Ep. 1275 - ＂We’re Coming For Your Children＂
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As we near the end of Pride Month, the Gestapo of Seattle decided to kick things up a notch for the last weekend of this unholy season by bicycling completely nude in front of a crowd that included children. A pal of mine in Los Angeles texted me over the weekend to mention that he had the dubious distinction of seeing a nude LGBTB. And in New York, drag queens marched to inform citizens that they are coming for our children.
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31st, 2025. TD, ready for you. As we near the end of Pride Month, the Gestapo of Seattle decided to
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kick things up a notch for the last weekend of this unholy season by bicycling completely nude in front
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of a crowd that included children. A pal of mine in Los Angeles texted me over the weekend to mention
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that he had the dubious distinction of seeing a nude LGBTB, the second B, of course, standing for
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bicycle display as well. And in New York, drag queens marched to inform citizens that they are coming
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Now, the libs will continue to insist that the degenerates in that video have no particular
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interest in children, that they are not groomers. But they obviously do have an interest in
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children. And they're telling us that they do. And they have an interest in children because their
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ideology demands it. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Really wild clip over the weekend of the Proud Boys possibly getting into a
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fight with federal agents masquerading as right-wingers. We'll get into all the implications
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of this in a moment. First, though, we're just going to jump right into the deep end today.
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We're here. We're queer. We're coming for your children.
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The sexual revolutionaries have an overt interest in children, a sexual interest in children. It is
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undeniable. It is grooming. It's nothing particularly new. It's been going on since the beginning of the
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sexual revolution. In fact, when you look back to the 1960s at old essays from Bernie Sanders,
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young socialist Bernie Sanders, he was writing about the need to sexualize children. You can see it in
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two essays in the Vermont Freeman. Why is this? You can see this in other writers, beloved of the
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left, people like Wilhelm Reich and many others. Why? Why does, and now up to today, you've got these
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groomers in the schools and dancing through the streets of New York saying, we're here, we're queer,
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dressed up in sexual garb, in a sexual demonstration, talking about a sexual interest
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in children. Why is it? Is it just because they're perverts? No, it actually isn't because, you know,
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the lib rejoinder to this is always going to be like, well, there was some Baptist preacher somewhere
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and he had a sexual interest in children or, well, there was some Republican somewhere and he had a
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sexual interest in children. Yeah, there are perverts everywhere. Not going to deny that for one
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second. But for the sexual revolutionaries, for the pride people, it goes further into an overt
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ideological sexual interest in children. The ideology demands it because the ideology says
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that sexual expression is good in and of itself. That's what the libs believe. That's what the pride
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people believe. The conservatives don't believe that. I'm a Catholic. I think that there is all
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sorts of sexual expression that's very, very bad. I think there's all sorts of sexual expression
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that's bad, not just for children, but for teenagers and adults and older people and married people for
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that matter. I think that sexuality is a very tempestuous sort of thing and we've got to rein it
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in and control it and proscribe all sorts of behaviors. That is the view of conservative
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people. For the libs, though, their moral framework is if it feels good, do it. And so like with the
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transgender issue, when you say, okay, if transgenderism is true for a 25-year-old, if a
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man can really be a woman, then why wouldn't it be true for a five-year-old? If that's the way human
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nature works, then it's true for everybody. The same goes for the sexual ethic on the left. If sexual
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expression is always good, then why wouldn't it be good for children? Now, you might say, or a lib
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trying to defend himself against these charges might say, well, you've got the matter of consent.
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Children can't consent. But the libs can't make that argument when they're simultaneously arguing
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that a five-year-old can consent to chop his genitals off or to take cross-sex hormones or to
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permanently sterilize himself or to become a eunuch. By the way, kids can't consent to anything.
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So parents make the decisions for children. Kids don't want to eat their broccoli. The parents
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say, you're going to eat your broccoli. Kids don't want to do their homework. The parents say,
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you're going to do your homework. That's what raising children is. You're making decisions
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on behalf of children that you think are in their best interest. And when it comes to the sexual
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revolution, they believe that it is in the best interest of people to express their sexual desires
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no matter what they are, because otherwise we'll be really repressive and that'll give people a
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complex and it'll harm them. And that's why we've got to protect trans kids. And the way we protect
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trans kids is by sterilizing them or by putting them on puberty blockers or by chopping off their
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genitals or by encouraging disordered sexual behaviors and desires. That's why they're always
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going to come for your kids. That's why it's always going to end up with that drag march in New York
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City. Put aside the personal perversions of these people. That is what the ideology demands.
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A little side note to this story, the nation's first self-identified transgender state representative
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was just arrested on child pornography. But we don't even need, so, you know, okay, there you have
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it. That's the first one. I'm just reading the news story. I'm not making any broad claims. But you
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don't need to point to that because then the liberals will say, well, there was a pedophile
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priest or there was a Republican. Yeah, again, I know there are perverts everywhere. But what does
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the ideology say? Where is it overt? When people tell you what they want, when people tell you who
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they are, you should very often believe them. So where does that leave us? Now we're at the end of
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Pride Month. Bud Light destroyed. Target partially destroyed. People are turning against this stuff.
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They don't like to see people marching in the streets saying, we're going to come and sexualize
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your children. So Yingling is one of the companies that has profited from this. As Bud Light was
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destroyed, Yingling doubled down and said, we're not going to push weird sexual ideologies on kids.
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Then people started buying Yingling more. Now, though, Yingling was caught sponsoring a Pride event.
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We got the story here from the Daily Wire. Yingling Brewery was sponsoring the Music Fest drag show
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at Music Fest Cafe on June 30th. And the Music Fest drag show was going to allow anyone over the age of
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13 to attend. And so Yingling, recognizing that it's on the verge of getting Bud Lighted,
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it's on the verge of losing all the benefits that it got from swooping in when Bud Light went full
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Pride. Yingling is saying, okay, we need to raise the age or we're going to pull out of the event.
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So now the minimum age is 18. And that's better than allowing 13-year-olds to go to these events.
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But Yingling should take this further. Yingling should just pull out of the event. People are sick
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of Pride, okay? We've been very tolerant for a very long time. Will and Grace aired in the late 90s
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and everyone got very tolerant. We all like our gay friends. We all like our gay cousin. But this
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has gone way too far and everybody knows it. And so the pendulum is swinging back way in the other
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direction. You saw it in Gallup polling. The approval for same-sex relations of any kind has
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dropped precipitously. It's something like seven points in just one year. There is absolutely no
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commercial or political benefit to Yingling Brewing Company, which has already identified itself as an
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enemy of the rainbow flag. There is no benefit to Yingling sponsoring a drag show for anybody of
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any age, 18 plus included, okay? I'm not saying Yingling needs to go out there and start embracing
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Sharia law or something like that, okay? We can be very, very tolerant, very, very nice, and love
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everybody and not send the morality police to people's homes without sponsoring this public,
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deeply unpopular degeneracy, okay? Nobody, nobody who is buying Yingling Beer wants to see a drag show.
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Just ditch it, guys. You can go. We can go a lot further. Conservatives suffer from a failure of
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to 989898. You're seeing this same thing with Starbucks here. Starbucks Workers United,
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the Starbucks union, is calling for a strike because Starbucks allegedly discouraged shops from
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putting up rainbow decorations during Pride Month. And I hope that's true. I hope Starbucks
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Corporation did that. However, Starbucks Corporation then came out and denied this
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allegation, said, no, we stand with the LGB, LMNOP community. And still, it's not good enough for the
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Starbucks workers. So the Starbucks Workers United are calling for a strike of over 150 stores and 3,500
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workers. Starbucks should fire as many of these people as possible. You know, I have long defended
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Starbucks, even though it's got a little bit of a woke reputation. I've said these guys have done
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a lot of good. I think the coffee tastes pretty good as far as mass-produced coffee goes. I think
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they've installed public bathrooms in every major city in the world, which is a great benefit to
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society. I think that it's just a well-run corporation. They've started putting Christmas
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back on the cups again at December. They don't put, the employees are very often pretty woke, but the
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corporation doesn't peddle that stuff. Don't cave to these guys. Do not cave to them. It will
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not benefit you. It is not 2005 anymore. Pride ideology is not on the rise. They jump the shark.
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They're transing the kids. Everyone hates it. Don't cave Starbucks. Don't cave if you're listening
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to this show. Speaking of uprisings, you may have heard that there was almost a civil war in Russia
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over the weekend. And I'll give you the broad strokes of it. As though I were some kind of expert
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on Russian politics, as though anybody were an expert on Russian politics. The Wagner Group,
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the fancy people call it the Wagner Group, the Americans call it the Wagner Group. The Wagner
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Group is this paramilitary in Russia. And the leader of the Wagner Group is this guy, Prigozhin,
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who is just a psycho Russian warlord. And Prigozhin was very upset because he felt that the Russian
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defense minister, Shoigu, was undermining his position and even killing some of his mercenary
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troops. So Prigozhin decides to march on Moscow. He got within a couple of hours of the Kremlin and,
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or at least within a couple of hours of the outskirts of Moscow. And then he halted. There
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was an 11th hour deal. He turned around. Now Prigozhin has been exiled to Belarus, which means he's
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probably going to be awaiting the delivery of a nice polonium tea any day now. You know,
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one of Vlad the Impaler's messengers is probably going to come and end his consciousness. But
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this was a big threat to Vlad's power. And the question is, did we know about it? Did we instigate
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this sort of thing? The initial report said U.S. intelligence agencies caught flat-footed here,
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taken by surprise by the Wagner Group uprising in Russia. Then later on, we had reports that said
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that U.S. intel was aware of this beforehand and, you know, they were monitoring the situation.
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And we don't know what to believe. Because some people believe that the CIA controls every single
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event in the world and it's the most powerful body on earth. Other people believe that the CIA and
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the U.S. intel agencies are basically incompetent. And I think it might be a little bit of both.
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You know, the CIA does have a lot of power. They've amassed a lot of power over the years.
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Also, it's a government agency and the federal government is sometimes bumbling. I think of
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that great Coen Brothers movie, Burn After Reading, the point of which is that events just continue to
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spiral out of control. And the CIA is often the cause of that. But they never seem to make it any
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better. And so they say, OK, well, just keep your eyes on it. Keep monitoring it. And they'll try to
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catch up afterward. Regardless, this would appear to be a tactical win for NATO because you've weakened
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Russia here. You've weakened Putin without totally destabilizing the country. And so this raises
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another point. This is the point I want to talk about. Nobody really cares about the internal
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politics of Russia. I care about how this plays out in the media and what it means for Americans and
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those of us in the West, which is there sure were a lot of Russia experts over the weekend. There sure
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were a lot of people. There was a liberal establishment that was cheering on the coup d'etat
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by this guy Purgosian. And I thought, what do you think is going to happen? I know that
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the American liberals have, they just buy whatever the Western propaganda feeds them. And whatever the
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Washington Post and CNN say is the current thing, we're all supposed to just become obsessed with
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that and buy whatever talking points they feed to us. But do we really want Putin gone? What happens
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if we kick out Putin? Who takes over? Do you know? Not you, I'm preaching to the choir, but the
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libs who were cheering this on. Do you know the names of five Russians other than Vladimir Putin?
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Liberals? I don't think so. I don't think they know anybody involved here.
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I think that they just have been programmed to believe Vladimir Putin bad. Vladimir Putin knew
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Hitler. We must get rid of Vladimir Putin. Okay, so now you're cheering on some complete psycho
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Russian warlord with a private military marching on the Kremlin to take control of the nuclear weapons
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of the former superpower. That's what, that's how much the Washington Post has melted your brain?
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Do you think that's a good thing? Have you lost your freaking mind?
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Why, what, how does it benefit us to get rid of Vladimir Putin? Who, yes, despite being an all sorts
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of nasty guy, is a relatively stable, moderate force by the standards of Russia and extreme politics.
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We really want nuclear weapons in a country that could fall into civil war. I don't think so.
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And we got it. Sometimes we got to just take a break, turn off the CNN, close up the Washington
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Post for a second, take a look at the situation and say, okay, and this is true, by the way,
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of social media. This is true of so much of our emotional response to politics. When you're
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feeling like you really just, you're getting angry, maybe you even feel like you hate somebody in
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politics. That Trump, he's the devil, he's Hitler. Are you that man? Okay, take a pause.
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Just say, hey, why, why do I hate him? How did I come to hate this guy? Trump is a great example for
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this. This is a guy who was a fairly beloved celebrity for 40 years and was the host of the most
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popular game show on network television and was adulated in 300 plus hip hop songs. And then just
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one day, as though the liberal establishment unscrewed the back of our heads, opened it up,
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pulled out the computer chip that said you like Trump and put in the computer chip that said you
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hate Trump. Trump lovable, Trump funny, Trump fun celebrity. Boop, we're going to pull that chip
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out. We're going to put in the Trump evil Hitler chip. Boop. And then all of a sudden on a dime,
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everyone turned. When you feel your emotion just stirred up like that, you got to just take a pause,
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ask yourself, not whether or not this person is good. You can get to that question later. Ask
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yourself first, why am I being told to hate this person? What strategic goal is advanced here?
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Speaking of unpopular leaders, Chris Christie is on the campaign trail. Chris Christie running for
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president. Chris Christie was just booed by an audience, political audience for dissing Donald Trump.
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All right, we heard the reaction to your speech at the Faith and Freedom Conference. I assume you
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well knew you were going to get booed when you started slamming Donald Trump's leadership. I did
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hear some applause in the crowd as well, but the boos were loud. What's your sense? Is the anti-Trump
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message, is there any evidence that it's resonating? Absolutely evidence is resonating.
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John, I've been in the race for less than three weeks and I'm already in third place in New Hampshire,
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only four points behind Ron DeSantis, who's been in the race for a longer time and is supposed to be
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the co-front runner. Look, people understand that folks need to take responsibility for what they
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do. And my message to the folks at Faith and Freedom, which did get some good reaction too,
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but of course I expected the boos, that is predominantly a Trump crowd. But they need to hear
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the truth too. They need to hear the truth too. Okay, now you know, and I know this has been so
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unpopular an opinion for me to say. All right, you want to talk about Chris Christie getting booed when
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he knows he's going to. I have had a very unpopular message for a long time, but I've stuck by it
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because I'm here to tell you the truth, folks. And my message is Chris Christie could have a moment
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in this race. Everybody laughed at Chris Christie. They said he'd never get above 1%. I said,
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he's going to have a moment. If I could bet on him unpredicted, I'd probably put at least a small
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amount of money on it. I'm not saying he's going to go the distance. I'm not recommending that
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anybody put their money on Chris Christie, but I feel he's got a lot more political skill than
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others are letting on. And so he's saying, I go to Faith and Freedom. I go there, I give an anti-Trump
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message. I get booed, but I'm doing well in New Hampshire. This is a really important insight for
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the 2024 race. The Christie's of the race are having a little bit of a moment.
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Trump is remaining dominant. What is the takeaway here? The takeaway is not that you're going to be
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rewarded for attacking Trump. The takeaway is not that the path to the nomination is attacking Trump.
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The takeaway here is that the supposed co-front runner, Ron DeSantis, is weaker than it seems.
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There's a poll out from NBC News. You know about the Chris-a-sons. I've talked to you about the
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potential Chris-a-sons right now. Trump is at 51%. DeSantis is at 22%. Pence is at 6%. Christie's right
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behind at 5%. Haley at 4%. Tim Scott, 3%. Vivek at 3%. Even Asa Hutchinson at 2%. How has the movement
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been on those numbers? Trump is up five points from April. Pence is up one point. Christie is up five
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points, as I told you, would happen. The big change here is DeSantis is down 9%. Chris Christie is not
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taking votes from Donald Trump. Chris Christie is taking votes from Ron DeSantis. Because as I've said
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from the beginning, the big trouble for Ron DeSantis is that he is running in the Trump lane. He is the
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Trump candidate. His pitch is, I'm Trump 2.0. I'm Trump without the weaknesses. But his big base of
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support is going to come from people who don't really like Trump all that much. And so he's got
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to be both the better Trump and the anti-Trump. And that's a very difficult, potentially impossible
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line to walk. The people who really, really want Trump, they're just going to go for Trump. Trump's
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Now, Chris Christie's big charge here in the race is that Donald Trump, he is just not fit to be
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president. Character is the single most important element of a president of the United States because
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you can't know every issue that's going to come across a president's desk. It's not a litmus test
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with checkboxes that are in them. What you need to know is what is the character of that person. And
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frankly, when I listened to Donald Trump's speech last night, he had the audacity to say that he got
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indicted for us. Now, I don't know how it benefited the American people for him to take highly sensitive
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intelligence and secret documents out of the White House to stonewall the government on returning them
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for over a year and a half to subject himself to a raid by the FBI, even though they had asked him
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voluntarily to return this stuff and to then be subject to an indictment, which is obviously going
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to be one of great trouble for the country because no one wants to see this happen. It's not about
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whether you think Donald Trump has been treated fairly or not by the media or by elements of the
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Justice Department. It is about whether he is a man of character who can lead this party to victory.
00:24:15.260
And I don't believe he can. I don't believe that Donald Trump has the character to be president.
00:24:22.240
That line doesn't work anymore. That line might have worked in 2016. And you might still say, well,
00:24:27.240
Trump doesn't have an admirable character. I don't like his character. Okay. But you can't say
00:24:32.140
Trump doesn't have the character to be president because Trump was president and he was a good
00:24:37.840
president. He got Roe v. Wade overturned. He was great on foreign policy. He was great on
00:24:44.320
immigration until he was undermined by his bureaucrats. But for that first little bit
00:24:47.680
of his administration, he was very good on immigration. Immigration fell dramatically.
00:24:51.220
The economy improved. You can't say that. This is an argument from, what is it? Heraclitus,
00:24:58.460
I think, said a man's character is his fate. And this was the big argument against Trump in 2016.
00:25:03.380
He doesn't have the character to be president, but he does. And so you've just taken a major quiver
00:25:08.760
that you could use against Trump. That's gone. And that's why the Christie argument is not really
00:25:15.280
hurting Trump. Trump's numbers generally are just going up or staying the same. The argument,
00:25:22.080
Christie is also as predicted, Christie is going to weaken the non-Trump candidates in the race,
00:25:29.620
diffuse some of that support. And now you are seeing a situation, and we're just seeing the
00:25:33.700
beginning of it. Anything could change, but you're seeing a situation that is beginning to resemble
00:25:38.400
a situation like Trump had in 2016. In 2016, Trump just had a solid plurality in lots of states,
00:25:44.880
and the rest of the support was split up among the other candidates, and Trump took the nomination.
00:25:49.620
Now, in this case, you're seeing Trump, according to some polls, with an outright majority.
00:25:54.600
So it would seem even better for him. What is Trump's message? Trump also spoke at this conference,
00:26:03.200
Faith and Freedom. His message was an unusual one for the GOP.
00:26:06.880
This whole world is on fire. This world is on fire. Before I even arrive at the Oval Office,
00:26:14.660
I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine totally settled. I'll have it done in 24
00:26:20.840
hours. I say that, and I would do that. That's easy compared to some of the things that I'd get that
00:26:28.900
done in 24 hours. I know them both. I know them both. As the Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers.
00:26:36.980
See that? I will be your, and I will be your peacemaker. I was your peacemaker.
00:26:43.240
This is a very conservative message, and it's also a very unusual message. For the last
00:26:48.820
30 years, I guess, of the GOP, certainly the last 20 years, the GOP message has been a little more
00:26:57.000
saber-rattling. It's been a little bit more, we're going to go in there, we're going to bomb them,
00:27:01.300
we're going to spread freedom around the world, you're with us or against us. We're going to go
00:27:04.420
attack the axis of evil, spread democracy, wipe out these different bad guys around the world.
00:27:09.520
Trump is saying, I'm going to be your peacemaker. Blessed are the peacemakers,
00:27:12.280
I'm going to be a peacemaker in politics. As you're seeing the Democrats become more and more
00:27:18.760
belligerent, Joe Biden's foreign policy is just more war. That's what it is. And he's fairly open
00:27:25.420
about that. He has prolonged the war in Ukraine. He, in many ways, instigated the war in Ukraine.
00:27:30.360
Those aren't just my words. That's Vladimir Zelensky, who said that if Biden hadn't pulled
00:27:34.600
the sanctions off of Russia, and if, obviously, Biden hadn't invited Russia to invade, actually said,
00:27:39.580
if it's just a minor incursion into Ukraine, we won't really do anything about it,
00:27:42.900
that you wouldn't have seen the war in Ukraine. But the Biden foreign policy is let's have more
00:27:47.860
war and let's manage more wars around the world. The Trump message is, no war, I'm going to be your
00:27:53.480
peacemaker. He broke the mold, okay? And so even if you come later and you say, I agree with that Trump
00:27:57.920
message and I'm going to implement that Trump message. And let's say you actually can. Let's say
00:28:00.920
you're a candidate who is somehow able to implement the Trump message better than Trump is.
00:28:05.860
It doesn't really matter because if you like that Trump breaking the mold thing, you're probably
00:28:13.700
going to go and stick with your guy, stick with the original. Now, speaking of hearkening back to
00:28:22.380
better times, there's an important new poll on the culture, which is that Americans want to unplug.
00:28:30.320
Americans, who often are very bullish on technology and they want more technology,
00:28:34.520
they want more gadgets and gizmos. They're turning away from that. Just as they're turning
00:28:38.540
away from the rainbow ideology, they're turning away from technology. A new poll has found that
00:28:42.580
77% of middle-aged Americans between 35 and 54 years old want to return to a time before society
00:28:49.160
was always plugged in. A time before the internet was always on and cell phones were always in our
00:28:53.940
pockets and we were always expected to answer texts and emails. And it's not just middle-aged people.
00:28:58.740
This poll from Harris found that 63% of people aged 18 to 34. So now we're talking about Zoomers as
00:29:07.240
well as millennials also want to go back to simpler times, even though a lot of those people,
00:29:12.420
especially the Zoomers, never even experienced that. I remember when we got our first computer
00:29:16.480
in my house. I certainly remember when we got the internet for the first time.
00:29:20.940
Certainly, I didn't have high-speed internet until I was 17 or 18. I vividly remember a time before a
00:29:29.340
computer in the home. And a lot of younger millennials and Zoomers can't say that. But
00:29:33.780
even though a lot of them can't remember it, they say, I want to go back to that time.
00:29:38.860
Once again, fewer baby boomers want to go back to that time. 60% of people older than 55 say they
00:29:44.460
want to return to those pre-internet days. This maps almost exactly onto the Pride survey that Gallup
00:29:49.160
found, which is that in terms of people's views on the Pride ideology, younger people are much more
00:29:57.540
likely to want to roll it back, much less likely to support the Rainbow Coalition. In fact, the only
00:30:03.200
group that is getting more socially liberal is the boomers. The younger guys, much more traditional,
00:30:10.480
much more conservative. And overall, two-thirds of poll respondents say they prefer things as they
00:30:14.880
used to be versus what they are now. So what do these guys want? And by these guys, I include
00:30:20.540
myself in it. I don't live on my phone. I'm probably on Twitter too often. But I don't do the other apps.
00:30:26.320
I'm rarely on Instagram. I'm never on TikTok. I never answer my texts. Almost never. I don't like it.
00:30:34.280
I don't want the new gadgets. I just find it so distracting. It's exhausting. Even when you catch
00:30:39.460
yourself doomscrolling, it doesn't make you feel better. It depresses people. It's just, it's no
00:30:43.860
bueno. It's no good. We're getting sucked into this black mirror. What are people really yearning for
00:30:48.520
here? One, people are beginning to question the progressive view of history, the Whig view of
00:30:55.360
history, that history is always getting better and the old times were terrible and the modern time is
00:31:00.360
always a crisis and the future is always going to be much better. That's over. I got in trouble among
00:31:05.340
the libs a couple of weeks ago because I said, I don't want to follow the results of this new
00:31:11.880
social survey and return to the social conservatism of 2012. I want to return to the social
00:31:17.420
conservatism of 1220. And the libs made fun of me for this, but I don't know why they did. A lot
00:31:23.620
of people agree with that. In order to agree with that kind of a sentiment, I'm not saying I want to
00:31:28.880
return to the dentistry of 1220. That sounds unpleasant. But I do want to return to some of the social
00:31:33.720
conservatism, the unity of family, the confidence in faith and civilization, the recognition of a
00:31:41.980
moral order, the not having bands of lunatics marching down the street screaming, we're here,
00:31:47.560
we're queer, we're coming for your children. I'd like to return to that, to the seriousness of
00:31:51.760
philosophy. I'd like to return to all of that. And I bet a lot of other people do too. What the people
00:31:57.820
really are yearning for, the ones who say that we're now less supportive of the Pride Coalition,
00:32:04.000
or we're now less supportive of technology and being plugged in all the time, what they really want
00:32:08.880
is a return to control and virtue. And they find that our society, which is increasingly liberal
00:32:16.040
and technological, is taking away control. The technocrats in Washington, D.C. and elsewhere in
00:32:23.060
the world are taking control away from us. Our technology is taking control away from us.
00:32:26.560
Our technology is spying on us all the time, collecting data, serving us ads. They think
00:32:31.300
that they know us better than we know ourselves. Very often that's true. And we're living in a liberal
00:32:35.540
society that mocks the very concept of virtue. For all of human history until liberalism, until the
00:32:42.700
modern age, society was understood that states are ordered toward the good. We want more good stuff
00:32:49.460
and less bad stuff. That's the basic idea of statecraft. And then modernity comes in and liberalism
00:32:54.840
comes in and makes fun of that idea. And with a radical skepticism, they say, we can't really ever
00:32:59.720
know anything about what's good. We can't really ever know anything about virtue. So we're just going
00:33:03.280
to make everyone rich materially. We're going to give everyone gizmos and gadgets, which is fine.
00:33:09.560
I guess it's nice to have material wealth, of course. But if that undermines the virtuous basis of
00:33:14.480
society, then even as your society gets materially much, much richer, you're simultaneously going to
00:33:19.700
see increasing rates of anxiety, depression, suicide. You're going to see plummeting rates of
00:33:24.540
marriage. You're going to see plummeting rates of childbirth. You're going to see exactly what
00:33:29.660
we're seeing right now. Who is more risible? Who is more worthy of mockery? The people who say,
00:33:38.900
maybe we should learn some lessons from the past and try to reinstitute those ideas into society,
00:33:44.140
including and especially Western civilization at its height, Christendom at its height,
00:33:48.740
or the people who say, oh, everything's going great now. Yeah, where do I plug my neck into
00:33:53.560
the matrix? Give me my goggles. I want to eat the bugs and live in the pod. I don't think so.
00:33:57.700
I don't think so. Now, speaking of this supposed progress, there's a report came out, Daily Wire
00:34:03.500
exclusive. The University of Virginia Trans Clinic is admitting something that we conservatives have been
00:34:11.040
worrying about for a long time, and we were called conspiracy theorists for saying it, and we were
00:34:14.380
censored for saying it, and we're going to say it anyway. Daily Wire has seen waivers from a top
00:34:20.680
Virginia clinic, UVA Medical Center, that requires parents to acknowledge a frightening list of potential
00:34:28.760
permanent side effects for transing kids, for giving children and minors so-called gender-affirming care,
00:34:35.720
which is absurdly named because it is the opposite of gender-affirming. It's gender-denying care.
00:34:41.560
Well, what did the waiver say? The waiver said, and this is for a clinic that offers transgender
00:34:46.980
health services for ages 11 to 25, say testosterone therapy may cause transient infertility due to a
00:34:54.760
loss of ovulation or irreversible infertility due to ovarian tissue damage. That's a wording from a
00:34:59.820
document titled Consent for Testosterone Therapy. It goes on to suggest banking eggs. So the waiver at
00:35:07.060
UVA Trans Clinic says, hey, if you trans your kids, one of the risks is permanent infertility. We're
00:35:13.120
going to sterilize your kids, but they're going to maybe slightly better resemble the opposite sex that
00:35:18.860
they at this moment mistakenly believe themselves to be part of. It's an amazing
00:35:25.660
conflict in one's mind that you could have people in the liberal West. I'm saying lowercase l liberals
00:35:33.520
looking at China and saying China's an evil, terrible, authoritarian country. They're sterilizing
00:35:40.640
the Uyghurs. You know, the beleaguered Uyghurs, well, China is sterilizing them. So they don't have
00:35:45.600
any more kids. Isn't that evil and awful? Okay. And now we need to protect trans kids and trans rights,
00:35:50.780
and we need to sterilize lots of children. But, but you know what they're going to say? They're
00:35:55.500
going to say, well, the difference here, Michael, is consent. The Uyghurs are not consenting.
00:36:02.240
Oh, the children are consenting? The children can consent, huh? That sounds like the kind of belief
00:36:09.060
that people who march through the streets, groomers chanting, we're here, we're coming for your kids.
00:36:14.560
That sounds like the kind of belief that they would say. People have a particular and deviant
00:36:18.740
sexual interest in children. Though there is a reminder as part of this, which is children don't
00:36:25.620
consent. This is the normal take on it, which is children don't consent to anything. They don't
00:36:29.540
consent to eating broccoli. They don't consent to doing their homework. They don't consent to
00:36:32.800
being sterilized and turned into eunuchs by their parents. The parents need to make the decisions that
00:36:37.880
they believe is in the best interest of the children. And right now, a lot of people in this
00:36:42.840
country believe that it is in the best interest of the children, it is good to sterilize these kids
00:36:50.800
and turn them into eunuchs. You can't escape the question of what is good. No matter how laissez-faire
00:36:55.460
your society, no matter how radically skeptical, no matter how liberal, you can't escape that question
00:37:00.020
because you've got to do something and not do other stuff in society. And right now, we have
00:37:04.160
enshrined as the good the idea that it's good to sterilize little kids and hook them onto all sorts of
00:37:08.200
deviant sexual ideologies. And what the conservatives are saying now, increasingly, especially
00:37:12.300
younger people, not even hardcore conservatives, even people on the center right, even the center
00:37:17.780
left, formerly of the center left, they're coming out and they're saying, huh, our view of the good
00:37:22.600
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today. My favorite comment yesterday is from Thumper84, who says, was just at Walmart, saw Bud Light 15
00:38:40.320
packs for $16.48 with a $15 rebate. It's devastating. He goes on to say, the display was completely full.
00:38:49.840
Yeah, of course. You talk about the waivers, about the potential side effects. You know,
00:38:57.100
you go to the UVA trans clinic, it could render you sterile forever. Think about the side effects
00:39:00.720
of drinking even just one Bud Light. Could you imagine? Sort of thing could ruin your marriage.
00:39:05.720
Sort of thing could ruin your ability to have children. Now, speaking of incoherent liberal
00:39:12.240
priorities, do you remember, it's about a year ago, maybe even over a year ago,
00:39:19.740
Texas Governor Greg Abbott, along with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, some other Republican
00:39:24.240
leaders decide to send illegal aliens out of their states to liberal strongholds. Governor DeSantis
00:39:31.220
famously sent the illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard, which was hilarious. Governor Abbott,
00:39:36.600
though, he got a little less publicity for it, but he was sending the illegal aliens to places like
00:39:41.020
Chicago and to places like New York. And at the time, here is what New York City liberal Democrat
00:39:47.240
Mayor Eric Adams had to say about a political leader shipping illegal aliens to other states away
00:39:57.320
from their cities and states. This is horrific when you think about what the governor is doing,
00:40:05.780
the governor of Texas, after a month of traveling across the border, placing on the bus with no
00:40:13.620
direction to come here to New York. And New York is a city that has always represented the democratic
00:40:22.280
values and the values of our city of showing our compassion. And that's what we're doing today.
00:40:26.840
That's what we're doing today. This is horrific to ship illegal aliens. Just because you don't want
00:40:33.400
them in your state, in your city, you're going to just ship them out of there, pass the buck,
00:40:39.380
outrageous. Until Mayor Adams just got caught doing exactly the same thing. Actually, not exactly the
00:40:51.020
same thing. He is shipping the illegal aliens to other states. He's shipped them to over a dozen
00:40:57.920
states. He's also shipping them to other countries. Eric Adams. It's horrific to send illegal aliens from
00:41:07.720
Texas to New York. He's shipping them to over a dozen other states and to five countries, including
00:41:14.200
China, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Awful, awful when a Republican does something.
00:41:25.860
Wonderful when a Democrat does the same or a more egregious version of the very same thing.
00:41:32.980
I'm not going to say, I'm not going to even bring up if the shoe were on the other foot.
00:41:36.580
You know that's the epitaph on the headstone of conservatism. Imagine if the roles were reversed.
00:41:40.700
Just pointing out that when the liberals make these arguments, this is horrific violation of
00:41:48.200
human rights. How could you ever see? They don't really mean it. They're just lying and using that
00:41:55.440
political issue as a cudgel to beat the Republicans into submission. And the rock-ribbed conservatives
00:42:00.480
see through this. I strongly suspect, there are plenty of liberals who listen to this show,
00:42:05.840
I'm pleased to say. But the people who are listening to this show, if they're not rock-ribbed
00:42:09.200
conservatives, they're at least independent thinkers who see through a lot of this piffle.
00:42:14.120
But there are people, the squishes in the Republican Party and the centrists and the people
00:42:19.340
who just want to be liked by the Washington Post and the New York Times, they're the ones who will
00:42:23.480
join the chorus of the Eric Adamses who say, well, you know, that's really awful. You know,
00:42:28.840
actually, that's really awful to do that to those illegal aliens. We shouldn't do, we're better than
00:42:32.840
that. No, that's a perfectly natural and just response to foreign aliens in your country or in
00:42:44.380
your municipality illegally. It is perfectly natural and right and just to ship those people
00:42:49.680
out of there. They just don't want us to do it because mass migration is, in large part,
00:42:56.760
a political operation to undermine the political and electoral viability of Republicans throughout
00:43:03.040
the United States. That's why the Libs did it. That's why the Libs continue to do it.
00:43:07.700
And when they have to bear the costs of that, the housing and the taxes, when they have to bear the
00:43:13.600
political costs of that, which is even Democrat people in Democrat cities don't want to have to
00:43:16.700
pay for this stuff, then they will sometimes ship them away. And they'll ship them back to the
00:43:20.620
Republican states very often so that they don't have to deal with it. Speaking of federal issues,
00:43:25.340
one of the funniest videos I've seen in a long time, over the weekend goes viral. This is Proud Boys
00:43:32.240
met by a group, I think called Patriot Front. It's hard to tell exactly who these people are
00:43:38.920
because they wear masks over their faces. And this is a group, in recent months, maybe a year,
00:43:46.320
you've seen this group Patriot Front come to the fore and they march and they seem really on the nose.
00:43:51.400
And I think I've never really heard of this group and I'm pretty in it. You know, it's my job to read
00:43:56.180
about what's going on politically in the United States, especially on the right. I don't really
00:43:59.920
know anything about these guys. It seems kind of like a, well, it's right there in the name. It
00:44:03.540
seems kind of like a front, you know, it's, we know that federal agents infiltrate these supposedly
00:44:09.480
right-wing grassroots groups. We've seen the memoranda from the FBI. We've seen these guys get
00:44:13.560
caught. Do you remember at the Justice for January 6th rally where pretty much no one showed up other
00:44:18.680
than journalists and federal agents? There was this famous picture taken of guys who are obviously
00:44:23.780
feds. They're all wearing the same brandless clothing that they've all got the same haircut
00:44:28.160
they probably got done at Langley or at the FBI headquarters. They're all wearing the same shades.
00:44:33.660
They're all checking their five and their six and their seven. It was just, they're all wearing the
00:44:37.320
same Garmin watch. It was such a joke. And what's funny now, by the way, is if you Google this
00:44:41.160
picture, if you look for it on Google, it won't turn up. If you look for it on Twitter, it won't turn up.
00:44:46.180
You can say Justice for January 6th rally, feds, J6, feds, whatever. It doesn't show up. You can't
00:44:50.840
find it. I had to go to Bing to find that picture, even though that picture was everywhere at the
00:44:55.080
time. So we know that this kind of stuff happens. And there's a video of the Proud Boys going up to
00:45:00.340
these supposed American neo-Nazis and saying, get the hell out of here. You guys are not part of us.
00:45:13.840
See the guy in like the mullet, Proud Boy waving the American flag, going up to these
00:45:18.560
supposed American Nazis saying, get out of here. We don't want you here. You're obviously just
00:45:25.540
infiltrator pack shills. Go away. And they do back them off. They do. All these guys who very
00:45:35.980
conveniently are covered up in their shades and their face masks, they get out of here. And some
00:45:40.940
of the Proud Boys then tried to, I think, unmask them and it created a whole issue. Now, look, I don't
00:45:46.560
know if those guys are feds. I don't know if those guys are there just to try to make the right look
00:45:50.940
bad or so. I really, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't really care. However, there is
00:45:54.980
one good piece of evidence that these guys might have, I'm not saying that they're actual employees
00:46:01.160
of the federal government, that they might have some kind of connection, you know, to the federal
00:46:04.220
government. One piece of evidence here that, that they're feds is from Adam Kinzinger, former
00:46:11.020
Republican member of Congress, who's a total shill for the liberal establishment. He tweets out,
00:46:16.260
he says, these people, referring to conservative pundits who were laughing about this video,
00:46:22.300
these people, all blue checks, are celebrating a seemingly MAGA assault on federal officers.
00:46:26.880
Now, I don't know what this really is, but take a gander at the comments of the patriots who love
00:46:30.600
America. And reading that comment, you say, hold on, wait, you're admitting that patriot front is a
00:46:37.480
bunch of feds? Did you, Adam Kinzinger, who is not the swiftest politician out there, that's why he's
00:46:43.240
no longer in Congress? Not necessarily the sharpest duel in the shed. He's out there, he's saying,
00:46:49.000
this is outrageous. All these conservatives are laughing at an attack on federal agents.
00:46:55.500
You say, no, man, you're supposed to pretend that they're not federal agents. And anyway,
00:46:59.260
just a reminder that the, you really shouldn't believe everything you read in the liberal
00:47:07.360
establishment papers. Because the reality of what's going on on the right is not the way
00:47:13.120
that it is portrayed. And I think people are beginning to wake up to this and you're seeing
00:47:17.120
it reflected in the polls and priorities of the real conservatives. Okay, today's Music Monday,
00:47:21.960
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00:47:26.520
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