Ep. 1209 - Hysterical Libs Rewrite This Historical Event
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A 115-year-old story about an alleged incident involving a former U.S. President, and a woman who identifies as a Red-tailed Hawk . Also, Janet Yellen says the economy is doing well, which is the strongest indication that we are headed for economic chaos.
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Hey, you guys want to hear an incredible story that I was just reading about in the Washington
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Post and in The Guardian and in Newser and in Biography and in the Sacramento Bee and in NPR.
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According to all of these news reports that came out coincidentally just over the past few days,
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Ulysses S. Grant was arrested while he was president in 1872. Yeah, according to all of
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these news outlets, President Grant used to enjoy driving his own horse-drawn carriage,
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and apparently he liked to drive fast. And one time he got arrested for speeding.
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The arresting officer, William West, reportedly said,
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What a story about the rule of law over a nation of men. Isn't that weird and funny and almost
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certainly apocryphal? It's an incredible story because it's not credible. I say it's almost
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certainly apocryphal because the only evidence that had ever happened is a newspaper anecdote
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from the Washington Evening Star in 1908, 36 years after the alleged incident with the president
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occurred. You would think that if the sitting president of the United States were arrested,
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it might have made some news at the time, at least a headline or two, that someone might have mentioned
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it or written about it even once over the ensuing 35 years. But no one did because it almost certainly
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did not happen. And the only reason that the liberal media are reporting this 115-year-old fable
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as news right now is so they can normalize arresting U.S. presidents in order to justify their plans
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to jail Donald Trump, who is not only the current president's predecessor, but also the current
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leader of the opposition. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. We're going to get to more important news later, like how a lady is now
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identifying as a red-tailed hawk. But we've got to get to some kind of minor trivial stories first,
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like how the libs are going to arrest the opposition leader in the United States,
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a former U.S. president. This story, it just shows you the anatomy of fake news so clearly.
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A news story from 1872. It's, you know, it took us 150 years, but we finally decided this is
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newsworthy, and we're going to run it all on pretty much the same day in all of the liberal outlets,
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just because, isn't it just kind of historically interesting? I mean, it probably didn't happen,
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but hey, when we arrest Trump, don't be too angry. That's what they're saying. You can't believe
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a thing that these people say. My new rule of thumb is, whatever these people say,
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the liberal media, the elected politicians, the ruling class, whatever they say, just assume the
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opposite is true. Which is why I would recommend you take a look at your bank accounts. If you've
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got some investments in stocks, you've got a 401k, maybe you take a little peek into that right now,
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because I am now convinced the economy is absolutely headed for the gutter. And the reason I'm convinced
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of that is because our Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said this. Take an economy that is performing
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very well. We've had the fastest recovery from a downturn that we've ever seen, and the fastest
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recovery of any nation around the globe. The unemployment rate is near a 50-year low.
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The economy is doing well. That's the phrase, that one right there at the end. That is to me
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the strongest indication that we are headed for economic chaos when Janet Yellen says the economy
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is doing well. Janet Yellen, you might recall, is the woman who told us in 2021, quote,
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inflation is likely to be transitory. Remember that? Oh, you guys are worried about inflation?
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Don't worry. Inflation is likely to be transitory. I guess everything is transitory on a long enough
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time horizon. Our whole lives are transitory. But when we say transitory, we usually mean it's going
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to be a brief period of time, then we'll move on. We are now in 2023, and inflation remains at or around
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30-year highs. It's been two years now. Notice she dings off all of those different economic
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indicators. Oh, yeah, the unemployment rate's pretty good, and this, that, and that. She doesn't
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mention inflation. She doesn't mention the economic indicators that show that our country is not headed
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in the right direction. In a stable country, you could have some belief, you could have some faith
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in what your rulers are telling you. In our country, especially after three years of being
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lied to with ferocity and ubiquity from our ruling class about the virus and the lockdowns and the
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masks and the vax and the everything, the much more prudent, reasonable conclusion to draw is that
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whatever our rulers tell us, assume the opposite is true. Speaking of the vax, much of the wrongness,
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I am convinced, from our ruling class, owes to their corruption. Yes, they're not very well
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educated. I'm sure they've all got degrees from Harvard, and they've all got very fancy
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credentials, but they're not very well educated. They don't know basic things. They don't know what
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a man is. They don't know what a woman is. Ketanji Jackson is up for the Supreme Court,
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and she's asked, what is a woman? And she's got two Harvard degrees. She can't answer the question.
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So they're not very well educated. But I think another big aspect of this
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is that there is just systemic corruption. I think that explains a lot of what happened
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during COVID. Rand Paul showed this yesterday in the U.S. Senate. He was grilling the CEO of Moderna,
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and he pointed out a strange little potential conflict of interest between the regulatory agencies
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and big pharma. Moderna recently paid NIH $400 million. Do you believe it creates a conflict
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of interest for the government employees who are making money now off of the vaccine to also be
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dictating the policy about how many times we have to take the vaccine?
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Good morning, Senator. Indeed, we recently made, before Christmas last year, a $400 million payment
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to the NIH for an old patent that they had developed, not related to COVID, but useful in
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the development of the COVID vaccine to prevent for their work. It's for the U.S. government to
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assess how that money should be used. Do you think it creates a conflict of interest for the same
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people deciding the policy of how often we have to take the vaccine to also be making money the more
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times we take the vaccine? Yes or no? This is for the government to decide.
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You have no opinion on whether or not it creates a conflict of interest?
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No, what do I know? How could I? I'm just the CEO of a major corporation and international. What do I
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know about simple questions and incentives and corruption? No, that is for you to decide.
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I'm not asking for us. I've already made, sorry. I've already made my decision, Mr. Moderna person.
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I just want, what are you thinking? What's your opinion? Oh, I don't have an opinion. I don't even
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know if he's French. Of course, he has an opinion. Of course, any sensible person knows that if the
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companies that are to be regulated pay $400 million to the regulatory agencies and furthermore promise
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all sorts of nice jobs when the regulators leave the agencies, you're going to have a conflict of
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interest. You're going to have lots and lots of corruption, which might explain why we heard so
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many lies from the public authorities about COVID and prevention and infection and vaccination.
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All the way down to how the virus originated. Corruption all the way down. We need better
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the war in Ukraine looms in the background as the foreign policy issue dominating the presidential
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race. I think there are other rather important foreign policy issues, like the invasion happening
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across our southern border, two million foreign nationals illegally entering our country every
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year on top of the million who enter illegally. I think trade is a pretty important international
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issue. I think the fentanyl crisis originating in China and then pouring across that open border,
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I think that's a pretty big international issue. But the war in Ukraine is dominating. That is just
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a fact. And from the beginning, the more conservative people have argued that the war in Ukraine is not
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just a simple black and white issue of Putin is the most evil man that has ever existed, and there's
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no complication whatsoever with regard to how Ukraine has conducted itself and how the West has conducted
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its policy toward Ukraine. That actually, it's a little complex, and NATO and the European Union and
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the United States have been involved in Ukraine in a way that might have provoked and escalated a
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conflict. This is not to absolve Putin. This is not to say he was justified in invading the country.
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This is not to say he's not a dirty, rotten, no good person. But it is to say that the situation
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is a little more complicated, and we've been involved in Ukraine for a very long time.
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The liberals say, no, absolutely not. If you ever suggest such a thing, you're a Putin stooge.
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If you don't want to send $7 gazillion over to Ukraine and start up World War III with a nuclear
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former superpower over Ukraine, which is now the symbol and emblem of every wonderful American value,
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then you're a terrible Putin stooge. However, a clip just cropped up from some years ago on C-SPAN,
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on Washington Journal, a show that I've been on a number of times. I have to give a hat tip to Michael Tracy here.
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This is a clip of Senator Chris Murphy, a Democrat, explaining the United States' long-standing
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So what is the best way the U.S. can help in this situation?
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Well, I think the United States' strong voice in support of the peaceful protest movement
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is a big part of the story as to why there is an opportunity now for the Ukrainian people to get
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what they want. Early on, the United States said that peace should be observed in that square.
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We came down hard on Yanukovych when he violated that peace, when he sent his forces into the square
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repeatedly to clear it, ultimately, over the course of the last week, resulting in dozens of people killed.
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And I think it was our role, including sanctions and threats of sanctions, that forced, in part,
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Yanukovych from office. Now, the question is, what can we do to support this new government?
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There's going to be a lot of talk about an assistance package.
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Hear that? It was our role that forced Yanukovych, the previous leader of Ukraine,
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who was viewed as being more pro-Russia, from office. So there was a pro-Russian leader of
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Ukraine. The United States, naturally, didn't like that very much. And so, according to Senator
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Chris Murphy, not according to the right-wing, far-right, QAnon, Putin stooge, whatever they
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want to say. According to a sitting mainstream Democrat senator, the U.S. ousted the other guy,
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With respect to Ukraine, we have not sat on the sidelines. We have been very much involved.
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Members of the Senate who have been there, members of the State Department who have been
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on the square. The Obama administration passed sanctions. The Senate was prepared to pass its
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own set of sanctions. And as I said, I really think that the clear position of the United States
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has, in part, been what has helped lead to this change in regime.
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He emphasizes it. He underlines it. He says the United States is largely responsible for regime
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change in Ukraine. So then the question becomes, why did we do it? Did we do it because we just
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sensed that there was a natural uprising out of the Ukrainian people? And they were yearning in their
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hearts to oust this very, very bad man, Yanukovych. And we knew that there was a Washingtonian leader
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out there among the Ukrainian people. And we were going to find, identify that leader and then
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install him into office. Or were there more practical incentives than that?
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There is a U.S. interest here. We are in the middle of negotiating a new trade agreement
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with Europe. To my state, it's enormously important. We do 40 percent of our trade in
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Connecticut with Europe. If Ukraine is part of the European Union and thus is part of this new
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trade agreement with the United States, that could result in billions of dollars in new economic
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opportunities for the U.S. So we do have an economic interest in the Ukraine being part of the European
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Union. And we shouldn't be shy about making clear that interest. Now, of course, all the Democrats
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right now are being very, very shy about being clear about that interest. But credit to Chris Murphy
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for admitting it after the Maidan revolution, before this recent blow up in Ukraine. Now that no one in
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America wants to claim any role whatsoever in that regime change. But Chris Murphy's saying, yeah,
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we've got an economic interest. Absolutely. We're doing a new trade deal with Europe right now.
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If we can include Ukraine in Europe, then we'll get a lot more money and that'll be great.
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Fine. I see that interest. That's one argument. You say, okay, we need to go meddle around in Ukraine
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and provoke Russia, by the way, in a buffer state between the global hegemon, albeit one that is
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under threat right now, the United States, and a nuclear former superpower, Russia, right up on Russia's
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border. Okay. We had this buffer state, but we're going to start meddling in there a little bit
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because we think we can make some money. Okay. Well, what's the risk? What's the downside here?
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The downside, as any sensible person could have predicted, is that you will provoke Russia.
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You will create the appearance of, and maybe the reality of, an unacceptable security risk
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on Russia's border in an economically and geopolitically very important country.
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And you will escalate tensions to the point of war that are escalating today, potentially to the
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point of World War III. That's the risk. And these short-sighted people filled with hubris and
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with not a care in the world for long-term consequences, pushed forward because they said,
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oh, we can get a lot more money for Connecticut or something.
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And now they're completely changing the story. Don't let the memory hold that because it's not
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the far-right QAnon Putin stooge people who were saying this. It was a lot of sensible people. It
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was Sam Nunn. It was George Kennan, the author of the long telegram. It was Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
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It was Henry Kissinger. It was serious statesmen and serious foreign policy people who have been
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saying this since the early 1990s, that NATO and the West needs to be a little more modest and a little
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more reserved in the territories that it is taking over because it all seems really, really clear
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to us on paper. You take on Ukraine, there will be no consequences. Well, we're looking at the
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consequences now. And is a better trade agreement or a more lucrative trade agreement worth the
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possibility of World War III? I'm not totally convinced it is. Now, this was the position that
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Ron DeSantis outlined just a week or so ago. He said, the war in Ukraine is a territorial dispute and I
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don't think the U.S. should be all that involved anymore. This was after Ron DeSantis had previously
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argued for a greater involvement, not boots on the ground, but of funding the war in Ukraine.
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Now, Governor DeSantis appears to have modified his position even further in an interview with
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Piers Morgan. What's your view of Putin? Look, I think he's got grand ambitions. I think he's
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hostile to the United States. But I think the thing that we've seen is he doesn't have the
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conventional capability to realize his ambitions. And so he's basically a gas station with a bunch
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of nuclear weapons. And so for us, one of the things we could be doing better is utilizing our
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own energy resources in the United States. We could be permitting natural gas pipelines from
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Marshalis, doing a lot in Alaska. That's where he gets all his power. And obviously, he's influenced
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Europe by having so much energy. So the way to hit Putin is to hit him with energy. But I do think you
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look back, all the defense analysts and me in the past, we overestimated his conventional
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capability. This has been a huge blunder for him, huge costs. And we'll see what ends up happening
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with his longevity and power. But this has been a loss for them. There is a move now to hold him
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accountable for war crimes, bombing maternity hospitals, and genocidal activity in parts of
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Ukraine, wiping out whole cities, Mariupol and others. Would you support that? I mean, I think he is a
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war criminal. Okay, so now we've returned to the more conventional Republican position here.
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Governor DeSantis uses this line. He says, Russia is a gas station with nuclear weapons,
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gas station with an army. This is a conventional Republican line. I think John McCain came up with
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it. But a lot of people, plenty of conservatives have used that line over the years. I'm not even
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knocking Governor DeSantis for doing this. Let's not forget, President Trump previously had been
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much tougher on the Ukraine war, much tougher on Russia, said that he bragged about funding the
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war in Ukraine, funding the Ukrainians. Now he's become much more skeptical of the war in Ukraine,
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says we need to end the war in Ukraine right now. Governor DeSantis previously had seemed to suggest,
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okay, we got to stop the war in Ukraine right now. Now he seems to be getting a little tougher on it.
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I'm not mentioning this to attack Trump or DeSantis. I'm pointing out these ever-changing
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positions because this is a complex issue. And this is an issue on which DeSantis in particular
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is going to have to prove himself because he doesn't have foreign policy experience,
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simply by virtue of the fact that he's a governor. And Florida doesn't have a foreign policy. It's got
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a lot of foreign nationals coming into it, but it doesn't have a foreign policy. So as it stands right
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now, the two candidates in the field, you would seem to have a more Ukraine war skeptical Trump
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and now a return to a more Ukraine war hawkish Ron DeSantis, even talking about potentially
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holding Putin accountable for war crimes. Where those positions are going to land,
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no one really knows. They've changed multiple times, even in the last couple of weeks.
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But that will be a decisive issue. That is the foreign policy issue. And because the foreign
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policy has been run by the deep state for decades now, and because the deep state is a big issue that
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people tend to care about, they care about that a lot more than foreign policy. And so foreign policy
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My favorite comment yesterday is from rubberducky8734. Don't confuse him with
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rubberducky8733. He says, whoever writes Biden's speeches must secretly hate him.
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I would think so. Or I at least see why you would think that. But the only weapon that Biden's
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speechwriter is employing against his boss is polysyllabic words. So with a threshold like that,
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even if Biden's speechwriter loved him, I'm not sure there's very much he could do.
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Speaking of polysyllabic words, you know, the LGBT, L-M-N-O-P, pan, tran, thank you, ma'am,
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gender community is ever multiplying into new identities. And there is a woman now
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who's gone viral. We're identifying as a new, it's the L-G-B-T-R-T-H, I want to say.
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My name is Horace and I'm a red-tailed hawk. In our world, I do have the body of a hawk,
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but while fronting, I consider myself a Therian because I am in a human body, but my identity
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is still a hawk. Not all animal alters will identify this way. And I am, in fact, the only
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animal alter in our system who does identify this way. I am doing my best to come to terms
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with living in a human body. At first, I wondered, is this a joke? Is this a troll?
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I don't think it's a troll. She seems pretty, pretty dead serious. And we've seen this kind
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of identity before. Famously, probably 15 or 20 years ago, there was a disturbed man who
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thought he was a cat. And he called himself Stalking Cat. And he had all sorts of cosmetic
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surgeries to make him seem more like a cat. And all sorts of tattoos and all sorts of injections
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and things. And he crawled around. And he earnestly said, I, deep down, am a cat. I know
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I was born in the body of a human, but my true identity is that of a cat. And very sadly,
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it didn't work out well for him. I think he committed suicide. Obviously, he had a whole
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host of other mental problems that we're now not allowed to bring up in these identity questions.
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And now this woman is saying, I'm a red-tailed hawk. And people are going to laugh at this.
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Even some of the liberal, open-minded people who are accepting of the transgender,
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pan-sgender, non-binary identity people and perspectives are going to say, well, this is
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silly. It's silly to identify as a red-tailed hawk. There is zero difference in principle
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or absurdity between this and transgenderism. Zero difference. It is precisely as absurd
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a claim. And it's the same claim in principle. The claim is, my body has nothing to do with
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who I really am. The body is a facade. It's a deception. It's something foreign to our true
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self. Our true selves are deeper. And so I could be an alien from Mars if such a thing existed,
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which obviously they don't. And unfortunately, some of my friends and colleagues at this office
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don't understand the reality of aliens or the unreality of aliens. That's a point. I'll have
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to talk about that in the coffee room here at the Daily Wire. Getting back to the video,
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there is zero difference in absurdity. If you think it's absurd that that woman calls herself a hawk,
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if you think that she's not really a hawk, then you cannot hold the belief that a man who thinks
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that he's a woman is really a woman. You don't need to get angry about it. It doesn't have to be an
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emotional issue. It's just a simple question for philosophy and anthropology. Does our body have
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anything to do with who we really are? Is there a relationship between the body and the soul?
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What is the nature of that relationship? Is the nature of that relationship the view that we've
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held for 2,300 years, that the soul and body are united? Man is a composite of body and soul.
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And those things have a lot to do with one another. Or is it this new view that you can be a cat or you
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could be a hawk or you could be a woman or you can be neither a man nor a woman? It's obviously the
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former. And so we need to stop indulging the latter because I don't think anybody thinks we need to put
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a bird feeder in public schools. I don't think anybody believes we need to have a bird feeder at
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the office to indulge the true authentic identity of the woman who's a red-tailed hawk. Well, maybe a
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handful of people do believe that. Normal people don't. Okay, follow your ideas to their logical
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conclusion. That means we eradicate the ideology of red-tailed hawkomorphism from public life. And it
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means we eradicate the ideology of transgenderism from public life. And albigensianism from public
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life. The idea that the body and the soul have nothing to do with each other. And we return to
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show. And one of the things the libs are telling you these days is that this gender ideology,
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the idea that a man can be a red-tailed hawk, the idea that a man can be a woman, that's not really
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being taught to kids. Those Republicans are fear-mongering. They're creating a panic, but it's
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not real. Nobody is teaching this stuff to little kids. Nobody like this second grade teacher.
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So I had an interesting conversation with my students the other day because we were talking
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about the civil rights movement. And if you're someone who doesn't agree with like kids learning
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about transgender people, please just scroll and keep your negativity to yourself.
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Put a pause. I'm not gonna, I did not scroll. I kept watching and I'm glad I did keep watching
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because I had been told that this thing was not happening in the classrooms.
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And this second grade teacher is telling me exactly what she does.
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Comparing the civil rights movement to civil rights that are being fought for today and
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comparing how people are fighting for these things.
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Put a pause there. This is the model for all of the leftist activism today. There's a really
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good book on this by Mike Gonzalez. The title of it now escapes me. It's a book about how the liberals
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in the 70s realized that the black civil rights movement was extraordinarily successful as a
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social revolution. And so they wanted to apply it to every issue that they possibly could. Any
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cause that tickled their fancy, they said, well, if we can present this as the civil rights movement,
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which is about a very particular case in American history, which is the position of black people in
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American society, black people occupied a unique role in American society because of the persistence
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of slavery. But they're saying, no, this is not specific. This is not a unique place. We're going
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to apply it to women. We're going to apply it to Asians. We're going to apply it to sexually confused
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people. We're going to apply it to men who think they're women. We're going to apply it to all these
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sorts of things. This was promoted by the Ford Foundation and lots of very powerful interests in
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the liberal establishment. And this teacher is now one of the consequences of that.
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All the leftists say, OK, any issue we want, get putting that that bird feeding nest in the middle
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There are issues coming up with race because that is most directly connected to the civil rights
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movement. But in a video I shared, they discussed that civil rights are being fought for many
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different types of people to make sure everyone has the same rights. They mentioned fighting for
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rights for people of color, for women, for immigrants. And lastly, they said gay,
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lesbian and transgender people. Now, many of my students already know about gay and lesbian
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people, but they didn't understand what transgender meant. Now, with my students being second graders,
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I had to make sure that my lesson was appropriate for that age group. Simply said that a transgender
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person is born in a boy or girl body and then in their heart they know that that doesn't match
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who they are. And so they might then identify by a different gender. It might be a boy who identifies
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as a girl, a girl who identifies as a boy. Apologies for having to change the venue. But
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lastly, you know, I explained that it could be a boy that's a girl, a girl that's a boy or someone
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who feels like neither. Now, why I felt OK sharing this was because I want to pause before she gets to
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her conclusion. I love how she prefaces this with and I had to make sure that this topic was appropriate
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for the seven-year-olds in my class. So I, you know, I made sure I was very responsible and I told
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them that boys can secretly be girls and girls can secretly be boys and you can switch your gender
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and you can switch your sex and you could be neither actually. And, you know, isn't that really
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appropriate for seven-year-olds? Not only is this happening, as the liberal media tell you that it's
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not, the people who are peddling this are insisting that this is appropriate, that there's no reason
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even to raise a question about this loony lady teaching this to your seven-year-old child.
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They know that I identify as neither. I go by mix. There we go. OK. Also, I told them about the
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trans teacher that teaches third grade. They are male to female transgender. OK. I just wanted to make
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sure this was appropriate for the seven-year-olds whose teachers are all openly indulging in this
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bizarre sexual fetish publicly in front of little kids. Could you imagine sending your kid that you
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walk into parent-teacher night and you see that your kid's teacher is a hulking dude wearing a dress
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and high heels and high heels and you're told this person is going to teach your child about reality?
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This person is going to teach your child how to view the world. This person is going to raise your
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child in many ways. How many hours a day do kids spend at school? Six hours a day? Seven, eight hours a day?
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Your children might be spending more time, more of their waking hours at school than they will with
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you, which means they're going to be spending more of their waking hours learning from people
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who think that men can secretly be women who dress up this way and who indulge all sorts of weird sexual
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fantasies all day long. How can you send your kids there? Well, some people don't have a choice.
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Some people don't have the opportunity to homeschool because they need two incomes.
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Some people don't, most people don't have the ability to pay for private school.
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Unfortunately, most states controlled by Democrats don't allow for school choice,
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so you're not allowed to take your money from public education and take it to a place that's
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not going to trans your kid and not going to have openly sexually deviant teachers telling your kid
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to call him mix or miss because he really knows in his heart that he's a woman or he's neither.
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He's neither a man nor a woman. So what do you do? That's a major political problem,
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which is why we have to eradicate this from public life. It's because it's not just a private issue.
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All the time you hear from these people who have whatever sort of disordered desire, they say,
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hey, look, this is just me. Just leave me alone. I just want to live my life. No, you don't. You want
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to teach our kids. You want this to be enshrined in law. You want to rewrite the civil rights law.
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You want to remake all of our bathrooms, remake all of our sports teams. You want to totally
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change our conception of human nature? And the answer to that is no. We have to have a conception
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of human nature. We had a true one. You want a false one. You don't get the false one. We're not
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going to let you do that, especially not to our seven-year-old kids. There's a story I've wanted to
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get to, and I've got one minute left to do it, and I will do it. Kelly Clarkson. It's a very important
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story involving Kelly Clarkson. She suggested to me that all of this confusion, this personal
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confusion, this political confusion that we're dealing with, that a lot of it probably owes to
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the breakdown of the American family. Kelly Clarkson, I guess, is divorced, and she's got
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two kids. And she described, quite honestly, how that divorce is affecting her kids.
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I literally ask my kids every night when we're snuggling, and I put them in bed. I'm like,
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are you happy? And if you're not, what could make you happier?
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No. Sometimes they'll say, especially the past two years, a lot of it, and it kills me.
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And I want them to be honest, so I don't ever say, oh, God, don't tell me that. But a lot
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of times it would be like, I'm just really sad. I wish mommy and daddy were in the same house.
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And they're really honest about it. And I'm raising that kind of individual. I want you
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to be honest with me. I won't be getting married.
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No. In my life, I've been through a couple divorces in my own family as a kid. And it's
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like, to me, you can be in love. I would love to fall in love. I would love to find someone
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and fall in love and do that thing. But I have children, and that's why I say it.
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It's very sad that she's divorced. It's horrible for the kids. I don't support divorce. I don't
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support actual divorce in any circumstance, because I don't think that it is real. I think
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that what God has joined, no man can separate. And even just in practice, even if you're not
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that religious, if you are married and you have children and you get divorced, you're still
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married. Forget about the sacramental aspect. You're just, practically speaking, still married.
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You're going to be talking to your ex-husband or wife all the time. You're going to be arranging
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visitation with the kids. You're going to be arranging vacations. They're going to be coming in and out
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of your home, very likely. So it just can't happen. It just doesn't actually happen in practice at a
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terrestrial level or even at a metaphysical, certainly not at a metaphysical level.
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And in some cases, I would support separation. I think that would be, you'd have a right to that,
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or it might even be necessary, depending on risk and danger and abuse and all the rest of it.
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But as a matter and principle, there's no such thing as divorce. But I give Kelly Clarkson a lot
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of credit here for one thing she said, which is, I'm not going to be getting remarried.
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No, I'm not going to be getting remarried, which is the traditional position of Christian
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civilization. There's really no such thing as remarriage. In fact, part of the cracking up of
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Western Christian civilization was because Henry VIII wanted to get remarried. And the Pope said,
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no, you can't. It's just not possible. I can't even do it, even if I wanted to tell you that you
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could get remarried while the other spouse is still alive. Henry VIII had an answer for that
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too, I guess. But what Kelly Clarkson is saying is, no, I'm not going to be just pursuing me. Yes,
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I'd love to fall in love. Yes, it seems really nice, but I'm not going to do that. My concern
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is for my children, and I'm in the reality of this marriage. But marriage is the fundamental
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political institution. So the libs are going to say, you're all fuddy-duddies. You're oppressive.
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You're terrible if you want to put any restrictions on the way that people can dissolve marriages
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because they don't like the cut of their spouse's jib or something like that.
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But if you don't deal with marriage, if the political order doesn't take seriously marriage
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and the preservation of marriage, then you're not going to be able to preserve your political order
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because marriage is the basic political unit. It's not a private matter. It's not a single
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individual. It's a public matter. It involves multiple people living together. That's the
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definition of politics. As goes the American family, so goes the American nation. Postmodernism's belief
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that truth and beauty are subjective is flawed. It extends to fundamental concepts and beings such
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as God. Keith Getty, the songwriter responsible for one of the most glorious modern-day hymns,
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discusses this idea in Jordan Peterson's Logos and Literacy.
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John 1 begins with, in the beginning was the Word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.
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God is before all time. If He is the creator of the world, He created beauty. Beauty and truth
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are linked together. The postmodernists will tell us that beauty doesn't exist. It only exists in
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whatever you can create for yourself in life. But we believe that all the evidence around us points
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to a world, to music, to human love that all point to beauty, that point to a creator God.
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Here is where I would normally tell you that Logos and Literacy is only available for Daily Wire Plus
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members, but we are making it available for free for everyone at dailywireplus.com, but only for a
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limited time. So watch Logos and Literacy today at dailywireplus.com. You cannot believe a thing
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the libs are telling you. That's our theme today. It's our theme this year, for the last five years.
00:40:59.160
And it's being reflected in the polls. 72% of Americans say the country is on the wrong track
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under Biden. This according to a Monmouth University poll, only 17% of independents believe
00:41:12.980
that Joe Biden's America is headed in the right direction. And the most depressing part of that
00:41:19.260
poll is that I'm not convinced Biden won't win re-election. That's the most devastating part of
00:41:26.460
that poll to me. Not just because the poll numbers could change. Let's say that this were the day before
00:41:32.280
general election 2024, Monday night, and that those were the numbers I still am not convinced
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that Joe Biden wouldn't win re-election. And you aren't either. And the reason you're not
00:41:44.260
is because Americans no longer have faith in the electoral system. It's not just Republicans. It's not
00:41:51.220
just the QAnon, far right-wing, fascist, stooge, Putin-loving, whatever. It's the Democrats, too. The Democrats
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actually, according to surveys, so take social science with a grain of salt as you will,
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the Democrats have less faith in our elections than the Republicans do.
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So I'm just, I'm not saying that's right or that's wrong, or here's the evidence that the 2020 election
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was stolen, or here's the evidence that the 2000 election was stolen, or any, I'm just, it's just a
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fact, Americans don't trust the electoral system. And I think it's quite clear that the system,
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all political systems are rigged and imperfect and corrupt to some degree. And inasmuch as ours is
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rigged, it would appear to be rigged, rigged rather, toward the libs. The libs have the political
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power in the United States. They have the power of the bureaucracy. They've got the power of the
00:42:47.180
elected government right now, almost all of it. They've got the power in the media. They've got
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the power in big tech, power in education, on and on and on. They've got the power.
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So when it looks like Trump's going to be reelected in 2020, they just change the rules.
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They win the election. That's far more devastating. These are these issues that go a lot deeper than,
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ooh, is it Trump or DeSantis? I don't know. Ooh, is Biden going to run again, or is it going to be
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Gavin Newsom? I don't know. My question is, where's the family going? Where is religiosity in the United
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States going? John Adams said the country's built for a moral and religious people. That wasn't just
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a fun line. That wasn't just a little bit of pop psychology or something. He's describing an
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essential character of the Constitution. As religiosity declines, deaths of despair increase,
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and political stability increases. What's going on with that? What's going on with our border? Do we
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have a definition as a nation anymore? What's going on with our language? Do we know what words
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mean anymore? Do we speak the same language meaning English? Do we even speak the same
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English language? Do we know what man means? Do we know what woman means?
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Sonnets are defined by limits. Bad poetry doesn't have any limits to it, and it sounds like slam
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poetry is the complete death of art. Good poetry, like Shakespeare, has lots of limits to it, and it's
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within those limits that you find that beauty. The same is true of nations. The same is true of all
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identity. We are defined as much by what we are not as what we are. We can see clearly what we are
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when we know what we are not. This is the topic of my speech tonight at Purdue. If you are around
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Purdue in Indiana, West Lafayette, please come on by. I'm told that there will be not one but two
00:44:40.380
simultaneous protests of my event. I haven't even finished writing the speech yet, but they're
00:44:44.080
already protesting me. I have been told that there's a drag show at one of these protests,
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and one of the drag performers is named Annihilation, which is kind of funny, but they
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missed the word. The word is supposed to be eradication, but anyway, they have that performing.
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So it should be quite a show, and then if you do manage to make it through the crazy
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liberal hordes, you can get into the auditorium, and we can talk about what it means to be an
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American, what it means to be a man, what identity means in 2023. The rest of the show continues now.
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