Ep. 1474 - Are They Trying To Get President Trump Killed？
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A Democratic Congressman is attempting to strip President Trump of his Secret Service protection at precisely the moment that he is most likely to be murdered. Abortion advocate Olivia Rodriquez is on a tour in support of abortion rights, and the Supreme Court of Finland is investigating a member of parliament for sharing a Bible verse.
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I've mentioned a few times over the past few months that as the Democrats' plans to foil Trump
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keep failing, sooner or later, they might even try to kill him. Spying on his campaign didn't work.
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Impeaching him didn't work. They might still imprison him, but after that, there's pretty
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much only one option left. Well, you know, I hate to say I told you so. It seems that I have been
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proven right even sooner than I thought, thanks to Congressman Benny Thompson, a Democrat from
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Mississippi who led the January 6th committee, who is now attempting to strip President Trump of his
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Secret Service protection. Since 1901, the Secret Service has protected every U.S. president.
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And since 1965, just after President Kennedy was assassinated, that protection has been extended
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to former presidents and their wives for the rest of their lives. The reason we have extended that
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courtesy to presidents and former presidents is that lots of people want to murder them.
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According to the FBI, there is currently an Iranian assassin on American soil recruiting
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co-conspirators to murder Trump as revenge for Trump's killing of an Iranian general.
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And for every Iranian hitman, there are probably a hundred, maybe a thousand deranged leftists
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trying to murder Trump every single day. If that were not enough, Benny Thompson specifically wants
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to deprive Trump of Secret Service protection if he is convicted in any one of the Democrats' kangaroo
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courts and sentenced to prison. Because no one's ever murdered in prison, right? A Democrat congressman
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is currently proposing to strip a former president of his security detail for the first time in almost 60
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years at precisely the moment that he is most likely to be murdered. Which means that Trump is not on
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trial for whatever hodgepodge of financial and political crimes the Democrats are preposterously
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alleging. The libs are not just threatening him with life in prison. They're threatening him with the
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death penalty. President Trump is currently on trial for a capital offense. The capital offense of
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beating the Democrats in 2016. I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show.
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Welcome back to the show. California Governor Gavin Newsom is running a new ad about young women who
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were pulled over by the police and forced to take a pregnancy test because all these pro-life laws.
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That ad, it really makes you think, you know, it makes you think that Gavin Newsom is very,
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The libs never give up on pummeling their enemies. They never give up. You would think the libs might have
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been deterred after spying on Trump failed, after imprisoning his associates failed, after impeaching
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him failed, after trying to impeach him again failed, after so on and so forth. They just keep
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pummeling. It's not only true in regards to Trump. It's not only true in the United States. We're seeing
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this right now in Finland, all the way over in happy Finland. The Supreme Court of Finland
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will hear a case of a member of parliament who is being prosecuted for sharing a Bible verse.
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This MP is Paivi Razanen. I don't know how to do it. Seems like a nice lady. Facing charges related to
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her sharing a 2019 tweet that included pictures of a Bible verse and a pamphlet on marriage that she
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wrote in 2004, which is obviously very politically incorrect now, because back in 2004, people still
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believed things about marriage that everyone had always believed everywhere forever, which is
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different than right now when we are not allowed to believe anything about marriage that anyone
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believed anywhere ever before, say, 2015. The charges had been dismissed by the district court
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and the Helsinki Court of Appeal. Doesn't matter. They just, the state prosecutors are just still
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going after this woman. They want to pummel her. They want to punish her for sharing a Bible verse
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and for articulating the view of marriage that statistically everyone held forever. They want to
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fine her tens of thousands of euro, and they want to censor her. She, another person, a bishop,
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Johanna Pohola, not sure bishop of what church, will be tried at the same time on similar charges.
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The charges were brought publicly or were brought first after Razanen, again, please apologies to the
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MP for my poor Finnish pronunciation, after she publicly questioned why the church that she is a part of
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was sponsoring an LGBT pride celebration. So for the crime, this was the inciting incident,
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the crime of asking why a church is celebrating not only disordered sexual acts, which are condemned
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and prohibited many times in the Bible, and of course, throughout the entire history of Christianity
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and the church. But furthermore, even put the weird sex stuff aside for a second. Pride. She's asking,
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why is the church celebrating pride? Pride is the queen of all vices. My friend Andrew Klavan points
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out it's now the vice of all queens. And also, it's the primordial sin. If you believe that there is such
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a thing as sin, which is kind of an important concept for churches, then pride is a pretty big
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one. Some would call it the original sin, from which all the other sins spring. So she says,
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isn't it kind of weird that a church is sponsoring something having to do with pride? And for this,
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she is prosecuted. She was accused of, quote, agitation against a minority group. And where
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is this supposed offense listed? It's listed under a section of, quote, quote, war crimes and crimes
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against humanity in the Finnish law. If you ask, hey, isn't it kind of weird that a church would
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celebrate the original sin and the queen of all vice? You are committing a war crime or some other crime
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against humanity, according to the libs. The case will carry on. I hope this woman and I hope the
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bishop or bishopress or whoever this is, I hope they're all acquitted. It's obviously insane.
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The libs don't stop punishing their enemies. The only takeaway from the story is that, well,
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two takeaways. One, they hate Christianity. They hate the animating spirit of our civilization. They
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hate the truth. They really hate that, and they specifically want to punish you for believing in that.
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But in a way, that's almost secondary to the political observation in this story. The libs
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never stop. We stop. We stop. We go after the Clintons. We don't like the Clintons. We even try
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to impeach Bill Clinton, which we succeed at, but we don't convict him. And then we kind of just let
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him off the hook. Then Hillary runs for Senate. We kind of just let her have it. Then she runs for
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president. And we oppose her. She didn't even get the nomination. We let her off the hook. Then they raise
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tons and tons of money by selling American influence abroad. And they take money from
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all sorts of shady characters around the world. We don't really go after her for it. In the 2016
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race, Trump says, oh, we're going to lock her up. If I'm president, you're going to be in jail.
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We don't really follow through. We just kind of let it go. We let it go. That's what we do. And maybe
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that's a good thing. I, for one, think it's bad to imprison our presidential candidates and former
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president. So maybe it speaks well of our character that we let it go. But the libs don't
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let it go. The libs will just, will just pursue you to the very ends of the earth. There is no
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limit to their wrath or their, their desire for revenge. Now, this is a bad thing because revenge
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is mine, say it, the Lord and I will repay and their foot shall slide in due time. And, you know,
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we don't want to, we don't want to be like the libs, but, but we might consider acknowledging
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the political reality. You know, we might say, look, I don't really care about politics,
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but politics cares about us. We might say, oh, you know what? I'm going to leave the libs alone.
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The libs are going to leave me alone. Well, you might leave them alone. They won't leave you alone.
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We have to be willing to act and wield political power, if not to punish our enemies at the very least
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to circumscribe their ability to punish us because they are not going to stop. Now,
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the libs will not stop pursuing their enemies, but the one thing the libs are stopping increasingly
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is transing the kids. This is really great news. Scotland has just announced that they are going
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to follow the broader British national health service, and they're going to stop transing the
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kids. This is after similar announcements have come out of France and other places around the world.
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Scotland has stopped all new prescriptions of trans-affirming medication. I'm putting this
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all in quotes because there's no such thing as transgenderism, and the medications are horrific
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abuses that harm the patient rather than help the patient. They're stopping puberty blockers for the
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trans-identifying kids. They're stopping cross-sex hormones for minors. There's only one gender
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clinic, youth gender clinic in Scotland, Sandiford in Glasgow, and it's operated by the Scotland NHS,
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and they said they're going to cut it out. Even liberal Scotland recognizes that this is barbaric.
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It's totally unsupportable. It does not play in Peoria or whatever the Scottish version of Peoria is.
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The people are really opposed to castrating little kids and giving them bone problems and shortening
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their life and not helping any of their psychiatric conditions and just lying about human nature and
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pretending a boy can be a girl. It turns out that people don't like that, and they're not getting
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on board, so even liberal Scotland is going to stop it. Meanwhile, America, full steam ahead.
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Meanwhile, the president of the United States, supposedly moderate Joe Biden, full steam ahead,
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signing laws to expand the trans so-called therapies for little kids, signing these executive
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orders, while flanked by sexually confused kids. Really gross, really weird, really creepy,
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but this proves America is the outlier here, kind of like on abortion. On abortion, even places we
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consider more liberal than we are, places like France, they have much stricter abortion laws
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than we do in America, certainly before Roe v. Wade was overruled, even today. America is in the
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category of barbaric abortion that includes Canada, America's evil top hat, and also China and North
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Korea. We are a far extreme outlier on the pro-abortion front, which we'll get to in a moment
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with Gavin Newsom trying to make us even more extreme. Why is it? Why is America the outlier
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on this issue, on the abortion issue, but also especially on the transgender issue?
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We seem to be the only country that's not either dismissing this crazy ideology out of hand or at
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least restricting it a little bit, preventing kids from falling into it too quickly. Why is this
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an American problem? I gave a speech recently on transgenderism, America's problem. I forget which
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school that was at, but if you just Google that speech title, you can find it on YouTube. It was in
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the past few weeks. I think it's because of the American ideology. Love America. It's a great
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country. It really is a land of opportunity. But great virtues can become vices if they're taken out
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of context, if they're removed from all of the other virtues and they're left to wander freely and
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madly. And I think that's what's happened here. There's an idea, because of America's unique
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founding, America's exceptional founding and development, that gives us the sense that we
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really can do and be anything we want in America. It's true. We have a lot of opportunity, but we
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can't contradict nature. We can't contradict logic. We can't contradict reality. A kid who was born poor
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to drug-addled parents with tough circumstances in the ghetto can, in principle, become the CEO of a big
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company, can become a U.S. senator, can become the president of the United States. That can happen in
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America. It can't happen in every country in the world. But no man can ever become a woman.
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Because it is not contrary to nature that a poor kid becomes a big success. It's not contrary even to
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the political tradition and institutions of America that a kid from bad circumstances makes something of
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himself. It is contrary to nature and reality that a man can become a woman. It can't happen. But we've
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taken that ideology that you can be whatever you want here, and we've taken it to an absurd extreme
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beyond the confines and the limits of logic. And the results of that are tragic. And the national
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results of that are that we look like complete lunatics on the international stage. Because even some of
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the biggest lib countries in the world recognize this is crazy. There is so much more to say. First
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description and go check out The Ballad of Davy Crockett. Speaking of the trans mania,
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really disturbing story. By the way, I should say, we have recently been informed that a certain
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talking about certain politically incorrect types of stories. So it might be the case that a fair bit
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of this show has been censored today on this social media and video platform. If you want to watch the
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2024, you got to go to dailywire.com. You can also listen on the RSS feeds and the podcast apps. You can also
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check it out on X if you follow at M Knowles show, but you won't be able to get some of those stories on
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one of the big video platforms. Let's leave it at that. Really disturbing story. There is a patient
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from Florida who I don't, I actually don't know this person's sex.
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He, I mean, he is the gender neutral pronoun, so we'll just say he. He calls himself non-binary.
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So he goes to a surgeon in Texas, a, not even a normally depraved gender clinic, as all of them are
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pretty much, but an especially depraved one that does all kinds of crazy Frankenstein surgeries.
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And I mean, it's been, it's actually been called Frankenstein's lab in Texas. And this person
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had all of his genitals removed. So it's, it's called the Barbie surgery. And I think you can
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probably use your imagination. It means that you're just kind of flat. You just become flat like a Barbie
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doll. This procedure costs $10,000 up front. It's, it's described as a body modification journey that
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this individual host will transform him into a non-normative human. Okay. And, and the Frankenstein
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lab is more than happy to take the money because that's their whole shtick is they just do these
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freak show sorts of surgeries, the sorts of things that, that doctors who have any kind of ethics
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whatsoever, who in any way seek to uphold the Hippocratic oath that they have to take before
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they start practicing medicine, they won't touch this stuff. So you got to go to the freak show
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Frankenstein lab in Texas to have it done. This person did it. These, these predatory doctors took
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this person's money and then they chopped his genitals off. My question for this, about this
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politically is, will the adults can do whatever they want crowd object to this? I'm not worried
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about the libs. The libs obviously support this because they support all sorts of perverse and
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downright demonic attacks on humanity and human nature. I'm asking about the so-called political right.
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I'm asking about the so-called conservatives or the libertarians because I hold the view on this
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stuff that statistically everyone everywhere held for all of human history. I, I use that phrase a lot
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because I don't mean to overuse it or make it cliche, but I think it's precise. The view I hold on this
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is that a man can't really become a woman and that it's wrong to start just chopping people up
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and harming them under the, uh, guise of medical care. That is an opinion that until about 10 years
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ago, basically everyone in the whole world held forever. And yet I am called an extremist now
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because I continue to hold that view. The, the, the more moderate position now is considered to be,
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look, we shouldn't do this to little kids, but once they turn 18, it's okay. Or even once they turn 16,
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it's okay. Or who knows where that scale is going to end up. So the lib position, the left-wing
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position is perform the Barbie surgery on any lunatic who wants it. The, the conservative position
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is, Hey, don't do that until you turn nine. You know, Hey, that's wrong to do if you're in third
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grade, but maybe in fourth or fifth grade, it's okay. And then I don't know, I guess my position's
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far right-wing extremist authoritarian fascist, whatever, whatever nonsense word they want to
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use. Because I say we shouldn't do this to anyone because it's harmful to the patient and totally
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contrary to medicine and to health and to reason and to logic. And so my view, which was held by
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everyone forever until recently, uh, that's totally fringe and extreme. Well, where do you fall on it?
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This is a little bit of a gut check on your conservatism, because if you recognize that
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this is obviously awful and harmful to the patient and predatory by the doctors and just contrary to
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the common good and to all sorts of charity, then you got to say that we need to ban
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transgenderism from public life entirely. Then you have to say the point that I was pilloried for
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at CPAC two years ago where, where I was defamed by the liberal media and they tried to cancel me.
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And fortunately, because, uh, I think most people agree with me and also because there were some
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courageous politicians and public figures who defended me, they weren't able to succeed at
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canceling me. But that's the conclusion I think you got to come to. If the Barbie surgery at the
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Frankenstein lab in Texas is wrong, then it means that transgenderism is not just a problem when it's
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done to kids. It's, it's wrong for everyone. It's harmful to everyone involved in it. And so for
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the good of society, and especially for the good of the poor people who fall on prey to this confusion,
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transgenderism must be eradicated from public life entirely. It seems to me that is the inescapable
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this, I, I, I have to put, maybe I view, I guess I view this ad differently than the libs do.
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They're driving. And the one girl says, we're almost there. Oh, good. We're almost, oh, I'm just so happy.
00:26:25.320
We remember that, right? That's the, the, the, the action that is being undertaken by the characters
00:26:34.600
in this ad is that these two women are going to murder one of the women's children. That's not,
00:26:42.120
am I, am I the only one who looks at this and says, uh, actually that lady's not the hero. And then,
00:26:47.420
but then, then it gets really crazy black mirror, you know, uh, uh, uh, what's the old version of
00:26:54.600
black mirror twilight zone kind of show where the cop pulls the girls over and says, you need to step
00:27:00.680
out of the car, ma'am and take a pregnancy test. Uh, so my question is who is proposing this?
00:27:10.500
Who is proposing that cops be armed with guns and pepper spray and billy clubs and pregnancy tests?
00:27:20.340
Has anyone proposed that? Has anyone, has anyone suggested that? No, not one person in the whole
00:27:26.780
country has suggested that. Furthermore, who is proposing and trying to advance legislation that
00:27:35.180
would punish women for having abortions? You, you might say, well, you know, it's murdering a child
00:27:42.260
and therefore it makes sense that it was no one, no prominent Republican in the whole country is
00:27:51.600
advancing legislation to punish women for having abortions. In fact, the pro-life movement has taken a,
00:27:58.580
uh, decisive and explicit stance against such a proposal. The pro-life movement seeks to punish
00:28:06.280
abortionists, seeks to punish the abortion industry, but the pro-life movement actually
00:28:11.840
gives a lot of care and a lot of charity to women who find themselves pregnant,
00:28:16.980
even to women who have just had abortions. Any pregnancy center you go to in America,
00:28:21.220
according to a pro-life pregnancy center, not the abortion mills like Planned Parenthood,
00:28:23.740
you go to anyone, they will have resources on hand for women who have, who have just killed
00:28:29.440
their babies, who've just had abortion because they, they actually live up to their reputation
00:28:34.220
of caring for babies and their mothers. Even mothers who have done something egregious and awful,
00:28:41.020
wittingly or unwillingly, wittingly with full knowledge or without full knowledge,
00:28:44.620
with full consent or without full consent of killing their kids. Every single one. I traveled to a fair
00:28:50.880
number of these organizations, every single one. I've, I've yet to come across one that does not
00:28:56.380
do such a thing. So the Democrats here are fear-mongering over something that is not happening
00:29:03.520
that no one is proposing. Meanwhile, Republicans fear-monger too. We have our own scare ads,
00:29:11.840
but you'll notice we fear-monger over things that the Democrats are actually doing currently.
00:29:17.320
Republicans have advertisements about how the Democrats are trying to trans your kids
00:29:23.120
and put gay porn in the elementary schools and take away your guns and do things that the
00:29:28.580
Democrats are actively doing right and defund the police and open up the border and destroy the
00:29:32.500
economy. All of our fear-mongering is not only grounded in things that plausibly could happen
00:29:39.360
that the Democrats are proposing. Our fear-mongering is pointing out things that are occurring right now
00:29:44.920
that are undeniable and the Democrats still attempt to deny it. So why do the Democrats have to fear-monger
00:29:50.680
on this ridiculous issue? It's, it's a laughable advertisement that no one is doing and no one is
00:29:57.280
even proposing because they got nothing else. What are they going to attack? Democrats have all the
00:30:02.140
political power. The country's going to pot. Everyone knows it. No one thinks that very few people
00:30:08.400
think the country is going in the right direction. So they just have to make stuff up. That's what it
00:30:11.640
comes down to. And it tells you a lot about the relative position and accomplishments of the two
00:30:18.520
parties. That when Republicans want to hit Democrats, we hit them for things that they are currently
00:30:23.320
doing. And when Democrats want to hit Republicans, they just make up a bunch of stuff that no one is
00:30:27.420
even suggesting in the future. Speaking of dumb stuff, did you know that IQ is dropping for the first
00:30:35.820
time in a century? We haven't measured IQ all that long, but it's dropping. One of the strange facts
00:30:43.360
about IQ, the intelligence quotient is that it's been rising for, well, for a century now. Doesn't
00:30:50.560
matter the geography, doesn't matter the races that are being measured, doesn't matter. There are,
00:30:54.940
there are disparities in IQ between different groups and different places and different backgrounds.
00:30:59.540
But everyone's IQ had been increasing. Now IQ is dropping. Why? Well, this is a report on Daily
00:31:07.820
Mail, which has reviewed some studies on this, including reporting from Psychology Today. And
00:31:15.540
the culprit, at least according to the experts who study this, is technology. Technology is making us
00:31:24.080
dumber. Specifically, one innovation that they're pointing to is the loss of handwriting from
00:31:30.420
classrooms. Kids are, or until very recently, had not been taught to write by hand for 10 or 15 years.
00:31:36.960
That was just dropped out of the curriculum around 2010. Remember when you were in school,
00:31:40.580
you'd learn how to write in print, and then you'd learn how to write in cursive or longhand. And then,
00:31:44.620
then they kind of dropped cursive a little bit. Now, I don't even think people write by,
00:31:48.600
in print so much because they just have computers and tablets and smartphones. And so they just,
00:31:53.000
they type more. And this is apparently causing deficiencies in learning. Because when you write
00:32:00.800
by hand, the consequence of that is not just a note card or a sheet of paper. The consequence of
00:32:06.600
that is your brain is working in a specific way. You're forming neural connections that will help
00:32:12.280
your brain to develop and will help you to think better as you grow older. Not just about how to make
00:32:17.480
the really difficult Z letter in cursive or something, but how to think generally. And now
00:32:23.020
that's gone. So now, all of a sudden, there are new bills in places like California and New York
00:32:29.140
requiring students to learn cursive writing. Some other states are hesitant to revert back,
00:32:36.280
but the educators seem unanimous on this. The loss of basic skills, like a fine motor skill,
00:32:43.460
such as handwriting, is causing kids to get dumber. And you're seeing this reflected in broader IQ
00:32:49.420
trends. Pull it out of the classroom for a second. Extrapolate it beyond the cursive lessons.
00:32:57.460
This is a warning about what happens when you outsource your brain. When you outsource your brain,
00:33:04.800
you diminish yourself. It's like the difference between watching a movie and doing a thing.
00:33:10.680
If you, it's fun to go watch a movie every so often, but if you just watch movies all day long,
00:33:17.120
you're just sitting there eating popcorn, watching movies, letting the glittering images in front of
00:33:20.560
you just happen, you will ultimately feel worse. You will atrophy. Your brain will atrophy. Your
00:33:26.560
physical muscles will atrophy because you will be living in a way that is passive and not active.
00:33:32.740
The extreme of this, speaking of movies, is the matrix where we just, if we live in the matrix world,
00:33:38.820
we just plug our brains in to some computer and we just passively receive pleasure, but we don't
00:33:44.260
actually do anything. And so you don't really have any skills. That is not going to make you happy in
00:33:50.100
the long run. It's certainly not going to make you smart or productive in the long run. Now,
00:33:54.000
there have been fears about technology such as this since antiquity. Even the fears in ancient Greece
00:34:00.100
that the development of writing and scrolls would diminish people's ability to memorize,
00:34:08.120
which is true, actually. It probably did diminish people's ability to memorize. And that's true with
00:34:13.460
the development of technology like scrolls and books. And so, does that mean we shouldn't have
00:34:17.380
scrolls and books? No, not exactly. But we have to figure out some way to be active, to live in the
00:34:22.180
world in accordance with reality, which means the physical world. This is the real day. It's not
00:34:28.840
that computers are just bad per se and we should throw them out, though I would like to spend less
00:34:32.540
time on computers and screens. It's that we have, there's just a fact that we have bodies and the
00:34:37.080
world is physical and we move through time and space and history. So you got to engage that. And if
00:34:41.440
you just let your body atrophy, I'm one to talk. I never exercise. I probably should. If you let your
00:34:48.340
body atrophy, you ignore the physical world, that is not going to conduce to your flourishing. Do not
00:34:54.900
outsource your brain. Now, speaking of work and sitting at a computer all day, there is a guy who's
00:35:00.600
gone viral. And there's actually a series of videos that have gone viral demonstrating normal life and
00:35:10.320
causing people to recoil in horror. Here is one such video. He's a guy, got a mustache. It's his life
00:35:18.940
after college, 28-year-old with a 9 to 5. Drives to work, gets out of the elevator. He says 9 to 5 is
00:35:25.140
really 7 to 4. Spends mornings checking his email, then he takes lunch at 11. Gets his lunch, some
00:35:34.600
quesadillas. Takes it back to his desk. Sits there, has a little break. Washes his hands.
00:35:43.760
Goes and does some more spreadsheets. Then he, you know, gets some water. He's got a mug. It says
00:35:49.660
normalize the norm. Then he leaves, goes to his car, picks up some groceries. Grocery store on the way
00:35:59.180
home. Some fruits, milk, you know. Cliff bars. I can't really get into that. Goes back home. Changes
00:36:05.460
into workout gear. Says normalize the norm. Then he goes and works out outside.
00:36:12.580
Then he makes one of these protein shakes that the, you know, the athlete type guys do.
00:36:18.780
And the commentary on social media, mostly from spoiled little children, is that this is
00:36:28.000
horrifying. This is the worst way to live. Could you imagine this awful existence? A life of quiet
00:36:33.340
desperation, as some have said. Seems fine. Now, when the Zoomers and some of the catastrophists are
00:36:46.420
looking at this and they're saying, this is horrible. This is a life of quiet desperation.
00:36:49.540
What a boring, awful way to live. I side with the boomers and Gen X and the millennials who say,
00:36:57.580
you know, listen, kid, you know, go to work and quit your belly aching. I understand their point,
00:37:03.160
and I do agree with that. But the Zoomers have a point. The people who are looking at that video
00:37:07.020
and saying, this is awful. What a terrible life. I don't want to do that. It looks so boring. It looks
00:37:11.200
so soulless. I sympathize with them. I empathize with them. I've had kind of a crazy career. So I
00:37:17.760
actually did reject that sort of life of predictability and normality. Though I've later
00:37:25.160
on come into it because I've come to learn that normality is a good thing. The point that the
00:37:30.840
Zoomers and the critics of this video have is that life must be about more than this.
00:37:36.040
And the point that the millennials and the Gen X and the Zoomers and the boomers rather have is
00:37:41.940
life, a life that looks like that at work can also be about more than that. Because what's missing in
00:37:49.300
that video is the guy's wife. I think, I think he's got a wedding ring on it in the video. So he's
00:37:53.260
married. It's just not in there. The thing that's missing is kids. The thing that's missing is the
00:37:57.500
family reunion. The thing that's missing is his civic association that he joins. The thing that's
00:38:02.580
missing is his going to church. The thing that's missing is his going to the school board meeting.
00:38:06.560
The thing that's missing is his taking a drive through the country. The thing that's missing is
00:38:10.820
all the rest of the stuff of life. This is just a narrow little sliver of what this guy does.
00:38:17.820
The spoiled Zoomers who are criticizing this, the reason they're criticizing it is because they don't
00:38:23.560
have much sense that you need material prosperity in order to serve the basic necessities of life.
00:38:29.920
But you do need that. You got to work. And work is work sometimes. Even if you have a really fun
00:38:34.520
job, I have a fun job. But sometimes work is work. Even for me, even if you're doing the thing that
00:38:39.440
you totally want to be doing, sometimes you just got to grind through it and work. But if that is all
00:38:44.360
your life is, which is presently, unfortunately, in a lot of people's minds, that life is just about
00:38:49.820
going to work and getting stuff and then going home and being alone and not having family and just
00:38:56.900
then you wake up and do it again, then your life will be miserable. Then that will be a desperate
00:39:00.680
life. Not because you're working a stable job that provides you a decent income, but because you have
00:39:04.980
no idea what to do with that income and you have no idea to do with the leisure time that that
00:39:08.560
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judged at dailywireplus.com. My favorite comment yesterday is from the Drummer's Workshop Norm's
00:39:54.540
Music. I don't look at the names of the commenters. I just pick the comment. It just happens. The
00:39:59.440
Drummer's Workshop Norm's Music, he pops up a lot. To quote Joe Biden's uncle, Joey, it's simple.
00:40:06.080
Those men were hungry. It's a great comment. For those of you who don't, they always say nothing's
00:40:11.680
funnier than explaining a joke. You might recall Joe Biden made up some story about how he, when he's in
00:40:16.740
1950s Delaware or Scranton, he's driving up, he sees a couple of dudes making out with each other
00:40:22.320
in the middle of the street. And Joe Biden's father, Joe Biden was born in the 1940s. Joe Biden's father
00:40:26.980
born, what, in the 19-teens or something, supposedly turns to Biden and says, Joey, those men, they just
00:40:33.660
love each other. Joey, it's simple. They just love each other. Now, that story did not happen. If we're
00:40:39.800
actually talking about 1940s Delaware, Joe Biden's, you know, blue-collar Irish father probably would
00:40:45.160
have run the men over. Okay, I don't mean to besmirch the memory of Joe Biden's father, but
00:40:49.480
give me a break. Okay, Joey, they just love each other. Uh-uh. So, you're right. That's the sequel.
00:40:55.220
Joe Biden's uncle gets eaten by New Guinea cannibals. Joey, Joey, those men, they were just hungry.
00:41:00.860
They were just, come on, Joey, you got to see things from their point of view.
00:41:04.700
Joe Biden was raised by Atticus Finch, I think. Speaking of the youths and working, millennials,
00:41:12.280
millennials, according to a new poll, are supporting a four-day work week. Okay, I amend
00:41:16.880
my previous point. The grouches who say, quit your bellyaching and just work, I guess that's
00:41:23.020
just the boomers and Gen X. I guess the millennials are on Team Zoomer whining about doing any actual
00:41:28.380
work. But they kind of have a point, too. They kind of have a point, okay? I'm sorry. I can't
00:41:36.500
just identify with the boomers and the Gen X because they're missing a really important gripe
00:41:42.900
that the Zoomers and the millennials have. The Zoomers are expressing this by the horror of
00:41:47.880
mundane living, absent the things that make life really, really special and worthwhile.
00:41:54.600
The millennials are expressing their dismay with work by calling for a four-day work week.
00:42:00.760
There's a recent poll conducted for Newsweek by Redfield and Wilton Strategies,
00:42:04.260
found that of all people, of all generations, millennials are most in favor of reducing
00:42:10.040
their weekly work hours. Apparently, the poll found that 63% of voters support transitioning
00:42:20.460
to a four-day work week. 46% believe it will make workers more productive. So a clear majority of
00:42:27.080
people want to work less. Less than half of them say it will actually make workers more productive.
00:42:33.980
But they just want to work less. Now, millennials, of all the groups,
00:42:39.740
nearly three-quarters of them say that they want to reduce their working hours.
00:42:44.040
44% are strongly in favor of that shorter work week. An additional 30% generally support the idea.
00:42:49.480
Only 8% of millennials oppose the idea of this four-day work week. Okay, so what do we think
00:42:53.580
about it? The grouch boomers and Gen X will say, you spoiled brats, you should be working seven days
00:43:01.500
a week. When I was a young man, I walked uphill in the snow both ways to go to work. And I worked
00:43:07.660
26 hours a day to provide for my family. The millennials and the Zoomers say, I don't want
00:43:14.880
to work. I don't want to work. What do I think about this? I support the four-day work week in
00:43:21.920
principle. In principle, I support it. Well, we used to have a six-day work week. Then in recent
00:43:30.420
decades, or at least the last century, we got a five-day work week. We could have a four-day work
00:43:36.700
week. I guess we could have a six-day work week again. I don't know. It's somewhat arbitrary.
00:43:40.420
It's social norms. We could have a seven-day work week if we want to ignore the Sabbath.
00:43:44.240
So we could. Yeah, you could move it. In principle, I support it. In practice, I do not.
00:43:50.620
In practice, I don't think that the problem in America right now is that we're all working too
00:43:55.540
hard. I don't really. There is a problem that we don't know what to do with our leisure time.
00:44:04.240
But that's not for lack of time. That's for lack of education. The point of education
00:44:08.540
is not to train you to do a job. The point of education is to train you to make good use of
00:44:15.080
your leisure time. It's not vocational training. It's training for leisure. It's to cultivate
00:44:20.620
interests and habits and culture. It's for culture, right? So that you can make sense of
00:44:26.940
your freedom. That's why we call it liberal arts. People don't have that now. People have free time.
00:44:34.300
Even when I'm working a crazy week, there's a little bit of free time somewhere.
00:44:41.200
And even I, what do I do with my free time? I'm someone who takes this really seriously. I really
00:44:45.760
have tried to cultivate interests to make good use of my leisure time. And yet, what am I doing most
00:44:50.520
of the time? Probably doom scrolling. That's what I'm doing. I'm probably squandering that leisure time.
00:44:56.520
Americans are much less likely to get married now. We're having many fewer children. We're less
00:45:02.420
involved in our communities. We're politically very disengaged. And this is more and more pronounced
00:45:07.000
the younger you look. We're religiously increasingly disengaged. We're not. So what are we going to do
00:45:14.340
with those three days off? We're not even making good use of the two days off right now. That's a big
00:45:21.220
problem. Because idle hands are the devil's playground. So I have no problem with people
00:45:25.040
working a little bit less. If we're going to make good use of that time, if that's going to serve the
00:45:29.460
community, if that's going to help individuals to prosper and flourish and become the best version
00:45:34.420
of themselves. But I see no evidence that that's the case. Probably right now, if you gave people
00:45:38.820
an extra day off, what they would do is doom scroll more, look at porn, and blow money on frivolous
00:45:45.980
brunches. Probably is what would happen. Now, the brunch would be the most productive and defensible
00:45:50.460
thing that people would do. So I'm totally happy to have a conversation about a four-day workweek.
00:45:57.640
But first, we need to make sure that that would actually help people and lead to their personal
00:46:03.320
growth and flourishing and the growth of strong families and strong communities rather than harm
00:46:07.220
them, which I suspect exactly what would happen now. Speaking of making bad use of your free time,
00:46:12.960
there was a major protest at Columbia University led by, I guess, the Hamas faction of the student
00:46:23.040
Democrats. This anti-Jewish protest that took place in New York City on the Columbia campus.
00:46:30.140
Well, here's the sort of things they were saying.
00:46:35.280
Uncultured, A-S-S-B-I-T-C-H-E-S, go back to Europe.
00:47:28.480
Now, this protest should interest even non-Jews.
00:47:33.980
Because maybe you don't really care about the Jews.
00:47:36.160
Maybe you don't really care about the state of Israel.
00:47:37.800
Maybe you don't care about anything other than yourself.
00:47:41.360
Like, I suspect you have broader interests and charity and stuff like that.
00:47:51.200
One cannot help but notice that all of the attacks that the Hamas faction of Columbia University are levying against the Jews are the same attacks that they throw at non-Jewish white people.
00:48:19.720
You might have all sorts of reasons why you don't like Israel or you question the actions of Israel or whatever.
00:48:28.620
Whatever, you know, conversation you want to have about that, we can have that at some point too.
00:48:33.020
But it is simply a fact, much of the vitriol against the state of Israel right now, much of the reasoning as to why we got to stop supporting the state of Israel is being levied by the political left along the exact same lines of logic and argumentation that they attack non-Jewish white people, that they attack Europe, that they attack the United States.
00:49:17.460
You got to see what they did at Yale University.
00:49:22.820
We'll get to my own beloved alma mater descending into, you know.
00:49:28.100
I know Yale some years ago launched a satellite campus in Singapore.
00:49:33.560
Perhaps we'll launch a satellite campus now in Raqqa or something.
00:49:38.260
We'll do a split with, you know, the University of Hezbollah or something.
00:49:45.760
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