Ep. 1326 - New York Mayor Says Immigration Will ＂Destroy＂ The City
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Summary
With a barely reanimated corpse in the White House, Kamala Harris is finally answering the awkward question: Are you ready to be president? Michael Knowles explains what that means. Plus, Mike Huckabee gets into hot water.
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Just a little over four months after the New York City mayor's office celebrated Immigrant
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Heritage Week, the leader of the Big Apple seems to have changed his tune on foreigners
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Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an end into.
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This issue will destroy New York City, destroy New York City.
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Now we're getting Russian speaking coming through Mexico.
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Now we're getting people from all over the globe have made their minds up
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that they're going to come through the southern part of the border and come into New York City.
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And everyone is saying it's New York City's problem.
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Every community in this city is going to be impacted.
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We have a $12 billion deficit that we're going to have to cut.
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Every service in this city is going to be impacted.
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That guy is way more anti-immigration than President Trump.
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Liberal Democrat Mayor Eric Adams says the current levels of immigration stand to destroy New York City.
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The greatest predictor of opposition to mass migration, contrary to what the liberal media will tell you,
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is not race, it's not class, it's not even political party.
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The greatest predictor of opposition to mass migration is proximity to the consequences of mass migration,
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which is always and inevitably harmful to political communities,
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as statesmen and political philosophers have observed for millennia.
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Adams himself, who just a few months ago was still towing the liberal line on sanctuary cities.
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But now he's discovered that those ridiculous slogans are connected to real events.
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So now, finally, he's motivated to consider maybe trying to do something to stop it.
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That's thanks to Republican governors like Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis,
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who started sending those busloads of illegal aliens up to the blue cities.
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And who, we can only hope, will keep the buses coming.
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With a barely reanimated corpse in the White House,
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CBS is finally asking the awkward question to Kamala Harris,
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We'll get into what that means in just a moment.
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First, though, speaking of the breakdown of political order,
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not just in New York, but all around the country,
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This was on Governor Huckabee's excellent show, Huckabee,
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on which he said that if the legal shenanigans that the liberals are trying right now to keep Trump off the ballot,
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then this will be the last election decided by ballots rather than bullets.
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Do you know how political opponents to those in power are dealt with in third world dictatorships,
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The people in power use their police agencies to arrest their opponents for made-up crimes
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in an attempt to discredit them, bankrupt them,
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imprison them, exile them, are all of the above.
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you may not realize that Joe Biden is using exactly those tactics
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to make sure that Donald Trump is not his opponent in 2024.
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If these tactics end up working to keep Trump from winning or even running in 2024,
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it is going to be the last American election that will be decided by ballots rather than bullets.
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We've got to throw Mike Huckabee in prison for 20 years.
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Every single thing Mike Huckabee just said is right,
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regardless of even what happens in the election and how you interpret it.
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If the legal mechanisms that the liberals are trying to use,
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if they succeed at taking Trump off the ballot in certain places,
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then the likelihood of civil war is much higher.
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The last time that we had a president elected not being on the ballot in a number of states
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He's not saying if Trump loses the election fair and square,
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then the next election is going to be decided by bullets rather than ballots.
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He's saying if these unfair, often illegal operations that the liberals are trying,
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if those succeed, then you're going to have a breakdown of the electoral order.
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It's even true if the liberals exert this kind of power
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and keep the conservative from having a fair shake at being elected.
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Even then, even if the conservatives do nothing and they sit at home on their hands,
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it will nevertheless remain true that the future elections will be decided by bullets rather than ballots
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because the bullets will be in the guns pointed by the state at the people who want to challenge the regime.
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If there is no longer to be any real political opposition permitted in the United States,
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if every time an actual opposition leader tries to run,
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he gets shut down because the liberals won't even let him be placed on the ballot,
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then that means that our elections are decided by bullets rather than ballots
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because they're decided by the implicit coercive force of the state, of the regime.
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As is often the case with Mike Huckabee, what he's saying is obviously, obviously true.
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Don't think it's hyperbole or that we're all paranoid with tinfoil hats.
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The liberals are explicitly trying to keep Trump off the ballot.
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There's a group, I teased this a couple of days ago,
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a group in Colorado trying to say that the 14th Amendment
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is sufficient to remove Trump from the 2024 ballot.
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This is Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics based in Washington, D.C.
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Group filed a lawsuit on Wednesday on behalf of several Colorado voters
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to keep Trump off the ballot because, here's why,
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Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says that public officials are not eligible to hold office
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if they, quote, engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.
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Now, Trump, for all of the ridiculous charges that have been thrown at him in New York,
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in D.C., in Georgia, in Florida, none of those charges is for insurrection.
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Even if that were the case, I don't see any evidence that that fact alone
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would preclude a man from running for president,
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the mere suggestion that he were an insurrectionist.
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I mean, if that were sufficient, then they could do it to stop Donald Trump right now.
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But what this really represents is a criminalization of politics.
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I've pointed out that when the liberals accuse conservatives of being authoritarian,
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Conservatives meekly suggest that maybe we return to the social mores of 2015
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and we're told that we're knuckle-dragging, authoritarian,
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But let's say that the authoritarian accusation were fair, which it is not.
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If it were fair, it would still be preferable to what the liberals are offering,
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You've got to stop letting your freak flag fly on Main Street.
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But what you do in your private life is not any of our concern.
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What the totalitarians say is even your private life needs to be dictated by us.
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Authoritarian regimes will often allow a lot of space in the culture,
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in local communities, for people to basically do whatever they want.
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It just can't infringe on national cohesion and unity.
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Totalitarian regimes encourage kids to rat on their parents, like is happening now.
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Totalitarian regimes insist on the party orthodoxy in the education system,
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and in the media, and in the press, and in the civic associations,
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and in, I don't know, the local bowling league, in every facet of society,
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the propaganda and the party line has to permeate.
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And if you question it in any way, you'll be ostracized.
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You'll be kicked out of the public square, which today is called deplatforming on social media.
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And what it comes down to is in the name of liberalism,
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they say that we can't have any alternatives to liberalism,
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even when the people want an alternative to a liberal agenda that isn't working very well.
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So then you see the pitting of liberalism against democracy,
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They attack democracy, but they don't call it democracy.
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They say, we're defending our sacred democracy.
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A populist is someone who has the people on his side.
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Well, what does it mean when you've got the majority of the people on your side?
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And we see this more clearly and clearly every single day to liberalism.
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We hear all sorts of attacks on our sacred democracy,
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like on January 6th, the worst moment in this or any republic ever.
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What they are doing, what the liberals are doing in Colorado,
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the test run that they've got to try to wield the law unjustly to prevent a man who they say is unelectable
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from being put on the ballot because they know that he's eminently electable
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because they know that the people largely support him.
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That's the biggest attack on our democracy that we've seen in a very long time.
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What are we going to do about all these problems?
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Conservatives in elected office and in the media and everywhere in between
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are pretty good at diagnosing problems, but then they shrug their shoulders.
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Here it comes by way of my own senator from the state of Tennessee, Marsha Blackburn,
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who is warning about the prospect of a government shutdown.
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And government shutdowns happen regularly these days, but usually the script is that
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the Republicans are eager or willing to shut down the government and the Democrats don't
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What makes this occasion different is that the roles are reversed.
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The Democrats would like to have that government shutdown because it would
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halt these investigations that the House is working on.
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And Chairman Comer, Chairman Smith, Chairman Jordan are continuing to push forward to get
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this information and to find out exactly what the relationship is between Joe Biden and Biden
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You were just talking about archives, not wanting to turn over all of these emails with the pseudonyms
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that Joe Biden was using as he was vice president.
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And they want to get those so that they have a record.
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So they have that paper trail of what the involvement was.
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And of course, we know that they're continuing to get bank records.
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And the American people, certainly Tennesseans, Jason, every time I talk with them, they want
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And for people that did things wrong, they want them to be punished.
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I think a lot of other people feel that way, too.
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I think one of the big frustrations with our current system is that the bad guys, especially
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when they're liberals, just get away scot-free.
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And there are never any consequences for the Clintons, for corruption under Obama, and certainly
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So that means that we got to keep the government open.
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Because in this case, a government shutdown would shut down the investigations into Biden
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And we've got a lot of smoke when it comes to Joe Biden and corruption and selling American
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I, as much as anybody, am sick and tired of Republicans just chattering and holding committee
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The only way today that you get anything even resembling transformational change is through
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You don't get it by electing members of Congress, usually.
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You don't get it by electing senators, usually.
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You can get it in the state houses, but that's just one state out of 50 states.
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So the way that you get real change, real laws are not passed by Congress anymore.
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They're passed through the executive branch, and they're passed under the guise of constitutional
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And the way that you get judges is by electing a president.
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The way that you get the appointed bureaucrats is by electing a president.
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And the way you elect a president is by electing a president.
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In this case, how are we going to elect our president and kick out their president?
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The only shot that we've got at it, I'm not saying it's sufficient.
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Maybe the Democrats have so much power that it doesn't matter.
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And they can just rig the election like they did last time, and they won't be kicked out
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But the only shot that we're going to have at that is to bring as much pressure as possible
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And the only way to do that right now, there are a few ways to do it in private industry,
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like shutting down the liberal activist groups that censor the conservatives in the public
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square, like buying a social media platform as Elon Musk did and opening it up to conservative
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So that's happening in the relatively private sphere.
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But for ordinary citizens, the only way that we can do that to bring that maximum pressure
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on Joe Biden right now is to keep the investigations going.
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And so as a matter of prudence and practice, we got to fund the government.
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This is the first time in any of these crises that I've said that the wise thing to do is
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But it is much more important to try to take down Biden and try to get our own presidential
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nominee into office than it is to quibble over a few gazillion dollars when we're already
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We've got to have more transformational change than just nibbling around the edges of the
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Now, speaking of throwing a wrench in the system, Elon Musk is threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation
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I've been meaning to get to it for a few days now.
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It's just it's just been simmering and it gets better and better and better.
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The Anti-Defamation League is a group ostensibly founded to stop anti-Semitism, to stop hatred
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against the Jewish people and smears against the Jewish people.
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But the Anti-Defamation League will happily attack fellow Jews if those Jews happen to be
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conservative or happen to question the liberal narrative.
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So the Anti-Defamation League will happily attack libs of TikTok, an Orthodox Jewish woman,
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And the Anti-Defamation League will talk about things that have nothing to do with the Jews
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whatsoever, just plain, regular old left-wing nonsense.
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And the way that they do it is by bandying around this accusation of anti-Semitism, just
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a specific version of the race card, which is the biggest card you can play in America.
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It's the worst thing you can possibly be called.
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And they say, hey, if you oppose Hillary Clinton, you're an anti-Semite.
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Hey, if you don't like Joe Biden, you're an anti-Semite.
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Hey, if you don't allow us to censor your platform, we're going to call you an anti-Semite.
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In fact, the Anti-Defamation League has sent out threats.
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We have letters, threats to, I think there was one that they sent to Iceland.
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But they've done this a number of times, where they will say, hey, I bet you sure wouldn't
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like it if we called you a Nazi, whether or not the accusation is fair.
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And Elon Musk came out, he himself having been defamed by the ADL, and said, declare our
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platform's name on the matter of anti-Semitism.
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It looks like we have no choice but to file a defamation lawsuit against the Anti-Defamation
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You should go after some of the other groups too, though.
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It's groups like Right Wing Watch, which is a project of People for the American Way, which
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is one of the most ironically named groups in America, because it is a handful of elites
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There are several others out there where these groups exist.
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They're watching the show right now, and they try to clip out little pieces of the show and
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get us all fired, and they try to censor people on social media.
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My only request, as we take down all of these left-wing censor groups and we actually wield
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political power, because there's no such thing as a neutral public square, there's no such
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thing as a neutral political order, we're going to have to stand for something, or rather
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we're going to have to push certain people out to the fringes, and I absolutely think
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we've got to push these liberal censors out to the fringes.
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My one request to Elon, though, is as we take them all down, please don't take down
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I have had a very good working relationship with Media Matters for many years now.
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They clip out some of the best parts of my show, and then I get to retweet them, and
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So please, take down the ADL, take down Right Wing Watch, do whatever you want, but please,
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I have no interest in finding a new set of publicists.
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Some old, very irreligious things like mystical practices of healing are opening doors for
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This is what even with the libs are often talking about.
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My guest, Jen Nizza, the Italian word would be Nizza, but Jen explains exactly what happens
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if you open that door and receive messages from beyond the veil.
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Check out this teaser of Michael and the former psychic.
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When I was a real psychic medium, I really wanted to help people.
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It must have scared you when you discovered this ability.
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I wasn't scared until I started seeing scary things and hearing scary things and getting
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And you can check out the ad-free, unedited version exclusively on Twitter at M. Knowles
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My favorite comment yesterday is from CO Catholic Gal.
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Colorado Catholic Gal, who says, you know the episode is spicy when it's only 30 minutes
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When the show opens up with the question, is Barack Obama a gay crackhead?
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You know that in order to accommodate our friends over at YouTube who want to censor
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So Elon opens himself up by threatening to sue the Anti-Defamation League.
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And the head of the ADL, Jonathan Greenblatt, they're going to say that any attempt to stop
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them from censoring the American public square is, drumroll, anti-Semitism.
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Were you seeking to have some kind of either role at Twitter or any kind of donations made
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I only say that because there have been folks who've looked at these situations and felt
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Look, I think, let me be honest about that, right?
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I think it is a sort of anti-Semitic trope to suggest when Jewish people express a degree
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of outrage over anti-Semitism, that somehow that's a shakedown because Jews are greedy.
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So the answer to the question is obviously yes.
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Obviously, Greenblatt and the ADL were seeking a role in censoring Twitter.
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The way that we know that, Elon Musk showed this, is that ADL started its boycott of Twitter.
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ADL is largely responsible for the drop in Twitter revenue after Elon Musk took over.
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And we know that the ADL launched its anti-Twitter campaign the moment that Elon took over.
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So the moment Elon takes over, nothing changes in the service of Twitter.
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But nothing changes the moment that he takes over.
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The ADL starts the harassment campaign in order to do what?
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No, in order to get a seat at the table and have a role in shaping the content of Twitter.
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And he says he's doing it in the name of stopping anti-Semitism or whatever.
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How could you argue that trying to shut up one of the most prominent Orthodox Jewish women in the entire country is a good way to stop anti-Semitism?
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It would seem to be maybe an example of anti-Semitism.
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A self-hating sort of anti-Semitic, anti-anti-Semitic campaign.
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Including the specific case of accusations of anti-Semitism, but anything, anti-black, anti-Hispanic, anti-this, anti-that.
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Other than anti-white, you're not allowed to even suggest that prospect in our culture.
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The only group that you're legally and culturally permitted and encouraged to discriminate against and insult.
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You're not even allowed to bring up the prospect of that.
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But for any other group, it comes out, and it's always so cheap.
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He was interviewing a black woman who's a liberal.
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And when he was winning the debate, she just said, well, that's your white privilege showing, David.
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Because it was radio, and she didn't know what he looked like.
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He said, you know, that's not going to work on me, lady.
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So what do we do in the face of this, in these cheap accusations of racism that are totally disingenuous?
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Is our response to care and to beg and to say, no, please, don't.
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I'm not a racist to some of my best friends or black Muslim pygmies or whatever kind of group is considered the most oppressed?
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Then is the alternative to just be really mean and cruel and discriminatory against all sorts of different groups?
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The answer is, first, stop caring when they call you a racist or an anti-Semite or an anti-thisist or a phobic or whatever.
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They just don't like you, and they want to shut you up.
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But then there is a flip side to that, too, which is make sure that you orient yourself toward justice and charity.
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Those are going to be a lot better guides than anti-racism or being an ally against the phobia or a this-ism or that.
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Just orient yourself toward justice and charity and pursue the virtues and avoid the vices and avail yourself of God's grace and, in all things, act with justice and charity.
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Speaking of ignoring the noise, my man Mitch, cocaine Mitch McConnell himself, has been asked to step down as Senate Majority Leader or Senate Republican Leader.
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What do you say to those who are calling on you to step down?
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I have no announcements to make on that subject.
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What do you say to those who are calling on you to step down?
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I'm going to finish my term as leader, and I'm going to finish my Senate term.
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If you told me there was some great prospective Republican leader in the Senate waiting in the wings who's going to be right-wing and conservative, okay, great.
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So as of now, I'm sticking with my man, Mr. Cocaine.
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Speaking of finding alternatives, there was a video that was going viral.
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This was Emily Ratajkowski, who truly I could not pick her out of a lineup.
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I thought she was a random lady, just like random private citizens go viral these days.
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Turns out she's Emily Ratajkowski, who's a big model or something.
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So it seems that a lot of ladies are getting divorced before they turn 30.
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And as someone who got married at 26, has been separated for a little over a year, 32, I have to tell you, I don't think there's anything better.
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If being in your 20s is the trenches, there is nothing better than being in your 30s, still being hot, maybe having a little bit of your own money, figuring out what you want to do with your life, everything.
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And having tried that married fantasy and realizing that it's maybe not all it's cracked up to be.
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And then you've got your whole life still ahead of you.
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So for all of those people who are stressed or feeling stressed about that, about being divorced, like it's good.
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The lady doth protest a little too much, me thinks.
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Divorce is always just awful in all circumstances.
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And it's a fallen world, and it happens sometimes.
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The law encourages it through things like no-fault divorce and through the abolition of the meaning of marriage by redefinition and judicial fiat, thanks to the romantic poet Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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So everything is – and the whole culture of hyper-individualism is aimed at destroying the family, which is destroying the country, and it's making everybody miserable.
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You know I don't cite social scientific statistics because I think they're bogus, but when they support my views, I'm happy to cite them.
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You see this in self-reported rates of happiness.
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You see this especially in the reports of rates of happiness for women.
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You see this in the prescriptions of depression pills, which have skyrocketed for everybody, but especially for women.
00:31:33.160
You see this in the average life expectancy in the United States, which has declined because of deaths of despair.
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You see this in the major drug epidemic and the suicide epidemic for white men in their middle age in particular.
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People are really miserable, and this has coincided exactly with the sexual revolution, at the center of which is divorce.
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It's just – and so we try to prune around the edges of the sexual revolution with this fashionable ideology that YouTube won't let me talk about or with the redefinition of marriage or with the LGBTQ movement, but it really comes down to divorce.
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And it's a political problem, not just a personal problem, because it's the fundamental political unit.
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It's the bedrock unit of multiple people forming a cohesive body on which you build townships and counties and states and ultimately a nation.
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You take a vow in front of the public, in front of a minister, in front of God.
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And we have the right to say something about that, because Emily Ratajkowski's selfishness or just, you know, extreme fatal supply of copium is not just a problem for her.
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Now, before we go, speaking of women, I do have to get to the story because I teased it.
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It'll eat into mailbag a little bit, but we have to get to it.
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And now, CBS News has asked the awkward question to his vice president, are you ready?
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If you win a second term, as you and the president are running to do, he would be 86 at the end of it.
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The Wall Street Journal had a poll showing two-thirds of Democrats say Joe Biden is too old to run again.
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First of all, she's obviously not ready to be president.
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Though the government can effectively operate without a president now as it has been under Biden.
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So, I guess she's as ready as anybody in that the role of the individual in the office of president has been diminished.
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Because in this case, you're supposed to say, listen, Joe Biden is totally ready to go.
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So, there is no fear whatsoever that he's going to drop dead or drop out of the race or anything.
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So, it's obviously when I accepted the role of vice president, a prerequisite for that is that one is prepared to step into the role.
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So, people champing at the bit to take over for old Joe in the election.
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But that election could get even more bonkers than it already is.
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Now, for some of the biggest news in Daily Wire history.
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Part of me don't want to believe that he did this.
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The blood that was on that back area was indicative of a head wound.
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My brother likes to push a lot of people around.
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How were these filmmakers able to convince so many people that a man like Stephen Avery is innocent?
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I'm going to fly through these mailbag questions.
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What advice do you have for men and women who want to get married and have a family,
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I've been on the Catholic dating apps and attended my local young adult groups,
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It's pretty disheartening when the desires of your heart are good and they are not fulfilled,
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especially when you are getting older and wondering where God is in your waiting season.
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Would love some words of encouragement for women and men experiencing this.
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Wonderful question, and I'm sure a lot of people are asking.
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I have so many female friends in their 30s who will say,
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I really want to get married, and it just hasn't happened.
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And it's not because they're feminists, and it's not because they're liberals,
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But our culture is such that it's much harder these days to settle down,
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It's hard on the guys to, and live a good life because of the insistence that everybody
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just pursue a career, because of the insistence that you find yourself and just establish who
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you are before you meet somebody, which is completely bogus, by the way.
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What you want to do is grow up with somebody, ideally, and get married.
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I mean, just as you're saying, I want to get married as quickly as I can.
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Because, you know, when people are young, they're like putty, you know, and you get two
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pieces of putty, and you stick them together, and they fit really easily together.
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And then over time, you know, they'll shape in accordance with each other.
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But if you leave the putty out, and the putty just kind of hardens into its own shapes,
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and then you try to stick those hardened putty shapes together, it's going to be much harder.
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Plenty of people do it, but it's going to be more difficult.
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Those are the difficulties you're experiencing.
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You've got to go to the places where they are, where you are likely to find the people
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I know this seems simple, but people don't do it.
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So you say, well, I don't like the apps, or I'm on the apps, but the apps aren't working.
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I know people have gotten married out of them, but it's a little game.
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It's, you know, maybe not going to be the most effective.
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If you're fortunate enough to go to a church with very young people at it, I would recommend
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the traditional Latin mass, where the median age is eight, probably, because of all the
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You take the children out of it, the median age is probably 25, so I think that'd be a
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Or professional networking groups, you know, but with a political kind of a group.
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You know, you join your local Republican women's club, you know, what, hopefully a different
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But I just mean, go to places where people who not only share interests with you, not
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just like the bowling league, but who share a point of view about the world.
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Ultimately, religious is obviously good, but even political, even cultural, even, that's
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I know friends for whom, having taken that advice, it happens fast.
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Hey, Michael, when I first became a conservative, I think it's pretty safe to say that I was
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I was going to school with a bunch of Keynesian people and socialists, and I wanted to prove
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to them that capitalism was superior to their model.
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I might have even considered myself a fan of Ayn Rand.
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But as the years went by, and I started to think more philosophically, I started to care
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less and less about capitalism, or about economics at all.
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And nowadays, I kind of have the opinion that capitalism is not philosophical.
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And so it doesn't even enter into my political philosophy.
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Do you think that this is a stance that conservatives should take?
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Do you think that conservatives should view economics as something separate from their
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No, not as separate, but as merely a component part and not the most important component.
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I think you're still a little confused in the second part of what you've said.
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Yes, it's true when we are confronted with campus socialists, the inclination is to say,
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well, I'm a capitalist, as though that were the alternative.
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Capitalism is a word that was popularized by Marx and Engels.
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Capitalism is, markets are good, you know, economic growth is good.
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But if you make the source and summit of your ideology capitalism money, then you're no different
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than the mammon-worshipping materialists that you're supposedly fighting against.
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And capitalism as an ideology is not the opposite of socialism, it's just the flip side of it.
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But it's both capitalism and socialism make the same anthropological error, which is viewing
00:41:32.540
They both make the fundamental anthropological error of viewing man as fundamentally individual.
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The individual is the basic unit of society rather than the family is the basic unit of society.
00:41:42.260
Man as individual rather than as a social and political creature.
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You don't want to, you want things in their proper place.
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When things are in their proper place, they can be wonderful.
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But when you take them out of their proper place and you worship them and you make them an idol,
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So no, you can't separate economics from your political view because economics,
00:42:02.220
the way that we exchange goods and services and accumulate wealth, that's part of politics.
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And it's an important part of politics, but it's not all of politics.
00:42:11.300
So what I would recommend is no, don't, if you separate economics, then you take that out of
00:42:18.160
the realm of the political and you say that it's basically not even subject to debate, which is
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what the liberals, classical and modern, want you to do anyway.
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No, say no, economics is totally subject to political debate and we want the best economic
00:42:36.120
We want economic growth because some material prosperity is necessary to the more important
00:42:42.280
aspects of political flourishing, but there are those more important aspects.
00:42:47.180
And so you need an economy in service of higher political goals and those higher political goals
00:42:56.980
Dear Executive Grassy Knowles, I wanted to mention that I saw that during your Membrum
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Segmentum transition, you have a small quick scene of a light blue bowl with some rusted keys
00:43:15.680
And because of your Catholic identity, I wanted to see if you would call those your Catholic
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church keys, your Catholic church keys, because they're small and ornamental and not very
00:43:44.100
I have long discouraged people from puffing on the Haitian oregano before writing into
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And that's pretty, because it's not like that you get it.
00:43:59.400
Those aren't the real keys to the kingdom of heaven.
00:44:01.320
They're just a little ornament for my show, like a church key, like a church key.
00:44:09.360
I wouldn't necessarily lead with that on your Borscht belt one-liners, you know, when you're
00:44:22.240
I had a question for you about Trump's poll numbers.
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So depending on which poll you're looking at, he's got 40%, 50%, 60% support within the
00:44:31.760
I think you said many times he's running essentially as an incumbent, and I would agree with that.
00:44:36.660
But when Joe Biden's poll numbers come in at 67%, being that he is an incumbent, we look
00:44:41.320
at those as being terrible, because he's supposed to be the one all the Democrats are rallied
00:44:47.680
So we would consider anything less than 80%, 90% for him absolutely atrocious.
00:44:52.280
Why are we not considering Trump's the same way if he's essentially running as an incumbent?
00:44:56.500
Instead of looking at it as, oh, he's up 40 points on his challenger, that's great.
00:45:01.680
Why are we not looking at it as he's the incumbent and he's only pulling down 50% or 60%?
00:45:08.480
So I just wanted to get your thoughts on that, looking at these poll numbers for Trump as
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if he was an incumbent instead of just a regular person in the race.
00:45:18.220
The as if is the key here, because he's not really the incumbent.
00:45:21.980
And so I think the error you're falling into is just the flip side error of the error that
00:45:26.900
everyone else is falling into, which is everyone's saying, well, this is an ordinary primary,
00:45:30.840
and so we're going to conduct our campaigns as though this were an ordinary primary.
00:45:35.260
This is the first time since 1892 that a president has run for a non-consecutive second term.
00:45:39.740
So he's running, I've said practically or effectively as an incumbent, but not truly an
00:45:46.700
incumbent, not really, not even essentially as an incumbent.
00:45:49.620
So your side is, you're saying, well, he's running as an incumbent, and so his numbers
00:45:54.320
But he's not really running as an incumbent, for starters, because there are 10 people in
00:45:58.020
And Joe Biden is running, I guess, technically against two or three people, but none of them
00:46:06.220
The closest is Bobby Kennedy, and even he's only at 19, 20%.
00:46:09.560
So Trump is running against DeSantis, very serious guy.
00:46:17.920
I mean, whatever you think about these people's chances, we're talking about governors, ambassadors,
00:46:22.140
serious people, with big political machines behind them even now.
00:46:27.720
So in that field, with 10 people, if you're dominating with 59% of the vote, that's pretty
00:46:35.600
impressive and may end up being decisive, would seem to be decisive right now.
00:46:40.980
This is why you can't compare Trump's position in this, you can't compare the Republican primary
00:46:48.240
You can't compare it to an ordinary Republican primary.
00:46:49.980
You also can't really compare it to just an incumbent running for re-election.
00:46:55.620
That's why I've said from the beginning, it is basically unique.
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It's happened one other time in American history.
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