashoggi.
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Do you remember Jamal Khashoggi? Jamal Khashoggi. Well, I won't tell you. I'll just tell you what
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the Washington Post and the liberal media say about Jamal Khashoggi. Jamal Khashoggi was a Washington
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Post columnist. He was a journalist who was targeted by the evil Saudi regime and murdered
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because he stood up for journalism and the intrepid free press, and Joe Biden is letting
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this man get away with murder. Okay, and that's basically the gist of the statement issued by the
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Washington Post. Now, the problem with that narrative is it isn't true, or it's got a little
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kernel of truth that gives it credibility, but that kernel of truth is stretched in such a way
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that it hides the reality of this man. I'm not defending the Saudis killing this guy, Jamal Khashoggi,
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but what I am telling you is they didn't kill a Washington Post columnist. Jamal Khashoggi was a
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career political operative and spy for Saudi Arabia, who was on the outs with the now dominant part of
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the Saudi royal family. Jamal Khashoggi was palling around with Osama bin Laden decades ago. Okay,
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Jamal Khashoggi is not some columnist. Yes, he wrote some columns. We've all written some columns,
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okay? The column thing, the writing for the Washington Post thing was a cover for his actual
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job, which is that he was a political operative in a very dangerous part of the world, in a very
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dangerous kingdom, doing very dangerous stuff, including espionage, and he wound up being
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assassinated by a rival political power. It's ugly. It's an ugly business, but this is not a man bites
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dog story here, okay? This sort of thing happens all the time in the world of power politics and
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espionage, okay? And what's really interesting about the story is not that the Saudi regime killed
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a dissident. That happens all the time. What's interesting about the story is not that a political
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power has gone after and punished dissidents. That happens all the time too. That happens in every
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regime ever. What's really interesting here is the way that the media were able to spin up this whole
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narrative to get people to pull their hair out, to rend their garments over Jamal Khashoggi. If you were
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one of the people, they got really worked up over Jamal Khashoggi. Did you ever ask yourself why?
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Did you ever say why? This guy I had never heard of before, all of a sudden I am meant to really,
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really feel for, and I'm feeling very emotional over this person. And it's actually happening. It's
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not only that the Washington Post wants me to feel that way, I am feeling that way. Do you ever ask
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yourself why? Maybe that you're being manipulated? You see this with every current thing. Whatever the
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current thing is, people just get wrapped up in it. The war in Ukraine. War in Ukraine is a very sad
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thing. War is a very sad thing. There are lots of wars going on all over the world right now. Why the
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war in Ukraine? Why did everyone change their picture on Twitter to be the Ukrainian flag?
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Why? Why are you, you, I'm not saying you, if you're listening to this show, you're probably
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more knowledgeable about politics than 99.5% of people in the world. But for the people who just
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change their flag, who don't really pay very close attention to this stuff, these people, I promise
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you, don't know anything about Ukraine. They don't know anything about Russia. They don't know anything
00:35:52.320
about the millennium-long conflict in that region. They don't know anything about the stakes of the war.
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They don't know anything about the 2014 revolution, Maidan revolution. They don't know anything about
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international participation in Ukrainian politics. They don't know anything about the expansion of
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NATO. They don't know anything about anything, okay? But they're just convinced. They get wrapped
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up in that. And then a week later, they're gone. They forget about Ukraine, okay? Remember net neutrality?
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Remember when we were all going to die from net neutrality? People actually said, prominent blue
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Czech people said, if net neutrality goes through, people will die. Most people don't even know what
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net neutrality is. But net neutrality was repealed. It had been instituted. It was repealed.
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And no one died. It was okay. You remember Coney 2012? Many of you are probably too young to
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remember. There was this social media phenomenon. Coney 2012. Everyone changed their pictures on Facebook.
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We're going to get Coney. Who's Coney? He's some random guy running around Africa doing all sorts
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of bad things. But no one, he's just some minor warlord. But he just, he became the current thing.
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Whenever one of these causes happens, these sort of cause celeb, these cause du jour,
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I don't know why I'm speaking French so much, but they have a lot of phrases for the thing that I'm
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describing. When this stuff pops up, the current thing, before you change your Twitter picture,
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before you let your blood pressure go up, the first thing you got to ask yourself,
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Speaking of things not to care about, on the order of net neutrality, the Jamal Khashoggi affair,
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all the things to really worry yourself about. There's another one to add to the list.
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Michelle Obama is complaining. Not exactly a major breaking news headline. Michelle Obama does nothing
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but complain. But Michelle Obama is complaining this time about how when her husband was elected
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president, Americans were not ready for her natural hair. I don't know what Michelle Obama's natural hair
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looks like. I truly couldn't possibly care less what Michelle Obama's natural hair looks like.
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Michelle Obama was giving an interview to Ellen DeGeneres. This was reported by The Independent.
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We don't have a clip of it, but we do have the quote. She said, let me keep my hair straight. Let's get
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healthcare passed first. They tripped out when Barack wore a tan suit, you know? The great indignity,
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the scandal of the Obama administration is when Barack wore a tan suit. So everyone was on edge
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to criticize Obama. And she just said, I don't know if I can wear my natural hair. The code of
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ethics at a workplace, as black women, we deal with it. The whole thing about, do you show up with your
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natural hair? I would get my staff all worried too. I was like, I was thinking about getting braids.
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That's the African American experience. But women in offices that are worried, should I wear skirts?
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Should I wear pantyhose? I hate pantyhose. But when you're carrying all this other stuff, this mask,
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these differences, and you're trying to do your job, it's just an extra burden on overcoming.
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So I'm going to get that out now. You know, I know some people like it when I play ukulele
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or sometimes guitar. So I'm just going to pull out. And there it is.
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The world's tiniest little Stradivarius violin.
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There we go. Just play that out for the burdens of Michelle Obama to overcome the completely
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absurdly perceived stigma again about how she wears her hair.
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The people of the United States had just elected her husband, Barack Hussein Obama,
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to be the president of the United States. We had been at war against, at least initially,
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a man named Hussein for five years at that point. And really, actually, much longer. U.S. policy
00:41:27.640
against Saddam Hussein had gone back to the early 90s. And we are told that what the American people
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just were not ready for, it was Michelle Obama's hair. Barack Obama wore his natural hair, by the
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way, first black president. No, but it's all about Michelle. And it's all, America elected the first
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black president, but no, they're still evil and racist. The American people, they gave Michelle
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Obama an absolute fairytale life. No, they're still, it's so awful for her. It's so terrible.
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This is the burden of overcoming. This is what black people, this is what makes their lives so
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difficult. You know, do you show up with natural hair? Now, I defer to the black listeners of this
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show. Is that, that's the biggest problem in your life? How to wear your, what hairstyle to have at
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the office? I bet not. I bet not. When I think about long conversations with my black friends,
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they don't usually bring up how to wear their hair as the biggest challenge. They have real problems.
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Michelle Obama doesn't have any real problems. And so she has to make up problems. Because
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the Obamas, like the libs broadly, cannot take yes for an answer. They can't take yes for an answer.
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It's, there's always got to be a problem. Their, their, racism will never go away. It can't go away.
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According to the libs, because that's, that's the premise they're starting from. They need it.
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Okay. Oppression, suffering, all these things. Look, evil never, never will go away. Not until,
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not during this period of earth, right? Not until the second coming. We're not, we're not going to say,
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this is a fallen world. Okay. So there's always going to be evil and suffering. And the good way
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to react to evil and suffering is with a spirit of resignation and with virtue. And so that you can
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allow suffering to sanctify you. This was a line, I think it was from St. Jose Maria Escriva, who said,
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never say that person annoys me. Say, oh, that person sanctifies me. We're all going to be going at
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Thanksgiving to visit our family. Maybe you've got a difficult family. Maybe you've got some, you know,
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sibling or cousin or in-law or something that drives you crazy. No, that person doesn't annoy you.
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That person sanctifies you. And if you cultivate that attitude, I promise you,
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it doesn't matter how terrible the, the suffering is, you will be buoyant. We talked about this earlier,
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I guess it was last week with Jay Leno. Jay Leno just suffered horrible burns, but he's buoyant. He
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bounced right back. He was giving out cookies to the kids in the, in the hospital that he was,
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he was being treated at. Okay. If you cultivate those virtues, no, no amount of suffering is going
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to keep you down for very long. If you don't, if all you do is cultivate resentment and envy and
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anger and all the stuff that Michelle Obama does, then no amount of privilege will ever make you feel
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happy. You can be the first lady of the United States and you will still be angry about how you,
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in your fantasies, your hair might be perceived. Okay. There is no limit to the things that you will
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complain about if you, if you cultivate those things. We get, you know, have vice and virtue are
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habits. Okay. And you, and you get what you do and what you cultivate. Now, speaking of vices,
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queen of all vices, pride. And there was a very strange claim made on The View yesterday. This is
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by Sunny Hostin, uh, who she's kind of the B team of The View. She's not Whoopi. She's not Joy Behar,
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but she's one of the libs on the, well, they're all libs on The View, but she's, she's one of the
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more eccentric ones. And, and she made a theological claim that I'm no trained theologian,
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but it left me scratching my head. They were in a place that accepts them for who they were.
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And someone came to that place. And that's what is so sad. I don't know that they hide behind
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religion because I said this on this show once before. Jesus would be the grand marshal at the
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parade parade. I don't mean about gay people. I mean in every argument we have, you weaponize
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religion. Here's my question, but it's wrong. If you're so afraid, why are you going over there?
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Yeah. If they scare you so much, leave them alone.
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Jesus would be the grand marshal of the pride parade? What does that even mean? I get in a sense,
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uh, Christ is king of the universe. And so he's grand marshal of all of creation.
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And I guess there are pride parades in some places in creation, but what is that? I don't
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think that's what she's referring to. What does that mean? Jesus would be the grand marshal of
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the pride parade. This is something that the libs do all the time when it comes to religion.
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And it's totally incoherent, but what they will say is they'll say explicitly or implicitly at least,
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they'll say, look, I think Christianity is dumb and stupid and wrong and backward and dated and it's
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just complete nonsense. And all you people are lemmings and fools and idiots for following the
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teachings of Christianity. And also my views are much more Christian than yours, right? That's,
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they'll say Christianity is dumb. I don't believe in it. I don't believe in any of that stuff. You
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know, man, I don't believe in God. I'm just, you know, I'm just going to do me, man. And I'm just so
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much smarter than everybody. And I'm a really smart genius atheist with a fedora that I tip,
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but also I'm much more Christian. You don't even understand Christianity. You know,
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that's this ridiculous, ridiculous line from people who, I promise you, have not even a passing
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familiarity with the religion. It's this phenomenon of, oh, this is the worst one. They'll say,
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you'll hear from Libs sometimes, they'll say, listen, I went to Catholic school for 10 years.
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And so I'm basically, I'm basically St. Augustine, you know, I'm basically Thomas Aquinas, all right?
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Because I briefly went to a Catholic high school, so, and I'm a complete apostate and fallen away
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from the faith. But let me tell you about your religion, right? And that's what they, that's
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what they all do. And what is the, why do they do it? They do it because they reject religion as
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an intellectual matter. But they recognize, at least subconsciously, that man is a religious being.
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And so they have to make religious arguments. They recognize the strength of religion,
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even in their own lives, even in how it pulls on them. And so what they do is they align their view,
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that they claim that their views are the views of God. What Christians do, what religious people do,
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is that they, using their moral conscience and their faculties of reason and their respect for
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tradition and their reading of the scripture and their participation in the liturgy,
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they ascertain what God wants. Yes, they can. And then when their behavior doesn't jive with what
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God wants, they change their behavior and attempt to change their behavior and repent, which means to
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change your mind and to bring their views and behaviors into line with what God wants. What the
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libs do is exactly the opposite. When they realize that there's a huge gulf between what God wants,
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as stated, in the scripture, in the sacred tradition, as perceived by our moral conscience
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and our reason, a gulf between that and their own behavior, they try to conquer God's will.
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And they say, my will is God's will. They try to make of themselves gods. They do
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what the serpent tells Eve in the Garden of Eden. They say that we shall be as gods. And this is what
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Whitaker Chambers said is the very heart of communism is man making themselves gods. It's
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the heart of radical leftism. That is all they're going to do. Well, if you've got to live in a world
00:49:17.860
in which God is the grand marshal, in which Christ is the grand marshal, or the world in which Sonny
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Hostin is the grand marshal, which are you going to pick? You got to pick one. The rest of the show
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