Ep. 1395 - Pro-Life Woman Burns Down Abortion Clinic
Summary
A woman who burned down a potential abortion clinic is getting five years in prison, and Green Day is back with a new version of their hit song American Idiot and it s much more ridiculous than it was in 2003.
Transcript
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A federal judge has just ordered a woman to pay $298,000 for burning down Wyoming's only
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full-service abortion clinic. According to NBC News, quote, Lorna Green is already serving
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five years in prison for burning Wellspring Health Access weeks before the clinic was set to open in
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2022. But hold on. Can one really call it an abortion clinic if it hadn't opened yet?
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Shouldn't the stage of development at which this woman aborted the building determine whether or
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not her actions constitute a crime? I'm not saying the building could not one day have become an
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abortion clinic. It could have. It was maybe a potential abortion clinic. But when she burned
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it down, it was not an abortion clinic. It was just a clump of bricks. And five years in prison
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seems pretty steep for damaging a clump of bricks. There are criminals in this country,
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many criminals actually, who don't even face five years in the can for murder.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. Good to be back. I can already hear it.
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Some people are going to criticize my analogy. I'm sure Media Matters is already writing up the hit
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piece, all the left wing outlets. They're already writing it up. They're going to say that my analogy
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does not hold because when a woman has an abortion, she makes the choice to end the life of her own
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child, which they say is her right. Whereas the woman who burned down the potential abortion clinic,
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she burned down someone else's property over which she has no rights. I hear it. I know that this is
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going to be the rejoinder. But then the logical follow-up to that would be, are people property?
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Can people ever be someone else's property? Democrats say yes. They've said yes to that
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question a number of times throughout history, but they're wrong. No surprise there. Breaking news.
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The libs are wrong. Not exactly stop the presses kind of news. There's a lot going on. A lot going on
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in this week that I've been off. I tell you, I love being off for a week because I get to see my
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beautiful family. I get to play with my cute little kids. I like that. And I know it's good to do that
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every now and again, but it kills me. It pains me not to do this show. I would have come in and done
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this show a little bit last week. Maybe not every single day, but I would have done a little work
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last week. But out of deference to our beautiful Daily Wire staff, we didn't. We were down for a
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week. And that means that a lot of stuff happened during the week. Maine kicked Donald Trump off the
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ballot. We'll get to that in a second. A whole lot of stuff happened, some of which was surprising,
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some of which was unsurprising. Probably the least surprising news to have happened over the last week
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or week and a half is that on New Year's Eve, Green Day, do you remember Green Day? They were really
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popular in 2002, and we haven't heard very much from them since, but they're back. Green Day performed
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a version of the only song of theirs that anyone has ever heard of, which is called American Idiot.
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But in their new version, they swap out some words to make it an attack on those MAGA Americans.
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You hear it? They said MAGA agenda. And I guess it works because people are talking about Green Day for the
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first time in over 20 years. Some people are surprised by this change, in part because punk rock
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has sometimes had a right-wing flavor to it. Wasn't one of the Ramones a big right-wing Republican? And so
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there's been a—it's unlike all of the rest of popular music outside of country, say. It's not totally
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left-wing, but Green Day has always been super left-wing. There's no big change here with Green Day.
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The original lyrics to American Idiot in that line that you just heard where they changed some of the
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words was, quote, well, maybe I'm the f*** America. I'm not part of a redneck agenda. Now everybody do the
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propaganda and sing along to the age of paranoia. And they just swapped out redneck for MAGA, which
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every single lib in America identifies as a synonym of redneck anyway. And don't want to be an American
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idiot, one nation controlled by the media, information age of hysteria. It's calling out
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to idiot America. Okay, so Green Day hasn't changed. They're still attacking Republicans. They're still
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attacking right-wingers. They're still attacking the most recent Republican president. But something has
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changed. This is much more ridiculous in 2023 than it was in 2003. Why is that? Well, because
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in 2002, 2003, Green Day could be, could pretend to be part of the opposition. They could pretend to be
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dissidents. You know, George W. Bush is out here with his redneck coalition of voters that's going to go
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out and police the whole world. And George Bush controls the media. That was always ridiculous. But
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they say, you know, Fox News and, and the, actually even the New York Times, even the rest of the media
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did support Bush in the Iraq war. They didn't support Bush most of the time, but in the run-up to the
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Iraq war, the entire media were pretty much on board with that. So they had a claim in 2002, 2003.
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But what about today? Does anybody really believe one nation controlled by the media refers to the
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right-wing media? Are you kidding me? The right-wing media have been banned. There's one social media
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platform where the right-wing media are not heavily suppressed, and that would be Twitter.
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Information age of hysteria. Information age of, where's the hysteria? Is the hysteria on the right?
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Where we're saying, hey guys, can maybe, can you not let Husky Hank go into the girls changing room at the
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public pool with my daughter? Hey, would you mind, can we, can we acknowledge that boys and girls are
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different and nations have borders and can everyone be normal? Or is the hysteria on the left, where
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they're screeching and screaming that Donald Trump is Hitler 2.0, and that's why we've got to kick him
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off all the ballots. And the only way to save democracy is to stop the most popular candidate in
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the race from, from appearing on ballots. Who's hysterical? It's calling out to idiot America,
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idiot America. Okay, some Americans don't know the difference between boys and girls. Okay, now I don't
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like to call anybody an idiot. I understand there's a lot of confusion in this fallen world. But if
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you're going to call someone an idiot, if you're going to call one ideology in America an idiot
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ideology, which ideology is it going to be? The ideology that says, hey, be normal, or the ideology that says
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men actually can be women. Green Day hasn't changed at all. Too bad that they haven't. Had they changed,
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controversy of this week off that we had. It was all anyone could talk about. It is much more
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important than any wars going on overseas, much more important than the migrant invasion going on
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within our borders, much more important than the 2024 election. I, of course, refer to the bikini
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calendar. If you have not heard about this, that means you are not on Twitter during or X now between
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Christmas and New Year. The calendar is put out by, uh, the guy who has the ultra right beer company,
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Seth Weathers, and his brand is America, uh, conservative dads. And the, the calendar is
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conservative dads, real women of America, 2024 calendar. And it features a bunch of pretty right
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wing gals. Uh, some of whom perhaps have appeared on this show and who I'm friends with actually.
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Uh, but you know, the one on the cover is Riley Gaines and a number of other women are, are in
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the calendar. I don't want to knock the calendar too much because as I've mentioned, I'm friends with
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a number of the people involved. I think the big reason why this became a controversy is because
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it was a very quiet news week. Christmas is going on. New Year's is going on. People didn't have that
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much to bicker about. So, uh, people bickered about this in part. I assume it was a marketing strategy
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to sell more calendars. And I assumed it worked very well because everybody was talking about it
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for a while. The only reason I bring up the calendar, the only thing about it that I think
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is politically significant is that I think the controversy beyond all those other causes I just
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mentioned stems from a conflict, a festering conflict that has gone on for a very, very long
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time, but it's really coming to the surface now between two kinds of conservatism, boomer
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conservatism and zoomer conservatism. Two kinds of conservatism, the conservatism of 15 years ago,
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just, yeah, man, do whatever you want. Just don't make me pay for it. Let's shrink the government.
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Let's not pay any taxes. Freedom. There's that kind of conservatism. And there's the younger
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zoomer conservatism, which is, Hey, can we please have a normal society? Can we maybe
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recall some of the virtues? Can we have order? Can we have normality? Can we, can, can we have a nice
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flourishing country in which to live that has standards and norms? Those are very different
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types of conservatism. Okay. I think, you know, where my sympathies lie in this kind of battle,
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but that's what this battle is. It really has nothing to do. It has very little to do with the
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pretty ladies who are posing in the calendar. It has a little bit to do with the fact that the brand
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happens to be conservative dad. So even if you're fine with pretty girls in a calendar, you know,
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the fact that it's being marketed by and perhaps two fathers who should be married with women who are
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married and that kind of creates a little bit of an issue with it too. Wouldn't, wouldn't necessarily
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recommend that, but below all of that, the deeper issue going on is a battle between Russell Kirk
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and Ayn Rand, who has the soul of the conservative movement. Is conservatism about conserving a way of
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life and order and norms and a moral sense and maybe a, a Christian religious tradition or is
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conservatism just about freedom, do whatever you're not even, again, not my view of freedom,
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but freedom, like, you know, just go do whatever you want. Don't tell me what to do, man. Get out
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of here. Authority, right? What is it? Russell Kirk or Ayn Rand? Is it Pat Buchanan or is it George H.W.
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Bush? We had this debate in 1992. What is it? Is it the conservatism of normality, a way of life,
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a whole political order, or is it let's get that GDP up again? Is, is it the conservatism of order
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and virtue? Is it the conservatism of choice and licentiousness? That's, that's the battle. And
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probably the calendar's defenders would say, oh, Michael, you're making a big deal out of it. I'm
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not, I'm not denying that this issue was overblown. It was overblown because people were bored over
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Christmas, no doubt. But that political conflict that the calendar represents, that is very real and that
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is not overblown. That's, that's a conflict that has been simmering in the so-called conservative
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movement going back to World War II, okay? Going back to the founding of what is called capital C,
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capital M, conservative movement, trademark over the T, that's been boiling for a long time. Which
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is it going to be? Brent Bozell had this argument in the pages of National Review back when National
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Review was the house organ of the conservative movement. It said freedom or virtue. What is, what does
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freedom even mean, right? That's what's going on here. Which side is winning? Well, the dominant
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side remains the boomer side because the boomers still wield most of the political power. But the
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ascendant side is the zoomer side. The ascendant side is order and virtue, which is fine by me.
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Fine by me. Now, we might need, not, not need to worry about what the future of the conservative
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movement holds because conservatives might not hold any political power. If we hold any now, we might
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not hold it for very long. Anyway, because Maine has become the second state to kick Donald Trump
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off the ballot in the 2024 primary. Now, you remember a couple weeks ago, Colorado kicks Trump
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off the ballot. The way Colorado did that was in a very contentious decision, 4-3 decision by the
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Colorado Supreme Court that said that Trump is a terrible insurrectionist. And that's why they're
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going to invoke some never used in this way precedent of the, or non-precedent, I guess,
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never used in this way provision of the 14th Amendment, which was really just a Civil War era
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provision to stop Confederate generals from taking over the country. Well, they're going to use it to
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kick Trump off the ballot. Okay. Now, Maine is going even further. It's not the Maine Supreme Court.
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It's not a group of robed lawyers who are seriously considering the law and bringing their legal
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scholarship to bear. It's just some Democrat politician, some total kook whose name is
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Shanna Bellows. She's the Maine Democrat Secretary of State. She is seen in photographs, buddy-buddy with
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Joe Biden. She visited the White House in March. She visited the White House in June, according to
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visitor logs. She says that the electoral college, that is to say, the way we do elections in America
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is a relic of white supremacy. Okay. She's a nut. And she has come out and single-handedly kicked
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Donald Trump off the ballot, which is even worse than it sounds. Because if you're a Republican,
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maybe you don't like Donald Trump. But still, you would have to say, well, look, Donald Trump is
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the most popular candidate in the Republican Party. So now you've got a Democrat politician
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single-handedly kicking off the presumptive nominee of one of the two major political parties in the
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United States. That's crazy. But it's even worse than that. Because Donald Trump is not just the most
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popular Republican candidate. He is the most popular presidential candidate in the country
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by pretty much any measure. So if you look at the RealClearPolitics average of polls,
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RCP is very good. I cite them a lot because they don't just look at one poll or this poll,
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and this one's an outlier, and maybe this one's not reliable. They look at all the polls,
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and they weight them according to their reliability. And so you get a much sturdier number here from RCP.
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And according to RCP, head-to-head, Trump over Biden, Trump wins by 2.4 points right now.
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Now, it might not just be Trump and Biden. Don't forget, Bobby Kennedy Jr. might be running,
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right? Okay, what happens if it's Trump versus Biden versus Bobby Kennedy Jr.? Trump wins by one point.
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Beats both of those guys. Okay, it might not just be Bobby Kennedy Jr. What if it's
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Jill Stein, the Green Party candidate? What if it's Cornel West, who is a radical leftist professor
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from Princeton? I think he was at Harvard for a while. He's a leftist who kind of pulls support
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from Joe Biden, and it's Biden and it's Trump. What happens in that case? Trump wins by five points.
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Donald Trump is the most popular presidential candidate in the United States by any measure.
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If a random Democrat politician can single-handedly take him off the ballot in a state
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in the name of defending democracy, then what does democracy mean? In that case, it doesn't mean
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anything. Democracy is government by the people. If the people are not permitted to cast their ballot
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for the most popular guy, then there's no democracy anymore.
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Now, Trump remains the top dog in the race. There was a change over the break, though,
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and the change is that there is a number two dog in the race who we haven't seen before,
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and that would be Nikki Haley. Ron DeSantis has been the number two guy in the Republican race
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for all of 2023, and he is still the number two guy. He's just the number two guy that's tied with the
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number two lady who is Nikki Haley. Now, people are shocked by this because people have very strong
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feelings about Nikki Haley. People who are a little bit more centrist, they really like Nikki Haley.
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A lot of the Republican consultants really like Nikki Haley. They think that she's got the best chance
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to beat Joe Biden because she appeals to a broader array of people. Conservatives often do not like
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Nikki Haley. They find her to be a bit establishment, a bit Bush-era kind of Republican.
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A little eager to go invade foreign countries, and so they don't like her. And some of the
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criticism from the conservative side of the Republican Party has been intense at Nikki Haley.
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But when Nikki announced that she was running in this race, you know, I hate to say I told you so,
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I believe I pointed out that one should not count out Nikki Haley. Everyone was making fun of her.
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She's going nowhere. She has no constituency. Her views are outdated, blah, blah, blah, all this
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stuff. I said, you guys don't know what you're talking about. Nikki Haley is a very, very talented
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politician. She managed. Think about this. She is one of, if not the only politician in America who has
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huge establishment credit credit cred, who has major cred among the Bush wing of the Republican Party,
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who did very, very well under Trump. She served under Trump. She was Trump's face at the United
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Nations. She was very popular in that role. When she left the White House, Trump basically gave her
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a ticker tape parade, okay? He had that big press conference sitting with her. Nikki's done a great job.
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We really like her. Then she turned on Trump. Then she turned back and supported Trump. Then she
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kind of turned on Trump again, running against him. And still Trump is saying nice things about her.
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Nikki is very good at politics. So it is no surprise to me that entering into 2024, she is now a number
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two candidate in the race. What we will wait for this week and next week is, can Nikki kick DeSantis to
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number three? Right now they're tied. Can she kick him to number three? I would not be surprised.
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As I said, you know, I hate to say I told you so, but as I said for a year, DeSantis is great. He's
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really great. He's a great governor. He's terrific. I really admire the guy. He's fabulous. But part of
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the things that are really likable about him to someone like me are going to make him unpopular
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as a candidate because he's a little too Trumpy to attract the establishment centrist folks, but he's
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not Trumpy enough. He's not Trump. So he's not going to pull enough of the Trump voters, which means
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that while he looks like maybe he's the best candidate in the race, he's also a man without
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Now, things are looking good for Nikki Haley. She did get in a little bit of trouble over
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the break. She was asked a question on the civil war, of all things, on the campaign trail,
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What was the cause of the United States civil war?
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Well, don't come with an easy question or anything. I mean, I think the cause of the
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civil war was basically how government was going to run, the freedoms and what people
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could and couldn't do. What do you think the cause of the civil war was?
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I'm sorry. I'm not running for president. I wanted to see Europe's a good thing on the
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I mean, I think it always comes down to the role of government. We need to have capitalism.
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We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that
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individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion,
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freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.
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Thank you. And in the year 2023, it's astonishing to me that you answer that question without
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Obviously, this questioner here is trying to trip up Nikki Haley. I don't know if it's a
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Democrat plant. Probably it is. It could be a plant from one of the other Republican campaigns.
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Or I guess it could be just a person who doesn't like Nikki Haley very much for personal reasons.
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But what's astonishing about the question and the answer is it's not the question and it's not the
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answer. It's the apparent belief on the part of the questioner and maybe on the part of Nikki Haley
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that slavery is a wedge issue in the Republican Party. That's what this is about. The questioner
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asks the question because he thinks that any way Nikki Haley answers is going to alienate some of
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her voters. If she says that the Civil War is about states' rights, then she's going to alienate
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voters who are anti-slavery. You know that the anti-slavery faction of the Republican Party.
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But that if she says that the Civil War was about slavery, she's going to alienate that huge pro-slavery
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portion of the Republican Party. And so, ha-ha, we've got a great wedge issue here. Not surprised
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that Democrats think that. They think all sorts of nasty things about Republicans that aren't true.
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Nikki appears to think that there's some portion of Republicans who don't want to hear about
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slavery. Now, I actually think that her answer was almost fine. Everyone was saying it's catastrophic.
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It's the end of her career. It's the worst answer. I think the answer was basically fine because the
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true answer to what was the Civil War about is, yeah, it was about all those things. It was about
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the political power of the South in the federal government. Abraham Lincoln was able to win the
00:25:50.960
presidency without the South, meaning the South no longer had much of a say at all in the federal
00:25:57.140
government, which might be reason enough, if you think of the South as a distinct political entity,
00:26:02.880
totally distinct from the North, might be reason enough to impel you to secede. And also, what was
00:26:08.400
the hottest issue of the time that had taken over the country that had dictated so much of the politics
00:26:13.240
of westward expansion? It was slavery, no question about that. So yeah, it was both of those things.
00:26:20.240
And furthermore, I don't think that there are very many pro-slavery Republicans. I don't think there
00:26:25.040
are any, actually. I think, as we mentioned at the top of this show, that there are many Democrats
00:26:31.860
who support the logic of slavery, the premises of slavery, the notion that you can own another person.
00:26:38.920
You see the Democrats, I'm not even just making some point about Democrats or the true racists,
00:26:42.320
or it was the Democrats who owned all the slaves, or kind of talking points we've heard in the past.
00:26:46.120
I'm making a point about the politics of today. Democrats today are arguing that if you have a
00:26:52.260
child, that you have full property rights over that child, and you can kill that child if you want,
00:26:56.620
if it's convenient for you. That's what I'm saying. That's the logic of abortion.
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Or even more than that, it's the logic of IVF and surrogacy. The notion that if you have a child,
00:27:07.560
or you even have the potential to make a child, that you have total property rights,
00:27:12.100
then you can order your child out of a catalog.
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And if you don't like the way the child comes out, then you can order the child to be killed
00:27:19.580
in the womb of your surrogate, who you also paid for. We've seen stories about that. I gave a long
00:27:24.900
speech about that just about a month ago. You can catch that on the YAF YouTube channel.
00:27:29.360
So I'm saying that the logic of today, the policies argued today by the parties,
00:27:36.340
if in any way it touches on the logic of slavery, it's coming from the Democrats,
00:27:41.420
not the Republicans. And it's silly that this Democrat questioner, this anti-Haley questioner
00:27:48.720
thought it was a Republican thing. But it should be a wake-up call to the Haley campaign
00:27:52.340
that Nikki stumbled on the question too. I think you could say both of those things and move on.
00:27:58.740
And she did move on. That was very smart of her. I don't think it's really going to hurt her.
00:28:01.820
There are way worse gaffes on a campaign trail than this. But I don't think,
00:28:11.300
I think if you fall into the error of believing there's a big pro-slavery portion of the Republican
00:28:16.500
Party, it's because you've just believed the Democrat propaganda that has been crammed down our
00:28:21.640
throats for the past 50 years. Now, another smart thing the Haley campaign is doing,
00:28:27.700
she's promising to pardon Trump if Trump is convicted of crimes. So Haley came out, she said,
00:28:32.780
a leader needs to think about what is in the best interests of the country.
00:28:36.920
What is in the best interest of the country is not to have an 80-year-old man sitting in jail that
00:28:41.080
continues to divide our country. What is in the best interest of our country is to pardon him so that
00:28:44.740
we can move on as a country and no longer talk about him. So she's still got a properly,
00:28:51.640
anti-Trump tone to this. She's running against him. She's got to be opposing him.
00:28:58.900
But the substance of what she's saying is, yeah, I'll pardon him, as well she should,
00:29:03.940
as all of the Republican candidates should promise to do. The only reason that the Democrats are going
00:29:09.520
after this guy is because he was an effective conservative. He's the most effective conservative
00:29:14.060
president of our lifetimes. Even if you hate his guts and his tweets and his face and his demeanor
00:29:19.720
and everything about him, you have to admit that, I think. The guy got Roe v. Wade overruled.
00:29:24.140
He is the first Republican president, maybe ever, first Republican president in probably about 100
00:29:31.500
years to make mass migration a major political issue and do anything to try to stem the tide of
00:29:38.580
that. He's the first Republican politician in well over quarter, no, over probably half a century now
00:29:45.200
to focus on America's national interest in explicit terms against globalism and global liberalism,
00:29:54.600
liberal empire. He was pretty good. He had some flaws, but he was pretty good. And the only reason
00:30:00.820
the libs are going after him is not because he led an insurrection or whatever. The liberals have led
00:30:04.280
many more serious insurrections on the Capitol that have actually killed people, not just their own
00:30:10.060
supporters, killed members of Congress, killed all sorts of people, blown up parts of the Capitol,
00:30:14.620
many, many times over the years. We never heard insurrection then. Donald Trump disputed the
00:30:19.980
results of an election that was obviously rigged. Democrats have been denying the results of
00:30:26.140
elections, of most elections that they lose at the national level and of state national prominence
00:30:32.980
for a long time. The 2000 election, the Stacey Abrams non-election in Georgia, a lot of them,
00:30:40.300
even the 2004 election, Bush versus Kerry. The only reason they're going after him is because he's an
00:30:45.200
effective conservative. I want to hear every Republican candidate saying, yes, of course we'll
00:30:49.320
pardon Trump. If I don't hear that, I understand you're running against Trump. You don't like the
00:30:53.580
guy. You want to knock him down. But if I don't hear that, then it makes me think you're on the
00:30:58.260
other team. If I hear, well, you know, if the Democrats discover that Donald Trump actually did
00:31:03.620
commit a crime, that makes me think, all right, you're a, you're a lib, you know, you're a Democrat
00:31:08.660
shill. If you can't acknowledge the injustice of what they're doing to Trump while still effectively
00:31:14.620
running against him, then you're not, you're not it, man. And you're not it. Now, does this mean
00:31:22.000
that Nikki Haley is cozying up to Donald Trump a little bit here? Maybe, maybe. And Trump says some
00:31:28.400
nice things about Haley too. Does this mean that Haley's strategy is get stronger, stronger,
00:31:35.100
stronger, displace DeSantis as the number two candidate, vanquish Vivek? I guess Chris Christie
00:31:40.620
is still running, but forget about Chris Christie. He'll, he'll endorse Nikki Haley and then try to
00:31:45.160
have a unity ticket, like a Reagan Bush 1980 sort of ticket, Trump Haley. Then the question that comes
00:31:50.440
from that is, will the Trump supporters tolerate a Nikki Haley VP pick? That I don't know.
00:31:58.400
Because, fairly or unfairly, the perceived political vision of Trump and Haley is quite
00:32:05.940
different. The way that their supporters perceive their candidacies, very different. On the Trump
00:32:14.240
side of things, it's people like Tucker, okay? It's people who want fewer foreign entanglements,
00:32:19.740
who want a more intense focus on the American nation, who don't want to just give money to
00:32:26.940
Chamber of Commerce like candidates to focus on economics above all. The Haley candidates tend to
00:32:33.360
be a little bit more centrist. They tend to be a little bit more Wall Street donor types. They tend
00:32:37.540
to be a little happier with foreign entanglements, especially in the Middle East. Are Trump voters
00:32:43.980
going to tolerate a Haley VP? That remains to be seen. Speaking of foreign entanglements,
00:32:48.840
a good report out of Politico over the week. It's good. It's a good report, but it's frustrating.
00:32:57.240
The report is that the Biden administration is subtly, quietly shifting strategy on Ukraine.
00:33:06.000
This from Politico. For two years, Biden and Zelensky have been focused on driving Russia from Ukraine.
00:33:10.380
Now, Washington is discussing a move to a more defensive posture. Quote,
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with U.S. and European aid to Ukraine now in serious jeopardy, the Biden administration and
00:33:21.660
European officials are quietly shifting their focus from supporting Ukraine's goal of total
00:33:25.020
victory over Russia to improving its position in an eventual negotiation to end the war.
00:33:30.040
According to a Biden administration official and European diplomat based in Washington,
00:33:34.920
such a negotiation would likely mean giving up parts of Ukraine to Russia. Here we go.
00:33:38.120
And the way you know that this isn't just some random leak coming out of the White House or a bunch
00:33:43.700
of smoke being blown is that you're seeing the same kind of language being echoed in the other
00:33:49.920
state media organs. New York Times, headline. This is in an opinion piece, headline. Ukraine doesn't need
00:33:57.360
all its territory to defeat Putin. And who wrote this op-ed? This was Serge Shmiman,
00:34:04.860
who is a member of the New York Times editorial board. Ukraine doesn't need all of its territory
00:34:10.320
to defeat Putin, who invaded. And this whole war is about Ukraine's territory. But it's not,
00:34:15.780
you don't need all the territory. That's a pretty big change. That's a pretty big change because some
00:34:20.860
of us have argued this point from day one. And for that, we were called Putin stooges and we were
00:34:29.380
called useful idiots and we were called all sorts of nasty things. Anti-American, undemocratic,
00:34:37.040
you support fascist dictators. And oh, hold on now. Now that opinion for which we were all pilloried
00:34:43.360
as Putin idiot stooges, non-patriots, that is now the opinion of both major political parties in the
00:34:51.540
United States. Why? Because what's the alternative? Ukraine is not going to beat Russia. That can't
00:34:59.580
happen. On its own, the war would have been over in 24 hours. But because the US was actually fighting
00:35:08.580
Russia here through this proxy of Ukraine, because we were funding the whole war, because we were
00:35:12.320
sending all the arms and maybe some people to help fight the war, it has dragged on now for quite a while.
00:35:18.440
But it was never going to be enough unless the United States got directly involved. So that
00:35:24.480
means that the other alternative would be a world war. We avoided it for the entirety of the Cold
00:35:30.420
War, but now we're going to decide that the US as the superpower in the world, China's rising,
00:35:38.620
but we remain the global hegemon. We're going to go in and engage in a direct war with a nuclear
00:35:44.620
former superpower in Russia. And we're going to do this over the territorial integrity of Ukraine,
00:35:51.540
the territory of which has changed about a bazillion times over the last thousand years,
00:35:55.600
which is roughly how long this conflict has gone on. Does that make a lot of sense? That didn't
00:35:59.420
make sense to me. So what happened? We are now totally vindicated, those of us who said that this was
00:36:07.680
a bad war that was egged on by the US and by NATO. I'm not the only one to say it. Henry Kissinger said
00:36:14.820
it. Sam Nunn said it. George Kennan implied it, the author of the long telegram, the architect of
00:36:19.020
American Cold War policy. Daniel Patrick Moynihan said it. A lot of very serious American statement
00:36:23.700
have said this for a very long time. And we were completely right. You know how much it pains me to
00:36:29.240
say it. We were totally right. And now we are exactly where we were at the very outbreak of this
00:36:34.980
war, except that now, because the Democrats and the establishment Republican types got their way,
00:36:40.980
at least 30,000 Ukrainians have been killed. So at least we got that. We got no strategic
00:36:45.660
advantage whatsoever. We got no difference to the way the war is going to end. But hey, at the very
00:36:50.640
least, tens of thousands of Ukrainians are dead. That's it. And these are the geniuses, by the way.
00:36:55.320
These are the grand strategists. These are the guys who say the adults have got to be back in
00:37:00.560
charge. We can't let those unwashed, crazy populists, those right-wingers take over.
00:37:06.140
Okay, well, had the right-wingers been running the show, had those crazy, awful, nationalist,
00:37:13.100
populist types been running the show, show me how we would have been any worse off. I don't really see
00:37:19.900
it. My favorite comment, this would have been what, a week ago now, more than a week ago,
00:37:24.940
is from Heaton James 2545, who says, oh, wow, man, talk about providential. The comment actually
00:37:31.580
ties in exactly with what I just said. All nature is but art unknown to thee. Comment is, isn't
00:37:36.580
everyone glad that the adults are back in charge? It just warms my heart that Caligula Biden is
00:37:41.540
running the show. Yes, it does, doesn't it? Speaking of grand strategy, big breaking news.
00:37:48.120
Oh, this is good. Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed.
00:37:57.080
Here's what to know. This is from NBC News, ABC News. All the newses are reporting this,
00:38:04.980
but I got NBC right here. What I love about this headline, they send out the headline,
00:38:09.620
everyone goes crazy. And I had this prediction. Look, it could still be proven wrong. But my
00:38:15.820
prediction before the year ended was, we're not really going to get the Epstein client list.
00:38:22.580
We're not going to find out new people, okay? And then five seconds later, this headline,
00:38:27.640
they're going to unseal the Epstein client list. I said, oh, wow, man, maybe I was totally proven
00:38:32.840
wrong. That was fast. That's the fastest I've ever been proven wrong, huh? But hold on,
00:38:37.880
here's the headline. Court documents naming Jeffrey Epstein's associates to be unsealed.
00:38:40.760
What to know? Subheader, former President Clinton, Prince Andrew, and others are expected to be
00:38:48.140
named. Hold on. We know that Bill Clinton was an Epstein associate. We've known that for the
00:38:58.660
better part of 10 years, okay? We've seen his name on the flight logs. We've seen pictures of Bill
00:39:05.620
Clinton with Jeffrey Epstein. We know that Bill Clinton flew all around the world with Jeffrey
00:39:12.400
Epstein on the Lolita Express. When he wasn't flying with Epstein, it's because he was borrowing
00:39:20.240
his plane. I don't need to find out that Bill Clinton is an Epstein associate. Prince Andrew?
00:39:27.160
Prince Andrew lost his job working for his mom because we all know that he hung out with Epstein.
00:39:32.380
We have pictures of Prince Andrew with Jeffrey Epstein. We have court settlements where Prince
00:39:39.280
Andrew has paid Jeffrey Epstein's former young ladies, okay? I don't need to hear about that.
00:39:45.660
I want to hear about the end others. That's what I want to hear about. I don't want the names that
00:39:51.760
we already know. That's called a limited hangout, okay? That is, it's a term that in intelligence
00:39:58.380
circles and crisis communication circles where you're caught. You're up against a wall. They
00:40:05.280
got you dead to rights. You've been lying. You've been lying. You've been denying. You've been denying.
00:40:09.520
And now you say, okay, what are we going to do? I'm going to give them something. And so what you do
00:40:14.820
is you only give a little bit. In this case, you would be giving something that everyone already
00:40:18.500
knows. Yeah, we already know that Bill Clinton hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. Oh, did Bill Gates hang
00:40:22.600
out with him too? Yeah, we got pictures of that also. I don't want to hear about those guys. I mean,
00:40:28.840
I'll hear more, I guess, but I want to hear about the guys that I haven't heard about yet. That's the
00:40:33.020
first thing I want. Give us the real Epstein client list, the names we haven't heard. More than that,
00:40:40.840
though, the question that I want to know the answer to with regard to Jeffrey Epstein is,
00:40:46.340
who was he working for? Nothing about Jeffrey Epstein's life really adds up. Very shady past.
00:40:56.580
He's got this business associate slash romantic partner whose father was mobbed up with at least
00:41:02.840
three intelligence agencies around the world. We know he was mobbed up with British intelligence,
00:41:07.340
maybe Russian intelligence, and certainly Israeli intelligence, okay? We know that Jeffrey Epstein
00:41:14.500
was mobbed up with intelligence. We know this from Alex Acosta, who was U.S. attorney prosecuting
00:41:19.220
Jeffrey Epstein in Florida, who then was up for labor secretary under Donald Trump, and reportedly
00:41:25.680
in his interview, when he was asked about the Epstein prosecution, he said, I was told not to really go
00:41:32.520
too hard after Epstein because Epstein, quote, belonged to intelligence. What intelligence? I don't know.
00:41:38.400
Is all of that fake? Is that all just fake news and weird coincidences with Ghislaine Maxwell's father,
00:41:42.480
Robert Maxwell? Maybe, but I want to know. Was Jeffrey Epstein rigging up his properties to record
00:41:52.920
people engaging in weird illegal sex stuff with underage girls just to enrich Jeffrey Epstein?
00:42:01.620
Look, maybe he was just a con artist, a blackmail artist who was shaking down these rich guys to
00:42:05.800
enrich himself. Could be. Was this part of an intelligence operation? If so, which intelligence?
00:42:13.880
Was he working for foreign intelligence? MI6, Israel, Russia? Or was he working for American
00:42:21.560
intelligence? Or was he working for lots of different type of intelligence? But I want to know
00:42:25.140
less about the scintillating little details of who did what with whom,
00:42:30.500
in terms of what was going on in those massage rooms. I want to know who did what with whom
00:42:35.720
with regard to what was this operation for? You know a thing by what it's for. What was this for?
00:42:43.540
What was the Epstein weird sex island and the penthouses and the video cameras? What was that all in
00:42:50.440
service of? Speaking of weird sex stuff, another day, another Republican disappoints you. Ohio Governor
00:42:58.700
Mike DeWine has just vetoed a bill banning boys from girls' sports. Seems like the kind of bill
00:43:08.280
that should be a no-brainer, right? Boys being different from girls should not compete against the
00:43:14.900
girls in girls' sports, which only exists so that girls have their own places to compete because they
00:43:18.820
can't beat boys. Mike DeWine doesn't seem to get that. He vetoed a bill on December 29th
00:43:24.700
that would protect these kids from the crazy trans stuff. So it would prevent the kids from going
00:43:31.640
through the modern-day lobotomies of being medically transitioned, which leads to all sorts of health
00:43:38.200
problems, bone problems, early death in some cases, sterility in a lot of cases, and also it would ban
00:43:44.300
the dudes from playing in women's sports. He vetoes it. Now Trump, who had been initially an opponent
00:43:51.140
of DeWine and then endorsed DeWine, he's now turned on DeWine again. And he said,
00:43:57.760
DeWine has fallen to the radical left. No wonder he gets loudly booed in Ohio every time I introduce
00:44:03.620
him at rallies. But I won't be introducing him anymore. I'm finished with this stiff. What was
00:44:07.680
he thinking? The bill would have stopped child mutilation and prevented men from playing in women's
00:44:11.800
sports. Legislature will hopefully overturn. Do it fast. What was he thinking? DeWine explains his
00:44:18.100
logic. He says, I've also listened to youth and parents, parents who have told me if not for this
00:44:25.980
treatment, their child would be dead. He might be sincere. He might be, I don't know. He might be
00:44:34.380
just a bought and paid for chamber of commerce jerk, but he might be sincere. I'm willing to give
00:44:39.580
him the benefit of the doubt because I know that there are parents out there who have subjected their
00:44:44.340
kids to this stuff. Who aren't just completely insane ideologues who hate their children. I know
00:44:49.740
there are parents out there. I think there are a lot of parents out there who hear this stuff from
00:44:54.200
the teachers, from the guidance counselors, from the doctors. They say, if you don't do this,
00:44:59.400
if you don't sterilize your kid, put your kid on puberty blockers, castrate your kid, pretend that
00:45:03.920
your kid is the opposite sex when we all know he isn't. If you don't do that, your kid's going to
00:45:07.720
kill himself. And then would you rather have a living daughter or a dead son? What is it?
00:45:15.760
This guy might have good intentions. The road to hell, you will recall, is paved with good
00:45:20.940
intentions. And what's wrong about this here is the ethical principle that led DeWine to come to
00:45:26.880
this decision, which is an ends justify the means morality. It's consequentialist thinking,
00:45:34.020
to use a more technical term. It's the idea that you make moral decisions based on the outcome that
00:45:39.780
you think is going to occur rather than the goodness of the actions themselves or the virtue
00:45:46.960
and the character of one who would make those decisions. Good judgment, prudence. There is
00:45:52.840
leftist thinking because people, when they try to predict the consequences, they usually get them wrong.
00:45:58.860
And two, because actions are moral or immoral. Characters are good or bad. Okay?
00:46:10.720
You're not going to live a good life by doing lots of bad things. You're not going to have a good
00:46:15.800
country, a good outcome for your country by doing lots of individual really, really bad things.
00:46:21.940
You're not going to flourish individually or politically by lying all the time. You're not going
00:46:28.760
to flourish individually or politically by denying reality. Well, if we just deny the most basic aspects
00:46:34.840
of biological reality, of human reality, then somehow secretly through a magical procedure,
00:46:43.880
we're going to end up with a really good country. I don't think so. I think people who lie to themselves
00:46:48.060
and nations that lie to themselves, they fail. Because reality reasserts itself in the end.
00:46:52.600
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