Ep. 1448 - Willie Nelson Releases Lib Triggering Song
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Summary
Country music legend Willie Nelson has a new song out. And while other pop stars promote abortion like Olivia Rodrigo or devil worship like Lil Nas X, Willie is focusing on a different issue, the southern border. I work on the border. And it s working on me. I lie awake at night. Knowing what I know. There s a price on the head of every border patrol where the smugglers do business. That s where I make a stand. I know this old desert like the back of my head. It s great.
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Country music legend Willie Nelson has a new song out.
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And while other pop stars promote abortion like Olivia Rodrigo or devil worship like Lil Nas X,
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Willie is focusing on a different issue, the southern border.
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Willie Nelson has supported the most left-wing candidates in the country for decades.
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He's smoked more Haitian oregano than Snoop Dogg.
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He caters to pot-smoking country music listeners.
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He is what Woody Harrelson has called a redneck hippie.
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This country seems so divided, beautiful, ugly, black, white, blue, red.
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You know, the red in me thinks you should be allowed to own guns.
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And he's saying, look, I'm not just a total lib.
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And this redneck hippie thing represents an important constituency.
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But unlike all the other Hollywood stars, they understand the rest of the country.
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They don't hold the rest of the country in contempt.
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I don't know what exactly motivated Willie Nelson to release a song in an election year
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Maybe it's a patriotic concern about the invasion across our southern border.
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the candidate that Willie Nelson endorsed in 2020,
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is going to lose if he doesn't address his biggest political liability.
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Either way, this song, even if nobody listens to it,
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this song is bad news for Joe Biden and very good news for Donald Trump and the rest of us.
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Speaking of good news for Donald Trump, the judge in the Fulton County case, well,
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I should be clearer than that because there are multiple Fulton County cases.
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There is the case brought by Fulton County against Donald Trump.
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The Rico case accusing Trump of being a gangster, a mob boss, because while he was president of the
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United States, he made a phone call to the secretary of state of Georgia to just inquire
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into the obvious fraud that was going on in the 2020 election.
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And because of that, because President Trump raised questions about how the election has
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been conducted, as virtually every prominent Democrat has in all the elections that have
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been even remotely close or that they've even outright lost for the last, I don't know,
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Because of that, they're now prosecuting Donald Trump.
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But there's another Fulton County case because the DA who brought that case and the prosecutor
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who was prosecuting that case appear to have been shacking up, you know, getting doing some
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frisky things that husband and wife are supposed to do.
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And it looks as though the DA prosecuting Trump unjustly enriched herself by overpaying her
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And then he was buying her all sorts of nice fancy dinners and trips and all the like.
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So then she gets prosecuted or she she's at least brought up and questioned by a judge for
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this. And the judge has ruled that she can stay on the case so long as she fires her boyfriend.
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So her boyfriend can no longer actually be the prosecutor prosecuting Trump, but she gets to be
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the DA and the prosecution of Trump can continue.
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This is from Fulton County Superior Court Judge Scott McAfee.
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I guess it's a it's a it's a as big a win for Fannie Willis and the Democrats going after Trump as
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as I can imagine. I mean, there was no world in which they said, oh, yeah, enjoy your next
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vacation to the Caribbean where you're you're getting kickbacks of taxpayer dollars that you're
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paying your boyfriend to go after the president in an unprecedented kind of prosecution that that
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is upending our political order. Yeah, I hope you try to try the conch fritters.
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They're really nice in St. Martin or wherever you're going to go.
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So that was never going to happen. So this was the biggest win for her.
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The prosecution against Trump continues. Her boyfriend's got to step back a little bit.
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He's going to is going to now, you know, have to go enjoy his Caribbean dinners in private
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and she gets to keep going after him. The judge did rebuke Fannie Willis, however,
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for her, quote, tremendous lapse in judgment. He also questioned her honesty about the timing of
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the relationship beginning between her and this prosecutor. Seems pretty clear to me that the two
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of them are lying. If you watched any of the testimony, it's pretty clear. And their insistence that
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their relationship only began after he was hired was contradicted by close friends. And it just
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stinks to high heaven. They provided no evidence that their that their relationship began when
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they say it did. McAfee called it, quote, concerning there were no documents to corroborate
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Willis's claim that she paid her boyfriend back. This was the the the whole corruption question here
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hinged on. She hires this guy who's totally unqualified to prosecute Trump. She overpays him.
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She pays him a ton of money. And then all of a sudden he starts taking her on fancy trips.
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Now, she says, oh, I paid him back. So the judge says, all right, well, show me the proof that you
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paid him back. There must be a check. There must be a credit card receipt. There must be this. She
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must be that. And the best she could come up with was she paid for a roundtrip airplane ticket from,
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I think it from Atlanta, get Atlanta to it was a very short. It was like an hour flight or something.
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Meanwhile, he's paying for all these dinners, all these expensive vacations. And she says,
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no, I paid him back, but it was in cash. So the judge says, well, where'd you get all that cash?
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He goes, oh, I'm always storing cash all around my house. I've had I've been I've been keeping cash
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in my house since I took it out of the campaign fund for my first campaign, which is a crime.
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So she she inadvertently admitted to embezzling campaign funds. They even go after her for that.
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She looks as crooked as can possibly be. And the judge admits here. He's like the fact that you
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don't have any receipts, you don't have any evidence for paying him back is troubling.
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But never mind, I'll let you keep prosecuting this. No big deal.
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Because it, quote, withstood direct contradiction and was corroborated by some other evidence,
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namely this one really cheap flight that she bought in 2022. Other than that,
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it looks ridiculous. But but the judge says the claim, quote, was not so incredible as to be
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inherently unbelievable. And so because he didn't have them on videotape the whole time,
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you know, doing all the things they said they didn't do, she gets to keep keep prosecuting.
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Now, I mentioned at the top of this that this is maybe good news for Trump. How is this good news
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for Trump? The prosecution continues. This woman gets a tiny little slap on the wrist. Not even that
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the unqualified prosecutors out, but they'll just get another one. The reason I think this could be good
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news for Trump is the reason that Jeffrey Toobin came up with on CNN. You remember Jeffrey Toobin?
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He's a liberal CNN analyst who had to step away for a while because of some personal scandals. But
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now he's back. He's no fan of Trump, certainly. He's no conservative Republican. But he comes back
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and he says this ruling from the judge is actually probably pretty good news for Trump
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because it just irreparably damages the reputation of the prosecution.
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Today was a very good day for Donald Trump. This case is going nowhere, even if in the extremely
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unlikely event that this somehow staggers to trial in August or in the fall. Think about this.
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There's another racketeering case in Georgia where jury selection, not the trial,
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jury selection has taken a year. This case is never going to trial before the election.
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You know, it's an embarrassment, all of this. I mean, Fannie Willis has hung on, but this case
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is going nowhere very quickly. And as far as I can tell, this trial will be conducted during the
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presidency of Malia Obama. I mean, it is so far behind. So because Gwen was saying she thinks that
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the, you know, the, it was an anomaly, the, the Rico case involving young thug that lasted for 10
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months. Right. I mean, okay. You know, jury selection will take somewhere between a month
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and a year. I mean, there are lots of legal motions that are still to be decided in this case,
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just as there are in, in the other cases that Trump is facing.
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So Fannie Willis has managed to cling on. This has already weakened a very weak type of prosecution.
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And in this other example of this type of prosecution, the Rico case, it took 10 months.
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It took a year. Well, the Democrats don't have that kind of time. They've got what,
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eight months till the election. So on the current timetable, there's no way that this case goes
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anywhere in any meaningful period of time. And Toobin thinks it's not going to go anywhere ever.
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He says it'll be the presidency of Malia Obama before we end up seeing, seeing anything.
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Uh, totally right. Totally right. And even if we hadn't seen the scandal with the prosecutor and
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the DA, this bizarre, tawdry sex scandal that put them both on the stand that exposed them for,
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for the, for the gangsters that they are. Ironically, they're going after Trump with,
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with a legal provision meant to target the mob. And they are behaving like the mob,
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keeping cash all over their house. I'm waiting for them to pull a gun out of their ankle.
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But even, even if the case had not been so weakened in that way, it already
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for more. President Trump, hot on the heels of this judgment, which at least on the surface
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looks kind of bad for him, doesn't miss a beat, just goes full bore after Fannie Willis.
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All these local cases like Fannie, Fannie. It's spelled Fannie. It's spelled Fannie like your ass,
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right Fannie. But when she became DA, she decided to add a little French, a little fancy, Fannie.
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Fannie and, you know, Fannie and Mr. and Mrs. Wade, which his wife did not appreciate. His wife didn't
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appreciate. Can you imagine these two people trying to take down a very popular, I'm a very popular
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president. I mean, again, I got more votes than any sitting president in history. We have these two
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lowlifes trying to take down a president of the United States. But you know, equally badly, they went
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after 26 people. They wanted to make it 48 people. They had some senators that these guys know very well
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who were indicted, who were ready to be indicted, and somebody stopped it. And they wanted to find
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out what the hell is going on in Georgia. What's going on with the elections? And it's so crazy.
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The man, I've said it before, he's anti-fragile. This is a term, I've applied this term to Trump since
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probably 2016. It's a term that's the subject of a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. And it describes
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things that are pretty sturdy. You know, let's say there's sturdy things. A sturdy thing falls off a
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table, and it gets a little bit weakened. But it's still strong enough. Okay, it's fine. We'd call that
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sturdy. We'd call it pretty well-built, pretty strong. Then there are things that are fragile.
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In fragile things, they fall off a table, they shatter. They just can't withstand a lot of
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pressure. We think of those as the two categories. There's a third category, though, which Taleb
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talks about, which are things that are anti-fragile. Things that seem to get tougher the more you damage
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them, the more you pummel them, the more you attempt to injure them, the stronger the things get.
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That appears to be the case with Trump. I'm not just saying this to make lemonade out of lemons or
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anything like that. I'm not just saying because I like the guy. The man is being indicted
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four different ways. He potentially faces something like 700 years in prison. He obviously doesn't
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really matter. In any case, he's facing the rest of his life in prison. Corrupt prosecutors are
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trying to take all of his stuff. They're coming up with ridiculous evaluations for the worth of some
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of his properties. I'm going to one of his properties tomorrow, Mar-a-Lago, for an event for a group called
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Catholics for Catholics. Mar-a-Lago, they're saying, is worth $17 million. Probably one little tiny
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piece of that property is worth $17 million without any of the business on top of it, without any of
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the memberships, without even factoring in that it goes from ocean to ocean. It goes from water to
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water on Palm Beach, which is one of the most valuable pieces of property in the United States.
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It's just absurd. But they're just doing it to try to take all of his money away. And still,
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this guy seems to get more excited every time they go after him. Most politicians, in his case,
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when they first start going after him, maybe he'd put on some bluster. And then as they continue to
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go after him, they threaten him with jail time. They threaten to take all his money. They threaten
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to banish him to St. Helena. Most politicians would get defensive. They'd say, hey, hey, hey,
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whoa, come on. Hey, this isn't fair. Let's be reasonable here. Okay, I admit, maybe. But with
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this guy, every time they announce a new prosecution, he goes out and gives an even
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more boisterous press conference. He seems to get excited by it. He seems to thrive on this.
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And this isn't anything new in Trump's character. This is what we've seen for 20 years now,
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or more than 20 years. I mean, the guy's been a tabloid star since the 80s.
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And he was a network TV star in the early to mid-2000s. And then he would get into these
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these matches. I don't want to use the vulgar term for it, but he would get into these feuds
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with Hollywood stars. And he'd seem to relish it. You know, Rosie O'Donnell criticizes him on TV.
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And then Trump launches a years-long jihad against Rosie O'Donnell that he kept up during the 2016
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presidential race. He just thrives on this kind of thing. And so now, you know, there's another
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judgment that seems to hurt him, even though politically it will probably help him. And he
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says, oh, let's go. I'm going to make fun of Fannie Willis's name. I'm going to compare it to a vulgar
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word. I'm going to—and this is the key. The man's real political talent is he can engage
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people who are otherwise not particularly interested in politics in relatively complex
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political matters. And that skill should not be undervalued. He is a showman. He is the best
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showman in America. He's the funniest comedian in America. He's the biggest, best TV star in America.
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He was the star of the top-rated show on network television for 15 years, okay?
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There are objective measures to say this guy is very good at what he does. He's very good at
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capturing attention, keeping people tuned in. What we're talking about here in Fulton County
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is a complex, dry, and boring case involving a RICO statute, a racketeering law. It's my job to read
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about this thing. And even I kind of get lost in the weeds on what exactly they're trying to argue
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here. But Trump can convey this to ordinary voters who are going about their lives, have their jobs,
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have their families, do not for a living, you know, read all of these kinds of court briefings and
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news reports, and he can connect it for them. He can weave this into a narrative that is compelling
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for the ordinary person. Most politicians, virtually no politicians can do that. That's a very impressive
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political skill. This is why Trump's coalition requires getting voters who are unlikely to be
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that engaged to come out and vote. That's one of the ways he was able to win in 2016. That's why
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the Democrats had to change all the voting rules in 2020 and use COVID as an excuse to do it.
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That's how the man is still capturing the attention of voters, even as the elite political class
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was praying that virtually 97% of the elite political class was praying that some non-Trump
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candidate would be the nominee in 2020. But it was never going to happen. And the reason they didn't
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see it is because there is a major chasm between the Trump base and Americans who do not regularly
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travel to the Beltway and the elite political class. Trump gets it. And if anyone wants to challenge
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the guy and take the mantle from him for the Republican Party, they're going to need to try to get on
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Preborn.com slash Knowles. Enough of Fannie Willis. We are going to stick to the topic of
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liberal black women. Kamala Harris is a real problem for the Democrat party. Don't take my
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word for it. You can read about it in the Washington Post. Washington Post, perhaps the
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house organ of the liberal establishment, just ran an editorial. This was written by Kathleen Parker,
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called on VP Kamala Harris to step aside for the country's sake.
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The Kamala conundrum comes down to this, she writes. She was picked because she was black and
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female, a combo tantamount to job security. Now that she's become a burden to the Democratic ticket,
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Biden can't fire her. He can't risk alienating his base, full stop. Totally true. I totally agree
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with this Washington Post writer. I don't say that very often, but I say it there.
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Quote, the seriousness of this situation can't be overstated. Biden's diminishing faculties,
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notwithstanding his relatively successful State of the Union address, and his increasing physical
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frailty are concerning. Every honest person knows he's not in top form. A recent New York Times poll
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found that 73% of registered voters believe Biden is too old to be the nation's top executive.
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This includes 61% of those who voted for him in 2020.
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That is so totally true, and I'm enjoying Schadenfreude. I just love it. I loved every word that I read
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of this Washington Post piece, because she's right. And this is a tragedy for the Democrats,
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a tragedy in the truest sense of the term. The potential downfall here is not coming from some
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external factor. It's not coming from some uncontrollable environmental event. The potential
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downfall for the Democrats here, for Joe Biden and for that whole party, is coming from one of their own
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character flaws, one of their own mistakes that they couldn't overcome, and so it just causes
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their downfall. This is the consequence, not just of Joe Biden's cynical decision to pick a black
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woman and to exclude any other candidate from the race. But he said, I need to pick a Democrat,
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prominent black woman. There were three people who could have filled that role,
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who were actually even somewhat plausibly able to serve as the running mate. That was Susan Rice.
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She was out, though, because she's not all that charismatic. She's fairly competent, it seems,
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but she was not that charismatic on the campaign trail, and she was Obama's fall man for Benghazi.
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So Obama destroyed her political career. She's out. The other one was Karen Bass. She is an actual
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communist. She was a member of communist organizations and a Looney Tunes Congress lady
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from California at the time. That was not going to fly. So the only other option was Kamala Harris.
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She was just the last woman standing, and Biden picked her, even though he probably doesn't like
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her very much because her campaign was focused on how he's a terrible racist. So he picks her
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cynically because she's a black woman and he's a white man. But it's so much worse than that for
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the Democrats. This is so far beyond Joe Biden. This is a consequence of the Democrats' anti-white,
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anti-male bigotry. That's it. The Democrat Party has decided to adopt a form of identity politics
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that maligns white men in particular, also Christians, also people who are in any way traditional,
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people who have ordinary, traditional, sexual, and romantic family behaviors, and those guys are out.
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But especially white people and men. Now they got to deal with that because they have a pretty good
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candidate in the wings. That would be Gavin Newsom, but he's a white man. Seems to be straight. He
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seems to be all the things that Democrats hate, so they can't pick him. And then they're all floating
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this idea of Michelle Obama. Michelle Obama doesn't want to be president. She was the only person,
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I guess, who could take over for Kamala Harris. Not going to happen. Who's left? You're going to
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pick Susan Rice? You're going to pick Karen Bass? I don't think so. You're done. You're done. Sorry,
00:27:11.160
guys. You made your bed. Now lie in it. I'm not saying Biden can't win. He can win.
00:27:17.220
The liberals control the media. They could rig the election again. It would be a little harder
00:27:21.840
because they don't have the excuse of a global pandemic. I'm not saying Biden can't win.
00:27:26.840
Things could turn around for Biden. But as of now, the Democrats seem quite worried he's going to
00:27:31.820
lose. And if he does, it will be because of their own flaws. Now, speaking of racial ideology, Advil
00:27:39.260
has just decided that pain is racist. I should not have to beg my doctor to
00:27:56.840
Advil hosted a roundtable. Welcome to Believe My Pain, a discussion about systemic pain bias in
00:28:07.280
healthcare. I want to thank all of you and all of you for joining me today as we talk about this
00:28:12.200
very important issue. I also want to thank the Pain Equity Project developed by Advil in partnership
00:28:18.000
with the Morehouse School of Medicine and Black Health for inviting us to be a part of their commitment
00:28:22.760
to addressing pain bias in black communities. Pain bias. We need pain equity. If that doesn't sum up
00:28:29.920
this whole ideology, I don't know what does. We need pain. We need everyone to feel pain.
00:28:34.460
We need pain equity. You whites aren't feeling enough pain and you're going to feel more pain.
00:28:39.980
We're going to make sure of it. We're Advil. We used to be a pain reliever. Now we're a pain
00:28:43.920
multiplier for white people. We need pain equity. I guess they could mean that no one's going to have
00:28:50.900
any pain anymore. I don't know how they're going to achieve that. There's not enough Advil in the
00:28:54.640
world because this is a fallen world. So where does this crazy ideology come from? Comes from
00:29:01.240
liberal utopia, liberal utopianism. The utopia, frankly, the liberal part, both that view, which is so
00:29:14.060
prominent today, fundamentally denies original sin. I believe in original sin. Christians believe in
00:29:25.700
original sin. Even non-Christians broadly agree. Jews certainly believe in something akin to original
00:29:34.520
sin. It's right there in the very first book of the Bible. Muslims do. Even sensible pagans do.
00:29:44.060
The reason to believe in original sin is not because of some mystical intuition or strictly
00:29:50.180
because of revelation. It's because we all have eyes and experience the world. And we recognize
00:29:54.800
that the world is broken. There's just something fundamentally broken. And we all sin and bad
00:30:00.740
things happen to good people. And there's just something broken about this world. Suffering is a part
00:30:05.860
of this world. What the liberals say is, no, we're not fundamentally broken.
00:30:12.660
Christian, Christians recognizing the problem of original sin, see that we can't actually ever save
00:30:19.820
ourselves. We require God's grace and we cooperate with God's grace. It's not like we don't have any
00:30:25.180
role in it. It's not as though we don't have any free will, but we require God's grace. We're not going
00:30:30.080
to save ourselves. The liberals, the liberal utopians, they say, no, we can save ourselves. First of all,
00:30:37.360
we've got to get rid of all that old fuddy-duddy religion that's inhibiting progress. And then what
00:30:42.280
we need to do is just be really, really rational. And we're just going to construct a proper society
00:30:49.020
that eliminates all the causes of the pain, which are systemic injustice. If we were just a little
00:30:55.040
more rational, if we were just a little bit more technocratic, then we would eliminate all that
00:31:00.300
systemic structural injustice. And then we wouldn't have any pain and then we'd all be happy. And you
00:31:06.980
hear this with the techno-utopians. They'll say, then we're going to cure death. Then we're going to
00:31:11.020
upload our brains to the cloud. Then we're going to live forever, man. And it's all going to be really
00:31:15.360
groovy, right? It's not going to happen. And their attempts to do so are probably only going to cause
00:31:20.200
more pain. But that's the fundamental distinction. The Christians and the normal people understand that
00:31:26.040
there is such a thing as original sin because it's a fallen world. And the liberal utopians say,
00:31:29.680
not necessarily, you know, for all of human history, everywhere in the world, we've been
00:31:33.680
trying to fix this problem. But we're very close to the solution. Just give us a little more time
00:31:39.040
and money. Okay. That's one problem. A derivative of that problem is the ideology of egalitarianism.
00:31:46.980
The notion that we're all just the same. We're all just exactly the same. There's really no
00:31:51.360
distinction between any of us. Now, of course, there are distinctions between people. There's
00:31:57.160
distinctions between men and women. There's distinctions between the races. There's
00:32:00.920
distinctions between cultures. There's distinctions between geographies. There's distinctions between
00:32:05.460
classes. There's distinctions between all sorts of distinctions between ages. The liberals want to
00:32:11.120
deny all of that. But the consequence of that is if you start with the premise that we're all pretty
00:32:19.220
much exactly the same, then when disparities of outcome present themselves inevitably, the only
00:32:27.660
cause of that, if there's no original sin, if it's not a fallen world, if there are no distinctions and
00:32:33.600
natural inequalities between people, then the only cause of that can be some systemic structural
00:32:40.220
injustice, systemic racism, systemic sexism, systemic whateverism. That can be the only answer.
00:32:47.360
Black men run faster than white men, generally. That's just a general rule that has always been
00:32:56.780
true and will always be true. White men swim faster than black men. That's another one. That's just
00:33:06.360
true. It's just always been true. It always will be true. Men run faster than women. You see that issue
00:33:13.700
coming to a head in the transgender debate. Why is it though? Why is it that black guys run faster
00:33:18.840
than white guys and white guys swim faster than black guys? There's a study. I googled it. I said,
00:33:23.580
what's the explanation for this? There's a study from 2010. I'm sure there have been many other
00:33:26.900
studies. This is from the International Journal of Design and Nature and Ecodynamics. Here's what they
00:33:31.600
say, just in the abstract. Here we explain a much avoided phenomenon in the evolution of speed
00:33:37.500
sports for men and women. The world records in running tend to be set by black athletes and in
00:33:41.620
swimming by white athletes. We show that this phenomenon is predictable from physics. Locomotion
00:33:45.900
is a falling forward cycle in which body mass falls forward and then rises again. Mass that falls from
00:33:51.240
a higher altitude falls faster, down and forward. In running, the altitude L1 is set by the position
00:33:56.780
of the center of mass above the ground. In swimming, the altitude is set by the upper body rising above
00:34:02.560
the water, and it is proportional to HL1, where H is the height of the athlete. Stick with me.
00:34:08.180
They're using variables and certain jargon. The anthropometric literature shows that the center
00:34:14.600
of mass in blacks is 3% higher above the ground than in whites. This means that blacks hold a 1.5%
00:34:22.200
speed advantage in running, and whites hold a 1.5% speed advantage in swimming. Among athletes of the
00:34:28.900
same height, Asians are even more favored than whites in swimming, but they are not setting records because
00:34:34.200
they are not as tall. Boom. That's it. Simple enough. You don't really need a scientific study
00:34:38.900
to tell you that. You already kind of know that from common sense if you have eyes and any experience
00:34:43.080
of the world, but that's that. So what? What are you going to do about that? Are Asians going to get
00:34:50.720
taller? Are black people and white people going to suddenly change their center of mass? No,
00:34:58.560
it's not going to happen. That's just a natural inequality. So if we can accept those kinds of
00:35:05.100
natural inequalities, and we do our best to be as just to everyone as we possibly can,
00:35:09.840
but we just recognize that people are kind of different. Men and women are different.
00:35:13.120
People from different cultures and geographies are different. Yeah, okay, we do that. We'll probably
00:35:17.460
have a great time and all flourish. But if we deny that, you're going to just keep banging your head
00:35:25.100
against a wall because the further your ideology strays from reality, the more frustrated and angry
00:35:31.120
and revolutionary and resentful you're going to get. And all of a sudden, you're going to say that
00:35:35.660
pain is racist. Pain, a fact of a fallen world experienced by everyone, you're going to say, no,
00:35:42.760
I deserve to live without any pain ever. And I'm sure all of the disfavored groups, all my perceived
00:35:48.940
enemies, they don't have any pain. I'm the only one with pain and my pain is the only pain
00:35:52.380
that matters. And that kind of resentful ideology is fueling our political system today,
00:35:59.220
and it will not end very well. And we're going to need more than a couple of Advil to fix that
00:36:04.160
problem. Today, as many of you have very delightfully tweeted at me and messaged me,
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be 21 years old or older. Some exclusions apply. My favorite comment yesterday, or on Friday,
00:38:14.480
I suppose, is from Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music. I'm telling you, I don't look at the names
00:38:18.960
in the comment. I just look at the comment. But the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music keeps popping up
00:38:23.440
as one of my favorites, who writes, for Kamala Harris to care about the southern border,
00:38:28.840
there has to be a Planned Parenthood built over there. That explains it. That explains how we're
00:38:34.720
going to be able to get the vice president to visit the southern border. We're going to have to
00:38:39.920
stop pointing out that illegal aliens are killing American citizens. And we can just suggest to her
00:38:46.100
that actually a lot of American citizens are killing American citizens, their own children down
00:38:50.060
there. So you're more than welcome to go. And then she would run. She would run down there like
00:38:54.480
the Roadrunner. Speaking of illegal aliens, Tyson Foods is reportedly hiring lots of illegal aliens in
00:39:04.420
New York City. Tyson already employs about 42,000 immigrants and refugees. Now, it's unclear,
00:39:12.920
naturally, how many of those people are illegal aliens. Tyson doesn't want to release those numbers
00:39:18.520
in its very nature. It's an opaque question. But we're talking 42,000 immigrants and refugees,
00:39:26.280
including, one would imagine, a lot of illegal aliens. Garrett Dolan, who's an HR leader at Tyson,
00:39:35.300
just told Bloomberg, we would like to employ another 42,000 if we could find them.
00:39:40.540
You want another? Let's just say for a moment that immigrants and refugees is a euphemism for
00:39:47.260
illegal aliens. I'm not saying it is, but if I were a gambler man, I'd put my money on it.
00:39:52.340
You've already got 42,000 of these people, most of whom shouldn't be in the country,
00:39:56.700
working for you. And you say, yeah, I wish we could violate the law even more.
00:40:00.140
Oh boy, you bet. Or I wish we could help others to violate the law even more, even if we're not
00:40:06.120
legally liable. Absolutely. Why? Why is that? The HR manager tells us. He says, they're very,
00:40:15.380
very loyal. They've been uprooted, and what they want is stability. What they want is a sense of
00:40:20.140
belonging. I think he just said the quiet part out loud. This is why big business loves illegal
00:40:27.060
immigration. Big business loves illegal immigration because illegal aliens are easy to exploit.
00:40:32.620
They don't have very much. They're very grateful for any job that you will give them. They're willing
00:40:39.560
to accept low wages. They're willing to accept bad working conditions. They're willing to accept
00:40:45.200
really long hours. They're willing to accept not having any legal protections because they're not
00:40:50.400
in this country legally. They're willing to accept all sorts of things. One, out of a sincere gratitude
00:40:57.020
that they have something here, economic opportunity, that they didn't have back in Honduras or wherever
00:41:01.600
they came from. But that's just the carrot. There's also the stick part. The reason that
00:41:06.220
illegal aliens are very easy to exploit by big business is that if they ever step out of line,
00:41:12.240
it's going to be one phone call to ICE, and those guys are going to be on a plane tomorrow.
00:41:16.300
It's not that immigration enforcement in the United States can't deport people.
00:41:19.700
It certainly can deport people. It just doesn't because powerful, entrenched interests in the
00:41:25.240
government and in big business don't want them to. The Democrats in the government don't want them
00:41:30.060
to because they view the illegal aliens as a future voting base that will give them a permanent
00:41:34.660
electoral majority. But big business, many of whom would call themselves Republicans,
00:41:39.160
they're sort of just chamber of commerce Republicans, they like illegal immigration because they get a
00:41:44.100
cheap, easily exploitable labor market. And so the crisis goes on. No matter which president we elect,
00:41:50.820
we get more and more mass migration. And it causes major social problems.
00:41:55.600
It kills people like Lake and Riley in Georgia and many others. It encourages exploitation,
00:42:04.100
especially sexual exploitation. There was a survey came out from Fusion and Amnesty International
00:42:09.300
years ago at this point. So long before we had a mass migration crisis at this level.
00:42:14.700
And it suggested that something like 60 to 80 percent of women and girls who cross the southern
00:42:18.960
border illegally are raped or otherwise sexually assaulted on the journey. Because the cartels,
00:42:23.560
some of the worst people on the face of the earth control the entirety of the border.
00:42:27.960
So you've got this horrific cruelty going on. But it's being encouraged by the biggest,
00:42:35.420
most powerful interests in the country. And they smile about it. The HR leader at Tyson,
00:42:39.860
he says, oh, it's great. These guys are so loyal. Yeah, it's fabulous. We get them all in a cabin on our
00:42:46.360
plantation, sorry, I mean our factory. And we give them a little bit of food and stuff,
00:42:50.260
a little bit of clothing and they never leave. It's amazing because they don't have anything
00:42:56.160
and we threaten them. So it's really great. You know, they're really loyal. I wish we could
00:43:00.200
hire a bunch more of them. Can we import some more slaves? Yeah. Why didn't anyone think of this
00:43:04.500
before? It's amazing. You know, you don't have to pay these guys very much and they're afraid of
00:43:08.460
you. Yeah. They don't have any rights or anything. Wow. What a great idea. We need to enshrine this
00:43:15.120
into law. Oh, wait, we can't. Because if it were illegal and we couldn't exploit them. Okay.
00:43:19.460
Yeah. Anyway, though, keep them coming, baby. Biden, come on, send us some more.
00:43:24.800
Not noble, not legal, not conducive to the flourishing of the United States.
00:43:31.820
Speaking of liberal policy priorities, really disturbing story out of Politico. That's true
00:43:38.520
most days, but this one's especially disturbing. A apparently well-known Democrat political
00:43:45.800
consultant is going to die on Thursday. How do I know that? Do I see the future? Am I
00:43:51.460
Noel Stradamus? No, it's not, not quite that. He's going to die because he scheduled his suicide.
00:43:58.300
And why'd he schedule his suicide? Well, according to Politico on Thursday, March 21st,
00:44:02.940
one of the Democratic Party's most accomplished campaign consultants will die. Hal Malchow has
00:44:08.180
been planning for this day ever since 1987, when a genetic marker revealed he was likely to develop
00:44:13.060
Alzheimer's. He was barely 35, political operative, who'd come off managing Al Gore's first Senate
00:44:18.960
campaign while overcome with worry about his mother's early descent into dementia. Malchow resolved at that
00:44:25.180
time that he would commit suicide before, they say, take his own life. They, you know, it's sort of,
00:44:30.720
they like to use these euphemisms and take his own life before he became too diminished
00:44:36.080
and became a burden to those around him. So around his 72nd birthday last year, Malchow began
00:44:42.060
communicating with an assisted end of life organization. End of, it's just end of life
00:44:47.380
euthanasia. Euthanasia, which literally means good death. And it ironically means exactly the opposite.
00:44:54.060
It's the worst kind of death that is possible. It's the most unnatural and evil kind of death that is
00:44:59.100
possible. Where you not only die, you suffer in pain because it's a fallen world and we're mortal
00:45:05.300
and we're all going to die. No one here gets out of life in the terrestrial sense at least. But you
00:45:10.680
also commit a sin. You become your own murderer. So the last act that you ever perform is not just
00:45:18.260
to suffer with dignity and die as we all will die someday, but you actually murder someone, namely
00:45:23.440
yourself. And it divides the person into two people. It divides you against yourself and is just
00:45:31.560
extremely unnatural and evil. To say nothing of the political cruelty of it, you know, we call suicide
00:45:38.760
a selfish act because it harms the people around us. If you've ever dealt with a suicide, a friend,
00:45:46.520
a family member, you know that the loved ones of that person never recover, really. You know,
00:45:54.640
time heals all wounds to some degree, but they never totally get over it. It is a scandal and a
00:46:01.460
trauma that endures. And if a loved one, if a parent, for instance, commits suicide, you are much
00:46:06.140
more likely to commit suicide yourself. This is a political problem that spreads throughout the
00:46:10.360
community. This is why, obviously, there's a Christian prohibition on slavery. There is a
00:46:16.620
natural law argument against slavery. And there were pagan arguments against slavery. Plato talks
00:46:23.540
about this in particular. When I was at UW-Madison, I was speaking with a very intelligent political
00:46:27.940
scientist out there who pointed out the ancient Greek idea of miasma, of miasma as a kind of pollution
00:46:38.340
that just spreads throughout the polity, the community. And the miasma will come as a result
00:46:46.960
of violent acts and specifically suicide. Why is that? Well, is it just because those old ancient
00:46:53.860
Greeks were superstitious? Not sure it's quite that. And he used a great example. He said,
00:46:59.100
you go to a realtor, you say, I want to buy a home. You look at a few homes, you say, oh, I really
00:47:04.080
like that home. The realtor says, okay, well, I should just disclose to you the previous owner
00:47:07.920
he killed himself. He shot his whole family and then he killed himself in the home. But don't
00:47:13.880
worry. They wiped all the blood off the walls. It's all fine. They did it deeply and it's all okay.
00:47:17.800
Do you still want to buy it? Probably you're going to say no thanks. Why? It's not purely rational
00:47:26.660
in the sense that, you know, it's all clean. It's fine. There's no, what are you worried about?
00:47:30.220
You worried about ghosts haunting? You know, you're worried. You say, I don't know. It's just kind of like
00:47:33.380
bad juju. You know, I just don't know, man. It's kind of, I don't want that. Well, bad juju is
00:47:39.100
miasma and it's an ancient concept and it requires rituals to sort of undo it. What it expresses too
00:47:46.200
is a recognition that when you kill yourself, you harm the political community because you're part
00:47:51.300
of the political community and we depend one upon another because we're a social creature and the
00:47:55.160
political animal to flourish. We don't flourish, you know, alone in the woods somewhere or floating in
00:48:00.560
outer space. We flourish all together. This is why when the economy does, does poorly, you lose money.
00:48:05.860
This is why when the cops stop arresting people, you are more in danger. It's why these social
00:48:13.080
problems affect you and this hyper individualism pushed by the left and some quarters of the right
00:48:19.540
is going to lead to a lot of social and political decay and it's going to make your life a lot worse.
00:48:27.020
But natural for the Democrat party, which is a very selfish party and is the party of death.
00:48:33.100
It's a party that celebrates death. It has made a sort of sacrament out of killing babies.
00:48:38.620
It extols the virtues of not having any children and now it suggests that people ought to kill
00:48:42.740
themselves, not just when they're very old, but even when they're younger and younger.
00:48:46.240
Very bad idea. We should pray that this guy doesn't actually go through with it. We should pray for
00:48:50.700
his soul. We should try to convince him not to go through with it. And as a political matter,
00:48:56.100
we should convince all of us, all parties, all around the country, every group, including
00:49:02.960
the redneck hippies and just the hippies and the rednecks and everyone in between, we should
00:49:07.800
convince them to stop being so freaking selfish and to stop focusing on purely self-interest
00:49:17.260
without any care for the common good. That is from antiquity through the present, a marker
00:49:22.760
of when societies go bad. When all you do is ever think about the self and not the common good,
00:49:27.780
the actual political community, things are going to go really bad. And ironically,
00:49:31.620
it's going to hurt your own self-interest. It always does.
00:49:35.320
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