Ep. 1281 - Bud Light Is Cheaper Than Water
Summary
A bag of white powder was discovered in the White House on Sunday, leading to the evacuation of the West Wing and the search for the culprit. NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli and reporter Andrea Tantor join the show to discuss the latest in the Biden White House conspiracy theories.
Transcript
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The West Wing was evacuated on Sunday after a bag of white powder was discovered in the White House.
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The evacuation was brief, however, after officials remembered that Hunter Biden doesn't snort anthrax, as far as we know.
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Now, the white powder turned out to be nothing more than a first son favorite booger sugar.
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Some Colombian nose candy, if you catch my drift.
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A little Yale College baking soda, if you can infer my meaning.
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Coke, which means that since the president's infamously unrepentant dirt bag of a son had been visiting the White House that very weekend,
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a lot of people came to conclusions about how the cocaine got there.
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And turning to some breaking news, we have just learned that a formal lab has confirmed the suspicion
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that that white powdery substance found in the West Wing on Sunday was, in fact, positive for cocaine.
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The discovery led to a brief evacuation of the White House Sunday night.
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Joining us now is NBC White House correspondent Mike Memoli.
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You and I have covered the White House for years.
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So, I can't even fathom anything like this having been found before in the West Wing.
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And this new conclusive test confirms what had been the preliminary field test conducted by D.C. fire personnel
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who were called in on Sunday night after the discovery of this suspicious substance
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by a uniformed officer in the Secret Service that was conducting a routine patrol of the White House.
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And so, to recap on the developments from, that we've been reporting on yesterday,
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this was found, we understand, in a highly trafficked common area of the West Wing.
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It's an area where individuals, especially visitors, individuals who may be coming for, for instance, a private tour.
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So, how on earth, cocaine made its way into the Biden White House?
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Not to be outdone in implausibility, a law enforcement official has gone on record to say that the cocaine culprit
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Because the culprit, whoever he is, in any case, is a friend of Joe Biden.
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The only people who make it into the West Wing these days are friends and allies of Joe Biden and the Democrats.
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And Democrat criminals, generally speaking, with very few exceptions, don't face consequences
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because they don't get charged, because they don't get arrested, because they're usually not even investigated.
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Conservatives have the book thrown at us for even slightly approaching the line of legality.
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While the libs get off scot-free when they cross the line and even when they snort it up behind them.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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So, there's a wonderful clip in this ongoing debate over affirmative action and Harvard admissions of Joy Reid,
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who I just learned, Joy Reid is in this MSNBC talking head.
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Apparently, she went to Harvard, and she admits the only reason she got in is because of affirmative action.
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And then she proves it when she demonstrates that she doesn't even know what affirmative action is.
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First, though, speaking of intoxicants, Bud Light is selling for less than water right now in some places.
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According to Andy Wagner, the manager of Glenn Miller's Beer and Soda Warehouse in Le Moyne, Pennsylvania,
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at this point, it's cheaper than some of the cases of water we're selling in the back.
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It's not that these people have stopped drinking beer.
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Now, according to this guy, he said Anheuser-Busch broke bar rules, which means no politics, no religion.
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This was the number one best-selling beer in America for over 20 years.
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The sales continue to fall, and Modelo Especial has overtaken Bud Light as the number one beer in America,
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and now Bud Light is selling in some places cheaper than water.
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This is really encouraging, not only because of what it says about Americans' views of the pride stuff,
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not only because of what it says about conservatives' abilities to boycott a company and really bring them to heel,
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because it reminds us that bad systems can't go on forever,
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because it reminds us that there actually are consequences for bad, stupid, misguided actions
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And I think we conservatives, and I'll include myself in this,
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we sometimes are tempted to despair because we see the first family getting away with murder.
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Well, sorry, I'm not talking about the Clintons.
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So they get away with, you know, bribery and corruption and drugs and all this kind of stuff,
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and they just get away with it, and they're not held to account ever.
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Meanwhile, Midwestern grannies who crack, probably not a Bud Light, in the Capitol Rotunda,
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They have the book thrown at them because of January 6th.
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And we just look at this and we say, goodness gracious, it's so preposterous.
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The kinds of ideologies, some of which we're not allowed to talk about on Big Tech anymore,
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so you've got to go to dailywire.com to hear the commentary on that.
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But certain ideologies that are very much in the news are manifestly absurd,
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and yet the establishment continues to push them, it seems like, without any real consequence whatsoever.
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They don't seem in any way accountable to the people.
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And yet, sometimes, this is the great conservative consolation, reality reasserts itself eventually.
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There can be a lot of time and a lot of pain before reality reasserts itself, but it does.
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And now you're seeing this especially as Bud Light collapses.
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So Bud Light, they're trying almost everything to resuscitate their brand,
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and they're catching a lot of flack for almost everything they do.
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Bud Light comes out initially, and they sort of don't quite, not exactly apologize.
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Then they publish an ad about horses or something, which totally sidesteps the issue.
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Then they publish this ad with a bunch of grunting, rube, idiot, hick, deplorable, irredeemables,
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just like stumbling and bumbling over themselves as though that was going to ingratiate them back with their customer base.
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And now Bud Light is using fallen soldiers as a last-ditch effort to resuscitate the brand.
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After my second tour in Iraq as an F-16 pilot, I witnessed a family as their fallen soldier returned home.
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Budweiser has believed in folds of honor for 13 years.
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Today, we honor our veterans and the 44,000 scholarships awarded to their families.
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Like Bud Light, this commercial is almost completely tasteless.
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Because it's bad that Bud Light is donating money to it?
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Because it's bad that Bud Light is mentioning that they're donating money to it?
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No, I don't even totally mind that if a company is doing that,
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though they should do it in a more graceful, subtle way.
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But because this advertisement was produced and aired with one purpose and one purpose only,
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and that is to win back customers after the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.
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There is only one way out of the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco.
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It's not presenting white men in the South as bumbling, fumbling idiots.
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It's not talking about the fallen soldiers and how much you do for the families of the fallen soldiers.
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the only shot that Bud Light has out of the Dylan Mulvaney fiasco?
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You're not pushing that radical sexual agenda on people.
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You don't think that they're frat boys and rude blue-collar idiots.
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You need to apologize and you need to clearly state what you believe.
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You've injected yourself into this contentious political debate,
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and this is a debate on this particular sexual ideology that we're not allowed to mention the name of on big tech platforms.
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There is no way of trying to just remain neutral and appease everybody.
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Do you support this radical false sexual ideology or not?
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I know we talk about non-binary things these days.
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And a Bud Light spot between a rock and a hard place because the vast majority of people don't accept this radical sexual ideology that we all know is false.
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But the elites, the people with the money, the big asset managers and the big people who control the media and the political order and the education systems and all the rest of it,
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And the customers are the many, the people who don't support it.
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But the investors and the advertisers and the platform owners, they're the ones who do support it.
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They're going to irritate your customer base even more.
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Then just don't do anything and wait it out and hope people forget.
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If you want to try to resuscitate the brand, there's, there's only one way.
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If you really wanted to do it, Bud Light would just air a commercial of my CPAC speech.
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That caused a little consternation on the right over this particular, on the left rather, over this particular issue.
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If Bud Light really wanted to correct things with the base, Bud Light would air a trailer for the What is a Woman movie as a commercial.
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Speaking of economic shifts, great news that is not being reported very much about our political order.
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It's not a sexy issue like a beer company going woke or something so people aren't talking.
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But this is so, this is such a big win for conservatives.
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The Northeast of America, which has been the dominant economic leader, the powerhouse of America for, I don't know, about as long as I can remember,
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is no longer the main driver of the American economy.
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The liberal Northeast region has lost its economic dominance.
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The conservative region, the South, has taken it.
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Because people are leaving the Northeast because the Northeast has become unlivable, very difficult with stupid regulations and stupid taxes and stupid social policies,
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And they're moving to the South, which is not only freer economically, but perhaps more importantly, it's still an ordered society.
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It's still a normal place where you can live a normal life.
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And I know all we ever talk about is how, well, we've got lower taxes here, you know, or, hey, we've got fewer regulations, so it's easier to do business.
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And those were big motivating factors that got a lot of us conservatives, myself included, to leave liberal places and to move here to Tennessee or Texas or Georgia or Florida or these other places, too.
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When people ask me, hey, Michael, how do you like Tennessee?
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I don't say because I have a little bit more money, which I do.
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I do have a little bit more money here because there's no state income tax.
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What I always say is because I can raise a family here, because it's a nice, normal place to live, because I love my neighbors, because there's a community here, because I love my parish, because it's normal here.
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And people smile and are nice and talk about things in a normal way.
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And it turns out that normality and living in accordance with reality is good for business, too.
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We conservatives, we fall for the same economics exaltation that the leftists and even that the Marxists do.
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The Marxists' primary mistake was viewing man as essentially an economic creature.
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But man is not essentially an economic creature.
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Man is made in the image and likeness of God, and there's a lot more to life than money.
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So we want a good economy, but we want that good economy in service of a good society and a good life.
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You don't want to put the cart before the horse.
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And when you think about economics first, things are going to get out of whack.
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You see this not only on the left, but even on the right.
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When conservatives tried to avoid the social issues and they just wanted to talk about occupational licensing reform or whatever,
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then we lost all of our power and society spun totally out of control.
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What we have learned, I think, in the last 10 years, especially on the right, is that social issues are economic issues.
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You're not going to fix the economic problem by having a social truce or anything like that.
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Do we support growing families and growing the next generation?
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Do we recognize borders and the distinction between a citizenry and foreign peoples?
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If we don't do that, then you can have all the economic tinkering in the world.
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So now, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, my state of Tennessee, and Texas, which is where all my exes live,
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they have economically overtaken Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C., the Northeast, according to Bloomberg.
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The population in the Southeast grew by 2.2 million people in the last two years.
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It's the same consolation that we were just talking about with Bud Light.
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And conservatives used to not like that last part of it because we used to want to believe, hey, look, the America of 1958, that has to go on forever.
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The America, not even of 1778, not even of 1888, but of mid-1950s America, that is the eternal political order.
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It has to go on forever, and any deviation from that whatsoever is awful and terrible and a violation of everything we hold dear.
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And we used to lament when the left would tell us, well, that's not how politics works.
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Well, yeah, it's very sad to know that political orders always have to change when things are good.
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But when things are bad and decadent and corrupted, as they are right now, then it's a great consolation and hope to know that political orders, none of them, not the best one, not the worst one, none of them go on forever.
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And so, as the South, as the conservative part of the country, gains more economic power, the South is going to be able to throw its political weight around a little bit more than we have in the past, just as the liberal Northeast was able to throw its political weight around and dominate the country for the last hundred years.
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Now, speaking of bad systems and speaking of the South, great news out of Virginia, Pornhub has just suspended its service in Virginia.
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This was going around Twitter and an email from Pornhub.
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Although sometimes libs find my email address and they sign me up for all sorts of nasty little things that I have to then unsubscribe for.
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I mercifully have not been signed up for this one.
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And now I know saying that, I know I'm going to just get a flood of sign-ups for this evil website.
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But it doesn't even really matter because this website is going down because people are throwing their economic and political weight around to destroy Pornhub.
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And some of the libertarians are probably upset about that.
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But the conservatives are going to be thrilled about that.
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They say, dear user, as you may know, your elected officials in Virginia are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website while safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission.
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We got to forget even the idea that safety and compliance are really important to Pornhub.
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This is so grating about all millennial companies.
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They say, well, our social mission is to improve the world and to stop climate change and to spread pride and progress.
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And that's even true of smut peddlers like Pornhub.
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Your mission is to arouse the lusts of men and to exploit women and sexually traffic people.
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So they say, safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission.
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But giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution.
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Until a real solution is offered, well, we got a solution, Pornhub.
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Insist that users of porn websites and Target Pornhub because it's the big one, insist that
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they submit a government-issued ID and then they can use the website.
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That's a good first step because there are going to be a lot of people who, recognizing
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that porn is extremely shameful, just won't do that.
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And then they will be, they will have less access to porn.
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Pornhub will have a more difficult time maintaining their service.
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And you'll, you'll drive it ever further toward the margins of society.
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I remember when these proposals first started to come up five, six years ago, when it really
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And some of us conservatives advocated these policies and the more libertarian minded, more
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sort of, I don't know, 2010 era conservative types, libertarian types, they said, no, this
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This is exactly what the libs did with cigarettes.
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They said, you've got to present an ID and you've got to be 18.
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Now, pretty soon you have to be 45 to buy cigarettes.
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In New York, you can't even buy tobacco if you were born after a certain age.
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That's one of the proposals the libs have put forward there.
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We're going to lump this, that, and the other thing.
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You know I love cigars, but cigarettes, I've never been a huge fan.
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But I'll tell you this, for certain, porn is way more dangerous than cigarettes.
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They have a minor effect on the soul relative to porn, which melts your brain and turns you
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into a complete dummy, like a drooling idiot, you know, that completely burns out your reward
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centers and destroys the way that you look at women and is probably responsible for a lot
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of the sexual dysfunction that we have in our country today.
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Yeah, you're going to regulate cigarettes that way, and it worked.
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Well, how about we just do what Virginia is doing right now and let Pornhub whine about
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Speaking of weird sex stuff, Pride Month is over, but Pride Month is never really over,
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According to Joe Biden, we're a nation of pride.
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And one group that apparently was left out of the pride festivities, they're coming back
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This is a post that just went viral on social media from the Yasmin Benoit, who says,
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Thank you, Stonewall UK, for allowing me to march with you again at Pride in London
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today, and for helping me to bring about this change.
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And if the people who, by definition, don't engage in sex are insisting on becoming one
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of the identities of the sexual revolution, there's no end.
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What rights don't the supposedly asexual people have?
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Not, there's no, what legal recognition could they even possibly have?
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It's just griping and whining and solipsism all the way down.
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It's the idea that you, in your ever-multiplying, ever-more-particular appetites, are not only
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the only person that matters, but maybe just the only thing in the world.
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On to the darker side of sexual pathologies, there was this awful shooting over the weekend,
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and this was in Philadelphia, and there wasn't a ton of news on this right away.
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People weren't really seeing a lot in the headlines.
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Turns out that this killer, who shot four men dead and a 15-year-old boy, allegedly in
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the King-Sessing neighborhood on the evening, eve of the 4th of July, is a cross-dressing
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BLM supporter, a somehow kind of trans-identifying BLM-supporting guy, because it's always the ones
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Now, I'm not going to harp on this guy for too long.
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The only thing that really caught my attention here, beyond just the usual people with all
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sorts of problems and absurd ideologies committing heinous acts, was he had a series of very creepy
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Facebook posts, one of which was titled, How Do You Know If An Evil Spirit Is Following You?
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That's the part that people are not really talking about with this shooting.
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Not just the trans thing, not just the BLM thing.
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How do you know if an evil spirit is following you?
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We don't talk about that because we don't want to talk about spirits, because we don't
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want to talk about objective evil, because we don't want to talk about metaphysical things,
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because we want to pretend that everything is just material.
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And if someone is given a little bit more money or put in a better school, or if there was
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another gun control law or something, then we wouldn't have evil anymore.
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But the persistence of evil is a recognition of original sin, which is a reminder of sin,
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which is a reminder that there's evil, and evil has a personality, and it prowls about
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So that reminded me then of a really underreported aspect of the Nashville shooting.
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We are not, the officials don't want us to know any of the motivating factors behind
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I think most reasonable people know what motivated that shooting or have a strong suspicion of
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it, but there's a deeper motivating factor to that shooting that was manifest in the
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shooting itself that is also not being reported.
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That part's being covered up even more than the trans aspect of it.
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And that would be that at some point during the shooting, very likely before the shooting,
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but we're not exactly clear on the timeline, at some point during the Covenant School shooting,
00:29:58.680
the shooter took a detour from the school to the attached church and shot a stained glass figure.
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Just took the gun and shot the stained glass, but not just randomly into the stained glass.
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Went into this church, found the stained glass figure of Adam, the first man, and shot the
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Now, by the end of the shooting, this shooter had claimed six victims, but that's not how
00:30:37.500
the supporters of, I guess you'd call them the supporters of the shooter, or maybe the
00:30:42.980
supporters of the ideology that motivated this shooter, when they were protesting the laws
00:30:50.600
that tried to enshrine sexual reality over absurdity in Tennessee.
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The protest involved the number seven, and the protesters held up seven fingers and said
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There was a prominent pro-trans group that came out and said there weren't just six victims
00:31:09.580
of the shooting, it was seven victims, because the shooter is a victim too.
00:31:18.040
Seven, and you see them, it's really eerie, like a cult ritual, holding up these seven fingers.
00:31:32.500
Seven, by the way, which is a number of perfection, it's a holy number.
00:31:38.380
Seven, seven which is a number of creation, seven days in the creation narrative.
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Why, if you were just, if you were just a crazy person, you know, if you were just an evil
00:31:53.200
person, just a mean old person, let's take evil out of it.
00:31:55.940
If you were just a nasty person with a gripe, why would you take a detour from the killing
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to go into a church to symbolically shoot at the stained glass, to shoot at the symbol
00:32:08.620
of the first man, symbol of humanity itself, fallen humanity, to shoot seven times, this
00:32:14.580
very meaningful number, that then is reflected in the protests after this shooting, say seven,
00:32:27.720
You can't talk about human nature without talking about spiritual things.
00:32:31.340
I sometimes fear that I talk about spiritual things too much on this show, and I hope that
00:32:34.920
people's eyes don't glaze over, but unless we just want to be sitting here talking about
00:32:39.040
like, well, the GDP went up to a little bit today, and that's why we need occupational
00:32:43.340
If you want to talk about politics in any way below the surface level, you have to talk about
00:32:49.860
spiritual things, because politics is about people.
00:32:52.540
Politics is about how people live together, and people are not primarily motivated by economics,
00:32:56.980
and people are not primarily motivated by luxury.
00:32:59.980
People are primarily motivated by deeper things, because we know that we are not only bodies,
00:33:06.960
but also souls, and we are made in the image and likeness of God, and we are in constant
00:33:12.740
spiritual warfare, and we know that we're tempted to do things, and we know the things
00:33:16.280
that we want to do, we very often do not do, and the things that we don't want to do, we
00:33:20.480
very often do, and it's hard to make sense of this.
00:33:23.260
It's impossible to make sense of this without a recognition of original sin, and it's hard to
00:33:27.300
make sense of what we're doing as a civilization without a recognition of the prospect of salvation,
00:33:32.060
and the fact that has animated our entire civilization, which is the incarnation, the
00:33:40.360
You can't make any sense of America without talking about that kind of thing, and frankly,
00:33:45.280
you can't make sense of that shooting in Philadelphia, and how to figure out if you
00:33:49.600
had dark spirits following you, and you can't make sense of that shooting in Nashville,
00:33:53.160
and you can't figure out why a killer would go into a church and shoot a stained glass
00:34:00.580
That, you have to do that to understand anything about what's going on in the world, and the
00:34:07.120
other side of the aisle does its damnedest to ignore that, to evade that.
00:34:13.140
You want to talk about sexual pathologies and spiritual things.
00:34:15.980
Jen Psaki, who was the White House press secretary, now she has a show on MSNBC.
00:34:21.540
Jen Psaki is bringing to her political commentary all the glibness, all the shallowness and the
00:34:31.300
talking points that she brought to bear as the White House press secretary.
00:34:35.900
She's got a new line against conservatives, and it's on the conservatives who are talking
00:34:41.020
about social issues, and who are pointing out that certain groups in America don't really
00:34:46.660
like to go along with some of the radical social ideologies.
00:34:50.680
Well, she's bringing all of her sophistication to bear to say, this is a new line, write it
00:35:00.620
I think it's a bad look for the Democrats to use these stupid shallow lines.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Vox Humana to Abel, who says,
00:36:18.380
I love that Michael refuses to use a laptop during his show and still prints out every
00:36:27.300
I don't like being in front of a screen all day.
00:36:29.480
I think it makes me into a cyborg and makes me dumb, so I don't want to do that.
00:36:33.820
And I also don't like it when I'm in the audience.
00:36:36.400
I don't like watching people read off a screen.
00:36:41.760
You know, like people are getting updates the whole time, being told what to say by nefarious
00:36:46.940
It's just, it's, I don't want to watch a speaker be totally plugged into the matrix.
00:36:55.240
I want real physical stuff that can't be updated.
00:37:02.820
I use my Kindle because the libs and the increasingly technologically sophisticated
00:37:07.940
powers that run our political order, they could just go in and edit books.
00:37:14.920
I recognize the trees are a renewable organic resource, and we need to make sure that we
00:37:18.780
cut them down and print stuff out, because otherwise they're going to turn those forests
00:37:29.400
This is the charge from the libs for the last ever, forever, and they're still keeping it
00:37:40.260
So lately, I've been noticing the reemergence of a very old GOP playbook that harkens back
00:37:47.020
to President Richard Nixon's infamous Southern strategy.
00:37:50.800
During his campaign for president in 1968, the Republican Party made a concerted effort
00:37:55.520
to reach white Southerners, who used to vote for Democrats by playing to their fears of African
00:38:04.800
By pitting one group of Americans against another, the GOP successfully managed to split off Southern
00:38:12.520
Now, decades later, the right wing is reviving that same playbook, this time with Muslim Americans
00:38:23.580
The GOP is trying to recruit Muslim Americans, a community that makes up less than 2% of the
00:38:29.540
U.S. population against another tiny, marginalized group of Americans, transgender people.
00:38:50.820
I mean, if this is what Jen Psaki is bringing to her role at MSNBC, they might as well just
00:38:59.520
Rachel Maddow, actually, is much more interesting than these lesser commentators.
00:39:04.000
They might as well play reruns of, I don't know, Lawrence O'Donnell or Chris Hayes or Chris
00:39:10.720
You could go back to an episode of MSNBC from 2006.
00:39:14.600
They'd be saying the exact same nonsense that Jen Psaki is saying here.
00:39:22.920
The GOP doesn't need to split Muslims off of the LGBT community, okay?
00:39:26.720
Muslims don't need Republican politicians to do that.
00:39:37.040
They have a vision of the world that is not your vision, Jen Psaki and the liberals.
00:39:42.260
And much as you might like to dominate their vision and suppress their vision and substitute
00:39:49.860
out their understanding, their 1,400-year-old understanding of human nature in the world for
00:39:55.800
your much newer vintage of liberalism, you don't get to do that.
00:40:03.080
And one aspect of Islam that Islam shares with Judaism and Christianity and many varieties
00:40:13.640
of virtuous paganism is an opprobrium for sexual eccentricity and deviancy.
00:40:22.900
And one thing that Islam shares with Judaism and Christianity and even virtuous paganism is an
00:40:32.760
understanding of human nature such that your soul is not in radical opposition to your body
00:40:56.000
The liberals, much as they malign colonialism, the liberals have a much more intensely colonial,
00:41:05.740
flattening, universalizing point of view than pretty much anyone else in the world, including
00:41:12.460
Liberalism in many ways, it's not exactly a Christian heresy, but it is a,
00:41:20.200
It's why liberalism arises in the Christian West.
00:41:23.160
But it's a perversion and an inversion of Christianity in all sorts of ways.
00:41:27.620
And it makes a God out of man rather than having man recognize God as his one true God.
00:41:33.400
And it exalts the will of man above all else as opposed to Christianity, which says that man
00:41:39.480
needs to bring his own will into accord with right reason and reality and the will of God.
00:41:44.240
But it is kind of a weird little offshoot of Christianity.
00:41:50.000
And Christianity is a universalizing religion, right?
00:41:52.280
Christianity, the oldest flavor of Christianity is called the Catholic Church.
00:42:09.320
It recognizes the legitimacy of civil authority.
00:42:24.100
While at the same time, there being an insistence on one church with one vicar of Christ and
00:42:33.780
Obviously, liberalism just takes all that particularism out.
00:42:38.680
It takes all that respect for local authority out.
00:42:46.220
Liberalism just rips all of that out and says, no, everybody's got to be exactly the same.
00:42:50.920
Not even down to this nation has to be indistinguishable from this nation.
00:42:55.240
Not even down to this race has to be indistinguishable from this race.
00:42:58.400
Down to this sex has to be indistinguishable from this sex.
00:43:00.800
Down to everything, it just flattens, it flattens it all.
00:43:05.540
Much, much more colonial than anything the Christians have ever done.
00:43:10.520
Now, speaking of MSNBC, I have got to get to this story.
00:43:17.620
Joy Reid, very upset by the Supreme Court's decision to get rid of affirmative action in
00:43:23.660
And Joy Reid's upset because she says without affirmative action, she never would have gotten
00:43:28.900
I got into Harvard only because of affirmative action.
00:43:32.000
I went to a school no one had ever heard of in Denver, Colorado, in a small suburb.
00:43:39.280
I just happened to be really nerdy and smart and have really good grades and good SAT scores.
00:43:42.860
But someone came to Denver, Colorado to look for me.
00:43:46.660
A Harvard recruiter flew to Denver and I met up with her at the Village Inn restaurant and
00:43:52.660
did a pre-interview to get to pull me into Harvard.
00:43:56.220
I was pulled in and the schools like Harvard and Yale that I got into.
00:44:01.760
And it was literally not saying we're going to take an unqualified person and put them
00:44:05.940
We're going to take a very qualified person who we would never know existed and put them
00:44:17.180
I didn't know that Joy Reid had gone to Harvard and this explains that.
00:44:23.580
Her explanation of how she got into Harvard explains why I didn't know from her commentary
00:44:32.080
And that's underscored by the fact that she doesn't even know what affirmative action is.
00:44:36.460
She says, I didn't get into Harvard because I was given an unfair advantage because I was
00:44:40.840
But then I was given an artificial boost and then I was allowed in.
00:44:56.820
The black person gets in, the white person doesn't.
00:44:58.820
Or more often is the case, white person has one test score, a black person has a lower
00:45:10.060
It's the white people will be punished primarily, but also the Asian students will be punished
00:45:14.760
and the black people will be given an advantage.
00:45:17.180
But also, to some degree, Hispanics, to a great degree, Native Americans, though there
00:45:21.600
just aren't that many Native Americans in America anymore.
00:45:24.420
So it's this weight of giving people who are less qualified an advantage.
00:45:31.060
She says, no, affirmative action just means that Harvard discovered that Denver exists.
00:45:34.900
You think Harvard University didn't know that Denver exists?
00:45:40.720
Ever since affirmative action was passed into law, listen, fellows of Harvard College,
00:45:45.160
we've discovered there's a state called Colorado.
00:45:48.040
And now we're going to send emissaries out there to find people.
00:45:58.900
Colleges have always accepted applications from all over the country.
00:46:02.440
If Joy Reid got into Harvard because she had a perfect SAT score and she was valedictorian
00:46:09.260
of her class and she was really a seriously highly educated, highly intelligent, qualified
00:46:15.120
person, a lot of big ifs over here, then she didn't get in because of affirmative action.
00:46:20.600
She got in based on her strength and qualifications.
00:46:24.980
If maybe she didn't have that perfect SAT score, and I don't know what her SAT score was.
00:46:30.700
If maybe she wasn't the valedictorian of her class, if maybe she wasn't as qualified as
00:46:35.440
other people, then she did get in because of affirmative action.
00:46:40.740
I damn well want to get into Harvard and it's good for me to get in for X, Y, and Z reason.
00:46:45.000
Okay, maybe she can make somewhat convincing arguments.
00:46:47.580
But the flip side of that is that someone who was more qualified did not get in because
00:46:56.340
You can't have an unfair advantage for one person without an unfair disadvantage for another
00:47:03.140
And maybe Joy Reid would say, because Joy Reid has expressed certain antipathy toward white
00:47:07.400
people in her commentary, maybe she might say, well, that's a good thing that white students
00:47:13.760
This is where the liberals really fell into a trap here on affirmative action because had
00:47:19.200
it just been an unjust discrimination against white people, given our liberal regime, they
00:47:24.700
Doesn't make it fair, doesn't make it right, but they probably would have gotten away with
00:47:27.400
But it's really hard to make the claim about aggrieved, oppressed, racial minorities being
00:47:33.240
discriminated against when your policy discriminates against another racial minority.
00:47:41.580
And now people such as Joy Reid won't even be able to go to Harvard and not receive an
00:47:54.140
No, there's another one, there's a history lesson from TikTok that Mr. Davies wants me
00:48:02.560
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