Ep. 1410 - Supreme Court Allows Biden To Cut Open The Border
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Supreme Court rules that President Biden can tear down barbed wire in Texas to protect the border from a massive influx of illegal immigrants, and President Biden mourns the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, which was overturned 51 years ago today.
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The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 yesterday that President Biden can tear down barbed wire in
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Texas, put up and paid for by the state of Texas to try to stop the historic invasion of cartel
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criminals and other foreign nationals invited and encouraged to enter Texas illegally by the
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Biden administration. Four of the court's conservatives voted to allow Texas to even
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somewhat slightly attempt to protect its territorial integrity while Amy Barrett and
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John Roberts sided with Biden and the court liberals to tear down the meager 30 miles of
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wire. Texas had been erecting nothing, 30 miles of barbed wire to try to stop this unprecedented
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historic influx, multiples more than anything we've ever really seen in American history.
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And Border Patrol kept cutting it down. So Texas takes Biden to court and the court rules 5-4.
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Nope. Sorry, Texas. You're not even allowed to protect the territorial integrity of your own state
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from a mass influx of foreign nationals. And you know what? I'm not surprised. The libs hold all
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sorts of terrible, disordered, and deadly things dear. Abortion, weird sex stuff, racial discrimination.
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You go down the list. And the Supreme Court has struck some of that down. Sometimes we win on
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some of those issues. But this issue was too much. Because more than any other issue, mass migration is
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sacrosanct to the liberal establishment. Because mass migration in the long run is how the liberals plan
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to win on all the other issues. Not just here, but all around the West. Wherever you look, Britain,
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Hungary, Italy, Germany, France, America especially, mass migration is deeply unpopular with voters.
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Not even just the right-wing Republicans, the conservatives. Deeply unpopular with most voters.
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But so are the liberal elites and all their terrible policies. So there's only one option
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for the liberals. The mass importation of new voters who are overwhelmingly statistically more
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likely to side with them. It's a cynical scheme, but the liberals in charge are dead set on it.
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And nothing as insignificant as the law or the Constitution or a conservative court majority
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is going to stop them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Dana White, the head of UFC, just schooled a reporter on free speech with
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facts and logic. And his answer is even better, I think, than perhaps Dana White knows, which we'll
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get to in just a little bit. First, though, on court decisions. Got a really, really bad one yesterday.
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The court just totally squished. Amy Barrett, in particular, and John Roberts, we always expect
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him to squish the chief justice. But in recent years, we have had some big court wins. So it's
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not all doom and gloom. The biggest one, of course, is Dobbs. The Dobbs decision, which reverses Roe v.
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Wade, which saves who knows how many babies into the future. And President Biden, a supposed Catholic,
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supposedly a member of a religion that says that abortion is completely unacceptable, that it's not
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just a mere political matter, but that the right to life is the fundamental right on which all of the
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other rights depend. President Biden marked the occasion by whining and complaining and hoping
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that more babies will be killed in the future. He said, quote, 51 years ago today, Jack, some hairy
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legged fella came down. No, he didn't say that. He said 51 years ago today, the Supreme Court recognized
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a woman's constitutional right to make deeply personal decisions with her doctor, decisions to murder her
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child, free from the interference of politicians. Then, a year and a half ago, the court made the extreme
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decision to overturn Roe and take away a constitutional right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. The best part of
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this statement, the best part of this anniversary of the Dobbs decision is that now it feels like old
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news. That's my favorite part of it. Well, no, I guess my favorite part is all the babies who aren't
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being killed. But my second favorite part is how it feels like old news. Because when it happened,
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we were told in the lead up to that decision, we were told it's going to cause a civil war. You remember
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in the lead up to it, the liberals tried to murder Supreme Court justices to stop the decision from
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coming out. They tried to kill these guys. And Alito, rather, had to go into hiding. A liberal
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traveled from California to Washington, D.C. to murder Brett Kavanaugh and started going up to his
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house. Okay, this was, we were told this was going to be the big issue. And then it happened.
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And then what? Everyone just kind of accepted it. And now lots and lots of babies are alive and will
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grow up to be adult human beings because of that decision. And the liberals who whine and say,
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but it's the law of the land. It's the constitutional right. I want to kill more babies. They seem more and
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more ridiculous. Because not only is their claim about the Constitution, not only is their claim about
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human life and the supposed right to murder innocent people, not only is that absurd, but even just
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their historical legal argument seems silly because it's been a couple years now. And now it's not a
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constitutional right. For the vast majority of American history, no one has believed that killing a kid is
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a constitutional right. They didn't think it for most of our history until the early 1970s. Then we got
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confused for that a little under five decades. And now we're not confused anymore. And that's that.
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This vindicates something that I mentioned on the show yesterday, which is this idea of the Lindy
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effect. The notion that the longer a non-perishable thing endures, the longer you can expect it to
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endure. So, you know, if a Broadway show has run for six weeks, you can expect it to run for another
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six weeks. If a Broadway show has run for three years, you can expect it to run for another three
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years. Recently, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the writer, has articulated this. It comes from a
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mathematician, a fractalist named Benoit Mandelbrot. It actually goes back even further than that.
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Well, it's true in war. It's true in show business. It's true in New York delis. And it seems rather
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true in law and jurisprudence. Because I was thinking about how long Roe endured.
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Roe is decided early 1970s, then fast forward about 20 years, and it's up for reconsideration
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in Planned Parenthood v. Casey. And what happens? Planned Parenthood v. Casey decides, another
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conservative squished on the court, they decide that there is a right to abortion somewhere in
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the Constitution, even though they totally rewrite the justification for it that was given in Roe v.
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Wade. And then what happens? Roe endures for almost the same amount of time that it had previously
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endured for. It goes a little bit over doubling, actually. And then it's up for consideration
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again, and it gets shot down in Dobbs. So the key here for conservatives is, what we've got to do
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is just build up that inertia. What we've got to do is just make the Dobbs decision normal,
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just protect it at all costs. Because right now it's a little dangerous. The Dobbs decision is
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kind of fresh, kind of new. The libs are still very motivated to overturn it. The way they're
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going to overturn it is they're going to put liberal justices on the court. The way they're
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going to get liberal justices on the court is they're going to keep Democrats in the presidency.
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So it is very, very important. If we want to protect Dobbs, if we want to protect innocent
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little babies, we need to get a Republican president in office soon. This is a weak conservative
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majority on the court, obviously. They just rubber stamped Joe Biden's invasion by foreign
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nationals of the country to give him more voters. So obviously it's a weak conservative majority,
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and it's only been a couple of years here. Very easy to overturn that kind of a decision.
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So we've got to get the Republican president. And right now the Republican presidential primary
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is all but over. Tonight is the New Hampshire primary. We'll see what happens. There is still
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a chance Nikki Haley pulls out a victory. I wouldn't put my money on it. Even if she does,
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there's still no path to victory for her. So for all intents and purposes, Trump is the nominee.
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And I'm very pleased to see that he is now pivoting, even after this very rough, mean,
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brutal primary, he's pivoting to try to bring the party together and say very nice things
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about his most recently vanquished rival, Ron DeSantis.
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Before we begin, I'd like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis and, of course, a
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really terrific person who I've gotten to know his wife, Casey, for having run a great campaign
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for president. He did. He ran a really good campaign. I will tell you, it's not easy.
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They think it's easy doing this stuff, right? It's not easy. But as you know, he left the campaign
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trail today at 3 p.m. And in so doing, he was very gracious and he endorsed me. So I appreciate it.
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I appreciate that. And I also look forward to working with Ron and everybody else to defeat
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crooked Joe Biden. We will have to get him out. We have to get him out. He's put our country at great
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peril, at great peril. So I just want to thank Ron and congratulate him on doing a very good job.
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It's a tough situation. It's a tough thing to do.
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He just said, will I be using the name Ron DeSantis? I said, that name is officially retired.
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Hold on a second. Wait. Oh, you just heard for over a year that Rob DeSantis is a terrible
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governor and he's awful and he's the worst. But now you're saying you like him and he's a terrific
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guy and he's done a good job. And then even jokes there at the end, he goes, that name,
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Ron DeSantis, officially retired. It's done. It's going to drive some people up a wall.
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It doesn't drive me up a wall. In fact, this is one of my favorite things about Trump.
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disproves is one of what I think is the dumbest arguments against Trump. One of the dumbest lines
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of attack where people say Donald Trump is totally undisciplined. He's just a ball of emotion. He takes
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everything personally. Everything we know about Trump shows the opposite to be true.
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Perhaps he's undisciplined in that he makes errant comments on Twitter back when he had a Twitter or
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something. But he's not an undisciplined campaigner. He's an extremely disciplined
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campaigner, actually. He sticks to his message, at least when he's talking about friend and foe,
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which some have called the fundamental distinction in politics. He sticks to his message with extreme
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discipline. When you are opposing Trump, you are the worst person in the world. You are the devil on
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earth. He will bring the fires of hell. He will bring 10 times the power of the sun against you
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to destroy you. And then the moment that you flip over and you're on his team again, that's all done.
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He doesn't hold a grudge. You know the evidence of him not holding a grudge? Forget about even
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Governor DeSantis for a second. Go back to 2016. You think the Trump-DeSantis primary was bad? Do you
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remember the Trump-Cruz primary? Cruz was the number two guy in 2016? It was a vicious, brutal primary
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between these two men. And Trump coined the term Lion Ted, L-Y-I-N apostrophe, Lion Ted. And it was
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just so, so nasty. And then what happens? Senator Cruz drops out, votes for Trump. They work together
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very well. And Trump ends up campaigning for him. Here's what he says. Ted and I got along very well,
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very late into the campaign. And I said, don't worry about it. It's only a question of time.
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And then it became very nasty. And then it was over. And when it was over, we'd gotten along great.
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Now, I liked it. If you remember, he was the last one that we really had. I mean, I went very late
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into the campaign. We actually held a rally together late into the campaign. I said, it will end. And
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it did. And then it got back. So we're very close. We've done great on tax cuts. We've done great on
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regulation cuts. Well, he's been really terrific. What is he beautiful, Ted? I call him Texas Ted.
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No, now he's beautiful, Ted. Now he's Texas Ted. I know the people who hate Trump are going to say,
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well, this shows he doesn't believe anything or he does it. No, it doesn't show that. It shows that
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he knows how to campaign. It shows that he sees politics as a team sport. It shows that he's
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going to be really, really tough. And maybe you think he's going to go over the top when he's
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campaigning. But I think that probably applies to every single politician, but that he's not going
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to take it personally. A politician who took it personally would take his ball and go home.
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A politician that takes it personally would still be talking about that terrible Ted Cruz. I hate that
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Cruz. It's Ron DeSantis. He's mean. And he said this mean thing about me. A politician who doesn't
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take it personally, who appears not to take really anything personally, he treats it like business.
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You know, it's Michael Corleone talking to Sonny. When Sonny says, what, you want to go kill a cop
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because he slapped you around a little? Come on, you're going to get his blood on your Ivy League suit.
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Don't take it so personally. And Michael Corleone says, it's strictly business. Politics is a
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is a contact sport. OK, it's a team sport. It's a contact sport. As I said from the beginning of
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this primary, these are all big, tough guys. They've all run plenty of races. None of them are
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little wallflowers. OK, and they ran a bruising primary. Trump won. And now the question is,
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can they come together? Can they not take it personally? Can they come together? Are they going
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to live up to what they've all been talking about, which is this is about party. This is about
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principle. This is about doing good for the American people. OK, well, in order to do that,
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you've got to put personal ego aside. I don't know. It's a very difficult thing to do, especially
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when you're running a bruising primary. I know it's hard, but I love that Trump does it.
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And by the way, the minute DeSantis attacks him again, he's going to be back to attacking DeSantis.
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And then the minute DeSantis is nice to him again, he's going to be nice to DeSantis. And the same
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thing is going to be true of Haley. Same thing is going to be true of Chris Christie, I bet. OK,
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it's going to be true of everybody. And from my vantage, where I don't particularly care about
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the personal lives of these people and I don't care about their personal emotions at any given
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point, I just want good victories for a conservative vision of America so we have a
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good country again. That is fine by me. Don't take it personal. Keep it business. Let's go out
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race for Trump ahead. Some Florida Republicans are suggesting that we cover, that not we,
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I'm not a Florida resident, that the Florida taxpayer cover President Trump's legal bills
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with taxpayer funds. This proposal was filed by Senator Iliana Garcia in Miami.
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It doesn't specifically name Trump, this bill, but the bill says that legal fees incurred as a result
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of criminal charges brought by a U.S. public entity on qualified persons who have been subject to
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political discrimination would be covered by state funds. So obviously, this is about Trump. Trump is
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covered here. DeSantis has come out and said, I'm going to veto this if this makes it to my desk.
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We are not spending taxpayer money to cover Donald Trump's legal fees. I actually think they're both
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right in this instance. I side with the state senator on the general thrust of the legislation,
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and I agree with Governor DeSantis that the Florida taxpayer should not be on the hook for this.
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I think this should be paid for by the federal government.
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This should be paid for by the taxpayer because it's not going to be,
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not what red cent is going to come out of a taxpayer here. Okay, President Trump's legal fees,
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we've never seen anything like this in America. They are throwing everything they can to destroy
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this man. His legal fees amount to, according to him, about $100 million right now.
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In 2022, according to the Government Accountability Office, the U.S. government wasted $247 billion
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just in improper payments. I'm not saying they wasted it on some stupid study, you know,
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like lesbian obesity in seahorses or something. I mean, just in payments the government should not
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have made that they did make for no reason whatsoever. They spent $247 billion. Trump's
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legal fees are $100 million. So you divide that number in half, then you go an order of magnitude
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lower, and you'd still have a lot of change left over. But this should be paid for by the government.
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It wouldn't be paid for by the taxpayer, but it would be paid for by the government.
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Truly, you could cut just even a tiny sliver of a sliver of an iota waste to cover
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this in two seconds. It should be covered by the government because otherwise you're creating
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an incentive for the ruling party to persecute the leader of the opposition, to prosecute
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specifically, but then at a broader level to persecute, to try to destroy, to bury in legal
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fees the leader of the opposition. And that's bad for both parties, and that's bad for the citizens.
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If the ruling class can just destroy all opposition by burying them in legal fees when they're not
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running against a billionaire or a former billionaire, I can't imagine Trump even has a
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billion dollars anymore. They've taken his money away. That's a very bad situation. You want to
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talk about a threat to American democracy? That's a major threat to American democracy. It has such
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a chilling effect over anyone who wouldn't want to run, certainly, who wouldn't even want to work
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in an administration where the ruling liberal establishment afterward will prosecute you,
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throw you in jail, or take away all your money.
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So I think it would be a very, very good thing for the federal government to be accountable here
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and say, no, you know, if you're going to try to behave like some tinpot dictatorship or some,
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you know, Stalin-esque totalitarian state, then, you know, you're going to have to pay for it at
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least. You're going to at least have to pay the legal fees for it. Absolutely. It really, these legal
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battles are really not about Trump. You want to talk about not making this personal? It's not about
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Trump. What are they over? Because Trump made a phone call to the Secretary of State of Georgia
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because Trump handled documents in a similar way to every other president in recent memory,
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including Joe Biden. Trump less egregiously mishandled classified documents than Joe Biden did
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because Trump, what, because some gossip columnist says she met him in a Bergdorf Goodman 30 years ago
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and ravished her. And she spoke sort of glowingly about this for a while, and she's obviously pretty
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kooky. And then now you're going to get him. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Absolutely not.
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Absolutely not. Got to hold the government accountable for that stuff. Now, speaking of
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a system being turned against normal people, Elon Musk was over in Poland yesterday with a friend of
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mine. There's a fella I know by the name of Ben Shapiro. They were over there touring Auschwitz.
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And then afterward, they had a conversation. And Elon made the claim that DEI is anti-Semitic.
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The diversity and equity inclusion. You should always be wary of any name that sounds like it
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could come out of a George Orwell book. That's never a good sign. Because it sounds like, sure,
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diversity, equity, inclusion, these all sound like nice words. But what it really means is
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discrimination on the basis of race, sex, and sexual orientation. And it's against merit.
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And thus, I think, is fundamentally anti-Semitic.
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Fundamentally anti-Semitic. Some people saw that as a non-sequitur. I do not. I think
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Elon says diversity, equity, and inclusion, D-E-I, is anti-Semitic. Totally agree. Totally agree with
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them. It is because the Jews have done very well. The Jews perform very well. They succeed at very
00:24:39.800
high levels. You could be the most Jew-hating anti-Semite in the world. You have to admit,
00:24:46.480
they've been pretty successful over the millennia, haven't they?
00:24:52.280
If you're a Christian, surely you would say the Jews are obviously a gifted people. What other people
00:24:56.640
could bring forth the Virgin Mary? What other people would bring forth our Lord and Savior?
00:25:01.180
The Lord and Savior, the Lord of Lord and King of Kings, Master of the Universe. No other people.
00:25:07.000
And even if you're less religiously inclined, you look and you see the Jews do very well in all these
00:25:11.840
industries. They score very well on IQ tests. So D-E-I, which says that we need to factor in
00:25:20.640
other things. We need to prioritize other things than merit and work and success and IQ and blah,
00:25:27.800
blah, blah. That's going to be effectively anti-Semitic. You saw this in university admissions
00:25:33.500
in the U.S. a hundred years ago. There were Jewish quotas because the Jews were getting into the schools
00:25:37.500
too much. But you wouldn't say that D-E-I is just anti-Semitic. You would say it's also anti-Asian,
00:25:45.000
because Asians share a lot of those attributes as well. Certainly in affirmative action,
00:25:51.840
you would say that that's anti-Asian. We just had a major court case about this,
00:25:56.420
that the schools say, oh, yeah, you've done very well on your SAT. You've scored very well. You're
00:26:00.000
the valedictorian. Yeah, but you're Asian. So sorry, we're going to give your spot in a university
00:26:05.180
to someone of a more privileged race than you are. Ironically, we're going to say they're a less
00:26:10.240
privileged race. So we're going to give them a special privilege and they're going to take your spot.
00:26:13.080
Sorry. So you'd say it's anti-Asian. You could make all of those claims. The one thing you can't
00:26:19.880
say is that it's anti-white. That's the weird part. Because white people also do pretty well.
00:26:26.600
You know, historically, they've done pretty well on the statistics and they score well on the tests
00:26:30.260
and everything. But you're not allowed to say that D-E-I is anti-white. That's not one of the
00:26:35.260
reasons for which you can criticize it. Anti-Semitic, that's okay. Anti-Asian, that's okay.
00:26:41.720
Anti-white, not so much. It's even deeper than that. It's not only that you can't do anything
00:26:51.540
about these policies that explicitly discriminate against white people because they are white in
00:26:58.700
hiring, in university admissions, in promotions, in everything. You can't even talk about it.
00:27:04.940
You can't even mention it. Unless you are willing to suffer social consequences for it. Unless you
00:27:13.460
work for a company that lets you speak your opinion. I work for a conservative company.
00:27:18.360
My job is to state my opinion. And I have accepted the fact that I will incur social ostracization
00:27:24.600
and all sorts of calumny in the press for stating simple truths. I have accepted that. And so in my job,
00:27:30.500
I'm allowed to at least point out that these policies explicitly and intentionally discriminate
00:27:36.780
against white people. But if you're a middle manager at some company, you can't really say
00:27:41.540
that. You could lose your job. If you're at a university and you're just trying to get a good
00:27:45.180
grade and graduate, you can't really say that too openly or you will be discriminated against.
00:27:50.660
If you work for the government, oh my goodness. If you work for a university and you ever said that,
00:27:55.740
you would lose your job in two seconds. That is a major political problem.
00:28:01.240
I agree. I just think Elon is scratching the surface here when he says, yeah, DEI is anti-Semitic.
00:28:07.160
It totally is. And that is one of the reasons to oppose it. And these sorts of policies are anti-Asian.
00:28:14.240
Yeah, that's true. That's another reason to oppose it. And it's anti-white. I consider that a pretty
00:28:20.460
big reason to oppose it. And we have a political climate right now where you're not even allowed
00:28:28.900
to mention that. It is so not only legally acceptable to discriminate against white people,
00:28:35.380
but socially encouraged to malign white people all the time. That if you ever speak up and say,
00:28:42.100
hey, maybe we shouldn't legally discriminate against them, you'll be called a Nazi for that.
00:28:47.060
But that is actually a deeper political problem than the direct effects of any of these DEI
00:28:54.620
policies. Say yes and, Elon. Yes and, but it's so much worse than all that.
00:29:01.400
Now, speaking of racial politics, Nikki Haley, theoretically the last Republican other than
00:29:08.060
Donald Trump in the primary, in the lead up to New Hampshire on NBC News, has played the race card.
00:29:13.480
We were the only Indian family in our small southern town. I was teased every day for being brown.
00:29:24.460
So anyone that wants to question it can go back and look at what I've said on how hard it was to
00:29:31.100
grow up in the deep south as a brown girl. Anybody can look at my record and see when Walter Scott was
00:29:38.160
shot down by a dirty cop, how I made sure that the Walter Scott family didn't suffer because we put the
00:29:45.220
first body camera bill in the country in place. Anybody can look at the fact that when we had nine
00:29:50.840
amazing souls die in Mother Emanuel Church, I did something that no Republican or Democrat ever wanted
00:29:56.760
to touch, which was call for the Confederate flag to come down because it would take two thirds of the
00:30:01.680
House and Senate and was an impossible feat. I don't know what you're implying with that, but
00:30:06.700
what I will tell you is saying that I had black friends is a source of pride. Saying that I had
00:30:14.860
You know, I really like Nikki Haley personally and I like a lot of the candidates in this race and
00:30:22.140
all of the candidates at some point will say something that's a little hyperbolic or that
00:30:26.280
I don't quite believe. And I got to tell you, I'm a little skeptical that Ambassador Haley was
00:30:33.940
bullied every single day of her life as a child for being brown. And the reason I'm a little skeptical
00:30:40.960
is had she not told me, I would not know that Nikki Haley was brown. She's very light-skinned.
00:30:48.400
Her parents are Indian. They're Punjabi. So that's Northern India where there are a lot of people who
00:30:52.940
are very light-skinned. And I'm not even saying that no one ever made a comment about it when she
00:30:57.000
was a kid. Probably someone did at some point. Maybe someone figured it out. But every day she
00:31:05.020
was bullied for being brown. I'm a little skeptical. Why is Ambassador Haley saying this? I suspect she's
00:31:12.260
saying this because she's doing an interview on NBC and they're accusing her of being a racist like
00:31:17.600
they do to every single Republican. And this is her natural reaction. And this is the natural reaction
00:31:22.100
of many, many Republicans. Nikki Haley is far from alone in this kind of a response. But I think this
00:31:27.380
kind of response is ill-advised. Because what this response amounts to is accepting the leftist
00:31:34.600
framing. Nikki Haley, are you racist? I'm not racist. I'm oppressed. I hear this all the time.
00:31:41.460
One time I was in Washington, D.C. and the black Hebrew Israelites were on the street. They're the ones
00:31:45.760
who scream out and they say white people are the devil and they're disgusting and they're demons and
00:31:50.200
the ice people and whatever. They have all these crazy racial theories. And they yell mean things
00:31:54.980
at women and all this stuff. And so I was standing in line at a coffee shop afterward. There was a gal
00:31:59.140
in front of me, this little white gal wearing a North Face jacket. And she goes, oh, did you hear
00:32:03.560
those people out there? Oh, yeah, yeah. Could you believe they called me a white devil and an awful
00:32:09.280
woman and everything? And I told them, this is crazy. I'm a woman. I'm oppressed too.
00:32:16.180
And I couldn't, I just turned away from her when I heard that. I thought, lady, you took,
00:32:21.760
you've taken exactly the wrong lesson from this. You're trying to play a game that you will certainly
00:32:26.720
lose. First of all, young affluent white girl in a North Face in Washington, D.C., you're not oppressed,
00:32:33.980
okay, at all, at all. By historical standards, you are the least oppressed human being that has
00:32:40.120
ever existed, ever. We're all oppressed by sin and the fallenness of this world. But you in particular,
00:32:48.700
uh-uh. But a lot of people think, well, look, that's just the culture right now. It's just this
00:32:57.340
race hustling oppression Olympics and I've got to play it or I'll be totally cast out. So no,
00:33:03.140
no, I'm actually oppressed somehow. There are men today. I'm not, I actually remember this starting
00:33:07.700
when I was in college. There are straight guys who will call themselves non-heterosexual. They'll
00:33:13.900
call themselves queer. They could be dating women. They could be not, they've never done anything
00:33:18.480
weird, never even tap danced, okay? And they'll say, I'm non-heterosexual or I'm queer because they
00:33:24.580
just need a struggle. You know, if you're a rich, successful white guy, you need some kind of a
00:33:29.820
struggle in this oppression Olympics. I just think it's, it's going to make you lose from the
00:33:36.920
beginning. If Nikki Haley wins by accepting and framing that the South is evil and white people
00:33:43.580
oppress the brown people and it's, you know, this is a systemically racist country. I'm not saying
00:33:48.960
she's going to go that far, but that's what she's leaning in toward in this kind of an answer. If she
00:33:52.460
does that, then even if she wins, she lost. You know, if we as Republicans do this,
00:33:57.320
then any victory will be a Pyrrhic victory because we will only have won by embracing all of the
00:34:03.960
left's premises. This is what happens when the libs or when the conservatives rather, they tout
00:34:09.100
how, you know, we, we have conservative transgender activists. You know, you don't, listen, I,
00:34:17.840
if you're a transgender activist, you don't need to be with those liberals. You can vote with us.
00:34:22.900
Well, not, not really. Right. You know, like we, if you think a man can become a woman, then
00:34:28.660
you're, you're not really conservative at all. No, no, but they support low taxes too. Okay. Well,
00:34:36.500
you know, life's about more than low taxes guys. If we just embrace all of the left's fundamental
00:34:40.540
points, then we just surrender. And even if we're in office, we're just kind of like zombies,
00:34:45.760
just doing the bidding of the left, totally infiltrated by the left possessing our minds.
00:34:50.880
Don't do that. Not, not good stuff. Now, speaking of people who have been attacked for being Brown
00:34:56.080
and I've seen it and heard it, Senator Tim Scott has just announced some happy news. He is getting
00:35:02.680
married. Senator Scott is, you know, a little bit older. He's 58 years old. Many thought he would
00:35:11.280
remain a bachelor. He's obviously a very busy guy. He's a politician. Politicians don't always have time
00:35:15.940
for a family, but he just proposed to his girlfriend, Mindy. He said, she said, yes,
00:35:21.020
Mindy, thank you for making me the luckiest man in the world. He who finds a wife finds what is good
00:35:25.800
and receives favor from the Lord. That's from Proverbs chapter 18, verse 22, as Senator Scott
00:35:33.260
tweeted out. It was great for him. He's 58. She's 47, though a lady never tells. So obviously this is a
00:35:39.660
later in life marriage, but a wonderful. I think it's terrific. And I wish the many,
00:35:43.000
many years of happiness and I've had the pleasure of meeting Senator Scott on a couple of occasions
00:35:47.000
and he's a really terrific guy. So I think that's all great. But there is a little voice inside me,
00:35:54.180
a little voice of that political cynic crying out inside me that makes me wonder, hold on a second
00:36:00.860
here. Is Senator Scott in the running to be Trump's VP? Because not everyone is called to marriage.
00:36:11.520
Senator Scott made it 58 years without getting married. And if you make it to 58 without getting
00:36:16.780
married, you probably could go the rest of your life without getting married. He's getting married
00:36:20.920
now, just after he drops out of the presidential race, before the nominee who he's endorsed picks
00:36:27.780
a running mate. Even today in our very loosey-goosey culture, I think you probably have to be married to
00:36:32.900
be a vice presidential contender. Haven't had all that many bachelors in American history,
00:36:37.320
serve as president. Is this sending signals about who Trump is going to pick? We know that Senator
00:36:44.340
Scott is in contention for it. I don't know. And maybe, I'm not saying it's totally cynical and
00:36:48.820
they're just getting married as a political arrangement or something. They might love each
00:36:52.060
other very much and I think it's good to get married. So it's all wonderful. But
00:36:54.820
if there already was chatter on the veep stakes about Senator Scott, I think the chatter
00:37:01.380
has increased in volume. My favorite comment yesterday is from Aus10C who says,
00:37:06.820
if you're going to eat pork, do it until your mouth drips. Winston Churchill. So true.
00:37:13.560
I am what I am and that's all that I am. Winston Churchill.
00:37:17.660
Churchill. That's all folks. Every quotation is Winston Churchill. People who quote Churchill
00:37:26.000
with things that he's never said in casual conversation, one usually lets it go. But if
00:37:32.380
you are a speechwriter, especially a speechwriter for a presidential campaign, no, that's not good.
00:37:38.260
You got to watch out for that, guys. Come on. Not a great look. I'm just saying it just popped
00:37:43.280
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00:38:28.080
politics, a trans-identifying golfer, a fella who identifies as a woman, is complaining now that
00:38:36.540
women don't want to compete against him. Of all the shots that she has hit over the years,
00:38:43.580
Hayley Davidson never expected to find herself at the center of a political storm around transgender
00:38:49.460
athletes competing against women in elite sport. For a lot of people, because you were born a man,
00:38:56.000
you clearly have an advantage. Do you accept that? Honestly, I 100% agree. You know,
00:39:01.060
the men do have advantages. You know, say you get a trans person on hormones for a year,
00:39:07.720
no surgery, nothing. Of course, for the most part, yeah, they're going to have an advantage.
00:39:13.640
I don't believe trans people should be banned from sports, but I do believe there need to be
00:39:18.040
guidelines in effect. Why do you think people have such a big problem with you competing in
00:39:23.940
women's golf in particular? I don't understand that. I don't get what the fear of me, one person,
00:39:30.600
is doing. The 31-year-old, who was the first male-born golfer to win a professional women's
00:39:36.040
event, is speaking out. I think that's why. I think, what an amazing brain arrest. What an amazing
00:39:47.800
bit of cognitive dissonance there. He says, yeah, men obviously have an advantage, and so
00:39:53.580
you know, if you haven't done all that much, and you know, you're kind of, you just started your
00:39:57.480
hormones, and you're just, yeah, obviously, you've got a huge advantage because you're a dude.
00:40:02.260
Why do you think women don't want to compete against you? Oh, I have no idea. Me, this hulking
00:40:07.540
dude sitting here, a man much larger than my male interviewer here, just a giant among men and women.
00:40:15.100
Yeah, I have no idea why women would be upset against competing against me. So-and-so,
00:40:19.660
transvestite golfer was the first fella to beat the women in golf. Oh, I think that explains it.
00:40:27.080
The first part explained it, and the second part explained it, and that's why. That's why. I'm not
00:40:31.860
a huge golfer, but when I've golfed, I've noticed that the tees for the men are further back than
00:40:39.320
where you put your tee if you're a woman, because the men are much stronger, which is why they beat the
00:40:45.420
women in the sports. By the way, this guy is not the first guy to beat women in golf. Any man who
00:40:50.020
has ever golfed against a woman has beaten a woman in golf. This guy is just the first guy to do it
00:40:56.440
while calling himself a woman, doing it in a professional competition. His answer was pretty
00:41:04.940
good, actually. His answer was pretty honest at first when he said, look, yeah, men obviously have
00:41:13.100
advantages. But where he lost it is he tried to distinguish himself and his experience from the
00:41:20.100
other undeserving trans-identifying people, where he says, well, sure, if you've only been on the
00:41:26.380
hormones for a little bit of time and you haven't chopped off some of your organs or the right organs
00:41:31.600
Yeah, then it's unfair. But for me, I'm a woman. He probably really believes it. That guy can hulk
00:41:38.100
over the male interviewer. But in his mind, because he has a form of body dysmorphia, he really thinks
00:41:44.880
he's a woman. He thinks there's no difference between him and some actual woman. So he has a
00:41:48.980
form of mental illness. I don't really blame him. So I blame him to some degree in as much as his own
00:41:55.100
behaviors might have fed into this delusion. But I mostly blame society for allowing this guy to do it
00:41:59.980
when he's obviously not in his right faculties. What he's getting at here is something that's
00:42:06.240
actually deeply American. And in small doses, it's good for Americans, but in large doses taken
00:42:12.720
to an extreme, it's really bad, which is this notion that in America, you can be whatever you
00:42:17.120
want to be. That's true. You could be a poor immigrant who comes over here with not two pennies
00:42:23.220
to rub together, and you can become a titan of industry. It's happened. You can come over here.
00:42:29.060
You can have nothing. You can come from some slum somewhere. You can rise up to the heights of
00:42:35.300
prestige and power and influence. You can. It's amazing. Basically, nowhere else on earth can that
00:42:40.900
happen. Or it's rare, at least in other places. Here it can happen. But you can't be anything.
00:42:47.480
If you're a man, you can't be a woman. There's no amount of effort that you can put in. There's no
00:42:56.980
amount of money you can spend. There's no amount of determination you can exhibit that will ever make
00:43:02.960
you a woman. There is simply a natural limitation on you, and you have to accept that, or you'll go
00:43:08.560
completely insane. The extreme version of the American ideology is one that does not respect
00:43:17.320
limits. It's good to have ambition and to push yourself and to recognize that you can do a lot.
00:43:24.480
That's good. That's the wonderful side of the American ideology. The bad side is when you think
00:43:29.580
that you're God. The bad side is when you think you have no limits whatsoever. That's crazy,
00:43:36.260
and that will lead to a great deal of confusion, as it has with this guy. There are just some things
00:43:42.120
you cannot change, and you can accept that in a spirit of resignation, and you can excel in
00:43:47.900
accordance with reality, which will lead to genuine human flourishing, or you can run up against a wall
00:43:54.080
and make yourself look ridiculous and fail at that and despair because of your failure.
00:44:02.000
Choice is yours, I guess, in America. You can do whatever you want in that regard,
00:44:05.480
but there is clearly a better choice than the other. Now, speaking of tough love, Dana White,
00:44:14.340
head of UFC, comes out, and he destroys a reporter. He didn't hold a press briefing. He held a press
00:44:23.280
beating for some reporter who questioned what sort of things UFC fighters can and cannot say.
00:44:31.360
You obviously give a long leash to your fighters about what they can say when they are up there
00:44:38.160
with a UFC microphone, and you are getting into territory of homophobia, transphobia.
00:44:53.320
Going to tell people what to believe. Going to tell people...
00:44:57.000
I don't f***ing tell any other human being what to say, what to think, and there's no leashes
00:45:06.320
I was asking that question. I'll move on, though.
00:45:09.040
Yeah, probably a good idea. That's ridiculous to say I give somebody a leash.
00:45:14.060
Free speech, brother. People can say whatever they want, and they can believe whatever they want.
00:45:22.720
It's a good answer. He destroyed this reporter.
00:45:26.820
In the reporter's defense, do we really think Dana White would be totally fine with his fighters
00:45:34.920
saying anything, or saying anything from a UFC platform?
00:45:40.660
You know, if his fighters came out and said, we need to trans all the kids.
00:45:45.800
We need to go and trans all the kids behind their parents' backs.
00:45:50.480
And, you know, he came out and he was wearing a big rainbow leotard while he said,
00:45:53.700
do you think Dana White would be totally fine with that?
00:45:57.800
What if a UFC fighter came out and said, we need to support ISIS.
00:46:03.540
We need to support all of the terrorist regimes around the world.
00:46:11.500
Do you think Dana White would support it if some UFC fighter came out and he said,
00:46:14.660
black people, they're the worst people in the world. We should kill them all.
00:46:17.320
Yeah, yeah, absolutely. That's what I said at my UFC press conference.
00:46:22.220
I think Dana White would probably have a problem with all of those things, rightly so.
00:46:25.420
But Dana White doesn't need to worry about his fighters doing that because Dana White
00:46:30.700
has cultivated a stable and unified culture at UFC.
00:46:37.660
They might disagree on this issue or that issue and this thing or that thing,
00:46:46.420
They all seem to get along together pretty well.
00:46:49.640
That is why Dana White is able to afford his employees so much freedom of speech because it's true freedom.
00:46:59.320
If you're fighting in the UFC, you are a very disciplined person, okay?
00:47:06.000
You understand how to respect limits that are imposed by you on yourself.
00:47:09.960
That is how American free speech worked for most of our history.
00:47:14.720
The reason it broke down is because of the breakdown of the limits, ironically.
00:47:20.740
It's not that we just started imposing limits all of a sudden.
00:47:23.300
It's because of the breakdown of those self-imposed limits.
00:47:30.640
It will either be something cultivated and habituated from within,
00:47:35.260
or it will be imposed from without with a very heavy hand.
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