Ep. 1386 - 4th Republican Debate Summarized In About 5 Mins
Summary
Four Republicans who won t be the presidential nominee in 2024 faced off in the CNN primary debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis opened the debate by going after Nikki Haley, who fired back at him, and attacked Vaynerchuck.
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Last night, four Republicans who won't be the presidential nominee in 2024 faced off in Tuscaloosa.
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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis opened the debate by going after Nikki Haley,
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who fired back at DeSantis and attacked Vivek Ramaswamy, who brutally attacked Nikki Haley,
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who was defended by Chris Christie, who most people forgot was even there.
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Speaking of things to stream, I watched that whole debate last night.
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Even though it is just completely pointless and will not have any practical effect,
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And I suppose it could tell us, assuming they don't assassinate Donald Trump,
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it could tell us who Trump could pick for a VP.
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It could tell us who Trump might pick for a cabinet position if he were to be elected.
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I'm irritated at the debate for a second reason.
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Second reason being, as those of you watching right now can see, I am not in my studio.
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But for whatever reason, they scheduled my speech at Clemson at exactly the same time
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So those jerks in Tuscaloosa took views away from my speech.
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But you can catch that speech on the YAF YouTube channel.
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That is a speech called Kids Are Not Commodities on IVF and surrogacy,
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which is a controversial issue, not just for the libs, but even among conservatives.
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I get back to my hotel very late at night, and I watch this whole debate.
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What stood out to me right from the outset was that Ron DeSantis has had enough of Nikki Haley.
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Nikki Haley has been taking Ron DeSantis' prospective donors, prospective support base,
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prospective campaign network in the early primary states, and he's had enough of it.
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I am sick of Republicans who are not willing to stand up and fight back against what the
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You've got to be willing to stand strong, and you've got to be willing to beat these people.
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I'm the only one running for president that has beaten these people on issue after issue.
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We beat the teachers' unions when we did school choice.
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And you have other candidates up here like Nikki Haley.
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She caves any time the left comes after her, any time the media comes after her.
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I did a bill in Florida to stop the gender mutilation of minors.
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She thinks it's fine, and the law shouldn't get involved with it.
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If you're not willing to stand up for the kids,
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if you're not willing to stand up and say that it is wrong to mutilate these kids,
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then you're not going to fight for the people back home.
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I thought this was a very strong answer in terms of the words that Governor DeSantis was using.
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I thought this was a really strong point on the actual issue,
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which is Nikki got in trouble a couple of days ago for saying she doesn't think the law has a place
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That is a view held by a significant minority of Republicans,
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especially in blue states, on the coasts, in the more, I don't know, the Wall Street set of Republicans.
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But it's certainly not a view held by the base.
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The base believes that we need to stop transing the kids, that it's just wrong, and we've got to cut it out.
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So DeSantis, I think, articulated that view, and I do think that that happens to be the correct view.
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and I think this might be in part why Governor DeSantis is having trouble connecting,
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is his answer, in the content of it, it's very strong.
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The tone of the answer is, oh, and come on, and I did this, and, you know, we did, come on, I'm the only guy, and da, da, da.
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A lot of people believe we should just vote on people's records, and these little things, like even the tone of one's voice, seems so trivial.
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And I do wonder if that, in part, is the reason why he had trouble connecting.
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The nearest I've seen to this sort of problem in a presidential debate actually goes back over 10 years ago, goes back to John Huntsman, another guy, actually, I really like.
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His voice was kind of a little bit, it had a tone that was almost like he was complaining, and it was a little, it was a lamentation.
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Instead of, you think of a candidate like Trump, who did very well at the debates, even though sometimes the semantics of his answers were incoherent.
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One, because he's funny, he's quick on his feet.
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Yeah, look, I'm here, you're going to be locked up if I get elected.
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No one even believed that, but it just sounded cool.
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So I think this might help to explain why DeSantis could have all the right answers.
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He could do all the right things in Florida, but he's still failing to connect.
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Nikki Haley actually had quite a bit more ease on the debate stage last night.
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You had DeSantis and Vivek versus Nikki and Christie, which makes sense because that means you have the more right-wing, populist side of the GOP versus the more centrist establishment side of the GOP.
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So Christie, though he seems to hate Vivek Ramaswamy the most on that stage, he took his first attack to go after Ron DeSantis.
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And it was very clear from the outset he was trying to relive the 2016 debates when he destroyed Marco Rubio.
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And you will see a strong relationship when I'm the president of the United States.
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Elizabeth Cook, this is the problem with the first three debates.
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Ron gets asked a question and he doesn't answer it.
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You said, would you send American troops as commander-in-chief?
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And he went on to this minute and 30-second hosanna about his knowledge of the military and what we need to do and didn't answer your question.
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Look, when you're president of the United States, you're not going to have a choice whether to answer that question or not.
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Your generals, your secretary of defense, your secretary of state, your national security advisor are going to present plans to you.
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They're going to look at you and say, do we go or don't we, Mr. President?
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And you can't give a 90-second speech about your military service as vulnerable as it is.
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So would you send American troops in to rescue those hostages?
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And he said, here's the canned 30-second speech from Rubio.
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And then Rubio just unbelievably, unbelievably just launched into the exact same 30-second speech again.
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I don't think Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing.
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He was going after DeSantis in the same way he went after Rubio by saying this guy is stiff and he's attempting to be a slick politician.
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He's attempting to evade the answers and just use his focus group remarks.
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What that answer tells me, though, is Christie knows he's not going to be president.
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He probably always knew he was not going to be president, but politicians can delude themselves, so 50-50.
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This is the last debate before the Iowa caucuses.
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This dude somehow made it throughout the whole process before the primaries and caucuses kicked off.
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We're now down to four people, and Chris Christie is on team Nikki Haley.
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In fact, he's so clearly on team Nikki Haley that after Vivek Ramaswamy attacked Nikki for saying that she, I don't know, she was giving some remark about the military.
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And Vivek said, you're bought and paid for by the military industrial complex.
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This was a theme that recurred throughout the night, which we'll get to in just a second.
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Chris Christie comes out in white nights for Nikki Haley.
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We're now 25 minutes into this debate, and he has insulted Nikki Haley's basic intelligence, not her positions, her basic intelligence.
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She wouldn't be able to find something on a map that his three-year-old could find.
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Look, if you want to disagree on issues, that's fine.
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But I'll tell you this, I've known her for 12 years, which is longer than he's even started to vote in a Republican primary.
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And while we disagree about some issues and we disagree about who should be president of the United States, what we don't disagree on is this is a smart, accomplished woman.
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And there's Nikki actually played it off pretty well.
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Because moments prior, Vivek brutally attacked Nikki Haley, which we'll get to in a second.
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Vivek, like Ron DeSantis, has had enough of Nikki Haley.
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Now a lot of the neocons are quietly coming along to that position, with the exceptions of Nikki Haley and Joe Biden,
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who still support this, what I believe is pointless war in Ukraine.
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And I think those with foreign policy experience, one thing that Joe Biden and Nikki Haley have in common,
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is that neither of them could even state for you three provinces in eastern Ukraine that they want to send our troops to actually fight for.
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These people have, I mean, she has no idea what the hell the names of those provinces are,
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but she wants to send our sons and daughters and our troops and our military equipment to go fight it.
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So reject this myth that they've been selling you, that somebody had a cup of coffee stint at the U.N.
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and then makes eight million bucks after, has real foreign policy experience.
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She doesn't know the names of the provinces that she wants to actually fight for.
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And there's a puppet name that's right there, the donors.
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I saw people on both sides of Vivek reacting to this in extreme ways.
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I think Gen X boomers don't really like Vivek, and they find him to be a little precocious,
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But you're also seeing some divide on just the two parts of the party.
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The more restrained part of the GOP foreign policy base really likes Vivek, really doesn't like Nikki Haley.
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The more interventionist, imperialist side of the GOP obviously just hates Vivek.
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You know, he does pretty well among the Buchanan-Trump kind of set.
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He obviously does not do well among the neoconservatives.
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But worth pointing out, I think Mike Cernovich made this point too.
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Because if he had launched this attack and then Nikki had just leaned into the microphone
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and named three regions of Ukraine, he would have looked terrible.
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But he took the bet that she couldn't name the regions, and she couldn't.
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And I don't know, you probably can't name the regions either.
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You know, I was an undergraduate when Vivek was at the law school.
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The guy has had a reputation as a sharp fella for a very, very long time.
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The moment, the only moment that anyone is going to remember is going to be between Vivek
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People think it was the stupidest moment of the debate.
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People think it was the greatest moment of the debate.
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It is where Vivek held up a pad of paper with all of his notes from the debate.
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And I think that that's what people need to know.
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This is a woman who will send your kids to die so she can buy a bigger house.
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Using identity politics more effectively than Kamala Harris is a form of intellectual fraud.
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And it actually means that there's our donor puppet masters wielding their puppet right up here tonight.
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And I reject the use of identity politics in this party.
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And I'm sick and tired of the double standards the people of this country are too.
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Having two X chromosomes does not immunize you from criticism.
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So some people, the more clubbable, let's all get along type of Republicans, are going to look at this and say,
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This is so beneath the tenor of a presidential debate.
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First of all, there is nothing beneath the tenor of these presidential debates.
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These are the stupidest shows that have ever been put on in the history of the United States,
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including every reality show of the mid-2000s, all of it.
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These are pointless, stupid, nasty, shallow debates for the most part.
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And even if you don't like that kind of a stunt, ask yourself.
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It's the only thing that anyone is talking about.
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Vivek, whom no one had heard of until he ran for president.
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He has cemented himself firmly on the conservative, populist, I guess, pro-Trump side of the GOP.
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Trump is almost certainly going to be the nominee.
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This guy, I don't know, this guy could be Secretary of State or something.
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He's just done an excellent, excellent job in this race.
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I'm not sure that people are now going to view Nikki Haley as a Joe Biden or a Hillary Clinton,
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The attack was that after she left the UN position,
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she took some board positions and gave some corporate speeches,
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I'm not sure that it's the most precise attack.
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But, especially we've learned from Donald Trump,
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these little one-word, two-word lines kind of stick.
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is because Nikki is at a low point among conservatives.
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When Nikki was at the UN and she was beating all the worst people in the world,
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She's also had more moderate and centrist positions and actions in her political career
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And right now, days after she said, and she's now trying to walk it back,
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but days after she said that if a child wants to transition, you should let the parents do it.
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Vivek knew that Nikki is at a very, very low point among conservatives,
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so he's going to pounce and try to destroy her political career.
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All of this to say, not one debate has ever moved the needle on the polls in any meaningful way.
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Not one campaign ad, not one speech, not one rally, not one indictment,
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In as much as the needle has moved, Trump has gained a little bit of support.
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Vivek went from no name recognition to some support.
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So the Democrats have resigned themselves to the fact that Trump is the nominee.
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I'm not sure that the Democrats really believe that.
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That's the line you're hearing out of the DeSantis campaign and the Haley campaign.
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Because fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice.
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The point is you're not going to fool me again, to quote George W. Bush.
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The Democrats said, let's get Trump to be the nominee.
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Bill Clinton called Donald Trump and said, you should run for president.
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The Republicans should nominate the craziest, wackiest guy in the whole party.
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And then Hillary's going to just waltz right into the White House.
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So I think they're probably going to be a little more cautious this time.
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And so the Democrats have a new attack on Trump.
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The new attack is that Donald Trump, okay, he's going to be the nominee.
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Trump's opponents, the really squished Republicans and the libs, have a new line of attack.
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And that is that Donald Trump is going to be a dictator.
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Robert Kagan, who's a foreign policy fixture in Washington, he said on Friday,
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and this is a Washington Post editor-at-large, he said,
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a Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable.
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And not increasingly likely, increasingly inevitable.
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Robert Kagan's father was a professor of mine, an amazing, incredible professor,
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I expect more of the Kagan family than this kind of hysterical nonsense.
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Ishan Tharur, the fear of a looming Trump dictatorship.
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The Atlantic announced on Monday that it's going to have a special issue that warns of the grave
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and extreme consequences if Trump were to win in 2024, argues that Trump and Trump is imposing
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an existential threat to America and the ideas that animate it.
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One, the libs believe that Trump is going to be the nominee.
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They were going after DeSantis for a little while.
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They'll see, I guess, if she can show movement in her poll numbers.
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Biden is already treating Trump as the nominee.
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Trump is already treating Trump as the nominee.
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Now the Washington establishment is doing that too.
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The other scarier conclusion I draw from this is the purpose of this kind of language is to
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There is no evidence that Trump is going to be a dictator.
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We know that there's no evidence of this because Trump was already elected one time.
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In fact, I wish he had wielded power more effectively.
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I'm not really knocking him too much, but I wish he had done even more.
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We know that he won't stay in office forever because he left office voluntarily,
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And there was a lot of evidence that they rigged the election.
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So the only reason to say this guy, he's a dictator, he poses an existential,
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that is to say, life or death threat to our country, is to justify violence against him.
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The liberals justify violence against a whole lot of people.
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That's why they encourage their militant wing to go attack us on campuses.
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I got a very nice welcome here at Clemson last night.
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When I went to Pittsburgh in the spring, Antifa militants tried to blow me up.
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And why did the Antifa militants try to blow me up?
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Because for years we've had mainstream Democrats say, you can't be civil with Republicans.
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You've got to push back on them in public spaces.
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You've got to go to their homes where the children sleep and scream and intimidate them.
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They robbed Trump of his administration, in some ways, by constantly trying to undercut
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it with all these bogus investigations that were cooked up based on nothing, where the
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FBI colluded with the Democrats and with the Hillary Clinton campaign to use fake evidence
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to spy on Trump's campaign to stop him from getting elected in the first place.
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He gets elected to undermine his administration and the ability to actually get things done.
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And then they change all the election laws and rig the election so they can boot him out.
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So they're going to indict him a bunch of times at the local level, at the federal level.
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They're going to try to put him in prison for 700 years.
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And if that doesn't work, there's nothing left to do.
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What are you going to, the only thing you can do is say that guy is going to be a tyrant.
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He's going to kill the country, existential threat.
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To be clear, do you in any way have any plans whatsoever, if we're elected president, to abuse power, to break the law, to use the government to go after people?
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You would never abuse power as retribution against anybody.
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I want to close the border, and I want to drill, drill, drill.
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I'm going to be, I'm going to be, you know, he keeps, we love this guy.
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He says, you're not going to be a dictator, are you?
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We're closing the border, and we're drilling, drilling, drilling.
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I love all that stuff, and it's a very funny answer.
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First, he says, oh, you mean like they're doing?
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I mean, am I going to do all the stuff that they're doing right now?
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But what he comes to, the final point that he comes to is, he says, I'm not going to be a dictator, other than on day one.
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He's saying, no, please don't stop saying this, Donald.
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Okay, so you're not going to be a dictator, right?
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This answer is the 2024 version of, I don't want to live in a country that Donald Trump is president in.
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It's that quick-witted response that people aren't taking totally seriously, but they're not not taking seriously.
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And it gets to something that's totally missing at the GOP debates right now, where everyone's just so tense.
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Am I going to go after my political enemies by wielding government?
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You mean like they've been doing for my entire public life?
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Although, you know, one of my favorite figures is Al Capone.
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He's just toying with everyone here, including with Sean Hannity.
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You saw this especially after, I think it was the fourth indictment.
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Trump comes out and he gives a press conference and he's cool as a cucumber.
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Do not underestimate the importance of that quality.
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At a time where everything seems so uncertain, people are so tense.
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And I'm not saying that's the reason why he's 50 points up in the GOP race.
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Probably that is just a structural matter of him running effectively as an incumbent this time.
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And his reshaping of the Republican Party and the fact that he's been a big celebrity for 40 years.
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But that ease, that puts at least his supporters at ease, that's kind of funny, that's entertaining, that's not so tense, that's not the same old script that we've seen before.
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Right now, the liberal establishment just looks very, very small.
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I didn't even get to it on the show yesterday because it's just more of the same.
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But in any other administration, at any other time, this would be absolutely shocking front page international news.
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Joe Biden has been caught receiving monthly payments from Hunter Biden's shell corporations.
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The shell corporations that were used to peddle American influence overseas, shake down some of the worst people in the world.
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Remember, Joe Biden said, oh, you think my son, who's scooping up millions and millions of dollars from influence peddlers all around the world, you think that's evidence of my corruption?
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James Comer, House Oversight Committee, has discovered direct monthly payments from Hunter Biden's Wasco PC business account,
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which received payments from Chinese state-linked companies and other foreign nationals and companies going to Joe Biden's personal accounts.
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As Comer says, this was not a payment from Hunter Biden's personal account, which that would be weird, too.
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Usually, children don't give their parents money.
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Certainly not when their parents are U.S. senators and vice presidents and presidents, national politicians for 50 years.
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Usually, maybe if your parents fell on horror times, you'd give them some money.
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Even if it were a personal account, that would be weird enough.
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This is actually from Hunter's business account that received money directly from all these shady Chinese state-linked entities.
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He says, Joe Biden claimed there was an absolute wall between his official government duties and his family's influence peddling schemes.
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And much like the GOP presidential debate, it doesn't really matter.
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It doesn't matter because there's no new information here.
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There's firmer, more obvious evidence of something that we all know was already happening.
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If the original Hunter Biden scandal did not jar you, did not get you to turn on Biden for his corruption, then nothing will.
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When the Hunter Biden scandal broke years ago at this point, we knew that Hunter was being paid insane sums of money by Ukrainian oil companies.
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We knew that he was raising a ton of money out of China.
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And we know Hunter is a complete degenerate who doesn't have any practical hard skills in any profession.
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So, any money he's getting is obviously just because of his last name.
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And we know that Joe Biden's brother does the same thing.
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We know that Joe Biden's other brother does the same thing.
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We know that Joe Biden said he never talked to Hunter about his business.
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We then heard Hunter admit that he talked to Joe Biden about his business.
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And then we saw on Hunter Biden's laptop that he actually not only talked to Joe about the business, but talked about how he gave Joe a bunch of money.
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If you were not persuaded by that, then you're going to support Joe.
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And why are Democrats supporting Joe right now?
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Because they think he's an upstanding, public-minded guy?
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They're doing it because he's the representative of their team.
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By the standards of a guy who worked in New York real estate in the 80s, I think he's clean as a whistle.
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Compared to Biden and the Clintons, I think he's clean as a whistle.
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And so, now you've got a battle between two sides, both of which are speaking quite openly about corruption.
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The fact that our governing ideology now is deeply anti-American, anti-Christian, anti-truth.
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You know, we talk about the critical race theory in the schools and the gender ideology in the schools.
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And this is the real decay of the American regime.
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But actually, for all of history, going back to great observers of these phenomena like Polybius, the real marker of a regime decaying is the turn away from public interest to private interest.
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This is the difference between a monarchy and a tyranny.
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It's the difference between an aristocracy and an oligarchy.
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It's the difference between even a democracy, a republic such as perhaps we once had, and mob rule.
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One governs according to virtue for the common good.
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We have open public corruption at the very highest levels of government.
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And the clearest marker there for the decay of the regime is that the American people just shrug their shoulders.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Batman for president in 9655, who says,
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Calling Ibram X. Kendi a real professor is like calling the professor from Gilligan's Island a real professor.
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Calling Ibram X. Kendi, Ibram X. Kendi, is like calling the actor from Gilligan's Island a real professor.
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His name is Henry Rogers, but Henry Rogers sounds too white.
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And then when he got married, he and his wife, who also had a totally normal sounding name,
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It's a very lucrative part to play while you go out there and do a little soft shoe for the liberal elite
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and make millions and millions of dollars doing it.
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They gave this guy, who has absolutely no business at a university,
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they gave him his own center, his own institute, the Center for Anti-Racist Research,
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which is finally being investigated because it was completely bogus.
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It was nothing other than a sinecure for Ibram Kendi and a little line for his resume
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so that he could go on TV and with his fictional name and his fictional credentials,
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go on and give a fictional account of race relations and history.
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Unfortunately, right now, Republicans are too weak to pose a serious threat to Joe Biden.
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We have a great Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
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We have, I guess, a majority on the Supreme Court, kind of.
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But I don't even know how long we're going to have the Republican Speaker in the House
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because Kevin McCarthy, former Speaker, ousted unceremoniously by Matt Gaetz,
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has decided he's going to leave Congress by the end of the year.
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I mean, if you're ousted by your own conference in this brutal, historic way,
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yeah, you're probably going to get out of Dodge.
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You're not going to go back to being a backbencher congressman.
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This guy's been in leadership for like over 10 years.
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That means that our five Republican majority, is it four or five Republican majority?
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Then you got George Santos being expelled from Congress, and a lot of Republicans voted for it.
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Look, I think Santos is probably guilty of all the stuff they're accusing him of.
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I think it's very serious crimes that Dante puts in the very pit of hell.
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The crimes that the guy committed, I think, are really, really bad.
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Democrats do the same stuff, in some ways, in a more egregious way.
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They knock George Santos for lying about his ethnic background, for saying that he had a Jewish grandma,
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Meanwhile, Elizabeth Warren becomes a Harvard professor by pretending to be Native American,
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and then she finds out she's one 10,000th, one 50 billionth Cherokee or something,
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and she touts this as evidence that she actually is Native American.
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Bob Menendez is engaged in way more corruption than George Santos, at least at a much higher scale.
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And the reason for that is, now you've got a five-vote majority.
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Republican Bill Johnson is also leaving to become a college president.
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Boop, okay, now we're down to a two-vote majority.
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By the way, Patrick McHenry, the guy who was the acting temporary speaker,
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We're really, are Republicans going to be able to hold on to any power at all?
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Now, speaking of Congress, there was a scene that took place in Congress this week
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that even with my low opinion of Ivy League administrators
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This would be the scene in which Ivy League university presidents
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hemmed and hawed over whether calling for the genocide of the Jews
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At Penn, does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Penn's rules or code of conduct?
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If the speech turns into conduct, it can be harassment.
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I am asking, specifically calling for the genocide of Jews, does that constitute bullying or harassment?
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If it is directed and severe or pervasive, it is harassment.
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It is a context-dependent decision, Congresswoman.
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Calling for the genocide of Jews is depending upon the context.
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This is the easiest question to answer yes, Ms. McGill.
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So is your testimony that you will not answer yes?
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If it is, if the speech becomes conduct, it can be harassment.
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Conduct meaning committing the act of genocide?
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Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate Harvard's rules of bullying and harassment?
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You've got multiple representatives of the Ivy League here.
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One man's genocide is another man's freedom fighter, right?
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And I'm all for protecting a wide range of debate at universities.
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But what we're seeing here, the reason these university presidents can't answer this is
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Maybe they do hate the Jews, but maybe they don't.
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I don't think that's what is motivating their answer.
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What we're seeing here is not just that they're trapped by their students, which they are.
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They're very afraid of upsetting the students because the students run the show now at the
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What they're trapped by primarily is their own free speech rhetoric.
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And if it were a different issue being discussed here, the Republicans would be on their side
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because they're saying, look, we don't, you can say whatever you want to the university
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If they actually held to that rule, I would give them credit.
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I actually wrote a whole book about how I disagree with free speech absolutism
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called Speechless Controlling Words, Controlling Minds.
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We'll have to bring a bell on the road next time.
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They are saying that we don't, unless you actually commit the action of genocide, that
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And then they kind of knew that was too extreme.
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And the reason they're trying to protect free speech here is because they know that the
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university students are very pro-Palestine and anti-Israel.
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So they want to suck up to them a little bit as well.
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We also know that they hate conservative speakers on campus.
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One of the people who was at this hearing, I was invited to this school this semester,
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and then the administration threw up a ton of roadblocks because they don't want me,
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a completely mainstream conservative, an ordinary American conservative who just articulates
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views that were almost universally held for almost all of history, and especially in our
00:47:11.620
But if I go out and say, hey, from the land to the sea, kill all the Jews, then this, well,
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actually, look, it's context dependent, you know, and actually we need to protect the
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I want to give them as much credit as I possibly can.
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If they seriously have bought their own rhetoric on free speech, if they seriously believe
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that a university, an educational institution, is not entitled to have standards and norms
00:47:38.820
and to distinguish between truth and falsehood and good and bad, then they have no business
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And two, they violated one of the biggest rules, one of the most important things you
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never teach a child, which is never believe your own press releases.
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The liberals in the 60s who ran the free speech movement, they didn't really believe that.
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They just wanted to destroy conservative norms and standards and articulate their subversive
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But the moment that they were able to do that and crack up the old conservative standards,
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They immediately reinstituted all the speech codes on their terms to exclude us from the
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public square and to enshrine their views as sacrosanct and holy.
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Professor Jacob has promised me, my concussed associate producer who's on the road with
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me and is right there, just right off camera, he has promised me that we will have an iPad
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for today's show, even though we are on the road.
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And if he does not, he's getting another concussion.
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I wouldn't want to throw a punch at Professor Jacob.
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