While conservatives rally around President Trump s America First message, leftists are trying out a new message of their own: Somalia First. Rep. Ilhan Omar says, "Somalia is more important to me than my religion. Somalia will never be in danger as long as I'm in the U.S. Congress."
00:02:48.420This is the best argument for restricting immigration that I have heard in years, maybe that I've ever heard.
00:02:56.180This woman is not just admitting that she has a dual loyalty.
00:03:01.640Dual loyalty is usually an accusation that the Jews have to deal with, that they have a dual loyalty to two separate nations.
00:03:08.280And to a lesser degree, Catholics are accused of it.
00:03:11.840President Kennedy certainly was, though not quite as much because the Vatican is not a nation state in any modern sense or any meaningful sense.
00:03:20.700But Ilhan here is admitting something worse than either of those accusations.
00:03:25.720She's not just saying she has a split loyalty.
00:03:27.400She's saying that she is only loyal to Somalia, full stop.
00:03:31.080And only after that, only after her total loyalty to Somalia, is she even loyal to Islam.
00:03:39.280And at no point does she suggest that she's loyal to America at all.
00:03:43.320The only reason she seems to like America is in as much as she can use America to benefit Somalia.
00:03:50.760So this woman should, without question, be expelled from Congress over this.
00:05:11.400First, though, conservatives have adopted a nationalist stance in recent years, and it's understandable because the libs are trying to peddle liberal globalism, and that's just terrible.
00:05:23.420And it takes away our political rights and our sovereignty and erases our borders and destroys our way of life.
00:05:28.860I'm practically a nationalist in as much as nationalism is the way to oppose liberal globalism.
00:05:36.040But nationalism has problems, and Ilhan Omar is actually demonstrating some of those problems.
00:05:41.860Nationalism makes an idol out of the state.
00:05:44.800Nationalism, don't forget, is not some perfect political arrangement.
00:05:51.560Nationalism is a relatively new political arrangement for the world order.
00:05:55.300It comes out of 1648, out of the Peace of Westphalia.
00:05:57.980The whole point of it is to end the Thirty Years' War and the longer religious conflicts between Catholics and Protestants that constituted the bloodiest massacre, the bloodiest bit of warfare at that time in European history.
00:06:12.140And so they come to this conclusion of nationalism, which says,
00:06:17.760Cuyus regio eus religio, in whose realm, his religion.
00:06:22.840And it said that basically the highest order of human affairs will be the nation state and the king and the civil government.
00:06:34.100It was prudential so that the Europeans would stop killing each other.
00:06:36.840But it didn't really resolve much of anything at all.
00:06:40.400And I don't know, at least for me, I don't view the civil authority as the absolute most important thing in the world, deserving of all of my loyalty.
00:06:50.620I would not say that Somalia is what I am most loyal to.
00:06:54.000I would not even say that the United States is the entity that I'm most loyal to.
00:08:17.800And they're still loyal to their old country.
00:08:21.000Well, you can't have that in a national system.
00:08:24.220Because for every tiny bit that they're loyal to some other country, they're not loyal to our country.
00:08:29.540They're just using our country instrumentally to satisfy their own interests to the true nation that holds their loyalty.
00:08:35.180This is why the only way that you can tolerate immigration of any sort in under the nation-state world order is if people totally give up their loyalty to the nations they're leaving.
00:09:52.240It is in human nature to remain loyal to one's tribe and to one's heritage.
00:09:56.440And you don't just erase that overnight.
00:09:58.700But that creates a major, major challenge for nationalism.
00:10:01.140And you couple that with mass migration and no assimilation.
00:10:04.460And what you're left with is the destruction of your country, of the country receiving the immigrants as a political entity.
00:10:12.720The country ceases to be a coherent polity, a coherent political community.
00:10:17.120And it becomes nothing but a commercial enterprise to satisfy the unrelated personal ambitions of the people who view it as nothing more than a piggy bank.
00:31:54.900Nikki has – talk about picking her lane.
00:31:56.740I've said from the beginning, Nikki was very smart to pick the lane.
00:31:59.340She's the anti-Trump candidate and she's going to consolidate that support in a way that Ron DeSantis couldn't because he was trying to play both lanes.
00:32:05.580Okay, well, she picked her lane and now I think she's probably stuck in it for good.
00:32:10.540But speaking of weird sex stuff, Anne Hathaway, the actress, recently called to debunk the myth of hetero cisnormativity at the Human Rights Campaign Gala.
00:32:26.660That's the campaign with the equal sign where it's these radical leftist sex people who successfully lobbied to abolish marriage and redefine it and then started pushing a bunch of weird trans stuff.
00:32:38.980What I love most about this community is the way you own the alphabet.
00:33:25.000I love the dignity that accompanies self-acceptance.
00:33:29.400It is important to acknowledge that with the exception of being a cisgender male, everything about how I was born has put me at the current center of a damaging and widely accepted myth.
00:33:42.140That myth is that gayness orbits around straightness, transgender orbits around cisgender, and that all races orbit around whiteness.
00:34:12.000Normal means just the average, just what is common, what people generally do.
00:34:18.860And normal can also refer to a norm or a standard that people fall short of, but they aim at.
00:34:27.120Neither of those describe what Anne Hathaway is talking about here.
00:34:31.120There is nothing like the dignity of accepting yourself.
00:34:35.620You know, like when you're a man, but you want to be a woman, so you chop up your body and shorten your life and increase your risk of suicidality and depression and anxiety to look like someone that you are not.
00:34:49.480It's that kind of self-acceptance that is so dignified.
00:34:54.820You know, going out there on the street during the Pride Parade and wearing the little leather chaps and smacking each other around and getting on all fours like that energy czar under Joe Biden, the one who was stealing women's clothing at the airport, you know, and taking pictures of him with men on collars and leashes and like leather outfits.
00:35:15.900You know, if I had one word to describe it, I guess that word would probably be dignified, wouldn't it?
00:35:20.140Reminds me of, I think I quote him at this point every single day, the late great Norm Macdonald had a whole bit, which he did in San Francisco once, about the Pride Parade.
00:35:32.880And he said, you know, I totally understand, you know.
00:35:36.920If I had a kid who was gay and everything, I'd love that kid.
00:35:40.620And he saw some parents at a Pride Parade said, we're proud of our son.
00:38:06.560And they just, I don't know, Sinatra, I think, was maybe the last one we had that was Republican.
00:38:11.200And even he was, he was also buddies with Kennedy.
00:38:13.300So that's just kind of baked into it at this point, I think.
00:38:16.020Speaking of abnormality, an abortion doula just gave a lecture at the Catholic University of America.
00:38:27.760I was disinvited from a Catholic university called the University of St. Thomas because I don't believe in transgenderism.
00:38:34.380I was just disinvited from the University of St. Thomas, twice actually, I think, because I believe in Catholicism and Catholic teachings on these questions.
00:38:47.060The completely unchanged, consistent Catholic teaching of 2,000 years.
00:38:58.400And a doula is just a hippie term for a midwife, nanny, you know, helper who will help a woman as she's giving birth to a baby.
00:39:07.720And then in the early days, while the newborn is nice and fresh, you know, and the mother's trying to sleep, a doula can help out then.
00:39:15.980Well, an abortion doula is like that, except for killing the babies.
00:39:18.480And this abortion doula, she spoke on her experiences coaching women through delivering or aborting babies, as well as coaching pregnant men to deliver in what she referred to as a seahorse birth.
00:39:32.560This is according to audio of the lecture obtained by the Daily Signal.
00:39:35.540She also practices Reiki, which is an occult practice that involves demons.
00:39:40.520So she does that, Catholic university.
00:39:43.140Her name is, oh, the woman who invited her, rather, is Melissa Goldberg.
00:39:47.600She is a psychology lecturer at Catholic University.
00:41:25.640And I totally defend the right of certain schools to exclude certain speakers.
00:41:33.100If you send your kid to Communist Academy, it's probably not a good idea to invite me to speak there.
00:41:38.960You know, the parents and the kids are paying to be indoctrinated into communism and to have a communist ideology, and I'm going to contradict that.
00:41:50.840Now, I think I should still probably go because communism is false, and there is such a thing as truth, and we can know about it, and we should prefer truth to falsehood.
00:41:58.020But that's what we're talking about here.
00:41:59.140I was talking to my friend Yoram Hazoni, the Israeli philosopher, who called my attention to a phrase that slipped into our culture that I think is just so – it didn't even occur to me how bad this phrase is.
00:42:13.380You know, you hear it sometimes, educators, even on the right, they'll say, we don't want to teach our students what to think, only how to think.
00:42:18.200As if you could do one without the other.
00:42:20.360As if you could ever know how to think without knowing specific things to think.
00:42:29.500But he said this phrase, critical thinking.
00:42:31.260Why would we have all this critical thinking?
00:42:32.720Whatever happened to constructive thinking?
00:42:35.420Constructive thinking is when you learn a thing, and then you build on that.
00:42:37.920And then you build on that, you build on that, and eventually, you have an edifice of knowledge before you.
00:42:43.960Critical thinking just pokes holes in everything.
00:42:46.260Seems related to critical theory, critical studies, just debunking and deconstructing and tearing everything down to the point that by the time you graduate, you're dumber than when you went in.
00:42:54.760There was a survey, it came out a while ago now, I think from ISI, 2007, that showed that students at elite colleges in America got dumber the longer they attended.
00:43:05.840That graduating seniors knew less about history and civics than incoming freshmen.
00:43:16.480And I like banning speakers who are harmful to education.
00:43:19.040Now, speaking of norms and women, Alyssa Milano, Alyssa Milano, very excitable left-wing figure and actress, she just took to Twitter to beg her many followers for money for her kid's baseball team.
00:43:56.680It's a bad look because Alyssa Milano is really, really rich.
00:44:00.300Unless she's completely mishandled her money, Alyssa Milano has made millions and millions, probably tens of millions of dollars over the course of her life.
00:44:07.440And she doesn't need to be begging her followers to chip in a penny.
00:44:15.120This is annoying when people do this around the office.
00:44:18.100You know, it's, luckily no one does it here because the average age at this company is like 12.
00:44:22.540But, you know, I remember this would happen to my mother's office as a kid.
00:44:26.920I, all around, the schools say, hey, sell wrapping paper or hey, sell this thing or that thing to raise money for a field trip.
00:44:34.440And then you give it to your parents and your parents go around the office and they say, would you mind donating to my school's, my kid's school thing?
00:45:31.620But both the left and the right have lost a conception of the common good and of giving of themselves to their community, to even have a community to which they can be loyal.
00:45:42.500We deny that in our age of radical individualism and radical liberalism.
00:45:47.920But if you don't do that, if you don't give to your community, then you're not going to be able to construct anything.