Ep. 1476 - You Need An Ivy League Education To Be This Ignorant
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In the wake of the latest wave of protests on U.S. campuses in support of the Palestine Liberation Movement, a reporter asks a student protestor just what exactly she's protesting and what she wants. Plus, a new report that Kanye West is planning a porn studio.
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Amid the wave of campus protests in support of the Palestine Liberation Movement,
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one intrepid reporter decided to ask an NYU student protester just what exactly she was
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protesting. Here is her response. What would you say is the main goal with tonight's protest?
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I think the goal is just showing our support for Palestine and demanding that NYU stops.
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I honestly don't know all of what NYU is doing. Is there something that NYU is doing?
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I really don't know. I'm pretty sure they're, do you know what NYU is doing?
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I came from Columbia. I was there up at Columbia and we came down and said NYU should make some
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support. So I came down, I heard there's lots of cops. Some people were saying it was getting
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What are we protesting? I'm glad that this girl clarified that she is not an NYU
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student. She is only visiting NYU to protest after traveling downtown from Columbia because it
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takes an Ivy League education to be that ignorant. As is usually the case, most of these people are
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not protesting anything in particular. They're just sort of protesting as they do more and more
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these days. But the protests demonstrate more than merely the ignorance of the protesters.
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We are seeing ever more of these demonstrations over ever more confusing grievances because the
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political order here is fraying. People feel rightly or wrongly that the governing powers are
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unaccountable. They feel that the political order is unintelligible. They can't make sense of it and
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they can't do anything about it. So they yell and scream until they are dragged away or more likely
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just get tired and go home. Move on to the next thing. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael
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Welcome back to the show. There is a report out that Kanye West is planning to launch a pornography
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The bull ring on that girl. Never a good sign. For those of you who are only listening,
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that student protester from Columbia, she had a nose ring, but it wasn't even the little nose ring
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on the side of your nose, which if it's a little dot or even the ring itself, it can sometimes be kind
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of cute. It's not, you know, not, it's, it's okay. Sometimes it's okay. But the one that is truly
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never a good sign is the ring right in the middle of the nose, like a bull, like bulls have, you know,
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and I notice the real leftists, the real angry, lost, wayward, down the path to misery kind of
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leftist girls, they have the middle nose ring and not good. Like there's something about it that's kind
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of demonic seeming to me. I'm not saying there, I just, they look like bulls, like bulls being
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dragged around by their slave masters. Not, not a good sign. And then she opened her mouth and proved
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that prejudice correct. Now, speaking of America and the world, there was a poll out, I teased it
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yesterday at the end of the show, that asks voters what percentage of them think that the U.S.
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has control over its borders. And just think what number that might be. If the number were 50%,
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that is, even that is not great news for Joe Biden. 50% say that he as president won't even
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enforce the most basic laws of a country. Ooh, that's not good, but it's not 20% and it's not 40
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and it's not 30. Just 20% of eligible voters think that the United States has control over its borders.
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This according to a survey taken by Redfield and Wilton Strategies on behalf of Newsweek.
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Bad news. There is no way for Democrats to make up that gap. The border is a big issue. It's a,
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it's a top toward the top of the priority list for a lot of people. And there's no way between now and
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November to go from 20% think we have control over the borders to 60%. It just can't happen.
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So the only strategy for Democrats is to focus on other issues. This is something that I have
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encouraged my Republican friends and fellow conservatives to take note of. Democrats are
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very good at politics. They're very crafty and they don't fight hopeless battles and they don't tilt at
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windmills. Generally, they recognize if they're, if they're weak on something, if they have a major
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vulnerability, like on the border, you're not going to, you're not going to win by doubling down and
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explaining why actually it's really good to have a totally open border or actually the millions of
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foreigners pouring into our country each year or don't really exist. That's not really happening.
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These are not the droids you're looking for or actually, actually, actually, they don't do that.
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They just focus on other things. They point over there. They say, look at, look at that butterfly.
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Look at the, look at abortion. Hey, everybody go look at abortion. Hey, everybody go look at Donald
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Trump's going to prison. Hey, everybody look, there was an insurrection or whatever. They just,
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they know when to hold them, know when to fold them, know when to walk away, know when to run.
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So this is an issue that the Republicans should be pummeling. If we have any sense,
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we know this issue matters to people. We know the Democrats are basically could not be in a worse
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position on the issue. The only way they can get out of it is by turning people's attention away from
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it. Unfortunately, a lot of Republicans and conservatives are going to let them do it.
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Don't let them do it. Keep that attention on the border. Now, speaking of the border,
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new report out from the Boston Globe, several illegal aliens who were flown by Florida Governor
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Ryan DeSantis up to Martha's Vineyard. You remember that last year? All the illegal aliens pouring into
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the country, DeSantis and Governor Abbott in Texas decide, okay, well, we're going to make the
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Democrats feel the pain of illegal immigration. We're going to send them to not just New York and
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Chicago. We're going to send them to Martha's Vineyard. Actually, before Governor DeSantis or Governor
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Abbott did this, years ago, Senator Ted Cruz was calling for this. He said, I want to fly,
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these illegal aliens to Martha's Vineyard, to Cape Cod, to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which is where Joe
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Biden lives. The Democrats don't need to feel the negative social consequences of illegal immigration
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most of the time. You got to make them feel it. So DeSantis and Abbott do it as governors.
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And now we find out that several of these illegal aliens have been granted crime visas.
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So they've been granted visas. They're allowed to stay here. And specifically, they've been
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granted crime visas, which I guess makes sense because they committed crimes and now they get
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visas. That's how crime visas work in America, I guess. The way that the liberal establishment
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tells us crime visas work is if you are here and a crime is committed against you, you can get a
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special visa because of that. It's technically called a U visa. Typically, quote, set aside for
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victims of certain crimes who have suffered mental or physical abuse and are helpful to law enforcement
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or government officials in the investigation or prosecution of criminal activity.
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Totally, totally ridiculous. The suggestion here is that they've suffered abuse. They've suffered some
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crime because what? Because Ron DeSantis chartered an airplane and sent them to one of the nicest places
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in America with some of the highest property values? No. No, they're getting these special visas
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just after they leave the really nice areas, right? Those Democrats who are welcoming the illegal aliens
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across the border, they got them out of Martha's Vineyard within 48 hours. Oh, we love you. Please come
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give us your poor huddled masses. Not here. No, no, no. Not here. Over there. Come, please. We want
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you. You're welcome. No human being is illegal. Over there. Over there. About maybe like 10 miles down
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the road from my beach house, but not here. Not on the beach. I'm going to call the cops. I'm going to
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throw you into the ocean, actually, if you come anywhere near my beach house. But now that you're over
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there, now that you're far away and others, especially red state and purple state governors have to deal
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with you. Yeah. Now you get your visa. That's what they do. And they're going to keep doing it. And
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they're going to use every little trick in the book, including now the U visas, the crime visas for
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the, they suffered the crime of law enforcement trying to enforce the law. Speaking of not having
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control over our political order, another study out from the media research center showing with detail
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all of the times that just Facebook alone has interfered in US elections. So I've mentioned
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this before. I mean, all the liberal clap trap about how the Russians are meddling in the election
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to help Donald Trump with all the meddling in the election rigging and blah, blah, blah. It's the libs
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who do it. And far more than the Russians have ever meddled in the election. What did they do? They spent
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$100,000 or $200,000 in Facebook ads in the 2016 election. Facebook itself spent $400 million in
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the 2020 election and invested that in left-wing groups that then took really tangible steps to
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rig the election, including moving ballot drop boxes, in some cases illegally far away from county
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clerk offices. And just, I mean, in Mark Zuckerberg's own words, really putting the thumb on the scales
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of the election to make sure Trump did not get re-elected. So we know that this happens. We have
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some examples come to mind, like in 2020 when Facebook dumped hundreds of millions of dollars
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In 2012, Facebook suspended a veteran political action committee because they posted a meme drawing
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attention to the attack on Benghazi that the Obama administration mishandled, totally flubbed,
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allowed to happen, I guess, and then lied about. And so a veteran PAC posted a meme, just a little
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meme about it. They suspended that PAC. 2016, Facebook censored Bernie Sanders. Then a, you know,
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something of a real challenge to Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination for president.
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Just censored him outright, censored conservative topics and news. I was here at the time. That was
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right around the time Daily Wire started up. We experienced this. I mean, I saw this part really
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firsthand. And it hurt not only conservatives, but it hurt any opponent to the liberal establishment,
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including Bernie Sanders. 2018, Facebook censored multiple candidates for Congress and state
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legislatures. Removing ads for my own senator here, Marsha Blackburn, for Matt Rosendale in Montana,
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for Michigan State Senate Republican candidate, for President Trump, and on and on. 2020, we know
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what happened in 2020. Obviously, the censorship went through the roof. And then separately, Mark
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Zuckerberg was spending a ton of money to rig the election. In 2022, Facebook censored lots of
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gubernatorial candidates and candidates for U.S. Congress. Were they, you know, 50-50 Republicans and
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Democrats? No, they were focusing on Republicans. And on and on. Go check it out. There are 39 really
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good examples here. The takeaway for conservatives and Republicans is that power does not go away.
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You can't make power go away. There are some people, especially who are a little more
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libertarian-minded, who just, they say, we got to take this power away from the government.
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We got to stop these powerful actors from putting their thumbs on the scales. Power doesn't go away.
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Power is conserved. You know, like in physics, you learn that energy is always conserved.
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Power is always conserved. The question is just, where is it going to go? So when we limit what
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government and what candidates can do, the power doesn't just disappear. You hear the libertarian
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harangues against big government. When we talk about government, by the way, we should talk about
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governments. There's the federal government or the state governments, county governments,
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overlapping sorts of layers of government, different branches of government. When we limit
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what those governments can do and what the candidates can do and how much money the candidate
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political action committees can raise and how they can spend that money, the power just goes somewhere
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else. In this case, the power, when you take the power away from the candidate political action
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committees, just goes to super PACs. And the super PACs are technically not allowed to coordinate with the
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candidates. They kind of do. I mean, they try not to. They try to stay on the good side of the law,
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but it's very, very blurry and ambiguous rules. It goes there. And then the power goes to private
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corporations. So we say, okay, good. The government can't be too involved in these elections. Oh, good.
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And those politicians, they can't be taking too many donations. Okay, well, now Mark Zuckerberg is going
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to control our elections. Is that better? I don't think that's better. Mark Zuckerberg is just about
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as liberal as our liberal established government order, and he's much less accountable.
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And he's one guy. That's a lot of concentrated power. If we're going to have a monarch, at least
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give us a monarch. At least give us a guy with some dignity, who's trained for this, who has a sense of,
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you know, I don't know, God and the moral order and the political tradition and history. Don't give us
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some nerd from Silicon Valley who's made himself emperor of the country. There's going to be power.
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There's going to be power. Stop. This is kind of like the argument we were all having over free
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speech a few years ago. You got to just recognize that the fight is, it's not even on the same axis
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that you're looking at. People always thought the fight over free speech was between free speech and
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censorship. It's not. The point of my book, Speechless, was to say, actually, just look at a
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different axis. Thank you. It's a fight between one set of standards and norms and another set of
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standards and norms. The same is true here. The battle for our political order is not between
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a really powerful political order and a weaker political order, more conducive to liberty.
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The amount of power that there is, is static at any discrete moment. The question is,
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where's the power going to go? You got to look at a different axis here. Is it going to be in the
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hands of the government? Is it going to be in the hands of private corporations? Is it going to be in
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the hands of political candidates? Is it going to be in the hands of outside political consultants?
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Where's it going to be? You've got to strike whatever the right balance is. And right now,
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it's totally off balance and it favors the libs. Speaking of this kind of anti-Trump activism,
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Fox News, Fox News, ostensibly conservative right-wing cable news channel, at least it was
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considered that way for many years, probably not considered so much that anymore. Fox just aired an ad
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I was wondering if you guys are hiring right now. I was thinking about applying for a job.
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I was thinking about applying for a job here. I'm currently facing 88 felonies. I'm currently
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facing 88 felonies for detention of classified information. If you all take people that have
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been found liable for sexual assault, trying to overturn the 2020 election, falsifying business
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records, I was wondering if that was going to be a be a problem.
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So did you guys hire people that have been found liable for sexual assault or?
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Donald Trump has been charged with 88 felonies and found liable for sexual assault.
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If Trump is too big of a liability to get a job at your local mall, he is too big of a
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liability to be president of the United States.
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Republican Accountability Pack is responsible for the content of this advertising.
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Really insidious ad and ironic for a few reasons.
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First of all, at the same time that the libs are running this ad, they are simultaneously saying
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that we need to prevent employers from discriminating against criminals, convicted criminals in their
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At the very same time, we covered a story on this, I think, two days ago on the show.
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There's a disparate negative impact on minorities, people of color.
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However, if you take into account the criminal record of job applicants, it's wrong, it's
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We can't do that, even though they've been convicted of all sorts of crimes.
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Oh, but Donald Trump's been charged with 80 bazillion crimes by every Democrat politician
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It's not a question of how we treat criminals in our society.
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It's that when the criminals are not Donald Trump, when the criminals are liberal rather
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When the criminals are black, brown, and all sorts of colors and not white or orange, I
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suppose, in this case, we just let them off the hook.
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When the criminals are women or sexually confused rather than straight men, we let them off the
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But furthermore, they say Trump has been charged with these crimes.
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Well, yeah, but we wouldn't hire him to work at the Diamond store.
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We wouldn't hire him to work at the restaurant.
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Why is Donald Trump still polling roughly on par with, according to some polls, even a
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little higher than the current president of the United States?
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If this is so bad, if Donald Trump is really this awful criminal and we would never hire him
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to mop the floor at a restaurant, why is he still a major challenge to Joe Biden?
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Because that huge number of charges, of felonies that he's accused of helps him.
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As I've said from the beginning, it's bad, it's sad, it's awful that our political order
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has been made to look like this and the Democrats are responsible for it.
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If he were only charged with one crime, maybe it would stick.
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For prosecutions across all these different layers of government, all around the country
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For crimes no one even can really understand, the things that we knew about.
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He made an in-kind contribution to his own campaign and paid off a porn star allegedly,
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That, yeah, so we can't, we wouldn't hire him for any, it's just so obviously disingenuous.
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And when polling on this question has been done, a clear majority of Americans, the vast
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majority of Americans recognize this is a political persecution.
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Call attention, we were talking earlier about how when you're in a political fight, it's
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not only about your substantive views on the issues, but it's even about which issues
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you're talking about, focusing on the trials and tribulations of Donald Trump, the criminal
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prosecutions, which are really a political persecution, that helps Trump.
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He's this guy who, he became wealthy running a webcam porn business,
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and he's charged with sex crimes in Romania because, according to prosecutors,
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he kept these girls, you know, under his eye and in his house
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and forced them to do all these weird sex things on camera and then kept a lot of the money.
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And he kind of bragged about some of this stuff, but he denies some of the charges.
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And he's just, he's one of these guys, one of these self-help gurus who says,
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you know, I drive really nice cars and I got a ton of money and I sleep with a lot of chicks.
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So, people have all sorts of views on Andrew Tate.
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My main takeaway from Andrew Tate is he's a very impressive internet influencer.
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Forget about all of the other, the awful sex stuff and the charges and the materialism and Islam and all.
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He just is really good at keeping people's attention.
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He's really good at getting people to, even if they hate 99% of the things that he says and does,
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the 1% they'll agree with and then another group he'll irritate and he just keeps people's attention.
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Anyway, when he made a tweet that aroused a lot of ire, he said, sex is for making children.
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Any man who has sex with women because it, quote, feels good is gay.
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Oh, my, I'll clean up some of the language, make it a little more elevated for this family show.
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In fact, if you are 40 with less than five children, you're probably gay.
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All that feel-good phallus sex and hardly any genetic legacy.
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Actually, I hate to disagree with community notes.
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I hate to have to agree with Andrew Tate over the, you know, cumulative wisdom of Twitter here.
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This is a view that has been articulated in the past by great philosophers and ethicists, including the late great philosopher, Norm Macdonald.
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In regular life, that's why sex is so tough to get going, because it's so shameful and filthy and obviously meant only for procreation.
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You know, it kind of, it's 20% exaggerated, 20% hyperbolic.
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It's for the begetting and education of children.
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You also have to raise them, which is why children have a right to be the product of the specific conjugal act of his parents, of their parents, who are joined together in holy matrimony, which is a union for life.
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The union oriented toward the education and begetting of children, and also, as a secondary aspect, the mutual support of the spouses.
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Now, Andrew Tate might not have fit all of that into the 280-character limit, but he says sex is for making children.
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Oh, you know, it's a way to pass the time when the cable goes out.
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Oh, it's this, it's that, it's the other thing.
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The Leftist Tears Tumblr is for bringing delicious leftist tears into my body.
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The microphone is for transmitting my mellifluous dulcet tones to your ears, and sex is for making children.
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Any man who has sex with women because it, quote, feels good is gay.
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He's obviously making a joke here, and it's kind of hyperbolic.
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But the point he's making here is a point I actually made quite earnestly on the Iced Coffee Hour podcast some months ago.
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And the hosts, who are lovely guys, but they were kind of shocked by what I said.
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They took issue with my use of the term gay and the point that I was making.
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But I said, no, I'm using the term specifically because I'm using it in the sense that sterile sexual relations are gay.
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I don't mean it in any, you know, judgy way or even to be needlessly provocative.
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I'm just saying that's what distinguishes normal, healthy sexual relations that are ordered toward their natural ends from all the other kinds.
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Whether you're talking about, you know, a couple of dudes, a couple of chicks, three dudes and a billy goat, a whole village, some bacchanal in ancient Rome or whatever.
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One is fruitful, or at least it's a fallen world, so, you know, people suffer infertility.
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But it's either inclined toward fruitfulness or it's just sterile and for pleasure.
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And the former is good and natural and oriented toward family and marriage.
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Then he kind of mocks this idea, oh, you know, my genitals feel good.
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If you just live for your own personal pleasure, your base appetites, that's going to be shameful.
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That's not going to satisfy you in the long run.
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It's not going to be very productive and edifying.
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He goes, if you're 40 with less than five children, you're probably gay.
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It's a funny line in that I don't think statistically that's literally true, but we used to have a lot of kids, and now we don't.
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And that shift is a shift away from giving of oneself totally to one's spouse and totally to one's commonwealth and totally to the common good and totally to one's society because we're the social animal.
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And turning away from that toward just making everything about your own personal pleasure, which is decadent.
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The genetics is the physical representation of the legacy, but there's more.
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There are the memories passed across the generations of a family.
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Between Community Notes and Andrew Tate, Tate is not 100% correct, but he's about 97% correct here.
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Now, speaking of controversial views on sex, Kanye West, according to reports, might start a porn company.
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This studio will be titled Yeezy Porn, according to reports.
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Well, it's in the news in part because he has his sights set on this guy, Mike Mose, who's the ex-husband of Stormy Daniels, who is the porn performer who's at the heart of one of the Trump criminal prosecutions.
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He wants that guy to help run the porn studio, but it makes news, not because some hip-hop mogul is involved in weird, depraved sex stuff.
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It's because Kanye seemed like he wasn't going to do that.
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Remember, some years ago, he came out with this album, Jesus is King.
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I'm not a huge fan of this kind of music generally, but of all the Kanye music, Jesus is King had some good bops on it, man.
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And then he was hosting these Sunday services, which were eccentric and a little bit weird, but they were at least about God.
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They were at least religious in their tenor, and they brought a lot of people together.
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And it just seemed much better and more edifying, if not even sanctifying, than so much of what's out there in the pop culture.
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And then it looked like he was fighting to save his marriage, and he was, according to one report, while he was making an album, he said no one can fornicate on the set.
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And he was reading the Bible a lot, and I don't even think it was just a performance.
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I have a number of mutual friends with Kanye West, and I heard across actually all sorts of different areas of my life.
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For some reason, I keep overlapping with Kanye West, and I heard that the guy was sincere about it, and now this, and now this.
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Which reminds me of a very important fact that you should keep in mind, is the sower who went forth to sow.
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And while he soweth, some fell by the wayside, and the birds of the air came and ate them up.
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And other, some fell upon stony ground, where they had not much earth, and they sprung up immediately, because they had no deepness of earth.
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And when the sun was up, they were scorched, and because they had not root, they withered away.
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And others fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up and choked them, and others fell upon good ground, and they brought forth fruit, some 100-fold, some 60-fold, and some 30-fold.
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The parable of the sower, really, really important here.
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He's been pretty open about some of his troubles, so it's unfortunate to see this.
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The guy who 15, more than 15 years ago now, probably, had Jesus Walks.
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And then he kind of went away into more degenerate art for a while.
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And then he comes back with Jesus as King, and he's reading the Bible, and that's great.
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And now, the prospect of a porn studio, speaking openly on podcasts about how God didn't answer his prayers in exactly the way that he demanded that God answer them.
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And so, he was kind of turning away from religion.
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A lot of people think you live in the wrong way, and then you repent, and you see the right, and you respond to God's grace, and great, now everything's totally rosy.
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Everything can be totally rosy, but when that happens, the devil is going to come after you with 10 times the strength that he had, 100 times the strength that he had previously.
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And if you stumble, and you fall unrepentantly, and you continue to stumble, you're going to be worse off than when you started.
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You're going to be worse off than before you turned your mind and responded to God's grace and started going down the right way.
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Now, what you can do right now is subscribe to the Michael Knowles Show YouTube channel, smash the like button, and ring that bell, baby.
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Turning away from the depraved life to the trad life, the libs are still furious over the phenomenon of the trad wife.
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I think a lot of these terms are just kind of silly.
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Or even I've heard this phrase pop up, trad cons.
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All the time, people ask, Michael, what's your political ideology?
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Are you a paleo, neo, populist, libertarian, anarcho, trad, classical?
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The libs try to take these terms, and they use them to, well, again, to quote Norm Macdonald,
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One time when Norm was asked the meaning of the term cisgender, he said,
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cisgender is a term used now to marginalize normal people.
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Why some women say they are opting out of work.
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TikTok's latest trad wife and stay-at-home girlfriend trend shows an idealized view of
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Staying at home necessitates a degree of privilege that fewer young adults have these days.
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If anything, women are working more, not less, and foregoing paid labor comes at a steep economic cost.
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Some men are scaling back at work, a recent study shows.
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TikTok's latest trad wife trends show an idealized view of adhering to traditional gender roles.
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Wouldn't you say, though, that the last century and a half of feminism shows an idealized view
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Because we've been told women reject gender roles.
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Woman needs a man like a fish, needs a bicycle.
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Get used by a hundred guys sexually and then be cast to the side.
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And that'll make you really happy and empowered.
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The trad wife phenomenon, meaning people just going back and doing the things that everyone
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Or the feminist view, which keeps promising utopia, never quite pays off.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from a return after a while to the favorite comment, slap
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my base, 3825, who says, you don't need AI to tell someone's political affiliation.
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You can do that just as easily by their clothes, hairstyles, and especially the bumper stickers
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I was just talking with a friend of mine about this last night.
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I covered the story yesterday that, wow, AI can predict your political views just by looking
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I thought, yeah, I can do that too because I have eyes and I'm willing to acknowledge patterns.
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AI is trained to recognize patterns and then based on those patterns to recognize other
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But political correctness and wokeness, we call it now, says you're not allowed to recognize
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That if you recognize patterns and acknowledge them, that that's prejudice.
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So at the same time that the libs are pushing AI, this is so great.
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They build all the AI and then they get really angry that the AI does what it is built to do.
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So then they have to go in and install their own political views to say, stop recognizing
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That's very prejudiced and awful if you recognize patterns.
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Well, in defense of the AI, what else is it supposed to do?
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It's like saying, hey, here is a cup of coffee.
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I've just made this cup of coffee and here it is.
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I'm going to make ever more the perfect cup of coffee.
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And then one tries the cup of coffee and says, oh, no, this is hot and full of caffeine.
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You can't, we can't have a cup of coffee that's hot and full of caffeine.
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And they say, okay, well, we'll make the perfect cup of coffee, but we're, it's not
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going to be hot and it's not going to have caffeine and it's not going to be liquid.
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And while at a certain point you're not, you're fighting against yourself.
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You can't, you got to, do you want to do the thing or do you not want to do the thing?
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The trad wife phenomenon, the libs are so furious about it.
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They've been pushing these articles every few weeks now for months and months.
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Staying at home necessitates a degree of privilege that fewer young adults have these days.
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It is tough in a tough economy to stay at home.
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You know, our grandparents, they were able to buy a house when they were young and our
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grandparents, they were able to have a stay at home mother.
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And it's true, there have been changes to the political economy that make it harder.
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Now that women are expected to work, that changes the way that wages work in this country.
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Now that we have mass migration, for instance, wages are lowered by mass migration.
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But also we have a much higher standard of living than our grandparents had at our age.
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Our houses are bigger when we have houses, our apartments, you know, or houses even that
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you could rent, our food, our luxuries, our travel, our technology.
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It's, we have a much higher standard of living.
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You can't, you can't really live the trad life in midtown Manhattan.
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You might have to move a little further away from the city.
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You might not be able to go to brunch all the time.
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You might not be able to have the fanciest clothes or all the latest gizmos and gadgets.
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And you, you might have to live at a, everything in life has a cost.
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There's a cost when, when your wife doesn't work that you, you obviously get much less
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income and that's going to affect maybe your standard of living as true.
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And foregoing paid labor comes at a steep economic cost.
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So if, if a woman doesn't get paid by an employer in the formal economy, in the commercial
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economy, then she's not going to get a paycheck in the commercial economy.
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The guy's going to have to work more probably because it's expensive.
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Why are they so afraid that, why are the libs so afraid of people desiring to return to the
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It's just how people lived for most of history.
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Klaus Schwab at the head of the World Economic Forum, he talks about multiple industrial
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He talks about now we are in the fourth industrial revolution.
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The first industrial revolution is mechanization.
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The second industrial revolution is the assembly line and electrification.
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The third industrial revolution is the rise of computing.
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And now the fourth industrial revolution is supposedly the melding of computers and biology.
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You know, we're going to, we're going to become cyborgs and we're going to, we're going to make
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everything electronic and not just electronic, but connected to the internet and smart and,
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And that's, that's the fourth industrial revolution.
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You know, we probably are in the midst of that.
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The liberals on the left and on the right, the classical liberals, the libertarians, they'll
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tell you industrial revolution has been totally great.
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There's no, but you're beginning to see creep up on the right.
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Tucker notably has been on that train, but Tucker didn't start that.
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That has been a theme of American conservatism for many, many decades now.
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I think of the poem Jerusalem by, by William Blake, who not saying William Blake was some
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doctrinaire conservative, but, but he expressed the kind of uneasiness that many conservatives
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have, even with the first industrial revolution, you know, and did his feet in ancient time walk
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upon England's mountains green and did the Holy lamb and was the Holy lamb of God and England's
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I'm probably getting some of the words wrong, but, but there's a line in there where he refers
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We, we will have Jerusalem builded here among these dark satanic mills.
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The dark satanic mills were the mills of industrialization, which was, which was viewed
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as a kind of symbol of hell, a coming of hell on earth, a dehumanization.
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No longer were humans full, fully people who are doing all sorts of different tasks throughout
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the day, but no, they were being reduced to nothing more than cogs in a machine to punch
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And, uh, there's been a lot of material prosperity that's come out of that, but there's been a
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And immediately afterward, you, you saw effects on family size.
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As that process continues, you, you see the, the political strength, even of the family,
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the building block of society begin to diminish.
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And people are looking at that and they say, oh, I don't like that.
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I actually want the families to be strong again.
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I, I, I don't think we're all just interchangeable cogs in a machine.
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They have their own, uh, distinctions that add spice to life and variety and men and
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women especially are different and we're complimentary and we should celebrate that and recognize
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that I want a wife and I want a trad life and I want more kids.
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And that is a threat, not just to Joe Biden or the Democrats or the progressives or something.
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That is a threat to the, the whole liberal project of the last, I don't know, 150 years.
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Speaking of Joe Biden though, we'll get back to Joe Biden now.
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Really disgusting stuff from Joe Biden in the last few days.
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Joe Biden was just at a campaign event, uh, where, uh, in Florida, uh, the, the libs are
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making a big deal about Ron DeSantis's defense of unborn life.
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And Joe Biden was standing there listening to them harangue, uh, Ron DeSantis for protecting
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And then we come back here to state of Florida where Ron DeSantis felt like he needed to run
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And Joe Biden, for those of you who are only listening, he made the sign of the cross.
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I can't, I'm trying to see exactly when he starts it.
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The most charitable read on this I could say is he made the sign of the cross.
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Uh, when she mentioned that, that DeSantis ran for president as if to say, oh, RIP his
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presidential campaign, which is flippant and glib and kind of taking, you know, the, the
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central fact and the central mystery of the Christian faith in a, in a vain and flippant
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way, because the sign of the cross is an articulation of the Trinity.
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That's the central mystery of the Christian faith, but also the, it's a representation of
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the crucifixion, which is, you know, when our Lord is sacrificed to redeem mankind, this
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is the, the pivot of history, the cross being the axis on which the whole cosmos turns.
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What most people are taking from this is that he's making the sign of the cross about how
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That, if that's what he's doing, that is as blasphemous as it gets.
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He's invoking religion, the, the central expression of the religion to, to what?
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To advocate for the murder of babies, which is, we don't even need to, you know, form our
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own conclusions here, which his church says with authority, dogmatic authority or, or magisterial
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Now I'd, I'd, I'd be inclined to take the charitable view, except Biden has a pattern of this at
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another recent campaign event, also in Tampa, Florida.
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Bragged how proud he was to get rid of Roe v. Wade over it.
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He said, there has to be punishment for women exercising the reproductive freedom.
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I almost wanted to buy one to see what the hell's in it.
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He made with the evangelical base of the Republican party to look past his moral.
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If they look past his moral and character flaws in exchange for his commitment to appoint
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justice to the Supreme Court, would overturn Roe.
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Don't tell me that I'm being unfair and I'm misreading what Joe Biden is doing there when
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he makes the sign of the cross during an invective against the cause of life and in defense
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He's advocating for killing babies in the womb.
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He probably figured out that he's going to support unborn babies.
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He doesn't want to murder him because he's reading that Bible of his.
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Doing a comedy routine up there about the Bible.
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His defenders will say, well, he's just mocking Trump.
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You should buy multiple copies of the Bible if you can.
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And he's specifically doing it when it comes to protecting babies in the womb, which is a non-negotiable issue for his putative faith, which he mocks.
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And he mocks it because it's not really his faith.
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When his putative faith comes into conflict with liberalism, he picks liberalism.
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