Ep. 1171 - Biden's Woke Judges Want To Rule You
Summary
Joe Biden is appointing more liberal judges to the federal bench, and you knew they would be bad. But did you ever think they were this bad? Judge on the far end of the bench tells me what Article 5 of the Constitution does.
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Joe Biden is appointing more judges to the federal bench, and you knew they would be bad.
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Judge on the far end, tell me what Article 5 of the Constitution does.
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In my 12 years as an assistant attorney general and my nine years serving as a judge, I was not faced with that precise question.
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Senator Kennedy was not grilling these judicial nominees on some arcane, obscure aspects of federal law.
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He was asking them about some of the most basic provisions of the fundamental American legal document.
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This wasn't, what does U.S. Code Section 27, Line 52?
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It was, what's Article 5 of the Constitution do?
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And conservatives are now shocked and appalled, but we should not be.
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Biden and his minions did not nominate these judges because they're experts on the Constitution.
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He didn't nominate them because they love the Constitution.
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They keep a pocket Constitution on them every day, and they want to do everything they can to uphold it.
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Biden nominated these judges to continue the liberal project of upending our entire political order.
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If anything, their blithe ignorance of the Constitution is likely a mark in their favor.
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When you look at it from the perspective of the people who are putting them up for these jobs.
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where those transgender protesters were throwing eggs at him.
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Speaking of unimpressive Biden representatives, Hunter Biden, you know, has dipped his toe into the art world.
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Hunter Biden's previous career was selling his father's influence in the American government
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to make oodles and oodles of money in Ukraine and China and from all sorts of nefarious and corrupt people
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who wanted to buy more influence in the American government.
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Hunter, I think, referred to this in one of those disclosures that came out from the laptop
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or some other conversation as the fact that he makes basically a bajillion dollars a year.
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But then when it all came to light, it was much harder for Hunter Biden to continue the Biden family corruption.
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So he said, okay, the way I'm going to start making money now is by painting.
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Hunter Biden, I don't think, had ever picked up a paintbrush in his life until about five minutes ago.
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And his painting is just a bunch of ridiculous doodles on a canvas that we were then told could sell for half a million dollars each.
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This, another example, obviously, of corruption.
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Nobody thinks that Hunter Biden's stupid doodles are high art.
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Nobody thinks they're worth $50, much less $500,000.
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But the art dealer selling Hunter Biden's work is insisting, no, this is not just corruption.
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This is not just a way for people to pass half a million dollars into the Biden family without having to go through political disclosures.
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This is not just another way to buy influence with the Bidens.
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Hunter's dealer, George Berge, the owner of the eponymous art gallery in New York, praised Hunter Biden's artwork, said,
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Hunter Biden will become one of the most consequential artists in this century because the world needs his art now more than ever.
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In a world that beats us down, we need art in our lives that reminds of the unrelenting divinity within each of us.
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And if you'll excuse me, I will get right back to the show.
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Now that I've emptied out my gut and stomach here from that absolutely nauseating and disingenuous praise of Hunter Biden,
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He wants to say, no, this isn't corrupt at all.
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But I think the other reason that the art dealer and Hunter and the whole Biden family can get away with this
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I see judicial nominees put up who don't know the very first thing about the Constitution.
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And I think, man, they're just rubbing our faces in it now, aren't they?
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Yeah, we're going to pack the court full of people who have never looked at the law ever.
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A bunch of just completely ignorant people who will do what we want them to do.
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Oh, oh, you don't like that we've had some corrupt practices?
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Okay, well, now the way we're going to make money is by selling my, my derelict son's scribbles on a canvas.
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What are you going to do about it, conservatives?
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Speaking of art, and speaking of one way conservatives have pushed back in the culture we played yesterday,
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James O'Keefe's excellent expose of an executive at Pfizer confiding in someone that he thought he was on a romantic date with,
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that don't tell the public, but Pfizer is secretly performing gain-of-function research
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to beef up viruses to work on new pharmaceuticals.
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And the date says, what, Pfizer's working on gain-of-function research?
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And the exec says, yeah, I mean, we don't tell the public that, but we are working on that.
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And then, just yesterday, James O'Keefe releases the footage of when he walks out like Chris Hansen,
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comes in, sits down, and he says, hey, hey, I think I'm going to have a seat over here.
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Did you, we've got you on camera admitting to, and things go awry.
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You work for Pfizer. My question for you is, why does Pfizer want to hide from the public
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the fact that they're mutating the COVID viruses?
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I was trying to impress a person on a date by lying.
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Well, this is not, by the way, don't tell anybody.
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This is someone who's just working at a company to literally help the public.
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We're trying to get, unlock the door, unlock the door.
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That is the director of worldwide R&D, specifically on MRNA strategic planning.
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Those are the people who are behind the Fauci ouchie that has now gone into the arms of five
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This lunatic who's out on what he thinks is this date.
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And then he just loses and starts getting violent, running around.
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The minute James O'Keefe says, hey, we just got you on camera admitting that Pfizer's doing
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This was just a modern-day version of To Catch a Predator,
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the Chris Hansen show that would get pedophiles.
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This is just that, hey, why don't you, what are you doing here?
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All the time, the guys on the To Catch a Predator show who want to sleep with underage girls,
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No, I didn't want, I didn't come here to have sex.
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Oh, no, all those logs you have of me talking to this girl about how I was going to come over
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and drive 12 hours and sleep with, I was just lying.
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Well, the problem with that excuse is, if you are a liar, if your best defense is that
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you are a liar, then obviously, I can't believe you now.
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And it's not just this Pfizer exec, this was Fauci's excuse.
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Do you remember, Fauci initially said, when COVID broke out, and the liberals at that time
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were downplaying it before they started overplaying it, Fauci said, there's no reason to wear a mask.
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There is no reason when the virus is spreading around for you to wear a mask out in public.
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And then five seconds later, he says, you have to wear a mask everywhere, all the time.
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Fauci admitted how he changed his mind or changed his rhetoric because he didn't change his mind.
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He said, oh, yeah, when I told you you didn't need to wear a mask, I thought there'd be a
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shortage and I wanted to save them for my friends.
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But then I found out there wasn't a shortage, so I told you to wear them.
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So Fauci's excuse was the same excuse as the Pfizer exec was the same excuse as the
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If that's what you want, I'll take your word for it.
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Speaking of virality and social media, big news.
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President Covfefe, El Donaldo himself, is back on Facebook.
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Meta, which is the parent company now for Facebook and Instagram and all the rest of it,
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they've announced, quote, we are bringing Mr. Trump back in the coming weeks with certain
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guardrails applicable to any public figures suspended for certain violations during times
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The penalties and potential restrictions that we've put in place are a deterrent.
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Trump could face another suspension if he keeps breaking the rules.
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Elon put him back on Twitter, even though Trump isn't using his Twitter yet, probably because
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he has contractual obligations with Truth Social.
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So maybe that puts a little pressure on Facebook.
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Trump is now a declared candidate for the presidency.
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I think that probably puts a little pressure on Facebook.
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But probably the biggest factor here is that the January 6th narrative fell apart.
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The reason that Trump was banned from social media, the reason that these oligarchs in Silicon
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Valley who work with but not totally through the government, they're this awful, blobby, public-private
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kind of partnership that does the bidding of the government, the government's dirty work
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that they can't do for itself, but also is completely unaccountable to the people.
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The whole argument for banning Trump was that this guy led a violent insurrection, a near
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We know, because we've had two years of investigations into this, they told us Trump incited the insurrection.
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Trump says, be peaceful, be peaceful, don't be violent, go home.
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Well, nevertheless, the followers of Donald Trump, they were so violent, they killed people.
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The only person who was killed in political violence on January 6th was Ashley Babbitt.
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She was a Trump supporter in the Capitol shot by a trigger-happy cop.
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Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes after the January 6th riot.
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He did not die in any violence on January 6th, nor did any other cop.
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Well, nevertheless, even if they didn't kill anybody, even if they weren't particularly violent,
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and even if Donald Trump never incited anything, they were still leading an insurrection.
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Okay, then how come none of them were charged with insurrection?
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I mean, the prosecutors threw the book at these people.
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They threw them in solitary confinement for long periods of time.
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But they couldn't get a charge of insurrection because it didn't happen.
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I think there is one ulterior motive here, beyond that the libs couldn't quite withstand the pressure
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of still with a straight face saying that Trump couldn't be on Facebook.
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I think the other ulterior motive is the libs want a bloody GOP primary.
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And the thinking, back when they were trying to keep Trump off the ballot in certain places,
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back when they were trying to throw Trump in prison, I guess they're still trying to do that,
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back when they were keeping him totally ostracized from social media,
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the prevailing view was that Donald Trump, if he ran for president in 2024,
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And so the libs were throwing everything they had at him.
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Ron DeSantis, among others, seems to be building a pretty strong campaign for president.
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But DeSantis is posing a real challenge to Trump right now.
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Mike Pence is saying he's very interested in running.
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Nikki Haley says she's very interested in running.
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Tim Scott says he's very interested in running.
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So it just, no matter what you think of those people or Trump,
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And they're going to want a more bloody GOP primary,
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which means they're probably going to be much more interested
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in allowing Donald Trump to be on platforms such as Facebook.
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In fact, you saw a similar principle just a couple of days ago
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For years, the Azov Battalion, which is filled with neo-Nazis in Ukraine,
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But now Facebook is on the side of Ukraine fighting against Russia.
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And the Azov Battalion is one of the most powerful regiments
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Or even if they are, they're like the good Nazis.
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Okay, we're going to let them back on Facebook.
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Almost certainly there's a similar principle operating here
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with the social media companies allowing Trump back on.
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First, what has to be decided is who's going to lead the Republican Party,
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meaning the party apparatus, meaning the RNC, the National Committee.
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There's a fight right now between Ronna McDaniel, who has run it for about a dozen years now,
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I don't think Ronna, I think we invited Ronna on, but Ronna hasn't come on yet.
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Harmeet Dillon is challenging Ronna, saying enough's enough.
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Now, finally, Ron DeSantis has weighed in as another rising star in the GOP.
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Right now, the RNC is meeting in Dana Point, California.
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And there are some questions of who should lead the RNC,
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and whether it should be Ronna for a fourth term or go a different direction with Harmeet Dillon.
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Well, we've had three substandard election cycles in a row, 18, 20, and 22.
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And I would say of all three of those, 22 was probably the worst,
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given the political environment of a very unpopular president in Biden.
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Huge majorities of the people think the country's going in the wrong direction.
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That is an environment that's tailor-made to make big gains in the House,
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in the Senate, and statehouses all across the country.
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And in fact, we even lost ground in the U.S. Senate.
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I think we need to get some new blood in the RNC.
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I like what Harmeet Dillon has said about getting the RNC out of D.C.
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Why would you want to have your headquarters in the most Democrat city in America?
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Notice, Ron DeSantis, he's a very adept politician.
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He's asked about the RNC, where do you stand on the race?
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And I like Harmeet Dillon's idea about getting the committee out of D.C.
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So it's not quite, it's not a full, explicit endorsement of Harmeet Dillon.
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I suspect, well, one, it might be just that Ron DeSantis sincerely believes that
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But in politics, there's always another layer, too.
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And I think the other layer here is, Ronna McDaniel is a Trump person.
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Ronna McDaniel is very closely tied to Trump, ran the RNC during Trump's presidency.
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And so what does Ron DeSantis get if he endorses Ronna McDaniel?
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The big dog in the fight has already endorsed her.
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So that puts DeSantis in a position of being number two.
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What does Ron DeSantis get if he endorses Harmeet Dillon and Harmeet Dillon wins?
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Now, not only does Ron DeSantis have a friend running the National Committee, but Ron DeSantis
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has also racked up a W against Trump, which has been the narrative that's taken place since
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The narrative since the midterms is Trump, he just couldn't pull us over the finish line.
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I'm just telling you this is the narrative that has taken hold.
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And then when you compare that to the incredible success in Florida, undeniable success, DeSantis
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and the Republicans in Florida did a great job turning out the vote and getting themselves
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That is being considered a W for DeSantis and an L for Trump.
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And so if Harmeet Dillon can beat Ronna McDaniel in the RNC leadership race, that's going to look
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like another victory for DeSantis over President Trump.
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Maybe not, but the race to the nomination is every single day.
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And if you win enough days, you win the nomination.
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So we're not, but ultimately we're fighting the libs.
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Ultimately, we conservatives have a lot more that unites us than we have that divides us.
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Especially when you look at how crazy the libs have gotten.
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And I sometimes forget it because increasingly I spend my time around conservatives.
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I've got liberal friends going back many, many years.
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But I do spend a lot of time with conservatives.
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And then I read the Associated Press trying to ban the word the.
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The word the is canceled, according to the Associated Press.
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The AP, which through its style book that sets the tone for a lot of journalism and public
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writing, has become more and more woke in recent years.
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The AP says, quote, we recommend avoiding general and often dehumanizing the labels, such as the
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poor, the mentally ill, the French, the disabled, the college educated.
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Instead, use wording such as people with mental illnesses and use these descriptions only when
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As a style point, this is bad writing style because a general rule in writing is it is better to use
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Cut out unnecessary words, close up space, and generally speaking, your prose will improve.
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Political correctness tells you to use lots of extra needless words to use euphemisms instead of
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But clear writing says, be succinct, be concise, be precise.
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Ezra Levant over at The Rebel pointed out that the AP has regularly referred to the unvaccinated,
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probably because it wants to dehumanize the unvaccinated.
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But you're not allowed to use those labels for anybody else.
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And everyone's covering this as an example of political correctness run amok, which in part it is.
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But there is something deeper going on here behind the move to take away these group categories,
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And it's something that infects, it's a mind virus that has infected the left particularly,
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but it has infected the right as well, which is that this is a consequence of liberalism.
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This is a logical extreme of the liberal idea that we are all fundamentally individuals,
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I know that a lot of conservatives and self-described conservatives,
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particularly of the last 50 years, have grounded their political views in individualism.
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You could say, well, it's more of a classical liberal idea.
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Some people would say it's actually much more of a modern liberal idea.
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The classical enlightenment liberals who talk about the sovereignty of the individual
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or the modern progressive liberals who talk about how we have ownership of our body.
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And if we want to chop off our body parts, that's all right.
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We can't be defined by our social mores or our laws or our customs or even our families.
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No, by golly, we can't be defined even by our biological sex.
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Well, all that obsession with individualism, that is a lib thing.
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The conservatives believe with the ancients, with Aristotle, with Christianity,
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with the greatest thinkers of all time, that man is not fundamentally individual,
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That we find our identity in society with other people.
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That we find our identity in our families, in our communities, in our duties,
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The French, the college educated, the disabled suggests that people can be categorized in groups.
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Obviously, there are distinctions between groups of all types of groups.
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They don't want to admit that there are such things as group characteristics, group behaviors, group dynamics.
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I mean, this is the entire point of my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds,
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which is available now, number one national bestseller.
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And this is the whole point of my book, Speechless, is that the way that the libs win the culture,
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most effectively and most consistently, is not by passing big laws and not by having big flamboyant campaigns.
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It's by subtly changing our language to make us accept their incorrect premises before we even begin a debate.
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So if we say, okay, we're not going to use the the anymore to refer to people, we are accepting the premise that people are fundamentally individuals,
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that groups have no shared characteristics, that groups are not a real and politically illuminating category.
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Speaking of journalism, great story right now out of BuzzFeed that has really proven old Nolstradamus more and more correct every day this week,
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which is that we started off talking about how AI passed a business school test, business school exam.
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And that was the big headline, an AI chatbot passed a Wharton business school exam.
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Wharton is probably the best business school in the country.
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And I said, you know, it's not just going to be business school.
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The very next day, headline, the AI chatbot passes or gets very close to passing bar exams and medical licensing exams.
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Okay, and I said, the takeaway from this is that the elites are going to tell you that automation and artificial intelligence and technology,
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It's going to render whole segments of the population useless.
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The way that someone like Yuval Harari and others associated with the World Economic Forum describe this is they'll say,
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oh, these useless people, these blue collar workers, these unskilled workers,
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we're just going to apply them with drugs and video games, make them go away because technology is going to make them irrelevant.
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But the real people that technology will render jobless, it's actually white collar workers.
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It's actually managers who would go to business school.
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It's actually some lawyers, some doctors for certain basic programs.
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And now we're finding out that the people who need to go learn to code or go get another job,
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it's going to be journalists because BuzzFeed has just announced that it will start using artificial intelligence,
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Not just to curate its page and algorithms, but actually to create the articles that you look at on BuzzFeed.
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Our industry will expand beyond AI-powered curation feeds to AI-powered creation content.
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AI opens up a new era of creativity where creative humans like us play a key role,
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providing the ideas, cultural currency, inspired prompts, IP, and formats that come to life using the newest technologies.
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We sometimes hear this from the World Economic Forum types.
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Klaus Schwab, he'll say, we are in the fourth industrial revolution.
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And this is supposed to make all of us unskilled, useless people.
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The regular, the hoi polloi who don't france around the Alps at Davos.
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If there is a coming industrial revolution that throws people out, it's going to affect the white-collar people.
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And they're going to have to learn to code or learn something else.
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Nostradamus, my knowledgeable lord of all things conservative, Italian, and or cigar-related.
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Does the type of person people look up to matter even if they speak on subjects like traditional masculinity?
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One example I thought of was Andrew Tate and Jordan B. Peterson.
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Both speak up for men, relationships, and mentality.
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However, Tate is surrounded by a number of women, materialism, and is more aggressive.
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While Peterson is a family man, psychologist, and is very careful in his delivery.
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So does the type of person that people look up to matter even if they preach positive messages?
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Now I'm going to put speechless, controlling words, controlling minds in my shopping cart.
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Role models matter because human culture comes from imitation.
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This is one of those rare points on which the ancients and the moderns, the philosophers and the scientists,
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Plato, René Girard, Richard Dawkins all agree human culture comes from imitation, a process called mimesis.
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The little baby learns to smile because the little baby is feeding and looks up at mommy,
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and mommy looks down at the baby, and mommy smiles, and then the little baby mimics that smile.
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This is how we are educated and learn to behave.
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This is how we see people, see things that we admire, and we try to imitate parts of that.
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And ultimately, if we want to have a good, holy, virtuous life, we want to imitate the highest good, goodness himself.
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Christianity sees this not even in only an abstract God far away from time and space, but in the incarnation.
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Human beings are not just disembodied heads floating around in the ether.
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Human beings are souls and bodies, hyalomorphic beings moving around in time and space, real beings.
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And so it's not enough to just listen to a little snippet and say, oh, that Andrew Tate fellow,
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he said something that was almost broadly true about this one narrow topic.
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No, when we have role models, those are models to imitate.
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And we imitate people not just in certain ideas that they espouse, but in the way that they live their lives.
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I just wanted to see if this terminology correlated with your perception as well.
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It seems like the center left and the center right are distinguishable by the central left having much more of a grounded foundation in their ideology,
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and certainly the way that their voting habits,
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because even if they're presented with a strong argument on the right,
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they're much more likely, much more often to remain stable in their central leftist perspectives.
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A central rightist perspective, if they're given, in their interpretation, a strong argument from the left,
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a way that they immediately wouldn't be able to ideologically combat at the time,
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they're much more easily swayed to then politically vote on the left rather than remaining stable in their right ideology.
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But you raise the issue of these people in the center, the center left and the center right,
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and then we just tend to put those people in the categories of either left or either right.
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That's why you refer to them as center left or center right.
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But the people who are center left or center right, I suspect, have much more in common with one another,
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certainly than they would with people on the right, the conservatives,
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and perhaps even a little bit more in common than they would with people on the left.
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Though the center left and the center right are closer to the left than either is to the right.
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You can think of the people on the right as the conservatives.
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You can think of the people in the center, center left and center right, as the liberals.
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And I think you can think of the people on the left as some shade of commie,
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Marxists, or some more radical leftist ideology.
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The commies and the liberals share a lot because communism, Marxism,
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all those shades of socialism come out of liberalism.
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The conservatives, the real conservatives, reject not only communism,
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but they actually reject the premises of liberalism.
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They reject some of the high-flying nonsense that comes out of the Enlightenment.
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They say, no, actually, society is not fundamentally secular.
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The center-left is always going to be more influenced by the left than the center-right is by the right.
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And the center-right is always going to be more influenced by even the center-left than they are by the right.
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The outliers, I suspect, in all of this are the conservatives.
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We talk about how the conservatives are the silent majority of Americans.
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I do think that a lot of people do have common sense.
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That's something really working for the conservatives.
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And I do think that the actual commies and pinkos are a relatively fringe margin.
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The Antifa weirdos who chop off their body parts and dye their hair all crazy colors.
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But because that group has a lot in common, even with the liberals,
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and because the center-right is actually part of the liberals,
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overall, they can wield a ton of influence on society.
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Because the squishes share the fundamental principles of the left, not of the right.
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We call them center-right because they agree with us on some issues.
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But they're, at the foundational level, we're pretty far apart.
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and we're really not ready now or possibly ever to have a fourth.
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Just financially speaking, the dynamics of our family, et cetera.
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And I've kind of come to the conclusion that the birth control pill is not quite biblical.
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I mean, it seems like once the sperm and egg come together,
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So I went off of that months and months and months ago.
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But, I mean, I feel like I'm rolling the dice every month here.
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But I was wondering what your thoughts are on that.
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Since technically you're not even letting a sperm meet an egg in that instance.
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Well, certain forms of contraception do not merely prevent the implantation of a sperm and an egg
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that have come together to create a new person, but just prevent ovulation.
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That's probably the dominant form of contraception anyway.
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In the dominant forms of contraception, whether you're talking about from the men or from the ladies,
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it's the contraception prevents this sperm and the egg from meeting.
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So your bioethical concern here that the primary problem with contraception as opposed to forms of abortion and abortifacient drugs
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is that you're preventing a fertilized egg from implanting.
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But it's not wrong because you're ending a human life.
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It's wrong because you're supposed to be open to life.
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I can't wait till I get three kids, God willing.
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The only real envy that I feel is, I was talking to another friend of mine who feels the same way,
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But then, you know, you look someday and you got all these kids and all these grandkids and it seems really, really nice.
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But in terms of investments, in terms of any way you can use your money, a kid seems like a pretty good investment.
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It seems more important than probably anything else you're spending your money on.
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Beyond food to keep you alive and shelter to keep you warm.
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And then in terms of the vasectomies, there's a reason that men don't go bragging about their vasectomies.
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There's a reason that men don't have vasectomy parties, unless there's some weird libs in Brooklyn or something.
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It's because men feel that it's kind of emasculating.
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Men feel that it's kind of, if not shameful, then something they don't want to write home about.
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You know, it's not quite the same as just castrating a guy, but it kind of looks the same.
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And it makes a man feel that he's lost something of his potency.
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A lot of people have, probably most people today, practice some form of contraception.
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I have noticed that a lot of the parishes in my diocese are now offering a rosary yoga class.
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But I wondered if you had any suggestions about if I should say anything.
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I feel like as a Catholic, this is a really disturbing trend.
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But I'm not really sure what I can do as someone who's not a member of those parishes or if I should do anything.
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But maybe just speak to the people that have brought this up to me.
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Are those churches that you're talking about, are those parishes also hosting Catholic hages to Mecca?
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Are they also, are those parishes hosting the Catholic jihad?
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Are they hosting the carrot, the Catholic, rather, sacrifice of goat demons to the Greek and Roman gods?
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And they say, well, I just, I like it because it stretches my body out and it makes me feel good.
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That's why you do the om's and you salute the sun and you do all, and depending on how hippy-dippy your yoga teacher gets, you engage in explicit religious rituals.
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So, if you're going to engage in religious rituals and you really love yoga and it's your favorite thing, then just admit that you're not interested in practicing Christianity.
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You are interested in practicing another religion, probably Hinduism or Buddhism, and then you're going to go do that.
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But don't pretend that this sort of syncretic religious practice is Catholic.
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It would be just as crazy as saying, I'm going to go on a Catholic jihad.
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Those religions make mutually exclusive claims, and you've got to pick one.
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If you are Christian, you might have read what our Lord tells us about being lukewarm in the scriptures.
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All right, let's take one on paper before we get to the member block.
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Dear Michael Knowles, do you have any suggestions on where a young woman can meet a nice Christian conservative man?
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Instead, I prefer to attend church, the gun range, and the grocery store.
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I frequent the office as much as possible, but unfortunately, not many of my colleagues like to work in person.
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In the old days, if you weren't married by 30, that was a huge issue socially.
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These days, if you get married before 35, you're like a child bride.
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It's hard to meet people, especially these days as we're increasingly living in virtual reality in the metaverse,
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So I would be a little more intentional about it.
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But I'm not totally opposed to it in principle.
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I know people who have met their spouses on dating apps, and that's kind of the way people date these days.
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And then you could do it the old-fashioned way, which is to have your friends and family set you up.
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And it can be a little embarrassing to say, hey, Sheila, you know any good guys?
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You know anyone that I could, hey, Cousin Jim, do you have any buddies that you think I should go on a date with?
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You know, I wouldn't just wait around forever for a man to come in riding on a white horse, knight in shining armor, and sweep you off your feet.
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If ever that were the norm, it certainly isn't today.
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So you'll have to be a little bit more intentional.
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Certainly by the standards of our culture, you're doing just fine.
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You just have to get a little more intentional about it.
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I need your help in sussing out which are the four real headlines, which is the fake headline.
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And also, a buddy of mine is coming on the show very briefly to talk about his new movie that's coming out.
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