Ep. 1376 - Paper Ballots Help In Right-Wing Argentina President's Victory
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As global elites continue to reel from the election of right-wing libertarian Javier Millet in Argentina, pundits are racking their brains over how it happened. What differentiates the election in Argentina from elections in, say, Brazil or anywhere in between? And what s the argument for electronic voting?
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the election of right-wing libertarian Javier Millet in Argentina, pundits are racking their
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brains over how it happened. How did Millet do it? What differentiates the election in Argentina
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from elections in, say, Brazil or the United States or anywhere in between? Was it Millet's stance on
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social issues? Was it Argentina's presently soaring inflation? Was it his blunt talk? Was it his funny
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hair? I've got a simpler answer. Two words. Paper ballots. Last month, the Buenos Aires Herald
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reported that city residents would be required to vote on paper ballots after electronic voting
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machines caused all sorts of chaos and confusion in the primaries, leading to a federal judge striking
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them down and returning to voters the right to elect candidates the old-fashioned way.
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What's the argument for electronic voting? The only argument is that it makes the process faster
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and more efficient, except it doesn't. Because the machines break, and then the pipes burst,
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and then vote counting takes days and weeks even, especially when the vote count starts to look bad
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for liberals. Paper ballots gave Argentinians their answer on election day. It was an answer that the
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liberal elites don't like. It was an answer that the Argentinian people might not have gotten had
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computers allowed the count to drag on behind an opaque electronic veil of secrecy. The only advantage
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that electronic voting has over paper ballots is that it makes it much, much easier for bad actors to steal
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elections. Argentina was right to get rid of it. American conservatives better take note if we want
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that result down south to herald good things for us next year. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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presidential nominee, currently the governor of California, doing his best Patrick Bateman impression
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every day. He just accidentally admitted that LGBT activism is obscene. We'll get to that in just a
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moment. First, though, the man who currently has the job, Joe Biden, is losing a lot of support.
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His numbers are absolutely in the doldrums. He seemed to endorse Gavin Newsom for president the
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other day. He said, this guy is really good. He could do anything. He could even have the job I'm
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running for. And a lot of Democrats, I think, were listening to that and saying, yes, he's certainly good,
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Joe. You're right. But it's worth remembering, even as everyone appears to abandon Joe Biden,
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that he does still have one really prominent endorsement, and that is the endorsement of
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Osama bin Laden. People forget this because Osama bin Laden's endorsement of Joe Biden came from a
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letter that was discovered after the raid on bin Laden's compound in Pakistan and Abbottabad.
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But in that letter, Osama said that groups, the jihadi groups, will remain on the lookout for Obama
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or Petraeus, the American general and director of the CIA. The reason for concentrating on them is
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that Obama is the head of infidelity, and killing him automatically will make Biden take over the
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presidency for the remainder of the term as it is the norm over there. Biden is totally unprepared for
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that post, which will lead the U.S. into a crisis. As for Petraeus, he is the man of the hour in this
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last year of the war, and killing him would alter the war's path. So please ask Brother Ilias to send
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to me the steps he has taken into that work. Okay. I think the letter is real. I think the endorsement
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is real. And I think Osama bin Laden's point about Joe Biden is absolutely correct. And I think that
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point was proven right over the past few years of Biden's presidency. Bin Laden, very evil man,
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had lots of crazy ideas floating around his head, but even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
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And he was right about Biden. Joe Biden's presidency has led America into crisis.
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Three years ago, we had peace in the Middle East. We had a flourishing economy before COVID.
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We had our allies around the world stepping up to the plate, actually paying for some of their own
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defense. We had trade deals being renegotiated. We had, at least for a time, immigration declining,
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illegal immigration declining, until the deep state gummied up the works and hindered Donald Trump from
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diminishing that. Things were pretty good. Things were pretty good, remember?
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And then Joe Biden took over. And it's amazing how quickly things can fall to pot.
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Proving Osama bin Laden's prediction correct, which might actually help Joe Biden here. Because don't
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forget, Zoomers are flocking to bin Laden on TikTok. They've discovered Osama bin Laden's letter to
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America. And they're discovering this as though for the first time and saying, oh, wow, Osama was totally
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right. And we covered it on the show a few days ago. So who knows? Maybe this is all, maybe the Osama
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endorsement was actually leaked by the Biden campaign to win him support among the Zoomers.
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That would be 5D. That would be, I think, 9 or 10D chess, which, because I agree that Biden is a
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complete train wreck, he probably is not capable of playing. But who knows? That might be the effect of
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it. Now, speaking of attacks on Joe Biden, I have to sort of defend him a little bit.
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Joe Biden went viral yesterday, again, for supposedly making weird, creepy comments to a
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Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And I love your ears. I love them. They're really cool. What's your
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Catherine, what a beautiful name. That's my mommy's name. Well, nice to see. How old are you, 17?
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Six. Six. Okay. So the way this is being reported and going viral is Joe Biden compliments
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a six-year-old's body and then he creepily asks if she's 17 and he's a big creep. And he is kind
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of creepy. I'm not denying that at all. He's got the weird thing about sniffing girls' hair
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and there's the weird stuff in the Ashley Biden diary. And he's weird. I'm not denying that.
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But this video is not an example of that creepiness. It's an example of another character
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flaw with Joe Biden. But I don't think he's letching on this little girl. When he's complimenting
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her ears, I don't think that's him objectifying her. And when he's asking if she's 17, I don't
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think he's trying to take her out on a date. The character flaw that this reveals about Joe Biden
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is not his lasciviousness. It's his absolute, oily, glad-handing, simpering, back-slapping
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politician empty-suitedness. That's what it is. Joe Biden has no answer on any issues. I don't think
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he has any particular convictions on any political issues either. But what he's really good at is
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back-slapping people and joking around, making them feel like he's good old Uncle Joe.
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So what he's doing here, he's putting on a show for the other people in the room. It's not like
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he's having a private moment with this little girl. He's putting on a show for all these adults
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in the room. Hey there, little girl. You're so nice looking. Hey there. How old are you? 17?
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No, I'm just joking anyway. It's like when a politician kisses babies. That's what this is.
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And for Joe Biden, who's 700 years old now, if you're under 40, you're a baby to him.
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So it's what it is. And it's his best shot at getting elected. If Joe Biden has ever been
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elected president, it will have been because he is really good at back-slapping and simpering.
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And that's what's going on here. The hair stuff is weird, but I just think it's a distinct issue.
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And I want to be fair, okay? I don't want to just be a total hack all the time. I want to defend
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Joe Biden so that I can criticize him further. Speaking of sexual impropriety, Gavin Newsom,
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the governor of California, just accidentally said that LGBT behavior is obscene.
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He tweeted out, this was a few days ago, he tweeted out this article from the New Republic,
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and he said, a city in Tennessee has banned being gay in public. This is just the beginning. We have
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to call this out. Wow, a city in Tennessee banned being gay in public? What's that? I looked,
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and the city is right near me. It's Murfreesboro. They banned being gay in public, whatever that
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means? Well, hold on. What did they actually ban? I looked in. I pulled up the article.
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The city passed an ordinance back in June. Newsom's just tweeting about it now in November.
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Back in June, they passed an ordinance banning indecent behavior, including indecent exposure,
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public indecency, lewd behavior, nudity, or sexual conduct. In other words, the governor of
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California has just equated being gay with indecent and obscene behavior. Oopsie daisy. Gavin Newsom
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has just made the argument that the most staunch right-wing social conservatives have been making
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for a long time. What the libs have tried to argue is, no, this kind of behavior in public is not
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obscene. No, the pride parades, they're totally family-friendly. No, the drag queen story hour,
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it's just nice fellas wearing silly costumes, just innocently reading books to little kids.
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The conservatives have said, nah, man, the pride parades are creepy and weird, and they belong,
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if anywhere, they belong in a red light district in some seedy back alley club.
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They certainly don't belong on Main Street. And the drag queen story hour stuff, it's a bunch of
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groomers and sometimes actual convicted sexual criminals who just get a kick out of behaving in
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a provocative sexual way around little kids. That's really what it's about, and it's gross,
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and it should be banned. And Gavin Newsom, the Democrat just came out, and he's like, hey,
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those conservatives, they're totally right. Oops, that's what we call a Freudian slip,
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I bet you've seen it going around, that Israel, the state of Israel, has arrested an NBC journalist
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for expressing public support of Hamas and the Palestine liberation movement.
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And what you're going to hear from the liberal defenders of the state of Israel is that this is
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not true. Israel has not arrested a journalist. It's totally different. This person is, for some,
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whatever reason, this person is not a real journalist and they were siding with the terrorists
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and that's why we arrested them. And it's not arresting journalists. But that's not true. The
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state of Israel arrested a journalist. This person, not like a, you know, it wasn't Walter Cronkite,
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but this person was a freelancer working for NBC. I think it's totally defensible, but it's not
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defensible from a liberal perspective. It's only defensible from a conservative perspective. It's
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only defensible from the perspective that there's no such thing as totally neutral, balanced journalism
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without any political partisan leaning whatsoever. It's only defensible if you reject the liberal
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notion that we just need total, absolute free speech at all times everywhere with no standards
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whatsoever, man. And we can never in any way have standards or norms of decency, man. It's only
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defensible if you adopt the view that I adopted in my book, Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling
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Minds, which at the time, hello, where's my bell? Where's my bell, guys? Good grief. I don't,
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they're already on vacation for Thanksgiving. At the time I wrote that book, which now was what,
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two years ago? A lot of conservatives were embracing the liberal view that, that journalists
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are the esteemed fourth estate and they're above reproach and the journal, we have to defend the
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journalists at all costs and we need total free speech at all. No, we need, we need proper speech
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protections in line with the American tradition, in line with the best practices of our civilization,
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but we can't pretend that societies are not entitled to any standards whatsoever. We can't pretend that we
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don't, we're not allowed to have standards against indecent behavior and obscenity. That's the point
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we were just making with Gavin Newsom. In this case, the state of Israel sees this freelance journalist
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promoting Hamas, Israel's sworn enemy against which Israel is currently conducting a war, and they're
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saying, oh yeah, we're not going to allow the propagandists for our enemy, terrorists who are
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killing civilians and who currently have hostages in Gaza. We're not going to let this propagandist
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just go about spreading wartime propaganda. We're going to arrest this person. And then NBC fired the
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person. And now there's one less propagandist on the street. But I think that's totally defensible.
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If I were in the Israeli government, that's exactly the sort of thing I would do.
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There are wars, an existential war as they describe it. It's a, it's another war of independence,
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but don't look at me and tell me that the facts are not what they are. Don't try to save the liberal
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narrative as many on the center left and even on the center right are trying to do right now.
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No, we're admitting here, there's no such thing as totally neutral journalism. We're admitting that
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the distinction between journalism and propaganda is a little bit blurry sometimes. We're admitting that
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societies have the right to standards and norms. We're admitting that at times of war, particularly
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existential war, some of those civil liberties that we all enjoy sometimes get a little bit curtailed
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because if they were not to be total, a little bit curtailed, then you would lose the totality of
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those civil rights protections. Don't liberals, don't urinate on my leg and tell me that it's raining.
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This is a great teachable moment for the realities of speech in society. And it's a great opportunity
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Number one national bestseller. Thank you very much. Now I want to go back to Newsom. We took a little
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break from Newsom to go to Hamas. Now we're going to go back to Newsom. Gavin Newsom is running TV ads.
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It's Gavin Newsom, who's totally not running for president. Remember, he supports Joe Biden. He's
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not running, but he is running TV ads against Ron DeSantis ahead of the Newsom-DeSantis totally
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not presidential debate. Wanted by order of Governor Ron DeSantis. Any woman who has an abortion after
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six weeks and any doctor who gives her care will be guilty of a felony. Abortion after six weeks will
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be punishable by up to five years in prison. Even though many women don't even know they're
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pregnant at six weeks. That's not freedom. It's Ron DeSantis' Florida.
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Campaign for Democracy PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
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No candidate. I love the disclaimer here. Not authorized by any candidate or candidates
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committee, even though who narrated the ad? The ad was narrated by Gavin Newsom.
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Why is he running ads against DeSantis right now? Well, they got this debate coming up.
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This is the true undercard presidential debate. And they got the debate coming up.
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And Newsom wants to prime the public to say that he won the debate.
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He's just trying to get in his opponent's head before the debate. And why did he pick this issue?
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He picked this issue because he wants to prime a split between the DeSantis and the Trump camps.
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He wants to rally up the most left-wing base, which supports infanticide. But he also wants
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to prime this split between the Trump and DeSantis camps because Trump was asked about DeSantis'
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abortion policy in Florida. And Trump reflexively criticized it. Now, I don't think Trump criticized
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it because Trump is pro-abortion. I think Trump is the most pro-life president we've ever had in my
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lifetime. And he's responsible for getting Roe v. Wade overruled after 50 years.
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But Trump reflexively attacks whatever his opponents do. And so when DeSantis did something
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very, very good in Florida, which is protect life to a large degree, what was it, a six-week
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abortion ban? Trump attacks that. He would have attacked anything that DeSantis did. But this puts
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conservatives in a pickle because it's a wedge between the Trump and DeSantis camps. Even if
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everyone agrees on pro-life, it's just another way to get in there. And it's a reminder that Gavin
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Newsom is a very, very clever politician. He's really smart. In fact, after DeSantis accepted
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the debate, and it was clear that this was going to go ahead, Newsom mocked DeSantis. And he said,
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this is a joke. DeSantis is crazy for accepting this debate because it shows that he's not focused.
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He's supposed to be debating the other Republican presidential candidates. He shouldn't be debating
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me. Implicit, I think, was that the debate is good for Newsom because it elevates Newsom to the level
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of a presidential candidate. If Newsom could have debated Trump, I'm sure he would have.
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Trump's not going to debate anybody. So, okay, he's going to debate DeSantis, next best thing.
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But then he mocks DeSantis. He says, why is DeSantis debating me for? I'm not even officially
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running for president. I'm just the governor of California. Guy's totally unprepared. He's just
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getting in his head ahead of this debate that, the point of which I can't even quite understand here.
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I get it for Newsom. And I guess the point for DeSantis is that he wants to be seen as a fighter
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today. DeSantis is in a tough spot right now. As I've said from the beginning, I won't belabor the
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point. He always was in a basically impossible position because the best thing to recommend him
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is the best campaign pitch for DeSantis is that he's the better version of Trump. Bigger,
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better, faster, stronger. He's more focused, more of a policy wang, whatever.
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That argument only works if DeSantis can pull a significant number of Trump voters. So far,
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he has not been able to do that. So then the second best argument for DeSantis is, well,
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he's not Donald Trump, so he'll be the alternative to Donald Trump. But the never-Trumpers, some of them
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like DeSantis, some of them don't like DeSantis because they view DeSantis as a little too Trumpy,
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a little too willing to use government power. So a lot of those people who really want an
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alternative to Trump, they're looking at Nikki Haley. They were looking at Tim Scott before Tim
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Scott dropped out of the race. They're looking at other candidates. So this hurts DeSantis' polling.
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He's still the number two guy in the race. But right now, even in Florida, University of North
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Florida poll shows Trump at 60% in Florida. That's DeSantis' state where he's currently governor.
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He's currently up on DeSantis by 39 points. That puts DeSantis at 21. And DeSantis is still way up
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on his next nearest opponent, Nikki Haley. But who cares? If you're looking at 60 versus 21 versus
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six, it doesn't really matter. DeSantis could have 30 points. He would still be way behind
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Trump. And nobody wants to be number two. The other thing that's going to hurt DeSantis here,
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again, I hate to be the bearer of bad news for people who, and I really like DeSantis too. I'm
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not endorsing in the primary, but I really like the guy. I think he would be a perfectly good
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president. I think he's been an excellent governor of Florida. But what you're going to start to see
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happening is the momentum building. Now that it looks as though DeSantis is not going to go the
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distance, some people are going to start to look at someone like Haley.
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But other people who were sitting on the fence are now just going to endorse Trump.
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primary, endorsed Trump. You're seeing people who had previously endorsed DeSantis in Florida.
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Five of them, Florida representatives, flip and they vote. They now endorse Trump. You're seeing now
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Governor Abbott in Texas who was sitting on the fence. He wasn't going to pick a candidate.
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We need a president who's going to secure the border. We need a president who's going to restore
00:24:52.040
law and order in the United States of America, not letting these criminals run ransack over the
00:24:58.740
stores that you see images of almost nightly. We need a president who's going to restore world peace
00:25:05.880
as opposed to this outbreak of warfare under Joe Biden. We need Donald J. Trump back as our
00:25:14.660
president of the United States of America. I'm here today to officially proclaim my endorsement
00:25:21.720
for Donald J. Trump to be president of the United States of America again.
00:25:26.880
There he is. Okay. So you're seeing consolidation and that will probably continue. I'm not saying
00:25:34.240
DeSantis is out of the race yet, but the question is what is going to change the momentum here?
00:25:40.560
The answer previously was the debates. Just wait until the debates and then that's going to change
00:25:44.540
the momentum. Didn't happen. A lot of people were saying Trump should show up to the first debate.
00:25:48.140
You'll recall some of us said that while we might like Trump to show up to the debate,
00:25:52.600
if I were advising the Trump campaign, I would say, don't show up to the debate because it can only
00:25:57.180
hurt you. It can't really help you. It's very, very high risk, very little potential reward.
00:26:02.260
Then some people said, okay, he won't show up to the first debate, but he will show up to the second
00:26:05.460
debate. I was skeptical of that too. I said, we'll see if the strategy works. Strategy works so he
00:26:10.400
doesn't have to show up to any of them. So now the debates aren't going to make a difference.
00:26:13.260
So now what's going to change the momentum? Well, for DeSantis, he's got this Hail Mary pass,
00:26:17.800
which is the debate with Gavin Newsom. If that debate goes really well, maybe that affects the
00:26:23.560
race. If the debate goes poorly for DeSantis, that might affect the race too, in that it might
00:26:28.100
wrap it up even more quickly. What about the other candidates? The vague has a different strategy.
00:26:34.480
The vague is not going out and debating prominent left-wing politicians. The vague is going out.
00:26:40.680
You want to get back to our Hamas story. You want to get back to the real nature of journalism.
00:26:44.800
The vague is going out, and he's attacking the most notable and prominent opposition leaders of
00:26:52.440
all in the United States, namely the left-wing media. That language, they live like vermin.
00:26:58.160
Do you believe that that is, as your Republican colleague Chris Christie has said, neo-Nazi rhetoric?
00:27:05.060
This is a classic mainstream media move. Pick some individual phrase of Donald Trump,
00:27:10.380
focus on literally that word without actually interrogating the substance of what's at issue.
00:27:16.020
The word was chosen for a reason. I think that we are in the middle of a cultural war in this
00:27:19.100
country. The word was chosen for a reason. It's actually describing a series of behaviors.
00:27:23.180
You have Antifa and other related groups that have been burning down cities for the last three
00:27:26.800
years in this country. Would you describe them as vermin? Wildly violating the rule of law. We have an
00:27:30.260
invasion on our southern border. We have millions of people crossing our southern border. Let's talk about
00:27:34.580
the substance of why we have to recognize that we're not in ordinary times. Would you use that
00:27:39.660
language yourself? The vocabulary of the vermin or not is not what's important. Well, I haven't used
00:27:43.540
that language. So you can look at my track record on the campaign trail. I talk about the issues. We
00:27:48.400
all talk about them differently. But what I'm not going to do is play some game of focusing on some
00:27:52.960
word that somebody else said without ignoring entirely the substance of what we're actually talking
00:27:58.520
about. A border crisis of historic proportion. Economic stagnation we haven't seen in 50 years.
00:28:03.980
A national identity crisis and the loss of national pride in the next generation that's potentially
00:28:09.260
existential for this country. Let's talk about our dependence on China today. We're actually
00:28:13.920
talking about Xi Jinping picking on Donald Trump's word vermin to talk about that status quo.
00:28:19.000
You know what's vermin? What's running around San Francisco on a given day before Gavin Newsom
00:28:23.500
cleaned it up on a dime to roll out the red carpet for Xi Jinping. If he could do that for Xi
00:28:28.260
Jinping, he could have done it on ordinary day. This is a good strategy. This is what we want to see.
00:28:33.980
We want to see our candidates own the libs. Look at Millet down in Argentina. Javier Millet,
00:28:41.620
who is an economist. He's a professor. But Javier Millet is also a TV personality. Javier Millet is
00:28:50.360
also a guy with a silly haircut, a guy who dances up on stage. And what does he do? He gives these
00:28:54.960
interviews where he just belligerently attacks the left and people gobble it up. That's what we want
00:29:01.060
to see. And I don't think that's necessarily wrong or base. The libs run the show. They run every
00:29:07.460
institution. They've run them into the ground. They obviously despise us. They express their
00:29:13.320
contempt for us at every turn. And so, yeah, we want to see some conservatives give it right back to
00:29:20.780
them. And what's the most effective way to do that? You could do it by debating the governor of
00:29:26.740
California. It would probably be a pretty good debate. But the way you're most likely going to
00:29:32.540
get that minute clip that goes viral is in one of these exchanges online. So I think Vivek is very
00:29:40.120
sharp. He's a very strong candidate, especially for having virtually zero name recognition before he
00:29:45.620
entered the race. The question now is, can he close the gap? I don't really think there are enough
00:29:52.600
CNN hits in the world for that alone to be what closes the gap. But it could serve him pretty well
00:30:00.920
in the race. And especially if Trump does end up being the nominee, it could position him well for a
00:30:06.940
cabinet position or something else. Or if Trump is out of the race, he might even have a shot at the
00:30:11.760
title. Meanwhile, Trump says, we got to end all this. Trump tweets out, or he doesn't tweet it out.
00:30:19.180
He truths it out. He says, great polls just released. Best ever. Harvard, Harris, Trump,
00:30:24.040
67%. DeSanctimonious, 9%. Birdbrain, 8%. Is that Haley? Sorry, I've been a little behind on my
00:30:33.520
Trump nicknames this cycle. Birdbrain means, okay, 8%. Ramaswamy, 5% Christy, dead in the water,
00:30:41.800
a total loser. Interesting. Ramaswamy and Christie don't, even Christie, who Trump doesn't seem to
00:30:49.940
like very much, they don't get nicknames, though Trump does call Christie a total loser, dead in
00:30:55.440
the water. Trump ups 7% to 10% on crooked Joe Biden. RNC must save money on lowest ever ratings
00:31:00.620
debates. Use it against the Democrats to stop the steal. If not, revamp the RNC now. That last line
00:31:06.660
is the key here. Because Ronna McDaniel, who runs the Republican National Committee, only has a job
00:31:13.420
today because Donald Trump is willing to allow her to keep that post. Virtually every other candidate
00:31:20.520
is calling for her to step down. And major GOP figures and major conservative movement figures
00:31:25.160
are calling for her to step down. Trump so far has said, well, she can keep her job maybe.
00:31:29.800
But if she doesn't end these debates, maybe we got to revamp the whole thing.
00:31:37.460
And let's say you hate Donald Trump. As you know, I don't hate Donald Trump. I rather like the man.
00:31:42.300
But let's say you just hate the guy, or let's say you don't hate the guy, but you just don't want him
00:31:46.140
to be the nominee again, or however you feel. Can you really disagree with him on this point that the
00:31:53.720
debates serve no other purpose than to waste time and money, resources that could be spent fighting
00:32:00.440
the Democrats? Can you really disagree with that point? You might say, well, the voters have a right
00:32:07.100
to hear the candidates debate. Yeah, maybe. The voters don't seem to care. Because Trump's refusal
00:32:13.940
to show up has not hurt him in the polls. If anything, his polls have gone up. Well, sure,
00:32:20.220
but it's disrespectful to the voters. Yeah, again, the voters don't seem to feel that disrespect.
00:32:25.680
They don't seem to care at all. Well, I just think we ought to have more debates. Why?
00:32:34.140
Because that's what we have done in the past. Yeah, in the past, we haven't had primaries like this.
00:32:39.360
This is a totally different primary. Because for the first time in 100 years, you have a candidate
00:32:44.160
who was the president running for a non-consecutive second term. So it's totally different.
00:32:50.220
You can't say, well, that's what we did in 2008. So what's the point? You might hate him. You might
00:32:57.960
hate Donald Trump for being right about this point. But I don't think that anyone seriously can deny
00:33:02.700
that he is right here. There's no, if the debates were going to change the momentum of the race,
00:33:09.200
wouldn't they have done that in the first three debates? But the momentum of the race has not
00:33:13.680
changed at all in the slightest. Look back at the RCP, RealClearPolitics polling average.
00:33:19.320
So not even just one poll or two polls, but the average of all the polls weighted in a pretty
00:33:22.900
serious way. Going back all the way to the very start of this campaign, what was it, 15, 16 months
00:33:27.760
ago? Nothing has changed at all. Candidate goes up a little blip, goes down a little blip. That's a bet.
00:33:33.880
That's it. So what's the point? And if they don't cut this out, I mean, I'm not going to go so far
00:33:44.360
as to call for the RNC chairman to step down. But if you're Ron and McDaniel right now, you've got
00:33:50.280
to take this very seriously. I do not blame the RNC chairman for any disappointments that may have
00:33:57.780
occurred in recent election cycles. I think it's cheap and easy to blame the head of the RNC. I
00:34:04.960
don't think the head of the RNC matters all that much. I think the candidates matter. I think the
00:34:09.240
timing matters. I think the way that the elections are conducted, whether it's hackable electronic
00:34:16.620
voting machines or paper ballots, I think that matters. I don't really think whoever sits as
00:34:20.980
the chairman of the RNC does all that much. But if you're Ron and McDaniel and your only prominent
00:34:27.300
defender right now is saying, hey, lady, shape up or you're out, you probably got to take that pretty
00:34:32.580
seriously. So putting aside these elections for a moment, moving on to more consequential matters,
00:34:40.460
the Pentagon is, you want to talk about wasting money on nonsense. The Pentagon is about to finish
00:34:48.160
spending $270 million on DEI initiatives, which we'll get to in one second. First though,
00:34:55.440
my favorite coming yesterday is from Joshua McFerver, MK5RR says, bring Xi Jinping to Philly,
00:35:04.420
man. This place needs some help bad. I totally agree. Whoever wins the presidential election,
00:35:11.380
whether it's Trump or DeSantis, whether it's Biden or Newsom, whoever wins,
00:35:17.480
that person needs to promise within the first hundred days to bring Xi Jinping on a national
00:35:23.880
tour of the United States. All the major cities. We will clean up these cities for the first time
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00:35:32.960
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The DOD, the Department of Defense, is now looking at spending $270 million in taxpayer funds to
00:36:28.300
advance diversity, equity, and inclusion, and accessibility. There's a new one. It's DEIA now
00:36:33.600
from fiscal years 2022 to 2024. So you had DEIA spending in fiscal year 2022 was $68 million.
00:36:46.220
Then it jumped to $86.5 million in 2023. Then it jumped to $114.7 million in the initial request for
00:36:56.160
2024. So you're looking at $270 million. Why? For what? For what purpose does that serve?
00:37:05.380
It advances political correctness. It advances the liberal agenda. It advances wokeness or whatever
00:37:13.480
word you want to use. It in no way makes our military better able to fight wars.
00:37:22.600
How does diversity help our military fight wars? It doesn't. It doesn't at all. Unity helps militaries
00:37:29.420
fight wars. Diversity does not. Equity? How does equity help? We don't want equity in the military.
00:37:34.680
We want the strongest, baddest, toughest, craziest, most disciplined guys to go out there and kill our
00:37:41.680
enemy. You don't want equity. You don't want a leveling of anything. You want excellence.
00:37:48.860
Inclusion. Inclusion? I don't want inclusion in the military. I want exclusion. I want all the people who
00:37:56.360
are weak. All the people who are unsure about our objectives. All the people who are a little lukewarm
00:38:04.660
on patriotism. I want them all out of the military. I don't want inclusion. I want severe exclusion because
00:38:10.240
I want the very, very best. Accessibility even. I'm all for making life easier for people who have
00:38:19.780
particular difficulties in civilian life. Not in the military. I want people who are in the absolute
00:38:29.540
toughest, baddest fighting shape in the military. Listen, I don't run a four-minute mile, all right?
00:38:38.860
I've never focused as much as I probably should on physical strength, okay? I know I look like a
00:38:46.640
hulking, glistening Adonis. It's just how I was born. It's not for any working out. I'm not, I probably am
00:38:54.400
not in fighting shape to go fight a war today. That's fine, okay? If I were drafted, I'd try to, I'd try to
00:39:01.760
make it work, but I'm, I don't think that the military is for everybody. I want the toughest, baddest guys
00:39:11.180
who are going to fulfill the only objective of the military, which is to protect us, which entails
00:39:18.160
killing our enemies, okay? That's it. 270 million bucks. Not only wasted. The way this is being reported is
00:39:27.400
from this money is being wasted. It's not. It's even worse than that. It's money that is being spent to make
00:39:33.180
us weaker. How pathetic is that? Now, speaking of money grabs, Snoop Diggity-Doo Dog, as you know,
00:39:43.880
said that he was going to give up smoke. And when this ad came, he posted it to Instagram.
00:39:50.280
He said, hey, I'm giving up smoke. Please respect my privacy, Snoop. And I said, hold up.
00:39:55.560
All the fellas who'd be saying he's soft, Snoop don't play. He's going to rock it until the wheels
00:40:02.900
fall off. I thought that we might actually be preparing for a new episode. So if Snoop was going
00:40:09.580
to give up the sin spinach, maybe he'd move on to puffing something else. For those who are listening
00:40:15.280
right now, I am in fact tapping the Mayflower box. But it turns out Snoop had another trick up his
00:40:21.440
sleeve. Here it is. I have an announcement. I'm giving up smoke. I know what you're thinking.
00:40:28.840
Snoop, smoke is kind of your whole thing. But I'm done with it. Done with the coughing and my clothes
00:40:34.500
smelling all sticky icky. I'm going smokeless. Solo stole Fixed Fire. They took out the smoke. Clever.
00:40:51.440
Snoop is there, obviously high, toasting a marshmallow. It's clever. I love even the commentary
00:41:01.280
of the ad where he just looks at you and it's so officiously lame that it's actually cool and
00:41:08.000
funny again. He goes, clever. I'm going smokeless for this fire pit that I have outside. That dirty
00:41:14.680
D-O-double-G. He got us again. Maybe I should send him a box of Mayflower anyway. Maybe it's just an
00:41:23.140
opportunity. Okay. There's a note I wanted to read. Someone wrote in to me. Two days ago, a listener
00:41:30.420
wrote in. When I talk about dogs, you know I'm not a huge, it's not that I'm a dog person. It's not
00:41:36.760
that I'm a cat person. I say I'm a people person. I wrote in, or rather, I mentioned this story about
00:41:43.300
how pets don't make people happier. There's a study. I think studies are mostly bogus, but when
00:41:48.340
they back up my points, I cite them. And the study said, actually, you think pets are going to make
00:41:52.420
you happier. They really don't. Pet owners and non-pet owners are about equally happy. And I said,
00:41:57.000
this is important because there's no substitute for humanity. Maybe you can't have a child.
00:42:03.600
Maybe you're infertile. A lot of people deal with that. It's a very tough thing to deal with.
00:42:07.360
Maybe you're not called to marriage. Maybe you're not called to parenthood. But you should be
00:42:11.480
involved with people. You can be called to a kind of spiritual parenthood, like being your godmother,
00:42:16.500
godfather, maybe you're a priest or otherwise religious. But you need to be involved with
00:42:22.700
people. Dogs aren't going to cut it. And I got this letter. It says, Michael, I'm a 45-year-old mom
00:42:27.340
of dog that completely agrees with your opinion regarding dog moms. Not dog parents, as the men
00:42:33.160
rarely use the moniker. I fully fell for the lie that as a woman, I could have it all. I graduated
00:42:38.420
college with a BS in nursing and an officer's commission in the U.S. Air Force. Thank you for
00:42:42.180
your service. I had every intention of seeing the world, finding the perfect man, and being able to
00:42:46.320
work full-time while raising my children. But thanks to chick flicks and the feminist worm in my
00:42:51.520
ear, I kept looking for the next best thing and missed what was right in front of me. I fled from
00:42:56.040
a wonderful man who wanted to marry me because I had come to believe I could do better. Wrong. I bounced
00:43:01.200
from man to man, always wanting something more. I lost out on my one opportunity to have a family and
00:43:05.760
suffered the pain and loss of having to abort an ectopic pregnancy due to complications associated
00:43:10.560
with endometriosis. Even though it was a non-viable pregnancy, I grieve the loss of that little zygote
00:43:15.900
every day. As a result of my struggles, I became closed off and unable to accept love from men.
00:43:20.860
I remain single to this day. Although I have come to understand my mistakes and accept my culpability,
00:43:25.340
I know I am also a casualty of the leftist feminist ideology. I pray every day for healing and guidance
00:43:30.480
from God, for he is truly the only one who can make me whole and worthy of love. Since I'm single
00:43:35.440
and alone, I've chosen a dog as a companion for now. It was either that or cats, and I refused to
00:43:40.240
be a cat lady. I also deal with PTS for my military service and was graced with the gift of my Aussie
00:43:45.200
doodle puppy two years ago. While I love him dearly and I'm so grateful to have a watcher while I pee,
00:43:50.120
I do my very best to avoid the dog mom stereotype. I also urge every woman I talk to to avoid my mistakes
00:43:56.100
and accept that having it all is impossible. It's a cruel joke played by the left and perpetuated by
00:44:01.000
Hollywood and the media. It's so important to keep telling women that there is always a sacrifice
00:44:06.020
when we try to have it all. And the real question is, what are we willing to sacrifice? I grew up
00:44:10.620
with a working mom and dad. I can say with no hesitation, I would have preferred my mom was home
00:44:14.120
more. Any child that has a working mom is losing out on a very important bond, and it will shape them
00:44:18.800
in unimaginable ways and forever harm their life. I'm fortunate enough to still have my mom and dad
00:44:22.880
together in my life, but many adult children don't. It's the truth that the only thing I want
00:44:27.820
from my parents is their time and company. Money is important for survival, but you are so right
00:44:32.520
when you say a childless life is not worth a small increase in income. I'm living proof. I would give
00:44:37.120
up that 8% and more to be able to go back and fix the dumbest mistake of my life. I've tried to be a
00:44:42.040
parental figure by sponsoring a child through Compassion International. I write letters to her and try to be a
00:44:46.040
good influence, but it is a pale imitation of what I should have. I have a 16-year-old nephew who is a
00:44:50.380
budding artist, and I try to nurture his talent, but he lives far away, and it's difficult to
00:44:53.540
communicate with him. I take solace that my nephew is, was homeschooled by my sister-in-law, and I tell
00:44:57.900
her she's a hero every chance I get. I'm so worried about the future of younger generations and how
00:45:01.780
poorly they've been raised, many of whom have been raised by public school teachers, how warped and
00:45:05.200
poisoned their minds have become. They've become confused about everything and are ripe for the
00:45:09.380
plucking by leftist propaganda and activism. I encourage you to share my story and keep talking about the
00:45:13.920
importance of faith in God, family, children, and committed couples. These are the only things that will save us
00:45:19.440
from the abyss of leftist ideology and agenda. And then she goes on to thank me for the show.
00:45:26.420
Really good letter. Thank you for your letter. Sorry for the difficulties you have faced, but I think it was
00:45:32.000
really articulate, and you are giving people the grace of teaching by example of the things you've learned.
00:45:38.920
Really good lesson. Okay, it's Trans Tuesday. We got to get to it. The show continues now.
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