A Democratic Senate staffer was caught on camera committing an inappropriate act in a Senate Judiciary hearing room. The staffer was removed from the Senate staff and is now facing possible criminal charges. The White House has released a Christmas video featuring tap dancing.
00:06:57.860So then I flew back from Thiruvananthapuram to Dubai, Dubai to Amsterdam, Amsterdam to New York, JFK, took a cab to New York, LaGuardia, then took a flight back to Nashville Airport last night.
00:07:10.400The trip was not a total loss because coincidentally, a very close friend of mine just coincidentally happened to be getting married in India during that trip.
00:07:19.420So not a total loss, but good to be back.
00:07:21.700So much has happened since I was gone.
00:07:23.780Actually, so much has happened even since I wrote this show last night, which is that apparently someone rammed into President Biden's motorcade, which means that the number of Democrats who are getting rear-ended these days is much higher than one would have expected.
00:07:40.400And then there was even more important news.
00:07:43.140Tim Poole came out with a cover of Together Again, the famed hit by Smokey Mike and the God King, and the song hit number one on the iTunes chart, which is where you should go right now to download it.
00:07:56.700Now, there's a whole backstory to Smokey Mike and the God King, which you can hear in Tim's teaser for the song.
00:08:02.260The year is 1967, and something incredible happens to music.
00:08:07.080Smokey Mike and the God King unveiled their hit song Together Again.
00:08:10.400The song was massive, charting in both 1967 and 1968, and spent 87 weeks at number one.
00:08:18.800Needless to say, America was hooked, and a legacy was born.
00:08:25.860What inspired you to bring a song of this magnitude into the world?
00:08:29.980I think it's no secret that our band was effectively done after Ian was caught mercilessly beating that child.
00:08:36.400But I was hoping there was some way we could turn things around.
00:08:39.820Working with my mentor, Phil Labonte, I asked him, is there something we can do that's not been done that'll be big?
00:08:46.460And he pointed out, with all these greats like the Beatles, with Zeppelin, you know, and Smokey Mike and the God King, there are a lot of opportunities for modern versions that have not been done properly.
00:08:56.460Now, a lot of people have covered Zeppelin, of course, but no one's done a good modern version of Together Again.
00:10:05.520But since it was being videotaped, we needed to secure the rights to the song, which is usually just a perfunctory request immediately granted for a minor fee.
00:10:14.560Unless it's conservatives who are the ones who want to cover the music, in which case, the request gets shut down.
00:10:40.740Finally, Jeremy, who will pay any price for a joke, offered them $150,000.
00:10:46.840$150,000 just for the performance rights one time to this old song.
00:10:53.520And we were told that there is no amount of money we could offer that would get us the rights.
00:10:58.800So we had no other choice but to write a song ourselves, which is how the original Together Again was born, which is how Tim Pool's cover of Together Again was born, which is an excellent cover, by the way.
00:11:50.760But especially worth buying when you remember that you can stick it to lib music executives who hate us for the low price of only 67 cents or whatever.
00:11:59.780I don't know what a song costs to download on iTunes, but for that low price, you can get it.
00:12:03.680So please, if you love great music, if you love owning the libs, if you are not that attached to the change in your pocket, please head on over to iTunes or Amazon Music to download Together Again by Tim Pool, by Michael Knowles, and Jeremy Boring.
00:12:20.760Speaking of owning the libs, there's an American hero who deserves some credit, even though this story is a few days old at this point.
00:12:30.660Michael Cassidy, 35-year-old former Navy pilot who showed up to the Iowa State Capitol while I was gone.
00:12:37.720One of the last stories we covered on this show before I flew to India was the story of the satanic statue being erected by the satanic temple in the Iowa State Capitol.
00:12:48.320And the way that this was permitted to happen is because of a gross misreading of the First Amendment and the establishment clause of the First Amendment and the notion of religious freedom in the American political tradition.
00:12:59.940Because of a gross liberal leftist atheist BS misreading of that, there is now a statue of, sorry, there was a statue of Baphomet, a devil, a demon, up in the Iowa State Capitol until this guy, Michael Cassidy, 35-year-old former Navy pilot, went in, knocked it over, and beheaded the statue.
00:13:20.260Just would like to take a brief pause to applaud, rather, Mr. Cassidy.
00:13:30.140He's now charged with fourth degree criminal mischief.
00:13:32.960I do not advocate disturbing the public order.
00:13:40.180I do not advocate destroying property, private or public property.
00:13:44.640But, you know, it really is difficult for me to take seriously the left-wing objections to knocking down statues when the left has spent the last 5, 10, I don't know, 30 years,
00:13:56.720but especially in the last 5 to 10 years, destroying beautiful statues of important American heroes, beheading statues of Christopher Columbus, tearing down statues of Thomas Jefferson,
00:14:08.860attacking statues of Frederick Douglass, okay, and U.S. Grant.
00:14:14.040After they've been doing that, and we were told this is wonderful, this is beautiful, this is liberation, this is for equality and fairness,
00:14:20.900then a Navy pilot goes in and tears down a statue of the actual devil in the Iowa State Capitol at Christmastime,
00:14:29.320and we're told, oh, it's a terrible crime, throw him in jail, throw away the key.
00:14:35.580He said, the world may tell Christians to submissively accept the legitimization of Satan,
00:14:41.600but none of the founders would have considered government sanction of satanic altars inside Capitol buildings as protected by the First Amendment.
00:14:47.500If you want to learn more about that fact that is misunderstood today, you can go get Speechless, Controlling Words, Controlling Minds, my book on this very topic.
00:15:08.660Thank you, Mr. Cassidy, for accurately and concisely articulating the true meaning of the First Amendment, the Establishment Clause, and religious freedom.
00:15:16.680I'm sorry to say that the Republican Iowa governor, Kim Reynolds, had a completely wrong response to this.
00:15:24.600She said, like many Iowans, I find, oh, this is just the squishiest, oh, man, this is just like the perfect squish take on, sorry, I'm going to get through it without articulating my disgust the entire time.
00:15:40.320Like many Iowans, I find the Satanic Temple's display in the Capitol absolutely objectionable.
00:15:44.300In a free society, the best response to objectionable speech is more speech.
00:15:49.140And I would encourage all those of faith to join me today in praying over the Capitol and recognizing the nativity scene that will be on display, the true reason for the season.
00:16:14.820The bottom part, the bottom bun is we should all be praying, we should be recognizing the nativity scene, the creche in the Capitol, it's Christmas season.
00:16:23.020But then there's that excrement right in the middle of her answer, which is, it's a free society, so we need to, the best thing we can do is encourage the Satanists to have their stupid display up.
00:16:33.560And then we'll have our display, and then we'll have the endless displays, and that's a free society.
00:16:38.220There is no, there is no satanic altar guarantee in the religious freedom tradition of the United States.
00:16:49.240There is no satanic altar sanction listed in the First Amendment or the Establishment Clause.
00:16:56.640Total weak sauce from Governor Reynolds.
00:17:00.320I hate to be so harsh on a fellow Republican, but it's a pathetic answer.
00:17:05.060Yes, we should be offended by the satanic display.
00:17:08.480Yes, we should pray and recognize the nativity scene.
00:17:10.900We in no way have to hand it to the Satanists ever under any circumstances, okay?
00:17:16.520I, I'm not saying that I support tearing down statues and beheading them, and if it's private or public property, but what Mr. Cassidy did here is certainly one of the more justifiable acts of civil disobedience in recent years.
00:17:31.220We've heard a lot about the importance of civil disobedience when it's BLM going around murdering people for eight months, going around burning down buildings and looting sneaker stores.
00:17:40.400That's a wonderful display of civil disobedience, but when it's someone attacking an actual satanic idol on government grounds, oh, no, no, now you're attacking the First Amendment.
00:17:52.380If Governor Reynolds' response is the conservative response, well, actually, in a society, we should encourage the Satanists.
00:18:00.120Yes, yes, and then we'll have our speech, and they'll have their speech, and we'll all just have, we'll just increasing the number of Baphomet displays and conversely Christian displays until no one can walk around the Capitol because of all the little devil statues standing around.
00:18:14.700If that's the conservative response, who needs conservatives?
00:18:23.820There is no religious freedom argument that justifies the Satanic Temple's display here, in large part because the Satanic Temple admits that it's not a religious organization.
00:18:34.720The Satanic Temple openly, explicitly says that it is a mockery of religion.
00:18:40.800They don't actually even worship the devil, so they think.
00:18:43.760They do, but they just don't realize it.
00:18:45.760They're worshiping the devil ironically, which it is not possible to do because if you ironically worship the devil, you are earnestly worshiping the devil.
00:18:52.080But anyway, they think that it's all just a big joke.
00:18:54.880They're just a bunch of edgy Reddit-tier atheists.
00:18:57.840So they can't even claim that this is their sincerely held religious belief.
00:19:03.180There goes that very basic religious freedom argument.
00:19:06.680But also, religion is not just some totally subjective term that we can define into meaning whatever we want it to mean.
00:19:14.820I know that the left has succeeded in recent years in convincing people, even conservatives often, that words can just mean whatever we want them to mean.
00:19:32.760So, worshiping Satan, or not recognizing God even for that matter, is not and has never seriously been considered a matter of religious freedom.
00:19:45.620None of our founding fathers would have said that was a matter of religious freedom.
00:19:49.120John Locke, the father of liberalism, the man who promoted religious freedom, he certainly wouldn't have agreed with that.
00:19:54.900He explicitly opposed that view, actually.
00:20:26.900There's a big debate going on now between notions of America that involve Christian nationalism versus, I don't know, I guess you'd call it just total libertinism or libertarianism.
00:20:41.460They say the Christian nationalists, they're terrible.
00:21:20.220If we don't want to be a liberal leftist Satan-worshipping country, and we want to go back to being a Christian country, which is what we were founded to be and what we always have been until very, very recently, then what does that look like?
00:21:31.960Does that mean we're going to be a rigid, cruel theocracy that is bad for Jews and Muslims and agnostics even and atheists even?
00:21:41.220No, it doesn't actually means that we're going to go back to being what we were when we were a normal country, which is obviously Christian, publicly Christian, founded to be a model of Christian charity in a shiny city on a hill by people who call themselves pilgrims.
00:21:57.640But we're going to have a wide degree of tolerance for religious minorities and people who disagree, and that's a good thing.
00:22:07.020But tolerance doesn't mean that you need to put these things on equal footings.
00:22:10.080You might even tolerate these redditeer, edgy, atheist, so-called Satanists to some degree.
00:22:16.020You might tolerate them having their stupid rituals and practices in private to some degree.
00:22:23.160But what it does not mean is that we're going to put these things on equal footing.
00:23:02.520And let's sure as hell not pretend that America is a Satanist country, a Satanic country, which it at least was not founded to be, but which it will be if we start exalting statues of Baphomet in our state capitals.
00:25:20.620Bent Key is also where you will be able to watch Snow White and the Evil Queen in 2024.
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00:25:52.880Speaking of religion and government, Democrat Mayor Michelle Wu has just invited some members of the Boston government to a Christmas party.
00:26:06.200She's only invited some of them because the Christmas party is for non-white people.
00:26:11.540So white people are not allowed to go.
00:26:13.480So the only reason the white people found out about this is because City Council Relations Director Denise Dos Santos
00:26:18.600accidentally sent an email to all City Council members, inviting them to the Electeds of Color holiday party.
00:26:26.460Right off the bat, you know it's a bad thing.
00:26:40.960It was a contrivance of a woman-beating, torturing, socialist lunatic named Molana Karenga.
00:26:50.480His real name is Ron Everett, but during the Black Power Movement, he renamed himself Molana Karenga,
00:26:54.520and then he imprisoned women and put soldering irons on them and hit them on the head with toasters and electrocuted them and did all sorts of terrible things.
00:27:00.460Anyway, he invented Kwanzaa as a socialist holiday, and virtually no one celebrates it.
00:27:08.380It has been elevated in America to be a bigger holiday than it traditionally had been in Judaism, but only to make it the kind of Jewish version of Christmas.
00:27:26.220But the libs can't say Christmas because they hate Christianity and true religion and tradition and, you know, apple pie and hot dogs and anything American at all that traditionally our civilization likes.
00:27:40.700So it's the Electeds of Color Holiday Party.
00:27:44.160Now, on behalf of Mayor Michelle Wu, I cordially invite you to the Electeds of Color Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 13th at 5.30 p.m. at the Parkman House, 33 Beacon Street.
00:29:57.620So much so that the Supreme Court finally had to address the issue and this year knocked down so-called affirmative action in one narrow case.
00:30:07.880That would be in the case of Harvard discriminating against white and Asian students.
00:30:12.720And the only reason it worked is because they could highlight the discrimination against Asians.
00:30:18.860Had it only been a matter of discriminating against white people, the case would have gone nowhere.
00:30:23.120It is perfectly politically acceptable.
00:30:25.300It is politically encouraged to insult white people and to legally discriminate against them.
00:30:32.520The leftist social engineers, the racial grievance mongers, they screwed up in affirmative action by also discriminating against Asians, which gave those of us who don't want caste systems of racial discrimination the opportunity to go in and say,
00:30:51.500hold on, now listen, those nasty, terrible, evil white people, that's obviously totally fine to discriminate against them.
00:31:08.540And so here you see a Democrat mayor of a city getting caught in a really just ugly form of racial discrimination and race hatred, clearly.
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00:33:41.240So if you're just listening to this now, there's not all that much to describe.
00:33:54.780You can hear the tap dancing going on.
00:33:56.620A lot of extremely colorful outfits and personalities.
00:34:03.540One might confuse the White House here for the Senate Judiciary Hearing Room.
00:34:07.620And, you know, as one might expect from the Democrats who put such a focus on race and racial diversity, you know, it's, you know, totally out of central casting in that regard.
00:35:55.280Their feet are moving at, you know, a rapid pace while their body is just so elegant.
00:35:59.840There's the sense of stillness and confidence and integrity.
00:36:02.840That's missing in the White House video.
00:36:06.100It looks like an elementary tap class where every movement is just so exaggerated and the biggest smiles.
00:36:12.600It actually looks like the scene in Singing in the Rain with Gene Kelly where it's a flashback to Gene Kelly's bad days doing the vaudeville circuit.
00:36:25.060You know, fit as a fiddle, ready for love.
00:36:27.400And it's where all of the mannerisms are exaggerated.
00:41:06.740I'm proud of my work on several boards of directors.
00:41:10.320Yeah, boards of directors like the Ukraine oil company that was paying you as a graft to grease the wheels and enrich your father because you were selling American influence on his behalf.
00:41:23.960You're proud of your work as an unregistered foreign agent peddling American influence for your corrupt dad?