Ep. 1494 - Libs Panic： Cohen Admits To Stealing Up To $130,000 From Trump
Summary
In a just world, Michael Brown would be with his loved ones right now, celebrating another year, dreaming of his future as he blows out the candles on his birthday cake. But instead, we are only left with the memories of who he was.
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Democrat Congressman Cori Bush has proposed a new law to pay off Democrat apparatchiks,
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and she is launching the law on the memory of Michael Brown, who was killed by a police officer
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10 years ago. Michael Brown should have turned 28 years old. The last birthday he celebrated
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and will ever get to celebrate was his 18th. Just 81 days after his 18th birthday,
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a Ferguson police officer killed him. In a just world, Mike Brown would be with his loved ones
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right now, celebrating another year, dreaming of his future as he blows out the candles on his
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birthday cake. But instead, we are only left with the memories of who he was. We do remember who he
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was. We remember because we have video footage and eyewitness testimony. Michael Brown was a six
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foot four, 292 pound, 18 year old whose last acts on earth were robbing a convenience store,
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assaulting a clerk, punching a cop, grabbing the cop's gun, running away, and then turning for some
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reason to charge the cop. At which point the cop shot and killed him. Had Michael Brown done everything
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up until that final act? Had he robbed the store, assaulted the clerk, punched the cop, even grabbed
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the cop's gun, and then just run away? Michael Brown would still be alive today. Or at the very least,
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he would have survived to that particular run in with the law. But he didn't. He had to charge the
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cop. At which point the officer had no real choice but to fire. At which point liberal hacks lied about
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what happened, pretended that Michael Brown was executed in cold blood, and then looted and rioted
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before mow mowing the flat catchers into paying off Democrat patronage groups. Then they demoralize
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and defund the police, which encourages more crime, which leads to more confrontations with the cops,
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which leads to more opportunities for patronage. Great news for Cori Bush and the professional left.
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Bad news for everyone else. I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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delivered. We want to talk about Democrat patronage. This has been the story of the Democrat Party for
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many decades, centuries at this point. And this is especially true in Chicago,
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one of the most corrupt Democrat machines out there. And thanks to a little hat tip from
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end wokeness. We now see a clip of the new appointed transportation czar in Chicago. This is
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the Reverend Ira Acree, appointed by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to serve on the transportation
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board, even though the guy doesn't know anything about transportation. As members of City Council's
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Transportation Committee learned yesterday, Acree is far from a transit expert. While he grew up
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using public transportation, Acree told the committee, as an adult, he occasionally uses it
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downtown. As a man, I use, I don't have to use CTA. I'm fortunate to have a car. While
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transportation is facing a crisis, Acree says he needs more information to make any judgments about
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CTA Chief Dordal Carter or an effort in Springfield to consolidate RTA, CTA and PACE. 32nd Ward
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Alderman Scott Wagesback was disappointed Acree was unaware of an RTA $730 million shortfall.
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This is my first time hearing about a $735 million shortfall. And so I wouldn't want to
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respond to that today. Before appearing before the committee, Acree admitted he never spoke with
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the mayor about the administration's transportation vision. So of course, why would he? He just has this
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job as a payoff because he's a popular liberal activist, left-wing activist. And so the Chicago
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mayor is paying him off. And he doesn't need to know anything about transportation. He's probably
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never going to show up to work. He doesn't need to know about the three quarters of a billion dollars
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that the transportation department is in the hole. He doesn't need to know about anything. He doesn't
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even need to take the public transit. He's fortunate enough to have a car because he's getting handouts
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and bribes from the government. This is how politics has worked for much of American history.
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We think now that we have a reformed civil service that is based on merit and qualifications,
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not just political patronage. And we did have that sort of for a little while. That is owing to
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one of our nation's most underrated presidents, Chester Alan Arthur. I actually did a PragerU video
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about Chester Alan Arthur. Not often discussed as a great president, but he was a good guy.
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And he and James Garfield also published the first blank book in American political history.
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So what Chester Arthur did was he gets in as vice president, and he was a crooked New York
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politician. And everyone thought he was just going to be doling out patronage to his friends. And he
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reformed actually in office and said, no, we're going to hire people who are qualified for the job.
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And we're going to, when we hire someone for the transportation department, they actually have
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to know something about transportation. And so that was the ideal since, I don't know,
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at this point now, almost a century and a half of American history. But as the country becomes more
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and more corrupt, as that supposedly disinterested civil service focused on the common good just
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becomes a decayed kind of self-interested deep state. You're just going to see more and more of
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this. And probably you have to, actually, because in politics, your opponents get a say.
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And so if we don't have a really mature, disinterested civil authority that's focused on the common good
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and the civil service, then you're just going to dole out jobs. And the Democrats are going to dole
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out jobs for their friends. And maybe Republicans need to start thinking about doling out jobs for our
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friends, because personnel is policy, a point we'll be talking about a little bit later.
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Speaking of transportation and liberal cities, Oakland has just decided to remove some traffic
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lights ahead of a spike in thefts. So in Oakland, California, there's an intersection
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that has a ton of homeless people surrounding it. And the city has decided they're going to get rid of
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the traffic lights and they're going to replace them with stop signs. Initially, I assumed this was
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because the bums keep going up and harassing the cars if they're at the red light too long.
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So the car has got to keep moving. If you're driving through a bad part of town,
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very often you don't even want to stop at the stop lights or the stop signs. But no,
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it's apparently even sadder than that. According to reports, the bums, the criminals and the homeless
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have been stealing copper wires and city infrastructure. They got to get rid of the traffic lights here
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because these vagrants are stripping the copper off the traffic lights and selling it for cracker.
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I don't know. We're probably getting pennies on the dollar for this copper. And so what do the
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Oakland city officials do in the face of that? Why they get rid of the traffic lights, of course.
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These people, these libs will do anything to avoid arresting criminals. You know that meme?
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Men, they'll do anything to avoid going to therapy. Men will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to avoid going to
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therapy. Well, the liberals will do anything. They will tear down traffic lights to avoid
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arresting criminals. But there's an obvious answer to this problem. If you just give the police
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permission to arrest the vagrants and the criminals who are living on the street,
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who have no right to do so, to quote Rudy Giuliani during the Occupy Wall Street protests,
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living on the street is a dysfunctional act that harms the individual and society,
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if you just tell people to cut it out, then you get your traffic lights and you get your city
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infrastructure. And you don't need to worry about crime all the time. And you get to drive through
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downtown at night, but the libs, they won't do it. Now, speaking of dodgy city operatives,
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big, big day in the New York Trump trial yesterday. The prosecution has a star witness. The star witness is
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that rat who worked for Trump, Michael Cohen. Michael Cohen was the lawyer, fixer, slimy,
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slimy character, even in New York real estate and casinos. And you talk about kind of slimy industries.
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This guy is particularly slimy. And so he was a fixer and he's turned on Trump, turned state's
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witness. And he's the star. He's the star in this case, because Michael Cohen was the guy who,
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actually executed on the payment, the supposed hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, that Stormy
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Daniels said she never received because Stormy Daniels said that she never slept with Trump.
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And then she said this in official statements, and then she contradicted those. So she's got a
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credibility problem. And Michael Cohen, because he's a slimy little rat, obviously has a credibility
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problem. But his credibility problem got turned up to 11 yesterday when the defense pointed out
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that Michael Cohen stole money from Trump. Not only did Michael Cohen steal money from Trump,
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he stole money in the transaction that is at the heart of the New York case, the transaction where
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Trump supposedly paid off Stormy Daniels. So how did this all go down? Trump allegedly authorizes
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certain payments for campaign expenses. You know, okay, we're going to pay off this guy. We're going
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to take out some ads here. We're going to do this. We're going to do that. We're going to try,
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you know, move money around to keep the campaign looking good. This includes $50,000 for a company
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called Red Finch. Red Finch is just one of these political operative companies. There are a lot of
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them. Cohen, Michael Cohen only pays Red Finch $20,000 in a brown paper bag. Michael Cohen then
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pockets $30,000. Then when you factor in the reimbursement that he got from Donald Trump,
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he stole $60,000 from Trump in this complicated kind of series of payoffs that cast very, very serious
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doubt over whether or not Trump really knew anything about these kind of payments and where
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the payments actually ended up because a lot of it appears to have ended up in Michael Cohen's pocket.
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If you're having a little trouble following this, you're not alone. Join the club.
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The upshot of it is the star witness for the liberals is exposed as a liar, as extremely corrupt,
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and the prosecution didn't get ahead of it. The defense brings this up on what day is this of
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this trial? How many days are we like seven or eight days into this trial at this point?
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Not to put too fine a point on it, but it's not just conservatives pointing out how
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dreadful this is for the prosecution. Even Jake Tapper on CNN, liberal Jake Tapper on liberal CNN,
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says that the day of testimony was devastating for the prosecution.
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They discussed what this repayment schedule would look like for him.
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Yeah, no, it's fascinating stuff. And I have to say, I'm still kind of reeling from the revelation
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that Michael Cohen stole money from the Trump organization. And that wasn't, at least to my
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knowledge, that the prosecution didn't get that get that out earlier, because it's not as though
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the prosecution is going to be helped by further evidence that Michael Cohen is a shady character.
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I mean, let's I'll get to the newest stuff in a second. But like, I mean, what's just what's your
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reaction to that news? Because that was just kind of stunning.
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So now the two people who are nearest to star witnesses in the New York Trump case
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are an unrepentant hooker and this rat fixer in New York who stole money from his boss in the very
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transaction that is at issue in the trial. Absolutely devastating. The crime that Michael
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Cohen has admitted to committing is a more serious crime than the crime they're accusing Trump of
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committing. Michael Cohen stole a ton of money by his own admission. That is a much more serious crime
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than falsifying business records or filing the wrong paperwork with the Federal Election
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Commission. And Michael Cohen's not being prosecuted. So then you get, for this crime at least,
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you get a further evidence that this is a political persecution of Donald Trump because the libs
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hate his guts. And the left will exalt unrepentant hookers and rats, rat thieves.
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As their great heroes just to get this guy. It's amazing that the left could take a billionaire
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playboy, casino mogul, real estate mogul, reality TV star, and make him look like the most wholesome
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person at this trial because of the absolute ne'er-do-well miscreants that they elevate to try
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to get him. Yet again, Wile E. Coyote trying to get that roadrunner Trump doesn't look like the
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one of the biggest stories yesterday, headlines everywhere, Pope Francis sat down with 60 Minutes
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and supposedly said that we need to take in all the immigrants and conservatism is suicidal and
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people are fundamentally good, apparently contradicting scripture. And this was all the
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headlines, and you saw it not just from the Libs. You also saw it from conservatives. You also saw it
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from Christians. And so I thought, okay, I know that sometimes the Papa Francesco's comments to the
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newspaper are a little bit confusing. But I said, I just don't, I don't really buy it. I got to watch this
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interview myself. I watched the whole interview, and the headlines simply are misleading. Just on
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those three points, immigration, we need to take on all the immigrants, conservatism is suicidal,
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people are fundamentally good. What does Pope Francis actually say on immigration?
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My grandparents were Catholic, immigrated from Northern Ireland in the 1930s to the United States,
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seeking a better life. And I know your family, too, fled fascism. And you have talked about,
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with migrants, many of them children, that you encourage governments to build bridges, not walls.
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Migration is something that makes a country grow.
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They say that you, Irish, migrated and brought the whiskey. And that the Italians migrated and brought
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the mafia. It's a joke. Don't take it badly. But migrants sometimes suffer a lot. They suffer a lot.
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So very much. Based? Not to sound too zoomer about it, but the headline, Pope Francis says,
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you need to take in all of the migrants. And what does he say? He goes, yeah, look, these migrants,
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they suffer a lot. And when you Irish came over to America, you brought booze. And when the Italians
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came over, they brought the mafia. Huh? Yeah, I'm just joking. But you know, those migrants,
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they bring some problems, don't they? So I don't know. It seems like everything he said there is
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totally fine. And then even when he says, look, when migrants show up to the border,
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they need to be received. But he follows that up by saying, and then you got to send some of them
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home, maybe. It's not just that you're going to keep them there forever. You have to receive them,
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here are their requests, and then you're going to send some of them home. So if you just take the
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Pope's words here, not the headlines and not the leading questions, I don't disagree with a single
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syllable. Migrants suffer. They often bring a lot of pretty serious problems. And we're going to hear
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them out and then send a bunch of them home. Yeah, okay, I agree. This is like when you read the
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headlines about Pope Francis on the social issues. People will say he's a little soft on the Rainbow
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Coalition, you know, the LGBT LMNOP. That came up during the interview. Here is what Pope Francis
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had to say about LGBT unions. Last year, you decided to allow Catholic priests to bless
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No, what I allowed was not to bless the union. That cannot be done because that is not the sacrament.
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I cannot. The Lord made it that way. But to bless each person? Yes. The blessing is for everyone.
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For everyone. To bless a homosexual-type union, however, goes against the given right, against
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Based, again? So, you know, you, Pope Francis, you said that gay marriage is super fun and great
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and cool, huh? And the Holy Father responds, he says, no, I didn't. It's disordered and God can't
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bless sin and it is not possible for me to bless a same-sex union. I bless individuals, but that's
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always been the case. And so, yeah, we bless individuals, of course, but whatever LGBT
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agenda you're trying to cram down our throats, uh-uh, ain't what we're doing. Then he says
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basically the same thing about surrogacy. He says surrogacy is evil. You can't do it. You can't
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buy people. Now, the most troublesome thing that Papa Francesco said during this interview
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You used an adjective, conservative. That is, conservative is one who clings to something
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and does not want to see beyond that. It is a suicidal attitude. Because one thing is to
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take tradition into account, to consider situations from the past, but quite another is to be closed
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Okay. I humbly would suggest that perhaps what in the Holy Father's discussion of political
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philosophy here, he is reminding us that the Pope is fallible except when he's infallible.
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Okay. And that the Pope, this is misunderstood by many people, including Christians.
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Papal infallibility does not mean that anything the Pope says has to be 100% true. You know,
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if he comes out and says, uh, this, um, this rice pilaf is really spicy, but you find out
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it's not spicy. That doesn't contradict papal infallibility. When he's speaking on matters
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of faith and morals ex-cathedra, then he is infallible. When, when he's giving his view
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of political conservatism, which, uh, perhaps is missing a few parts, you know, okay, that's
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just an opinion. No one's suggesting that, that Pope Francis is the most right wing or,
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you know, conservative pontiff that we've ever had. But so what? You know, uh, even Catholics,
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I'm, I'm quite a mackerel snapping papist. Doesn't mean that every single syllable on any topic
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under the sun that the Pope utters has to be 100% gospel truth. That's not, that is not,
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controversy that came out of Pope Francis's 60 Minutes interview is Pope Francis said that man,
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the heart, the heart, is fundamentally good. That so-and-so is a sinner. Me too, I am a sinner. Everyone.
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The gospel is for everyone. If the church places a customs officer at the door, that is no longer the
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church. Everyone. When you look at the world, what gives you hope? Everything. You see tragedies,
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but you also see so many beautiful things. You see heroic mothers, heroic men, men who have hopes
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and dreams. Women who look to the future. That gives me a lot of hope. People want to live. People
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forge ahead. And people are fundamentally good. We are all fundamentally good. Yes, there are some
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rogues and sinners, but the heart itself is good. Okay, this was the most controversial part because a
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lot of people pointed out that in Genesis, we read that the imagination of man's heart is evil from
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his youth. And a lot of people were saying that what Pope Francis says here contradicts original sin,
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that actually man is totally evil, totally depraved, totally, he's not fundamentally good. How could you
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say that? Just read Genesis. It says the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth. Okay, hold up.
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I understand how it's a little bit confusing. And there's a big focus on those verses.
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However, we also read that some people are righteous in the Bible. Noah is righteous in the Bible. In the
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epistle to the Romans, we read, he who does right is righteous as he is righteous. We read in the Psalms
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of a distinction between the just and the unjust, the righteous and the wicked. We read in lots of other
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places in the Bible. Verses that would seem to contradict the notion that man is totally depraved and totally
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evil. So what is Pope Francis saying? When he says people are fundamentally good, what he's saying, I think,
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I don't think it's, I'm being too rosy here, I think this is just kind of basic Catholic and traditionally
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Christian teaching, is that God doesn't create evil. So God created man as good. His creation was good. He looked on
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his creation and saw his creation was good. And man abused his free will and did evil and disobeyed
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God. And so we have a fallen world where sin and death pervade the world. But that does not mean
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that man's fundamental first primary goodness is totally blotted out. That is a view that is held
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by Calvinists. That is a view that emerged in the 16th century with the Protestant revolutionary John
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Calvin. I have the line here in the Institutes of the Christian Religion. Calvin writes,
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the will is so utterly vitiated and corrupted in every part as to produce nothing but evil. So
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Calvinists would believe that. But is it surprising that Pope Francis is not a Calvinist? I don't think
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so. I don't think it is. So even there, I don't, I don't, everyone's accusing him of contradicting
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Catholic teaching, Christian teaching. I just don't really see it. It's, it's a little bit confusing and the
00:27:26.340
confusion is amplified by unfortunate liberal journalists. But that's why you got to dig below
00:27:32.520
those headlines sometimes and, and see what is actually being said. There, it's, it's really hard to disagree
00:27:38.160
with anything. Now, speaking of religious confusion, Courtney Cox from Friends has just come out and made a
00:27:44.160
strange claim. She says that her late friend, Matthew Perry, who died some months ago, still
00:27:50.360
visits her. They, they, they're still together somehow. Here's, here's Courtney Cox's view of it.
00:27:57.160
I'm so thankful I got to work so closely with him for so many years. He visits me a lot if we believe
00:28:03.280
in that. I know you're a spiritual person, which makes that statement very interesting. So you still feel
00:28:09.220
his presence. Oh yeah. I, I, you know, I talked to my mom, my dad, Matthew. I feel like there,
00:28:16.780
there are a lot of people that are, I think that guide us. I do sense, yeah, I sense Matthew's around
00:28:24.880
for sure. What does that mean? What, what does that mean? I don't, I, I feel bad for Courtney Cox. I know
00:28:34.000
Courtney Cox, you know, misses her friend and her parents and everything. And we'd like to feel,
00:28:38.060
you know, they're around us, man. They're around us. I still talk to my, but how, how, what does that
00:28:43.380
mean? This reminds me of a clip of, of Sir Paul McCartney. I love Sir Paul, huge McCartney fan,
00:28:49.020
but he's sitting in a car with the late night host, James Corden. And Sir Paul made a similar kind
00:28:55.880
of claim. If my granddad was here right now, he'd get an absolute kick out of this. He is.
00:29:11.940
I would never have any disrespect for Sir Paul. What does that mean? What does that, does that
00:29:17.860
mean that when we die, we just float around the earth as disembodied spirits that we're
00:29:21.640
just, ghosts are all around us and we're just here. That's what happens when we die. We just
00:29:27.340
float around as invisible ghosts. Do we go to heaven? Do we go to hell? Do we go to purgatory
00:29:31.020
for a little period? Do we, what do we do? Do we just haunt houses? Do we, are we just, do we
00:29:36.160
become, go into the trees in the air? What, what does that mean? Oh yeah. I talk to Matthew all the
00:29:41.740
time. This is the religion of people who don't take religion seriously. And you hear all these
00:29:48.900
modern people. I'm not saying Courtney Cox or Paul McCartney do this, but all these modern people,
00:29:53.140
they make fun of religion. Oh, you, you with your religions and your rules and your dogmas and your
00:29:58.060
doctrines. Well, what's the alternative? The alternative is this woo woo, feel good nonsense
00:30:03.100
that, that reduces religion to just whatever kind of sounds good at the time, even though it doesn't
00:30:10.080
stand up to even the slightest scrutiny or logic. We have a natural longing for God. We have a natural
00:30:17.660
longing for religion. We have, we have a natural intuition that death is wrong, that we're not
00:30:23.660
supposed to die. My friend Patrick Madrid made this point on his radio show the other day.
00:30:28.720
He said, we, we think it's wrong to die. We just have this natural knowledge that it's wrong to die
00:30:37.340
because we were not made to die. We were made to live forever. And because we abused our free will,
00:30:45.660
sin and death pervade the world. And we recognize that there is a chasm between the way things are and
00:30:50.580
the way things ought to be. And we just know this intuitively. We know this when we consider
00:30:55.080
justice. We know this when we consider time and eternity. We just, we know it. But that means
00:31:02.600
that we need to take these questions seriously. That this, this Courtney Cox stuff, it seems really
00:31:10.040
profound. You know, this is the guy, the interviewer sitting there, I know you're really
00:31:15.820
spiritual. So what does, you know, wow, you think Matthew's here? Wow. You're so spiritual.
00:31:22.880
What spiritual, but not religious, I have observed before is the definition of the demonic. Okay.
00:31:32.000
Because demons are spirits and religion is a habit of virtue that inclines the will to give to God
00:31:37.100
what he deserves, which demons don't do. So spiritual, but not religious doesn't mean you're
00:31:42.520
open-minded. It means, it means you're so open-minded that your brain falls out because theology is faith
00:31:50.060
seeking understanding. We try to apply logic and rigor and make some sense of that. Otherwise, we're
00:31:55.620
just, we're just kind of babbling and wish casting saying, oh yes, my dead relatives are, I talk to
00:32:02.620
them all the time. How's that work? Just explain to me how that works. I'm going to explain to you how
00:32:07.360
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Keep it to 60 seconds or less so I can put it on the show. And then you just attach it to the email,
00:32:35.340
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00:32:44.340
Speaking of heresy and its consequences, there's a new study out. You're going to be shocked to hear
00:32:48.900
this. People who had gender-affirming surgery are much, much, much more suicidal than those who have
00:32:56.740
not had that surgery. You'll be shocked to hear, I'm sure. Study was published last month,
00:33:02.060
shows that people who underwent the gender surgery, so any of these procedures that lop off parts of
00:33:07.580
your body or make you look more like the opposite sex, had a suicide risk 12 times higher than those
00:33:14.060
who did not. This is just the latest tranche of data to show that transgenderism is wrong, evil,
00:33:23.000
and ought to be eradicated from public life entirely for the good of society and especially for the good
00:33:27.200
of the poor people who fall prey to that confusion. The study concludes, quote, gender-affirming surgery
00:33:31.480
is significantly associated with elevated suicide attempt risks, underlining the necessity for
00:33:37.280
comprehensive post-procedure psychiatric support. This follows up a study from Denmark, which found
00:33:43.060
that trans-identifying people had a suicide death rate three and a half times higher and a suicide
00:33:47.320
attempt rate more than seven and a half times higher than people who did not identify as transgender.
00:33:51.480
Now, remember, what the Libs will say here is, well, no, the only reason for that, the only reason
00:33:57.460
these people are killing themselves and trying to kill themselves is because we as a society don't
00:34:02.380
accept them. But we do. We're pretty trans-accepting. It's now a matter of national law that we have to
00:34:08.860
affirm the delusions of these people. And the suicide rate doesn't go down. In fact, it's getting worse.
00:34:15.700
And just the sheer number of people who are falling prey to this is getting higher and higher and higher.
00:34:21.480
Because transgenderism is spreading as a social contagion. So to the point that now you have
00:34:26.500
more than one in five, I think actually now it's like 30% of Zoomers identify as LGBT. And the trans
00:34:33.860
identifying rate tripled in about five years. So if this is really bad and is causing people to have
00:34:41.320
an elevated suicide risk, then why would we encourage it? Back when, even if the Libs are right and these
00:34:48.680
people who had inclinations to pretend to be the opposite sex, they just kept it to themselves,
00:34:52.760
they were in the closet or whatever. Well, back then they had a much lower suicide risk.
00:34:56.960
We're just looking at the numbers here of the explosion in suicide.
00:35:02.840
So it would seem to me the thing we ought to do is tell all of the people who might in any way be
00:35:08.320
inclined to pretend to be the opposite sex to cut it out, that that's wrong, and to not encourage it.
00:35:13.240
But this is the consequence of not taking religion seriously. This is the consequence of liberalism.
00:35:18.260
Liberalism which says, you know, we don't need to listen to no Pope. We're just talking about the
00:35:23.660
Pope. Or we don't need to listen to any authority. We're just going to make all of our decisions about
00:35:28.840
fundamental questions ourselves. We're going to rely on individual reason and individual conscience
00:35:34.980
for everything. And you can't tell me that I'm not really a woman. You don't know me and I don't know
00:35:41.720
you. We're just all going to do whatever we want individually. Okay, well, then this is what
00:35:50.080
you're going to get. You're going to get people who are so inclined to liberate themselves that
00:35:55.200
they'll liberate themselves from their own bodies. And you'll get government apparatchiks that won't
00:35:59.580
even have the courage and the clarity to say actually a man can't become a woman. If we don't
00:36:06.400
take religion seriously, we're not going to take human nature seriously. Because human beings sense
00:36:13.340
that we're not merely bodies, but spirits, souls. And it's not just the right-wing conservatives.
00:36:19.820
It's Courtney Cox. It's Paul McCartney. It's everybody, everybody, all the woo-woo kind of hippie
00:36:25.160
people. And the libs and everybody. We all know that we're both spirits and bodies, which means we
00:36:30.460
have to take religion seriously. And if you take it seriously, I think you'll come to the conclusion
00:36:37.320
that you can't separate the soul from the body here on earth. The soul is a substantial form of
00:36:44.180
the body. They can't be in opposition to each other. So transgenderism is false. And because it's false
00:36:49.420
and because it's contrary to human nature, if we encourage it, it's going to make people miserable
00:36:53.580
and they're going to kill themselves. Easy. I'm no expert in formal logic, but it doesn't take an
00:37:04.240
expert. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to come to that conclusion. But if you don't take these
00:37:08.620
questions seriously, then you just say, well, look, who knows, man? Who knows? Maybe Matthew Perry's here
00:37:15.060
with us right now. Maybe James Gordon Grandpa's here with us right now. And maybe a man can really be a
00:37:19.000
woman. And I don't know, man. Anyway, chop yourselves up. What's the worst that could
00:37:24.360
happen? We're seeing the worst that could happen. Now, get ready for something real special tomorrow
00:37:28.980
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00:37:34.460
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00:37:39.240
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7 p.m. Eastern, 6 p.m. Central. My favorite comment yesterday comes from the Drummer's Workshop,
00:38:01.140
Norm's Music. It's amazing. I don't see who writes the comments. I just read the comments
00:38:06.080
and the Drummer's Workshop, Norm's Music, keeps coming up. It says, I see Boeing is making helicopters
00:38:11.860
for Iran now. Yes, that's true. Everyone says, is it the Jews who killed the Iranian president? Is it
00:38:18.000
the CIA who killed the Iranian president? No, no. It was that Boeing contract. A mixture of fog. And no,
00:38:25.080
I'm joking. I don't know that the helicopter was Boeing. But if it were, that would explain quite a
00:38:30.160
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older to order. Some exclusions apply. Now, with no further ado, back to the show. Speaking of confusion
00:38:57.200
and people who are on the brink of death, Joe Biden seems to think that he was President Trump's
00:39:04.400
vice president. And when I was vice president, things were kind of bad during the pandemic.
00:39:11.540
And what happened was, Barack said to me, go to Detroit and help fix it. Well, poor mayor,
00:39:19.040
he spent more time with me than he ever thought he was going to have to. God love you.
00:39:23.820
When I was vice president, the pandemic was absolutely terrible. But then he, I think he
00:39:28.740
remembered. He said, wait a second. I wasn't vice president for Trump. Who's Trump again? Oh,
00:39:34.120
yeah. He's the guy I'm running against. No, it was Barack. Barack was president during the
00:39:38.740
pandemic? No? Hell, anyway. And then he glad hands the guy and moves on. Remember, Joe Biden
00:39:44.760
in testimony didn't remember when he was vice president. He couldn't remember. Okay.
00:39:55.760
He is real, real out of it. It's an amazing contrast to think about Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter.
00:40:03.680
Jimmy Carter is still alive. Jimmy Carter. There was a headline the other day, Jimmy Carter enjoying
00:40:09.720
peanut butter ice cream in hospice care. Jimmy Carter has been in hospice for 15 months. Hospice is
00:40:16.740
where you go in the weeks before you die. Jimmy Carter has had no medical care other than some pain
00:40:23.580
medication for well over a year. He's 99 years old. He had brain cancer. He was diagnosed with brain
00:40:31.240
cancer almost a decade ago. Jimmy Carter was president 48 years ago. There have been seven
00:40:40.400
presidents since then. Headline, Jimmy Carter's enjoying some peanut butter ice cream while he's
00:40:45.720
in hospice. Pretty amazing. No matter what you think of the guy or his presidency here, it's just
00:40:49.700
incredible. Jimmy Carter is almost certainly more with it than our current Democrat president.
00:40:57.200
That is absolutely astounding. And if the Democrats had any sense at this point, they'd probably just
00:41:04.480
cut and run on Biden and replace him with Jimmy Carter. Jimmy Carter, every year since he left the
00:41:11.580
White House, he's become more and more beloved. Go for it. Go for it. You know, that guy,
00:41:16.640
you can't keep him down. Who knows? He could go another year or two years. Who knows how long he
00:41:23.080
could go? And he's vibrant, enjoying that peanut butter ice cream. Probably makes a lot more sense
00:41:28.880
than Joe Biden. Even the libs are admitting this. Bill Maher made this point the other day.
00:41:34.700
I know a lot of conservatives like sucking up to Bill Maher now. I don't do it. Bill Maher is still a
00:41:39.780
huge lib. But he gives you some insight on what the libs are thinking about the presidential race
00:41:45.300
because he made the observation that things must be really, really bad in the polls if Joe Biden is
00:41:53.640
agreeing to debate Donald Trump. Let's talk about these debates. I mean, I don't really want to.
00:41:59.740
But it is what's going on in the country. And, you know, first of all, to me, it says Biden knows
00:42:04.540
he's losing because else he wouldn't have agreed. Right. Only the loser wants to debate.
00:42:09.560
Trump always wants a crowd. So that's different. But this is this is what's so interesting about it.
00:42:15.020
I've never seen a summer debate, not for the presidential elections. They're always in October
00:42:18.540
right before the election. This one. I mean, June 27th. It's not even they haven't had the convention yet.
00:42:24.480
They're not getting any younger. He raises a great point. First great point. The only reason Biden
00:42:41.360
accepted is because he's losing. And you can't say the same thing about Trump. Trump always loves a
00:42:47.320
show. Joe Biden doesn't always love a show. And Joe Biden's slipping. And Joe Biden did not commit
00:42:52.660
early on to say that he would debate Trump, but he's losing. So he needs to debate Trump. He's got
00:42:58.460
to do something. He can't look weak. But notice they're doing it in the summer. Why are they doing
00:43:04.280
it in the summer? Well, I think the answer to Bill's question here is if it's a disaster, the libs will
00:43:09.120
then still have months to fix it. If it's not a disaster, they can run the clips 24 seven on all the
00:43:16.220
network news. Look at this. Joe Biden destroyed Donald Trump. But if it's a complete disaster,
00:43:22.660
they can just memory hole the whole thing. That's obviously why. The Biden campaign wrote
00:43:26.980
to the Commission on Presidential Debates and said, we're not going to do your debates because your
00:43:30.980
debates are too close to the election. And because your debates include an audience. And we can't have
00:43:36.340
an audience and we don't want it to be too close to the election. So we're just going to do ABC News
00:43:39.940
and CNN debates. And so they'll do it. Both of these guys are the presumptive nominees,
00:43:46.840
even though obviously the conventions haven't taken place yet.
00:43:51.840
And then they'll move on from there. If that doesn't give Biden the poll boost that he needs,
00:43:58.860
they'll just figure something else out. Also because the libs rigged the elections
00:44:02.060
starting with COVID. So now people begin voting much, much earlier.
00:44:07.180
So they're just setting the stage. But the really nice thing about this from my perspective as a
00:44:14.980
conservative is it's evidence that it's not all just fixed. It's evidence that the whole thing
00:44:21.840
isn't just a total setup and totally rigged. The fact that Biden feels he needs to debate means that
00:44:28.820
he and the Democrats are not confident that they can just lock up the election from the basement of
00:44:32.940
the White House, which means that Trump can win. A lot of people on the right are going to tell you
00:44:39.520
all hope is lost. It's over. There's no chance. I don't think so. If all hope were lost, Biden would
00:44:45.360
not be debating. If all hope were lost, they wouldn't be trying to throw Trump in prison.
00:44:53.860
Trump can win. And right now, if you're Biden, you're probably thinking that Trump most likely will
00:45:01.500
win. Now, speaking of the future of the company, of the company, of the country,
00:45:05.880
what happens if Trump does win? Well, according to the view, the country's over.
00:45:13.500
This lifetime assignment has got to stop. And they need to fix the electoral college also,
00:45:20.080
People need to understand what's going on. You will not have a country if Trump gets in.
00:45:26.920
You will not have a country. We need to fix the electoral college because
00:45:30.880
the electoral college makes it harder for us to rig the elections. And so we need to overthrow the
00:45:36.380
wisdom of our framers and founding fathers for the wisdom of Joy Behar and the view. Because if
00:45:42.820
Donald Trump gets elected, you won't have a country. This doesn't work. The Democrats need to get a new
00:45:50.580
line. Not that I want to give them good political advice, but this line doesn't work.
00:45:56.040
Because Trump was already the president and we didn't lose the country. This line, if Trump gets
00:46:02.080
elected, you won't have a country anymore. It doesn't work because he already was in the White
00:46:06.720
House. He was the president. And not only did the country not collapse, we were in much better shape
00:46:11.880
than after he left the White House and Joe Biden came in. So it doesn't work. That, I guess,
00:46:18.460
worked in 2016. But they had to change up the strategy. I mean, it worked in as much as it had
00:46:25.420
some cachet. Obviously, it didn't ultimately persuade people. Then in 2020, they just rigged
00:46:30.660
the thing. Now what? They feel they can't rig it again because they don't have COVID as an excuse.
00:46:37.580
But they don't have anything to say. They don't have anything positive to say about Biden. So they go
00:46:41.600
back to the same old playbook that they tried in 2016. Fine by me. When your opponent is destroying
00:46:47.560
himself, don't interrupt. But I do feel that I've heard this song before. I feel that I'm having
00:46:54.580
deja vu all over again. Cori Bush talking about Michael Brown. This same kind of, oh, Donald Trump,
00:47:01.260
the mango Mussolini. He's going to take away our country. It's like a broken record. I feel like
00:47:06.660
we're just suspended in time with this nonsense from 10 years ago. If they keep playing that same
00:47:14.020
old broken record, as of now, smart money goes to Trump. Okay. Speaking of what happens in the
00:47:24.320
next Trump administration, I have a great guest who's about to come on. We'll get to him in just
00:47:27.600
a moment. First, though, we got to shift on over to the member room segment to him. The rest of the
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