The Michael Knowles Show - February 13, 2023


Ep. 1182 - BLM Wins The Super Bowl!


Episode Stats

Length

49 minutes

Words per Minute

171.78786

Word Count

8,511

Sentence Count

714

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

29


Summary

A train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed and leaked into the air, and a reporter covering the incident was arrested on the scene. Meanwhile, the rest of the U.S. government is busy trying to figure out if aliens are real.


Transcript

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00:00:37.660 A lot of people have been asking me what I think about the weird UFO sightings popping up all over the country.
00:00:44.520 Apparently, one of the aircraft that we shot down is shaped like a cylinder, and another one is shaped like an octagon.
00:00:51.560 And people want to know, is it the Chinese?
00:00:54.620 Is it aliens?
00:00:55.540 Do aliens exist?
00:00:58.080 Politico is reporting that UFO fever has gripped Washington, D.C.
00:01:03.700 And so, since people keep asking, I'll tell you.
00:01:07.380 My main thought is that 50 freight cars derailed on Friday night in Ohio near the Pennsylvania border,
00:01:15.380 leaking, according to reports, at least a million pounds of vinyl chloride,
00:01:20.280 which is an extremely dangerous chemical and a known carcinogen.
00:01:23.960 The safe exposure limit for vinyl chloride is less than one part per million.
00:01:30.040 After the derailment, workers used small explosives to blow a hole in the rail cars to drain the vinyl chloride,
00:01:36.680 which they collected in a trench and then set on fire,
00:01:39.520 which seems to have made an already enormous problem much, much worse because burning vinyl chloride sends hydrochloric acid into the air along with phosgene,
00:01:49.820 which you may recall from history class is one of the poison gases used during World War I.
00:01:54.400 seems like a pretty important news story, and yet it's not getting very much coverage.
00:02:01.060 We've just got UFO fever.
00:02:02.600 We're not really paying attention to these other stories.
00:02:04.580 At least one reporter from News Nation who tried to cover the story in Ohio was actually arrested on the scene.
00:02:12.400 We're looking at a file charge.
00:02:14.380 Are you right now?
00:02:15.180 Go out.
00:02:15.880 Sir.
00:02:16.120 Sir.
00:02:16.200 I am allowed to be here.
00:02:21.740 Did you not see that man?
00:02:23.600 Hold it, shut it down.
00:02:25.500 Go.
00:02:26.100 Now.
00:02:26.540 Go.
00:02:27.200 Now.
00:02:27.760 Or you can go to jail.
00:02:29.280 Sir.
00:02:29.520 You want to go to jail for criminal trespassing?
00:02:31.140 Do you want to go to jail for criminal trespassing?
00:02:33.400 Do you understand?
00:02:33.980 You know how quickly our lawyers will get me out?
00:02:35.560 I don't care.
00:02:36.480 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.140 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.220 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.240 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.340 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.360 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.400 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:37.980 Sir, can we talk?
00:02:38.080 Sir, can we talk outside?
00:02:38.520 Let's just talk outside.
00:02:39.280 Go.
00:02:39.640 Let's just talk outside.
00:02:40.240 Come on.
00:02:40.680 Out the doors.
00:02:41.120 Come on.
00:02:41.600 Out the doors.
00:02:42.560 Out the doors.
00:02:43.580 By other media.
00:02:44.520 I don't want to.
00:02:45.260 I'm going to listen.
00:02:46.320 I don't care.
00:02:46.920 You're going to walk out the door.
00:02:48.020 I'm going to listen.
00:02:48.700 You're going to walk out the door.
00:02:49.160 Do not touch me.
00:02:50.220 You're going to stand outside.
00:02:51.580 No.
00:02:52.200 Or you're going to jail.
00:02:53.560 Let's go.
00:02:54.020 Let's go.
00:02:54.520 Let's go.
00:02:54.820 Out.
00:02:55.860 Out.
00:02:56.380 You're under arrest.
00:02:59.620 I'm under arrest.
00:03:02.520 Oh, sir.
00:03:07.160 Oh, my God.
00:03:09.280 You guys, this is bad.
00:03:10.640 Stop.
00:03:11.080 I am on the ground.
00:03:12.220 Where are you trying to be recording?
00:03:13.820 Stop resisting.
00:03:15.000 Stop resisting.
00:03:15.600 Stop.
00:03:16.100 You're under arrest.
00:03:17.600 Pretty weird.
00:03:19.020 And while I am mildly interested in China's latest espionage activities in the United States,
00:03:25.160 I don't really care all that much about UFOs.
00:03:29.700 Aliens aren't real.
00:03:31.980 Vinyl chloride is.
00:03:34.100 And yet, which one is everybody talking about?
00:03:36.920 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:37.780 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:38.640 Welcome back to the show.
00:03:47.600 My favorite comment on Friday is from Salty Walt, who says,
00:03:51.000 Donald Trump once used to say that he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue in broad daylight
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00:03:58.080 At this point, I wouldn't be surprised to find out that George Santos actually did shoot
00:04:02.320 someone on Fifth Avenue.
00:04:04.000 The man is Teflon.
00:04:05.240 Love the show.
00:04:05.920 Keep it up.
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00:05:46.240 Aliens aren't real.
00:05:48.660 I know that's a controversial observation to make in this.
00:05:53.720 They're not real.
00:05:54.860 There is no evidence.
00:05:58.900 There is zero evidence, empirical or evidence that we can deduce from our limited observations about the natural world using human reason.
00:06:10.420 Zero evidence that extraterrestrial aliens exist at all.
00:06:16.060 Some people say that the universe is really, really big, therefore aliens must exist.
00:06:24.400 That is a non-sequitur.
00:06:26.540 It does not follow from the universe is really, really big that aliens exist.
00:06:31.740 The reason that people believe in aliens now when people didn't used to believe in aliens is not because of any new scientific discovery.
00:06:39.640 There has been zero, exactly zero scientific discovery that would suggest any increased likelihood for the existence of aliens.
00:06:47.600 Some people will say, well, it's so large that statistically there have to be aliens.
00:06:50.880 That's not how statistics work.
00:06:53.140 You might be able to make that argument.
00:06:54.940 It might be somewhat persuasive.
00:06:56.280 If we knew anything about the physical origins of life, we do not.
00:07:00.100 So there is zero reason to believe that life, certainly not conscious life, is cropped up anywhere else in the universe.
00:07:06.800 It doesn't matter how big the universe is.
00:07:08.400 The universe can be infinite.
00:07:09.780 There would not be any logical reason to believe that life's existence here would imply life elsewhere.
00:07:18.860 This is a way for atheists and agnostics to express religious longing and wonder.
00:07:25.400 People will say, well, you religious people, you believe in angels and demons.
00:07:31.860 That's true.
00:07:32.400 There is much, much more evidence for angels and demons than there is for extraterrestrial aliens.
00:07:37.480 I don't want to belabor the point.
00:07:38.920 I'm just so sick of the stupid UFO alien stuff.
00:07:41.920 There's much, much more evidence for angels and demons because angels and demons are pure spirit.
00:07:47.280 That is the definition of what an angel and a demon is.
00:07:50.060 And so if you believe that spiritual things exist at all, if you believe that the human person has a soul,
00:07:56.000 if you believe that some things don't have a rational soul like animals and rocks and trees and stuff,
00:08:01.600 and that certain beings do exhibit a rational soul,
00:08:04.400 then the fact that the soul exists could imply that there are beings that are purely spiritual,
00:08:10.500 not purely physical like rocks and stuff,
00:08:14.400 not hylomorphic body and soul like human beings, but pure spirit as well.
00:08:19.600 There is no, the suggestion that aliens exist pose certain theological problems
00:08:27.640 pertaining to the fall and redemption of the world,
00:08:32.500 which is a discussion, I suppose, for another time because it's somewhat involved.
00:08:35.960 But all of which to say, the thing that everybody is focused on right now is almost certainly not real.
00:08:42.140 And the problems that we're ignoring are real.
00:08:45.120 So what are the UFOs?
00:08:46.920 According to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,
00:08:51.040 we've got lots of weird UFOs flying above our heads.
00:08:55.500 And I love how last week there was UFO fever and we found out it was a Chinese spy balloon.
00:09:01.680 And we found another Chinese spy balloon.
00:09:03.380 Then we found out that the Chinese have a number of aircraft that we had not previously detected
00:09:07.760 flying over U.S. airspace.
00:09:09.900 And then a week later, we shoot down some aircraft and the Pentagon won't give us too much information about it.
00:09:16.160 And everyone says, well, it's got to be ET.
00:09:19.660 Not that it's obviously more Chinese aircraft, the likes of which we were seeing all of last week.
00:09:24.380 No, no, no, it's got to be something totally different.
00:09:26.980 Here we go, baby.
00:09:28.280 This is it.
00:09:28.780 The alien invasion is on.
00:09:30.200 People only believe in the alien invasion because they have given up the other and more correct version of eschatology, the end of times.
00:09:39.620 So people used to look up to the sky and wait for the four horsemen to start flying down and Christ to descend for the second coming.
00:09:45.120 That used to be their vision of the end of the world.
00:09:46.720 But now, because people have thrown away, they've convinced themselves that it's somehow unreasonable to believe in true and traditional religion.
00:09:53.700 Now we're just waiting for ET to come down in a flying saucer and zap the White House.
00:09:57.960 Because that's apparently more reasonable than the true religion that has animated our civilization for 2,000 years.
00:10:06.360 Yeah, okay.
00:10:06.820 We had a potential object detected over Montana Saturday night.
00:10:12.280 The military shot down a cylindrical object over Alaska.
00:10:15.300 It was about the size of a small car, so it was smaller than those Chinese balloons last week.
00:10:20.380 No aliens yet.
00:10:22.120 We can look at Area 51, but no aliens have been discovered yet.
00:10:26.040 A related point to my point about the chemical spill in Ohio.
00:10:31.460 We know that there is a little green man type of alien that is causing lots of trouble to our country.
00:10:42.840 And yet, we ignore that problem and we worry about the imaginary little green men who don't exist and don't pose any problem to our country.
00:10:53.440 There are millions of aliens pouring into our country every single year.
00:10:57.880 Some of them have tattooed their faces entirely green and they're members of a gang called MS-13.
00:11:02.540 But we kind of ignore that issue.
00:11:04.100 We don't really talk about that one too much in the establishment media.
00:11:06.860 Because instead, we're going to distract ourselves with ET.
00:11:10.000 People like to distract themselves with fantastical stories because it gives them something to focus their attention and worry on that they can't actually do anything about.
00:11:21.560 We could do something about our southern border and stop the little green aliens who are currently coming in.
00:11:25.940 We could do something about that, but we can't muster the political will to do it.
00:11:30.340 We can't muster the political unity that's necessary to do that.
00:11:33.780 And so we have to distract ourselves with imaginary problems about which there is nothing that one can possibly do.
00:11:41.180 This is a real temptation in our culture.
00:11:44.920 You're seeing this right now from Mr. Dylan Mulvaney.
00:11:47.580 Probably one of the greatest examples of it who has had.
00:11:51.280 He's the transvestite who was a Broadway actor and then he pretended to be a woman and on TikTok every single day.
00:11:57.400 He says that's day five of being a woman and today I'm flitting around as a sort of a caricature of what a woman is.
00:12:04.240 I've cried ten times today.
00:12:05.800 I've never felt more like a woman.
00:12:07.260 Well, Dylan Mulvaney has had some surgery to make his face look more like Bruce Jenner's.
00:12:10.980 And now he is posting videos saying that he looks super duper hot.
00:12:16.480 It's day 335 of being a girl and I wanted to go on record to say that this might be the hottest I've ever looked and will ever look in my lifetime.
00:12:27.140 And I'm making this video so that in thousands of years there will be evidence.
00:12:32.060 Is it the dress?
00:12:34.280 It could be the dress.
00:12:35.580 Is it the makeup?
00:12:37.900 Or is it the hair?
00:12:39.140 Because I think it's the extensions.
00:12:41.020 And when I have extensions in, I don't know my name.
00:12:44.460 I don't know where I live.
00:12:45.480 I just know that I love these.
00:12:47.260 And I know that I look like I could steal a husband.
00:12:49.900 But I want to promise you.
00:12:51.060 Look me in the eyes.
00:12:52.280 I want to promise you that I would never do that to you.
00:12:55.180 Okay?
00:12:55.560 I am a girl's girl.
00:12:57.180 And I love ya.
00:12:59.240 Woo!
00:12:59.800 But seriously, this is good, right?
00:13:01.640 Okay.
00:13:02.100 Okay.
00:13:02.480 Okay.
00:13:02.840 Love you.
00:13:03.220 Love you.
00:13:03.520 Okay.
00:13:05.580 Much, much to say about that video.
00:13:09.800 Because it's not just Dylan.
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00:14:34.880 Dylan Mulvaney has just given the best proof yet that transgenderism broadly, or at very
00:14:41.860 least the type of transgenderism that he suffers from, is a sexual fetish.
00:14:46.520 It's what the psychologist Ray Blanchard called autogynephilia.
00:14:52.320 Ray Blanchard, the psychologist, said that there are two kinds of people who think that
00:14:57.160 they're the opposite sex.
00:14:58.700 There are homosexual transsexuals who are attracted exclusively to men and are feminine
00:15:04.680 in both behavior and appearance.
00:15:06.760 And then there are autogynephilic transsexuals who experience sexual arousal at the idea of
00:15:12.600 having a female body.
00:15:13.880 It would appear, well, Dylan Mulvaney might have, he might have a little touch of both,
00:15:22.100 I guess.
00:15:22.400 But he certainly has the latter in as much as he is viewing himself as a hot sexual object.
00:15:29.200 He's saying, I've never looked hotter in my whole life, ladies.
00:15:32.720 And it's a funny line.
00:15:34.460 And he's saying it with the deadpan of a trained actor.
00:15:36.980 But it does prove the point.
00:15:41.920 He's saying, I am looking on my body that some surgeon has constructed for me with lust.
00:15:49.580 And then he goes further.
00:15:52.460 And he says, when I'm looking at me and my hot new body in the mirror, I don't know my name.
00:15:58.580 I forget who I am.
00:16:00.160 I forget where I am.
00:16:01.260 All I know is I just think these hair extensions are really hot.
00:16:06.840 All of this is an admission of what conservatives have said about transgenderism from the beginning,
00:16:11.660 which is this is obviously a disordered sexual fetish.
00:16:15.960 And this is obviously an expression of self-hatred.
00:16:20.140 That's what he's saying.
00:16:21.200 He's saying, oh, I just feel such relief.
00:16:23.220 I'm so happy because I forget who I am.
00:16:26.720 I'm so happy.
00:16:27.560 I forget my name.
00:16:29.520 I just forget where I am.
00:16:31.760 I'm escaping from a reality that I don't want to confront into a fantasy and a delusion
00:16:39.740 that is relieving my sense of contempt for the real world and also arousing me sexually.
00:16:50.120 It's just a total vindication of what the conservatives have said.
00:16:53.800 The Libs have said, no, no, transgenderism is just, it's just who you really are.
00:16:58.060 It's just people living their true lives authentically and loving themselves.
00:17:01.940 Dylan Mulvaney saying, no, no way, man.
00:17:03.360 I hate myself.
00:17:04.100 I want to forget who I am.
00:17:05.280 I don't want to know my own name.
00:17:07.100 I want to forget where I am.
00:17:09.200 I don't want to remember anything about the real world.
00:17:12.120 I just want to pursue my disordered sexual desire to a state of a kind of sexual ecstasy.
00:17:18.440 That's what he's saying.
00:17:19.600 He's saying we're right, and we have been right about this.
00:17:25.020 The self-hatred problem is a big problem.
00:17:27.340 Very often, the culture of body positivity or love yourself or pride, which is the primal
00:17:34.280 sin, the queen of all vices, and the vice of all queens, as my friend Andrew Klavan has
00:17:37.720 pointed out, is a mask for self-hatred.
00:17:41.640 Very often, the people who are most boastful, who seem most narcissistic and egotistical,
00:17:47.240 paradoxically, they also are filled with the most self-hatred.
00:17:51.120 You're seeing this reflected in all of the popular culture.
00:17:56.900 But look at this cartoon that we played last week or the week before, Proud Family, which
00:18:01.260 is a reboot of a 20-year-old cartoon.
00:18:04.080 Proud Family has been rebooted to push BLM and woke, intersectional, leftist nonsense and
00:18:10.980 to push onto a culture of predominantly white people the sense that white people are evil.
00:18:18.040 Oh, you understand love, don't you?
00:18:21.180 No, no, I do not understand anything about white fragility.
00:18:25.640 White fragility?
00:18:27.120 What's that supposed to mean?
00:18:28.300 You know what it means?
00:18:29.620 You're doing it right now?
00:18:30.840 Doing what?
00:18:31.680 Being defensive about race.
00:18:34.640 Robin DiAngelo wrote a whole book about it.
00:18:37.840 Read it.
00:18:38.220 The other game, same cover and everything.
00:18:42.500 My dad wouldn't even look at the diary.
00:18:49.620 He said his people would never own slaves.
00:18:52.800 How could he just dismiss me like that?
00:18:55.220 White fragility.
00:18:57.100 Oh, Brother Kwame.
00:18:58.860 White fragility, that's what it is.
00:19:01.940 Now, it would be very easy to say that all of this anti-white propaganda is just a problem
00:19:09.500 coming from black people or from non-white people.
00:19:12.500 That's not primarily what's going on.
00:19:15.100 All of the anti-white, if you're a little boy and you're white, you're evil, you need
00:19:20.120 to apologize for your whiteness, that stuff is largely coming from white people.
00:19:27.440 It's not so simple as to say, hey, you radical black people need to stop pushing this on us.
00:19:32.140 It's largely white people.
00:19:33.740 The book that they referenced is by Robin DiAngelo.
00:19:36.060 Robin DiAngelo is a white lady.
00:19:37.240 The people who run these networks pushing all this stuff are, by and large, white people.
00:19:44.200 And it's white people who want to hate themselves.
00:19:48.740 I'm very lucky.
00:19:49.920 I don't know.
00:19:50.400 Maybe I got a vaccine when I was a kid or something.
00:19:52.640 I am completely immune to white guilt.
00:19:54.700 Maybe it's because the Italians are a sort of racially liminal people.
00:19:58.660 Always been a little bit ethnically ambiguous.
00:20:00.480 So I just don't feel it at all.
00:20:04.080 I feel the shame of my sinfulness.
00:20:08.440 I feel a healthy fear of temptation because this is a fallen world and we're all born with
00:20:14.040 original sin.
00:20:15.100 Though I feel confident that that won't destroy my life and send me down to perdition because
00:20:20.560 one's soul is cleansed in baptism.
00:20:23.180 That's kind of my view of the whole problem.
00:20:26.740 But for the modern liberals who ignore that, who ignore true religion, who ignore the wisdom
00:20:33.880 of the ages and of revelation, it's not that they become much more empirical and grounded
00:20:41.820 in their views.
00:20:42.440 They actually become much more fantastical and superstitious in their views.
00:20:46.940 They can infer and intuit that something is wrong about this world.
00:20:51.100 They recognize that there is such a thing as original sin.
00:20:54.140 They just don't want to call it that.
00:20:55.420 So they've got to call it something else.
00:20:56.780 They recognize that something is wrong with themselves, but they don't have any path toward
00:21:02.560 redemption.
00:21:03.720 And so it just leads them further and further down this pit and they blame it on their skin
00:21:07.440 color.
00:21:07.820 They blame it on whiteness or they blame it on their sexual expression.
00:21:14.180 They blame it on an alleged conflict between their gender identity and their sex.
00:21:18.220 So they chop themselves up and they mutilate themselves.
00:21:20.180 And they do that spiritually and they do that physically in the case of Dylan Mulvaney.
00:21:24.060 And it's all just a road right down the pit.
00:21:29.140 There's no getting out of that.
00:21:30.920 It's just more and more self-hatred compounding on itself.
00:21:35.660 You saw this in the Super Bowl yesterday.
00:21:37.360 I barely saw any of the Super Bowl yesterday.
00:21:39.820 I went to my friend's Super Bowl party, which was very fun.
00:21:43.140 I watched about five seconds of the game.
00:21:45.120 I decided on the drive over there.
00:21:46.620 I said, which team do I support?
00:21:49.120 I don't know.
00:21:50.340 The Eagles.
00:21:51.660 I'm from the Northeast.
00:21:52.780 So maybe the Eagles, except that Philly's pretty rough right now.
00:21:55.960 You know, Wawa left Philly.
00:21:57.400 It's a pretty crime-ridden hellscape.
00:21:59.080 So I don't know if I would support the Phillies.
00:22:00.920 And then I thought the Chiefs.
00:22:02.300 I was talking to Sweet Little Elise about this.
00:22:03.780 The Chiefs, at least that name is slightly more politically incorrect.
00:22:07.800 Are you allowed to call something the Chiefs these days?
00:22:09.540 So that kind of made me like them.
00:22:11.560 I heard one of the guys on the Chiefs is a strong Christian conservative guy.
00:22:15.640 I don't even know if that's true or not.
00:22:16.700 But I said, okay, I guess I'll support the Chiefs.
00:22:18.980 So we tune in.
00:22:20.020 One of the first things one sees, the Black National Anthem.
00:22:24.760 Lift every voice and sing till earth and heaven ring, ring with the harmonies.
00:22:53.140 Okay, we can cut it off there.
00:22:55.760 My favorite part of this entire charade is as this woman is singing this ridiculous song
00:23:00.980 that nobody had heard of until five minutes ago, it cuts to the black guys who are standing
00:23:06.200 there and they just look miserable.
00:23:08.260 They're like, oh man, do I?
00:23:10.900 This doesn't mean anything to me.
00:23:12.820 This is a completely contrived tradition.
00:23:15.420 No, why do I have to?
00:23:17.980 But because I'm a black guy, I got to.
00:23:20.160 And then it cuts to the white guy next to him.
00:23:22.100 He's like, what are we, what is this?
00:23:23.600 Why do I have to be here?
00:23:24.460 Is this over yet?
00:23:25.740 Can we get on to the real National Anthem?
00:23:28.240 But now the Libs are saying there are two National Anthems.
00:23:33.200 One for black people, one for white people.
00:23:36.480 Which one do the Hispanics and the Asians and the other people, I don't know which one
00:23:39.780 they get to sing.
00:23:40.380 Maybe they'll get their own.
00:23:41.080 But if there are two National Anthems, that means that there are two nations, two competing
00:23:48.840 nations.
00:23:49.520 Are they going to be geographically distinct nations?
00:23:52.300 Is what the Libs saying here is that black people need one part of the country and white
00:23:57.180 people need another part of the country?
00:23:58.860 Or is it going to be two nations fighting over the same geographical land?
00:24:02.540 Is it the Libs calling for a race war?
00:24:04.060 Those are the only options.
00:24:07.880 If you have two National Anthems for two distinct groups of people within the same geographic
00:24:16.740 territory, then you're either calling for partition, like you saw with India and Pakistan, or you're
00:24:22.400 calling for a race war for one group to conquer the other in the geographical territory.
00:24:27.540 That's the only thing that that can mean.
00:24:28.960 And so you see the singer, whoever she is, singing this made-up song, and you see all
00:24:36.440 these other people of all different races behind her looking very uncomfortable and slightly
00:24:42.420 bored and just largely confused.
00:24:44.340 That's the right expression.
00:24:46.020 You should be uncomfortable with this.
00:24:48.240 This idea does not end well.
00:24:54.460 Now, if you have questions about the Black National Anthem or any other question, you can send
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00:25:20.840 And then you just attach an audio file, whether it's from your computer.
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00:25:30.260 We get to hear your dulcet tones on Friday.
00:25:33.760 Very, very exciting.
00:25:37.080 Speaking of the Super Bowl, Super Bowl was not all that bad, I am told.
00:25:42.020 I didn't even make it to halftime.
00:25:44.240 I left.
00:25:44.960 I had to get the kids to sleep.
00:25:46.160 I had to do some work.
00:25:47.200 So I left early.
00:25:47.920 But I did see some clips of halftime.
00:25:50.280 And the big story from halftime is that Rihanna, who is the performer, is pregnant, which I thought
00:25:56.200 was great.
00:25:56.800 You know that the guys who organized the Super Bowl were furious about this, because
00:26:00.960 they signed the contract, I assume, before Rihanna got pregnant, certainly before Rihanna
00:26:05.560 was showing that she was pregnant.
00:26:07.700 There hadn't been a big announcement that this singer was pregnant.
00:26:10.580 And so they say, oh, no, we got this.
00:26:13.180 She's pregnant.
00:26:14.280 We hate pregnancy.
00:26:15.120 We hate kids.
00:26:16.100 There's overpopulation.
00:26:17.980 We're pushing abortion.
00:26:19.740 Our singer's pregnant.
00:26:20.900 Now she's probably not going to do a weird, slutty, sexually charged dance.
00:26:25.800 That would be really, because that would be pretty awkward, wouldn't it?
00:26:28.040 The show, it was one of the tamest halftime shows we've seen in years.
00:26:33.280 And people were celebrating.
00:26:35.000 Probably not the organizers of the Super Bowl, but everybody else.
00:26:37.440 They were so happy for Rihanna, as they should have been.
00:26:39.360 But Philip Lewis, who is an editor for the Huffington Post, he's the senior front page editor, he
00:26:46.560 tweeted out, he said, Rihanna performed the Super Bowl halftime show while pregnant with
00:26:51.760 second child, representative confirms.
00:26:56.080 My first reaction was, it's a child again, is it?
00:27:00.520 But that's amazing, because I was told previously, I was reliably informed by the sort of people
00:27:07.480 who work at the Huffington Post, that when a baby is in the womb, it's not a baby, it's
00:27:12.440 not a child, it's not alive, it's not human, it's just a meaningless clump of cells.
00:27:19.700 Certainly we are told that when poor women get pregnant, that that's a meaningless clump
00:27:25.860 of cells.
00:27:26.260 You should go kill that so you can get back to work at the widget factory.
00:27:28.500 Certainly we are told that when desperate women, who do not have adequate support to
00:27:36.980 raise a child without some degree of difficulty and suffering, when they get pregnant, oh, you
00:27:41.360 should just go kill it.
00:27:42.480 You're not even killing it, it's not even a baby.
00:27:44.480 Just go, it's a simple medical procedure, it's a clump of cells, don't even look at it,
00:27:47.620 it's okay, just get it done.
00:27:48.620 But then when Rihanna is pregnant, well, that's a child.
00:27:52.640 It's a child when wealthy people want babies, and they get pregnant, then that's a child.
00:27:57.740 The royal baby, whenever a duchess gets pregnant, it's never the royal fetus, it's never the
00:28:04.400 royal clump of cells.
00:28:05.080 It's always the royal baby is going to be born in six months.
00:28:08.980 It's just when poor people, when the deplorables, when the irredeemables, when the bitter clinging,
00:28:13.740 Bible thumping, no good, useless people, like some contributors to the World Economic Forum
00:28:20.380 calls them, when they get pregnant, when you get pregnant, then you should kill it.
00:28:24.620 Nobody wants that.
00:28:25.620 Rihanna, though, that's great.
00:28:26.760 I'm glad even the Huffington Post can admit it.
00:28:28.960 That's a great new change.
00:28:31.160 Speaking of things growing inside of people, great news for John Fetterman, the senator
00:28:37.160 from Pennsylvania.
00:28:38.380 The gigantic, bulbous growth on his neck has apparently gone away.
00:28:43.500 Anyway, this was one of the reasons that John Fetterman was wearing a lot of hoodies during
00:28:49.060 the campaign, is he had this giant, very concerning growth on his neck, but John Fetterman didn't
00:28:55.360 want to ask any, or answer, rather, any questions about his health while he was on the campaign
00:29:00.520 trail.
00:29:00.900 And so they just kind of covered it up as best they could, and now the growth is gone, which
00:29:04.700 I'm sure is actually a very, very good thing.
00:29:07.500 But John Fetterman continues to have health problems.
00:29:10.900 We saw over the last week, John Fetterman was admitted to the hospital, George Washington
00:29:15.720 University Hospital, because he was feeling lightheaded at a fundraiser.
00:29:21.320 John Fetterman thought that he might be having another stroke, apparently.
00:29:25.800 And so they went in, they gave him a CT, CTA, MRI tests.
00:29:29.840 They ruled out a stroke, which is good news.
00:29:31.480 His EEG tests came back normal, and no evidence of any seizures, which they had been concerned
00:29:37.840 about.
00:29:38.960 But John Fetterman is not doing well.
00:29:41.840 Back in the fall, John Fetterman was talking about football.
00:29:44.780 He was talking about the Eagles, who were in the Super Bowl.
00:29:46.940 And here was a pretty simple answer about football that he tried to formulate.
00:29:55.420 The Eagles are so much better than the Eagles.
00:30:01.480 So presumably, he was trying to say the Eagles are better than the Steelers, or the Steelers
00:30:14.420 are better than the Eagles, who obviously didn't come out very well.
00:30:17.000 I really am not making fun of it.
00:30:18.280 The guy obviously has brain damage and continues to have that.
00:30:22.620 The New York Times is reporting on that.
00:30:23.940 The New York Times reported that Fetterman has been left with, quote, serious mental health
00:30:28.440 issues.
00:30:28.940 He often cannot understand the words that other people are saying as a result of the
00:30:32.840 stroke.
00:30:33.320 He has to use live audio to text transcription for everything that he does, certainly in
00:30:39.240 his work as a senator.
00:30:40.600 And then apparently when Fetterman is under stress, and being a national level politician
00:30:45.780 is a stressful job, he says that trying to understand what other people are saying is
00:30:49.860 like, quote, trying to make out the muffled voice of the teacher in the Peanuts cartoon,
00:30:54.320 whose words could never be deciphered, according to this report in the Times.
00:30:58.280 So really bad situation.
00:31:00.900 It is cruel that the libs have put him into the Senate and that his wife is tolerating this.
00:31:05.740 It's cruel because it is allowing him to be humiliated every single day, not by mean right-wing
00:31:12.640 comedians, not by gotcha journalists.
00:31:14.900 It's just he has to speak sometimes as a U.S. senator, and it is humiliating because he isn't
00:31:21.420 able to form coherent sentences.
00:31:24.020 If you've ever known a stroke victim, you know this is heartbreaking when people want
00:31:28.960 to say something and they can't say something or when they can't quite understand what people
00:31:32.160 are saying to them.
00:31:32.840 And so many people are observing that this man is not fit to be a U.S. senator, and that's
00:31:41.400 the only part that I disagree with.
00:31:43.220 I agree that it's cruel and wrong to put him in the U.S. Senate.
00:31:47.020 I think his family should be ashamed of themselves.
00:31:49.080 I think the Democratic Party should be ashamed of itself for many other reasons, but that one
00:31:53.780 too.
00:31:55.260 But he's not unfit to be a senator because he doesn't really have to do anything as a senator.
00:32:00.800 His staff can just vote for him.
00:32:05.400 A hundred years ago, being a senator meant more than it does today.
00:32:09.180 Two hundred years ago, being a senator certainly meant more than it does today.
00:32:12.780 A lot of the Senate's power is just gone, though.
00:32:15.920 And the Senate and the House of Representatives have just shipped that power away to bureaucrats
00:32:21.120 in the executive agencies, to the leadership in the Senate and leadership in the House of
00:32:26.940 Representatives, to international, supranational bodies that control a lot of U.S. policy.
00:32:35.340 They've just given it away.
00:32:36.980 And it was their right to give it away.
00:32:38.440 I know there are some people who are real antagonists of the administrative state and
00:32:43.660 the real small government conservatives.
00:32:45.080 And they say, the Congress had no right to delegate away these powers.
00:32:48.540 But I'm not convinced by that, necessarily.
00:32:50.560 I think the Congress has broad power to delegate away its responsibilities.
00:32:55.280 And it has all the incentive to, because if Congress and the Senate are voting on legislation,
00:33:00.860 then it's going to open them up to a tax.
00:33:03.380 If they say, well, we're only voting on one or two bills a year, we're going to vote on
00:33:06.760 the omnibus, we're going to vote on a Defense Authorization Act, and that's pretty much all
00:33:10.940 we're going to do all year long, then it becomes much easier to go back and campaign.
00:33:14.700 And if that's all you're voting on, then this guy is just going to be a rubber stamp.
00:33:19.360 In fact, even before the stroke, he was running to be a rubber stamp.
00:33:23.340 It's not as though John Fetterman was a Rhodes Scholar, okay?
00:33:27.020 It's not as though the health problems are really what exacerbated John Fetterman's
00:33:31.040 dissent into this lowest common denominator politics.
00:33:34.740 He was always going to be a rubber stamp for whatever the Democrats wanted.
00:33:37.860 And that's what he is now.
00:33:39.880 Speaking of the deep state, really bad news over the weekend for anybody
00:33:49.000 who wants Western civilization to have any hope of coming out of its current pit as we
00:33:56.000 continue to slide into the pit.
00:33:57.220 And this is because American liberals are going into Hungary to try to oust the very successful,
00:34:07.820 good conservative leader of Hungary.
00:34:10.840 Samantha Power, in particular, one of those Barack Obama faces of the swampy liberal deep state.
00:34:19.160 Samantha Power is on the ground in Hungary, relaunching a USAID program in that country.
00:34:27.020 As USAID administrator, I have the chance to travel all around the world to engage with people
00:34:32.260 who are working every day to strengthen democratic institutions, to build independent media,
00:34:37.260 and to promote and protect human rights.
00:34:40.260 I'm here in Hungary, one of the countries in Central Europe where USAID has recently relaunched
00:34:46.520 programming to tackle just these challenges.
00:34:49.680 I'm going to spend the next couple of days engaging with Hungarians about their vision
00:34:53.960 for a brighter future.
00:34:56.820 I've only met Samantha Power once.
00:34:59.520 It was when I was, this was one of my first jobs after college.
00:35:02.820 I was a fake sommelier at George Soros' wedding.
00:35:06.660 I mentioned that one of the stranger political stories that I have.
00:35:09.780 One of my pieces of evidence, by the way, that George Soros doesn't totally control the world
00:35:13.400 is that if they had even Googled me beforehand, they never would have hired me for this job.
00:35:17.680 But I'm at George Soros' wedding, and there are all sorts of very liberal power players
00:35:22.240 in the room.
00:35:23.820 Some celebrities like Bono, Nancy Pelosi, international political power players like Christine
00:35:30.060 Lagarde from then the IMF.
00:35:32.140 Now she's at the World Bank.
00:35:33.560 And Samantha Power.
00:35:34.860 Samantha Power was one of the big Obama people who made it to George Soros' wedding.
00:35:40.420 She's just, she's swampy.
00:35:43.500 And Samantha Power is there on behalf of USAID, which is the U.S. Agency for International Development,
00:35:50.060 independent agency of the federal government, responsible for administering civilian foreign
00:35:54.720 aid and development assistance.
00:35:56.200 They got a budget of $27 billion.
00:35:57.920 It's one of the largest official aid agencies in the world.
00:36:01.160 It accounts for more than half of all U.S. foreign assistance for the highest in the world
00:36:06.720 in terms of absolute dollars.
00:36:09.220 Now she's going into Hungary.
00:36:11.300 Not Syria, not Libya, not North Korea, Hungary.
00:36:17.900 This is one of the ways in which the United States pushes its imperial power around the world
00:36:24.440 to try to oust governments.
00:36:25.720 Samantha Power is on the ground now in Hungary on behalf of the Biden administration to launch
00:36:31.600 a color revolution to oust Viktor Orban because Viktor Orban is too conservative and successful.
00:36:36.780 Viktor Orban, he governs a relatively small country, but he has done more than any leader
00:36:43.280 in the West probably to turn around the negative trend and try to get his country back on the
00:36:50.360 right track.
00:36:50.720 You can see this aesthetically.
00:36:52.500 Viktor Orban has gotten rid of the crappy, brutalist, communist art and architecture,
00:36:57.600 and he's tried to re-beautify, make the country more ornate, more human, more Western, more beautiful.
00:37:03.860 I know this seems like a minor point, but we're talking about goodness, truth, and beauty.
00:37:08.140 Beauty is a transcendental too.
00:37:09.200 It's very important to civilization.
00:37:11.140 He's focused on that.
00:37:12.360 He's turned around much more practical problems like the dying population.
00:37:15.440 We have a dying population here in the United States.
00:37:17.580 We don't have enough babies to offset the number of people who are dying.
00:37:21.200 This is one of the causes of mass migration.
00:37:23.100 This is true throughout the West.
00:37:24.560 Viktor Orban has turned his birth rate decline around.
00:37:27.680 They're not yet producing more babies than people are dying, but they've turned it around
00:37:31.840 pretty significantly, and they're getting close.
00:37:34.260 This is one of the reasons that Viktor Orban can say no to mass migration.
00:37:37.520 He's one of the only Western leaders to do so.
00:37:40.480 So the rest of the West says, no, flood the country with foreign nationals.
00:37:44.660 Oh, what could go wrong?
00:37:45.700 That won't destabilize our societies.
00:37:47.800 Viktor Orban, one of the few, just like the Hungarians were at some of the most decisive
00:37:53.840 battles in Western history, Viktor Orban says, no, no, we're going to say no to that.
00:38:01.040 So no to mass migration, no to a dying population.
00:38:04.160 We're going to support families.
00:38:05.220 We're going to support birth.
00:38:06.840 And no to your crappy modern ideology and art.
00:38:09.980 No, we're going to embrace the best, the heights of our civilization.
00:38:13.520 And the libs freaking hate him for it.
00:38:16.060 As far as I'm concerned, the aid should be going into the other direction.
00:38:20.500 Viktor Orban certainly should expel Samantha Power from his country as fast as he can.
00:38:24.080 He should say no thanks to this instantiation of USAID.
00:38:28.320 Frankly, we should have Hungarian aid coming into the United States because he's got some
00:38:32.320 answers to some of the big problems plaguing our society.
00:38:35.400 And I think probably we could learn a lot if the aid were going in the other direction.
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00:39:34.820 Speaking of strong right-wing leaders, we got to get to the horse race, don't we?
00:39:41.240 We haven't talked about the horse race in days.
00:39:44.600 Trump versus DeSantis.
00:39:47.200 There's a new poll out.
00:39:50.060 This is from Monmouth University.
00:39:51.700 National poll of Republican voters.
00:39:53.920 Shows you how the Republicans are thinking about DeSantis and Trump.
00:39:58.440 If this poll is to be believed, and that's a big if, DeSantis is up by 13 points, 53 to 40.
00:40:06.600 Now, national primary polls don't really matter because the primary is not held nationally.
00:40:12.880 The primary is held in Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, on and on, Florida.
00:40:20.000 It goes all around the country.
00:40:21.680 And so momentum changes depending on who's winning these primary contests.
00:40:26.300 But as of right now, I think this poll tells you something because of the breakdown of who is supporting whom.
00:40:32.760 Among strong Republicans, DeSantis, 49, Trump, 46.
00:40:38.100 So statistically, about even between Trump and DeSantis among strong Republicans.
00:40:44.340 Among Republican leaners, DeSantis crushes, 60 to 32.
00:40:50.700 Among the very conservative, DeSantis is still winning, but by less, by significantly less, 53 to 43.
00:41:00.540 Among moderates, DeSantis does better in terms of that delta.
00:41:05.720 It becomes 51 to 38.
00:41:08.700 Among evangelicals, and it starts to switch again.
00:41:12.000 Trump gains a little bit more.
00:41:13.020 DeSantis still winning, though, 51 to 44.
00:41:16.380 Non-evangelicals, DeSantis takes it 56 to 34.
00:41:20.700 Under 65 years old, DeSantis destroying 58% to Trump's 37%.
00:41:28.620 Among 65 plus, it flips.
00:41:33.200 Trump beating DeSantis 49 to 43.
00:41:37.240 Among people making more than 50 grand a year, DeSantis totally crushing it, 61% to 33%.
00:41:44.040 Among people making less than 50 grand a year, it flips.
00:41:49.340 Trump wins 53% to 38%.
00:41:52.440 Tells you a lot.
00:41:54.820 That's the most interesting poll I've seen so far on the head-to-head.
00:41:58.060 And by the way, this field is going to be full of people.
00:42:00.940 Full of people.
00:42:02.680 Mike Pence has already said he's going to run, or at least strongly intimated it.
00:42:05.620 Nikki Haley has all but said she's running.
00:42:07.480 Mike Pompeo has all but said that he's running.
00:42:09.320 Ted Cruz actually hasn't said very, I'm not being coy, even though, you know, hosted a
00:42:14.660 show with a guy for three years, love him to death, close friend of mine.
00:42:18.040 He hasn't said anything one way or the other.
00:42:19.960 He said he would be interested in running, but not that he is planning to, but he might.
00:42:25.200 You know there are going to be tons of other people.
00:42:27.880 Actually, there's one in particular who's a total joke.
00:42:30.160 He's already essentially said that he's running.
00:42:31.700 What does it tell you, though?
00:42:34.140 You're looking at Trump and DeSantis.
00:42:35.700 It tells you Trump does better with older voters and lower income voters.
00:42:43.300 And he's roughly even among strong Republicans.
00:42:46.760 And DeSantis does better with the moderates and the independents and the younger voters
00:42:49.960 and the wealthier voters.
00:42:53.980 That tells you that Trump is in a pretty good position.
00:42:56.880 It doesn't look like he's in a good position because of the 53 to 40.
00:43:00.100 That looks really bad.
00:43:01.700 But the lower income voters disproportionately represent a Republican base.
00:43:11.860 Not necessarily the big, obviously not the big donors, not necessarily the people who
00:43:17.100 go to the think tank lunches.
00:43:18.680 But in terms of the Republican base, especially in a post-Obama, post-Joe Biden world, the base
00:43:24.520 is skewing much more working class, certainly than the Democrats are.
00:43:28.120 And older voters, older voters tend to vote more.
00:43:31.700 Than younger voters do.
00:43:32.860 So if Trump is doing better among the older voters, that is disproportionately going to
00:43:36.680 help him.
00:43:38.640 So you might look at these numbers and say, well, DeSantis would do better in the general.
00:43:41.440 That might well be the case.
00:43:42.780 But we're talking about a primary.
00:43:44.180 And we're talking about a primary, by the way, which almost certainly won't be head-to-head.
00:43:47.960 So the challenge for DeSantis right now, and I've said this from the beginning and I've
00:43:52.100 been totally vindicated on it.
00:43:53.240 DeSantis has to run in the anti-Trump lane.
00:43:58.500 It's just the race includes Donald Trump.
00:44:01.000 So you could say DeSantis is the most Trumpy candidate in the world.
00:44:04.440 He's Trumpier than Trump.
00:44:05.440 He's Trump 2.0.
00:44:06.440 You could say all of that.
00:44:07.520 But in a race where Trump is running, DeSantis necessarily has to be the anti-Trump.
00:44:11.840 That's why DeSantis is going to attract support from some squishes.
00:44:15.020 And that's why he's going to attract support from some centrists and some libs.
00:44:17.860 And that could hurt him.
00:44:20.560 So he's got to walk this tightrope.
00:44:23.040 It's very, very difficult.
00:44:24.700 And then when you add other candidates to it, all of a sudden, now Trump, with all of
00:44:29.280 his name recognition, with his 40 years of celebrity, is going to perform even better.
00:44:33.140 In fact, that's what happened in 2016.
00:44:35.580 If you're counting Trump out, I just think it's way, way too early to do that.
00:44:39.800 Why are all these candidates going to run?
00:44:41.380 Because the landscape is really, really strong for Republicans right now.
00:44:45.960 According to another Monmouth poll, this from last Monday, 39% of Americans said that the
00:44:53.140 State of the Union is strong.
00:44:54.980 This is right before Joe Biden gave a State of the Union address.
00:44:58.160 Less than 40% of Americans believe that the State of the Union is strong.
00:45:03.380 58% say the State of the Union is not strong.
00:45:08.180 32% say the Union is not too strong.
00:45:10.400 26% say it's not at all strong.
00:45:12.920 That's why the people are getting into this race.
00:45:14.300 They view Joe Biden as very beatable, and they view Trump as not as formidable as he
00:45:20.360 previously had been.
00:45:22.500 Strong, but not strong enough to clear the field.
00:45:26.280 Which means, paradoxically, that if the field gets flooded with people, Trump might be able
00:45:31.160 to stand out by just consistently keeping a plurality.
00:45:34.480 I'm not saying that's going to happen.
00:45:35.940 DeSantis or some other candidate might blow him out of the water within a matter of months.
00:45:39.140 But as of right now, that's how it stands.
00:45:40.820 Speaking of some of those squishy Republicans, Chris Sununu, Chris Sununu, governor of New
00:45:45.220 Hampshire, says that he's going to run for president, or at least he's strongly implying
00:45:49.740 that he's going to run for president.
00:45:51.540 And here's his platform.
00:45:54.560 You've been talking about trying to sort of remind the party that Republicans are about
00:45:58.760 limited government.
00:46:00.340 You said recently, Republicans are almost trying to outdo Democrats at their own game of being
00:46:05.520 big government and having a solution and a say on everything.
00:46:09.280 Who are you thinking of when you say that?
00:46:11.220 There's a lot.
00:46:11.820 Like, I think there's a lot of leadership out there that forget that forgets at heart.
00:46:15.600 I'm a principled free market conservative.
00:46:17.880 Let the markets decide.
00:46:19.040 So there's no individual per se, but there's a lot of leadership that says, you know what?
00:46:22.300 When we're not getting that result out of a private business or locality, we'll just
00:46:26.280 impose from the top down our conservative will.
00:46:29.160 You're not talking about the Florida governor and Disney, for example.
00:46:31.900 That's a bad example.
00:46:32.880 Yeah, that's that's an example.
00:46:33.980 One of the many.
00:46:34.860 Ron DeSantis may be running for president.
00:46:36.760 Sure.
00:46:37.200 Yeah.
00:46:37.580 Yeah.
00:46:37.720 Look, Ron's a very good governor.
00:46:38.960 He is.
00:46:39.300 But I'm just trying to remind folks what we are at our core.
00:46:41.900 And if we're trying to beat the Democrats at being big government authoritarians, remember
00:46:46.100 what's going to happen.
00:46:47.340 Eventually, they'll have power in a state or in a position, and then they'll start penalizing
00:46:51.200 conservative businesses and conservative nonprofits and conservative ideas.
00:46:55.000 That is the worst precedent in the world.
00:46:56.760 That's exactly what the founding fathers tried not to try to avoid.
00:47:00.120 And the award for the most out-of-touch Republican goes to, drumroll please, Governor Chris Sununu.
00:47:09.080 Wow, congratulations.
00:47:13.260 Oh, my goodness.
00:47:14.680 It's as though Chris Sununu, he was cryogenically frozen in 2010 or 2009, maybe even earlier, and
00:47:25.020 he froze there.
00:47:25.600 And he just was melted out of that freeze.
00:47:28.120 And he said, hey, guys, if we ever use the government, the liberals might use it against
00:47:33.640 us.
00:47:35.140 Oh, yeah, Chris, you must have missed the last 10 years.
00:47:38.760 Really, you must have missed the last 70 years of US politics.
00:47:42.980 They're already doing that.
00:47:44.220 But guys, if we do anything to fight back in the real world, then the Democrats might hypothetically
00:47:51.360 keep doing what they've been doing for 70 years.
00:47:55.320 Yeah, yeah.
00:47:57.160 That's not a hypothetical then.
00:47:59.400 It's not if we do this, then they might do this.
00:48:01.740 That's not the situation.
00:48:02.260 The situation we're in is the libs are already doing the thing.
00:48:06.580 And the question to us is, are we going to fight back in a just way in accord with what
00:48:11.860 the founding fathers wanted?
00:48:13.000 I love when these people invoke the founding fathers and say, the founding fathers would
00:48:16.660 never want us to wield political power.
00:48:18.580 Bro, what are you talking about?
00:48:22.140 We had many, many, many more social regulations at the time of the founding fathers.
00:48:26.500 We had many, many more social regulations even 20 years ago than we do today.
00:48:30.480 We had blasphemy laws on the books for much of this country's history.
00:48:33.160 We had blue laws all over the place.
00:48:37.040 We had very strict immigration controls for much of this country's history.
00:48:41.100 We had very strong standards that we enforced with the weight of the government, with the
00:48:47.360 weight of the state on education, on religion, on social norms between men and women, all of
00:48:54.320 that.
00:48:55.340 But if we, if we start, listen, I'm a strong conservative.
00:48:58.800 I want to cut taxes.
00:48:59.960 Yeah, life is about more than cutting.
00:49:01.320 I like cutting taxes too, but countries are about more than that.
00:49:04.440 Life is about more than that.
00:49:05.660 What a waste.
00:49:06.540 Elect me and I'll keep using the same loser strategy that cost us the entire culture.
00:49:11.100 Wouldn't even allow conservatives to conserve the women's bathroom.
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