Ep. 1399 - The ＂Aliens In Miami＂ Media Cover-Up
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We ve all seen the videos of police cars rushing to a shopping mall in Miami, people running in terror, blurry figures on the screen, an alien invasion covered up by the government and the media. What really happened at the Bayside Mall?
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We've all seen the videos, dozens of cop cars pulling up to a shopping mall in Miami,
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people running in terror, blurry figures on the screen, an alien invasion covered up by the
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government and the media. Here's how NBC News reported on it. Quote, on Monday, a group of
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roughly 50 teenagers caused a riot at Bayside Marketplace, an outdoor mall roughly five miles
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from South Beach, according to the Miami Police Department. The teens were setting off fireworks,
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which led to a panic, as some assumed there was a shooting, said Miami Police Department
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Public Information Officer Michael Vega. Four teens were arrested. Huh, they expect us to believe that?
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Hmm? Here's what I want to know. What really happened? I'll tell you what I think really
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happened at that shopping mall in Miami. I think that what really happened is that on Monday,
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a group of roughly 50 teenagers caused a riot at Bayside Marketplace, an outdoor mall roughly
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five miles from South Beach, according to the Miami Police Department. The teens, I believe,
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were setting off fireworks, which led to a panic, as some assumed there was a shooting,
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just like the Miami Police Department says. Four teens, I believe, were arrested.
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If 50 young people start robbing stores, attacking people, setting off explosives indoors,
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I should hope that a lot of cops would show up. The reason that these sorts of crimes are spiking right
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now is precisely because our political leaders keep attacking the police and preventing them from
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doing their jobs. That's part of why we've got such disorder, such social breakdown, not just in a mall in
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Miami, but all throughout the country. The social breakdown seems clearest in the riots and the robberies
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and the street crime. But it has deeper roots. The breakdown of the family, the disintegration of
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the education system, the collapse of trust in our most basic civil institutions. It's all been
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happening for a while, and it's getting worse and worse. But some people still can't believe it.
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Not here they say, no, this can't really be happening. This is America. We are now more inclined to
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believe that aliens are invading than that America is becoming a third world country.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Whoopi Goldberg says that she is on a Jeffrey Epstein list, sort of,
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sort of. We'll get to what that means in just a second. First, though, I guess I should qualify
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my point in the opening. There is an alien invasion going on. It's not happening at the
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Bayside Mall in Miami. It's a little bit happening in Miami, but it's also happening in Texas and
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California and Arizona. And then because of airplanes, it's happening in New York and Chicago
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and Washington, D.C. It's not Martians. It is Guatemalans and Hondurans and Salvadorans and
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not Salvadorans anymore because Nayib Bukele turned his country around. But a lot of places
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in Latin America are opening the floodgates and saying, hey, if you want to leave and go to America,
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Joe Biden's not going to stop you. There's a graph that went viral over the weekend.
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It shows illegal immigrant encounters by president. And what a lot of people are noticing,
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they find it striking, is that Obama and Trump had roughly the same number of encounters.
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It went down a little bit under Trump, but not all that much. In the first year of Trump,
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it went down pretty considerably when Trump had been signaling for months, over a year at that point,
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that he was going to build a big, beautiful wall and send all the illegal aliens back.
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And so illegal crossings dropped. Then the illegals and the coyotes and the cartels realized that
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Trump, even though he was president of the United States, couldn't actually enforce that policy.
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He was being totally undercut by his administration and the bureaucracy. So the numbers went back up
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again. It was pretty high. Under Obama, you're looking at 5 million encounters, 5,006,092 encounters.
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Under Trump, it was a little bit lower, but similar, 4,763,007 encounters. And then what about Biden?
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12 million. 12 million. More than double. Well over double what happened under Trump. More than double
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what happened under Obama. More than Obama and Trump put together. What's going on here?
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Biden wants illegal aliens to come into the country. In moments of candor, he has said as much.
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He's said things like, we're not going to build a wall, surge to the border, you're a future dreamer,
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undocumented, wonderful Americans. But the message has been the same. Come over here. Even when there's
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a little wink and a nod, well, we're going to enforce the law eventually, but no human being is
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illegal and you can just come process and you'll be brought back to court someday, maybe, I don't know,
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enjoy. He says, come to the country. Why? It's very, very simple.
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Immigrants vote Democrat. Not all immigrants. I hail on one side of my family from immigrants and it's
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the Italians who kind of split 50-50. You get the Scalia's, but you get the Pelosi's too.
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I'm not just talking about illegal aliens. I'm not just talking about people from Honduras or Guatemala
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or Mexico. I'm talking about all immigrants. You take immigrants as a whole, legal, illegal.
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They vote for Democrats. According to one survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation,
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all immigrants are twice as likely to identify as Democrats as Republicans.
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And a lot of Republicans don't want to acknowledge this. They don't want to get down to the bare
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political reality of why the Democrats want mass migration, which is to fundamentally change the
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structure of our constitutional republic. Illegally, totally against the law, totally
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unconstitutional, but they realize that they've got an advantage and they think that the Republicans
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are so afraid of being unjustly called racists that we're not going to say anything about it.
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So that's the one side. You've got the cowardice from the Republicans who say,
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well, look, at the best, this is the best version of Republicans on immigration in the mainstream.
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They say, we've got to stop this illegal immigration because it's actually bad for
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everyone, including the illegal immigrants, and there's a lot of drugs coming across.
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Even Donald Trump, the most immigration restrictionist president of my lifetime,
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said that. He said, we want more immigration. It's got to be legal immigration. But mass migration,
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including legal immigration, is a big part of the problem, especially when the federal government,
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starting under Barack Obama, can just wave the magic wand and turn the illegal immigrants into legal
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immigrants by declaration. No, no, they're no longer illegal. They're DACA. They're no longer
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illegal. They're dreamers. They're no longer illegal. They're going to have amnesty. Ronald
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Reagan gave them amnesty in the 1980s in exchange for what he thought were going to be concessions
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on border security. And guess what? The latter never happened. We have to be a little clearer on
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immigration. And we don't need to take the Democrats' premise. We don't need to say,
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oh, yeah, we're really racist. We just hate Guatemalans or something. You know,
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yeah, they don't. We prefer Nicaraguans. We don't like Guatemalans. And we don't. We like,
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I don't know, Liberians, but we don't like Ethiopians. No, it's none of that. I'm sure
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all these are great people. But a country has a right to determine who comes into it. And we have
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taken way too many people, and we're having lots of trouble assimilating. We've known all the way back
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into antiquity, going back to Plato and beyond, that migration causes lots of problems
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problems in political communities. And so you can do it, and you can bring people in. And in a way,
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you kind of have to bring some people in. But you've got to do it in a very, very intentional way,
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because otherwise, you're going to cause all sorts of social disorder by mixing peoples who come from
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totally different traditions, who have totally conceptions of public life. And that's not just a
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problem for the ones who cross the border illegally. It's true of all the immigrants. Okay?
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And so we want to take some of them in. We want to do it in a way that is conducive to the
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flourishing of the immigrants, yes, and of our country, and crucially here, of the good political
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party in our country, the relatively good political party. Because the Democrats know right now that
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the more migration they get, the better it is for them in the long term. And so what do the
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Republicans do to respond to that? They either are cowardly, and they don't say anything,
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or, and this might be worse, they engage in all sorts of happy talk.
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You get the line from Ronald Reagan, these Hispanic voters are just, they're Republicans,
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they just don't know it yet. Or, well, these, you know, you hear it today, or these, once,
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in next election cycle, once the new migrants realize how corrupt and evil and racist and bigoted
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and terrible and mean the Democrats are, then they're all going to switch to be Republicans.
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And it just doesn't happen. We're not even just talking about the Hispanics. We're talking about
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all migrants. Are there lots of great immigrants who are conservative and patriotic and understand
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politics and have their heads screwed on right? And yeah, of course, there's a lot. But just as a
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matter of statistics, as a numbers game, immigration is a net benefit for Democrats at the levels that
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we're seeing today. And so we can either be cowardly and not talk about it, or we can engage
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in the happy talk and just pretend that next election cycle, magically, everything's going
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to turn around and all of the mass migration is going to redound to the benefit of conservatives.
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It's never happened before ever in all of history, but maybe it'll happen next time.
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Or we can speak bluntly and say, we like these people. We wish them well. We actually want some
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migrants to come into the country, but we've got to be very, very careful about it and not give the whole
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exclusions do apply. Now the question that is a follow-up to here's how we protect our elections
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from rigging and the importation of voters. The question that comes up is, do elections matter
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anymore anyway? We just had an anniversary a couple of days ago. What is today? Today's the eighth. So
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that means that a couple of days ago was January 6th, the worst day in the history of this or any
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republic. The day that democracy almost vanished from the face of the earth.
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And what happened on January 6th? Well, it's a little controversial now.
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If you had asked people two or three years ago, they would have given you one answer.
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They might give you a different answer today. There is a poll that just came out from the
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Washington Post and University of Maryland. So not exactly right-wing sources that say that
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since January 6th, 2021, people have taken a decidedly dimmer view of the legitimacy of the
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Biden presidency. They've taken a dimmer view of the propaganda surrounding the supposed terror
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attack insurrection coup d'etat that took place on January 6th. Three groups were examined here on
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their evolving views of January 6th, Republicans, Democrats, and independents. Every single group
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today is less likely to believe that the Biden election was legitimate. Every single one. It's
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most pronounced among the Republicans. But you see it even with the Democrats too. Now, 91% of Democrats
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say Biden was legitimately elected. But two years ago, 94% said that. So 3% of Democrats
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now think that Joe Biden stole the 2020 election. I know it's only 3%. That's a big deal. When you've
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had nonstop propaganda and hearings from Democrats and a couple fake Republicans like Liz Cheney and
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Adam Kinzinger. When you've had the prosecutions now of Donald Trump over this, you've had a constant
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concerted media campaign to say 2020 was the most safe and secure and wonderful election ever.
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Donald Trump is an evil traitor, insurrectionist, secessionist. If we ever let him
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even close to the levers of power, again, the country is going to collapse. And 3% of Democrats
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hear that and they say, ah, nah, that's bogus. Nah, Biden probably did steal that election. You're
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right. For the Republicans, 39% say that Joe Biden was not legitimately elected. That's down to,
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uh, uh, down from 31%. Um, or I'm sorry, 30, 31% is down from 39%. 66% of independents say that Joe
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Biden was legitimately elected. That's down from 72%. That's a major, major collapse. The conclusion
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here is January 6th totally backfired. Why? Nobody believes it. It looks like theater. We have the
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security camera footage, which was finally released because Republicans took power in the house and it
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shows, oh, hold on. The, the January 6th, there's weren't murdering cops. Actually, no, no cop was
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murdered in the, the political violence of, of January 6th. No one was murdered whatsoever other
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than one Trump supporter, Ashley Babbitt, who was shot by a trigger happy cop who faced no
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consequences. Actually, it turns out the horn hat guy didn't just kick in the door, guns a-blazing
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and take over the, the floor of either chamber of, of Congress. Actually, he was escorted around by
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police. He was essentially given a private tour of the Capitol. Actually, actually, actually what we
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thought happened did not really happen. MSNBC takes that and breaks down crying.
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I'm going to try to get through this. Um, thank you for what you did three years ago today.
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Um, please tell me your thoughts, um, on this third anniversary.
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Um, we are, uh, still in the midst of the, the same fight that began, uh, on January 6th, 2021.
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Same fight. Thank you. On the third anniversary of this hallowed day, a day which will live in infamy,
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say, please tell us what happened. Cause we haven't, we haven't heard the truth about what,
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what happened, uh, on MSNBC ever on any of the mainstream news outlets. We saw the truth
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on the security camera footage that we had to pry from their hands. What on this, on this awful day
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in recent history, five members of Congress were shot by Puerto Rican radical activists. In recent
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history, the leftist weather underground blew up part of the Capitol. In fact, part of the Capitol has
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been blown up like three or four times in American history in relatively recent memory. Not only was
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January 6th, not the worst insurrection that ever took place at the Capitol in the United States.
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It wasn't even in the top eight. It wasn't, I don't think it was in the top 12 and people wake up to
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that, including some Democrats. When you overplay your hand, when the Democrats think they can overplay
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their hand because they control all of the media and the universities and basically every center of
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power in the country. So they think, okay, there's no lie so large we can't tell it. But the truth does
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break out every now and again. They don't have complete and total hegemony. And so when people
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find out that they've been lied to, they start to question everything. They start to question whether
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that election was legitimate in the first place. And the fact that now people are significantly less
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likely to believe that the 2020 election was legitimate. That's not my fault. That's not your
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fault. That's not the fault of the conspiracy theorists and the insurrectionists. That is squarely the
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fault of the liberals who lied to us. And because they lied about that, a lot of people think, huh,
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maybe they lied to us about the election too. Things are breaking down. The reason I bring all
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this stuff up is not even to talk about January 6th or Trump or 2020 or it's that the whole social
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order is breaking down. People see a riot at a shopping mall. They don't want to believe that there
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are riots at shopping malls. They'd rather believe aliens are invading from outer space.
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In a way, that's more comforting than just the sad, predictable decay of America as the greatest
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country in the history of the world begins to resemble the third world. There was a crazy story
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out of Alaska Airlines. It came out just yesterday. An Alaska Airlines flight was going from Oregon to
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California. And it takes off. This is a 737 MAX 9. It's gaining altitude. I think it was about 16,000
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feet. And the passengers hear a bang. They thought it was an explosion. And part of a door, like part of
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the side of the plane just explodes. It just pops out. Some person's shirt is just ripped off of him.
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A little teddy bear goes flying out the window. And they need to make an emergency landing. Luckily,
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no one died. But you can see some of the pictures of it. It's crazy. It's not even just that a window
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popped out. It's like a whole little side of the plane pops out there. How does this kind of thing
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happen? Because forgetting about high philosophy and political ideology, we are no longer good at doing
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just the basic things to make a society run. If you've ever traveled in the third world, I was
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recently just in a communist state. I've traveled to multiple communist states. One time I tried to
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travel to another one and I found that I was banned from that country. That's a story for another time.
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But I've traveled to more right-wing parts of the third world. I've traveled to communist parts of the
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third world. And the thing that strikes you about it, the distinguishing feature of these societies
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that are just really broken down and not functional, is that it's not really primarily about
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ideology. It's about, does the sewage run? It's about, do the social services work? It's about,
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can you trust that you're not going to be mugged when you walk outside? It's that, can you trust that
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if I store my wealth in a certain place, I'm not going to lose all of my wealth? Can I trust that
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the airplanes are going to work? And lest you think I'm just making a mountain out of a molehill and
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this is an isolated incident, it's really not. There's a statistic that near run-ins between
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commercial planes, I'm not talking about little dinky private jets, I'm talking about commercial
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aircraft, near run-ins are up 25% over the past decade. If you've been to the airport recently,
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delays, cancellations, they're way, way up. We're just kind of breaking down. You can't run a society
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on radical ideology for very long for two reasons. One, because if your ideology is contrary to human
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nature and reality, it's going to leave you constantly frustrated by the chasm between your
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fantasies and the reality that we all live in. But two, if all we do is focus on this pie-in-the-sky
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crazy stuff, you learn about radical gender theory in school, and you hear all of these cockamamie
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theories, and the people who are indoctrinated into that are the ones who go and run the corporations
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advice. Kelly Clarkson is recently divorced, so not great to get marriage advice probably from
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a recent divorcee. She says three things here that are totally wrong. One, she says love is not
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forever. Love is never forever. You know, you got to remember that going in. Two, you really want to
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make sure you're in a position where you don't need anything from your partner, okay? You don't want to be
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dependent on them. And three, you just got to go to therapy all the time. Therapy is really, really
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great. All three of those things are totally wrong. I've always known that love is hard. For me,
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love has always come with this elephant in the room of sadness. I've known love is not forever. I don't
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mean that to sound depressing, but I think we put a lot of pressure on that word. Sometimes love is
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looking at someone and going, this is not for you. This is not good for me. That's a hard thing to face,
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but when you do, I think you grow. Yes, you grow very sad, but you don't grow in that you're not
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edified by that. You're not sanctified by that. Usually, you just left right back at square one,
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and then you started again. But she said, love is so sad to me because I know it's never going to
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actually go anywhere. We'll see how far along it gets, but then eventually one of us is going to
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pull the plug. That is not the way to look at it. That is the way of looking at love as a matter of
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emotion and caprice and individual preference. That is not how our society has traditionally
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viewed love. That's not how love actually works. Love is willing the good of the other person for
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that person's own sake. Love is an action that we performed. Love is something that we are commanded
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to do as Christians, if you are a Christian, but I think we're all commanded to do it actually by the
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God of the universe. You have to do it even when you don't want to. You have to do it even when
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you just look at someone and you go, this is not good for you. This is not good for me. Yeah, let's
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just quit. No, you still have to do it. When you make a commitment to somebody, you just have to
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follow it out. And not only do you have to follow it out in this tedious way where it's just drudgery
00:25:01.620
and difficult all day long, you need to figure out how to make it work and thrive. And if something's
00:25:07.200
not working right, then you need to recognize that love is an objective thing outside of your own
00:25:13.080
emotions. And you need to do it. And if you are not perfectly willing the good of the other person
00:25:16.780
for that person's own sake and vice versa, then work it out, figure it out. But otherwise, you'll
00:25:22.180
just be left with what she admits is just a big elephant in the room of sadness. If it's all just
00:25:27.680
a negotiation and a gamble and based on individual choice rather than objective reality between the
00:25:33.420
social animals, between human beings, then it's always going to flop. Second one, dating sucks. It's so
00:25:39.860
awkward. I was single until I was like 30 and I forgot how really good at that I am.
00:25:44.700
I told a friend that a potential partner would have to be an individual that brings their own
00:25:49.280
life to the table without needing anything from me. It's far more romantic to say, I want you,
00:25:53.440
but I don't need anything. What? I'm really good right now. I'm having a good time. What are you
00:25:58.620
talking about? This is total millennial cope. I don't mean to be too harsh on Kelly Clarkson here,
00:26:04.480
but it's a teachable moment. And she's saying things that are just completely insane.
00:26:07.880
I think part of the reason that millennials in particular are having trouble getting married
00:26:12.360
is that people, sometimes we harden a little bit. We ossify a little bit, okay? When you're young,
00:26:20.360
you know, you're really malleable. You try on different personalities. You try out different
00:26:23.820
ideas. You're a sponge. You learn new words and behaviors. It's easier to learn a foreign language,
00:26:29.260
for example. As you get older, you kind of ossify a little bit and harden. So if you're a little
00:26:35.100
clump of putty, you're 15 years old, you're a little clump of putty. You got your 15-year-old
00:26:39.220
girlfriend. She's a little clump of putty. And you're all just a little putty and you get smooshed
00:26:42.860
together. And then you start to harden over time. You're going to harden into shape with one another.
00:26:49.000
If you're your regular clumps of putty and you're totally separate and individual,
00:26:53.180
and you just remain totally alone, you're going to harden into your own shapes. It's going to be a lot
00:26:58.580
harder to smash you two together, okay? There's going to be little gaps. There's going to be a little
00:27:02.320
air pockets. Little parts are going to break off. It's going to be difficult. I'm not saying it can't
00:27:06.980
happen. I know plenty of friends who've gotten married, not just in their 30s, which is now the
00:27:11.200
norm, but 40s, 50s. It can happen. It's a fallen world. And we do what we can. But it's going to be
00:27:19.900
a lot easier. You don't want someone who is totally, fully formed with all of their own tastes,
00:27:25.620
preferences, beliefs, behaviors. And then you have exactly the same when it comes to your tastes,
00:27:33.780
preferences, behaviors, whatever. And you're just going to mash them up in a kind of a negotiated
00:27:36.900
partnership. You want to grow together is what you want. You want your wife to be a part of your flesh,
00:27:44.160
okay? Another part of you. And you're going to develop those things together. You want
00:27:50.000
dependents. You want to share a bank account. You want to be together a lot. You want to do that.
00:27:58.660
Otherwise, it's going to be like you're running an accounting firm and you've got to have board
00:28:03.760
meetings every week to decide basic questions. Third one, she goes, I'm taking my power back.
00:28:08.400
That sounds very therapy, but that's because I love therapy. And I think it's important to have
00:28:12.080
those tools to navigate your life and relationships. How many people that you know who are constantly in
00:28:19.400
therapy are happy? Not very many, probably. Now you might say, well, yeah, that's why they're in
00:28:25.660
therapy. Okay. How many people who are in therapy for a really long time seem to get better?
00:28:35.640
Very few. I'm not saying it can't happen. It does happen. Drew Klavan, he says he's the one guy ever
00:28:40.400
in history who got cured by a therapist. And then he stopped going to the therapist because he got better.
00:28:44.760
I know people who go to therapists for years, decades. They only ever seem to get worse.
00:28:51.400
In some cases, they just use the therapist as a drug dealer, you know, a psychiatrist. Okay, get me
00:28:55.680
more depression pills or something. But in some cases, it's a better form of therapy, which is
00:29:00.620
cognitive behavioral therapy or some kind of talk therapy working through problems. But even then,
00:29:05.700
a therapist is only as good as the premises he brings to it, right? If a therapist starts with the
00:29:11.460
premise that there is no God, there is no soul, you're just a bag of chemicals. The only purpose
00:29:15.980
in life is to amass pleasure. And we're going to look at the world through the viewpoint of hedonistic
00:29:21.620
utilitarianism. Okay, you know, I don't think that's conducive to human flourishing. If your therapist
00:29:28.080
comes in and is a Christian and recognizes that you do have a soul and that life is about more than
00:29:34.280
just feeling pleasure and doesn't believe that marriage is dissolvable and doesn't believe all this
00:29:40.260
nonsense that Kelly Clarkson's been saying, then you're probably going to have a better therapist.
00:29:45.460
But which is it? We just, because we live in such a decadent and philosophically and theologically
00:29:54.860
shallow society, it's not that we got rid of our priests. It's just that we anoint new people to be
00:30:01.560
our priests. You can never get rid of the priests. There is a priestly class in every society ever
00:30:06.260
throughout all of human history. Every little, no two-bit tribe in Papua New Guinea has some kind
00:30:12.780
of a priest class. That's something that human life demands. We deny it. We say we killed all our
00:30:19.700
priests. We owe the society will only flourish when we strangle the last king with the entrails of the
00:30:26.560
last priest. You know, all this kind of craziness that came out of the Enlightenment and the French
00:30:30.420
Revolution. But it's not true. There's always going to be priests. This human need and this exercise
00:30:36.980
of power is always going to be there. It's just going to move around. And we have anointed therapists
00:30:43.600
with a lot of that prestige from the priestly class. But what if they're totally wrong? What if
00:30:49.420
they're not up to the job? What if even they're very well-intentioned, but they don't have really
00:30:53.020
solid thoughts on theology, ontology, anthropology? What happens then? You get a ton of confusion.
00:30:59.380
And you get a bunch of feel-good, you know, slogans that you could buy on one of those signs they sell
00:31:04.800
at TJ Maxx. You know, and the highest moral and theological maxim that you ever hear is live, laugh,
00:31:11.400
love. Live, laugh, love is fine to spruce up, you know, a powder room. It's not fine to live your life by.
00:31:17.800
It doesn't interpret itself. And it can lead you down this path of, yeah, just do whatever feels good
00:31:22.680
in the moment. Thank you, therapists. See you next time. Really, really bad advice, Kelly Clarkson.
00:31:28.040
I have a soft spot for her, but that's terrible advice. Speaking of women in show business,
00:31:32.160
Whoopi Goldberg has just come out to put a rest to the rumors. She says, yes, there is a Jeffrey
00:31:41.240
Epstein list floating around. And yes, she's on it, but that's not the whole story.
00:31:47.100
Just because your name is on the documents doesn't mean that you have done anything criminally.
00:31:52.680
Irresponsible or illegal or civilly irresponsible.
00:31:57.800
Or that you were a client. And so being named in this suit does not equate to being accused
00:32:02.180
of wrongdoing. And I think that is extremely important because conspiracy theorists seem
00:32:12.180
Yes. Let me bring that up. The conspiracy theory, folks.
00:32:19.700
Because, you know, I have to explain because there was a fake list.
00:32:30.420
I was apparently. I don't know. I said I was on the island.
00:32:34.120
And they said, and I'm like, I don't go anywhere.
00:32:39.400
If the story was about a bus, it would be more believable.
00:32:42.560
Maybe. But it's like, you know, so I'm just going to say, you know, and there's been a
00:32:47.240
lot of stuff recently. I don't know what I've done to anybody, but apparently there are a
00:32:51.400
lot of these kind of sites that are, what do you call them?
00:32:59.540
But people don't realize that they can be harmful.
00:33:03.720
Oh, yeah, Whoopi, that sure sounds like the sort of thing that somebody who was best friends
00:33:11.620
This Whoopi down there on the island with all that.
00:33:16.900
I can't believe I have to agree with The View today.
00:33:19.080
I don't think Whoopi was on Jeffrey Epstein's island and did weird stuff with Jeffrey Epstein.
00:33:23.860
I agree with Sonny Hostin when she says that just because you're named in the documents
00:33:30.400
Your name could pop up and you could just be referenced by one of the many powerful and
00:33:39.280
So, you know, yes, we went and got a sandwich at some rich, famous guy's house, but the rich,
00:33:45.060
famous guy never went to the island, never went to the townhouses, never got weird massages
00:33:50.180
Even people have made a big deal about Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, very
00:33:57.060
famous American lawyer and Harvard professor, and they've insinuated that he was a client
00:34:05.760
I know it's unpopular to say, but I tend to give Professor Dershowitz the benefit of the
00:34:14.760
People who are accused of crimes with a lot of money hire the very best lawyers.
00:34:19.740
Alan Dershowitz is one of the very best lawyers in the country.
00:34:21.980
Alan Dershowitz did go visit Jeffrey Epstein's places.
00:34:25.680
That's the sort of thing that a lawyer does to his clients.
00:34:28.100
So I'm not saying it's totally impossible, but I agree.
00:34:32.240
There are people in Jeffrey Epstein's orbit who probably didn't do anything particularly
00:34:40.180
At least there's a reason for Alan Dershowitz to go see Jeffrey Epstein.
00:34:47.860
Okay, why are some of these other really powerful political and financial and business figures
00:34:55.560
But to Whoopi's point and to the whole view segment, it's hard to believe what's on the
00:35:03.860
The testimony that's come out is just what someone says, and maybe that's credible, but maybe
00:35:10.380
I might be the only conservative in America who doesn't particularly care who is on the
00:35:18.160
Epstein client list, because I am much more interested in who Jeffrey Epstein was working
00:35:27.580
I think who is on the Jeffrey Epstein list is a little bit of a distraction.
00:35:30.940
Yes, the bad people who are doing bad things on the island should be brought to justice.
00:35:36.440
But yeah, in a perfect world, I'd like them to be brought to justice.
00:35:39.280
It is much more politically relevant for us to know what this operation was in service
00:35:45.820
It was clearly some kind of intelligence-gathering operation.
00:35:48.680
The guy had cameras and microphones all around his homes.
00:35:56.620
He saved files of so-and-so with some young girl in the massage room over here.
00:36:03.380
He labeled the CDs, and he had compromise on very, very powerful and important people,
00:36:11.300
And then we know that the FBI went in and raided his place, and then a safe went missing,
00:36:15.060
and it just coincidentally would appear to have been the safe with all of that evidence
00:36:23.020
Was that what he was in service of, just to get rich?
00:36:24.860
Was he working in service of a foreign intelligence agency?
00:36:29.400
We know that Ghislaine Maxwell's father was probably a triple spy.
00:36:34.840
The British spy agency, MI6, for whom he worked, also thought that Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine's
00:36:50.980
We know that Jeffrey Epstein, forget about the foreign intelligence.
00:36:53.180
We know Jeffrey Epstein was connected to American intelligence from the testimony of Alex Acosta,
00:36:57.020
the U.S. attorney who prosecuted him, who then was up for labor secretary under Trump.
00:37:05.380
Is Whoopi Goldberg like a surprise sexual deviant?
00:37:14.500
And I think it's pointless anyway to even inquire into it, because we're not going to get those
00:37:18.300
They're always going to pull the rug out from under us.
00:37:21.740
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My favorite comment yesterday, or on Friday, I suppose, is from Devin Rossi, who says,
00:38:40.220
Since we won't be gathered here on the 6th, I just want to wish everyone an early happy
00:38:50.320
Speaking of pedophiles, Jim Gaffigan took the stage at the Golden Globes last night.
00:38:59.640
I saw some of the clips going around, it was worse even than usual, but there were a few
00:39:04.920
bright spots, including Jim Gaffigan, who probably had the funniest line of the night.
00:39:13.620
I mean, I can't even believe I'm in the entertainment industry.
00:39:48.140
It was just the sort of thing they could chuckle about because they know that there is a pronounced
00:39:56.480
Especially as a mackerel-snapping papist, you know, there was this awful sex scandal with
00:40:00.740
these pederast priests who were molesting boys.
00:40:04.740
And it became international news for decades, which rightly should be.
00:40:13.840
But the thing that was unjust about it is that Catholic priests are no more likely than the
00:40:21.520
clerics of any other religious group to engage in that kind of pedophilic sexual assault.
00:40:30.180
It was most pronounced, and the attacks on religion in our civilization tend to be on the Catholic
00:40:38.600
church, which is the 2,000-year-old pillar of the faith.
00:40:42.880
So, you know, even in Hollywood, we live in a Protestant country, so-called, but every
00:40:48.740
Hollywood depiction of someone going in for a really intense religious confession, it's
00:40:56.180
They're always—it tends to come back to that.
00:40:58.400
So even though other religious—Christian denominations and other religious groups had it at a similar
00:41:05.320
But what was even more unjust was that, put the religious groups aside, public school teachers
00:41:11.280
are multiples times more likely to molest children than any of the religious groups in the United
00:41:20.080
The public school teachers, because they're a favorite of the liberals, they get totally
00:41:23.820
And then, beyond the public school teachers, you've got Hollywood, which has a major pedo
00:41:29.560
And they all know it, including the attendees at the Golden Globes.
00:41:39.160
And this is something that I think is actually a helpful lesson in politics.
00:41:43.120
I was talking to a friend of mine who's a little liberal and gets really, you know, exacerbated
00:41:50.520
by politics, said, Michael, how are you so calm about politics?
00:41:56.100
And I think there's a bell curve in terms of political knowledge and experience that
00:42:08.160
The people who don't know anything about politics, who have no idea what's going on,
00:42:11.980
they never read a newspaper, they—well, if you read a newspaper, you probably don't know
00:42:15.540
But, you know, they're just totally disengaged.
00:42:19.120
Of course, they don't have anything to get crazy about.
00:42:22.720
Then, when you start reading the papers a little bit, you know, and you start paying
00:42:25.880
attention to some of the corruption in our politics, and you start noticing that the
00:42:30.440
guardrails might not hold that well, and our institutions are crumbling around us, you
00:42:37.760
And then, when you keep reading all that stuff, but you also read how politics has worked for
00:42:42.640
all of human history, and you start reading history a little bit, and you start reading
00:42:47.140
political philosophy, and you start recognizing that some of these problems just appear to
00:42:52.020
be intractable in a fallen world, and they get better and worse, and they often come
00:42:56.140
And even when you've got a really good time for a few decades, the bad times are on the
00:43:04.920
And even the most horrific kind of stuff, you know, the stuff that Jim Gaffigan is joking
00:43:10.580
about at the Golden Globes, or the massive corruption going on at the highest levels of
00:43:18.220
the federal government, you say, yeah, this has all happened before.
00:43:31.780
And had we just opened our eyes and allowed ourselves to dispel the propaganda and just
00:43:38.980
see clearly what's really going on, we could have expected it.
00:43:43.000
A lot of people don't want to believe that our country could decay in the same way that
00:43:53.320
If there's a riot at a shopping mall, it has to be an alien invasion.
00:44:02.140
We can maybe turn it around, but we've got to be honest first.
00:44:06.220
Now, speaking of guys who are really good at this, guys who are really, really good at
00:44:10.480
just staying calm, cool, collected, seeing a little bit ahead of the curve, and acting
00:44:15.240
on the political sphere and having good effect.
00:44:21.780
Probably the face, there were other people behind it, but Chris Ruffo is the leading
00:44:25.360
figure in the movement to oust Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard, because she was
00:44:30.660
The real reason is because she said that it was okay to call for the genocide of the Jews
00:44:34.160
during a congressional testimony, but that's what weakened her.
00:44:36.700
They still weren't going to totally throw her out.
00:44:39.460
As an academic matter, that's actually a more egregious scandal.
00:44:48.780
And my favorite attack on this guy comes from within Harvard.
00:44:54.640
Because Chris Ruffo, he graduated from Georgetown.
00:44:58.220
And then later on, he got a degree at the Harvard Extension School.
00:45:03.100
And the Harvard Extension School is one of the schools of Harvard, but it's kind of like
00:45:06.300
the night school, you know, or the online school.
00:45:08.060
It's the one where you go and you can take some classes.
00:45:13.720
You get a Harvard University degree at the end of it.
00:45:18.420
And they're saying he doesn't have a real Harvard degree.
00:45:33.980
It's so clever in how Chris has now put his opponents in an impossible situation.
00:45:41.480
Because either they have to admit that Harvard degrees can be worthless.
00:45:47.640
We were told that a Harvard degree is the most important and impressive thing ever.
00:45:51.100
All the big fancy Libs who run everything, they all have Harvard degrees.
00:45:53.960
And they say that that is one of the credentials that
00:45:56.060
shows why they ought to run the entire country.
00:45:59.520
You've just admitted either that a Harvard degree can be worthless.
00:46:04.560
Or you've got to admit that Chris Ruffo has the same degree that you guys have.
00:46:08.320
And so he is worthy of the same respect that you have.
00:46:17.160
What's funny is the actual answer is both of them,
00:46:19.620
which is Harvard degrees are increasingly worthless.
00:46:22.040
All of them, not just the Extension School, but just all of them.
00:46:24.440
And also, Chris Ruffo is worthy of much more respect than,
00:46:28.200
you know, the right-wingers who are actually trying to help resuscitate the country
00:46:32.220
are worthy of much more respect than the Libs with all of their fancy degrees
00:46:39.560
But right here, what are the Libs going to give up?
00:46:43.200
The prestige of Harvard or the ability to marginalize prominent right-wingers?
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