In a 4-3 decision, the Colorado Supreme Court has officially kicked Donald Trump off the presidential primary ballot. Is this a good or bad thing? Is it an attack on democracy, or is it a defense of democracy?
00:01:56.720Welcome back to the show. More allegations of plagiarism against the Harvard president. And when I say
00:02:20.960allegations, I mean just proof because we're talking about actual written evidence that we see. Harvard
00:02:26.360president plagiarizing so much that she actually plagiarized the acknowledgements of one of her
00:02:31.460books. She plagiarized a thank you in addition to all the scholarship. We'll get to that in a second.
00:02:35.960First though, do you remember when way back in the year 2000, it was an attack on democracy that the
00:02:44.400Supreme Court decided that election? But now that the Supreme Court of Colorado is attempting to decide
00:02:51.080the 2024 election that is saving democracy. Isn't that a little strange? I think it was Edmund Smirk who
00:02:56.820first pointed that out to me on Twitter. There doesn't seem to be much logic here.
00:03:03.300We are being told that this decision specifically is a great defense of democracy.
00:03:12.040It's just yet another reminder for the handful of people out there who haven't gotten the message yet
00:03:17.080that when the libs say democracy, they don't really mean democracy. Because democracy just means whatever
00:03:23.10050% plus one of the people vote for. That's democracy. Democracy is popular rule.
00:03:30.840Sometimes the people vote for liberal stuff. Sometimes the people vote for anti-liberal stuff.
00:03:37.660What the libs do is they conflate liberalism and democracy. But democracy is not necessarily liberal.
00:03:45.820When the Hungarian people elect Viktor Orban, that's not liberal. And what happens?
00:03:51.100What happens is all the libs around the world say it's an attack on democracy. Democracy no longer exists in Hungary.
00:03:56.140What are you talking about? Orban is extremely popular and most people voted for him.
00:04:00.040Or voted for his party and made him prime minister.
00:04:02.080He's very popular. He is an expression of democracy. He's not liberal.
00:04:08.880Nayib Bukele, the leader in El Salvador. He's not liberal. Very popular. Not liberal.
00:04:16.120Maloney, when she got elected in Italy. Very popular. She did not run on a liberal platform.
00:04:21.300The Brexit in the UK. Very popular. Very democratic. Much democracy. Very popular. Not liberal.
00:04:28.500And the same goes for Donald Trump. When liberalism and democracy come into conflict, the libs will always go with liberalism.
00:04:36.360And that's fine. That's their prerogative. But what's so deceptive, what's so dishonest, is they say they're doing it in the name of democracy.
00:04:43.060They hate democracy. They only like democracy when it's convenient for them, when it exalts liberalism.
00:04:48.480And there's a lesson here for conservatives, by the way. The libs recognize that substantive goods matter at least as much, actually more, than procedural norms.
00:05:00.100So democracy is the procedural norm. Liberalism is the substantive good. In their minds, I think it's a substantive bad.
00:05:06.280But that's the difference, right? You use democracy as the instrument to get liberalism.
00:05:11.020And the liberals are saying, well, the goods are more important than the means.
00:05:16.740Conservatives, we get so confused. We say, there are conservatives out there who say, well, look, we have to enshrine a Satan statue in the Iowa State Capitol because of the procedural norm of some misinterpretation of religious freedom.
00:05:32.320We have to. Look, I know Satan's bad and everything, but it's much more important to have procedure.
00:05:37.520I don't care what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it for some reason.
00:05:42.440I don't know why. I will not defend to the death the right of Satanists to worship Satan.
00:05:47.300I won't. I won't defend it at all, actually. I certainly won't give my life for it. That's crazy.
00:05:55.680The kind of society that we have, the norms and standards according to which we live, actually matter much more than the mere procedure of how we get those things.
00:06:04.840Now, speaking of the rule of law, Governor Abbott down in Texas has just signed a groundbreaking law.
00:06:39.140Well, what it really means is it's, of course, it's illegal to enter illegally, but that's a federal law and Joe Biden's not going to enforce federal immigration law.
00:06:47.820But until now, Texas has basically had its hands tied to enforce the law on its own border.
00:06:54.280So now there is a state law that will allow the state of Texas to enforce federal immigration law because the feds don't actually want to do it.
00:08:15.400Because a system of law only has power if it is credible.
00:08:22.020A system of law only has power if it is actually enforced.
00:08:25.060So if the law is not enforced, then it doesn't matter.
00:08:29.280You pass as many extra new laws as you want.
00:08:32.740The entire system has lost its credibility.
00:08:35.160So what the Texans are counting on here is that, well, there's still some credibility at the state level, even if there's not at the federal level.
00:08:42.920But we're not going to last very long if our system of laws has no credibility.
00:08:47.980Speaking of crimes, a story that you're not seeing reported very many places, a former family vlogger named Ruby Frank just pled guilty to four felony counts of second-degree aggravated child abuse, according to video footage of the hearing that was uploaded to YouTube.
00:09:19.800And had a family channel called Eight Passengers.
00:09:23.680And I guess what she did was she would just film her family and all of her little kids.
00:09:27.960And she's now been charged with six counts of felony child abuse and pled guilty to four.
00:09:36.100Her business partner, Jody Hildebrand, was arrested in August after cops found one of Frank's children with open wounds after running away from the business partner's home.
00:10:25.640Even people who aren't making money on it, even people who are just farming likes, who just get a rush of excitement when they see people liking their pictures and then they exploit their children to get all these likes.
00:10:39.680Your job as a parent is to protect your children, and part of protecting your children means not uploading 10,000 pictures of them to the Internet where a bunch of who knows who are going to look at them, are going to watch them, it's going to expose them to some degree of notoriety and fame.
00:10:55.400It might make them look foolish, it might—you might be deriving your clicks out of mocking them or exploiting your anxieties and your frustration with your children.
00:11:11.620It is a problem that we've been talking about for weeks now in all sorts of different areas.
00:11:18.400We were talking about surrogacy a couple of weeks ago, about how the problem with surrogacy is that it commoditizes human beings.
00:11:27.400We shouldn't treat human beings as means to an end.
00:11:30.520We shouldn't treat human beings as objects for our enjoyment or our benefit.
00:11:34.500We should treat human beings as ends in themselves, not to be commoditized, not to be turned into vessels for rent, not to be turned into products to be purchased like you see in the case of IVF and surrogacy, not to be turned into media objects to exploit for clicks or likes or money.
00:12:00.340The difference between this woman who just pled guilty to malnourishing and beating her kids or whatever the charges were, four felony counts, the difference between her and every other family vlogger, blogger, posting a million pictures of your kids for all the world to see is a difference of degree.
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00:14:25.460Most people don't even know who she is.
00:14:28.100Everyone remembers Ruth Bader Ginsburg, you know, the first woman on the Supreme Court.
00:14:31.720But no one remembers Sandra Day O'Connor, the actual first woman on the Supreme Court.
00:14:36.620The way that history has been revised and the way that the narrative has been formed, it is as though Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the trailblazer, the woman who paved a path for all of us, but especially for women.
00:14:50.180It is as though she were the first woman on the Supreme Court appointed by Bill Clinton, that wonderful liberal president.
00:16:51.500And any facts that don't fit that narrative are going to be twisted, they're going to be rewritten, or they're going to be discarded.
00:16:59.140And in the case of Sandra Day O'Connor, she doesn't fit the narrative that the first woman on the court would be appointed by a conservative Republican,
00:17:05.960that she herself would be at least somewhat conservative, that she would not stand up for all the big liberal causes.
00:17:49.760In fact, if the Libs are giving you the nice New York Times article, they are giving you the PBS special, they are giving you the big parades,
00:17:58.960If you are receiving the plaudits and the honors of this world and the principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness in high places that govern this world,
00:18:09.380That should worry you a hell of a lot more than being discarded or being lied about or being slandered or being libeled, okay?
00:18:15.480It's a great honor that no one is paying attention to Sandra Day O'Connor's death.
00:18:19.120It is something that ought to be worrisome to the friends and admirers of Ruth Bader Ginsburg that she is so highly revered by a rotten, very, very corrupt political structure.
00:19:15.900But Norman Lear, great sitcom producer, came up with All in the Family, The Jeffersons, Good Times, all sorts of great sitcoms from the 70s.
00:19:25.800Norman Lear's cause of death revealed.
00:19:28.200Now, before reading the article, I don't want to jump to conclusions.
00:19:30.960I think his cause of death might have had something to do with being 101 years old.
00:19:38.540I don't think that I am going to open up this article, read through it, and find out that the cause of death was flipping his Corvette after shooting an eight ball.
00:20:31.380We're not around death very much anymore.
00:20:34.020And so whenever someone dies, we view that as an accident.
00:20:36.500We view that as something preventable.
00:20:37.640There are all sorts of genius zillionaires in Silicon Valley who are investing oodles and oodles of money to cure death, just like the pharaohs of old, just like everyone has—
00:20:46.060every elite and deluded person has done for a very long time.
00:20:49.780And they view death as some evil, awful thing, an obstacle to be overcome.
00:20:56.500And in a way, while death is a curse for the disobedience of our first parents in the Garden of Eden, it's also a way out because you don't want to live forever in a fallen world.
00:21:06.320That would be a terribly painful experience.
00:21:08.480And we do have the opportunity to live forever, but it's not in the way that liberal utopians think it is.
00:21:15.360It's not by putting our brains in a vat or something like that.
00:21:17.640The way to do that is to, well, accept our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and traditional religion and to transcend this world.
00:25:02.440Boundlessly attentive fathers step into a swage parental anxieties.
00:25:06.300So, the New York Times is attacking not just Chipchilla, but also this show Bluey, which I've never seen, but I guess it's a similar type of show.
00:25:17.280It's just a show that would have been normal kids' content, like all kids' content, 20, 30, 40 years ago.
00:25:31.880I don't know how he keeps house, works as an archaeologist, and serves as a full-time prop artist to his daughters.
00:25:37.780But he does it all while only feigning complaint.
00:25:41.000He's not only a good father, he is a fantasy.
00:25:43.900One crafted to appeal to adults as much as to children.
00:25:48.140I feel very bad for this critic here for the New York Times, Amanda Hess.
00:25:51.880Because the reason I mention the article is not just because they're going after Chipchilla, or not because of Bluey, which I don't know anything about.
00:25:59.320But this woman can't even imagine a good father being real.
00:26:10.240The New York Times, the libs, they can't even imagine the possibility of a guy being a good father.
00:26:19.240Part of this, I'm not getting into any psychobabble with the author or even the New York Times editors.
00:26:25.800But part of this, I find, is that all liberalism ultimately comes down to, screw you, dad.
00:27:24.980And it's very sad to me that in the year of our Lord, 2023, the libs, it's not even that they say, I had a bad father and I should have had a good father.
00:27:37.540Or it's not even just that they're saying, well, fatherhood needs to be tweaked a little bit or there's some issues with the way fathers are expected to be.
00:27:45.080It's, they can't even fathom a meticulous, attentive, responsible, fun, loving father.
00:27:57.620They can't, they say it's just a total fantasy.
00:28:02.720As I watch the show over my three-year-old son's shoulder, I wonder what Bandit says about the latent desires of the parents queuing up the show.
00:28:09.460More than 100 episodes are streaming on Disney+, with more arriving in January.
00:28:12.840After all, when I turn on Bluey, I'm being very unbandit.
00:28:15.780I am not engaged in focused play that follows my children's imagination where it leads.
00:29:08.280It's a requirement of our current political economy that was very intentionally structured that way.
00:29:14.040And so women, they have this illusion of choice, but they don't really have a choice.
00:29:17.940They're forced to go out and work for some random guy who owns the widget factory, and they have to labor in the widget factory so that they can make enough money to bring home so that their husband can pay some other woman to raise their kids.
00:29:27.300And when they don't pay some other woman to raise their kids, and they don't send them to daycare or state-funded or private, they stick them in front of a TV, and they have the TV raise their kids.
00:29:35.440And they feel bad about that, naturally.
00:29:37.900And it's not even just a personal failing.
00:30:01.040It's typical in children's stories for parental figures to be obscured or even absent, especially the mothers.
00:30:06.540Disney movies I grew up on, Little Mermaid, Lion King, featured authoritarian fathers who, following the untimely deaths of their wives, ruled their children from a distance while outsourcing their childcare to a crab or a bird.
00:30:19.340I don't know that that's exactly how I would describe The Lion King.
00:30:56.620And so what the liberals do is they inculcate liberal values.
00:30:59.640And the liberal value is one of not the unity of the generations, not of respecting one's elders and caring for one's young and recognizing an unbroken thread between the generations that gives us a respect and a reverence and a care for the traditions and the institutions that we've inherited.
00:31:21.060And a desire, a charitable desire to pass those on to future generations, it gives one the desire to break free of all of that, to view the past as baggage, as a burden, as oppression, to view the future as something that does not deserve our care or our attention.
00:31:37.720It's not our responsibility to break free of all the bonds, the bonds of politics, which is viewed as oppression, the bonds of family, also viewed as oppression, the bonds of morality, also, it's all viewed as oppression.
00:31:50.080Even the bonds of biology now, in this case, where people are told to break free of their very bodies so that if their body shows their identity to be one thing, they will break free of that.
00:32:13.420Not the kind of thing you want to inculcate in your kid.
00:32:15.480But the New York Times writer, the New York Times editors, can't imagine that in the conservative parts of the country, in the conservative households, that's not the child's fantasy.
00:32:26.080Because children's fantasies are, they don't just pop out of the air, okay?
00:32:30.960They develop as the children are educated.
00:33:53.560That's the desire to be totally free of all bonds, free of parents.
00:33:56.220That's not the desire that conservatives cultivate in their kids.
00:34:00.380What conservatives cultivate in their kids is, I think, a much healthier desire, which is to love your family, love your community, respect your parents.
00:34:06.480Be happy when your dad stays home and plays around with you.
00:34:11.020I wonder if one of the upsides of Bluey, from a parent's perspective, is that it works to absolve our guilt over screen time if we feel bad for ignoring or subduing our children.
00:34:27.040Yes, you're becoming self-aware, New York Times lady.
00:34:29.920And you're recognizing that that's a good thing to have your parents pay a lot of attention to you.
00:34:34.360And it would be nice if parents did that out of choice or even were able to do that and our political economy were not such that you had to go to the widget factory all day.
00:35:04.340They get to join in the fun too, though Chili is more level-headed than her husband and Chinny is stern.
00:35:09.900Both mothers are granted supporting roles in their children's imaginative worlds, though they are somewhat sidelined by their plots, often because of their work outside and within the home.
00:35:17.820In Chipchilla, this is the money line.
00:35:21.300In Chipchilla, Chinny is the one stuck holding the laundry basket.
00:35:25.440And that is why the New York Times ladies of the world, the liberals of the world, won't be able to resolve the tension they're feeling.
00:35:33.660Because they're just like their little kids demanding to be gods.
00:35:38.500They're just like their little kids demanding to be totally free of all natural constraint and all natural inclinations.
00:35:43.800Because they resent that the woman might do the laundry and the man might go to work outside of the home.
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00:39:16.360Now, speaking of what your kids are learning, the president of Harvard, the beleaguered president of Harvard, is under fire again for more plagiarism.
00:39:26.360It started out because Chris Ruffo, the great Chris Ruffo, conservative journalist and think tank scholar, and Aaron Saberian, another conservative journalist.
00:39:37.420I don't even know if he's conservative.
00:39:40.020They both uncovered instances of plagiarism from the president of Harvard.
00:39:47.540This was after the president of Harvard showed up with the president of Penn and suggested that calling for genocide against the Jews, you know, might be okay if we just do it within the right context.
00:39:59.260And so after that hearing, the Penn lady was instantly fired, and she was fired because she's a white lady, so it's easy to fire her because she's a dirty, rotten Karen, and no one likes Karens, so get rid of the white ladies.
00:40:10.640But Claudine Gay, president of Harvard, who said the exact same thing as the president of Penn, she was allowed to keep her job because she's a black lady.
00:40:20.120And black ladies can do no wrong, and they can't be fired, or you're a racist, if you even suggest that they should be.
00:40:26.260But there was a difference between Gay and the Penn lady, even beyond their skin color.
00:40:33.380That being that the Penn lady seems to have had a perfectly fine academic career, and the Harvard lady, Claudine Gay, is a plagiarist.
00:40:41.940She was caught plagiarizing her doctoral dissertation.
00:40:44.800And then, once we started pulling on that thread a little, we saw more instances of plagiarism, and more instances.
00:40:51.160Now there's 40 instances of plagiarism.
00:40:53.180And plagiarism might not seem like the worst crime in the world.
00:40:57.000In academia, it is the single worst thing you can do.
00:41:00.420You could walk into a classroom, shoot the professor in the head.
00:41:03.260That is a less serious academic crime than plagiarism.
00:41:07.160It might be the singular academic crime.