Ep. 1221 - Transgenderism Is Not The Religion Of Peace
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Democrat Kamala Harris finally remembers where she is, and why she is in Tennessee. Also, a Black Lives Matter rioter who was armed with an AK-47 pointed a gun at a white police officer who was defending himself from a black mob in Texas.
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Happy Easter, everyone. Some great news to start off the Paschal season.
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Tennessee lawmakers have voted to expel two of their Democrat colleagues from the State House
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of Representatives after those colleagues shut down the legislative session and led a mob
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across the House floor to intimidate lawmakers. There was a third Democrat legislator who was
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involved, but her behavior was slightly less obscene than that of the other two. So she was
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able to survive the expulsion motion by a single vote. Still pretty good news, though, right?
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Democracy defeats the unruly mob. Everyone should be happy. But one vice president, Kamala Harris,
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is not. It wasn't about the three of these leaders. It was about who they were representing.
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Understand that. And is that not what a democracy allows?
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A democracy says you don't silence the people. You do not stifle the people. You don't turn
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off their microphones when they are speaking about the importance of life and liberty.
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So first of all, that is literally what a democracy does. Tennessee lawmakers acted entirely within their
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rights, actually within their obligations as duly elected representatives, to expel the people who
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tried to undermine the democratic process. Second, Kamala Harris gave that speech in Nashville.
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Nice to see she finally remembered where Tennessee is. The administration couldn't be bothered to show
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up after a trans-identifying shooter targeted and murdered six people, including children, at a
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Christian elementary school in the lead up to Easter. But now that Democrats lost some seats for
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trying to overthrow the statehouse, now Kamala remembers how to get to Nashville. Interesting.
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Third, though, haven't Kamala and her crew been telling us for two years now that disrupting
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legislative sessions is the worst crime imaginable in our sacred democracy? That it's an insurrection
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that threatens everything we hold dear? And that's just when regular people are doing it. Forget about when
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the legislators themselves are doing it. Usually it's Democrats who are actually rioting, of course.
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In which case, that's a wonderful expression of democracy. Of course, it's absurd. Of course,
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it's a double standard. But calling out hypocrisy and a three or four bucks in Biden's economy will
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get you a cup of coffee. It used to be a buck 50, but inflation has made it tough. Calling out hypocrisy
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is how conservatives are going to pass the time when the liberals finally haul us off to the gulags.
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The great news here is that Republicans are wielding political power against their opponents in a just,
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prudent, and swift way. Republicans around the rest of the country should take note. This
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is how you deal with liars and bullies. Great job, Tennessee. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Michael Knowles Show. Welcome back to the show. The mob is getting really, really crazy. There was a mob
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that violently attacked Riley Gaines, who is a young female athlete speaking out against the
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transgender madness. And she was pummeled over at San Francisco State. We'll get to that in just a
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little bit. First, though, speaking of mobs, did you see the story out of Texas? This is probably the
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most egregious miscarriage of justice I've seen in at least three or four hours now. I don't know.
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They keep coming pretty rapidly. Army Sergeant Daniel Perry, he's a guy who was driving his car,
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minding his own business back in 2020. He found himself surrounded by BLM rioters. And a BLM
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rioter was carrying an AK-47, pointing that AK-47 at Daniel Perry, at his car. And as the rioters killed
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dozens of people, this man is being threatened directly with a weapon, with a pretty serious rifle.
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And so Daniel Perry defended himself and shot the man who was pointing the gun at him. Open and shut
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case, right? And this is Texas, too, which is a pretty reasonable state. So initially, it was all
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fine. Then a George Soros-backed district attorney took over and decided to pursue charges against a man
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for defending himself against an unruly mob that was pointing a gun at him. Then that district attorney,
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Jose Garza, decided to, at least according to David Fujit, who is a lead investigating detective in the case,
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Garza decided to ignore exculpatory evidence of Perry, decided to suppress that exculpatory evidence
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of Perry, decided that he was going to do whatever he can to put the innocent man, the guy who was
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protecting himself, behind bars to defend the violent terror mob of Black Lives Matter.
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Obviously, Perry needs to be pardoned. And Governor Abbott down there in Texas has said
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that Perry will receive a full pardon the first moment that the request comes across his desk.
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That's good. I want to see it, though. I don't want to hear just promises. I don't want this thing
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to be dragged out. We need an absolute full pardon. I think there should be a full pardon for anybody,
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any normal person who has been targeted by these Soros prosecutors. Because don't forget,
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there's two sides to the story of the Soros-backed prosecutors. I know we're not allowed to say it
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because the Democrats don't want us to open the curtain on their political strategy. But George
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Soros is one of the most influential Democratic donors. He's given a ton of money over the years,
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and he remains very, very active in Democrat politics. And in recent years, he's pursued a
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particular strategy of funding prosecutors in cities with the express intent of letting
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ordinary criminals off the hook. But then the flip side to that is prosecuting conservatives.
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You let the leftists who commit actual crimes, you let them off the hook. You find the conservatives
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who are just being normal and opposing the left, and you try to throw them behind bars.
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And you've seen the consequences of this broader move within the criminal justice system in recent
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years. The DOJ is going to go after parents who don't want their kids to get transed in elementary
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school. The DOJ is going to go after Catholics who go to mass on Sunday. The DOJ is going to go after
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pro-lifers who are peacefully protesting and who are saying prayers outside of abortion clinics.
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Meanwhile, they're going to let murderers off the hook. They're going to let millions of illegal
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aliens who come into the country, they're going to completely let them off the hook. They're going
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to let terrorist BLM that burns the country down for eight months, going to let them off the hook.
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That's the flip side. And so what the conservatives need to do is not just point out the hypocrisy,
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not just point out the double standard. We have to do something about it.
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It's not rocket science, okay? You don't need an advanced degree in political science.
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The libs are going after the innocent people, and they're letting the criminals off the hook.
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We need to reverse that. We need to wield the power we got. So absolutely, Governor Abbott,
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pardon this man fully. Then let's go further. Let's start prosecuting BLM. Let's go further.
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If the libs can prosecute Trump for a non-crime that he allegedly committed seven years ago,
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I think we can prosecute the leftists who were marauding and raping and pillaging and killing
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just three years ago. Don't you think we can do that? I think we can. Then we got to go further.
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We need to recognize that in this bifurcated system of justice, there are political prisoners. There
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are dissidents who are being persecuted by this regime. And where we've got the power,
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we got to let them off the hook. And we need to go after the genuine bad guys, okay?
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verdicts, President Trump has been indicted now. He's been indicted for this non-crime that he committed
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seven years ago, which in my view does not even come close to rising to the level of a misdemeanor.
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But, and it's a very novel legal theory that suggests that it would even be a misdemeanor.
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But then even more absurd, the prosecutor in New York, Alvin Bragg, is trying to argue that this
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is a felony. He's not even explaining how this could be a felony. And all of that's silly,
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but it doesn't mean that they won't convict Trump. In fact, Alan Dershowitz, who has been a lawyer
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for President Trump, he's been on this show. He's one of the leading legal minds in the country,
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Harvard Law Professor Emeritus. He says, he thinks Trump is going to be found guilty.
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I don't think I could get this case dismissed so easily. I don't think that, I don't think that if
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you had the best lawyers in the history of the world, Abraham Lincoln and John Marshall,
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a New York City judge would dismiss this case because that New York City judge's life would be
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over. Everybody would point to him the way they pointed to me when I defended Trump. Oh my God,
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there's the man who helped Trump get free. So I don't think it's going to be easy. I think he
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probably will be convicted by a New York jury who voted for Bragg and voted for get Trump.
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It will be reversed on appeal. It will never be affirmed all the way up to the Supreme Court.
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But Bragg's going to be popular. He'll be reelected. And he'll probably win his case
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Alan Dershowitz is almost certainly right. He's usually right about these things. So you say,
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okay, well, at least Trump will get off the hook when it's appealed. Okay, is he,
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he's kind of long in the tooth. Okay, he's a young, vibrant man, certainly in his behavior, but
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he's, he's not that young. And even forget about the timescale of the rest of his life.
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What about the timescale of a campaign? How long before this thing, first of all,
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comes to a guilty verdict, then gets appealed, then maybe goes up to the Supreme Court. It's
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going to be long after the presidential election. So what matters is not what happens eventually.
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What matters is what happens over the next 18 months. So putting that aside for a second,
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putting the legal aspect aside, this continues to be the best argument for the Trump campaign.
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In a way, this is a win-win. It's a win for Alvin Bragg, the DA, because he knows that he needs to
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go after Trump to get reelected. He ran on going after Trump, so he's got to go after him to get
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reelected, even if it'll be overturned, even if it's legally ridiculous. But then two, this is great
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for Trump's campaign because the best argument for Trump's campaign is not that he's necessarily got
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the best policies. He's got great policies, and he succeeded at bringing about some great policies
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as president. He had some clunkers in there, too. So it's a mixed bag, and the other candidates are
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untested, so they can make the case that they would have better policy. It's not that Trump
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hires the best people. We know that. Trump himself would say, no, I've had some real losers in there
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in my crew. It's not that Trump has the most even temperament. Trump has a very charming
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personality that has served him well for 40 years, but he's turned a lot of people off, too.
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The argument for Trump is that if the libs hate him this much, that they would go to unprecedented
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lengths to stop him from being elected, then he must be the best choice. That's the whole argument
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for the Trump campaign. That's the argument that the other candidates can't make.
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Governor DeSantis can say, I'm the better version of Trump. I'm putting all these great policies
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forward in Florida. He can make a very plausible argument for all of that. The one special bonus
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that Trump has over not just DeSantis, but all the other candidates, is he can say, yeah,
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but they're going after me the hardest. So while the other campaigns will spin that and say,
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yeah, see, we have a better shot of getting elected, Trump is going to say, yeah, but they're
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going after me the hardest. They're going to historic, unprecedented lengths to arrest the
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president. They're arresting a former president and current leader of the opposition. They're
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probably going to do it three times before this campaign is over. That tells you exactly why it's
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got to be me. I'm not saying that's a persuasive argument. I'm just telling you that is the argument
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for the campaign, and it's the best argument that I've heard so far for the reelection of Trump.
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So what are the Republicans doing about it? I'm really pleased to say, you know, we're so down,
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especially on the Republicans a lot of the time, because they're so spineless. But Republicans
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seem to be growing a spine. This is a nice start to the Easter season. You're seeing now House
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Republicans moving to go after the prosecutors in this case, and especially Jim Jordan, who is just
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absolutely terrific. There was some talk that Jim Jordan maybe could become the Speaker of the House
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when the conservative wing didn't want McCarthy, and the more moderate wing didn't want any of the
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Freedom Caucus people. And Jim Jordan's name was floated as someone who would be acceptable to all
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sides. And Jim just said, no, I don't want it. I don't want it. Stop trying to make me be Speaker
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of the House. I want to stay on judiciary. That's where my expertise is. That's where I've got a plan to
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do things. Don't give me the worst job in Washington. And people finally respected his
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decision. Well, now we see why we want Jim Jordan on judiciary. Jim Jordan has decided to subpoena
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Manhattan prosecutor who resigned because the DA, Alvin Bragg, initially said he would not prosecute
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Trump. So what's this about? This is a warning shot to Alvin Bragg. This is a warning shot saying,
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be very careful of how you proceed here, because we're going to come after you, and we're going to
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come after the people around you, and we're going to dig up all the dirt on how malicious and
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transparently partisan this prosecution of Trump is. And we're going to bring in a guy who was
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impelling you to do it at first. And he's going to air all that dirty laundry, and he's got no reason
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not to do it because he already resigned. How is Congress going to do this? Wouldn't you say,
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well, this is a matter for the states, you hypocrite conservatives. I thought you respected states'
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rights, and federalism, and subsidiarity. Let New York do what New York wants to do. Well, here's
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the legal argument for it. According to Jim, quote, Congress has a specific and manifestly
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important interest in preventing politically motivated prosecutions of current and former
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presidents by state and local prosecutors, particularly in jurisdictions like New York County,
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where the prosecutor is popularly elected, and trial level judges lack life tenure. You're saying this
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is just an aspect of democratic politics, which obviously Congress has some interest in. And they
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especially have an interest when these prosecutions are against a president, when they're against people
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from the federal government. This is a really, really great move. And I hope this is just the very
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first warning shot for the Republicans to say, we're done. We're done with this. We're done being held
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to an incoherent standard by the left that the left does not recognize. We're done conceding and
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rolling over and only playing defense, a defensive strategy that has not defended anything. No, we're
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going to start playing real hardball politics. And we'll do it in a just way. And we'll do it within
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the bounds of the law. But we're going to do it, okay? So when you come in and you try to disrupt our
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legislative session, one of those Tennessee three, as they're calling them, from one of these radical
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leftist Democrat lawmakers who led the mob into the actual legislative session and tried to disrupt
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the proceedings, that guy had been arrested just a few years ago as a protester, as one of the
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activists going and assaulting the Speaker of the Tennessee House, okay? These guys are absolute
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miscreants. They have no business in the legislature. And the Tennessee Republicans are saying, yeah,
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you're out. Well, we'll call you racist. Okay, cool. We'll call you, I don't know, what other
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insults do we have? Phobic. Okay, sure. Okay, call me whatever you want. Sticks and stones can break
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my bones, but your lives will not hurt me. And they will not prevent me from pursuing my political
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agenda. Jim Jordan, oh, you're going to go after Trump and you're going to pretend this is within the
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bounds of law. Okay, I think we're going to subpoena the guys around you. We're going to figure out what
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this is really about. And then we're going to go after you, Mr. Bragg, and we are not going to roll
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over any more. Now, speaking of controversial people being interviewed, Alyssa Heinerscheid,
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you probably haven't heard that name before. Alyssa Heinerscheid, no relation to my own sweet little
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Alyssa, very different women. Alyssa Heinerscheid is the VP of marketing at Bud Light. And here is
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Alyssa Heinerscheid explaining why Bud Light has gone trans. I'm a businesswoman. I had a really
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clear job to do when I took over Bud Light. And it was, this brand is in decline. It's been in
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decline for a really long time. And if we do not attract young drinkers to come and drink this
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brand, there will be no future for Bud Light. So I had this super clear mandate. It's like we need to
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evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. And my, what I brought to that was a belief in,
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okay, what does, what does, what does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity. It means
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shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter and brighter
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and different and appeals to women and to men. And representation is at sort of the heart of
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evolution. You've got to see people who- Put a pause here. So you see, she's using market
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language. She's saying, look, the brand is in decline. It's all these old men drinking Bud Light,
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which I don't think is true, by the way. I think primarily people who drink Bud Light are frat stars.
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It's true that older, like construction workers and guys at baseball games, that's true. That's a
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little bit of an older crowd. But it's mostly frat guys, as far as I'm concerned, and young college
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kids. But okay. And she says, so the way to, look, we just have to do it to evolve the brand.
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And the way to do it is to appeal to women and men. You know, women and men who famously love
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transvestitism, right? I don't think they do, but keep going.
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People who reflect you in the work. And we had this hangover. I mean, Bud Light had been-
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People who reflect you. Yeah, nothing reflects me like Dylan Mulvaney. People who reflect 0.1%
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of the population. Oh, yeah. I finally feel seen. Now I can drink Bud Light because a man
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dressed up as Audrey Hepburn, who is a Broadway musical star. Yeah, he just really represents me.
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And kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out-of-touch humor. And it was really important that we had
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another approach. So she admits, she goes, it's just these old people who do it.
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And that's why Bud Light was mostly a fratty kind of brand. Well, people who are in fraternities are
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not old. They tend to be pretty young. And this is out-of-touch humor. No, you know what's much
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funnier? Zealous ideological liberals. Yeah, we're just, we're known for our humor.
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Oh, yeah. All the stand-up comedians. Yeah, they're known for how much they all love political
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correctness. That's what makes a successful comedian, right? I don't think so. It says we
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have to appeal to the people. And the way to do that is through transgenderism. According to Pew
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Research, 60% of Americans say that a person's gender is determined by his biological sex, his
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sex assigned at birth. By the way, 60%, that's the majority of Americans. That's not a decline.
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It's not like it used to be 80% and now it's 60%. That's actually an increase just over the last
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two years. In 2021, it was only 56% who said that. In 2017, it was only 54% who said that. So
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transgenderism is less accepted today than it was two years ago. And much less accepted today than it was
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six years ago. The plurality of Americans say that society has gone too far advancing transgender
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rights. So there are different views about this, but the largest number of people who have any view
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on transgenderism, according to Pew Research, which is a very respected polling firm, or a very respected
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research institute, says that we've gone too far. We need to roll back the quote-unquote transgender
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rights, of which there are none, by the way, because transgenderism is a false anthropology.
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So it's just, it's wrong about human nature and wrongs cannot be rights. That's why they call them
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rights. So this isn't about helping the company adapt to the culture. That's not what this is about.
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This is about, as it always is, forcing the culture to adapt to leftism through the companies.
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She's making this disingenuous market argument. Look, it's just about adapting to changing times. No,
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your bathroom today. Now, speaking of leftist identity politics,
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John Leguizamo, fairly well-known actor, John Leguizamo will not watch the Mario movie. He has
00:25:26.580
come out against the Mario movie. Why? Because there aren't any Latinos in it.
00:25:34.100
Are you going to be watching Super Mario Brothers? No, I will not be watching Super Mario Brothers. Oh my
00:25:38.440
goodness. They could have included a Latin character. Like, I was groundbreaking, then they
00:25:43.260
stopped the groundbreaking. I know. Well, you know what? They messed up. They messed up the inclusion.
00:25:47.940
They dis-included. I know. What's up? Right. So what do you say to people, you know, who might
00:25:53.180
actually go out and support this? Should you say, hey guys, if you stand for inclusion,
00:25:57.240
maybe you shouldn't- Just catch some Latin folk. Catch some Latin folk. We're 20% of the population,
00:26:02.500
the largest people of color group, and we're underrepresented, over-representing the worst
00:26:08.120
kind of jobs, though. Oh, I know. Right, right, right, right, right. Yeah, yeah, sure. So no Super Mario
00:26:12.900
Brothers for you? Hell no. Hell no. They didn't make Mario Mexican. So I don't know who needs to hear
00:26:21.060
this. I think maybe John Leguizamo is the only person who needs to hear this. Mario is Italian.
00:26:31.080
Mario is not Mexican or Salvadoran or Peruvian or Argentinian. His whole character is that he is
00:26:43.820
Italian. So if you boycott the Mario movie because they didn't cast a Mexican as an Italian,
00:26:55.640
you're just saying you hate white people. And Italians aren't even that white. They are the
00:27:01.860
least white of the white people. They are a racially liminal, ethnically ambiguous part of
00:27:09.680
whatever makes up white people. You know what it is? To quote Syl from The Sopranos,
00:27:15.900
it's anti-Italian discrimination. And it's anti-white discrimination just generally.
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It's this argument that, yeah, we don't like white people. We don't want white people to play even
00:27:27.940
the white people roles. We only want non-white people to play the white people roles. And if
00:27:33.780
any white person dares play a non-white role, we're going to call that blackface or brownface,
00:27:40.100
and we're going to ruin your life, and we're going to take away your career.
00:27:44.700
Mario is Italian. Mario is it. We're now at the stage of society where it is controversial to say
00:27:53.940
babies are people, men are not women, and Mario and Luigi are Italian.
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Now, speaking of the second part of that identity mayhem that we're living through right now,
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Riley Gaines. Riley Gaines, you know her, young college athlete, speaking out against the transgender
00:28:20.620
agenda, meeting a lot of pushback. We all meet pushback when we talk out about that.
00:28:25.180
She was just violently attacked at San Francisco State. So Riley Gaines,
00:28:30.720
she was escorted out of her speech, cops are pulling her away from the mob.
00:28:38.800
What they did was they tripped the lights during her speech so she was unprotected. No one could
00:28:50.000
really see her. And then the mob people start punching her in the head, hitting her.
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And then these curiously demon-resembling maniacs start chasing her into a room and start screaming,
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And then they locked her in that room. She was stuck in that room for three hours.
00:29:28.420
Why couldn't the cops just start beating these people down, these violent agitators? Why couldn't
00:29:34.360
the cops just at least pull out their billy clubs and just start beating them into submission? I don't
00:29:38.640
know. I don't know. What are the cops there for? They brought Riley into the room to protect her.
00:29:45.940
But when there is a violent mob that has already been inflicting violence on a poor young woman,
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that's when the cops are supposed to get violent too against the people who instigated the violence.
00:29:57.840
That's the point of having cops. I don't even totally blame the officers. They know what's
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going to happen. They know the minute that they in any way use their just authority to stop
00:30:09.960
a current threat, a current violent action from a protected class like the so-called transgender
00:30:19.060
people. They know their life is over. They're not only going to lose their jobs, they're going to
00:30:22.320
be prosecuted. It raises the question when you see a video like that, which doesn't even show the
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first assault because they shut the lights off in the room when they started attacking her.
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It raises this question, why is this group so particularly violent?
00:30:38.300
I've been in and around politics for a pretty long time. I worked my first campaign when I was 19
00:30:42.660
years old, first national campaign. And we've run afoul of all sorts of leftist groups.
00:30:52.400
There were all sorts of little leftist activist groups, the feminists, the environmentalists,
00:30:56.600
the this group, the that group. And they all get kind of feisty. I can just tell you firsthand
00:31:02.940
the violence and the threats and the reaction from the transgender activists, it's on a completely
00:31:12.940
different level. It's almost different in kind rather than degree. Why is that?
00:31:18.600
We all know. We all know, even though I know we're not allowed to say it on big tech.
00:31:26.480
Why is it that this group of people tends to be so unreasonable in their behavior? With a lot of
00:31:34.840
other groups, when they start making threats against a young woman who's giving a speech at a
00:31:38.700
college, usually you say, oh, it's such BS, who cares? Keyboard warriors, they're not going to do
00:31:42.760
anything. They'll come to their senses before they do anything crazy. Unless the group is defined
00:31:50.880
specifically by its lack of reasonableness, specifically by a defect in their reason.
00:32:00.660
This is why the Libs are leaning so hard on the transgender mob right now.
00:32:07.060
There are other reasons why the Libs have pushed the transgender ideology. But one of the reasons that
00:32:11.200
they're leaning so hard on the transgender mob is because they lean on all sorts of groups to go do
00:32:16.560
their dirty work for them and to use violence in the streets. And then what they do is they elect
00:32:20.160
prosecutors to just let their militia wing off the hook. But one of the reasons that they're
00:32:27.700
leaning so hard on the transgender group right now is because it is unreasonable by definition.
00:32:34.940
And so when those threats come in, you have to take them a little more seriously because
00:32:39.580
unreasonable people cannot be counted on to come to their reason. Now, what did San Francisco State
00:32:45.920
do about this? You know what they did? They issued an apology letter to the protesters. They did the
00:32:53.300
same thing when I was attacked. Luckily, I was only attacked with a squirt gun full of whatever weird
00:32:57.640
liquids were in that squirt gun. It was also on the transgender issue when years ago, before the
00:33:01.940
transgender thing really became the big national issue that it is. This was back in 2017, 2018 or something.
00:33:07.520
I gave a speech called Men Are Not Women and Other Uncomfortable Truths. And the chancellor of the
00:33:12.620
school wrote an apology letter that I was invited in the first place. Well, here you had, dear San
00:33:16.920
Francisco State community, today San Francisco State finds itself again at the center of a national
00:33:20.900
discussion regarding freedom of speech and expression. Let me begin by clearly saying the trans
00:33:24.560
community is welcome and belongs at San Francisco State. Not the poor young woman who was violently
00:33:29.900
attacked and sent running into a room barricaded for three hours. No, no, no. The mob. We want you to know
00:33:37.340
your mob is welcome here. Thank you to our students who participated peacefully in Thursday evening's event
00:33:43.200
peacefully. They knocked this poor woman's clock. They chased her, battered into a room.
00:33:48.260
Hulking dudes beat up a woman, a young woman at a speech for speaking, chased her into a room. And the
00:33:57.420
VP of student affairs at San Francisco State says thank you to our students who participated peacefully
00:34:03.980
in Thursday evening's event. I'm so proud. I'm proud of the moments when our students demonstrated the
00:34:10.100
value of free speech and the right to protest peacefully. They didn't protest peacefully. They beat up a
00:34:15.520
young woman. It's because according to the libs who have the political power, conservative speech is
00:34:23.280
violence and leftist violence is speech. And that's just what they mean. So we can whine about the
00:34:29.920
hypocrisy. We can whine about the double standard or we can go in, let our guys off the hook who have
00:34:36.760
been prosecuted unjustly and throw their people who have not been prosecuted unjustly, who have unjustly
00:34:44.160
not been prosecuted. And we can throw them in the clink. And we can tell the police to do their jobs.
00:34:49.500
And we can give the police the freedom to do their jobs. And we can tell the lawmakers and the
00:34:53.180
legislators kick out the miscreants who are upsetting the whole system. And we can say no to
00:35:00.280
ideologies that are patently false. And we can make certain exclusions from society. And we can come to
00:35:05.720
certain conclusions. And we can say, you know, we might keep an open mind about a lot of things,
00:35:10.560
but we know that men are not women. And if you say that men are women, then you belong in a classroom
00:35:19.800
to learn the truth, or you belong in a madhouse to learn the truth a little bit more forcefully.
00:35:25.460
But we are not going to let you guys violently upend our whole society. My favorite comment yesterday
00:35:34.700
is from Sean Hurley, who says to think, Jack Daniels used to be the drink of outlaw biker gangs.
00:35:42.620
And now, now it's the drink of drag queens. And it's actually, they could have the same kind of
00:35:48.080
image. It's just previously, it was the drink of, you know, Hell's Angels. And now it's the drink of
00:35:53.760
the biker from the village people. So it's definitely a little bit of a different aesthetic, but
00:35:59.900
it's variations on a theme. That's true. And if the transgender activists remain as violent as they
00:36:07.500
are, then Jack Daniels is going to be appealing to a group that is no less violent than they used
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to. Actually, a lot more violent. A lot more violent. How do we deal with this stuff?
00:36:20.640
I think a real key here is we've got to be the reasonable ones. Okay? Being reasonable doesn't
00:36:31.780
mean being conciliatory. It doesn't mean rolling over. Quite the opposite. When you are reasonable,
00:36:37.440
when you have a clear vision of true and false and right and wrong, you can be very effective.
00:36:43.280
You can be very forceful. There's no ambiguity. There's no meat in the middle. There's no,
00:36:47.280
well, should we trans the six-year-olds or the nine-year-olds? There's none of that.
00:36:50.740
It's just, no, okay, we can know that something is true, and we know that this other thing is false.
00:36:54.680
And so everybody agrees with us on that. The majority of Americans know transgenderism is
00:36:59.820
insane. And so the majority of Americans know transgenderism is not true. And actually,
00:37:06.900
the numbers are moving more in our direction, more in the direction of truth than in the direction
00:37:11.140
of falsehood. So what the libs want us to do is to seem like we're screaming and angry and crazy
00:37:16.380
and unreasonable. But no, we're not filled with hate. We're not phobic. We don't want to genocide
00:37:20.960
anybody. We're just telling the truth as everybody knows it to be the truth, which is that men and
00:37:27.200
women are not the same. That's very powerful. They want to trigger us into an unreasonable reaction.
00:37:34.080
We shouldn't give that in. Reason is on our side here. You see this in one instantiation of the weird
00:37:39.560
sex wars going on. You see this with the push to put porn into elementary and middle school
00:37:44.360
classrooms and libraries. So there is a parent in Texas, or I'm sorry, in upstate New York.
00:37:51.780
This is a parent, the Pittsburgh schools, Barker Road Middle School. He shows up. He gives a master
00:37:57.200
class in how to present this issue to the public. And he did it at a school board meeting.
00:38:01.740
Let's try another scenario. It's your daughter's 15th birthday party with a group of her friends and
00:38:07.760
family gathered around. Are you going to give her a copy of Girl in Translation and maybe read a
00:38:14.280
little bit from it to the group? I'd never been naked with a man before, and Matt's skin felt warm
00:38:20.440
and rough. He must have taken care of the condom somehow, and then suddenly he was inside me.
00:38:26.020
I gasped, but it hadn't hurt as much as I'd expected it to, and then I couldn't think at
00:38:32.460
all anymore. When he finally came, he started to cry again. I held him tenderly in my arms.
00:38:40.000
We lay there together, both breathing hard, returning to ourselves. Your reaction tells me that you would
00:38:47.180
not give this book to your daughter. Then why is it assigned to 15-year-old 10th graders?
00:38:52.740
I included in your handouts a printout of a page from the U.S. Department of Justice's website that
00:39:00.640
discusses obscenity. In it, it states the following, federal law strictly prohibits the distribution of
00:39:08.380
obscene matter to minors. So put a pause here. You see how this guy's monotonous voice is actually
00:39:17.780
helping his argument here. This guy's level of cool and calm is really helping his argument.
00:39:25.100
It's disarming. None of the school board members are yelling at him. Sometimes in these school board
00:39:31.500
showdowns, when the parents get really fired up, that gives the school board members an opening
00:39:37.100
to say, hey, stop, calm down, don't sit. But he's just, he's presenting himself as the most boring guy
00:39:44.180
in the world to great rhetorical effect. And he's just saying, hey, listen, simple scenario. You're 15-year-old
00:39:51.040
because this particular book is being taught in 10th grade. You're 15-year-old at a birthday party.
00:39:55.420
Would you want her reading this book? And he just reads it and he doesn't even have that much emphasis
00:39:59.580
on the, he just says, this is a chapter. Would you want your kid reading that? No, probably not.
00:40:04.620
But then he anticipates the next question. He says, well, what are we supposed to do about it?
00:40:09.580
We can't ban books. That would be terrible. The liberals tell us that banning books is the worst
00:40:13.280
thing in the world. He says, here's what federal law says about obscenity. The content that I've
00:40:20.260
just read to you is obviously obscene and pornographic. How do you scientifically figure
00:40:24.620
out what's obscene and what's art? Well, there's no scientific process, but come on, let's be real.
00:40:29.000
We all know it when we see it. So you know that this is pornographic. You know that this is obscene.
00:40:35.260
You know it's up to the political community and the democracy to come up with standards for this.
00:40:39.040
We all agree on those standards. I've just gotten you to agree with that by implicitly saying,
00:40:42.760
yeah, you wouldn't want your kid reading it at a birthday party. Okay. So here's what the
00:40:46.360
federal law says about it. Here's why you are allowed to ban this book. But then he takes his
00:40:53.440
argument one step further. Any transfer or attempt to transfer such material to a minor under the age
00:40:59.540
of 16, including over the internet, is punishable under federal law. It appears that the members of the
00:41:08.140
board, the supervisor, some of the teachers, and some of the librarians may be guilty of
00:41:15.460
trafficking and pornography to our children. I point this out because if you're not interested
00:41:21.100
in taking care of our children by not providing them with pornography, maybe you'd be interested
00:41:26.460
in saving yourselves from serious legal action that might land you behind bars or at a minimum
00:41:32.640
expose you to an awful lot of public attention for your role in this child abuse. I suggest you read
00:41:39.840
this handout in its entirety and not ignore it. It might be a very good starting point for the
00:41:45.060
discussion you should have with your attorneys. Love it. There it is. He starts out. He says,
00:41:53.540
hey, let's be reasonable. Let's just level with each other here. I'm not showboating. I'm clearly not
00:41:59.620
showboating. I'm giving a very monotone, reserved speech. Let's be real. You know this book is wrong.
00:42:06.920
You wouldn't want your kids reading it. Now, I'm going to point to the law to show you how maybe you
00:42:13.840
were confused. I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you didn't realize that you have
00:42:18.420
this power, this legal power, to proscribe this book and other obscenity. Okay, so I'm giving you
00:42:25.100
that benefit of the doubt. But if you won't listen to reason, here's the threat. The consequence of
00:42:35.820
that law is that if you guys keep this book in the classroom, you might very well be guilty of
00:42:43.480
distributing obscene material to minors. And maybe we've got the political power in our state. Maybe
00:42:50.400
we don't. At the state level in New York, we don't. In the local level, maybe they do. Upstate New York
00:42:56.280
is pretty conservative. You are opening yourself up to legal action from us. We are not going to just
00:43:04.960
suggest meekly that you do the right thing. If you don't do the right thing, we're going to prosecute
00:43:12.820
you. We're going to bring the law down. We're going to wield the political power against you. So maybe
00:43:17.700
you ought to think twice about it. That's the way to do it. It's almost the perfect speech
00:43:22.620
on this issue. It's the best one I've heard yet. This should be taught in conservative oratory and
00:43:30.040
rhetoric and statecraft classes. This and the politicians should follow through on this.
00:43:36.480
Because the rhetoric is not going to have any force if we don't follow through, if we don't start
00:43:41.420
prosecuting people under these laws, if we don't start kicking out the legislators who undermine the
00:43:46.480
legislature, if we don't start subpoenaing the corrupt prosecutors who are trying to undo our
00:43:55.720
political system by going after the leader of the political opposition who happens to be a former
00:43:59.480
president. It's not going to have any effect if we don't do it. It's just all going to be talk.
00:44:05.520
And talk is very cheap. Got to follow. If we don't start pardoning the political prisoners
00:44:12.660
who the current regime arrests unjustly. And if we don't start prosecuting the criminals who are the
00:44:21.680
cause of a lot of these problems in the first place. Beautiful, beautiful speech. I hope the libs
00:44:27.300
get the message. And I hope conservatives get the message. We don't need to be unreasonable. We don't
00:44:33.060
need to take the bait. Reason is on our side. Don't cede that territory to the libs. Reason is on our side.
00:44:41.460
And then when you come to certain conclusions through the use of your intellect, that is when
00:44:46.740
you can use your will to bring those conclusions to bear in public life. And that means promoting
00:44:54.660
good things and eradicating bad ideas. Now, unfortunately, in our current culture, we're
00:45:02.720
getting the opposite. So we just had Easter. I had a lovely Easter. I hope you all had a lovely Easter.
00:45:07.780
Easter weekend is when Walter Reed, the government hospital, decides to kick Catholic priests out of
00:45:19.920
the hospital because they don't want priests in there getting the good news out, even on Easter week.
00:45:29.500
I wish there were some more complicated issue going on here. There's nothing more complicated. The
00:45:36.020
Biden administration, like the Obama administration, just hates Christianity and hates the representatives
00:45:41.460
of Christianity. So Obama, while Biden is vice president, sues nuns for being nuns. And the Biden
00:45:48.340
administration is now kicking Catholic priests out of the Walter Reed Hospital. Government sent a cease
00:45:54.020
and desist to these Catholic priests. The order was issued because it said, no, we've got other pastoral
00:46:01.660
ministers coming in. We're not going to let you Catholics in anymore. The administration is just
00:46:07.560
hostile to Christianity. It's amazing. We look over at China. We say, China suppresses Christianity. Yeah,
00:46:13.220
it does. But before you accuse someone else, maybe you ought to take a look in the mirror.
00:46:18.440
However, these terrible nations on earth, they're suppressing Christianity. What about our country?
00:46:24.080
Sues nuns, tells Christians they can't go to their church during COVID for years. When the Christians can go to
00:46:30.700
the church, the feds send federal agents in to infiltrate the churches, to spy on the Christians, and now says
00:46:37.100
that the priests can't go talk to sick people. To administer one of the most important sacraments of the church,
00:46:41.380
which is extreme unction, last rites. That's the state of things, okay? And so we've got to come
00:46:48.820
to certain conclusions about that. And it can't just be, well, anybody can come in. They're going to send
00:46:54.540
drag queens into your kid's kindergarten class, but they're not going to allow priests to go in and give
00:46:59.200
the sacraments to sick people. That's where we are. That's how flipped the society is. So are we
00:47:07.640
willing, we are the reasonable ones here. Everyone knows that's unreasonable. So are we willing to
00:47:13.920
stand by our conclusions and then enforce those conclusions with the law? I am. Tennessee legislators
00:47:20.920
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