Ep. 1239 - $1.2 Million To Every Black Person In California？
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California wants to pay $2.7 Trillion to Black People for Slavery. That's a lot of money, but it's not nearly as much as the $1.2 Trillion that the state estimates it owes Black people for slavery.
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The official reparations task force in California, which entered the union as a free state in 1850,
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has finally figured out how much money the state owes black people for slavery,
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which it never even for one second condoned. The number is at least $1.2 million for each
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black resident. That is the conservative estimate that the economists advising the panel came up
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with. $1.2 million for each of the two and a quarter million black residents of California,
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which means that California intends to give $2.7 trillion to black people simply for being black.
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The real number would likely be much higher though, not only because the $1.2 million number
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is a conservative estimate, but also because one suspects the total number of payees will
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increase substantially when people realize that they can make seven figures by moving to California
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and by stretching their DNA to the limits to identify as black. The annual budget for the
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state of California is $297 billion, which means that the reparations payout alone would total more
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than nine times the state's entire budget, which would seem to be a problem even in the best of
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times. But it's especially a problem now as California is currently running a $22.5 billion
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budget deficit. Today, California needs to find $22.5 billion a year just to break even.
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If it wants to pay reparations for slavery, which it never condoned, to people who were never slaves,
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it will need to come up with a little under 121 times that amount. Now, since, as we have said,
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California never actually had slavery, the reparations committee has had to come up with
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other reasons as to why the state needs to spend almost a decade's worth of its entire budget
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paying off random black people. Among the reasons the committee cites are vague health risks of being
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black, housing discrimination, and my favorite one, mass incarceration, which means that California
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plans to pay people more than nine times its annual budget, specifically for committing crimes.
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All of which is to say, if you, like me, fled California for saner pastures, congratulations.
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If you are still in California and are black, congratulations. And if you are still in
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California and are one of the people expected to foot this bill, run. I'm Michael Knowles. This is
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hurtle us toward World War III. We will get to that in just a second. First, though, I don't want to
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move on too quickly. They say that the Sicilians are the black people of Italy, the black people of
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Europe, really. So especially given that I have been a California resident in my life, I'm just,
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I want to throw it out there before I come down too hard on the reparations issue.
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Can I? I don't even need 1.2 million. If I got half of that, that would be fine.
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I'd be totally cool with that. So let's just, if we could have the
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biologists, the genealogists, the accountants, and the lawyers at Daily Wire look into that,
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I will then give my full opinion on the reparations program. There's one hope for California,
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a sort of a hope. The one hope is that more people move into California so they can pay more taxes and
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can foot the bill for the reparations. And there are a lot of new people entering California.
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The problem is who the people are because the California residents, they're all fleeing California.
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The new people who are coming into California are illegal aliens, largely from places like Venezuela,
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who don't have a lot of money. They don't have trillions of dollars to pay black people for
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historical sins that never took place in California. So that number that we can expect
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of illegal aliens crossing the border every day, it's gone up. U.S. officials are expecting
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illegal crossings to surpass 10,000 people per day. To put that in perspective,
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just a few years ago, I remember I was on the show and there was a huge shocking news story,
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2,000 to 3,000 border crossings per day. And this was historic. No one could believe this number.
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What a crazy surge. Now we're looking at 10,000. The reason for that is Biden wants to end the
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pandemic era border policy known as Title 42. Title 42, which was a great little turn of Donald Trump.
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Which said, okay, you want to lock the world down because the Wu flu is supposedly the most deadly
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thing ever in all of human history. That's fine. Then we definitely can't allow all of these illegal
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aliens to come through, right? And the Libs said, well, no, hold on. Wait, no, no, we only want to
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lock down the Americans. We definitely want to keep flooding the country with the illegal aliens who
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haven't been tested for the virus. No, that's different. You don't get COVID in Venezuela. That's fine.
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Let them through. Let us get some future voters in here. But the Americans that you can't go to church
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or your grocery store or visit granny in the hospital. But come on, man. So Title 42 is in
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place. It stemmed the flow a little bit. That's going away on May 11th. And so now agents are
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already making 6,000 to 8,000 arrests per day. That's just over the past week. That number is
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expected to jump north of 10,000. I don't want this to be too much of a quantitative show today. I'm not
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exactly a mathematician, but just by my calculations. 10,000 people a day over the course of a year,
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that's roughly 3.65 million people per year. And the total US population is what? 320 million,
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something like that. So you're looking at an increase of more than 1% of the total population.
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You are taking now on an annual basis, the US population, and you're adding 1% to that
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every single year. And the number of people you're adding, even in proportion to the
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US population today, seems to be increasing pretty dramatically.
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You remember when the libs went crazy talking about the evil, awful replacement theory? Remember,
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that was their meme for a while. They came up with this term. There's the replacement theory
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and the evil Republicans. They're suggesting that we libs want to replace the US population and import
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more voters who are more likely to vote for us. Can you believe that crazy racist, anti-Semitic,
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you're basically Hitler, and Nathan Bedford Forrest rolled into one. If you ever suggest
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that we want to change the demographics of America, we would never do such a thing.
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Well, okay, what do you call it? I'll use whatever term you want. I don't know. The libs are the ones
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who introduced me to this term replacement theory. So the libs can give me a new term,
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whatever the beautiful term is, you tell me what it is. What do you call it when you intentionally
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import millions and millions of people into the country each year in violation of the country's laws,
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in violation of the desires of the population of that country, of the citizens? You look at poll
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after poll. There was very clearly a few years ago, a Harvard-Harris poll that showed that the
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vast majority of Americans want to drastically reduce not only illegal immigration, but immigration,
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period. Because we take in 1 million legal immigrants per year. And in addition to that,
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now we're looking at what? Over 3 million, 3.5 million illegal aliens per year, if these numbers
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keep up. So now you're talking 4.5, almost 5 million migrants per year in a country of 320 million.
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What do you call that? I don't know. Libs, you tell me what the term is. Media matters. I know you
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love watching the show. You're going to give me some advice. What is the term that I'm allowed to use
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to describe the basic facts that even the Biden administration is admitting, namely that we're
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importing a significant percentage of our population each year to change the makeup of the citizenry
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without the consent of the citizens in a supposedly self-governing republic. What do you call that?
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government works, coincidental with this problem of mass migration, largest movement of human
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beings in recorded history. That's what's happened into the United States in the last 60 years.
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Coincidental with this problem of just millions and millions and millions of unassimilated foreigners,
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you'll notice that according to the Education Department, American students
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are losing their knowledge of history and civics.
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Data from the Department of Education shows that any gains that have been made since the 1990s,
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so 30 years almost, on eighth grade students' knowledge of history and civics, that's been wiped
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away. Only about 13% of U.S. eighth graders met proficiency standards for U.S. history.
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87% of American eighth graders are not even what you could say is proficient in U.S. history. And
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that standard is pretty low. I'm not saying you need to be a PhD here. It's pretty, you need to know
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just basic stuff. 87% of U.S. eighth graders do not. That's according to the National Assessment of
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Educational Progress. It's sometimes called the Nation's Report Card. How many students do you
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think who took the test were considered advanced in U.S. history? 1%.
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How many students were proficient or better in civics? About a fifth. 80% of American eighth
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graders not even proficient. In civics, the basic understanding of how the country is supposed to
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operate. Now, you might say, well, it's just because of the lockdowns and education was hit
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among American students. Yeah, that's true. But history and civics were the two most dismal subjects
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according to the DOE. History and civic scores were, according to Peggy Carr, who's the commissioner of
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the National Center for Education Statistics, they were, quote, woefully low in comparison to other
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subjects. You can't really blame COVID for that. You can't even really blame Dr. Fauci for that. I
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blame Dr. Fauci for all sorts of things. But you can't blame him for that. That's a much bigger problem.
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How did this terrible accident happen? Seems to me what's most likely is that it's not an accident.
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Seems to me this is not a bug of our educational system. This is a feature of it. Seems to me that the
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libs who have targeted and taken over education and who have told us for a hundred years, more than
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a hundred years, that they want to take over education because they want to shape the minds
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of the next generation, that they have intentionally deprived students of a proper education in history
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and civics. Because if you know the real history of the United States, you're going to be less likely
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to try to want to revolutionize everything. You're going to feel an attachment to some of the great
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achievements of American history and Western history more broadly. You're going to be less
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radical. If you know how our government operates, if you understand civics, you're going to be less
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likely to want to go along with leftist plans to change the whole thing. Oh no, our national report
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card gives students an F in history and civics. Yeah. And it gives the radical activists an A plus.
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They've done a great job. They've accomplished exactly what they want to do. Reminds me of that Marco Rubio
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line, which was so rehearsed and silly that Chris Christie destroyed his presidential,
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Rubio's presidential campaign by doing it. And Rubio, we need to dispel with this fiction that
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Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. It was sad because Rubio
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didn't have any way to continue speaking about that. He just had the memorized clip, which wrecked
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his campaign. But the line itself is pretty good. We need to, to quote Rubio, even in his silly
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line that ruined his campaign. We need to dispel with the fiction that the Biden administration
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doesn't know what it's doing on the border. It knows exactly what it's doing. We need to dispel
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with the fiction that these educators don't know what they're doing. The people running American
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education, they know exactly what they're doing and they are succeeding. And their success is evident
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in the failure of American students to know anything, especially about their own country.
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Speaking of education, Kamala Harris is up in arms. Kamala Harris was speaking at some silly event
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and she went off on the dismal state of education in America. Not the test scores,
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not the fact that students don't know anything, but on those evil Republican governors like Ron
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DeSantis who are banning books. When we think about where we've been in the last few years in terms of
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everything from anti-Asian hate crime to what we are looking at in terms of attacks on fundamental
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freedoms like those of a woman to make decisions and a person to make decisions about their body,
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to the attacks we're seeing on voting rights, to the attacks we're seeing on LGBTQ and trans
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folks, the attacks we're seeing where there are literally, can you imagine in this year of our
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Lord 2023 book bans? I mean, really, like, like what? Book bans. Book bans. Can you, I mean, like,
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like, like seriously, like what? Like, like book bans.
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I am so pleased to learn that Vice President Kamala Harris has turned against her party and she has
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come out in favor of the Bible in schools. That's so great. I'm so happy. She deserves to be applauded
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for that. See, I assumed Kamala Harris was for some book bans, especially the book ban instituted not
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only by liberal activists, but by liberal activists on the Supreme Court of the United States that
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banned the most important book ever written from our schools. The book without which not only will
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you struggle to know God, but the book without which, even if you were an atheist or something,
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you couldn't understand pretty much anything about Western civilization, the Bible. And that was banned
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from schools in the middle of the 20th century. And I'm so pleased to know that Kamala Harris
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has joined us and she says, we need to put the Bible back in schools, enough book bans in schools.
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Right? Right, Kamala? Do you? I mean, she hasn't said that explicitly, but she's against book bans.
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You'd think she's, well, maybe Kamala Harris is only in favor of banning the books that she wants to ban,
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but she's against banning the books that we want to ban. And so is it just a matter of preference?
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You know, like we like the Bible, the libs like gay porn. And so what should the second graders be
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taught? Well, you know, you have your preferences, I have mine. No, it's worse than that. Everybody
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supports some kinds of book bans in some kinds of places. Everybody throughout all of human history,
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including you, including me, including everybody. The question is, what books are we going to ban
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in what contexts? The question is, let's put it in the other direction. What books are appropriate for
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what kind of contexts? Do the liberals support teaching strict creationism in biology classes?
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Oh, no. Oh, you don't? So you want to ban those books. Is that right? Okay. All right. You want to
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ban those? That's fine. Those are the books that you want to ban. We want to ban gay porn in third
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grade. Is that, are we allowed? Well, we're not allowed to do that, but you're allowed to ban
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whatever books you want. The question is not even a matter of preference. The question is what is
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right and what is true and what is appropriate at different grade levels. And the conservative view
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is, yeah, good books, like, I don't know, the book that's called The Good Book, that probably has a
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place in schools. A gay porn, that's a bad book that doesn't have a place in any grade, but certainly
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not in elementary school, but really just not in any grade. And what the liberals want to do,
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like Kamala Harris, what they want to do is they want to ban all the good books and the true books
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and the beautiful books and the books that are edifying and will educate you. And they want to
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replace them with books that will damage your education, books that are ugly, books that are
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obscene, books that are profane, books that teach falsehoods. That's what they want. Which are we
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going to ban? Which is it? You know, this is a topic I take on in my book. Speechless, controlling
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words, controlling minds. Nice job, fellas. Nice job. That's the kind of information kids are getting
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Heather is one of my absolute favorite writers and just people in public life around today. So be sure
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to stick around for it. Speaking of the dissemination of information, the ratings are in for Fox News
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post-Tucker Carlson. Some of us had said, you know, guys, if you lose Tucker Carlson, especially after some
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of the issues that Fox News has had in recent years, you might lose a lot of your audience.
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But the Fox executives who canned Tucker, they thought, nah, we don't need Tucker. Tucker's
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nothing. We made him. We can make another Tucker. It's no big deal. This was the thesis in Politico.
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Another part of the liberal establishment, they said, the star is not Tucker Carlson. The star
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is Fox News. And as evidence, a lot of people pointed to the firing of Bill O'Reilly. Bill O'Reilly
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was fired. He was the biggest name in cable news. And then they just, they figured it out. Actually,
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Tucker replaced him and Tucker did a great job there. Yeah, this was a little different though.
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There were a lot of longstanding public, all sorts of allegations against Bill O'Reilly. And so
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even if Fox execs wanted him out for totally different reasons, they could at least point to that.
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They could say, well, we're getting him out because of these lawsuits and we're getting him out
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because of this misconduct, whatever. They couldn't do that with Tucker. They've tried to do that with
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the Dominion lawsuit, defamation case against Fox News. Said, well, we had to get rid of Tucker because
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we paid out a lot of money to Dominion. That didn't make a lot of sense because there were other hosts
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on Fox who went much further on election fraud claims than Tucker ever did. So it didn't, didn't
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work. They just got rid of Tucker, it seems, because he was too independent and conservative and
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bold. So what are the ratings? Tucker without Fox, or Fox rather, without Tucker. 5 p.m.,
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2.72 million viewers. 6 p.m., 1.89 million viewers. 7 p.m., 2.04 million viewers. 8 p.m.,
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that's Tucker's slot. 1.48 million viewers, not even one and a half million viewers.
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Tucker, for comparison, averaged 3 million viewers a night at 8 o'clock. That audience got cut by more
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than half. What a lot of people were predicting. Then even at 9 p.m., 1.91 million, that's Hannity.
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10 p.m., 1.67 million. So the Tucker hour was cut by more than half. And the later hours lost at
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least a quarter of their viewers. What's going on here? This is less like the Fox firing of Bill
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O'Reilly and more like Bud Light putting Dylan Mulvaney on a beer can. That's what this is.
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It looks like the audience is turning. A lot of corporations take their audience for granted.
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This is especially true in cable. It's not just a Fox problem. It's true of a lot of TV channels
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because you just have it on. The way TV works is you just leave it on and it's just on kind of in
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the background all day long. So it's not as active on streaming, on podcasts, on YouTube. It's very
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active. You seek out the information. The video's over. You're done. You move on to maybe a different
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channel. TV is not like that. So for people to actively turn off the channel means that people
00:25:44.480
are asserting themselves. Same with Bud Light. No one ever really deeply desires a Bud Light.
00:25:50.240
It's just kind of there. It's at a frat party. It's at some other kind of party. It's at a bar.
00:25:56.040
And you just think, okay, it's cheap light beer. Whatever. Give me a Bud Light. That's why it's
00:25:59.260
the most popular. It was the most popular beer in America. To get people to change requires seriously
00:26:06.100
pissing them off, for lack of a more eloquent phrase. And that's what Bud Light did.
00:26:11.480
And that's what Fox News did here. And it's a story about the people, too, who are saying,
00:26:18.360
you can't push us around anymore. This is a bridge too far. I think the transgender movement really
00:26:25.460
was a line in the sand for a lot of people. They said, look, we'll put up with a lot of stuff.
00:26:29.520
You can call us racist. You can call us sexist. You can say America's evil. You can take our money.
00:26:33.280
You can take our power. You can flood the country with foreigners. You can,
00:26:35.480
man, we're chopping off the genitals of kids now. No, I'm done. I'm out. Sorry. No more Bud Light.
00:26:44.140
No, what? You're getting rid of the one prominent independent conservative guy on cable?
00:26:50.060
No, that's a bridge too far. Okay. And there are alternatives, not just alternatives in the media.
00:26:55.740
There's an alternative economy that is popping up, happens to be led by a certain lowercase g,
00:27:03.360
lowercase g, God king around here, Jeremy Boring, who says, no, Harry's wants to trans everybody.
00:27:09.880
Okay. I'll buy Jeremy's razors. Boom. We become a major razor company in the country. Oh,
00:27:15.240
Hershey's wants to trans the kids or whatever. No, with Jeremy's chocolates, we're going to sell 50 tons
00:27:20.820
of chocolate. Okay. It's called an alternative economy. Now you're seeing copycats. People who are
00:27:24.780
copying the Jeremy's commercial, almost shot for shot. In a way, that's a great thing.
00:27:29.200
It's a great thing because it means that not only do conservatives want an alternative,
00:27:34.160
but they're willing to stake their money on an alternative. They're willing to actually act on
00:27:39.020
it. That's new. Speaking of Tucker, we have our daily Tucker leak. Are you guys ready for our daily
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this is it? Drip, drip, drip from the people who wanted to fame Tucker and ruin his reputation.
00:28:01.960
that slimy little mother sitting across from me. Oh, you're the best. And I wasn't talking
00:28:09.720
about you. It's just the opposite. No, I'm not. What do you mean? Because you've never
00:28:15.680
been this affirmed in your life? I bet so. Thank you, Alex. Have a happy weekend.
00:28:21.780
It's his face wipes. Hey, man. The amount, it was so unhealthy, the hate. Thank you,
00:28:30.400
Teresa. The hate that I felt for that guy. I mean, thank you, Tucker. I, I. How could you
00:28:35.000
not? Well, I never feel that way, you know, because I don't put myself, I don't want to
00:28:38.680
feel that way. I think it's wrong. It's bad. It's totally bad for you to feel that way.
00:28:41.820
But that guy, I mean, he triggered the s**t out of you. He's talking about the lawyer for
00:28:50.060
Dominion. Where are you now? Where do you live?
00:28:56.220
He's going, he's saying, this guy's asking me where I live. He's trying to accuse me of tax
00:28:59.920
evasion. This guy. But the way he's talking about it, he's saying, I'm so angry. I was so filled with
00:29:05.040
hatred. But he's laughing. He's joking with his multiple staff members all around him. He's being
00:29:09.940
very polite to know. Thank you so much. I know I'm affirming you, but not you. I'm not affirming
00:29:14.100
you. He, he, but all that guy. And it's not healthy for me. I don't want to be filled with
00:29:17.640
that guy is threatening me. Oh, can you believe this guy is what a week? Every single leak intended
00:29:23.800
to destroy Tucker makes him look cooler and more likable. Every single one. I can't wait for the
00:29:29.860
next one. Whoever is leaking these things, it seems like there's only one entity that could be
00:29:34.240
leaking them. But whoever's leaking them to Media Matters, it seems like we're going to get
00:29:37.500
tomorrow. It's going to be Media Matters breaking, exclusive, exclusive coverage of Tucker Carlson
00:29:45.580
violating traffic laws. Oh yeah. He's never going to recover from this. And then they're going to,
00:29:51.140
it's going to be a picture of him looking like James Dean on a motorcycle or something. That's
00:29:54.480
what they're going to do. I typed that into mid journey, the AI program. I just said, Tucker Carlson
00:29:59.900
looking cool on a motorcycle or something like that. And it pops up. That's going to be it. That's
00:30:03.240
the effect of every single one of these leaks. Oh yeah. Tucker's never going to recover from this.
00:30:08.980
He jokes around with his staff, which really likes him. Oh yeah. Tucker, they got Tucker now.
00:30:17.240
Tucker is thoughtful about the way that the mass media impel people to wrath and rage.
00:30:24.160
And he's thoughtful about that and tries to resist it. That they've got him now.
00:30:28.080
Keep it up. You're going to make Tucker Carlson the king of all media. He's going to become the
00:30:34.300
chairman of the board at News Corporation if they keep up leaks like this. Now, speaking of these
00:30:41.220
really, really backwards, self-undermining campaigns that we've seen against Tucker and specifically
00:30:48.220
that we've seen with Bud Light, Bud Light is getting real desperate. They tried, what did they
00:30:53.980
try? They tried to defend the Dylan Mulvaney can. Then they tried to kind of backtrack a little,
00:31:00.600
but not really. They didn't. They put out that apology letter from the CEO, but it wasn't an
00:31:07.040
apology. Just a guy saying like, I support the military. Bud Light is American. It's good.
00:31:12.800
Then they did a commercial about horses or something. Then, but then they did, they tried to pin it on
00:31:18.920
this marketing VP and they put her on leave. But then, so what are they doing now? Bud Light is
00:31:25.340
sending free beer to every wholesale employee. Bud Light is reportedly sending a free case of beer
00:31:35.880
to every employee of its wholesaler network. That's a lot of people.
00:31:41.420
In part, I think they're doing this because they don't know what to do with all the beer. They've got
00:31:44.300
too much beer because people aren't buying it anymore because their sales have not only declined
00:31:47.540
dramatically, but they are continuing decline more and more and more. And why do they have to do this?
00:31:54.960
Why do they have to now just bribe employees with free beer to try to get them to drink what most
00:31:59.680
people now consider to be not only swill, which it always was, but unacceptably leftist, aggressive,
00:32:06.540
harmful swill? Why? Because that VP of marketing, Alyssa Heinerscheid, not only pushed the campaign with the
00:32:17.060
prominent and particularly offensive transvestite on the can of beer, but because she said this on camera.
00:32:24.220
We need to evolve and elevate this incredibly iconic brand. And my, what I brought to that
00:32:31.620
was a belief in, okay, what does, what does evolve and elevate mean? It means inclusivity.
00:32:38.100
It means shifting the tone. It means having a campaign that's truly inclusive and feels lighter
00:32:45.680
and brighter and different and appeals to women and to men. And representation is at sort of the
00:32:51.280
heart of evolution. You've got to see people who reflect you in the work. And we had this hangover.
00:32:57.100
I mean, Bud Light had been kind of a brand of fratty, kind of out of touch humor. And it was really
00:33:07.780
important that we had another approach. That, that's why you saw the backlash. It actually,
00:33:15.420
I don't think, I don't think it was Dylan Mulvaney. I don't think it was the one can. They didn't even
00:33:21.900
distribute the can. They didn't sell it. They just sent this guy one can of beer. That would
00:33:26.780
have been annoying. People wouldn't have liked that. Maybe some people would have stopped drinking
00:33:30.660
Bud Light for that. But no, the, the reason that Bud Light is just collapsing as a company right now
00:33:36.940
went from the most popular beer in America to now they can't give the stuff away is because
00:33:42.640
for the first time we got to see what these executives really think of us.
00:33:51.300
Wasn't quite the first time. We we've seen what Disney executives think of us, or at least we've
00:33:56.400
seen what Disney executives want to do. They say, we're going to push a non-so-secret gay agenda.
00:34:00.160
But I guess for the first time we saw an executive at one of these companies
00:34:03.660
really describing how little they think of us, the customer, but we had this hangover.
00:34:11.020
We had this yucky, fratty, totally out of touch hangover. And the hangover was the customers.
00:34:21.800
That's what they think. Yeah. Oh, you people are so disgusting. I mean,
00:34:25.100
we'll take your money. Your money's green as anybody's, but you're deplorable. You're irredeemable.
00:34:31.120
You're disgusting. Oh, I'd much rather spend time with transvestites.
00:34:37.720
Ugh. Especially the ones who insist on going to the girl's bathroom and just mock women on TikTok
00:34:43.220
every day. But you, you regular blue collar worker, you normal frat guy. Oh, you're gross.
00:34:51.040
Ugh. Now give me your money. Ugh. Well, now we saw it. We saw what they think. And that was a bridge
00:34:56.720
too far. We could at least previously just fool ourselves into thinking, well, maybe the,
00:35:02.840
the executives are out of touch. We're not the ones out of touch. Obviously we know that men are men
00:35:07.000
and women are women and babies are babies and we know normal stuff, but these executives, yeah,
00:35:11.760
maybe they're just a little bit out of touch, but they don't really hate us, but they do.
00:35:15.240
I do. Listen to the way she's talking about her customers and the customers are saying, okay,
00:35:20.600
you don't like me. You don't need us. You don't need our money either. My favorite comment
00:35:25.760
yesterday is from Dominic Zelenak, who says, things begin to make sense when you realize that our
00:35:32.660
country is run by Disney adults. So true. So true. Our country is run by overgrown children
00:35:43.780
who they, they just never got past even some of the earliest stages of maturity. This isn't one of
00:35:53.980
the problems facing Europe. The fact that, and this was especially true a few years ago,
00:36:01.060
most European leaders didn't have any kids. Isn't that kind of weird when the leader of your country,
00:36:05.920
when the stewards of the future of your civilization don't have any direct skin in the game?
00:36:13.520
They don't have a next generation. That probably doesn't bode well for your civilization.
00:36:18.180
It's the same thing here. When kids behave like children, that's really charming. That's great.
00:36:26.160
We like that. It's childlike. When adults behave like children, that's not good. That's wrong.
00:36:32.380
That's inappropriate. That's childish. That's why we have different words to describe those things.
00:36:37.000
And we have childish people running our country, running our, not just our government,
00:36:43.600
running our corporations, running our schools, running all of it. That's, that's an inversion.
00:36:50.720
And they always say they'll learn from the children out of the mouth of babes. Well, I could learn a lot
00:36:54.580
more from a child acting like a child than from an adult acting like a child. And it's the latter
00:36:58.440
that's running the country. Probably doesn't bode well for world stability and peace. You're seeing this
00:37:05.260
now coming out of the Kremlin. There was a drone attack on the Russian government. It was apparently
00:37:14.200
an attempted assassination of Vladimir Putin, who carried it out. Presumably Ukraine. I don't think
00:37:22.060
the, I don't know, the Argentinians, I don't think the Argentinians have any big problem with Vladimir
00:37:27.660
Putin, right? I don't think it was Djibouti that was really upset. No, it's Ukraine and the pro-Ukraine
00:37:34.020
forces. But what is Ukraine? In this war over Ukraine, this is at the very least a proxy war
00:37:41.580
between Russia, which invaded Ukraine, and Ukraine's biggest backer, which is the United States and NATO
00:37:47.740
and the West broadly. The war is largely over the territorial and resource conflict of interests
00:37:57.760
between the West, led by America, and Russia. And Russia has said increasingly that this is no longer
00:38:04.760
just a proxy sort of cold war, but it's a hot war between the U.S. and Russia, because we're supplying
00:38:11.560
the weapons. We're quite involved in what's going on in Ukraine. So then the question becomes,
00:38:19.020
were we involved in this attempted drone attack? I'm not saying that we are. I don't,
00:38:26.660
probably if we were involved, it would have worked. So I'm somewhat skeptical that we were
00:38:30.880
particularly involved. But this is really dangerous stuff. You're now talking about
00:38:36.180
the side of the war that the United States is on and in many ways leading.
00:38:41.300
Just tried to assassinate the leader, the 20-plus-year leader of a nuclear former superpower at the
00:38:51.300
seat of government? World War I started because an archduke took a wrong turn and a random anarchist
00:39:00.720
shot him. World War I, one of the bloodiest, most devastating conflicts ever, started because of that.
00:39:07.700
Our leaders, our incompetent, uneducated, feckless, stupid leaders are zombie-walking us
00:39:23.360
into potentially World War III if we aren't in it already. What are we going to do about that? Well,
00:39:31.800
the leading presidential candidate for the Republicans says that he's going to end the war in one day.
00:39:38.160
If I were president, and I say this, I will end that war in one day. It'll take 24 hours.
00:39:45.100
I know Zelensky well. I know Putin well. I would get that ended in a period of-
00:39:52.700
A hundred percent. It would be easy. That deal would be easy. A lot of it has to do with the money. A lot
00:39:57.940
of it has to do with the military, you know, that we're giving. But I would get that deal done
00:40:02.980
within 24 hours. That war has to be stopped. That war is a disaster.
00:40:07.680
So people are going to say, well, this is just typical Trumpian braggadocio. Me, listen,
00:40:14.360
I'm the only one who can fix anything, and I'm the greatest, and I'll just talk to people,
00:40:18.500
and I'll cut a deal. It's the art of the deal. And they're going to make fun of him for that.
00:40:21.240
The reason it's going to be hard to make fun of him for that, though, is that he has a record.
00:40:27.160
He has been the president. And the place where he perhaps most shined as president
00:40:33.260
was foreign policy. Donald Trump is the only president on whose watch Vladimir Putin has
00:40:41.520
not invaded a neighboring country in 25 years. Right? Since George W. Bush, Putin invades Georgia.
00:40:56.680
Barack Obama, Putin invades Crimea. Trump, Putin just kind of stays still. He's still got part of
00:41:04.700
Ukraine, but he just kind of stays still. Biden, he invades more of Ukraine.
00:41:12.920
So he's got a good record on this particular issue. He's got a good record in the Middle East.
00:41:18.240
Goodness sakes, the man basically brought peace to the Middle East. He destroyed ISIS. He got the
00:41:23.600
the Arabs and the Israelis sitting down and talking to each other. Iran didn't develop a nuclear weapon
00:41:29.400
on his watch. Pretty good. He got NATO to start paying more for their own defense. He got China
00:41:35.580
to come to the table on trade. He renegotiated NAFTA, renegotiated immigration policy such that
00:41:45.340
one had to apply for citizenship in the first country one got to, and a country before they got to the
00:41:50.880
United States if they were fleeing places like Guatemala and Honduras and El Salvador and the
00:41:53.840
rest. He was a great foreign policy president. And so his promise here carries a fair bit of weight.
00:42:01.560
Presidential elections often are not based on foreign policy. People just don't care about it
00:42:06.820
that much. It's kind of complicated. The sides are a little murkier. If we're on the brink of World
00:42:11.680
War III, foreign policy is going to play a much greater role in the election. And that is going
00:42:19.780
to bode very well for Trump, certainly against Joe Biden. It also bodes well for him against his
00:42:26.240
Republican primary rivals. Nikki Haley has foreign policy experience, but her foreign policy experience
00:42:33.020
was working for Trump, implementing the Trump policy. So he can check her on that. And
00:42:39.400
also her polling is just nowhere near Trump's right now. So he's not going to worry about her
00:42:44.260
as much of a threat. Pompeo's out. So he's the other guy with foreign policy experience. Cruz has
00:42:50.400
some foreign policy experience. He's out. Who is it? Well, his only real rival at the moment is Ron
00:42:58.240
DeSantis. And Ron DeSantis, no knock on him, but he was a member of Congress and then governor of Florida.
00:43:03.080
He doesn't really have foreign policy experience. So World War III, not great for all of us. Could be great
00:43:10.560
news, however, for Donald Trump. And if he wins, it could be great news for all of us because he, more than
00:43:17.760
just about anybody I can think of, would be able to stop it. There's a really important story I want
00:43:23.940
to get to. I guess we're going to have to hold it for tomorrow, but I just, I'll tease it for you, okay?
00:43:28.080
I'll just let you ruminate on how this could be possible all night to tell you where our leaders
00:43:33.880
are right now, what kind of people are running our country. A woman is claiming that she knew that her
00:43:41.520
daughter was actually a boy because the daughter, when she was a little girl, ate green vegetables.
00:43:51.480
And she said she knew, she saw that the daughter was eating green vegetables. And this made clear to her
00:43:56.100
that she was desperate to transition to become a boy. And the crazy part is not that some fringe
00:44:02.480
lunatic lady was abusing her child willfully or unwilfully. The crazy part is that as she's giving
00:44:10.760
this testimony, people take her seriously. That kind of view is now the national policy. We'll get to
00:44:15.840
that in just, just one moment, one brief moment between now and tomorrow. Before that though,
00:44:22.120
it's time for the member block and it's time to bring on my friend, Heather MacDonald with a great
00:44:26.760
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