Ep. 1420 - The Awful Border Bill And Transing Kids
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Black History Month at Target, Killer Mike's endorsement of Joe Biden, and more. Subscribe to The Michael Knowles Show on Apple Podcasts and get 10% off your first purchase when you enter the promo code DAILYWIRE.
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It's Black History Month, and you know what that means?
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Conservative black people don't care about it because they're excluded from any recognition by the liberals who established and run the whole thing.
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Leftist black people don't care because, to them, every month should be Black History Month.
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Conservative white people don't care because we don't have any racial consciousness.
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And liberal white people don't care because they don't respect or have any actual interest in black people other than to instrumentalize them for their own political purposes.
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Which is how you end up with awkward scenes like the one that just transpired in Target's Black History Month display.
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So, I want to give my kids this little magnet learning activity since Black History coming up from Target.
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I don't know who's in charge of Target, but these need to be pulled off the shelves, like, immediately.
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And I noticed some discrepancies, like, as soon as I opened this.
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Like I said, these need to be pulled off the shelf.
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Of course, they misidentified Booker T. Washington, the most conservative and inspirational of the civil rights reformers.
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Of course, they're going to write him out in favor of the socialist W.E.B. Du Bois.
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The libs who put this thing together don't recognize any of them.
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Because to the libs, black people are all the same.
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Now that the Apple goggles thing is out, a bunch of people are walking around like dummies with the mask on.
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Actually, some are driving with the Apple mask on.
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We'll get to the brave new world in one second.
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First, though, I don't want to move off of black guys too quickly.
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Because a very prominent black guy by the name of Killer Mike just went on Bill Maher's show.
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What are your feelings on the election coming up?
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Are you as depressed about that as most people, as a choice?
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My feeling is pick your policy, not your person.
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This is not the Dallas Cowboys versus your favorite team.
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This is the policies that will affect our generations for the next 20, 30, 40 years to come.
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That means I'm for black people and happy black history.
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But you're not saying one candidate over the other?
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Hey, man, my n***y ain't going to get me in no trouble tonight.
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But you can't get yourself to say vote for Biden over Trump?
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Can he get himself to apologize for the crime bill?
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Can he get himself to get his head out of his ass and say black people, you are black regardless.
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Can he pick a coalition of former people who are affected by drug law, street gangs, recidivism
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and crime and say, I need you as a board to advise me how to fix federal prisons.
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When Killer Mike and I are together, we are killers, Mike, kind of like attorneys general.
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But of course, Killer Mike and I disagree on substantively almost everything he just said
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But the reasons why not are totally the opposite.
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Killer Mike here brings up the Joe Biden crime bill.
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As far as I'm concerned, that's the one decent thing the man has done in his entire political
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President Trump passed the First Step Act, which was something of a jailbreak bill.
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And at the time, I was quite critical of that bill.
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But the people who supported that bill said, well, maybe it can pry off some Democrat voters
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I didn't think the juice was worth the squeeze.
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But maybe there's a chance that in an election of Trump versus Biden, when the Democrats haven't
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changed all the rules and it's not widespread mail-in voting based on COVID, and after three
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years of Biden completely destroying the economy and opening up our borders and dropping to
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the lowest approval rating of any president in modern history at this time in an election
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year, maybe there's a chance that Trump actually is able to pry off some of those traditionally
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Snoop, diggity-doo-dogg, apparently said that he has nothing but love and respect for Donald
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And I think it's because Trump pardoned one of his friends.
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But whatever the reason, this is a reminder of something about Donald Trump that I think
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unsettles a lot of political nerds and ideologues.
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Namely, he assembles kind of a weird coalition.
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Namely, Donald Trump speaks about issues in some ways that traditional conservatives really
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like, like when he talks about protecting American industry, and when he talks about rebuilding
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the American family, and when he talks about law and order.
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And he talks about issues in ways that conservatives don't like, like when he's trying to let criminals
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But regardless of what you think about Trump, he assembles an unconventional political coalition.
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To quote Otto von Bismarck, it is the art of the second best.
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To quote cocaine Mitch McConnell, the winners go make laws and the losers go home.
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This is why it drives me crazy when some abstract writer in the Beltway area attacks an ordinary
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conservative who's actually doing something in public life because that actual conservative
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in public life isn't following the five-point manifesto that so-and-so wrote in National Review
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or whatever, well, these conservatives, you know, they're compromising on their principles,
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says the random Beltway apparatchik who's writing in the suburbs of Virginia without ever putting
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any skin in the game, without having anything really on the line.
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In real life politics, you've got to assemble enough people to win elections.
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You've got to advance a policy agenda that will be popular, that will be implemented,
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And so none of this to defend certain bills and policy proposals from Trump or any other
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conservative that are improper or inappropriate.
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But it is to say all Republicans have to do is pry away like four to five percent of the black vote
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And the Democrats lose basically every election.
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I've been burned one too many times on thinking that this is the moment that the Republicans
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finally win over a huge portion of the black vote.
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We've never had an election where an American original, Donald Trump,
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Speaking of questionable laws, this stupid border bill has been presented to the U.S. Senate.
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You know, I don't even want to call it a border bill.
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What's the, what, I guess in as much as the bill pertains to the southern border, it opens
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So in that way, it's a border, it's not a border security bill.
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And we're, we're now getting even more details about this stupid bill that poor Senator Jim
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Lankford, the Republican from Oklahoma is taking the fall for, but it was a bill that
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was negotiated obviously by Senate leadership by Mitch McConnell and Chuck Schumer.
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It's so totally unacceptable that even, I give a lot of grace to Cocaine Mitch.
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I think he's a pretty effective political leader, even if he's not a rock-ribbed conservative.
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Per Senator Tom Cotton, here's what this border security bill will do.
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It'll give the Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas the right for the first time ever to grant
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asylum claims, to grant American citizenship, ultimately, to illegal aliens at the border
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So you give the guy who very well might be impeached for the terrible job he's done as
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the Secretary of Homeland Security, you're going to give that guy unilateral power to make
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So the Border Patrol arrests these guys, and then just as a matter of law, they would release
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them into the country, never to be heard from again.
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This would be under the so-called alternatives to detention for any alien that says that they
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intend to apply for asylum or another protection.
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So not hard to see how this is going to play out.
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The illegal aliens who give their life savings to the drug cartels, they're going to go up to
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them, and they're going to say, okay, here's all my money.
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And the coyotes and the cartels are going to say, okay, here's what you say.
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Yo quiero asylum when you get to the Border Patrol age.
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And then they're just going to let you out into the country.
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The bill would give immediate work permits to everyone who says that he wants asylum as
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long as he passes an initial screening by liberal bureaucrats.
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That'll be great for American labor, by the way, right?
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So glad to see the Democrats fighting for the little guy again by depressing their wages
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The bill would grant 50,000 extra green cards per year.
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This is a time when the United States has over 3 million foreigners coming in, immigrating
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I guess it's more like 4 million plus, 4.5 million, because you've got 1 million legal immigrants,
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and then you've got another, what, 3 million illegal immigrants?
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And this is the time when the liberals say, okay, you know what we need?
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You know how we're going to solve this problem?
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No, the problem is you have too many people coming into the country, man.
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4 million newcomers a year is just too much, especially when this has been going on for
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60 years, especially when we intentionally don't assimilate anyone.
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I like them very much as a people, but we can't take the whole country.
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We need to greatly reduce the number of green cards we have in this country, especially
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because virtually all, I mean, the vast, vast majority of new immigrants are coming from
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How does that aid in the supposed diversity aims of the mass migration?
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It aids at giving Democrats a permanent majority, which is what this whole bill is about.
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The bill would guarantee new government-funded lawyers for illegal aliens.
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I was afraid they wouldn't have top legal counsel.
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The bill would not limit Biden and Mayorkas' abuse of immigration parole.
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This would allow them, therefore, to continue using parole as a way to let people off the
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hook issue work permits to any illegal alien who can claim an urgent humanitarian reason.
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This is the cherry on top of this garbage sundae.
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The border bill would send billions of dollars of foreign aid all over the world in ways that
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For instance, billions of dollars of non-military humanitarian, quote-unquote, aid to Gaza without
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So I'm all for sending humanitarian aid to whomever deserves it.
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But you really think you're going to send aid to Gaza?
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That's going to go straight to the poor Palestinians who are being oppressed.
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It's going to be taken by Hamas, which is the government of Gaza.
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Theoretically, we're backing Israel in the war between Gaza and Hamas.
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We're just going to fund everybody and blow everything up with no strategic end in sight.
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And we're going to squeeze that into the border bill for some reason.
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The border will, which doesn't close the border, it opens it.
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It is so, it shouldn't astound me anymore because my expectations of the Republican Party should
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But if you sent me to Washington, D.C. and you said, Michael, write the worst possible bill
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on an urgent policy matter that you possibly can.
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Jim Lankford's always been a perfectly amiable Republican senator.
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The fact that Mitch McConnell got him to take the fall for this thing, absolutely pathetic.
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And they thought they were going to get this thing through.
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Two weeks ago, one week ago for that matter, they really thought they were going to ram this thing through.
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Now, thankfully, even if there's a little confusion in the Senate, and look, there are great senators.
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Mike Lee in Utah has been very forceful against this.
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I mean, all the good guys in the Senate have come out strongly against this thing.
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But in the House, the House GOP leadership has said this is dead on arrival.
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This is a joint statement from Speaker Johnson and Steve Scalise and the rest of House leadership.
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They say, any consideration of this Senate bill in its current form is a waste of time.
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Which I bring up because, one, that's really, really good.
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Barely, but we control the House, unlike in the Senate.
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But, two, does this mean Matt Gaetz is vindicated?
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Remember, Matt Gaetz puts on a big show, pulls a big stunt, and throws out Kevin McCarthy, the leader of the House, the Speaker of the House.
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And he did that because he said, McCarthy has betrayed conservatives, and he's lied to us, and he's a squish, and we don't want him anymore.
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And when Matt Gaetz threw him out, all of the establishment types, including self-styled conservatives, freaked out.
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I didn't even have that much of a grudge against Kevin McCarthy.
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I thought he was a little bit squishy, but compared to the previous speakers in recent memory, he was the most conservative of any of them.
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I suppose I'm damning, perhaps, with faint praise.
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I wouldn't have rallied to throw him out, but I also didn't think he was the most conservative guy either.
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And I thought, okay, Matt Gaetz has this opportunity.
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They cried, oh, no, we're losing the great speaker.
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That chaos got us a strong conservative speaker in Mike Johnson, and it killed this stupid bill.
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This bill, it's not as though this would just be, ah, we've got to take our medicine.
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We conservatives, this bill would have radically expanded immigration and would have given Democrats a generational electoral advantage.
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I think Matt Gaetz might be a little bit vindicated, okay?
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Because while the GOP establishment whined and cried and moaned about tossing out McCarthy, whom I still think is fine.
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Maybe McCarthy would have killed the bill, too.
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But I know for a fact Johnson would kill the bill.
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Now, speaking of illegal aliens, everyone, everyone other than Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, apparently, in the country knows that this immigration situation is just horrible, including CNN.
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CNN just ran a segment on the chaos in New York City right now where illegal aliens are going around robbing people, mugging people, assaulting people, dragging people from the back of mopeds, just absolutely terrorizing the city.
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And even the libs on CNN are saying, this looks really bad.
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Within that group, this hardworking, you know, throngs of people in search of hope and a better life, there is this one percenter, you know, criminal element that looks at a different opportunity here.
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But these individuals, I went over their rap sheets yesterday, multiple charges, grand larceny, robbery, attempted robbery, grand larceny, grand larceny.
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This particular crew operated on mopeds and scooters.
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They were doing snatches on the street, iPhones, iPads, clothing, so on and so forth.
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One of them that they are still seeking has 10 charges on one day because he's part of a pattern that's been going on.
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And I'm looking at the dates that their arrest started, which is probably close to when they got here.
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So what the detectives are telling me is they have crews here that operate in New York, do all their stealing, then go to Florida to spend the money and then come back.
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And I'm like, well, why don't they just stay and steal in Florida?
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Not only calling attention to the problem, but pointing out it's a political problem.
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It's not even just about where the migrants are going.
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It says, no, in New York, you get off the hook when you commit a crime because New York is run by Democrats.
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The layers of honesty from CNN, I'm not sure that I've ever seen from them.
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You're seeing this out of the New York City mayor, too, though.
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Remember, the New York City mayor came out and he said that illegal immigration was going to destroy New York City.
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He then had an appointment scheduled to meet with the Biden White House about this.
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And just before that meeting, all of a sudden, investigators start poking around into corruption allegations against the New York City mayor.
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The best thing they can do, they're not going to stop the migration.
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They're not going to stop it because it is the Democrats' long-term strategy.
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So the only thing they can do is put together some awful bill to trick Republicans into signing on to it so that the Democrats can blame Republicans or share some of the blame with Republicans for the migration situation, which is entirely the Democrats' fault.
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And these doofuses in Washington, D.C. and the Republican Party want to take the bait.
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They're begging, please, conservatives, let's go along with this.
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We don't want the Democrats to bear all the blame for maybe the most important political issue to Americans and to people throughout the West for the last decade.
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The issue that prompted Brexit, that prompted the election of leaders in Europe from Hungary to Italy, almost to Spain, to Sweden, to Germany.
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I'm glad that the conservatives seem to be holding the line here.
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But don't—when CNN tells you what this is all about, you should believe them, okay?
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When CNN admits, oh, man, this is looking bad, you should believe them.
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A New York court has just ruled that a father cannot stop his eight-year-old child from being transed.
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At about age two to three, he was going to a therapist by the name of Andrea Binner.
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And Andrea Binner is in Buffalo, and she's a self-proclaimed transgender therapist that specializes in adolescence.
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Now, Andrea Binner never kept any notes at all on any therapy sessions that she had with my child.
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It came out that not only did she not follow the WPATH standards for transgender care,
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but my son never, and still hasn't, had any formal diagnosis of gender dysphoria using the DSM-5 criteria.
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Now, what Binner did afterwards was at about four years old, she referred my son to a endocrinologist at the University of Rochester Pediatric Division by the name of Dr. Tran.
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Dr. Tran had two phone calls totaling 45 minutes with the mother only.
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Yet, over those two 45-minute phone calls, they came to this conclusion that my son has gender dysphoria,
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and they recommended the potential for puberty blockers around the age nine.
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Your heart really breaks for the kid who never had a chance because his psycho mom wanted to trans him from the age,
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it seems, of three or four, and then psycho doctors, doctors, these quacks, encouraged her to do that to him.
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Which is why we need to come to a conclusion on this issue.
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Liberalism, pluralistic society, the open society, all these platitudes that the left pushes and that the right believes in as well, often.
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The right, which is afraid of authoritarianism, oh no, we can't be too harsh, we can't be too forceful, we gotta watch out for big government or whatever.
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The liberal society, you know, a liberal, as Robert Frost said, is one who can't take his own side in an argument.
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The open society, the plural, well, who knows, maybe, maybe transgenderism is real, you know, who's gonna say?
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I got in trouble for my CPAC speech, the anniversary was just coming up, who knows what I'll talk about this year at CPAC.
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But I was not making a call to arms exactly, I was observing a simple fact.
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Either we will eradicate transgender ideology totally from society, from public level, from public life at every level.
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Or we will embrace transgender ideology in public life and private life at every level.
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If we accept the premise of transgenderism, if we believe that a man, that any man can become a woman,
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then when parents get divorced and the sane dad goes somewhere and the insane mom takes the kid,
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and the insane mom meets up with an insane physician, then that kid's gonna get transed.
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There's a very good chance that's gonna happen.
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Because we have accepted as a matter of public policy that a man can become a woman or a man can be born in the wrong body.
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And if you can be born in the wrong body, then a little kid can be trans too.
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And if a little kid can be trans, then it is so important as a matter of compassion and charity
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that we allow that kid to live his truth and to be freed from the shackles of his false body
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and whatever other new age, weirdo, occult nonsense these people talk about.
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But that is the inevitable consequence of accepting at any level the transgender ideology.
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So if you're listening to this and you're a moderate on this issue, you're a centrist,
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you're an open-minded leftist, and there are a number of leftists who listen to this show.
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I think a person can be born in the wrong body.
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Look, I think something, not everyone, I'm not saying I want to do it with the kids,
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but I think that if you want to change your gender, you ought to be able to change your gender.
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Okay, well, all I'm telling you is that if that's your opinion
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and you support establishing that opinion as a matter of policy,
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You might not want to be, you might want to limit it somewhere,
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but there's no way to limit an ontological principle,
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a basic anthropological principle such as transgenderism.
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I guess that's your prerogative as a citizen in this country
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where you get to just establish whatever you want.
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The moment you say, well, maybe Bruce Jenner's really Caitlyn now,
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you are helping to trans that four-year-old kid.
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So if you can live with that, you can live with that.
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have you seen the people wearing these dumb Apple things?
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Apples come out with goggles, and they're goggles.
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You put them on your head, and I think there's audio associated with it,
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and it covers up half your face, and they cost $3,500 plus $200 for a battery pack.
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But here's the promise, is if you spend a lot of money,
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and you put these dumb-looking goggles on your face, you get to live inside a cell phone.
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Do you ever think in your modern life, you think, you know, I just don't look at enough screens.
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I wish my phone were more immersive, and I didn't have to look at, you know,
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this beautiful earth and sky that God gave to us to live in real life in our flesh.
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I wish I could just ignore all that so I could be on my cell phone more.
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It was a Tesla, so I guess it was a self-driving car.
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But he was driving with his Apple goggles on, and the video starts out all sort of nice.
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It looks like he's casting a magic spell of sorts because he's typing onto the air.
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So it actually kind of looks like he's Jordan Peterson, you know,
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like he's doing one of these things with his hands, you know, man.
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But he's not, but without any of the wisdom, you know, without any of the insightful observations.
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And then it immediately cuts to the guy gets pulled over by a police officer.
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C.S. Lewis observed in The Great Divorce that the people who are in hell want to be there.
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Hell is where you go by your own desire because you do not turn your desire and behavior toward God.
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You turn it in the other direction, and you get what you want.
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Now, that's the amazing thing about freedom, whether we follow it in a proper way or we abuse it,
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If you told not just George Orwell, but Aldous Huxley in the early to mid-20th century,
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if you said, hey, in the future, people are going to be so addicted to screens and to constant titillation
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and to just buzzes and alarms and a ton of porn, by the way,
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that at a certain point, they're going to block out their own vision.
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They're going to choose to put these goggles on and blur out the real world
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so that they can watch sports and porn all day, even while they're driving.
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George Orwell would think that that would be imposed by a tyrannical totalitarian government.
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because while George Orwell in 1984 believes that our loss of freedom
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is going to come through the heavy hand of the state,
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no, it's going to be the carrot, not the stick.
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He recognizes, no, it's going to be the enticement.
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It's going to be the temptation to all sorts of low pleasures and to all sorts of vices.
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It's going to be drugs and sex and promiscuity and just physical pleasure.
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I can think of no product that I would less enjoy than the Apple Vision Pro.
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But a lot of people are going to buy this thing.
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It's expensive, so that is naturally going to limit who can buy it.
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But a lot of people are going to desire this thing, that's for sure.
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which they have convinced themselves is more beautiful and interesting
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And by the way, this is in part why we have the transgender issues,
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because people just no longer value the physical world.
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in which a man can really become a woman because their bodies don't matter.
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not to voluntarily plug yourself into the matrix
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where you can watch football and pornography all day long.
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This is news about which most Americans will not care,
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His Majesty King Charles III has been diagnosed with cancer.
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And then he ascended to the throne when she died.
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And he was just crowned, what, a year or two ago?
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And he went in for a routine kind of prostate procedure,
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which men of a certain age virtually all undergo.
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non-prostate cancer, some other kind of cancer.
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The Buckingham Palace has not been totally clear about what cancer that is.
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And I just think we ought to pray for King Charles.
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I know we broke away from those limeys back in 1776.
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I know some Catholics don't really like the Windsors because they're Protestant.
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because they say he's a world economic forum environmentalist stooge or whatever.
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I know all the litany of charges against King Charles.
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Nevertheless, that man is, I think by his inclination, but certainly by his office,
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one of the most traditionalist and conservative people left on the face of the earth.
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Even King Charles' environmentalism is very, very conservative.
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Because he's not an environmentalist in the way that your lesbian cousin is an environmentalist.
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You know, your lesbian vegan cousin with silly colored hair who shows up to Thanksgiving
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That's not the kind of environmentalist King Charles is.
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King Charles is the kind of environmentalist who wants to protect the woodlands on his property
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King Charles is the kind of environmentalist who believes we need to protect the world,
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the natural world, so that we can continue to enjoy it.
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Because it's beautiful and old and traditional.
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He's the kind of environmentalist who likes the environment because he opposes
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rampant liberal capitalism and industrialization.
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The British crown is one of the few remaining even quasi-conservative institutions in the world.
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And so anyway, that's my long rant and diatribe to pray for King Charles.
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Because even though we Americans, we think we don't, you know, who cares about the British crown?
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Even plenty of people in the UK say, oh, whatever, get rid of the crown.
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You will miss that institution if it ever goes away.
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You will miss it because there will be a lot of dignity that will disappear.
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There will be unlearned knowledge that just kind of gets passed down through the generations.
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My favorite comment yesterday comes from the drummer's workshop, Norm's Music, who says,
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I have a feeling that that Bronx judge attended a lot more parties than Brett Kavanaugh.
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The libs went after Justice Kavanaugh during his confirmation hearings because when he was 16,
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he went to a beer party or something in high school.
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Meanwhile, you've got that Bronx family judge who's on the threesome app trying to pick up
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Whatever the libs accuse us of, it seems that they're guilty of it 10 times over.
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Now, speaking of leaders and heads of state, President Trump is reportedly considering
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two people in particular to be his vice president.
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He's been a little tight-lipped about who he's considering, but he said he's considering
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on the short list, Tim Scott, senator from South Carolina, and Kristi Noem, governor of
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I don't know Kristi Noem, but she was a fine governor.
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She made a few errors, but all in all, she was better than average for sure.
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The idea here, I think, would be that these people would balance the ticket.
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Trump comes from the right wing of the Republican Party.
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It's a little complicated, but basically he comes from the right wing of the party, the
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Reagan side of the party, the Goldwater side of the party.
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And Scott and Noem come from the more liberal side, the more Bush side of the party, the
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She was a little more rock-ribbed, but still, broadly speaking, a little more amenable to
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the corporate chamber of commerce interest of the Republican Party.
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I don't know, though, because Trump is a youthful man in his gait, but chronologically, he's
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So a vice president matters more for a Republican who's 70 or 80 than it would for a Republican
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And though I like Tim Scott a lot and Kristi Noem seems fine, I would feel more comfortable
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So if President Trump wants to balance out the ticket, either with a racial minority
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or with a woman, to me, there's a very clear answer.
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The clear person who should be the vice president for Trump, if that's what he's going for, is
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Marsha Blackburn in Tennessee, my own senator here.
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The reason being, she's a rock-ribbed conservative, but she's very clubbable.
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Now, you might say, well, Michael, Trump's already going to win Tennessee.
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He's also going to win South Carolina and South Dakota.
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So it's not as, I'm skeptical that a vice president ever totally can bring a state over,
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but in as much as a VP can, they're not going to do it.
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So if that's already baked in and you want someone to balance the ticket, why wouldn't
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you go for the very conservative, very loyal to Trump choice of Marsha Blackburn?
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If he doesn't care to have a woman or he doesn't care to have a racial minority, J.D.
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Vance in Ohio, I think, could be a very good choice.
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I'm just saying, given what we know about Trump's calculations from his own statements
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on who he's considering, though I like Tim Scott a lot and Kristi Noem seems just fine.
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If it were me, if President Trump were to call me tomorrow and said, Michael, what do
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It seems to me that the way Trump is thinking, Marsha Blackburn would be a perfect choice.
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Now, speaking of Republican politicians, there is a great new bill being put forward by a
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House Republican that every House Republican should get behind.
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The Republicans in the House, they're doing a good job right now.
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And now they are proposing the FACE Act repeal.
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And every Republican should back Chip Roy's plan.
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The FACE Act was a law signed by Bill Clinton in 1994.
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It's the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act.
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It was a way to protect abortion clinics from criticism.
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Because in the 90s, the libs claimed that the poor beleaguered abortionists, the poor baby
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And so we had to figure out a way to stop people from threatening them.
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The FACE Act very quickly became weaponized to stop conservatives from peaceful protests,
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You're seeing pro-lifers being prosecuted and sent to prison for more than a decade for
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And they said, okay, well, in the FACE Act, we'll also stop people from intimidating
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Joe Biden has not prosecuted one of these cases, a FACE Act case against someone attacking
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This act is about the Protecting Baby Murderers from Criticism Act.
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And so Chip Roy, very wisely and very courageously, just came out and said, let's repeal this stupid
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And I rarely get on my soapbox on this show and say, call your congressman.
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But when it comes to the FACE Act repeal, call your congressman.
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If you're watching this on YouTube, tag your congressman on YouTube.
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If you're watching this on Twitter, on X, tag your congressman.
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If you're watching this on Daily Wire Plus, send this link around.
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And it's an urgent matter because people are being prosecuted under this stupid law,
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And good people are going to prison for having the courage to stand up for the most defenseless
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Now, speaking of women's issues, there is breaking news.
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Ghislaine Maxwell, the paramour and business partner of Jeffrey Epstein, is apparently going
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to write a tell-all book about her experience with Jeffrey and on the island.
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Here is the talk TV exclusive from Ghislaine Maxwell in prison.
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So she goes, it's not a very long clip, actually.
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She's asked, do you think Jeffrey Epstein killed himself?
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The reason I didn't play the rest of the clip is it's her complaining about prison food.
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You know, it's her complaining about the way that she's been treated in prison.
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And it's a sign that you're not going to get anything out of this book.
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Look, if it comes out, I guess I'll probably read it.
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First, you're not learning anything about Epstein.
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Every time there's a drip, ah, new information.
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We're about to unseal the client list right before Christmas.
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I said, you're not going to learn anything new about Epstein, really.
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We're going to find out the same stuff we already knew.
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Because Alex Acosta, the U.S. attorney who prosecuted Jeffrey Epstein,
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said that he heard from higher-ups that Jeffrey Epstein belongs to intelligence.
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And we know that his, Ghislaine Maxwell's father was connected to Israeli intelligence
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and British intelligence and maybe Russian intelligence.
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And we know that Jeffrey Epstein apparently had some relationship with American intelligence.
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And they're not going to let us find out anything.
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We will learn the truth about Jeffrey Epstein only when the intelligence agencies want us
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