Ep. 1422 - Lib Praises The SATANIC Temple On Senate Floor
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A liberal senator extols the virtues of Satanism in the Arizona state capitol, and Disney wants to replace Johnny Depp with a black woman in Pirates of the Caribbean, and Julius Malema calls for the genocide of white people in South Africa.
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You know how sometimes we conservatives get a little blunt with our rhetoric and we just come
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right out and say that the liberals and the Democrats promote evil and then the liberals
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and the Democrats deny it. And then the squish Republicans say that we're being hyperbolic
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and engaging in irresponsible, inflammatory rhetoric and that our opponents don't promote
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evil. They just have a difference of opinion and blah, blah, blah. So yesterday, Democrat Senator
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Juan Mendez extolled the virtues of Satanism in the Arizona state capitol.
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Members, I would like to introduce a group of Arizonans, some from my district, but they have
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membership all across the state. They are here today to confront the arbitrary, tyrannical authority
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of religious persecution that's scheduled for government committee later on today.
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Today, members, I want to introduce you to members. We are graced with the presence of ministers and
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members of the Satanic Temple of Arizona. Please stand today. They're at the capital today to fight
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for the rights of their more than 12,000 members of their denomination and the rights of free speech
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and free exercise of all Arizonans. The temple practices non-theistic Satanism, divorced from
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superstition without any belief in gods or devils. They practice the religious values of compassion,
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justice, bodily autonomy, free speech, science, humility, and noble action. As an organized
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religion, they actively do outreach and community service and participate in public affairs where
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the issues might benefit from their rational satanic insights. The mission of the Satanic Temple is to
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encourage belovedness and empathy among all people. Of course, he's wearing a mask. The public,
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according to Senator Mendez, might benefit from their rational satanic insights and, quote,
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their courage and their benevolence, whatever that is. I think he was trying to say benevolence,
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which means goodwill, which is a strange trait to attribute to the father of lies who fell like
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lightning from heaven to devour us all and torture us forever in an eternal pit of despair.
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Now, I obviously have a different view from Senator Mendez and the rest of the liberals.
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It seems to me that you actually don't have to hand it to Satan ever under any circumstances.
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Seems to me that if your ideology leads you to worshiping the devil,
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then you've probably taken a wrong turn somewhere in your logic. But I know what Senator Mendez would say.
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He would say what the Satanists say. He was reading from their press release,
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which says that they don't actually worship Satan. It's all just ironic. They really just worship
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humanity. They worship the self because they don't believe in anything higher than the self.
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I know that's what they say. What they don't realize is John Milton said that too in Paradise Lost.
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They don't realize that the serpent said that too in the Garden of Eden when he tempted Eve by promising,
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ye shall be as gods. What these supposedly ironic Satanists are doing to the applause of liberal
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politicians is precisely what Satanism has always been about. Liberalism and Satanism ultimately come
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down to the same thing, idolatry of the self. When conservatives have pointed that out,
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we've been called hyperbolists and kooks. Now the liberals are admitting it themselves.
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And when people show you explicitly and emphatically who they are,
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it is usually prudent to believe them. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. Disney reportedly wants to replace Johnny Depp with a black woman,
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of course, in Pirates of the Caribbean. We'll get to that in a moment. First, though,
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on the topic of left-wing politicians and black people and white people, I guess.
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Julius Malema in South Africa is poised to take a lot of seats in the South African parliament.
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He is the leader of what was once the third largest party in the South African parliament,
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but now it looks like it's making some pretty big gains. For those of you who are not familiar
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with Julius Malema, he is most famous for calling for the genocide of white people in South Africa.
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You must never be scared to kill. A revolution demands that at some point there must be killing
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because the killing is part of a revolutionary act.
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I don't know what's going to happen in the future. I'm saying to you, we've not called for the killing
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of white people, at least for now. I can't guarantee the future.
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Yeah, but, I mean, you'd understand somebody watching that, especially as it gets shared
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on Twitter, they freak out. It sounds like a genocidal cult.
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I'm not calling for the slaughter of white people, at least for now.
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I can't give you a guarantee of the future, especially when things are going the way they are.
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Especially if things are going the way they are, there will be a revolution in this country,
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And then we will kill all the white people. It's not even subtext. It's just text. He's saying,
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never be afraid of killing the white people. There's a famous chant that Malema leads,
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which is, kill the boa, shoot to kill, kill the farmer. So that's what they want to do. They want
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to kill the white people. And right now, the ANC, the leading party there, is losing its majority,
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according to a recent poll. And you're seeing major gains for the EFF, which is the party that
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that guy leads. You're not allowed to say that. Because we're told that even the very term,
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white genocide, the thing that that guy is explicitly calling for, that's a crazy conspiracy
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theory and you're not allowed to talk about it, right? If you use that phrase on social media,
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if you mention it in the news, you're called a crazy conspiracy theorist, even though it's the
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sort of thing that that guy is directly calling for. Maybe not yet, but he also is calling for it
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yet, right? He's also saying, don't be afraid to kill these people. Which shows you that not only,
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according to our modern culture, can you not be racist against white people,
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apparently you can't even commit genocide against them, even if you kill them all.
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There are 4 million white people in South Africa, and there have been increasing attacks on them in
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recent years, and raids on white farmers, and murders of white farmers and their families.
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And you're not allowed to mention it. You're suspected of being a kind of a racist, if you
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ever even mention that. You can't, what do you, you can't. The reason you can't be racist against
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white people is because racism is the sort of thing white people do. That's how they define it.
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Racism is a relatively new term, and the way that the libs get to control it is they just define it as
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saying, well, it's the sort of thing that white people can't be. Or the sort of thing that you
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can't be against white people, rather. The sort of thing that only white people can be.
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Same thing with genocide. Genocide is a relatively new term. The term genocide only cropped up after
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the Second World War, and it was used to refer specifically to Hitler's attacks on the Jews.
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So that was the original context. It's been broadened out somewhat.
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But it remains the case, according to our leading genius experts, that you can't commit a genocide
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against white people. It's not possible. And the abstract, really academic intellectual reasons
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for this are the same sort of thing we hear all the time. White people have no culture. White people
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are not a real race. White people are a historical novelty. White people have all the power. White people
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this. White people that. White people this. But the end result is the same. It's not merely that
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white people will be discriminated against by law in certain countries, including in our own country,
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by the way, as long as affirmative action was on the books. It's not merely that white people will be
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discriminated against by the culture and encouraged to be discriminated against by the culture, as is the
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case in many countries, including our own. It's that a major country, South Africa, is not just some
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far-flung, you know, backwater. South Africa is a major country, can call for the genocide of white
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Speaking of interracial dialogue, my favorite clip that has gone around since Ice Spice's new song,
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so I guess it's only been in the last 24 hours. My favorite clip, in any case, that has been going
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around the internet, is care of a woman named Suki Hana and another woman named Bobby Altoff,
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who is a young podcaster, I take it. And they were really almost coming to blows over the host's
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suggestion that the musician is a good musician.
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What do you know? That you're a musician. That's why I'm interviewing you today, so I can get to
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know you. So I'm a musician. What the f*** did that mean? Make magic or something? What is musician?
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I think that's, I think you're confusing that. Yeah, I'm not no musician. I make music. I make music.
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And that's not all I do. I make music. I act. I'm a TV star too, a young mother. Uh-huh. Just really
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quick, I think you're confusing. I'm not confusing nothing, because you don't know. You thought that all I was
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was a magician or whatever the f*** you said. See, that's what I think you think I said. I said
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musician, not magician. I don't think, baby. I don't think. What is that? That's ghetto. I don't
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think. I know. So you think. I didn't say magician, Suki. I said musician. And I think you are a
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musician. No, baby. I do music. So you, just really, just really quick for the record, could you say
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you don't think you're a musician? I'm not, none of that. But then after that, you just said, I do music.
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Yeah, I do music. So in other words, you're a musician. No, I'm not. Okay.
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Who's on first? Who's on second? No, who's on first? I don't know. Third base. That's what this
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is. This is obviously a bit. Some people were sharing this as though this were a sincere
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miscommunication. It's obviously a bit. And it's a very funny bit. It's a version in a way of like an
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old Abbott and Costello routine, but it's also, and this is more to the cultural point here.
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The specific kind of bit this is, is a minstrel act. And we live at a time where we're erasing all
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sorts of characters and all sorts of shows and forms of art and jokes because they're supposedly racist.
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And they're supposedly racist because they come from minstrelsy. We got rid of Aunt Jemima from the
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pancake syrup bottle because it was supposedly so racist deriving from the minstrel tradition.
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And it does. The Aunt Jemima character does come from the minstrel tradition.
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The irony of it is that the Aunt Jemima character was created by a black writer named Billy Cursans,
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who is one of the most famous minstrel performers in history. But we're not allowed to do that. Now,
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anytime a woman puts a little too much concealer on for Halloween, we're all trying to figure out
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if she put on blackface and to see if we can cancel her because you got to get rid of minstrelsy.
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But this is a minstrel act and everyone's laughing at it right now because they refuse to acknowledge
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that. Just like the Tracy Morgan character in 30 Rock was a, it was a funny bit, but it was a minstrel
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bit. The whole, the joke of it was he's a caricature of black culture and he seems kind of dumb and,
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you know, he seems silly and frivolous. And it's kind of funny. It's funny, you know,
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to make fun of any kind of a culture, but we're told intellectually today, you're not in any way
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allowed to make fun of black people, except we all, we do it. It's not us. I didn't,
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a bunch of libs made 30 Rock. I am quite certain that Suki and this host, Bobby Altoff are not right
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wing conservatives. They're probably not Trump supporters, right? Even the sitcoms of the 1970s,
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great shows, the Jeffersons, Good Times, all those Norman Lear shows, they were, they were kind of
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minstrel shows. So all of this to say, it's not that I'm defending minstrelsy or whatever. I'm not
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defending Suki Hanna or any of these people. My point is more an historical point. We look back
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and we throw stones at all of our forebears and all how racist our grandparents were and how evil
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and rotten and terrible everyone was, whoever came before us. We are doing the exact same things.
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And in, in many cases, what we are doing today is much worse. Take the theatrical tradition and
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comedy bits aside for a second. We like to look back on history and say, can you believe
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that for two or 300 years in America, we tolerated a particularly egregious form of slavery?
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Yeah, man, that's terrible. You know, we kill 800,000 babies a year now. You know that, right?
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No, no, no, that's good, Michael. That's autonomy. That's freedom that, yeah, I'm just saying in the
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future, maybe people will look kind of negatively on that. It seems a little crazy to me. Everyone's
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going to be laughing at this bit. Everyone, but when we look back in history, people do the same kind
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of things, these same themes that recur throughout history. It's bad when they do it. It's fine when
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we do it. It's very bad when they do it. Speaking of putting on an act, nearly half of trans-identifying
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people in the United States say that they have considered moving out of state because of the new
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anti-trans laws. Here's how the story goes. I think I'm actually somewhat involved in this story.
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The story goes that a year ago at the conservative political action summit, CPAC, an awful, terrible
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genocidal maniac named Michael Knowles came out and said that for the good of society and
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especially for the good of the poor people who've fallen prey to this confusion, transgenderism
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must be eradicated from public life entirely. And then what happened? The crowd cheered. And
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then, this is even worse, do you know what happened? Conservative lawmakers started passing
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laws against the transgender ideology. And then do you know what happened? That other evil man,
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Matt Walsh, he held a rally to stop child mutilation. And you know what happened then?
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Even more laws got passed. And then there's a genocide taking place. Not the real genocide.
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It's about to take place in South Africa. No, no, no. There's a genocide because some mean old
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conservatives said that big husky dudes shouldn't go into the girls changing room at the public pool.
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And that is why nearly half of US trans identifying individuals have considered moving out of state.
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They don't, of course. According to this survey, and I bet this is an overestimation,
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5% of respondents, around 5% of respondents have said that they have moved because of anti-LGBT
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legislation. I think that number is probably way, way high. But even if we take their number,
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that means that 95% of people are just, they're just kidding. It's like the celebs who threaten
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to move to Canada if a Republican gets elected president. And to them, it's a threat. To us,
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it's a promise. We say, hey, you got to keep your promise, Barbara Streisand. Come on.
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You promised me that if Trump got elected, you would leave. But then you didn't leave. You never leave.
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They never do it. But they want to. They feel uncomfortable in their states. Yes, of course,
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the trans identifying people feel uncomfortable in their states. These are people who feel
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uncomfortable in their bodies. Of course, they're going to feel uncomfortable in their families,
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in their communities, in their states, and in their country. Of course. The thing is, though,
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for these people, moving out of state is not going to fix anything. I'm glad most of them don't move out
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of state because it would be totally pointless. Not most of, virtually all of them don't move out
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of state. It would be pointless because of a line that a buddy of mine who goes to AA told me,
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and I really like this line. The line is, wherever you go, there you are. Wherever you go, there you
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are. The problem for the trans identifying people is not that some mean old Republican lawmaker won't
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let them go into the girl's bathroom. The problem for the trans identifying individual is that
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his desires and sometimes perception, but usually they actually perceive reality well enough. It's
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just that they have a disordered desire and they're angry at reality because it doesn't
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conform to their fantasies. The problem is inside. Okay, there's no, the call's coming from inside the
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house, okay? And so, sure, they can move to Portland, Oregon. They can move to some super lib place,
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but there's still going to be dudes who wish they were chicks, and there's no,
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you can't move somewhere to fix that. You can't even have a surgery to fix that.
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That's why the trans procedures, the hormones, and even the surgeries don't fix the problem.
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That's why when you look at the largest data set on this, which came out of the UK about a year ago,
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anxiety, depression, suicidality, none of those diminish with the trans, the transgender affirming
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care. And in the case of anxiety, it goes up a little higher. That's why the suicide rates
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don't really change. That's why transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely,
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because it doesn't help anybody. It actually only makes the problem worse.
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And on that point, CPAC just announced yesterday some news that I've known for a while, which is
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that I will be speaking there again this year. Can't wait. It should be a lot of fun. I think
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CPAC is, it's the end of this month. I want to say it's the 21st through the 24th. So if you are in
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town, I look forward to seeing you there and I look forward to whatever calumny the liberal press
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wants to throw at me. Speaking of transgenderism, there's a Missouri secretary of state candidate
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who is, she's got maybe the greatest campaign ad of the year. Her campaign ad consists in lighting
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LGBT books that are put in front of little kids on fire.
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This is what I will do to the growing books when I become secretary of state.
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These books from Missouri Public Library. When I'm in office, they will burn.
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Now, hold on, hold on a second. I have a question about this ad. And my question is,
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what is the maximum donation allowed by law that one can make to a Missouri secretary of state
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candidate? That's my only question, actually. What an ad. What an ad. Valentina Gomez, a woman
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on a mission. When I'm in office, these books will burn. And now I know book bans and book burning,
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they get a bad rap these days. But virtually every serious thinker for all of history has supported
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some degree of book banning or censorship. And many of them supported book burning. Going back to,
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I don't know, like, Plato, the apostles, the great geniuses of the Middle Ages, the scholastics.
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Even people who are not exactly on my side of viewing things. I think like Martin Luther,
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not my main man, but that guy burned books. This recurs throughout history, okay?
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And we have plenty of book bans today. What's funny is that the libs pretend,
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they always have these lists of the most banned books. And it's always like To Kill a Mockingbird
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or something, one of the best-selling novels ever that every school child reads by the time he's
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12. That's not a banned book. There are legitimately banned books. Some like Holocaust-denying historian,
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that's a ban. Go try to buy one of those books. You're not going to find that anywhere.
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And I'm not arguing that certain books shouldn't be banned. It's the libs who are saying that certain
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books shouldn't be banned. But they're the ones who ban all the books. Forget about books that
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most people would object to. Even just get down to the one book you're not allowed to teach in
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schools, the Bible. That's the book. The libs support that book ban. They would probably burn
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it if they had the chance. But they're going to get on this woman. They'll say, she's a threat.
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Ronna McDaniel is reportedly out as the chairman of the Republican National Committee.
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According to reports, Ronna McDaniel has told President Trump that she plans to step down
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shortly after the South Carolina primary on February 24th. You'll remember there was a pretty
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bruising battle for the chairmanship of the RNC. Everyone was convinced that Harmeet Dillon,
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the challenger, was going to win this race. I like Harmeet very much, have a lot of respect for her.
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I didn't think that was going to happen. I knew Ronna was going to get reelected,
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and she did. But it looks as though now she might not even finish out her term.
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Looks like she's fallen afoul of President Trump, or he just thinks that they need someone new.
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So reportedly, Trump wants to promote the chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party,
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Michael Watley, as her replacement. And Trump doesn't get to just pick the RNC chairman,
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even though Trump is effectively the leader of the Republican Party right now.
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So there will be some kind of election, but probably what Trump wants will go.
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So a lot of people, really, they hate Ronna McDaniel. They blame her for Republican losses.
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A lot of people think this is a major embarrassment for Ronna McDaniel, that she's being pushed out.
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My take on it is sort of just whatever, whatever. I have an unpopular opinion here, I guess, which is
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I don't think the RNC actually matters all that much. I don't really think the DNC
00:24:45.640
matters all that much. I don't think the party committees, I'm not saying they have no influence,
00:24:49.780
but compared to candidates who are the real face of the party and who actually determine elections
00:24:58.140
much more than party chairman, compared to the candidates, compared to the political action
00:25:02.880
committees, compared to the super PACs, I just don't think the RNC carries all that much weight.
00:25:08.200
Also, Ronna McDaniel's been in that office now for, what, six, seven years? That is two to
00:25:14.120
almost four times longer than most people. A lot of RNC chairmen, historically, serve for a couple
00:25:21.840
years. Some serve for only one year. Some for a couple years. Maybe you get to like four years.
00:25:26.800
But Ronna McDaniel's been in it for a long time, and some of the elections have been disappointing,
00:25:32.860
no doubt about it. But I don't know. I just don't blame the party flax. I kind of think it's a matter of,
00:25:39.960
well, in certain cases, it might be a matter of rigging the election system and using COVID as
00:25:44.200
the excuse. But in other cases, it's the candidates. And in other cases, it's the PACs and the super PACs,
00:25:50.540
which actually fund the campaigns. And in other cases, it's just the political mood.
00:25:55.260
So, Ronna, okay, she's out. I just, I'm not saying she should stay in the office, but
00:25:59.380
just, I don't think it's quite such the big news that the Beltway elites want to pretend that it is.
00:26:07.000
Now, certain leadership in the party really does matter, especially when we're talking about
00:26:11.080
leadership in the U.S. Senate. The Senate majority leader wields an insane amount of power, not just
00:26:16.500
in the Senate, but also from the leadership PACs that will fund other candidates, pick other candidates
00:26:21.200
around the country, really affect the outcome of races. And Senator Cruz is now calling for the ouster
00:26:28.640
of Senate majority leader, Cocaine Mitch. Everyone here also supported a leadership challenge
00:26:34.180
to Mitch McConnell in November. I think a Republican leader should actually lead this conference and
00:26:42.220
should advance the priorities of Republicans. And I stood up and said, look, in any ordinary
00:26:46.580
organization, when you are faced with failure, if you're running a business and you lose $50 million,
00:26:53.360
you don't just say, hey, everything's great, let's keep doing it. No, you sit down and say,
00:26:56.640
what are we doing wrong? And at that meeting, I turned to Mitch McConnell then and I said, look,
00:27:01.920
we spent the last two years with a group, a handful of Republicans joining with Democrats
00:27:06.400
to pass the Democrat agenda. And I said, maybe that's a good idea. I don't think it is, but
00:27:12.700
someone could make the argument that's a good idea.
00:27:15.620
I love the way he says that. No, look, maybe there's someone out there. I wouldn't make that
00:27:20.680
argument because I'm intelligent and I have a vision for the party. And Senator Cruz is obviously
00:27:26.620
right, as he is right about most things, by far the best Republican senator and one of the best
00:27:35.140
Republicans that we've had in the country in my entire lifetime. I'm not a total Mitch hater.
00:27:41.080
You know that. I'm grateful to Senator McConnell for standing firm on the judges. He really held
00:27:47.520
firm when Justice Scalia died during the 2016 election. He held firm. He did not allow Barack
00:27:53.560
Obama to replace Scalia, which meant that we got a conservative judge in his place. And then we got
00:27:58.400
more conservative judges and then we overruled Roe v. Wade. So I'm far from a cocaine Mitch hater.
00:28:03.860
But what this is about is this immigration bill that Mitch McConnell really tried to push,
00:28:11.000
which would have been a complete concession on the border, would have opened the border even more.
00:28:14.740
It's completely unnecessary. You don't need a legislative fix to the border crisis. The border
00:28:19.040
crisis is a result of the Biden administration refusing to enforce current federal law. So it's
00:28:24.240
just a complete, a complete miss. And it's probably time for cocaine Mitch to go. I think Senator Cruz is
00:28:31.340
probably right here, probably needs some new leadership. And part of the reason that the
00:28:37.200
conservatives have been angry at Mitch McConnell for many years now, part of the reason I think this
00:28:41.540
leadership challenge could get a little bit more oomph right now is one, because Mitch recently
00:28:47.660
betrayed the conservatives on a major issue, like the defining issue of the last 10 years, which is
00:28:55.220
mass migration. The defining issue for conservatives, not only in America, but in Britain, in Italy,
00:29:01.100
in Hungary, in France, in Germany, in like all over the West. And McConnell totally toned it and he hung
00:29:08.780
Senator Jim Lankford out to dry on it. He made him the face of it, but it was a deal obviously negotiated
00:29:13.160
by McConnell and Schumer. And the other reason why the leadership challenge would get some oomph
00:29:18.740
right now is because Matt Gaetz has largely been vindicated on ousting Kevin McCarthy. I wasn't a
00:29:23.340
total McCarthy hater either. I felt Kevin McCarthy was probably the most conservative speaker of the
00:29:28.140
House of my lifetime. And yet, it's damning with faint praise. The conservatives in the House felt that
00:29:33.800
he had betrayed them. They pushed him out. They get this guy, Mike Johnson, instead. And Mike Johnson
00:29:37.560
kills the stupid immigration bill. Great. Looks like a vindication for me. Not only can the
00:29:44.680
replacement of an establishment guy in leadership with a conservative, can it be good? But we've got
00:29:51.340
evidence that it has turned out to be pretty good. If I were Cocaine Mitch, I would seriously be
00:29:56.280
considering stepping down. Now, the guy that Mitch McConnell hung out to dry on this immigration bill,
00:30:02.780
Jim Lankford from Oklahoma, I have a fair amount of pity for him. He's trying to push this bill that
00:30:08.780
nobody wants. Well, Democrats and squishes want it, but the conservatives don't want it.
00:30:13.200
He's getting absolutely eviscerated over it. I've always kind of liked Jim Lankford. I don't have
00:30:18.580
anything against him, but this was a huge, huge miscalculation. And now Senator Lankford is playing
00:30:24.260
the victim. Some of them may have policy differences. Some of them have been very clear
00:30:28.920
with me. They have political differences with the bill. They say it's the wrong time to solve
00:30:34.460
the problem or let the presidential election solve this problem. In fact, I had a popular commentator
00:30:45.560
four weeks ago that I talked to that told me flat out before they knew any of the contents of the
00:30:53.600
bill, any of the content, nothing was out at that point, that told me flat out, if you try to move
00:30:59.880
a bill that solves the border crisis during this presidential year, I will do whatever I can to
00:31:06.060
destroy you because I do not want you to solve this during the presidential election. By the way,
00:31:14.000
they have been faithful to their promise and have done everything they can to destroy me
00:31:19.260
in the past several weeks. I don't know who the commentator is. It wasn't me, actually,
00:31:25.680
but the commentator was right. But the commentator was even more right than he lets on in the telling
00:31:32.460
of Senator Lankford here. The issue is not simply that we don't want to solve this problem in an
00:31:39.860
election year. We want to let the presidential election solve it. That's a great way for the
00:31:43.900
squishes in the establishment to frame the issue. The issue is we don't stand to benefit at all from
00:31:51.200
this bill. There's no benefit. Forget the political benefits or harms during an election year.
00:31:57.880
We know for a fact the Democrats are not negotiating in good faith.
00:32:01.900
We know for a fact they're not enforcing the current law, and they're saying, hey,
00:32:06.060
since we're not enforcing the current law, we're going to force you to the table to pass a new law
00:32:09.940
that maybe we'll enforce. But there's no reason to believe they would enforce the new one either.
00:32:15.100
And the new law they want to pass would not reduce illegal immigration. It would increase it,
00:32:21.160
almost certainly. And it would not reduce migration broadly, which is what most Americans want.
00:32:25.520
It would dramatically increase migration. And it would give Democrats new voters. And it's just a
00:32:30.480
complete disaster. And so, as I said before, I generally like Jim Lankford, and I feel bad for
00:32:37.140
him here. I'm feeling less bad for him, and I'm liking him less the more he whines and cries and
00:32:42.020
plays the victim here. No, this isn't about those self-interested conservatives trying to win an
00:32:47.840
election. This is about your failure, your horrible political miscalculation to believe Mitch McConnell
00:32:56.020
and the Democrats, and to push a bill that would increase migration, which we don't want.
00:33:03.160
We have too many people coming into the country. Call me crazy. I think 4 million foreigners a year
00:33:08.440
coming into the country is a little much in a country of 330 million people. And I think that
00:33:13.500
when you have the largest movement of people ever in recorded history over the last 60 years into this
00:33:18.860
country, it's a little much. Maybe we can push the brakes a little bit. I'm losing a lot of my
00:33:26.660
sympathy for Jim Lankford here. Just admit you screwed up. This is a stupid bill and kill it and try to do
00:33:31.560
better next time. Well, I don't know why are people being so mean because you're pushing a horrible bill
00:33:36.760
that none of us want that would give Democrats probably a permanent electoral majority. And everyone
00:33:41.780
makes mistakes and we're willing to forgive you, but stop whining and man up and kill the bill. Good grief.
00:33:47.120
Speaking of Republicans failing in Congress, Alejandro Mayorkas, the secretary of the Department of
00:33:55.300
Homeland Security, was about to be impeached by the Republicans until he wasn't. The vote failed.
00:34:03.780
Final vote, 214 to impeach, 216 don't impeach. This was after the House GOP Vice Chairman Blake Moore
00:34:11.760
from Utah flipped to a don't impeach vote, though we shouldn't really blame him for that. The only reason he
00:34:16.740
did that was to break a tie and then hope that they can bring this back up when another Republican
00:34:22.600
is back, Steve Scalise, who was out for medical treatments. Had Steve Scalise been there, probably
00:34:27.660
the impeachment would have just barely passed. Although, I don't know, maybe some squish would
00:34:31.080
have flipped in that case too. And then they would have, maybe we would have just once again gotten
00:34:36.500
pretty close and then it doesn't work. My question here is not, why didn't they schedule the vote for
00:34:44.480
when Steve Scalise was in town so that we would have had the votes that we needed? That's not even
00:34:48.400
my issue. My issue isn't, well, why don't they bring it up again next week? I don't know, maybe
00:34:52.080
they will bring it up again next week. My question is this. It goes back a little further.
00:34:58.240
Why did Republicans kick out George Santos? Remember George Santos? He's the kind of wacky,
00:35:04.340
crazy Republican from Long Island who apparently lied about everything in his past and was a financial
00:35:10.900
fraudster and was a drag queen, I guess. And he's like a weird guy, you know, and maybe lied about
00:35:18.400
even being a homosexual. He's an odd duck. I'm not telling you he's not. Why did we kick him out?
00:35:25.880
We kicked him out because of how principled we are. And we're so principled that now we only have a
00:35:30.600
three-vote majority in the Congress and we can't even impeach the worst Homeland Security Secretary in
00:35:34.500
history who's flagrantly violating the law because of how principled we are. And what's the principle
00:35:39.460
exactly? George Santos lied about his ethnic heritage. Oh, wow. We've never seen that in the
00:35:45.620
U.S. Congress, right? We don't have a woman whose nickname is Senator Liawatha. Focahontas up there in
00:35:52.740
the Senate. Well, George Santos was financially quite dodgy and fraudulent. Oh, really? Okay. Are we going to
00:35:59.580
kick out half of Congress then? Well, Santos was sexually deviant. Uh-huh. Okay. You're going to
00:36:06.380
kick out the other half of Congress then? Well, Congressman Santos was this, that, or the other
00:36:12.400
thing. I'm not defending him. I wouldn't really like to vote for the guy. I don't like him at all.
00:36:18.340
But why would you kick him out, you dummy Republicans? Oh, you just,
00:36:21.720
ah, you clutch defeat from the jaws of victory so often to impress liberals who hate you and who would
00:36:30.760
never extend to you any such grace for nothing, for no end, not for the end of justice, not for the
00:36:37.080
end of morality, certainly not for the end of political flourishing. Pathetic. My favorite comment
00:36:43.380
yesterday is from Frank S111, who says, Joe Biden talking to Francois Mitterrand was just him talking
00:36:51.420
to one of his millions of voters. That's a good point. Actually, you're right. Francois Mitterrand
00:36:56.480
was not able to vote for Democrats when he was the living president of France. But now that he's dead,
00:37:01.920
you're right, actually. I think he's registered in Pennsylvania. Now, speaking of replacing people,
00:37:09.040
Disney, they've heard you. You know, Disney, they got a little blowback when they were caught on camera
00:37:15.840
saying that they were pushing a not-so-secret gay agenda on your children. Disney got a little bit
00:37:20.820
of pushback when they replaced Snow White with this woman in a new Snow White story who, she emphatically,
00:37:31.600
you know, isn't Snow White. I call her sometimes like sand beige or something like that. But that's
00:37:38.860
not, that's by far the least silly part of her casting. The silliest part of her casting is she
00:37:44.000
hates the story. And she says, we don't want love. We don't want a Prince Charming. We don't want this.
00:37:50.220
We don't want that. It's obviously so woke. It was obviously DEI. It was obviously, you know,
00:37:54.460
any kind of traditional. Traditional is bad. White is bad. Men are bad, though in that case, it's a
00:38:02.260
female character being replaced by a female. But now we've got a better opportunity for Disney.
00:38:06.800
They've heard you. So they're going to replace Johnny Depp with a black lady, according to
00:38:10.560
reports. The lady is Ayo Eddibiri. I don't, I'm not familiar with her work. She might be a fine
00:38:18.840
actress. But one thing I can tell you is she's not the Johnny Depp character because she's not a dude.
00:38:24.920
And this would be for Pirates of the Caribbean 6. Her character is named Anne. So it's not an exact
00:38:36.520
one-to-one of Captain Jack Sparrow. It's this new character named Anne. And it might be based off a
00:38:43.260
real-life pirate named Anne Bonny, who was Irish. So what Disney's pushing back and they're saying,
00:38:49.080
look, we want to replace all the white guys with black ladies in the name of DEI, even if it doesn't
00:38:54.040
serve the story, even if it doesn't make sense. But you, you racists and you sexists, you don't
00:38:58.860
even understand. This is based on a real character. And the real character is a woman. Well, that's
00:39:02.940
true. But the woman's Irish. And I don't think this is what black Irish means. Have you ever heard
00:39:09.460
that phrase black Irish? Black Irish is a term used among Irish Americans to explain why certain
00:39:14.940
Irish people here have slightly darker features or dark hair or dark eyes. But it's totally made up.
00:39:19.920
The myth around black Irish is that some Spaniards landed in Ireland some centuries ago. And that's
00:39:25.760
why some of them look a little bit more Mediterranean. But it doesn't appear to be backed up by any
00:39:31.580
genetic analyses. So it's just a fake American kind of story. And in any case, black Irish doesn't mean
00:39:38.800
actual African people. Now, you might say, well, Michael, who cares? Any person of any race, or some
00:39:46.920
would say of any sex, should be able to play any character. I don't think that's true. Some characters, I
00:39:54.000
think the race doesn't really matter. All characters, the sex usually matters. But some of the race doesn't
00:39:59.500
really matter. But that view was not the view of August Wilson, the leader of the modern American black
00:40:07.360
theater. That wasn't the view of a whole lot of people in the history of theater. And it isn't the
00:40:13.880
view of audiences. Like some sexes are different. Cultures are different. And every time that Disney
00:40:23.560
does this, the movies are flops. But they don't really care. They feel that they have hegemony. So
00:40:29.060
they're going to serve it up. And it doesn't matter. Go see it. Don't go see it. The DEI leftist agenda
00:40:37.120
continues apace. Now, speaking of women potentially replacing men, the Nevada presidential primary
00:40:45.540
took place. Most people didn't pay attention to it because the Republican primary is effectively over
00:40:49.980
and Trump is the nominee. But what was weird about Nevada is that Nevada had both a primary and a
00:40:55.140
caucus. So in Nevada, it used to be that the nomination fight was settled in a caucus. And then
00:41:02.280
in 2021, the legislature said, no, we're going to become a primary state, not a caucus state.
00:41:06.940
But the GOP didn't like this. So the GOP has held firm to the caucus. They had a separate caucus.
00:41:12.580
And they said that if you participate in the primary, you don't get to participate in the
00:41:16.460
caucus. So even before all the other candidates dropped out, most of them were going to participate
00:41:22.220
in the caucus. Nikki Haley was not. Nikki Haley said, no, I'm going to be in the primary.
00:41:27.420
And so as a result, Trump, who is the last remaining serious candidate in the primary,
00:41:34.820
he was not in the Nevada Republican presidential primary. He won the Nevada caucus, which is
00:41:39.740
actually what's going to count toward the nomination. And Nikki Haley won the primary.
00:41:43.980
Well, no, she didn't. She beat Mike Pence, who was still on the ballot, even though he dropped out.
00:41:48.920
She beat Tim Scott, who was still on the ballot, even though he dropped out.
00:41:51.480
She beat John Castro, who I've never heard of, even though he was still on the ballot. But she lost
00:41:56.860
to none of these candidates. Nikki got about 33 percent, and none of these candidates got 60.4 percent.
00:42:10.180
None of these candidates got almost twice as many votes as Nikki Haley.
00:42:14.140
Not a good sign. Now, Nikki did not really campaign in Nevada. Obviously,
00:42:20.520
she wasn't even taking the primary seriously. That's why she wasn't in the caucus.
00:42:24.260
But it's embarrassing. It's not a good headline cycle. Now they're headed to South Carolina.
00:42:32.520
And the problem with South Carolina is Trump is currently leading Nikki by at least 20 points.
00:42:36.540
Depends which poll you look at, but maybe 30 points, maybe more. That's her home state.
00:42:41.900
So as I've predicted for a while, Nikki is going to stay in this race. And she said it. She said,
00:42:47.340
I'm not going anywhere. Keep donating. She's going to stay in this race to be the number two candidate,
00:42:52.080
to be the clear number two once Trump gets the nomination. And then in 2028, she'll be able to
00:42:56.300
claim, look, I was the last choice. If Trump loses, she can claim, hey, you're going with me,
00:43:01.600
maybe you would have won. And even if Trump wins, he's going to be term limited out. So she can say,
00:43:06.660
look, I was the number two choice then, and she can make a credible run in 2028. And she can claim
00:43:11.000
to represent the lane that she's picked, which is the more establishment, more centrist kind of lane
00:43:16.400
in the GOP, which still represents a lot of voters. And she can say, I've got appeal to
00:43:20.320
independence and I've got appeal to suburban moms and all this kind of stuff. But one thing that is
00:43:26.540
certain is that she will not be the Republican nominee in 2024. Now, another reason that Nikki Haley
00:43:35.140
is running here is because one, she's a talented politician and she's managed to beat out all the
00:43:40.000
other candidates in the field other than Trump. And two, because Biden seems so beatable.
00:43:47.640
I think it was Peter Doocy who just asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre
00:43:51.220
if she could maybe explain why Joe Biden thought that he had just met with the former president of
00:44:03.820
How is President Biden ever going to convince the three quarters of voters who are worried about his
00:44:08.760
physical and mental health that he is OK, even though in Las Vegas he told a story about recently
00:44:14.640
talking to a French president who died in 1996? I'm not even going to go down that rabbit hole with
00:44:20.100
you, sir. We're going to go. Go ahead. He said he talked to Mineran.
00:44:23.720
You saw the president in Vegas, in California. You've seen the president in South Carolina. You saw him in
00:44:31.160
What? Listen, I'm not even going to answer your question, which is the best answer she could give.
00:44:39.180
There's no way to explain. The honest answer is because Joe Biden's obviously in decline and he's
00:44:44.140
doing that thing that your grandparents all did just before they died, which is they confused
00:44:48.840
people and they confused not just weeks and years, but they confused whole decades and epochs and they
00:44:54.380
forgot who's alive and who's dead. That's the honest answer. She can't say that. She goes,
00:44:57.600
I'm not even going to answer that question. And then he goes, what are you talking about? Your job
00:45:01.080
is to answer the questions. And the best she can muster is, look, you've seen the president,
00:45:06.220
California, Alaska, Brazil, China. I had eggs for breakfast this morning. Look at my hand.
00:45:14.580
Is that a butterfly? Gibbledygobbledygook. OK, next question. That's the best thing. She's just
00:45:20.700
going to say words so that maybe if you put the TV on mute, it looks like she's answering the
00:45:27.440
question. But her firm answer is, yeah, man, we got nothing. We've got nothing as it pertains to
00:45:35.740
a rational debate over Joe Biden's case for reelection. We got nothing there. The best
00:45:44.100
they're going to hope for is that they can keep rigging the elections with losing voter ID, with
00:45:51.800
promoting widespread mail-in ballots, and with encouraging ballot harvesting. That's their only
00:45:56.360
chance. And maybe they think it's a good chance and they don't think they have to answer to the people.
00:46:01.480
OK, it's Theology Thursday, baby. And Professor Jacob, I don't know why I keep giving him more and
00:46:09.040
more rights and freedoms on this show. He has insisted that we play a new game. It's going to
00:46:13.880
be a Bible verse game. Now, I don't know. Listen, Professor Jacob, he was schooled by those
00:46:20.120
Chabadniks over there. So I don't know. Listen, I was not, you know, I was not, I was schooled. I had
00:46:25.160
a semi-week catechesis. And then, so I don't know, maybe he's going to get me. We'll find out. You can
00:46:29.740
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