Ep. 1234 - Maybe He's Born With It, Maybe It's The New World Order
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Summary
A lot of companies are cashing in on the backlash against Bud Light, against Maybelline, against Olay, against Disney, against KitchenAid, and against Joe Biden s DOJ. Why would the White House double down on this?
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Despite the nationwide backlash against Bud Light, Dylan Mulvaney has just received
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another endorsement deal, this time from Maybelline.
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Here he is, Mr. Mulvaney looking like a dude, and then he puts the makeup on, and
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he looks like a dude trying to look like Audrey Hepburn, and he does his cheering.
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And unlike Bud Light, which caters primarily to frat boys and construction workers,
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Maybelline makes some sense as a Mulvaney advertiser.
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Yes, Mulvaney's ideology is opposed by the vast majority of Americans, but Maybelline
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makeup is intended to make people look different than they otherwise should.
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Sure, the company seems to be taking its tagline a little bit far.
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Transgenderism is here to stay, whether it's profitable or not, whether the people want
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The scariest part of these campaigns is not what they say about gender or the corporations,
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And so, for now at least, that's the way things are going to be.
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A lot of companies are cashing in on the backlash against Bud Light, against Maybelline, against
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Watch companies, beer companies, conservatives following the Jeremy's Razors model, which
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First, though, it's not just some woke corporations.
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It's not just Disney and Bud Light and KitchenAid and Maybelline.
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It's the Biden administration, all the way up to the White House.
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The Biden administration is now wielding the DOJ to double down on transing the kids.
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Joe Biden's DOJ is challenging the Tennessee law that says you can't castrate little kids
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Well, we are not going to let the people of Tennessee, through their elected representatives,
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We are going to challenge the Tennessee law that bans what the White House calls critically
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medically necessary care for transgender youth.
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Forget about the whole ideology of transgenderism.
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Just think about what this says about self-government.
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The only conclusion here that we can draw is that this White House and the whole political
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class that it represents, they don't feel they need to answer to the people.
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Few research shows that 60% of Americans reject the ideology of transgenderism, period.
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A far greater number of Americans oppose transing poor little kids.
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Why would the White House, especially at a time where approval ratings are so low,
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Joe Biden's got these historical approval ratings, disapproval ratings, rather.
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The only plausible answer is that they don't feel they have to answer to the people.
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They control enough of the power centers and the media and the schools and the administrative
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state and the way elections are conducted, perhaps, that they just don't think they have to answer
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And so they're going to do whatever their ideology tells them to do.
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Public opinion, common sense, right reason, be damned.
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Speaking of Joe Biden, Joe Biden has been a declared candidate for re-election for now
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about 32 hours by my count, and he is already lying up and down the campaign trail.
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You thought you heard all of his lies about his academic record, about his professional
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record, about how his dad loved watching men kiss in the street back in Scranton or something,
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about his family, about his children, about his whole record, about growing up in the black
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church, about corn pop and hairy legs at the local pool.
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Well, now we got a new one that involves not Joe Biden's father, but Joe Biden's grandfather.
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My grandpop, who I never met, he died in the same hospital I was born in two weeks before
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I grew up in small town America, good old family tradition, good old Scranton Joe.
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The story that Joe Biden is telling is irrelevant to the point here.
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Joe Biden's grandpop, who he didn't know, died not in Scranton, but in Baltimore, Maryland,
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Joe Biden wasn't born until November 1942 in a different town, in a different state.
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Who cares that Joe Biden's flubbing some story from 80 years ago?
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I care because it tells me that this guy can't tell the difference between lies and the truth.
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This is what happens when you are a habitual liar, as Joe Biden is.
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Joe Biden tells more lies than most politicians.
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And the fear of this is not just that you're going to deceive one person or even a lot of people on just one issue or two issues.
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If you've ever known a liar, I mean a real habitual liar like Joe Biden, you'll know the craziest part is that after a while,
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even they can't tell the difference between lies and the truth.
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It's not that Joe Biden is setting out to deceive people.
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He says, oh, yes, I'm going to fool them all today with this story about my grandpop in 1942.
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It's not that even he sincerely believes this really happened.
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And so with a president like that, for people who have grown up with an ideology that lends itself to that kind of behavior,
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is it any wonder that they'll double down on the lie that a man can be a woman,
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that they'll double down on the lie that castrating children is really good for them, it really improves their health,
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that they'll double down on the lie that a baby isn't really a baby,
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that they'll double down on the lie that foreign nationals are actually American citizens, sort of, in some way,
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that they'll double down on lie after lie after lie.
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No, because they just don't care about the truth.
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Something really doesn't look good in politics and media is that Fox News fired Tucker Carlson.
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The top-rated cable host, not just these days, but ever of all time,
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fired totally unexpectedly at the very height of his power.
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People are trying to figure out what motivated it.
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That doesn't really make sense because other hosts on Fox went much further in their claims
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Why do they still have their jobs and Tucker doesn't?
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Well, is it that, I don't know, Tucker has a sexual harassment suit or something like that coming?
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No, there's not been one peep about anything like that.
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That would be completely out of character for Tucker.
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No, Tucker signed off his show on Friday telling people, see you on Monday.
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So Tucker thought he still had a show the following week.
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It was a story that came out of Vanity Fair, which we talked about a little bit yesterday,
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which is that Rupert Murdoch, head of News Corporation, apparently had a dinner with his
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then-fiancé and her favorite host, Tucker Carlson, in which the then-fiancé brought out a Bible.
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She said, oh, Tucker, I think you're a messenger from God.
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I think you're really standing up for the right thing.
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Then Tucker, well, then Rupert Murdoch apparently broke off this engagement shortly after that dinner.
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And then Tucker gave a speech on Friday night or Saturday night, sometime over the weekend,
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at the Heritage Foundation 50th anniversary dinner, in which he said,
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I no longer believe that our political fight is between one white paper and another white paper,
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I'm now beginning to think this is a clearer fight between good and evil.
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And so I, even being an Episcopalian, a fairly shallow tradition these days,
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I recommend you all take 10 minutes out of your day to say a prayer.
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And according to the news reports, according to Vanity Fair, that's what got Tucker fired.
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The fact that he said in a big speech that people should pray, that was a bridge too far.
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I've been on Fox a lot of times, but I've never worked for Fox News.
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It seems so crazy that it also would seem to me to be the most plausible explanation.
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It's so ridiculous that in this fallen world that is governed by principalities and powers
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and spiritual wickedness in high places, in this fallen world in which you're not allowed
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to read the Bible in schools, but you can be assigned gay porn in schools, including in
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In this crazy clown world we're living in, that to me seemed like the most plausible explanation.
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And our friend Glenn Beck seems to be backing that up.
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Glenn obviously worked at Fox for a long time, was a very highly rated host over there.
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And he said, from what he knows of Rupert Murdoch, the story rings true.
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This is something that bothers Rupert deeply, deeply bothers him.
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I was told not to use the word God on the air anymore.
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And they're like, uh, you know, you gotta stop using it.
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And three months go by and he comes back and he says, do you know how many times did you,
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do you not remember when I said, don't talk about God all the time?
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And he said, um, do you know how many times you've said God on the air since that?
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I looked at him and I kind of laughed and I said, you counted?
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And he said, I can't remember the number, but it was like 91 times.
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Isn't that kind of weird that according now to a Fox source and according to Glenn Beck,
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who has plenty of experience at Fox News and who is going on the record with this,
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that the head of not just the allegedly conservative news channel, but much of conservative media
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When these terms came about, the right and the left, what did they refer to?
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They referred to two sides of the National Assembly in the early days of the French Revolution.
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On the left side of the assembly, you had the radicals who opposed the political order
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and who opposed the church and who opposed God.
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And then on the right side of the aisle, you had the people who supported political order
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In America, now, long after the French Revolution, American conservatives, what do we defend?
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We're supposed to be defending a prosperous, flourishing country.
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But more than that, don't we want family values?
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God doesn't need us to defend him, but it would be good for us to be on God's side.
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If you've got to pick, I would recommend be on God's side.
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A nation that turns away from God doesn't turn out very well.
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And the men who founded our country, going back even before the American Revolution,
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going back all the way to 1620 and the Mayflower and Massachusetts colony,
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they viewed America as a shining city on a hill, as a Christian country that would look toward God.
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And the head of the conservative media, at least the traditional conservative media,
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We're going to fire our top-rated host if he talks about God.
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So it's almost as if we always knew the conservatives were outnumbered in terms of the power centers.
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We thought, well, at least we've got this one cable channel.
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Well, at least we've got this one media corporation.
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If we can't talk about God, then we don't have that power center.
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Increasingly, our politics appears not to be a debate between the most efficient or prudent means to achieve the good ends that we all agree to.
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It just increasingly seems to be a fight between good and evil.
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You want to see one of the creepiest videos you'll see in a while?
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I know that all the creepy videos these days are transgender activists doing all sorts of weird stuff.
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This is an Arizona state representative, Stephanie Stahl-Hamilton from Tucson.
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She was caught on camera going into the House members only lounge at the Arizona state capitol and hiding Bibles.
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I guess there are some Bibles out in this lounge.
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Probably a good thing for legislators to refer to.
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The most important book in the history of our civilization.
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The book that I believe is the inerrant word of God.
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But even if you don't believe in that, certainly you think it's an important book.
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So it's out there, if people want to read the Bible, they're not being forced to read the Bible.
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But then this Democrat goes in and just very creepily picks up these Bibles and hides them under a chair.
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This woman's office totally stonewalled the reporter.
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So the reporter goes up and he says, hey, okay, I'm glad I caught you, state rep.
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Hey, Stephanie, not very nice to hand up on me.
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Who says anything about hiding Bibles and I don't hide them?
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He says to the state rep, Stephanie, you're an ordained minister.
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I don't know what weird cult this lady is an ordained minister in.
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Certainly not the traditional church, but I don't know.
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She's a priestess, I guess, in some strange cult.
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But whatever cult she's in, she doesn't seem to like the Bible very much.
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She doesn't seem to like the word of God very much.
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And regardless of her side hustle in some new age cult,
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this woman is a representative of the people in Arizona.
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Remember, the liberals have told us that the press, they're the fourth estate.
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They're the brave, intrepid journalists who speak truth to power.
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They're the most wonderful people in the world.
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Except when they have questions that are inconvenient for the Democrats.
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Well, I just said it because we have you on video doing it.
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At some periods of politics, things are kind of normal, and people basically agree.
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We've had moments of this kind of a consensus in American history not even all that long ago.
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And so the two parties aren't all that different, and it's easy to work across the aisle.
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And sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between a Republican and a Democrat.
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Because, listen, we all salute the same flag, and we all pray to the same God, and we all love our country.
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The conservatives salute the star-spangled banner.
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The libs salute the rainbow, which is increasingly gaining colors seemingly by the hour.
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Liberals pray to Reiki and crystals and astrology and the trans-gnosticism and sometimes explicitly to the devil.
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And at the very least, they pray to themselves, the cult of the self.
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Conservatives certainly speak in a way that is patriotic.
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The libs say that America was founded as an evil country.
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It tells you the country was founded to preserve slavery.
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And even though that's not true, we're still going to publish it.
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We've got to erase the borders, get rid of the country.
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In that framework, you can't just kind of work together and reach across the aisle.
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In that framework, someone's got to win and someone's got to lose.
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We've talked now for a few weeks, really, I guess, since my CPAC speech,
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Being naked in the shower with a bunch of dudes is totally not gay
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as long as it's after a long day horsing around in the hot sun on a sports team.
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Well, I thought you were going to say if the lights are off,
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I would say either yes, it's gay, or no, it's not gay.
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Speaking of sports, Mayor Pete, Transportation Secretary Pete,
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he has had it with all this talk about transgenderism in sports, okay?
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Mayor Pete, he's got a lot of important work to do.
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And all this talk about how men shouldn't be put on the women's sports teams,
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well, that's preventing him from building bridges.
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Well, I do think that the culture wars are getting in the way sometimes.
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I mean, just the other day, I was testifying in the appropriations subcommittee
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explaining how our budget was going to help with things like railroad safety,
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air traffic control, and other transportation needs.
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And we had to take a break so that they could all go and vote on a bill
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to kick transgender teenagers off of sports teams.
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That was the priority for the House GOP that day.
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So these things really are getting in the way of our ability to get work done.
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We're literally building bridges, and they're literally banning books.
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The other day, I was testifying about all the things that I've implausibly screwed up
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It's the easiest job in the whole government, and I somehow managed to blow it.
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So we were talking about all the train derailments under my watch and all of the many supply chain
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problems and just everything that possibly could have gone wrong going wrong under my watch.
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We had to take a break so that these terrible Republicans could go and protect women and
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young girls from getting concussions because they're being forced to compete against burly
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men on the volleyball team and, well, on the track team and on all sorts of teams where
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the men are then taking their trophies and scholarships.
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And then I had to take a two-month break so I could go chest feed.
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I guess I've got a little more hope and confidence in the government.
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It seems to me that the Congress can protect the rights of women and girls while at the
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same time you run the train tracks and the roads and the bridges without all of them collapsing.
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I think it's even easier than walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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We can't build bridges anymore because the Republicans are protecting young girls.
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We've got, okay, I guess this administration can't do much of anything at all.
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But other administrations have dealt with these issues.
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They do lots of different things at different times.
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It's not very convincing that you can't build bridges while protecting girls.
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Buttigieg realizes that the best course of action on the transgender issue is deflection.
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This is why my debate opponent at the University of Pittsburgh debate, sponsored by ISI, this
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is why he pulled out at the very last minute, is because he's got all sorts of fancy degrees.
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He's probably the most erudite, best-educated person in the country to debate this issue.
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And he realized at the last moment that even he, with all that fancy academic background,
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He had to concede before the debate took place rather than lose in front of C-SPAN's cameras.
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ISI at that point reached out to something like a dozen pro-trans libs.
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We finally got a guy who identifies as a right-winger, Brad Palumbo, to defend a far more moderate
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position than was initially supposed to be the topic of the debate.
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No one, like the Biden administration, who is going further and saying, we need to trans the kids.
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We need to stop states from protecting kids against the trans procedures.
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Don't pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
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Now, speaking of the culture war issues, Nikki Haley running for president, certainly in the more
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She was asked about Disney, which has been under fire, for transing the kids, for opposing
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a Florida law that would make it harder for people to trans the kids.
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This is obviously dramatically escalating the feud between Disney and Ron DeSantis.
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They're alleging that the Republican governor has waged a, quote, relentless campaign to
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What is your reaction to that, as we still have yet to see him jump officially into the
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You know, as governor, I took a double-digit unemployment state and I turned it into an
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Businesses were my partners, because if you take care of your businesses, you take care
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of your economy, your economy takes care of the people, and everyone wins.
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We are, South Carolina was a very anti-woke state.
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And if Disney would like to move their hundreds of thousands of jobs to South Carolina and
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bring the billions of dollars with them, I'll let them know.
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I'll be happy to meet them in South Carolina and introduce them to the governor and the
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Everyone is saying this is a huge mistake, and this is the defining moment of Haley's
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Yes, Nikki just articulated a very unpopular stance.
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It's a stance that is out of step with where the GOP is right now.
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I don't think the GOP wants to hear about how these woke corporations should be invited
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into our states to bring a lot of jobs and money and drive the economy.
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I think the GOP wants to hear more about how politicians are going to throw their power
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around to bully the corporations into cutting out their unjust practices, such as transing
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the kids, trying to overturn laws passed by the people's representatives to stop transing
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Okay, I agree with that part of it, but I'm not convinced this is a huge mistake for Nikki.
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Nikki is running in the business Republican kind of lane.
00:31:12.140
Let's pay a little less attention to these culture war issues.
00:31:20.800
If Nikki tries to compete on wielding the government to wage the culture war, and she's trying to
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compete against Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, she's going to come up short.
00:31:32.140
We're in a really weird year where a one-term incumbent is running for re-election.
00:31:36.660
So even if she were just running against Trump, a brash cultural figure, she and everyone else
00:31:42.460
would come up short. But especially you've got her running against Ron DeSantis, who is the subject
00:31:48.400
here, who is wielding the government, specifically against Disney. So she's got to give herself some
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differentiation. And I don't know what the calculus was from the campaign or from Nikki herself,
00:32:01.160
but just looking at this as an observer, I think what she's saying is, okay, political wins can change.
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And right now we're in a moment where the GOP base really wants to wield the government,
00:32:11.560
really wants to hit these woke corporations. But the wins might change. Political wins have
00:32:16.660
changed more quickly at other times in history. And so if that happens, and if Trump falters,
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and if DeSantis falters, then I am going to be over here as an alternative candidate. Does that mean
00:32:29.600
that Nikki is suddenly going to jump up in the polls and is going to become the favorite to win the
00:32:33.680
White House? No. But from where she stands in the race, I'm not convinced this is the worst
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position to adopt. It's just an alternative if things change dramatically. Now, speaking of Ron
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DeSantis, Ron DeSantis is doubling down on his position, which is now we got to bring Disney
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into line. He says there's nothing conservative about deferring to corporations.
00:33:01.240
I just think as conservatives, you know, it's not conservative to just simply defer to every
00:33:08.900
corporation in America. That's being a corporatist. And so when I have to, when I have to look and see
00:33:15.660
in the state of Florida, you know, are we being governed appropriately? Are we advancing the rule
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of law? And I have to take on a company like Disney, you know, a corporatist would say that you have to
00:33:27.460
give Disney everything at once. Well, in reality, Disney was enjoying unprecedented privileges and
00:33:34.660
subsidies. They controlled their own government in central Florida. They were exempt from laws that
00:33:40.060
virtually everybody else had to follow. They had great tax breaks. They were even able to rack up
00:33:44.540
debt. No single entity or individual in the state of Florida enjoyed such privileges. And, you know,
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that's not good government. That's not free enterprise. But it's certainly even worse when
00:33:57.560
a company takes all those privileges that have been bestowed over many, many decades and uses that
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to wage war on state policy regarding families and children. This is where the conservatives are
00:34:10.580
right now. This is where the Republicans are right now. I also happen to think this is the correct
00:34:15.800
right approach. What DeSantis is saying is, look, it's not that we hate business. It's not that we
00:34:21.620
want to destroy the economy. We just want to put business in its proper place. And there's a tradition
00:34:29.000
of this critique on the right. This is not a totally new idea. You might say that Ron DeSantis is a
00:34:34.900
business second Republican. He's not a business first Republican. He's a business second Republican.
00:34:40.200
Yeah, you want thriving businesses for the end of a good flourishing society. There was a famous
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essay by Irving Kristol, the better Kristol, the far superior Kristol compared to his son,
00:34:53.160
Bill Kristol. And Irving Kristol had an essay called Two Cheers for Capitalism.
00:34:59.360
Not quite three cheers, but two cheers. We want a thriving economy. We want prosperity. We want people to
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have their material needs taken care of. But we don't want to worship mammon. We don't want to
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pretend that political society is simply to serve the economy and to serve GDP. And that corporations
00:35:14.560
can do no wrong even when they want to trans the kids. No. Two cheers for capitalism. Business second.
00:35:25.020
America first, really God first. And if you put God first, then you're going to have a healthy sense
00:35:32.960
of patriotism. You're going to have a strong support for your family, a love of your community,
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and the basic building block of your political community, which is your family. And patriotism
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is an extension of that filial piety that you have. And all of this flows one from the other.
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But then when you start to get these things out of order and you say, no, actually my family is just
00:35:56.300
a kind of an economic unit. And our country, it's really just a space where a bunch of producers and
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worker bees and consumers all happen to live together so that we can tick up that GDP. And
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that's all that matters and forget about the culture. Then things start to go a little bit
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Do you get it? We got a lot of Henny Youngman one-liners today, don't we?
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But speaking of the transgender issue and the economy and private industry,
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it's a story I was meaning to get to a little bit earlier. I'm glad we have a little time to get to it
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now. Are you familiar with Eggard Watches? Probably you're not. It's a relatively small
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watch company. Well, they just, over the last week or two, put out an ad for their watches.
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I love watches. Watches are a pretty simple thing, though. It tells the time.
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What is the ad about? The ad has nothing to do with watches and everything to do with our culture.
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When I was a little girl, I had this dream that seemed so impossible.
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I was going to be the fastest runner in the world.
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I got this little nugget of an idea from my dad.
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Very standard, kind of commercial, aspirational.
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And I believed him. He made me feel invincible.
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It wasn't easy. I trained hard, harder than anyone else I know.
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All right, girl power, right? That's supposed to be the conclusion.
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I was an unstoppable force. A life dedicated to perfection.
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Perfection. Buy these watches. We could have this perfection.
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Transgender woman who last year competed as a man wins the NCAA track.
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Leah Thomas, this dude, wins the Women's History Month spot.
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Fallon Fox, how many skulls need to be cracked by transgenders?
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Very standard, but then it's strength, courage, determination.
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It won't really matter if we're living in a system of injustice that allows men to pummel women
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figuratively and literally in sports by our watches.
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They could have had a tie-in, which is we know what time it is here at Agard Watches
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But Agard is selling their opposition to leftism, transgenderism, wokeism, liberalism,
00:40:20.220
If I were in the market to buy one of these watches and I were debating between a company
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that either wanted to trans the kids, certainly, or even a company that were kind of silent on
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this and Agard Watches, and I basically like the designs all the same, I would totally
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Right now, if I am forced to drink some crappy light beer, because, I don't know, they ran
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out of Mango Whiteclaw or something at the bar, and I've got to pick between Bud Light
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and almost any other beer company, I'm going to pick almost any other beer company.
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Even though in the past, I previously would have ordered Bud Light.
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Not even because I like it that much, just because it's there, it's easy, it's cheap.
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I remember it from college parties, which is the main use, I think, of Bud Light.
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I am done giving my money to corporations that hate me and that want to pursue policies that
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are not just stupid and inefficient, but downright evil.
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I know it's difficult to totally stop doing that, because in our economy, everything is
00:41:22.860
so intertwined that you are going to, many times during a day, have to participate with
00:41:31.740
But in as much as we have a conscious choice, in as much as we see it in a commercial, yeah,
00:41:40.540
A conservative social media influencer came out after Bud Light, and he said, I'm launching
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And it sounds a little bit familiar, by the way.
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If you know which bathroom to use, you know what beer you should be drinking.
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Stop giving money to woke corporations that hate our values.
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And to the rest of you woke corporations, stay the **** away from our kids.
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Okay, now I can't help but notice, can't help but notice that this commercial looks and
00:42:53.160
And where have I seen this kind of cadence and shot structure and premise for a company
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I may have seen it at a razor company or at a chocolate company, or I don't know, I keep
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And then to start 20 more companies after that, once these liberals keep screwing up all of
00:43:20.060
What does it mean that we've got companies now following the Jeremy's model?
00:43:28.200
In some cases, almost shot for shot in the commercials.
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I love that we are seeing other conservatives come out and say, I want to do exactly what
00:43:44.660
Because when the Daily Wire launched Jeremy's Razors, a lot of people said, well, this is
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Why is a media company launching a consumer products razor subscription service?
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You're limiting your audience by being so explicitly political, blah, blah, blah.
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And a lot of other conservatives and just non-far-left people around the country looked at that
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And when you see those two ads, that is a vote of confidence in the alternative economy.
00:44:26.060
That is a vote of confidence in people who are not just saying, I hope that some conservative
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That's people putting their money where their mouth is, saying, no, I think this is a good
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And we've seen this proven time and time again.
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And if Bud Light or Maybelline or even these supposedly right-wing cable news businesses think
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that they can just continue to spit in the face of conservatives as they have in the past
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pretty much without consequence, I think they're in for a rude awakening.
00:45:02.060
The media landscape can change very, very quickly.
00:45:06.540
And I think we're in one of those periods of transition.
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Before we go, we may have another presidential candidate.
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Seems like every day we've got a new presidential candidate.
00:45:19.540
Christy Noem, who's the governor of South Dakota, was just on Sean Hannity's show.
00:45:24.080
Sean asked the question that I think you got to ask every single Republican politician today.
00:45:29.600
There is a lot of talk that you might be considering getting in to the presidential race, the nominating
00:45:37.580
Are you considering in any way, shape, matter, form a run for the presidency?
00:45:45.580
But I'll tell you, this country cannot afford four more years of Joe Biden.
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So we need new leadership and leadership that loves this country, not one that is clearly
00:45:58.740
I don't know if it's going to do you any good, but you sure can.
00:46:08.500
But also, Sean, we've got so many people that are talking about it and running that I think
00:46:14.260
it's best if I stay focused where I am and continue to visit with my family and pray
00:46:18.900
and do the best thing that we think is right for our family, but then also still continue
00:46:24.600
to serve this country because we need people that'll step up and do hard things these days
00:46:29.760
So if I had an answer that was clear, I'd give it to you today.
00:46:35.940
Now, I'm good on Sean for pushing back a little bit.
00:46:53.680
Obviously, she's been signaling that she wants to run for president for some years now.
00:46:58.340
And Christy Noem is kind of in the middle of the moderate wing of the party, the centrist
00:47:04.600
wing and the conservative wing, and she's gone back and forth between those two wings
00:47:11.200
So she might be running in a third lane, which is the lane between Trump and DeSantis on one
00:47:16.440
side and Tim Scott and Nikki Haley on the other side.
00:47:19.740
And she might just think it's a little too crowded, so I'm going to stay out.
00:47:22.380
But if she sees light, she is obviously running.
00:47:26.260
Now, we have got an interview that I'm very, very excited for in the member block.
00:47:30.580
This is an interview that I've been trying to set up for a while.
00:47:33.880
I mentioned it some weeks ago when a Daily Wire reporter told me about one of the dark
00:47:41.520
secrets of the transgender movement, which is that one of the drivers of transgenderism,
00:47:45.780
it's not just what kids are being taught in school.
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It's not just, I don't know, the plastics in the water turning the frickin' frogs gay.
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That pornography is a big driver of the explosion of transgender identity.
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