Ep. 1252 - Creepy Porn Made The Matrix Director Transgender
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Summary
A Democratic governor declares a state of emergency in North Carolina, a pro-gay group gets denied a place at Dodger Stadium, and the LA Dodgers invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field at Pride Night.
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The Democrat governor of North Carolina has declared a state of emergency.
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No, there wasn't any natural disaster. No, terrorists have not set off a dirty bomb.
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No, no, for Democrats, something far worse occurred. Republican legislators
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are offering to let North Carolinians choose where to send their kids to school.
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I'm declaring this state of emergency because you need to know what's happening.
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If you care about public schools in North Carolina, it's time to take immediate action
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and tell them to stop the damage that will set back our schools for a generation.
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Their private school voucher scheme will pour your tax money into private schools.
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Oh, no. Here's what's going to happen in the next few weeks.
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Their scheme is going to let you send your kid to good schools instead of the bad schools
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that you're currently forced to send your kids to. The horror!
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Still, though, that state of emergency declaration seems a little bit odd
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since nearly 70, 70% of North Carolinians support school choice.
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Also a little bit odd since the bill has been passed by the people's duly elected representatives
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who ran for office on school choice. But the oddest part of the declaration
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is that Governor Cooper sends his own kids to private school.
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You know those awful, evil, terrible, unaccountable private schools
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that you should definitely not send your kids to?
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He sends his kids to them. That's kind of weird.
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But this is an emergency to the Democrat political agenda.
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For liberals, control over the schools constitutes the foundation of their power.
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It's the furthest reaching power base they've got.
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They know that if students have a choice to receive a decent education,
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the kind of education that Governor Cooper's children, for instance, are able to receive,
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then they'll be less likely to fall for the deceits of the power-mad politicians
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who want to keep all the privileges for themselves.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Pretty soon, if we don't stop this, your kids might be allowed to go to school with my kids.
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Uh-uh. My fancy kids got to go to the school that none of you hoi polloi go to.
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We do have, coming up, a longtime left-wing therapist
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who made an important observation about wokeness
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and the secular salvation for white people's souls.
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We'll get to that eccentric idea in just a little bit.
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First, though, huge fight over sports and, I guess, education
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and, I guess, the whole way our society views itself.
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This, out of my old home, Gamora-by-the-Sea, Los Angeles.
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I was just back there to do some shoots for my PragerU book club show.
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And before I left for California, there was a big hubbub because there's a pro-drag group
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that is very anti-Christian, specifically anti-Catholic, but broadly very sacrilegious.
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It's called the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
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And this group exists to mock Christianity, mock religious orders, mock our Lord,
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and mock virtue and pervert all of it into sin and make fun of religious people.
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Okay, so they were going to be honored at Dodger Stadium as part of Pride Month festivities
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And so then the LA Dodgers said, okay, we're not going to invite this degenerate group
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to the middle of the stadium to honor them in the middle of June.
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And then there was an outcry from the pro-LGBT group.
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And so the Dodgers have come back and they said, okay, we're re-inviting the Sisters of Perpetual
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Indulgence after much thoughtful feedback from our diverse communities, honest conversations
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within the LA Dodgers organization, and generous discussions with the Sisters of Perpetual
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The LA Dodgers would like to offer our sincerest apologies to the sisters, members of the LGBTQ
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plus community, and their friends and families.
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Anyways, we've asked the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to take their place on the field
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at our 10th annual LGBTQ Pride Night on June 16th.
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We're pleased to share that they've agreed to receive the gratitude of our collective communities,
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wait for this, for the life-saving work that they have done tirelessly for decades.
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So jiggling around for drunk, drug-addled weirdos.
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Mocking Christianity and engaging in extremely perverse burlesques and cabaret acts, that
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Meanwhile, you've got actual Catholic nuns who are literally saving people's lives, taking
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care of little babies, taking care of the elderly, taking care of the sick.
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They're never going to get their night at Dodgers Stadium.
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But the weird sex troupe that mocks those nuns, they get honored for their life-saving work.
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And then you've got the Dodgers logo there in the rainbow flag.
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The rainbow flag, which, as far as I'm concerned, is the most dangerous hate symbol in the country.
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You hear about all these hate symbols, you know?
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To me, nothing tells me that you are on the wrong side of things quite like that pride flag.
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And now these maniacs are honoring a group of anti-Catholic, anti-religious perverts.
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Well, I guess the takeaway is that the L.A. Dodgers have become L. Gay Dodgers.
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But if I had to find any deeper meaning in all of this, the meaning is this.
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The Dodgers have to pick between actual religious sisters and the sisters of perpetual indulgence,
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these dudes jiggling around, making fun of Christ.
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They have to choose one of those things because if they invite this drag troupe, they're going to offend the Christians.
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If they disinvite the drag troupe, they're going to offend the sexual revolutionaries and the libs.
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And the Dodgers said, okay, we're going to offend the Christians.
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So we're going to side with the sexual revolutionaries and all the libs.
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In the short term, they probably made the right choice because that is where the powerful people in our culture are.
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So they say, okay, we're going to pick the politically correct one.
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We're going to pick the side of the liberal establishment.
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We're going to pick the side of the media and the colleges and all the rest of it.
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In the long run, I think they picked the wrong side.
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In the, let's say, eternal run, I think they definitely picked the wrong side here.
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And the squishes who want to say, well, we'll just be neutral about all this.
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Either the sacrilegious drag queens get invited to the baseball stadium, the public place.
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This central public place built in part with taxpayer money for the sports and the games,
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which always have a patriotic public role in any society.
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Either the drag queens get invited to the center of the field or they don't.
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Either the Christians get to set the norms or the weirdos get to set the norms.
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There are lots of different kinds of weirdos, but in particular, the lib,
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I would rather it be the people who are in favor of the good, the true, and the beautiful.
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But that's not the way the culture is looking right now.
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Speaking of transvestites, so I got in trouble a few weeks ago for pointing out or even just hosting a woman for an interview who pointed out
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that pornography is turning a lot of people trans.
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And Media Matters, my publicists over there, mocked me for this and criticized me for this.
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And a lot of liberals have mocked and criticized this idea that pornography, addiction to pornography,
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increasingly weird pornography, is largely responsible for turning lots of otherwise basically normal people trans.
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The two guys who made The Matrix, the Wachowski brothers, they both went trans, which is kind of strange that two brothers around the same time would go trans.
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There's a video now circulating, it's been dug up, of one of the Wachowski brothers, Andy Wachowski, explaining that I'm totally right.
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To be honest, like, for me, the people that I saw, the first images that really struck a chord with me were, you know, trans women and pornography.
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And there was something that unlocked in my brain that I saw these wonderful, fearless performers becoming desirable.
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And I, in my head, I could take the leap where I felt like, well, if I could be desirable, then maybe I could be loved.
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And for me, that's, like, one of the keys that trans people have to, like, struggle through, you know, will somebody love me?
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What he described as his experience as one of the most prominent trans-identifying people in America is exactly what I said happened, for which I was criticized by all the libs.
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He said, I was watching this kind of weird porn, so I was going down a rabbit hole.
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And I viewed myself differently, and I cultivated a new kind of desire, a new vision of how I desired even to be desirable to others.
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Yeah, I think that happens for a lot of people.
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The only ones talking about this are the feminists and the actual conservatives.
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The squishes and the libs and the center right and the center left and the people in the middle, they refuse to acknowledge that porn and depravity and vice are largely responsible for the spread of the transgender identity and ideology.
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Desire is not just something that you're born with, and it remains exactly the same over time.
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It's not merely something that pops up one day, and now you've got this desire for the rest of your life.
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Desire is a complex interplay of aspects of your nature and aspects of your acculturation that develop and deepen or they lessen over time.
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The scientific jargon for this always involves neural pathways, and I don't mean to mock the scientific jargon too much.
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If that helps you to see what the phenomenon is, then that's great.
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But people will say, well, look, if you're a big fat guy, and whenever you're feeling a little down or anxious or bored or so, you go eat an ice cream pop, then you're going to deepen the neural pathways.
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And so whenever you start to feel that way, you're going to eat the ice cream pop, and it's going to make you fatter, but it's going to be harder to break that.
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But you could make the same kind of observation about a heroin addict.
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You could make the same observation about a pornography addict.
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You could make the same observation about anybody engaging in any kind of habitual behavior.
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The reason the science jargon is not all that persuasive is because we're not just bodies.
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We're not just bags of chemicals and brains inside a skeleton, but we're body and soul.
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And so the way that I think is simpler and more precise to talk about it is that this is how our desires are formed.
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And that's exactly the kind of language that Wachowski is using.
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So on the one side of transgender observations, you've got Michael Knowles and one of the most prominent transvestites in America.
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And the people who say we're wrong are a bunch of libs over at Media Matters.
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But that's obviously, I think we're on the right side of that.
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A very rare great story in the news that has nothing to do with weird sex stuff.
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It has nothing to do with the Democrats destroying our culture.
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There's a 45-year-old high school custodian and part-time barber who just earned his high school diploma.
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He's custodian for the Indian Creek Elementary School in Clarkston.
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And he just joined over 40 other adults who got their high school diplomas during a recent ceremony.
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It was a struggle for a while and to achieve and get through it.
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This guy had to drop out of high school to take care of his younger brothers.
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Now, all these years later, he's gone back, gotten his high school diploma.
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And the political lesson to take and the personal lesson for all of us is it's a reminder that it is never too late to improve yourself.
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We are often tempted to think, oh, it's too late.
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I can't fix my situation, my family situation, my professional situation, my maleducation, my vice, my bad habits, my addictions.
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You know, old dog ain't going to change its spots.
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And people are tempted to think this way from the time they're five years old.
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Jeremy, the God King Jeremy Boring, just made this point on Twitter today on a fairly unrelated topic.
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Until you're going into the ground, it's not too late.
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And a lot of people think that in our culture, which is so depraved, it's got just such madness and addiction all around.
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We're in the throes of the worst opioid crisis ever.
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We've got the average life expectancy decreasing.
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It's very easy to think, oh, well, it's just, it's all too far gone.
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The way you overcome it, one, is to turn to God and accept God's grace.
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And then to cooperate with that grace and just take it one day at a time.
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And you just go back to that classroom for one day.
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And you go back the next day and you keep doing your job.
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After a while, you've got a high school diploma.
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Speaking of education, Chip Roy, Republican congressman from Texas, all around national treasure.
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Chip Roy just gave a great education to the chief legal and strategy officer
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In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress released a video on which you stated, quote,
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I understand why people are talking about getting that skull out.
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When abortion has crushed the skulls of babies to kill them.
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It allows me to clarify that the media products you're referring to stoked a massive uptick in violence.
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Those heavily edited, misleadingly edited media products caused three murders and nine woundings in Colorado Springs in 2015.
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The question was about the baby and the skull crushing that is, I think, a direct quote attributed to you.
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Well, Congressman, look, this is the deceptively edited, you don't know what the, and he says, hold on, you said this.
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We have your words about crushing baby's skulls.
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The folks who distributed those media products may have attributed something to me.
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You don't know if you talked about the crushing of the skull of a baby.
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You don't remember having said something like that.
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I'm pretty confident I've never said something like that.
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I'm quite confident my colleagues here have never said something like that.
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Have you ever said something about crushing the skull of the baby, particularly in that kind of a setup?
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I believe, Congressman, that we all came here today to agree that violence is never an appropriate response to policy differently.
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That seems pretty violent, the crushing of the skull of a baby.
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At the moment, he says, hey, we got you on video talking about crushing the skulls of little babies and how that's really what abortion is.
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She goes, people who, if you oppose the slaughter of babies, you're encouraging violence.
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I'm quoting your words back to you that we have on video.
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You're demanding violence against the sacred, beautiful, virtuous abortionists.
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No, I'm not advocating whatever you're talking about.
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That's also not much of a denial, as Chip Roy points out.
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Because I'm pretty sure I've never advocated crushing the skulls of babies.
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Very often what Dems want to do is they'll, if you say, hey, we probably shouldn't slaughter
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like 800,000 little innocent babies a year, right?
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They'll say, well, do you support increased welfare payments?
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That has nothing to do with what, we shouldn't murder babies, right?
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Well, do you support Planned Parenthood education in elementary schools?
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure murdering babies is violent.
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Speaking of conservatives standing up, it's not just Chip Roy.
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That's why Tommy Tuberville, also Senator Tuberville, is holding up a defense spending measure,
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and he's doing it specifically over abortion policy.
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I mean, it's just, it's atrocious what's going on here.
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But they politicized it, and I'm standing by my word.
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So I sent them the memo that Secretary Austin, you know, put out that we're going to do it this way.
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And, of course, I went right back at them and said,
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if you do, you're not going to do any promotions as long as you do it that way.
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So they think they're going to get me to change it.
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and hopefully they'll come to the realization that we've got a few people over here to fight.
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We've got a few that I'm disappointed in, as I stood up in a caucus meeting the other day.
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I said, either we're pro-life or we're not, okay?
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You know, and to me, that's one of the top policies that we have in the Republican Party is that we're pro-life.
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and we've always used exceptions in the military of rape, incest, and healthy mom.
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but they're trying to politicize the military so much, radicalize it.
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It's just everything that they're doing, everything they touch, you know, turns to socialism.
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And so if we don't stand up, and the Republican Party doesn't get some backbone,
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Okay, so what is Senator Tuberville talking about?
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Military policy that would give benefits to people who want to kill their kids.
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And say, okay, you get some time off, you get this kind of subsidy,
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so we're going to, that's going to be the military policy.
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We don't need to pass this through the legislature,
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because it's just going to be set by the bureaucrats over at the Pentagon, and that's that.
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And Senator Tuberville, he frames it in a way that's quite clever.
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He's saying, listen, we accept the exceptions that are long-standing practice by the Pentagon.
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Now, do pro-lifers really accept the exception that in some cases a baby's life matters,
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but in other cases it doesn't, or something like that?
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From a practical standpoint, okay, if you can reduce 99% of abortion, not a bad place to begin.
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But he says, this new policy, no, we're not going to allow the Defense Department
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to start subsidizing abortions with our taxpayer money.
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And so I'm going to hold up this defense spending bill until they fix it.
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And you're going to hear the squishes say, we can't hold up the defense spending bill.
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We've got to give all that money to Ukraine or something.
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We're about to be on the brink of World War III because of Biden's stupid foreign policy
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But Tuberville says, yeah, well, I'm going to hold it up.
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If you're so afraid that we're about to descend into World War III,
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then I should hope that you're not willing to throw the whole country away,
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turn us into a slave to China or something like that,
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because you want to give some extra time off to people so they can go kill their children.
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And I think this is exactly the right strategy.
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The people have very little control over the government at all anymore.
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No matter what the holdups are in the legislature and the executive,
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There seems to be no shortage of money for the federal government,
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And so Tuberville is saying, yeah, you're not getting my assent to this.
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Speaking of mass murder, there's a somewhat breaking news story.
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A U-Haul, driven apparently by Nazis, crashed into a pole in Washington, D.C.
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Nobody really can tell what the point of this attack was.
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But the one thing we do know is the U-Haul gently crashed into some poles.
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And then a bunch of media came out and the people in the press and the first responders come out
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And there's not a lot in the back of the U-Haul, but they find a big Nazi flag,
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And these first responders, this is really, really meticulous how they did this.
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And they lay it out right on the pavement, just perfectly set up for the cameras to take those photos.
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And then cameras get their photos and they kind of put it away and that's all we know about it.
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I didn't think there were a lot of Nazis in America.
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And I don't see what the point of this attack would be.
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And you'd think if these were old-timey Nazis, they'd probably have a nice battered,
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tattered, weathered flag, not like a brand new one.
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That's all I have to say on the alleged Nazi attack.
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We never find out very much about all those Nazis.
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The liberal establishment loves talking about all of these elusive Nazis.
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Now, speaking of our crazy political environment, we have a new candidate for president.
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I'm announcing today that I'm running for president of the United States of America.
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You see, they're attacking our American values, our schools, our economy, and our security.
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But under Joe Biden, our nation is not a nation in decline.
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But under Joe Biden, we have become a nation in retreat.
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All chance direction, which thou canst not see.
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We expected that he would probably run for president.
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That was teased, I think, about a year ago by his publisher.
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Tim Scott, to his credit, is launching a different kind of campaign
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Tim Scott is launching a campaign premised on America is not in decline.
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Every other candidate, Trump, DeSantis, Bebeck, Nikki,
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They're running campaigns based on how America is in steep decline.
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But the providence, the coincidence of, we are not a nation in, oh, wait, our microphones
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It could be an appealing campaign thesis in the same way that Ronald Reagan was so appealing.
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Again, well, I believe America's best days lie ahead of us.
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You think, well, listen, Gipper, I'm all for hope.
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We've got sacrilegious drag queens jiggling around Dodger Stadium.
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You sure that's better than, say, I don't know, the white picket fences of the 1950s?
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He is genuinely one of the nicest guys in politics.
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I mean, everyone laughs because everyone believes that the race is totally set in stone.
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It's either going to be Trump or maybe it'll be DeSantis.
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Presidential campaigns are crazy and unpredictable.
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The only thing that you can reasonably expect is the unexpected.
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As of right now, despite what you may have heard in the news,
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despite the constant negative press, Covfefe, Trump is leading by a lot, by a lot.
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According to Morning Consult, these numbers are about a week old at this point.
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So Trump is way up, and the race is moving more and more in Trump's direction.
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Trump is up on DeSantis in Georgia by a fair bit.
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Trump's the most favorable GOP candidate at 78%.
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Trump had been at 79%, but he's still basically around there.
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That's down from 72% who viewed him favorably the week before.
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It's down from 73% of people who viewed him favorably the week before that.
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DeSantis' response is that he, Ron DeSantis, is the only Republican who can win.
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He said you have basically three people at this point that are credible in this whole thing.
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And I think of those three, two have a chance to get elected president, Biden and me, based on all the data in the swing states.
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Now, this is a good response to all of these polls, which nationally are not looking great for Ron DeSantis.
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Because what DeSantis is saying is, hey, the primary isn't a national contest.
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And so, yeah, maybe Trump is way up on me nationally.
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And that's not going to decide the general election.
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What's going to decide both of those things are a handful of states.
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And then those handful of states that tend to be a little bit more moderate.
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Now, Trump is going to say, actually, they do like me much more than they like other Republicans.
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Because I brought out voters who previously would not be Republican and probably wouldn't even vote.
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But DeSantis is going to say, no, those suburban moms, those people in the middle, they're going to pick me over Trump.
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Again, that's going to be where the election is decided.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from J.J. Hervey, who says,
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We're not grooming kids, says the company named Target.
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Maybe Target will change its name from Target to Tuckett.
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And she gave one of the most precise and insightful definitions of wokeness,
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a word that has eluded definition in certain quarters, that I have ever heard.
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It's only really over the past six or seven months that I've understood my racial identity
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and begun to really deconstruct it personally and from within and understanding that in
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terms of the psychology of white folks who are my people.
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I grew up in Seattle, very like liberal whiteness environment.
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I've been working as a therapist for about 15 years.
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And to me, really the only real spiritual path of meaning available to white folks.
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Wokeness, she says, is the only real spiritual path of meaning available to white folks.
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That is how they view wokeness by which they mean a particularly virulent form of leftist politics.
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It's not literally true, but that perception is accurate to them.
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This is why the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence have to be allowed to mock Christianity at Dodger Stadium.
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Because the libs have foreclosed the possibility that Christianity is a path of spiritual meaning.
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That a relationship with our maker and our savior will give us spiritual meaning.
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They do recognize that sin and death pervade the world, which are the consequences of original sin.
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The way that they try to make sense of that is by saying that this is not a consequence of original sin.
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That over the years, man-made traditions and institutions have built up and they have oppressed people.
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I know a logical question for this in response would be, okay, well, how did those institutions and practices and traditions get corrupted in the first place?
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There are many people who even say that they're on the right.
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There are some people who even say that they're Christian.
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who are very anti-institutional, very anti-tradition, very anti-ritual.
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They partake to some degree of the same skepticism of and frankly disdain for tradition, institution, history.
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The weight of practice, the democracy of the dead that has been built up, our whole culture, our whole civilization.
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And so for the libs, in despair, they say, okay, I don't, God isn't real.
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And so the only way that I can impose some sort of meaning on my life is through what is most perceptible to me, which is my flesh, my skin color.
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There, by orienting my entire moral view around just flesh and just literally the color of my meat, of my flesh, that will give me some kind of spiritual meaning.
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Obviously, it is not going to work, but that's how they view it.
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That's why they've got to allow the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence to jiggle around the stadium.
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They believe that the real Sisters, the real religious Sisters, the Carmelites, the nuns, that they are the threat.
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Because what they represent is a restriction on individual autonomy, which is evil, which is, it comes from the devil.
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That's the sin, the institutional sin we've got to fight back against.
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And so the sacrilegious character of the Sister of Perpetual Indulgence's performance, that's not a bug of their troop.
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That's why they have to be exalted at Dodger Stadium.
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Because the alternative would be, okay, we boot out these weird jiggling trannies and we allow the religious nuns to come in and, I don't know, say a prayer or a benediction before the baseball game.
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But then to do that would be to say, okay, well, Christianity is true.
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And we're going to suppress that from the public square because that way lies madness.
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That way lies true oppression, spiritual oppression.
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That way lies decay and decadence and degradation.
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Okay, there's a very important point that I've got to get to, which is from the New York Times Magazine, from The Ethicist.
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My husband flies first class and puts me in coach.
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This question written into, The Ethicist is just the kind of gossipy advice column, sort of saucy little advice column for the New York Times Magazine.
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They try to dress up and make it seem more erudite.
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So the question is, my husband flies first class and puts me in coach.
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Everyone's talking about it, so I guess I'll weigh in too.
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Especially as someone who likes to take my free upgrades on my airplanes, but sweet little Elisa doesn't always want to do that.
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Because then she would maybe have to leave the kids in the back, and she doesn't want to leave the kids in the back.
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Daddy will give you a hug once we land, wherever we're going.
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So she says, my husband loves to travel and always either pays for or gets an upgrade to first class.
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He buys himself a ticket in first, puts us in economy or economy plus.
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And he justifies flying alone in first because of the cost.
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And the fact that our kids might feel alone if I were to travel in first and leave with him and leave them in the rear cabin.
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Oh, and she says, I don't think our kids would mind if they were in economy plus.
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And my husband and I sat together, but he says, no, can't do that.
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You should offer your wife the upgrade, even if you're only getting one upgrade, as this happens sometimes.
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And you should slum it and coach if you have to.
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But if given the option here, you're talking 12 and 16, these are kids who are pretty big.
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I was working at 14, walking uphill in the snow, both directions.
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Okay, 12 years old, you're old enough to sit alone.
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The kids can sit back in economy or even economy plus.
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I didn't fly economy plus until I was in my 20s.
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Wives submit to their husbands and husbands are called to love their wives as Christ loves his church.
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And I think that probably involves giving up your first class upgrade.
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Today is, I don't have a good, I don't have a good alliterative title for this.
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Ben Davies tells me that there are new odds out there for who the next James Bond is going to be.
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