Ep. 1276 - The Libs Are Doing This To Your Pizza
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Kamala Harris is the least popular vice president in recent memory, and she's not even close to being the most unpopular politician in the Biden administration. Is that a coincidence? Or is that just what happens when you pick a black woman to be your VP?
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I spoke too soon. Yesterday, I mentioned that Pride Month was coming to an end,
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but I said that before Assistant Health Secretary Richard Levine weighed in on the matter.
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Hello, my name is Admiral Rachel Levine, and I have the honor of being the Assistant
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Secretary for Health at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
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Happy Pride. Happy Pride Month. And actually, let's declare it a summer of pride.
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Now, I have a counterproposal. My counterproposal is that we ban that evil pride flag from every
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public space forever. We could do it. We ban all sorts of flags from public spaces. Nazi flags,
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hammer and sickle flags would not be that hard at all. And you might say that's extreme. But is it
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more extreme than turning pride day into pride week, into pride month, into pride summer,
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into left unchecked? I promise you, pride always? We're living in polarizing times,
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and you can't simultaneously exalt opposites. So which is it going to be? Do we follow good old
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Uncle Sam and salute the red, white and blue? Or will we follow Assistant Secretary Dick and worship
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the rainbow standard? What kind of summer and what kind of country do you want to have?
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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border immigration plan. We'll get to that in just a little bit. First, though, unbelievably,
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trans the kids Richard Levine is somehow not the most unpopular, prominent politician in the Biden
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administration. Or should I say, not the most prominent, unpopular politician in the Biden
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administration. That honor would go to Kamala Harris. And you don't need to take my word for it,
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and you don't need to take your hunch for it. We have polling on this from NBC News. Kamala Harris
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is the least popular vice president in recent memory. The poll conducted this month shows 32%
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of registered voters have a positive view of Kamala Harris compared with 49% who have a negative view of
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her. This is a net negative rating for those of you who are not mathematically inclined of negative 17
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points. The lowest for any vice president in the polls history. And if you compare it with other
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polls, you're looking at at least the least popular vice president since 1995, St. Al Gore,
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and maybe even less popular going further back. This is, of course, very bad news for Kamala Harris.
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Really good news for Biden, though. And it's not a coincidence, I don't think.
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Biden picked Kamala Harris because he said that he was going to pick a black woman. And there were
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like three options among prominent politicians. And so it was either her, Karen Bass, who is an
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actual communist, or Susan Rice, who is the fall man for the Benghazi terror attack under Barack Obama.
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So not a lot of options. And he picked Kamala Harris. And I think one of the other reasons that
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Joe Biden picked Kamala Harris is because she's deeply, deeply unlikable. And this is a factor that goes
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into picking a vice presidential candidate is you want to pick a VP who will not be more popular
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than you and who will give your opponents pause when they're thinking about impeaching you.
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So Joe Biden has nothing to fear from Kamala Harris. Kamala obviously wants to run against Joe
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in 2024, but she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Pete Buttigieg is another cabinet member who
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wants to run against Joe Biden. And Pete Buttigieg also is a complete joke of a candidate and going
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nowhere. So the only real challenge that Joe Biden can get right now is from Gavin Newsom in California.
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And he is running a shadow presidential campaign. But the Democrat Party is so rigged and it's so
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controlled by party elites that it would be very difficult for Gavin to mount some kind of an
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insurrection. You're seeing RFK Jr. trying to do that right now. Difficult to see how that ultimately
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works. And so Newsom is just waiting in the wings to see if Joe Biden, you know, God forbid,
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falls down a flight of stairs or something. Gavin Newsom can come in and take over the mantle.
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But as of now, no serious threat to Joe Biden, certainly not from his vice president. Kamala
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was just out giving a speech and reminded us why people don't like her very much.
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Here is her take on pro-life and abortion advocacy.
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The majority of Americans, I do believe, agree that one does not have to abandon their faith
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or deeply held beliefs to agree the government should not be telling her what to do with her body.
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Now, of course, the majority of Americans do not believe in this. This is why it's a very
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contentious issue. And even for people who are pro-abortion, nobody really believes this.
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Christianity has been clear from day one that abortion is completely unacceptable. The Catholic
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Church has never wavered in this position, going all the way back to the didache, the first sort of
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proto-catechism of the Catholic Church. You see that abortion is immoral, unacceptable. This teaching
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has been reaffirmed throughout the ages. Christians, in order to support legal abortion,
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Christians do have to abandon their faith. And Pope John Paul II made this very clear when he said that
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the right to life is not just one right among many. We've got the right to life. We've got the
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right to drive a car. We've got the right to own a gun. The right to life is the fundamental right
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on which all of the other rights rely. So yes, you would have to abandon your faith. And that's
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what many libs have done. Many pro-abortion people will tell you, yeah, I'm not a Christian. I'm not
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this religion. I'm not that religion. Yeah, I am a liberal. That's my religion. So she's wrong about
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that. But put that aside for a second. Politically, what's so stupid about this line is that the
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principle she's appealing to appeals to nobody right now. She's appealing to a principle of small
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government. She's saying, we need to get the government out of people's lives. But that doesn't
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appeal to anybody. It doesn't appeal to the liberals who are infamously in favor of bigger and bigger
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both parties have, in different realms, exalted small government. The libs have done so on the
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social issues. They've said, get the government out of my bedroom. Get the government out of my
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social interactions. Get the government out of my weird sex stuff. Get the government out of my
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drug use. Get the government out of all these, what we call social issues. The conservatives have
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done so on the economic front. They've said, get the government out of my business. Get the government
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out of my wallet. Get the government out of my bank account. Okay. Both parties are increasingly
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moving away from that because there's no such thing as a small government in a country of 330 million
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people. And there's no such thing as a small government in any society because we have questions
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that we have to agree upon and we have laws that have to be enforced. So even in the earliest days
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of the American Republic, there might've been a much smaller federal government, but there was a much
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bigger local government. The local government had a lot to say about when you could buy things.
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There were Sabbath laws. The government had a lot to say about what kind of weird sex stuff you could
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engage in. Deviant sexual behaviors were illegal and some were harshly punished. The government
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had a lot to say about what kind of things you could import and what kind of things you could
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sell. The government had a lot to say about who could live in the country, who could vote,
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who could do this, who could do that. So the government was very, very big at that more local
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level on social issues and economic issues. And both sides embraced libertarianism in specific
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spheres in the latter part of the 20th century, early 21st century. But now both are moving away
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from that. The, the, Hey, just accept us, be tolerant. Let us do what we want to do. Get out of
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my bedroom. That kind of liberalism has given way to, you will worship the pride flag or else you
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will sit through the pride diversity inclusion session in your school, or you're going to be
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punished. You'll do it in your office or you're going to be fired. And on the right, the shrink the
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government, let me spend my own money kind of libertarianism has given way to a more robust
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focus on rebuilding American manufacturing, on using protective tariffs as a way to balance out
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some inequalities in foreign trade, has given way to the government going in and pummeling big tech
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companies when big tech is censoring conservatives. Both sides are favoring a more active role of
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government right now because they recognize that as they've ceded that power, it has benefited
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their political opponents. In this case, it's benefited the left way more than it's benefited the right.
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I guess you might say it's benefited the uniparty establishment against populist movements on the
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left and against the right. So Kamala Harris, not preaching to anybody. Her, her message is not
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resonating at all. The other prominent woman in the Biden administration, Karine Jean-Pierre,
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the president's press secretary has come out and, and she's, she's articulating the Biden 2024
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We believe Reaganomics doesn't work. We've been very clear. We believe that trickle down,
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a trickle down economy doesn't work. It has not worked. That has shown to be the case for decades
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now. And so what we have been very clear, you hear me say this all the time, building an economy
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from the, from the middle out and bottom up. That's what we want to do. And every piece of historic
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legislation speaks to that, speaks to what the president wants to do, very loud and clear in historic fashion.
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Ronald Reagan died almost 20 years ago. Ronald Reagan has been dead for almost 20 years. Ronald
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Reagan left office 34 years ago. Can we shut up about the Reaganomics already? Have, does this,
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does this talking point still work? Reaganomics? Are we going to start talking about Coolidge and
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Coolidge-nomics don't work? Listen, James Garfield-nomics are bad for this country. And I recognize that Joe
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Biden remembers the election of James Garfield and Chester Arthur, but most people, for most people,
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this is the distant past. Okay. And it's just the same tired, old lines from Biden and from Kamala
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Harris and from Corrine Jean-Pierre and the whole liberal establishment. Maybe that doesn't matter.
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Maybe they've rigged the elections enough that it really doesn't matter what the people think.
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But I can't imagine this is resonating. And in fact, it's reflected in the polls because not only
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Kamala Harris, but Joe Biden are down in the doldrums in terms of popularity. And then this
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line that Corrine Jean-Pierre says, she says, we don't want an economy from the top down,
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the trickle down. We want an economy from the bottom up. No, you don't. You obviously don't.
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Because it was you and the libs who were pushing all the COVID lockdowns, which was the largest transfer
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of wealth in human history from the lower classes to the upper classes, from the multitude of small
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businesses to the handful of oligarchic large businesses. That's what you want. Who's the party
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of the rich, would you say today? The deplorable, irredeemable, filthy, dirty, hillbilly, bitter
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clinging MAGA Republicans that the liberal establishment despises? Or the jet-setting John
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Carey's, Joe Biden's, cutting deals with China and Ukraine, sipping lattes, preening and sneering at
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the rest of their countrymen. Who's the party of the people? I don't think this is fanciful,
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wishful thinking here. I think we can all agree, whatever the Republican Party was 10, 20 years ago,
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whatever the Democratic Party was 10, 20 years ago, today, the GOP is the party of the people.
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And the Democrats are the party of the elite. Who disagrees with that?
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And they have the audacity to say, we're building an economy from the bottom up. No, you're not. It's
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the same thing that you hear from the Democrats when they say, we're the party of democracy. And
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it's the party that constantly is chipping away at democracy. The Republicans are the party saying,
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hey, we need voter ID. Hey, we need to make sure that these elections don't get stolen. Hey,
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we need to make sure that we have representation for marginalized people. And it's the Democrats saying,
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no, you don't. It's even in the way that the parties are run. The Republican Party basically
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has a free and open primary process. The Democrat Party has party elites, very influential, usually
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very wealthy people who come in and pick the nominee through superdelegates if there's any confusion.
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It just doesn't resonate. Nobody really buys this. And so the outcome of this is not necessarily
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that the people are finally going to have their voices heard and they're going to throw Biden out
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of power and they're going to put their representative in. It might be the case that
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the electoral system is so rigged now and both parties believe that the electoral system is rigged
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according to polling. And if you have eyes and two brain cells to rub together, you can see that.
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You can see that in the run up to the 2020 election, when the libs change all of the election rules to
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benefit them and to make it harder to have any transparency or accountability of the vote,
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that that constitutes a rigging. You might say, well, now the system is just so rigged,
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it's going to be very, very difficult to overcome that. But let there be no confusion about where
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things stand. The people preening about Reaganomics and whatever, they are very clearly the party
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You want to talk about bad economic policies that are deeply unpopular with people? New York City.
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I couldn't believe this. I had to read this multiple times to find out it wasn't a joke. New York City,
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is telling pizza places that they need to cut their emissions by three quarters or they're going to
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be put out of business. Now, before I get into this story, what do we say? Do we say pizzerias?
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Do we say pizzeria? Do we say pizza, like the Italian pronunciation? Do we say pizza places? Do we say
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pizza parlor? Remember we used to call them pizza parlors? No one really says that. I don't know.
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What do you call a pizza shop? Pizza shop? I don't know. Anyway, it's a digression. It's a,
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it's a linguistic point for another time. New York City is telling these pizzeria that they need to cut
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their emissions by three quarters. That's the Department of Environmental Protection,
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new rules that say that wood-fired good pizza places need to change the way that they make pizza
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or they're going to be shut down by the city. They're saying that there are harmful pollutants
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in neighborhoods with poor air quality and we need to control emissions because people are going to
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choke on the pollution of a delicious, tasty pizza. I wish that I had the emissions from a delicious
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pizza place down the street or downstairs from my apartment. How wonderful would that be?
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That would be the most delightful fragrance that I could imagine in my apartment.
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But instead, they're saying that's a very bad thing and everybody hates the smell of pizza,
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of course, and that's why we're going to shut down the pizza shops.
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Does anyone really believe, does anyone really believe, first of all, that the
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emissions are going to cause the sun monster to end the world? No. The people who do believe that
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have already said it's too late. Don't forget, Greta Thunberg, more than five years ago now,
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came out and said that if we don't cut off fossil fuels within five years, it will be too late and
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humanity will be wiped out. And we've passed that point. So according even to the most prominent
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environmental activist in the world, it is too late. There is nothing we can do to stop catastrophic
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global warming that will wipe out the human race. So the only reasonable conclusion that one could draw
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from that, even if one believed the ridiculous premise, is to eat, drink, and be merry, and specifically
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to eat tasty wood-fired pizza. But they're going to keep it up. Even though they already say it's too
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late, it doesn't matter. We've still got to suffer. We've still got to sacrifice. We've still got to
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give up our pizza. And that's the point. That's the point. The reason that they're going after your
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pizza is not because your pizza is causing global warming. Compared to all of the other pollutants in
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the world, New York City wood-fired pizza represents 0.0% of the pollutants. They're going after
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your pizza specifically because it will make you suffer. Specifically because it is a sacrifice.
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Because sacrifices and suffering are an important part of religion. And environmentalism represents
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the pseudo-religion of the left. And because dietary rules, rules around what you're allowed to eat,
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what's clean, what's unclean, they make up part of religion. And because liberalism is a mockery
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religion, it's a pseudo-religion to replace the traditional religion of our civilization,
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which is Christianity, they've got to have all that stuff too. And because societies are defined
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by their taboos, and taboo is a religious concept, they're going to make the thing that you really
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like taboo. A lot of people are curious as to why the liberal establishment seems so hell-bent on
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making us all eat bugs. You're seeing encouragements for us to eat bugs from institutions like the World
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Economic Forum, from popular celebrities like Nicole Kidman, from liberal politicians,
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from social media influencers on the left. Why? Why do they want us to eat bugs? Well, they say
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these bugs are really environmentally friendly, and you can grow them anywhere, and they don't,
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they're not going to cause the sun monster to kill us all. And so despite how gross it seems,
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you have to eat the bugs. But the despite is what people are misunderstanding here. They're not
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trying to get you to eat bugs despite how gross they are. They're trying to get you to eat bugs
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because of how gross they are. Because it will violate one of your traditional taboos in your
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culture. And by changing the taboos, that will change your culture, and it will change the entire
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political order. There is nothing that is more New York than pizza. That is what New York is. That is
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old-timey traditional New York. And so if you are a social and political revolutionary, and you want to
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change the culture of New York, you're going to go after the thing that defines it. And pizza is at the
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top of that list. And so they're going to come, and they're going to take your pizza. And you know
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what I say? I'll channel my inner Charlton Heston. You can take my pizza from my cold, dead hands
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BMI, which is one of the ways that we measure obesity, that is now racist according to the
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American Medical Association, which is the largest council of doctors in the United States.
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They're going to say goodbye to it because BMI, they say, has racist roots. The report from the AMA
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says that, quote, BMI does not appropriately represent racial and ethnic minorities because
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it's based on the imagined ideal Caucasian of the 19th century without considering a person's gender
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or ethnicity. So the reason that they're saying it's racist is because black women in particular
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are very obese as a group. They are the most obese group of anybody. This became a political talking
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point during COVID because people who were more obese were more likely to suffer complications from
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COVID. And so the Libs said that COVID is racist, but COVID obviously is not racist. There are just
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certain unhealthy behaviors and conditions that are more associated with black people than with
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white people and specifically black women than other people. And so they say it's all racist and
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it's all because of white supremacy because everything has to be white people's fault.
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So the AMA goes on. They say South Asians in particular have especially high levels of body fat
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and are more prone to developing abdominal obesity than whites, which may account for their very high risk
00:23:17.280
of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. In contrast, some studies have found that blacks have
00:23:22.520
lower body fat and higher lean muscle mass than whites at the same BMI and therefore may be at lower
00:23:28.200
risk of obesity-related diseases. Notice they don't compare BMIs of the different groups. They're just
00:23:31.820
saying at the same BMI, here's muscle to fat. And of course that's true. Different peoples are
00:23:37.340
different, obviously. I'm a little swarthy here. My ancestors come from Southern Italy and at least on one
00:23:44.680
side of my family. And so, yeah, my skin is going to be a little darker than people from Scandinavia.
00:23:49.060
It's going to be a little lighter than people from Nigeria. My hair is going to be a little bit
00:23:52.800
different than the hair of people from all over the world. And so, sure, it naturally follows that all
00:23:58.020
sorts of aspects of my body are going to be different from other people's. Does that mean that body mass
00:24:05.500
index is no longer useful? No, of course not. That's a complete non sequitur. Does that mean that BMI is
00:24:12.500
racist? No, of course not. But racism, as we've observed on the show before and is becoming
00:24:21.680
increasingly clear in our culture, racist just means white. If a thing is white, if a thing has
00:24:30.440
connection to white people, if a thing is more closely associated with white people than non-white
00:24:36.700
people, it is racist. In our modern culture, white just means bad. So because BMI was developed by white
00:24:45.580
people on white people using experiments that involved white people, it's just bad. Because
00:24:52.180
America historically was a white country, America's bad. Because Europe is the continent of the white people,
00:25:00.440
then Europe is bad. And those places will be blamed for things that take place in Asia,
00:25:08.520
that take place in South Asia, that take place in Africa, that take place in Pacific Islands,
00:25:13.520
slavery, cannibalism even. Cannibalism which wasn't actually practiced in the West. And the word comes
00:25:19.540
from the indigenous peoples of the Americas and specifically from the care of islanders. Doesn't
00:25:23.720
matter. I mean, anything, anything that has existed everywhere, it's bad when white people do
00:25:30.380
it. It's not bad when other people do it. And that's that. And you can try to make sense of it,
00:25:35.240
and you can bang your head against one and say, wait a second, this is so crazy. These libs have gone
00:25:38.580
too far. How on earth could you say that ways to protect the health, specifically the health of black
00:25:43.200
people, could ever be racist? It doesn't. Come on, the logic. It's not logical. You have to recognize
00:25:48.440
that the libs are beginning with the conclusion. The conclusion is white people are bad.
00:25:54.100
Okay. White people, they're the only group against whom you can legally discriminate and socially
00:26:02.320
discriminate. Asians you can also legally discriminate against in college admissions and
00:26:07.300
employment, and really specifically college admissions through affirmative action. But
00:26:12.260
white people are the only group where you not only can legally discriminate against them,
00:26:17.000
but it is socially acceptable and encouraged to insult them, to discriminate against them socially,
00:26:22.260
to ostracize them. It's the only group. So that's the conclusion. And you're going to fill in all
00:26:26.660
the absurd background such that you've got the American Medical Association saying, oh, obesity is
00:26:31.720
great. Obesity is great. If you lose weight, you're racist. And you see this in the body positivity
00:26:36.740
movement and the now worship of a pop singer like Lizzo. If anyone suggests that maybe Lizzo ought to get
00:26:43.820
a little bit more healthy, that that would be good for her, that's considered racist. Speaking of racial
00:26:48.600
issues, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, number two guy in the Republican race for president,
00:26:55.920
The crisis at the southern border, a record 2.76 million migrants crossed the border during the
00:27:02.940
2022 fiscal year, shattering the previous annual record by more than 1 million. Some not old enough
00:27:09.860
to walk, but have already traveled hundreds of miles. So there's been this record surge of migrants.
00:27:15.060
Border patrol agents have rehended more than 10,000 migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border yesterday.
00:27:23.220
The drugs coming across the border here are fueling an unpresser than an epidemic across the
00:27:27.840
country, the toll of which could be counted in the skyrocketing number of overdose deaths.
00:27:33.260
But what's been happening under President Biden's watch is that they may be safe.
00:27:41.160
127 terrorists apprehended trying to cross the border. So true.
00:27:55.040
I like that he's using the word invasion. That's very strong. No excuses. Okay.
00:27:59.360
The plan might be good. The commercial's weak. And the commercial's weak because the commercial
00:28:03.480
doesn't include specifics. And because the commercial is diagnosing the problem, recognizing
00:28:08.520
the problem, but not getting specific on the solutions. Other than all the stuff that Republicans
00:28:13.980
have been talking about for a long time that they haven't really done.
00:28:18.440
Trump had a real advantage here in 2016 because he offered new solutions. We're going to build
00:28:23.720
the wall. We're going to deport all these people. We're going to end birthright citizenship. Okay,
00:28:28.060
great. Wow, that was new. That sounded exciting. People voted for him on that premise. But then
00:28:33.540
he didn't really do it. He built some of the wall. Illegal immigration dropped in the first months of the
00:28:39.660
presidency. But then the illegal immigrants and the cartels realized that the law wasn't really going
00:28:44.000
to be enforced. Maybe that was Trump's fault. Maybe it wasn't Trump's fault. Maybe Trump just
00:28:46.820
couldn't wield the bureaucracy. Effectively enough, regardless, illegal immigration jumped right back
00:28:51.920
up. So now the idea of building the wall or whatever, even that is not novel. People need more
00:29:00.760
specifics. And we need to believe that you can actually get it done. Now in his speeches,
00:29:05.960
Governor DeSantis has been more specific. And he's talked about how he intends to wield the levers
00:29:10.600
of power, which is good. I mean, that's a big improvement. I wish that that sort of thing were
00:29:14.900
in the campaign commercial. This commercial doesn't really do anything for me. I'd rather
00:29:18.540
just see DeSantis explain in nitty gritty detail what he's going to do. Because nobody really believes
00:29:23.820
that it's going to get done. I don't think anybody really believes that Trump is going to get it
00:29:27.040
done. I don't think anybody believes that DeSantis or any of these other candidates are going to get it
00:29:30.820
done, no matter how much they want to. Because the feeling is that even if a president is totally
00:29:36.440
sincere about stopping illegal immigration, that the deep state is going to cut them off at the
00:29:41.500
knees. That it's going to be held up in court. That it's going to be held up by the executive
00:29:46.820
agencies. And that all that time, the borders are going to remain open. And the illegal immigrants
00:29:51.220
are going to come over to the tune of three and a half million per year.
00:29:54.280
You know, it's not totally fair to attack DeSantis for this because the reason that
00:30:01.980
he needs to get so specific, the reason he doesn't really have credibility here is in part because
00:30:06.860
even Trump failed to do it. Even Trump, who is the most anti-immigration presidential candidate for
00:30:13.960
a major party in my lifetime, even he couldn't get the job done. So now I wonder if immigration is
00:30:21.140
even going to be a big issue in 2024. I think a lot of Republicans have just written it off.
00:30:26.340
Just said, yeah, we tried. There's really no solution on the horizon. We've got to focus our
00:30:30.460
attention elsewhere. Speaking of unwelcome entities invading our space, here's a disturbing story from
00:30:36.760
the Daily Wire. AI teddy bears could be reading customized bedtime stories to your kids within five
00:30:45.160
years. This is according to VTech Holdings, which is a, has always been a kind of higher tech toy
00:30:52.320
company, Hong Kong based toy and electronics company. They're looking very closely at the use of AI within
00:30:58.180
toys, and they would equip the toys with a chat GPT style intelligence. They're hoping to do it by 2028.
00:31:04.180
And so what they'll say is you can incorporate not only the kid's name, but the kid's daily activities.
00:31:08.960
Knows you go to which school, who your friends are. It can actually be telling a story and talking
00:31:14.160
almost like a good friend. The kids can actually talk to the toy and the toy can actually give them
00:31:20.720
a response. I think this is a very bad idea. You'll be shocked to hear that I, who am rather skeptical of
00:31:29.220
technological progress and progress generally, I think this is probably a bad idea. This technology
00:31:35.260
is designed to alleviate loneliness. That's the idea of it. Because even if you're isolated,
00:31:44.140
there are a lot of lonely people out there, especially in this day and age, there are a lot
00:31:48.300
of people who don't have a lot of friends. Maybe they don't feel like they have any friends in real
00:31:52.720
life. And what they will try to do is turn to technology to alleviate that loneliness. And so
00:31:59.140
this sort of technology, the, the industry is talking about implementing it into retirement homes,
00:32:06.520
into hospice care, into little kids' bedrooms where they're sitting alone at night. And now mommy and
00:32:12.300
daddy don't need to read a story to the kid. The teddy bear is just going to read the story to the
00:32:15.460
kid. And that's going to make the kid feel like he's talking almost like to a good friend. But
00:32:19.920
all of the evidence that we have is that the result is really the opposite. That as technology becomes
00:32:28.820
more personalized. As the media and the technology become more social, people feel more alienated and
00:32:35.740
more isolated. And the reason for that is we know that it's just a computer. We can tell the
00:32:43.480
difference between a person and a computer. And I think even if ChatGPT and AI gets to the point where
00:32:48.800
it is almost indistinguishable from a human being, we're still going to know. We still know at a deep
00:32:54.060
level, the difference between reality and simulation. We can watch a conversation on a
00:33:01.740
YouTube video and that's great. And it might pass the time, but it's not really going to make us feel
00:33:06.140
less lonely. It's not, not really going to alleviate that at all. And, and the more that we rely on these
00:33:13.880
technologies, the, the, the more alienated we become. I mean, I have talked to people with a whole
00:33:19.340
host of social pathologies and different conditions. A notable one, a notable one of those conditions
00:33:25.760
we're not allowed to talk about on YouTube, but I think, I think we know which issue we're talking
00:33:29.080
about here. And they will say that they've fallen into some of these pathologies because of technology,
00:33:34.600
because they go onto Tumblr, they go onto various social media networks, and they get lost in this
00:33:41.660
network of virtual friends, but they're not really friends. And so all of the insecurities remain
00:33:47.000
and they just become exacerbated and they fall further and further into fantasy and away from
00:33:52.880
reality. Not, not a good thing. Not a good thing for the kid. Just read your kid a story. You lazy
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00:36:00.280
is from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music. I absolutely love that commenter. That commenter
00:36:08.860
has popped up a lot in the show. And the comment is, to quote Joe Biden's dad, Joey, it's simple.
00:36:14.540
They're coming for your children. Very simple. They are. They are, in fact, coming for your children.
00:36:20.620
Speaking of kids, speaking of the youths, Disney has cast its first transgender actor in a major role.
00:36:33.340
Disney has hired a British man who identifies as a woman, YouTube personality, who calls himself
00:36:39.660
Abigail Thorne. I don't know what his real name is, but he calls himself Abigail, for a role in the
00:36:44.740
upcoming Disney Plus series, The Acolyte, according to multiple reports. And this is obviously very bad
00:36:54.100
and shouldn't happen. And it's another reason never to let your kids watch Disney and any, certainly any
00:36:58.080
new Disney and to only go over and watch Daily Wire Plus kids content and other conservative kids
00:37:02.240
content. But it's created a little bit of a division on the right between the conservatives
00:37:09.160
and the squishier, more kind of live and let live. You have the right to do whatever you want kind of
00:37:17.080
people. And the division has come down to this issue of, well, look, the free market can decide
00:37:24.380
who gets cast for what roles. And come on, let's not be extreme here. Transgender people have the right
00:37:31.620
to a job, right? They have the right to be. And now there's a difference between a right to a job,
00:37:36.800
first of all, and a right to be in children's content from Disney. But let's put that aside
00:37:41.900
for a second. Let's just take the, transgender people have the right to work. Transgender people
00:37:46.200
have the right to a job. No, they don't. And they don't because there's no such category as transgender
00:37:54.140
people. There are just people. There are people and people are defined in a certain way. And people
00:38:00.260
are defined by things outside of their own self-perception and their own disordered desires.
00:38:05.720
There is no such thing as a transgender person. There are just people. And some people are
00:38:12.780
confused. And some people have fallen into fantasies. And some people are pursuing disordered
00:38:17.580
sexual desires and fetishes. But that doesn't change who and what they really are. And so a man
00:38:24.840
does not have any right to dress up in public life as a woman. And a man does not have a right
00:38:32.980
to dress up like a woman to go do whatever job he wants. The Supreme Court, unfortunately,
00:38:40.040
has ruled that a man does have that right. And you saw this specifically in the Harris Funeral Homes
00:38:44.280
case just a few years ago. And you've seen this in the Bostock decision, which says that civil rights
00:38:50.700
protections on the basis of sex are actually, when you really think about it, civil rights protections
00:38:55.260
on the basis of gender identity. And this is an absurd Supreme Court ruling. And it should certainly
00:38:59.440
be overturned, as many Supreme Court rulings have been overturned in American history. But you don't
00:39:03.580
have the right to do it. And transgenderism is such a hot issue that sometimes it's difficult for the
00:39:08.920
liberals to see past it because they just are so invested in transcending the boundaries of reality.
00:39:15.000
But let me put it in another way and say that I really like frogs. And I really like the idea of,
00:39:22.460
maybe I don't even view myself as a frog. I just really like the idea of being a frog.
00:39:27.880
I don't have a right to show up to work in a big frog costume.
00:39:33.800
Even if I really like it. I mean, in this line of work, I've worn all sorts of crazy costumes in
00:39:38.240
show business and politics. But even in this line of work, I don't have the right to show up to the
00:39:43.160
show and then say, well, hello, everybody. Someday we'll find it. The Rainbow Connection.
00:39:47.460
I notice my accent is becoming a little bit like Jordan Peterson's. But okay, now we're really,
00:39:54.220
it's like this is inception of Daily Wire personalities and views and costumes. But
00:39:59.960
nobody has that right. If you pull up to your McDonald's and you order a hamburger and then
00:40:06.980
there's a guy in a big frog costume in the window, you would think that's a little bit weird. And I
00:40:11.960
think the manager would think it's a little bit weird. The manager would say, hey, go home and put
00:40:14.720
on your uniform, put on your clothing that you're supposed to wear. And the same principle holds
00:40:21.820
for men and women. Men don't have the right to dress up like women. Women don't have the right
00:40:28.840
to dress up like men. And if you are going to persist in those kind of deviant, disordered,
00:40:35.380
scandalous, absurd, ridiculous behaviors of make-believe and dress up, an employer is not
00:40:44.480
obligated to hire you and an audience is not obligated to watch you. And we need to get a
00:40:51.480
little bit more clear about that. That's the only way that we are going to eradicate the preposterous
00:40:58.180
ideology of transgenderism from public life entirely for the good of society and especially
00:41:04.260
for the good of the poor people who have fallen prey to that delusion, such as this Disney actor.
00:41:11.980
Speaking of legal issues, Justice Sam Alito, one of the greats on the Supreme Court. Possibly my very
00:41:20.940
favorite justice on the Supreme Court. Certainly right up there with Clarence Thomas. And I think
00:41:25.340
probably even, I agree with Alito a little more than I agree with Thomas. Sam Alito has a big target
00:41:32.000
on his back and the Libs are going after him. So there's a hack, liberal, journalistic outlet called
00:41:38.840
ProPublica, which is trying to attack Sam Alito and gin up a scandal where there is none. And that's
00:41:44.760
no surprise. The Libs have been doing this for years. They've done it to Brett Kavanaugh. They've
00:41:50.100
especially done it to Justice Thomas. Now they're doing it to Sam Alito. What's different
00:41:55.160
here? When they've done it to conservative judges in the past, the conservative judges have gone on
00:42:01.900
defense. So Brett Kavanaugh mounted that very strong defense at his confirmation hearings.
00:42:07.400
You know, I like beer. I still like beer. That whole thing. And it worked. And I felt did a pretty
00:42:11.720
good job of dispelling the silly nonsense, the obviously concocted nonsense of that woman,
00:42:18.100
Christine Blasey Ford, where there's no evidence that you ever even met Brett Kavanaugh.
00:42:21.860
You saw this with Justice Thomas in the high-tech lynching confirmation hearings where Thomas
00:42:28.500
mounts his defense. He says, this is a national disgrace. This is a circus. This is a high-tech
00:42:33.340
lynching for uppity blacks who in any way deign to think for themselves. And Joe Biden, who was
00:42:37.180
chairing that meeting, immediately put his head down. He thought, oh no, wait, I can't. I look bad
00:42:42.440
now that we're going after Thomas. In this case, though, Alito's going on the offense.
00:42:47.620
Sam Alito published an op-ed a few days ago in the Wall Street Journal and says,
00:42:52.480
ProPublica misleads its readers. The publication levels false charges about Supreme Court recusal,
00:42:57.120
financial disclosures, and a 2008 phishing trip. Now, the issue at play here is that some guy invited
00:43:05.120
Sam Alito to fly on his private airplane to a place that they were both going to. And this guy,
00:43:14.280
through some indirect means, had business before the court at some point. And so they're saying,
00:43:19.000
this is awful, and Alito should have recused himself, and this is corruption, whatever.
00:43:22.240
And Alito does a very good job of knocking this down. He says, first of all, this issue has come
00:43:25.440
before the court many times, long before I ever flew on this airplane. And my views haven't really
00:43:30.520
changed on it. And I was invited on this airplane. This was an empty seat. It didn't incur any extra
00:43:35.740
cost for the guy who did it to me. And I've been totally above board in all my financial
00:43:41.640
disclosures. And he just totally knocks it down, takes the wind out of the sails.
00:43:45.860
The lesson here for conservatives, though, is that this unusual action of going on offense,
00:43:51.960
even before an attack comes out, this needs to become the norm. Okay? We used to
00:43:57.960
let things lie a little bit, not try to get too aggressive, try to maintain an above-it-all
00:44:04.820
sort of approach. That's not going to work. Any semblance of neutrality in the public institutions,
00:44:10.600
that's gone. You're either with us or against us. That's the place that we're at now. I'm not sure
00:44:19.140
if that was always the case, and we're just seeing it more clearly now, or if this is a real change for
00:44:24.640
our political order. But whatever it is, we're now engaged in a fairly, clearly defined battle.
00:44:30.900
And this laissez-faire, you do you, I don't have an opinion, proceduralism, proceduralism,
00:44:37.280
that has defined our politics for a long time, that's over. Pick a side, fight very hard.
00:44:44.520
We've got a guy coming up. Who knows a thing or two about that? That would be my friend,
00:44:49.060
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