Ep. 1495 - Zelensky Refuses To Give Up Power In Ukraine
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Michael Knowles explains why we should support Ukraine, the most important nation in the world, and the last bastion of democracy against Super Hitler 2.0 Vladimir Putin and his regime in Ukraine. He also asks why we continue to give a blank check to them, and why it s so important that we do so.
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Remember Ukraine? That was the most important nation in the world. The last battleground for
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democracy to stop super Hitler 2.0 Vladimir Putin. Less freedom perish from the earth.
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Remember that? And then we all just kind of forgot about it until, of course, our regularly
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scheduled payments to the Zelensky administration cropped up. Well, something strange happened a
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couple days ago. A couple days ago, President Zelensky's term as president of Ukraine ended,
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but Zelensky is refusing to give up power. Here is how Zelensky explained the situation to Reuters.
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Quote, my five-year term is not over yet. It is continuing due to martial law.
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Oh, okay. All right. That's fine. You see, you see. Had Zelensky not declared martial law,
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and made himself dictator indefinitely, elections would have been held in March,
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after which he would have left office on May 20th. But since he did do those things,
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he did declare the martial law, he is going to be the leader of Ukraine for the foreseeable future.
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Which is why it's so important, you see, to keep giving a blank check to Ukraine.
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Because if we don't, they might lose their democracy and rule of law.
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I'm Michael Knowles. This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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I think I would be more vociferously pro-Ukraine if we just dropped all the propaganda,
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all the silly buzzwords. It's about democracy. It's about the rule of law.
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If we could just be honest and say we are geopolitical adversaries with Russia for 100
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years and Russia is getting a little aggressive in Ukraine. We've gotten a little bit aggressive in
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Eastern Europe too with the expansion of NATO, but we have contrary interests. And so in response to
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Russian aggression, we're propping up our own little dictator in our client state, Ukraine.
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If we just put it that way, I would be much more inclined to support funding Ukraine.
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What drives me crazy is all of the nonsense propaganda, but this is the last stand for democracy.
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Hitler is about to invade Czechoslovakia and we need to stand firm. The powers of freedom and
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no, we got, he's our little dictator there and there is no rule of law and there is no democracy.
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And Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the civilized world and has been for a very long
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time, but, but there are corrupt little country and, and we're using them as a way to counter Russia.
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And that's why we're sending them money. If they put it that way, I probably still wouldn't be in
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favor of the blank check to Ukraine, but, but at least I could understand it. At least it wouldn't
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be totally incoherent. The globalists though, they're on the move. They are shaking things up a
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little bit. Biggest example in the last 24 hours, Klaus Schwab, the villainous James Bond villain sounding
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head of the world economic forum. The, the man who promoted the great reset from his perch at the
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world economic forum, you will own nothing and be happy. Klaus has just announced that he will step
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down or he hasn't publicly announced it, but he has privately leaked that he will step down as the
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chairman of the world economic forum. According to a WEF spokesman, the forum will change its governance
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structure. As a result, Schwab will transition from executive chairman to chairman of the board of
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trustees by the start of next year. So he's not really giving up power totally, but he's probably
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going to be in a less active role within the WEF. What does this mean? Well, it's the end of an era.
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Certainly Schwab has been the head of the world economic forum since he founded the thing in the
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70s. So, you know, there is no world economic forum without Klaus Schwab. Whether or not the WEF can
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continue after he leaves remains to be seen. Most people have no idea what the world economic forum
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is. In fact, I've spent a lot of time studying the world economic forum and I'm still not totally sure
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what it is, but my best conclusion that I've drawn from it is that the world economic forum is a fun
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ski vacation for prominent people in business, media, and politics. That's what it is. There are all sorts
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of theories about how the world economic forum is the shadowy cabal in the middle of Davos that is
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secretly running the entire world and they subvert governments and they undermine the will of various
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peoples. And they're pulling the marionette strings of all of our global leaders, many of whom have
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taken positions and little fellowships and little guest appearances with the world economic forum.
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I think that's all totally fake. It's not that the WEF is not dastardly. It's not that the WEF
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doesn't represent something very bad about our politics. But the people who really think that
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Klaus Schwab is running the world are people who are confusing the symbol for the thing that it
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symbolizes. Klaus Schwab, I don't think, really has all that much power. He throws a really great party
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in the Swiss Alps every year and a lot of really rich, powerful people come and they have fun and they
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sip their hot cocoa and they go skiing and they hobnob and they network and they definitely cut
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some shady deals and they conspire and they collude and they do all of that. But Klaus Schwab is not the
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reason that we live under a globalist liberal political order. The real problems are just being
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represented by the WEF. But the WEF isn't driving the problems. The real problems are the privatization
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of everything that allows business leaders and the heads of NGOs to fill the roles that were
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traditionally held by the civil authority. And therefore, to take power and sovereignty away
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from the people. The fact that Google effectively controls our public square, controls discourse in a
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republic where speech is how you're supposed to govern yourselves. The fact that Google, a private
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company, a sort of a private company, controls that. That's a big problem. The fetishization of
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free trade. I like trade. I like the fact that our GDP goes a little higher and we can all be a little
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richer. I like that. But not at the cost of losing your way of life, your traditions, and your national
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sovereignty. The fact that we have a fetishization of free trade means that there are going to have
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to be international, supranational institutions that govern those trade regimes that are going to
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take political power away from the nations. The problem is the internet. The fact that the internet
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kind of flattened the whole world and eroded cultural and geographic boundaries. The fact that we
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have a Westphalian system. This goes back some centuries now. The fact that we have a system of world
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order that cracked up Christendom, what had previously been our civilization, gets cracked up
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beginning really with the Protestant revolution. No knock on the Protestants. It's just how it
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worked. You had a unified Europe. You had a unified Christendom. And then the wars of religion
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cracked that up a little bit. And then the negotiation to stop the wars of religion
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was expressed in the Treaty of Augsburg and the Peace of Westphalia, which said
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cuius regio eius religio, whose reign his religion, which established a radical subjectivism and a
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radical relativism, which said there is no religious truth. There is no unifying moral reality
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for our civilization. It's just based on each little nation. Whatever your nation wants to do,
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that's totally fine. Don't yuck my yum. Well, if that's the case, then we forfeit any serious claims
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about truth, about human nature, about how countries ought to be run. The problem is liberalism. That's
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really what the problem is. And so the WEF is an expression of liberalism, political liberalism,
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not just modern liberalism, but classical liberalism, intermediate liberalism, future liberalism,
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all the liberalism. That's the problem. And so the WEF is an expression of that. But you get rid
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of Klaus Schwab, some new Klaus Schwab's going to pop up. You get rid of the World Economic Forum,
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some new World Economic Forum's going to pop up. Because rich people who exploit the weaknesses of
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our liberal political order are always going to want to cut new deals and gain more power and go on
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fun ski vacations. And that is just going to continue to happen, whether Klaus is here or not.
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But people don't like that. People broadly do not like liberal globalism. Greatest piece of evidence
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of this recently, a new poll from Reuters and Ipsos, which shows that 61% of Americans support the mass
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deportation of illegal aliens. It's not that 61% say we need to secure our border. It's not even that 61%
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say we need to maybe restrict immigration broadly. 61% support loading up illegal aliens on planes,
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trains, and automobiles and shipping them out of the country, millions or tens of millions at a time.
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This poll surprised me because I often thought Americans' views on immigration were kind of like
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their views on Congress. Everyone hates Congress, but they love their congressmen.
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Congress always has a very low approval rating, but individual members of Congress within their
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districts often have high approval ratings. And so if all of the individual members of Congress
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have high approval ratings, then effectively Congress has a high approval rating.
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I've assumed it was that way with illegal immigration. Everyone hates illegal immigration.
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We all know it's terribly wrong and unjust. But you like the illegal alien girl in your class from
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Ecuador. You like your babysitter who probably does not have a green card. You like the individuals in
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your life who are illegal aliens. So I'm still skeptical that once the planes, trains, and automobiles
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started rolling with the tens of millions of illegals out of the country, that Americans would
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support that. I don't think that would be a political winner. But if you ask Americans today,
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this is a big, big shift, they're saying, yeah, load them up. Big shift. Because what that represents
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is that Americans increasingly realize the only way to restore something like our traditional way of
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life, which a lot of people miss because the modern political order is fraying economically, socially,
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culturally, internationally, that they recognize that the only way to restore something like our
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traditional way of life is going to have to be drastic. It's not going to be just maybe we limit,
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People do not like losing our sovereignty. And so we lose our sovereignty to the multinational
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trade organizations. We lose our sovereignty to the NGOs and the humanitarian organizations.
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And we lose our sovereignty to international courts, courts like the ICC, which just
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issued an arrest warrant for Bibi Netanyahu and other top Israeli officials.
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Now, it's not exactly that I predicted this some weeks ago because I think everyone could have
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seen this coming. But I did technically, I guess, predict this. And I said it won't really matter
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because the United States and Israel do not acknowledge the jurisdiction of the International
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Criminal Court. Put Israel out of it for a second. For the US to recognize the jurisdiction of the
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International Criminal Court would require the United States to permit an international body to
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prosecute Americans for crimes committed on American soil, which is unconstitutional.
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So we just can't. It's totally ridiculous. Israel said, we're not giving up our prosecutorial power to
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some international body. Well, now the ICC has said we have arrest warrants out for Netanyahu and the
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other Israeli officials. Here is what Joe Biden has to say about it.
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Let me be clear. We reject the ICC's application for arrest warrants against Israeli leaders.
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Whatever these warrants may imply, there is no equivalence between Israel and Hamas.
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And it's clear, Israel wants to do all it can to ensure civilian protection. But let me be clear,
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contrary to allegations against Israel made by the International Court of Justice,
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what's happening is not genocide. We reject that. We will always stand with Israel and the threats
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against its security. There he is. How dare you, International Criminal Court,
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issue these warrants? But how did the ICC come to issue those arrest warrants?
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Because of Joe Biden, because of what Biden did. When the ICC first came to prominence back during
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the Bush administration, Bush rejected it, said, nah, we're not doing that. We're not going to be
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part of the ICC. Then you had a liberal president, Obama, cozies up a little bit more to these
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international bodies. Then you have Trump. Trump issues a June 2020 executive order putting
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sanctions on the ICC. Why did Trump sanction the ICC? For attempting to investigate American soldiers
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and allied soldiers for supposed crimes, even though American and allied soldiers are not
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subject to the jurisdiction of the ICC. So Trump goes out and he not only says,
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we're not going to play ball with this ridiculous body. He says, we're going to sanction you.
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We're going to impose penalties on you. And then Biden gets into office. What does he do? He says,
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we want to play nice with the ICC. He's insinuating that we recognize the authority of the ICC,
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even though legally we do not. And then what happens? The ICC comes back and does something
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Biden doesn't like. And he says, how did this happen? How did this happen? Because you did it,
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man. You did it. That's how. Why was Putin invading Ukraine? Because you took sanctions off Russia.
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That's what Zelensky himself had said. How's this happening? That's so weird. Why is Iran using
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proxies to go to war with Israel right now? Because you went soft on Iran. That's why.
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And you undermine Trump's effective policy in the Middle East. You, you're the reason, man.
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And then he's shocked that there are consequences for his actions. Now, he says something here,
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very important. He says, we reject that what the state of Israel is doing is genocide.
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And I've noticed just in my own commentary on the intractable conflict in the Middle East,
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that people have misunderstood something that I've said. Because I've pointed out that this is the
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intractable conflict. And you have partisans on one side, the blue-haired people screaming,
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saying, from the river to the sea, we need Palestine to be free. They're out there protesting
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for Hamas or whatever. And they say the way this ends is with a recognition either of a Palestinian
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state or just the eradication of Israel. Then on the other side, you have the people saying,
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no, absolutely not. The way this ends is when Israel totally destroys Hamas. And okay,
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but how's that really going to happen? You're not going to have a two-state solution. You're going
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to have to, what then? Are you going to occupy Gaza? Are you going to move people around? What are
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you going to do? The reason that it's intractable is because, as I've said, the rational strategic
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objective for both parties is the ethnic cleansing of the other side. Some people have misinterpreted
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this to suggest that I have said the rational objective is the genocide of the other side.
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Ethnic cleansing and genocide are not the same thing. Genocide is when you obliterate a group of
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people, when you kill them all. Ethnic cleansing is when you move people out of an area.
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And so it seems clear to me, certain Israeli officials have actually said this on the record
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that they support ethnic cleansing of certain Palestinians from certain areas. And it also just,
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if you were the prime minister of Israel, this would have to be your strategic objective
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because you've got this political issue, Gaza, right there on your border. After October 7th,
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you realize they pose an unacceptable security risk. And so what are you going to do? I guess you could
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say, we're going to go in and get rid of Hamas. It's not about the Palestinian people. It's about
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getting rid of Hamas. But the Palestinian people elected Hamas. It's not like Hamas just came in
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and imposed their will on the Palestinian people. They elected, the Palestinians elected this group.
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So you've got the people broadly supportive of the terror group. You can't neatly draw a distinction
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between the people and the representatives of those people. So the objective for the state of Israel
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is ethnic cleansing. At least that would be the rational objective. And then at least the same
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would be true for the Palestinians. You might go even further because there are Hamas officials on
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the record saying we basically want to just wipe out all the Jews. So I guess they would go further
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for Hamas and say perhaps their end goal actually is genocide. But notice the ICC focused only on the
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state of Israel here, which Biden is rightly rejecting. I just wish he would have rejected
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this globalist political order from the beginning rather than try to play nice with these groups
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that erode our sovereignty. Now, speaking of Joe Biden's failures, Joe Biden is set to release oil
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from more American oil reserves. So Biden is set to release one million barrels of gasoline
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from not from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, but from a Northeast Reserve that was established to
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reduce prices just ahead of the election. So we got the elections in what, six months? Coincidentally,
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Joe Biden says, OK, right now I'm going to start releasing oil from this Northeast Reserve so the
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gas prices can come down so that you don't totally throw me out of office. The Biden-Harris
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administration, says Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm, is laser focused on lowering prices at
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the pump for American families, especially as drivers hit the road for the summer driving season.
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By strategically releasing this reserve in between Memorial Day and July 4th,
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we are ensuring sufficient supply flows to the tri-state and Northeast at a time hardworking
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Americans need it most. OK, so great. I'm glad gas prices are going to go down a tiny little bit.
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Why don't you just drill for more oil? The Biden administration is really good at draining
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our reserves of oil, but they can't admit that we need the oil. So they can't green light more
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drilling of oil. So instead, we're still getting the oil. We're still damaging the environment.
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We're still polluting the air. We're still doing all that stuff that the libs pretend they don't
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want to do. But we are also strategically much less safe. If you look, forget about this Northeast
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Reserve for a second. If you look at what Biden has done to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, this is a
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reserve of oil that we have for our national security. If you look at what he does, you see,
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OK, 1982, they're filling it up, up, up, up, up, up. Here we go. Then, OK, it kind of plateaus
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in 1989. Here we go. Then it spikes up a little bit again, really after 9-11. Plateaus, plateaus,
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dips a little bit under Obama. And then 2022, Joe Biden just drains this thing because he wants to
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have his cake and eat it too. He wants contrary objectives. He wants more oil, but less oil at
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the same time. More oil for the purposes of gas prices, less oil for the purposes of appeasing the
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sun monster. And because his political views are incoherent, he ends up with the worst policy of
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00:26:01.440
We will still stick on the subject, however, of people who were elected under dubious circumstances,
00:26:08.420
because the Board of Elections supervisor in Baltimore has come under fire recently for
00:26:16.820
potential instances of votes being counted multiple times.
00:26:22.820
Can you explain what the human error was last week that we heard from the State Board of Elections?
00:26:27.260
That's a good question. I'm waiting to hear myself. Well, you're the director. Well, I am the
00:26:33.340
director. The explanation that I've received in writing right now is not clear and not acceptable.
00:26:42.720
What do you mean, not acceptable? Well, I know what the system can do and what it's not supposed to do.
00:26:49.160
So until we get clarification from the state, I'm going to leave it there.
00:26:54.640
There are reports of concerns about a flash drive with votes on it. Bates on Jones' response is,
00:27:00.440
it's unclear if the state believes a flash drive was read by a tabulator more than once.
00:27:07.700
Well, let me just say this. A flash drive, according to the system, can only be inserted once.
00:27:19.780
I don't know that yet. I'm a little leery about saying human error if something can't be done but once.
00:27:26.240
Okay. So all of this insinuation of how this election last week went totally wrong.
00:27:33.740
Was it that a flash drive counted the votes multiple times? Well, he says that can't happen.
00:27:40.340
Was it intentional? Was it someone just going in and changing the system? Was it a hack?
00:27:46.480
Was it human error? He seems skeptical it was human error. It might have been intentionally
00:27:50.320
a human going in and trying to rig the election. In any case, we know that election workers were
00:28:00.120
caught last week over counting the number of votes cast. We know that elections are rigged all the
00:28:08.920
time. So what do we do with that information? He goes on, this supervisor goes on, and he admits,
00:28:15.240
he says, look, these elections, there's always problems in elections, but we try to keep it,
00:28:19.820
you know, relatively contained. I'm glad to hear a liberal admit that because in 2020,
00:28:24.120
we were told that the election was totally, completely legit. There were no problems. Not
00:28:29.120
one vote was miscounted. Oh, how dare you? If you suggest as much, you're an insurrectionist,
00:28:35.240
anti-American traitor. But we know there's always little problems with elections. So what do we do
00:28:41.260
with that information? The only reliable way to conduct an election is with paper ballots that are
00:28:49.760
counted by hand. Ballots that have been turned in by people who have to prove that they are who they
00:28:56.440
say they are. That is the, that is by far the most reliable way to conduct an election. When you start
00:29:03.360
introducing computers, when you start diminishing the opportunities for ballot watchers to supervise the
00:29:12.320
counting, when you stop requiring people to prove that they are eligible voters, the credibility of the
00:29:20.620
election plummets. That's a fact. We all know it. Even the libs know it. So pay attention to who
00:29:29.400
opposes those basic election integrity features. The people who oppose paper ballots
00:29:35.740
want to rig the elections. They want the elections to be riggable. What they'll say is, oh, it's much
00:29:44.060
more efficient to count on a computer. I don't think that's true. All over the world, people conduct
00:29:48.360
elections with paper ballots. For most of American history, we've conducted elections with paper ballots.
00:29:52.920
We can get the results on election night. Ever since we switched to computers, it takes days and
00:29:57.260
weeks and months, doesn't it? It's really weird. It doesn't seem very, very efficient to me.
00:30:00.680
Paper ballots counted by hand with ballot supervisors. Ballots that have been submitted
00:30:09.520
by people who show proof of identification. That's how you conduct an election. Anybody who opposes
00:30:16.780
any of those, what, three basic measures wants to rig the election, or at the real least wants the
00:30:25.400
election to be riggable? What are we going to do? Now, speaking of people who were elected
00:30:33.980
and affirmed and guided by the Holy Spirit, Pope Francis had that long interview. We covered a lot
00:30:42.160
of it yesterday. There was one clip of the interview, though, that for some reason, maybe I just missed it
00:30:46.960
when I watched the whole interview. Maybe it wasn't released at the same time, but it did start going
00:30:51.060
viral a little bit yesterday. I do want to cover this as a little coda to the Pope Francis interview.
00:30:56.980
He was asked if we would ever see female priests or deacons in the Catholic church, priestesses or
00:31:05.440
deaconesses. Here's his answer. For a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the
00:31:12.840
opportunity to be a deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church?
00:31:22.760
No. Any questions? Can we just play that one more time? I really like that. It's very blunt. This woman
00:31:30.140
leading up, now listen, listen, Papa Francesco, come on, we're reasonable people here. Don't you think we
00:31:36.880
need to have priestesses and bishopresses and popresses and deaconesses in the church? What do you say,
00:31:42.040
Holy Father? For a little girl growing up Catholic today, will she ever have the opportunity to be a
00:31:50.560
deacon and participate as a clergy member in the church? No. No. No, of course not. What was her
00:32:00.020
follow-up question? Pope Francis, for a little boy growing up in the Catholic church, will he ever have
00:32:08.680
an opportunity to be a nun? No. He also won't, because men and women are different. The Holy
00:32:14.780
Father's answer here is just to say men and women are different. That's it. There have never been
00:32:21.720
lady priests. In some breakaway sects over the past 50 years, there have been lady priests. It's
00:32:29.680
preposterous. When the Anglicans started doing it, you had a lot of people, a lot of Anglican priests
00:32:37.000
just say, okay, I'm done with this. And they left, and they entered, often they entered the
00:32:40.840
ordinary, which was this way for Anglican priests to join the Catholic church. Because they said,
00:32:45.400
no, priestesses, it's totally ridiculous. Totally ridiculous. There are plenty of roles for women in
00:32:51.260
the Catholic church. Sometimes the Catholic church is pilloried for being too pro-woman.
00:32:56.420
You know, we're quite fond of women, the great saints whom we venerate, our lady. We're certainly
00:33:03.200
quite fond of our lady. But men and women are different, and the libs can't stand that.
00:33:10.420
Some people have asked, with this woman's question, if you want to be a priestess,
00:33:17.420
why not just join any of the many breakaway groups that have priestesses? Why not become
00:33:25.320
Episcopalian? They have priestesses. Why not? I assume the Methodists do now. The Methodists have
00:33:29.960
gone a little bit lavender. You know, they've gone a little bit rainbow. I assume they have, though.
00:33:33.880
There are plenty of Christian denominations and groups that have priestesses. Why not join one of
00:33:43.000
them? Because the desire, the demand that the Catholic church do something which she cannot do,
00:33:51.920
which is pretend that women can be priests, the demand is much less about becoming something as
00:33:58.580
it is about destroying something. If these people want to become priestesses, they can join any number
00:34:04.120
of denominations. But there's a real draw here to the Catholic church. The Catholic church, whether you
00:34:10.120
are Catholic, whether you like the Catholic church, whether you hate the Catholic church,
00:34:14.740
I think you have to admit it's kind of the OG. You know, Catholic church, been around a long time.
00:34:20.960
It is the dominant institution in our civilization, for better or worse, even if you really don't like
00:34:29.480
the Catholic church. It is the institution that has shaped our entire civilization. It is the only
00:34:35.900
institution in our civilization that dates back to antiquity. And if you're a liberal, you got to
00:34:42.580
get it. You got to destroy that institution. You have to. This is what so much of the liberal
00:34:49.120
revolutionary politics has been about. It is not a coincidence that when the French revolution took
00:34:54.540
off, who did they go after the hardest? It was the church. When the Bolshevik revolution took off in
00:35:00.400
Russia, who did they go after? The church. In that case, the Eastern church. When the communists tried
00:35:06.480
to take over Spain, what did they do? They killed nuns. They raped nuns. They killed priests. They
00:35:11.780
attacked the church. Because the church is this institution that will not yield to the fashions
00:35:22.900
of modernity and the exaltation of the self, the idolatry of the self that defines liberalism.
00:35:27.380
The church will not permit it. And thus far, I think the track record has been pretty clear and
00:35:35.020
pretty great about the gates of hell not prevailing against the church, despite all odds, despite the
00:35:40.120
navish imbecility with which the church has often been led at the human level. And so that's why.
00:35:47.620
These people don't want to become Episcopalian priestesses or Methodists or whatever.
00:35:52.740
They want to finally bring that Catholic, that dirty run, those Catholics. They've got to heal
00:36:00.620
to liberalism. They have to. And the libs will not rest until that happens. That's not going to
00:36:07.020
happen. That's the problem for them. Now, speaking of celibacy, Julia Fox, do you remember her? She was
00:36:12.540
Kanye West's girlfriend, I think, for a while. Julia Fox, and maybe she's an actress or a model or
00:36:18.000
something like that. Julia Fox has just come out on some show and said that she is celibate.
00:36:27.280
She is chaste, but she's taking it further because she's not married. She says, I'm celibate. I don't
00:36:33.960
have sex. In order to take back control in the wake of the Dobbs decision overruling Roe v. Wade.
00:36:41.420
Julia, Rachel A. texted, what's your reasoning behind being celibate? And in what ways do you
00:36:47.620
believe it has improved your life? Well, I just think nothing good comes from having sex,
00:36:54.780
including children. No, I'm just kidding. But, you know, I think with the overturning of Roe v. Wade and,
00:37:03.360
you know, our rights being stripped away from us, this is a way that I can take back the control. And
00:37:08.340
it just sucks that it has to be in that way. But I just don't feel comfortable until things change.
00:37:21.260
Oh, I honestly, I it was like six months and it was a year. And I'm like, oh, my God,
00:37:25.860
it's almost two and a half years and it's still going. And I don't know.
00:37:30.660
In the beginning? Yes. But I think it's just like getting over anything, smoking,
00:37:34.040
drugs, whatever it may be. Eventually, you just forget. And then all that energy that you were
00:37:38.280
putting toward sex, you can put it toward other things.
00:37:43.220
Woo. Yeah. You go, girl. You go, girl. You show those conservatives who overruled Roe v. Wade.
00:37:52.020
You show them and you take back control by behaving in the way that we would encourage you to behave.
00:37:57.400
That is, woo. I'm not being facetious. Woo. I think it's great. Because very often,
00:38:04.240
culture is downstream of politics and the law is a teacher. When you change laws,
00:38:10.300
you change people's behavior. And there have been some squishes who have said, no,
00:38:16.540
you can't change the law and then wait for the law to change people's behavior. That would,
00:38:21.620
one, be tyrannical or at least two, be totally ineffective because you got to just base the
00:38:27.760
laws on how people are already behaving. Nah, not necessarily. The law is a teacher.
00:38:32.160
And so when you, when you say, Hey, if you have promiscuous sex, you won't be able to murder
00:38:36.740
your child. And then people are going to rationally conclude that if they don't want to have another
00:38:42.300
child, they probably shouldn't have promiscuous sex, which is going to be good for her. Look,
00:38:48.020
she seems happier than I've ever seen her in any interview or any, not that I'm a huge Julia Fox
00:38:53.020
aficionado, but she seems actually relatively well-balanced. She goes, yeah, I'm just, I'm kind of
00:38:57.660
doing me. I'm not having sex outside of marriage. I'm not, not fornicating. I'm just kind of,
00:39:01.080
you know, and it's good. I took back my power and yes, you're right. You did. And you did that
00:39:06.060
because conservatives changed a law and then the law changed your behavior. And now everyone's
00:39:10.660
happier. Babies aren't being murdered quite as much or in the same way. Unfortunately,
00:39:16.320
it's, we still have to work on that. And, and your behavior is better and more conducive to your
00:39:20.920
own flourishing and to flourishing of society. Get ready for something special tonight. Join me
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yesterday is from Frank S111, who says, so the Democrat star witness committed the exact
00:40:04.720
crime that they claim Trump committed. Spectacular. No, no, it's crazier than that.
00:40:10.360
The Democrat star witness in this New York case, Michael Cohen, committed a much more serious crime
00:40:16.220
than the crime that they're accusing Trump of having committed. And they're not prosecuting
00:40:21.700
their star witness for that crime. They are prosecuting, probably when they don't even
00:40:26.820
really have jurisdiction over it, this much, much more trivial crime because they got to get that
00:40:33.660
Trump. They got to get him. Otherwise, he might get reelected. And then if the people vote for the
00:40:37.580
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back to the discussion. Speaking of cause and effect, there's a new report out that millennials
00:41:15.240
are not taking time off. They're not taking their PTO, but they are going on vacation. And the way
00:41:22.660
they're going on vacation is quiet vacationing, where they go on vacation, but they don't really
00:41:27.240
tell their bosses. They just don't quite work as much. And even though they've got paid time off,
00:41:31.300
they won't register their paid time off. They'll just, they'll pretend that they're working,
00:41:36.520
but they'll actually be on vacation. Why is that? This is based on a new Harris Poll survey.
00:41:45.500
78% of US workers say they don't take all of their PTO days. That is highest among Gen Z and millennials,
00:41:52.740
but they do take their vacation through what they call a giant workaround culture.
00:41:59.300
Okay. It pains me to defend my fellow millennials. And the Zoomers, I think are a little bit more
00:42:09.040
rounded in reality than the millennials, but the millennials, this is my generation,
00:42:14.600
the Obama generation, wrong about so many things. Here, I totally get it. I totally get why they're
00:42:20.200
not taking official PTO and why they are just kind of quietly going on vacation. The reason is not just
00:42:27.260
that they're dishonest. The reason is not just that they're suck ups and they don't want, they want
00:42:31.120
it to seem like they're always working. And the reason is that there is no such thing as time off
00:42:35.980
anymore. There is no such thing as time off because of the smartphone and because of tablets and laptops
00:42:41.560
because people are expected to be working 24 seven. This is especially true if you have a white collar
00:42:48.220
job. If you have a blue collar job where your, your body is more important in, in the performance of
00:42:55.480
the job, then, then it's hard for you to be working all the time because the, the masters of the
00:43:01.480
universe who control our economy, haven't figured out how to bring a tractor, you know, in your pocket
00:43:05.100
yet. Once they do though, you'll be working all the time too. But especially for white collar jobs,
00:43:09.220
laptop jobs, phone jobs, you're just, you have your office in your pocket all the time. And so if you go
00:43:15.380
on vacation, you're going to get calls, you're going to get emails, you're going to, and you're going to
00:43:19.720
be expected to respond to at least some of them. So it seems to me what the millennials are doing
00:43:25.240
and the zoomers are doing is they're just adapting to that fact. And they're saying, okay, I will,
00:43:30.920
I will never get a formal vacation, but I'll at least be able to slack off a little bit for a week
00:43:36.020
or two at a time, which I get. And, and frankly, that is, that is worse for them and probably better
00:43:43.980
for the company than if they just took their time off. But this is what we do in, in modernity.
00:43:51.980
We erase all boundaries. There used to be a very firm boundary between work and home.
00:43:59.020
It used to be a very firm boundary between work and vacation. And maybe you'd make a call from your
00:44:05.280
hotel room to check in at the office once, but probably you wouldn't. Now there's no boundary.
00:44:10.660
There used to be a very firm boundary between nation and other nation. Now we're kind of erasing
00:44:16.500
those borders. There used to be a very firm boundary between men and women. Now we're erasing
00:44:21.200
those borders. So much of modernity is just about jumbling everything up, just mixing it all up into
00:44:29.800
this kind of gray hodgepodge of goop. That's what it is. So you're never on vacation and you're never
00:44:37.060
really at work. You're never at home. You're never really at the office. You're just always just in
00:44:40.760
this kind of gooey middle ground. And in part, not to go too down the rabbit hole here, this is
00:44:50.980
because modernity and liberalism denies time and history. And just, you're kind of in this eternal
00:45:00.080
present. This is why the libs are always talking about how we're going to upload our brains to the
00:45:03.680
cloud. And this is why the libs and the moderns are so focused on never aging and never growing up
00:45:09.580
and never getting married, never having kids and never do it. Cause you just want to stay the same
00:45:12.680
forever. You just want to live in this gray middle ground forever. Not good. Not going to make people
00:45:18.740
happy, but don't blame the millennials for it. They're just, they're just reacting to the changing
00:45:23.620
political circumstances. Now, speaking of changing culture, AMC, the movie channel has just added a
00:45:31.480
trigger warning to one of my favorite movies, Goodfellas. The trigger warning says this film
00:45:38.900
includes language and or cultural stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards
00:45:46.320
of inclusion and tolerance and may offend some viewers. Goodfellas is based on a true story.
00:45:54.040
This movie is absolutely unacceptable. It depicts stereotypes that have no place in our society.
00:46:03.720
I mean, it's true. It actually happened. These people are real and they did behave this way,
00:46:09.040
but just cause it's true doesn't mean it's not racist. That's what it is. And it's about my
00:46:14.060
ancestral people, the Italians, but it's about a certain Italian American subculture that is real.
00:46:20.960
There really were mobsters. There really were five families in New York and other mob organizations
00:46:25.340
that Goodfellas is based on a book from 1985. It's a nonfiction book called Wise Guy by Nicholas
00:46:31.740
Pelleggi. It's the story of Henry Hill, who's a real guy who always wanted to be a gangster.
00:46:40.580
This is very, very funny. This to me, this trigger warning is very, very funny. Funny how you might ask
00:46:46.340
funny, like I'm a clown, like I amuse you, like I make you laugh, like I'm here to amuse you.
00:46:50.540
How are you funny? What's so funny about me, huh? You might be thinking that. I find it very,
00:46:56.280
very funny. But it's, it's the funniest part of it is that it's true. It is, this is a stereotype.
00:47:04.260
And such stereotypes are unacceptable in today's age, according to the cultural elites.
00:47:10.680
And it's also true because all stereotypes are true. Maybe that's the line that finally gets me
00:47:20.100
canceled. All, all stereotypes are true. That is how they became stereotypes. Stereotypes do not
00:47:27.900
necessarily apply to every single individual in a, in a certain group. Of course not, but it's a type.
00:47:34.960
That's a, it's a type. It's not, it's not an individual descriptor. It's a type. And they're
00:47:40.880
all true. That is how they obtain. That is how, that's how they gain cultural currency because people
00:47:47.220
recognize them to be true. I love the Italian people. I have no shame about my ethnic heritage
00:47:56.360
down my mother's side, but you know, they did cultivate a certain subculture in America and there
00:48:03.000
was a little bit of crime associated with it. And it's true. Okay. It's true. Now, speaking of
00:48:07.340
mobsters, Michael Cohen, New York, that rat, Trump's old fixer, who's now turned state's witness,
00:48:14.800
who's admitted to lying and stealing and all this. He's had some real credibility problems in recent
00:48:20.340
days. Certainly the fact that he's a liar, an admitted liar, but, but then what really shocked
00:48:27.480
people in the headlines yesterday, two days ago was that he admitted to stealing a lot of money.
00:48:33.300
We don't even know the total amount of money that he stole from Trump in the transaction that is at
00:48:37.780
the heart of the case. Michael Cohen's lawyer is now arguing that the fact that he's admitting to
00:48:44.500
be a liar and a thief actually bolsters his credibility. All of this has been, again, part and
00:48:51.960
parcel of Michael Cohen providing information, trying to be cooperative, meeting with the DA's
00:48:58.400
office dozens of times as he testified to. And so I think all of this is very much in keeping with,
00:49:05.780
you know, the, the, the top line and the takeaway here is that he has made his peace with his,
00:49:12.560
his admittedly checkered past and has decided to turn his loyalties away from Mr. Trump and towards
00:49:21.100
his family, his country, and to, and to be cooperative and to be truthful as of the time
00:49:26.540
he made that decision. And he was also truthful about the many lies and mistakes he's made along
00:49:30.960
the way. That's good. I'm glad Mr. Cohen, that you are finally admitting to some of your lies
00:49:36.480
that does not bolster your credibility. He's been very truthful about what a liar he is. Okay. He's
00:49:42.100
been a liar his whole life, but now he's being really truthful. Yeah, no, it, it, if Cohen is being
00:49:48.340
truthful now and I'm a little skeptical because he's a dirty rat, liar, cheat, thief, if he's being
00:49:57.060
truthful now, good, that's very good for his individual soul. I still wouldn't, wouldn't elect
00:50:04.440
the guy. I wouldn't have him babysit my kids. Okay. I wouldn't trust him as far as I can throw him.
00:50:10.480
It's no, it's so good and admirable that he's telling the truth about being a liar. Yeah. Maybe it
00:50:14.800
is personally. Politically though, as a public matter, uh, no, this means that your star witness
00:50:22.960
has no credibility. The rest of the show continues now. We, we are going to be interviewing someone
00:50:29.760
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