Ep. 1378 - Derek Chauvin Nearly Stabbed To Death In Prison
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Officer Derek Chauvin was stabbed nearly to death in prison by another inmate. While we were all enjoying our Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family, a former Minneapolis police officer was getting stabbed to death. While our cowardly justice system sacrificed him to the mob as a scapegoat for the death of a career criminal whose death was actually caused primarily by his resisting arrest after having ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl.
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While we were all enjoying our Thanksgiving dinners with friends and family,
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former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin was getting stabbed nearly to death in prison
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by another inmate. Chauvin is in prison because our cowardly justice system sacrificed him to the
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mob as a scapegoat for the death of a career criminal whose death was actually caused primarily
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by his resisting arrest after having ingested a fatal dose of fentanyl.
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Chauvin is currently serving 20 years in prison for second degree murder, a crime that no reasonable
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person actually thinks that he committed. He's also serving another simultaneous 20 year sentence for
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civil rights violations, whatever that means. In fact, though, he is in prison because over the
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past half century, our elite institutions have adopted the racially tinged liberationist ideology
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of avowed Marxists such as Angela Davis, Derek Bell, Kimberly Crenshaw, and terrorists such as Huey
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Newton and Eldridge Cleaver, whose black liberation movement was so lazily rebranded in recent years
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that they even kept the same initialism, BLM. Chauvin spends much of his time in solitary confinement,
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which is liable to drive him insane if he isn't insane already. But the solitary confinement is for
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his own safety. And he clearly isn't spending enough time there, as the weekend's attack shows.
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Meanwhile, the rest of us, even those of us who vocally opposed BLM in those early days,
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when it was unfashionable, even on the right, when squishes like Mitt Romney were marching with the
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terror supporting radicals, even many of us have forgotten about Officer Chauvin. And that will likely
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remain the case until another inmate succeeds at murdering him. We will forget about him because,
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one, our attention spans are short, but two, more so, we will forget about him because the reality
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of the injustice, the reality that we, in our supposedly exemplary nation of laws, sacrificed a
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man to the mob. And that reality is just too much to bear. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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wrote while I can go off and pursue my real passion, which is selling cigars. We'll get to that in just
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a moment. First, though, I know already what's happening. I know already at the left-wing groups whose job
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it is to watch our shows and fact check us and then try to get us all fired, which is jokes on them because
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we're going to be replaced by robots in about six months, so good luck firing us. But I know what they're
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doing right now. They're sitting there and they're saying, Michael Knowles, he just spread false
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information. We're going to write to NewsGuard. We're going to write to all of the left-wing groups
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that partner with the social media companies to curtail the amount of information that can go
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around the public square. We're going to write to them and say, you got to take this show off the
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air. It's misinformation. Why? Because this has already been fact-checked. Here's what the fact
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checks say. This is from the Associated Press. Claim, a new autopsy report for George Floyd has
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been released in 2023, revealing he died from a drug overdose, not from the actions of arresting
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Minneapolis police officers. Now, I want to put a pause right here. That is not actually the claim
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that I or many other conservatives are making with regard to George Floyd and Officer Chauvin.
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Note, we're not saying it necessarily was a new autopsy report released in 2023. We're not
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necessarily saying that the police officers had absolutely nothing to do with the circumstances
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of his death. This is what they do, the libs, is they lie by exaggerating or outright lying about
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the points that we're making and mix it in with the true points that we're making. The true point being
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that George Floyd was not killed primarily. He did not die primarily from Officer Chauvin and his
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knee or whatever. Here's how the AP assesses that supposed claim. False. Social media users are sharing
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a page from the 20-page autopsy report that was publicly released by the Hennepin County Medical
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Examiner's Office in full on June 3rd, 2020. It has not been changed since. Okay, who cares? What's the
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original say? While the page says that George Floyd had fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system
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and did not have life-threatening injuries, the full report concludes that Floyd died from
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cardiopulmonary arrest, not an overdose. Hold on, wait, what? Hold on. So you're admitting,
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the AP, the libs, are admitting here that the autopsy, the original autopsy says that Floyd had
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fentanyl and methamphetamine in his system, a lethal dose of fentanyl, by the way. I noticed the AP
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fact check leaves that one out, a lethal dose of fentanyl in his system. The AP further admits
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that the autopsy says that George Floyd did not have any life-threatening injuries,
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but the full report concludes that Floyd died from cardiopulmonary arrest, not an overdose. Hold
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on, wait, what? They took not an overdose out of the quotation marks. So the quote from the autopsy
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is that he died from cardiopulmonary arrest. None of us disputes that. What is cardiopulmonary arrest?
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His heart and his lungs stopped. That's what that means. It's a fancy way of saying that. Yeah,
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his heart and his lungs stopped. That's true. Now, let me ask you what you would conclude as a
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reasonable person. If you know that Officer Chauvin's knee did not cause any life-threatening
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injuries to George Floyd's body, if you know that George Floyd had a lethal dose of an especially
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lethal drug in his system, then what would you say is most likely to be the primary cause of his heart
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and lungs stopping? Would you say that the primary cause would be a police officer restraining him,
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or would you say the primary cause would be his resisting arrest for a very long time and the
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extremely lethal dose of drugs in his body? What, just, you're a reasonable person. What would you say
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is the most likely primary cause of his death? It's not complicated at all. They go on. I mean,
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this is so silly. This fact check goes on. They say, no, well, look, it just doesn't. There's
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nothing new here. It just doesn't. They don't say. Just because there was no evidence of life-threatening
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injuries on the body. It doesn't mean that, you know, like he, that Chauvin isn't totally
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responsible. And yeah, I mean, that's actually what they actually say that there. They say,
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the fact that no major bruising or damage to the muscles, cartilage, or bones in the neck was found
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as indicated under the phrase, no life-threatening injuries identified in the autopsy, does not mean
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that asphyxia did not occur, only that there are no signs of it on the body. Okay. Hey, it doesn't
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mean that our preconceived narrative that has been disproven time and time again at every,
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it doesn't mean that it's ultimately not true. It just means there's no sign of it being true.
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That's what they're saying. And as a result of it, it's really distressing because I'm not, I don't,
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I don't follow police regulations all that closely. I don't know the ins and outs of the Minneapolis
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police code book, but I do have a modicum of common sense. And it seems clear to me, the reason that
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Derek Chauvin is in prison for murder, for murder, for goodness sakes, is because he was the
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scapegoat and because our cowardly criminal justice system was afraid of the mob. That's
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clearly it. And a consequence of that is you've discouraged any sensible person from joining the
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police force anywhere in the, certainly anywhere in a blue state. You join the police force because
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you want to serve your community and you're willing to take a job that's very difficult,
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that doesn't pay very well. It's very dangerous. And you're willing to do that to serve your
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community. That's a noble thing to do. And then you find out that if you transgress the left-wing
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mob, you're going to be potentially thrown in prison and then maybe stabbed to death in prison
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because the media dishonestly portrayed you as a racist or a thisist or a thatist or an otherwise
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evil person. Why would you do it? So as a consequence of this, not only are we seeing injustice being
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faced by one man in particular, Derek Chauvin, who very likely will just be killed in prison.
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But a political consequence for all of us is you're going to see a further breakdown of law and order
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because the liberal establishment is going to cynically, but conveniently, tactically,
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take the side of criminals over the side of law and order, over the side of those who protect the
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community. And so crime rights are going to skyrocket. Property crimes are going to skyrocket.
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Violent crimes are going to skyrocket. And our political order is going to continue to fray.
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Not great. Not great. Not just for anyone involved.
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Speaking of the breakdown of law and order and former police officers, New York City Mayor Eric Adams,
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he's a former cop. He has just been accused of sexually assaulting a woman 30 years ago.
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Seems like a meaningful detail there. He's accused of sexually assaulting a woman.
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I obviously believe we should take all such accusations seriously. But hold on, 30 years ago,
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and now the woman is suing him for $5 million? Wow. Boy, did she just fall into a coma for 30 years?
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She forgot that this terrible crime occurred. She didn't ask for justice 30 years ago.
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Then as Eric Adams started to rise through the political ranks, she never decided to bring any
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charge against him, never decided to sue him in any sort of civil court. Then he gets elected mayor of
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New York City years ago at this point. Oh no, even then, we're not going to, I'm not interested.
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This man raped me, but I'm not going to even mention it to anyone. And then there's a New York City law,
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a New York law. It's called the Adult Survivors Act, which is about to expire. That says that
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essentially you can sue someone for sexual crimes without any statute of limitations. And all of a
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sudden, this woman who says Eric Adams sexually assaulted her in 93, she's seeking $5 million.
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At the time, Adams was a cop. The accuser was also a city worker, according to the New York Post.
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First, what's my take on this? My take on this is Eric Adams seriously needs to get the lesson
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to stop criticizing mass migration. You know, this guy, he didn't figure it out. He thought
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that because he was a Democrat, a liberal Democrat, that he was protected. No one was going to do to
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Eric Adams what they did to say Donald Trump. They're not going to use the criminal justice system
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to railroad this guy as a political persecution. No, no way. Well, except Eric Adams has broken from
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the Democratic Party in a major way in recent months on the issue of mass migration. And he's
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come out and he said, this migrant crisis is going to destroy New York City if Joe Biden doesn't do
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something about it. Eric Adams was criticizing not just the policy broadly, he was criticizing the
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White House. He was criticizing the people who were supposed to be enforcing the law.
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And then what happened? Then all of a sudden, the feds start investigating Eric Adams because he
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took a donation from a guy who was on the board of a thing that involved a Turkish guy or something.
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We're talking about a very small political donation on top of that. The minute I saw that,
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I said, oh, he better stop criticizing mass migration. And at a broader level, he better stop
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criticizing the powers that be. That's what this is really about. The powers that be,
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and one of their most cherished policies, namely open borders. So he starts to get investigated.
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What happens? Because I don't want to sound like I'm a conspiracy theory tinfoil hat guy,
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but days, it might have been one or two days after this investigation was announced,
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Eric Adams says he's canceling a meeting at the White House to discuss the migration crisis.
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You can read about that in the mainstream press. So you don't need to make 10,000 leaps of logic.
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It was right there. Mass migration is destroying America. It's destroying New York City in
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particular. Joe Biden's got to stop this. I'm going to have a meeting with the White House to
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stop mass migration. Eric Adams getting investigated by the feds five seconds later. Okay, I'm not going
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to have my meeting anymore. I'll cut it out. And then he gets hit with this obviously ridiculous
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sexual assault lawsuit. Clearly a money grab. Adams, for his support, is saying, I've never met this
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woman. If I did ever meet this woman, I certainly have no memory of it. I do believe. I'll break with
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some right-wingers who dismiss all of these suits out of hand. I do think some of them are legit.
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I am inclined to believe women when they make these claims. I'm not inclined to believe women when they
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make these claims 30 years later, when they stand to make $5 million, and when we're living in an age
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where men are presumed guilty until proven innocent. Now, speaking of Democrat politicians,
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Joe Biden has a novel theory on how war broke out in the Middle East. We know the timeline.
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October 7th, Hamas leads a pogrom against Jews in Israel, takes a bunch of hostages, kills well over
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1,000 civilians, rapes, kills, pillages, and burns. Horrific terror attack. Then State of Israel responds
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by bombing Gaza, by leading a ground invasion into Gaza. Then there's a ceasefire. The ceasefire
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seems to be going okay as of the airing of this show today. Hamas releasing some of the hostages
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in exchange for a temporary ceasefire from Israel. Joe Biden says, no, no. What that timeline is missing
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is why Hamas had the terror attack in the first place. And the reason is, you see, no one knows this,
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Joe Biden was about to bring peace to the Middle East.
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I cannot prove what I'm about to say. But I believe one of the reasons why Hamas struck when
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they did was they knew that I was working very closely with the Saudis and others in the region
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to bring peace to the region by having recognition of Israel and Israel's right to exist. You may recall
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when we did the G20 about a little while ago, I was able to get a resolution, a statement passed through
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there, saying we're going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way through the Middle East
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into Saudi Arabia, Israel, et cetera, and all the way up to Europe. Not the railroad, but it would
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Can you pause it right there for a second? Hold on. Before he goes on, I just want to make clear.
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He says he was going to build a railroad from Riyadh all the way to Saudi Arabia.
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Yeah. Isn't Riyadh, is that how, where would that, wouldn't that railroad just be
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kind of like a circular, it'd be, he doesn't, I think he's a little, well, I think we all know,
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Joe Biden is a little bit confused as to how the geopolitics of the Middle East works. Keep going.
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There's overwhelming interest, and I think most Arab nations know it,
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in coordinating with one another to change the dynamic in their region for longer term peace.
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Peace, and that is what I'm going to continue to work on.
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Okay, now people aren't, they're not going to believe it. They're not going to know, but actually
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I was about to bring peace to the Middle East. That's why people aren't going to believe it,
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but that's what it was. That's the ticket. Yeah, that's the ticket.
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Donald Trump, the last president, brought peace to the Middle East.
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There were no new Middle Eastern wars dragging the United States into further conflict that broke
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out under his watch. Actually, what they got was a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Israel.
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Actually, what they got was the Abraham Accords. Actually, what they got was relative peace in the
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Middle East. Actually, what they got was ISIS was eliminated. Actually, what they got was Iran was on
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its heels. Actually, what they got was Syria was on its heels. Actually, what they got was everyone
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stayed real quiet and real cautious because no one knew what Trump was going to do.
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Was Trump the biggest dove ever, didn't want to be involved in any wars, or was Trump the craziest
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war hawk in the world who was going to drop the Moab and assassinate top generals left and right?
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He was both. Was Donald Trump the leader of the anti-war party, an opponent of the uniparty in
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Washington, D.C., those warmongering neoconservatives? Donald Trump was going to be
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a new breath of fresh air. Donald Trump, a Republican, attacking George W. Bush for starting
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wars in the Middle East. Donald Trump saying, I want no new wars. Was he going to be that guy,
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or was Donald Trump going to be the guy who appointed John Bolton as his national security
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advisor, John Bolton, who has wanted to bomb Iran since he was in the womb? Who was Donald Trump?
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He was both. He was unpredictable. And his foreign policy led to relative peace in the Middle East.
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Joe Biden has led to an outbreak of war all over the place, in Eastern Europe, in the Middle East.
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Worst outbreaks of war in either of those places in a long time. And so how does Biden explain it?
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Biden, I was just in New York over the weekend. Biden is like, I think Family Guy made this
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point once. Biden is like an Italian guy in a hypothetical situation.
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Now, listen here. You know, listen, if I had been there, if I had been there in the situation
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you're describing, oh, what I would have done, you wouldn't believe what I would have done.
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I would have done this, that, and the other thing. But it's always hypothetical.
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What did you do? It has to be hypothetical for Biden because he's failed.
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It doesn't have to be hypothetical for Trump because he did it.
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Yes, but listen here, fellas. I can't do a New York Italian Joe Biden.
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Listen, people aren't going to believe it. But what I would have done,
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what I, come on, Jack, what I would have done had I been able to do the thing that I wanted to do,
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I would have brought total peace in the Middle East. Listen, Jack, if my aunt had testicles,
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she'd have been my uncle. You know, listen here, pal, if my grandma had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
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All right, Jack. Exactly. Exactly. In the hypothetical world in which
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the premises of the left are correct, then things would work out peachy. But the world is different
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from the way the libs believe the world is. And that's why the conservative policy works a lot
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Shop the deals now at dailywire.com slash Black Friday. Speaking of Joe Biden and holy wars, I guess,
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Joe Biden gave a Thanksgiving proclamation this year, as the presidents usually do.
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But he left an important person out of it. That would be God. On Thanksgiving,
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Joe Biden, in his proclamation, did not give thanks to the person to whom the thanks is supposed to be
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given in the very holiday of Thanksgiving. He forgot the big guy. When the Thanksgiving holiday was
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formally instituted, that was 1863, it was done by Abraham Lincoln. There were obviously many other
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official and semi-official observances of Thanksgiving prior to Lincoln, but Lincoln
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inaugurates the holiday as we know it today. And what does Lincoln say? He says, we're going to set
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apart and observe the last Thursday of November, quote, as a day of Thanksgiving and praise to our
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beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. Even during the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln gives
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thanks to God. He says, no human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these
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great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who while dealing with us in anger for
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our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. Obviously, George Washington recognizes Thanksgiving.
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Obviously, Thanksgiving goes all the way back to the pilgrims who came over to this country on the
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Mayflower, the puffing of which is a wonderful way to observe the Thanksgiving holiday and every day
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of the year. But I digress. By my count, only two presidents in American history ever have given a
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Thanksgiving proclamation that omitted God to whom we owe thanks. That would be Joe Biden and Barack Obama.
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They're the only two. What does this mean? Does this mean that it's just the Democrats have always been the
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party against God? Well, implicitly perhaps, but they at least would pay lip service to God. Jimmy Carter
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certainly acknowledged God in his Thanksgiving proclamations. Bill Clinton acknowledged God in
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his Thanksgiving proclamations. This is a new thing for Democrat presidents. It's Obama and then Biden,
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Biden being Barack Obama's third term. What does that mean? It means that liberalism today
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is anti-Christian. You might say liberalism was always anti-Christian. That's my view. I think
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that liberalism from the very, very beginning marked a rebellion against God and against God's order of
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things and against the Christian religion. I think this is beautifully summed up in John Milton's
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Paradise Lost when Satan is down in hell and he says, well, it's better to serve. It's better to reign in
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hell than to serve in heaven. The mind is its own place and can make a hell of heaven and heaven a
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hell. That principle of total self-sovereignty, self-ownership, which underlies so much of
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liberalism, classical and modern, is I think ultimately quite anti-Christian, anti-God, satanic even.
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Yeah, I think that. But a lot of people don't think that. A lot of people like liberalism where they
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say, I like the old liberalism, but I don't like the new liberalism. I like the classical. I don't like
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new Coke. I like classic Coke. I like classic liberalism, not new liberalism, but whatever.
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Okay, some people like that. At the very least, you have got to acknowledge now that liberalism
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today and one suspects into the future is anti-God. And the reason it's anti-God doesn't require a PhD
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in theology, doesn't require any delving through any dark conspiracy theories. It's because liberalism
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replaces God with a new God. And that new God is the God of self, the ability to do whatever we want.
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It replaces a political order that views our role as one of gratitude and loyalty and obligation to our
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family, to our community, to our country, and ultimately to our God. A political order of humility
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that recognizes our own fallenness and brokenness and need of one another and ultimately need of God
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and our insufficiency to reconstruct the world. The fact that we were not there when God laid the
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foundations of the earth and that we are bound by the moral order. It replaces that political order
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with one that says, well, you can do whatever you want. You're primarily not a creature with loyalty
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and humility and obligation, but one that is entitled to all sorts of rights, new rights that you never
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even conceived of before. Whatever rights you can name, you're perfect just as you are. You ought to
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celebrate not humility, but pride. We ought to have whole parades for pride, actually. Once considered
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the queen of all vice, now it's going to be the vice of all queens, as Andrew Klavan says. Now we're
00:25:43.040
going to make that the highest virtue. That's what liberalism is today. Maybe that's kind of what
00:25:50.940
liberalism always was. I don't know. But it's certainly what it is today. Don't take my word for it.
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Just look at the actions of the last two Democrat presidents. Speaking of Thanksgiving,
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it goes even deeper. Not only do we cut God out of Thanksgiving now, we cut Thanksgiving out of
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Thanksgiving. Loudoun County Schools, this is I think the wealthiest county in the country.
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The superintendent of Loudoun County Schools celebrated Thanksgiving with a message to families.
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Here's what he wrote. Loudoun County Superintendent Aaron Spence,
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quote, many families will celebrate Thanksgiving. Amid this busyness, I hope you and your loved ones
00:26:35.560
find time during the Thanksgiving break, regardless of whether you celebrate this holiday or not,
00:26:42.700
Come again? Thanksgiving now is a sectarian controversial holiday only celebrated by some
00:27:00.480
I would get it if he said, let's say we're a Jewish holiday. And the Loudoun County Superintendent says,
00:27:07.200
hey, to all the people who celebrate, you know, happy Jewish holiday. I know that a lot of you are not
00:27:12.160
Jewish and therefore don't celebrate. So I want to just tell the people who do celebrate, you know,
00:27:16.020
have a good time. And for the people who don't, you know, ignore this message. That would make sense
00:27:21.300
because relatively few people celebrate the Jewish holidays. I even sort of get it with
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Christian holidays. I don't really because America was founded as a Christian nation quite explicitly
00:27:33.600
and has been practically a Christian nation for all of our history until very, very recently.
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But even then, I could understand, you know, hey, Merry Christmas. And even if you don't celebrate,
00:27:44.660
I hope you have a good time too. Okay, I sort of, you know, if you're Muslim or Jewish or whatever,
00:27:48.260
atheist or something, okay. I almost get that. I still think it's a Christian nation. We should
00:27:52.360
have public celebrations of the religion that animates our entire civilization. But okay,
00:27:58.800
I sort of get that. But hold on. Thanksgiving is a national civil holiday. It's a holiday that
00:28:11.180
celebrates the country. You're telling me that there are people in our country right now who
00:28:17.580
refuse to celebrate the country, the founding of the country, give a little thanks. We say,
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oh, it's nice. Thank you to our, for our country, to our forebears who settled the country and
00:28:29.300
ultimately to God for all of his blessings. You're telling me there's people in this country who don't
00:28:35.800
celebrate that? Well, that's a problem to me. If you're here and you hate the country and you don't
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celebrate it, you should leave. At the very least, at the very least, you should not be acknowledged
00:28:48.820
by a public official, the superintendent of a school district. Hey, if you like America or if
00:28:56.320
you hate America and you wish death to America, listen, whatever it is, I hope you have a great
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time. No, if you wish death to America, you should go away. We don't want you here. Go, go, get, get
00:29:06.140
out. But whose fault is it? This is what makes the story most ironic. It is the responsibility of
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schools to inculcate civic virtue, to inculcate patriotism, to inculcate that love of country
00:29:23.120
and that attitude of gratitude for your country. The fact that this man is admitting there are
00:29:30.000
people who don't celebrate Thanksgiving is an admission of his own failure. And we know that
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Loudoun County Schools has failed quite a lot. We know that the office of the Loudoun County
00:29:39.800
superintendent has pushed radical transgender policies in the bathrooms. That led to rapes
00:29:46.220
that then the office of the superintendent covered up in Loudoun County. After the story broke,
00:29:51.620
Daily Wire broke that story, that led to Glenn Youngkin getting elected in Virginia. Okay,
00:29:56.460
we know that something is rotten in Loudoun County. But even I am somewhat surprised at this
00:30:02.800
naked admission of a philosophical rot so deep that they say, yeah, we're not educating your students
00:30:11.500
at all in the most basic things. Sometimes people think that the most basic point of education
00:30:17.040
is to teach, of public education, is to teach kids reading, writing, and arithmetic. That's not true.
00:30:22.060
You should do that. That's what public education certainly should entail. But the point of public
00:30:28.080
education, this has been understood going back to the ancient Greeks, going back to Plato,
00:30:31.960
all the way up to the present, is to create a good citizenry that is capable of conducting itself
00:30:41.420
within the regime under which it lives. That's the point of public education. This guy says,
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yeah, I blew it. Though it wasn't an accidental blowing it. Let's not forget, these radicals in
00:30:52.660
education for the last 50 years have been trying to undermine the country. That's been the point.
00:30:57.500
And I guess, so they've succeeded at that. They've succeeded at gutting an essential aspect of a
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country, especially of a republic. Now, speaking of Thanksgiving weekend and controversies,
00:31:11.560
a major controversy that cropped up that creates a problem for conservatives. And the controversy was
00:31:17.560
this. Dolly Parton showed up to some football game and she was dressed like a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader.
00:31:24.160
And she was wearing her, you know, short shorts and her highly cropped shirt. And she did a
00:31:29.620
performance. And Dolly Parton is 77 years old. And if you look at it, she looks, she looks good.
00:31:41.240
But I don't think anyone says Dolly looks bad. They might say she, this is disordered because Dolly
00:31:47.440
Parton is 77 years old. 77 year olds should not be dressed like this. They should not be dancing like
00:31:51.120
this. And so that's disordered. But also Dolly Parton is a kind of beloved figure. Even conservatives
00:31:55.540
love Dolly. She's not one of these radical leftists. So what are we, conservatives, concerned with order
00:32:04.620
and propriety and etiquette and, you know, gracefully aging and family values? And what are we
00:32:13.640
to think about Dolly's performance? Here's my tip. Dolly Parton is a unique case exempted from all
00:32:26.980
rules of etiquette. And that's that. I am not denying that 77 year old women should not dress like
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that. I am not denying family values and proper aesthetic sensibilities and the good, the true,
00:32:44.740
and the beautiful. I'm not denying any of those things. I am not being hypocritical, I think,
00:32:52.080
by making an exception for Dolly Parton. In fact, I think I'm articulating a much more conservative
00:32:58.340
point, which is that. Exceptions prove rules and rules have exceptions. That's the way it works.
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This is true in politics and philosophy and theology. Modern libs want everything to be really
00:33:16.960
clear and have really clinical regimented rules so that you can understand the universe in five
00:33:22.520
bullet point manifestos on the back of a napkin. Nope, that's not how it works.
00:33:26.200
And Dolly Parton, one of the other great contributions, among many that she's made to
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this country, she's proven that point. It is completely unacceptable for a 77 year old woman
00:33:37.440
to do this. It is wrong. It is disordered, except for Dolly Parton. Dolly Parton, she gets to break
00:33:45.100
the rules. That's how it goes. My favorite comment on Friday is from Theo Lombardi. Theo Lombardi,
00:33:52.580
who writes, I saw you, Michael, I'm assuming, flying home for Thanksgiving. I hope you had a
00:33:57.540
great time with your family. Oh, that's wonderful. I'm glad that you should have come up and said
00:34:02.520
hello. Though I do appreciate it sometimes if I'm with my family. Sometimes people don't want to come
00:34:07.340
chat. But I always love chatting. So anyway, that's really great. You might have seen me.
00:34:13.060
I don't know which airport you saw me at. I did fly out of LaGuardia. And I want to say,
00:34:16.780
if you happen to be flying out of the Southwest terminal at LaGuardia anytime soon, you're so
00:34:23.960
lucky. The Southwest terminal at LaGuardia deserves a Michelin star. The food in that terminal. Look,
00:34:30.200
there's a beautiful water display, a light display. It's really comfortable when you're sitting with
00:34:33.780
your screaming kids. And the food. I had a pastrami sandwich. Just a simple pastrami rye bread mustard
00:34:41.120
from juniors. It was excellent. They had a juniors right there. Then I had some stromboli. Oh, man,
00:34:46.540
the stromboli. Absolutely fabulous. Then there was all this other stuff. Hill Country Barbecue was
00:34:50.940
there. It was, wow. It was a great experience. So I hope you enjoyed that same experience that I did.
00:34:58.600
Speaking of female singers, an AI robot singer has taken the world by storm. This is a person,
00:35:07.200
is a character created by AI who then wrote a song. The computer wrote a song and then the computer
00:35:16.940
sang the song and the computer talked about the song. Here she is. Hello world. My name is Anna
00:35:23.920
Indiana and I'm so excited to share my music with you. Here's my first song, Betrayed by This Town.
00:35:30.620
As an AI singer-songwriter, everything from the key, tempo, chord progression, melody notes, rhythm,
00:35:39.660
lyrics, and my image and singing is auto-generated using AI. I hope you like it.
00:35:45.860
Sitting at my favorite cafe, sipping my tea, it's Saturday. Thinking about all he's done
00:35:56.080
to everyone. This town is full of broken dreams, shattered hopes and silent screams. Somebody please
00:36:08.720
help me. The trade by this town, let's tear it all down. We're all just destined to fall. I've lost
00:36:25.900
it all. Everyone's freaking out. The libs, you know the libs. Anytime there's anything new,
00:36:34.540
they say, oh, this is so exciting. Oh, I love this new thing. Even if it'll destroy civilization,
00:36:38.480
that's great. And the conservatives, you know what the conservatives is going to destroy the,
00:36:42.360
where the West has fallen, everything's gone to pot. Okay. For starters, I can't wait.
00:36:49.180
You're looking at this now. If you're watching this, you're going to say, well, the graphics
00:36:54.460
aren't perfect. The mouth movements aren't quite right. She still looks kind of like a little bit
00:36:58.720
like a cartoon. Yeah, that's true. But don't worry. Six months from now, this thing is going to be
00:37:02.700
perfect. Think about this. When the AI imaging tools came out, was it six months ago, a year ago at
00:37:09.420
most, they couldn't do hands. They couldn't figure out how many fingers were on our hands. And now all of a
00:37:14.080
sudden they can do this. So the AI is improving at a shockingly fast rate. So they'll fix all that
00:37:20.620
stuff soon. And then for me, I think, look, I spend a lot of my time. I read the news. Then I
00:37:29.120
interpret the news. I think, okay, what does this new story really mean? And then I reference,
00:37:37.240
you know, some ancient philosophy maybe, or some medieval historical event. And I draw a parallel.
00:37:43.080
And then I say, okay, this is how I should think about this news story. And then I write it down
00:37:47.080
in a script that I have to send to Mr. Davies and Professor Jacob and producer Danny. And then we
00:37:51.400
pull clips. And then I have to send, then they pull all the clips. And then I come in here and I sit
00:37:56.460
here every morning for like an hour and I do it, you know, and I say what I think about it and I
00:38:03.160
gesticulate and I have different intonation and I change my cadence. And I'm not going to have to do
00:38:10.660
any of that. I'm not going to have to do any of that because a computer robot clone is going to
00:38:15.340
do all of that for me. And then I can move on to my true passion, which is selling quality cigars
00:38:20.860
at competitive prices. Okay. That is great. I can't, I look forward to that. That'll be wonderful.
00:38:28.500
But I guess my only fear is this. That's the best case scenario. I would still probably keep doing
00:38:37.280
my show. You know, I still think I can outfox the computer probably, at least for a little bit
00:38:41.920
longer. But like the libs, the lib news presenters who just read the talking points that they get in
00:38:47.580
their emails, the MSNBC people, the CNN people who you can play all their shows back to back.
00:38:53.000
They all say the exact same thing in the exact same wording. It's AI should take their jobs.
00:38:56.960
That's just creating efficiency in the market. My fear, here's where I'll flip to the conservative
00:39:03.380
side and talk about how the West has fallen, is the primary application for this stuff is not going
00:39:09.760
to be music. It's not going to be political news shows and commentary and lectures. And it's not
00:39:17.500
going to be any of that. You know what it's going to be. The primary application for this technology
00:39:23.740
is going to be, three words, weird sex stuff. We all know it. The moment that they perfect this
00:39:32.020
thing, and the moment that they perfect the sex robots, and you know that's coming, the human race
00:39:37.060
is going to cease to exist. Because a ton of, it's not even, it's going to be weirdos by definition.
00:39:43.000
But it's going to be a lot of people who otherwise would not have become weirdos, but they're going to
00:39:46.480
be lured in by this. They're going to, they're going to use this new technology so differently
00:39:53.540
from the way that people are using pornography now, that it's going to be similar to the distinction
00:39:58.620
between a playboy in the 1970s and internet pornography of the last 20 years. It's going to
00:40:04.300
be so tempting because it's, the thing is going to read your mind. It's going to construct an image
00:40:09.260
of a person that's exactly to whatever preferences you have, and it's going to construct the language
00:40:15.380
model and all the other stuff, and then they're going to have sex robots, and then no one's going
00:40:19.240
to get married anymore, and no one's going to have kids, and we're all going to go extinct. And that's
00:40:22.480
unfortunate. It's too bad. But speaking of babies and the future of humanity, we have a little bit of
00:40:28.240
good news here, which is that 32,000 more babies were born each year for the last couple years
00:40:37.140
thanks to the Dobbs decision, thanks to the overruling of Roe v. Wade, and the subsequent
00:40:43.760
abortion bans in various states. 32,000 more babies per year. This is because of the state abortion
00:40:49.740
bans, according to the Institute of Labor Economics. An average of 2.3% more babies were born in states
00:40:55.420
with abortion bans compared to states without abortion bans. The group that saw the largest increase
00:41:00.060
in births were women in their 20s, black women, and Hispanic women. So that's a funny little line,
00:41:04.400
you know, if the libs complain about this, you can point out, oh, you're complaining that more
00:41:09.620
black babies are being born. You don't want all those black, you want to get rid of those black
00:41:12.980
babies, and you want to kill them, because you don't want them to be walking around, right, because
00:41:15.740
you don't like the black people. And then they'll, you know, it probably won't work. It's similar to
00:41:19.860
the Democrats are the real racists line. They kind of just shirk it off, but it's a funny line in any case.
00:41:25.860
There's a downside here. The downside is the number of abortions has remained about the same.
00:41:29.600
The number of abortions is actually up slightly, according to some measures, and that's because of
00:41:35.980
one, new clinics opening, new abortion clinics, you know, infanticide factories in the pro-abortion
00:41:41.860
states. It's also because of the shift in technology. Most abortions now are done with abortion pills,
00:41:47.200
so that increase probably would have happened anyway, probably at a higher rate. So we got to deal
00:41:51.840
with the abortion pills issue. But what does this tell us? It tells us two things. My buddy,
00:41:57.160
one of the great Twitter accounts, Eudaimonia, pointed out that what this shows you is that
00:42:01.960
people were using abortion as contraception. Because with an abortion ban, you'd expect that
00:42:09.100
number of new babies born to be much, much higher. But what the studies have concluded is that some
00:42:14.380
people who otherwise would have become pregnant and then had abortions in states where abortions
00:42:18.800
were illegal, they just used other contraceptive methods to prevent them getting pregnant in the
00:42:22.740
first place. So even though we were told for years that under no circumstances are people using
00:42:28.040
abortion as contraception, that obviously they were doing that. And in fact, I think we all know
00:42:33.720
people who have done that. But furthermore, what this tells you, and this is much more important,
00:42:37.540
is the law is a teacher. Politics is downstream of culture. Sure, that's true. There's a lot of truth
00:42:44.420
to that. It is at least as true to say that culture is downstream of politics and the law is a
00:42:50.240
teacher. And when you change the laws, that creates incentives and disincentives and creates
00:42:54.060
new kinds of behavior. And that's not just an abstract academic concept. There are 32,000 human
00:43:01.480
beings, people born every year. So two years now, we're talking 64,000 human beings so far who one day
00:43:08.900
will look up and be able to say, I am alive today because of the courage of five justices on the Supreme
00:43:18.200
Court to overrule Roe v. Wade. Beautiful thing. Beautiful thing. The rest of the show continues
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