Ep. 1330 - 7,000 African Migrants Take Over Italian Island
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A man crashed a fashion show wearing a trash bag, and no one noticed that he was not wearing high fashion. A transvestite who is volunteering to be the spokesman for the Ukraine military is now threatening anybody who is in any way critical of Ukraine s actions in this war.
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Lampedusa is a small Italian island of about 6,500 residents.
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Yesterday, the population of Lampedusa more than doubled as more than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa arrived on the island on more than 100 different migrant boats.
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Human traffickers took advantage of calm seas yesterday to increase the number of migrant boats.
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Hundreds, often thousands of foreigners, illegally land at Lampedusa every single day.
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At which point, they're processed by the government of Italy and generally, given easy entry into Europe, laws be damned.
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This was the subject of Douglas Murray's excellent book, The Strange Death of Europe.
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And in the six years since he wrote that urgent analysis of immigration, the situation has only gotten worse.
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Which is precisely what liberal politicians in Rome and Brussels and throughout the West want.
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According to them, this mass illegal migration is not a political problem, but a solution.
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More votes for the liberal parties, more social friction, less traditional society.
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This is a logical conclusion of liberal ideology, which denies the distinction between nations and cultures and peoples.
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We're all just kind of citizens of the world, man.
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The liberal Europeans don't see any distinction between themselves and people beyond their borders.
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European nations and economies and customs are much more pleasant than the sort found in Africa and the Middle East and elsewhere.
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So African migrants are invading supposedly sovereign nations to the tune of thousands per day.
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And the Europeans, all these years after the problem began, continue to do nothing to stop it.
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Because a liberal, as Robert Frost observed, is a man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
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So the borders and the cultures and the nations collapse.
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Not through homicide by foreigners, but through a strange civilizational suicide.
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A man just crashed a fashion show runway wearing a trash bag, and he made it pretty far.
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No one noticed that he was an intruder and not wearing high fashion.
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First though, speaking of foreigners, I intend to keep this segment on YouTube, so I'll try
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The American transvestite who's volunteering to be the spokesman for the Ukraine military
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is now threatening anybody who is in any way critical of Ukraine's actions in this war.
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Russia hates the truth that their obsessive focus on a Ukrainian volunteer is simply allowing
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the light of the Ukrainian nation's honesty to shine brightly.
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Next week, the teeth of the Russian devils will gnash ever harder, and their rabid mouths
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will foam in uncontrollable frenzy as the world will see a favorite Kremlin propagandist
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Russia's war criminal propagandists will all be hunted down, and justice will be served
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as we in Ukraine are led on this mission by faith in God, liberty, and complete liberation.
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Russia is a geopolitical foe of the U.S., and I get it.
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But with this kind of talk coming out of the Ukraine military, with this kind of behavior
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coming out of the Ukraine military, are we sure we're on the right side of this thing?
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Is it possible that maybe we just, in the rush to pick a side, are we sure that this is
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I ask because the way that this person is talking about Russian devil propagandists
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It's kind of the way that liberals in the U.S. will refer to anyone even slightly to the
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They just paint everyone with that broad brush.
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And I suspect here this person, the spokesman for the Ukrainian military, a YouTube spokesman
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It seems to be reacting to criticism that he himself is getting.
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So I worry a little bit because I did a long thread on this person a while ago, exposing
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a lot of bizarre aspects of this person's biography and how this person managed to get to this position
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Am I going to be lumped in with the Russian devils and the Russian propagandists?
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I think that's the way this spokesman is talking.
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And that's not great when they're threatening to hunt everyone down.
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You know how we hear in the liberal West that those autocratic regimes, Russia and China,
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Then out of the other side, they say, hey, anybody who criticizes us in any way is a Putin
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And even if you just use your words and even if you just raise questions about the war,
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we're going to hunt you down and kill you like a rabid dog.
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Well, because these people are on the side of humanity.
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It's not just two powers, two peoples with different interests who are butting heads,
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as has happened throughout all of human history.
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In fact, we know that because this very spokesman said that Russians are not human beings.
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Do you know the difference between us and them?
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Besides fighting under this flag and for freedom on behalf of the people of Ukraine,
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all the Russians are fighting for tyranny and dictatorship.
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It's something out of Saturday Night Live, except it's real.
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And this person is speaking for the Ukrainian military in the first major war in Europe since World War II
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with a nuclear former superpower and also with the superpower of the world,
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a nuclear power as the belligerent using this proxy of Ukraine.
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In any case, anyone who opposes liberalism is not just coming from a different point of view,
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not just coming from a different nation, not just a different people, not just a different religion.
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And so you see this irony, which is that the people who fight in the name of humanity,
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in the name of humanitarianism, are very often the most cruel.
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And wars that are fought in the name of humanity are going to be the least humane wars that could possibly be fought.
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So you hear bubblegums and roses and let's be inclusive and have self-expression, man.
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And it's going to be these people wearing their eccentric outfits with their unusual gender expression.
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They're going to be the ones who are just happily, inclusively, diversely sending all the big bombs all the way to their enemies.
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All right, I think I managed to make it around that discussion without getting myself totally kicked off of YouTube.
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But speaking of threats coming from Ukraine, our friend Vladimir Zelensky, leader of Ukraine,
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highest paid actor in the world, made $100 billion last year.
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So that's better than anything they're getting out of Hollywood.
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Zelensky is threatening the West, Europe in particular,
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if the West stops funding the billions and billions of dollars of aid without which Ukraine could not continue to fight the war.
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There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in Europe could countries would react to their country being abandoned.
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I'm going to say that again without a bad Ukrainian accent on.
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There is no way of predicting how the millions of Ukrainian refugees in European countries would react to their country being abandoned.
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Well, he says that these refugees who have been given asylum by the generous countries of Europe,
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who are also funding this war for Ukraine, they have, quote, behaved well so far.
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But their good behavior in places like Germany and France and Italy could not be guaranteed necessarily to continue.
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And then he said, it would not be a good story for Europe if it were to drive these people into a corner.
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This little pipsqueak mafioso is saying, hey, Europe, thanks for being the only reason that our country is not a parking lot right now.
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Hey, Europe, thanks for being the only reason that Vladimir Putin hasn't given me a nice cup of polonium tea up until now.
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Hey, Europe, thanks for the billions of dollars and the jets and the guns and the ammunition.
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Oh, and taking all of our people in as refugees.
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But hey, if you don't keep it up, we're going to start killing you.
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And in his defense, he's playing his hand very well.
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If I were the leader of Ukraine, I would be saying these exact same things.
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This guy is defending the interests of his country and his people.
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I don't really have any problem with him doing that.
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But why aren't the Western Europeans defending the interests of their own people and their own countries?
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Why is the United States all too often not protecting the interests of our people and our country?
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You're going to hear the globalist type say that actually funding the war in Ukraine is one of the best military investments we can make because it's only something like 3% to 5% of our defense budget.
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And we don't have to sacrifice any American lives.
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And we'll just let the Ukrainians and the Russians kill each other.
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And that'll be good because it'll weaken Russia.
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That's a pretty dangerous game to play when you are accelerating a war with a nuclear form or superpower in a way that Russia is saying the United States is a belligerent in the war.
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This is something we avoided for the entirety of the Cold War, including at that hot moment of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Now we just seem to be kind of sleepwalking into that war.
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Meanwhile, we open up the borders to people from all around the world, including the Ukrainians who appear to be fairly dangerous now too.
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And meanwhile, our supposed allies, the people that we're funding, they're the ones who say, yeah, if you don't keep it up, if you don't keep the money coming, then we're going to murder you.
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Then I'm going to activate all of those sweet, wholesome refugees and we're going to start causing a lot of trouble in Europe and I think implicitly in the United States as well.
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Are we committing a kind of civilizational suicide, the likes of which Douglas Murray predicted six years ago, observed six years ago, and which since then has only gotten worse?
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Turning to political leadership in the United States.
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Kevin McCarthy is pushing for an impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden.
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The Senate Republicans are not so happy about this.
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Mitch McConnell has not really come out and supported this.
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Actually, no Republican in congressional leadership.
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Certainly up in the Senate has come out supporting this.
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Other than Republican Senator John Barrasso, who came out and he said that the corruption surrounding the Biden family needs to be untangled.
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According to Punchbowl News, Barrasso is the only Republican in leadership who backed McCarthy's efforts.
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This is a good sign that John Barrasso might be the man to take over after Cocaine Mitch has to leave.
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Cocaine Mitch is not going to remain in leadership forever, even despite the health scares, even despite his advanced age.
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Time goes on and people are going to need to come into the wings.
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I have said that I'm not for pushing Cocaine Mitch out just because he had a couple brain freezes during press conferences.
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Because one, Cocaine Mitch has been pretty good at wielding levers of power.
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All the prospects of people to replace Cocaine Mitch don't seem to be any better than he is.
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So while the conservatives might be wailing and saying, Mitch isn't one of us, he's establishment, he's suppressing our agenda.
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That might all be true, but who's the replacement?
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If we don't have a better replacement, then let's just leave Cocaine Mitch.
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Better the devil we know than the devil we don't.
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If John Barrasso is going to come out here and start flexing a little bit of power, start taking the side of the more conservative wing of the conservative party, that's a good sign.
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The people who are looking to replace Cocaine Mitch, maybe they should get on board too.
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Speaking of the Senate, Josh Hawley has just gotten in hot water for proposing an 18% credit card interest rate cap.
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Now, this seems like good news because we know these credit card companies prey on people.
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They get them hooked on debt, especially people who don't have a lot of money, who are living maybe paycheck to paycheck.
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They'll start putting big purchases on their credit card.
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And then because the interest rate is 18% or more, 20%, 25%, they're never going to get out of that debt.
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So they're just going to be in debt forever making these payments, and it's especially people who are at the lower end of the socioeconomic ladder who get squeezed this way.
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Now, 10 years ago, it would not have been a conservative right-wing senator proposing an interest rate cap.
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It would have been Bernie Sanders, and Bernie Sanders would have given some speech about the proletariat and the workers of the world need to unite.
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And those rich, fat, cat millionaires and billionaires on Wall Street, they're taking advantage of you workers.
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And then Bernie Sanders became a millionaire, and then he stopped invading against the millionaires.
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But in any case, it would have been a left-wing attack.
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And the conservatives would have said, well, actually, you know, there's nothing more American than usury.
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Actually, there's nothing more American than taking advantage of poor people who sometimes don't know any better and, in some cases, don't have any other options than to put their bills on their credit cards and then get stuck in debt slavery forever.
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However, now things have flipped, and as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz have said, the Republican Party has ceased to be the party of Wall Street.
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The Republican Party is now the party of Pittsburgh, not the party of Paris.
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And this was a good campaign line, and it was a great way to follow up the populism that came to the fore with the election of Donald Trump.
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But if that kind of populist rhetoric and enthusiasm is not backed up by hard policies, then it's going to be nothing.
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So now Josh Hawley is backing it up with real hard policies.
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And he's doing this in particular because he says usury is bad.
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But for the vast majority of the history of our country, of our civilization, forget our country.
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For the vast majority of the history of our civilization, usury was against the law because the church prohibits it.
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Virtuous pagan societies prohibited usury as well.
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Well, as Thomas Aquinas says, to take usury for money lent is unjust in itself because this is to sell what does not exist.
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And this evidently leads to inequality, which is contrary to justice.
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In order to make this evident, we must observe that there are certain things, the use of which consists in their consumption.
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So he says, we consume wine when we use it for drink, and we consume wheat when we use it for food.
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Wherefore, in such like things, the use of the thing must not be reckoned apart from the thing itself.
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And whoever is granted the use of the thing is granted the thing itself.
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And for this reason, to lend things of this kind is to transfer the ownership.
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But what Thomas Aquinas is saying there is when you lend money at interest, when you commit usury, you are using the thing twice.
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You're double dipping, basically, and that is not fair.
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It says, accordingly, if a man wanted to sell wine separately from the use of wine, he would be selling the same thing twice, or he would be selling what does not exist.
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Wherefore, he would evidently commit a sin of injustice.
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In like matter, he commits an injustice who lends wine or wheat and asks for double payment.
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The return of the thing in equal measure, the other price of the use, which is called usury.
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We don't talk this way anymore because our entire modern economic system is based on usury.
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And the loosening of laws against usury has had a material benefit.
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Don't think that when you commit bad things, you don't receive at least momentary or partial pleasure from it.
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If you didn't, then there would be no temptation to sin.
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If you didn't enjoy, you know, doing naughty sex things, you wouldn't be tempted by them.
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If you didn't get a sensory pleasure from eating too much food or drinking too much booze, there wouldn't be a temptation.
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If all you got was the hangover, you wouldn't want it.
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So there are these apparent benefits that come along with vices and sins.
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And with usury, it's been the creation of the modern economic system, which has given us a lot of material wealth.
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But are we so stupid in liberal modernity that we think you can get something for nothing?
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Are we so deluded in this utopian ideology that we think there isn't a cost to pretty much everything in this world?
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The cost is, in this case, that we've indebted ourselves, that we have become individually and nationally slaves to debt.
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We've transformed from a civilization that would leave an inheritance to its children, that would leave the place better off than we found it,
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into a civilization that, in the words of the conservative writer Patrick Deneen,
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leaves to its children no inheritance other than a mountain of debt.
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I think we need to accept this in our humility.
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There is a reason that every serious civilization ever recognized that usury is very wrong.
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And you're not going to dismantle the modern economic system.
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Maybe you don't want to dismantle the modern economic system.
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But we do have to acknowledge this is a problem, that a civilization that commits this kind of a sin,
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that indebts its people this way, that takes advantage of people who sometimes aren't that bright
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and who often don't have resources, that that's wrong to do.
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And that a civilization that prioritizes material wealth above everything else is a civilization that worships mammon.
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And that is not going to be conducive to human flourishing, even if we get more stuff.
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Senator Hawley, I don't know what the details are on this yet, but he's going down the right path.
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Okay, on the topic of debts and deficits, big deficits now.
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Turning on 2024, most Republicans have an unfavorable view of Chris Christie.
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Just one quarter of Republican voters have a favorable view of Chris Christie.
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That gives him a net favorable rating of negative 26.
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Mike Pence has 37% of Republican voters expressing an unfavorable view of him.
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His favorable rating, however, is overall, because unlike Christie, 51% of people have a favorable
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So he's still doing way better than Chris Christie is, but he has a pretty high on unfavorables
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Am I bringing this up because I think, there it goes, Chris Christie was this close to the
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Or Mike Pence was this close to becoming the nominee.
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I bring it up because Ron DeSantis, I think, still has a shot at the Republican Party nomination.
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And these numbers do not bode very well for him.
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Because in order for Ron DeSantis to become the Republican Party nominee, Donald Trump either
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has to die, be ostracized, be legally prohibited from running for president, or Ron DeSantis has
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to persuade people to stop liking Donald Trump.
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Donald Trump now has, what, a 50-point lead in the Republican primary, at least a 40-point
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And even in the early primary states, it's a 20-point lead.
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DeSantis has to become much more critical of Trump.
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So DeSantis has to get much more aggressive against Trump to try to knock down his numbers.
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But the problem with this poll is, what is the commonality between Mike Pence and Chris
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There's not a lot that those guys have in common, but the commonality is, they are the
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two candidates who are most critical and most openly critical of Donald Trump.
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It gets them a very, very high unfavorable rating, and it gets them very, very low poll
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So I get why DeSantis is not being too openly critical of Trump.
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He sees what happens to the other candidates who are openly critical of Trump.
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This is the problem for his campaign that has existed long before he announced that he
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If he gets more anti-Trump, he's going to end up like these two guys.
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If he doesn't hit Trump at all, he's going to end up like Ted Cruz in 2016, who was playing
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So what's he going to—that's not a knock on either of their campaigns.
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I think Senator Cruz ran a great campaign in 2016, and it just—it almost worked, but
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And here, you're seeing the repeat of that same campaign, and it hasn't gotten anywhere
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near close to almost working as it did for Cruz in 2016.
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The question that the DeSantis campaign has to ask now, as it is caught between a rock
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And I told you, I'm not endorsing in this primary.
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I know a lot of conservatives in the media and in public life are effectively working
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When DeSantis does something good, I'm happy to applaud that, and I do it almost every
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When Trump does something good, and especially if his campaign is doing well, I will—I'm
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When Vivek is doing something good, when any of these guys are doing well, I merely want
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And in the case of DeSantis' problem, what do you do when you're caught between a rock
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If I were working on his campaign, I have no idea what I would advise him to do right
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It might be the case as—you know, I hate to say I told you so, but as I predicted early
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on, that no matter how good a candidate you've got, no matter how genius the consultants
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are, you hire the most big-brained people from Washington, D.C., sometimes the circumstances
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Putting people in a bad spot brings my attention over to The View, where even one of the big
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libs on—they're all libs on The View, but one of the most openly liberal people on The
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View, Sonny Hostin, is finally willing to admit that the Bidens are dirty.
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I think that there are instances where Hunter Biden, in an attempt to show access to the
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vice presidency, the vice president's office made phone calls to daddy.
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I think we have the situation with his work in Ukraine.
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There's no way that political influence wasn't a part of that.
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I mean, what's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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And so I understand that there is some real concern there.
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But what is upsetting to me is that Kevin McCarthy and the Republican, this right-wing Republican
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Our former twice impeached, disgraced former president—
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Accused of, accused of, you know, talking to President Zelensky of Ukraine and trying
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to do a quid pro quo and trade information for arms when his country was about to start
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She says, look, I think the Bidens are a little dirty.
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But the Republicans are trivializing impeachment.
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Look, when we impeached Trump, we did that because he pressured the leader of Ukraine to
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give him something that he wanted to benefit himself personally.
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And the threat behind that was that he would withhold military aid as Russia was looming on
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And Joe Biden, in his guileless corruption, he actually confessed to this at the Council
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They were walking out to the press conference and said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're
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I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting the billion dollars.
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If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
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The guy who was investigating the company that was sending my family a ton of money in
00:31:45.780
super, super crooked payments, that prosecutor got fired because I told Ukraine with an aggressive
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Russia looming on the border that I was going to withhold a billion dollars in aid.
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Dude, this is so embarrassing for Sonny Hostin on The View because she, look, she made her
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She decided that she was going to be a little bit honest about how corrupt Biden is, even
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when some of the fake conservatives on the panel were trying to continue to carry water
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She thought that she could engage in a limited hangout.
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She thought that she could give the observers of Biden's corruption just a little bit of
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But he didn't do like what Trump did, what we accused Trump of doing.
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When, I guess, Honey Hostin just doesn't follow the news closely enough, and the Democrats often
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unwittingly just project the things that they accused their opponents of they themselves
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She is describing and accusing Trump of doing the thing that we have video evidence of
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Sounds like Sonny Hostin, and The View is for impeachment.
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Now, Senator Ted Cruz, unsurprisingly, put this situation a little bit more clearly and
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Here is how Senator Cruz struck down one of the biggest talking points that the libs are
00:33:16.280
relying on to stop the impeachment of Joe Biden.
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You know, the latest talking points Democrats are trying to trot out in response to this impeachment
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inquiry, is there is no direct evidence of Joe's involvement in the corruption.
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Yeah, Hunter's corrupt as the day is long, but there's no direct evidence of Joe's involvement.
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There's at least two instances of direct evidence of Joe's corruption.
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Number one, you played on this show, which is Joe Biden's admission in front of the Council
00:33:52.680
on Foreign Relations, that he held a billion dollars of U.S. taxpayer loan guarantees hostage
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in order to force the firing of the Ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating the Ukrainian
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That is one of the critical elements of bribery of the quid pro quo.
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Is there the five to ten million dollars of payments?
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Now, on that, there is circumstantial evidence.
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There are the twenty million dollars plus of payments to the Biden family.
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And there is also the consistent pattern of obstruction and covering it up.
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And a point that the senator is alluding to in this clip, and he said explicitly elsewhere,
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is circumstantial evidence is good enough most of the time.
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You'll sometimes hear people say, well, you can't prove that he committed that crime.
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People are convicted of crimes every single day in the United States on circumstantial evidence.
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Circumstantial evidence is different from direct evidence in that direct evidence is,
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I stayed up late, and I looked outside my window, and it was snowing.
00:35:19.420
And I saw that, and I took some pictures of it, and I video recorded it,
00:35:25.200
Circumstantial evidence is you go to sleep, and there's no snow on the ground,
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And you wake up in the morning, and there's snow on the ground.
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And you say, okay, I don't have any proof that it snowed.
00:35:34.980
I don't have any hard, direct proof that it snowed because I don't have pictures or photographs.
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But there wasn't snow on the ground when I closed my eyes, and there is snow on the ground now.
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So I am going to use that circumstantial evidence to deduce it did, in fact, snow.
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And we have got mountains of circumstantial evidence that Joe Biden engaged in this kind of corruption.
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Handwritten notes, text messages, emails, a whole laptop from Hunter Biden giving a real insight into these crimes.
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And then we've got some direct evidence as well, like when Joe Biden's admitting these things at the Council on Foreign Relations.
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The only thing to do at this point is to impeach.
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If the Republicans don't impeach, we just look completely feckless.
00:36:26.540
Speaking of corruption, moving from political corruption into corruption in the arts,
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this video has just gone viral of an intruder making it to some fashion show
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where he walks down the runway wearing a plastic bag before a security guard stops him.
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And then finally a security guard takes him down.
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And the reason this has gone viral, I don't know when this was shot.
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But the reason it's gone viral is not because of the guy.
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It's because the audience looks completely nonplussed.
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Even if this were just a sketch on Saturday Night Live or something, we've all seen this
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happen before where some modern artist will show something that's not beautiful, that's
00:37:25.940
not particularly intricate, that a three-year-old could have put together in two seconds.
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And because of the, I don't know, the pretensions of the artist and of our culture, you'll have
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otherwise serious, you know, well-dressed, wealthy, elite people looking at it, trying to pretend as
00:37:44.120
though there's some deeper meaning or that it's in some way aesthetically pleasing.
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This is what happens when art in a society ceases to be connected to beauty.
00:37:58.520
But speaking of art and criticism, critics and fans alike are raving about convicting
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a murderer, calling it one of the best documentaries of 2023.
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It's been a massive success, reaching over 8 million views, ranking number two in documentaries
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What would be the motive for something like this?
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We're talking about somebody with unexplainable, impulsive behavior, a pattern of violence and
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There were a lot of coincidences on the day that Teresa Hallibach was killed and Making
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a Murderer either completely omitted them or only presented half of the story.
00:38:43.500
Stephen Avery leaves work and doesn't tell his brothers.
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He'd never used his sister's phone number to book an appointment before.
00:38:51.440
Stephen Avery makes two phone calls to Teresa's phone.
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I don't think Teresa liked Stephen the way Stephen wanted her to like him.
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You are the murderer because you turned your ass down.
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My favorite comment is WafflesMcGallagher934 says,
00:39:36.140
The actress in the Apple skit also portrayed God in a Christian quote-unquote movie called
00:39:41.480
Weird how she portrays a deity several different times.
00:39:51.300
In fact, some of my best friends are black women, like my friend that I was just talking
00:39:56.080
But I don't worship black women, and our culture does.
00:39:59.400
You see countless articles, especially at election time, of, oh, black women have to
00:40:06.520
They're just so, they're the most perfect people on earth, and they're the most wise
00:40:12.160
And it's a kind of idolatry, probably a fetish of our culture.
00:40:20.220
That's why in liberal portrayals, God or the godlike figure is often going to be a black
00:40:31.920
You know, there are lots of different categories here.
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But speaking of aesthetics, the reason that this guy was able to walk down the runway in
00:40:40.180
a plastic bag and have people take that seriously as high fashion is because art, for at least
00:40:48.800
100 years now, has not been connected to beauty any longer.
00:40:53.340
Art has become critical, self-referential, ironic, and really just a form of anti-art,
00:41:04.640
You see this most clearly with an artist like Marcel Duchamp.
00:41:07.520
He's the modern artist who put a urinal in the middle of the floor and said, this is a
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I am one of the most prominent modern artists in the world today.
00:41:22.400
My modern art piece, Reasons to Vote for Democrats, A Comprehensive Guide, a number one best-selling
00:41:28.080
blank book that continues to sell oodles and oodles of copies.
00:41:33.480
That is a deconstruction of the form of the book.
00:41:37.200
And yeah, I'm a regular Marcel Duchamp, but I'm a regular Damien Hirst.
00:41:41.240
But with all of those artists, I get a kick out of some of the work of like a Damien Hirst
00:41:46.740
who, I mean, he's got all these weird works of art, like a big shark and formaldehyde or
00:41:51.460
polka dots or whatever, or even Marcel Duchamp with the urinal.
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But it's purely an intellectual and critical endeavor.
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When you disconnect from the transcendentals, the good, the true, and the beautiful, you
00:42:08.980
are left in this morass of relativism according to which you don't know if a guy wearing a
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And in that society, because we know that it's not beautiful, we're not attracted to it in
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anyway, we just have to take our cues from everybody else.
00:42:31.400
And then you convince yourself that ugly works of art are actually beautiful and worth lots
00:42:39.640
And I think it helps to explain from the artistic angle some of the political volatility that
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we're seeing that was less common in earlier ages of our country and our civilization.
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Because we're not grounding our views and our behaviors in anything objective and real
00:42:57.000
The good, the true, and the beautiful are objective.
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And this kind of crap, the modern art and the wearing garbage bags around and urinals pretending
00:43:08.540
to be fine works of sculpture, there's nothing objective about that.
00:43:14.840
It's all contingent on the feelings of the people in the room, which can change rapidly because
00:43:21.920
man's passions are wild and the imagination of man's heart is evil from the beginning.
00:43:26.480
Expect more volatility the more crazy, kooky art we get.
00:43:30.980
All right, speaking of art, is this one going to kick me off YouTube too?
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All right, I'm going to try, I'm going to try to speak in a very specific way here and
00:43:40.140
you can either bleep me, I don't know, we'll see what happens.
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The actress Ellen Page, who now pretends to be a man named Elliot Page, this lady is arguing
00:43:52.260
that we need gender neutral acting categories for the big award shows.
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Page says, yeah, it seems like a good idea, according to Entertainment Weekly.
00:44:01.080
And again, this sort of unusual aspect of that being the only category, right, where that
00:44:06.300
So hopefully we start moving beyond that degree of binary thinking.
00:44:11.700
The performer known as Page, first initial E, is saying here that we don't have best female
00:44:21.020
We don't have best female cinematographer, best male cinematographer.
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So why is it that we have best actress and best actor?
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The reason that we have best actor and best actress is because actors and actresses used
00:44:39.700
You wouldn't confuse an actor for an actress or vice versa.
00:44:42.380
Because men and women used to be different, you wouldn't confuse a man for a woman or vice
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But if that should change, and that is in the process of changing, with the exaltation
00:44:53.140
of androgyny and gender-bending performances and dress and ideology, the line between actor
00:45:17.580
When you move away from Brunelleschi and Bernini and Raphael and Titian and Caravaggio, when you
00:45:26.560
move away from high art that is rooted in beauty and you move toward a urinal on the floor of
00:45:33.020
a gallery, things are going to get ambiguous and confusing and blurry and downright degenerate
00:45:42.920
The same thing is going to happen in every other art form.
00:45:47.560
They're probably going to get rid of the separate best actor and best actress categories.
00:45:52.700
And most people probably aren't going to know because people are just going to tune out
00:45:56.380
And people are going to tune out the awards shows because people are tuning out the movies.
00:46:03.020
But it doesn't mean that the industry itself isn't going to do it.
00:46:06.040
Now, speaking of things that men and women do together, there's a new study out, very
00:46:10.520
helpful to the pro-life cause and very helpful to poor little babies who are being targeted
00:46:17.360
It knocks down a lie that we've heard, which is that abortion is not painful to babies.
00:46:26.420
And when the babies are capable of pain, then maybe we'll have some restrictions on it.
00:46:30.420
But early on in pregnancy, it's just not painful.
00:46:32.380
So just we can poison them and chop them up, and they don't feel any pain.
00:46:37.720
And I think we all know intuitively that that's not true.
00:46:42.040
It's called Reconsidering Fetal Pain by two medical professionals, Stuart Derbyshire and
00:46:47.880
And what the study says is fetal pain has long been a contentious issue, in large part because
00:46:54.640
fetal pain is often cited as a reason to restrict access to termination of pregnancy or abortion.
00:47:00.560
But he says, we have divergent views regarding the morality of abortion, but have come together
00:47:07.100
So they're saying, look, we're not both pro-lifers.
00:47:12.300
We have different views on abortion, but we're just addressing, do these babies actually feel
00:47:15.920
pain, and they say, at 12 weeks gestation, there are the first projections from the thalamus
00:47:20.480
into the cortical subplate, and then they use a bunch of scientific jargon to explain
00:47:25.400
how we think that pain begins much, much later in pregnancy.
00:47:31.000
But actually, no, it doesn't, as people think now, begin around 24 weeks.
00:47:38.300
And so what the conclusion is, fetal analgesia and anesthesia should thus be standard for
00:47:45.640
abortions in the second trimester, especially after 18 weeks, when there is good evidence
00:47:49.720
for a functional connection from the periphery and into the brain.
00:47:53.640
What they're saying is, look, we used to think there was pain starting at 24 weeks, that the
00:47:59.920
Now we think it could be as early as 12 weeks, and it's certainly as early as 18 weeks.
00:48:04.960
So when you murder your baby at 12 to 24 weeks, give him an anesthetic, and then chop him up
00:48:13.200
or poison him or inject him full of saline solution.
00:48:16.320
But when you're about to murder your child, just know he's in excruciating pain.
00:48:21.740
So you're going to want to give him an anesthetic before you chop him up.
00:48:24.680
Um, what, what woman, maybe some psychopath doctor, you know, doctor, abortionist doesn't
00:48:38.040
care about any of that, but what mother is going to say, wait, my baby feels pain.
00:48:41.780
So, okay, if I'm going to have to give him an anesthetic so I can kill him, well, if I
00:48:45.580
give him an anesthetic, he sounds kind of like a person.
00:48:49.100
So it doesn't feel just like a clump of cells anymore.
00:48:52.460
Now, what's amazing here is the fact of whether or not a baby in the womb feels pain should
00:49:13.360
One of the, uh, aspects of being a living person is that you feel pain often in most,
00:49:21.900
much of the time you are capable of feeling pain, but that shouldn't actually matter to
00:49:26.720
the moral question of whether or not it's right to kill an innocent little baby, whether
00:49:32.760
Politically, it is relevant because as a friend of mine says, facts don't care about your
00:49:36.120
feelings, but politics, I will complicate the phrasing politics largely cares about your
00:49:42.340
feelings and the science here is on our side and the science doesn't just exist in a vacuum.
00:49:50.300
The facts of this world don't exist in a vacuum.
00:49:52.080
The physical facts of this world imply certain metaphysical things and moral things, and they
00:49:58.380
And this is all the more reason for the conservatives as we get a new generation of leadership and
00:50:04.560
we stop being so squishy to get even tougher on these laws and stand up for objective truth
00:50:11.520
so we don't live in a subjectivist, relativistic civilization where we've got urinals all over
00:50:22.640
My friend, Congressman Eric Burleson is going to be on the show.
00:50:26.260
Congressman Burleson is on the alien committee, the UFO committee, and you know my views on
00:50:33.520
the aliens, but just yesterday we had that big breaking news story that some obvious hoax
00:50:39.680
artist made a little statue of E.T. and pretended it's a thousand-year-old alien mummy.
00:50:44.260
So anyway, we'll get to that latest update and we will destroy Matthew Walsh with facts and
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