Ep. 1370 - Greta Thunberg Vs The Jews
Summary
St. Greta Thunberg has a new object of ire, and it s not the one you think: the Jewish people. Michael Knowles explains why, and why not. He also explains why there are no more progressive priests in the Catholic Church.
Transcript
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St. Greta of the Blessed Sailboat, best known for skipping school to complain about the weather,
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has a new object of ire. The Jews, specifically, Greta was complaining about the state of Israel
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and demanding that climate activists stand in solidarity with the Palestinians
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when a fellow climate activist, bewildered, got on stage and tried to get her to focus.
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We have not been listening. The people in power have not been listening.
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I have come here for a climate demonstration, not a political view.
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No climate justice on occupied land? What could that possibly mean?
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Even putting aside the ridiculous phrase climate justice,
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the notion that we owe something to the rocks and the air or whatever, put that aside for a moment.
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Is Greta saying that we can't recycle until we abolish the state of Israel?
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That we can't limit carbon emissions until the Palestinians get a nation state?
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But pro-Palestine activism was not Greta's only digression of the day.
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She then also took part in an anti-capitalism march.
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Marching through the streets, waving all sorts of weirdo radical flags.
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Some environmentalists, like that guy who tried to take her microphone,
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Some people, like that guy, actually believe that climate justice is not political.
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When it is, in fact, the most political movement of all on the left.
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Of course, St. Greta supports all of the other liberal causes.
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The only reason that she has had so much success focusing on environmentalism
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is because environmentalism is the fundamental religious premise of all of the other left-wing activism.
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It's the inversion of man's place in the order of creation.
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It's the belief that we must serve rather than steward nature.
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It's the idolatry of the natural world and the worship of creation rather than of the creator.
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We got Trump, Dana White, Tucker, Don Jr., and Kid Rock rolling into a UFC match.
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Not Bill Burr's wife who actually flips Trump off.
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First, though, I don't want to move off of religion too quickly
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because that is the fundamental background religious principle for the left is the environmentalism.
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Because environmentalism is not just about saving the delta smelt or preventing the bald eagles from going extinct.
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Environmentalism smuggles in all sorts of ridiculous premises and first principles about man's place in creation,
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about what we're here to do, about how we came to be, about what the purpose of life is.
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So, on this battle of religion, on this holy war that we seem to be engaged in right now,
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we've got some good news, actually, from the religious side as opposed to the irreligious side.
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The good news is a survey just came out which found that progressive priests are going extinct.
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They're among the new priests who are coming up in seminary who are one day going to lead the church, we hope.
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There are basically no progressives to be found.
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Major survey finds that conservative and lowercase o orthodox priests are on the rise.
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the portion of new priests who see themselves as politically liberal or theologically progressive
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has been steadily declining since the Second Vatican Council and has now all but vanished.
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More than half of the priests who were ordained since 2010 see themselves on the conservative side of the scale,
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no surveyed priests who were ordained after 2020 described themselves as very progressive.
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85% of the youngest cohort says they're conservative slash orthodox or very conservative slash orthodox,
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and only 14% describe themselves as middle of the road, which leaves, what, 1% or something say that they're progressive.
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And not only is this great news that is worth celebrating,
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not only is this a glimmer of hope as we have a crisis throughout our political order,
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and no surprise, a crisis within the church, which leads the political order,
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They say the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
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The persecution of the church is not an aberration.
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It's not this little weird fact of history that represents something that sometimes goes wrong.
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It's a feature of the system, and it's what has allowed the church to spread.
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meaning people called to a vocation to be a priest,
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to be a nun, to be a brother, a sister, a monk.
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You abstain from a lot of the pleasures of this world.
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It's especially difficult today when so many people in society think it's all totally bunk,
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which means that those who are drawn to religious life
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and who are actually in our extremely hedonistic decadent age
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who are willing to give up the pleasures of this world
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Furthermore, in a world in which the left has taken over
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they have pretty much all of the influence in society.
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If you are a young liberal or leftist who's trying to gain some influence,
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there are plenty of other places for you to go beyond the church.
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The church's political power has waned significantly in recent decades,
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but it's maybe a good thing in this sense in that if you want to have an influence on society
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You're going to be able to shape a lot of minds at the university.
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You're going to get to do whatever weirdo stuff you want to do.
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Maybe you're going to go into corporate America.
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You'll go become a DEI deputy middle managing dean director
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of whatever nonsense diversity some Fortune 500 company is going to be pushing.
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And you get to make some money and you get to do your weird stuff
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and you don't need to deal with the rigors of religious life.
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If you're a lib, you would just as soon go into all of those other fields,
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which means that there has been a process of expurgation and purification going on within the church.
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And some people who are a little older toward the top end of the church
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Unfortunately, the church hierarchy is not going to accept this conservative trend without a fight.
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And I mentioned this even for the people who are not Catholics,
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who are not self-identifying as Christians more broadly, who are not religious at all.
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Christianity is the animating spirit of our civilization.
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So as goes Christianity, so goes the civilization.
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Even if you're the most hardened atheist, and by the way,
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one of the most hardened atheists in the world has just converted.
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We'll get to that perhaps a little bit later today.
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which is that Pope Francis has relieved a very popular, very holy,
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A wonderful bishop, very well-liked, and more importantly than being well-liked,
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very good at his job and very good at shepherding souls.
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And it just reminds me of this bizarre fact about our culture,
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even beyond the church, just in our whole political life,
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which is that the boomers are so insistent on telling us what the youths want.
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The boomers who came up during the age of Aquarius, the hippie generation,
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Everything's going to be new and revolutionary, man.
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They're so insistent on telling us what the youths want.
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And yet today, what the youths want is totally contrary to what the boomer hippies want.
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The boomers, who promote the so-called new mass,
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the kind of 1970s hippie-dippie, you know, sing-along, kumbaya,
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let's listen to feminine ballads that weren't even cool in the 1970s,
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In our political order, the hippie-dippie people,
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Do a bunch of drugs and have sex with anyone and anything that appeals to you.
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And just, you know, kind of you do you and I'll do me.
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I spend a lot of time with young conservatives.
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I travel the world, in fact, talking to young conservatives.
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All the young conservatives are much more traditional.
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They're much more interested in order and flourishing
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and beauty and truth and goodness and virtue than the boomer.
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But as a generation, that generation tends to be far more laissez-faire,
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do what you want, just don't make it affect me, man,
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And it would seem clear to me as a little glimmer of hope that those boomers who just,
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they're so certain they know what the youths want.
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We know how to attract the youths back to the church ultimately,
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back to the conservative movement, back to patriotism.
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They just, they kind of went wrong as a generation.
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Gen X, I think, in their laissez-faire, apathetic attitude, they went a little wrong.
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My millennial generation, boy, oh boy, did the millennials go wrong.
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We're the Obama generation, but the Zoomers, man, the Zoomers are giving me hope.
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And you're seeing it at every level of society among the so-called activists
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Speaking of going down without a fight, or with a fight, I guess,
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the FBI has seized New York City Mayor Eric Adams' phone and iPad amid a federal corruption investigation.
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This is very strange because New York City Mayor Eric Adams, he's a Democrat.
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He's a fairly liberal Democrat, but actually, recently,
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Mayor Adams has been saying some things that the liberals don't like.
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So, the allegations here are that Mayor Adams' 2021 campaign colluded with the Turks.
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Usually, we talk about colluding with the Russians or colluding with the Ukrainians,
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Apparently, Eric Adams colluded with the Turks.
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The allegation is that he received illegal campaign donations from the Turkish government.
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According to the New York Post, campaign records show that Mayor Adams accepted $6,000
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from three donors who served on a board backed by the son of the Turkish president, Erdogan.
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$6,000 from three donors who are on a board with the son of the leader of this.
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Hold on, this isn't adding up to me until I realized, wait a second,
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this doesn't have anything to do with campaign donations.
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The reason that the Libs and the Liberal Enforcement Institution, the FBI, are going after Adams right now
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We have to feed, close, house, educate the children, wash their laundry sheets,
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We're getting no support on this national crisis, and we're receiving no support.
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Never in my life have I had a problem that I did not see an end into.
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When I saw the headline, Eric Adams investigated, I thought, oh, that guy piped up a little too much about immigration, didn't he?
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I don't think it has to do with $6,000 from some people who once went to a Turkish bath on 11th Street or something.
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I don't think it's because a couple guys ate falafel one day, and they gave Eric Adams a high five, and now he's under investigation.
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This guy spoke up against something that the liberals have to support, which is endless mass migration.
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And he broke the script here, and he broke with the longstanding Democrat tradition of flooding the country with foreign nationals, and in particular, he criticized Joe Biden.
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He embarrassed the sitting Democrat president, and then what do you know?
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Joe Biden, the highly politicized investigative and law enforcement arm, run ultimately by that president, starts poking around Eric Adams' cell phone and iPad.
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I really don't want to defend the Democrat mayor of New York, but I got to go where the facts lead me.
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And in the reporting on this investigation into Adams, it says, following news of the investigation, Adams canceled his plan to discuss illegal immigration and the border crisis with the Biden administration.
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I hadn't even read that part before I came to my conclusion, my knee-jerk conclusion.
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This has got to be about illegal immigration, which it is.
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So now they start threatening Adams, and he says, okay, okay, I'll back off.
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Okay, I won't meet with the Biden admin to talk about this problem.
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Okay, I'll cool it and stop admitting publicly at least that illegal immigration will destroy New York City, which we all know, including the liberal Democrat mayor.
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Now, speaking of cleaning up cities, a miracle happened over the weekend.
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A miracle, something no one thought possible, very few people thought possible.
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San Francisco, which in recent years has become a complete garbage heap.
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San Francisco, which is now riddled with on the streets human excrement and people lying out, dying potentially of exposure, shooting up, dying of overdoses when they're not dying of exposure, just crime and filth filling the city, people fleeing what was once one of the most beautiful cities in the country.
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Well, it's all gone because Xi Jinping is coming to San Francisco.
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All it took to clean up one of America's once great cities was for a Chinese communist dictator to come visit.
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And then the civil authority decides they're going to clean it up.
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While San Francisco is in the spotlight for the Asia Pacific Economic Conference, city leaders are making sure the city shines.
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Tourism is our business here in San Francisco, and we need to focus on making sure that the tourist dollars still come back.
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Caltrans repaving major roadways like the Harrison Street off-ramp from the I-80.
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BART doubling down by deep-cleaning their stations overnight more often.
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The city had gotten a little bit dingy over time.
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Scrubbing and power washing is happening all over the city.
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It's noticeable how clear the streets look and how few homeless encampments there are on major thoroughfares.
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Wow, they fixed it, which they always could have done.
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They weren't going to fix it for the residents of San Francisco or of California or for Americans.
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Forget about just making sure the bottom of your shoes are clean.
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Don't forget, every day that vagrants are allowed to sit out and shoot up heroin or fentanyl on the streets of San Francisco, more and more Americans are dying.
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They're being poisoned, and they're being allowed to poison themselves by the civil authority.
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So it's having a real body count every day that that's allowed to go on.
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But that's fine when the only people affected are Americans.
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But when we want to impress a Chinese dictator, well, then we've got to clean it up.
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Of course, there are a lot of political problems that we pretend just can't be fixed.
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Well, you know, the border crisis, we can't, what can we do about that?
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Even if we want, the walls don't work, the border protection agents, it doesn't work.
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Do you remember during the early days of COVID?
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They locked that down pretty quick when they wanted to.
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And then when they didn't want to, they didn't.
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When the cops have actually cracked down on crime,
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you see it in New York City when a Republican mayor took over.
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They fixed New York City, which was one of the most crime-ridden cities in the country.
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They fixed it almost overnight because Giuliani cared about it.
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This can always be done when it comes to cleaning up the street,
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when it comes to criminal justice, when it comes to election integrity.
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the reason that cities which Xi Jinping has not decided to visit
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are still filthy and full of crime and full of drugs
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and people are killing themselves is not because of incompetence.
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That is an intentional policy by the liberal politicians
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Even Mussolini over there, Governor Patrick Bateman in California,
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who many have said is feckless, can't get anything done.
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When it's just a bunch of Americans living in filth and squalor and crime and dying,
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All right, we'll impress the Chinese communists.
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the results are in from the presidential debate last week.
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but really nobody who was on that stage won the debate
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Seven and a half million people watched that debate,
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This is down from nine and a half million people
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who watched the Fox News debate on September 27th.
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But even that nine and a half million people doesn't matter
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because that is down from the 24 million people
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2015, first GOP primary debate, you get 24 million people.
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The next GOP primary debate, you get 22.9 million people.
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between the previous debate and the most recent debate.
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But the number is nine and a half down to seven and a half,
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which is telling because it's not just about people
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It's not just about people not subscribing to NBC anymore.
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It's that people know the debate is inconsequential.
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I watched it, especially because I was going on
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and I promised her I would watch it to have a take.
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that I would go over the debate with her the next day,
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we all know that the debate doesn't really matter.
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Not only do the debates not move the poll numbers,
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is a little bit more in the favor of the frontrunner
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they've got to do it somewhere other than the debate.
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Even in Iowa, now DeSantis is betting his campaign on Iowa,
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The caucus goers who have committed their ballots
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Now Nikki Haley is making moves in New Hampshire.
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if the answer at least at the debates is nothing,