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00:09:46.880The nearest thing to a coherent point that Nancy Pelosi is making when she says that most people voting for conservatives threatens democracy
00:10:07.760So, for instance, if most people went to the ballot box and they voted for a ballot proposition that said that we're going to cease to be a democracy and become a monarchy
00:10:18.940and we're going to elect King Donaldo Maximus and he will reign as the great Caesar for a thousand years,
00:10:25.780and they voted for that, that would be the democracy undoing itself.
00:10:32.520Now, of course, that's not what anyone has done here.
00:10:34.300In fact, Donald Trump ran on a much more pro-democratic platform than his liberal opponents, certainly than Hillary Clinton.
00:10:40.940Jim Jordan is running on a much more pro-democracy platform for Speaker of the House than many speakers and basically any speaker we've had in recent history.
00:10:48.200But in principle, a democracy could undo itself.
00:10:53.100And in fact, Nancy Pelosi is right that our sacred democracy faces a threat of undoing itself from her side.
00:12:10.040But actually, the way that the framers of our Constitution use the words democracy and republic in the Federalist Papers is very confused.
00:12:17.800And they sometimes point to ancient republics as democracies and vice versa.
00:12:21.940So anyway, broadly speaking, we are mostly a democracy.
00:12:26.560Frankly, the way the Constitution was set up is a little closer to what Thomas Aquinas described as the ideal polity, which is that you've got a monarchical element in the United States in the person of the president.
00:12:37.020Then you've got an aristocratic representation.
00:12:39.320You see this in institutions like the Senate.
00:12:42.040You see this in the representation for the states.
00:12:43.840You see this in the way that landed gentry had more political sway.
00:12:48.340And then you see a strong democratic representation, too.
00:13:16.560The only reason that I didn't immediately endorse him for speaker is because I like him too much, and I think he's a good guy.
00:13:22.460And I think being the Republican Speaker of the House is the worst job in Washington, D.C.
00:13:25.880I'm sure he'd be great at it, but I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
00:13:29.800Anyway, Jim threw his hat in the ring, and he ended up beating out Steve Scalise, who first got the nomination, then didn't have the votes.
00:14:15.440In fact, I think this is why Jim Jordan did not vote to oust Kevin McCarthy is because there wasn't much of a plan on who was going to replace him.
00:14:23.700Steve Scalise, he didn't have the votes.
00:14:25.120Jim Jordan doesn't currently have the votes.
00:14:29.780One possibility is to expand the powers of the temporary House Speaker, Patrick McHenry.
00:14:37.340So Patrick McHenry, just by default, gets this position as the temporary Speaker of the House.
00:14:42.720But he doesn't really have virtually any of the power of the Speaker of the House.
00:14:46.540So one solution that's been proposed is to just give him those powers passed as an act of Congress.
00:14:52.260And then once he has those powers, they can kind of get through this term and then figure out what happens in 2024.
00:14:58.440Not ideal, not a great way for the Republicans to exercise power.
00:15:04.000It seems to me we've got a very slim majority and Democrats have the Senate, Democrats have the White House, Democrats have the deep state and the media and the universities and virtually every power center in the country.
00:15:15.900So the holdouts on Jim Jordan, 22 of them, they're virtually all squishes.
00:15:22.260Maybe not every single, pretty much every single one of them, though.
00:15:26.480They're squishes, they're liberals, they're saboteurs, they're just awful.
00:15:32.760And they need to get on board because if they don't, then the Republicans will be ceding the very little control that they currently have in the government.
00:15:41.740And maybe that's what these squishes wanted the whole time.
00:15:44.680Maybe that's what these limp Republicans, impotent Republicans always kind of wanted.
00:15:51.300The reason that being the Republican Speaker of the House is the worst job in the country, certainly in Washington, D.C., is because the Democrats are all on the same page.
00:16:00.700With the exception of Joe Manchin and maybe Kyrsten Sinema, they're all progressive leftists.
00:16:05.760There is barely a blue dog left in the bunch.
00:16:08.500So they're all on the same page and they can join together and act and throw their weight around because they're unified.
00:16:32.380And what these squishes are saying is they're saying, look, I would rather give Democrats much more control over the House of Representatives and have nearly unified control over the government than empower one of those mean old conservatives.
00:16:45.180Jim Jordan, too, by the way, because Jim Jordan has very conservative beliefs.
00:16:49.100But he is as respectable a guy in Congress as there possibly could be.
00:16:53.340He's as decent a guy as you're going to find in the House of Representatives.
00:16:56.940And if he is too far and crazy and right wing for them, then they're just not conservative, which means that the five-person Republican majority was largely illusory because we weren't able to get a speaker.
00:17:11.000Yes, they kind of agreed on Kevin McCarthy, but the only way that Kevin finally got his speakership the first time, the only time, I guess, is when he conceded so much of his power that they were able to depose him nine months later.
00:17:25.320Basically, the same thing happened with Paul Ryan.
00:17:46.620He basically just shills for Democrats while he's sipping red wine and smoking a cig on the cover of his tell-all book, bashing conservatives.
00:17:53.880We just don't have any ability to function as Republicans at the national level in Washington, D.C.
00:18:02.620One of the reasons I was a little skeptical of ousting McCarthy, although that fate was sealed the moment that McCarthy made his deal with the conservatives to become speaker in the first place.
00:18:20.500Ultimately, though, ultimately, regardless of who becomes speaker, the deep state, which is the spooky term for the federal bureaucracy, perfectly ordinary political concept that we all know about, nothing conspiratorial about it at all.
00:18:36.540Well, the deep state's going to do what it wants to do, regardless of what Congress does.
00:18:42.280Wall Street Journal just reports, and the Pentagon doesn't deny, that 2,000 U.S. troops have been told to prepare to deploy to help the state of Israel against Hamas and whichever other Middle Eastern nations get involved in the war.
00:18:58.420Pentagon said, yes, okay, roughly 2,000 U.S. troops were told, quote, I don't have more to provide at this time.
00:19:07.500I might be able to give you more details later, but at this time, I just don't have anything more specific to add.
00:19:13.060That's according to the Deputy Press Secretary, Sabrina Singh, of the Pentagon.
00:19:19.320And this, to me, is the best and worst part of the House of Representatives' failure to govern.
00:19:27.960This is the best and the worst part of the House's failure to pass a budget in recent years.
00:19:33.540This is the best and worst part of the House's failure to even have a speaker.
00:19:37.860Is it shows you just how little Congress has to do with our actual government.
00:19:45.440This is the best part of it in that it rips off the facade.
00:21:05.660Because our duly elected representatives of our sacred democracy that the Democrats never shut up about don't really seem to have all that much to do with our actual government.
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00:22:52.100You know, I woke up, my eldest son today, sweet little boy, two and a half years old, and he was hugging his little chip chilla stuffed animal.
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00:31:04.940I wonder, as we see the explosion of anxiety and depression and suicidality and just psychosis among young women,
00:31:12.620the number of young women who have to be prescribed all these powerful psych meds right now.
00:31:17.300I wonder if some of that, maybe much of that, has to do with a culture that encourages them to commit actions that lead to such regret.
00:31:27.200But most clearly abortion, but the whole thing, the culture of promiscuity, the hookup culture, feminism, all the rest of it.
00:31:35.960Might there be a connection between the insanity that people are expressing, meant to, meant to, meant to, in a different way.
00:31:46.520The insanity that people seem to be displaying today and the insane and unreasonable behaviors that they engage in that lead to such regret.
00:31:55.240Speaking of Hollywood people, Millie Bobby Brown, who is the star of Stranger Things, she's the alien girl or whatever, like the, it's not an alien thing.
00:32:05.020It's like whatever, the kind of spooky telepathic girl in Stranger Things.
00:32:08.700Millie Bobby Brown has said that she is a feminist and she knows she is a feminist because a psychic told her.
00:32:15.660Which, to me, totally checks out because psychics gain their dubious insights by communing with demons.
00:32:24.380So I'm not surprised at all that a demon would encourage anyone to become a feminist.
00:32:28.380In fact, I think that's a large driver of feminism, probably, at least indirectly.
00:32:42.180Because people have a natural inclination toward the religious.
00:32:47.080And when they don't practice true religion, religion, which is a habit of virtue that inclines the will to give God what he deserves.
00:32:55.220When you don't follow theology, which is faith seeking understanding, applying logic and reason to our intuitions of God and our longing for God.
00:33:04.620Then, you become the most superstitious person in the world.
00:33:08.040And you do the crystals and the horoscopes and the astrology and the psychics and the vibes, man.
00:33:13.120And like the yoga and the feeling, the chakras with the whatever.
00:33:16.840And you just go into all this kind of craziness.
00:33:20.340I don't want to knock Millie Bobby Brown because she seems actually pretty promising.
00:33:24.940Well, she's a good actress, good little actress.
00:33:27.940And I believe, I don't follow these things closely, but I believe she's engaged to be married.
00:33:32.540And in this interview with her, in which she talks about the psychics in Glamour magazine, she says that what she really wants is to have kids.
00:34:03.140She's still surrounded by a bunch of wackos in Hollywood who might be influencing her with bad things like feminism and psychics and whatever.
00:34:10.200But she clearly has a decent core intuition here.
00:34:15.140So, she should follow that and stop listening to demons, whether those demons sit in Hollywood producer offices or whether those demons are communicating via psychic media.
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