Ep. 1344 - Trump Takes Over Speaker Of The House？
Summary
McCarthy is the first Speaker in history to be ousted from the job by a vote, and he is out because Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz led a rebellion of eight Republicans to vote against the Speaker. Since the GOP majority in the House is so thin, eight Republicans was all it took to defect and bring McCarthy s brief tenure to a close.
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Kevin McCarthy is officially out as the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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Mr. McCarthy is the first Speaker in history to be ousted from the job by a vote.
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And he is out because Republican Congressman Matt Gaetz led a rebellion of just eight Republicans to vote against the Speaker.
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Since the GOP majority in the House is so thin, eight Republicans was all it took to defect.
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And along with the unified votes of the Democrats, who didn't want to vote to save McCarthy,
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they all brought McCarthy's brief tenure to a close.
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Here is Congressman Gaetz defending the uprising.
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Sorry, that was an audio clip of AOC over a picture of Ilhan Omar licking her lips,
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literally licking her lips while staring at the backside of Congressman Gaetz yesterday.
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Kevin McCarthy is the Speaker of the House of Representatives,
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and he has failed to take a stand where it matters.
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I make no apologies for defending the right of every hardworking American to afford a decent life for themselves and their families.
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And we have a greater opportunity to do that and to build coalitions under new leadership.
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And, Mr. Speaker, I don't know how this vote's going to go.
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Usually when a vote comes to this floor, it's pretty predetermined.
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But I am sure that we've made the right argument.
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That this place deserves single-subject spending bills.
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That something that spends more than $100 million shouldn't be put on the suspension agenda such that we can't amend it.
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And there shouldn't be secret side deals made on a continuing resolution to lump Ukraine in with border security.
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That is not right for Ukraine or border security because it fails to give either of those issues the dignity that they would require.
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The only thing that wasn't totally fair about that was the tailoring on Matt Gaetz's jacket.
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But now the question that we are left with is, what now?
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In fact, this is probably damning with faint praise, but it's still true.
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Kevin McCarthy is probably the most conservative speaker that Republicans have had since Joe Martin in the 1950s.
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He was certainly better than Paul Ryan, certainly better than John Boehner.
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Arguably, he was more conservative even than Newt Gingrich.
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But he lost the trust of some key conservatives.
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And now there is a vacancy for the worst job in all of American politics.
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First, though, I don't want to move off of the speaker issue too quickly.
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And I know a lot of people are asking, Michael, who should be the next speaker?
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He could have just run again, maybe whittled away at those eight Republicans, giving them more concessions.
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And then – but he says, no, I don't want the job.
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Some people are suggesting, well, it could be Matt Gaetz.
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But I like him too much to wish such a terrible job on him.
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There's no way – he hasn't really expressed his desire for the job.
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In fact, the one prominent person who has put forward his name to be the next Speaker of the House is Matt Walsh.
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And so I would like to officially and fully endorse Matt Walsh for Speaker.
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I know that he's been busy dancing, but I think that he could bring to bear all of that work that he has done for the Vice President and others in Washington to the Speaker's chair, to that gavel.
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And the top reason why I am endorsing Matt Walsh or really anyone over myself, because you don't need to be a member of Congress to be Speaker in theory, the reason is because under no circumstances would I ever seek the Speakership of the House of Representatives because it is the single worst job in Washington, D.C.
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One would probably rather clean out the portable latrines on the National Mall than be the Speaker of the House.
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And you'll be thrown out and called a bum and called the worst person in the world.
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And the recent Republican speakers have ended their careers in shame.
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Nancy Pelosi was able to accomplish a lot of things.
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Not very good things, but she was able to accomplish a lot.
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She has a lot of prominence in the Democrat Party.
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She's still lauded as one of the leaders of the party.
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Even Newt, he was the most effective one we've had in a long time, perhaps other than Kevin McCarthy.
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Although Newt Gingrich was certainly more effective than Kevin McCarthy.
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Kevin McCarthy might have been a little bit more conservative.
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But regardless, why is it that the Democrats do better in the job than the Republicans do?
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The reason is because for the Republicans, it is an impossible job.
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Because the Republican Party is split in far more distinct ways than the Democrats are.
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The Democratic Party is split between extremely progressive people and slightly less progressive people.
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There aren't really very many conservative Democrats at all.
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Maybe Henry Quellar of Texas would be, but he's probably the only one, okay?
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And then you've got the slightly less extreme ones like Nancy Pelosi.
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Directionally, they're all facing the same way.
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With the Republicans, you've got the conservatives, mostly in the Freedom Caucus.
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And then you've got the liberals, who are the moderates, who are the ones who agree with Democrats on a lot of issues.
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But they're at least nominally Republican, and they vote with the Republicans on some issues.
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And we want them to be with the Republicans so that we don't get completely blown out in these votes.
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When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, all of the Democrats are on the same page.
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When it comes down to foundational premises of politics, the Republicans are split.
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And the two will never get all that close together.
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So anyone who's going to wrangle them is going to have to be able to be a little bit squishy, which is going to irritate the conservatives.
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And the conservatives, rightly, are going to say, well, I don't want to go along with that.
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If the choice we have in Congress is between super-duper liberals and slightly less intense liberals, then what's the point?
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However, the ousting of Kevin McCarthy should not come as a surprise to anyone.
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It's been occurring in slow motion, but it should not come as a surprise to anyone.
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This was baked in the moment that Kevin McCarthy gave in to some of the demands of the conservatives, which is he offered them the motion to vacate.
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The fact that they could, just with one member, stand up there and say, no more speaker.
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He offered them all sorts of concessions on committees.
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He offered them, which is one of the arguments as to why he wasn't the worst speaker we've ever had.
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He offered them a lot more prominence, and he made them promises that he was not able to keep.
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Few names have been floated beyond Matt Walsh, which is Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader,
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and Tom Emmer, House Majority Whip, and Donald Trump.
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Steve Scalise would be a great choice for it, but he is suffering from a pretty brutal
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cancer diagnosis, so it's probably not going to be him.
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Elise Stefanik, the Republican from New York, who's a little bit lib, but she has played
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her cards pretty well, and she's been on the right side of Trump.
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However, she is being talked about as a potential VP pick for Trump, so she probably doesn't
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He is kind of on the wrong side of Trump, and whether you love Trump or hate Trump, Trump's
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a big figure in the Republican Party, not a great place to be.
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When he was NRCC chairman, that's the Congressional Campaign Committee for the Republicans, he
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encouraged Republicans not to mention Trump's name on the campaign trail.
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He's probably the most likely candidate right now, or he's definitely in the top three.
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Thomas Massey is—I can't imagine—he's extremely conservative, and he was opposed to the motion
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to vacate for the same reasons that I said, because he said McCarthy—I'm not saying McCarthy's
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great, but he was the best we've had in a long time, and I don't know that we're going
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Assuming Matt wants to focus on his dancing career, I think the speaker should be Donald
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Trump, because that is the funniest of all options, and because there aren't any notably
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Jim Jordan has said repeatedly he has no desire to have the job.
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He would much rather stay where he is on the Judiciary Committee.
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He's doing excellent work there on the Judiciary Committee.
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And it would just—because we're in this moment of political upheaval where the Democrats
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have destroyed basically all of the norms of our political order, and they're focusing
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all of that destruction on the person of Donald Trump, then the way to bring all of this to
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the fore would, of course, be to put Trump in the number three position in the entire U.S.
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And then you just kind of wait to see what happens.
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If, for instance—well, here's a great reason why it should be Trump.
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Donald Trump right now has been threatened with a gag order.
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So the judge in one of the zillion trials of Donald Trump, the judge in this financial trial
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where they're trying to take away his companies, and they're trying to pretend that his companies
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aren't worth very much money, even though we know that they are.
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They're pretending that Mar-a-Lago is worth $18 million.
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Mar-a-Lago does $25 million a year, just the business.
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The property is worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
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But they're trying to take this away, and they issued a gag order on Trump.
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Judge Arthur N. Goran issued this limited gag order against everyone in the civil case to
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stop verbal and social media posted swipes at members of the staff because Trump took
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a swipe at one of the judge's staff members and pointed out that she's a huge lib.
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And Trump said, this is a crooked case, and I'm just being politically persecuted.
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And the judge says, you can't talk about how we're all big libs.
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Or if you do talk about it, we're going to put you in jail for 30 days.
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Donald Trump becomes Speaker of the House of Representatives.
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He then, as the leader of the lower body of one of the branches of government, he has open
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debate on the floor of the House, and he gets to say whatever he wants.
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And the judge can't do a damn thing about it because that would lead to a constitutional
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crisis, more of a constitutional crisis than we're already in.
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He's probably not going to be Speaker, but it would be really funny.
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Could you imagine sitting there at the State of the Union?
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All right, ladies and gentlemen, here's the president, okay?
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Okay, speaking of speaking out, and even assuming that Donald Trump, by the way, is not the
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Speaker of the House, Trump should violate this gag order.
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I'm not sure that I would have said a week ago that he should call the members of this
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He has to do it because all of these prosecutions are a ridiculous farce.
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None of them have anything to do with any crimes that Donald Trump supposedly committed.
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In New York, he's not being brought up on insurrection and the evil, horrible crime of
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calling the Secretary of State of Georgia when you're the President of the United States
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He's not being brought up on any of that because they are crimes.
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He's being brought up on those things because the liberal ruling class wants to destroy the
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former president and current leader of the political opposition.
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There are still some people, probably not you if you're listening to this show.
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I don't care if you love Trump, if you hate Trump, if you're a left-wing Democrat.
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If you're listening to this show and you pay attention to politics, you know that this
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But there are some people, very unfortunate people, who perhaps don't yet listen to this
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show, who naively think that these trials are really just about the blind law being evenly
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distributed to everybody and Lady Justice wears the blindfold and so Donald Trump, he's
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just going to be held to account if he did anything wrong.
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Let the reality of this political persecution set in, of what a banana republic the Democrats
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I think it would, even if it hurt Trump's campaign, I think it would be good for the American
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political order because we would have to confront a very nasty reality, which is that we are no
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longer governed like a bill up on Capitol Hill and all the other BS you learned in your civics
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If we were governed that way, we are governed that way no longer, and we're not going to
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Speaking of speaking out, speaking of people with power, Pope Francis has signaled an openness
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to a sort of same-sex blessing, not gay marriage exactly, but kind of a same-sex blessing, and
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potentially even a type of woman priestess sort of maybe situation in the Catholic Church.
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But I don't want to blame everything on the Lib journalists here.
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Two, because the Holy Father tends to speak in a way that might be a little bit ambiguous.
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Three, because the Jesuits, and Pope Francis is a Jesuit, the first Jesuit pope ever,
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they have a habit of being a little cagey about the way that they speak.
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Four, because the Catholic Church, being 2,000 years old, and at least in my view, divinely
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And so it can't be easily, you know, jotted down in five bullet points on the back of a
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But that is why, even though I usually, when Pope Francis is in the news, I say, oh, who
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But it's not, it's probably being misrepresented.
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But here, this is really worrisome, because the Catholic Church is headed for something
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It is a meeting of bishops and lay people and non-Catholics, for some reason, who are
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And it's potentially a campaign to restructure the very constitution of the church.
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And there is the possibility that the church, which has uniquely held firm against these
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errors of modernity that have infected other institutions, things like the contraceptive
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mentality, things like abortion, things like the sexual revolution, you know, especially
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we've seen those three things in the last 60 years.
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Even supposedly liberal popes, like Pope Paul VI, held firm.
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Issues Humanae Vitae, which says no contraception, no abortion, no none of that weird stuff.
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Pope Francis has said things that seem pretty orthodox, pretty Catholic.
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But then we see in response to questions that were posed to him by his cardinals, he seemed
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a little ambiguous about whether priests can issue blessings of same-sex situations, let's
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call it situationships maybe, and of women's roles in the church.
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So my takeaway, perhaps we'll get to this on Theology Thursday because this is a big deal
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and the Catholic Church being the bedrock institution of Western civilization, even if you're not
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Catholic, you probably would agree with that statement.
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If there are big disruptions afoot in the Catholic Church, that is going to affect everybody,
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Ultimately, I'm not concerned because I believe that the church is divinely instituted, and
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I believe that our Lord will never leave his church, and I believe he sent the Holy Spirit
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But this, we could be heading for a very, very scandalous moment.
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I think it was Pope Paul VI who said, the smoke of Satan has entered the Vatican, that there
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Speaking of weird sex stuff, I was having this conversation the other night with sweet little
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Alisa, and we were just talking about how the world has gotten so crazy and why men and
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She said, you know, Mac, it's kind of like a little bit weird how we just pump women full
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of hormones and chemicals for like decades at a time, you know, starting when they're like
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13 years old and, Mac, do you think any of the relationship problems, the divorces, whatever,
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And I said, you know, girl, that's an interesting suggestion, as are many of Alisa's suggestions.
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So then I Googled it, and it turns out she's probably right.
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I found this story, which originated in the UK Independent.
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So, you know, major paper that suggests that marital problems are a side effect of birth
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85% of people in Britain said that their marriage or relationship had been impacted by contraception's
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According to this survey here, women who had ever taken hormonal oral contraceptives, the
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pill, that sort of thing, divorced at a rate 54% above the study average.
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Women with tubal ligations who had their tubes tied, divorced at a rate 78% above average.
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Husbands who have had vasectomies were twice as likely to divorce.
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The divorce rate for couples who had ever used condoms was 67% above the average.
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And, on the flip side of things, women who actively used natural family planning, which
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is something that the church has encouraged in the past, and it's a little more natural.
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And one hopes it is to be used so that you can have more children, not used as a sneaky
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But it's one that Christians are a little more inclined toward.
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We're 47% less likely to divorce than the average.
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If you considered women who had ever used NFP, ever in their whole lives, the group was
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Now, you could say, well, right, the reason for these numbers is that if you ever use
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contraception, then you're not going to be Catholic.
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You're not going to be practicing the Catholic faith, for instance.
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And Catholics say that you can't get divorced, and modern libs say that you can get divorced,
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Michael, it's that their behavior vis-a-vis contraception is indicative of deeper beliefs,
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and the deeper beliefs are responsible for their behaviors relative to divorce.
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We know that contraception, we know that the pill, for instance, changes women's biochemistry,
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and it could have effects on the kind of men that they're attracted to, and how they're
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attracted to them, and different mood swings, and all the rest of it.
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Is it possible that by radically altering women's hormones and biochemistry for decades at a time,
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we're kind of messing up the way that they relate to the men in their lives?
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At the very least, we know that other drugs are messing up people's sexual development,
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Antidepressant drugs, which everybody is on now, a shocking number of Americans are on these
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depression pills that radically alter their brain chemistry.
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We now have a story, just came out yesterday, that antidepressants could stunt teenagers
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Really depressing that teenagers are on antidepressants.
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If teenagers are on antidepressants, something has gone seriously wrong in the culture,
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from the family all the way up to the political order, and to the medical order,
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that we would just prescribe kids these very powerful drugs.
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Rarely do people discuss how this might affect their development, but it turns out,
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we know that antidepressants tamp down sex drive in adults, and it would appear that it has similar
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Could the widespread prescription of antidepressants have something to do with the bizarre uptick
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in especially younger people desiring all sorts of weird sexual modifications and procedures
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Since statistically, every single kid who desires a trans procedure,
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and it's not purely the parents destroying these kids' lives,
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if the kids have asked for it at all, statistically, 100% of them are on some kind
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Do you think that there could be some link here?
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I suspect there could, which is why I try to take as few drugs as possible,
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other than a nice glass of red wine and a cigar, which generally don't,
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I'm loathe to say, I had a headache this morning,
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and I delayed and I waited and I waited before I would take an ibuprofen.
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Just think about all the chemicals we're pumping into our bodies all the time.
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Does anyone really think that has no effect on all the weird behaviors
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and irrationality that's cropped up in our public life and all of the bizarre?
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Speaking of women's issues, women are complaining.
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They're, it's not the headline story, but women are complaining
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about men showing up to a women's tech conference.
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Career conference for females in tech was taken over by male attendees.
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They were there just purely for the career fair.
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the world's largest gathering of women technologists,
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show men standing in line to meet with recruiters.
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This is one of those few limited resources that isn't for you, it's for us.
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Some of the male attendees reportedly lied about being non-binary just to get in.
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But it's interesting that the large majority of the people that actually ended up in the event
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and have no searchable history of identifying as non-binary.
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Several tech workers defended the men for trying to capitalize on job opportunities
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not meant for them, seeing that the entire concept was wrong.
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Let's be honest, there is no need for a conference just for women,
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because if it was the opposite for men, then it would be sexist.
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Just because you are a woman doesn't give you the right to talk to a big firm recruiter.
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Guys work just as hard and they don't get that chance.
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Okay, what I love about this video is that they anticipate the objection from the right.
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Because the objection from the right is going to be,
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Ha ha, you told us that you can identify however you want.
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You told us that there's practically no difference between men and women.
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So maybe those men are just trans or non-binary or whatever.
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And they say, yeah, there are some men who are lying about being non-binary.
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I thought that what makes you trans or what makes you non-binary
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Because if there were some objective external measure of one's transness
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or one's non-binary-ness, then one could lie about it.
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But if the sole criterion of transness and non-binary-ness
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They say, but some men were there and they wrote he, him.
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They said that they're men, but they just want to go anyway.
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And that's wrong because this is supposed to be just for women,
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even if we included trans women and the non-binary people.
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is that there is no categorical difference between men and women.
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There is no objective categorical difference between men and women.
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It's all just kind of a blurry, blurry construction of how we want to identify.
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So by granting the very premise that a trans woman or a non-binary person
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could go to the conference or could even exist as a category of being,
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these women are undermining the whole point of the conference,
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which is that women need their own special space and men can't go to that.
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What this boils down to is something that some of us have been saying for a very long time,
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which is that transgenderism and non-binaryism and all the weird sex stuff
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When you ask someone to explain to you how transgenderism works,
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they will give you five mutually contradictory explanations.
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Oh, it's actually the brain develops differently.
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Actually, it has nothing to do with the brain or anything physical at all.
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Actually, you're just a man born in a woman's body.
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Actually, it's about the estrogen you were exposed to in the womb.
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And it's all mutually contradictory at the biological and philosophical level.
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Debate is good so that you can sometimes refine your perception of reality and get a little bit closer to the truth.
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But to quote a former liberal president of Yale, skepticism has utility only when it leads to conviction.
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And when people disagree about the most fundamental principles and premises and axioms, then no debate is possible.
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Because you need to at least have some shared understanding of reality in order to have a debate at all.
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We need to at least agree about the simple meaning of words.
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We need to at least be able to agree about what these symbols refer to in objective reality.
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If we can't agree on that, then someone's got to win and someone's got to lose.
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As I have mentioned before, there's no middle ground with transgenderism.
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And if it's false, as it is, then for the good of society and especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to that confusion,
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transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely, the whole ideology at every level.
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Now, speaking of liberal activism, really sad story that went viral yesterday.
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There's a guy, a 32-year-old activist who was stabbed to death by some vagrant wacko at 4 a.m. in Bed-Stuy.
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And he was leaving a wedding with his, looks like his girlfriend, and a young white guy, apparently a real do-gooder, you know, liberal social activist.
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And he's there with his girlfriend, and there's a vagrant in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
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I mentioned he's a young white guy because Bed-Stuy is a black neighborhood.
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And this vagrant walks by, and for some reason, this young man, this 32-year-old man, gets up with his girlfriend and follows the crazy vagrant
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and starts speaking to him when this vagrant, it looks like he's beating up on a car or a trash can or something.
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And the guy showed courage in that when the vagrant pulled a knife out and starts attacking him,
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he put himself in between the attacker and his girlfriend.
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He's down on the ground, and this was all captured on camera because cameras now are everywhere.
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The sad, I mean, the sad part about this is this young man died.
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Some people are kind of mocking it and saying, well, he got what he deserved, you know, play stupid games, play stupid prizes.
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That's, you know, this is a very sad thing if a guy gets murdered, especially if he is trying to help his girlfriend.
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But what's really, what is especially sad and what's politically important for all of us is the shocking way that he and so many people today misjudge these sorts of situations, which we'll get to in one second.
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So, McMuffin19 gave my favorite comment yesterday, and he said,
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Libs always say you can't yell fire in a crowded theater, but we'll pull a fire alarm to stop a vote.
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You can't yell fire in a crowded theater unless the Republicans are passing a continuing resolution that you don't like.
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Then the Supreme Court has said you are allowed to pull the fire alarm, especially if you can't read and don't know what fire alarms look like.
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Wasn't it Biggie who rapped about Bed-Stuy do or die?
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I just looked up the crime statistics in Bed-Stuy.
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Your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Bedford-Stuyvesant is about 1 in 35.
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The violent crime rate is 1,065 per 100,000 people.
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The average crime rate is 2,900 per 100,000 people.
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This is a young white couple dressed to the nines from a wedding.
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Some people have said, well, it's crazy to be in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning.
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I've been in New York City at 4 o'clock in the morning many, many times, all over the streets, in all sorts of parts of New York.
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But if I'm going to be out on the street at 4 o'clock in the morning, it's when the bars get out in New York.
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And there's a difference between bad neighborhoods and nice neighborhoods.
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And you're not allowed to say that now because it's politically incorrect to suggest that certain neighborhoods are more prone to crime than others.
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And if I see a crazy-looking vagrant on the street, I'm going to cross to the other side of the street.
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I'm not even going to make eye contact with that guy.
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Because some people are more dangerous than others.
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You're not allowed to say that now, especially if the person is black.
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Even if the person's white, but especially if the person's black, you're not allowed to say that because that would be called, I don't know, they'd call you racist or profiling or whatever.
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But these are all natural reactions that are conducive to our own safety.
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The word that has been totally trodden underfoot in recent decades is prejudice.
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Prejudice is a terrible—you're not supposed to prejudge anything.
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You don't have time to write a 50-page thesis on every single question you're presented with.
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You wouldn't be able to determine, okay, I'm going to get out of bed and then eat a bowl of Cheerios and then go take a shower and then go get in my car and drive to work.
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You'd have to examine every single one of those decisions.
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Every time you meet somebody, you wouldn't be able to know, do I shake their hand?
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I'm not saying any of that, but just prejudging, just going on your gut, going with the wisdom of the ages, that is not only not a bad thing, that's a very, very good thing.
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That is essential to our personal safety and to politics.
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Edmund Burke, one of the great Anglo-Irish philosophers of conservatism, elevated prejudice as a very important aspect of politics because otherwise we're going to be like the utopian liberals.
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We're going to be like the progressives who say the past was always bad.
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We've got to throw out, they had no wisdom whatsoever, and we're just going to reinvent the world every single day out of our own stock of reason.
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And when we do that, when we ignore the wisdom of the ages, we actually put even more constraints on our stock of reason, and we imperil ourselves and our political community.
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We should pray for that guy, and we should pray for his girlfriend, and maybe even for that maniac criminal there who I hope is arrested.
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I hope all the other criminals in New York are arrested.
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If New York were just operating like it did during Giuliani's day, then the prosecutors would arrest the criminals, and the likelihood of being victimized even in these bad neighborhoods would diminish greatly.
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But because of political correctness, because of liberalism, because of a misunderstanding of human nature and politics, we don't get that.
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And so it's no surprise when people in recent days, oddly enough, especially open liberal activists, are victimized.
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That should come as no surprise because they're basing their behavior on flawed premises.
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Henry Queller, I mentioned Henry Queller at the top of the show.
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He's a Democrat from Texas, but he's relatively more conservative.
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Congressman Queller was just carjacked in Washington, D.C.
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I parked in front of my apartment complex, and when I was getting up, three guys came up with guns.
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I got a black belt with karate, so you got to learn what to do.
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So I went ahead and gave them the car keys, and they took off.
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Within a couple hours, they were able to recover my phone, my car.
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I want to thank the Capitol Police and the Metro Police for doing their job.
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So it's good that there was a relatively happy ending here, and Congressman Queller wasn't hurt, and he got his stuff back.
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This is a sitting member of Congress getting carjacked.
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You know the city has spun out of control when that happens.
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Years ago, during the early days of the Verdict podcast, we were filming it.
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Me and Senator Cruz and some of the staff were filming it on somewhere L Street, K Street, somewhere in a studio.
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You know, Senator Cruz would come over after the impeachment vote, and we'd do the podcast.
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After one of the early shows, Senator Cruz walks back into the studio.
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Someone just smashed open a window, grabbed, stole stuff out of the car.
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This is a sitting U.S. congressman here, Queller.
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If Rudy Giuliani could do it in New York City in the early 90s, anyone could do it.
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You have to acknowledge that the way to fight crime is to lock up the criminals.
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You have to recognize that the bad neighborhoods are where the crime is likely to happen.
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You've got to send more cops to those bad neighborhoods, and you've got to harass more criminals.
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And you've got to lock them up for longer periods of time.
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When crime is on the rise, that means you have an under-incarceration problem.
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Talk to me about over-incarceration when the crime rate starts dropping again.
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It's just a refusal to accept human nature and reality as it is.
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Well, of course, we live in a time when you're not even allowed to say that men and women are different.
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Is it any wonder that we're ignoring reality on other fronts, too?
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