Ep. 150 - Thank You, Lord, That Obama Is No Longer President
Summary
On this National Prayer Day, we remember the former first lady, Michelle Obama, who was never proud of her country until it elected her husband, Barack Obama, president. And finally, we rejoice in the media fallout over Kanye West's newfound conservatism.
Transcript
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On this national day of prayer, Michelle Obama, who was never proud of her country until it elected her husband president,
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refers to herself in a speech at Temple University as our forever First Lady.
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Thankfully, she's actually the never ever again First Lady.
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Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu reveals a shocking intelligence operation that proves Barack Obama practically gave Iran nuclear weapons and threatened the world order.
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And finally, in what is sure to become a new daily segment, we rejoice in the media fallout over Kanye West's newfound conservatism.
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There is so much to be grateful for this National Prayer Day.
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Because at one time, a priest that I listened to in New York, he said that there were three prayers that you should always be saying.
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Today, we're going to be focusing on the former two.
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We can all repent in our own time and, you know, flog ourselves and things like that.
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But we've got a lot to be thankful for because Michelle Obama, let's just begin with the First Lady, First Lady's First.
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Here is Michelle Obama talking at Temple University.
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Doubters, I know you have everything it takes to succeed.
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And if I can be standing here as your forever First Lady, then you can do anything you put your mind to.
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If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a Merry Christmas.
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Apparently, some Democrats on the Internet refer to Michelle Obama that way.
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She gets up there and says, I'm I am your forever First Lady.
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Forget about that woman who's in who's actually the First Lady.
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This was not as bad as Michelle Obama's classic gaffe when she said and by gaffe,
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I mean when she accidentally was honest to the American people.
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And she said that she'd never been proud of her country except when they elected her president or elected her husband president.
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That she said, otherwise, I've never been proud of my country.
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I don't we I don't know that people like you very much.
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Now, speaking of this, speaking of the National Prayer Day and this me, me, me, you are me.
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This is a classic Obama, both her and her husband, the classic Obama messiah complex.
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Here was Barack Obama speaking just a little while ago.
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You know, I would create a hundred or a thousand or a million young Barack Obamas or Michelle Obamas or, you know, the next group of people who could take that baton.
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It's why people call Donald Trump a narcissist.
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Donald Trump is the most humble man in the world compared to the Obamas.
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Whenever they need an example of a good thing or something good to be, they refer to themselves.
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That not all of that pales in comparison to you are me.
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Barack Obama, when he says, I want to change the future, I want to have a wonderful country, and the best way to do that is to create little versions of me.
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Because Barack Obama said he doesn't really like America.
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That's why he wanted to fundamentally transform America.
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You don't want to fundamentally transform something that you love.
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I don't say to sweet little Elisa, I love you so much, honey, but I want to fundamentally transform you.
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And thankfully, on the National Day of Prayer, they're no longer in the White House.
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Michelle Obama said, practically, that she doesn't like her country, and she's disrespecting the current first lady.
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There was that incident at the inauguration, President Trump's inauguration, when Melania
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Trump brought Michelle a gift, a nice little ritual, and she hands her a box.
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And Michelle acted as though this were some terrible thing.
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She said later on the Ellen DeGeneres show, she said, quote, I mean, this is like a state
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They're going to stand there before you get this gift.
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You know, she said, what am I supposed to do with this gift?
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And a lot of people said that Melania Trump would not be a good first lady because she was
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Supermodel, perhaps Donald Trump's wealth and success played some role in his charming her
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Yet you still hear these people say, oh, Michelle was so much better.
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I try not to give too much flack to the family of politicians, except when they make themselves
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a spectacle, except when they put themselves in the public arena more than they have to be.
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That's just the amuse-bouche to the real thankfulness, which is that Barack Obama is
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There's a major news story this week that shows us just how wonderful it is that Barack
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But before we get to it, before we get to how Barack Obama, more than any president in
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recent history, imperiled the world order, an utterly failed president, before we get to
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that, let's just recount some of his other failures.
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When, you know, history wipes away all of these sins and all of these bad decisions and
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all of these bad policies, essentially everything the guy did was a failure and made the country
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He entered office during a bad recession and he made the recession worse.
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Usually in economic crises, the deeper the recession, the more robust the recovery.
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The Obama recovery, which he says it was the worst recession since the Great Depression.
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The Obama recovery was the worst recovery in seven decades.
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If it was the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, he should have had a
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I think that's the worst economic performance of any president since World War II.
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His economist said, you know, that's just the way it is.
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He immediately starts posting quarters of 3% or greater economic growth.
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Barack Obama spent more on stimulus money than all of the stimulus packages ever combined.
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You take every stimulus bill in history, add them together.
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Obama spent more with worse results, with counterproductive results.
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Not only did he not help the economy recover or allow the economy to recover, he also blew
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an unprecedented amount of taxpayer money on it.
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During the Obama administration, millions of Americans fell below the poverty line.
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You heard he was called the food stamp president.
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And then lefties, racist lefties, said that that was a racist comment.
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They said that if you use the phrase food stamps, then that's racist.
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You say, not all black people are on food stamps.
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No, when you call someone a food stamp recipient, you're calling them black.
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You're the one who has that image in your mind, not us.
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During the Obama administration, the national debt doubled.
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Millennials under the Obama administration lived with their parents at the highest rates
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There's a cultural aspect to that, and there's the economic aspect.
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Barack Obama destroyed one-sixth of the economy when he upended our health care system,
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He lied blatantly to the American people, and he even admitted that he lied.
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PolitiFact named the, if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor.
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When the premiums started going up, when costs started to rise, when people's coverage changed,
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he said, well, what, you didn't think you were going to get all that good stuff for nothing, did you?
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We did think that because you promised us that.
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That's exact, oh, come on, what, you're going to believe me, a Chicago politician?
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He says, what, you were so stupid that you believed me?
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And after all of this, we were told this is universal health care.
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This is the, we've been wanting this for a hundred years.
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After all of that, 30 million Americans remained uninsured.
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After all of that, upending a sixth of the economy, shooting up the prices of health care premiums,
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diminishing the quality of coverage, people losing their doctors and 30 million Americans uninsured.
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Well, on foreign policy, Barack Obama managed to lose a war that we had already won.
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The troop surge in 2007 won for us the Iraq war.
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He chose to pull out troops without a status of forces agreement.
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Barack Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan for no reason.
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The actual reason that he did it was because all of his campaign was running against Bush.
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So he had to run against the Iraq war, but he didn't want to seem like the weakling that he is.
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So he had to pretend that Afghanistan was a good war.
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The Iraq war was the bad war and Afghanistan's a good war because he needed a good war to win his election.
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And it's no coincidence that the vast majority of American military deaths in Afghanistan occurred under Barack Obama's watch.
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They told me if I voted for John McCain, we'd get more war in the Middle East.
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What else did Barack Obama do on foreign policy?
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Well, all we hear these days is about Russian collusion.
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Donald Trump had a bowl of borscht at the Russian tea room in Manhattan in 1976.
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Barack Obama allowed Russia to invade Crimea and much of Syria under his watch.
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He gave them Barack Obama sat across from the leader of Russia or the fake leader of Russia, Medvedev, the Putin crony.
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He thought their cameras and the microphones were off.
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And he said, hey, listen, I know that I said all that stuff, you know, about how I'm going to be tough on you.
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But direct quote, I will have more flexibility after my election.
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We actually have video of Barack Obama colluding with Russia and admitting that he's misleading the American people on his stance on Russia.
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If he weren't misleading the American people, he would have said, hey, we don't have to wait until after the election.
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I'll just tell them that I'm going to give Russia flexibility.
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He said, in order to win my election, I have to pretend that I'm tough on Russia.
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You can invade and rape the lands of anybody around you and do whatever you want.
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Well, he gave the Cuban slave-holding Castro regime a bunch of money.
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Now, in fairness, I've smoked a couple cigars in my life.
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But what he did was he decided that he was going to give the Cuban regime everything they wanted in exchange for nothing.
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As a matter of national policy, a terrible idea.
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John F. Kennedy liked Cuban cigars as much as I do.
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And he ordered all of his boxes of Cuban cigars.
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Because he had to punish the regime for upsetting the world order.
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As a matter of national policy, it was a sound policy.
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Barack Obama said, okay, we'll just give you whatever you want for nothing.
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Then, just a penultimate aspect of Barack Obama's foreign policy, he managed to destroy Libya and Egypt.
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Now, he didn't destroy it when he went and gave apology tours.
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And apologized for American policy in the Middle East at the beginning of his presidency.
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But instead, he turned on a long-standing American ally, Hosni Mubarak, let him crumble.
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And in Libya, he allowed that situation to decay.
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So, it's now a failed state and led directly to the chaos that allowed terrorists to come in there and kill our first ambassador overseas since 1979.
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He said during his presidency, well, I can't get anything passed through Congress because I'm a horrible negotiator.
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And I don't have any friends even really in my own party.
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But I'm going to sign executive orders with a pen and a phone.
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That which can be enacted with a pen and a phone can be repealed with a pen and a phone.
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So, he was desperate at the end of his administration to get the Iran nuclear deal.
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The big deal that was going to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons.
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And anybody who wasn't one of the 22-year-old failed novelist writers who were advising him on foreign policy for some reason,
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who weren't any of those people, people who had any proper sense of the world said,
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They've been the greatest threat to the world order since the Iranian revolution.
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Today, after two years of negotiations, the United States, together with our international partners,
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has achieved something that decades of animosity has not.
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A comprehensive, long-term deal with Iran that will prevent it from obtaining a nuclear weapon.
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Because the Israeli prime minister, Bibi Netanyahu, who during the Obama era was the leader of the free world,
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he explains in one of the greatest presentations in modern political history.
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We didn't have any program to develop nuclear weapons.
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Anyway, we consider nuclear weapons both irrational as well as immoral.
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After signing the nuclear deal in 2015, Iran intensified its efforts to hide its secret nuclear files.
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A few weeks ago, in a great intelligence achievement, Israel obtained half a ton of the material inside these vaults.
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Everything you're about to see is an exact copy of the original Iranian material.
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You know, if every TED Talk were like that, I would watch them.
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Or every, it's like when they do the new iPhone and they're walking, they say, this is the new iPhone.
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And this is really humiliating for Barack Obama.
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This was supposed to be Barack Obama's one lasting achievement.
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Everything Obama told us about the deal was a lie.
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And every promise of the deal is, of course, a lie because it essentially hands Iran nuclear weapons.
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So, with this, I mean, this was the last thing Obama had to hold on to.
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And it just turns out it was an abject failure.
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So, all of the Obama alumni, who I think just turned 16.
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So, happy 16th birthday to all of the Obama senior policy advisors.
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They, all of these alumni are out in force to defend the Iran nuclear deal.
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But it's very funny because they're contradicting one another.
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So, I guess they didn't text each other beforehand and say, okay, we're going to lie about it this way instead of this way.
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Jim Garrity at National Review pointed this out.
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Tommy Veeder, Veeder, Veeder, I don't know, former National Security Council spokesman under Barack Obama.
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He, I believe, was a senior policy advisor for Obama during eighth grade.
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He said, quote, after years of bashing U.S. intelligence agencies for getting Iraq WMD wrong,
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Trump is now cooking up intel with the Israelis to push us closer to a conflict with Iran.
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Okay, so Tommy, little Tommy's point of view, Tommy's point of view is that he, this is all a lie.
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And look, Barack Obama, his entire administration appeared to hate Israel.
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Barack Obama, his campaign apparatus tried to get Bibi Netanyahu kicked out of power there.
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But Ben Rhodes, another former foreign policy advisor to the president, at the same time said, quote,
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by reminding everyone of the well-known pre-Iran deal history,
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Netanyahu inadvertently made the case for why the Iran deal needs to stay in place.
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Without it, all the restrictions on Iran's program and the inspections regime that verify compliance go away.
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So Ben Rhodes' answer to this is, yeah, no, we knew about all that.
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But, so, so these guys both worked for Obama, same guy, same time, same issue, as a matter of fact.
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And one of them says, oh, this is a total lie, totally cooked up by those, those Israelis and by Donald Trump.
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And then the other guy at the same time says, yeah, no, we knew about all of it.
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So, okay, maybe next time you should text each other and figure out which lie you're going to try to spread
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This is a major difference between the right and the left, because this hasn't been said enough.
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Donald Trump is much, much better at being the president than Barack Obama.
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The country under Donald Trump is much, much better off than under Barack Obama.
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The world order is much, much better off under Donald Trump than under Barack Obama.
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The left, they said, what are you, what are you, that's crazy, what are you talking about?
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This is a major difference between the right and the left.
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The left likes the appearance of the thing without the essence of the thing.
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The right, or the left rather, prefers the theoretical.
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Donald Trump doesn't look like the president, does he?
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He's very good at making deals with people, even on getting the pop culture on his side.
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But he doesn't, so Donald Trump doesn't look like the president, but he's very good at being the president.
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He smiles like the president, smile and a wink.
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He was, I mean, he was utterly a failed president.
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A major difference between the right and the left.
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And now when people clutch their pearls and they say, but Trump, he, he doesn't hold his
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And by the way, people like Kanye West are waking up to this, which brings us to what is
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The latest fallout from Kanye saying conservative things.
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Let's do a quick rundown before we get to the mailbag.
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The CNN writer says, quote, the time has come to stop amplifying his platform when he continues
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to misconstrue facts and distract the public from truth.
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Shutting him down is not a matter of censoring opinions.
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It's a matter of being responsible in how we elevate or endorse the cult of celebrity in
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At this point, any outlet that continues to allow Kanye West a platform to knowingly speak
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such misinformation is enabling the former or exploiting his status for ratings.
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On the misinformation, by the way, let me just say this.
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The one thing that all of Kanye, Kanye's critics are saying is that he lied about slavery because he said, if there, if you've been a slave for 400 years, that's a choice.
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Now they're saying, well, no, he's talking about the transatlantic slave trade.
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It didn't be the Dutch brought African slaves to America in 1619.
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If that number were true, then the trans, then for 400 years, that would mean that, first of all, we'd be in the future.
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And the transatlantic slave trade would have to still be going on, which it's obviously not.
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The point he was making is that there is a mental imprisonment.
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They say, no, we're not trying to mentally imprison you.
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Another wonderful aspect of Kanye watch, which we all predicted because politics is downstream of culture and major pop culture leaders who speak to specific demographics can really affect politics.
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Donald Trump's approval rating among black men in particular has doubled in a week.
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In one week, that approval rating is now at 22%.
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Also, at the same time, his disapproval rating among black men has dropped significantly from 87% to 71%, according to this latest survey.
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Black men surveyed also who said that they have mixed feelings about Donald Trump rose from 1.5% to 7.1%.
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And then you've got this huge bump, 5.5 point bump on mixed feelings.
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It doesn't mean they're starting not to like Donald Trump.
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It means they're starting to like Donald Trump.
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And before you accuse that poll of being some cooked up Republican thing, that's from Reuters.
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We're seeing the Breitbart effect, Andrew Breitbart effect, come into play.
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How Kanye West devolved into just another internet troll.
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I bet as many people are reading USA Today or listening to Kanye West.
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Then the really heinous one is USA Today ran a headline, Chris Brown tears Kanye West to
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And this is an improvement for Chris Brown because Chris Brown usually just tears into
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So it's good when he's tearing into other male rappers, I guess.
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Chris Brown said, quote, this is just entertainment to y'all.
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Hey, Chris, how about you learn to read so that you can find out that Kanye was exactly
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Please, black people, do not follow West on his path to destruction.
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Whatever help you think I need, get it for him ASAP.
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It bothers me any time Chris Brown does anything because the judicial system should have taken
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him out back and put him down like old yeller a long time ago.
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This is just a little snippet from the Chris Brown police report.
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The guy who's lecturing Kanye West and Americans on how we should comport ourselves
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Quote, a verbal argument ensued and Chris Brown pulled the vehicle over on an unknown
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street, reached over Robin F., that's Rihanna, with his right hand and opened the car door
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Brown was unable to force Robin out of the vehicle because she was wearing a seatbelt.
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When he could not force her to exit, he took his right hand and shoved her head against
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the passenger window of the vehicle, causing an approximate one inch raised circular contusion.
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Robin turned to face Brown and he punched her in the left eye with his right hand.
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He then drove away in the vehicle and continued to punch her in the face with his right hand
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The assault caused Robin F.'s mouth to fill with blood and blood to splatter all over her
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Brown looked at Robin and stated, quote, I'm going to beat the S out of you when we get
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That is the only part that I can read on air, I think.
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Chris Brown also got a neck tattoo of a battered woman and he never served any actual time for
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This is the guy telling Kanye West to get the help that he needs.
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There are very few political or culture stories that actually get me physically angry and Chris
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Brown, anytime he does anything, is one of them.
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He writes that Kanye West, this is a great one.
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If the left doesn't like you, they'll just say you're a Russian spy.
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So Eric Garland writes, quote, both are witting or implausibly unwitting, at least assets of
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Russian intelligence, be it through Roger Stone, likely Jones's case, or other corrupt
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They're calling Kanye West a witting asset for Russia, a witting Russian spy.
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Eric Garland, by the way, bills himself as a strategic intelligence analyst.
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It's sad because The Atlantic used to be a good magazine and now it's 90% trash.
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And this is the strategic intelligence from The Atlantic.
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You can tell a lot about, look at all the enemies coming after Kanye West.
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But there was the funniest thing on Twitter yesterday is when a shirtless vitamin salesman
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started sending a lot of mean tweets about Ben.
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Is Barack, are we going to have a million Barack's and Michelle's?
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Kanye West is talking like a conservative Republican and quoting Thomas Sowell.
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I've got to recover from how delicious that was.
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Let's get into the mailbag because we're running out of time and these are great questions.
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I've been hearing people say that Islam and Christianity are the same religion with a few minor misunderstandings.
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Can you please shine your all-knowing wisdom down upon them?
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I suggest you read the scriptures of both the Koran and the Bible and the writers, people who have written and theological writers about Islam and Christianity.
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The big difference between the two is that Islam developed six centuries after Christianity as a Christian heresy.
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It became something more than that, probably, but it developed as a Christian heresy.
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We know this because the religion began when Muhammad visited a Nestorian or Aryan monk.
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He was up there on a merchant trip with his uncle Abu Talib and he spent a lot of time with him and afterward concocted a version of Christianity that is in keeping with other heretical traditions.
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And most heresy just, it can't come to grips with mystery.
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So Christ is both perfectly divine and perfectly human.
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Various heresies say he's entirely human or he's entirely divine.
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The big difference, probably you would say that Islam is more political, it's more nationalist or pan-Arab, it's more for a particular people.
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But these are all kind of minor observations or criticisms that one could debate.
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The big difference is that Islam denies the cross of Christ.
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It speaks very highly of Jesus, but it says they crucified him not.
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And there are various theories as to how Jesus was up on the cross and then not crucified.
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St. Paul writes about such proclamations six centuries earlier.
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Because there are many walking, and I tell you now even weeping, who deny the cross of Christ, who are enemies of the cross of Christ.
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It's where the logic of the universe, the Logos, becomes incarnate and dies for our sins to redeem all of mankind.
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And a world in which death has not been conquered.
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A world which promises material delights in heaven.
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Now it's commonly taught by people who haven't read any of these things,
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and have no familiarity with either of the religions, that, oh, you know, we all worship the same God.
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If they worship the same God, they would be the same religion, wouldn't they?
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But when we see vast differences in religion, we know that they're worshiping something different.
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I look around college campuses, and it seems very likely.
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And it's difficult to imagine its philosophical appeal last century.
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Could you attribute the rise of atheism nihilism during the 20th century as something that caused the appeal of fascism?
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Seems to me that totalitarian fascist states force their own religion of government down the throats of their subjects.
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Do you think there was an ideological appeal to fascism, or was the movement based in emotion and feeling?
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Thanks, you guys and gals at the Daily Wire are the only thing keeping me sane these days.
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Because I actually disagree with your read of fascism, or your reaction to fascism.
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I'll say also that one can't really separate plain objective facts from the way that we react to them, from the way that we ascribe value to them, or that we have emotion about them.
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That distinction is, I think, complicated and probably not a good one to make.
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The appeal of fascism makes all the sense in the world.
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It's a very appealing political ideology in a world without God.
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It makes all the sense in the world without God.
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Without natural law, there are no natural rights.
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The American version of conservatism only exists because of the profound, radically Christian character of America.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator.
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We know this from Governor Winthrop in the model of Christian charity that baptized all of America in the early 17th century.
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We know this from the pilgrims, the first Americans, the people who founded the first American colonies,
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where we trace our foundation, where radical Christian zealots, fascism replaces God.
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Of course, it's reacting to a world of atheism and nihilism.
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And it has to overcome that nihilism with something.
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So fascism replaces God with neo-pagan idols, the nation-state or the people or the fashi, you know, binding us all together.
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It's reacting against, as you point out, atheism, materialism, rationalism, positivism.
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But that's what makes it so seductive, is when you react to all of those things that we don't like about modernity without God,
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you just get the mirror image of all of those things, which is equally ungratifying.
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This is what the alternative right gets so wrong, is they are reacting against all the right things,
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but they're reacting in the wrong way because their reaction lacks God.
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It lacks the crux, pun very much intended, of Western civilization.
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He's been dating a wonderful girl for about four years.
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For the past year, she's been struggling with her Christian faith to the point that she's not sure she can call herself a Christian.
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How should I advise my son regarding his relationship with her, and how can he help her with this struggle?
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Well, I mean, I was in her shoes when I was 20.
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I was vaguely atheistic or agnostic at the time, and now I'm certainly not.
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I think it's perfectly normal to go through those sorts of phases, and I think it actually helps one's faith
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because when you come back, you have the zeal of a convert, even though you're just a revert.
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She's confused right now, and she's questioning things, and maybe she's reacting appropriately against incorrect interpretations of true religion.
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Maybe she's reacting against misunderstandings of Christianity.
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Just have your son say, keep cool, keep calm, and explain the world as he sees it.
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And you don't have to worry about those things.
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But I wouldn't worry too much because there is a right answer.
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If you're patient, I think the truth will come out as long as everybody's dealing in good faith.
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If we have to accept people because of their immutable characteristics, such as being gay or sexual orientation,
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how is it that it is illegal in California to have a sex change material,
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or it might be banned in California to promote sex change material,
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but at the University of Texas they are going to treat masculinity as a mental health condition?
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There's this bill in California that wants to ban all efforts to change one's sexual orientation.
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And it's true, not just at the University of Texas, but all over the country now,
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It's being studied by government agencies and public agencies.
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It's because they're total hypocrites and lunatics.
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They are not being rational, and we don't have to take irrationality seriously.
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I did this PragerU video on the importance of precise language.
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The left now is using this euphemism, toxic masculinity, to refer to manliness.
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There's the gentleman, there's the hero, there's the good guy,
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and there's the rapist and the warmonger and the villain.
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It cuts both ways, and you have to be on the right side of that.
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The left is using that phrase to say masculinity is bad per se.
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There's a good manliness, and we have to always exhibit it.
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And it's a very manly thing to correct people's errors in a patient but confident way.
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Hey, Michael, I'm a huge fan of the show and listen daily.
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As someone who's one of those heathen pagans you mentioned on May Day,
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Walpurgisnacht, to your former German listeners,
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why is it that Ben and yourself are so critical of anything pagan?
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I understand a ton of people who are pagan and just are just those spiritual lefty commune types,
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but some of us are conservatives that just happen to have differing religious beliefs.
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And since you watch daily, you'll get this edifying answer, I hope.
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It's because you might have those differing religious beliefs, but they're wrong.
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It just isn't good, and that's why we're harsh on it, because it isn't true.
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We're harsh on a lot of things that aren't true and aren't good.
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Now, look, there are plenty of people who have good intentions and who say,
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Okay, I don't think you sacrifice children necessarily.
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Plus, America sacrifices a million children a year.
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But paganism itself is just wrong and bad, and you shouldn't do it.
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The word pagan comes from the word paganus, which means villager or rustic.
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It's like a kind of uneducated, rough, stupid person.
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This is where you get the words like paii or paisano in Italian, a paisan, or peasant in English.
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Paganism is idolatrous, but it's the natural state of man.
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We don't have access to theology unless we are in civilization.
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And so we know that the world is spiritual and immaterial.
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Paganism recognizes this too, and it becomes superstitious.
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So we ascribe metaphysical things to various spirits, and it's idolatrous, essentially.
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Idolatry is the gravest of mortal sins because it's an attempt on God's divine majesty.
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We have to ascribe things that we see in the world, the immaterial things and metaphysical things that we experience all the time.
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So the reason we're harsh on it is that it is false religion.
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I mean, there's a reason why it's the natural inclination of man.
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It's because if you're wholly uneducated, then you'll fall for that.
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It just means you haven't thought deeply about these things or read deeply about these things.
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But over time, when one does those, you arrive at theology.
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So I encourage you to study that a little bit and to look into it and pray about that on National Prayer Day.
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Because, as I alluded to in the question about fascism, when you react in politics in ways that are not grounded in true religion, it doesn't necessarily have awful results.
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God is very harsh when people worship pagan idols.
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They get lots of leprosors and, you know, storms and locusts and things like that.
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No, it's really saying something about human nature and religion.
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And, you know, and we'll all pray for you on National Prayer Day.
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We'll do a couple more, then we'll have to wrap it up.
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Oh, Grand Monsignor of the Covfefeites, Knowles.
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Do you think elites, whether aristocratic or academic, are necessary for the preservation and transmission of culture?
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If so, can we attribute the current degradation of Western culture to the egalitarian tendencies of democracy that have also removed from us the injustices of hereditary privilege?
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So, yes, you need the best to transmit culture because you need to transmit the best culture.
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The trouble is, though, right now the people who would be our aristocrats aren't the best.
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But we don't have an aristocracy because our culture is totally degraded.
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But in an integrated culture such as ours, I don't give media elites or academic elites much credence.
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And you can find the remnant here or there that you can look toward.
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But right now, probably democracy, which is the opposite of aristocracy, right?
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Democracy is probably the worst form of government except for all of the others at our disposal right now.
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Okay, last question and then a little sign-off for prayer day.
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From Ivan, dear Michael, recently I started hanging out with an ex-girlfriend.
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And while we only date for five months, we only dated for five months,
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it was a tumultuous relationship that had many ups and downs,
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but ultimately ended because I could not deal with her drinking problem.
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She ended up kissing another dude at a party while drunk, which led to me dumping her.
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Deep down, I sense she's a good person who may have, in fact, cared deeply for me,
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but who's just going through a bit of a party phase, which I myself went through,
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but have since left as it ultimately brought me unhappiness.
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Am I making a mistake in trying to form a friendship with her in the hopes of one day
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Or should I spare myself the humiliation and part ways for good?
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P.S. If Kanye ends up running for president in 2024,
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would you appear in a commercial for him like you did for Cruz in 2016?
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I've got some more commercials coming down the pike.
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And I won't comment yet on future President West.
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Yeah, you should just dump her and not try to form another relationship with her.
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She'd made out with another dude in front of you.
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I feel like Don Corleone talking to Johnny Fontaine.
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it's a real turn the other cheek for National Prayer Day.
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I would like to remind us of the baptism of America,
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which came from Governor John Winthrop in 1630.
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that came over to what would become the United States in 1630,
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But this is an essential American foundational text,
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Here are the big quotes that are always pulled out.
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For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill.
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so that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken,
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and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us,
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we shall be made a story and a byword through the world.
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whither we pass over this vast sea to possess it.
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