Ep. 1257 - Chick-fil-A Lets A Woke Fox In The Henhouse
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Summary
Chick-fil-A, Target, and Disney are among the companies that seem to have embraced De-Inclusion (DEI) in order to further their liberal agenda. What's the point of these companies? Is it about the customer, or about the fantasies of their employees?
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Looks like Chick-fil-A will not be opening any new restaurants in Uganda anytime soon.
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The longtime favorite company of conservatives has apparently embraced the DEI agenda.
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According to a heretofore unnoticed diversity, equity, and inclusion segment of Chick-fil-A's
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website, quote, one of our core values at Chick-fil-A Incorporated is that we are better
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When we combine our unique backgrounds, blah, blah, blah, with a culture of belonging, we
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can discover new ways to blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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The disconcerting thing is not the exact wording.
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The disconcerting thing is that Chick-fil-A has embraced DEI at all.
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And now, while some conservatives are calling for a boycott of the openly religious, generally
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relatively conservative company, as far as I'm concerned, this story has almost nothing
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The Chick-fil-A DEI department doesn't tell you a ton about the chicken shop.
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It tells you about the depth and pervasiveness of a liberal ideology throughout our entire
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Even Chick-fil-A is subject to increasingly radical liberalism.
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And we will not merely buy another sandwich to fix it.
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The only way to fix it is by resetting, reorienting our entire political order.
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We will get to the really important announcement out of New York.
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New York Mayor Eric Adams protecting obesity as a protected class.
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Away from Chick-fil-A, which shows you that DEI, wokeness, it's all just really the conclusion
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It came out of Disneyland, out of the Enchanted Chamber Princess Boutique.
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And it is of a pretty little princess with a mustache.
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He is one of the workers there, employed by Disney.
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Take a look or a listen if you're driving in your car.
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I'm here to shop you around and make all your selections for the day.
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To a little girl, he's got lots of eye shadow on and just a big bushy mustache, trying to
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sell extremely overpriced dresses for little girls to those poor, poor parents who are going
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Yeah, the fact that it's an obvious dude wearing a dress, that's a problem.
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The bigger problem, though, is who this is for.
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It's not even just that Disney World is for kids and so this weird sexual stuff has no place
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It's even more than the question of kids or minors or what's appropriate for certain ages.
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It's a question of who are these people serving?
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Is it about the customer or is it about the fantasies of the employee?
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We used to have a saying in America, which is that the customer is always right.
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Now, the customer doesn't seem to matter at all.
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Customer doesn't matter at all with Bud Light and Transheiser Bush.
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Customer doesn't even matter at Disney World and Disneyland.
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When I was a young man, I was young, coming up in show business, and I'd sometimes take
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these service industry jobs, one of which I was hired to be a fake sommelier at a wedding.
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It was the caterers and the sommelier and all these people.
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And the guy who was running the event, he said, hey, what is this about?
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We're here to make a quick buck and then go back to our regular lives.
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But no, he said, no, what this is all about, what this is for is service.
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Your job here is to serve the customer, especially if you're in the service industry.
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But increasingly in our economy and in our whole culture, it's not about the customer.
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It's not about the people we're supposed to serve.
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Little kids don't go to Disneyland so that they can affirm some deviant man's delusions.
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Parents don't spend an arm and a leg to take their kids to Disneyland so that their kids
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can be exposed to a mustachioed strange fellow living out his fantasy of being a pretty princess.
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Okay, if you want to take the job as a pretty princess, you definitely have to shave the
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And you've got to be a chick because it's not about you and princesses are chicks.
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So you've got to put your fantasies aside, especially when we're talking about a place
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like Disneyland, which is supposed to indulge the fantasies of little children for whom
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it is appropriate to have little fantasies and play act them out sometimes.
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One of the big cases to enshrine transgenderism in our law was the Harris Funeral Home case.
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And the Harris Funeral Home case before the Supreme Court raised a question of, do employees
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have an obligation to follow the rules sometimes for the benefit of their customers?
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There's this funeral home, Harris Funeral Homes, and one of the employees at the funeral
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And so one day he decided he was going to wear little skirts and put on lipstick and go
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And the owner of the funeral home said, hey, man, I don't know what's going on with you.
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So obviously you've got some issues, but we've got to be respectful to our customers.
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When people come to the funeral home, they're grieving.
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They don't need to deal with some weird political ideology.
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They're trying to grieve their dead loved ones.
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And this strange fellow decided, no, it's actually all about me.
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We're not going to have a good society if we invert that order.
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Are we around here to serve others in accordance with reason and the truth?
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Or do we just view everybody in the world, including poor little kids, including their
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parents who spent a lot of money to take them to Disneyland, do we just view them merely
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as instruments to serve us and our deviant desires?
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You see this kind of madness, especially in higher education.
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There was a law school commencement ceremony at CUNY that featured a speaker.
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Sometimes these commencements have student speakers, and the student speakers are usually
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kind of goody two-shoes types, but increasingly they can be left-wing activists who are speaking
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And one such speech came from Fatima Mohammed, student speaker for CUNY Law School.
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Not a huge fan of a certain ancient nomadic tribe of people.
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She's against white people and patriarchy, and that is how her speech is being reported.
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Pro-Palestine student goes off on the Jews, or left-wing student goes off on white supremacy
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But there's something even more insidious about this girl's law school speech.
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I'm here to celebrate who and what we are, who you are.
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Like many of you, I chose CUNY School of Law for its articulated mission to be law in the
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One of very few legal institutions created to recognize that the law is a manifestation
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of white supremacy that continues to oppress and suppress people in this nation and around
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We joined this institution to be equipped with the necessary legal skills to protect our communities.
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The craziest thing about this speech is not that the pro-Palestine girl hates the Jews.
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The craziest thing about this speech is not that the leftist girl hates the white people and the
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It's that sentence right at the top where she says, CUNY recognizes that the law is just a facade
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The craziest thing she says in her speech is about the law.
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Because this girl graduated from law school.
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She was selected to be the speaker at her law school graduation.
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The law, at its most basic level, is an ordinance of reason for the common good by the one who
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That's the description of the law, the definition that St. Thomas Aquinas gives.
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Justice is a habit, a virtue that inclines the will to render to each and to all what he deserves.
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What this girl says at her law school graduation is, oh, the law, justice, that's all BS.
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It's nothing more than a bunch of gobbledygook that we use to enshrine the tyranny of will,
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of the willfulness of one group, which is the white people or the Jews or whoever she's going off on,
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And so what we do when we go to law school is we just get a credential that allows us to wield
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this deceptive instrument for our own tyranny of will to give ourselves more power and to dominate the groups,
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the white people and the Jews and the men and whoever that we hate.
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The law does not derive from anything outside of our own desires.
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If our next generation of lawyers, of the people who are supposed to be running the show in the
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political order, does not believe in law, then we're going to have lawlessness.
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And I'll tell you what, if this lady doesn't like what America looks like with law and order,
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just wait until she sees America without law and order.
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Because yes, the positive law, the civil law is sometimes an imperfect reflection of the natural
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law and the background principles of justice that exist even outside of our own personal
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Yes, it's true that the system of justice is imperfect and sometimes innocent people go to jail
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But if you think a law abiding America is bad, just wait until you see a lawless America.
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This is how I feel about attacks on Christian nationalism, Christian religious right.
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Just wait until you see the irreligious right.
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Or the irreligious left, though I suppose that's a redundant phrase.
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Just wait until you see unchristian nationalism.
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A society where even the people who graduate with the law degrees don't think there's anything
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Well, that leaves us, of course, with a lot of Latino white supremacists.
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According to the New Yorker, we are now seeing the rise of Latino white supremacy.
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At a time of rising racial violence, Latinos are potential perpetrators and potential victims.
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This author goes on about all the terrible white supremacists that allegedly are running rampant
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America and then focuses in on some Latino people who are committing all sorts of crimes and they
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Garcia continued to see himself as Latino, which he never equated with whiteness.
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And at moments, he manifested pride in his non-white Latino identity.
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Because, as I've mentioned before on the show, white just means bad.
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So, badness has to, in some way, be the fault of white people and whiteness.
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And when badness is being committed by black people, it's somehow got to be the fault of
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Because, I don't know, because the white people failed to pay enough taxes to put the black
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And so, that's why he went out and committed crimes.
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It's not because the white people undermined the black culture in such a way that the black
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When a Latino goes out and commits a crime, it has to be the fault of a white person.
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Because the Latino, in his mind, he viewed himself as a white person.
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And even, I guess, in this case of this guy, Garcia, he didn't actually view himself as
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He was pretty explicit about how he didn't think of himself as a white person.
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But nevertheless, the white people, the whiteness has so infected his mind that he's got,
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it was, trust me, guys, it was white supremacy.
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Why does Fatima Mohammed, giving a speech at CUNY, hate white people so much?
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Why does the New Yorker hate white people so much?
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Why do so many of the prominent, powerful institutions in the media, in education, in
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politics, in everywhere, why do they hate white people?
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Because white people are a symbol of authority and tradition.
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Until very recently, America was an overwhelmingly white country and always had been.
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Until very recently, the West, broadly, was overwhelmingly white.
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And so, white people, we live in an incarnate world in time and space where flesh really
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White people just become the symbol of authority and the symbol of tradition.
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Whatever you want to say about the French Revolution, you can't say that it was an anti-white
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Whatever you want to say about the early liberal movements, the early revolutions that unseated
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so much of our settled order, they weren't about overthrowing white people.
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And so, why do white people get such a bad rap these days?
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Why do white people get blamed for things that they have nothing to do with?
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Because the liberal revolution seeks to overthrow authority and tradition.
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And that's the same revolution that we've seen going back all the way to the Garden of Eden,
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The law is nothing but what you want the law to be.
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Oh, forget about the law having any objective, reasonable, intelligible aspect.
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Humpty Dumpty on the wall talking to Alice in Wonderland.
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Because the question is, which is to be mastered?
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And you're now seeing it manifest in this way that is anti-patriarchy, anti-white, blah, blah, blah.
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I know that there are a lot of people who want to try to cut the fringiest parts of the left
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So sometimes you'll hear people say, we want to cut the T off of LGBT.
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LGBT is fine, but the T, that's the bad one.
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Failing to recognize that the T is a logical consequence of the LGBT.
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The LGBT says that men and women are basically the same and interchangeable.
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That's how you can have marriage, which existed as an institution, the basic fundamental political
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That's how you can have that radically redefined, such that a man and a woman in this special
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union can now also be a man and a man and a woman and a woman.
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Well, the only way that's possible is if men and women are interchangeable.
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But if men and women are interchangeable, then it's not a very far leap to get to transgenderism,
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which says a man and a woman are interchangeable, which says that a man can become a woman.
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These modern woke guys, they're illiberal liberals, but I'm a liberal liberal, liberal, liberal, liberal.
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No, it's just this is the natural consequence of liberalism, which reorients society away
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from God, away from good, away from truth, away from beauty toward the self.
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I don't need to follow a particular moral order.
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I'm born primarily with rights and entitlement.
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Liberalism, which says, well, we can never really know the truth all that well.
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And so we've got to remain skeptical, skeptical of basically everything.
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Liberalism, which says the settled order is bad.
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I know there are some people on the right who get confounded when they have to give a definition
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It's just the logical conclusion of all of this stuff.
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Okay, well, we're going to just get rid of transing the five-year-olds.
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But transing the 19-year-olds, that's okay.
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at the very bottom of the hierarchy of goodness, she puts the white men.
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China, which famously does not have a lot of white men running it.
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But regardless, yeah, sure, America, we're a big industrial country.
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And so there are still a good number of white men in America.
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The climate crisis would not exist if that's not for patriarchy.
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The climate crisis is the fault of white men.
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And climate change, catastrophic climate change.
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We're just nine years away from the end of the world, as they've been telling us for 50 years.
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That also requires white men to be the fault of it.
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And so, yes, evil will bring about the end of the world.
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And in the Christian understanding of the apocalypse, things get really, really, really bad.
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As sin and death and evil pervade all the world.
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And the prince of this world leads to all sorts of terrible things.
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There is a happy ending here because Christ wins the war and comes down and you have the final judgment.
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In the secular version of this, now we just all turn to worm food.
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In the secular version, in the leftist version, evil just wins.
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And this shapes the way that we view the world.
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This constitutes education a lot more than the reading, writing, and arithmetic that you'll learn in fifth grade.
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I was thinking about this the other day because I have friends and relatives who are a bit neurotic.
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They don't really take death seriously, but they worry about dying.
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And it's easy for me to say I'm a relatively healthy guy and I'm sunshine in my life.
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Well, I think about death all the time because I'm Christian.
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And so I think about, okay, have I committed a sin?
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I mean, this was something that Christians, for the vast majority of our civilization's history,
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But then if you prepare for death, you're not worried about death.
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I think, okay, I don't think I turned to worm food.
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I think I'm preparing myself for the end of the story.
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Whereas if you ignore death, if you try to put it out of your mind,
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you're still going to have that nagging sense of your mortality that's part of the human condition.
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And so paradoxically, you're going to be much, much more worried about it.
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The more you try to put it out of the mind, the more you're going to be worried about it.
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Then all of that got me thinking, this is our real education.
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This is the real kind of education that guides our society.
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It's not just the reading, writing, and arithmetic.
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It's not just the facts about which wars were won by which generals.
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The real basis of our education is who do we think we are?
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What do we think we're all doing here together?
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That's the really subtle stuff of our education that's going to make or break a civilization.
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And for Jane Fonda, her understanding of evil and good and progress and politics and all of that,
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it is informed by things that are false and ugly and wicked.
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And that's going to drive a civilization crazy.
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The education crisis in America is so much deeper.
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The education crisis goes to the heart of religion being pushed out of the public square.
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It goes to the heart of a whole cast of people being called evil.
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And the whole cast of people that disproportionately have guided our nation's history being called evil.
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So we just have fallen into a national malaise.
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We're passing legal protections for fat people.
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Eric Adams in New York, liberal mayor of New York,
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even though he's relatively better than the last Bolshevik that we had in the mayor's office in New York,
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Bill de Blasio, Eric Adams, doubling down on identity politics to sign a weight discrimination bill into law.
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You know, everyone knows that I'm a person that believes in health.
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So when you talk about not discriminating against someone because of their body type is not fighting against obesity.
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And so I think this is this is the right thing to do.
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We're going to continue to talk about our progressive health agenda.
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And science has shown that body type is not a connection to if you're healthy or unhealthy.
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And I think that's a misnomer that we are we are really dispelling.
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That one guy, the one staffer in the back of the room.
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Again, we've realized that the science has shown us that if you're a big, gigantic fatso, that has nothing to do with your health.
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You can be just the biggest, fattest, most out of shape guy in the whole world.
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And you could be healthier than an Olympic runner.
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Yes, it's true that there can be skinny people who have health problems.
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Yes, it can be true that there can be huskier people who are relatively in good health.
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But if you're like a big fatso, that's a problem.
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Not saying that you should be ostracized from society.
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I'm saying you ought to be encouraged to live in a way that is healthier because you're more likely to flourish.
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You're more likely to live in a more pleasant way for a longer period of time.
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And you're more likely to feel good about yourself.
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And you're more likely to excel in other areas as well because we're integrated human beings.
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We all know that what that guy said isn't true.
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Eric Adams doesn't believe that if you're 400 pounds, you're the pinnacle of health.
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But we just lie because we're so used to lying now.
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Because we lie and we tell men who pretend to be women.
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We tell the mustachio guy in the pretty princess outfit.
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We say, oh yeah, no, you really are a woman.
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Oh, just because you have a mustache and certain other appendages, that doesn't mean you're a man.
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Just because criminals are marauding all over the streets and stealing our stuff and killing people,
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Just because we have an open border and we've got millions of people pouring across it every year,
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That doesn't mean that we have an unstable political order.
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Just because we've got record high inflation and people can't afford their basic necessities,
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What you're seeing here is a tension that Patrick Dineen actually talks about
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in his excellent new book, which I'll be working on a review for soon.
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But he makes the point that our society is really torn between two conflicting impulses
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And the conflicting impulses are for acceptance and improvement.
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If your kid comes to you, your kid's going through some sort of problem, let's say, I don't know,
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Your kid gets a bunch of stupid looking tattoos and is not treating their body well.
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On the one hand, you want to encourage your kid to stop making poor decisions to improve your kid's life.
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But on the other hand, you don't want your kid to feel like you've rejected him
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and you don't want him anymore and he can't turn to you.
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It's true every parent's going to have to deal with this at some point, raising kids.
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You don't want to seem like, you especially see this for young people who are less and less young
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with each passing year and they haven't gotten married and they haven't settled down
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and they haven't had kids and they haven't done the basic things that are conducive to a flourishing society.
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You don't want to just reject those people and say, oh yeah, now you're washed up.
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You're not saying you don't want them in society.
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You're not saying you can't live a flourishing life.
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You're not saying that the difficulties that they're living with are their fault entirely.
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But you also want to encourage younger people to try to break out of the liberal trance
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and to maybe say, no, I don't need to go get 50,000 different academic degrees to the cost of half a million dollars.
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And I don't need to totally neglect my personal life.
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So you want to encourage the society while also accepting the society as it is in all of its diversity.
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And we've just fallen way too far on the latter category, such that we're pretending people with mustaches can be princesses
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and that 400-pound people can be just as healthy as fit people.
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Now, speaking of encouragement, our first lady, I'm sorry, not our first lady, our vice president.
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Our vice president has just come out to encourage the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
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And she has done so with soaring Periclean rhetoric.
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As I look out at you, I know that you will build on that leadership because, of course, your generation grew up online.
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Technology that might be intimidating or unfamiliar to other generations to you is exciting and intuitive.
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You see what can be unburdened by what has been.
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And you have the agility and the ability to bring that potential to life.
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You know what you can be unburdened by what has been.
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This is a line that Kamala Harris has used once or twice before.
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I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
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What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been.
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Where we can be, unburdened by where we have been, and unburdened by where we are right now.
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One thing I love about Kamala Harris is she is her own sign language interpreter,
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so you don't need the little lady in the corner of the screen.
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There is a compilation that the RNC put out that it goes on for three and a half minutes
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of what can be, what has been, and it sounds like a stupid, meaningless line.
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It sounds like the sort of line that a 12-year-old would write in his first essay for class,
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where he doesn't realize that essays require facts and arguments
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and are not just a meaningless string of words together.
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But there actually is a lot of meaning in that phrase of Kamala Harris.
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She might not even know it, but there is a lot of meaning.
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It really sums up the liberal project, which we'll get to in a second.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Old Schooled.
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One of the great commenters for years on this show, who says, calling yourself non-binary
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This creates a binary system which makes you binary again.
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That's actually a really good point, Old Schooled.
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Not only because it owns the libs, but because it reminds us that ultimately, all of our choices
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Because all of our choices are going to come down to the transcendentals.
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We're either going to pursue truth or falsehood.
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We're either going to move toward beauty or toward ugliness.
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There's all sorts of shades of gray in this complex world, man.
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But ultimately, those things are, in fact, binary.
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Will we think about it in a way that allows us to see what we can be unburdened by what
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has been, like Kamala Harris encourages us to do?
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I don't want to be borne down and crushed by burdens that are destructive to me.
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I mean, even Christ in the Gospels, our Lord tells us that you don't want to have the shackles
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But you should put his burden on you because his yoke is easy and his burden is light.
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And so what are we in political society going to be burdened with?
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What Kamala Harris views as a burden is tradition, is authority, is reality, what has been.
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And what she's arguing for is the same thing John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy
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argued for and a lot of other liberals have argued for since the 60s, which is that quote,
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some people see things that are and say, why I dream things that never were and say, why not?
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Which is a quote that the author George Bernard Shaw put into the mouth of the serpent tempting Eve in the Garden of Eden.
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This is the same temptation that the serpent gives us in the Genesis account,
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You'll have the knowledge of good and evil and you shall be as gods.
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Just let's, let's just move forward through our imagination.
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It's just that same old satanic line going back to the Garden of Eden.
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And Kamala Harris almost certainly doesn't know it because she's not the most conscious
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A lot of libs, I've noticed, who are not really conscious about politics,
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These kinds of sayings that seem meaningless, that people just recite thoughtlessly,
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they all boil down to really dark ideas, actually.
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They all, frankly, boil down to the Aleister Crowley Satanist first commandment,
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which is, do what thou wilt, shall be the entirety of the law.
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And that's what Kamala Harris, as the symbol of your kind of liberal wine aunt in America,
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And she's repeating that from one of the highest podiums in the United States.
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Now, speaking of those podia in the U.S. and ladies babbling from it,
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Karine Jean-Pierre is bringing us back to some really important issues.
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Namely, you know that third world war that broke out over the conflict in Ukraine that
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Well, Zeke Miller, one of the great journalists in the White House press pool,
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Zeke Miller, just asked KJP about these kinds of attacks.
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I'm not going to get into hypotheticals from here.
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We do not support the use of U.S.-made equipment being used for attacks inside of Russia.
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And we have been clear, not just publicly, but privately, clearly with the Ukrainians.
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We're going to look into, gather information to see exactly what happened so we can get
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So Zeke is asking about these increasing Ukrainian attacks on Russia, potential drone
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attack on the Kremlin, potential attacks on Russian soil.
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And don't forget, we've funded the Ukraine war.
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So these attacks are going to be carried out, most likely, with our weaponry, with our material.
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So does that mean that now the United States, a nuclear superpower, is engaging
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in a hot war with a nuclear former superpower, Russia?
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And so the White House is trying to run away from this.
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The White House is trying to say, no, we don't support that.
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We don't support Ukrainians using American military equipment against the Russians.
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Then why did we give them the military equipment?
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Well, no, we support them using the American military equipment against the Russians on Ukrainian
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Do you think you can give a nation all sorts of equipment and say, okay, but here are the
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Especially a country in this corrupt part of the world, in Eastern Europe, Ukraine, not
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exactly the most transparent, well-run country ever, in a fight for its life against Russia.
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You really think that that's what's going to happen?
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It's almost as though war has unintended consequences, and it's almost as though the
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people leading us are absolutely feckless and sleepwalking us into World War III.
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The prime minister of Georgia, not the state, but the country, prime minister of Georgia
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was just asked for his take on the hostilities in Ukraine.
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And he, you can tell he's a little bit uncomfortable saying this.
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He says, hey, maybe NATO bears a little bit of the blame here.
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Why do you think Russia launched that invasion of Ukraine in 2022?
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You think that NATO enlargement provoked the war?
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And I don't want to quote the statements of the Russian government.
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But one of the reasons was Ukraine's will and determination to become a member of NATO.
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OK, now, what a lot of people in the West, especially in the liberal establishment, are
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going to say is, this prime minister of Georgia, he's just repeating Russian propaganda.
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He's trying to blame Putin's invasion of Ukraine on NATO.
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Well, it's not just the prime minister of Georgia, who clearly doesn't, he doesn't want
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to irritate NATO too much here, but he's giving his view on what's going on.
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And he's obviously an Eastern European who's got a particular view of this thing.
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I was warning about this at the outbreak of the hostilities.
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But I said, hey, buffer states have played an important role in history.
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And as NATO has expanded eastward, this has provoked Russia.
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It was Yoram Hazoni, the Israeli philosopher, saying this.
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But it wasn't even just me and Yoram, who are kind of modern-day conservatives.
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It was George Kennan, the author of The Long Telegram, one of the architects of American
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There were wise statesmen who said, hey, NATO should stop aggressively expanding eastward.
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And unless NATO is going to gobble up the whole world in wars of conquest, and there have been
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It's not been a purely defensive alliance, which I'm sure Russia is seeing as well.
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Well, if NATO is going to keep expanding eastward, that is going to create a precarious situation.
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Russia, which already wanted to enlarge itself again to reclaim some of the territory of the
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Soviet Union, which Vladimir Putin says the collapse of the Soviet Union was the greatest
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All of a sudden, things start to spin out of control.
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There were plenty of conservatives warning people of this.
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You are reminded, this is a point I made yesterday, if we want to have a stable political order,
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a good political order, we've got to replace the current elite.
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We've got to replace the people, personnel, or policy.
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And these people don't know the difference between a man and a woman.
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These people claim that if you're 400 pounds, you're the pinnacle of health.
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These people blame white men for Latino criminals.
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These people do not have a strong grip on reality.
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And these are the people on whom we depend to avert World War III.
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