Ep. 1217 - Trump Arrested By Woke Basket Of Deplorables
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Donald Trump was arrested in New York City on a trumped-up, maybe misdemeanor charge from seven years ago, and the DA claims it's not even a felony. But what if it were a felony? And what would the consequences be?
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It's arraignment day, but instead of focusing on the defendant, I would like to turn our attention
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for a moment to the persecutor, New York City District Attorney Alvin Bragg, who is arresting
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the national opposition leader on a trumped-up, maybe misdemeanor charge from seven years ago,
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and claiming that it's a felony. It's not a felony. Whatever Trump did, it's very likely not
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even a misdemeanor, as the substance of Trump's alleged crime is making a donation to his own
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campaign, which candidates are allowed to do without limit. But putting that aside for a second, let's
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say that it were a misdemeanor. Let's even pretend that it were a felony, which Bragg needs to do to
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make any even remotely plausible case to arrest him. If it's only a misdemeanor, he's got no case
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against Trump. He's got to trump it up to a felony. So let's say somehow this were a felony.
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Alvin Bragg's defining feature as DA in New York is that he lets felons off the hook. According to
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data published last year, Bragg downgraded most felony cases that came across his desk. In 52%
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of felony cases, Bragg downgraded them to misdemeanors to ensure that criminals were punished as little as
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possible. Liberal DAs went on a downgrading spree around Manhattan in recent years. But even still,
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Alvin Bragg's record of letting felons off the hook went far beyond Manhattan's 39% downgrade rate in
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2019. Even Cyrus Vance, Bragg's far left immediate predecessor as DA, never downgraded more than 40%
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of felony cases, much less 52. Bragg downgraded most of them. There's only one felony that Alvin
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Bragg seems hell-bent on prosecuting in New York. And it just so happens to be the one that Donald
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Trump didn't commit. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. The New York DA, the liberals broadly, are sending a clear message
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to Republicans. This arrest is sending a clear message to the political opposition. Our friend
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Kid Rock is sending a clear message to Bud Light and Anheuser-Busch. We'll get to that in just one
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second. First, though, things are happening in real time on Arraignment Day here. We all know the broad
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scopes of what's going on. President Trump, after months and months of speculation, is being indicted.
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They're going after him in New York. They're probably going to go after him later in Georgia.
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He can still run for president. He could run for president if he were wearing an orange jumpsuit.
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But he's not going to be wearing an orange jumpsuit yet. Yet. The reason the word yet is
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important here is because the judge in the case in New York could impose a gag order on Donald Trump,
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which elevates what I think is already a constitutional crisis into a much more extreme
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constitutional crisis. The United States is now very clearly in banana republic territory
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just by arresting the former president and the political opposition leader. But what the judge
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could say is, you're being arrested. We're going to try you for this ridiculous fake charge.
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And you can't talk about it. That's what the gag order would do. But Donald Trump is campaigning
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for president. How is he not supposed to talk about this central issue where they're going to try to put
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him in prison? But if he does talk about it, what would the consequences be? Consequences could be
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a $1,000 fine. I think Trump can afford it. Or 30 days in prison.
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Now, if I were Trump, and I can see political reality very clearly, and I can see that the way
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our government works is not like they told us in school with the bill up on Capitol Hill
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and everything we learned in civics class. But actually, our constitution operates in a much
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more corrupt way. And that's the lowercase c constitution. Not the uppercase c one that you
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see on the parchment, but the lowercase c one in which the liberals wield political power arbitrarily.
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They've got a two-tiered system of justice. Republicans are treated as criminals for telling
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jokes. And Democrat criminals are treated as merely joking. Oh, don't worry. Oh, it's just,
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oh, they burned the country down. Oh, tee hee hee. No big deal. We won't even give them a slap on the
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wrist. Oh, a Republican posted a meme on Twitter. Yeah, he's going to face 10 years in the clink.
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So Trump is seeing all of that very, very clearly. If I were him,
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I would immediately violate the gag order. Trump is not known for keeping his mouth shut.
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So he'll probably do that anyway. And then I would hope that they throw me in prison.
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Make clear just how corrupt our government has become.
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Make that very clear. Have them throw this guy into a cell
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to show you just how corrupt all of this is, because Trump is not going to go quietly
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into that night. So all of this has benefited Trump's political prospects, at least thus far.
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According to a McLaughlin poll, Trump is now beating Ron DeSantis by 30 points.
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Trump has taken a 30-point lead. He's got majority support now, 51%,
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which is important for Trump, because a lot of people thought Trump might max out at 45 to 49%.
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He's now at majority support among Republicans. DeSantis is down significantly. DeSantis has
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experienced a double-digit drop down to 21%. That means the race has swung a net 18 points in
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Donald Trump's direction since January. Why is this? What happened since January? Well,
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after Trump's lackluster campaign announcement, he's gotten a lot of his mojo back. He went to East
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Palestine, Ohio, and bought everybody McDonald's and showed that he cared. He looked like the one
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politician in the country pretty much who cared about these people who had a massive poison spill
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in their town, and the government tried to cover it up, deny it, look away, nothing to see here.
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Trump shows up, brings them supplies, and points to the people who elected him and the people that
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he's represented and said, at least I care about you guys. That was very, very important.
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Then Trump goes out and he offers different policies than the other candidates.
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Again, this is no knock on DeSantis or any of the other Republican candidates.
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This is not even a recommendation of those policies, but we should be pretty clear about this.
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Donald Trump was not merely elected in 2016 because he's got a fun personality. Maybe that
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played a little bit into it, but I'm actually more taken with Ann Coulter's thesis on 2016,
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which is that President Trump was not elected for his personality despite his policies,
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but it was the opposite. He was elected for his policies, often in spite of his personality.
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You see this on trade. Every other Republican candidate pretty much across the board for the
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last 30 years has been a free trader. Donald Trump is saying, I support protectionism.
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I support mercantilism for the 21st century. You might say that's crazy. That's bad for the economy.
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We're going to lose money. But I think everyone has to admit that is the alternative to globalism.
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Free trade means increasing globalization. Protectionism means decreasing globalization.
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So Trump, maybe you say it's a dumb policy. I don't think it's a dumb policy, but maybe you say
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it's a dumb policy. At the very least, you have to admit this guy's offering an alternative on
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foreign policy. Trump offers an alternative. For most of the other candidates, we don't know exactly
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what their foreign policy looks like. For most of the Republicans over the last 30 years,
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their foreign policy is essentially do what the State Department wants to do. That's why foreign
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policy hasn't changed very much from Bush to Clinton to Bush to Obama. It's always just kind
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of the same foreign intervention in roughly the same places. Trump says, no, we're going to wind
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down the war in Ukraine. We're going to pull troops home. We're going to pull back on some of
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NATO's intervention around the world. We just found out today that Finland has joined NATO. So NATO
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continues to expand, which Russia says is the provocation for the war in Ukraine, which people
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like Henry Kissinger, Sam Nunn, George Kennan, and other Daniel Patrick Moynihan, very serious foreign
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policy thinkers, have said for 30 years will increase the risk of global conflict if NATO continues to
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expand. That's a topic for another day. All of which is to say, Trump is offering a policy
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alternative. Will that continue to serve him? But we'll see. We'll see if he can continue
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Ron DeSantis down in Florida. He's been great on the trans stuff. He's been great attacking
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corporate America, woke corporations. He's been great on education. Now, Ron DeSantis has signed
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a constitutional carry law in Florida. This means that you don't need to get some special permit to
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carry a gun, but it's your constitutional right. You get to do it without the permit. And this is
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really important because it means that now the majority of states in this country recognize the
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constitutional right to carry a gun. And especially as we see shootings increase. We had a shooting in
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my town just last week. As the political order continues to fray, you need to be able to protect
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yourself. This derives from the natural law, the right of self-preservation. This has been enshrined in
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our Second Amendment. This has been a tradition in the United States going back to the very earliest days.
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DeSantis says, we are not going to be bullied by the libs who are constantly demagoguing on the issue
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of guns in a way that is totally divorced from the reality of gun crimes. There was a shooting
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some weeks ago. Immediately afterward, Nancy Pelosi said, we need an assault weapons ban.
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But the shooting didn't involve an assault weapon, whatever that is, meaning a black rifle. It didn't
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involve a rifle at all. It involved handguns. An assault weapons ban would have done nothing to stop
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most of these shootings. So the libs are always demagoguing on this. And they're getting more
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and more aggressive. The White House was just asked, can you rule out, when you're talking about
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common sense gun reform, will you assuage everybody's fears right now and say, Corrine
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Jean-Pierre, that the White House will not send agents door to door to confiscate people's weapons?
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Here's the White House response. Does the president support not just banning the sale and manufacture
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of semi-automatic weapons, but further than that, confiscation? Let me just be very clear. What
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we're talking about, AR-15s, these assault weapons ban, they are weapons of war and they should not be
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on the streets across the country, in our communities. They should not be in schools. They should not be in
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grocery stores. They should not be in churches. That's what the president believes. And he has done
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more than any other president the first two years on an executive order. And as you know, we all know
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how government works. There's only so much that he can do. And so now it's time for Congress to do
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the work. And he's happy to sign. Once that happens, he's happy to sign that legislation that says,
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okay, we're going to remove assault weapons. We're going to have an assault weapons ban.
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Sorry. Did you plan on answering the question ever or no? You're just going to dodge it.
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She's just going to dodge it, obviously. It should be a layup. Simple question.
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Can you assuage Americans' fears? You're going to try to regulate guns. You're going to try to ban
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the sale of some of the most popular guns in the country. Okay. At least you're not going to go
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door to door and take people's guns, right? Well, we've said these are weapons of war.
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Beep, boop. Beep, boop. Weapons. Assault weapons. Bad. We need to common sense. Beep, beep, boop. Beep,
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beep, boop. All weapons are weapons of war. All things that can kill people are weapons that could be used
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in war. All guns are assault weapons. They are intended to assault people. They're intended to
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threaten people. They're intended to harm people. They're intended to protect you against bad people
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who are trying to harm you. All of those platitudes means nothing. What the answer in
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total means is, yeah, we're considering confiscating your guns. Now, they're talking
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about semi-automatic guns. What is a semi-automatic gun? Just a gun that automatically reloads.
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The libs try to pretend that a semi-automatic weapon is a gun where you hold the trigger down and just
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a spray of bullets comes out like a fully automatic weapon. But of course, that's not what it is.
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20%, an estimated 20% of all guns in the United States, including the antique guns, including guns
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that have been passed down for generations, 20% of all guns are semi-automatic, including shotguns.
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Many people don't want semi-automatic shotguns. They like to reload themselves. 20% of all guns,
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one in five guns, are semi-automatic. When it comes to handguns, 85% of handguns in the United
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States are semi-automatic. If the White House bans the sale of semi-automatic weapons,
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if the White House goes further to confiscate semi-automatic weapons, they will be taking a
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huge chunk of guns out of the hands of Americans. And that will not protect anybody. That will harm
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people and that will open them up to the predations of criminals. Speaking of harmful things,
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very, very harmful things. Do you know that in this country, people are still allowed to read
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politically incorrect books? Some classic books, some of the best-selling books of all time,
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but if they're politically incorrect and they're not totally on board with the 2023 radical trans
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agenda, if they're not on board with whatever the fad du jour of the Democratic Party is, people are
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still allowed to read them. Very, very scary. And everyone is bemoaning this sad situation,
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including the publisher of some of these books. The publisher of Gone with the Wind, this is Pan
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Macmillan, has described Gone with the Wind as harmful. Gone with the Wind, one of the most popular
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books ever, one of the greatest films ever made. Pan Macmillan calls the book problematic
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because it contains racist elements, very racist book. And those elements are probably hurtful or
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indeed harmful. The novel includes the representation of unacceptable practices, racist and stereotypical
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depictions and troubling themes, characterization, language, and imagery.
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We murder 800,000 babies a year in the United States. And we have done that for 50 years now.
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I am sick and tired of hearing that the 18th and 19th centuries in America were the pinnacle of all evil
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ever in the world. I'm tired of hearing that slavery was the greatest sin ever to occur.
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Slavery is a bad thing. Slavery isn't even the worst sin to occur in the history of the United States.
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Slavery in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn't even as bad as what the liberals are doing right now.
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The liberals right now, what are their defining policies?
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The policies that they hold on to most dearly, the policies are slaughtering hundreds of thousands
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of babies a year and castrating children and chopping off their genitals and pumping them
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full of hormones that will make their bones brittle, that are going to give them terrible
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health consequences throughout the rest of their lives and push them into an ideology that greatly
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increases the risk of suicidality. That's what the liberals are doing right now. And they consider
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those alleged rights sacred. So forgive me if I'm a little skeptical of them sitting up there on
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their high horse saying that the fact that people can read a classic of recent literature gone with
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the wind is problematic and harmful. Good grief. The worst era in the whole history of the world was the
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19th century say that the people who currently support the largest genocide in history, which is still
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ongoing. Give me a freaking break. About we focus a little less on censoring century-old books and
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focus a little bit more on rectifying the actual evils going on in the world right now.
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We can't do that. We're so confused. We're so confused. The New Zealand prime minister seems to
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be more confused than any of us. New Zealand prime minister was asked a question that seems to have
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come from the Daily Wire and has resonated all over the world, thanks to our friend Matt Walsh.
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The New Zealand prime minister was asked to define what a woman is.
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I just wanted to ask you, given comments by Keir Starmer in Britain,
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how do you and how does this government define a woman?
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To be honest, Sean, that question's come slightly out of left field for me.
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The, well, biology, sex, gender, people define themselves, people define their own genders.
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No. What is that? He said that he believes 99.9% of women do not have penises. And I know it's a
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strange thing for him to say, but given recent events in New Zealand, I'd ask again, how do you define
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what a woman is? Well, I think as I've just indicated, I wasn't expecting that question,
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so it's not something that I've, you know, formulated, pre-formulated an answer on. But
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in terms of gender identity, I think people define their gender identity for themselves.
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Yes, well, a woman is a person who says that she's a woman. Okay, what is that?
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Well, you really got me there. It's like the riddle of the Sphinx. They don't, whoa.
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My New Zealand accent isn't great. It's not really great. And his answer wasn't really great.
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But in his defense, if you accept the illogic of transgenderism, if you hold to the gobbledygook
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nonsense of transgenderism, you can't answer the question. I can answer the question.
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A woman is the kind of person who isn't a man. A woman is the kind of person who is a member of the
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real and natural category of woman. It is, you know, has the physical attributes, the natural
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physical attributes of woman, and who is not merely reducible to her body, but who is described
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by her body, by her natural physical attributes, because sexual difference comes from the body,
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though the whole person is a composite of body and soul. We can answer that.
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A woman is an adult human female. A woman is the kind of person who can give birth, is the kind of
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person who can menstruate, is the kind of, we all know what a woman is. It takes an elite to be
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confused about what a woman is. But he can't, it's not just that he didn't think up a good answer.
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When he says, well, you know, I did not give a lot of thought to that question. Right, you could think
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about it until the end of the world. You could think about it till kingdom come. You're not going
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to come up with an answer if you accept transgenderism, because transgenderism precludes
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an answer to that simple question. And as a general rule, if your ideology precludes you from
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In so few words, he summed up what so many of us were thinking. By the way,
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we always talk about what's an assault weapon, what's a fully automatic weapon. I think that
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one is an assault weapon. I'm pretty sure that one is. Whatever assault weapon means,
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it probably means that fully automatic weapon that Kid Rock has, which are very hard to get
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and which we highly regulate in America. And for those of you who were only listening to that
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and didn't see it, the object of his fire was two 12 packs of Bud Light. And it's an important
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statement too, because Kid Rock is not only a rock star, but he owns the biggest honky tonk in Nashville.
00:25:35.840
The biggest, most impressive honky tonk in Nashville, which is Music City, is Kid Rock's
00:25:41.020
big ass honky tonk and rock and roll steakhouse. Great name for an establishment. So I assume they're
00:25:45.380
going to get rid of Bud Light at the honky tonk. And I think we should all get rid of Bud Light in
00:25:49.520
our homes. I almost never drink Bud Light. Though, if I'm at the kind of place where I'm going to drink
00:25:54.460
regular light beer like that, I previously had ordered Bud Light because it tastes kind of like
00:26:02.080
nothing. Now I'm going to have to order something else. It's so offensive that Bud Light would partner
00:26:09.980
with this guy, Dylan Mulvaney. It's so offensive that they would partner with a guy who makes an
00:26:15.660
absolute mockery of women and of the difference between men and women. It's absolutely offensive
00:26:21.760
that Bud Light would announce this days after a transgender identifying person shot up a Christian
00:26:28.840
school in a targeted shooting. According to the chief of police, apparently motivated by
00:26:36.840
transgender ideology. We're not allowed to say that definitively because we haven't gotten any
00:26:40.960
more information. We haven't seen a manifesto. But the facts as they appear right now are pretty
00:26:45.180
clear. And what does Bud Light do? The same thing the White House does. The same thing that the
00:26:50.800
Department of Health and Human Services do. Same thing the media do. They say, you know, the real
00:26:54.360
victims here are the transgender identifying people. And if you don't support transgenderism,
00:26:58.840
you're a terrible, awful person. Transgenderism is the state religion and you will comply with it.
00:27:05.360
And Kid Rock says, nope. Nope. And we can all say nope as well. But they are pushing this on us,
00:27:12.900
everyone. They're pushing it on the kids, especially. Daniel Radcliffe, who played Harry
00:27:17.880
Potter and is an actor. Daniel Radcliffe just published some kind of series, some kind of podcast
00:27:24.920
series, because every single white millennial on planet Earth, I think by federal statute, now must have
00:27:30.980
a podcast. Daniel Radcliffe posted this long interview in which he is talking to transgender
00:27:38.000
identifying people in which he makes a strange claim about pedagogy, education, and the rational
00:27:46.020
I learned from, you know, out of the cradle that I am, you know, that I was a boy. I should like
00:27:55.580
blue. I should like sports. I should be manly. I should like superheroes. Yeah. And I just, I never
00:28:02.500
associated myself with those things. And we are told that we're not old enough to know, to know this
00:28:09.600
yet. I mean, I'm only 11 years old. How do I know I'm a girl? And I need more time to think about
00:28:16.420
this. But there are also people who do have like a slightly condescending, but well-meaning attitude
00:28:22.440
of like, well, people are young. And like, how do we, you know, that is a huge decision. I'd love to
00:28:27.560
hear from all of you about like why we can trust kids to like tell us who they are. I don't understand
00:28:34.300
why I can't just decide that I'm a girl. If it's a big decision to decide I'm a girl, it's a big decision
00:28:38.980
to decide I'm a boy. Right. Put a pause there. It's just, it's the same. It's a big, big decision
00:28:43.000
to decide to get a tattoo. You're not allowed to do that. It's a big decision to decide to start
00:28:47.640
smoking cigarettes. You're not allowed to do that. You, you will be allowed to do that eventually
00:28:51.340
once you've reached an age of maturity and reason and consent when you're 18. And now we
00:28:56.240
keep raising that. You're not, you're not allowed in the United States to, to purchase a pack of
00:29:02.020
cigarettes until you're 21 years old, but you can decide to start the process that will culminate
00:29:07.400
in you chopping off your genitals at age eight. You can start the process, frankly, even earlier
00:29:13.740
in, in certain locales, you can start the process that will see you put on puberty blocking drugs
00:29:19.940
that will see you pumped full of cross sex hormones that will see your body mutilated,
00:29:24.080
that will see you sterilized, castrated. You can start that when you're in elementary school,
00:29:29.000
but you can't get a tattoo until you're 18. You can't buy a drink or smoke a cigarette until you're
00:29:36.680
21. Does that make a lot of sense? Well, no, because kids, kids don't know if they want to
00:29:41.300
have a tiny little Japanese character symbol in green on their wrist, like every white girl in
00:29:46.920
the United States. They can't decide that until they turn 18, but they can decide to lop their
00:29:51.700
breasts off when they turn eight, right? Does that make a lot of sense? It doesn't make sense to me.
00:29:57.540
It's just, it's the same thing. There's no, there's no age. You don't have to be 18
00:30:05.440
Okay, there it is. Both of my examples were sort of harsh on white people, but I think
00:30:10.500
they're especially a little harsh on white people here because it appears to me that it is white
00:30:16.340
liberals in particular who are so taken with these insane ideologies. It's people like Daniel Radcliffe.
00:30:23.980
It's people like Robin DiAngelo. It's people like Randy Weingarten. It's people like, it's all,
00:30:32.720
this pathology seems to be seeping from very liberal whites. I don't know why that is,
00:30:42.000
but it is going out everywhere to every racial group of people and to every geography.
00:30:48.120
It is, actually, you know, Emmanuel Macron, the leader of France was asked about wokeness
00:30:54.580
and he said, oh, that's an American thing. This is the leader of France. France is a very liberal
00:30:59.140
country. They said this wokeness stuff, this extreme of liberalism, this extreme of liberation
00:31:04.920
that attempts to liberate you even from your own body, even from your own self, that's an American
00:31:09.220
thing. We don't do that here. This extreme of liberation that says that you don't even need
00:31:15.200
to cultivate your higher rational will in order to make these sorts of decisions. You can do it
00:31:21.980
when you're 11. You can do it from the moment you crawl out of that crib. You can decide that you are
00:31:27.660
not really yourself and you can decide to kill your former self and become a totally new person.
00:31:34.440
But of course, that's not the case. The liberals trying to trans the kids highlights perfectly
00:31:40.900
something that I have been pointing out about liberty for a long time, which is that
00:31:46.580
liberty is a confounding thing because liberty and licentiousness are different things because
00:31:54.160
liberty is not merely about what you will to do because we have two wills. We have a lower will,
00:32:00.320
which is the appetite, and we have a higher will, which is the rational will.
00:32:03.760
And the process of education is about cultivating the rational will so you can suppress your
00:32:09.880
appetites. And kids, by definition, can't do that. That's why if you leave a kid in a room with a
00:32:17.260
cookie jar, the kid is going to eat all the cookies. An adult might eat all the cookies. Increasingly in
00:32:22.500
our undisciplined and decadent society, they will eat all the cookies. But the adults have a better
00:32:27.260
chance, having cultivated that rational will, having suppressed those appetites, having learned to
00:32:33.360
master a little bit, their concupiscence, they will be more likely to discipline themselves.
00:32:40.080
So the liberation that is offered by the liberals is not true liberty. It's not the liberty to chart
00:32:46.340
your own course and pursue the good and behave in a way that is rational and conducive to your human
00:32:51.960
flourishing. It's that false kind of liberty of eating all the cookies in the cookie jar or doing a
00:32:58.120
bunch of drugs or harming yourself. It's that false liberty that says that if it feels good, do it.
00:33:06.120
But that kind of liberty is nothing but slavery. That kind of liberty will lead to nothing but your
00:33:12.800
own destruction. It's the liberty of the heroin addict who's going to be the freest man in the world
00:33:16.400
until he overdoses or dies of exposure on the streets of San Francisco. It's called licentiousness.
00:33:23.280
That way lies destruction. This is what students are being taught, though. There's a teacher who just
00:33:31.620
went viral on TikTok who was boasting that he passes out chest binders to his students.
00:33:39.280
I teach in an explicitly trans-affirming high school. We have gender support plans. We have a gender-affirming
00:33:46.560
wardrobe at our school. We have binders on demand for our students and other shapewear can easily be
00:33:51.960
ordered. We have students that express themselves in all manner of different ways. And I couldn't be
00:33:58.080
prouder to work at a school that's so amazing. If you would like to have your school also be an
00:34:03.440
explicitly trans-affirming school, let me know. Maybe we can figure something out.
00:34:08.900
Have you ever seen a creepier guy in your whole life than the kind of guy who seeks out
00:34:18.960
an explicitly trans-affirming high school and passes out all sorts of weird sexual toys to children
00:34:31.560
and then goes on the internet and advertises it and say, hey, kids. Hey, kids. If you're out there
00:34:39.780
and you want to talk about weird sex stuff to some adults in school, just shoot me a DM.
00:34:44.880
I love it. I got the greatest job in the world. I bet you think you do. I bet you think you do,
00:34:51.300
man. But this is the sort of thing that we should not be tolerating. You're not allowed to teach the
00:34:58.200
Bible in schools. You're not allowed to pray to God in schools. It is increasingly politically
00:35:08.740
incorrect to say the Pledge of Allegiance in schools. But now we have trans-affirming schools
00:35:16.540
in which teachers pass out sex toys to children.
00:35:25.280
We're going to have some standards. The people who oppose the Bible in schools,
00:35:30.960
the ones who did so with good intentions, like the pavement to the road of hell,
00:35:36.120
some people had good intentions. They said, well, we don't want to force any religious beliefs on
00:35:40.520
anybody. So we're just going to get the Bible out of schools. Oh, we don't want to force religious
00:35:44.880
beliefs. We're going to get prayer out of schools. We don't want to force patriotic beliefs. We're
00:35:48.580
going to get the Pledge of Allegiance out of schools. They did so in the, according to the false
00:35:54.860
perception, false conception, that we would then have a neutral school. You can't have a neutral school.
00:36:03.180
You can't have a neutral society, but you certainly can't have a neutral school because schools teach
00:36:07.300
things. So when you take one idea out of a school, it creates a vacuum. Something else will fill that
00:36:14.820
vacuum. You take the American flag out of the classroom, the pride flag will fill that. You
00:36:20.060
take God out of the classroom, some idol will fill that. You take Christianity out of the classroom,
00:36:24.880
which says that man is a composite of body and soul, and the soul is a substantial form of the body.
00:36:28.820
Well, transgenderism is going to fill that vacuum, which says that man is a duality between body and
00:36:36.940
soul. And your soul and your body don't have any real relation to one another. They can be in
00:36:42.220
opposition. And if you feel any discomfort about your physical self, well, you should hate your
00:36:47.860
physical self. That's not really you. Chop it up. Sterilize it. That's what's always going to fill it.
00:36:53.920
So we have to have a clear vision of not just how we want children to develop critical thinking
00:37:01.900
skills, but we have to first answer what should they think. You can't learn how to think before
00:37:07.080
you learn what to think, at least about certain basic things. Now, before we move on, I just have
00:37:12.740
to raise a question, which is, did AOC call for the murder of Matt Walsh? I don't know. There was
00:37:25.480
a related issue a couple of weeks ago. A sitting member of Congress, Jamal Bowman, also from New
00:37:30.160
York, called me a Nazi and said that I'm a Nazi hell-bent on only keeping white men alive and in
00:37:37.360
power. So I don't know where he got this from. He watched my CPAC speech. He said, I'm a Nazi
00:37:43.880
and I only want to keep white men alive. I guess I want to kill everyone other than the white men.
00:37:48.480
Which if I kill the white women, then there aren't going to be any more white men. But anyway,
00:37:51.420
that's, I'll try to work through that illogic at some point. But he did that from his public
00:37:57.580
Twitter account. The question with Walsh and AOC is that she may have done it from a burner Twitter
00:38:04.760
account. Sort of like Mitt Romney had his burner account, Pierre Delecto. This one is called Zaza
00:38:09.260
Demon. The tag is Zaza Smoka. Referred to Walsh as a hateful little freak. Said, I can't wait until
00:38:17.520
you piss off a trans person that actually is as unhinged as you claim to say they all are. Can't
00:38:22.860
be a bigot if you're no longer breathing. Smiley face. Now, we get these kinds of comments all the
00:38:28.280
time. I wouldn't think twice of it. Except this account referred, responded to a criticism of AOC
00:38:37.720
with the first person singular pronoun. Saying, I didn't do this. I didn't do that. Now, it's a
00:38:42.480
little unclear. I'm not saying that this is AOC. It's just a little weird. And people are raising
00:38:47.980
the question, okay? And many people are talking about it, okay? So, whether it's AOC or not AOC,
00:38:52.940
certainly AOC should condemn this. It's very clear. The question is being raised. I just think
00:38:58.700
it's very, you know, as Matt pointed out last night, silence is violence. So, I certainly call
00:39:04.060
on AOC to condemn whoever this person is who's running the account. What's weird is when the
00:39:10.600
prospect was raised that this was AOC's burner, the account got deleted. It's kind of weird.
00:39:16.080
If it were just an anonymous account, if it weren't really AOC and then it got all this attention,
00:39:20.700
you'd think the account would remain active, it would be the best thing ever to happen.
00:39:24.020
So, anyway, I don't know. I'm just waiting for AOC to condemn these sorts of comments,
00:39:28.620
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I focus a lot on macro political issues, political trends that do not just cover weeks or months,
00:41:17.120
but cover decades or centuries. That's just what I am most interested in, and I think it explains the
00:41:23.980
most about our current political situation when you look at these cultural, religious, philosophical,
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and practical and practical political trends. However, I don't want to neglect the importance of
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Saudi Arabia has just announced that it's going to cut oil production by a million barrels of oil a day.
00:41:53.480
Saudi Arabia will lead the members of OPEC, including Russia,
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to cut that million barrels of output a day starting next month.
00:42:01.620
This will cause higher U.S. inflation. Saudi Arabia then said it would cut production by another
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half million barrels a day starting in May. Why is Saudi Arabia doing this? Because it doesn't like
00:42:17.120
Joe Biden. Saudi Arabia, one of our best allies in the Middle East, had a great relationship with
00:42:23.340
Saudi Arabia for many decades, and Trump had a great relationship with Saudi Arabia. And then Joe
00:42:27.520
Biden, because he wanted to suck up to Iran, decided to try to make a pariah of Saudi Arabia.
00:42:34.500
Joe Biden, because he was bungling into the war in Ukraine, a war which he largely enabled,
00:42:41.940
even according to Ukrainian President Zelensky, tried to make a pariah of Saudi Arabia. And Saudi
00:42:46.840
Arabia didn't like that. Joe Biden, who then tried to make up for his failures by releasing
00:42:50.820
a huge amount of our strategic petroleum reserve to try to get himself through the midterm elections,
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Saudi Arabia didn't like that too much. And so now Saudi Arabia is striking back.
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In just two years, this administration has wrought such destruction on the United States,
00:43:10.420
completely destroyed our economy, further exacerbated, greatly exacerbated,
00:43:17.820
the problems of our illegal immigration system, bears much of the responsibility for starting the
00:43:27.820
first major war in Europe since World War II, potentially the beginning of World War III,
00:43:33.620
destroyed our energy sector. Eggs now cost $9 a dozen. They've just ruined everything.
00:43:41.940
They just, the record is a record of pure failure, the likes of which we have not seen since Jimmy
00:43:48.920
Carter. This just is what happened under Jimmy Carter. We're supposed to say that history doesn't
00:43:55.780
repeat itself, but it does rhyme. This is just repetition. This is repeating itself. This is barely
00:44:01.740
a rhyme anymore. This just seems to be a full on copy. This man is the worst president I've ever seen.
00:44:13.820
And I mean that not even in his degree of radicalism or evil. He doesn't, he is the most radical president,
00:44:21.120
but only because that's the way that the wind in his party is blowing. Joe Biden doesn't believe a thing
00:44:24.720
and he never has. Obama was a little more focused and a little more ideological than Biden. But Barack
00:44:32.440
Obama was also more competent than Biden. And just on the basic matters of competence, Joe Biden is
00:44:39.820
terrible. You would think that would be the one thing that Joe Biden would be pretty good at because
00:44:43.220
he's been around the federal government for over 50 years now. Joe Biden was first elected to the U.S.
00:44:48.540
Senate in the early 70s. And he remained there until he became the vice president. Then he was vice
00:44:54.240
president until 2016. And then four years later, he became the president. So in an almost uninterrupted
00:44:59.600
track, he's been in the government forever. You'd think he could just do the basic stuff. And he
00:45:03.240
can't. The country's falling around around us because not only do we have a wicked and absurd
00:45:09.740
ideology that is insisting that we all live in lies constantly, that's not going to lead to
00:45:13.820
national flourishing. But he also just can't do the basic stuff that government requires.
00:45:20.140
Now, we have some good leaders around the country at the state level. A lot of people talk about Ron
00:45:25.720
DeSantis, rightly so. But got to talk about my own governor here, Bill Lee. Bill Lee has just proposed
00:45:34.780
a bill to arm every school in Tennessee, not just every public school, but every private school as
00:45:41.480
well, to have the resources necessary to hire an armed guard if Governor Lee gets his plan through the
00:45:47.700
Republican legislature. This is the only thing we know that works to protect kids. You might bemoan
00:45:53.460
the fact that we need to arm teachers and have armed security guards and redo the security features
00:46:01.900
at these schools. So that's too bad. In the good old days, we didn't even lock our doors. Yeah,
00:46:06.060
that's true. But in the good old days, we knew the difference between men and women. In the good old
00:46:09.480
days, we didn't allow 2 million foreign nationals illegally to enter our country every year.
00:46:14.040
In the good old days, we agreed on basic things. In the good old days, we generally went to church.
00:46:19.640
In the good old days, we didn't murder 800,000 babies a year. In the good old days, we spoke
00:46:24.480
the same language. And the good old days are gone, folks. And we live in a brave new world. And so in
00:46:29.680
this brave new world, kids are at risk at school. And I say this as the father of young sons who are not
00:46:36.540
in school yet, I am not going to send my kid to any school that is not totally secure. And so Bill
00:46:43.720
Lee is applying eternal political principles, the principle of self-protection, to changing
00:46:50.980
circumstances and saying, if you want to protect kids, banning some gun that the Democrats hate,
00:46:55.940
not going to do it. If you want to protect kids, encouraging some absurd ideology that the Democrats
00:47:01.460
love is not going to do it. You know what's going to do it? Giving good guys guns to shoot the bad
00:47:09.440
guys with guns. That's what's going to do it. It's a great, great proposal. And I'm glad that our
00:47:15.480
governor here understands really basic stuff. I wish that other political leaders in the country,
00:47:21.180
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