Ep. 1449 - The Fake News Lies About Trump's ＂Bloodbath＂
Summary
After 8 years, President Trump did not collude with the Russians, 7 years after President Trump called neo-Nazis "very fine people," and after so many Democrat hoaxes over the years, the Libs have landed on a new one for 2024: that Trump is going to cause a bloodbath.
Transcript
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Eight years after President Trump did not collude with the Russians,
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seven years after President Trump did not call neo-Nazis very fine people,
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after so many Democrat hoaxes over the years, the libs have landed on a new one for 2024,
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We just have to win this election because he's even predicting a bloodbath. What does that mean?
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He's going to exact a bloodbath? There's something wrong here. How respectful I am of the American
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people and their goodness. But how much more do they have to see from him to understand
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that this isn't what our country is about? Sounds really scary. Is he going to exact
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a bloodbath? Sounds like the sort of thing that's completely out of character for Donald Trump.
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Sounds like the sort of thing that's being alleged by Nancy Pelosi, who has been allergic to the truth
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for many, many years now. So I'm just not sure I really believe Pelosi's characterization of Trump's
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comments. What did Trump actually say? Mexico has taken over a period of 30 years, 34% of the
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automobile manufacturing business in our country. Think of it. Went to Mexico. China now is building
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a couple of massive plants where they're going to build the cars in Mexico and think they think
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that they're going to sell those cars into the United States with no tax at the border. Let me tell
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you something to China. If you're listening, President Xi and you and I are friends, but he
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understands the way I deal. Those big monster car manufacturing plants that you're building in
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Mexico right now. And you think you're going to get that. You're going to not hire Americans and you're
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going to sell the cars to us now. We're going to put a 100% tariff on every single car that comes
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across the line and you're not going to be able to sell those cars if I get elected. Now, if I don't
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get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole. That's going to be the least of it. It's going
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to be a bloodbath for the country. That'll be the least of it. But they're not going to sell those
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cars. They're building massive factories. OK, you heard it. You heard it straight from the
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president's mouth. Does that sound like Trump is threatening to massacre people? I don't think so.
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I don't think any honest person would conclude that that is the meaning of Trump's comment.
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Seems to me he's probably speaking figuratively of what's going to happen if the Democrats keep
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running the country. Even if it's trying to think, even if Pelosi is right, even if Trump is calling
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for a bloodbath as though this were a good thing, even if Donald Trump, the lovable tabloid figure
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who's been world famous for 40 years, who already served a full term as president, all without
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slaughtering anybody, even if he were inclined to inflict a bloodbath on people in the event of his
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loss, he obviously would not be able to do that because he wouldn't have any political power.
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In that case, the liberals would possess all the political power as they do now when ironically
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there already is a bloodbath, both figurative and literal, thanks to an intentionally opened border
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that has directly caused not only gang violence and murder, but the worst epidemic of mass poisoning
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in American history because of the fentanyl crisis that is being encouraged, not only not stopped,
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it's being encouraged by Joe Biden and the Democrats. As usual, the Democrat accusations here
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are confessions. One shudders to think what the libs will accuse Trump of next.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. A top legendary Democrat campaign strategist and consultant says that if
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the Democrats lose this election, it will be Israel's fault. We'll get into that in just a moment.
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That is why they are becoming so hysterical and hyperbolic.
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But the reason that they're not totally melting down over 2024 is because they know that they can
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control the media cycles. They know that Trump makes some totally anodyne comment in a speech
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about car manufacturing. And then Nancy Pelosi gets to go on CNN and say, he's going to slaughter
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everybody. It'll be a bloodbath. And then all the liberal outlets, they say, Donald Trump's going
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to kill us all. He's going to slaughter every single person. The bloodthirsty Democrats who never
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saw a baby they didn't want to slaughter. The Democrats who now are the party of wanting to go
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all over the world bombing anybody they can find. The Republican Party, quite clearly the party of
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life now on a whole host of issues. We're supposedly going to slaughter everyone when we don't even have
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political power. I don't know how they make sense of that. But the libs can get away with it because
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they control the media. And Eric Holder, who is the attorney general for Barack Obama,
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just said that quiet part out loud. He just went on, I think it was, what was the show? Bill Maher's
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show, I think. Yeah, it was Bill Maher's show. And he said that you don't need to worry about the
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polls right now, Democrats, because we got the media when we really need to change the narrative.
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We should not be too alarmed by these March polls. We've got to take them into consideration.
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But March is a fundamentally different month than October and November. And we'll see where these
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things turn out when we get to that part of the calendar year. Hmm. Okay. But I mean, the deal is
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there's work to be done. But I'm actually optimistic that if we stay committed, focused,
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and as the media turns its attention to making this a binary choice between a person who's got
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some age and cognitive issues, that would be Trump, against somebody who is actually,
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you know, against somebody who's actually accomplished a lot, I think we'll be just fine.
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Okay, I get it. You think he's talking about Biden, but he's talking about Trump,
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even though no one really believes that. Even Bill Maher's frivolous audience there is only
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half applauding. Oh, yeah, right. Except Joe Biden can't pronounce his own name,
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and Donald Trump has more energy than he ever did. This is true. Not the conclusion, but the
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first part. He says, don't worry about the polls now. They're going to change when the media focus
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on this as a two-person race. When it's no longer Trump versus DeSantis versus Haley versus
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and Joe Biden with this weird Bobby Kennedy thing in the middle. When it really just comes down to
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Trump versus Biden, the media are going to totally change their coverage. They're all
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going to get in line. They're going to defend Joe Biden. And so you're going to see Joe Biden's
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negatives go down. You're going to see his positives go up, and you're going to see the
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race even out. That's probably true. It is the quiet part out loud, and a very prominent Democrat
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politician, Eric Holder, is admitting it. But it's really all they've got left. They're saying,
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okay, the political realities for Biden are really bad. And when the media are not totally,
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constantly, actively carrying water for him, his approval ratings plummet, and he's losing
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to Donald Trump in all the important swing states nationally by a significant margin.
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So the only way that we're possibly going to win this election is to have the media rig it.
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Even with the media being totally in Biden's pocket, even with Biden surrounding himself with the most
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sycophantic people he can find, things are looking pretty bad for him. Joe Biden was giving a speech
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on St. Paddy's Day. He had to tell the audience to clap. Ireland now is one of the top 10 investors
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in the United States economy, and our country stand proudly for liberty and against tyranny.
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We stand together and oppose Russia's brutal war of aggression in Ukraine. You can clap for that,
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please. Okay, that's bad. It calls to mind an infamous moment of the 2016 race when Jeb Bush
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was up there in New Hampshire, and he's going off about who knows what, and the people don't do
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anything at the end, and he says, please clap, and then they clap. Okay, and Joe Biden does almost
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the exact same thing here. However, what happened to Biden is actually worse than what happened to Jeb.
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Jeb is on the campaign trail during a very lively Republican primary
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in New Hampshire, where voters who might, maybe some voter supports Trump, maybe some voter supports
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Cruz, maybe some voter support, they can show up to the Jeb event and challenge him. So that room,
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you would expect to be much more hostile or potentially hostile than the White House,
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which is where Joe Biden was giving that speech. The only people in this room are people who support
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Joe Biden a lot, who have been vetted by the Biden political team a lot. And even in that room of the
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people most inclined to support this guy, he has to say, can you please clap for me? That was a good,
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and then, oh, yeah, sorry, sorry, sorry, yeah, right, sorry, we fell asleep during your tirade.
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Really bad stuff. Joe Biden right now is going to lose in Michigan, Arizona, Pennsylvania,
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North Carolina. He might lose the White House, though, is the problem. He might, if they took a poll
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of who people support in the Biden White House, I'm not sure the guy would win it right now.
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The Democrats are already playing the blame game for what happens if Joe Biden loses.
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James Carville, probably the most famous Democrat strategist in America. He's up there with Axelrod.
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Probably Axelrod is the only one who's actually on his level. Maybe David Plouffe.
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Carville, though, much more colorful than all those guys. Carville going back to the Clinton days.
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He knows that things are bad for Biden, and he is not just blaming the border, and he's not just
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blaming the MAGA Republicans. He's pointing his finger at the state of Israel.
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This Gaza stuff, this is not just a problem with some snot-nosed Ivy League people. This is a problem
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all across the country. And I hope that the president and Blanken can get this thing calmed down,
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because if you don't get calmed down before the Democratic convention, it's going to be a very
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ugly time in Chicago. I promise you that. They're going to have to tell B.B. Netanyahu,
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hey, dude, we're not going to lose our election because you're scared to go to jail. You got to
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think of something else, because the negligence of this man was breathtaking. And why are we over
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there begging him? We ought to be putting pressure on him every way that you can to de-escalate this
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thing and quickly. From the Democrat perspective, James Carville is totally right. He's 100% right
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about this. From the Democrat perspective. From the Republican perspective, sorry. Sorry, man. Yeah,
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you are right, James Carville, and that is very bad for you. I am not all that interested in the
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domestic politics of Israel. But the Democrats are, because Israel is a major wedge issue for
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Democrats. Israel didn't used to be a major wedge issue for Democrats, but it is now, because the
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Democrat base doesn't like the state of Israel. The elites in the Democrat party still basically like
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the state of Israel, generally. But the Democrat base does not. The Democrat base goes campaigning for
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the pro-Palestine liberation movement. The Democrat base hates Israel because they view the Jews in
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Israel as white people. Even though a lot of them aren't white, but they say they're white, and they
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hate white people. And they view the state of Israel as a colonial settler endeavor, and they hate that,
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and they hate it in America, and they hate it when the Europeans do it, and they hate it when the Jews
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do it, too. And they just hate Israel. They hate it. And this is a big liability for the Democratic
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Party because the Democrats are in power right now, and the Democrat base is angry that Biden isn't doing
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more to stop Israel from just chilling, from just calming down with the bombing campaign.
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But from the Israeli perspective, from Netanyahu's perspective, they are looking at the October 7th
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massacre, and they're saying this was a major attack on Israeli civilians, and we are not going to stop
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until the political threat from Hamas is neutralized in Gaza, and that's going to be brutal, and it's going
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to draw condemnation from basically everywhere in the world. But we're not going to stop,
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even if Joe Biden asks us really nicely. And you have a leader in Israel right now who's relatively
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rather right-wing, and so he's even less inclined to seek some kind of a diplomatic solution.
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So what's Biden going to do? You got James Carville there saying, hey, let's get those Israelis in line.
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Let's get them to cut it out. But they're not going to do it. Bibi Netanyahu's not going to listen to
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Joe Biden. So now what? So now you got to get the other Democrats involved. You get the senior-most
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Democrat in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, who also happens to be Jewish, to come out and to say, hey,
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I've been a lifelong supporter of Israel. Obviously, I've got deep ties to the very idea of the nation
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of Israel, but I hate Netanyahu, and he's got to go. Minister Netanyahu has lost his way
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by allowing his political survival to take the precedence over the best interests of Israel.
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He has put himself in coalition with far-right extremists like Ministers Smotryk and Ben Gavir,
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and as a result, he has been too willing to tolerate the civilian toll in Gaza, which is pushing support
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for Israel worldwide to historic lows. Israel cannot survive if it becomes a pariah.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu has also weakened Israel's political and moral fabric through his attempts to
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co-op the judiciary, and he has shown zero interest in doing the courageous and visionary work
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required to pave the way for peace even before this present conflict. As a lifelong supporter of
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Israel, it has become clear to me the Netanyahu coalition no longer fits the needs of Israel after
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October 7th. The world has changed radically since then, and the Israeli people are being stifled right
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now by a governing vision that is stuck in the past. Okay, as I mentioned earlier, I don't really care
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all that much about the internal politics of which party in Israel is ruling the country. It doesn't
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really interest me. It certainly doesn't affect my day-to-day or even much of my geopolitical vision,
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but there's a lot of interesting stuff in that clip. For starters, sometimes people who just
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reflexively don't like the Jews, they paint the Jews as this monolith, but here, obviously,
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they're not a monolith. Chuck Schumer's a Jew. He's calling on Bibi Netanyahu, who's also a Jew,
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to step down. And Schumer's saying Bibi Netanyahu's got to step down because Schumer supports the state
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of Israel. But Netanyahu and the Netanyahu supporters are going to say, no, Chuck Schumer,
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you dummy. If we do what you say, then the state of Israel is going to stop existing because the
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Hamas people are going to get to run roughshod over us, and we're not going to be able to defend
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ourselves. And so they're all arguing over who should lead, what they should do. So many of the
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pro-Palestine demonstrators in America are liberal Jews. So probably the most prominent critic of the
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state of Israel in the world is a Jew, Norman Finkelstein. So they just don't seem to be
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totally monolithic to me. And in this case, Chuck Schumer is the one who's coming out really leading
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the charge for Netanyahu to step down because he has some credibility, because he is a Jew.
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But then this raises another problem, which is, haven't we just, in America, been lectured
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for eight years on the terrible, inexcusable threat to democracy caused by foreign election
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A hundred days away from the election. How worried are you on a scale of one to 10
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I'm very worried. They did it before. It's a lot of, a lot of countries are trying to do it.
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We have to be prepared. We have to be guarded. We have to make sure they don't.
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There was less of it in 2018 than 2016, but no one knows if that's because some of these
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countries decided to lay off and give us a sense of complacency or not. But we should be
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ever vigilant, ever vigilant. This, if, if people think that a foreign country helped determine
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our election and lose faith in our democracy, that's the beginning of the end of this grand
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experiment in democracy that's been so successful for more than 200 and some odd years.
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Okay. So foreign governments, let's try to, let's try to take this apart. There's a lot,
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there's a lot there that Chuck Schumer just said.
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The foreign governments, the nefarious foreign governments that are undermining our democracy
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interfere in our elections, but only when Republicans win. When Republicans don't win,
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then they didn't interfere. But when Republicans do win, that is basically prima facie evidence
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that they did interfere. And in elections where the Republicans like went a little bit,
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but the Democrats win more, and then they didn't really only interfere a little. Why? They're laying
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low. Yeah, that's why you see they're laying low. They want us to let our guard down for until the
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next time a Republican wins. And then they definitely interfered. And, and, and here's the second
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point. Foreign interference in elections is really, really bad. It's an attack on the democracy of that
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country. Unless Chuck Schumer does it. When Chuck Schumer does it, you see, it's actually a great
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defense of democracy. Actually, unless the Democrats broadly do it. Like when the Democrats send their
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political operatives to go to foreign countries and mess with their elections. Like when Obama
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sends his campaign flax to try to boot Netanyahu out of Israel. When was that? That was nine years ago
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at this point. Or when Joe Biden sends his flax and his operatives to try to oust Viktor Orban in
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Hungary, a very popular democratically elected leader. No, that that's not foreign interference.
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That's not a threat to democracy. That's actually a defense of democracy. Because if the people are
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allowed to vote for the right wing figures in foreign countries that they want to vote for,
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that would undermine the democracy. That's why we need to go in and either invade openly or just
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secretly kind of infiltrate their program and undermine the desires of the majority of the people of that
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country so that we can defend democracy. But if anyone does that to us in any way,
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that would be the end of democracy, you see. Pretty much democracy is whatever Chuck Schumer wants
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and Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi. Whatever they want ever on any subject anywhere in the world,
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that's democracy. And whatever they oppose is a grave, grave threat.
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conditions apply. Speaking of election interference, there's some real election
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interference going on in the Republican Party right now, but it's not being caused by the
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Russians, and it's not being caused by the Chinese, and it's not even being caused by
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the Democrats. It's an intra-Republican election interference. This is targeting my friend Lauren
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Boebert. Lauren Boebert is a member of Congress from Colorado, and I'll take you through the
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timeline. There's another Colorado Republican member of Congress. His name is Ken Buck.
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Ken Buck said that he was going to retire at the end of this cycle. Now, Lauren, who won her race
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last time by a pretty tight margin, Lauren, who's dealt with a lot of attacks from the liberal media
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and scandals and all the rest of it, she decides she's going to run in Ken Buck's district.
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She's not going to have to primary him. He's going to leave. It's a more conservative place.
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She feels better off running there than in her present district, so she's just going to run there
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for the next cycle. This happens. The districts change sometimes. The members of Congress, they'll
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start out representing New York's 19th district. Then it turns out they represent New York's 18th
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district. That sort of thing happens. However, when Lauren made clear that she was going to run
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for Ken Buck's old seat, Buck decides he's not going to serve the rest of his term. Buck is going
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to quit immediately, which triggers a special election. Now, you'd say, okay, well, if it triggers
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a special election before the main election in November, then I guess Lauren can just run in the
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special election, right? Wrong. Because Lauren, who's the most visible candidate who would be
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running for that seat, would have to resign her current seat in Congress in order to run in the
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special election to replace Ken Buck, because she's not going to be able to hold two seats in Congress.
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Okay, so then what? So now what's going to happen is there's going to be a special election
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on primary day, and someone is going to be running in the special election to replace Buck, who's
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retiring early, and obviously for the next cycle, which is going to be coming up months later.
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So then what happens? You've got the most extreme version of having to split a ticket that you've
00:25:06.200
ever seen. You vote for one guy to win the district in the special election, and then vote for Lauren
00:25:10.640
Boebert or whoever else you might want to elect there in the main election. Crazy. How did it happen?
00:25:19.220
It's obviously a way to get Lauren out of Congress, because a lot of people in the Republican Party
00:25:25.600
don't like her, especially from the squishier wing of the party, don't like her. They feel she's too
00:25:30.040
outspoken. They feel she's too eccentric, and so they want to get her out. Now, I'm not a voter in
00:25:37.740
Colorado. I don't occupy either of these districts. The voters can make their own decision. Maybe
00:25:43.820
there are other candidates. Lauren's the most visible one because she's a sitting member, but
00:25:47.520
there are other people who are running for this seat. My only observation is that the fact that
00:25:54.420
the establishment GOP is so hell-bent on getting her out of Congress that they would go to these
00:26:00.820
extraordinary lengths to prevent her from winning re-election in November seems to be pretty decent
00:26:08.920
evidence that we should keep her there. That's it. That's all I'm saying about Colorado. I don't
00:26:14.580
know. The voters of Colorado can make their choice, but the squishy part of the GOP is really going to
00:26:20.280
great lengths to get rid of this lady, which to me speaks in her favor. Speaking of Republican
00:26:26.380
infighting, the former vice president to President Trump and current cycle presidential candidate,
00:26:33.100
though he's obviously since dropped out, Mike Pence, was just asked, will you endorse Trump now
00:26:38.820
that the primary is over? Remember, everyone at the presidential debate signed that pledge saying
00:26:44.180
they would support the eventual nominee, and then it seems a number of them are going back on that
00:26:48.560
pledge. Ron DeSantis honored the pledge. A number are going back on it. Here's Mike Pence's answer.
00:26:53.120
It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year. During my
00:26:58.400
presidential campaign, I made it clear that there were profound differences between me and President
00:27:04.480
Trump on a range of issues. Donald Trump is pursuing and articulating an agenda that is at odds with the
00:27:11.080
conservative agenda that we governed on during our four years, and that's why I cannot in good
00:27:16.920
conscience endorse Donald Trump in this campaign. Okay. Fair enough. Those guys have some pretty
00:27:24.800
personal beef. If I were Mike Pence, I probably would not be very happy with Donald Trump. So I get it.
00:27:30.600
I get it. I totally understand. In as much as the Republican presidential candidates said they would
00:27:36.500
back the eventual nominee, I guess they should do that. But I get it. At a personal level, I totally get
00:27:42.520
why Mike Pence doesn't want to back this guy who went after him when he was serving with him when
00:27:50.580
Trump went after him pretty hard and effectively ended Pence's political career. I get it. Okay.
00:27:56.920
That's a personal beef. It's not really a political argument. So again, I'm not judging Mike Pence at
00:28:04.520
all. I totally understand. It's fine. What about the other guys? What about the other candidates?
00:28:12.440
I'm not talking about DeSantis here, but I'm talking about some of the other Republican
00:28:15.180
presidential candidates who refused to endorse Trump. What's their argument? What about some of
00:28:20.460
the squishes, the liberal Republicans who seem like they'll either sit on their hands or might even
00:28:28.360
consider voting for Biden? What's their excuse? Mitt Romney. I know, I get it. All these guys,
00:28:34.500
they have a little bit of personal beef. With Pence, I think it's a little more intense and Pence's
00:28:39.840
anger at President Trump is a little bit more understandable than say someone like Mitt Romney.
00:28:45.800
But what's their, put the personal stuff aside. I don't care about their personal beef.
00:28:49.680
I care about the direction of the country. For all these liberal Republicans who don't have intense
00:28:56.180
personal grievances with regard to the president. What's the argument? I don't see one. I don't see
00:29:04.200
any good argument, political argument involving policy, involving the public, involving the fight
00:29:11.280
against Joe Biden and the Democrats. I don't see one good argument not to reelect Trump if you are in
00:29:17.220
any way conservative, if you are in any way Republican. Barring some intense personal grievance like you
00:29:23.940
served the guy's vice president, you had a terrible falling out. I don't. What's the political
00:29:28.060
argument? Can anyone articulate that to me? There are still some squish Republicans who are saying,
00:29:31.760
oh, I don't, I'm not voting for this guy. I can't, I'm too angry about the primary. Okay,
00:29:36.620
what's your, so your political argument is it's better for Biden to win? The country's better off
00:29:41.080
if Biden wins? Give me a break. Totally ridiculous. Now, does that mean that everything Trump is saying is
00:29:49.640
absolutely perfect? Does that mean that every policy that has been outlined is absolutely,
00:29:54.700
but not exactly. No. Does that mean that Republicans are going to agree on everything?
00:29:58.940
Certainly not. President Trump just recently, and I think it's probably being overplayed by the media,
00:30:06.040
but he turned off or at least raised red flags for some conservative voters in an interview he did on
00:30:10.860
Fox News. If the Republicans spoke about it correctly, it never hurt me from the standpoint of
00:30:16.300
elections. It, it hurt a lot of Republicans. I think you have to. What's he talking about? He's
00:30:21.260
talking about abortion. I don't think it ever hurt me politically, but it has hurt Republicans
00:30:27.060
politically. And so here's how I think we should talk about it in 2024. And no matter actually really
00:30:34.200
what you think about abortion or what you think about Trump, everyone is going to find something to
00:30:37.960
hate in this comment. You have to have the three exceptions because it's just, now there are a few
00:30:43.780
places where you don't. But I tell people, number one, you have to go with your heart. You have to go
00:30:50.560
with your heart. But beyond that, you also have to get elected. Okay. And if you don't have the three
00:30:56.480
exceptions, I think it's very, very hard to get elected. We had a gentleman from Pennsylvania who was
00:31:02.060
doing pretty well. He refused to go with the exceptions and he got, he lost in a landslide for
00:31:06.880
governor. Nice man, lost in a landslide. You have to go with the exceptions and the number of weeks I'll
00:31:13.500
be coming out with a recommendation fairly soon. I think the recommendation will be accepted.
00:31:18.280
Okay. What is Trump saying here? He says, you got to go with your heart, but when it comes to abortion
00:31:25.040
policy, you got to get elected. Mitch McConnell said something similar, just broadly speaking about
00:31:31.160
political issues. He said, the winners go to Washington, the losers go home. So Trump says,
00:31:36.080
politically, you got to go with the exceptions. Now, does this mean that the exceptions saying that
00:31:41.880
abortion is okay in the case of rape, incest, or a threat to the life of the mother? And the last one
00:31:46.220
is particularly tricky because the liberals interpret that to mean, you know, a mother feels a little
00:31:51.120
upset one day that she's pregnant. So that causes her such a psychological, not an actual threat to her
00:31:56.300
life, but it causes her emotional distress. So that justifies killing the baby. Obviously,
00:32:00.840
you'd have to really circumscribe something like that. But what is Trump doing here? Is he coming
00:32:04.960
out and saying a baby who is conceived in a tragic way doesn't have a right to life, that that's a
00:32:12.640
lesser kind of human being? Is he making some grand philosophical or theological or anthropological
00:32:18.760
point? No, obviously not. He makes it very clear, I think, in his language. He's saying, look,
00:32:24.180
we're talking about abortion. If you want pro-life policies, if you want pro-life judges,
00:32:27.640
if you want to overrule Roe v. Wade, which is the biggest pro-life victory in 50 years,
00:32:32.020
and it came about because of Trump's election and because of the judges that he picked and because
00:32:36.080
he stood by those judges, he's saying, as a political matter, that's how you're going to
00:32:41.240
have to talk about it. That part's probably not all that controversial. And there are so many things
00:32:46.260
to say about the principle of double effect when we're talking about a threat to the life of the
00:32:53.560
mother and all the rest of it. I've talked about abortion at length recently. I gave a speech just
00:32:59.300
last week at UW-Madison, which you can check out on the AF YouTube channel. But then he says something
00:33:02.960
much more controversial, which is he says, when it comes to the number of weeks, we're going to
00:33:10.480
release a policy soon, and I think everyone's going to be happy. Now, of course, if you believe
00:33:16.440
that life begins at conception, which by definition it does, and if you believe in defending vulnerable,
00:33:21.760
innocent human life, then you can't just pick some arbitrary week. Okay, a baby should not be
00:33:29.620
murdered at 15 weeks, but should be murdered at 14 weeks. That doesn't make any sense. What's the
00:33:36.260
argument for that? Oh, no, a baby at 24 weeks, that's a real baby. But the baby at 23 weeks and
00:33:41.520
six days, chop him up, kill him. Of course not. That doesn't make any sense at all. But what is Trump
00:33:47.300
talking about here? Again, I think a lot of people want to rush to the worst version of what
00:33:51.700
Trump is saying. But Trump has a lot of credibility on this issue because in practice, he's the most
00:33:56.080
pro-life president ever. He's the first one to address the march for life. Even if you want to
00:34:01.340
say, well, the other presidents didn't have the opportunity to overturn Roe v. Wade. Well,
00:34:04.740
maybe they could have if they picked better judges. Trump did pick better judges. But two,
00:34:08.140
why didn't they address the march for life? Why was Trump the first Republican president to do that?
00:34:13.620
Because in practice, the guy's been the most pro-life president. But then what is he saying here?
00:34:17.920
We're going to come to a compromise on the weeks. Well, if you take the worst possible read of that
00:34:25.880
and say he's going to enshrine a right to kill a baby up until a certain amount of time, yeah,
00:34:30.060
I guess that'd be really bad. As a federal matter, I thought the whole argument that was being made by
00:34:34.360
the originalists was that we have to send the issue back to the states, not the federal government.
00:34:38.300
Okay, if that's what he's saying, I guess that's pretty bad. What's your evidence that that's what he's
00:34:42.680
saying? Mightn't it be the case that what he is advocating is not a minimum number of weeks at
00:34:50.760
which you can kill a baby after which the states legislate, but perhaps a maximum? That would make
00:34:56.080
sense. That would bring the United States much more in line with the rest of the civilized world.
00:34:59.920
America has absolutely barbaric abortion policies. You think of places like France and France,
00:35:05.960
which enshrined abortion to some degree in their constitution recently, or other parts of
00:35:10.540
Europe, which have, we think, really awful abortion policies. Ours are much worse. At least
00:35:15.200
there are limits in those places, national limits. America's abortion policies are barbaric on par
00:35:21.880
with Canada, America's evil top hat, and North Korea and communist China, where there are basically
00:35:26.800
no limits, at least in certain places. So what if when Trump is talking about this, he's saying,
00:35:31.380
we're going to have a maximum. So if we say 10 weeks or whatever it is, there's a 10-week
00:35:38.580
abortion limit that means that no one can pass an abortion, can pass a pro-abortion law that allows
00:35:45.040
you to kill the baby after 10 weeks. But a conservative state like Tennessee, a conservative
00:35:48.780
state like Texas or Alabama, you can pass a law banning it outright. What if that, I don't know,
00:35:55.200
I'm not, I don't have evidence that that's what he's saying either. I'm just pointing out that I
00:36:01.460
think is not only a more charitable read of what he's saying, but is probably a more likely read,
00:36:05.920
at least constitutionally and legally and politically. And in that case, that would be a
00:36:11.220
win. What the point that Trump is making here, which is that in politics, you got to, you got
00:36:15.480
to take your wins when you can get them. And then you build on those wins. That is obviously true.
00:36:21.300
And it's something that some conservatives don't want to acknowledge. They want all or nothing and
00:36:25.600
they get nothing. But if we can, if we can work with the most pro-life president in our lifetime
00:36:31.020
to build on the win of overruling Roe v. Wade, to, to more and more chip away at the barbaric
00:36:37.160
infanticide going on in the country, that's a win. And the way you do that is you got to win the
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So true. I love a good pun. And Willie Nelson is defending Border Patrol, and that's a very good
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sign for 2024. Okay. Speaking of the libs, a new study. If you drive and pull over, if you're
00:38:19.000
standing up, sit down. This one's going to shock you. The study finds that people who have woke
00:38:25.760
attitudes are more likely to suffer anxiety, depression, and unhappiness. What are the odds?
00:38:33.260
I should do a series of just scientific studies that never needed to be conducted. Huge wastes of time
00:38:40.380
and money in laboratories and in academia because they tell you things that everyone just already
00:38:45.600
knew through common sense. This new psychological assessment is detailed in the Scandinavian Journal
00:38:52.300
of Psychology. It's a Finnish study. It finds out that there is a stronger alignment with woke beliefs
00:39:01.940
and heightened instances of anxiety and depression and overall unhappiness. Now,
00:39:06.920
there is a caution here in the study, which is that these associations were more strongly correlated
00:39:12.820
with the participants' political orientation than with critical social justice attitudes per se.
00:39:18.920
What does that even mean? Saying that the likelihood of anxiety and depression and unhappiness
00:39:25.420
is there's a greater likelihood just if you're a lib. And another indicator, though not as strong,
00:39:35.020
is if you hold specific woke attitudes on specific woke issues. Yeah, okay, the two are synonymous.
00:39:41.940
I guess if you identify as a big lib, then you're saying I embrace pretty much all of the woke views.
00:39:47.840
So it's a stronger indicator that you're going to be anxious, depressed, and unhappy. But the upshot of
00:39:54.460
the study is that the libs are basically nuts. And that's obviously true, and I don't mean it to be
00:40:00.420
needlessly provocative. It's just a fact. Why is that the case? Because liberalism has a view of human
00:40:11.940
nature and society that is at odds with reality in important ways, in the way the individual relates
00:40:20.260
to his environment, in the importance of the family, in the way their body relates to our soul,
00:40:25.680
in regard to our purpose in the world, how we relate to eternity and our creator and all the rest.
00:40:34.380
The further that your ideology strays from reality, the more anxious and the less happy and the angrier
00:40:41.260
you're going to be, the more depressed you're going to be. Because if you have a vision that is utopian,
00:40:46.920
as I think liberalism is, then utopia means no place. You, no, utopia, place. No place. You're not going to
00:40:54.960
have it. And so when you can't achieve your political vision, you're going to be a little depressed,
00:40:58.960
certainly. It stands to reason, if you're conservative, you're generally a little more
00:41:06.760
content with reality. That's why you want to conserve it. You might not be content with your
00:41:10.960
present political circumstances. I mean, Joe Biden drives me up a wall, and I think he's a terrible
00:41:16.420
president, and the liberal policies are awful. But I'm not ultimately anxious or depressed or unhappy
00:41:22.980
because I recognize that even bad governance is part of a fallen world. And I try to take the
00:41:29.720
winds when we can get them. I certainly push for the winds as hard as I possibly can. But I recognize
00:41:34.320
it's a fallen world. I don't put my faith in princes. I don't put all my political hopes in
00:41:39.940
the achievement of some egalitarian, totally liberated, utopian society. I wouldn't like it if
00:41:45.580
we got that kind of a society. And frankly, I just know that we can, so it doesn't bug me when we
00:41:49.860
don't. And there's a lot of suffering that comes from the liberal political activism, but even that
00:41:55.480
is kind of baked into my view. I don't like it, but I accept it and I expect it for that matter.
00:42:01.440
The libs, they don't expect any of those things. Just another survey, though. If you're a young
00:42:08.760
person, you're encountering this video or this podcast, you're listening to it somewhere, and
00:42:14.660
you're not all that political, or maybe you think you're liberal. You certainly don't think you're
00:42:17.740
conservative. One good reason why you might consider exploring a conservative political view
00:42:25.700
is the fact that you'll more likely be happy if you're a conservative. The proof of the pudding is
00:42:35.380
in the tasting, okay? The tree is judged by its fruit. If these ideas are so good, why do they make
00:42:40.560
people so miserable? If these liberal ideas are so wonderful and so beautiful, why do those views
00:42:50.480
immiserate everyone who holds them? It's really strange. Really strange, huh? Maybe you got to
00:42:55.760
change your mind. Okay. Speaking of jarring behavior, I'll end on this note. Remember last week,
00:43:04.100
we talked about Kristi Noem, who is the Republican governor of South Dakota. And Kristi Noem has done
00:43:10.220
things that seem rather conservative at times, and she's done things that don't seem all that
00:43:14.400
conservative, like when she caved on the transgender issue. A little bit of a mixed bag there. And she,
00:43:19.600
one thing about Kristi Noem, she's somewhat unpredictable. So anyway, last week she did something
00:43:28.940
really strange, which was that she did an infomercial for a dental clinic in Texas,
00:43:36.160
not even her state, Texas. And I thought, why is the sitting governor doing an infomercial for any
00:43:40.120
business, much less one in a different state? And she got a lot of flack for it. It was really weird.
00:43:44.780
We got no explanation for why the sitting governor of South Dakota is now a dentistry pitch man. Well,
00:43:52.740
without responding to any of the criticism, she just did another infomercial,
00:43:57.040
this time, at least for a South Dakota company, for, for custom insoles.
00:44:03.320
We are at Fit My Feet in Rapid City, and these guys are amazing. They have totally built me inserts
00:44:08.120
for running, separate ones for my cowboy boots. I'm going to be perfect. I'm going to be like
00:44:13.540
bionic woman now, right? So come see these guys out in Rapid City. Actually, what towns are you in?
00:44:19.080
Rapid City, Sioux Falls, Rochester, Minnesota, Fargo, North Dakota, Sioux City, Iowa, and Brookings.
00:44:28.900
What? You know, I never want to overstate my case or my perspicacity or anything like that.
00:44:38.700
When I bring up a story, I said this last time she did this. When I bring up a story, usually
00:44:44.560
I have a take on it. And I like to think it's a take that sheds more light on the issue than,
00:44:49.400
you know, anyone else, because I don't want to just repeat what other people are saying. I don't
00:44:53.220
want to just bring up a story if I have nothing to add to it. I have pretty much nothing to add
00:44:58.200
to this. I have no idea what would possess this woman to keep doing infomercials for any company.
00:45:05.000
Even you might say, well, she's promoting South Dakota business. I guess, but why is she promoting
00:45:10.660
that in-soul business over the in-soul business competition of other South Dakotans? I don't,
00:45:17.160
what is it? Here's some speculation. Here's the best I can muster.
00:45:20.100
There was a lot of talk that Kristi Noem was going to be Trump's running mate.
00:45:24.520
And so this is pure speculation. I have no evidence of this whatsoever.
00:45:28.820
Maybe she, she found out that she's not going to be the running mate. So she's throwing caution
00:45:34.720
to the wind and doing all sorts of crazy things that one would expect would preclude her from
00:45:38.120
being the running mate, which she was clearly gunning for and which was potentially on the table.
00:45:44.280
I guess, I guess, I guess that's the best explanation I can hear. But the thing is,
00:45:50.100
it would explain why Kristi Noem would not, not do it. You know, the in-soul company says,
00:45:56.540
we want you to be our pitch man. And she should say, well, actually I'm being considered for vice
00:46:00.120
president of the United States. So I can't become your pitch man dentistry company.
00:46:03.560
And I, it would explain if she, if she, if that, if that thing that she was hoping for,
00:46:08.200
the running mate thing, if that were off the table, we explained why she would not,
00:46:11.700
not do the commercial, but why would she do it? She's a sitting governor.
00:46:14.660
Does she need the money? Does she need the fame? Does she? I don't know.
00:46:22.780
Takes a very humble and handsome man to admit when he doesn't know something. And
00:46:26.300
this is the one, this is the one story that's come across the news in many months where I just
00:46:32.280
think I really, I don't know. And I'd be very curious to hear your explanation as to why the
00:46:36.620
sitting governor of South Dakota is selling insoles in the comment section. There is no member block
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