Ep. 1441 - Nikki Haley Out, Woolly Mammoths In？
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Nikki Haley announces her decision to suspend her campaign, clearing the final hurdle for President Trump to clinch the nomination. But what does that mean for the rest of the 2020 Republican primary race? And what does it mean for 2020?
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The 2024 Republican presidential primary is officially over as Nikki Haley suspends her
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campaign, clearing the last hurdle for President Trump to clinch the nomination.
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We all knew it was coming, as I mentioned on the show yesterday,
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and Nikki made her formal announcement just moments after our show wrapped yesterday.
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But as I said then, the interesting thing about Nikki's concession was never going to be
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The interesting aspect was always going to be how she would do it.
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As I've said from the beginning, I really like Nikki Haley personally, and I think she's a very
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But as Nikki continued to double down, even as the nomination seemed further and further out of reach
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and the money was running out, the problem for the Haley campaign was that it could not find an off-ramp.
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It couldn't figure out how to claim any kind of victory and save any kind of face and just end it until yesterday.
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I am filled with the gratitude for the outpouring of support we've received from all across our great country.
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But the time has now come to suspend my campaign.
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I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard.
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And although I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in.
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The reasoning was we promised to give voters a choice, and we did.
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We made it to Super Tuesday, voters had their choice, and they chose Trump.
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So then the question for Nikki was, would she follow the voters' decision?
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Would she adhere to the RNC pledge that she and the other candidates, except for Trump, signed to endorse the eventual nominee?
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In all likelihood, Donald Trump will be the Republican nominee when our party convention meets in July.
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I wish anyone well who would be America's president.
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Our country is too precious to let our differences divide us.
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I have always been a conservative Republican and always supported the Republican nominee.
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But on this question, as she did on so many others, Margaret Thatcher provided some good advice when she said, quote,
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It is now up to Donald Trump to earn the votes of those in our party and beyond it who did not support him.
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Now, this is the most perfectly political answer I have perhaps ever seen.
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Nikki has always supported the Republican nominee, which means she's supported Trump twice.
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She supported Trump in 20, which should appease the Trump supporters, right?
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It seems to insinuate that she'll support this time around as well.
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But she's refusing to endorse Trump outright, which should appease Trump's GOP political opponents.
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And she's even leaving open the possibility that she could endorse Joe Biden.
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What if Joe Biden offered her some really sweet post in the administration?
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It's so perfectly political that everyone will hate it.
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This answer is so perfectly political that it's supposed to appease everyone, and actually everyone is going to hate it, just like at the end of Trump's other GOP primary in 2016.
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So the toughest rival to Trump leaves it ambiguous.
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He'll have to earn the votes of some Democrats, maybe.
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He'll have to motivate the party to show up in November.
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But he won't have to earn the support of Republicans.
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The funniest clip of the entire Republican presidential primary at this point occurred just a day or so ago when Fox News had to cut away from a local voter, a woman in a diner, saying that she would not, under any circumstances, vote for a woman, period, no matter who that woman was.
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There is a Democrat primary, and I'm not even talking about Bobby Kennedy or Cornel West or the woo-woo new age lady, Marianne Williamson.
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There was a Democrat challenger in this race, and that person is Dean Phillips.
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Of course, you've maybe heard of him on this show.
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Otherwise, you probably haven't even heard of him.
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He's a congressman who voted with Biden, I think, actually 100% of the time.
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So he's a total liberal Democrat, and he was just running as Biden but younger.
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And most people didn't even know he was running, and he just dropped out.
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The tweet is one, two, three, four, five, six paragraphs long.
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That is more paragraphs than supporters of his campaign.
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In 2011, I hosted this and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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He says, I ran for president in 2024 to resist Donald Trump again because Americans were demanding an alternative, and democracy demands options.
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But it is clear that alternative is not me, and it is clear that Joe Biden is our candidate and our opportunity to demonstrate what type of country America is and intends to be.
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I ask you to join me in mobilizing, energizing, and doing everything you can to help keep a man of decency and integrity in the White House.
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Nothing says decency and integrity like Joe Biden, one of the most callous, nasty liars in American politics.
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There was never much of a primary on the Democrat side.
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Bobby Kennedy was never going to be the nominee.
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He realized even if he had support, the Democrat Party wouldn't let him.
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So he's running independent, might run libertarian now.
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Where this guy, you know, the problem for a guy like Dean Phillips is, is the same problem as you saw for a guy like Ron DeSantis.
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Which is, if your candidacy is, I'm just the better version of this other guy, bigger, better, faster, stronger.
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They're going to, there's no, there's no substitute for the real thing.
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And so even if you can make all these arguments, even putting aside the Trump-DeSantis race for a second, Dean Phillips is obviously a better version of Joe Biden in that he still knows what his name is.
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And he can speak coherently and he's energetic.
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And so he could do, he's wealthy, he's got all these great traits and he believes all the stuff that Joe Biden believes, which I guess is nothing because I don't think Joe Biden is a particularly convicted politician.
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Biden's the guy and Trump's the guy and we're getting a rematch.
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Now, you're going to hear, just like in 2016, you heard one weird trick that could give Bernie Sanders the nomination.
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You know, no, actually, they might take it away from Trump.
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No, you're still going to hear, actually, maybe the Democrat nominee will be Michelle Obama.
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Here's one weird trick to get Biden out of the spot.
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According to Crystal Carson, the director of communications for the Michelle Obama office, as former first lady Michelle Obama has expressed several times over the years, she will not be running for president.
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Mrs. Obama supports President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris's re-election campaign.
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All sorts of people, especially on the right, love to get so excited about all these secret theories.
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They're going to let Joe keep on pretending to be the nominee.
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And then at the convention, the five delegates with the superdelegates and the Illuminati and the aliens are going to come down and they're going to swap the bodies of Joe Biden and Michelle Obama.
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And then they're going to reanimate the corpse of Franklin Roosevelt and the ticket is going to be Grover Cleveland and Thomas Jefferson.
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She's already had the pleasure of being in the White House.
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She's already had the pleasure of the fame and the power and the influence.
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And now she's making money and living a private life and doesn't have to put up with all the strabats.
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Running for president is a brutal, brutal experience.
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I'm not sure there's anything quite so brutal in public life or ever has been.
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My favorite clip from the entire 2024 Republican presidential primary came just a couple of nights ago on Super Tuesday when Fox News was visiting a diner in Allen, Texas.
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Nikki Haley was still in the race, and the Fox News host asked one of the diners before an entire Fox News panel that was remote, probably in New York, said, so, you know, who are you voting for?
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NBC just reported that Michelle Obama has said she will not run for president.
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Ainsley said, I would love the reaction from a woman in the crowd.
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I wouldn't vote for a woman, and especially, you know, Nikki Haley, I'm just going to say this.
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She said, how about we vote for people regardless of their gender, just the right person for the job for America.
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She said, we totally love women presidents, and women should definitely be president, as long as they're good for the job.
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That typical man erasing the political voice of a woman who wants to articulate her view that a woman should never be president.
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Fox just is institutionally incapable of having fun with an answer like that or even permitting a woman to articulate her view that she wants a guy to be president.
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The funny thing about it, though, is I know a number of people who would not want a woman to be president.
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I know a number of people who have said, I would not vote for a woman to be president because she is a woman.
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And the craziest thing about that is that most of those people that I know who feel that way are women.
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That woman who Fox interviewed and then regretted interviewing, in my experience, is not the aberration.
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Most of the people, it's just anecdote, but the plural of anecdote, I suppose, is data.
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Most of the people who don't want a woman to be president might just be women, okay?
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Maybe it's because they know women better than we do.
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I'm not making any statements about that woman's declaration.
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Washington Post is more somber about Haley's exit in the race.
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The Washington Post says, Haley exits the race and proves the Reagan GOP is no more.
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Ronald Reagan was elected president 43 years ago.
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And he was the oldest president ever at that point.
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Ronald Reagan first came on the political scene in the 1960s.
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And then he made his last public appearance 30 years ago.
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They do the same thing to William F. Buckley Jr.
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I wrote the foreword, the new introduction to William F. Buckley Jr.'s most famous book, God and Man at Yale.
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I was the first Buckley Fellow in the inaugural class of Buckley Fellows at Yale.
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And frankly, the people today who most ostentatiously claim the mantle of the Reaganites and the Buckleyites,
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these people are the least like their supposed heroes in American politics.
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Ronald Reagan, he came up with the slogan, make America great again.
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Ronald Reagan advocated tariffs when they were in the American national interest.
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Ronald Reagan was seen as heralding a kind of religious revival in America,
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even though he personally had a somewhat unorthodox kind of religiosity.
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Because today what we are told is that the Trump movement or the MAGA movement is a total betrayal of the Reagan movement.
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It's a total betrayal of the conservative movement of William F. Buckley Jr.
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And frankly, many of the people who claim to be the Reaganites and the Buckleyites of today, I think that the opposite is true, actually.
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It's amazing how much a man's legacy can be distorted and perverted over the years.
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You know, when you hear people inveighing against a new McCarthyism, oh, this new kind of persecution in American politics, this new revanchist right wing.
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I think, you know, William F. Buckley Jr. wrote a book defending Joe McCarthy, said that McCarthyism is a political movement around which all Americans of strong moral fiber can rally.
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Ronald Reagan was the one who shook up the Republican Party conservative establishment.
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Even the notion that Donald Trump, he's for a weak American policy.
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He doesn't want to be terribly involved all around the world.
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Ronald Reagan, he was the one who would send in the tanks.
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He just wanted to go bomb every country on earth.
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Even when Americans were attacked in the Beirut barracks bombings, what did Reagan do?
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He didn't retaliate, and he withdrew all the troops from Beirut.
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Who better typifies the spirit of Reagan and the spirit of Buckley?
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Is it the people who claim their mantle today, many of whom are squish, half-lib types like Liz Cheney?
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Or is it the conservatives, the ones who have a little bit of a populist streak?
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Even this notion that the old, the really high-minded conservative movement of William F. Buckley and Ronald Reagan would never have indulged in this sort of populism.
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William F. Buckley Jr. famously said that he would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than by the faculty of Harvard College.
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That's the most populist statement I can possibly imagine.
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Reagan's GOP is no more because he died 20 years ago and because he left office 35 years ago.
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But the spirit of Ronald Reagan is, you know, he expressed an aspect of a conservative spirit that long predated him and will survive, I hope, long after him.
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And if you're asking me which side of the GOP, the more hardcore right-wing side or the squishy side, which better exemplifies that spirit today?
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Now, speaking of things associated with Trump, Diet Coke might be very bad for your health.
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Diet drinks with the artificial sweeteners apparently greatly increase your risk of an irregular heartbeat.
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You know, when I drank Diet Coke, I would drink it by the gallon.
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But okay, two liters, that's a two-liter bottle, or more per week of artificially sweetened beverages.
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The equivalent of a medium-sized fast food diet soda a day raised the risk of an irregular heartbeat called atrial fibrillation by 20% when compared to people who drank none, a new study found.
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Drinking a similar number of added sugar beverages, so, you know, regular soda or, you know, other kind of drinks like that, raised the risk of the condition by 10%, so not quite as much as the diet sodas.
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And drinking four ounces of pure unsweetened juice, orange juice, vegetable juice, whatever, was associated with an 8% lower risk of atrial fibrillation, according to this study.
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I remember when I was a kid, truly, I grew up on diet beverages.
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If we ran out of diet peach Snapple, I drank diet raspberry Snapple.
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If we ran out of diet raspberry Snapple, I drank Diet Coke.
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And I actually do remember I had like, I had a little bit of an irregular heartbeat for a little while.
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And so I'm not surprised at all, just anecdotally.
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But we should not be surprised today to read these things.
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Because outside the realm of soda or drugs or whatever you put into your body, conservatives ought to know, nothing in life is free.
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And I know President Covfefe loves the Diet Cokes and the man's apparently just absolutely unbreakable and indestructible.
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But for everyone else, it's an important political lesson, regardless of what you drink at lunchtime.
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If something seems too good to be true, it probably is too good to be true.
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And in this case, it's amazing we're finding out 30, 40, 50 years later that just pumping your body full of artificial chemicals that are intended to mimic sugar so that you don't become a little too chubby for having so many Coca-Colas,
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that that actually might have a deleterious effect on your health.
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Speaking of modern science, scientists might bring the woolly mammoth back to life.
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I've been hearing about this since I was a little kid, that actually in the tundra and in Siberia and in Canada, they've found these fairly well-preserved remains of woolly mammoths, not just fossils, but actually like flesh and meat.
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There was one scientist who, it was so well-preserved, not only have they taken DNA samples, one scientist actually ate a piece of the mammoth meat that is, you know, many thousands of years old.
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Scientists now believe that they are on the cusp of bringing something like the woolly mammoth back to life.
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Because you, the question is, can you really bring an extinct animal back to life?
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And from a biological standpoint, what they would have to do here is they would take these elephant stem cells.
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So they have a line of Asian elephant stem cells, and stem cells are very malleable, so they can be coaxed to transform into other types of cells.
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So they're going to take the Asian elephant stem cells, and they're going to coax them into behaving like the woolly mammoth cells.
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And then, because woolly mammoths and elephants are very similar, they're going to try to gestate the woolly mammoth in some kind of elephant womb.
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I'm getting the line a little bit wrong, but that's the question.
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Should we bring an extinct animal back to life?
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It's funny because these days, people have no problem on the left, and even in a lot of quarters of the right,
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they have no problem with tinkering around with the origins and destiny of human life.
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But they have some ethical qualms about doing it to hairy elephants.
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They say, oh, with human beings, yeah, we're going to create human beings in a test tube,
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So, you know, you want blonde hair and blue eyes and a certain sex,
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and they're going to be bigger, better, faster, stronger, and you're going to pay us $200,000,
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and we're just going to mix up all these little ingredients in a petri dish,
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and then we're going to freeze or kill most of the ones that we don't use.
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But some, we're going to create your designer baby for you.
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Not only are the Democrats for it, not only are they making this apparently a centerpiece of the 2024 campaign,
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even a lot of Republicans are saying they're for it.
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I care more about the human being, the little human baby, than I do about the hairy elephant.
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I think the human baby has more moral significance than the hairy Siberian elephant does.
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In principle, I have no problem with bringing this woolly mammoth back to life,
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because we are the stewards of creation, and that's the birds and the fish and the plants and the animals.
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We breed animals in a particular way to help us or even just for our amusement.
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I think of the bulldog, which is a kind of hereditary anomaly that we've created,
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a kind of ghastly monster who's really, really cute.
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But that's just a result of a particular kind of breeding that gave them the flat face
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and the curly little tail and the breathing problems, and they don't move that much.
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And ironically, the scientists say, yes, we definitely can, but I don't think we should.
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And I'm saying, no, we should, I mean, if we want to, if we do it within relatively moral parameters.
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But I don't think that we can, because the question becomes,
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as some scientists are even raising in the reporting here,
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how is the mammoth going to learn to be a mammoth?
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Who's going to teach the baby woolly mammoth how to be a woolly mammoth?
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No, the elephant's going to teach the woolly mammoth how to be an elephant.
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But a woolly mammoth is different than an elephant.
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The Asian elephant's not going to be able to live in Siberia.
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So how is the woolly mammoth going to learn the behaviors that are appropriate to a woolly mammoth?
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Elephants and mammoths, presumably, are relatively advanced as far as animals go.
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They're relatively intelligent as far as animals go.
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And I think this here is the major problem with bringing an extinct species back to life.
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The very notion that you can just bring an extinct species back to life assumes so many modern liberal premises.
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It assumes a kind of materialism that just whatever is needed to become a mammoth,
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to be, to act like a mammoth, and to thrive as a mammoth,
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None of this is learned from parents or grandparents, from the herd, from the pack, from the environment.
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That, to me, speaks to a very modern materialism.
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But even more than that, it's this individualism,
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which is the dominant spirit of our age on the left and on the right,
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which is this notion that, oh, I'm fundamentally an individual, and I will thrive most.
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The left says this when it comes to norms and customs and the moral order,
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and the right says this when it comes to obligations and when it comes to,
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And that's certainly true of herd animals, of course.
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Your identity derives from your relation to others.
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Ultimately, your identity derives from your relation to God.
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But even at a terrestrial level, your identity is going to come from your family,
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and the town you grew up in, and your community, and the others around you.
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The way that we speak, the way that we behave, even the things that we desire,
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and even the virtues that we practice, even the vices that we practice,
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whether we're talking about a big hairy elephant or we're talking about a human being,
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That thing is not going to be what it's supposed to be.
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Whatever they do, they'll do some science experiment probably,
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and who knows if the animal will even be able to live very long.
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But whatever that animal is, it's not really a woolly mammoth.
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And a human being who is totally alienated from society,
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whatever that thing is, probably not going to be a human being.
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It's not going to be recognizably human, at least.
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Speaking of extinction, there is a clip of Seth Rogen that is two or three years old at this point,
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but it's gone viral in recent days because it's really captured the zeitgeist.
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And it's this clip of Joe Rogan, I think he was on the Howard Stern show,
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bragging about how wonderful his life is because he does not have children.
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Like, I don't know anyone who gets as much happiness out of their kids as we get out of our non-kids.
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We're laying in bed on Saturday mornings, smoking weed, like, watching movies naked,
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just being like, if we had kids, we could not be f***ing doing this.
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Well, like, there is no one whose child is giving them as much joy as we are right now getting
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Okay, before I get into all the dumb things he just said, I owe an apology to Joe Rogan.
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I can't believe, because I don't think about Seth Rogen that much,
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and Joe Rogan is a much more important cultural figure.
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So Joe Rogan and Seth Rogen are very different people.
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They both apparently love marijuana, so I guess they do have that in common.
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But otherwise, Joe is basically a very sensible guy.
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And what he said here is certainly not sensible.
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I don't know anyone who gets as much happiness out of their kids as we get out of our non-kids.
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We're laying in bed on Saturday mornings, smoking weed,
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If we had kids, we could not be f***ing doing this.
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I agree that you should probably not puff the devil's lettuce when you have kids.
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I know people who do it and who have done it, and I, you know,
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it can be done, I suppose, probably not advisable.
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But you can watch movies naked, even if you procreate.
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You don't want to do it probably when they're awake.
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Probably wait until they go to bed or something like that.
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You can, even if you have children, you know, you can go into your bedroom or into the shower.
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It's not that you have to wear a uniform all the time.
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You can watch movies sometimes with your children.
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Or if you want to watch like an R-rated movie, you can watch that once your children go to bed or take a nap.
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And I know that potheads, who are totally not addicted in any way, it's not addictive at all, and it becomes their whole personality, but they're not addicted.
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I'm not proud of it, you know, but every now and again, back in my wayward youth.
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Kids actually are better than that sticky, icky, you know, cush, all right?
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So why, does he really believe this or is he just fooling himself?
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In the case of Seth Rogen, look, some people just can't have kids.
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Sometimes people then adopt, or sometimes people just get more involved with their godchildren or their community or whatever.
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You know, some people are called to religious life.
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But to choose a bong over a child speaks to either a profound degree of denial or just an amazing immaturity and ignorance.
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But I kind of get it, because you see it, especially with millennials and with even Zoomers.
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And the reason is people don't feel that they're mature enough to have kids.
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This is why this term adulting has become popular.
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Because people are just very afraid of growing up.
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And maybe it's because they weren't educated to grow up.
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Maybe it's because our public education system failed and because our parents were too soft and because our country is too decadent.
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I mean, you can come up with a million excuses.
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It's because it's not whatever propaganda we were fed as children.
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Actually, the children, they understand from the voice of babes.
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And I guess what we were told, the culture that we grew up in, seemed to be that this is as good as it gets.
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It doesn't even matter if you work that hard in college.
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And then life just gets harder and worse and worse.
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And life does get a little bit harder in the sense that you have more responsibilities, you know, fewer excuses.
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The best is yet to come, and babe, won't that be fine?
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That's one of my favorite lines from the American Songbook.
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It was my quote, my yearbook quote, both in high school and college.
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But you have to be able to kill the pleasures that you've got now.
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C.S. Lewis made this point, I forget in which book, when he said,
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when you're a little kid, you can't imagine there's anything as good as chocolate.
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And then if you hear about something called sex, you say,
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oh, there's no way sex is better than chocolate.
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Unless, sex must involve chocolate, if sex is better.
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And you say, well, no, it's not supposed to, at least.
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But you can't, when you're a kid, you just can't imagine that.
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Then you find out, oh, sex actually is better than chocolate.
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They say, oh, sex or whatever, just pleasure, smoking pot or whatever.
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But in order to discover that, you have to be willing to sacrifice.
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You have to be willing to risk the childish pleasures that you have now
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and put away the things of the child when you become a man.
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smoking pot, naked in bed, watching movies alone.
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As Ben Shapiro, Matt Walsh, Andrew Klavan, and Jeremy Boring,
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watch and react to the 2024 State of the Union live on Daily Wire+.
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But I will not be here because I will be in Washington, D.C.
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Congressman Andy Ogles invited me as his guest this year.
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So I will be in the room with the president and the congressmen
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and the senators and the Supreme Court and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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And you can try to pick me out on the TV somewhere.
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But I will try to call in before and afterward.
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So we'll break down the State of the Union as it happens.
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Watch it tonight at 8.30 p.m. Eastern on the Daily Wire app and dailywire.com.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Dr. Pepper Zero,
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There are only a couple of words that I think give away my place of origin.
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I, you know, I trained in acting conservatories.
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I took, I studied the American standard accent.
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I feel, I don't talk like Fran Drescher from The Nanny, okay?
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There are two words that I can't extirpate in my pronunciation.
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Um, because, because, I don't know, because, I said because, because the world is round.
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Speaking of excessive drug use, a German man has received 217 shots of the COVID vaccines.
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According to this article, he's done it for personal reasons, whatever that means.
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Uh, he's, he's had 217 of these and apparently has no side effects.
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Now, I think we have a, uh, picture of the man.
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We, so he's, if you're just listening to the show right now, he seems to, I don't know,
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it looks like he's got some side effects to me, kind of like the drooling plasma coming
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out of his neck and the, uh, you know, uh, recessed eye sockets that are now just filled
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with goo and the shrieking kind of nightmarish.
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Now, I think that's, I haven't, I haven't verified that that is a picture of the German
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man, uh, but in any case, I would be skeptical of 217 of these, uh, vaccines.
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He's a 62 year old from Magdeburg, Germany, uh, had no signs of ever being infected with
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Isn't that, what do you mean the virus that, I'm just reading the report here.
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Uh, had not reported, I guess the flu is probably what it is, had not reported any vaccine related
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to side effects according to the University of Elangan-Nuremberg.
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Now, there's only official confirmation for 134 of these vaccines.
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So, the other, you know, a little under 100, uh, unconfirmed, uh, those are eight different
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And they say, the observation that no noticeable side effects were triggered in spite of this
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extraordinary hyper-vaccination indicates that the drugs have a good degree of tolerability.
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My take on this snooze article, that's very convenient.
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Because the subheader is, people in the UK will have received a maximum of seven jabs.
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Oh no, look, this guy had a bazillion jabs and he's totally fine.
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But he's had a bazillion and he's totally fine.
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I don't know, because like some women in America had one jab and then they died of blood clots.
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And a lot of young people had one or two jabs and then they died either of heart problems
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or just had nerve damage or myocarditis or pericarditis.
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Seems like a little bit of a, this seems a little bit more like a PR operation than a
00:42:00.960
Speaking of the Germans, those krauts, is a very famous image from World War II.
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It's the soldiers raising the flag on Iwo Jima, maybe is the most, but actually probably even
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And it's that sailor who's just in the middle of Times Square and he grabs that nurse and
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he pulls her back in his arms and gives her a big, big kiss.
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And it's a lovely photo, really, you know, charming, truly one of the most famous in American
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And the liberals running the Veterans Affairs Department want to shut it down.
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So, there was a memorandum that went out from the VA.
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This is from the Assistant Undersecretary for Health Operations, subject removal and replacement
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This memorandum requests the removal of the VJ Day in Times Square photograph from all
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Veterans Health Administration facilities in alignment with the Department of Veterans
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Affairs' commitment to maintaining a safe, respectful, and trauma-informed environment.
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This action is promoted by the recognition that the photograph, which depicts a non-consensual
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act, is inconsistent with the VA's no-tolerance policy towards sexual harassment and assault
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as outlined in VA handbook, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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There was some pushback to the removal of the photograph, not just from veterans who
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were a little tougher than all that, but also from the granddaughter of the woman in
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So this woman, this young woman says, my grandmother, the woman who was in the picture, who was an
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Austrian Jew who was a refugee, she fled Europe and she came here to America, said, my grandmother
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She was always very proud of the image and she thought it was two young people celebrating
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My grandma signed images of the photo up until she died.
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She was a refugee from Austria and so the end of the war marked more to her than for
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They tried to reframe historical events and today's values.
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I have a picture in my house that my grandma signed and even George Mendonca signed.
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So George Mendonca seems to be the likeliest claimant to be the guy.
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In the picture, both of their faces are a little obscured, but the woman almost certainly, I think
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basically that's indisputed that it was this woman and the guy, it's most likely is this
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guy, George Mendonca, and they both signed the picture.
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My grandma stayed in contact with George and she did parades on VJ day with him.
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She never said it was anything she felt was uncomfortable.
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And then this young woman, this was the key, this young woman, the granddaughter of the woman
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in the picture goes on and describes a class she had in college.
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Not a normal class, like a history class or a philosophy class or math class.
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It says, at college, I had a women's and gender studies teacher who showed that image
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I put my hand up and said, that's actually my grandma.
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I can understand the argument, but for my grandmother, it represented the end of the
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The best part of all of this, look, I'm happy to say the actual secretary of the VA came
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out and he said, no, we're not getting rid of the image.
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It's the most famous military image probably in American history.
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We're not getting rid of it because of some woke, ridiculous under secretary of the VA.
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But the most interesting part is what that college professor said to the granddaughter.
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When the granddaughter says, no, no, no, you have a narrative.
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But I actually know the woman in the picture and she says it wasn't.
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And the college professor says, yeah, your grandma's wrong.
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Who knows what happened to your grandmother better?
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This is the Marxist concept which the feminists adopted of false consciousness.
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The notion that you don't know your own oppression.
00:46:18.020
You might have heard this statistic on college campuses.
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They say one in four or one in five women at college will be raped during their time in
00:46:25.580
college, which is just obviously a false statistic because if it were true, no father who did
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not hate his daughter would ever send his daughter to college.
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Furthermore, if that statistic were true, no woman would ever go to college in the United
00:46:40.660
If there were a one in four chance that you would be raped at a place, you just wouldn't
00:46:47.360
That statistic would mean that Harvard Yard was more dangerous for women than the back alleys
00:46:59.120
They get this number from a few different surveys, but they all kind of have the same
00:47:03.320
And it goes all the way back to a Ms. Magazine survey back in the 1970s from the feminists,
00:47:07.720
which asked women, okay, did this happen to you?
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And the number of women who said they were raped was relatively low.
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And don't forget, there's even a response bias here.
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You are more likely to respond if this has happened to you than if it hasn't.
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But they go out and they say, you know, a number of women answer, yes, I did.
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And then the people creating the survey go back and they add a number of people who said
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They will add that to the number of people who were raped because they said, these women
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Given their answers to the other questions, you know, I don't know, did a man ever kiss you
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Oh, actually, that qualifies as a sexual assault.
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You don't, you might not think it, you might not know it, but it's because you're laboring
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The New York radical women's groups in not only New York, but throughout the country would
00:48:03.880
They'd bring them together for wine and cheese soirees, W-H-I-N-E.
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And the women would go in happy and they'd leave miserable.
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And then come out and so they'd say, well, I had no idea how oppressed I am.
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That's a very terrible, if only you knew, lady, how terrible this very happy moment in