Ep. 1335 - Libs Take Another Step Towards Socialism In Chicago
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Summary
In the first episode of 2020, Michael K. Knowles takes a look at what it means to be a "law and order" police officer, and why it's a good idea to have government run the grocery stores in your local grocery stores.
Transcript
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Grocery chains don't want to open new stores there.
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And the stores that are there are about to close.
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The problem has been brewing for a while, but it's gotten much worse in recent years.
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For instance, the number of Chicago residents living more than a mile away from a grocery store
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The liberals are blaming the growing food desert on the usual suspects.
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In fact, the problem is crime, shoplifting, and vandalism.
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As one Walmart representative told the New York Post,
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quote, collectively, our Chicago stores have not been profitable
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since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago.
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Are Chicago officials going to arrest the criminals?
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They're going to open government-owned grocery stores instead.
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That is the proposal by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to address the food desert crisis.
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Now, you might be thinking that it's crazy to turn America's second city into a Midwestern Soviet state
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when you could just as easily keep ShopRite and Whole Foods and all the rest of them
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But that reaction supposes that Chicago officials don't want to turn the city into a Soviet state.
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That reaction supposes that the liberal ruling class considers the criminals a problem,
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when in fact, they are a part of the liberals' solution.
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A term that has gained traction recently for this situation is anarcho-tyranny,
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a paradoxical state in which the government meticulously, oppressively regulates citizens' lives,
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while at the same time refusing to enforce basic aspects of the law.
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The government sends a right-wing private citizen to prison for 10 years
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for tweeting some run-of-the-mill memes in the case of Douglas Mackey.
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And at the same time lets BLM and Antifa off the hook for looting,
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killing, and burning the country down for eight months.
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Then, the state uses the chaos that it created to justify taking even more power.
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Pretty soon, the government is running the grocery stores.
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Yes, expect a similar program to come to a city near you if it hasn't already.
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Louis C.K. has the perfect liberal argument on immigration, which is, of course, open borders.
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And the reason for the open borders is that America shouldn't be so nice.
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First, though, we turn to the subject of crime and law and order.
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To Attorney General Merrick Garland, who insists that contrary to whatever you might think,
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America has only one system of justice for everybody.
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There is not one set of laws for the powerful and another for the powerless, one for the rich and another for the poor, one for Democrats and another for Republicans, or different rules depending upon one's race or ethnicity or religion.
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I'm going to give him credit for one thing, which is that he was able to say that with a straight face.
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The example we just cited, Douglas Mackey, this random private citizen who happens to be right wing, tweets out a meme, a joke meme about the election.
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It's the old joke where if you're on a campaign, you're going door to door, you're talking to voters.
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And you say, are you a Republican or a Democrat?
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If you're a Republican, the election's on Tuesday.
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If you're a Democrat, the election's on Wednesday.
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He tweeted out, hey, Democrats, tweet your vote.
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They're going to send him to prison for 10 years for that.
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Meanwhile, BLM murders people, burns cities to the ground, loots, steals Nike shoes, creates havoc for eight months.
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Many, if not most of them, are let off without so much as a slap on the wrist.
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But we have one system of justice for everybody, don't we?
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Basically, Donald Trump makes a phone call to Ukraine, gets impeached for it.
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Now he's been indicted four times as the former president leader of the opposition.
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Joe Biden brags on camera about firing a prosecutor in Ukraine who was investigating his son's crooked business deals, threatening to withhold a billion dollars in aid.
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Joe Biden is caught on camera admitting to doing a more egregious version of the thing for which they impeached Donald Trump.
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And Merrick Garland says, one set of rules for everybody, it's not a two-tiered justice system.
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Sam Brinton, who is the kleptomaniac, transvestite, former nuclear waste czar for the Biden administration, try to say that five times fast.
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Sam Brinton was caught on camera in multiple cities stealing women's luggage.
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And then he was caught on camera wearing the women's clothing from the luggage afterward and the jewelry.
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We're talking not just about a $100 dress from Kohl's.
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We're talking about thousands and thousands of dollars worth of clothing and jewelry, which in a normal society would have probably raised some eyebrows on account of it was women's clothing and he is a man.
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But in our society, we don't even notice it anymore.
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Sam Brinton has already avoided jail time twice in Minnesota and Nevada for doing this.
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Meanwhile, the Horn Hat guy, who peaceably walks around the Capitol on January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any republic, he's escorted by police.
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He's getting a private tour from the Capitol Hill police.
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Sam Brinton, a weirdo criminal who is caught on camera committing multiple crimes.
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And Garland says we have one set of justice in this country, one set of rules for everybody.
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Merrick Garland was confronted about the fact that his Justice Department, his FBI, was spying on Catholic churches because his FBI, according to memos that we saw, not just in one little office, but in multiple offices, viewed traditional Catholics as a terror threat, an extremist threat in America.
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Here's Garland's reaction to being called out for it.
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Attorney General, through the chair, I ask you, do you agree that traditional Catholics are violent extremists?
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I have no idea what your, what the traditional means here.
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The idea that someone with my family background would discriminate against any religion is so outrageous, so absurd.
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Mr. Attorney General, it was your FBI that did this.
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It was your FBI that was sending, and we have the memos.
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So, you notice already in that very short clip, Merrick Garland tried two different tactics, neither of which were particularly convincing.
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Say, hey, do you think traditional Catholics are a terror threat?
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He goes, oh, I don't even know what that means.
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So, he tries to play dumb, and then the congressman, congressman Drew, congressman Van Drew, rather, says, man, it's in the memo.
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And then Garland flips the strategy, flips the tactic to feigned outrage.
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He says, how dare you even suggest that somebody with my background?
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Was Merrick Garland ever a political prisoner or a prisoner persecuted for his religious views?
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I looked it up, and all I could find is he's Jewish, and some of his ancestors were persecuted, which is a safe bet.
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If you're Jewish, some of your ancestors have been.
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Some of your ancestors, regardless of your racial or ethnic background, have been persecuted for some aspect of their identity.
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And he says, could you imagine that someone with my background would persecute Catholics?
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We're sending undercover agents into Catholic churches.
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Both I and the director of the FBI have said that we were appalled by that memo.
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Was anyone fired for drafting and circulating the anti-Catholic memo?
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You have in front of you the inspection division's investigation—
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Are the people that you describe in the memo are traditional Catholics extremists?
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I just want to make the point that, hey, bro, answer the question.
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You defined Catholics in a very particular way.
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You're talking about this subset that you've defined in your memos of traditional Catholics.
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So you might say, no, Catholics like Stephen Colbert, they're not extremists.
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Catholics like Libs, who don't take doctrine and dogma totally seriously, they're not extremists.
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But the ones in whom the dogma lives loudly, to quote Dianne Feinstein, referring to Justice
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Amy Coney Barrett, oh, they—maybe they are extremists.
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And the key here is, not only did they do it, and then they denied it, the head of the
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FBI and now Merrick Garland, they deny that they had the Catholic memo.
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They said, no, okay, it was only in one field office.
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This was spread out among multiple field offices.
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And I promise you, they're going to lie about doing it again.
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Speaking of law and order, Danny Masterson, who's the actor from That 70s Show, has been
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30 years plus 47 is not quite life in prison, but it's pretty close.
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You're starting to get up there when you're at 77.
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So I read the allegations against him, and some people are saying they don't even believe
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I basically believe the women, or at least I don't see much reason not to believe the
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There are some discrepancies, I think, between what they alleged happened and what they are
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said to have alleged happened back when it happened.
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These crimes are alleged to have happened over 20 years ago, between 2001 and 2003.
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And so even if you, like me, give these women the benefit of the doubt, you don't think that
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You assume that virtually everyone in Hollywood is a complete degenerate, so you assume that
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maybe Danny Masterson did get up to this stuff in his past.
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If you're going to be all the way on the side of the accusers here, even still, you, probably
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like me, have a sense that this is not just, that there's something unjust about this sentence
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to Danny Masterson in the year of our Lord, 2023, for 30 years in prison for crimes that
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were alleged to have happened over 20 years ago.
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Because we just feel that if, if, if a crime is committed against you, you should, you should
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That's why we have things like statutes of limitations.
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But in this case, there's no more statute of limitations.
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Well, because earlier this year, in January of 2023, LA got rid of the statute of limitations
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And LA did that because of the Me Too movement and the Time's Up movement and the facade of,
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of girl power that the sexual predators who run Los Angeles are going to permit to exist
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for a little bit of time before they go back to just committing all of the same crimes that
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they've been committing for, for decades, for like a century now.
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What the, what the Me Too Time's Up people will say is, statutes of limitations are awful
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because they silence the survivors of sexual assault.
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Statutes of limitations protect the rights of everybody.
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The reason we have them is because 20 years later, evidence is going to be lost.
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I could sincerely believe that something happened 20 years ago.
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I'll say, I know that this happened 20 years ago.
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And then a friend of mine with whom I had shared that experience will say, oh no, Michael,
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I mean, that could happen for something that happened five or 10 years ago.
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People's memories are not reliable, especially over that long period of time.
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So that's the first issue is the statute of limitations thing.
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Because they just got rid of it, it just seems unjust.
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Even if Danny Masterson did precisely or even approximately what they're accusing him of doing,
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it's just something seems wrong about that system.
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The second thing that this is about is Scientology.
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And one of the reasons I believe the women, or am inclined to believe the women,
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They did bring up the crimes that allegedly happened to them at the time.
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But they often didn't bring them up to law enforcement.
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Or they didn't bring them up directly to law enforcement.
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They first brought them up to Scientology, because they're all Scientologists.
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And in this cult, they say, don't ever go to the police about anything.
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And so these women went to the Scientology ethics officers.
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And they said, hey, this guy raped me, or at the very least took advantage of me,
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And the ethics officer said, yeah, well, he's big and famous and important.
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In some cases, the women kept dating Masterson.
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So that is not to say that he didn't commit some egregious act against them,
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or that he didn't even commit a crime against them.
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But it is to say, you play stupid games, you get stupid prizes, I guess.
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If you decide to put your justice, your experience of justice, into the hands of ethics officers in a cult,
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well, things probably aren't going to work out in a very just way.
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If you continue to date someone after you allege that they commit a terrible crime against you,
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people are going to raise an eyebrow, or maybe be a little bit skeptical of your claims,
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especially if those claims come out decades later.
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It's not even just about Scientology, it's about Hollywood.
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Hollywood, as a particularly egregious example of the whole liberal establishment,
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operates in a way that is kind of outside the law,
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certainly outside the moral law, often outside of the civil law,
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where you will be encouraged to engage in really depraved, degrading things,
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And then it just kind of goes away for a while until it doesn't, until it's convenient,
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until you're no longer useful to them, or until it's convenient to throw you under the bus
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as an offering to the wolves, and that's what they'll do to you.
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Nobody comes out of this looking particularly good.
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I think that's generally true of Hollywood, and it's generally true of our liberal culture.
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But the problem here is not going to be resolved just by throwing Danny Masterson in prison.
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The problem is going to be resolved by working and correcting the entire structures of justice,
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which have a cultural component in the behavior and norms of Hollywood,
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which have a political component in the way that our justice system works,
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And it ultimately has a theological component in the toleration of weirdo cults like this
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that victimize women, according to many, many reports.
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And it's a problem that affects our entire political order.
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All politics ultimately comes down to religion.
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He said, all human conflict ultimately is theological.
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There never has been and never can be a state that is divorced from religion and theological matters
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because politics is about how we all live together.
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It has to do with laws, and ultimately laws come down to the moral law,
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and ultimately it comes down to the question of the author of the moral law.
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and it comes down to the question of who is man?
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because God is the author and sustainer of all things.
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And as long as we keep putting off the question,
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and we say, oh, God has nothing to do with society.
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We're going to totally divorce church from state.
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Morality is just socially constructed, whatever.
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Then weirdo cults are going to continue to prey on people,
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and tyrannical political leaders are going to continue to flout the moral law,
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And we're about to double down with episode five.
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when there was a $36 million pending lawsuit against them?
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because even as he's signing this woman's chest,
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trying to calculate for certain eccentricities,
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much more charismatic than Al Gore and John Kerry.
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and then the entire Republican field both times.