Ep. 1361 - Libs Beg For COVID Forgiveness On BillĀ Maher
Summary
After locking us all down for the better part of three years, depriving people of their livelihoods, forcing them to inject themselves with an experimental drug based on reasons that proved false, taking students out of school, forcing elderly loved ones to die alone, destroying businesses, closing churches and synagogues, and so on, the COVID alarmists are now demanding that we just forget about everything and move on.
Transcript
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After locking us all down for the better part of three years, depriving people of their livelihoods,
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forcing them to inject themselves with an experimental drug based on reasons that
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proved false, taking students out of school, forcing elderly loved ones to die alone,
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destroying businesses, closing churches and synagogues, and so on and so on,
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the COVID alarmists are now demanding that we just forget about everything and move on.
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Here is an NYU professor on Bill Maher explaining his reasoning.
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While I was on the board of my kids' school during COVID, I wanted a harsher lockdown policy,
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and in retrospect, I was wrong. The damage to kids of keeping them out of school longer
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was greater than the risks. But here's the bottom line. Myself, our great people to CDC,
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I'd like to thank the governor, we were all operating with imperfect information and we
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So let's learn from it. Let's learn from it. Let's learn from it. Let's hold each other
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accountable. But let's bring a little bit of grace and forgiveness in the show that West
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First correction. They were not all operating on imperfect information. Some of them were
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manufacturing that false information. One of those guys was Andrew Cuomo that that professor
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pointed to. He was sitting right on the panel. Andrew Cuomo intentionally cooked the books and
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lied to everyone to hide his own negligence. And he was just one of many liberals who did that.
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But to the professor's broader point, yes, we should, of course, have the charity to forgive
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people from our hearts. We should also have the prudence to deprive those people of the power that
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they abused. And we should prosecute them whenever possible for the abuses and crimes that they
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committed for which they have thus far faced zero consequences. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the
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Welcome back to the show. A dangerous communist leader just met with Xi Jinping, the leader of
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China. That would be Gavin Newsom, who wants to take Joe Biden's job. We'll get to that in just a
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moment first, though. The lies that we saw during COVID, that we all lived during COVID, that we all
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had to suffer under during COVID, were based on fantasies, on preposterous little rituals and
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superstitions. The notion that putting a hanky on our face would stop the spread of a contagious
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airborne virus. The notion that standing six feet away, not five feet, 11 inches, not six feet and one
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inch, six feet away, that would prevent us from giving this disease to one another. The notion
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that if you got the magical experimental injection that you would not contract COVID, you would not
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spread COVID, you would not. Then we found out, no, actually, you can contract it and you can spread it.
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But okay, now we're being told that it's a good way to prevent you from getting extra super duper sick
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or whatever. It just kept being proven wrong. And people kept taking more and more of the drugs.
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Maybe it'll work this time. Maybe it'll work that time. Total superstition. And now those libs who spent
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years peddling those superstitions have the audacity to make fun of conservatives for being religious,
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for having ordinary traditional religion that has endured through the millennia. Jen Psaki is attacking
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Mike Johnson, the new conservative leader of the House of Representatives, because Mike Johnson is
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a Christian. The Bible doesn't just inform his worldview, it is his worldview. In fact, during his first speech
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in his new job, Johnson suggested that his election as speaker was an act of God. Talk about a bit of a
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humble brag there. So what exactly has God apparently called on Mike Johnson to do? Well, his views on
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policy are essentially what you'd expect from a religious fundamentalist. They're more divisive than they are
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divine. So this reminds me, obviously, of when Dianne Feinstein, RIP, made fun of Amy Comey Barrett.
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And attacked her by saying that she feared that the dogma lived loudly within her, the implication
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being that a Catholic should not be on the Supreme Court. Maybe a fake Catholic is okay, like a Joe
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Biden type or a Nancy Pelosi type. But an actual practicing Catholic should not be permitted on the
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Supreme Court. This reminds me of when Joy Behar mocked Mike Pence, I think it was, for, it was some
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conservative at least, for believing that he would speak with God. And he said, oh, Joy Behar said,
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that's, that's crazy. Maybe you can pray to Jesus, but once Jesus starts talking back, then that's
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when you got to worry. Like, like anyone who prays is a crazy person. And you see that same kind of
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ignorance here with Jen Psaki. He says, this, this guy, he thinks, this, this man who is in a position
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of civil authority, he thinks he was, he was placed there by God, which is a very basic Christian
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belief. St. Paul writes about this in the letter to the Romans, that the civil authority is given to us
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by God for the execution of justice and for our own good. If you are a Christian of any sort, you
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most certainly believe in providence, the notion that, that God has a plan that unfolds throughout
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history. Ours is a very historical religion. In fact, there's a pivot of history known as the
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incarnation and the crucifixion and the resurrection. This is like Christianity 101, folks. And, and
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what's shocking here is not that a liberal would make fun of Christianity. They tend to be opposed
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to Christianity. In fact, the very terms left and right come from the French revolution when the
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Christians sat on the right side of the national assembly and the revolutionaries and the atheists
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and liberals sat on the left side of the assembly. So that's been baked in for a long time.
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What's, what's shocking is the ignorance and the kind of proud glib ignorance that she had,
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she would mock this guy for being a Christian when she clearly doesn't understand the first thing
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about Christianity. And then there's this final little irony here, which is that the liberals
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are so irate at the notion of, of religious politics. One, they are as super, the liberals
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themselves are as superstitious as they come. They think that a man can become a woman and they think
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that a baby can magically cease to be a baby when the mother doesn't want him. But, but beyond that,
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they, they suggest that they hate the idea of religious politics. And let me, I promise you
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to any liberals who might share that view who are listening to the show right now, if you think
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religious conservatism is bad, just wait until you see your religious conservatism. If you think
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politics informed by true religion broadly is, is not a great thing. Just you wait until you see
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irreligious politics. Just you wait to see how bad things can get because everybody's got to serve
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somebody. So if you're serving God, if you're orienting your society and your personal life
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toward the good, you're going to fail. It's a fallen world, but you'll be headed in the right
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direction. If you're just turning away from all that and you throw morality aside and you ignore
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is MediShare.com slash M-I-C-H-A-E-L. Now, what exactly did Mike Johnson say that Jen Psaki doesn't
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like? Mike Johnson said that he believes he's in the position of speaker as a matter of providence.
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He prays to God openly, even on the floor of the House of Representatives. And he did just say
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something that has gone viral that is a little theologically suspect, which is that he grounded
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his support for the nation state of Israel, his unwavering support for the nation state of Israel
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in religion. In the week ahead, House Republicans will work swiftly to pass legislation to provide
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Israel much needed resources in their fight against these barbaric terrorists. We will stand
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with Israel strongly. There will be a ceasefire only when Hamas ceases to be a threat to Israel.
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Israel and the U.S. enjoy an unbreakable bond that's forged over decades, of course,
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of bilateral assistance. And there are lots of reasons that we do that. They are obviously our
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greatest ally in the Middle East, and clearly they are one of our most important friends.
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The prime minister called me, and I used those very words myself. I said,
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I said, Bibi, it's good over evil. It's light over darkness. We all see that. I assure the prime
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minister of our unwavering support of Israel and her people, and I assured him that our Congress,
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and under my leadership, we will be there until the end. We will be there until the end of this
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conflict. As a Christian, I know and we believe that the Bible teaches very clearly that we're to
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stand with Israel, that God will bless the nation that blesses Israel, that we're to
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take the peace of Jerusalem. Exactly. So that's the part that's a little bit
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theologically eccentric, the conflation of the people of Israel in the Bible with the modern
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secular nation state of Israel. It's a view that's held by some people, and it's a view grounded in
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a relatively novel theological belief called dispensationalism, which is a distinction between
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Israel and the church. The traditional Christian view that endured basically without challenge for
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the first 1,800 years or so of Christianity and the church is a conflation of Israel and the church,
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the notion that with the new covenant, you get a new Israel, the notion that Christ is the
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fulfillment of the law, that the New Testament is the fulfillment of the Old Testament. So that's been
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broadly the view. There are some views, especially popular among some evangelicals, especially in
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America, that this is distinct. And so then you see, as Mike Johnson says, unbreakable support for the
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modern secular nation state of Israel. Okay, I understand why some people are raising their
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eyebrows theologically there. And the other reason, putting religion aside for a second, is that
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listening to the speeches of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, many great statesmen in American
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history, a lot of people rightly are skeptical of enduring unbreakable alliances between the United
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States and any other nation state, period, anywhere in the world. We should avoid entangling alliances,
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and we should have strategic alliances, but not to say that these are totally unbreakable and
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enduring for all time. Okay, I understand that reservation as well. However, Mike Johnson
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is doing something really clever here, which is by going down so hard on protecting the state of
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Israel. One, he's saying we don't stand for terrorism. We're not going to tolerate attacks like
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the horrific attack that Hamas carried out on Israel a few weeks ago. But he's also decoupling aid
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from to Israel and to Ukraine. So what Mitch McConnell and Joe Biden and the Uniparty in D.C.
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wanted to do is they wanted to pass a massive defense bill that would fund the war in Ukraine
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and the war in Israel and potentially a war in Taiwan. Now, support for Israel is still,
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even with the pro-Hamas students running around Harvard Yard, is still quite popular in the United
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States. Support for Ukraine is a little more 50-50. In fact, it's actually less than 50-50 at this
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point. Most Americans do not want to continue supporting the war in Ukraine. And Taiwan remains
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to be seen what Xi Jinping does. If Mike Johnson can go really hard on supporting the state of Israel
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and providing war funding for the state of Israel and saying, this is going to be the first bill we
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passed, this is the most important thing we do. All of a sudden now, he's ended that financial
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support for the war in Ukraine, which is not just because we don't like Ukrainians or anything like
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that, but it's because people have rightly recognized that the breakout of the first major
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war in Europe since World War II threatens to send the entire world into another global conflict,
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into World War III. And this is extraordinarily dangerous. And the Ukraine situation is quite
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complicated as it has been for at least a millennium or so. And the longer this war drags on, the more
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innocent Ukrainians are going to be killed, the more Russian soldiers are going to be killed, which the
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U.S. views as a strategic victory. But there's basically no chance that Ukraine wins the war unless the
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United States comes in as a direct belligerent, which would be completely disastrous. So I think it's
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actually a pretty clever move here by Mike Johnson, even if some of the political and theological
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claims are a little suspect to a lot of people. Now, speaking of this conflict in the Holy Land,
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speaking of Hamas, the leader of Hamas has just come out and made a statement that actually sends
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chills down the spines of even the most hardened political observers. Here's what he said.
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I have said this before, I say it time again. The blood of the women, children, and elderly,
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I'm not saying that this blood is calling for your help. We are the ones who need this blood.
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We are the ones. So it awakens within us the revolutionary spirit. So it awakens within us,
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resolved. So it awakens within us, the spirit of challenge and pushes us to move forward.
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He's saying, no, no, no, don't mistake my meaning here. I'm not saying that the blood of these
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innocent Palestinian women and the elderly and children are calling out for revenge against
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the Israelis. No, no, no. We need their blood. We, Hamas, we, the Palestinian liberation movement,
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we need their blood so that it can awaken in us a revolutionary fervor.
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This is very, very demonic stuff. But it's not uniquely demonic. This is always the argument
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of the revolutionaries, of revolutionaries going back centuries. They say, we need this kind of
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devastation. We need this kind of carnage to get our own blood up, to awaken within us the
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revolutionary fervor to commit acts that are obviously immoral and unconscionable. We need
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to be sent out of our minds so that we can convince ourselves to commit terrorism, so that we can go
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target civilians for the great revolution that heretofore our conscience and the political order
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has prevented us from achieving. This is the same kind of rhetoric. This is somewhat more eloquent,
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but it's the same kind of rhetoric that you heard from the Black Power Movement in the 1970s,
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from the radical leftists like the Weather Underground in the 1960s and 70s. This is the
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same kind of rhetoric you hear from Antifa and BLM and all the rest of the revolutionary left.
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And this kind of rhetoric here also helps to explain why Bibi Netanyahu, as the leader of the state of
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Israel, has not encouraged the strength of Hamas in Gaza, but not totally discouraged it either over
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his now many governments. You may have seen this meme going around that Netanyahu, that the state of
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Israel was the one propping up Hamas. And that's somewhat dishonest, but there is a grain of truth
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to that, which is that the Netanyahu government, and this has been widely reported throughout Israeli
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journalism, and I see it as a pretty wise political strategy, in fact. They decided that the way to
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prevent Palestinian statehood, which the state of Israel views as an unacceptable solution, at least
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Netanyahu views it as an unacceptable solution, is to split off the West Bank from Gaza. So you've got
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these two Palestinian territories that are separated by the state of Israel, and if they have a unified
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government, then the cause for Palestinian statehood is relatively strong, especially given
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all of the international support that it receives, including from the UN. So if the West Bank and Gaza
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are being run by the Palestinian Authority, which is viewed as relatively moderate, the cause for
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Palestinian statehood is relatively strong. If the West Bank and Gaza are being run by even the PLO,
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the Palestine Liberation Organization, the cause for Palestinian statehood is somewhat strong.
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But if the West Bank is being run by the so-called moderates of the Palestinian political movement,
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and Gaza is being run by the most ghoulish demonic terrorists you could possibly come up with in a
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Hollywood cartoon, then there is no cause for Palestinian statehood. If Gaza is being run, if Gaza will
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elect someone like that guy who is saying, we demand the blood of women and children and the elderly,
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then it's a complete non-starter. But it was a dangerous strategy for Netanyahu because it does
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embolden Hamas then as the leaders of Gaza, and then you see horrific terrorist attacks like you saw
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on October 7th, which is obviously a very hot debate within Israel right now, although amid the fog of
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war, which Netanyahu is now calling an existential war, a second war for independence, he'll probably
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maintain some support. But that guy, I mean, that demoniac there that you hear calling for the blood
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of the innocents, that guy is the argument against Palestinian statehood. And as long as he remains
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prominent in power, I don't see how anyone could really make a counterargument.
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against Joe Biden. And it's not the kind of woo-woo, new-agey lady Marianne Williamson. And it's not
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the fairly eccentric, quasi-populist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. This is an ordinary Democrat congressman.
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Are you running for president? I am. I have to. I think President Biden has done a spectacular job
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for our country. But it's not about the past. This is an election about the future. I will not
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sit still. I will not be quiet in the face of numbers that are so clearly saying that we're
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going to be facing an emergency next November. This is Congressman Phillips. I don't even know
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what his first name is. But he's a fairly wealthy congressman. And most interestingly, he's not Bobby
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Kennedy Jr. This is not a guy who's running for president because he says, Joe Biden's gone crazy
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or Joe Biden pushed the wrong policy or Joe Biden this or Joe Biden that. This is a guy who voted with
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Joe Biden 100% of the time. According to analyses, Phillips has voted with Joe Biden's stated public
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policy positions 100% of the time. This makes him more liberal than average in the 117th Congress
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when predictive scoring is used. So Bobby Kennedy, he differs from the Democrats on an issue like
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vaccines. Bobby Kennedy differs from the Democrats even on other policy issues in that he is somewhat
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more moderate on immigration, somewhat more moderate perhaps on abortion, somewhat more moderate even on
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energy. Though at other times he's also been extremely environmentalist. But Kennedy is running as a
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1960s Democrat and the party's obviously moved far to the left since the Kennedys. This guy's not.
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This guy is just running as Joe Biden but younger and more competent. A mainstream left-wing Democrat
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running against Joe Biden's age and frailty. That means that actual Democrats are smelling blood in the
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water. And they're looking at Biden's approval rating and they're thinking, hmm, maybe we won't
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be able to rig this thing up quite so well to overcome the gap in enthusiasm that Joe Biden is
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going to face. So now we've got a few Democrats and one serious Democrat running against Biden.
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And there's another one waiting in the wings because Governor Patrick Bateman over there from
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California, Mr. Newsom has just, for some reason, met with Chinese Communist Party Chairman Xi Jinping.
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So Newsom makes a little trip to China, you know, just a little jaunt overseas and takes pictures
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smiling, dealing with Chairman Xi. He says that he's there to push for climate cooperation.
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But now, because the U.S. and China are potentially hurtling toward a conflict if we do end up in
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World War III, this is seen as a little bit more serious. It's similar to when Ron DeSantis,
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as governor of Florida, took a Florida business-sponsored trip to East Asia. And everyone
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knew he was only doing that to give him some foreign policy cred when he ran for president.
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The same thing applies here with Newsom. Newsom has been even less subtle than DeSantis was before
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he declared his run for president. Governor Bateman over here just recently told Politico
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regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, I wish I was president of the United States.
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And this is how Politico reports it. I wish I was president of the United States,
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he said sarcastically, before clarifying that he was joking. I could start doing all those things,
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whatever needs to get done in Israel-Palestine. And I love Politico carrying the water. Oh,
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yes, he said this sarcastically. The extremely ambitious politician who's been raising money
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like he's running for president, who's been traveling all around the country like he's running
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for president, who's going to have a debate with the number two guy who's running for the Republican
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nomination for president, who just visited China to meet with the leader of China, our number one
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geopolitical adversary in the entire world. Yeah, that guy, he's just being sarcastic. He's just
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joking. It's just a joke. He just wishes he could be president as a joke. Because he'd do a much
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better job than Joe Biden as a joke, as a joke. This guy is effectively running for president already.
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Now, the difference between someone like Congressman Phillips and Governor Newsom is Congressman
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Phillips is just going to run. He's going to openly challenge Joe Biden. He doesn't have much of a shot
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ever to succeed at running for president. So, okay, why not go all in? Newsom is considered a
00:26:42.160
relatively top-tier candidate for president. If not this cycle, then next cycle. If not next cycle,
00:26:47.780
then maybe even the following cycle. So, he's got more to lose here. So, Newsom's not going to openly
00:26:53.680
pit himself against Joe Biden. He's just going to run. He's just going to effectively run. He's going
00:26:58.860
to do all the things other than declare that candidates do when they're running for president.
00:27:03.140
And he's basically going to hope that Joe Biden slips and falls. Hate to say it. I don't wish ill
00:27:08.140
on the president whatsoever. I especially don't because I don't want Gavin Newsom waiting in the
00:27:11.800
wings. But that Gavin Newsom is running a campaign that can only succeed if Joe Biden is actually
00:27:21.980
incapacitated and unable to run for president. That's what Governor Bateman does. Now, speaking of
00:27:28.300
people who remind me of serial killers, there's an actual serial killer, this Ohio woman who was just
00:27:36.220
charged in connection to the deaths of at least four men that she had met for sex. This according
00:27:43.300
to the cops here. It could be more men. Her name is Rebecca Auburn. She's only 33 years old. Clearly
00:27:51.160
lived a little bit of a hard life if you look at her mugshot. She's accused of robbing and fatally
00:27:56.860
drugging victims in January, April, two in April, one in June, according to a joint statement from the
00:28:03.820
Attorney General of Ohio and the Columbus Police Chief. And here is what the AG said.
00:28:10.240
AG said, don't buy sex in Ohio. It ruins lives and could cost yours. Obviously true. So the woman was
00:28:19.720
a hooker, I guess. And these sad sack men were paying her for sex and they wind up getting killed
00:28:26.820
for their trouble. Which underscores a point that I've made for some years now against legalizing or
00:28:35.940
decriminalizing sex work, against the hookup culture, against swipe right culture. It is better to sleep
00:28:46.880
with people you know. And it is even better to sleep with people you like. And it is best of all
00:28:56.020
to sleep with your spouse. And that, I guess, is controversial today. In fact, that is controversial.
00:29:04.860
If I were running for office and I said, hey, I used the Norm Macdonald line. I said, hey, sex is
00:29:12.920
obviously a filthy, shameful thing that's only meant for procreation and you should only do it with your
00:29:16.060
wife. If I came out and said that, the Jen Psaki's of the world, the liberal commentators, the Democrat
00:29:23.380
politicians, they would laugh at me. They would call me crazy. They would mock me. They would pretend
00:29:28.960
that my view was totally fringe. That is the view that has been held by most people in most civilized
00:29:35.540
places on earth for all of human history. And it's been mocked in recent years. And then even the
00:29:44.580
Attorney General of Ohio, then even some of the liberal media, if they report on that story,
00:29:49.780
they're going to have to admit it's true. It's what Rudyard Kipling called the gods of the copybook
00:29:54.920
headings. The knowledge that we've all had for so many years that the radicals and the revolutionaries
00:30:01.120
overthrow. And they say, our ancestors, our grandparents, and all the people before them,
00:30:05.160
they were just dumb idiots. They didn't know anything. We, we've invented the world anew. It's all
00:30:10.280
different now. And men can be women and babies don't have to be babies and all the old rules no
00:30:15.060
longer apply, but they do. The rules keep coming back because it's not up to you. It's up to reality.
00:30:22.120
Okay. And the more that you twist your political ideology away from those sometimes inconvenient,
00:30:29.960
sometimes undesired facts of reality, the more likely you will be to find yourself a victim,
00:30:36.060
a victim of political chaos, or in this case, a victim of a serial killing psycho hooker.
00:30:42.700
Speaking of famous women, Taylor Swift is now a billionaire. She's become a billionaire because
00:30:48.740
of that concert tour that she went on last year, the Aras tour. I, other than on this show,
00:30:57.060
when my producers have made me do it, I don't think I've ever consciously listened to a Taylor Swift
00:31:02.020
song. I'm sure I would recognize some of them if I, if they came on the radio, but I, the one that
00:31:09.520
comes to mind is, is, uh, I'm the problem. It's me because we did it on the show, but I, I, I just
00:31:15.900
haven't paid attention to Taylor Swift. And yet when she launched her tour and I came into the office,
00:31:20.880
all the girls in this office were on their computers. This is, I don't know what it was right
00:31:25.880
at, right after my show, first thing in the morning, they're refreshing ticket master because
00:31:30.400
they've got the American express extra pass to, to buy the tickets early. And the tickets were
00:31:35.840
a bazillion dollars and they were, they were so excited. So what I had friends of mine,
00:31:41.540
female friends, very serious women, very normal people went crazy for Taylor Swift, paid lots of
00:31:49.680
money and inconvenienced themselves to go see the show. I didn't get it, but obviously 50 million
00:31:56.820
French men can't be wrong. The tour has brought Swift's net worth to $1.1 billion, according to
00:32:02.900
Bloomberg. Why is it? I think I'll expand on this. I'll even expound on this in, in the coming days
00:32:12.200
and weeks. But I think the reason that Taylor Swift is singularly successful, probably the most powerful
00:32:18.980
woman on earth right now is because she's basically normal. She is pretty. She's not, she's not a
00:32:28.600
runway model. She's pretty. She's sounds pleasant. She's not, not Mozart. Okay. She's not Pavarotti,
00:32:36.780
but she sounds pleasant enough, totally inoffensive. She doesn't have a ton of tattoos. She doesn't have
00:32:41.020
crazy hair. She doesn't have a million weird piercings. She's just, she doesn't go screech and
00:32:46.720
scream. Although if she has political views, they're relatively mildly stated. She just, she's just
00:32:52.140
normal and nice and pleasant. And for much of our nation's history, that would have made Taylor
00:33:05.000
Swift totally unexceptional. No one would know her name. But at this moment, which is so absurd,
00:33:10.340
which is so insane, which is so divorced from reality, just a little bit of normal
00:33:15.080
is refreshing and desired. And if you are that normal person, you can make a billion dollars,
00:33:21.980
apparently. Speaking of what people want, there is a new number two candidate in Iowa for the
00:33:31.100
Republican Party. And that would be Nikki Haley, who in the picture on the screen is wearing a sweater
00:33:35.560
that I own. It's one of my favorite sweaters. It's that cool Ralph Lauren flag sweater. And Nikki Haley
00:33:41.140
also looks good, sounds good, is basically inoffensive. She doesn't fire up the base
00:33:47.620
necessarily, but she is firing up a portion of the GOP that desires some kind of return to normal.
00:33:57.440
And this is really bad news for DeSantis because DeSantis was the number two guy in Iowa.
00:34:01.440
Trump still has a big lead, but the DeSantis campaign was doubling down, moving a lot of their
00:34:05.580
campaign staff and resources to Iowa. And so the news that Nikki Haley is now tied with him in Iowa
00:34:10.360
is not going to be welcome. Why is it? Why is DeSantis failing to catch fire? I really like Ron
00:34:17.940
DeSantis. I think he's a good guy personally. I think he was a great governor. I think he'd make
00:34:21.460
a good president. Why is he not catching on? Because, you know, I hate to say I told you so,
00:34:28.560
but it's because of what I've observed as DeSantis' biggest challenge from the beginning,
00:34:33.760
which is that his candidacy was pitched as Donald Trump without the baggage.
00:34:38.320
And Trump without the baggage only works if Trump is not in the race. Because if Trump is in the race,
00:34:43.880
people are going to want the original. Even if new Coke tastes better than old Coke,
00:34:49.160
people want the OG. They want the Coca-Cola classic. So for the people who like Trump and
00:34:54.600
they like the ways in which Trump changed the GOP and, in my view, returned the GOP to something much
00:34:59.980
more traditional, much more in line with its own history. But if you kind of like that,
00:35:05.020
and even if you think that Trump, he tweets too much, he says crazy things, whatever,
00:35:10.580
you're still probably going to be with Trump. Maybe some people will spin off, but you're still
00:35:14.800
probably going to stick with Trump. And if you don't like Trump, then you're going to hate Trump
00:35:22.080
without the baggage. Because Trump without the baggage, the pitch at least, is that it's just a
00:35:28.220
more effective version of Trump with all the same priorities and with all the same potential
00:35:32.520
achievements. Maybe even more achievements in that direction, which you don't like because you
00:35:37.940
are opposed to Trump. You are opposed to the ways in which Trump changed the Republican Party.
00:35:42.620
So where does that leave you? The pitch of it was, Ron DeSantis is the best of all worlds.
00:35:48.280
And I think the guy would be terrific. But the reality on the ground, as some of us predicted,
00:35:55.760
and as is being borne out in the polls now, not just with Trump's numbers, but with the other
00:35:59.160
candidates' numbers, is that it leaves you without a constituency. Because your natural base is going
00:36:05.440
to your chief opponent. And the people to whom you're trying to also appeal, so you get a little
00:36:11.900
bit broader slice of the electorate, is going to go to someone who is totally distinct from the
00:36:18.180
frontrunner. So it leaves you now in second place, but who knows how much longer. And Nikki Haley, who many
00:36:23.880
people were calling to drop out of the race early on because they said she doesn't have a snowball's
00:36:27.800
chance in hell. She's out of touch with the current GOP base. I always thought she might
00:36:32.280
have a bit of a shot because she's offering an alternative. She's offering a distinct view to
00:36:37.920
Trump, which could at least have some runway. Now, my favorite comment yesterday is June Turner,
00:36:46.080
8331, who says, I'm a boomer and I never want to see sex scenes. I agree with Gen Z. Oh, yes.
00:36:51.140
In response to this survey that showed that Zoomers are less interested than older generations
00:36:56.760
and seeing sex in movies. That's true. You're one of the reasonable boomers.
00:37:01.460
There are reasonable boomers, reasonable Gen Xers, reasonable millennials.
00:37:05.240
But it's a minority. It's a distinct minority, a remnant, if you will.
00:37:10.560
Now, also in Iowa, also in the GOP primary, Tim Scott
00:37:13.400
is pinning his candidacy on Iowa. In fact, he's come out and said
00:37:21.060
That's one of the reasons why we're heading to Iowa and staying there consistently because we
00:37:26.260
realize that, historically speaking, Iowa voters, they break late in the cycle. And that's great
00:37:32.660
news. Having an opportunity for us to continue to share our message and to do it full time in
00:37:37.860
Iowa will be very helpful. And also, we have to remember historically, 2011, 2015, it was Herman Cain
00:37:44.920
and Ben Carson were leading in the Des Moines Register poll. So, we are excited about where
00:37:50.300
we are. We have made the decision that it's Iowa or bust for us, and I'm looking forward to being
00:37:57.000
Iowa or bust. And so, his argument is, Tim Kaine was leading in 2012. So, just because Trump is
00:38:05.060
leading now or DeSantis or Haley, don't forget Tim Kaine, not Tim Kaine, he was almost the second
00:38:12.400
woman president. Herman Cain was leading in 2012. And then what happened? Then, Rick Santorum won.
00:38:22.120
And I love Rick Santorum, and it would have been great if he were president, but he wasn't. He didn't
00:38:25.860
get the nomination. Mitt Romney did. So, if the argument is, look, some other guy was leading in
00:38:31.820
2012, but then another guy beat him, and we're going to be that guy who beat him, but the guy who
00:38:35.060
beat him didn't win the primary. What happened in 2016? Ben Carson was leading in 2016. Oh, yeah?
00:38:41.000
And then what happened? And then, Ted Cruz won Iowa. And then he lost the Republican nomination.
00:38:48.160
Oh, that's no good. Okay, let's expand it out a little bit. What happened in 2008? In 2008,
00:38:54.880
I don't know who looked like he was leading, but then Mike Huckabee won Iowa. And then,
00:38:58.700
what happened? Then John McCain won the nomination. What happened in 2000? That was the last time
00:39:05.420
in a Republican primary that the guy who got the nomination actually won in Iowa.
00:39:14.940
So, this doesn't seem like a great strategy for Tim Scott if he wants to be the nominee.
00:39:18.960
But presumably, Tim Scott is not running to be the nominee. The numbers just don't bear it out. But
00:39:23.720
Tim Scott's a very talented politician. He's a nice guy. So, it would seem to me that his strategy
00:39:29.760
right now is just stay in the race as long as possible. And a win in Iowa would allow him to
00:39:34.860
stay in the race longer. And so, then some of the also-rans will drop out. He'll be in a stronger
00:39:39.700
position. Then, assuming he doesn't have this breakthrough moment, when he does endorse the
00:39:46.020
eventual nominee, he'll have more leverage. He could maybe get a cabinet position. He could maybe be
00:39:50.240
considered as a running mate. That is what it seems he is running for. Tim Scott's a smart guy.
00:39:56.700
His campaign staff, I'm sure, is smart. They must be hearing their own argument. And if their own
00:40:02.060
argument is, no, look, we're going to be like Rick Santorum in 2012. We're going to be like Ted Cruz
00:40:07.140
in 2016. Then, the argument is, we're not going to be the nominee. Now, speaking of people making
00:40:14.480
choices, like in elections, we're going to turn our attention to someone who refuses to make choices.
00:40:20.320
That would be the non-binary teacher who has just gone viral on TikTok for begging for money to buy
00:40:27.840
weird sex books for kindergartners. Hi there. My name's Katie, and I'm a non-binary teacher.
00:40:35.520
This isn't what I'd normally wear to teach, but we're closed down today for cleaning. Thanks,
00:40:40.980
COVID. But anyway, I wanted to show you guys a little something and tell you about a project
00:40:46.400
that I'm doing. So follow me. This is my classroom. I'm pretty fond of it. It's looking a little spare
00:40:53.160
right now, but we're in a bit of a transition as far as holidays go. And this is my classroom library.
00:41:00.740
And as you can see, it has a lot of books, but there's one big problem with it. None of them
00:41:12.740
look or act or feel like me. So you can help by going to the link in my profile and donating to
00:41:20.260
my Donors Tubes project to get more LGBTQ plus friendly books in our school from kindergarten
00:41:26.560
all the way to eighth grade. Thanks. Next time the libs tell you that that isn't happening,
00:41:32.880
just send them the video of a teacher in her classroom. I don't think it's an elaborate set.
00:41:37.680
I think she's a real teacher. I think it's a real classroom. Not just saying we want weird sex books
00:41:43.240
for high school seniors. No, no, no. We want weird sex books for elementary school students,
00:41:49.580
for kindergartners. We don't just even want it in the library down the hall. We want it in the classroom.
00:41:53.720
That's what she's calling for. What do we do about this? The only option that we have politically,
00:41:59.520
look, you can pull your kids out of school. You can homeschool if you're able to do that.
00:42:02.540
You can send them to private school if you can afford that. But most people can't. Most people
00:42:05.860
have a real hard time with that, especially in our economy, which for a lot of people requires two
00:42:11.200
incomes to maintain the standard of living that is usual today. So what do we do? We've got to be
00:42:18.840
political about it. We need to take political action, not just personal action.
00:42:21.700
The only political answer here is to discriminate against these people. This woman needs to be fired
00:42:28.220
for advancing her political ideology, her sexual political ideology in the classroom.
00:42:35.140
She needs to be overtly discriminated against for that reason. And we don't like the D word. We don't
00:42:41.660
like to say discrimination, but discriminating just means discerning. It just means making choices.
00:42:46.580
It means seeing distinctions between things and then acting upon those and choosing one thing over the
00:42:50.920
other. And all reasonable people will acknowledge that it is wrong to put weird sexual propaganda in
00:43:00.680
front of five-year-olds. All normal people know this. If this were my kid that this woman were
00:43:05.760
doing this to, I would blow a gasket. I would have steam coming out of my ears. Who knows what I would
00:43:15.000
be yelling at the walls? And then, but then I would take political action. And the only way to take
00:43:19.040
political action would be to undo the expansion of the civil rights laws that we've seen in recent
00:43:24.100
years. We have civil rights laws to prevent black people from being discriminated against in public
00:43:30.000
accommodations. And somehow in recent years, that has become expanded to the point that we're not
00:43:36.900
allowed to say that men can't really become women. And we're not allowed to say that you shouldn't
00:43:41.760
peddle sexual propaganda in front of five-year-olds and groom kindergartners. But we've obviously got
00:43:47.360
to roll that back. And we have got to impel people who, for whatever reason, get their jollies by
00:43:54.540
sexually grooming five-year-olds, like this disturbed woman in the kindergarten classroom.
00:44:00.620
We need to make it clear that communities have the right to say no to that and to kick that woman out
00:44:06.820
of the classroom. And maybe not, maybe arrest her. But even if we don't arrest her, we say,
00:44:12.060
go have a good life, go work some nice job. You can do whatever job you want, but you can't groom
00:44:17.880
the little kids. That can't be part of your job. Now, fittingly, it's Trans Tuesday. So the rest of
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