The Libs are trying to cancel a kid at a Kansas City Chiefs game for allegedly wearing blackface. But there's nothing inherently wrong with blackface, and it's just a fact. Plus, my Media Matters highlight of the day: Sarah Silverman doing a blackface minstrel impression.
00:01:21.920He also wore a headdress because it's the Kansas City Chiefs.
00:01:28.500The journalists who ran this are obviously totally awful, despicable little left-wing cretins for picking on this kid.
00:01:37.320But the conservatives are missing something, too.
00:01:41.700Because the conservative defense of this kid thus far has largely been confined to the observation that he wasn't actually wearing blackface.
00:17:03.660But in order for Howard Zinn, in order for the leftists to rewrite history as they have, they had to at least have some inkling of the real history in the first place.
00:17:13.760And when we repeat platitudes, nonsense, fantasies, like Kevin McCarthy is saying here, we've never fought any war for any land whatsoever, then we are absolutely vulnerable to the left-wing intellectual attacks.
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00:22:42.420Now, we live in a different time, and we need to recognize that we can't just dig up the corpse of Ronald Reagan, try to reanimate him like a zombie, and have him solve all of our problems.
00:22:51.720And one thing, one little bit of Ronald Reagan wisdom that, if it was sufficient in the 80s, is no longer sufficient, is this quote that the Biden education secretary was trying to repeat unsuccessfully.
00:23:05.060And the nine most frightening words in the English language are, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.
00:23:56.920This is why we have another principle called subsidiarity, which is the notion that decisions ought to be made at the most familiar and local level possible, where they can be efficiently and properly made and done.
00:24:12.260And the fact that conservatives have treated this funny little Reagan quip as, you know, the gospel truth, as the 11th commandment or something, is one of the reasons why we've lost.
00:24:23.840Because we've ceded the political power to the left.
00:24:27.380And then the libs wield that political power, and we stand on the side, and we snicker.
00:24:31.380And we say, you libs, you unprincipled, tyrannical libs.
00:24:36.660You think the government's going to solve your problems?
00:24:39.180Yeah, the government's solving their problems.
00:24:41.600The conservatives are the liberals' problem.
00:24:43.760And their use of the government is solving their problem by kicking us out of the public square, and harassing us, and surveilling us, and taking away our rights, and showing up at our homes, and arresting us for nonsense.
00:24:58.260The solution to that problem is to wield government properly with justice, and not just cede the whole public square to the libs.
00:25:08.600Now, speaking of limits on government, there's a clip that just went viral of some lady in Ireland.
00:25:13.880This would be Irish Green Party Senator Pauline O'Reilly discussing the battle between good, on the one hand, and freedom, on the other.
00:25:28.820When you think about it, all law, all legislation is about the restriction of freedom.
00:25:35.920That's exactly what we're doing here, is we are restricting freedom, but we're doing it for the common good.
00:25:41.260You will see throughout our constitution, yes, you have rights, but they are restricted for the common good.
00:25:47.820Everything needs to be balanced, and if your views on other people's identities go to make their lives unsafe, insecure, and cause them such deep discomfort that they cannot live in peace,
00:26:04.380then I believe that it is our job as legislators to restrict those freedoms for the common good.
00:26:10.360Okay. Obviously, conservatives recoiling at this woman who is ultimately totally wrong, but let's not allow her wrongness to lead us into another error, which is to reject the common good.
00:26:28.580We hear this. We say, oh, no, here comes some left-winger with their common good talk.
00:26:33.900The common good, it's totally bogus. We need to forget about the common good.
00:26:37.280We just need freedom, freedom. Ayn Rand, freedom, baby.
00:26:42.140No, no. The error that this woman is making is not in suggesting that we ought to recognize a common good and pursue it.
00:26:52.640The error that this woman is making is not recognizing that some limits on our choice ought to be placed by the government in service of the common good.
00:27:05.400That's been true in every state ever throughout all of human history.
00:27:08.940The error that this woman is making is in believing that freedom, true freedom, and the common good, the true common good, are in opposition to one another.
00:27:18.500They are not. They are not in opposition to one another.
00:27:22.620True freedom is, as Lord Acton has said, and I've mentioned it many times, even Lord Acton, beloved of the libertarians, has pointed out that true freedom is not the ability to do whatever you wish, but the right to do what you ought.
00:27:39.480But Donozo Cortez, the counter-revolutionary philosopher, has pointed out that true freedom consists in the perfect will, being able to perfectly will something.
00:27:54.520And being able to perfectly will something, which is in a way to do what you want, is contingent upon perfect intellect, perfect knowing.
00:28:08.880This is why, this definition, which is probably foreign to a lot of people who went to Kevin McCarthy, how to be a young Republican school, which leads people into all sorts of errors, unfortunately.
00:28:20.600This definition is probably a little bit foreign, but it's obviously the right one.
00:28:24.600Because, as Donozo Cortez points out, if freedom is merely the ability to choose between opposites, without any prejudice or preference whatsoever, with total neutrality, and total, as like that lady would be using it, total freedom to choose.
00:28:43.500If that were what freedom really were, then God would not be free, because God cannot sin.
00:28:49.100So, that is obviously not what freedom is.
00:28:53.760It's certainly not what we in the West have thought that freedom has been, for the vast majority of our history.
00:29:01.760Only God is perfectly free, because only God has perfect, the perfect ability to will, contingent upon perfect intellect.
00:29:16.620That's through something called sanctification.
00:29:18.400But this understanding of freedom is what explains that famous John Adams quote.
00:29:23.680When John Adams says, our Constitution is only built for moral and religious people, this is exactly what he's talking about.
00:29:30.360Our Constitution, which secures for us the blessings of liberty, only works if we are moral and religious.
00:29:38.260That is to say, if we have disciplined our will, which is contingent upon educating ourselves and increasing our intellect as much as we can.
00:29:52.000Of knowing the right things, of knowing the right things, and thereby, subsequently, doing the right things.
00:30:02.140That's the only way we can have freedom.
00:30:04.040Without that, our Constitution is totally worthless.
00:30:10.660What this woman is really trying to say, this Irish woman, she's trying to say that we need to, or the good version of what she's saying is, we need to limit licentiousness in pursuit of people flourishing.
00:30:27.080The error that she is really falling into here is, she is saying, we need to limit actual rights that people have to support a vision of the common good that is totally wrong.
00:30:39.700Namely, stopping, I don't know, transphobia or something.
00:30:43.500Whatever the new liberal hobby horse is.
00:30:45.860In order to preserve error, in order to allow people to further degrade themselves in society, and fall into fantasy and confusion, we need to limit your actual rights to learn, to know, to speak, to live in the right way.
00:31:10.800But the principle that there are limitations on our ability to choose that must be placed in service of a good which is worth seeking in a political community, that part is obviously true.
00:31:22.920We do not want to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
00:31:26.380It's amazing how sometimes a half-truth can come out to a total wrong, as that woman is proving.
00:31:31.240Now, here's a good example of using the government to fight back.
00:31:33.440Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has survived a major impeachment attempt on him, has just initiated an investigation into my publicists over at Media Matters.
00:31:46.680This following allegations of potential fraudulent activity related to the Media Matters hoax that it perpetrated on X and Elon Musk that could very well take down the whole social media platform based on a lie that Media Matters promoted.
00:32:02.140Now, the moment that that hoax came out, Elon Musk said, I'm going to file a thermonuclear lawsuit on Media Matters.
00:32:12.580And I tell you I'm torn on this because, well, Media Matters is obviously in the wrong, and they've probably violated the law.
00:32:18.560They also publicize a lot of my best content, so, you know, I'm torn here.
00:32:23.560Maybe I can just directly hire my Media Matters assignees, and they can just work here out of the Daily Wire office.
00:32:30.480I love that Ken Paxton is doing this because he's showing that politicians are not just going to rely on private businessmen to fix political problems.
00:32:46.160The total domination by the left, by the unaccountable activist, largely private sector left, working hand in glove with the Biden administration so that the liberal establishment can have the private entities, so-called private entities, do their dirty work, like we found out in the Facebook files.
00:33:08.820And thanks to Elon Musk's releases when he took over then Twitter.
00:33:16.380And the conservatives who have followed the usual three bullet points of how to be a young Republican school that leads you into all sort of historical and philosophical error, they say, well, we just, we don't want to get the government involved.
00:34:25.520And that's why the Daily Wire, we live that out because we're in the private sector.
00:34:30.820And so we make movies, and we make cigar companies, we make razor companies, we attack left-wing corporations, and we rally, and we persuade the public to get laws changed and to elect different people.
00:34:44.540And so we do all that from the culture, absolutely.
00:34:47.700But unfortunately, that phrase has been used in recent decades by lazy, cowardly Republican politicians to shirk their duties.
00:34:55.180The Republicans, they get elected, and they say, hey, no, politics is downstream of culture.
00:35:19.580The least that the politicians can do is follow up and investigate and use their government agencies in the pursuit of justice to help out the private sector, which is leading the way.
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00:37:32.260Anybody, you know, I would, I'd be happy to support virtually any one of the Republicans, maybe not Vivek, but the others that are running would be acceptable to me, and I'd be happy to vote for them.
00:37:43.780I'd be happy to vote for a number of the Democrats, too.
00:37:46.020I mean, it would be an upgrade from, in my opinion, from Donald Trump and perhaps also from Joe Biden.
00:38:15.500Mitt Romney, former GOP nominee for president.
00:38:18.800We nominated this guy for president, and he says that he would consider voting for a Democrat over two of the candidates, including the leading candidate in the GOP field.
00:38:33.360He says, look, I like all the candidates in the GOP field except Vivek.
00:39:33.240Donald Trump, in many ways, is much more conservative than any Republican we've seen in my lifetime.
00:39:40.340But he's also a rich guy from New York who has certain liberal positions.
00:39:44.820And you would think it's not totally out of the realm of possibility that Mitt Romney could vote for him in the abstract until you remember that Mitt Romney hates Donald Trump because Donald Trump made fun of Mitt Romney.
00:39:57.120Don't forget, Mitt Romney endorsed Donald Trump in 2012.
00:39:59.740Rather, Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney in 2012.
00:40:02.220And Romney was thrilled to have Trump's endorsement.
00:40:04.660He said, well, I just end up doing Phil Hartman's impression of Ronald Reagan when I try to do Mitt Romney.
00:40:09.720But in any case, Mitt Romney said, you know, Donald, you're a more successful businessman than I am.