Ep. 1343 - Trans-Woman Tries To Get Pregnant To Have An Abortion
Summary
Libs are coming for your parental rights. This viral clip comes from a viral clip posted by our friends at Libs of TikTok. Parental rights are being used to stifle the rights of LGBTQ kids, especially in Canada and the U.S.
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The Libs are coming for your parental rights. This viral clip, care of our friends at Libs of TikTok.
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Let's talk about parental rights for a second, because it's become evident that it's being used
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currently in this fight against queer people, and especially queer kids who need more protections
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than ever before. Like in Saskatchewan and in the U.S., parental rights are being used to
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thwart any rights of autonomy that the kid might have. And I'm sorry, but kids do have autonomy.
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We've already established this. For example, if a kid needs a blood transfusion and the parents don't
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want to, it's not the parent's right to refuse that blood transfusion for that kid, because it is
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life-saving. In the same respect, if a kid only needs to, like, use a different name and pronoun
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in school, there might be a reason, and a good reason, they're not coming out at home. And they
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need a safe place to be themselves. And so, to hell with this idea of parental rights when it comes to
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kids who have their own consent and their own bodily autonomy and their own autonomy to their
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personhood that need to be protected. To hell with this idea of parental rights.
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Libs 2024, to hell with parental rights. Now, you might say, who cares? This is just some random
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weirdo, and that's true. But we see the same belief articulated by more prominent, less random
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weirdos. Here is AOC's take on the GOP's Parents' Bill of Rights proposal.
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They are asking the Republican Party to keep culture wars out of classrooms. Our children
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need urgent and aggressive educational solutions. The American Library Association coming out against
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this Republican proposal. When we talk about progressive values, I can say what my progressive
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value is, and that is freedom over fascism. Okay, but it's AOC, you might say. Everyone knows AOC
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is on the fringe. Yeah, sure, maybe. But then, here again, we have an even less fringe, even less
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random, even more prominent weirdo saying the same thing. Rebecca put a teacher's creed into words when
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she said, there's no such thing as someone else's child. No such thing as someone else's child.
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No such thing as someone, meaning there's no such thing as your child. They're all my child,
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me, Joe Biden. The libs are coming out in full force against parental rights. They view the family
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as the final impediment to their agenda. On the bright side, this is the best line of attack that
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the GOP currently has. Parental rights is exactly what gave Republicans Virginia. It's exactly one of the
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reasons that Ron DeSantis has been so popular in Florida. The libs know that dismantling the family
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is unpopular, but they also know that they've got to do it to seal their power. And the scary thing is,
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despite the unpopularity, they've already been pretty successful at doing just that.
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and he is weighing in on which major candidate he's going to take more votes from. We'll get to that
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in one second. First, though, libs of TikTok finding some real bangers lately. She always finds
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phenomenal clips that tell you a lot about our politics, but I don't know, the last few days
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that it's just been hit after hit after hit. Here is one trans activist. I guess we're not going to
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be on a certain social media platform for this part of the show. Here is a trans activist explaining
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that he wants to be not only one of the first men who, I guess, would be the very first man
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who gets pregnant by having a womb implant. And this is all kind of sci-fi stuff. But he wants to
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be not only the first man to get pregnant, but then also the first man to kill his child.
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I want to be the first trans woman to have a successful uterus transplant, ovaries and eggs
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included. And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
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I will let a doctor who has successfully transplanted a uterine complex before cut the organs out of a
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willing, healthy, trans masculine donor. Place them in my body. I will devote myself,
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heart and soul to their aftercare. I will have as much gay sex as it takes with as many trans women
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as it takes. And let the transphobes and homophobes scratch their heads, wondering what to make of it.
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And I want to be the first trans woman to have an abortion.
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Okay, I think I followed most of that. It's a little bit of a Rube Goldberg machine of infanticide.
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There are so many extra added steps there for the end goal of killing a child.
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But I think I basically followed it. He wants to pretend to be a woman and then cut out the
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healthy organs of another woman who thinks that she's a man and then have those organs implanted
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into him. And then he wants to do all sorts of depraved acts. And then he wants to improbably,
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implausibly become pregnant and begin to nurture this budding young life solely for the purpose of
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then being able to murder it. That's what gets him off. And the whole reason I show this clip is not
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merely to point out how wacky those trans activists are or boy golly, can you imagine how far the left
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has gone these days? The reason I bring this one up is to remind people that there is a limit to
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debate. Liberalism says that all of politics is like one big never-ending college debating society.
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And we're never going to come to any firm conclusions. We're all just going to keep
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debating. And it's so important to have conversations. And we just need to talk to each
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other. And as long as we can talk and have conversations and debate, then our politics will
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be flourishing. There's no debating with that. When you differ on first principles, when you differ
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on the basic premises and axioms, the starting point for how you view the world, the starting place that
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you arrive at through intuitive reasoning, when you differ there to that kind of degree, there's no
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debate. How are you going to debate that guy? He says, I want to chop my whole body up and chop up
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another woman and get and switch all of our organs so that I can do depraved things and then get
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pregnant so I can murder a baby. Oh, well, no, sir. Let me explain to you rationally why your views are.
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No, no, there is a limit to debate. And conservatives need to recognize this. The libs recognize this,
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but conservatives need to recognize this too. Politics is not an endless conversation.
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Politics is how we all live together. And when we all want to live together, we have to come to
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certain conclusions about the law. And what the law is, is an ordinance of reason for the common good
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by him who has care of the community and promulgated. That's what it is. And so you got to just say,
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you just, those people, you just got to say, no, no, sorry. I don't need to entertain your stupid,
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depraved, evil thoughts. I don't need to pretend that your point of view has any validity whatsoever.
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You are a crazy person with serious defects of your will and intellect, and you should most likely be
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in an insane asylum. But perhaps there's some argument that you can live a slightly more
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autonomous life, but with strict limits on it. Because you, sir, have completely lost your mind,
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and you are a danger to everyone around you and to yourself. So no, we're not going to just chat,
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and we're not going to pretend that your view has any validity whatsoever. Just no, no, sorry,
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sorry, your ideology for the good of society, and especially for the good of people like you,
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needs to be eradicated from public life entirely at every single level. Speaking of the consequences
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of liberalism, there's, this is the craziest story that hit the news yesterday. And I didn't really
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comment on it directly yesterday because it was so shocking. I didn't, I felt it was even distasteful
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to talk about it. Now, enough time has gone by. I don't know. Everyone's already talking about it.
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This guy, Josh Kruger, is a liberal activist. And Josh Kruger, three days ago, made fun of Scott
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Adams, the Dilbert comic and somewhat vaguely conservative commentator, who's a very interesting
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guy and has, you know, obviously had a very successful career. Scott Adams, three years ago,
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tweeted out, if Biden is elected, there's a good chance you will be dead within the year.
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That was July, 2020. Three days ago, Josh Kruger tweets out, the Dilbert dude is like Nostradamus.
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Look at this prediction from 2020. Wow, eerie. So he's making fun of him. He's saying, yeah,
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we're all supposed to be dead. And, you know, we're not dead. What an idiot this guy is. And then
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two days after that, Josh Kruger was murdered in his Philadelphia home.
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And now the Dilbert guy is being called Nostradamus. This is really weird. We got,
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it's New York Times is reporting on this. Philadelphia journalist is killed in his home.
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Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times. The police said that no arrests had been made.
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We don't know if the people who killed him knew him or if it was just another home break-in,
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like there's so many of them in Philadelphia. So now people are saying, wow, Scott Adams is
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predicting the future. And it's weird. The timing is a little bit eerie, obviously not for the reasons
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that Mr. Kruger thinks. I don't think that we should be happy about this, obviously. I know some
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people think they have a little schadenfreude here because the guy who downplayed all of the risks
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of living in these kinds of cities and downplayed the spiking crime, he ended up having to deal with
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the consequences of that. Obviously, we should just pray for this guy's soul and pray for ourselves too.
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But what do we make of Scott Adams? Does he predict the future? No. He only sort of,
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Scott Adams only sort of predicts the future in the same way that prophets predict the future.
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People misunderstand what a prophet is. A priest friend of mine, Father Ruttler,
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has an excellent line on this. He says, prophets do not primarily predict the future,
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but rather see the present. They predict the future only in a derivative sense,
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in as much as telling the truth will tell you something about how the future is going to unfold.
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The number of murders in Philadelphia has more than doubled over the last decade. It does not take
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a Nostradamus to know that people are more likely to be murdered in these cities. So some people deny
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that reality. Other people just tell the truth. They just see the present. They tell the truth as they
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see it. And when you tell the truth in an age that is defined by lies, you're going to look like you're
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K-N-O-W-L-E-S. Speaking of lawlessness, we've got an update in the Congressman Jamal Bowman case.
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Congressman Jamal Bowman is the man who is a Democrat from New York, and he pulled a fire alarm
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to stop the House from voting on a continuing resolution. And then he lied about it. And he said,
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oh no, I was just trying to open the door. The signs were really confusing, and I just didn't,
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I didn't know. So this excuse fell apart pretty quickly when we saw the alleged signs.
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There's one that says, emergency exit only. It says, emergency exit only, push until alarm
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sounds, door will unlock in 30 seconds. Yeah. And so, but it says alarm will sound, emergency exit
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only, don't go out this way. So unless Congressman Jamal is completely illiterate,
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it's not convincing that he would have not known what these signs meant. But then what's weird is
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in the picture, we have camera footage of him pulling the alarm. He's, he's not standing in
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front of those signs. The signs are nowhere really to be seen in that picture. Apparently it's because
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he knocked the signs down and then he's not pushing on the door. He's just pulling the fire alarm on the
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wall. So he couldn't even pretend as though he thought it was just a way to get through the
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door. He turned and pulled the fire alarm there. Furthermore, the way that you know his excuse is
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complete BS is because he didn't even go out those doors. Congressman Jamal apparently ran out through
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a different door on a different floor because he didn't want to get caught because he didn't realize
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that they had cameras in the US Capitol. Tells you a lot about the caliber of Democrat congressman.
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So this, this totally fell apart. And now what are the Republicans going to do?
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If the GOP does not vote to expel this man from Congress, this man who, who did a much more
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egregious insurrection than anything committed by the horn hat guy or the Midwestern grannies or the
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lectern fellow from Florida smiling for the camera, Congressman Jamal Bowman, if any of those guys are
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guilty of insurrection, Bowman is guilty of it 20 times over. If the G does not expel him from
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Congress, GOP is in charge of the house right now, then the GOP is just completely impotent. It's just
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completely pathetic. Bowman for his part is now in damage control mode. So he, he sent out this
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messaging according to Politico, which blamed everything on the Nazi Republicans. And he said,
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we we've, we've got to, we've got to stop these Nazi Republicans from trying to make a big deal
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over my pulling the fire alarm and obstructing an official congressional proceeding. When Politico
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reported on the Nazi memo, a Congressman Bowman then backtracked and he, he denied having sent out
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the guidance. He said, I just became aware that in our messaging guidance, there was inappropriate
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use of the term Nazi without my consent, without my consent. I condemn the use of the term Nazi out
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of its precise definition. It is important to specify the term Nazi refers to members of the
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Nazi party and neo-Nazis, which would be a lot more convincing if Congressman Jamal Bowman had not
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called me a Nazi on Twitter back in March. So back in March, after I gave my CPAC speech where I said,
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boys and girls are different, you know, and Congressman Jamal tweets out and says,
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Michael, this is a direct quote, Michael Knowles is a Nazi hell bent on keeping only white men alive
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and in power. And then he went on and on and on. So here Bowman insinuates, I would never use the term
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Nazi if I weren't referring to German soldiers from the 1940s. This was, this would happen without my
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consent. I completely disavow this. I would never do such a thing. It's terribly offensive. Oh yeah.
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Well, was it also accidental and non-consensual when you called me a Nazi on Twitter? The tweet's
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still up. Was that still an accident back in March? I don't know that I believe that. Are you
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going to disavow that Congressman Bowman? Are you going to apologize to me? Are you going to apologize
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to everyone for that awful decision, no doubt made by some low level staffer to call me a Nazi for
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saying that boys and girls are different? He just keeps digging. This is a guy who is not thinking
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strategically. And this is one of the reasons also not to lie. It's bad to lie because lying is a sin
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and can condemn your soul to hell. And you shouldn't do it for that reason because it offends God.
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But another reason, even if you don't believe in God and you don't care about your soul and if you're
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just in politics, another reason not to lie is you're going to get caught. It's very, especially
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when you're lying publicly to the media in the age of Twitter, where there's a tweet for everything,
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you're going to get caught, man, especially if you're not necessarily the sharpest tool in the
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shed, when you're not maybe the most high level Machiavelli, Metternich kind of political
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strategist out there. And then you start spinning all these lies and denying and backtracking and
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you're going to get caught. And so probably what would serve Congressman Bowman is for him to
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stop speaking immediately, two days ago, probably. But this is a real crime. It's not just that he
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called me a Nazi or he called Republicans Nazis and he's lying about it. And that's a little bit of
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a political scandal. Obstructing an official congressional proceeding after the Democrats
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have spent the last two years whining and crying and screaming about how January 6th was basically,
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you know, the shots fired on Fort Sumter. I don't, you know, give me a break.
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This, if the GOP does nothing here, if the GOP doesn't seize on this advantage and expel this
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Knowles. Faith Moore, my friend Faith, Andrew Klavan's very talented daughter, has written a
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order yours on Amazon or wherever you get your books today. Speaking of Democrats,
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RFK Jr. seems poised to run third party in 2024. So this raises the question,
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is he going to be a spoiler? And if he's a spoiler, who's he going to be a spoiler for?
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Is he going to be like Ross Perot and throw the election to the Democrat? Or is he going to be
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like Ralph Nader and throw the election to the Republican? RFK Jr. thinks he knows the answer.
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Yeah, and then the other thing is that I take more votes from President Trump than I do from
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I don't buy it. I don't think that's true. I see why some people do think that that might be true.
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Some people do think that might be true because RFK Jr. is anti-vax and he's specifically anti-COVID
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vax and a lot of Republicans are also anti-COVID vax. But that's pretty much it.
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RFK Jr., I kind of like the guy. In fact, I grew up in his town. My grandmother attended
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Bobby Kennedy's church for like 60 years of her life or something. It was a relatively small town
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in northern Westchester. So I've been aware of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for most of my life,
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and he seems like an amiable, albeit somewhat eccentric fellow. But he's a big lib.
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Other than on the COVID vaccines, he's a lib on pretty much every single issue. He's a lib on
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abortion. He's a lib on energy. He's a lib on the climate policy, such as it is. He's a lib on
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marriage. He's a lib on guns. He's a lib on immigration. He's on the latter two issues.
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He's a little bit better than Biden and some of the Dems, but he's still a liberal on those issues.
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So how is he going to take more votes from Trump? I just don't believe that.
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Especially, I know Republicans have spent the last six months building up Bobby Kennedy
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as a potential challenge to Joe Biden, to some good effect too, by the way, because
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currently Bobby Kennedy Jr. is polling at 15% in the Democrat Party, which I think makes my case for
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me and argues against the point Kennedy's trying to make. How is Kennedy polling within the Republican
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Party? They haven't taken a ton of direct polls on this question. There is one, though. Here's one.
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This is one from Echelon Insights. Shows that Trump versus Biden, right now, national poll,
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has Trump winning by three points, 46 to 43. If the race were Trump versus Biden versus Kennedy,
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Trump would win by four points. It would be Trump 40, Biden 36, Kennedy 14. So again,
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the margin of error is real here. I mean, this is a pretty tight race as it is, but in as much as the
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polls show anything, it shows that Bobby Kennedy would pull more from Biden than from Trump.
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The only issue is COVID. But if COVID were the defining issue of the 2024 race,
00:25:46.860
Ron DeSantis would be the nominee because Donald Trump has a million pictures next to Anthony Fauci
00:25:52.040
and Ron DeSantis reopened Florida relatively quickly. That was his issue. The big issues that defined
00:25:57.820
DeSantis are COVID, first of all, opening Florida up relatively quickly, and then parental rights and
00:26:03.420
fighting Disney and fighting the LGBT agenda. But mostly it was COVID. But Trump is still way up
00:26:09.740
in the polls because people's memories are short and there are other issues that they're thinking
00:26:13.280
about. So COVID isn't the defining issue. So I say bring it on with RFK. I'm fine with it.
00:26:18.420
RFK has to, I think, argue that he is primarily going to pull votes from Trump because his base is still
00:26:26.080
Democrats. The people who like Bobby Kennedy are maybe some eccentrics on the right,
00:26:30.320
but more likely it's going to be those liberals, those Democrats who think the woke people have
00:26:37.300
gone too crazy. You know, look, I'm a Democrat. I'm a Kennedy Democrat. All right. I love Jack
00:26:42.500
Kennedy. All right. But I just think these woke people have gone too far, but I still hate Trump.
00:26:47.640
So I just need some, you know, Biden, he's, he's too old and he's, he's followed the left fringe of
00:26:52.200
his party. I just want to vote for a Kennedy. Okay. I'm going to vote for Bobby Kennedy.
00:26:55.800
That's, that's his base. His base is not rock ribbed conservatives. Just to use one example,
00:27:02.440
if you're pro-life, you can't in good conscience vote for Bobby Kennedy because you've got a
00:27:07.160
relatively historically incredibly solid pro-life candidate in Trump. Trump who got Roe v. Wade
00:27:13.760
overruled. Trump who was the first president to speak at the March for Life. Even if some recent
00:27:17.680
comments have been a little more confusing on pro-life, largely because he's trying to attack his
00:27:23.280
most formidable rival, Ron DeSantis. You can't, no one can seriously argue Bobby Kennedy is more
00:27:28.320
pro-life than Donald Trump. So you've got a major candidate who's pro-life, who's got a way better
00:27:34.340
chance of winning than Bobby Kennedy does. You've got to vote for Trump. Or if let's say Trump isn't
00:27:38.300
the nominee, it's Ron DeSantis. You've got to vote for Ron DeSantis over Bobby Kennedy. There's no,
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there's no real argument. I say, bring it on, baby. Let's go. I want to see a Kennedy running again.
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is capitalizing on it because Donald Trump just admitted that his promise to get Mexico to pay for
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the wall was, in a certain sense at least, a bluff. So when you hear these lunatics back there say,
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Trump didn't get anything from Mexico. Well, you know, there was no legal mechanism because I said
00:28:51.580
they're going to help fund this wall, but there was no legal mechanism. How do you go to a country
00:28:55.220
and say, by the way, I'm building a wall? Hand us a lot of money. So DeSantis is personally taking
00:29:01.260
that clip and not just from his campaign account or his war room account, which has very limited reach,
00:29:05.960
but is finally starting to use his Ron DeSantis personal Twitter account, which is much smarter.
00:29:10.840
His campaign should have been doing that a year ago. He's come out and said,
00:29:14.760
admitting that the famous promise from 2016 to have Mexico pay for the wall was just an empty
00:29:18.520
campaign slogan is bad enough. What makes it worse is that there is actually a way to get Mexico to
00:29:22.800
pay for the wall, impose fees on remittances sent to Mexico and other countries by illegal aliens.
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As president, I will get this done. No more bluster. Results are all that matter.
00:29:30.380
However, this is a good attack. I don't think that Trump's admission there is going to hurt him
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really all that much. I agree with what Trump said in 2016, which is that he could basically
00:29:42.420
shoot somebody in broad daylight on Fifth Avenue and he probably wouldn't lose a single vote.
00:29:46.720
I think that's true because I think most people, when they heard we're going to get Mexico to pay
00:29:50.240
for it, understood that to mean we're going to get them to pay for it through, I don't know,
00:29:55.380
rewriting trade deals, like rewriting NAFTA, for instance, or through potentially through
00:29:59.400
remittances, like Governor DeSantis is suggesting, or through this or through that. But I don't think
00:30:04.700
most people understood that to mean we're going to send an invoice to Mexico and the president of
00:30:07.980
Mexico is going to pay for it. Still, though, I think DeSantis is very smart to pursue this line
00:30:12.420
of attack. I think he's very smart to attack Trump from the right. I think some of the GOP consultant
00:30:17.920
class has wanted DeSantis to lay off some of the cultural issues and to present himself as,
00:30:24.420
I'm the sane alternative. We're team sanity over here. We're not like those crazy lunatic
00:30:31.060
Trumper type people. And I think that is just totally the wrong framing. That is GOP establishment
00:30:36.620
donor, you know, chamber of commerce nonsense, okay? That's accepting the framing of Jon Stewart and
00:30:43.960
Stephen Colbert. Do you remember about 10 years ago, right around the 2012 race, there was a rally to
00:30:50.700
restore sanity with these two liberal comedians and commentators, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.
00:30:56.040
Because those Tea Party people or those Sarah Palin type people, they're so crazy. They're insane.
00:31:02.260
We're the sane people, okay? And so for whatever GOP consultant class types have convinced Ron
00:31:08.380
DeSantis to run as, I'm the sane candidate. I'm not insane like Donald Trump. I think they're a large
00:31:14.520
part of the reason why DeSantis is in the doldrums when it comes to the poll numbers. I think his best
00:31:18.800
shot is to go after Trump from the right, from the cultural issues, the kind of cultural issues
00:31:25.080
that got Glenn Youngkin elected in Virginia, that made Ron DeSantis popular in Florida,
00:31:28.680
that the GOP consultant class freaking hates, but they're excellent, strong issues.
00:31:33.840
He needs to take the fight to him. And his answer needs to be not, look, I'm going to restore sanity
00:31:39.100
and civility, and we're not going to call Mexicans murderers and rapists, and we're not going to
00:31:42.940
force them to pay for any wall. His answer needs to be, yeah, we're going to make him pay for
00:31:46.180
twice as much of the wall that Trump made him pay for. That's his only shot. And it's probably not
00:31:51.120
going to work either because Trump is so far ahead. He's got such an advantage. He's practically an
00:31:56.580
incumbent. He's 50 points up if you believe any of the polls, you know, 40 to 50 points up if you
00:32:02.520
believe any of the polls. So it's still a long shot. But I think DeSantis is beginning to realize
00:32:07.380
this is his only shot. He's not going to make peace with Trump. The die is cast. They're enemies now,
00:32:14.960
okay? And so he can either just sort of fade away like many of Trump's opponents, or he can dig in,
00:32:22.880
hit him from the right, and then hope to pop up at a later time. Either hope to win the nomination
00:32:28.960
somehow or pop up at another time when people rethink the GOP and Ron DeSantis starts to look
00:32:36.080
like the real conservative standard bearer. I think that's the game he's playing right now.
00:32:41.500
GOP in 76 nominates Jerry Ford over Ronald Reagan. Then Ronald Reagan gives a speech at the RNC.
00:32:48.360
And I think a lot of Republicans regretted nominating Jerry Ford because Reagan gave this
00:32:52.660
clear, relatively more conservative political vision. If DeSantis is going to have any shot,
00:32:58.700
that's his shot. It's not going to be the, I'm the sane alternative, okay? I'm going to just
00:33:04.140
restore things to normalcy. No, nobody wants that, man. The normal status quo that we had pre-Trump is the
00:33:10.980
reason we elected Trump, because the normal is extremely abnormal. Because the normal these
00:33:15.700
days is parents don't have any rights, and boys are girls, and we're going to upend our whole
00:33:20.620
political order, and we're not going to have any borders. And that's, if that's normal, we don't
00:33:23.840
want normal, okay? We want to shake things up. Now, I think that's all a great strategy for DeSantis.
00:33:30.340
That said, the race still isn't moving. And don't shoot the messenger on this, especially because I'm
00:33:37.980
citing the Messenger-Harris poll. But I said, after that second debate, I said, Ron DeSantis was the
00:33:43.080
clear winner. He did great, relatively to the other people on stage. And it's not going to matter.
00:33:49.900
The debate just doesn't matter at all. If the debate did matter, then it would help DeSantis, but the
00:33:53.300
debate doesn't matter, so it won't. And please don't shoot the messenger. Seems that I was correct.
00:33:59.060
According to Messenger-Harris, most Republicans polled believe that DeSantis won, and also that
00:34:07.120
doesn't matter, because the numbers haven't really moved. People are still just as likely to support
00:34:13.520
Trump or DeSantis or any of the other candidates as they were before the debate, even though they
00:34:17.920
acknowledge that DeSantis won that debate. Now, speaking of electability for the GOP, moving past
00:34:23.280
the candidates for a second, there's another important poll out that shows that voters favor the
00:34:29.000
GOP on the economy by the widest margin ever recorded. So NBC's liberal poll shows the GOP
00:34:39.300
with a 21-point lead over the Democrats when it comes to handling of the economy. This poll goes
00:34:46.560
back to 1991. This is the biggest margin ever. The question is, will that be reflected at the ballot
00:34:55.740
box? All of these indicators are showing that the Republicans have a strong advantage here.
00:35:05.340
If it were just one poll measuring just one aspect of political life, you might say, well,
00:35:11.040
the poll could be wrong. Well, maybe that aspect of life didn't matter so much. But consistently here,
00:35:17.740
you see, Trump versus Biden, Trump wins. Consistently, you see, on the question of the economy,
00:35:23.720
the Republicans beat the Democrats, consistently on all of these individual issues, from border
00:35:29.540
security to parental rights to the funding of the war in Ukraine, Republicans are on the popular side
00:35:35.380
of those issues. Democrats, in virtually every case, Democrats are on the unpopular side.
00:35:41.700
So do you think that the Republicans are going to win in 2024? I'm not convinced of that.
00:35:45.520
Just as I am convinced that it's most likely that Trump will be the GOP nominee, I'm not convinced
00:35:51.840
he's going to beat Biden or whoever the Democrat is. And not necessarily because of his flaws.
00:35:59.620
I am not convinced that the ballot box will accurately reflect the decision of the people.
00:36:07.720
Someone asked, Michael, what group did Trump underperform with in 2020 that he's going to do
00:36:14.180
better with in 2024? I said, I think the dead. Pretty sure I'm convinced that Donald Trump
00:36:19.140
severely underperformed among the dead in 2020, especially in bellwether and, you know, crucial
00:36:25.300
counties. And so I think that his campaign needs to increase their outreach to the deceased community
00:36:31.060
and all of the other communities that are disproportionately likely to vote by mail and in
00:36:36.460
ballot drop boxes. That's a real issue. These are all really encouraging numbers, especially
00:36:41.280
on the economy because people do often vote with their wallets. But none of that matters. It's the
00:36:47.580
advice that none of that matters if, as FDR told LBJ, you don't sit on the ballot box. None of that
00:36:54.480
matters if you don't have poll watchers who are making sure that there's no fraud. Or in the case
00:36:58.680
of the advice of FDR to LBJ, he was actually encouraging a little bit more fraud, which LBJ then
00:37:04.220
followed in 1948 and stole a Senate seat and then ultimately became president of the United States.
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So I don't think Republicans should steal elections, but we got to make sure
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that the Democrats don't. You got to watch the ballot box.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Noah Hastings, 6145, who says,
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the microphone on set is a great choice, very classy, but kind of sucks that Michael is visibly
00:37:55.900
using a lav mic instead to find a mic that's functional and stylish. I will tell you, my friend,
00:38:00.900
it's true, I'm wearing a lavalier mic here. It's just a backup mic. This is, this is, this is my
00:38:10.160
real microphone. That was not always the case. Previously, I had a mic, it was a real mic, but it
00:38:15.700
was kind of a dummy. We used the desk mic as a backup, and we used the lav as the direct microphone,
00:38:22.640
but now we've flipped it. And this is very troubling for me because I had gotten used to
00:38:28.000
gesticulating with my hands like a wild Southern Italian and knocking the microphone over. And it
00:38:32.320
didn't really matter, even though it would make our audio engineer wince. But now, this is it,
00:38:36.900
baby. The golden microphone. My last thing that I did in L.A. before I moved out was I got to fill
00:38:42.420
in for Rush Limbaugh and sit behind the golden EIB microphone. And the only reason I wasn't able to
00:38:47.800
fill in more at that time was that my own radio show was announced a few days later on a different
00:38:53.740
network. But I was, I got, I got to sit behind that. I thought, oh my goodness, the golden EIB
00:38:58.640
microphone, Rush Limbaugh, the king of talk radio. And now, baby, we've got the functioning
00:39:03.620
gold microphone right here on this desk. It's not the fully gold EIB microphone. There's no other
00:39:09.720
Rush Limbaugh, but it's a little bit, it's got enough gold, okay? And speaking of gold, boy, what a
00:39:16.800
fortuitous transition. Speaking of gold, Costco has a new product that they are selling out of,
00:39:22.480
and that is gold bars. I love this story. I can't believe this exists. Costco has everything,
00:39:29.160
man. They've got $1.50 hot dogs with unlimited refills of Diet Coke and nice little ground-up
00:39:33.700
onions on it. They've got free samples. You can make a brunch out of it. They've got massage chairs.
00:39:38.760
They've got chinos and Oxford shirts. They've got 50,000 packs of seltzer. They've got everything.
00:39:45.500
And now they have bars of gold that they are selling out of. Part of the reason they're selling
00:39:53.220
out is because, you know this, if you're a Costco aficionado as I am, if you get the slightly more
00:39:57.720
expensive Costco card, then you get 2% back. And apparently, you get 2% back on gold as well,
00:40:02.740
so you're getting an effective 2% discount on every ounce of gold you buy, which is pretty great.
00:40:07.360
But also, what this tells us is people don't have confidence in the stock market.
00:40:14.560
This is an actual political indicator. The fact that Costco can't stock gold bars fast enough
00:40:20.480
is an indicator that people don't believe the stock market. They think it's headed for a crash.
00:40:24.980
I think it's probably headed for a crash or at least a significant dip. That's going to affect
00:40:29.240
the 2024 race as well. We are still grappling with the insane inflation that came to us by way of
00:40:37.040
COVID lockdowns and Joe Biden's massive spending. And the whole time, we were told that inflation
00:40:44.660
was not going to be an issue, that actually they were going to curb inflation, that Joe Biden was
00:40:49.000
going to pass the Inflation Reduction Act. That was going to curb inflation, though it didn't. And all
00:40:53.000
serious analyses on it suggest that it either didn't affect inflation or made inflation worse.
00:40:58.000
What has thus far controlled inflation to the degree that it has been controlled is the Fed,
00:41:04.600
the Fed finally raising interest rates. But our economy is extremely precarious right now.
00:41:13.440
And you can have all the geniuses on TV in their suits and ties saying,
00:41:16.320
oh no, everything's great. Joe Biden's doing fine. It's the most wonderful economy ever.
00:41:21.620
When people stop stocking up on the gold bars, then I'll finally believe that.
00:41:26.220
Speaking of questionable finances, the House is investigating Joe Biden's bribes that he would
00:41:33.860
seem to have taken from lots of countries around the world, including Ukraine and China. They've now
00:41:39.660
brought a forensic accountant to testify about how these sorts of crimes are conducted. Does anything
00:41:47.640
Mr. Dubinsky, you have extensive experience as an expert witness and consultant in the areas of
00:41:55.040
white collar crime, financial fraud and corruption. Is it characteristic of these types of crimes that
00:42:00.640
actors hide behind nicknames or other pseudonyms to master identity? It's very common. What about
00:42:06.240
this first email image is characteristic of financial crimes that you have investigated or provided expert
00:42:11.320
testimony on in the past? Well, typically you'll see code names used and money is being paid to
00:42:17.080
somebody under that code name. And that's how these processes work.
00:42:21.460
Let me ask you something. You're very experienced. When conducting an investigation, if your boss
00:42:26.600
prevented you from taking investigative steps, how would you react? How would it affect your findings?
00:42:32.560
First, it would be extremely troubling if I was told not to continue to investigate something.
00:42:37.480
And if I was put in that position, I'd probably withdraw from the investigation.
00:42:40.920
So we know that the DOJ, that Weiss, who's now the special counsel, when he was investigating
00:42:46.440
the Hunter Biden, really Joe Biden scandal on bribes, was stymied at crucial steps. We said,
00:42:55.760
no, you can't really ask that question. You can't really go there. We've heard this from IRS
00:42:58.820
whistleblowers. We also know from Hunter Biden's laptop that Joe Biden was referred to as the big guy.
00:43:06.120
The big guy. Hey, we got to send 10% to the big guy. Who's the big guy? Are we talking about Al Capone?
00:43:13.420
Sort of. I guess we're talking about the Al Capone of the Bidens, which is Joe Biden.
00:43:17.020
We now also know that Joe Biden's brother, Frank, who has also made his career just peddling his
00:43:22.900
brother's name and American influence, Frank Biden has referred to his brother as the big guy.
00:43:29.580
When his brother calls, Frank Biden will interrupt business and say, oh, the big guy's calling.
00:43:33.000
Here's the big guy. And you'll recall when Biden was first accused of this impropriety,
00:43:41.720
what was the response from Team Biden? The response was, show me on paper where Joe Biden got a direct
00:43:48.760
payment from China or from Ukraine. And you're never going to see that. Joe might not be the
00:43:55.240
swiftest person out there, but he's not a complete dummy, okay? He at least is clever enough politically
00:44:00.860
to know how to cover his tracks, have holding corporations and use code names. So it's not going
00:44:06.260
to say, you know, okay, here, quarter million dollars to Joe Biden. Though they did set, the Chinese did
00:44:11.740
send $260,000 in a couple of wire payments to Joe Biden's home address in Delaware. So they didn't
00:44:17.480
cover it up perfectly. But that's what this is. The guy is obviously guilty. The GOP is going to keep
00:44:25.560
digging in on this. There's going to continue to be more drip, drip, drip, leak, leak, leak. They've
00:44:29.880
pulled the thread far enough now, I think. And because the election is drawing near and our enemies
00:44:34.900
generally tend to like chaos in our elections, probably you're going to get a little bit more
00:44:39.880
information out of China. Who knows? Maybe you get a little more information even out of Ukraine,
00:44:44.400
though Ukraine is still counting on the Bidens to fund their war. But China, I could see them kind of
00:44:48.180
messing around a little bit. Or who knows which other intelligence agencies have this kind of dirt.
00:44:52.440
I mean, the fact that Hunter Biden left his laptop at just some random shop, such that we got to see
00:44:58.060
terabytes of information. Who knows how many intelligence agencies around the world know about
00:45:02.420
Joe Biden's crooked business deals. This is going to continue to look worse for him throughout the
00:45:09.020
election. Does it look bad enough to replace Joe Biden at the top of the ticket? Or is he going to be
00:45:16.300
able to hold on? We're all focused on the fight on the Republican side. There is going to be an
00:45:21.940
increasingly intense fight on the Democrat side, at least behind the scenes. And there is always
00:45:27.700
going to be a Newsom there, a very sharp political talent, Gavin Newsom, waiting to jump in. He's
00:45:33.680
already dealt with the open Senate seat in California quite well, the one vacated when
00:45:40.340
Dianne Feinstein died. There's a little bit of a scandal with that Senate seat as well, but we're
00:45:46.220
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