Ep. 1299 - Ukrainian President Wants Us in World War III
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Summary
Joe Biden said he never talked to his son, Hunter, about his corrupt overseas business dealings. Turns out, that's a big lie. Hunter Biden's business partner, Devin Archer, testified yesterday that Joe Biden was actually present on phone calls on which crooked deals were being ironed out.
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Hey, remember when Joe Biden said that he had never talked to his son, Hunter,
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about Hunter's corrupt overseas business dealings?
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President, how many times have you ever spoken to your son about his overseas business dealings?
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I've never spoken to my son about his overseas business dealings.
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I have never discussed with my son or my brother or anyone else
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anything having to do with their businesses, period. And what I will do is the same thing we
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did in our administration. There will be an absolute wall between personal and private
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and the government. Do you stand by your statement that you did not discuss
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any of your son's overseas business dealings? Yes, I stand by that statement.
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I did not know he was on the board of that company. I've never discussed my business or
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their business, my son's or daughter's. I never discussed a single thing with my son
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No. Okay. Well, turns out all those many times Joe said that it was all a lie. That story fell
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apart after Hunter accidentally admitted in print first, and then later in a filmed interview,
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the very words that Joe said while they were talking about his business deals.
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No. As I said, the only time was after a news account, and it wasn't a discussion in any way.
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Your dad said, I hope you know what you're doing.
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And I said, I do. And that was literally the end of our discussion.
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That was it. No, we never ever talked about it once. The only time was, hold on. No,
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there's no but. No, sorry. We know we never talked about it. But you said you talked about it.
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Yeah, okay, we talked about it. But it was just, it was a little bit. It wasn't a lot.
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So, okay, then the story was, they talked about the business deals, but only briefly.
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And nobody believed that story either. But that story officially fell apart yesterday
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when Hunter's business partner, Devin Archer, testified behind closed doors that Joe not only
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spoke to Hunter about the crooked deals, but was in fact present on phone calls on which the crooked
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deals were being ironed out. A bunch of details on specific calls are available in all sorts of
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news reports from yesterday. The evidence is apparently so damning that Democrats aren't
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even trying to deny it. So the best story they've come up with now, care of Democrat Congressman
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Daniel Goldman is okay. Biden knew about the deals and okay. Biden talked about the deals with Hunter
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and okay. Biden was actually on the phone calls talking to the crooks with whom Hunter was making
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the deals, but they only talked about the weather. So to confirm, you're saying that the speaker phone
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conversations, they don't seem concerning to you because there was no specifics about business.
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And it just seemed like it was clear that it was clear that it was part of the daily conversations
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that Hunter Biden had with his father. Um, and it was, and, and sounds like most of the time,
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uh, now president Biden didn't even know who the people he was at dinner. He was just asked to say,
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hello. Uh, and he would, you know, talk about the way he described it several times. They asked over
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and over and over and over. He described what the weather was, how, uh, how, what's going on on your
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end. He, the, the witness was very, very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do
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with any business dealings or transactions. They were purely what he called casual conversation.
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Humana, humana, humana, humana. They were just talking about the weather.
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Now that story fell apart after Devin Archer revealed that Joe didn't just pop in on a call
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or two, happened to be walking by something like that. But that Joe was actually present
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on more than 20 of Hunter's crooked business calls. Wow. What are the odds? A lot of coincidences,
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which means that either Joe Biden has a lot of very strong opinions on the weather
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or that he was actively involved in Hunter's business, which has now led to the Democrats'
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latest story, which has now fully transformed from Biden was not and would never have been
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involved in Hunter's crooked business deals to, of course, Biden was involved as well. He should be.
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Doesn't it contradict the president's statements saying that he never talked to any of Hunter Biden's
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business associates? Clearly he talked whether it's not the weather or whatever, but he said
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specifically that he's never talked to them. Doesn't this contradict? I don't know what his
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comment is. And if we're going to, well, I don't, I don't think that's what he said. He never said
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that he has never spoken to anyone. He said that he had nothing to do with Hunter Biden's business
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dealings. If he says hello to someone that he sees his son with, is he supposed to say, hi son? Oh no,
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I'm not going to say hello to the other people at the table or the other people on the phone.
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It's kind of a preposterous premise to think that a father should not say hello to people that the
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son are at dinner with. The son is at dinner with, and that is literally all the evidences.
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And so, I mean, what was Joe Biden going to do? What was he going to do? Not talk to Hunter about his
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business dealings like he said? Or what? Or not say hello to Hunter's crook friends at dinner? Or what?
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Not get on over 20 phone calls with Hunter and the crooks that they were shaking down for millions of
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dollars in exchange for American influence? What do you think Joe Biden is? Honest?
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. The new Snow White lady, she's sand beige. She's sandy taupe or something.
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She is going off about how Snow White is extremely dated. We will get to not just the Snow White
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controversy, but what it means for something to be dated in our day and age. First, though,
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I don't want to move on too quickly past the Ukrainians. Not only the ones who paid the Bidens
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millions and millions of dollars, but the Ukrainians who are trying to drag us into World War III.
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Vladimir Zelensky, the leader of Ukraine, has now declared that it is absolutely fair to bring the
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war in Ukraine to the Russian homeland. This is in the wake of another drone attack on Moscow.
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Zelensky says, absolutely fair for his forces to attack targets within the Russian mainland. Okay.
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Yeah, maybe. Maybe it's fair. Russia invaded Ukraine after all, right? So it's fair for the
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Ukrainians to defend themselves and to take the war to the Russians, isn't it? Yeah, maybe. Maybe it is.
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Whose weapons is Zelensky going to be using to carry out those attacks? Is it going to be his weapons
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that he bought and that he built and that he's fun? No, it's going to be our weapons. And so
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the question that we have to ask Zelensky and the rest of the world is, do we want Ukraine
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Ukraine to be using our weapons and our money since we are the only reason that Ukraine has been able to
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continue this war past week two? Do we want our military assets being used to wage a war on the
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homeland of a nuclear former superpower? Something that we managed to avoid for the entirety of the
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Cold War. Post-World War II, we've now got nuclear weapons in play. We managed to avoid this for the
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very, very tense Cold War for the second half of the 20th century. And now this punk in Ukraine
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is demanding and has been demanding month after month after month that we, the funders of his side of
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the war, squander all of that and get into a hot firing war on the Russian mainland. For what? For
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what? What's the goal? What is the US interest here and what is the goal? Do we, do we want regime
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change in Russia? Why? Why? Do you know who's going to come after Putin? Do we have any evidence
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whatsoever that deposing Vladimir Putin will make the situation any better and will help the United
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States? No. Why? So that Ukraine can maintain its territorial boundaries from when? From 2020,
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from 2014, from when? We're talking about a thousand year territorial conflict here.
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Why? So that the Zelensky government can remain in power. Do we care? I don't care about Vladimir
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Zelensky at all. Why? Why would we follow this guy into World War III? Guaranteed, if the United
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States is waging a war on the Russian mainland, we're just in World War III. Why would we do that?
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Well, because it's fair. I don't want to hear about fair from Vladimir Zelensky.
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If fair means that we're going to end up in a global, very likely nuclear conflict for who knows
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how many years. What I would like to do is wind the war down, which is going to require concessions
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from both sides. It's going to require some diplomacy. It's going to have to require accepting
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our leaders, presidential candidate Nikki Haley has a suggestion for a way to improve our political
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order, and that would be mental competency tests for the old guys running the show.
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When I was talking about the grandchildren, what I was saying is that we need to have
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term limits in Congress, and we need to have mental competency tests for anyone over the age
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of 75. And I don't say that to be disrespectful. When you go and you look at Biden and you ask him
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what country he was in the week before, and he can't say it. When you go and ask him how many
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grandchildren he has, and he doesn't know. When you go and see him falling asleep with leaders,
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that's concerning. That is concerning, and I really like Nikki Haley. Personally,
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this is not a good idea. Because we already have a mental competency test for all of our politicians of
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every age, and that competency test is called an election. And the competency test takes place at the
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ballot box. And I'm sure many people share this view that Joe Biden is way too old. It doesn't
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really seem like Trump is too old, even though Trump is quite up there in terms of age. As he
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described himself, he's a young, virile, vigorous man. But Biden can barely state his own name. He
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wanders around. He doesn't know which end is up. Nevertheless, we have a competency test. It's called an
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election. We should probably make sure that our elections are legit, that our elections actually
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reflect the desires of voters and not the people who want to tinker with them. But if we were to
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add some new qualification for the presidency on top of the constitutional limits, all that would do
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is empower the tinkerers and the bureaucrats and the deep staters and the careerists and the staffers.
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There is a reason why the Constitution sets up fairly minimal requirements to run for office.
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And that's to prevent the people who are in power publicly or behind the scenes from keeping fresh
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blood out of the system. The fact that we don't have these little tests added to the requirements
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is why Donald Trump could run for president from prison. Because the Congress doesn't have the right
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to impose more restrictions on what it takes to run for president than the framers of our
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Constitution did. I'm not denying that there's a problem with Joe Biden not being able to speak
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and being the president of the United States. The solution to that is not going to be to further
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empower the tinkerers and the social engineers and the deep staters and the clever behind the scenes
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people who played a big role in installing Biden in the first place. Speaking of presidential
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candidates, Rolling Stone is wrong again. Isn't that surprising? Rolling Stone has this headline,
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DeSantis' donors want more than a reboot. They want him to clean house. Some of the governor's
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backers see a staff that is too online, but others are starting to ask if the real problem is DeSantis
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himself. You might recall, I happen to remember, that Rolling Stone was one of the first outlets to
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brazenly libel me after my CPAC speech and say that I said something that I didn't say.
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Eventually they had to back down, I assume because their lawyers made them. So the Rolling Stone is
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not known for its high journalistic standards. But here what's wrong is not that they've libeled
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anybody. It's just a typically brain dead take on politics. Everyone is trying to begin the post
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mortem of the DeSantis campaign, even though we're still early on and DeSantis still has a shot to get
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the nomination. And so they're all trying to figure out what went wrong. Is it his staffers? Oh,
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if only he had different staffers. That's the problem. Now Rolling Stone, because the liberal
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journalists hate DeSantis personally, say, oh, maybe it's just DeSantis himself. He's too stiff.
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He's not likable. He's this, he's that, whatever. Guys, you're overthinking it. You're overthinking
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this. Ron DeSantis' staff is fine. Ron DeSantis is a very strong candidate, obviously. He's an
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extremely talented politician. He's a good governor of Florida. He's number two in the polls,
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at least for now. And even as his campaign has begun to falter, he started out really a very
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strong number two in the polls. Now, as he's failed to move up and take on number one, you're seeing
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another candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, start to creep up there on him too. But in any other cycle,
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Ron DeSantis would be the clear away front runner in this race. And everyone would be praising his
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staff and everybody would be talking about how he's a generational, brilliant candidate and no
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one can touch him. The problem for DeSantis is not the staff. It's not the donors. It's not the
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candidate. It's Donald Trump. Donald Trump, who is a once in a generation political talent,
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who is running for all intents and purposes as the incumbent in this race. Because Trump
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seeking a non-consecutive second term is something that none of us has seen in our lifetime. We haven't
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seen it since 1888. And Trump, maybe you hate him, maybe you love him. He is a once in a generation
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political talent. He won the highest office in the land without ever having held any public office
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whatsoever, including dog catcher. He won the highest office in the land the first time that
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he fully pulled the trigger on running. He'd flirted with running for a long time, but the first time he
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ever really pulled the trigger, ever really ran and earned his campaign, he won. He's a major political
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talent. He attracted people to the GOP that no one has attracted since Ronald Reagan. He maybe put some
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people off too. He maybe lost the 2020 election. Maybe he didn't. But maybe he did. Maybe he did.
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And maybe he allowed the political circumstances to spiral out of control such that they were able
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to change all of the election laws in the weeks and months before the election and steal it from him.
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People are always trying to steal elections, especially the libs. And so maybe you say,
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well, I blame Trump. Even if they did steal it, I blame Trump for letting them steal it.
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Okay, blah, blah, blah, whatever. Maybe you hate the guy. Maybe you hate the guy. But you cannot deny
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he is an American original. We have not seen a politician like him in our lifetimes. We haven't
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seen a politician like him in 100 years at least. That's DeSantis' problem. That's it. That's all it
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comes down to. You don't need to blame the guy and say, oh, he's a terrible politician. Oh, he's a deep
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state rhino establishment. It's none of those things. Oh, his staff, they're just uniquely terrible.
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They're not. The staff is fine. The problem is now and always was the unique circumstance of
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Donald Trump running in 2024. If there is going to be a postmortem, and again, DeSantis could still
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get the nomination. We don't know what is going to happen in the next few months. They're going to
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indict Trump in all 57 states that Barack Obama recognized. They're going to, I don't know,
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they're going to indict Trump on planet Mars. Who knows? But if there is going to be a postmortem,
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everyone's going to try to ex post facto discover all sorts of things about the DeSantis campaign and
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the candidate and blah, blah, blah. Guys, it's just Trump. It's just, it's been about Trump for seven
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years. And a lot of people want to deny his uniqueness as an American political figure. And
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they do that to their own detriment and to the effect of writing really silly takes that do not
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get to the truth here. So Trump is capitalizing on his huge lead. I mean, one poll has him up at like
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54% in the GOP primary, not only double digits way ahead of his rivals, but more than 50% of the
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primary voters. Trump is capitalizing on this and he's calling for other candidates to drop out.
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Every dollar spent attacking me by Republicans is a dollar given straight to the Biden campaign.
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If he makes it, I don't know if he's going to make it. Who thinks he's going to be the candidate?
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Every dollar spent attacking me is a dollar given to Biden. And he, and he says, he says the other
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candidates, they need to drop out of this race. And I see why Trump would say that, especially now
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while he's flying high in the polls. But the political reality is there is no reason for
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DeSantis to drop out of this race. DeSantis has already killed himself and killed any shots that
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he's got being appointed in a Trump administration. That's over. He'll get, if Trump approaches him at
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all, if Trump somehow becomes the president and approaches him at all, he'll get the Mitt Romney
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treatment. He'll play around with him like a cat with catnip. So DeSantis, the die is cast. He's just
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got to keep running. Pence, same thing. What else is Pence going to do? He has no reason to get out of
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the race. Christie, he's got no reason to get out of the race. He's come out against Trump too.
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What's his political future? Nothing. So he's going to stay in the race. Same with Vivek.
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Vivek, for a little different reason though. Vivek hasn't really gone after Trump. Vivek came out of
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nowhere, came out of left field. And he has proved himself to be an extremely compelling political
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talent. Who would have thought that some Yale law pharma guy who's a Hindu with the name Ramaswamy
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would become a major player, could very soon become the number two guy in the GOP race.
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That tells you that this guy's got a message that is resonating, that he's really, really sharp,
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and that he's a very strong political talent. So he's going to continue to prove himself in that
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field, especially if he doesn't keep going after Trump or doesn't hit Trump too hard. He's got all
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the reason to stay in the race. The rest of the candidates probably ought to drop out if they
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want to roll in a potential Trump administration. That's true. But at least for one, two, three,
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Supreme Court. They've been trying to pack the court for a long time. Now they're trying to get the judges
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to recuse themselves from all sorts of cases, only the conservative judges, of course. Now they're
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trying to attack the character of the conservative judges. They've been doing that with Clarence Thomas
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for 30 years. Now they're especially focusing in on Sam Alito because Sam Alito wrote the opinion
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in the Dobbs case that overturned the fake right to abortion in America. So they're going after Alito
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and they're threatening. They're saying, if the Supreme Court conservatives don't adopt a particular
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code of ethics that we want them to adopt, then we're going to impose it on the Supreme Court,
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which is leading us to our latest constitutional crisis.
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And once again, Sam Alito, absolute rockstar of a jurist, comes out and he says, no. And he doesn't
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just say, no, we're not going to do this. He says a really important observation. He says,
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Congress has no right to regulate the Supreme Court. No right specifically to force the Supreme
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Court to adopt some code of ethics. The Supreme Court does not ultimately answer to the Congress.
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He notes, quote, Congress did not create the Supreme Court. The Constitution did. He said,
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I know this is a controversial view, but I'm willing to say it. No provision in the Constitution
00:24:55.520
gives them the authority to regulate the Supreme Court, period. I really like that Justice Alito made
00:25:01.040
this point in particular because I made this point a week ago and I'm glad that someone who knows what
00:25:06.080
he's talking about agrees with me. You never know. I don't know. I didn't go to law school. I've never
00:25:10.220
argued a case before the Supreme Court, but I made the same point. I said, if the Congress
00:25:15.440
asserts this control over the Supreme Court, one, how are they going to enforce it? Are you going to
00:25:20.100
get Nancy Pelosi to go hobble over to the Supreme Court and start haranguing the justices? I don't think
00:25:26.760
so. But two, this would create a constitutional crisis. You know, sometimes, this is a little out of
00:25:34.680
left field, but it'll loop back. I have joked, is it a joke, about the Jacobite line of succession.
00:25:44.580
I've said that it was a very terrible thing in English political history when William and Mary
00:25:50.840
of Orange came over from the Netherlands and took the throne from James II. James II, who became king,
00:25:59.060
he was the last Catholic monarch of England, and he became king after Charles II died. Charles II
00:26:04.920
was a Protestant, and he had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, and this created a crisis because
00:26:10.620
a lot of the Protestants were not happy about a Catholic monarch. So what happened? This is what
00:26:15.340
happened. I've got all sorts of views on the Jacobite line of succession and what it means today and who's
00:26:20.580
the pretender to the throne and blah, blah, blah. But that's a topic for another day. The reason that
00:26:25.080
this matters for American politics is the way that James II was deposed is that parliament exercised
00:26:36.560
more authority than they had. And parliament established parliamentary supremacy to say,
00:26:43.620
effectively, we get to pick the monarch. And they booted James II out, and they invited those
00:26:48.620
Protestant Dutch interlopers over, William and Mary of Orange, and installed them on the throne.
00:26:52.260
And forget about the Catholic versus Protestant debate. Forget about the James II versus William
00:26:58.260
and Mary debate. It's a question of who has the power in the government. Is it going to be a balanced
00:27:05.340
government? Are there going to be checks on the authority of one part of the government over
00:27:09.540
another part of the government? Is it going to be an inversion of the traditional understanding of
00:27:13.820
that power? Does parliament just run the whole show? If the US Congress can bring the Supreme Court
00:27:20.600
justices to heel, then we don't really have three branches of government. We've got at most
00:27:26.160
two, because the Supreme Court will become a subsidiary of Congress. And if anybody thinks that
00:27:33.160
would be a good thing in the United States, I would encourage you to open your eyes and take a look
00:27:37.100
at Congress. Speaking of old institutions, very old, not just old like the Supreme Court, not just old
00:27:45.240
like the British monarchy. Old like Snow White, 1937. The new Snow White lady, who is notably not
00:27:53.700
white, so we call her Sand Beige. Sandy Taupe. This lady is thrilled that they're remaking Snow White,
00:28:04.760
not just in the new casting decisions, but remaking the whole movie, because she says that Snow White is
00:28:09.620
dated. The cartoon was made 85 years ago, and therefore it's extremely dated when it comes to
00:28:18.460
the ideas of women being in roles of power and what a woman is fit for in the world. And so when we
00:28:26.360
came to reimagining the actual role of Snow White, it became about the fairest of them all, meaning
00:28:32.040
who is the most just and who can become a fantastic leader. And the reality is, you know, Snow White has
00:28:38.960
to learn a lot of lessons about coming into her own power before she can come into power over a
00:28:43.520
kingdom. Also, the fact that she's not going to be saved by the prince, and she's the proactive one,
00:28:49.040
and she's the one who set the terms, is what makes it so relevant to where we are today.
00:28:58.180
Not even going to comment on the way that they've rewritten the script to take out all those terrible
00:29:03.700
things like beauty and love. You know, who wants Snow White with beauty and love when we can
00:29:07.680
talk about girl bosses? Isn't that captivating? Can't you wait to just run out to the theaters and
00:29:14.000
get your popcorn? No, I don't think so. Forget that for a second. She says they rewrote the story
00:29:19.680
because Snow White is extremely dated. Dated. What does that mean, to be dated? She's saying it like
00:29:29.940
it's a bad thing. It's bad to be dated. Isn't it only bad for a thing to be dated if the time that we're
00:29:39.980
living in is better than the time that the dated thing existed in? In other words, if we were living
00:29:51.060
in this wonderful age where everyone was thriving and things were beautiful and just and good and
00:29:59.700
virtuous, and then you looked back at some other time in history, and you pointed to some vestige
00:30:09.220
of that, and you said, oh, that's so dated from that time. And that other time was a really awful,
00:30:12.800
terrible time where everything was ugly and decaying and vicious and evil. Well, then it would be bad
00:30:22.340
for something to be dated to that time. But what if the time that we were living in right now is worse
00:30:29.160
by almost every measure than the time to which this thing we're criticizing is dated? Then dated would be
00:30:38.420
a good thing. And then we'd say, oh, that's so dated from this much better time that can maybe give us a
00:30:44.660
guidepost as to how to get out of the dumb age that we're living in. By virtually every measure,
00:30:52.060
by virtually every measure, 1937 was a better time that was more conducive to human flourishing and
00:30:58.640
virtue than today is. And we can look through all the social scientific data on this. We're not having
00:31:06.560
any kids anymore. The civilization is literally dying. People are much more depressed. People
00:31:11.080
are much more anxious. The suicide rates are much higher. People are reporting much lower rates of
00:31:16.340
happiness and satisfaction. You look at all the social science. And then you look at the harder
00:31:21.200
facts, which we see a little bit in people were having bigger families. People were building beautiful
00:31:29.280
things. The culture was physically more beautiful. You had better buildings, better artwork coming up.
00:31:34.220
You had people, therefore, a little more hopeful about the future.
00:31:38.280
What you're always going to hear when you bring that up is people are going to say, yeah, but back in
00:31:42.320
the past, there were separate water fountains for white and black people or something. They'll point
00:31:46.920
to some bad thing, some sort of unpleasant feature of the past. They'll say, see? And in the case of
00:31:53.820
1937, that's pretty much it. This is before World War II, at the end of the Great Depression on the
00:31:59.040
horizon. And by the way, material hardship is not intrinsically immoral or anything like that. But even
00:32:06.860
then, you say, okay, well, what about that? Back then, they had different water fountains for white and
00:32:11.980
black people. Okay, now we kill 800,000 babies a year. Now we chop little kids' genitals off. Now we don't have
00:32:19.960
any hope for the future or any patriotism. The rates of those things are declining precipitously. Now we don't have
00:32:25.880
national borders. Now we don't speak the same language. Now we, now we this, now we that. Oh, did
00:32:29.980
I mention we kill 800,000 babies a year? You're really going to tell me? Oh, no, we're living in
00:32:34.920
the best time. You just don't understand. This is what the liberals always say. The liberals on the left
00:32:39.720
and even the liberals on the right, the kind of center-right people, oh, come on, let's stop
00:32:45.440
complaining. We're living in the best time. They often adopt the premises and language of the left.
00:32:49.700
No. 1937, America had its act much more together than it does now. Snow White is dated? Yeah, I guess
00:33:00.440
so. Let's go watch that movie. Maybe we can learn a thing or two. Did you know that over 85% of grass-fed
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science, some good news. Finally, high school boys are becoming more right-wing. This according
00:33:53.280
to a new survey out from the Monitoring the Future survey. This is a scholarly endeavor that dates back
00:33:58.740
about 50 years. The boys are becoming more conservative. The 12th grade girls are becoming
00:34:07.680
more liberal. So good news and bad news. Men are from Mars. Women are from Venus. But the trend,
00:34:17.980
at least for the boys, is in the right direction. Why is this happening? I think this is happening in
00:34:23.020
part because we've destroyed marriage and the notion that boys and girls are complementary. So rather than
00:34:29.080
boys and girls moving closer and closer together, recognizing how they fit together. And is that
00:34:37.740
euphemistic or is that? No, it's metaphorical as well. That recognizing that we each have something
00:34:44.160
to add and men really need women and women really need men and we're going to move together and become
00:34:48.260
one flesh and be of one mind. The libs have destroyed marriage. And so when women get married,
00:34:55.640
they become more conservative. And maybe men moderate some of their extremism too. When they
00:35:02.220
stay apart, then they move in opposite directions. This is why a society with a proper understanding
00:35:07.600
of marriage will be more conservative. And a society that disregards marriage and abolishes marriage and
00:35:13.820
redefines it is going to become more liberal. We've just seen that in real time. Also, everyone's going to
00:35:21.180
give their hot take on why the young boys are becoming more conservative right now. My hot take
00:35:26.200
as to why this is happening is because we're living in a world that is more virtual. Kids are not going
00:35:34.060
out and climbing trees as much. They're not racing fast cars as much. They're not going on physical
00:35:40.220
adventures as much. The society is becoming much more focused on computers and video games and staying in
00:35:47.800
your apartment and consuming content. And it's just not as vigorous and physical as it used to be.
00:35:54.720
And so because young boys are inclined toward extreme behavior and risky behavior that's just in our DNA,
00:36:03.220
the way that that is instantiated in this more virtual reality type culture is going to be through risky
00:36:11.840
and edgy and controversial intellectual pursuits rather than just physical ones. That's why.
00:36:17.720
To be a conservative today is to question and to oppose the entire regime, the entire liberal
00:36:25.680
establishment which controls every institution. To do that is risky. It's edgy. It's extreme. It's
00:36:33.260
countercultural. It's rebellious. It's all the things that young men always are. But whereas in the past,
00:36:38.860
they would have gone out and smoked cigarettes and gotten drunk and driven motorcycles and,
00:36:43.380
and I don't know, gone womanizing. And all the surveys show as young men are not doing that as
00:36:50.260
much as they used to. Even with the hookup culture, they're having less sex with fewer women. So all
00:36:55.920
that edginess, all that rebelliousness, all that risky behavior, that's going to be more intellectual.
00:37:02.080
It's going to be more in the life of the mind. And what does that mean in a culture such as ours?
00:37:05.780
In a very liberal culture, it means you become more right-wing. So that's the silver lining in
00:37:11.780
a storm cloud. Now, my favorite comment yesterday is from DC Zelenak, 060, who says,
00:37:19.240
I am become feminism, destroyer of the family. Barbie 2023.
00:37:24.800
I love that. Because in a matter of about four hours, I am going to see Barbie. I'm going to meet
00:37:36.700
up with sweet little Elisa. We are going to watch Barbie, even though it's the middle of the work
00:37:42.560
day. And we're going to do that because there is a backstage tonight. And I know Ben hates Barbie.
00:37:46.940
And so if Ben hates something, I have to assume that I will like it. But I don't know.
00:37:51.180
I don't know. I've also heard from a lot of people that it's terrible. I've heard from a lot of people
00:37:56.160
that it's good. I just don't know. I just don't know what to think about it. So I'm going to go
00:38:01.040
watch it before backstage. And we will discuss. We will have the real debate. Forget aliens for a
00:38:05.420
second. We'll probably have to talk about that too. But we'll have the real debate that is roiling
00:38:09.180
the Daily Wire. We will discuss Barbie. Speaking of the extreme behavior of young men,
00:38:16.600
probably can't include this part on YouTube today. It is Trans Tuesday, though, so I guess we have to
00:38:23.120
get to it. Chris Tyson is apparently some guy from the Mr. Beast YouTube channel. I don't watch the
00:38:29.900
Mr. Beast YouTube channel. I had never heard of this guy until he decided to leave his new bride and
00:38:35.680
very young child to pretend to be a woman and indulge all of his disordered sexual desires and abandon his
00:38:42.400
responsibilities and his family. So this guy, Chris Tyson, six months ago decided that he's
00:38:48.960
going to be a woman. And I assume it's because his brain just got so fried on porn that he couldn't
00:38:54.820
resist these demonic impulses anymore. So he, as is often the case and has been showed by copious
00:39:01.360
research. So this guy, Chris Tyson, has shown off his new transformation. And it was very funny.
00:39:09.460
They posted the pictures yesterday and they showed, here's his amazing, or they said her,
00:39:15.220
amazing transformation. And you looked at the pictures and it, the only difference is that it
00:39:19.500
looked like he put some lipstick on. Because he already had kind of long hair. He already looked
00:39:23.300
like a lib, which is to say he looked kind of, to look like a lib if you're a man is to just kind of
00:39:28.760
dress a little bit like a chick. So he, but he put some lipstick on this. Wow, look at this amazing
00:39:33.420
transformation. I just thought of that meme from the office, you know, show me the difference
00:39:36.760
between these pictures. They're the same picture. It's just one has lipstick on. Here he is describing
00:39:40.960
that journey of personal growth, quote unquote, which is really decay.
00:39:47.240
Once I came out to myself, it was, I came out to myself with my therapist. And it took like,
00:39:55.520
it took like three therapy sessions where I was like, I've known this for a long time. I'm,
00:40:01.840
I'm pretty sure. And then I was, you know, I, I, I know I, and then I was like, I am a woman. And it
00:40:09.160
was, it was hard for me to say that because I was so scared of saying I am a woman and then instantly
00:40:15.700
hearing, no, you're not. Because in my head, I fought with that every day. That's the conversation
00:40:22.360
you were having with yourself. There was a voice in the back of my head that just hated me.
00:40:27.960
Everything I did hated me. And it wasn't until like, I started accepting myself and being kind
00:40:35.540
to others and like, just listening to what my body wanted. Like, that's when that voice started
00:40:41.220
going away, started taking HRT. Haven't heard from that voice in a very long time.
00:40:53.980
F, F that piece of me, F me. That's what these guys are saying.
00:40:59.940
Nothing that he says can be believed. And do you know why? You know what the, the giveaway
00:41:04.620
is when he says, look, it's just when I started being kind to people. That's when it all turned
00:41:08.720
around being like you were kind to your wife and toddler. I don't think you were particularly
00:41:12.800
kind to them. I think you were extremely cruel to them and abandoned them and abandoned your
00:41:17.540
responsibilities in life. Even a little toddler, even your own flesh and blood, you freaking
00:41:22.280
degenerate. I don't think that's kind at all. And I have a great deal of pity for him.
00:41:28.240
Okay. Because this is deeply sad. He's obviously troubled. He very likely with, with the onset of
00:41:35.320
this disorder probably fell into this a little later in life. And maybe he fell into it because
00:41:40.560
of his own behaviors. And whatever the cause is, this is deeply sad and extremely disgusting.
00:41:46.580
Disgusting. His presentation is disgusting. His behavior is disgusting. The, the cruel acts that
00:41:52.300
he's committed against his family are disgusting. And the way that society is applauding him for very
00:41:57.460
destructive behaviors is disgusting. That's, I, and I have a great deal of pity for him. And I think
00:42:04.400
there are a lot of people like this. And you can tell that, that this is a social contagion. The rates
00:42:09.740
of this kind of identity are doubling and tripling in recent years. And I don't know what that is.
00:42:13.780
Is it porn? Maybe. Is it just the effect of social affirmation? Maybe. Is it because there's
00:42:19.300
something in the water turning the freaking frog's gate? Maybe that too. I don't know. Maybe it's all
00:42:23.020
of it. Whatever it is though, it's so gross and sad and disgusting and obviously disordered and
00:42:31.320
having all sorts of cascading social effects. You never see the glitzy interview with this guy's
00:42:36.240
family, do you? You never see the glitzy interview with the trans widows. You never see the glitzy
00:42:40.740
interview with the kids whose lives are going to be completely screwed up as a result of this. Can
00:42:44.660
you imagine the therapy that kid is going to need? It's just a sad fact. And this gets to my extra
00:42:51.700
point here, which is, look, the culture has been very hard on families for a long time. And lots of
00:42:58.080
people have needed lots of therapy for all sorts of reasons. Rates of divorce have skyrocketed,
00:43:05.800
family breakdown, and it messes kids up. And when the libs say, well, don't worry, kids are
00:43:11.780
resilient. Oh, kids are resilient. I hate that phrase. Because kids are resilient is the thing
00:43:17.580
that people say to absolve themselves of the guilt of screwing up little kids. That's all it is.
00:43:24.000
Oh, kids are resilient. Are they? I think they're very vulnerable actually. And I think that's why you
00:43:28.560
have obligations to treat them well and to comport yourself with dignity. And when you don't,
00:43:33.080
that's going to screw them up. And that's your fault, man. But it gets to my other point here,
00:43:38.080
which is therapy. He says, I just realized when I was with my therapist that I'm a woman. Well,
00:43:43.560
then your therapist should probably lose his license because your therapist told you something
00:43:47.800
that isn't true and led you into very destructive behaviors. And people who go see therapists for a
00:43:52.120
long period of time, 99 times out of 100, I've seen it not help them. 90 times out of 100,
00:43:59.600
I've seen it hurt them actually. I think that talk therapy can be a good thing.
00:44:05.040
I know at least one person who was cured by it, and that would be Andrew Klavan.
00:44:09.060
I know that there are good therapists out there. I don't think psychology is a completely lost endeavor.
00:44:14.040
But just practically speaking, the people who go to their therapists for a long time,
00:44:19.200
either just go to get drugs, they're just effectively glorified drug dealers who went to
00:44:23.280
medical school in the case of psychiatrists, or the people who go just either stagnate or their
00:44:31.000
conditions get worse. And so if something's not working, then you've got to change it.
00:44:36.280
If your behavior is not improving your life and is not in accord with reality, then you've got
00:44:43.380
to change it. You're not going to ever improve or be happy by living in delusion. You're just going
00:44:48.440
to continue to lie to yourself, except when those little glimpses of honesty accidentally peek out.
00:44:54.380
Like at the end of that interview there, he says, and I just told myself, F you myself, F you. I hate
00:44:58.320
you. I hate you. And the you is the me. F you. That's not the sign of therapy that's working. That's
00:45:05.580
not the sign of a lifestyle that is conducive to your flourishing. Speaking of things people shouldn't
00:45:12.380
be doing. Dog meat farmers in South Korea are pushing back on a potential ban. South Korea wants
00:45:20.200
to ban dog meat. I don't like dogs. I don't. Some people ask, are you a dog person? Are you a cat
00:45:28.340
person? I'm not. I'm a people person. I like people. I don't really care for pets that much. I
00:45:34.000
don't hate them. They don't make me angry, but I just don't like them. And yet, people should not
00:45:42.840
eat dog. Libs think we should be able to eat dogs. Utilitarians think we ought to be able to eat
00:45:47.520
dogs. Materialists think we ought to be able to eat dogs. Because, you know, it's just meat. These
00:45:51.500
people probably think we should eat humans. But we should not eat dogs. And the reason it's wrong to
00:45:58.000
eat dogs, and the reason the South Korean dog farmers are wrong, and the reason that the people trying
00:46:01.860
to reform this are right, is because that's not what dogs are for. Dogs are there to be man's best
00:46:08.620
friend. They're not my best friend, but broadly they are man's best friend. They were bred to be
00:46:12.720
man's best friend. And that's why it's especially cruel. In a way that it's not cruel to kill an
00:46:17.640
eat a cow, kill an eat a pig, kill an eat a chicken. The dogs are there and were bred, even if you just
00:46:26.060
want to look at a purely historical, evolutionary kind of view of it, to say nothing of a deeper
00:46:32.140
philosophical view. They're there to be our mate and our help and our buddies and our companions.
00:46:38.340
And it's wrong to eat them. That's why it feels wrong to eat a dog. I've never tried eating a dog,
00:46:43.860
but that's why I would not be inclined to eat a dog, even though I don't like them all that much.
00:46:47.900
It's the C.S. Lewis argument for it. It's not that dogs have rights. They don't. It's not that
00:46:55.740
animals have rights broadly. They don't. But when we do things like torture animals or when we do
00:47:03.000
things like eat dogs, it deadens our humanity because we are violating a kind of metaphysical
00:47:13.320
concord that we have with dogs. And we're violating the proper order of nature and the
00:47:20.760
ends to which these things are ordered. Okay, it's Trans Tuesday. Now that I've just done
00:47:26.880
probably what's effectively a three-minute show on YouTube today, because of my digression into
00:47:32.220
the Mr. Beast guy, we will get into Tranny Tuesday. That's the day for the member block. We can't talk
00:47:38.060
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