Ep. 1496 - The FBI Could Have Taken Out Trump
Summary
The FBI raid on President Trump s home at Mar-A-Largo, which was personally authorized by Joe Biden s attorney general Merrick Garland, apparently included the authorization to use deadly force. We are now learning this fact thanks to unsealed court filings brought to light by conservative journalist Julie Kelly.
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The FBI raid on President Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, which was personally authorized
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by Joe Biden's Attorney General Merrick Garland, apparently included the authorization to use
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deadly force. We are now learning this fact thanks to unsealed court filings brought to light
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by the conservative journalist Julie Kelly. I have just two of them here. Obviously,
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there are many more. But the first one says very clearly in the raid that according to an
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operations order, that was the name of the raid on Mar-a-Lago, or rather, that was the name of this
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particular document pertaining to the raid on Mar-a-Lago. This was produced in Discovery.
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The FBI believed its objective was to seize classified information, NDI, and U.S.
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government records as described in the search warrant. And therefore, law enforcement officers
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of the Department of Justice may use deadly force when necessary. The agents planned to bring
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standard-issue weapons, ammo, handcuffs, medium and large-sized bolt cutters, and they were told
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not to dress in uniform. They were told to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law
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enforcement equipment concealed. Okay, so then what happens if they get to Mar-a-Lago? Let's say they
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meet the president. Let's say they run into Trump. Let's say they run into the U.S. Secret Service
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who are there to protect the president. Well, according to all these contingencies here,
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should the former president arrive at Mar-a-Lago, FBI, MM, EM, and OSCs, all different initialisms for
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the jackbooted thugs that Biden sent down to rob the president, will be prepared to engage with the
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former POTUS and U.S. Secret Service team? Engage with them? What does that mean? Should the U.S.
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Secret Service provide resistance or interfere with FBI timeline or accesses? FBI, MM, EM will engage with,
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and then some of this is redacted. And they will engage with the U.S. Secret Service POCs per existing
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liaison relationships. And then furthermore, the FBI search team will knock on each guest room door
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to determine occupation status. FBI will request a map list of rooms and skeleton key card for all the
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rooms. So the operations order here says that the FBI is going to show up armed to the teeth.
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They're going to try to blend in with everyone else. And they're going to be authorized to use
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deadly force. And then if they have to, they're going to engage with U.S. Secret Service and Trump
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himself. Some Biden apologists are trying to argue that this kind of language is routine in FBI raids.
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It is not. It is not. There is nothing routine in the FBI sending in heavily armed agents to raid a
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former president and current opposition leaders home with specific instructions on how to engage with
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the former president and U.S. Secret Service should either, quote, provide resistance or interfere.
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What conclusion is one to draw from these facts other than that powerful people in the government
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want to assassinate Trump? It seems crazy to say. I will be the first to admit this seems crazy to say.
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You asked me five years ago, could this ever be the sort of thing that one would suggest? I would say no.
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But then again, you asked me five years ago, it seems crazy to think that the president of the
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United States would send jackbooted thugs to raid the home of his predecessor and current political
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rival. Our political reality has become crazy. So what other conclusion are we supposed to draw?
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to engage with the former president when they raid his home. That's not great. Meanwhile,
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turning to another co-equal branch of government, you have a justice of the Supreme Court being
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called a traitor and an insurrectionist for flying an American Revolutionary War era flag.
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This is the latest update to Alito Flaggate. You remember the non-traversy last week was that
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Justice Alito, actually I guess it was Justice Alito's wife, after she had been harassed and
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called all sorts of terrible names by her neighbors while just out going for a walk in
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the neighborhood. This was after the Libs, presumably, leaked the Dobbs decision that overruled
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Roe v. Wade, forcing the Alitos out of their home because the Democrats kept threatening to murder
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Justice Alito, as well as other conservative judges. And they really tried to murder one of
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them, Justice Kavanaugh. And luckily, the murderer Lib, who traveled from California to D.C.,
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was stopped because some U.S. Marshals happened to be on the scene. After all of this, Mrs. Alito
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flew an American flag upside down, which is a symbol of distress. Specifically, it's a maritime
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symbol. If your ship is going on, you fly your flag upside down, you say, we're in distress,
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and then hopefully you get rescued. So for an hour or two, she flew the flag in distress.
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We were told that this was an insurrectionist January 6th symbol. It's not. It's a very longstanding
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distress signal that applies to all sorts of flags, including the American flag. Well,
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now they got a new one. They got an update. Apparently, the Alitos had the audacity to fly
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the pine tree flag. This is a flag, if you haven't seen it, it's a white standard with
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pine tree in the middle, and it says, an appeal to heaven. According to New York Times reporting,
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another provocative flag was flown at another Alito home. So the Alitos, I guess, have this other
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house, and this is where they flew that flag. This time, it was the appeal to heaven flag,
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which, like the inverted U.S. flag, was carried by rioters at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021.
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The worst day in the history of this or any republic. Also known as the pine tree flag,
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it dates back to the Revolutionary War, but largely fell into obscurity in recent years,
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and is now a symbol of support for Donald Trump, for a religious strand of the Stop the Steal
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campaign, and for a push to remake the American government in Christian terms. Okay, okay.
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The New York Times doesn't know anything. I used to think they knew stuff, but they lied.
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Now I think they lie, and they also don't know stuff.
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Hello, fellow insurrectionists. I, too, have an appeal to heaven flag here on my desk.
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I have this appeal to heaven flag next to a lot of other Revolutionary War flags. In fact,
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one of the longtime listeners to the show and participants in the member segmentum,
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A.C. Cactusflower recently sent me this Bedford flag, which is far more provocative than any of
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these other flags. The Bedford flag, which was, according to tradition, flown at Lexington and
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Concord, has an arm, like a coat of arm wearing knight's arms, holding a sword that says,
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Vince Out Morire, win or die. Could you imagine if Alito had flown that? But it's got other flags
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here. It's got the Betsy Ross flag. We were told the Betsy Ross flag was racist a few years ago.
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Nike wanted to make shoes with the old Betsy Ross flag. You know, it looks like the American flag,
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but the stars are in a circle. Colin Kaepernick said that was evil and racist,
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so they canned the shoes. It's got the Grand Union flag here. This was the first naval flag
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of the United States. Looks like an American flag, but it's got kind of a little British flag up in
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the corner there. We've got the Gadsden flag. We were told that's racist and evil and terrible
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and terrorist. It's usually used by libertarians. It's the yellow flag with the snake. Don't tread on me.
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We have another version of that. It's on the red and white stripes. Don't tread on me.
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I've got some more. I have had this little desk flag set up since I started here at the Daily Wire.
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Going back to my earliest on-camera days here, when I was the cultural correspondent on the
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Andrew Klavan show, you can go back at the tape, I have had this collection of flags,
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absent my recent acquisition of the Bedford flag, I had it on my desk. This was before,
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certainly before Donald Trump was the nominee, right? This was before Stop the Steal and
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January 6th, 2021, by what, six years or something? And it had the appeal to heaven flag.
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It has fallen, the appeal to heaven flag has fallen into obscurity among liberals, just like all of the
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early American flags have fallen into obscurity among liberals, just like the current American flag
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has fallen into obscurity and disuse among liberals. Because liberals hate the American flags,
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because liberals hate the country. I don't want to be hyperbolic or needlessly provocative about it,
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but they do. Which is why it was so preposterous when the Libs attacked Alito for flying the American
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flag upside down as a symbol of distress. The Libs do that at virtually all of their protests.
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When they're not setting the flag on fire, they're flying it upside down as a symbol of distress.
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Frequently, they don't fly that flag because they don't like the American flag because the flag is
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a symbol of the country and they don't like the country. So they fly other flags. They fly the
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Antifa flag, they fly the gay flag, the pride flag, because they want to fly symbols of things that are
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not the country because they like things that are not the country. They like things that the country
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could be. They like alternatives to the country, but they don't really like the country.
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The appeal to heaven flag particularly arouses their ire because it's an appeal to heaven.
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Sometimes the text on here is an appeal to God, but usually it's an appeal to heaven.
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They say this is a symbol of Christian nationalism. Well, it's a symbol of the American Revolutionary War,
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and the American Revolutionary War did appeal to Christianity. John Adams, our nation's second
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president and a founding father, said the Christian morality is the morality of the country. It
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couldn't be founded on any other morality. John Jay, first chief justice of the Supreme Court,
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one of the authors of The Federalists, a founding father, he said the same thing. It's a Christian
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country. Thank goodness. Thank God that providence has provided that we're a Christian country.
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That's what he said. And so this kind of Christian language comes from the American Revolution. It goes
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back further. It goes back to the Mayflower, which by the way, if you're thinking of Father's Day gifts,
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I don't know what I'm allowed to say on certain social media platforms. Let's just say Mayflower
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is a good thing to keep in mind if you're looking for Father's Day gifts. But this Christian language
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was always there. My least favorite part about the appeal to heaven flag is that that text actually
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doesn't come from the Bible. It doesn't come from the writings of the church fathers or the saints.
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My least favorite part about it is that that text actually comes from John Locke in the second
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treatise of government. And it is an argument for the right to revolution because the final stage
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in your appeal process to rectify political wrongs is not just to appeal to your senator or your member
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of parliament or to your king even. It's to appeal to heaven, to God, which is a little bit lib
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revolutionary language for me. But the underlying principles, I think there's a lot to recommend
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them. And certainly those principles were present at the time of the revolution. They're deeply
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embedded in the American tradition. The libs are going after Alito and the other judges that they have
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tried to kill in recent years. Not because the judges are somehow anti-American. It is because
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the libs are anti-American. And they hate people who defend the legitimate, enduring traditions of
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Not to put too fine a point on it, though Providence has provided for us a video of some crazy lib
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going viral because he flew into a fury when he noticed that there were people flying American
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I'm here enjoying a nice day at the beach with my kids. And I turn around. I got these flags planted
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here on the beach by these MAGA f*****. Listen, this is all America. We know. You didn't storm the
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beaches to stake out your territory on the beach. This isn't the f***** moon. I get it. This is America.
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But I'm sick of my flag being represented by white nationalist trash on a f***** beach. Go f***** yourselves.
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I'm sick of it. I'm sick of you people who want to sit here on the beach with your families
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and enjoy the sun and a wholesome time using my flag. My flag is supposed to represent
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transgenderism and abortion and open borders. Okay, that's my country. That's what I and that's
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why I, a big lib, want to reclaim the American flag. Well, the problem is, big lib, that's not
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what the American flag stands for, which the wiser libs have understood. The libs are, this is the
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subject of my book, Speechless. This is the subject of a lot of, thank you, this is the subject of a lot
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of political conversation in recent years. The libs are always trying to take symbols, be they words,
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be they flags, be they images, and reappropriate them and transform their meaning. The rainbow,
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for instance, is a symbol that God gives to man to say that he'll never again destroy the world in a
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flood. That's where the rainbow comes from. And the libs take that and make it into a defense of
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really weird sex stuff. And they did, they appropriate on a similar topic. They took the
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word gay, which meant happy, and they used that to apply to decadent sex stuff. But it's not just
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on those social issues. Even terms like illegal alien, we've now made that term taboo. The term
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you have to use is undocumented American. But the problem with illegal aliens is that they're not
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Americans. That's what distinguishes them from everyone else. That is their political identifier.
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But if you erase that and you say they're undocumented Americans, well, all of a sudden,
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they're just another type of American. So obviously, they do have a right to be in the
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country. If you take young criminals, juvenile delinquents, and redefine them justice-involved
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youth, well, they're involved in justice. They're pretty good. You can't punish them, right? And
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the list goes on and on. So that's what they've tried to do. That's what that guy wants to do with
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the American flag. This American flag doesn't stand for you Christian evil conservatives. Uh-uh.
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Uh-uh. It stands for me, a big lib, who basically stands for murdering babies and doing weird sex
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stuff. That's my flag. But the thing is, it doesn't. It's very difficult to transform the
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meaning of symbols. And so it can be done. The libs have done a pretty good job of it over the
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years. But with the symbol of the country that everyone has rallied around for a very, very long
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time, it's going to be much more difficult, which is why another group of libs, they just have their
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own symbols. They say, no, okay, you conservative, probably Christian or Christian-friendly
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Americans, you can have your American flag, and we're going to have our flag, which is the gay
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flag. And that's going to be the flag that we salute, and it's going to be the flag that we fly in
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parades, and it's going to be the flag that we consider to be the representation of our country.
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And what we're going to just try to do is marginalize your flag and say that it's evil
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and racist, and we're going to take it off of sneakers, and we're going to tell justices of
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the Supreme Court to get rid of the flags of America, of the traditional American country,
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and we're going to transform it into something totally new. Now, speaking of people spouting
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off really dumb views, like that guy in the video, the NFL is walking back its criticism of
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the great Harrison Butker. Harrison Butker gives his excellent speech, best commencement speech
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of my lifetime at Benedictine College. This is a Catholic guy talking to Catholic students at a
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very Catholic college about living a Catholic life, and somehow that created a lot of controversy.
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It should not have. Nothing in Harrison Butker's speech could not be found in many catechisms and
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perennial teachings of the Catholic church. Nothing. Not one sentence. It was totally
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uncontroversial from the perspective of a practicing Catholic who believes what the church has taught
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for 2,000 years. But it didn't cause controversy among those people. It didn't cause controversy
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among the students in the crowd. We kept hearing all these liberal women be offended on behalf of the
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girls in the crowd. The girls weren't offended. They were all applauding. It was the libs who were
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shocked and offended. It was the women on The View. It was the New Republic. It was CNN. It was all
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these people who couldn't stop. And it was the NFL. A spokesman for the NFL, senior VP Jonathan Bean,
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said, Harrison Butker gave a speech in his personal capacity. His views are not those of the NFL as an
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organization. The NFL is steadfast in our commitment to inclusion, which only makes our
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league stronger. We love abortion and weird sex stuff and feminism. We're the NFL. I am so happy.
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Oh, this whole Butker commencement speech episode makes me so happy that I am a baseball fan and not
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a football fan. Because even though baseball got, during BLM, they went a little bit squishy and it
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kind of drove me crazy and I canceled my MLB TV subscription for a long time. But generally,
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baseball kind of keeps it together and they don't spit on the American flag. Generally,
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there was like one baseball player who did that during that whole episode. And generally,
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they're kind of normal. To hear this from the league, this is so pathetic. Jonathan Bean,
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I thought the NFL was run by men. Are you kidding me? We don't support this. We don't want any of our
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players articulating traditional Christian views about anything. We're the NFL.
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Just go wave the rainbow flag, Mr. Bean. So anyway, Roger Goodell had to correct this because
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it turns out NFL fans and viewers don't agree with Mr. Jonathan Bean over that mean Mr. Harrison
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Butker. So Goodell says, finally, and Goodell, he's a treat in his own right. But even Goodell realized,
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he says, listen, we have over 3,000 players. They have a diversity of opinions and thoughts just
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like America does. I think that's something we treasure. That's part of what ultimately makes
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us as a society better. We are not going to go much beyond the statement we made last week.
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But you did just go beyond the statement. Because the statement you made last week was,
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we hate Christianity. And then now you had to come out and do damage control. And you had to override
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your VP, Jonathan Bean. And you say, no, no, no, we like diversity of opinion. We're not gonna,
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we're not gonna keep attacking Harrison Butker. All right. All right. White flag. Not the appeal
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to heaven flag. The NFL would never wave that. But the white flag, you know, the flag of the
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French army. That's the one they're waving, the surrender flag. Why? Because they know that normal
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people, men, women, white people, black people, old people, young people, they know that normal
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people, and especially NFL fans, are on Harrison Butker's side. They are not on the side of the
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libs. The institutions, the elites are on the side of the libs. But if they don't want to totally lose
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the common sense and totally lose their audience, they got to keep their mouth shut with their stupid
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ideas and allow Mr. Giga Chad football player to say his piece, which most people agree with.
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in The Atlantic last night. I come home from a lovely backstage. We hadn't had backstage in quite a
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while. It's available now if you want to watch it. And so I come home, we have a nice time, had a couple
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of Coca-Colas, you know, a cigar. I'm just finishing up, writing a little script for today's show.
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And I come across this headline. Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations? This was trending news.
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Why is Charlie Kirk selling me food rations? And I didn't, I knew exactly what they were referring to.
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Because Charlie, and just like all of us in conservative media, we sell all sorts of different
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products and those advertisements are what keep us on the air. It's not just true of conservative
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media. That's true of all of the media forever, for all time. And one of the things we sell are,
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you know, emergency preparedness kits, certain types of food. You know, the liberals sell food
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too. We sell some food. And so I knew the topic. I said, why is this news? And then this is what
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they said. This reporter turned into the Charlie Kirk show for, I guess, the first time ever.
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So the ads on the show espouse conservative values and talking points, mostly in service of promoting
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brands such as Blackout Coffee, which sells a Second Amendment medium roast blend and Covert Op
00:25:00.760
cold brew. The commercial break sounded like something from an alternate universe. The more I
00:25:06.160
listened to them, the more I came to understand that was the point. So put a pause here. Charlie
00:25:11.340
Kirk sells coffee from companies that support the U.S. Constitution. That's it. It's a coffee
00:25:18.560
company that supports the Second Amendment. It's not even one of those later amendments like the 14th or
00:25:23.180
the 15th. It's the second one. Charlie Kirk selling coffee that is pro-Constitution. It's like something
00:25:31.740
from an alternative universe. What? Where are we? I'm used to only hearing ads from companies that hate
00:25:38.680
America and hate the Constitution. But then I came to understand that was the point.
00:25:45.320
This author goes on. Some brands, of course, speak the language of Democrats touting their
00:25:50.120
climate commitments and diversity efforts. But when I listen to left of center podcasts like Pod Save
00:25:56.220
America, Michelle Obama, the light podcast, put a pause there. No one has ever listened to Michelle
00:26:00.840
Obama's podcast. I refuse. This is how I know this article is fake news. Some people, I think,
00:26:05.840
listen to Pod Save America, Beltway, Establishment, Democrat types. Not one person has ever listened
00:26:10.980
to Michelle Obama's podcast. Probably as many people have listened to Michelle Obama's podcast as
00:26:16.020
have listened to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's podcast. Namely, Zilch, Zero. Anyway, it goes on.
00:26:22.220
MSNBC's Prosecuting Donald Trump podcast. I mostly heard ads from an assortment of nonpartisan brands,
00:26:28.800
such as Ford, Jefferson's Ocean Aged at Sea Bourbon, eHarmony, and SimpliSafe. The right,
00:26:35.720
meanwhile, has long-hawked products that you don't typically see advertised on mainstream outlets
00:26:39.860
and shows. Okay, I'm going to put a pause here. There are two explanations for this.
00:26:48.300
The explanation, two explanations for this and an explanation for why this is news.
00:26:53.040
The first explanation is liberals and conservatives have different priorities.
00:27:00.760
Yes, conservatives like brands. We like coffee, which is normal stuff that normal people drink.
00:27:08.800
And we like brands that support our country, the constitution.
00:27:14.520
Liberals like nonsense, like diversity and environmentalism and, you know, the sun monster
00:27:20.440
is going to kill us all. They like that. So, they're drawn to that. So, that's partly why
00:27:24.040
you're hearing different products advertised. The second reason, why is it that the mainstream
00:27:30.980
brands tend to be on the liberal channels? Because these supposedly nonpartisan companies
00:27:37.140
are pretty partisan. Ford, think of just the big corporations, Ford, Target, Procter & Gamble,
00:27:46.620
Nike, Budweiser. I'm just pulling these off the top of my head. They're not nonpartisan. They've all
00:27:54.600
gone woke. For many years now, they have trended to the left. Some have trended very, very far to the
00:28:00.820
left. Like Nike canceling a shoe because it has an American flag on it. Because some radical NFL
00:28:06.680
activist and a malcontent, Colin Kaepernick, bullies them into it. Or Bud Light, which decides it's
00:28:15.160
going to be a really smart idea to do an endorsement deal with a man whose entire career is mocking
00:28:20.700
women and pretending to be a woman and peddling this insane ideology on everyone in the country,
00:28:26.540
including children. That's not just left of center. That is radical leftist. That is,
00:28:34.700
20 years ago, Democrats would have agreed with Republicans that you should be deported if you
00:28:39.500
push those kinds of views. Clinton Democrats, mainstream Democrats, today that is mainstream
00:28:45.240
on the left and mainstream in corporate America because the liberals have captured all the
00:28:50.160
institutions of power. So yeah, that's why the powerful mainstream brands advertise with the left.
00:28:56.780
They won't work with the right. So the right does have to work with smaller companies. Many of those
00:29:01.300
smaller companies are terrific. We work with these brands who are filling a market gap because
00:29:07.040
the mainstream, super big, powerful corporate institutions have gone so far to the left.
00:29:15.840
That's why. And why is this news? This is news because the libs have no idea how we think,
00:29:23.000
and the libs have no idea or refuse to acknowledge how our political order really works.
00:29:30.560
I know what they're going to say on Pod Save America. I know what Michelle Obama is going to say,
00:29:36.900
even though neither I nor anyone else has ever listened to her podcast.
00:29:40.840
The libs don't know what I'm going to say or what Ben is going to say or what Matt is going to say or
00:29:47.380
what Charlie Kirk is going to say. They don't know. The way that they know who we are, they certainly
00:29:52.160
know who we are because they publicize us all the time through their operative networks like Media
00:29:56.480
Matters and Right Wing Watch and all of the groups that exist to get us taken off the air because
00:30:00.960
they're so afraid that our views will reach people and they're so afraid that we'll sell food rations or
00:30:05.660
whatever coffee. And so they see the little clips usually taken out of context, almost always taken
00:30:12.500
out of context. And that's why they're familiar with who we are. But they've never listened to any
00:30:16.820
of our shows. They didn't listen to Rush Limbaugh's show. None of these people did. So they don't know
00:30:20.820
what we think. They don't know what we believe. They don't know why we believe what we believe.
00:30:24.300
And we do know what they think. So they just don't. They're just shocked. Why is it that Ford won't
00:30:29.340
work with Charlie Kirk? Because you guys won't let them. That's why. Why is it that the conservatives
00:30:37.160
don't seem to have much political power? Well, it's because the liberals have won virtually all of the
00:30:44.760
political power in the country. And that's a little bit your fault because you got, you libs are just
00:30:50.820
awful, you know, really, really powerful. And you've just squeezed us out of the public square. But it's
00:30:56.760
also our fault because we've let it happen. And we've been weak. And we haven't fought back in a
00:31:01.100
very effective way. But that's why. And at least we know it. At least we get what's going on. You
00:31:05.140
guys, you're just like befuddled. You're standing there scratching your heads drooling. Why is it
00:31:10.440
that Nike and Procter & Gamble and Bud Light don't want to advertise on the Michael Knowles show or the
00:31:16.020
Ben Shapiro show, the Matt Wall show, the Charlie Kirk show, or the Dan Bongino show? Yeah, gee, I don't know.
00:31:21.640
Have you guys looked around our political order once in the last 50 years? Good grief.
00:31:26.360
Now, speaking of consumer choices, this is a tough one. This is a tough one. You know I'm not the
00:31:34.000
biggest fan of the devil's lettuce. I'm not saying it's the single worst thing in the world. I'm just
00:31:37.800
not a big fan. I might have on occasion given it a little try. It's not my thing. However, my view is
00:31:49.980
not typical of America these days, I guess, because daily and near daily marijuana use is now
00:31:55.620
more common than similar levels of drinking in the US, according to an analysis of national survey
00:32:02.660
data over four decades. Gone are the days of Don Draper sitting back having a drink after work
00:32:15.060
or a drink during work, as was the case of a lot of those guys back then. Gone is the America of Don
00:32:22.060
Draper. In is the America of Seth Rogen and Cheech and Chong. So what I'm going to ask you, even if you
00:32:34.580
love the sin spinach, even if you think there's nothing wrong with it or whatever, do you think
00:32:40.860
America was better or would be better if it were the America of Don Draper? If it were the America
00:32:51.600
of men like Winston Churchill? I know Winston Churchill was British, though he had an American
00:32:56.360
mother and was actually a descendant of the Mayflower. But you know, men who after work,
00:33:02.500
maybe they like a drink, and maybe you don't like a drink or a smoke. But if you're going to pick one,
00:33:06.800
the America that, you know, has a little whiskey after work, nice glass of red wine, maybe,
00:33:13.120
or the America that rips a bong hit out of the Peruvian parsley.
00:33:17.480
I, you know, I have my view of it. I don't think, I think if America becomes a bunch of Seth Rogen's,
00:33:27.620
the conservatives are never going to win an election again. And I think Don Draper,
00:33:31.060
he probably voted Republican a lot of the time. Not Jon Hamm, but Don Draper probably did. And I think
00:33:37.760
that's borne out by how the elections went. Now, furthermore, in addition to pot smoking outpacing
00:33:44.280
drinking, a good 40% of current marijuana users are using it daily or near daily. Now, this blows
00:33:56.560
alcohol out of the water. This is more like cigarette smokers. If you're a cigarette smoker,
00:34:01.880
you very likely are having a cigarette every day or many cigarettes every day. That's not necessarily
00:34:07.660
true for people who drink. I don't drink alcohol every day. I drink a lot of days. I'll have a little
00:34:11.800
drink, you know, at the end of the day. But not every single day. Even cigars. I'm a cigar smoker.
00:34:17.260
I own a cigar company. And still, I don't have a cigar every day.
00:34:23.380
40% of marijuana users, and marijuana is different from cigars in that marijuana
00:34:27.760
goes into your lungs. So it wreaks certainly more havoc there. And unlike cigars or even cigarettes,
00:34:34.040
it changes your mind. It's mind-altering. It's more like alcohol in that way. And 40% are ripping
00:34:43.140
this stuff every single day, which shows that it is more addictive. A lot of my friends who are fans
00:34:50.820
of the ganj, they will say it's not addictive. It obviously is. If 40% of users are smoking every
00:34:59.220
single day, that's addictive. And I got friends, especially, you know, I lived in LA, kind of a
00:35:05.360
chewing capital of America. I had friends who were professionals, who would go to work, who were
00:35:11.520
wake-and-bake kind of guys, you know? Multiple friends, not just in LA, in New York, in all over the
00:35:17.780
place. So I'm just saying, I know, I see the trend line. So I know I'm on the losing side of this
00:35:24.440
for now. But in the long run, it will be proven. Mark my words, this is a Nolstradamus prediction.
00:35:33.200
I'm so furious about it that I'm knocking my microphone over.
00:35:37.820
It will be shown that marijuana is very bad for your health, for your physical health, like your
00:35:43.320
lungs, and for your mental health. It will be proven that marijuana is obviously addictive,
00:35:50.160
at least habitually, if not physically. And it will be proven that as more and more people smoke
00:35:57.620
marijuana more and more regularly, America becomes more and more liberal. It will be proven.
00:36:03.100
We might not be able to stop it. I'm just bookmark this and check back in 10 years.
00:36:12.100
And I will, at that point, hate to say that I told you so.
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We promised a big surprise from Jeremy Boring, and he didn't realize that we were promising that.
00:36:52.980
So he, I asked, I said, what's the big announcement? He said, I don't have a big
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announcement. I said, what? He goes, yeah, I don't know. He said, I don't know. The marketing
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department must have made that up. I didn't, I didn't say that. I said, well, you got to give him
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a big announcement. They said, I don't know. Well, I got some stuff in the pipeline. I'll tell you what,
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let's premiere the Jeremy's Razors. Second greatest commercial ever. That's right. So we didn't,
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we promised a big announcement. He didn't have a big announcement. And then we got a big
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announcement anyway. If you missed it, take a look right now.
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Oh, hey, I'm Jeremy Boring, CEO of Daily Wire and founder of Jeremy's Razors.
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Woke Razor companies love to take your money while trampling on your values.
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Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, nobody calls cut on my set, but me.
00:38:16.400
We're filming the commercial for the brand new second generation Jeremy's Razor.
00:38:20.200
Yeah, I get it. We moved our manufacturing out of China. Plus, with the new Sprint 3 and
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Precision 5 blades, you can shave like a man, not a manifesto. But who's he?
00:38:29.820
I'm Black Jeremy, huge fan. Do you mind if we get a selfie?
00:38:36.080
Look, we talked about this. Customers want diversity. Customers want inclusion.
00:38:44.360
And for the commercials to be less macho. Can we please lose the flamethrower and the car?
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I'm Deska. I've been following you around half naked for two years.
00:38:56.660
Hope that makes you some kind of expert on advertising.
00:38:58.940
Besides, don't you think it's a little insulting to Black people?
00:39:02.940
Don't you think it's a little insulting to Black people of color that instead of giving
00:39:07.320
them their own roles to play, you just recast them as a beloved white character?
00:39:13.580
We don't do it for people of color. We do it for liberal white women.
00:39:19.680
I'll spell it out for you. Liberal white women make most of the purchasing decisions
00:39:23.420
for the family, so happy commercials with people of color smiling at each other make
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That's why there's no white people in commercials anymore?
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And don't forget Jeremy's shampoo and conditioner.
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My favorite comment yesterday is from Aaron Dennis, 1111, who says,
00:41:47.880
Now, don't forget, when the liberal journalist asked Pope Francis,
00:41:53.360
Do you think we'll see female deacons and priests ever?
00:42:15.440
Because they want to destroy the Catholic Church,
00:42:17.020
and they think that they have a chance of infiltrating and really weakening it.
00:42:20.500
I think they know if they ask that question of the Muslims,
00:42:22.520
first of all, they don't really care because it's a different civilization and a different culture.
00:42:25.740
But two, I think they realize that if they ask that question,
00:42:28.780
they will very quickly become disconnected from their heads.
00:42:34.740
You're not going to see imamoruses anytime soon.
00:42:38.400
Speaking of different cultures, I have to make a big retraction.
00:42:45.800
I have to, it takes a very big man, a very big, handsome, sexy man to admit when he was wrong.
00:42:58.240
I didn't, I didn't err in that I made the right decision given the information I had at the time.
00:43:06.120
But later information proved that what I advocated was, was not correct.
00:43:21.380
I, they, my producers insist that this, that this man's name is pronounced differently.
00:43:26.220
They, I heard Yusuke and then now they're writing in my teleprompter,
00:43:33.860
I'm calling him Yusuke because that's what it's spelled like.
00:43:38.680
And I said, Yusuke, even though he's a black guy in the Japanese samurai story,
00:43:46.160
He went over to Japan with an Italian, Jesuit missionaries, and they go over there and he impressed
00:43:52.840
some of the imperial people and ends up becoming a retainer in Japan.
00:44:00.620
And so I think I endorsed him being in the video game.
00:44:06.860
And it's not even, look, had Yusuke been gay, I'd say, okay, include it.
00:44:12.520
Okay, I get, it's history and history is kind of interesting and weird sometimes,
00:44:18.940
And I know there are going to be all sorts of Jesuit jokes and all sorts of Italian jokes
00:44:22.980
that pop up as, but back in those days, the Jesuits were really, really solid.
00:44:28.660
Not they, things went a little bit wrong in the intervening, but there's no evidence that
00:44:34.360
And yet, according to new reporting on this from all sorts of outlets that I've never
00:44:39.780
heard of before, because I don't play video games.
00:44:41.380
According to this reporting, the company itself, Ubisoft, wrote in a blog post,
00:44:51.320
Naoi, I guess that's another character, and Yusuke's disparate personalities also lead them
00:44:56.600
to have different relationships and rapports with other characters.
00:45:00.140
And they don't always feel the same way about people, nor do people always feel the same
00:45:04.800
Romantically, they will also attract and be attracted to different types of people
00:45:12.020
Players will get to experience a multitude of relationships.
00:45:15.900
And this is, there is a lot of other evidence in this article that I won't finish reading that
00:45:23.660
suggests that they're going to make Yusuke gay, because they got to make everything gay,
00:45:29.640
because it's 2024 and everything has to be, oh, not even gay.
00:45:33.640
Gay is sort of conservative and traditional now, by the standards of today.
00:45:37.600
Now it's all got to be like three genders and pansexual, and you got to be into like
00:45:45.340
So I formally withdraw my endorsement of Yusuke, not of the person Yusuke, he seems kind of
00:45:55.420
They took a very interesting historical story, and they made it much lamer by imposing an
00:46:01.920
anachronistic and historically unsupported lavender coating to the whole thing.
00:46:17.000
Speaking of disreputable digital things, the feds have just charged a man for making child
00:46:24.240
pornography, which, you know, not exactly a man bites dog story, as you know, most people
00:46:30.680
who do that, all of them should be charged, and many of them are.
00:46:34.920
What was different here is he made the pornography with artificial intelligence.
00:46:38.800
So, you know, just like in movies, it'll say no animals were harmed in the making of this
00:46:46.120
I guess in a very literal sense, no children were harmed in the making of this AI pornography.
00:46:56.600
But federal prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man for using a popular AI service to create
00:47:02.040
thousands of explicit images of children, marking what appears to be the first federal charge
00:47:09.240
of creating child sexual abuse material, applied to images entirely through AI.
00:47:16.100
This is some 42-year-old guy in Wisconsin, 13,000 fake images doing all sorts of sick stuff.
00:47:25.040
A lot of people are going to say, well, this isn't, is this even illegal?
00:47:28.200
Certainly it would be illegal if he had done this with actual children.
00:47:33.380
It is, thanks to a 2003 Bush-era law banning photorealistic fake and obscene images.
00:47:42.380
And they're saying, the prosecutors are arguing, that this 2003 law, which is a very good law
00:47:46.920
and was a good step in restoring traditional speech standards that the libs opposed under
00:47:52.640
the, because to the libs, you know, kiddie porn, I guess, is free speech or whatever.
00:47:56.480
The Bush administration, the conservatives said, no, it's not.
00:47:59.660
And now they're applying this law to the new technology, which is artificial intelligence.
00:48:06.080
This shows, let's zoom out from the particularly disgusting details of this crime and just zoom
00:48:14.100
What this shows you is a very important principle, which is that criminal prosecution is at least
00:48:23.780
as much about reforming the perpetrator as it is about protecting the victim or the potential victims.
00:48:36.800
Because in this case, there is no direct human victim.
00:48:42.180
These images were just created by a computer or by a human being through a computer.
00:48:46.480
And yet, this guy is still going to be charged.
00:48:50.240
I hope he goes to jail for a very, very long time.
00:48:53.980
Because criminal justice is not just about protecting victims.
00:48:58.860
Criminal justice is not just about getting revenge or justice for victims.
00:49:09.000
Criminal justice is about retribution, primarily.
00:49:12.500
Partially, but even secondarily, it's about rehabilitation.
00:49:18.580
This is why we call prisons now correctional institutions.
00:49:26.360
So even if there is no direct victim, you still got to correct the perp.
00:49:33.940
So you send this guy to prison for committing a crime that was a crime committed between him
00:49:39.940
and a computer because it will harm people broadly.
00:49:43.680
And the reason it will harm people broadly is because we don't live in a libertarian utopia.
00:49:49.220
And we don't live in a world where Freud is correct.
00:49:55.040
So we don't live in a world where if you have disordered desires, you should vent them and exercise them.
00:49:59.420
We live in a world in which you should reorder your desires toward good things.
00:50:04.980
So let's say this guy just got to keep doing what he's doing.
00:50:11.680
He's going to cultivate more and more lust for this heinous and disordered act.
00:50:17.160
That is going to make him much more likely to carry it out.
00:50:20.940
Or he's going to send these pictures to people on the internet and he's going to inflame the lusts in them.
00:50:24.720
And one of them is going to carry these acts out at a certain point because we're incarnate creatures.
00:50:31.080
And the digital and the virtual only goes so far for incarnate creatures.
00:50:37.480
And that can lead to really terrible consequences.
00:50:42.820
Then we have to apply this to other crimes too.
00:50:45.740
The reason when the young man goes in and robs a liquor store,
00:50:53.520
the reason not to let him off the hook is not only to protect the liquor store employee.
00:50:57.940
It's not only to protect the people walking down the street in the city.
00:51:01.080
It's to help him, to correct him because there's something wrong in him.
00:51:06.720
And if that is not corrected, he's going to only get worse and that will harm him.
00:51:14.600
And it's going to harm all of society because he's part of society.
00:51:17.120
This was common sense from antiquity until about five minutes ago.
00:51:32.980
Because you abdicate your responsibility as a society.
00:51:37.820
You abdicate your responsibility as a civil authority to help people flourish,
00:51:42.000
which is the point of government to do good and to avoid evil.
00:51:45.760
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